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Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:50:32 -0700

'Alan Dershowitz has recently commented that the truth, history and human rights are all anti-semitic, and should no longer be used in Media reports or learnt about in Educational institutions'.

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Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:53:13 -0700

My thoughts.

It doesn't matter whether the claim the pro-Israel crowd uses that 'there were only significant civilian deaths in Gaza because Hamas used human shields' is a successful PR strategy or not, at the end of the day they are demonising more and more Palestinians (who already have resentment against Israelis historically and because of the current blockade). It goes back to the Hezbollah-Israel war a couple of years ago, the Israel PR machine might be winning the fight in the US, the UK and Australia, but it is not dominating News broadcasts and word of mouth in Southern Lebanon. Israel and its supporters must take responsibility for the cowardly actions of the IDF, and accept that regardless of whether the West lends unconditional support or not, Israel is just creating more and more enemies.

Settler assaults Peace Now volunteers, Channel 2 news broadcast

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:02:59 -0700

Settlers..

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Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:55:12 -0700

'Today, despite having been shot at and despite years of rehabilitation and everything,Today I am far more afraid of the settlers than I am of the Palestinians'

Idan
a volunteer for Peace Now Israel, monitoring settlements in the West Bank

ibn ezra

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:32:38 -0700

Very good source for up to date news on Israel and the West Bank and the local peace movement.

The Bubble (2006 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:08:37 -0700

Interesting film about some cool left-wing Israelis from Tel Aviv. Really enjoyed it, and loved this quote: 'we don't want territories, we just want to party'.

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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:33:42 -0700

I think in a perfect world, every racial group could have its own homeland, but that quite obviously is not probable. In saying that though, I'm not opposed to Jewish people and do not deny their history, I just don't believe its wise to claim they have suffered like no other people and desperately need this state. If Jews so desperately need this state or homeland, then why are a large percentage of global Jewry not living in Israel?
The left has never been concerned with Israel's Jewish character, it has always maintained concern with racial/apartheid-styled policies, expansionism and its human rights record. I don't think it would be unfair to say, that if Israel had returned to the 1967 borders a decade ago, support for Israel would have greatly increased amongst those on the left. I agree with most critics of Israel including Jeff Halper, when he says that Israel has to let go of its Leon Uris version of history. There is no way in hell a country can maintain 'one identity'. I think Jewish culture has much more hope if its not limited by an Israeli society separated between two people.
The conflict could have been solved ages ago, if the Israelis had decided whether to define their state or absorb the Arab-Palestinian population into one-state.
We seem to have this ridiculous conversation in contemporary times, thanks to the Bush years, of their being a consensus among the pro-Israel right/Likud community in and outside of Israel, that says 'we want to build settlements on Palestinian land, but don't want to have anything to do with them, and don't want them to have a state'. How does that make any sense? If the Palestinians have no state, but Israel wants to build houses right next to them, then what kind of future is that? How can things get better? There seems to be no doubt in my mind, that the non-existent intellectual capacity of George W. Bush and his team over the last 8 years, has had a massive impact on Israeli policy in Gaza and the West Bank. I've only thought about that more recently.

If you say so... | Antony Loewenstein

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:35:31 -0700

So there you have it. Racism is acceptable. Zionism is racism. A racially exclusionary state, such as Israel, is perfectly acceptable.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Clash in tense Israeli-Arab town

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:56:33 -0700

Extreme right-wing Israelis and their mates in the police force remind Israeli-Arabs of the last 60 years of hell.

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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:49:28 -0700

'Can you think of anything more sick then preventing a people from the right to self-determination but then refusing to nationalise them with-in your own state?'