‘Haaretz’ publishes stories on Israel’s crisis you won’t see in U.S.

Bruce Wolman writes:

This morning's Ha'aretz was more negative on Israel than Mondoweiss. Couldn't believe how many articles you could post. Aluf Benn had an extremely scary piece on Netanyahu and Obama, Is Netanyahu bringing Israel closer to a 'second Holocaust'? More than I would want to know about Netanyahu's mission in life. Also:

1. Shulamit Aloni, Sadly, Israel is no longer democratic.

2. UN: Israel must freeze East Jerusalem home demolitions.

3. Netanyahu aides fear 'surprise' demands from Obama.

4. 'Clown costumes' encapsulated absurdity of Durban II [Jewish attempts to sabotage Durban]

5. Barak to EU: 'Don't criticize our government'

P.S. New York Times covers the house demolitions story.

About Philip Weiss

Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in Beyondoweiss, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government

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  1. ... says:

    bruce – these are good articles worth reading.. thanks for sharing them… i would like to quote from #1 on your list which i agree with. "We are living in an ethnocracy under "Jewish and democratic" rule.

    In 1970 it was decided that in Israel religion and nationality are one and the same (that is why we are not listed in the Population Registry as Israelis, but as Jews). In 1992 it was determined in the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty that Israel is a "Jewish state." There is no mention in this law of the promise that appears in the state's formative document, the Declaration of Independence, to the effect that "The State of Israel will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants, irrespective of religion, race or sex." The Knesset ratified the law nonetheless.

    And so there is a "Jewish state" and no "equality of rights." Therefore some observers emphasize that the Jewish state is not "a state of all its citizens." Is there really a democracy that is not a state of all its citizens? After all, Jews living today in democratic countries enjoy the full rights of citizenship."

  2. Peaceful_Idiot says:

    What did you expect from the antisemitic Haaretz?????

  3. Dershy says:

    Yeah, those self-hating jews–good thing hardly anybody reads the streicher rag.

  4. Peaceful_Idiot says:

    I hope someone has informed Abe Foxman so that he can start a Witch Hunt, er, I mean conduct an Antisemitism Investigation.

  5. jim byers says:

    Thanks Phil, I read the first article about Bibi's mindset. It is out of the Twilight Zone. It caused me do read his wiki biography. Interesting that his father was a secty to Jabotinski. It reminded me of G W B and his delusions how he was under guidance from God who had given him a mission. Truly a bleak outlook.

  6. Peaceful_Idiot says:

    And #3 is my favorite. From the article:

    A political source in Jerusalem said that Netanyahu's associates have been recently discussing a scenario in which Obama makes unequivocal demands on issues like West Bank settlement construction, illegal outposts and negotiations with the Palestinians.

    Oh, the horror! THE HORROR!

  7. MRW says:

    The faces of those dejected Palestinians in the NYT story are just heart-breaking. Makes me hate Israel. What a despicable country for doing this to its own inhabitants.

  8. Peaceful_Idiot says:

    I see a silver lining in the NYT piece:

    Samia al-Hdaidun with three of her children

    Yo. You Israeli Jews better get to the Western Dance Clubs you love so much (they like to pretend they're in France) and start getting your swerve on if you want to save the Jewish State from within (instead of focusing your paranoid ziowhining on being conquered from without). Oh, and besides having lots and lots of Zionist Children with which to wage a future battle against the next generation's Israeli majority, don't leave the Jewish State in disgust either! Okay? Really now, how hard is that?

  9. MRW says:

    I just looked up Lieberman's bio on Wikipedia and saw this gem within:

    Evet Lieberman was born on June 5, 1958 in Kishinev, Soviet Union (now Moldova). His father had served in the Red Army and spent seven years in a Siberian Gulag under Stalin's rule, where he met Evet's mother. After high school, Lieberman applied to study international law at Kiev University, but was rejected for being Jewish. He then temporarily enrolled at the Kishinev Agriculture Institute with a hydrological land improvement major.[4]

    What profound bullshit. The Ukraine, as the background to Irène Némirovsky's stunning books describe, was Stalin's Jewish neighborhood. That's where the Jews were sent. Kiev is very sensitive to the Babi Yar massacre that occurred in their main park during WWii when the Nazis gunned them down, even to this day. Kiev is Jewish and Russian Orthodox Christian. For Lieberman to claim he didn't get into law school in Kiev because he was Jewish is like me saying I couldn't get into Harvard law school because I was white. I was in Kiev before the USSR fell with a bunch of Jewish friends from the east coast. Kiev, of all the places we visited was the one city where they could talk freely with whomever we met about their Jewishness. None of the ones I met were religious. Only the old people were religious.

  10. Peaceful_Idiot says:

    For Lieberman to claim he didn't get into law school in Kiev because he was Jewish is like me saying I couldn't get into Harvard law school because I was white.

    Or because you were Jewish. Zing! Thanks folks. Two shows a night, 8pm and 10pm. No cover.

  11. Ed says:

    From article #4 listed above, Clowns in suits 'Rothstein – who cheered on the abandoning delegates – thinks that by attending and then leaving, Europe sent out a stronger message against the conference than it would have by boycotting the meeting in the first place. "It shows a degree of open-mindedness, while at the same time drawing a distinct line in the sand," she says.' The coalition of statist authoritarians, be they left-liberals, Neocons/Neolibs, or Judeofascist Zionists, are slowly being flushed into the open, narrowed down to their hard core, and identified and isolated. In this case, they have identified themselves. In the end, Zionism may well be considered a gift from the heavens. Only the most corrupt and evil of any given society are willing to rally around it and its murderous agenda, so it is a useful identifier. In fact, just as decent people can't seem to help but be opposed, murderous and racist people can't seem to help but be attracted to it — like moths to a flame.

  12. Citizen says:

    My Doestoievsky professor was a jew from Kiev. Today he's about the same age as Lieberman's father. He graduated from that very law school in Kiev. Further, from the stories he use to tell us about the old days that Wiki gem is a lie.

  13. Citizen says:

    More like a night cloud of ever more bloated mosquitoes draining the sleeping giant.

  14. Jacob Wolfen says:

    Strange that irt is actually the most corrupt nations, the vilest violaters of Human rights are at the forefront of an anti-semitic form of antizionism.

  15. rykart says:

    Israeli Jews should be permitted to safely and securely vacate the lands they have stolen. Get out. Leave. Don't come back. The rest of them should be killed.

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