A lot to be savored in neocon Jamie Kirchick piece’s in Haaretz on Jared Malsin, the reporter for Ma’an who was deported by Israel last week. There is Kirchick’s frank acknowledgement that young leftwing American Jews are ardently turning against Israel. Malsin represents a movement, and the Z’s can’t use the self-hating label on us. Also the statement that Israel behaved like a police state toward Malsin, a journalist. "His treatment at the hands of Israeli authorities was outrageous. One expects this type of behavior from Middle Eastern police states whose systematic human rights abuses Malsin and his left-wing compatriots downplay or ignore…" Kirchick is missing two important lessons here: the left has repeatedly denounced Egypt’s conduct lately, and this has made our opposition to the Israeli occupation that much stronger. And as the New York Times is beginning to understand, the pen is mightier than the sword, Israel is deadset against non-violence, it loses when the protest is non-violent, so it is trying to bar and imprison advocates for civil society, and remilitarize the struggle.
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Sure. Israel wants nothing more than the renewal of terrorist attacks, so it can justify its repression.
In the meantime, it seems that the Mossad kidnapped, tortured and killed a Hamas man in Dubai last week, in revenge for a 1989 incident. link to ynetnews.com
I seriously hope Dubai catches the murderers and puts them on trial, shows the world the real face of Israel.
Israel has been trying to incite another intifadeh for a while now. That’s basically their strategy for trying to delegitimize any resistance to their ultimate plan of one Jewish apartheid state covering all of Palestine.
Leave it to the reporting of the NYT, and the intifadeh is already underway. Violent Arabs throwing stones!
It’s like a non-apology, apology.
His statement also isolates Israeli conduct in this instance, to simply being a one-time thing.
The ‘Israeli authorities’ apparently don’t exist outside this one case. Other than this one case, nothing has ever happened like this or worse or simply in the same general category of ‘bad’ things.
It’s sad that intellectual crooks like this neocon trash are given a platform to spout lies endlessly.
RE: “His treatment at the hands of Israeli authorities was outrageous. One expects this type of behavior from Middle Eastern police states…” – Kirchick
MY COMMENT: No small thanks to Jamie Kirchick’s mentor and Likud apologist, Marty “Macho Man” Peretz!