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It does look like a blade is attached (alas, misalined) to a mobile phone, LOL.
As I understand ALL tree planting (by Palestinians, not Jewish settlers) in Area C is expressly forbidden. Full Stop.
The problem with Allenby bridge is that there are no world's camera's there.
Terry,
Wishful thinking. People continue admiring Norman Finkelstein, while allowing him freedom to voice his opinions.
Norman Finkelstein is not married and has no children. His parents are dead. He has two siblings.
Finkelstein is not going to attack Israel any more because "it has become too easy".
There is no challenge for Finkelstein: the argument has been won. The facts are in public domain, and the fist of silence prized open ( thanks Moldoweiss!).
He is anything but political animal ( and this by it's nature requires compromises), and he knows it.
This was his last job as a teacher. He can now become full time scholar.
In WSJ and other papers commenters complained that they read the negative reviews, but are unable to find poem in English. I posted the poem. Wonder if it will be removed.
Amusingly, the strongest countries did not sign nor did they ratify the Rome Statute of the ICC: There is no USA, no Russia, no China; Israel, India, Pakistan is missing. So are all ex-Soviet Republics with honorable exception of Tajikistan.
Oy, on Facebook of all places! A shande far di goyim!
Since Israel's birth over 600 new housing communities were established and build for Jewish Israelis and NOT A SINGLE ONE has been build for non-Jewish (read Arab) Israelis.
And, as I recall reading here, it was only in 2010 that for a FIRST TIME since 1948 one solitary non-Jewish (read Arab) community was connected to public transport network.
Noticed the same thing. The word irony is too weak to describe it.
dimadok,
you wrote: "USSR voted also in favour. There was a deal there too?"
Winston Churchil wrote:
"There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creating of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistic Jews.
It is certainly the very great one; it probably outweighs all others.
With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews.
Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders..."
Can you see Soviets NOT voting with Jewish majority in Versailles in 1919?
dimadok,
Total short term memory loss. Usually irreversible. I pity your carers.
Alternatively, you are trolling.
This endless repetition is vital. Mondoweiss is visited by new people all the time. All they need to see is that hasbara is contrary to facts. Google and You Tube does the rest.
There is no "white man's burden". They have no intention to civilize natives. They wanted to get rid of that inferior ethnicity from "their" property. Similar ideas of cleansing nation states of inferior ethnicity were being lauded in the thirties in Europe by various fascist parties. What a depressing meeting of minds.
Mooser, you said:
"I have no doubt the last taboo will be broken very soon, Phil! In fact, it’ll be on the very day the last Palestinian is driven away or killed."
I also do not believe that Israel will choose to be apartheid or without Jewish majority. Israel is moving towards genocide in a macabre slow motion.
I pray it will choose ethnic cleansing over mass murder.
This reminds me of system of raising Emperor of China: he was never allowed to be punished, so his friends and companions were given punishment instead.
-There are two laws:
1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act and 2003 Foreign Relations Authorization Act.
First was not signed in by president, and the other, as I understand it, was, with Bush noting that he retains right not to allow implementation of the bit about Jerusalem.
Piotr,
If any of security of the Mall were Arabs (and it is extremely likely they all were), if they lifted finger on any Jew, this riot would become really bloody, and the headlines in MSM would read: "Terrorist attacked Jew in a Shopping Mall in Jerusalem".
or " Brave shoppers overwhelmed the Terrorist attacking 18 year old boys in Jerusalem" or "Hamas renews Terrorist Attacks on civilians in shopping Malls in Israel."
By Gregory H. Stanton, President, Genocide Watch
Classification Symbolization Dehumanization Organization Polarization Preparation Extermination Denial
Genocide is a process that develops in eight stages that are predictable but not inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it. The process is not linear. Logically, later stages must be preceded by earlier stages. But all stages continue to operate throughout the process.
1. CLASSIFICATION: All cultures have categories to distinguish people into “us and them” by ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality: German and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi. Bipolar societies that lack mixed categories, such as Rwanda and Burundi, are the most likely to have genocide. The main preventive measure at this early stage is to develop universalistic institutions that transcend ethnic or racial divisions, that actively promote tolerance and understanding, and that promote classifications that transcend the divisions. The Catholic church could have played this role in Rwanda, had it not been riven by the same ethnic cleavages as Rwandan society. Promotion of a common language in countries like Tanzania has also promoted transcendent national identity. This search for common ground is vital to early prevention of genocide.
2. SYMBOLIZATION: We give names or other symbols to the classifications. We name people “Jews” or “Gypsies”, or distinguish them by colors or dress; and apply the symbols to members of groups. Classification and symbolization are universally human and do not necessarily result in genocide unless they lead to the next stage, dehumanization. When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups: the yellow star for Jews under Nazi rule, the blue scarf for people from the Eastern Zone in Khmer Rouge Cambodia. To combat symbolization, hate symbols can be legally forbidden (swastikas) as can hate speech. Group marking like gang clothing or tribal scarring can be outlawed, as well. The problem is that legal limitations will fail if unsupported by popular cultural enforcement. Though Hutu and Tutsi were forbidden words in Burundi until the 1980’s, code-words replaced them. If widely supported, however, denial of symbolization can be powerful, as it was in Bulgaria, where the government refused to supply enough yellow badges and at least eighty percent of Jews did not wear them, depriving the yellow star of its significance as a Nazi symbol for Jews.
3. DEHUMANIZATION: One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases. Dehumanization overcomes the normal human revulsion against murder. At this stage, hate propaganda in print and on hate radios is used to vilify the victim group. In combating this dehumanization, incitement to genocide should not be confused with protected speech. Genocidal societies lack constitutional protection for countervailing speech, and should be treated differently than democracies. Local and international leaders should condemn the use of hate speech and make it culturally unacceptable. Leaders who incite genocide should be banned from international travel and have their foreign finances frozen. Hate radio stations should be shut down, and hate propaganda banned. Hate crimes and atrocities should be promptly punished.
4. ORGANIZATION: Genocide is always organized, usually by the state, often using militias to provide deniability of state responsibility (the Janjaweed in Darfur.) Sometimes organization is informal (Hindu mobs led by local RSS militants) or decentralized (terrorist groups.) Special army units or militias are often trained and armed. Plans are made for genocidal killings. To combat this stage, membership in these militias should be outlawed. Their leaders should be denied visas for foreign travel. The U.N. should impose arms embargoes on governments and citizens of countries involved in genocidal massacres, and create commissions to investigate violations, as was done in post-genocide Rwanda.
5. POLARIZATION: Extremists drive the groups apart. Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda. Laws may forbid intermarriage or social interaction. Extremist terrorism targets moderates, intimidating and silencing the center. Moderates from the perpetrators’ own group are most able to stop genocide, so are the first to be arrested and killed. Prevention may mean security protection for moderate leaders or assistance to human rights groups. Assets of extremists may be seized, and visas for international travel denied to them. Coups d’état by extremists should be opposed by international sanctions.
6. PREPARATION: Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. Members of victim groups are forced to wear identifying symbols. Their property is expropriated. They are often segregated into ghettoes, deported into concentration camps, or confined to a famine-struck region and starved. At this stage, a Genocide Emergency must be declared. If the political will of the great powers, regional alliances, or the U.N. Security Council can be mobilized, armed international intervention should be prepared, or heavy assistance provided to the victim group to prepare for its self-defense. Otherwise, at least humanitarian assistance should be organized by the U.N. and private relief groups for the inevitable tide of refugees to come.
7. EXTERMINATION begins, and quickly becomes the mass killing legally called “genocide.” It is “extermination” to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human. When it is sponsored by the state, the armed forces often work with militias to do the killing. Sometimes the genocide results in revenge killings by groups against each other, creating the downward whirlpool-like cycle of bilateral genocide (as in Burundi). At this stage, only rapid and overwhelming armed intervention can stop genocide. Real safe areas or refugee escape corridors should be established with heavily armed international protection. (An unsafe “safe” area is worse than none at all.) The U.N. Standing High Readiness Brigade, EU Rapid Response Force, or regional forces -- should be authorized to act by the U.N. Security Council if the genocide is small. For larger interventions, a multilateral force authorized by the U.N. should intervene. If the U.N. is paralyzed, regional alliances must act. It is time to recognize that the international responsibility to protect transcends the narrow interests of individual nation states. If strong nations will not provide troops to intervene directly, they should provide the airlift, equipment, and financial means necessary for regional states to intervene.
8. DENIAL is the eighth stage that always follows a genocide. It is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres. The perpetrators of genocide dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the evidence and intimidate the witnesses. They deny that they committed any crimes, and often blame what happened on the victims. They block investigations of the crimes, and continue to govern until driven from power by force, when they flee into exile. There they remain with impunity, like Pol Pot or Idi Amin, unless they are captured and a tribunal is established to try them. The response to denial is punishment by an international tribunal or national courts. There the evidence can be heard, and the perpetrators punished. Tribunals like the Yugoslav or Rwanda Tribunals, or an international tribunal to try the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, or an International Criminal Court may not deter the worst genocidal killers. But with the political will to arrest and prosecute them, some may be brought to justice.
Hopmi,
This is the story in Haaretz:
"In 1958, then-foreign minister Golda Meir raised the possibility of preventing handicapped and sick Polish Jews from immigrating to Israel, a recently discovered Foreign Ministry document has revealed.
"A proposal was raised in the coordination committee to inform the Polish government that we want to institute selection in aliyah, because we cannot continue accepting sick and handicapped people. Please give your opinion as to whether this can be explained to the Poles without hurting immigration," read the document, written by Meir to Israel's ambassador to Poland, Katriel Katz.
The letter, marked "top secret" and written in April 1958, shortly after Meir became foreign minister, was uncovered by Prof. Szymon Rudnicki, a Polish historian at the University of Warsaw."
I understand that she wanted "strong, professional Jews" - she was building a Zionist dream. But why she did not wish to take care of old, infirm and handicapped and instead leave them to die in that Anti-Semitic nest of Vipers called Poland?
Back to Haaretz:
Rudnicki concedes that the content of the document surprised him as a scholar and a Jew.
"This is a very cynical document," he said. "It is known that Golda was a brutal politician who defended interests more than people."
After a wave of Anti-Zionist sentiment in Soviet Block in 1968 (and accusations of lack of patriotism/loyalty to Poland against polish Jews) there was a significant emigration from Poland to Israel.
Golda Meir, unfortunately, did not like the "quality of human stock" that was arriving to Israel. She tried to admonish Polish Government through the diplomatic channels so that they would not give exit permits to sick/disabled/elderly Jews.
Guys,
I am just happy that the concept of using BDS against Anti-"non-democratic Israel" is in Washington Post. This is progress by any and each standard.
It is becoming less and less internal conversation between Jews about what is best for people under Israel's control. It is opening up.
Hi, Fred,
My maternal mitochondrial RNA is indicating that I originated in Africa. Can Poles move to Africa en-masse?
"Similarly, while some of the recent ancestors of the Palestinians were from what is now Israel, their ancient ancestors were from other parts of the Middle East."
This is utter rubbish. Palestinian ancient ancestors are from other parts of middle east because that was migration pattern of all humans (including those who would later become Jews) populating Middle East! Duh.
I find that contradiction fascinating, and was aware of it since meeting some Gypsy (Roma) kids playing on the same street as I was:
Here we were, in a deep socialist Poland, where every space now used for advertising was sporting a slogan of liberty, equality and fraternity, and they were considered by my family, neighbours and local council as dirty, smarmy and thieving.
There was no feeling of solidarity with their lot: they were "Others" - foreigners, recently arrived from Romania, to partake in economic progress of Socialist Republic of Poland (echo of "From Times Immemorial").
And yet ours was a country acutely attuned to concept of sharing resources - housing, health care, education - according to people's needs and not according to what their productivity/capital was. Just not for Gypsies; they kept their religion, customs and language and did not intermarry. They were not true Poles. They were outside the society.
Jordan Hirsch is indeed an editor of Foreign Affairs.
But I don't believe that he is, on this occasion, channeling American establishment.
His attack on Beinart is more tribal, because he is a Zionist Jew and he is part of Jewish establishment that Phil is writing about in the above piece.
Ashton was talking to a group of Palestinian children. She could hardly not mention Gaza.
Having said that, she appears to be fully conversant with Palestinian viewpoint of I/P conflict. In this, she is a worthy colleague of Mary Robinson.
Seeing Syria unrest as a wedge that could be used for a regime change is a common viewpoint with plenty of evidence:
See: Arab monitor report: link to economist.com
Wikileaks are enlightening: link to rt.com
Also: link to economist.com
What does it mean when they write that a given article is appearing on page A14 of some editions of WSJ?
Does it mean the above article does not make to editions in the "bible belt" states?
msnbc website is slow in a really frustrating way.
"Ali Murad Abu Shaweesh was 12 when Israeli soldiers shot him in the back. Ali was killed on the same day in June, 2001 that Sharon refused to let the Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres, meet with Yasir Arafat, yet his death also went unnoticed by American television news. But not entirely unnoticed, since the Israeli soldiers, who taunted the Palestinian boys over loudspeakers outside the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, goading them to come out and throw rocks, did so under the gaze of Chris Hedges, a reporter for the New York Times.
"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered--death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria, and Serb snipers put children in their sights...in Sarajevo--but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport," Hedges wrote. His account, coolly factual yet full of passionate intensity, was written not for his own paper but for Harper's Magazine, which sent Hedges to Gaza on his vacation." The Nation, March 11, 2002
9/11 serendipitously bought 10 years of Islamophobia and pushed back a danger of Zionism being seen as anachronism by a decade.
With luck, some other outfit of medieval fighters might, serendipitously, manage to strike at the precise moment when all multibillion computer computer-controlled defenses of USA Capital are malfunctioning simultaneously, bringing renewed riches to weapon manufactures, prolong sympathy and understanding for Zionists and years more hate to Muslims.
Armenians had money to buy Israeli weapons several years ago, and Israeli instructors for it's military, and Foreign Minister fluent in Hebrew. They believed for a short while that this means that they could have border skirmish with Russia and that the West would come to their defence. More fool they.
hear hear
"this part of the story throughout history has been widely used by antisemites to accuse Jews of being revengeful people with genocidal tendencies".
The genocidal tendencies in Purim's story are pretty indisputable with the slaying of 75000 + people, where today's equivalent would be 2.25 million Persians.
So Oleg must be taking umbrage with epithet of revengeful.
So what did ancient Jews do or didn't do in the Book of Esher that shows them to be forgiving rather than revengeful?
Would the bible passage that they "but on the spoil laid they not their hand" (didn't rob the corpses) show that they were not, in fact at all revengeful?
Am I understanding it correctly??
Such a heartwarming video.
Pixel, you wrote:
“How come local and state representatives can see it?” Shea asked, but the national Congressional leaders can’t.
The question we should be asking ourselves – and pursuing while we still can – is why they saw it and passed it anyway???
I believe that the real reason behind NDAA is that of 1% preparing for another revolution, similar to French Revolution or Russian Revolution. They look at fate of chinese bourgeoisie under Mao and tremble.
I believe that chasm between rich and poor is now similar to levels before these revolutions.
After Soviet Union was established, the working class was treated with unheard of kindness, culminating with never-attained-before-or-after flattening of income differentials and raising an unprecedented numbers of working class people to middle class.
The pushback started with Reagan and Thatcher, destruction of unions and accelerated with globalization. Middle Class is shrinking.
Social unrest is starting.
One also need to bear in mind that Linda Tripp has been advised to collect evidence of Clinton - Lewinsky affair by Lucianne Goldberg, who never hid her strong pro-Zionist loyalties, and helped her to take her story to Michael Isikoff (same one that recently postulated that Gingrich received millions from Sheldon Adelson because "he likes casinos and doesn't like unions").
While that does not prove that conspirators made Clinton fall for Lewinsky, it shows that they ruthlessly, and in coordinated fashion, used what they found to damage him.
West has been conquered by the Eastern concept of citizen as vassals to the elite, and the East has been conquered by the Western concept of popular culture as an acceptable opium for the masses.
Yet, as the political movements are made of small steps of first few, then many, we can only persevere in changing the opinions of those around us.
Why do you think that the influential, persuasive and vocal prisoners are now kept in Communication Management Units?
Greetings to the monitors from Local anti-terrorist branch, and to monitors from Israel Lobby.
Here is video you refer to:
link to youtube.com
She is "a little bit fascist".
I would strongly advise for setting an organisation outside US. The way the law is set up and the political climate is here currently, and bearing in mind the fate of Ghassan Elashi, Shukri Abu-Baker, Mufid Abdulqader, Abdulrahman Odeh and Mohammad El-Mezain, I don't believe that such undertaking would be tolerated by the establishment.
And anyone thinking that being white, Christian or Jewish, is a shield, please bear in mind the fate of Lynne Steward.
Unless you hope that the current regime in USA will fold like that in Russia or Eastern Europe, these people are going to spend their lives in prison.
I don't believe that they will see the distinction between Zakat committees (the principal recipients of funds from Holy Land Fundation) and local NGO's. They will all be considered to strengthen the Hamas Government.
The co-operation of large, western NGO's with Zakat committees did not cut any ice with court when it came to defence of Holy Land Foundation, nor did the fact that Zakat committees presage Hamas Government by some 1200 years.
I predict with high degree of confidence that they will go after donors too, in not too distant future.
Another aspect that seems to be lost on warmongers is that Iran is a patriotic nation that won twice in recent history - once in 1979 revolution, and again in a defensive war against Iraq. Both these wars are, correctly, considered a triumf against American Empire.
This memory is likely to act as a psychological buffer against any defeats in hands of superior American firepower.
Also, Iran is less compartmentalised into different populations, unlike Iraq , and therefore there is little chance of a country turning in on itself, like Iraq did. Kurdish population is less nationalistic, and the only real chance of strife inside Iran comes from it's Azerbaijani population (16%) - bearing in mind that Israel has been courting Azerbaijan from first day of it's independence in 1991.
Luckily for Iran, its border with Azerbaijan, and it's Kurdish population are both to the South, and really away from Straights of Hormuz.
If these populations were to be asked to raise against Iran, the Iranians can cause major problems across its border in Afganistan with which they share Baluch population. Baluch population, spanning Pakistan, Iran and Afganistan is really anti-American, despite years of veiled promises of autonomy from Pakistan that are waved continuously in front of its elders.
Finally, with Pakistan supply route to Afganistan closed, Russia is co-operating with USA in allowing it access to it's southern supply routes via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. If they were to withdraw this co-operation as a sign of their displeasure with attack on Iran, America would not be able to maintain its presence in Afganistan.
The Human Rights Watch report spanned the period between September 2005 and May 2007, during which four Israelis and at least 61 Palestinians were killed and some 370 people - most of them Palestinians - were wounded.
From September 2005 until May, Palestinian gunmen fired almost 2,700 locally made rockets toward Israel, killing four Israeli civilians and wounding 75, according to Human Rights Watch.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri rejected the report's comparison to the use of crude rockets with the warplanes, attack helicopters and high-tech weapons at Israel's disposal. "It makes equivalence between an occupation and an occupied people,"he said. "We are pushed to defend Palestinian civilians with the means that we have."
Between September 2005 and November 2006, the Israeli army fired more than 14,600 artillery shells into Gaza. Shells fired close to populated areas killed 59 people and wounded 270, most, if not all civilians, the report said.
link to hrw.org
This picture says it in a nutshell:
link to bp2.blogger.com
Send editor an e-mail:
"Your ad in the Lantern - would you list Jews from Harward that ended up behind bars??? - if you would it's free speech. If you would balk it means you are a racist."
Was too angry to correct my grammar.
Pabelmont,
Short. Brilliant. To the point.
A commenter on Ackerman's article is proposing a phrase "Israel Favoritors", which I have just googled and it is clean, free from compromising past, with no previous usage known to google.
Dr. Mengele experimented on civilians, including children.
He did it, because he had a captive population of subjects for his disposal, and society that he was the part of believed that he is working for a good of his homeland.
He was evil.
I am deeply troubled by restrictions relating to discussion about the raise of Nazis in Germany and corresponding steps being taken on the road that ended in Holocaust.
History repeats itself because human nature is predictable.
If you don't allow people to study and to learn from the way German society evolved to committ evil it did, you are precluding the possibility that similar evil be recognized sufficiently early to raise the alarm.
Genocides follow a pattern. To deny this and to refuse platform to those who wish to point to lessons from living history, is unconscionable.
If you are worried about commenters who bring this site to disrepute, I understand.
But do I really, to make a point, have to seek examples from Armenian history or from Rwanda history about the developing dynamic between soon to be victims and soon to be perpetrators because European history is too complex ??!!!!!
We do not censor people who compare drums of war against Iran with drums of war against Iraq.
I was drawn to plight of Palestinians because I was stricken by obscene similarity of their plight to the plight of Jews in Poland and Germany before and during the second World War.
Is saying the above is a banning offence?
When I lived in Poland, the universality of the Nazi evil was they way we perceived the Second World War. I don't think that many people did not have the subconcious understanding that the Jews were but the first batch of undesirables that Nazi death machine was meant to do away with. Poles were sitting on the land that Germany coveted for centuries, and were seen by many as lesser mortals, much less able to make dessert bloom, so to speak, and therefore very much in the queue for extermination at some future point in time.
Of course we were all running the gauntlet of Soviet-inspired propaganda, undoing of which will even today get people smeared as Holocaust deniers, and which fed us an endless stream of German bad, Pole and Russian good, black and white (ideologically speaking) war movies.
Of course now we all running the gauntlet of Israel-inspired propaganda, undoing of which will even today get people smeared as Holocaust deniers, and which feeds us an endless stream of Jews good, Europeans bad, black and white (ideologically speaking) media pieces.
The most tragic part of that is that we do not have knowledge of death camps and Holocaust that we could have, had we be able to treat the subject as one treats any other research topic, with debate about the relative importance of each step that took Germany and it's victims into the tragic end.
Once decision to kill a specific group of people is taken, it is usually much too late to start organising the rescue. With current technology, the efficiency of genocide can be modified, to suit the perpetrators.
Chaos4700
Please don't leave.
Witty, eee and hopmi are representative of people Phil is trying to reach. They are his study cohort. JSlater is respected widely between people who Phil wants to engage in the conversation.
He has more understanding of moral dissonance that Zionism creates than any of us ( Although I was brought up with few nationalistic anti-Semites, and believe me, some of the dissonance is scarily similar), and much more patience with the slow process of change.
All the impatience of those who never had to undergo this untangling of neurons will not speed the process. Anyone who ever wanted to change their eating habits and struggled should understand Zionists who read Mondoweiss.
Zionism, like any nationalism (not to mention miriad of other beliefs) is emotional and not rational. Limbic brain, after puberty, is extraordinarily difficult to change.
Hello Sarah,
Please, be patient. People around the world are learning about injustice done to Palestinians. Israelis will be humbled. Inshallah.
Hi Methuselah Now,
I agree that this needs a separate post.
Waleed, thank you.
Your English is excellent, and your writing hounting.....
I didn't know about cemetaries being attacked.
I will use that information when telling people about Gaza.
You've got to be carefully taught
Couldn't make a donation on the website, so went to networkforgood.org website and donated from there.
I think he may have used figures from Ottoman Empire census 1886?
Dear DanMazella,
Pals have been prevented by Kikes from earning the living. Last year they were magnanimously allowed by Israel to export 4.5 tons of cherry tomatoes (and few other things, not many) from Gaza, presumably so that the income would allow them to feed 1.5 million people without resorting to handouts.
Three questions for you:
Which is more insulting: Kikes or Pals?
Is 3 billion that Israel collects a year more than less than Palestinians collect?
Do you know that half of Gaza population is children, and Israel is not paying a penny for their food not that Israel ever did ??
If you break the stranglehold of Israel Lobby on the political process, you will create the conditions where such miscarriages of justice can be recognized and reversed.
And the only way to break the stranglehold of Israel Lobby on the political process is to she the light on immorality of what they fight to preserve.
So each time one of us challenges the Hasbara in comments section of online publishing, freezes at the demonstration, or strains the friendship - remember these Palestinian men, who tried to do what flotilla people tried to do - bring relief to besieged people of Gaza.
Israel is in Palestine. One refers to country, the other to geographical area.
Gutman is Jewish. This should protect him.
She could have had explosives in her vagina - see? The guard was just save-guarding fellow Israeli citizen from terrorist attack. Anyway, her vagina is obviously full of hostile intentions, having delivered four demographic threats in quick succession.