As the reality of Israel’s crimes become impossible to hide, our society is redoubling its efforts to defend them as “self defense”. Who on earth would want to save this society if this is what “survival” looks like?

In October 1948, Israeli forces massacred scores of Palestinians in the village of al-Dawayima near Hebron. The case was covered up by the Israeli military, an investigation died out. 68 years later the story is finally emerging in a confessional statement suppressed at the time in which a soldier sought to relieve the weight on his soul.

Leftwing Israeli blogger Yossi Gurvitz and an alternative news website say they received a decree from the Israeli Defense Forces instructing them to pass on texts they plan to publish on Facebook concerning the security establishment for early monitoring and censorship

Seeking to define Palestinians as Arabs is another way that Zionist Israelis have sought to deny Palestinian nationality on the part of non-Jewish citizens, to secure the state’s definition as the “Jewish State,” and to finish the Nakba by denying the existence of Palestine, outside of a couple of Bantustans.

Yonatan Shay, an official of the American Jewish Committee, seeks to paint Syrian refugees in Berlin as anti-Semitic, and as putting Jews in Europe in danger, with the obvious agenda of riding the nationalist xenophobic wave.

“My principle says maximum Jews on maximum land with maximum security and with minimum Palestinians,” says Yair Lapid. And this passes for liberalism in Israel.

Israelis’ angry response to Swedish FM Margot Wallstrom demonstrates primal Israeli fears of enemies. Israelis justify extrajudicial executions of Palestinian assailants because others’ irrational, primitive hatred is a pretext for Zionism. No matter that Palestinians live under occupation, and the world notices.

Following Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström’s remarks about “Israel executing Palestinians without trial”, 15 Israeli mayors who were planning to fly to Sweden have decided to change their destination, even as Israel’s former foreign minister calls on Israelis to boycott Ikea.

Because Swedish Foreign Minister Wallstrom has said that Israel is conducting extrajudicial executions of Palestinians, an Israeli columnist in Sheldon Adelson’s newspaper says she has the same anti-semitic DNA as Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte, who was murdered by Zionist militias in 1948– and presumably deserves the same fate.

There is not much difference between the Israeli settlers of 1967 and those of 1948. The liberal Zionists anguish in “shoot and cry” fashion about the moral corruption of the settlement enterprise, but they actually furthered it, and it serves their nationalist purposes.