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Video: Young Cosmopolitan Israelis Share Their Shocking Racist Views
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On May 27, journalist Jesse Rosenfeld and I set out on the streets of Tel Aviv to probe the political opinions of young local residents. We started the day filming at Tel Aviv University, where a group of Jewish and Palestinian Israeli students gathered to protest a proposed law that would criminalize public observance of the Nakba, or the mass expulsion and killing of Palestinians by Zionist militias in 1948. There, we interviewed Palestinian Israeli students about the rising climate of repression, then spoke to another group of students who gathered nearby to heckle their Arab classmates and demand their deportation. A few hundred meters away, two genial business students expressed support for the so-called Nakba law, remarking to us, "If you want to keep democracy, you can't let people protest against the independence of the country."
That evening, Jesse and I took our camera to central Tel Aviv, where thousands were taking part in the annual all-night festival known as White Night. Some revelers took an intermission from the partying to express to us their hatred for the Iranian people. And a group of teenagers launched into a virtually unprompted diatribe against Barack Obama, referring to him as a Nazi, a Muslim, and a "Cushi," which is Hebrew slang for "nigger." When questioned about the source of his opinions, one teenager proudly declared himself a "gezan," or a racist.
See "Feeling The Hate In Tel Aviv":
This video, entitled "Feeling the Hate in Tel Aviv," is the sequel to a piece the Israeli blogger Joseph Dana and I released in June called "Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem." That video, which featured a cast of mostly American Jews in Jerusalem leveling racist vitriol at Obama, stirred immediate controversy, prompting some blogs to remove it on the grounds that it was not "newsworthy." As the "not newsworthy" video began climbing towards 400,000 hits on YouTube, and before YouTube and Vimeo banned it without explanation and without offering me any legal recourse, the Israeli media weighed in.
The video YouTube and Vimeo banned:
Benjamin Hartman, a young correspondent for Ha'aretz who had moved to Israel from his hometown of Austin, Texas, wrote that my video was "circling the internet at a critical velocity on a mission to humiliate the Jewish people." Hartmann concluded that I was "speaking to the wrong crowd at the wrong time of night," a meme that would comprise the key talking point for bloggers and organized Jewish groups (including the Israeli chapter of Democrats Abroad) seeking to discredit and ultimately suppress the video.
Hartmann then offered me advice on where to find the right crowd, and at which time of night they might be on their best behavior. "I hope Blumenthal films his next segment in Tel Aviv, though the results would probably be far less salacious," Hartman wrote. "On a balcony in Florentin, he would ask the drum circle what they think of Obama and through the purple haze would hear only praise for the president, before being forced to listen to a 30-minute account of a recent trip to Nepal."
Unbeknownst to Hartman, who only attempted to interview me days after publishing his review, and then published a piece questioning whether I had been "fueling anti-Semitism," I had already filmed my next segment in Tel Aviv. (And I had already spent an evening, sans camera, with an Israeli hippy on a balcony in Florentin, though he told me through the purple haze that the Palestinian people do not exist and should be immediately transferred to Jordan). Now that I have released my footage from Tel Aviv, I wonder what Hartman and other, even more insecure critics of my first "Feeling the Hate" video will do to ensure that the sequel does not "humiliate the Jewish people." Will they rely on the same old hasbara?
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Posted by: JimmyChang on Jul 15, 2009 12:36 AM
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They spy on us, steal our technology, make the world hate us, and insult our president for making the unreasonable claim that billions in aid might come with strings attached. With friend like this, who needs enemies?
I'd write more, but I always take comfort in this:
Hating Israel is like screaming at a Beatles concert. No one can hear you, because everyone else is already doing it!"
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Posted by: Perry Logan on Jul 15, 2009 2:37 AM
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May the souls of the slain children haunt their dreams.
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Posted by: vision on Jul 15, 2009 2:51 AM
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I have spent time in about a dozen societies, and I have never encountered racism even nearly as widespread or as strong as in Israel.
That said, the original video shows a few drunk idiots late at night and lacks any context. It is not reflective of Israeli society as a whole, and I could see why Jews and Israelis would be worried about people seeing that, especially if those people haven't had a lot of other contact with Jews. I thought the final two students at Tel Aviv University in the second video were much more representitive of "typical" Israeli views.
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» No Racism Among Palestinians? Puh-leez
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» No, but I couldn't find quotes like this from the Palestinian leaders.....
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Posted by: weathered on Jul 15, 2009 3:19 AM
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How do you say 'pathologic denial' in Hebrew?
For all that Israel has they remain spiritually impoverished;humility eludes them, denial becomes them and trouble follows them.
Self-righteous victimhood in perpetuity is toxic and nothing good can come from it.
Until Israel/Jews have the courage to confront their part in their own drama, they'll suffer.
- and that's what happens when one would much rather be right than happy. Ultimately they're neither and it shows.
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» RE: Israel shoots themselves directly in the head.
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» RE: Israel shoots themselves directly in the head.
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» not limited to religion
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» RE: Israel shoots themselves directly in the head.
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» well said!!!
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Posted by: colinmeister on Jul 15, 2009 3:54 AM
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I have another idea, maybe the US could deport most if its racist trash to Israel and rid itself of some of the worst elements of society?
Dual nationality doesn't work - how can anyone serve two masters loyally? This is why I am not a UK/US dual national, I stick with the nationality I was born with, British Subject.
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Posted by: wisegalah on Jul 15, 2009 4:39 AM
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Religious excrement like judaism, (or christianity or islam or whatever) not only destroys logic but poisons the heart.
So-called non-religious beliefs like communism, fascism are no different.
What is needed is for individuals to begin to grow up, to take responsibility for their lives and begin to see that the politicians and the clerics have lied to them and have destroyed their integrity and their real freedom.
A jewish intellectual described the jewish religious establishment in Israel as the whores of the state of Israel. Exactly so.
Wake up and see the deep and deadly dangerous conspiracy between the priests, (mullahs, rabbis, etc). It is overt in Iran, for example, but no less real in Israel. There it is probably more dangerous because the rabbis and Israeli politicians lie about and hide this conjunction of interests. The Iranians are more honest about what they are doing but no more to be trusted.
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» RE: It is logical actually.
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» Absolutely correct
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Posted by: fortune on Jul 15, 2009 4:49 AM
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» RE: Shocking indeed
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Posted by: Allstar Cookie on Jul 15, 2009 6:44 AM
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Children as young as 2.....taught to slaughter the Jews and embrace a life cut short by suicide.
Nothing to do with occupation......that's just a convenient excuse to brainwash children.......and Liberals.
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» No way
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» Head in the sand
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Posted by: Aquinas on Jul 15, 2009 6:43 AM
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Why are "American" jews spewing hatred for the President of the United States in Israel?
Since Israel is embarked on a program to make Israel for "jews only", why is there a distinction between an Israeli and a jew? Isn't what Israel is doing, being done in the name of all jews? Aren't all jews granted automatic citizenship in Israel? If jews are sharply divided on the issue of Israel, why don't we hear more from the opposition? Have they lost their voices or do they secretly and quietly support the illegal activity of the Israeli jews? Does somebody want their cake and eat it too? Why are there numerous jewish lobbies in the United States for the purpose of supporting Israel's interests and only one or two in opposition? Is it because one side has ALL the money?
Why do we tolerate the ridiculous status of "dual citizenship"? When jews pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States, do they insert the phrase "only part time and as it doesn't conflict with Israel's interests"?
One of the main problems with this "great melting pot" experiment, is that we provided for the existence of "hyphenated Americans" and then wonder why we have such terrible problems with the results. One can only pledge allegiance to one country at a time and dual citizenship is a farce and unworkable. It presumes a commonality of purpose and interests between the two countries, which does not exist and if it did, the countries would be as one, NOT joined in dual citizenship! The American people did not get to vote on this splitting of its citizenry with another country. We should have no room for hyphenated Americans; either accept America, unconditionally, as your country, or feel free to go to the land you feel this pressing need to identify with.
Abolishing dual citizenship is the only remedy for America's constantly being embroiled in the affairs of other nations. The American people didn't get to vote on minimizing the meaning of American citizenship by allowing a hyphenated qualifier. Cuban-Americans in Florida and Mexican-Americans in California, are the best examples of the trouble these "hyphenated Americans" can and will produce in the name of their "native" countries. We are our own worst enemy! Wake up!
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Posted by: james108 on Jul 15, 2009 6:48 AM
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Just like there are many here standing up against this racial/religious farce, there are those standing up in Israel, soldiers even, knowing the ways of the Mossad and doing it anyway.
Israeli soldiers admit 'shoot first' policy in Gaza offensive
Burning Conscience: Israeli Soldiers Speak Out
I wish we gave these guys more exposure instead of letting their efforts drift away. Israel government's right wing political stranglehold is very similar to the corporate democrat/republican one here. Just because it controls most things doesn't mean everyone subscribes.
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» well now
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Posted by: SPEAKTRUTH200 on Jul 15, 2009 7:01 AM
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» Speaking of racism
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Posted by: countingdaisies on Jul 15, 2009 8:03 AM
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» For the same reasons
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» It's really very simple.
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Posted by: Spiritgirl on Jul 15, 2009 8:31 AM
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Maybe cutting "our" losses (& aid) with Israel is the best way to go! Let the bully nation stand alone - even Mussolini let go in the end!
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Posted by: EyesandEars on Jul 15, 2009 9:44 AM
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Now the Israelis, in escaping that past, have assumed the role of tyrant. They have become what was most vile to them.
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Posted by: SeattlePackedSnowandCollidedCars on Jul 15, 2009 10:36 AM
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oh yea
for you fools whom say "stop giving Israel money" this is like me saying "Stop giving California my tax money sitting here in South Buffalo, NY" or "stop giving those Euros money becuase they never liked us" and I hate to say it but these are people and i know Liberals have a special way to put there pants on the morning however its a opinion like an asshole, everyone got one. Deal with it, I'm off to get my food stamps!
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Posted by: symcokid on Jul 15, 2009 11:31 AM
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Posted by: login@bugmenot.com on Jul 15, 2009 12:54 PM
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Their land is less than 0.5% of the land in the middle east, and consist 0.0% of natural resources (unlike the rest of the middle east, which consist most of the world's trillion of dollars worthy of oil), yet they are the most powerful country in the middle east
in the past 60 years, 5.5 million jews have kicked more than 1.5 billion muslims ASS
does the term "DON'T FUCK WITH ISRAEL" means anything to you? cause as far as the muslim / arab world - it means nothin. that's why they keep trying to destroy israel, that's why we keep fighting back.
We don't like the arabs, they are a retarded nation (anyone who thinks in 2009 that a woman should stay at home, and not be allowed to work, is restarted - and ALL the muslims nation who goes under the SHREA law (the "holy" muslim laws of life) thinks exactly that.
So yeah, we hate the arabs, and we hate all the rest of you morons who don't have a clue what the israeli-arab conflict is about.
You think WE'RE racist? try visiting europe / united states / australia. you'll meet the neo nazis, KKK, right wing extrimists who want to deport / kill all immigrents and so on and so on.
so ya'll can go fuck yourself. as long as the arabs continue to declare "we want to destroy israel" (the only nation on earth which is being threatened for annihilation) - we'll continue to HATE arabs
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Posted by: cat007 on Jul 15, 2009 2:11 PM
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Posted by: harlan8 on Jul 15, 2009 4:28 PM
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Like I posted to an earlier article... why tell only of Israeli racism, or boycott only Israel? I think there is more to this, why is just Israel singled out like this. I wish Alternet would not post these articles that seem to expect perfection in one country, when all countries are problematic, many much more so than Israel.
I saw this doc the other day, about Jews and Arabs doing stuff together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUY8G4jjzrs
perhaps the problem is heterosexuals, they are the violent and racist ones.
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» Why Would Alternet Publish This?
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» SHOW ME THE RACISM!
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» To " kawaiigardiner ": Show me the racism – HERE!
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Posted by: pomes on Jul 16, 2009 4:47 PM
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Posted by: DaBear on Jul 16, 2009 10:09 PM
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Doesn't excuse the sickness and pathological nature of anyone, Israelis included. Just that the shitstorm of "Extreme Othering" is pretty damned widespread. And it needs to stop.
One thing I note about any sort of "racial" extremist: an almost total incapability of empathy and and absence of the literal ability to imagine oneself directly in another's shoes. For the three major delusions... I mean religions of the western world to oddly overlook their own traditions which warn them about this sort of miscreance, is very very telling.
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Posted by: Fempatriot on Jul 19, 2009 9:20 AM
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Thank you.
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Posted by: JimmyChang on Jul 15, 2009 12:36 AM
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They spy on us, steal our technology, make the world hate us, and insult our president for making the unreasonable claim that billions in aid might come with strings attached. With friend like this, who needs enemies?
I'd write more, but I always take comfort in this:
Hating Israel is like screaming at a Beatles concert. No one can hear you, because everyone else is already doing it!"
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Posted by: Perry Logan on Jul 15, 2009 2:37 AM
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May the souls of the slain children haunt their dreams.
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Posted by: vision on Jul 15, 2009 2:51 AM
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I have spent time in about a dozen societies, and I have never encountered racism even nearly as widespread or as strong as in Israel.
That said, the original video shows a few drunk idiots late at night and lacks any context. It is not reflective of Israeli society as a whole, and I could see why Jews and Israelis would be worried about people seeing that, especially if those people haven't had a lot of other contact with Jews. I thought the final two students at Tel Aviv University in the second video were much more representitive of "typical" Israeli views.
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» No, but I couldn't find quotes like this from the Palestinian leaders.....
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Posted by: weathered on Jul 15, 2009 3:19 AM
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How do you say 'pathologic denial' in Hebrew?
For all that Israel has they remain spiritually impoverished;humility eludes them, denial becomes them and trouble follows them.
Self-righteous victimhood in perpetuity is toxic and nothing good can come from it.
Until Israel/Jews have the courage to confront their part in their own drama, they'll suffer.
- and that's what happens when one would much rather be right than happy. Ultimately they're neither and it shows.
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» not limited to religion
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» RE: Israel shoots themselves directly in the head.
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» well said!!!
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Posted by: colinmeister on Jul 15, 2009 3:54 AM
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I have another idea, maybe the US could deport most if its racist trash to Israel and rid itself of some of the worst elements of society?
Dual nationality doesn't work - how can anyone serve two masters loyally? This is why I am not a UK/US dual national, I stick with the nationality I was born with, British Subject.
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Posted by: wisegalah on Jul 15, 2009 4:39 AM
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Religious excrement like judaism, (or christianity or islam or whatever) not only destroys logic but poisons the heart.
So-called non-religious beliefs like communism, fascism are no different.
What is needed is for individuals to begin to grow up, to take responsibility for their lives and begin to see that the politicians and the clerics have lied to them and have destroyed their integrity and their real freedom.
A jewish intellectual described the jewish religious establishment in Israel as the whores of the state of Israel. Exactly so.
Wake up and see the deep and deadly dangerous conspiracy between the priests, (mullahs, rabbis, etc). It is overt in Iran, for example, but no less real in Israel. There it is probably more dangerous because the rabbis and Israeli politicians lie about and hide this conjunction of interests. The Iranians are more honest about what they are doing but no more to be trusted.
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» Absolutely correct
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» Go I-80 West, please
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Posted by: Allstar Cookie on Jul 15, 2009 6:44 AM
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Children as young as 2.....taught to slaughter the Jews and embrace a life cut short by suicide.
Nothing to do with occupation......that's just a convenient excuse to brainwash children.......and Liberals.
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Posted by: Aquinas on Jul 15, 2009 6:43 AM
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Why are "American" jews spewing hatred for the President of the United States in Israel?
Since Israel is embarked on a program to make Israel for "jews only", why is there a distinction between an Israeli and a jew? Isn't what Israel is doing, being done in the name of all jews? Aren't all jews granted automatic citizenship in Israel? If jews are sharply divided on the issue of Israel, why don't we hear more from the opposition? Have they lost their voices or do they secretly and quietly support the illegal activity of the Israeli jews? Does somebody want their cake and eat it too? Why are there numerous jewish lobbies in the United States for the purpose of supporting Israel's interests and only one or two in opposition? Is it because one side has ALL the money?
Why do we tolerate the ridiculous status of "dual citizenship"? When jews pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States, do they insert the phrase "only part time and as it doesn't conflict with Israel's interests"?
One of the main problems with this "great melting pot" experiment, is that we provided for the existence of "hyphenated Americans" and then wonder why we have such terrible problems with the results. One can only pledge allegiance to one country at a time and dual citizenship is a farce and unworkable. It presumes a commonality of purpose and interests between the two countries, which does not exist and if it did, the countries would be as one, NOT joined in dual citizenship! The American people did not get to vote on this splitting of its citizenry with another country. We should have no room for hyphenated Americans; either accept America, unconditionally, as your country, or feel free to go to the land you feel this pressing need to identify with.
Abolishing dual citizenship is the only remedy for America's constantly being embroiled in the affairs of other nations. The American people didn't get to vote on minimizing the meaning of American citizenship by allowing a hyphenated qualifier. Cuban-Americans in Florida and Mexican-Americans in California, are the best examples of the trouble these "hyphenated Americans" can and will produce in the name of their "native" countries. We are our own worst enemy! Wake up!
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Posted by: james108 on Jul 15, 2009 6:48 AM
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Just like there are many here standing up against this racial/religious farce, there are those standing up in Israel, soldiers even, knowing the ways of the Mossad and doing it anyway.
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I wish we gave these guys more exposure instead of letting their efforts drift away. Israel government's right wing political stranglehold is very similar to the corporate democrat/republican one here. Just because it controls most things doesn't mean everyone subscribes.
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Posted by: Spiritgirl on Jul 15, 2009 8:31 AM
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Maybe cutting "our" losses (& aid) with Israel is the best way to go! Let the bully nation stand alone - even Mussolini let go in the end!
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Posted by: EyesandEars on Jul 15, 2009 9:44 AM
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Now the Israelis, in escaping that past, have assumed the role of tyrant. They have become what was most vile to them.
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Posted by: SeattlePackedSnowandCollidedCars on Jul 15, 2009 10:36 AM
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oh yea
for you fools whom say "stop giving Israel money" this is like me saying "Stop giving California my tax money sitting here in South Buffalo, NY" or "stop giving those Euros money becuase they never liked us" and I hate to say it but these are people and i know Liberals have a special way to put there pants on the morning however its a opinion like an asshole, everyone got one. Deal with it, I'm off to get my food stamps!
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Posted by: login@bugmenot.com on Jul 15, 2009 12:54 PM
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Their land is less than 0.5% of the land in the middle east, and consist 0.0% of natural resources (unlike the rest of the middle east, which consist most of the world's trillion of dollars worthy of oil), yet they are the most powerful country in the middle east
in the past 60 years, 5.5 million jews have kicked more than 1.5 billion muslims ASS
does the term "DON'T FUCK WITH ISRAEL" means anything to you? cause as far as the muslim / arab world - it means nothin. that's why they keep trying to destroy israel, that's why we keep fighting back.
We don't like the arabs, they are a retarded nation (anyone who thinks in 2009 that a woman should stay at home, and not be allowed to work, is restarted - and ALL the muslims nation who goes under the SHREA law (the "holy" muslim laws of life) thinks exactly that.
So yeah, we hate the arabs, and we hate all the rest of you morons who don't have a clue what the israeli-arab conflict is about.
You think WE'RE racist? try visiting europe / united states / australia. you'll meet the neo nazis, KKK, right wing extrimists who want to deport / kill all immigrents and so on and so on.
so ya'll can go fuck yourself. as long as the arabs continue to declare "we want to destroy israel" (the only nation on earth which is being threatened for annihilation) - we'll continue to HATE arabs
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Posted by: harlan8 on Jul 15, 2009 4:28 PM
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Like I posted to an earlier article... why tell only of Israeli racism, or boycott only Israel? I think there is more to this, why is just Israel singled out like this. I wish Alternet would not post these articles that seem to expect perfection in one country, when all countries are problematic, many much more so than Israel.
I saw this doc the other day, about Jews and Arabs doing stuff together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUY8G4jjzrs
perhaps the problem is heterosexuals, they are the violent and racist ones.
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Doesn't excuse the sickness and pathological nature of anyone, Israelis included. Just that the shitstorm of "Extreme Othering" is pretty damned widespread. And it needs to stop.
One thing I note about any sort of "racial" extremist: an almost total incapability of empathy and and absence of the literal ability to imagine oneself directly in another's shoes. For the three major delusions... I mean religions of the western world to oddly overlook their own traditions which warn them about this sort of miscreance, is very very telling.
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Posted by: Fempatriot on Jul 19, 2009 9:20 AM
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Thank you.
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