Guardian (7/1/2009)
'This brief review of Israel's record over the past four decades makes it difficult to resist the conclusion that it has become a rogue state with "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". A rogue state habitually violates international law, possesses weapons of mass destruction and practises terrorism - the use of violence against civilians for political purposes. Israel fulfils all of these three criteria; the cap fits and it must wear it. Israel's real aim is not peaceful coexistence with its Palestinian neighbours but military domination. It keeps compounding the mistakes of the past with new and more disastrous ones. Politicians, like everyone else, are of course free to repeat the lies and mistakes of the past. But it is not mandatory to do so.' (Prof. Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford)

UK Jewish lawmaker: Israeli forces acting like Nazis 1/16/09


LONDON, England (CNN) -- Israeli military action in Gaza is comparable to that of German soldiers during the Holocaust, a Jewish UK lawmaker whose family suffered at the hands of the Nazis has claimed.
Gerald Kaufman, a member of the UK's ruling Labour Party, also called for an arms embargo on Israel, currently fighting militant Palestinian group Hamas, during the debate in the British parliament Thursday.
"My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town of Staszow. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed," said Kaufman, who added that he had friends and family in Israel and had been there "more times than I can count."
"My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza."
Kaufman, a senior Labour politician who was raised as an Orthodox Jew, has often opposed Israeli policy throughout his career.

This has not been reported by mainstream uk media (champions of "free speech" and "truth") simply because it is  inconvenient and conflicts with their zionist dictated agenda.

Gaza agreement eludes Arab leaders (Aljazeera news)

Arab leaders have failed to agree on a specific mechanism to support reconstruction in Gaza following Israel's offensive there, despite vowing to provide Gazans with "all forms of support" (i.e. speeches, tall claims, plenty of hot air)

(Presumably the saudis , egyptians , and the jordanians are awaiting instructions from the new U.S. secretary of state!)

In his comment, Gerald Kaufman also called Hamas ‘deeply nasty’. I think the continuing hostilities in Middle East have led to hardening of positions on both sides. An increasingly fundamental, ultra orthodox Jewish community came to the political centre stage after creation of Israel; secular Zionism in Israel was dead by 1967. The political scene in Israel is dominated by the right wing Jews who place the establishment of Kingdom of God in the Promised Land above the need to make peace with Palestinians. In addition, there are credible reports of America having sown the seeds of hostility between Hamas and Fatah, perhaps seeking to delay a final resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Also, the Americans have not helped the situation by refusing to accept the results of the elections held in Palestine in 2006. The massive military support of the US for Israel is backed by the conservative Christians in America who are inspired by the millennial fantasy of achieving Redemption with the Second Coming of Christ, which will be expedited by the conversion of Jews to Christianity. This felicitous outcome of course requires the expulsion of Muslims from the Holy Lands. There has been a similar radicalization in Palestine. The politics of hatred has led to anger, fear and anxiety on all sides. There seems to be an unbridgeable divide between the perspectives of the two sides of the conflict. The thinking of some people in the larger Muslim world is also flawed. It begins with bemoaning the creation of Israel in 1948 and ends with the vision to expel the ‘infidels’ from the holy lands, which contain Qibla-e-Awal and the place where the holy Prophet had tethered his horse, Burraq on the way to his journey to Heavens. The fight in Israel and Palestine is not just for the basic rights and prosperity of the citizens any longer. The worst bloodshed in Israel/Palestine over the years has happened in cities that are considered to be holy by adherents of three major faiths. The most contentious issues are the ones relating to the sacred status of Jerusalem. All these perspectives, imbued by an excessive concern for holiness fail to take into account the historical background of the issue. They fail to factor in the reality that the place was holy for another people before each new set of rulers arrived, the reality of the inalienable right of Palestinians to live with peace and dignity in their homeland and the irreversibility of the creation of Israel.

THE LATE JACK BERNSTEIN was a rarity—an American Zionist who actually "returned" to Israel, not for a vacation or to summer on a kibbutz, but to live and die in Israel building a Jewish nation.  What makes him almost one of a kind, though, was his ability to see  through the sham and hype to the oppressive, racist, parasitic character of Zionism as practiced in modern Israel, and his courage to denounce it with the force and fervor of an Old Testament prophet.

Bernstein tells how it was, how it is, and how it will be—as long as American taxpayers tolerate their leaders’ bowing to every wish and whim of the Ashkenazic (Eastern European) elite which rules Israel.  He takes the reader on a guided tour through Israel’s history, institutions and values, demonstrating how the best traditions of Biblical Judaism have been obscured, corrupted, or cast out to make way for the totalitarian, militaristic, chauvinist monster that is the Israel of today.
In Racist Marxist Israel is an irrefutable demonstration that Israeli Jews—and their Zionist kindred around the world—maintain a double standard on political morality and ethics, and that they support themselves, indeed wax fat on, the sweat and tears and toil and money of non-Jews.

The Life of an American Jew
in Racist Marxist Israel
by Jack Bernstein; 1985

The arrogance of the Israeli establishment owes a lot to the military and economic support of the US. In addition the Israeli right wing exists in a religious and ethnic time warp; and so does a large part of the world including the followers of Islam and Christianity. Bigotry of the Israeli orthodox can be reformed to the extent that the rest of the world reforms itself and reviews the sources of its own biases, passions and beliefs. In some  Muslim countries, dictatorial regimes propped up by the West have  repressed legitimate forms of political expression, giving rise to militant movements; moreover, in these countries, religion has often served as oppositional discourse, a counterpoint to the corrupt, ineffective and repressive regimes, unable to provide an inspiring vision to the masses. On the other hand, the indigenous ideologues and self proclaimed explicators of faith are no less pernicious in their capacity to silence dissidence. The ‘moderates’ are moderately wrong and therefore provide a fertile soil for extremism to grow. An alternative global vision that reconciles the ethical values of the past with emerging needs of an increasingly interconnected world is needed. Attempts to blend the values of the past with modern scientific, socioeconomic and philosophical perspectives are not new in the Islamic world. Muslim secularists and modernists have worked to this end since the turn of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, a vacuum persists; secularists in today’s world choose not to see the world through the metaphor of religion; this leaves large sections of the conservative masses at the mercy of ideologues. The efforts of blogs such as this are commendable. The expanding world of the cyberspace can do what the modernists of earlier times could not in the face of repression, killing and silencing of dissenting voices by the self avowed protectors of faith. Renouncing of violence used for political ends will be a fantasy, unless the people of the world raise a unanimous voice against it. Although there are reasons to expect a change in the US foreign policy given the recent change in the American administration, politicians whether in America or in other parts of the world, characteristically do not make a radical break from the past. Among other factors, this is due to opposition from entrenched forces with vested interests in preserving the status quo. Waiting for the politicians to open a dialogue with extremists of the world may necessitate waiting for a long time.

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