At the heart of commentary writer George Bisharat's piece "Israeli raid 'illegal,' its acts 'unconscionable' " is misleading propaganda. Bisharat slanders Israel as trying to "impose itself by force on an entire region that rejects its claims to ethnic supremacy" and as being "a state committed to privileging Jews, implanted ... in a country with a majority Palestinian population" that "can only be sustained by violence"
(USATODAY.com, June 4).
However, Israel was established on a sliver of British Mandatory Palestine. There was no pre-existing Palestinian Arab country. The mandate, confirmed by the League of Nations and reaffirmed by the United Nations, facilitated re-establishment of the Jewish people in their ancient homeland. Jewish immigration and economic development attracted Arab migration into what would become Israel. That migration and Arab massacres of Jews led Britain to bar further Jewish return. This accounted for the "Palestinian majority" in 1948. ..(full article)
[Editor's note: the above article is dedicated to all those anti-Israel, pro Palestinian Solidarity socialist fools and 21st century capos who deign to educate us]
Aside the regions of Israel and Judea Jews have lived in the Middle East at least since the Babylonian Captivity (597 BCE), about 2,600 years ago.
After the expansion of Arab and other Muslims into the Middle East from the Arabian Peninsula, Jews, along with Christians and Zoroastrians, typically had the legal status of dhimmi. As such, they were entitled to limited rights but fewer than those of Muslims. ..cont
Yet another deceiving New York Times report about Israel misleads about the legitimacy and credibility of the Goldstone report, implying that Israel's military court has validated it, when in fact the reverse is true.
The international trade union movement has just delivered a stinging rebuff to advocates of the campaign to boycott Israel.
..When Saddam murders his own people it's not a story, because it's in the Arab-Muslim family. But when a small band of Israeli Jews kills Muslims it sparks rage — a rage that must come from Muslims having to confront the gap between their self-perception as Muslims and the reality of the Muslim world...
..The Muslim world needs to take an honest look at this rage. Look what it has done to Palestinian society — where the flower of Palestinian youth now celebrate suicide against Jews as a source of dignity. That is so bad.
Thomas L. Friedman: The core of Muslim rage
The source is an Islamic satellite channel for children called "Birds of Paradise" which broadcasts from Bahrain and aired in Gaza. The children's choir is also called "Birds of Paradise". The head of the channel, Khalid Maqdad, is a Palestinian Jordanian.
The remarkable achievements of the Medical, Scientific and Technological community of Israel from which both developing and advanced countries are benefiting...click to view
In World War II, with full international legality, the U.S. blockaded Germany and Japan. And during the October 1962 missile crisis, we blockaded ("quarantined") Cuba. Yet Israel is accused of international criminality for doing precisely what John Kennedy did: impose a naval blockade to prevent a hostile state from acquiring lethal weaponry...more
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