Debunking our myths about Israel - BY IRA CHERNUS (Salon)

[kpete]

THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011 12:30 ET
WAR ROOM
Debunking our myths about Israel
BY IRA CHERNUS

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When it comes to the all-important question of recognition, it's Israel that refuses to recognize Hamas as a legitimate party or the Palestinians' right to be a democratic state and choose their own government. Meanwhile, the Israeli government has been doing exactly what it accuses Hamas of doing -- opening the door to increasingly reactionary, racist, and theocratic laws. "Public opinion polls point to increasing extremism, bordering on racism, in Jews' opinion of Arabs," as Haaretz has noted, so "it's no wonder there is no public pressure on the government to advance the peace process."

Israel is fast coming under the sway of far-right theocrats, and "ever more Israelis are infected by the symptoms of Messianic thinking: ‘We are right, and the whole world is wrong; hence we must no longer listen to anybody,'" as one Israeli Jewish columnist observed.

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http://www.salon.com/news/israel/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/05/26/america_israel_myths

[here_is_to_hope]

1. This says it all.

"Israel is fast coming under the sway of far-right theocrats, and "ever more Israelis are infected by the symptoms of Messianic thinking: ‘We are right, and the whole world is wrong; hence we must no longer listen to anybody,'" as one Israeli Jewish columnist observed."

If you say a word in support of Palestinians, you are a bigot.

[Karenina]

2. One can always count on Ira

for a clear-headed take on REALITY.

Ass-Backward Realities

Tuches aufn tish. Let's be honest. The Israeli story doesn't merely distort the truth, it turns the truth ass-backwards. Eerily enough, its basic claims about the Palestinians more accurately describe the Israelis themselves.

[classysassy]

3. As America sinks into the sunset

can we afford to have friends like BiBi?.