Popular Culture Exposes Racism That Enables Israeli War Fever

When a nation goes to war, there are all sorts of motivations, policy deliberations, and cultural attitudes that contribute to such a decision.  Popular culture offers a window into a nation’s consciousness.

Israel's (IDF) war on Gaza (operation Cast Lead) killed 252 children (Human Rights found IDF investigators lied)

Israeli human rights organisation since the war ended puts the number of children under 16 killed in the offensive at 252 as opposed to the 89 cited by the military.

UN Envoy Tours Palestinian Territories To Assess Settler Violence - International Middle East Media Center

After a recent increase in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian civilians, property and holy sites, the UN envoy Richard Falk arrived in the West Bank this weekend to begin an eleven-day tour of the Palestinian Territories to examine the situation.

Carlo Strenger: Netanyahu Is Killing the Two-State Solution

Israel's foreign policies, particularly the occupation of the West Bank and the siege on Gaza, are seen neither as legitimate nor as having moral authority, and its political values are seen as chauvinist.

Religious Fundamentalism In Israel (Rising Jewish Extremism)

Israel Shahak's (1933 - 2001) "Jewish History, Jewish Religion" argued that while Islamic fundamentalism is vilified in the West, comparable Jewish extremism is largely ignored.

Palestinian Firefighters Joined (in 2010) Counterparts from 13 Nations in Fighting Fire in Northren Israel (occupied Palestine, but were denied recognition)

The blaze, which had killed at least 41 people and devastated more than 10,000 acres of land, was still burning out of control 24 hours after it started in the Carmel region.

Netanyahu's Speech to Congress (last year) - a Display of Zionist Treachery

Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to congress was a glorious display of total disregard for the rights of the Palestinian people.

Israel's myth of invincibility drives a dangerous idea-- attacking Iran

Danielle Pletka surprising admission that a nuclear armed Iran's threat to Israel wasn't that it would launch an attack but rather that it could upset the "balance of power" in the region. 

Israeli undercover agents routinely kill unarmed Palestinians, report says

JERUSALEM -- An international human rights group has said Israeli undercover agents routinely shoot to kill unarmed Palestinians in violation of the army's own stated rules. (Note)Report first appeared in 1993 but this practice continues.

Israeli occupation, settlements are impeding Mideast peace

Israel is impeding efforts to achieve Middle East peace, Saeb Erekat, the former chief Palestinian negotiator said on Monday, rejecting comments by Quartet envoy Tony Blair, according to which the so called Arab Spring was destabilizing the region and harming the peace process.

Israeli Undercover Agents Boast on Israeli TV of killing Palestinians

Undercover Israeli intelligence officers appeared on national television Saturday to talk about assassinating Palestinians in a program broadcast on Israel's Channel 10.

Why Israel wants no peace in Palestine

Palestine has reunited. The leaders of Fatah and Hamas who were at war earlier signed an agreement for reconciliation in Cairo. This agreement was joined by 11 of the most major Palestinian factions, including Islamic Jihad.

Obstacles to Middle East peace: (No permenant Israeli) Borders and (illegal) settlements

The fact that complete, permanent borders still have not yet been drawn around Israel 60 years later is testimony to the rancour of its relations with neighbouring Arab states

Clinton Blames Netanyahu for Lack of Peace

Bill Clinton had some harsh words for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday. According to Clinton, it‘s Netanyahu’s fault there is no peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Nuclear Israel a Challenge for Obama's Nuclear Campaign (Netanyahu's Israeli Nuclear Hypocrisy)

Creating a world free from nuclear perils by seeking the cooperation of nuclear states in strengthening the nonproliferation regime is a lofty ideal. However, while Israel refuses to acknowledge its nuclear status, the whole progress stands impeded.

WATCH:Israeli security gaurds attack unarmed protesters with live fire

Israeli private security opens live fire on unarmed Israeli and Palestinians demonstrators. Army arrives and throws tear gas on the demonstrators.

Sarkozy Calls Mideast Peace Quartet 'A Failure' - ABC News

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the so-called Quartet of Mideast negotiators is a failure and a new method for finding peace is needed.

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation 

A national coalition of more than 380 groups, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation works to end U.S. support for Israel's occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. We support a U.S. policy that upholds freedom, justice and equality.

Israelis succumb to the (Orthodox) Rabbi's curse

Ritual cursing (by orthodox Rabbi's), with its origin in the esoteric Jewish tradition of mysticism and magic known as the cabbala, has proved effective against their enemies in the past.

: Israeli Agent Provocateurs Launch Bottle Rockets From Gaza Into Israel - Newest Excuse For Cast Lead II?

Here we go again with Israeli Agent Provocateurs launching bottle rockets into open fields in Israel just to try to get world sympathy for them to launch another campaign of murder against the Palestinians.

Israel versus Palestine in 2012 (More struggle for peace)

Life in occupied Palestine is harsh and repressive, On December 26, Jerusalem's mayor, Nir Barakat, delivered another blow, The Municipality will classify 70,000 Israeli Arab citizens non-residents and involuntarily transfer them to West Bank locations

Israel's Slow-Motion Genocide in Occupied Palestine

Imagine Living in limbo under a foreign occupier. Having no self-determination, no right of return, and no power over your daily life. Being in constant fear, economically strangled, and collectively punished.

'Israeli intolerance' concerns UK - Human rights calls 'Nakba Law', treatment of Bedouins, Silwan children discriminatory

The 2010 Human Rights and Democracy report prepared and released Thursday by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office expresses concern over the "growing climate of intolerance in Israeli society, and in particular by the progress of proposed Knesset bills that discriminate …

Israeli RABBI Calls For Annihilation of Arabs

The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs.

Thousands of Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Jews Clash with Secular Courts - TIME

June 17,2010: Israel's domestic culture war between religious communities and the secular courts took to the streets on Thursday as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi (European) Jews paralyzed the streets of Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak in a protest m …

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