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Mosaic Report: Israelis Celebrate, Palestinians DemonstratePosted on May 10, 2008
Celebrations are under way this week to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel. While world leaders added their congratulations and support to heighten the festivities, over 20,000 Palestians (most of whom, as this Mosaic Intelligence Report points out, are Israeli citizens) marked the occasion with a protest march at the abandoned Palestinian village of Safouria. Watch the clip: Advertisement Previous item: McCain's 'Spiritual Guide' Has a Big Issue with Islam Next item: 'Colbert Report': Arianna Huffington on McCain's 'Viagra' CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment |
By PatrickHenry, May 16, 2008 at 2:22 am Link to this comment
I’m sure it was on the best seller list at the time.
Written by jews, about jews, for jews. I’m sure it has all the theatrical embellishments alive and well in hollywood today.
It doesn’t concern my ancestry at all.
Report thisBy bozhidar bob balkas, May 15, 2008 at 10:12 am Link to this comment
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torah is teeming w. anger, hatred, intolerance, condemnation, ‘promises’, boodthirst, etc
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, May 15, 2008 at 8:43 am Link to this comment
God’s glory, God’s glory,
for every monkey there is a Houri!
You’re the beautiful Houri evilive, guess who is the monkey?!
Report thisBy desertdude, May 14, 2008 at 4:31 pm Link to this comment
I suggest you open the Torah and read it. If you think you don’t have a copy, see the Old Testament.
Report thisThis Torah will enlighten you to the ways of the world.
By desertdude, May 14, 2008 at 4:24 pm Link to this comment
My friend, the greates example of terror is the members of the Arab states that will not admit that Israel has the right to exist. They made there homeland, what did the Arab nee Palastinians do. Nothing at all except cry foul that Israel stole their land. They were give land just As the Jews. Why don’t they have a country? Because followers of Yasir Arafat stole the money and did nothing for the people. They still have the land today. What are they doing with it? Blaming their problems on someone
Report thisother than themselvs.
By Fadel Abdallah, May 14, 2008 at 4:12 pm Link to this comment
“I hope all the zionist jews around the world…and move to Israel where they can live in the peace and harmony they have been missing in their lives.”
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No PatrikHenry, please! I thought you were a friend of the Palestinians and supporting their just cause! And now you want to send all the Zionist Jews to Israel (aka Palestine) which means multiplying many times the suffering of the native Palestinians, if not requiring the final solution to the Palestinians by exterminating them!
I think you goofed on this, my friend! Six or seven million of them in one place is bad enough, and imagine what would happen if all the 14 million of them gather in one place!
I have a more generous plan: vacate New York and let all of them go there where they already have their own infrastructure for another Jewish state! Two Jewish states might make them feel more secure!
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, May 14, 2008 at 2:53 pm Link to this comment
Beautiful. I hope all the zionist jews around the world renounce their dual-nationality in favor of Israeli citizenship guaranteed by religion, leave the top media, banking, judicial and political jobs here in America and elsewhere in the world and move to Israel where they can live in the peace and harmony they have been missing in their lives.
States like New York, Florida and California may take an economic hit, but I think the rest of the country will notice the return of a free press, unbiased media, a more open market and lobbying for American interests.
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, May 14, 2008 at 2:01 pm Link to this comment
“If you want a homeland, you must create one. You drain swamps, lay out farms, build houses, schools, roads, hospitals . . .”
“Thats how America got its homeland. And that is why Israel belongs to the Israelis.” Says the Zionist propagandist Howard.
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If you want a homeland, you must create one at the expense of the original inhabitants of some land. You must massacre large number of them, you must constantly terrorize those who survive, you dispossess as many as you can, you make a large number of them miserable refugees scattered to the four corners of the world. Then you look for an entity that did the same to the natives somewhere else, and you establish an unholy alliance based on the affinity of criminality and terrorism and then you blackmail them to give you a free hand to their treasury and sophisticated weapons to perpetuate the terror campaign indefinitely… then “you drain swamps, lay out farms, build houses, schools, roads, hospitals . . .”
“Thats how America got its homeland. And that is why Israel belongs to the Israelis,” and that’s why Israel and America are one and the same!
Report thisBy Howard, May 14, 2008 at 12:13 pm Link to this comment
Zionism - an organized movement to renew Jewish independence in the Jewish homeland - was formally launched in 1897. Five decades later, against steep odds and every historical precedent, Israel was reborn.
It was an incredible achievement, made even more incredible by the fact that it occurred in the wake of a genocide that had wiped out one-third of the Jewish people.
Within hours of declaring its independence, the newborn state of Israel, with a population of just 600,000, was invaded by five Arab armies. They were intent, in the words of Azzam Pasha, secretary-general of the Arab League, on waging a “a war of extermination and a momentous massacre.” The ovens of Treblinka and Auschwitz had barely cooled, and Jews were again being threatened with annihilation. Yet the fledgling state survived and thrived, a triumph of life and hope over the forces of hatred and death.
Under siege since the day it was born, Israel has never known a day of true peace. It is the only nation in the world whose legitimacy is routinely called into question. It still has enemies who want it wiped off the map. Uniquely, the Jewish state came into being with the imprimatur of both the League of Nations and the United Nations. Yet time and again it is told it has no right to exist. Of course that is fatuous; few nations can present a birth certificate as storied as Israel’s. Nonetheless, Israel’s fundamental right to exist doesn’t derive from UN votes, or promises in the Bible, or its own Declaration of Independence
For the right of statehood ultimately accrues only to those who can fashion and sustain a nation. “The land of Israel belongs to Israelis,” Yale’s David Gelernter wrote in 2002, “for the same reason America belongs to Americans: Because Israelis conceived and built it - and what you create is yours. If you want a homeland, you must create one. You drain swamps, lay out farms, build houses, schools, roads, hospitals . . .
That’s how America got its homeland. And that is why Israel belongs to the Israelis.
Report thisBy Howard, May 14, 2008 at 9:38 am Link to this comment
Aboslutely the falsest paragraph one can read. Untruthful completely ! Go read the Bible to find that out.
Because The Torah is the Bible. Repeat: It is the Bible. And known to Christians and Jews as such. Unlike another religions’s book (will not mention right now ) the Bible (Torah ) does not have hurting or killing anyone mentioned within it.
Report thisBy bozhidar bob balkas, May 14, 2008 at 5:08 am Link to this comment
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zionism is after nazism the worst ism humans had to endure up to now.
Report thiseven the plutocrats, i believe, will one day reject this odious ism.
and it may reap what it had been sowing for over a century.
it’s not true that torah teaches jews to be kind to goyim. opposite is true.
it teaches them to be our masters. it teaches them to kill those who reject judaism, etcetc. thank u
By randyha, May 13, 2008 at 5:20 pm Link to this comment
Gee I wonder who paid for all of this? US taxpayers? If Israel is doing so well why do we keep paying for it?
Report thisBy Howard, May 13, 2008 at 4:37 pm Link to this comment
1. Israel’s $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
Report this2. Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
3. Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
4. Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin 109 per 10,000 people as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
5. In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the second largest number of startup companies after the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
6. With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration hi-tech companies in the world apart from the Silicon Valley, US.
7. Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the US.
8. After the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.
9. Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK.
By nefertiti, May 13, 2008 at 3:15 pm Link to this comment
desertdude
Report thisthe torah says it is forbidden for jews to have a country , i heard Jewish Rabbis say it a few days ago during a pro palestine demonstration . they said G-D scattered them among nations , and they can save their souls by being good citizens and praying for the welfare and progress of that nation . the Torah says it .
Israel had strong fighters who fought during the second world war , and plenty of the rothchilds Money and they were superior to the Arabs in terms of Money and arms and numbers . israel Provoked the syrian war (read about how the Israeli generals provoked syria , Moshe Dayan memoirs are brilliant)
the Idea to control the Golan heights , Jordan valley, and the litani river ever since 1919 in the zionist conference in Paris .
By PatrickHenry, May 12, 2008 at 10:32 am Link to this comment
Contrary to your baseless claims, I cannot think of one good thing Israel has done to benefit America.
I for one am against American imperialism and the meddling in other nations affairs as I don’t want other nations (read Israel) meddling in the affairs of this nation.
Park the war fleets, bring the troops home, close all the foreign bases or turn them over to the U.N. and turn all our foreign AID to non lethal, non military, made in the U.S.A. exports. No more cash.
Howard, If you know so much about biased Israeli history, go there and invent more.
Report thisBy Howard, May 12, 2008 at 9:08 am Link to this comment
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted to create a Jewish state and an Arab state in Palestine. Israel now celebrates its 60th birthday and the Palestinians could be having one of their own if they had accepted the international communitys judgment that the just solution to the conflicting claims of Jews and Arabs in Palestine/Israel was the establishment of two states. Instead, the Arabs decided they would not accept or recognize a Jewish state in their midst and sought to destroy it. They have not changed their approache on this in those 60 years
Few people besides historians know that the Arab states did not go to war in 1947-48 to create a Palestinian state. They were more interested in carving the territory up for themselves. Even the Palestinians expressed little enthusiasm for statehood at the time as most saw themselves more closely associated with Syria or what was then Transjordan than any independent state of Palestine.
As they did then, the Arab states do little today beyond give lip service to the idea of establishing a Palestinian state. A majority of Jordans population is Palestinian and it really is a Palestinian state, geographically and historically, as well as demographically. The Jordanians have consistently feared the establishment of a Palestinian state because of their recognition that the Palestinians were nearly as likely to turn their violence in the direction of Amman as they were to direct it at Tel Aviv.
Israel extraordinary contributins to humanity—- in the fields of medicine, technology and agriculture—-are largley not reported in the mass media. So, too, are the difficult conditions under which they were achieved.
Israel has thrived against all odds in an unfriendly, and often violent, region. And yet it has advanced our world in unimaginable ways. Every day, millions of people across gthe globe use a cell-phone, MRI machine, irrigation system or computer chip that was conceived or enhanced by Isrelis.
Israel,in just 60 years, has become a fast-moving train for human improvement. This is something to celebrate !
Report thisBy P. T., May 10, 2008 at 11:03 pm Link to this comment
You can’t give the native Palestinian people something that already belongs to them.
By the way, God seems to have protected the people of southern Lebanon from the Zionists.
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, May 10, 2008 at 4:12 pm Link to this comment
desertdude, you’re really still living in the darkness of the stone age, and there is nothing one can say to bring you to the age of enlightenment!
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, May 10, 2008 at 11:49 am Link to this comment
Its time for Israel to remove itself from occupied territories back to pre-67 borders and release tens of thousands of Palsetinian prisoners.
Cut off U.S. AID and Israel will curb its agression.
The majority of U.S. citizens want to cut loose the rope which binds this albatross of a nation, Israel, from around our neck.
Report thisBy desertdude, May 10, 2008 at 10:41 am Link to this comment
The so called Palastinians (Arabs) were given land
Report thisjust like Isreal. What did they do with it? Nothing!
They along with Jordan,Syria and the rest of the Arab world attacked Isreal. Guess what they lost. Get over it. God has protected Isreal from the time they left Egypt why do you think it will be any different? The Arab world is blood brothers to the Isreal people but are to stuck up to understand that the birthright was given to Isaac not Ismael. Hatred only begets hatred. It is time for the Arab world to reconcile to God the Father of Abraham. Than we will have real peace in the world.
By randyha, May 10, 2008 at 7:37 am Link to this comment
The Palestinians have paid dearly for atrocities committed by Europeans against the Jews in Europe during WWII and before. Must they suffer longer?—-No Justice…No Peace!
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, May 10, 2008 at 6:18 am Link to this comment
Acts of Shame and Terrorism Celebrated!
What we see in Israel’s celebration of its fruits of shame, terrorism, militarism, and violations of basic human rights and international laws is the ultimate evil being celebrated in stark daylight and in arrogant challenge to basic human decency. I do understand why the Israeli leaders want to celebrate their history of terrorism that brought them to power and notoriety.
However, I don’t and will never understand how and why evil savages like American Bush and the British Brown want to join openly in celebrating the occasion of the pain inflicted on the natives of Palestine. I do know that there will always be an affinity between colonialists , marauders, occupiers, and militarist terrorist leaders, but that affinity can be celebrated openly is indeed beyond my comprehension!
I hope that the decent people of the world will take notice of this trio-AXIS-OF-EVIL, celebrating their false glorious triumphs against the helpless and dispossessed natives of Palestine.
Report thisBy weather, May 10, 2008 at 2:09 am Link to this comment
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arms folded, bottom lip pushed out and all sour in the puss because they can’t and won’t play in the same sandbox w/the other kids.
When world Jewry finally confronts their part in the holocaust and stops letting the zionist drag them along for yet another descent into the darkeness, a true cathartic healing Peace will prevail.
Its said that insanity is repeating the same behavior over and over again expecting different results - this skipping, exhausting and selfish song is still on the turntable and Rome our home Earth is burning.
When good is wrapped and packaged as bad and bad is choreographed to appear good - you’re near the tipping point.
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