Comments on: Pro-IDF, Anti-Turkish Rally in Tel Aviv (or a Glimpse Into Collective Israeli Derangement)

By: Searching for the ghost of Israeli democracy

Searching for the ghost of Israeli democracy — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:39:14 +0000

[...] authoritarian and racist trends being advanced by Israel’s government, in the Knesset, and in the streets of Tel Aviv — and which beg for exposure. I did not write anything in my first post about [...]

By: Responding to Fania Oz-Salzberger, and searching for the ghost of Israeli democracy

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:17:26 +0000

[...] authoritarian and racist trends being advanced by Israel’s government, in the Knesset, and in the streets of Tel Aviv — and which beg for [...]

By: A.LOEWENSTEIN ONLINE NEWSLETTER | Shoah

A.LOEWENSTEIN ONLINE NEWSLETTER | Shoah — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:54:44 +0000

[...] Max Blumenthal reports: On June 1, 2010, thousands of Israelis gathered spontaneously in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv to demonstrate in support of the Israeli Naval commando unit that killed nine passengers on the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish-backed boat from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Egged on by the Israeli government and media, the demonstrators lashed out at Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his support of the Marmara, accusing him and passengers on the ship of terrorist ties. Besides with the massacre of Turkish aid workers, the spectacle of massive Israeli protests against Turkey threatens to permanently rupture Israel’s ties to its closest Muslim ally and further isolate the country on the world stage. [...]

By: MONDOWEISS ONLINE NEWSLETTER | Shoah

MONDOWEISS ONLINE NEWSLETTER | Shoah — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:47:58 +0000

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By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:55:41 +0000

RE: “Many viewed the incident in the shadow of the Holocaust” – Max

SEE: Israel’s Cult of Victimhood – Barefoot Soldiers on the High Seas? – Jonathan Cook, Counterpunch, 06/09/10
(excerpt)…One commentator in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper summed up the feelings of Israelis brought to the fore by the flotilla episode as the “helplessness of a poor lonely victim, confronting the rage of a lynch mob and frantically realising that these are his last moments”. This “psychosis”, as he called it, is not surprising: it derives from the sanctified place of the Holocaust in the Israeli education system…
ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/ilan-papp-the-deadly-closing-of-the-israeli-mind-1992471.html

AND: Essay of the week: What drives Israel? ~ By Ilan Pappe, Herald Scotland, Guest Commentary, 06/06/10
(excerpt)…From this stems the second feature relevant to a better understanding of the Israeli Jewish society. Israel is in a state of denial. Even in 2010, with all the alternative and international means of communication and information, most of the Israeli Jews are still fed daily by media that hides from them the realities of occupation, stagnation or discrimination…
ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/guest-commentary/essay-of-the-week-what-drives-israel-1.1032971

By: Pro-IDF, Anti-Turkish Rally in Tel Aviv (or a Glimpse Into Collective Israeli Derangement) [VIDEO] | Intifada Palestine

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:23:16 +0000

[...] Source: Max Blumenthal [...]

By: More Gaza Flotilla Aftermath « Shalom Rav

More Gaza Flotilla Aftermath « Shalom Rav — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:17:12 +0000

[...] Finally, click above for a deeply disturbing clip of journalist Max Blumenthal interviewing participants at a recent Israeli rally in front of the Turkish embassy. I’m not sure what made me sadder: the callous celebration of [...]

By: David Dorfman

David Dorfman — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:30:19 +0000

I didn’t see this video, but thought it must be a fake, as soon as I heard about the “go back to Auschwitz” jeer. In my years of political activity in Britain I have only heard such remarks shouted on a couple of occasions, and in each case the persons coming out with the sick remarks were not Turks nor Palestinians, but people attending pro-Israel, Zionist rallies who became enraged at seeing Jewish peace protesters, and shouted such things at us.
“You should have died in Auschwitz!” they shouted at people holding a vigil on St.Martin’s steps, oblivious perhaps that the people they were shouting at did include Holocaust survivors. Perhaps the IDF propaganda unit recorded its own chums for this video!
The chair of the Zionist Federation in Britain turned up at a meeting in the House of Commons and heckled a Jewish veteran who had been in the camps. The ZF hero was escorted out with a friend who kept making Hitler salutes.
The Zionist Federation now seems to be happy with support from the English Defence League, a hotch-potch of Islamophobic cranks, racists, members of the far-Right British National Party, soldiers in plain-clothes, and notorious football hooligans. Not unlike some of the Betar Jerusalem mob I should imagine.
Looking at their banners and anti-Turkish slogans, I wondered how many of these “spontaneous” protesters could have found their way to the Turkish embassy unaided, let alone known or cared anything about Turkey’s problems? It is a bit ugly and pathetic when ruling parties have to wheel out the lumpen to defend their own crimes.

By: The storming of the Gaza flotilla - Blog Post

The storming of the Gaza flotilla - Blog Post — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:11:39 +0000

[...] is difficult for most Americans to grasp the paranoid siege mentality, often to the point of dangerous delusion, that most Israelis live under (with many spirited [...]

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