The Palestinians are making plans for unprecedented violence to begin following their United Nations application for statehood?
Avigdor Lieberman is a sick extremist, almost certainly a man suffering from mental illness.
But his idiotic words, time and again, reveal for all the world to see the kind of thinking that genuinely motivates Israel's government in its brutal behavior, and it sure isn't the stuff of Netanyahu's fantasyland speech before Congress.
Israel's behavior just becomes more and more threatening and irrational as time goes on.
Right now, this small country keeps threatening war with Iran, as well as ceaselessly pushing the United States in that direction.
It has long supported an attack on Syria to overthrow that government.
It is threatening the border of Lebanon with regular incursions of fighter planes and troops, and it is threatening to seize offshore property of Lebanon.
High ranking people in Israel have spoken of re-taking the Sinai so that the new Egypt cannot interfere with subsidized natural gas sales arranged by Mubarak with American support.
It is into its fourth year of an illegal and brutal blockade of Gaza.
It has alienated Turkey with its piracy and refusal to apologize for the murder of unarmed humanitarians.
Mr Lieberman himself is well known for - or should I say infamous for - his views on running Arabs out of Israel.
Israel continues to steal the property of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Jerusalem, only just recently having announced a development of 900 homes in East (Arab) Jerusalem, 900 homes on property stolen in broad daylight.
The world is reeling from the effects of Islamophobia, constantly promoted by Israel's apologists, and America is bombing people in half a dozen West Asian and North African locations.
Meanwhile, the United States which cannot pay its bills continues to subsidize on a vast scale this small nation which is disturbing a good deal of the planet.
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"Their policy of always blaming Israel while giving the intolerant religion of killers for allah [sic]a pass as victims is why we are at a dead end."
Always giving Muslims a pass?
Always blaming Israel?
This is precisely the kind of sick, distorted view that explains the situation we are in.
The mainline press in the West constantly gives Israel good press, excessively so.
Israel never felt, as it should have, the force of the world's disapproval for its savageries in Gaza and Southern Lebanon and on the high seas.
As for Muslims getting a pass, it is impossible to understand how anyone not as delusional as Avigdor Lieberman could make that statement.
Our press is filled with columnists who constantly speak for Israel. The list is a long one, but we have the likes of Thomas Friedman, Charles Krauthammer, Jeff Jacoby, Margaret Wente, and many, many others giving us reading material which might well have been written by Israel's Ministry of Truth.
And the world's most important newspaper, The New York Times, has a highly biased view towards Israel in everything that it writes. As does Rupert Murdoch's The Times of London.
American television networks never report one tough thing about Israel. The effective censorship is astounding.
For example, right now in Israel, demonstrations on a giant scale - hundreds of thousands out of a small population - have taken place day after day. These demonstrations are by Israelis who are sick of the way the economy and politics of Israel operate.
They are just as real and just as significant as what went on in Egypt, but you will not see them featured all over our newspapers and televisions as were all the “Arab Spring” demonstrations and revolts.
That is absolutely voluntary censorship on Israel's behalf.
And we have America’s huge Christian fundamentalist community constantly supporting every wrongful act of Israel with words and political pressure and money, even if they do so for their own weird mystical reasons.
Yet Israel's apologists, like the writer of this comment, can make absolutely outlandish claims, and generally they are not called on them.
You don't get solutions to ugly problems by not even admitting the truth, by pretending on fantasy concepts.
I am reminded of the United States' decade of mass murder in Vietnam, and there always being "a light at the end of the tunnel."
This writer and Avigdor Lieberman remind me of the old fairy tale of the Emperor's New Clothes in which the Emperor paraded naked in the streets but no one dared call it to his attention.
That is precisely the situation of Israel, pretending to talk about peace, pretending to being a normal state, while constantly assassinating, attacking, torturing, and stealing the property of others.
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"The core cause of the Arab Israeli conflict, local and regional, has nothing to do with "Jerusalem", "settlements", "borders", "refugees", "security" or "water"...."
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
