Israel - Our friend's dirty Linen ....

[Ant111]

Israel ranks No. 32 least corrupt country in the world. (Snips)

... In 2007 the country was ranked 30, and in 2006, 34 - the lower the ranking, the more corrupt a country is considered to be. ...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128800.html

http://www.transparency.org/


Poll: Lieberman is Israel's most corrupt minister.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull


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Who is funding the rabbi who endorses killing gentile babies? (Snips)

... government ministries regularly transfer support and funding to a yeshiva whose rabbi determined that it is permissible to kill gentile babies "because their presence assists murder, and there is reason to harm children if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us ...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128767.html


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IDF rabbinate publication during Gaza war: We will show no mercy on the cruel (Snips)

... Haaretz has received some of the publications through Breaking the Silence, a group of former soldiers who collect evidence of unacceptable behavior in the army vis-a-vis Palestinians. Other material was provided by officers and men who received it during Operation Cast Lead. Following are quotations from this material:

"[There is] a biblical ban on surrendering a single millimeter of it [the Land of Israel] to gentiles, though all sorts of impure distortions and foolishness of autonomy, enclaves and other national weaknesses. We will not abandon it to the hands of another nation, not a finger, not a nail of it." This is an excerpt from a publication entitled "Daily Torah studies for the soldier and the commander in Operation Cast Lead," issued by the IDF rabbinate. The text is from "Books of Rabbi Shlomo Aviner," who heads the Ateret Cohanim yeshiva in the Muslim quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem. ...

The IDF rabbinate, also quoting Rabbi Aviner, describes the appropriate code of conduct in the field: "When you show mercy to a cruel enemy, you are being cruel to pure and honest soldiers. This is terribly immoral. ...

... It calls on "soldiers of Israel to spare your lives and the lives of your friends and not to show concern for a population that surrounds us and harms us. ...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1058758.html


Breaking the Silence (Snips)

Fifty-four testimonies of Israeli combat soldiers who participated in Operation Cast Lead reveal gaps between the reports given by the army following January’s events; the needless destruction of houses; firing phosphorous in populated areas and an atmosphere that encouraged shooting anywhere.

http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/index_e.asp


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Human Rights Watch: Israel waging concerted misinformation campaign against organization. (Snips)

Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of launching an "organized campaign" of lies and misinformation against it in the wake of the organization's support of the Goldstone report, British newspaper the Guardian reported Friday. ...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128141.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/no ... watch-gaza

[Ant111]

A taboo question for Israelis.

…. The question we have to ask ourselves is this: If anybody treated us like we're treating the people in Gaza, what would we do? ….

Aside from choking the flow of goods to Gaza by land, we blockade their entire coast. We don't allow ships to sail into Gaza or out. Does anyone stop ships from coming and going at the ports of Eilat, Ashdod or Haifa? What would Israel do if anyone tried? (Think of what Israel did two weeks after Egypt blockaded the port of Eilat in May 1967.)

We also blockade Gaza's airspace, preventing planes from flying in or out. Does anybody stop planes from flying in and out of Israel? Would we stand for it if someone did?

For 37 years, between 1967 and 2005, our soldiers and settlers were the overlords of the Gaza Strip. If foreign soldiers and settlers tried to come in and take over Israel, what would we do? …..

we have to stop doing to them what we would never allow anyone to do to us. Otherwise, we Israelis have no conscience, and little by little we become capable of anything.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 2FShowFull


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Israel's 10 worst errors of the decade.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1138809.html


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The ‘war’ for legitimacy is a war Israel may never win.

http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2009/12 ... never-win/


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The victory of cruelty.

A year after Gaza offensive, Yaron London says Israel must not aim to satisfy global public opinion

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 86,00.html


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Tactics of desperation: using false accusations of “anti-Semitism” as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel’s behaviour.

http://www.redress.cc/palestine/udiemer20091230


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GERMANY 1940 ----- ISRAEL 2009

http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/Ga ... index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irlTe2tF ... r_embedded#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9mkRiGb ... r_embedded


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Was Israel's Gaza offensive worth it?

….. Even those who still believe that the attack was justified and necessary, that the firing of Qassam rockets would not have been halted except by such a cruel attack, cannot ignore the political and moral price extracted from Israel because of its violence. Its image in the world, not in the eyes of its citizens, is much uglier than a year ago.

Today it is more shameful to be an Israeli because the world, as opposed to Israelis, saw the scenes. It saw thousands of dead and injured taken in the trunks of cars to something between a clinic and a primitive hospital in an imprisoned and weakened region one hour from flourishing Tel Aviv, a region where the helpless had nowhere to run from Israel's arsenal. The world saw schools, hospitals, flour mills and small factories mercilessly bombed and blown up. It saw clouds of white-sulphur bombs billowing over population centers, and it saw burned children. ….

And the world also quickly forgot. A year later, with $4.5 billion collected to rehabilitate Gaza lying in banks' basement vaults because Israel refuses to open Gaza's gates to let in supplies, the world is silent, leaving Gaza to its fate, to its ruins. But Gaza has not forgotten its wounds - it cannot forget them. The 325,000 people whose homes were destroyed, 1,300 bereaved families and thousands of injured and disabled, debilitated by anxiety and terror, remain in Gaza. Their suffering has not dissipated. …..

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1137840.html

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