From the land that has been fought over for 1000s of years……some say there is no Palestine only Israel……of course that would be the followers of Israel…..but Palestine is a place and should be a reality……
Juan Cole: Pictures Don’t Lie: Refuting #There Was No Palestine – Juan Cole – Truthdig.
How long have you heard the Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East? How many times has Israel been held up as some shining example for the rest of the Middle East?
Does a so-called democracy do such a thing?
From a report on the AP……..
Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence service said on Thursday that it has detained a young Israeli Arab journalist for traveling to Lebanon, which Israel considers an enemy country.
Majd Kayyal, a 23-year-old journalist for the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir, traveled to Beirut last month for a conference.
Although Lebanon bars Israeli citizens from entering, the Shin Bet said Palestinian officials in the West Bank gave Kayyal Palestinian travel documents that allowed him to enter Lebanon.
Kayyal was arrested last Saturday at the Israeli border on suspicion of being recruited by a militant organization. The Shin Bet said it dropped that suspicion, and is considering indicting him for traveling to Lebanon.
Kayyal was held for five days before being allowed access to a lawyer. The Shin Bet said this is permitted in security cases.
The more we learn about Israel the more we realize it is NO democracy. I believe one of the characteristics is free press and the rights of journalist to report the news…….Israel crapped on that one…how many others does it crap on?
Let us see….land confiscation, special work permits, minority injustices, etc………..Israel should NOT be held up as an example of anything but totalitarian state…..which puts one group of citizens above all others…..PERIOD!
By now I think that everyone has saw or heard the story about the Jew Registration in Ukraine…..of course this will bring about many horror stories about the 1930’s in Germany…..the MSM is running with the story and even Sec. Kerry has jumped on the bandwagon…..the hawks will play this for all it is worth……
I read a piece by Jason Ditz about this developing situation…….
Determined not to let a good piece of rhetoric go to waste just because it was untrue and discredited nearly 24 hours ago, Western media outlets are running frenzied stories about Jews in the protester-held Eastern Ukraine cities being forced to register, providing a new chance to make World War 2 comparisons, and advancing the US narrative that the Russians, and not the “pro-West” protesters with swastika stickers on their helmets, are the “real anti-semites.”
Incredibly, the State Department is endorsing the myth as absolute fact, because what USA Today claims unnamed Israeli media claims they saw posted outside a synagogue in Donetsk is good enough for them.
The truth, not so much.
The leadership of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk insist the official looking leaflets are fakes, and the signature of one of their leaders a forgery, designed to discredit the protest movement. The putative Jew registration service simply doesn’t exist, and Ukrainian Jews who show up at the government building expecting to have to pay a $50 “registration fee” are wasting their time.
Though USA Today appears not to have noticed while trolling the “Israeli media” for stories, the news that the rumors were untrue has been a top story in the Times of Israel for almost 24 hours, because Israeli papers may run a story about what someone saw on a leaflet, but they also follow through on the story afterwards.
Lord knows following through on whether or not urban legends are true isn’t done in the US, which is why all the top stories in US papers today are either Jew registration that’s not happening, or a handful of kids in Tokyo wearing zentai, because that’s sure to be the new fad nationwide.
I will consider this a propaganda piece until I see a more reliable piece of evidence……..looks like a case is being made in the public for an escalation……..
I will be watching for more accurate reporting….maybe the truth will come out……