Exposing the Dark Underbelly of Israel: The Horrors Your Tax Dollars Support. A Palestinian woman and boy walk among Israeli soldiers and military vehicles in the West Bank town of Nabi Samuel.Photo Credit: Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com October 16, 2013 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Drop the New York Times’ international section and pick up Max Blumenthal’s new book. Blumenthal’s book, based on four years of on-the-ground reporting and research, takes the reader from the occupied West Bank to prisons for African refugees to Palestinian areas within Israel. Last week, AlterNet sat down with Blumenthal for a conversation about his book.
Alex Kane: The headlines are largely dominated by other political problems in the Middle East: Egypt, Syria. Max Blumenthal: I wrote this book because I wanted to show Americans what they’re paying for. Now the coup regime in Egypt has committed a series of massacres which were inevitable as soon as they took power on July 3. A tale of two peace offers. In 2008, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made the Palestinians an offer so reasonable and enlightened it made Ehud Barak's "generous offer" at Camp David look like the Treaty of Versailles.
Bending over backwards to reach a peace settlement, Olmert offered the Palestinians a state on virtually all of the occupied territories. Alas, stubborn as always, Palestinian negotiators turned him down. Much like Barak's mythical "generous offer", this account of Olmert's proposal has been widely repeated, conforming as it does to convenient narratives that place the burden for the continuing conflict on the Palestinians, and demonstrating for all to see that, as Abba Eban famously put it, when it comes to peace, the Arabs "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity". What did Olmert really offer? Thanks to the Palestine Papers – leaked internal Palestinian documents related to the 'peace process' – we don't need to speculate.
Already it is difficult to see what the fuss is about. Discussion & Factual information on the Palestine/Israel issue – So people can have a well informed opinion. Israel and Palestine, an animated introduction. THE MAPS TELL THE TRUE STORY. The truth is that far from being the poor victim it likes to portray itself as, Israel is in fact the most aggressive and belligerent nation in the region, having invaded pretty much everyone it shares a border with.
The following maps show just who is wiping who off of the map! Stop buying into what Sharon claims Israel "has to do" and look at what Israel has actually done. The maps tell the story of a nation eager to conquer lands which do not belong to it. Israel has invaded virtually every nation it shares borders with, including Syria and Lebanon, and as the map above shows has almost conquered Palestine and is ready to "ethnically cleanse" the region. Far from being the poor victimized society desperately defending itself Israel likes to pretend it is in order to wrest more money from Americans, Israel is in fact the most militarily aggressive nation in the region.
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . Oh? The Bizarre Religious Motivation Behind Our Support For Israel. The History of the Middle East Conflict in 11 Minutes. Course: Zionist Editing on Wikipedia. Zionism. Theodor Herzl is considered the founder of the Zionist movement.
In his 1896 book Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century. Zionism (Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת, translit. Why Orthodox Jews are Opposed to the Zionist State. Manifest destiny. In the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.
Historians have for the most part agreed that there are three basic themes to Manifest Destiny: The special virtues of the American people and their institutions;America's mission to redeem and remake the west in the image of agrarian America;An irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty.[1] Historian Frederick Merk says this concept was born out of "A sense of mission to redeem the Old World by high example [...] generated by the potentialities of a new earth for building a new heaven".[2] Merk concludes: From the outset Manifest Destiny—vast in program, in its sense of continentalism—was slight in support. Context[edit] Manifest Destiny was always a general circular notion rather than a specific policy. Yet Jackson would not be the only president to elaborate on the principles underlying manifest destiny.
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