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Israel right or wrong

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Willingness to criticize Israel is one of the key tests of intellectual integrity for politicians and journalists.

You could say "Israel right or wrong, that's my song" is the West's mental loop that they cannot get out of. Most political journalists concentrate on the small picture, on effects not causes, ignore inconvenient facts, point the fingure of blame on one easy to undestand party, ignore the real behind the scenes puppet mastery, follow an establishment agenda and finally edit out anything said to them that does not fit into their agenda or what might get in the way of a nice simple story suitable for mass consumption.

The 2008 Presidential Campaign and Israel

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If you ever thought that Israel and the Jewish block were not really very important or that their importance is exaggerated, then this Presidential Campaign offers all the proof you need to think otherwise.

The Jewish lobby is of the utmost importance to all American Presidents, Democrat or Republican. Both Republican and Democratic hopefuls have gone before the pro-Israeli lobby to do obeisance and to gain the necessary approbation and support. Without that support it is doubtful if anyone can be President of the United States. Both Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have gone out of their way to offer Israel an absolute support and both of them have offered to "obliterate" Iran.

Israel Confronting the past

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A thesis which alleges that Jewish militias slaughtered unarmed Arab fighters during the war of Independence is at the centre of a fierce debate about Israel's approach to its history, writes Suzanne Goldenberg Monday December 10, 2001 Guardian Unlimited He is a rather unlikely candidate for academic celebrity - or notoriety - depending on which way one looks at it. But the debate over the MA thesis of Teddy Katz, a kibbutznik in his late 50s, has consumed Israeli academics for the best part of two years.

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