"These policies of arresting and interrogating Palestinian children are meant to break the spirit of the child and their families," Hiyam Odeh says. "But we are a strong community. We will remain steadfast, and we will not leave our homes."

Israel is accelerating its ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and is targeting Palestinian children in order to terrify the Palestinians into leaving their homes.

As Ariel Sharon once said, "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."

It is because Israelis view the Palestinians as "untermenchen," or subhuman, that they are able to be so cruel. Just as the Nazis viewed the Jews as "untermenchen." Israel is a vicious and racist society, subsidized by our tax dollars to the tune of $5 million dollars each day.

Where were the governments of the world when the Jews were being destroyed by the Nazis? Same place they are now, while the Palestinians are being destroyed by the Israeli Jews.

And the myth that Israel is a democracy? Where are the Israeli voices of resistance to the brutal expansionist regime? Is it just typical western media that is failing to report on this or is the silence in the media due to the silence of Israelis of conscience?

"I said, 'would you let me go if I were a Jewish child?'" Muslem tells IPS. "And the guard was ashamed. He finally let me use the toilet."

God or humanity, or whatever you want to call it, it is in there, somewhere. You can bring people to do evil things, but something inside them still knows what good is.

I hoping the Israeli's "accidentally" level the mosque. That'll be the match to start the armageddon they're frothing for.

One wonders if they're targeting children because "nits make lice", as the ugly old saying goes.

It seems that the messianic ideology of eternal zionist ascendency has institutionally entrenched itself again in Israel, after nearly 2000 years. Wild-head Zealots propagate the politica and methodical Sicarios of the IDF are charged with the killings. Yes, like Nazi Germany in the 30s and 40s, Israel seems to happily enjoy bringing itself to some new form of disaster.

Cicero: "Freedom is participation in power."

The Israelis have become a nation of degenerates. Too many post-Bush II Amurkans are no different.

freedom on the march!

Too bad if children get hurt along the way....

At the approach of Passover, March 29, one should read the 12th chapter of the book of Exodus where it describes how the exiled Jews were to sprinkle blood on their doorposts so the God’s death angel would passover their dwellings and kill the first born gentiles next door including their animals. Whether ones believes this myth or not, it should remain a mystery why this genocidal infanticidal myth is still celebrated with tokens on their doors by modern Jews and tolerated by everyone else. Jews know damn well what Passover means, but if you ask them they will mutter some euphemism about passing over into the promised land. That their god promised them an arid piece of desert with no oil is another mythical mystery that Netanhaha uses to justify the illegal settlements.

The question asked is where are the governments of the world when the JEWS were being destroyed by the NAZIS? Many of us in those other "countries" would want our country to do something, however most of our leaders have been BRIBED by the JEWS or blackmailed by the JEWS to look the other way while the JEWS do their HOLOCAUST and murder most of the PALESTINIANS (just leave a few as slaves). The lies that come out of ISRAEL are so finely crafted it is impossible to believe any of them.I have heard JEWS SAY on many occasions that the reason for all this murder etc is because the JEWS are so much more intelligent than everybody else. Of course that is a baldfaced lie NAZI GERMANS figured them out. If they are so smart how did the so called HOLOCAUST OCCUR!

I often wonder if there will be a catastrophe to blame the Palestinians, or Iran, to justfy what the Jews are doing.
Hitler did Reichstag. All of this could have been eliminated if the Jews had not become so obcessed with land. The promised land belongs to the Palestinians, and it was a man--Moses, not God, that said it was for the Jews. I don't believe God wants one to steal from another.

in 1948, israel started off by killing count folke bernadotte, a u.n. mediator and peacekeeper. look him up on the internet and weep. but you will then know all you need to know about israel.

These creatures are actually commiting the atrocities that, in times gone by, the Nazis only accused them of. Aided and abeted by my senators and congressman! There is no 'quarter' anymore.

And the Israel-can-do-no-wrongers wonder endlessly in their op-eds. articles and posts why anti-semitism is on the rise

The "synagogue constructed against the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound" (In English - Temple Mount) was located in the Jewish quarter in Jerusalem. It was a re-opening of an old synagogue, which was destroyed by the Jordanian Legion (Muslims) in 1948, when they ethnically cleansed the Jewish quarter.

It is sad that people consider a rebuild of something which was destroyed by Muslims as: "provocation."

Israelis are pretty much like spoiled children. They take more because the parents (the US) have spoiled them.

Another example of the horror that the US, UK and Europe have encouraged, funded, and protected. When did we decide that Palestinians are not humans?

Would the Jews be so bold if the US government weren't their allies? In other words, we are responsible for these crimes against humanity, and we are paying for this with the downfall of our great nation. The worst is yet to come!

Thank you Letto for leaking some facts into this otherwise dogmatic blathering. Do people read this stuff and accept it as is? Yes, the Synagogue was an old one and destroyed by the Jordanians in 1948 at the same time they were seizing 1600 homes of Jews who had held deeds to their property.

Now those who were forced from their homes 1600 Apartments are being built in the Jewish quarter and their Synagogue is rebuilt.

It is unfortunate that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini who inspired the violence of today was active with Hitler in in 1943 the Mufti traveled several times to Bosnia, where on orders of the SS he recruited the notorious "Hanjar troopers," a special Bosnian Waffen SS company which slaughtered 90% of Bosnia’s Jews and burned countless Serbian churches and villages. These Bosnian Muslim recruits rapidly found favor with SS chief Heinrich Himmler, who established a special Mullah Military school in Dresden.

5000 Jewish children killed.

When Adolf Eichman tried to cut a deal with the British government to exchange German POWs for 5000 Jewish children who also could have fled to Palestine. The Mufti’s protests with the SS were successful, as the children were sent to death camps in Poland instead.

This is the man who is behind all of the hatred and violence in Palestine. Although he died in the 60s in exile Lebanon where he was hiding from being tried as a war criminal, his actions are carried on starting with groups who would become the PLO.

It is horrifying to see how much anti-Israeli sentiment one can found here.

I went to CD main page, I counted 8 anti-Israeli articles.
1. Israeli Raids Target Children
2. The Break on Palestine
3. Rachel Corrie's Memory, Israel's Image
4. Pentagon Tells Obama to Press Israel for Peace
5. Support Our Troops: Boycott the Israeli Occupation
6. Business As Usual. Or Not.
7. Apartheid Is Burning
8. Clashes Break Out in East Jerusalem

I did a quick research to see if CD cares about constuction projects in disputed areas in general. Or if it obsessed only with the Jewish state.

I counted the number of articles on the subject of Chinese construction projects in Tibet (And Taiwan)- 0.
The number of articles on Turkish projects in Cyprus - 0.
Articles on Marrocoan projects in Spanish Saharah - a round number. Very round.
Serbian constructions in Kosobo or Bosnia - You guessed it right. None.
Georgian or Russian housing projects in the two breakaway provinces. - nada.

I widened my search. I tried to find an article on other conflicts, such as Nigeria, where yesterday 12 Christian woman killed by Muslem raiders and their tongues cut off - Not a word.

The conflict in Yeman and the Saudi occupation (Which claimed hundreds of lives.) - silence.

The only question is WHY?
What is the reason for the overwhelmingly disproportion focus?
What about the principle of Universality?

Attitudes like this are the reason for all of the hatred and violence in Israel / Palestine, imho

Friends currently with the EU program in Jerusalem have been telling me for some time that the IDF have been provoking young Palestinians into another intifada so they can then justify all their savage behavior.

The acts of these barbarous few will doubtless have repercussions for world Jewry which Sayans like lotto either encourage or discount.

It's very simple what goes around comes around and what's coming around is the tipping point of world opinion.

"israel"= us vs. them, that is, us vs. the other...
but there is no other....!
"ask not for whom the bell tolls,
it tolls for thee..."

Apologists' tactics in regards to the US/Israel policy of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians:
1 – Attack the messenger (CD poster or whoever criticizes the US/Israel's ethnic cleansing)
2 – If the critic is a Jew, call the Jew anti-semetic or a self-hating Jew
3 – Make it sound like Israel is the victim although Israel is the aggressor and occupier
4 – Point to other injustices in the world to deflect attention of Israel's illegal acts.
5 – State that Jews and Palestinians have a long history of conflict therefore the situation is unresolvable (ignoring Israel's illegal occupation) in order to maintain status quo and further Israel's expansion of illegal settlements
6 – Claim Israel has biblical rights to Palestinian land (thus God supports the ethnic cleansing)
7 – Claim the occupied territory was either no man's land or another countries land to justify Israel's illegal confiscation of the land and the people on it.
8 – Defend the occupation and ethnic cleansing without mentioning the illegal acts: land confiscation, house demolitions and evictions, burning and razing of Palestinian farmland, illegal land annexations, specific apartheid policies in the West Bank, shooting and arrests of non-violent demonstrators on occupied land, restriction of movement, land and sea blockade, restrictions of imports of medicine, food, school supplies and building materials, illegal shooting of Gazan farmers and fishermen...
9 – Make so illegitimate arguments or use inaccurate/misleading facts to justify Israel's illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing policy that it is impossible to respond to them all because every time you try, another illegitimate argument is made. (The Bush administration was a master of this in the buildup to the Iraq war. It seemed every week, another piece of unsupported evidence was made to support attacking Iraq. And every time you challenged one illegitimate argument, the arguer (usually a Fox News viewer) would abandon that argument and jump to the next illegitimate argument and this would continue to the point of exhaustion.)
10 – Switch between tactics 1-9 above in your non-stop argument whenever one of the tactics runs out of steam.
11 – In regards to blogging, create discussion fights and go off topic.
12 – In regards to blogging, apologist is either ignorant or feigns ignorance and attempts to attack the credibility of the comment by asking for a link to the source (effort to waste time of blogger when information is readily available on the internet and the apologist doesn't provide support for his own misinformation). If you don't respond, e.g., because you don't monitor the site all day, apologist discounts your argument, and if you respond, the apologist changes the subject, makes a new attack, or ignores the response.

Apologists use tools such as Megaphone Desktop (www.giyus.org) to alert themselves when articles about Israel's destructive policies appear on the internet so they can use tactics like the above to try and win public opinion.

I know that most people are brainwashed but still, the lack of outrage from Americans amazes me. As tax payers, we are directly supporting a racist and savage government guilty of countless war crimes (other than our own) with millions of dollars every day WHILE cuts are being made to our own domestic budget.

Things might calm down a bit if we (the U.S.) began to cut back on our aid to Israel beginning with arms and armaments.

Criminally insane behavior, which includes attacking children, is seemingly so naturalized in Israel (I keep seeing polls saying that large majority of Jewish Israelis support the criminal activities of their government) that it becomes plausible to think of virtually an entire population that is given over to criminally insane behavior.

We have experience understanding criminally insane behavior in individuals, now it seems that we need to gain some experience dealing with criminally insane countries.

The US is not in the greatest shape in this regard either. Over many decades of working as a pediatrician in juvenile corrections I observed things similar to what is described in this article, and worse, inflicted on poor children in Southern California. I have plenty of evidence that horrendous, systematic child abuse is being perpetrated in other jurisdictions in the US against subjugated portions of the child population. The US, along with Israel, is known for ignoring the rights of children if they are from racially, ethnically and/or economically discriminated populations. Observe the treatment meted out to the incarcerated children of people deemed to be illegal aliens. Many are just left to die in the deserts of the South West and people wishing to go to their aid are criminalized for doing so.

Maybe the tendency to hate other peoples children and use armed force against them is part of the illogical glue that binds the US to Israel.

herb

In the light of what has been happening in the occupied territories, one could reinterpret history altogether.
Simply turn it on its head.
For instance, the red coats could claim god given rights on north america and call the blue coats terrorists for resisting occupation using violence. Washington would be like
Arafat and Cornwallis would be Netanyahoo. The red coats could proclaim how humanitarian they were by emancipating slaves while the blues were still enslaving humans.
The reds wanted taxes so they could govern the occupied territories, which the blues were denying them the right to.
After all, the loyalists in Canada did pretty good under the red coats. The American war of independence, as it is called,
where a bunch of old rich white guys (Washington, Jefferson) faced off the British monarchy, is considered a historic struggle against British occupation. While the struggle of poor Palestinians against a brutal occupation is condemned as terrorism. Where is the balance here.

The Israelis are pigs who are doing everything they can to cause the spread of anti-semitism. Only their savage "god" of the Old Testament knows why.