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If a journalist doesn't give a damn about 10,000 people executed in China annualy or the Syrian civil war, but constantly cherry picks bad stuff in Israel

If a journalist doesn't give a damn about 10,000 people executed in China annualy or the Syrian civil war, but constantly cherry picks bad stuff in Israel, it's either because Israel is a free-market success story or because "the jews did it"

. For the last five pages on PPR, you've made several threads about Israel, but none about Iran, Syria, Saudi-Arabia, Somalia or Yemen. Why is that?

Its because Israel is a unique case

Jabotinsky’s anti-racist legacy

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Those who read Jabotinsky’s writings knew those labels did not do him justice.

He envisioned a Jewish state that would have a large Arab minority alongside its Jewish majority. Arabs would have full civil, political, and cultural rights, including representation in parliament, and both Arabic and Hebrew would be official languages. Moreover, he argued that if there was a Jewish prime minister, there should be a deputy Arab prime minister (and vice versa).

Jabotinsky also had more than a passing interest in the question of race relations in the U.S. Following a wave of race riots that erupted in the U.S. after black boxer Jack Johnson defeated his white opponent, Jack Jeffries, in 1910, Jabotinsky wrote (in the Russian periodical Odesskie Novosti): “In the United States, the most free republic on earth, there are ten million citizens suffering a shocking lack of rights simply because of the color of their skin...Theaters are closed to the black man, as are hotels, railway cars, and schools. He is assigned special railway cars and narrow, separate compartments on trains. Schools for black children are cheaply constructed, inadequate, and dirty. The political rights of the ‘free and equal’ black citizen are non-existent.”

Ten years later, on a visit to the U.S., Jabotinsky witnessed a Ku Klux Klan march in Texas. It reinforced his disgust at racism in America. In a letter to a friend at the time, he wrote that both Jews and blacks in the U.S. would soon find it necessary to physically defend themselves against their enemies.

in how it started

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo8INDkZDnM[/youtube]

Many of the commenters on the videos of your arrest in Jerusalem have been positive, but there have been critical ones as well. From those comments, there seems to be a common thread of disbelief about what preceded such a violent reaction. Can you explain what occurred during those few minutes that the camera does not see?

One of the most prevalent misconceptions regarding the video concerns the time frame within which the events of my arrest occurred. The scene at the opening of the video showing my interview by journalists and my subsequent harassment by the police, demanding my passport, occurred approximately forty-five minutes to an hour before the actual arrest shown in the final moments.

Ignorant of such a time lapse, many incorrectly place my violent arrest as the logical outcome of my refusal to hand over my passport.

I initially refused to hand over my passport on the grounds that I was doing nothing illegal and that I did not want the police to take down my information, for fear of trouble later. Whether or not I was justified in refusing their request for my passport (I do not know the legal details) is entirely irrelevant to the circumstance of my actual arrest forty-five minutes later.

At the later time, I was seized without warning of any kind and without request for my passport, while I was peacefully on a sidewalk in the middle of a peaceful crowd.

Therefore, I was targeted, not for the bureaucratic reason of not producing my passport, but on political grounds: observing the extensive press coverage I was receiving and angered by the fact of my being a Jewish man speaking out on behalf of Palestinian rights, the police mistakenly believed I was the “ring leader” of this “orchestrated” demonstration.

They simply could not assimilate into their narrow schema the idea of people of conscience spontaneously mobilizing to demand justice.

Following your arrest why did you ask to be held in the Palestinian section of the prison rather than the Jewish one given the fact that the conditions were so much better in the one they placed you in?

Well, to be honest, when first asked my preference, I replied Jewish. I was scared and, didn’t have very much time to think. My first impulse was a cowardly one: to take the road of least resistance, which in this case was through the Jewish-only cell.

Upon hearing that, my police interrogator, believing that I shared their fear of Arabs, announced that I would be detained in the Palestinian cell, adding that he hoped I would enjoy my stay with “Ali Al Qaeda”. He made this overly racist remark, presupposing the equivalency of Palestinians to terrorists, right in front of the Palestinian-Israeli policeman sitting across from me.

In the subsequent moments, I changed my mind. Of course I would want to be in the Palestinian cell! How could there be any other choice but to stand in solidarity with the oppressed?

Regaining my courage, I willingly affirmed that I was to be put in the Palestinian cell. I now had the opportunity to break Israel’s apartheid regime from the inside, or so I thought.[

Video documents US demonstrator's arrest in east J'lem

Jewish left-wing activist Lucas Koerner was detained for disturbing the peace after allegedly harassing marchers on Jerusalem Day.

The video of a young American Jewish activist who was forcefully arrested on Jerusalem Day near Damascus Gate has been garnering attention in the pro-Palestinian blogosphere in the past 24 hours.

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The police said they asked Koerner to stop harassing the marchers, which is not shown on the video. When Koerner refused to give the police his passport, they arrested him for disturbing the peace. The arrest, which involved multiple policemen, was filmed by Palestinian activists. video of the arrest shows policemen wrestling him to the ground roughly and forcefully dragging him into a police vehicle, where it took five officers to force him into the van.

Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben- Ruby told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that Koerner bit a police officer during the course of his arrest, a fact which Koerner denied. He said the officer’s injuries were from something else.

“The video doesn’t excite me,” Ben-Ruby said. “It was taken after he was told he was arrested, he refused to cooperate with the police, and he bit a policeman, so there’s no reason they shouldn’t arrest him with force.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo8INDkZDnM[/youtube]

Israel isn't interested in a two state solution anymore than the most extremist elements of the Palestinian authority are

Its because Israel is a unique case in how it started, how it behaves and how it riles its neighbours. Its a pariah state that lives in a constant war of antagonisation by completely disregarding the rights of the people who it usurped upon. Increasingly the world is waking up to this which is why almost 200 states recognise Palestine as a country.

. For the last five pages on PPR, you've made several threads about Israel, but none about Iran, Syria, Saudi-Arabia, Somalia or Yemen. Why is that?

Hm... if I was attending a march in France or Germany and I was giving abuse to the marchers and making a nuisance of myself, refusing to hand over my passport when asked and (according to the police) biting a p-olice officer during my arrest... well, put it this way, I would expect some harsh treatment. Far more harsh than this annoying weed got or would get from the Israeli police.

Israel didn't usurp the land from anyone.

Even the individuals who were driven away by force, were offered to move back in 1949 with full compensation.

Israel is unique in that it's a Middle Eastern country that holds free elections, and allthough it has it's flaws, it's still the most democratic country in Israel.

Clearly, you have no problems soliciting the so-called anti-zionists (or antisemites, which they used to identify as before the Third Reich fell).

There is no proof that there ever was a Palestine, nor that there ever was a separate Palestinian people. What was given back to the jews, was back then considered to be a southern region in Syria.

Yes they did.

Source?

Unless you're an arab.

Like i said, in the years before the creation of Israel, the anti semites were the original zionists. Not much has changed because the campaign to amalgate zionism and judaism together seeks to transform Judaism into a national identity rather than what it is traditionally and historically.

So what was Plan Dalet for?, and where are all the towns in this link, you can click on them all :-

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1vaIK8wlAl0[/youtube]

And wheres this?

http://guardian.150m.com/palestine/destroyed-towns.htm

How come History books state that The Ottoman Empire and Turkey controlled Palestine between 1517 and 1917 until Turkey and Germanys defeat in the first world war if it didnt exist?

Why does the Balfour Declaration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Balfour_portrait_and_declaration.JPG promise the Jews a homeland in Palestine if it didnt exist?, and why does it call for the protection of the rights of non Jews already living there if nobody lived there?

The absurd claims the zionists here make, suggest everything they say is suspect and desperate lies.