This is the "Jewish state-Warning, Disturbing Photos

Rebel Newsflash: This is the "Jewish state!" (Warning, Disturbing Photos!) (plus 11 more items)

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• This is the "Jewish state!" (Warning, Disturbing Photos!)
• Forced to take the apartheid oath
• Smothered by settlements
• Somalia: System of a down
• A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine: Imperialism, Property and Insurgency
• German firm helps Israel cement occupation with light rail
• The Zionist System Shows its True Face
• I Pledge Allegiance to What?
• Laws of the Street Reign in East Jerusalem Neighborhood
• Israel Needs to Stop Playing the Victim
• It's Not What You Say, it's How You Say it
• Stopping the Crazy

This is the "Jewish state!" (Warning, Disturbing Photos!) Posted: 16 Oct 2010 04:44 AM PDT A few days ago another car with settlers deliberately ran over 2 more Palestinian children in the town of Silwan, in occupied Jerusalem. The driver of the car and his friends of course fled. In any civilized country this is called 'hit and run' and drivers are jailed for committing such a crime. In Israel however, this is normal practice. Palestinian children and adults are commonly run over by settlers and the gruesome crime is hardly ever reported in US Zionist controlled media. Not only do Israeli drivers deliberately choose to run over their victims, but they also get away with their crime without any accountability. Palestinian citizens and children are killed every single day by Israelis but their stories are deliberately ignored . After all, maintaining Israel's image of a "poor but civilized democratic" state is a crucial Western mission and a most sacred task for the complicit imbedded mainstream media which we all know is owned by Jews.

Forced to take the apartheid oath Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:34 PM PDT In all likelihood, I will be one of the very first non-Jews expected to swear loyalty to Israel as an ideology rather than as a state. Until now, naturalizing residents, like the country's soldiers, pledged an oath to Israel and its laws. That is the situation in most countries. But soon, if the Israeli parliament passes a bill being advanced by the government, aspiring citizens will instead be required to uphold the Zionist majority's presumption that Israel is a "Jewish and democratic state."

Smothered by settlements Posted: 15 Oct 2010 11:35 AM PDT Negotiations between two unequal parties cannot succeed. Success in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations requires a reasonable balance of power, clear terms of reference and abstention of both sides from imposing unilateral facts on the ground. None of that existed in the talks that were re-initiated in September. Much like previous rounds of talks, these negotiations were dominated on one side by an Israeli government that controls the land, roads, airspace, borders, water and electricity, as well as the trade and economy of the Palestinian side, while possessing a powerful military establishment (now the third military exporter in the world) and a robust gross domestic product, which has tripled in the last decade.

Somalia: System of a down Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:26 AM PDT On Thursday October 14, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the president of Somalia, appointed Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed "Farmajo" as his new prime minister. Mohamed, a Somali-American and a member of the Somali Diaspora, is a relative unknown in the Somalian political scene. A scene defined largely by a systemic flaw, where institutional divergence prevents Somalia from establishing a strong system of national governance. The appointment came after last month's (September 21) resignation of former prime minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, as a result of a ongoing feud between himself and the president. Ending a bitter power struggle between the divided executive institutions of the presidency and the office of the prime minister.

A Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine: Imperialism, Property and Insurgency Posted: 15 Oct 2010 03:53 AM PDT Ghandour uses excessive critical academic theories to scrape off years and years of discourse that has overlaid the true reality of the motives and actions of colonial enforcers before and during Mandate Palestine. A vast part of what in fact is her PhD thesis focuses heavily on trying to "unwrite" decades of misinformation entrenched in past and current discourse on Palestine by analysing and comparing metanarratives and historical discourse amongst historians and other academics. Although helping to set the scene for what is to come, the depth to which Ghandour analyses this discourse may not be suited to the layman.

German firm helps Israel cement occupation with light rail Posted: 14 Oct 2010 04:04 PM PDT Last month, the German company TÜV NORD Group announced that it will test the technical safety of the first line of the controversial Jerusalem light rail project that critics say is being built in violation of Palestinian rights. The light rail project will connect West Jerusalem with several illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and is expected to enter into operation next spring. The TÜV NORD Group is one of the world's largest technical service providers and employs nearly 10,000 workers in more than seventy countries. In a 15 September press release, the company expressed its enthusiasm about its involvement in the light rail project and that it hopes to test the safety of future lines ("TUeV NORD Group gets Jerusalem's trams on track").

The Zionist System Shows its True Face Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:42 AM PDT Recent headlines and editorials have been sounding the alarm on a new Israeli policy requiring non-Jewish immigrants to Israel to swear allegiance to a "Jewish and democratic" state. Commentators and academics around the world are calling the just-approved measure fascist and some even compare it to racist laws in Europe that lead up to the Holocaust. Within Israel, "liberal" Zionists are calling this a turning point at which Israel begins an inexorable march away from democracy. Though it is surely the most blatantly racist and discriminatory policy to come out of the Knesset, it is far from the first.

I Pledge Allegiance to What? Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:42 AM PDT Sometimes, Israeli leaders go so far to the extreme that the Palestinians don't need to do anything additional to embarrass them. This is one of those times. While Palestinians have tirelessly put their best efforts forth to prove to the world that Israel promotes racist ideals and forcefully puts them into practice, the Israeli cabinet recently passed an amendment to their citizenship act that leaves no doubt of this truth. The bill demands all non-Jews seeking Israeli citizenship to declare loyalty to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state."

Laws of the Street Reign in East Jerusalem Neighborhood Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:42 AM PDT Living in Jerusalem has been a rollercoaster. On one hand, its extraordinary history and status can make anyone's time here surreal. On the other, since it's the geographical and emotional center of the conflict, people have become hardened and suspicious. Palestinian-Arab neighborhoods exhibit this perhaps the worst of all, since every aspect of the city's supposedly legitimate system seems to be against the Palestinians living there creating a vacuum of authority. Some of the avenues of oppression include tenuous residency status, evictions, house demolitions, lack of basic services like trash collection or land registry, discriminatory zoning, police brutality, and settler harassment. With no avenue to voice their concerns to the 'proper' authorities, the only vehicle to establish order is an array of social customs and the influence of strong arms who enforce them.

Israel Needs to Stop Playing the Victim Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:42 AM PDT The Palestinians are constantly being accused of "playing the victim," an unflattering role by any standards. Many Palestinians would agree that we do not want to be portrayed as the victim so as not to delegitimize our argument or weaken our point. Not that we don't have ample reason to call ourselves victims in the face of Israel's oppressive occupying machine. However, putting yourself in this category necessarily means you are accepting a much weaker starting point than your opponent, a position that begs sympathy rather than rational and valid support.

It's Not What You Say, it's How You Say it Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:42 AM PDT My mother used this line on me all the time when I was growing up. When I felt I had been done a grave injustice by my unfair parents – which was obviously every other day as a teenager – I would argue my point in rants and raves, flaying my arms and blaring in the highest decibel humanly possible. When the dust would finally settle, my mother would calmly advise me to choose my words carefully, lower my voice and get my point across – which she sometimes conceded was legitimate – in a way that would be well received on the other end. "It's not necessarily what you are saying," she would tell me. "It's how you say it."

Stopping the Crazy Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:42 AM PDT The other night on the Oprah Show, Jon Stewart, America's comedy sweetheart, announced he was hosting a "Rally to Restore Sanity" in Washington DC next month. The rally, he surmised, was for the silently busy majority of Americans who could finally make their voices heard to the less sane minority that is ruling their country. "Seventy to 80 percent of the people in this country are reasonable, nice individuals, may disagree on principle on things, but could come up with rational compromises, could accomplish things, could get things done, could live with the results. And then the other 15 to 20 percent of the country run the place," he quipped.

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