They hate our freedom of movement, of speech, and of freedom as a whole.. That's why their propaganda is always aimed at us.
And all this time you thought people living in caves in oil rich-countries are your #1 concern!! What a black magic spell cast
Some recent, concrete examples:
1. Hatred of a free and open media:
Twitterers paid to spread Israeli propaganda
Global Research, July 21, 2009
by Jonathan Cook
Nazareth. The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems.
Israelâs foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel.
Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the governmentâs line on the Middle East conflict.
2. Hatred of freedom of movement:
Foreign tourists barred from visiting Israel and Palestinian areas in same trip
Israel has told many foreign tourists they will not be allowed to visit Israel and the Palestinian areas in same trip, in a move the US called "unacceptable."
By Dina Kraft in Tel Aviv
Published: 8:58PM BST 20 Aug 2009
According to new Israeli travel restrictions, some foreign nationals who cross into the West Bank from Jordan via the Allenby Bridge, one of two crossings into the area, are given a new "Palestinian Authority Only" stamp in their passport and barred from travel in Israel.
Many of those given the stamp are reportedly European and US citizens who have relatives in the West Bank.
US diplomats met with their Israeli counterparts in Jerusalem to complain about the new directive. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that a number of European diplomats based in Israel were also planning to protest the move.
"The United States expects that all American citizens be treated equally, regardless of their national origin or other citizenship," the US State Department said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We have let the government of Israel know that these restrictions unfairly impact Palestinian and Arab-American travellers, and are not acceptable."
Some foreign nationals arriving in Israel at the country's main airport in Tel Aviv, meanwhile, have reportedly been asked to sign pledges not to enter Palestinian Authority territory without coordinating such visits with the army.
Senior foreign ministry officials quoted in Haaretz blamed their colleagues in the interior ministry for setting the new procedures, saying they did not understand the logic behind them.
"All it does is damage Israel's image," said an official who was quoted anonymously.
The tourism ministry has also complained about the new stamp to the interior ministry.
3. Hatred of personal freedom (organ harvesting):
On the question of how many organs he has sold Rosenbaum replies: âQuite a lot. And I have never failed,â he boasts. The business has been running for quite some time. Francis Delmonici, professor of transplant surgery at Harvard and member of the National Kidney Foundationâs Board of Directors, tells the same newspaper that organ-trafficking, similar to the one reported from Israel, is carried out in other places of the world as well. 5-6,000 operations a year, about ten per cent of the worldâs kidney transplants are carried out illegally, according to Delmonici.
Countries suspected of these activities are Pakistan, the Philippines and China, where the organs are allegedly taken from executed prisoners. But Palestinians also harbor strong suspicions against Israel for seizing young men and having them serve as the countryâs organ reserve - a very seriouus accusation, with enough question marks to motivate the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to start an investigation about possible war crimes.
4. Hatred of americans:
Published Tuesday 18/08/2009 (updated) 19/08/2009 18:22
Bethlehem â Maâan â Israel has declared the shooting of unarmed American demonstrator Tristan Anderson in the West Bank to be an âact of warâ in a bid to avoid compensating his family.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense sent a letter containing this declaration to the Anderson familyâs lawyers, according to attorney Leah Tsemel who is perusing a civil suit against the Israeli government.
Anderson was critically injured on 13 March 2009 when Israeli soldiers shot him in the forehead with a high velocity tear gas canister during a demonstration against the separation wall in the West Bank village of Niâlin. He remains unconscious in Tel Avivâs Tel Hashomer Hospital, where he recently underwent another surgery to reattach part of his scull that was removed during life-saving surgery five months ago. Prospects for his recovery remain unclear.
Tsemel, the civil suit attorney, told Maâan that the âact of warâ designation automatically releases the government from paying compensation under a recently-amended tort law. Israel makes this designation âall the time,â in tort cases involving Palestinian victims, she said.
She also said the Andersonsâ lawyers would âexhaust all possibilities in Israeli courts,â and in international courts if necessary, to hold the government accountable. A court date has not yet been set
And all this time you thought people living in caves in oil rich-countries are your #1 concern!! What a black magic spell cast
Some recent, concrete examples:
1. Hatred of a free and open media:
Twitterers paid to spread Israeli propaganda
Global Research, July 21, 2009
by Jonathan Cook
Nazareth. The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems.
Israelâs foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel.
Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the governmentâs line on the Middle East conflict.
2. Hatred of freedom of movement:
Foreign tourists barred from visiting Israel and Palestinian areas in same trip
Israel has told many foreign tourists they will not be allowed to visit Israel and the Palestinian areas in same trip, in a move the US called "unacceptable."
By Dina Kraft in Tel Aviv
Published: 8:58PM BST 20 Aug 2009
According to new Israeli travel restrictions, some foreign nationals who cross into the West Bank from Jordan via the Allenby Bridge, one of two crossings into the area, are given a new "Palestinian Authority Only" stamp in their passport and barred from travel in Israel.
Many of those given the stamp are reportedly European and US citizens who have relatives in the West Bank.
US diplomats met with their Israeli counterparts in Jerusalem to complain about the new directive. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that a number of European diplomats based in Israel were also planning to protest the move.
"The United States expects that all American citizens be treated equally, regardless of their national origin or other citizenship," the US State Department said in a statement on Wednesday.
"We have let the government of Israel know that these restrictions unfairly impact Palestinian and Arab-American travellers, and are not acceptable."
Some foreign nationals arriving in Israel at the country's main airport in Tel Aviv, meanwhile, have reportedly been asked to sign pledges not to enter Palestinian Authority territory without coordinating such visits with the army.
Senior foreign ministry officials quoted in Haaretz blamed their colleagues in the interior ministry for setting the new procedures, saying they did not understand the logic behind them.
"All it does is damage Israel's image," said an official who was quoted anonymously.
The tourism ministry has also complained about the new stamp to the interior ministry.
3. Hatred of personal freedom (organ harvesting):
On the question of how many organs he has sold Rosenbaum replies: âQuite a lot. And I have never failed,â he boasts. The business has been running for quite some time. Francis Delmonici, professor of transplant surgery at Harvard and member of the National Kidney Foundationâs Board of Directors, tells the same newspaper that organ-trafficking, similar to the one reported from Israel, is carried out in other places of the world as well. 5-6,000 operations a year, about ten per cent of the worldâs kidney transplants are carried out illegally, according to Delmonici.
Countries suspected of these activities are Pakistan, the Philippines and China, where the organs are allegedly taken from executed prisoners. But Palestinians also harbor strong suspicions against Israel for seizing young men and having them serve as the countryâs organ reserve - a very seriouus accusation, with enough question marks to motivate the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to start an investigation about possible war crimes.
4. Hatred of americans:
Published Tuesday 18/08/2009 (updated) 19/08/2009 18:22
Bethlehem â Maâan â Israel has declared the shooting of unarmed American demonstrator Tristan Anderson in the West Bank to be an âact of warâ in a bid to avoid compensating his family.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense sent a letter containing this declaration to the Anderson familyâs lawyers, according to attorney Leah Tsemel who is perusing a civil suit against the Israeli government.
Anderson was critically injured on 13 March 2009 when Israeli soldiers shot him in the forehead with a high velocity tear gas canister during a demonstration against the separation wall in the West Bank village of Niâlin. He remains unconscious in Tel Avivâs Tel Hashomer Hospital, where he recently underwent another surgery to reattach part of his scull that was removed during life-saving surgery five months ago. Prospects for his recovery remain unclear.
Tsemel, the civil suit attorney, told Maâan that the âact of warâ designation automatically releases the government from paying compensation under a recently-amended tort law. Israel makes this designation âall the time,â in tort cases involving Palestinian victims, she said.
She also said the Andersonsâ lawyers would âexhaust all possibilities in Israeli courts,â and in international courts if necessary, to hold the government accountable. A court date has not yet been set
