Jeff Halper never was a profesor at Ben-Gurion University. More than 10 years ago he was a one-time adjunt lecturer. Do not give this mis-guided man more credit than he deserves.

False, obfuscatory ad hominem abuse is de rigeur for pro-Zionists - one wonders how else they can defend the indefensible e.g. the racist Zionist (RZ) mass imprisonment of 800,000 Occupied Palestinian children in the Gaza Concentration Camp without charge or trial but for the "crime" of being Indigenous Palestinians still living in Palestine.

Wikipedia in part describes Dr Jeff Halper thus: "Halper was an outside lecturer [in] anthropology at the University of Haifa and Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva. His academic research focused on the history of Jerusalem in the modern era, contemporary Israeli culture, and the Middle East conflict. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Halper was active on issues of social justice within Israel."

Dr Jeff Halper is one of numerous, outstanding, anti-racist, humanitarian Jewish scholars, a group of wonderful Jews subject to false vilification by the racist, war criminal, genocidal Nazis in the mid-20th century and subject today to false vilification by Zionist supporters of Israel, a race-based, war criminal, genocidal, nuclear terrorist, colonial rogue state.

Readers of this thread: false, obnoxious, defamatory abuse is de rigeur for pro-Zionists attempting to justify the indefensible - the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Nazi-style racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel - and is the more obnoxious when made with the courage of anonymity.

Readers of this thread could very profitably read "The Invention of the Jewish People" by Jewish Israeli Professor Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter) who makes out the case that there was no historical Exodus, no historical David and Solomon Empire, no historical Exile and that the genetic and cultural descendants today of the Jewish and non-Jewish Palestinians from 1000 BC and indeed the time of Christ were the same Indigenous Palestinians exiled from Palestine or subject to vile human rights abuse within Palestine by the Zionazis.

In contrast the Jewish Israelis are overwhelmingly the descendants of Yemeni, Berber and Khazar converts to a universalist Judaism of the first millennium AD.

Apartheid Israel grossly violates both the theology of Orthodox Judaism and the humanitarianism of Jewish culture and is a construct of the racist European colonial mindset and Anglo-American imperialism.

Genocidal racist Zionism is the greatest threat to decent, anti-racist Jews since Nazism and as such is fundamentally anti-Jewish anti-Semitic as well as being genocidally anti-Arab anti-Semitic. For an extensive compendium of what outstanding, anti-racist Jewish scholars and writers think of the genocidal obscenity of racist Zionism see "Jews Against Racist Zionism".

http://www.inventionofthejewishpeople.com

Mea culpa, when one is responding to false, obnoxious, defamatory, ad hominem abuse in the early morning one may well inadvertently mix up authors - of course "The Invention of the Jewish People" was written by Professor Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University and not by Professor Ilan Pappe of Exeter University.

I have read "The Invention of the Jewish People" with great care and interest. It is a major advance on Arthur Koestler's brilliant "The Thirteenth Tribe" that made the case for the Eastern European Jews (Ashkenazim) being derived from Southern Russia-Ukraine region Khazar converts to Judaism in circa the 9th century AD.

Of course my error was an understandable slip - both Professor Ilan Pappe (formerly Haifa, Israel, now at the University of Exeter, UK) and Professor Shlomo Sand have a commonality in being outstanding Jewish Israeli scholars opposed to the evil obscenity of genocidal, Nazi-style, racist Zionism and Apartheid Israel.

Indeed my error was quickly apparent to anyone actually reading my article: "Professor Ilan Pappe (Professor of History, University of Exeter, UK; formerly head of the Institute for Peace Studies, Haifa and chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies, Israel; author of numerous books, notably “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” and “A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples”), “The Necessity of Cultural Boycott”."

If religious or racial bigots want to set up a de novo race- and religion-based based "nation" for their ilk, then they stand condemned by decent people for a Nazi-style, Apartheid-style ideology - if they do so at the expense of the Indigenous inhabitants by war, theft, mass imprisonment, mass murder and genocide then they are racist war criminals like Adolph Eichmann and his Nazi associates and there should be no place for these scum to hide in a decent world.

Outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman has stated thus of the racist Zionists running Nazi-style, anti-democratic, war criminal, genocidal Apartheid Israel: "Furthermore, if Zionism is indeed a particularly virulent form of nationalism and, increasingly, of racism and if Israel is acting toward its captive minority in ways that resemble more and more how the Nazis treated their Jews, then we must also say so. For obvious reasons, the Zionists are very sensitive about being compared to the Nazis (not so sensitive that it has restrained them in their actions but enough to bellow "unfair" and to charge "anti-Semitism" when it happens). Yet, the facts on the ground, when not obscured by one or another Zionist rationalization, show that the Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis. No, the Zionists are not yet quite as bad as the Nazis, not yet, but isn't the world witnessing a creeping ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians at this very moment?"

Decent anti-racist Jews and indeed all decent anti-racists have a choice to either listen to the words of outstanding, anti-racist Jewish scholars (such as Jewish Israeli Professors Ilan Pappe and Shlomo Sand and many, many others: see "Jews Against Racist Zionism") or to the lying, racist Zionists running the genocidal, race-based, nuclear terrorist rogue state of Apartheid Israel (the Zionazi scum involved in the abusive, mass imprisonment of 800,000 Occupied Palestinian children in the Gaza Concentration Camp without charge or trial but simply for the "crime" of being Indigenous Palestinians still living in Palestine).

Like all decent anti-racists throughout the world, decent anti-racist Jews throughout the world are correct and obligated in opposing Zionist racism and genocide - defamation of such decent anti-racist Jews as "anti-Semites" is egregiously false, diminishes the horror of the Jewish Holocaust and preceding atrocities and indeed is a clear instance of anti-Jewish anti-Semitism.

The genocidal, mass murdering, lying, defaming racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel (for US hegemony, insider trading and other criminal purposes) are the biggest threat to Jews in the world since the era of the genocidal, mass murdering, lying, defaming German Nazis.

And, from a scientific perspective, the use of asserted "genetic evidence" by the racist Zionists ruling Palestine to support ethnic cleansing and genocide is evil and scientifically absurd - prior examples of such gross, evil and false abuse of science being Nazi eugenics and the false "race and intelligence" proponents in the deeply racist USA up to the 1970s.

One looks forward to the day when racist Zionism supporting the genocidal, terrorist scum running Apartheid Israel is sidelined everywhere in the world, as have already been the similar racist philosophies of Nazism, neo-Nazism, Apartheid and KKK race-hate.

More false, profoundly offensive, defamatory, ad hominem abuse from a pro-Zionist.

Violently-imposed race-based discriminatory laws, theft and genocide are the characteristics of both the German Nazis and the Zionazis running Apartheid Israel.

In comparison egregiously racist pre-1970 USA and Nazi-inspired, Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa only went as far as violently-imposed race-based discriminatory laws and theft.

I agree with the considered, expert opinion of outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman (New York University): ""Furthermore, if Zionism is indeed a particularly virulent form of nationalism and, increasingly, of racism and if Israel is acting toward its captive minority in ways that resemble more and more how the Nazis treated their Jews, then we must also say so. For obvious reasons, the Zionists are very sensitive about being compared to the Nazis (not so sensitive that it has restrained them in their actions but enough to bellow "unfair" and to charge "anti-Semitism" when it happens). Yet, the facts on the ground, when not obscured by one or another Zionist rationalization, show that the Zionists are the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis. No, the Zionists are not yet quite as bad as the Nazis, not yet, but isn't the world witnessing a creeping ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians at this very moment?"

For anti-racist Jews and indeed all anti-racist humanitarians the core moral messages from the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) and from the more general WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slav, Jewish and Gypsy dead) are “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”.

However these sacred injunctions are grossly violated by the anti-Arab anti-Semitic racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel and their Western backers variously involved in the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide (see "Jews Against Racist Zionism").

I reiterate that the racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel are the greatest threat to Jewish people since the Nazi era (as also perceived by UK writer Alan Hart in his recent book “Zionism: the Real Enemy of the Jews. Volume 1. The False Messiah", Clarity Press)- they are accordingly anti-Jewish anti-Semitic in addition to being genocidally anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic.

While the racist Zionists have "only" killed about 350,000 Palestinians, and mostly passively through imposed deprivation (they kill about 6,000 Occupied Palestinians every year, about 10% violently), the violent and non-violent excess deaths in the pro-Zionist-supported Bush Wars now total about 10 million, a death toll about 2 times that of the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in dying from deprivation).

This is what the greatest Jewish public figure of my own country Australia, Sir Isaac Isaacs (first Australian-born Governor General of Australia) had to say about racist Zionism in 1946: "the Zionist movement as a whole...now places its own unwarranted interpretation on the Balfour Declaration, and makes demands that are arousing the antagonism of the Moslem world of nearly 400 millions, thereby menacing the safety of our Empire, endangering world peace and imperiling some of the most sacred associations of the Jewish, Christian, and Moslem faiths. Besides their inherent injustice to others these demands would, I believe, seriously and detrimentally affect the general position of Jews throughout the world" (Isaacs, Sir Isaac. ‘Palestine: Peace and Prosperity or War and Destruction? Political Zionism: Undemocratic, Unjust, Dangerous’ (Ramsay Ware Publishing) 14 January 1946, p. 8-9.).

I reiterate that the evil, genocidal racism of the racist Zionists (RZs) must be sidelined in all civilized societies as have been the evil, racist views of the Nazis, neo-Nazis , Apartheiders and KKK.

More egregious, defamatory, pro-Zionist falsehood - it falsely asserted that those objecting to Israeli human rights abuses believe that Blacks had equal rights to whites in Apartheid South Africa "just as in Israel".

Utter falsehood.

Decent, anti-racist people around the world condemn the racist Zionists running race-based, genocidal Apartheid Israel for exactly the same reason they condemned and opposed those running Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa - decent, anti-racist people opppose Nazi-style racism wherever it recurs.

What do heroes in the fight against Apartheid have to say? Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils was a South African Jewish hero in the fight against Apartheid. He was a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) (1987- 2007), member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) (1986-2007) and Minister for Intelligence (2004-2008): "The occupation [of Palestine] reminds me of the darkest days of apartheid, but we never saw tanks and planes firing at a civilian population. It's a monstrousness I'd never seen before. The wall you built, the checkpoints and the roads for Jews only - it turns the stomach, even for someone who grew up under apartheid. It's a hundred times worse" (see "Jews Against Racist Zionims").

This is what African hero in the fight against Apartheid, Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela, had to say about Apartheid Israel: "Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children. The responses made by South Africa to human rights abuses emanating from the removal policies and apartheid policies respectively, shed light on what Israeli society must necessarily go through before one can speak of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and an end to its apartheid policies"(see "Non-Jews Against racist Zionism").

The endlessly false propaganda from race-based, Nazi-style, genocidal Apartheid Israel suggests the ISRAEL anagram E-LIARS.

I reiterate that evil, genocidal racist Zionism must be sidelined in all civilized societies as have been the similarly evil and racist philosophies of the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheid and KKK.

Another example of the lunatic hate-Israel crowd. It is clear that Polyah is unable to understand ironic parody so I will make it easier for him.
In South Africa apartheid was enshrined in its constitution and supported by its legal system. People were legally classified into racial groups and forcibly separated from each other. A wide range of laws ensured racially based discrimination, including the prohibition of Blacks from voting, using Whites-only schools and hospitals, or even mixing with Whites in public places. Apartheid South Africa was also ruled by a Whites only minority government.
In Israel, on the other hand, the Declaration of Independence gives equal rights to everybody, regardless of gender, ethnic origin or religion.
In Israel, as I wrote, Arabs can be found in every way of life. In the Judiciary, all the way to the Supreme Court, as Ministers in the government, as professors and students in every Israeli university, as high ranking officers in the police and army, as doctors and patients in every Israeli hospital. Arabs have the right to vote and be elected. One of the deputy speakers in the Israeli parliament is an Arab. There are Arab political parties and Arabic newspapers as well as radio and TV programs in Arabic. Arabic is an official language in Israel. Israeli Jews and non-Jews can sit side by side in every bus or train line and visit the same beaches.
Only people blinded by hate can call all that apartheid.
To equate Israel with apartheid displays a profound ignorance of the horror that was South Africa. But as usual, ignorance is the last resort of the racist scoundrel.

More abusive, pro-Zionist falsehood.

Those who have experienced the Horrors of Apartheid actually equate Apartheid Israel with Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa.

Indeed even the founder of Apartheid in South Africa, former Nazi Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd declared that "Israel is an Apartheid state".

Thus, some examples below.

Anti-Apartheid hero Nelson Mandela: "Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children. The responses made by South Africa to human rights abuses emanating from the removal policies and apartheid policies respectively, shed light on what Israeli society must necessarily go through before one can speak of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and an end to its apartheid policies".

Anti-Apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "Yesterday's South African township dwellers can tell you about today's life in the Occupied Territories. To travel only blocks in his own homeland, a grandfather waits on the whim of a teenage soldier. More than an emergency is needed to get to a hospital; less than a crime earns a trip to jail. The lucky ones have a permit to leave their squalor to work in Israel's cities, but their luck runs out when security closes all checkpoints, paralyzing an entire people. The indignities, dependence and anger are all too familiar. Many South Africans are beginning to recognize the parallels to what we went through. Ronnie Kasrils and Max Ozinsky, two Jewish heroes of the anti-apartheid struggle, recently published a letter titled "Not in My Name." Signed by several hundred other prominent Jewish South Africans, the letter drew an explicit analogy between apartheid and current Israeli policies. Mark Mathabane and Nelson Mandela have also pointed out the relevance of the South African experience."

Jewish South African anti-Apartheid hero Ronnie Kasrils: "At the onset of international “Israel Apartheid Week” in solidarity with the embattled Palestinian people, I want to start by quoting a South African who emphatically stated as far back as 1963 that “Israel is an apartheid state.” Those were not the words of Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Tutu or Joe Slovo, but were uttered by none other than the architect of apartheid itself, racist Prime Minister, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd. He was irked by the criticism of apartheid policy and Harold Macmillan’s “Winds of Change” speech , in contrast to the West’s unconditional support for Zionist Israel" and re Apartheid Israel "I try in vain to recall anything quite as obscene in apartheid South Africa."

Hopefully two states are going to be established An Israeli state and a Palestinian state(Most dubious clichés of the humanitarian intervention intellectuals and media editors , will criticize each solution as they don't want an Israeli State).
One of the issues raised up, is to move the border of the Palestinian state so it will include Muslim small towns as Umm al-Fahm and Baqa-Jatt, meaning they will become Part of the Palestinian state and will unite with thier Palestinian heritage (Again they will not move from thier homes and lands, the border will be moved).
Most Israeli Arabs object this reunion..........
If their life is so bad and as you mention the Apartheid is so terrible...... why are they not accepting 1) reunion with thier Palestinian heritage 2) become free from the Israel Apartheid.
Dr. Gideon Polya , there is a way to sit thousands of miles away and accept every theoretical "bull" that goes together with your Ideas and there is a way to come over and deeply explore the situation...... and see how far your visions are from reality.

This is what Dr Gideon Polya writes about Obama... in 8 month duration.... I would say Dr Gideon Polya should check his schizofrenia distortion of reality...... as how can someone misjudge a person as Obama by 360 degrees.......... did you take your medications

June 21, 2009
Obama is currently the World’s #1 violent extremist, the World’s #1 killer of children – and the World’s #1 holocaust denier because he absolutely ignores the horrendous human cost of US invasion, occupation and devastation of the Muslim World.

05/11/08
am extremely happy with the Barack Obama victory for the World, for America, for Americans - and especially for non-White Americans given the appalling history of White racism there.

That historical significance aside, Barack Obama’s skin color is utterly irrelevant - what is important is his intelligence, humanity and recognition of the acute seriousness of the appalling legacy of economic, war and climate emergency problems left by 8 years of racist, religious right republican (R4) Bush administration.

Ignorance continues to rule. The Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza vote in the elections for the Palestinian parliament. Those elections are run by the Palestinian Authority.
And about apartheid. In April 2000 Nelson Mandela came to London and spoke to the Board of Deputies of British Jews. He spoke of the need for Israel to leave the lands taken in 1967 but not unless there was first recognition of the Jewish State by the Arab States: "I added a second position, that Israel cannot be expected to withdraw from the Arab territories which she legitimately conquered when the Arab States wanted to whip her out of the map of the world." No mention of 'apartheid' in Israel - from a man who spent 27 years as a prisoner of the loathsome apartheid regime in South Africa.
I agree with Anonymous, Polya's ignorance is indeed pathetic.

More false, obnoxious, ad hominem abuse, the sine qua non of pro-Zionists who simply don't get the anti-Apartheid message - "all men are created equal", "one man one vote", full human rights to all inhabitants of a country whether racist Zionist-run, minority-run Palestine or the similarly Nazi-style, minority-run Apartheid South Africa.

Hamas overwhelmingly won the 2006 Occupied Palestinian elections (76 seats out of 132; the only democratic elections in Zionazi-occupied Palestine this century although held under Zionazi guns) but were then declared to be "terrorists" and exiled to the Gaza Concentration Camp by the child-killing Zionazi occupiers (UNICEF statistics show that Apartheid Israel kills over 6,000 Occupied Palestinians each year, mostly children and mostly through deliberately imposed, Nazi-style deprivation in gross violation of the Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide Convention).

While the present-day Nazis, neo-Nazis, KKK and Apartheiders are powerless, obnoxious fanatics the current racist Zionist running nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel (and their AIPAC and other Israel Lobby Group supporters in the Western democracies) are racist, lying, warmongering, genocidal, nuclear terrorist psychopaths who, like the Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid White South Africans, have resorted to nuclear weapons as a "defence" against the prospect of "all men are created equal" in Palestine,

The racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel, like the Nazi scum running Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa, would sooner kill tens of millions of people than concede what is obvious to all decent human beings - that Indigenous Palestinians are human beings deserving of full human rights.

The racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel are the biggest threat to Jews and indeed to all Humanity in the world today and they and their supporters should be sidelined world-wide as have been the Nazis, neo-Nazis, other Apartheiders, the KKK and their supporters.

Consider the words of outstanding Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond who in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people" – an injunction grossly violated by racist Zionist (RZ)-run Apartheid Israel and its racist, warmongering, genocide-committing, genocide-ignoring, anti-Jewish anti-Semitic and anti-Arab anti-Semitic US Alliance backers.

Dr Gideon Polya

"The rights of Israeli citizens Jews Arab and Christian are guaranteed by "fundamental laws". Although the Basic Laws did not specifically included the term "right to equality", the Supreme Court has consistently interpreted the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty "and the" Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation "laws that ensure equal rights for all citizens of Israel."

I Guess its hard for you to read that those are the laws of Israel that "all men are created equal", with full human rights to all inhabitants of a country.

Your Cut and Paste repeating spew are completly not surprising, as you have NO arguments only LOW level vocabulary.

Show me ONE Israeli Law that forbids "Palestinian Israelis" to get any Education, Any Job, Any Economic assistance, Any problem to be elected, any restriction to move in the country or go out of the country, or any other issue that your sick mind can bring up. Start digging .......... and get back when you have more then cut and paste empty spew.

More false, obnoxious, ad hominem abuse from a pro-Zionist that is the more obnoxious for being made with the courage of anonymity.

Palestinian Israelis live under the oft-repeated threat of removal of citizenship and expulsion (race-based ethnic cleansing, genocide); are forbidden to marry non-Israeli fellow Palestinians; are forbidden employment in particular areas (e.g. military, intelligence etc); forbidden property rights (e.g. to particular Palestinian land they own but which has been stolen by racist Zionists ); their communities are denied equity in many social areas; have had their major parties banned before elections; are forced to carry race-based ID at all times (as in Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany - an utterly evil, racist obscenity to decent anti-racist Jews and non-Jews).

However the political bottom line is racist Zionist exclusion of nearly 90% of Palestinians as a whole from voting for the Government that currently illegally administers all of Palestine plus bits of Lebanon and Syria - egregious, anti-democratic, democratic Nazism as formerly practised in Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa where those of the 90% non-White population were forbidden the vote by the Nazi-style - and indeed in some cases Nazi - scum of the minority regime).

From a purely Jewish perspective, a major crime of the racist Zionists (RZs cf the Nazis) running Apartheid Israel is that they ferociously but falsely identify their appalling crimes against Humanity with all Jews - an evil, racist falsehood that makes the racist Zionists anti-Jewish anti-Semitic as well as anti-Arab anti-Semitic and the biggest threat to Jews since the Nazi era (for the opinions of numerous, outstanding, anti-racsit Jewish scholars opposed to racist Zionism see "Jews Against racist Zionism).

The racist Zionists have spread their evil, anti-Semitic racism throughout the World and must be urgently sidelined in all decent societies, as has already happened to like racists such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and KKK.

Dr Gideon Polya continues with his cut and paste spew, so in order to wash your spew down the drain here are some evidence.

You Claim: Zionist exclusion of nearly 90% of Palestinians as a whole from voting for the Government

The Population of Israel is 7.5. million
The Palestinian Israelis population of Palestinian Israelis who are 20.3% of the population are 1.5 million

As there are 120 parliament members that means that every 62,500 votes are per parliament member.

As you claim that only 10% can vote that means that 150,000 are aloud to vote.

So based on your Scientific knowledge there should be 2.5 Palestinian Israelis members in the Israeli parliament.

Names of Palestinian Israelis parliament members:

Afu Agbaria
Hamad Amar
Mohammad Barakeh
Taleb el-Sana
Masud Ghnaim
Ayoob Kara
Raleb Majadele
Said Nafa
Ibrahim Sarsur
Hana Sweid
Ahmad Tibi
Majalli Wahabi
Jamal Zahalka
Haneen Zoubi
Abdulmalik Dehamshe
Nadia Hilou

That means that All your spew information dosen't have any proof and are all LIES.

You claim
are forbidden employment in particular areas (e.g. military, intelligence etc); Most Palestinian Israelies DO not want to serve in the Israeli Army, Due to the conflict with arab countries
But: Arab Generals in the IDF include Major General Hussain Fares, commander of Israel's border police, and Major General Yosef Mishlav, head of the Home Front Command and current Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.. Other high ranking officers in the IDF include Lieutenant Colonel Abd el-Majid Hidr, a legendary officer in the Israel Defense Forces and one of six Israeli Arabs to have received the IDF's third highest decoration, the Medal of Distinguished Service.
Just as a note, if this is your ONLY particular Area , then you are more stupid than predicted.

their communities are denied equity in many social areas; have had their major parties banned before elections; are forced to carry race-based ID at all times.
Those are Infantile claims that have NO proof and NO evidence and are empty words.

Dr Gideon Polya You are nothing but a Pathetic LIAR and same as All Liars wants to have the last comment.
But as more as you comment, the more you show what a LIAR and how low your intellectual sick mind is.

More offensive, false, ad hominem, pro-Zionist abuse and made with the courage of anonymity.

There are about 12 million Palestinians, more than 50% forbidden to even live in Palestine by the genocidal Zionazis.

Of the circa 5.5 million Palestinians actually living in Palestine only adults from the 1.5 million Palestinian Israelis can vote for the government that rules all of Palestine, including a bit of Lebanon and a big chunk of Syria - only 1.5 million out of 12 million (13%) get to vote for the government ruling all of their country i.e 87% are excluded from one-man-one-vote by the racist, genocidal Zionazis.

The world has wised up to the democratic Nazism of genocidal, anti-Semitic, war criminal, child-killing Apartheid Israel - democracy by genocide,democracy by ethnic cleansing, democracy by mass imprisonment in Bantustans and Concentration Caps.

Numerous outstanding anti-racist Jews from Arendt to Zinn and including notables such as Nobel Laureates Albert Einstein and Harold Pinter wised up to the racist evil of Apartheid Israel over 60 years ago (see "Jews Against Racist Zionism").

Moshe Menuhin (1893-1983) was born in Russia but lived in Palestine, Israel and the US. A prominent anti-Zionist, he was the author of "The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time", "Jewish Critics of Zionism", and of the family history "The Menuhin Saga". He was the father of famous violinist, universalist and anti-Zionist Yehudi Menuhin. Moshe Menuhin re Israeli oppression of Palestinians: “Jews should be Jews - not Nazis” .

Apartheid Israel does not represent Jews or Judaism - it represents an evil and vicious variant of American Segregation, genocidal European colonialism, German Nazism and South African Apartheid.

Readers of this thread - more of the unsubstantiated, routine, offensive, false, ongoing "Protocols of the Elders of Zion " LIES, by the anti-Semite,jew-hater,neo-Nazi Dr Gideon Polya

The Population of Israel is 7.5. million
The Palestinian Israelis population of Palestinian Israelis who are 20.3% of the population are 1.5 million

As there are 120 parliament members that means that every 62,500 votes are per parliament member.

As you claim that only 10% can vote that means that 150,000 are aloud to vote.

So based on your Scientific knowledge there should be 2.5 Palestinian Israelis members in the Israeli parliament.

Names of Palestinian Israelis parliament members:

Afu Agbaria
Hamad Amar
Mohammad Barakeh
Taleb el-Sana
Masud Ghnaim
Ayoob Kara
Raleb Majadele
Said Nafa
Ibrahim Sarsur
Hana Sweid
Ahmad Tibi
Majalli Wahabi
Jamal Zahalka
Haneen Zoubi
Abdulmalik Dehamshe
Nadia Hilou

That means that All your spew information dosen't have any proof and are all LIES.

Those are present Numbers taken from the STATE OF ISRAEL Bureau of statistics.

Read you comment again, there is not even ONE argument or answer nor evidence in your comment, Only standard Antisemite Spew (BTW I read the same duplicate "Cut and paste" spew in all other blogs).
You sound like a worn out propaganda soundtrack that makes a lot of noise and accusations, as a good student of "Nazi Dr Paul Jozef Gebels", but says absolutely nothing.Your comment seems to be for the pure and utter enjoyment of hearing your own incoherent sick and nonsensical words and thoughts.

Once the Palestinian state will hopefully be declared and established for the benefit and the full right of the Palestinian people for a independence state. The Palestinian state will decide who can be a citizen.

Mr. Lavi [AKA Anon], Anonymous, Amir, Juniper and...

Let us watch this video, after we can discuss more about the myth of Israel democracy and why we call it an Apartheid state.

anthony-lawson-double-vendetta

The horrible ad hominem abuse above (anti-semite, neo-Nazi, Jew-hater etc) is utterly false and defamatory and should be removed.

Dr Gideon Polya aka Shahram Vahdany aka Gilad Atzmon Aka anthony-lawson Aka "WE" antisemites

The war that the Nazis waged against the Jews was not just a war of physical annihilation. It was an international war of propaganda to convince the rest of the world of the evils of Judaism. One of the primary weapons that the Third Reich used for this international effort was a forgery known as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." It is claimed that the Protocols are the minutes of a meeting of Jewish leaders at the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897, in which Jews plotted to take over the world. The Protocols were the basis for much of Mein Kampf, and Rosenberg's book The Myth of the 20th Century became the most important exposition of Nazi philosophy.
the New World Order is soon going to be locked in place, with Israel the hub of power and the United States its dedicated slave

As most advanced, popular and spread media in the beginning of the 20th century was newspapers and brief lets antisemites and the Nazi regime made a full use of this media.

Today The Internet has dramatically increased access to edited video's using the same antisemite propaganda, but visualized it.

There is NO difference between "anthony-lawson-double-vendetta" and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, it is a visualized conceptual duplication in all anti-Semite aspects, same old anti-Semite tactic, nothing new under the sun.
Meaning "WE" the antisemites 70 years ago followed Hitler as the world saver and "WE" the antisemites of today follow Ahmadinejad .

The Only difference is, that 70 years ago my ancestors, did not have any power, nor place to escape and were murdered by the Antisemites Idol, as today's Antisemites have a problem to achieve their "final goal" to exterminate the Jews and it is the state of Israel.

Dr Gideon Polya, As all your "Lies and false accusation", using horrible ad hominem abuse above regarding My Country Israel and me as part of it, are Not removed in the name of "FREEDOM OR SPEECH" .
I strongly stand behind my total accusation and call you a "anti-semite, neo-Nazi and a Jew-hater"

Ad hominem (person directed), abuse has no place in civilized discourse and the more so when it is utterly false and defamatory. The routine pro-Zionist recourse to false defamation is readily explained by the immorality of their cause - how else can they defend the indefensible, whether the 7 million Palestinian refugees or the 800,000 Palestinian children abusively imprisoned in the Gaza Concentration Camp without charge or trial but merely for the "crime" of being Indigenous Palestinians living in part of their own country, inhabited by their forebears continuously for thousands of years (one of the oldest civilizations in the world).

The racist Zionists are not merely are "the worst anti-Semites in the world today, oppressing a Semitic people as no nation has done since the Nazis" (eminent Jewish American scholar Professor Bertell Ollman) they are the greatest threat to Jews today since the Nazi era, they actively collaborated with the Nazis - opposing the Joel Brand Plan to save 0.7 million Hungarian Jews; collaborating in the deportation of Jews; and offering terrorist collaboration with the Nazis in Palestine.

Thus see the opinions of anti-racism heroes Joel Brand and Lenni Brenner: "BRAND, Joel. Exposing Zionist complicity in Nazi mass murder of Hungarian Jews" and "BRENNER, Lenni. Exposing Zionist collaboration and complicity with the Nazis" (see "Jews Against Racist Zionism").

Decent people have a simple choice, the opinions of the most outstanding humanitarian Jewish scholars in the world today OR the vicious racist lies of the genocidal racist Zionists (RZs) running the genocidal, nuclear terrorist rogue state of Apartheid Israel.

Dr Gideon Polya Aka above Anonymous, your "cut and paste" spew structure and style are obvious.
You Just showed you real low pathetic character, you are realy the scum of the earth, as hiding beyond anonymous will give you the way to show your real "antisemite Jew-hater Nazi spew".
strongly stand behind my total accusation and call you a "anti-semite, neo-Nazi and a Jew-hater"

More horrible,false, defamatory ad hominem, pro-Zionist abuse.

Rational counters to such horrible abuse include the considered words of outstanding,anti-racist, humanitarian Jewish scholars.

Thus below are some insights on the neo-Nazi and pro-Nazi Zionist founders of Apartheid Israel provided by outstanding Jewish humanitarian Lenni Brenner re Zionist collaboration with the Nazis: “ Zionist factions competed for the honor of allying to Hitler. By 1940-41, the "Stern Gang," among them Yitzhak Shamir, later Prime Minister of Israel, presented the Nazis with the "Fundamental Features of the Proposal of the National Military Organization in Palestine (Irgun Zvai Leumi) Concerning the Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe and the Participation of the NMO in the War on the Side of Germany."

Avraham Stern and his followers announced that "The NMO, which is well-acquainted with the goodwill of the German Reich government and its authorities towards Zionist activity inside Germany and towards Zionist emigration plans, is of the opinion that: 1. Common interests could exist between the establishment of a new order in Europe in conformity with the German concept, and the true national aspirations of the Jewish people as they are embodied by the NMO. 2. Cooperation between the new Germany and a renewed folkish-national Hebraium would be possible and, 3. The establishment of the historic Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, bound by a treaty with the German Reich, would be in the interest of a maintained and strengthened future German position of power in the Near East. Proceeding from these considerations, the NMO in Palestine, under the condition the above-mentioned national aspirations of the Israeli freedom movement are recognized on the side of the German Reich, offers to actively take part in the war on Germany's side." (see Lenni Brenner, “51 documents: Zionist collaboration with the Nazis”, CounterPunch, 23 December 2002: 51 documents: Zionist collaboration with the Nazis ).

Dr Gideon Polya
Read what another Antisemite Jew-Hater and a holocaust denier “Gilad atzmon”, has to say about your outstanding Jewish humanitarian Lenni Brenner.

“Somehow you and those like you know what is good for the Palestinians, the Jews, the working class. I occasionally ask myself what it is that makes you so confident. You and your followers indeed have managed to silence some of the most interesting intellects around just because you do not approve their politics or religion. I am afraid to inform you Lenni, that these days are over. Your six UK disciples are working day and night for more than three years doing their very best to silence me,”

“Unlike you Lenni, I believe in freedom of speech”
“Unlike you Lenni, I am against gatekeeping, I am also against any form of dogmatic or monolithic discourses of hegemony.”
“Unlike you and your friends, I believe that every human subject is entitled to human rights.”

Two Antisemites Jewhaters Neo Nazis, spew on each other, WHO IS A BIGGER self Hating Jew PSYCHO.

If Gilad Atzmon says, that your Lenni Brenner Dose not believe in freedom of speech and is "un human" and "against Human rights", what do I have to say more……………

More horrible, offensive, obnoxious, false, defamatory, puerile, pro-Zionist abuse against 2 outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian Jewish-origin writers.

Just as horrible, false, defamatory, abuse against 2 outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian Quebecois writers could be considered to be anti-Quebecois so horrible, false, defamatory, pro-Zionist abuse against outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian Jewish-origin writers and scholars by, for example, the genocidal racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel can be reasonably considered to be anti-Jewish anti-Semitic after the fashion of the German Nazis.

To the readers and editors of this News blog
Dr Gideon Polya writes, that my above comment is
"Just as horrible, false, defamatory, abuse against 2 outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian"
This is not the first time that his answers don't have any evidence but empty spew.
As My Comment is a copied from the following article:

February 15, 2007
"Are You a Christian?"
"Do I Look Like the Pope?"
An Exchange Between Lenni Brenner & Gilad Atzmon

http://www.counterpunch.org/atzmon02152007.html

It says clear. Exactly as I wrote in my comment.

“Somehow you and those like you know what is good for the Palestinians, the Jews, the working class. I occasionally ask myself what it is that makes you so confident. You and your followers indeed have managed to silence some of the most interesting intellects around just because you do not approve their politics or religion. I am afraid to inform you Lenni, that these days are over. Your six UK disciples are working day and night for more than three years doing their very best to silence me,”
“Unlike you Lenni, I believe in freedom of speech”
“Unlike you Lenni, I am against gatekeeping, I am also against any form of dogmatic or monolithic discourses of hegemony.”
“Unlike you and your friends, I believe that every human subject is entitled to human rights.”

Show me, Where is MY "false, defamatory, abuse against 2 outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian"
As it is written by "Gilad Atzmon" himself, so would Dr Gideon Polya accuse " Gilad Atzmon" as a "horrible, offensive, obnoxious, false, defamatory, puerile, pro-Zionist abuse".
Dr Gideon Polya as a reporter in this Blog, should apologize for his spew, or incase he stands for his accusation against me, write the same accusations about "Gilad Atzmon" as he wrote those false, defamatory, abuse against 2 outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian" And not me.
The editors of this blog should take this to their attention, as Dr Gideon Polya is a reporter on their blog and his honesty & credibility as a "reporter" has a big question mark.

Readers of this thread - ad hominem abuse does not constitute sensible discourse.

Sensible people are not interested in irrelevant obfuscatory pro-Zionist assertions about what who might have said to whom.

What concerns this thread and all decent, anti-racist folk is the continuing Palestinian Genocide perpetrated by the world's last remaining Apartheid state, nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel.

There should be no place to hide for the racist Zionist (RZ) perpetrators of the Palestinian Genocide and their supporters in a just world - just as there should be no place to hide for the Nazi perpetrators of the Jewish Holocaust and the neo-Nazis and racist Zionists (RZs) complicit in that atrocity.

Gideon Polya writes "Readers of this thread - ad hominem abuse does not constitute sensible discourse."

Looks like Gideon Polya understand that he lost his "honesty and credibility" but will never admit he is wrong or apologize, so he escapes to another root.

Gideon Polya himself quotes "Lenni Brenner & Gilad Atzmon" in order to defend his low intellect arguments, and suddenly " irrelevant assertions about what who might have said to whom."
That is why Gideon Polya is irrelevant too.
Gideon Polya Lost the understanding, that it is very relevant who says what, as those self hating Jews "Lenni Brenner & Gilad Atzmon" hate everything on earth and "hate each other", so when they write their spew , it is more then relevant to "know who they are and their sick mental motives."
I am most concerned about the future of the Palestinians, as I am concerned about the future of my children.
Gideon Polya mind cannot understand basic facts, that Only peace and solving the bad situation of the Palestinian people, support them, provide them good with absolutely freedom in an independence Palestinian state, prosperity, security and confidence, will secure my children too.

More obfuscating, ad hominem pro-Zionist abuse.

Yet the following one of many horrible realities in Apartheid Palestine remains: 800,000 Palestinian children highly abusively and indefinitely imprisoned in what the Catholic Church describes as Israel's Gaza Concentration Camp, without charge or trial and for the "crime" of being Indigenous Palestinians living in their own Land.

Those involved in horrendous abuse of children have crossed the line separating decent humanity from Nazi-style barbarism.

Naomi Klein (famous Jewish Canadian journalist, author and activist who is very well known for her books and critiques of corporate globalization): “There is a debate among Jews - I'm a Jew by the way. The debate boils down to the question: "Never again to everyone, or never again to us?... [Some Jews] even think we get one get-away-with-genocide-free card...There is another strain in the Jewish tradition that say, 'Never again to anyone.””

Gideon Polya you lost contact with reality..........
You claim you are a JEW ..... and give the Catholic Church as an example .....

Thats what Naomi Klein writes.

"Most disturbing, said Klein, “is something known to Israeli women as ‘Holocaust pornography’, where images of emaciated women near ovens, shower heads, cattle cars, and the like are used to sell clothing and other products.” Jewish women, she informed her readers, “are sexualized as Holocaust victims for Israeli men to masturbate over… the themes are fire, gas, trains, emaciation, and death.”

I Guess you don't see any difference anymore, does she demonize only Israel or also Judaism, and Jews..... what a sick mind.

Readers of this thread - more utterly false, obfuscating, ad hominem comments from a pro-Zionist.

Fact - I am an agnostic Humanist Australian.

Fact - famous Jewish Canadian writer Naomi Klein is an outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian and feminist.

Gideon Polya continues with his pathetic Deceiving mantra " Readers of this thread - more utterly false, obfuscating, ad hominem comments from a pro-Zionist."
Dear Readers and editors, where is the UTTERLY FALSE INFORMATION, please judge for yourself
I quote from Naomi Klein article
"Most disturbing, said Klein, “is something known to Israeli women as ‘Holocaust pornography’, where images of emaciated women near ovens, shower heads, cattle cars, and the like are used to sell clothing and other products.” Jewish women, she informed her readers, “are sexualized as Holocaust victims for Israeli men to masturbate over… the themes are fire, gas, trains, emaciation, and death.”
The Article is published in "UN Watch" website UN Watch is a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations.
http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.5438451/k.64F0/Naomi_Klein_Exposed_The_Unauthorized_Biography.htm
Gideon Polya please inform the readers, where is my "utterly false" information, as your "credibility and honesty" is getting lower and lower by each comment.

Now to the facts,
Gideon Polya writes - Fact - famous Jewish Canadian writer Naomi Klein is an outstanding anti-racist, humanitarian and feminist. As humanism is the practice that focuses on human values and concerns, is Naomi Klein writings her reflection and idea of Humanism,
Naomi Klein writes that " Israeli women as ‘Holocaust pornography’, where images of emaciated women near ovens, shower heads, cattle cars, and the like are used to sell clothing and other products.” Jewish women, she informed her readers, “are sexualized as Holocaust victims for Israeli men to masturbate over… the themes are fire, gas, trains, emaciation, and death.”

Naomi Klein writings Are not just a shame and disgrace to humanity, they are Racist, anti-Semite, barbaric, cruel that only a demonic person can write, her writings are even more humiliating then Nazi's as Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler , as it comes from a sick mind of a JEW.
Naomi Klein writings hurt the HUMAN race, as much as it hurts me personally and all the million of jews that where murdered in WWII.

It is such a relief to turn from the ugly, false, ad hominem abuse of uncredentialled pro-Zionists towards outstanding anti-racist Jewish writers to the humane wisdom of outstanding humanitarian Jewish scholars opposed to racist Zionist (RZ) crimes.

Thus, for a further example, Professor Richard Falk is an outstanding, humane Jewish American scholar: emeritus professor in international law at Princeton University, writer, the author or co-author of 20 books ) speaker, activist on world affairs, and an appointee to 2 UN positions on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In 2008 this eminent Jewish international law scholar was arrested, imprisoned and deported by Apartheid Israel when he attempted to fulfil his role as UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Professor Richard Falk is a co-author of "The Plight of the Palestinians".

Professor Falk: "There is little doubt that the Nazi Holocaust was as close to unconditional evil as has been revealed throughout the entire bloody history of the human species. Its massiveness, unconcealed genocidal intent, and reliance on the mentality and instruments of modernity give its enactment in the death camps of Europe a special status in our moral imagination … Against this background, it is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as ‘holocaust’ … Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not. The recent developments in Gaza are especially disturbing because they express so vividly a deliberate intention on the part of Israel and its allies to subject an entire human community to life-endangering conditions of utmost cruelty … But Gaza is morally far worse[ than Darfur], although mass death has not yet resulted. It is far worse because the international community is watching the ugly spectacle unfold while some of its most influential members actively encourage and assist Israel in its approach to Gaza. Not only the United States, but also the European Union, are complicit, as are such neighbors as Egypt and Jordan … Israel is currently stiffening the boycott on economic relations that has brought the people of Gaza to the brink of collective starvation. This set of policies, carried on for more than four decades, has imposed a sub-human existence on a people that have been repeatedly and systematically made the target of a variety of severe forms of collective punishment. "

Richard Falk is an ill-informed “expert” whose only area of expertise is in distorting the truth, promoting anti-Semitism, even the Palestinian Authority asked Richard Falk to quit as he is a “partisan of Hamas” the symbol of liberalism, freedom of speech, human rights and humanity.
UN Watch Intervention
Interactive Dialogue with Richard falk

Mr. Falk, in sections 5 and 7 of your report, you endorse those who, “wage a legitimacy war” against Israel. Similarly, on September 19th you wrote that the Goldstone Report was a key weapon in “what I have called the Legitimacy War.”
Then it is true, is it not, that what you advocate is not opposition to this or that Israeli practice, but rather a war of legitimacy against a UN member state? Could you tell us, sir, how you justify this under the United Nations Charter?
In this regard, on May 3rd Judge Goldstone spoke about his report to an assembly of South African Jews, declaring: “I am not aware that [it] has or is being used to delegitimize Israel.” Indeed he pledged he would object to any such use.
Sir, given that this is precisely how you are using his report, could you tell us whether Judge Goldstone has conveyed any objection, and if so, when?
In paragraph 12, you portray Hamas as a peaceful organization, referring to its, quote, “overtures.” Your support for Hamas has been so strong that, according to a March 9 report by Palestinian news agency Ma’an-citing you as the source-the Palestinian Authority asked you to quit. Not for technical reasons, as the PA representative said in this debate, but because they accuse you of being no less than “a partisan of Hamas.”
Since this council is about protecting human rights, why does your report mention nowhere that Hamas is a fundamentalist group that systematically discriminates against women, crushes religious minorities, executes political opponents, and persecutes gays? Why no mention of the Hamas Charter, which explicitly calls for the murder of Jews? Why do you disregard these gross violations of human rights?
Your report makes a dismissive reference to terrorism. Given your attitude toward Hamas; given that you published a 2008 article-signed in your UN capacity-alleging complicity of the U.S. government in the 9/11 terrorist attacks; and given that you played a key role in publishing David Ray Griffin’s book “The New Pearl Harbour” — the leading conspiracy tract arguing that 9/11 was an inside job — are you concerned about how your actions impact on the credibility of the UN in combating terrorism and protecting human rights?

Your List getting shorter …………..

Readers of this thread - more horrible, false, pro-Zionist defamation of outstanding, anti-racist, humanitarian Jewish scholars, in the latest instance defamation of Professor Richard Falk.

Wikipedia tells us that Richard Anderson Falk (born 1930) is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, writer (the author or co-author of 20 books), speaker, activist on world affairs, and an appointee to two United Nations positions on the Palestinian territories.

Anti-Jewish anti-Semitism involves the false defamation or physical abuse of Jews.

False, defamatory anti-Jewish anti-Semitism is particularly revolting when it it is applied to outstanding humanitarian Jewish scholars outstanding humanitarian Jewish scholars such as Professor Richard Falk.

Decent people are obliged to defend outstanding humanitarian Jewish scholars such as Professor Richard Falk from false, abusive defamation.

Gideon Polya - you write "Decent people are obliged to defend outstanding humanitarian Jewish scholars such as Professor Richard Falk from false, abusive defamation."

Please explain the readers and the editors of this blog your arguments.
You are a reporter on this site and for the last 10 comments, all you do is just spread around cut and paste useless words, that has NO arguments or evidence what so ever.

What kind of a reporter are you and what kind of editors are in this blog that do not get or do not want to accept that you are not a reporter, you are just a "cut and paste" robot.

My comment are taken from an Article published in "UN Watch" website UN Watch is a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations.

http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1285603&ct=8445639&notoc=1

Richard Falk is an ill-informed “expert” whose only area of expertise is in distorting the truth, promoting anti-Semitism, even the Palestinian Authority asked Richard Falk to quit as he is a “partisan of Hamas” the symbol of liberalism, freedom of speech, human rights and humanity.
UN Watch Intervention
Interactive Dialogue with Richard falk

Mr. Falk, in sections 5 and 7 of your report, you endorse those who, “wage a legitimacy war” against Israel. Similarly, on September 19th you wrote that the Goldstone Report was a key weapon in “what I have called the Legitimacy War.”
Then it is true, is it not, that what you advocate is not opposition to this or that Israeli practice, but rather a war of legitimacy against a UN member state? Could you tell us, sir, how you justify this under the United Nations Charter?
In this regard, on May 3rd Judge Goldstone spoke about his report to an assembly of South African Jews, declaring: “I am not aware that [it] has or is being used to delegitimize Israel.” Indeed he pledged he would object to any such use.
Sir, given that this is precisely how you are using his report, could you tell us whether Judge Goldstone has conveyed any objection, and if so, when?
In paragraph 12, you portray Hamas as a peaceful organization, referring to its, quote, “overtures.” Your support for Hamas has been so strong that, according to a March 9 report by Palestinian news agency Ma’an-citing you as the source-the Palestinian Authority asked you to quit. Not for technical reasons, as the PA representative said in this debate, but because they accuse you of being no less than “a partisan of Hamas.”
Since this council is about protecting human rights, why does your report mention nowhere that Hamas is a fundamentalist group that systematically discriminates against women, crushes religious minorities, executes political opponents, and persecutes gays? Why no mention of the Hamas Charter, which explicitly calls for the murder of Jews? Why do you disregard these gross violations of human rights?
Your report makes a dismissive reference to terrorism. Given your attitude toward Hamas; given that you published a 2008 article-signed in your UN capacity-alleging complicity of the U.S. government in the 9/11 terrorist attacks; and given that you played a key role in publishing David Ray Griffin’s book “The New Pearl Harbour” — the leading conspiracy tract arguing that 9/11 was an inside job — are you concerned about how your actions impact on the credibility of the UN in combating terrorism and protecting human rights?

I guess the next example will be ISRAEL SHAMIR.

Gideon, It would appear that your review stung and the obedient servants of the Zionist Queen have swarmed to the rescue.

Bill

What a review are you talking about and what stung...., looks like "cut and paste" empty spew with NO evidence or argument, works on your low level intellect, the more you comment, the more you show how patethic you are and in this direction, Gideon Polya is doing a great job.