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Israeli Refusenik Confirms Israel is Apartheid

by Israel is Apartheid State
Very seldom, if ever, will the average American read about Israel's racist, anti-democratic apartheid regime in the mainstream media. One must dig for the truth.
As Israel rolls out an aggressive campaign to hammer Americans over the head with claims that Israel is a democracy just like America is, and wants peace and justice, and blah, blah, blah, most Americans already know enough about Israel's oppression and persecution of the Palestinian people to doubt the Israeli propaganda.

Many Americans may not have all the facts, but they have seen enough to know that only one side is being told, and that there are so many contradictions in the news, that Americans can pretty much on their own figure out something is very wrong about Israel.

Even if Americans have never seen the word "apartheid" associated with Israel, if someone such as myself states that it is so, they say, "I believe it".

The pictures of bypass roads in Israel for Jews-only, that go to Jews-only settlements rarely get into mainstream America, but they exist, in abundance.

Americans rarely get a chance to speak with an Israeli Refusenik soldier, but they may see a clip of one who clearly states that Israel has "a racist, anti-democratic, apartheid regime", and who explains how Israel is indeed fighting an unjust war which aims to oppress the Palestinian people, and to take more of the Palestinians' lands.

Doubting Thomases can see for themselves at http://www.divest-from-israel-campaign.org.
by Knowledge is POWER
http://www.cactus48.com and http://www.normanfinkelstein.com
by No Islam
Welcome to the hellish world of Islam, the filthy faith - legalized rape, murder and torture. Leftists admire Islam because they wish that they too can kill their enemies and critics.

Gunmen kill writer: A strict Islamic code applies in the author's province

Paul Anderson
BBC correspondent in Islamabad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2685151.stm

Police in northern Pakistan say unidentified attackers have shot dead a writer whose work was viewed as critical of fundamentalist Islam. The 40-year-old writer, Fazal Wahab, was shot at a local shop.

Fatwas, or religious edicts, declaring his work un-Islamic had been issued by senior clerical figures after the publication of two books challenging the role of mullahs. Police say three or four gunmen burst into the shop in the town of Mingora, in North-West Frontier Province, where Mr Wahab was sitting.

The gunmen opened fire indiscriminately, killing Mr Wahab and the shop owner on the spot. The attack will be a test of the mullahs' power. A teenage shop assistant died on his way to hospital. Two of Mr Wahab's books were critical of the Taleban, the role of the mullahs and Osama bin Laden.

Mr Wahab, who was married with five children, called a press conference last month to say he was receiving death threats. He was not well-known nationally, but locally was engaged in a hostile debate with Islamic leaders through his writings.

After provincial and national elections last year, North-West Frontier Province came under the control of an alliance of religious parties. The provincial government has begun imposing strict interpretations of the Islamic code - much as the Taleban did in Afghanistan - on dress, women's freedom of movement and public entertainment.
by Radio Islam
Nessie, you pick this info up on your Holocaust denial sites? Racist pig.
by TA
Since 9/11 we've heard how peaceful a religion it is, yet there's no evidence of that (funny how we can't seem to explain why none of the verified 9/11 phone calls identified the hijackers as Arabs, and how there are no Arab names on the passenger lists of the 9/11 planes, and how half the ones on the FBI list showed up alive elsewhere), especially after all those Israelis who were found infiltrating the US government (i.e., the art students, the white van . . . something like 200 total) were deported!
by Ban Zionist propaganda!
Editors: Please ban all Zionazi propaganda from Indymedia--- we're already inundated with it enough in the mainstream media, and in the BART stations, etc. We're sick of it and all their lies and racism!!!!!!!!
by hahahahaha
"Show The World" - do you think the world cares about what you think, racist scumbag. Go back to your hatesites.
by Zero Toerance For Zionists
Zero tolerance for Zionists! No more Zionist lies! No more Zionism in American politics! GO AWAAY!!!!!!
by No Censorshit
You can't avoid Zionism, Wendy - its everywhere you look.
by Truth Teller
'Palestine' for Dummies

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | I keep a special notebook handy whenever I watch a "Palestinian" spokesperson or leader or advocate speaking or interviewed on C-Span, the evening news or in newsprint. It helps me keep track of many of their inanities, but the one that is most amusing is the recurring line (which must be featured in their spin tutorials) that "we are the only occupied people in the world."

The great poobah Arafat himself has stated this claim in almost every recent interview--including chats with reporters who should know better like Bob Simon and Dan Rather. Alas, in each case, the script is the same. A Palestinian foghorn drops the line, and I lean forward hoping for an honest, studied-up member of our free press to ask: "But what about the Tibetans or the Kurds or the…"

I'm still waiting. As far I can tell no journalist has ever informed the Palestinians (or the Americans) that the former are but only one folk in a long and mottled line of national, ethnic, regional, religious and political groups who, if they got their wishes and fulfilled their dreams, would be sitting members of the United Nations.

Which leads to a follow-up question, also never asked by the hard-hitting foreign correspondents and news anchors: why exactly do the Palestinians deserve a state ahead of all those others? After all, American and Russian presidents, leaders of Europe, everyone spends late nights worrying about how to give the Palestinians what they want. Who does that for the separatist Christian Blacks of Sudan--against whom oil money has financed a Muslim-executed genocide of several million in the last few decades?

We might ask more pointedly why should the Palestinians, who have no separate religion, culture, history, national identity, ethnicity, or language from other Arabs be given a homeland ahead of say, the Kurds (an independent ethnic nation for thousands of years…or for that matter many American aboriginal peoples. Likewise, David Yeagley, a professor who teaches at the University of Oklahoma and is a descendent of the Commanche war-chief Bad Eagle, commented to me, "My people existed as a separate nation before the Ottomans invaded Europe...Why aren't we getting airplay for a homeland while some thug in Jenin is a media-darling?"

The answer is a brutal one: money talks and as Allan Dershowitz points out in his new book "terrorism works." The Palestinians are unique among the world's nation wannabes in several ways. First, they have the backing of most of the world's oil wealth and thus the industrial nations that kowtow in lust of it. The Gulf Caliphs caught on long ago that in order to preserve their own corrupt, profligate, illegal regimes they needed some perennial distraction for their ignorant masses--why not the Jews?

Nobody has ever been so calculatingly cruel before, mind you. My grandfather, for example, a Greek Christian, fought in a war with Turkey in the early Twenties. The Greeks lost the war and Turkey expelled 3,000,000 ethnic Greeks (whose ancestors had lived there since the Bronze Age). Greece, an impoverished country, did not torture their compatriots by keeping them in refugee camps: they absorbed them, the only humanitarian option possible for a humane people.

Likewise, ethnic Germans illegally expelled from Poland and the eastern territories at the end of World War II were taken in by West Germany as brothers and citizens. The iron curtain was not lined with fetid camps.

Both sets of refugees weren't happy about their fate, but when was the last time you heard about a former Ost-German hijacking a Russian plane or a displaced Ionian Greek blowing up an Ankara pizza shop?

No, the Palestinians were the best investment ever made by the Oil Sheiks and it has paid off spectacularly. (But not for the Arab people, of course. A recent report by the U.N. found that the total GDP [including oil] of the Arab world does not exceed that of Spain).

Another reason the Palestinians are on the front-burner is violence. I recall during the Gulf war a Kurdish spokesperson was asked why the world didn't concern itself with the national hopes of his people. His answer was brutally cynical and absolutely correct: "We don't commit terrorism against Europeans." The Palestinians have ignited outrage after outrage, and each time the response of the jelly-kneed world politicians is to pay more attention to them and work harder to help them with cash and diplomatic initiatives. The bloodthirsty wheel gets the grease.

Thus, terrorism pays off and is richly rewarded: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in contrast, will die in exile because his philosophy does not allow him to consider exponential violence.

Finally, the Palestinians are an accessible cause celebre of the Left. No big deal to have your crumpets with your artsy pals in a London teahouse in the morning and then fly down for the afternoon to "express solidarity" with Arafat's brownshirts. Dynamite-throwing Palestinians are chic; Tibetan orphans are not. When was the last time you saw any "human rights" activists rush to the southern Sudan to be human shields between black Christian babies and a Muslim Sudanese army aerial bombardment?

So this journalism professor and historian sits and waits for a brave journalist to ask an obvious, fact-driven question. And I fantasize that perhaps some foolhardy but honest --apparently none exist -- U.N. administrator will announce that "Frankly, there are hundreds of peoples more deserving of a homeland and we should be helping them and ignoring the Palestinians…"
by Editor is a Zionist Infiltrator!
One of the editors is a ADL mole at Indymedia! A closet Zionist!
by Wendy McCarthy
We'll hunt cha down ya zionist varmint.
by Zero Tolerance for Zionism
Zero tolerance for Zionism in the USA!
by knee slapper
We all know how Americans have a deep historic hatred for people who settle on land that belonged to someone else.
by It was wrong then
and it is now. So don't try to get Americans to pay for the Zionists' ethnic cleansing campaign in Israel.
by BTB
Are these Israeli "Refuseniks" (apologies to the real Refuseniks like Natan Sharansky) like their US counterparts who claim that we live under a Nazi regime?

All arrows point to yes.

But hey, at least they live in a democratic country where they can hold any wack idea they wish, just like the USA, and state it in public, just the USA. Spend some time in the Arab world, and see what kind of response that speech gets.
by Sue

They are locked up for following their Concious...
Just look into the case of Refusnic Jonatha ben Artzi... It Just aint fun being an Israeli with some Moral fiber...
by ..............
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by Don't compare Israel to USA
Please DON'T insult the USA by comparing it to racist, anti-democratic, apartheid USA! That annoys me no end! First of all, Israel does NOT have a Constitution or Bill of Rights, WE DO! Secondly, we don't have forced segregation and apartheid like Israel does! We came a long way here in the US on Civil Rights and we don't need Zionists and Israelis to try to pretend that Isarel is "just like" the US! That's BULLSHIT! WHAT AN INSULT!
Also, Israel, the "democracy" for JEWS ONLY banned the movie "Jenin, Jenin" but don't despair! You can buy it at http://www.arabfilm.com. Don't forget either that 92% of the land in Israel is and always has been officially for use by JEWS ONLY! Some democracy! HA HA HA Yeah right!
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