M I D - E A S T R E
A L I T I E S - QUOTE of the WEEK
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News, Information, & Analysis that
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"RUBBING PALESTINIANS' NOSES IN
THEIR IMPOTENCE"
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"T H E N E I G H B O R H O O D
B U L L Y"
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"ARAB CONCERNS ABOUT DIGNITY, HONOR,
AND
FACE- SAVING DON'T COUNT FOR MUCH IN
NETANYAHU'S WORLD. FROM PRACTICALLY
THE
MOMENT HE TOOK OFFICE LAST YEAR, HE
HAS
BEEN RUBBING PALESTINIANS' NOSES IN
THEIR IMPOTENCE".
- NEWSWEEK, last week
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[MER - Even when the American media speaks up abit about
the realities of Israel, it pulls its punches. Last week's Newsweek article
about "The Neighborhood Bully" hardly tells the whole story.
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First of all Israel is far more than "bully". Working in
tandem with its American ally and benefactor -- and all but controlling
U.S. Mid-East policies through the ubiquitous Israeli/Jewish lobby back
in Washington -- what we have is more a modern-day Roman Empire with the
Americans and Israelis determined to control all aspects of life throughout
the Middle East, from politics to culture to military affairs. Those who
play ball are rewarded, armed, and protected. Those who do not are starved,
boycotted, and attacked.
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Additionally, this is hardly something new to Netanyahu.
How convenient for the Americans, and the oftentimes Zionist- dominated
media, to pretend that one group of Israelis are the good guys, another
the bully guys. How convenient to forget that before they found a quivering
Arafat to resurrect and co-opt Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres were prominent
members of the Yitzhak Shamir "unity" government.
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In addition, how convenient for the Americans to forget to
always mention that without the money and arms continually provided by
the U.S. in ever-increasing amounts for over 30 years Israel could not
practice this "politics of humiliation" and the Palestinians would not
be dispossessed and impotent. And how convenient for the Americans to minimize,
and oftentimes not mention at all, the joint U.S.-Israeli role in propping
up and keeping in place despicable Arab "client- regimes" who oppress their
peoples with ever new means of repression, suppression and recycled American
money.]
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[Correction - Yitzhak Mordechai is now Israeli Defense
Minister,
not Israeli Army Chief of Staff as mentioned in a previous
MER]
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