Israeli Govt: They Hate Us For Our Freedom
New 'Public Diplomacy' Website Rejects Basis for Palestinian Statehood
This week Israel’s government officially launched a new “Public Diplomacy” English language website, with the site urging Israelis planning to travel abroad to “be ambassadors for Israel” and which includes a number of talking points that Israelis are supposed to parrot.
As the site is an official Israeli government website, the statements could be seen as official Israeli policy, but the statements seem to fly in the face of much of the rhetoric coming out of the peace process with the Palestinian authority.
In particular the site seeks to emphasize debunking the “myth” of Palestine, declaring that there “has never been such a concept as Palestine” and that there is no basis for a Palestinian state, an odd declaration at a time when the Israeli government is negotiating the creation of that state.
Beyond that the site also insists that “Muslim terror” has nothing to do with the Palestinians, and declares instead that “Western values (freedom of religion, freedom of speech, a free press, a free market, free education, democracy, etc.) are a moral threat to the existence of dictatorial Muslim regimes.”
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JDonald
September 14th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
There must be a place in Israel for George Bush. He also thought that the radical Muslims were out to harm the USA because the hated our freedom. Give me a break. When both countries get back within their borders and stop killing innocent persons in other countries, the world might some day repect their motives. Until that time, Israel and the USA are the plagues of this world.
EmeraldDruid
September 14th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
I've encountered this many times online in communications with foaming at the mouth zionist jews. They have brainwashed themselves in to believing that there never was such a thing as Palestine. I simply point out that the term Palestine is mentioned in the bible. When they deny that I tell them to go and take a look at Joel 3:1-4 . Then I also mention that the term Palestine is mentioned prominently in the Ottoman land records. Many times they have a difficult time after being confronted with the facts and usually resort to creative lying as a resort.
abdulghafaar
September 14th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Yes, freedom is a threat: all the freedoms of religion, freedoms of speech, democracy- all of these are direct an existential threats to Israel. Israel could have been a true beacon to the world of civil and religious tolerance, and could have shown the way to peace for the world, but instead has chosen to cloak itself in self-serving statements of martyrdom and has used this self-proclaimed permanent victim status to justify anything and everything the state does. Shame on them for dishonoring the memories of their ancestors, and shame on us for letting them get away with it for so long.
Neil
September 14th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
People in the world hate israel and its governments because they are the same as the Nazis in WWII.
It is VERY UNFORTUNATE that people allways make equasion between these criminals and the decent and honest Jewish people.
It is to the Jewish people to stand to the fanatics and the criminals and bring themselves back to the place they belong and deserve, but have lost due to the constant greed for more and more land…
Druthers
September 15th, 2010 at 12:05 am
More and more everything that comes out of Israel has the smell of a soured soup.
boutet
September 15th, 2010 at 4:18 am
In 1992 I visited Cairo, Luxor, and Jerusalem. I was treated exceedingly well in Egypt by everyone. A son of two Holocaust survivors I went to Israel with great expectations. Except for Yad Vashem where they couldn't have been more welcoming, I met with considerable rudeness, even hostility from everyone from cabdrivers to the personnel at the King David Hotel. No one hates another man because they are free. Envy perhaps but hatred no. This is the stupid line uttered by Bush about the Saudi criminals who attacked in September 2001. Then he feted Prince Bandar al Saud at his home.
xavier
September 15th, 2010 at 8:06 am
Israel elected Netanyahu…that alone says it all.
David4400
September 15th, 2010 at 9:45 am
"In particular the site seeks to emphasize debunking the “myth” of Palestine, declaring that there “has never been such a concept as Palestine” and that there is no basis for a Palestinian state, an odd declaration at a time when the Israeli government is negotiating the creation of that state."
Except that the Palestine that was, wasn’t a foreign interventionist creation and dependent; what may or may not be getting “negotiated”, is.
Wildey
September 15th, 2010 at 9:47 am
Theodor Herzl's Zionist movement stared this whole mess and the followers have been at war since 1948 with the Palestinian inhabitants of what is now called Israel. There's no "freedom" when your at war. Read Hareetz .com anytime. Are the Palestinian refuges from the Zionist invasion "free" to go home or is freedom interpreted the Zionist are free to drive out the Palestinians?
In the bible there are two verses. "Judas went and hanged himself" and "go ye and do likewise". Herzl's twisted interpretation of the bible or Torah has people getting killed, maimed, tortured and displaced. This is a people doling out "freedom"?
xavier
September 15th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Israel is negotiating an official Concentration Camp for the Palestinians. They will STILL have the blockade and frequent flyovers to bomb. Genocide will continue as always.
Anti war
September 15th, 2010 at 11:43 am
"WE THE PEOPLE" in the USA have gone to sleep,and allowed ourselves to be brain washed about the historical facts pertaining to Palestine. We have bought the Israeli history revisionism without the proper analyses of their claims. Simply put, how is it that , according t U N estimates inside and outside Palestine/Israel, there are over seven million palestinians yet we accept the propaganda that neither the country nor the people ever existed! Are we dumb,intellectually lazy, or have sold our freedom to think clearly,fairly before we reach a conclusion? Will some one here in the USA ,please explain it to me?
andy
September 15th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
America should never have got mixed up in this whole mess.
Valerianus
September 15th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
The Zionist pressure groups in the US, most prominently FLAME, take out full-page advertisements in major newspapers to hawk their lies. They also lie about the start of the event that brought about the subjugation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip by the Israelis, the Six Day War, which even the rabid Zionist Moshe Dyan admitted was launched by Israel without any justification whatsoever for self-defense against a purportedly imminent Arab "onslaught." The lie of the "hordes" of Egyptians and Syrians massing on the Zionist borders was a huge group invention by Zionists all over the world – a marvelous example of the "Big Lie" in action. These lying campaigns all go hand in hand with the other lies about the "founding" of Israel.
xavier
September 15th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Freedom is another word for nothing else to lose.
—Janice Joplin