http://www.planetd.org/2006/06/12/beach-martys-beach-massacre/ Critiquing the Politics, Policy & Practice of Development Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:08:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.planetd.org/2006/06/12/beach-martys-beach-massacre/comment-page-1/#comment-41198 Dweep’s Weblog » Blog Archive » The Israel Lobby in the US Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:14:43 +0000 http://www.planetd.org/blog/?p=135#comment-41198 [...] This blog post is a good example of the arguments used to defend and further Israeli interests. It sidesteps the core issue - is US policy furthering US interests - while repeating ad-nauseum Israel’s ‘democracy’ (which treats Arabs as 2nd class citizens), threats to its existence (which ignore that it is Palestinian existence that is actually under threat as I pointed out before), and as a last resort says Israel is threatened by genocide (nothing of Israel’s own record). [...] [...] This blog post is a good example of the arguments used to defend and further Israeli interests. It sidesteps the core issue – is US policy furthering US interests – while repeating ad-nauseum Israel’s ‘democracy’ (which treats Arabs as 2nd class citizens), threats to its existence (which ignore that it is Palestinian existence that is actually under threat as I pointed out before), and as a last resort says Israel is threatened by genocide (nothing of Israel’s own record). [...]

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