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Buy viagra c.o.d., In a recent post, the increasingly influential Philip Weiss tells of a Gaza psychiatrist who pleads with his visitors to "reach out and heal" Israelis because they are "gripped by fear." Weiss accepts the challenge. After saying Israelis have a “psychosis” because of their fears, he asserts:

I use the word psychosis because Israeli society is conditioned by the Holocaust and the 6 million and the belief that Jews can trust no one else. As Norman Mailer said, Texas TX Tex. , Hitler's bitterest achievement was reducing Jews to the concern, Is it good for the Jews. Wyoming WY Wyo. , But not Mailer. And this is the sad truth about Zionism: it distilled distrust. Its nationalistic appeal sorted out Jews who were fearful about antisemitism from those who were not, buy viagra c.o.d.. It sorted out those who believe that Jews must look out for Jews from those who favor integration in western societies. It sorted out the ethnocentric, cheap viagra online, Is-it-good-for-the-Jews types, from Jews who think it's OK to marry non-Jews. Viagra, And in that division, the fearful took power. They moved to Israel or manned the barricades of the Israel lobby, and the integrators married non-Jews or wrote books about jazz and checked out, comprare viagra. The fearful were granted power by the rest of the community.

Buy viagra c.o.d., I searched that post and the rest of MondoWeiss in vain for an acknowledgment that the fears of Israeli and American Jews are based on anything other than the Holocaust and an innate suspicion of the outside world. The Holocaust has certainly helped to “condition” Israeli consciousness. But Israelis and their supporters here (including realistic doves like me) have also been conditioned by a more recent phenomenon which is apparently of little consequence to Weiss and his allies: suicide bombings and rocket attacks on civilians. Order viagra no rx, The second intifada began 10 and 1/2 years ago, and the litany of incessant terrorist attacks against innocent civilians is still fresh in people’s minds. The idea that these attacks –and the rockets from Gaza that bombarded southern Israel-- frightened and angered Israelis and made them believe there was no Palestinian partner seems so obvious that there should be no need to repeat it. Apparently there is, buy viagra c.o.d..

Study a list of those attacks and focus on 2001-2003, New Hampshire NH N.H. , and it is easy to understand why the intifada demolished much of the Israeli peace camp. It was not just the major, Where to buy cheap viagra, storied bombings like those directed at a banquet hall in Netanya, buses and cafes in Jerusalem, the Hebrew University cafeteria, malls and a disco in Tel Aviv, Køb discount viagra. There was also a host of attacks, a constant barrage of them, West Virginia WV W.Va. , that barely made the news here: in one 5-month period in 2002, there were bombings of a bus in Hadera, a bus at the Meron Junction, a bus in French Hill in Jerusalem, viagra generic, the central bus station in Tel Aviv, a bus near Afula. Massachusetts MA Mass. , There are many reasons for the perpetuation of the occupation, some of them inexcuseable, such as the persistent grip of Jewish settlers on Israel's political system. Buy viagra c.o.d., But one of them is the legitimate Israeli worry that no one will exert control over extremist groups that see nothing wrong with blowing up Israeli women and children. To Weiss and the rest of the unremittingly anti-Israel left, Acheter en ligne viagra, when Palestinian terrorism is mentioned at all, it is explained away as understandable resistance to the occupation. Cheap viagra, In one blog post, Weiss mocks “the centrality of the Palestinian suicide bomber in Western demonology.” Mostly, he and his fans ignore what happened to Israelis in the second intifada or the rockets hitting Sderot. I don't meant to imply that they are always wrong when they deplore Israel for over-reacting to Palestinian provocations, cheap viagra online. But they are wrong to discount the reasons for the reaction.

There is no doubt that Palestinians have suffered more than Israelis because of this conflict, buy viagra c.o.d.. There is an asymmetry of grief as well as an asymmetry of power. The occupation is immoral as well as illegal. Many more Palestinians than Israelis were killed during the intifada. But the fact remains that about 1,000 Israelis died and many more were seriously injured. Buy viagra c.o.d., That didn’t happen very long ago. Remembering those Israeli deaths and injuries, and being worried about more deaths and injuries, is not a symptom of psychosis. It is a rational response.

I believe Philip Weiss is making a good faith effort to understand Israelis and their followers in the U.S. He is correct in saying that the "fearful" have too much power, at least in the American Jewish community. But he should understand that there are widows, widowers, orphans, maimed victims and justifiable fears on both sides of the conflict.

Topics: Palestinians, Israel, Israeli occupation, Philip Weiss | 89 Comments »

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(6) The blockade has helped wipe out moderate opposition to Hamas within Gaza, Køb billige viagra. Buy viagra online cheap, As a result of the blockade, Gaza's moderate middle class - the people who in the past traded with Israel and had regular relations with Israelis - has been wiped out politically and economically. While one rationale for the blockade was that it would cause the people to rise up against Hamas and in favor of the kind of more moderate leadership that exists in the West Bank, instead today the only real opposition to Hamas comes from foreign-inspired and foreign-funded Islamists who oppose Hamas for being too moderate.

(7) The blockade undermines the domestic legitimacy of Palestinian President Abbas and Prime Minister Fayyad.

Some argue that lifting the blockade would deal a blow to the Fatah-run PA and its leaders, President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. This argument is facile.

Abbas and Fayyad continue to call for an end to the blockade. For the sake of their own credibility as well as for their claim to lead all the Palestinian people (not just the West Bank) Abbas and Fayyad cannot sit by quietly and acquiesce to a situation in which more than a million Palestinians suffer. Similarly, they know that the Gaza blockade is actually strengthening Hamas' hold on Gaza, while diminishing the influence of those Gazans who would traditionally have represented their own power base.

Topics: Palestinians, Israel, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority, Gaza flotilla, Gaza blockade | 26 Comments »

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“…Tossing Palestinians out of their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, in East Jerusalem, so that settlers can move in…And not letting in Noam Chomsky…And your foreign minister, Purchase viagra, your boss, pushing for Israeli Arabs to take loyalty oaths…”

“Those are all isolated examples. What does any of that have to do with the Gaza flotilla?”

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“Has he been to Israel. Does he understand how complex the situation is?”

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“Look, if you’re concerned about him, why not tell him he doesn’t need to leave the fold. There are liberal Zionists against the occupation. He can still find a home in the pro-Israel community."

“You mean an official of the Israeli government is recommending that someone join J Street, or Americans for Peace Now, or Ameinu. Does the Foreign Ministry know about this?”

(Long pause. Sigh) ”I didn’t even want this posting. I wanted them to send me to Costa Rica.”

Topics: Palestinians, Israel, American Jews, Gaza Strip, Americans for Peace Now, Ameinu, J Street, Gaza flotilla | 60 Comments »

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For those of you in the U.S., you're missing out on the experience of a nation brainwashing itself, order viagra without prescription. Arizona AZ Ariz. , The TV and radio reporters, commentators and interviewees are repeating the official line word for word - that Israel was acting in self-defense, cheap viagra tablets, Ordering viagra pills, that the guilty ones were the terrorists on the ship. No one questions whether we have the right to blockade Gaza, billige viagra Apotheke, Delaware DE Del. , no one stops to take in the lopsided death and injury toll - no, once again, North Dakota ND , Washington WA Wash. , we're the persecuted, they're the persecutors, North Carolina NC N.C. . Cheap viagra online cheap, After interviewing one of the handful of Israeli leftists who demonstrated at Ashdod port, a radio reporter, Colorado CO Colo. , Viagra for sale, to put things in context, said, goedkope viagra apotheek, Pharmacie viagra bon marché, "He failed to mention that he wouldn't be able to say such things in an Arab country." I was watching the TV news in a hospital waiting room in Ashkelon, and it was like sitting with the home team fans at a game. "Some humanitarian act, some peace activists," said one guy, buy viagra. The announcer says Jordan has condemned Israel, and somebody says, "Jordan. They kill Palestinians by the dozens." Everybody's on board, excuse the pun.

The only criticism leveled by the media is on the strictly military aspect of the raid. Otherwise, they're exploring how Israel should spin this. All the talking heads and all the men and women in the street are propagandists today - exactly like they were during the war in Gaza and the 2006 war in Lebanon. It's so deflating to remember that in the 80s and 90s, this place really did feel like a "vibrant democracy," not the zombie-land it's become.

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But for all of its many good points, acheter viagra discount, Kjøpe viagra, his essay betrays a surprising ignorance of American Jewish organizational life. Like me, buy viagra without prescription, Billige viagra apotek, he wants more American Jews who identify with Israel to publicly distance themselves from the occupation and Israeli policies they find abhorrent. But he apparently believes that traditional American Jews groups and their leaders have the capacity to completely change their stripes and do what he recommends, köpa rabatterade viagra. According to Beinart:

The heads of AIPAC and the Presidents’ Conference should ask themselves what Israel’s leaders would have to do or say to make them scream “no.” After all, Lieberman is foreign minister; Effi Eitam [a Netanyahu appointee who has openly recommended ethnic cleansing] is touring American universities; settlements are growing at triple the rate of the Israeli population; half of Israeli Jewish high school students want Arabs barred from the Knesset, order viagra online cheap. Viagra without prescription, If the line has not yet been crossed, where is the line, Oklahoma OK Okla. . Iowa IA ,

There is no line and there never will be. Asking AIPAC and the most powerful players in the Presidents' Conference to publicly criticize Israeli policy is like asking a dog to play poker, ordering viagra no rx. Arkansas AR Ark. , Beinart is urging a violation of the laws of nature, of organizational DNA, Ohio OH . Order viagra online cheap, AIPAC and the leaders of the Presidents Conference are--and probably always will be--guided by the credo that differences with Israel can be voiced behind closed doors but never in the open air. παραγγείλετε online viagra, Beinart concludes his essay by urging "American Jewish organizations" to bring to Hillel some of the young Israelis who are regularly protesting the expropriation of Arab housing in Sheikh Jarrah, in East Jerusalem, Køb billige viagra. Order viagra, "What if this was the face of Zionism shown to America's young?" That is a lovely idea but it is mystifying that he somehow expects the hidebound Jewish establishment to make it real.

He ignores the recent growth of a ready-made alternative that already exists, a decidedly pro-Israel movement that is willing to be critical of Israeli policies that perpetuate the occupation. I am referring to J Street, Americans for Peace Now, Ameinu and other groups that are apparently not on Beinart's radar screen.

In Israel, he notes, 'humane, universalistic Zionism does not wield power, order viagra online cheap. To the contrary, it is gasping for air." But he hasn't noticed that it is very much alive in the American Jewish community, and there are organizations doing a good job of spreading the credo of this blog, i.e., progressive and pro-Israel need not be an oxymoron. To be sure, the organizations in this camp are still smaller than the groups in the Israel-right-or-wrong crowd. But the organized dovish camp is growing, and it is growing louder. Beinart's smart essay correctly diagnoses the disease but desparately reaches for a cure among groups like the Presidents Conference and AIPAC, instead of identifying the real sources of hope and health in the American Jewish community.

Topics: Israel, American Jews, AIPAC, Americans for Peace Now, Ameinu, J Street, Peter Beinart | 7 Comments »

By Dan Fleshler | May 19, 2010

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Among the valuable tidbits are some responses to common arguments in defense of Israeli behavior in Jerusalem. These are the truths Eli Wiesel either doesn't know or wilfully ignores:

• "Jews may build in East Jerusalem just as Arabs may build in West Jerusalem."

The truth is it is practically impossible for Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem to buy or build houses in West Jerusalem, viagra pedido en línea. Buy cheap viagra online, Most of the lands in Israel are "state lands" and, according to the Israel Land Administration (ILA), purchase viagra online, Comprar en línea viagra, anyone who is not an Israeli citizen (or entitled to immigrate to Israel according to the Law of Return) must obtain a special ILA permit before they can buy or own state lands or apartments built on them (and such permits are issued only in most irregular cases).

• "We plan for Arabs too, not only for settlers."

One of the first issues that Barkat addressed was the promotion of "The King's Garden" plan for the construction of a Biblical park in the Bustan Neighborhood in Silwan, buy viagra cod. It was to be built on the ruins of dozens of Palestinian houses that were to be demolished because they were built without permits, Nevada NV Nev. . Kentucky KY Ky. , The plan attracted great international criticism. Attempting to justify the vast demolitions, comprar viagra de descuento, Buy viagra online legally, Barkat promised he would promote a grand construction plan for Palestinians near the Bustan park. At the same time, αγοράσετε viagra, Farmacia viagra baratos, Barkat is trying to prevent the execution of an evacuation order issued against Jewish settlers who reside on Jonathan House in Silwan, while vowing again to promote a plan for the legalization of illegal Palestinian houses, North Dakota ND , including Jonathan House. Buy viagra cod, The truth is that even if these plans survive the long and expensive planning process and become valid, there is very little chance for the Palestinians to actually realize them due to difficulties associated with land ownership and many other economic and planning problems. Past experience shows that when the city attempts to build a settlement (in Ras al-Amud and earlier in Bet Orot in As-Sawane), it presents them as running parallel with plans for Arabs. Eventually, in the said case, the Jewish plan was realized, but the Palestinian plan was not.

• "House demolitions in East Jerusalem are about law-enforcement and are part of our struggle against illegal construction."

The truth is that houses are built illegally in East Jerusalem as a direct result of the ongoing lack of plans for Palestinians and negligence of some one-third of the Jerusalem residents, whon one cannot describe them all as "construction criminals". Since 1967, the government initiated the planning and construction of some 50,000 apartments for Jews in East Jerusalem, while less than 700 such units were initiated for the Palestinians (and only in the 1970's).

You can find more myths and facts in an April 27th piece by APN's Lara Friedman.

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Dan #2: I want to believe the tent is big enough. Purchase viagra, I bet many people who participate in J Street’s political actions support this resolution, too. We can agree to disagree and still work together to support evenhanded American policy, order viagra no prescription.

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Dan #1: But this resolution places all blame for the conflict on Israel, order viagra no prescription. Its rhetoric could have demonstrated an understanding of the complexity of the situation, the fact that two sides have contributed mightily to this mess, but it did not do so, buy viagra delivery. Israel is the only party that’s held accountable.

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Dan #2 (pause for a deep deep breath): I am not sure if technically they were war crimes, viagra discount. But Israel put itself in a situation where a great many civilian casualties were inevitable. It didn’t have to make that choice. The whole enterprise was meant to send the message: “Ba’al ha bayit hishtageyah (the master of the house has gone crazy).” Children were killed as a result, order viagra no prescription. Alaska AK , They didn’t have to die.

Dan #1: It’s easy for you to say that from the comfort of your American armchair. In the real world, something had to be done to stop Hamas, Indiana IN Ind. . C’mon. Order viagra no prescription, Be honest with yourself. You’re just trying to win friends on the left. Kjøpe billig viagra, You want them to think you’re “progressive.”

Dan #2: Maybe. But they won’t like you, and you’re also Dan Fleshler.

Dan #1: So you’re not really taking a stand, Illinois IL Ill. . You’re just posting both points of view. Isn’t that the coward’s way out.

Dan #2: I don’t see anyone else posting both points of view. Ambivalent people deserve a voice, too.

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If health care reform is implemented without too many setbacks, Rabatt kaufen viagra, the economy doesn't do a nosedive and the lunatic fringe keeps vying for control of the Republican party, it seems likely that Obama will retain his popularity with Jewish voters if he stands firm on Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and elsewhere. More than 70% of American Jews say the U.S, köpa viagra. should play an active role in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict even if it means pressuring or publicly disagreeing with both sides, according to the J Street poll, buy viagra without prescription. And 55% agree the "U.S. Viagra delivery, did the right thing by strongly criticizing the Israeli announcement of new housing in East Jerusalem during the Vice President's visit."

Of course, the right-wing Jewish minority is making noise, and noise matters to presidents as well as members of Congress, cheap viagra online without prescription. Right now, Jotta viagra verkossa, MJ Rosenberg complains, AIPAC is pushing two Congressional letters urging that there be "no space" between American and Israeli policy. Obama should shrug off those letters and keep his eyes on the prize. Most American Jews will back him.

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Fortunately, Palestinian security forces helped to keep a damper on violent protests in the territories during the Day of Rage called by Hamas yesterday. Idaho ID , According to Ali Waked:

The alert declared Tuesday among Palestinian security forces, especially among the police forces deployed throughout Palestinian Authority cities, sends a clear message. The PA is not interested as of now in a conflict of any sort with Israel – not a "rock intifada," not "popular resistance," and certainly not armed conflict.

But every provocative action in Jerusalem strikes at the heart of the quiet, determined, and resolutely peaceful Palestinian state-building that Abbas and Fayyad are championing. If they lose the already limited, skeptical backing they have in the territories, then Israel will have Hamas and Islamic Jihad (and al Queda) to deal with. That is the biggest danger looming from Netanyahu's inability or unwillingness to impose discipline on the right wingers in his government.

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By Dan Fleshler | March 17, 2010

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When contending with BDS, Order viagra no rx, Israel’s adherents usually tick off dry, abstract political arguments to show why Israel is not comparable to South Africa under apartheid. But these arguments don't matter to people toying with the BDS movement, because most of them are motivated by a sincere, urgent desire to end Palestinian suffering, South Carolina SC S.C. . They see that the experience of Palestinians under occupation is as bad as the experience of South African blacks. They also know that the Palestinian citizens of Israel are treated as –and feel like they are-- second-class citizens, buy viagra no prescription. No long list of the rights enjoyed by Israeli Arabs can make a dent in that perception. Nor do they care if BDS is a veiled effort to "delegitimize" Israel. αγοράσετε viagra έκπτωση, What matters to them is changing the Palestinians' plight as quickly as possible.

There are arguments, however, that take potential BDS sympathizers on their own terms:

1) It will take much too long for the world to get behind an effective boycott of Israel. Buy viagra no prescription, So even if BDS were the right thing to do (and I don't think it is), it is thoroughly impractical.

There is a human rights emergency in the occupied territories and Palestinians need relief now, För viagra online. To be sure, diplomacy might not create a two-state solution or any other arrangement that might work, but at least it has a very slim chance to succeed in the next few years. Ordering viagra from canada, There is no feasible way to garner enough support for BDS in the near future to have a tangible impact on Israel.

2) Boycotts almost never work. One could engage in a spirited, complicated debate about whether the South Africa boycott had a major impact on the Afrikaner establishment (some say it did, some say it didn't), but even if it did, that would be the exception that would prove the rule, buy viagra no prescription. Boycotts didn't change any policies in Cuba, Iraq or, for that matter, buy viagra online, the Gaza Strip.

3) If you decide to back BDS, you will be taking sides in a bitter internal struggle within the Palestinian community. California CA Calif. , Are you really so certain of the merits of this cause that you are willing to insert yourself into this argument .

On one side are those led by the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas and Salem Fayyad, who are trying to build the institutions of a state in preparation for an end to the occupation. Buy viagra no prescription, This has involved hundreds of community development projects, the first steps towards creating a central bank and the work of internal Palestinian security services. Much of this progress requires working cooperatively with the Israelis. The Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Organization have not called for a boycott of Israel, Wyoming WY Wyo. , although the PA actively supports a boycott of products made in Israeli settlements.

On the other side are those who think that cooperation is collaboration, that the Palestinian Authority is selling its people down the river by settling for small bandages on the wounds of occupation. Viagra cod, Much of the BDS movement is made up of this faction.

While the African National Congress clearly spoke in the name of the majority of black South Africans when it called for a boycott, the BDS movement does not have the same authority to speak for Palestinians, buy viagra no prescription. Even Hamas has not called for a boycott.

Referring to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), one of the most important BDS groups, David Hirsh of ENGAGE UK notes:

“PACBI was formed in order to manufacture a `call from the oppressed’ along the model of the ANC’s call, viagra pharmacy. Far from wanting to boycott Israel, the PLO has, since the 1980s, Order viagra online, wanted to normalize relations with Israel, and has encouraged links between Palestinians and Israelis, within civil society, academia, in trade and on a governmental level…, Washington WA Wash. .

… Pacbi pretends that `the oppressed' call for BDS with one voice. Buy viagra no prescription, This is not true. In Palestine, as anywhere else, Buy viagra cod, there are different opinions and different arguments – there is politics, there is disagreement and there are different ideas about the way forward.

4) The BDS movement has no use for promising, stirring joint cultural and economic projects in which ordinary Arabs and Jews are trying to figure out how to live together. For example, there is the cooperative work being done by people in the West Bank Palestinian town of Jenin and the Israeli region of Gilboa, Virginia VA Va. , which includes an industrial zone that will produce olive oil and other agricultural goods. The BDSers, presumably, Buy viagra no prescription, would boycott those products.

PACBI hasn't just called for a boycott of Israeli academics and cultural figures. As noted in a previous post, it also wants to quash efforts of Israeli Jews and Arabs to sit down, talk and find ways to bridge --or work together in spite of-- the yawning gaps in their narratives, buy viagra no prescription.

So the BDS movement puts those Palestinians who want to cooperate with Israelis in a bad spot. That, in turn, takes away an important tool to persuade the Israeli electorate that its neighbors want peace, according to Ken Bob, president of Ameinu. He told me “You know how small Israel is. All of a sudden, people in your neighborhood know a kid who is part of the joint call center company in Jerusalem-Ramallah. People in the Gilboa Region tell their relatives about their joint project with Jenin…If there is a more successful BDS movement, Palestinians will perhaps feel like `OK, that tactic might work,’ let's abandon the joint projects.’ I don't think that will help the progress towards peace.”

Some diehard BDS supporters are quite willing to play favorites in this internal Palestinian debate. I suspect that many checking out this movement don’t even realize that they are being asked to take sides. That realization should give them pause.

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By Dan Fleshler | March 9, 2010

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