I'd love to discuss all this with you, but you'd just accuse me of anti-Semitism. Ho hum.

R.Howe pulls the common tactic of screaming out, "All criticism of Israel is deemed anti-Semitic!" I feel so bad for you...

Whenever there is a just criticism of Israel, the label of 'anti-Israel' or 'anti-Semitism' is foolishly brandished. To whoever sees Israel as an eden of human rights and justice, I'd say please, you can try to promote this innocent image in a world of idiots, but the world today is increasingly aware of the Myths Israel and Zionists, including US NeoCons, have been trying to inculcate in the world's poplation's minds.

Israel is a colony on Palestinian lands, however the notion may seem 'gross' to Zionists and supporters of Israel. We cannot change history and say, as Zion's elders said to legitimize the creation of Israel, that the land was an empty land, "a land without a people for a people without a land". To me, that's utter and sheer ignorance. Palestinians, Christians and Muslims, are more Semitic than Israel's Rosenbergs and blond Eastern European Jews. Please revise neutral history!

I have been to the Jewish-Canadian website and couldn't help laughing at Israel's despondancy. Israel realizes now that the world (too late maybe!) has recently started to see it as it has always been: a symbol of colonization, barbarity and racism. Who has been violating human rights constantly? Who has been massacring civilians and children and sending showers of bombs on Palestinians' houses? It's not Iran, Saudia or Afghanistan. It's the unlawful State of Israel, a state that's encroaching on a daily basis on Palestinians' crops and lands! Excuse me Israel worshipers, but I have to say what I think! This ad is stupid, and so is the Israeli aforementioned website, for it tries to polish up Israel's image by creating 'facts' that do not exist at all: even non-White Jews are mis-treated inside Israel, and the misery doubles for poor Palestinians who hold an Israeli citizenship, let alone Palestinians outside the never-satisfactory (for Israel) borders.

Yes, and the Palestinians never killed a single innocent person. They never blew up buses filled with school children. They never hijacked planes (pre Al-Qaida). They never launched mortars and rockets against civilians. They are innocent angels, and the Israeli Jews are infidels and devils who all true believers must kill for wanting a tiny strip of land the size of New Jersey in the midst of a sea of Muslims...

The problem with israel and jews is the fact that if you ask a jew whether or not there loyalties lie with there (birth country) or with israel they will choose israel , but they allways play the antisemite card. I remember having a argument with an american born jew about why he was going to israel to join the IDA instead of the u.s armed forces when we went to iraq, after all , there were alot of American citizens of German heritage that answered Hitlers call and moved to the fatherland and joined the german army.
How do you feel about that israel defender? Also , Did you ever wonder or stop to ask yourselves why everyone hates you? Maybe because you don't care about anyone else besides other jews ( regardless of where they were born). How much aid has Israel sent to Haiti? or Chili? How much money do you suck from the American taxpayer so you can torment the palestineans that you have walled up in a modern day Warsaw ghetto? If being an anti semite means not liking someone who is a greedy narcisist who doesn;t have any compassion for someone who is not a jew then sign me up , call me an anti semite. I'll wear that badge with honor. Remember , Hitler wouldn't have had a leg to stand on ,and wouldn't have been able to recruit too many followers if after ww1 the jews(the only ones with any money) would have helped get germany and there starving millions back on there feet instead of scoffing at them . If you get thrown out of one bar then maybe you can blame the bouncer, but if you get thrown out of every bar since the dawn of time then maybe the problem lies with you. You even have a holiday celebrating God coming down and killing everyone but yourselves, it's called passover (how arrogant can you get.

"The problem with israel and jews is the fact that if you ask a jew whether or not there loyalties lie with there (birth country) or with israel they will choose israel ,"

Really? That is what every single Jew will do? Interesting, considering that of these "super-loyal" Jews living in America, 50 percent of them are currently marrying non-Jews, and 80 percent of them have never never visited Israel a single time. Your massive stereotyping of what "all Jews" do and your gross generalizations regarding everyone hating Jews for all time are perfect examples of the "quality" of the arguments of anti-Semites and Israel haters. Thank you very much for that illustration into an inferior mind. I'm sure Reider enjoyed your comment, though. It very much fits into FP, a periodical that constantly scrutinizes Jews and Israel in a negative fashion.

i being a hindu from india and completely neutral on this agenda think one thing ...... what israel is doing is the right thing, in india we have the same problems of ISLAMIC fundamentalism and over controlling of the system by them, but unluckily our politicians are not as strong as Israel's to take action. for eg,
1. jihad wasnt banned by the major muslim groups till november 08 blasts happened
2. saudi arabia has been indirectly funding the radical muslim groups in india and pakistan for decades now to wage a war against the so called infidel HINDUS
3. kashmir which has been historically been an INDIAN state where the government of india holds regular elections has been called a disputed territory by pakistan along with the sympathies of OIC (organisation of islamic countries)
4. islam world over shows their image as a minority religion, creating a false state of belief among others that they have always been the victims and that JEWS AND HINDUS are always out there to get them , but they forget they have killed more hindus during the moghul rule than anyone ....and nowadays wow to kill JEWS for no reason.

for all this and a million more reasons , I STAND BY ISRAEL FOR WHATEVER ACTIONS THEY MAY TAKE , because it is after all ISRAEL is the only land in this world that JEWS can call their own and these rocket throwing maniacs want to take it over when they are just immigrants supported by arab crooks. they have the entire arab world to go to then why bother about a land the size of new jersey. IF MUSLIMS REALLY WANT TO SHOW THAT THEY ARE A PEACE LOVING RELIGION THEN THEY SHOULD STOP BELIEVING THAT ALL NON BELIEVERS SHOULD BE KILLED AND LET THE OTHERS FOLLOW WHAT THEY WANT !!

First of all how did the state of Israel become a state. And who is helping the state of Israel be a supper power in the middle east?. I say stop supporting Israel and lets see how they stand on their own.
I believe in peace not war and human rights for all is important to me.
The Palestinian people have been displaced and now they are losing the rest of their country.
This is not right and I dont think the USA should support the take over mentality.
We need to cut the apron strings and let the chips fall where they may!!
We are hated in the middle east and I do believe this started in 1946.

I am your neighbor on your Eastern border. Your comments about Kashmir are incorrect. Kashmir's fate is to be determined between India and Pakistan according to UN resolutions which have asked for a plebiscite. Nowhere does it say that holding internal, Indian elections, is the solution. It is India which is not ready to offer the people of Kashmir their right of self-determination as envisaged by the UN as she very well knows the result is not going to be in her favor.
If people of Kashmir were so satisfied with the Indian govt. then how come there have been a constant upheaval in Kashmir since so many years. Ask any Kashmiri on the street and he or she will clearly be against being part of India.
As far as your saying that Muslims believe that all non-believers should be killed that is absolutely absurd thinking on your part. Islam has clearly told that killing of human beings is forbidden and the punishment is to burn in hell. Now it is true that some crazy guys out there are doing things in the name of this religion but then rest assured that they are killing more Muslims than non-Muslims because by now the world is also aware of this fact as there are suicide bombings happening in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan on regular basis.
All religions have fringe groups which distort that religion's teaching to assimilate it with their myopic world view and Islam is no exception. Also remember Gandhi was also killed by a Hindu fundamentalist.
I am an optimist and I see a future where both India and Pakistan can live peacefully. I hope the same for Israel and Palestine. After all England and France had been at war with each other for about 100 years but look at them now. It is the peace which has paid them rich dividends.

The Hindu supporter of Israel (from India) is only speaking for the right-wing Hindutva fundamentalists who are not only against the Muslim, Christian, 'low-caste' minorities but also have over the last one century sought to define themselves as belonging to the Aryan race. Their main "thinkers" have praised Hitler in their speeches and writings, their salute is still the Nazi "hail" and their main symbol is 'Swastika.' I wonder if this is the kind of support Jewish people need.

These hindu right-wingers have massacred thousands of muslims and attacked christians as well. Since their appeal only is limited to the upper caste Hindus they are are raising the bogey of Islamic terrorism to consolidate their hold over power by scapegoating muslims, who constitute 15 percent of the Indian population. In fact India has the second largest muslim population in the world (160 Million, larger than the entire Arab world). But Hindutva ideologues are trying to present India as a Hindu country, which reasonably speaking they can't have even after another 200 million were separated into Pakistan and Bangladesh. In India the historically oppressed "lower caste" and "untouchables" are waging a war against their upper caste Hindu oppressors. Very soon, these subalterns along with minorities (who are actually majorities) and tribal people (who have started a revolt in the forests against caste Hindus) will overwhelm the Indian state and effectively take it over. In Kashmir, the dynamics of national liberation struggle have changed. Kashmiris are no longer dependent on armed struggle. It has matured into a non-violent movement, and has in the last three rattled the Indian control. Iindia's 1 million strong army based in Kashmir is unable to change or stop the Kashmiri movement for independence. The anti-Muslim polemic by some caste Hindu Indians is just an expression of frustration at their losing control over power in India. So Israelis should know that these caste Hindus are insincere when they talk about support to Israel. Seriously they are going down. (But I know, to Israel it doesn't matter much, as long as retiring Israeli soldiers can go to hill stations in India and smoke pot!)

Indian government knows all this. They might give lip service to Israel, but they are actually seeking membership in Organization of Islamic Countries. Isn't this what Indian PM said in Saudi Arabia recently. At the same time, India's concern is not the same as Israel's. India cannot afford to ignore relationship with the Muslim countries, for Israel's sake. That is impossible, and it may temporarily not support Iran's nuclear ambitions, but in long term India needs Iran so badly for its oil, gas and strategic depth.

In the long run, Israel needs to stop its roguish behaviour toward Palestinians etc, and learn to live in peace with its neighbors. Otherwise Israelis will always live from their suitcases.

@SALAM

You do realize that Israel did not start the wars in 48, 56 or 67 don’t you?

Before Israel existed there never were Palestinians. This is a name that was invented to describe the Arabs who lived in the area taken by the Israelis after they were attacked by the Arab nations in numerous wars. The Israelis won the wars and thus the land.

Do you know that the land that is now called the West Bank was part of Jordan prior to 67? That Israel took this land after defeating a combined Arab force that outnumbered the Jews 10 to 1. Israel never started any of these wars they just won them.

The people that you defend; the Palestinians, were complicit in trying to destroy Israel many times. The Jews must defend themselves.

In the first war in 48 the Arabs in the area of Israel were told by the Arab powers (Syria, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq) to leave those areas for their own safety. They were told that the Arab armies would push the Jews into the sea and destroy the nascent Jewish state. They were told that when it was over they could have the Jewish lands and possessions. Well they failed to destroy the Israelis and the Jews kept the lands of the Arabs that had left when the war started. They kept them because they survived and won against all odds.

You must quit with this revisionist history that your people keep perpetrating on the world. The Jews were guaranteed a homeland after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in WWI. They were guaranteed the area of their ancient homeland in the Belfour declaration when the Ottoman Empire was split up after its demise in 1918. The Jews didn’t just come and take land from the Arabs. They were guaranteed this land way before the Holocaust took place. It was then the natural progression of things that the British setup the Jewish homeland after the German atrocities. Then the Arabs tried to perpetrate their own atrocities on the Israeli state. The Israelis won’t allow this to happen again. Never again is their belief and I am standing with them.

It is true that the despotic governments of the Arab nations teach hatred of the Jewish state. They do this to deflect criticism from their own horrible human rights records and the way they keep their people poor and illiterate (with the exception of memorizing the Koran). Let them kill the Jews so they don’t rise against their governments. That is the mantra of the Arabs and the Muslims as a whole.

The Israelis fight back against the terrorism of the Palestinians. The terrorism you speak of from the Jewish state is retaliation for the atrocities that have been hurled at them from the Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza.

Your people are great at revising history. The Crusades you point out as barbarous and they were. You never discuss the fact that Islam was spread by the sword and that the Levant and most of the Middle East including Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon was Christian land. Then, the Muslim armies of Muhammad came. They struck down the local religions and forced the people in those areas to become Muslims. These armies invaded North Africa (Christian at the time), Sicily and Spain where they were finally stopped by Charles Martel and Charlemagne’s armies.

You see Islam drew first blood long before the Christian Crusades. Islam invaded the Jewish lands which were part of the Byzantine (Christian) Empire. The Jews have their land back that was stolen from them by the murderous armies of Islam in the 700’s. Ah but only the Crusaders caused the rift between Islam and the West. Look at your true history and you will see a religion spread by violence to the Jews and Christians who inhabited most of the Middle East and what became the Levant.

Know your history before spewing lies, about Israel and West

1. The fact that you mention that upper caste hindus have been denying the rights of lower caste hindus is pure humbuk because they are the ones who have ensured quotas and reservations for the lower castes in the educational system , public companies , as well as parliament.

2. the swastika has been a sign of hindus for thousands of years whereas the hitler deal was just 50 years ago, and also the NAZI sign is not the swastika its the opposite. please ibserve if you havent observed it carefully.

3. YES WE HINDUS DO WANT A HINDU STATE AND THERE IS NOTHING WRONG IN THAT BECAUSE WHEN MUSLIM COUNTRIES LIKE SAUDI HAVE THE RIGHT TO ESTABLISH ONLY MUSLIM ENTITIES THAN A 80% HINDU STATE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT FOR ITS OWN..... even if the muslims contribute 15% of the population they create the most havoc in india , with india born muslim fundamentalists like IM. the muslims in india should self analyse themselves before blaming the hindus or their caste system. the muslims have their own law in india (nowhere in the world there are such provisions for the minority as in india), whereby they can marry upto 4 wives among other totally illogical things. if muslims want to be truly part of india they should follow one law the INDIAN LAW rather than press for things favorable only to them. MUSLIM WOMEN ARE THE WORSTED TREATED out of any religion on the planet , they haev the least rate of women literacy among other religions, they are the most incapable of any family planning ideas because of no say in their households, muslims in india have the lower per capita income than the average for india ....these and many other signs show that muslims have to self correct themselves rather than blame the majority for all their troubles

4. if they say that upper castes hindus kill muslims than they should look at their own history in this region where the mughal rulers cut off the hands of hindu artisans after they built the taj mahal , where the mughal rulers had a rule where all hindus to in order to remain hindus would have to pay taxes or else convert to islam !! ..... muslims have been the most brutal of all religions in the world and they are continuing to do so where all religions have come to accept modernity only islam goes back to its medieval thinking beliefs.

5. COMING TO THE POINT OF THIS TOPIC ..... ISRAEL IS LIKE INDIA EMBEDDED IN THE MIDDLE OF FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAMICS TRYING TO OVERTAKE THEIR COUNTRIES AND SPREAD THEIR IMMORAL AND UNJUST RELIGION ON OTHERS!! ......israel will and alwasy have the indian goverments support because the trend set in israel will have great repercussions in this part of the world and thats why israel has to be strong and lead an example in resistance against these arab maniacs!!

I agree with you, but then the answer comes back to the fact that Israel put itself in those situations in the first place. For those times, you couldn't expect natives to wait by while foreigners are pouring in and claiming what little livable land there is in. Granted, maybe the early founders of Israel didn't intend to make such a statement, but one could see where they're coming from.

For the record, I do disagree with any violence coming from any side. Regardless of the nobility of one's cause, attacking civilians is never right. Period.

The fool who wrote this article has a "Google" list a mile long where he has been obviously searching and finding such articles and posting them on the web for no reason anyone can come up with... But to be a thorn in the side of the Jewish people.

And perhaps to compensate for his lack of size in the area of his deepest insecurity....

I would imagine he himself cannot tell you what force controls him and causes him to devote his career to this void and empty endeavor...
It’s crazy to me, just a Georgia born and raised redneck, that even after we (The US) wiped out the Nazi's... That spirit tends to rest in the hearts of fools like this.... Why?
If I had 5 minutes to have a debate (public or private) with Mr. Dmitry, I would verbally pick apart his case until he either had to start lying to himself or just give up his hopeless cause.... This guy even had the cowardice, spineless nerve to post a story about one of the wealthiest men in Israel who bought a very expensive home in London... He presented it as if it were wrong to purchase a tax shelter real-estate... That’s not the worst... The most gut wrenching and undeniably pathetic thing about that article was how he slipped in there that this man was living there with his wife and 2 small children... Am I the only one who feels like that was just too much information for this fool to post in a public forum? Why was that information necessary to get the point across?? It wasn’t.. He was exposing vulnerability to leverage it as intimidation... Sometimes, I can’t believe these people actually exist... I have always watched movies who show these evil villains but you just think that’s only in Hollywood...

If you dont see this as being slander then you are blinded by stupidity if in your mind it is not some sort of predjudice... But I am sure you and I both know you are not really without a biased opinion... Stop tryting to play this rediculous game of "I am enlightened to the truth and somehow you Jews are missing it"... You people make me sick...

I couldn’t let your comment pass by without fueling my jets for one more healthy dose of reality... I was just about to calm down but the apparent lack of knowledge and history from the majority of these comments leaves me realizing that I am going to start a Nation Wide movement on behalf of Israel... I mean the more hatred you people have the more Americans like myself are going to rise up and make sure our voice rings all the way to Capital Frick'n Hill...
Joan... hun... Did you know that when the US did not really support Israel as much, the small minded Middle Eastern crew who surrounded them had a breathtaking idea... They decided that they might join forces and in bully like fashion they would storm into Israel, on their Holy day no doubt, while they were fasting and attack them. They did this long before any of this Palestinian sniffling started...
What they set out to do was destroy them totally (backed by Russia of course who was a super power as well in that day)... But now that the dust settled and we can all recount history, we see that Russia didnt do so well with their support against Israel, in fact they are no longer with us "God rest their souls". The other fact is that the nations surrounding Israel didnt do so well either... In fact, not only did Israel defeat all of their enemies, they took a little piece of property as a token and something to cause their unfriendly neighbors to remember not to do that again...
So please remember Joan, dont be so foolish to say things like you said because most of us read our history books and we are not "Kool-Aid drinkers" (as in Jim Jones), we actually dont fall to the ridiculous uneducated sheep voices who follow the propaganda of the media which has become an embarrassment in my mind to our nation... Israel will have the United States support forever as long as I have a voice, I will see to it... For every one Southern Redneck like me, there are 1,000 just like us that you dont see or hear....

People who support Apartheid Israel offend me. They offend me because they are traitors to the United States of America. If you want to give Israel Billions in Welfare, be my guest, donate all the money you want to them, but do not be suprised when you get charged with contributing to a terrorist organization, because that is what Israel really is, just one big terrorist organization.

Judiasm is a great religion. Judiasm teaches respect for the Law. Israel is a terrorist sponsering apartheid theocracy engaged in one criminal act after another. Zionism is a racist ideology that ranks the virtue of Jews based upon their ethnic subset origins.

The Old you are an anti semite or you are a self hating jew ploy will not work with me, because I know what Judiasm, real Judiasm is all about. Real Judiasm is Islam. Just like real Christianity is Islam too.

Americans are learning the truth about Israel, and the get out of jail card that NutandYahoo thinks he has, is the same card that will cut Apartheid Israel off forever. Hubiris is what will finally do Apartheid Israel in.

As for traitors like you and your ilk who dare to call yourself Americans while putting the interests of another state ahead of Americas, I forgive you, because that is what a real Jew, Christian and Muslim would do.

Words like "always" and "never" when applied to groups are "always" wrong and "never" right, and can "never" be taken seriously. Claims like yours are disproved with a single example.

I'm a Jew, I don't throw down the anti-Semite card whenever somebody disagrees with me, and I don't unconditionally support Israel, I condemn the Gaza war, and I don't even support the government of Israel as it exists today for a whole bunch of reasons not just having to do with the Palestinian situation.

I also condemn the increasingly encroaching settlements for what they are - land grabbing a la Chinese in Tibet. The Chinese government sponsors Han Chinese to settle in Tibet to overwhelm the population there, to bolster their claim on the land and make it very difficult or impossible for the Tibetan people to ever have their own country, or even have any level of self-governance.

However I don't demonize either side, and I don't think any one of the many sides to this has the moral high ground. Everyone is wrong to some degree, including and especially you.

Because of people like you on both sides, I'm nearly at the point where I don't care any more, but I force myself to care because not caring would mean a worse human rights disaster than there is now. I care for the sake of kids who have no say, for people on both sides who just want to live.

It seems the truth is a hard bill to swallow for you. Good friends should be the ones you want straightening you out when you mess up. Netanyahu isn't too big on that as well. He called Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod self-hating jews because they dared to be critical of Israel.

I say we bomb all the foreign scum and use thier skulls as coffee mugs

Then Judea and Samaria my friend, belongs to the Romans not the jews!
Go get a history lesson!

Wrong again. I can't keep giving you history lessons. The Jews pre-date the ancient Romans in this area, but thank you for playing and we have some lovely parting gifts (not to mention the fact that the ancient Romans have disappeared as a people).

Zionism was originally conceived as a secular, pragmatic movement. Invoking evidence from holy books only feeds the increasingly popular notion that Israel's foundation is driven by religious extremism. Secular history a more universally acceptable job of confirming Israel's history in the region. But history has shown that many different people used to live where others now do. If Native peoples from the Western Hemisphere were to follow that example, or (hypothetically speaking) the Caanites that once lived before the ancient Hebrews, it'd be considered illegitimate.

This attachment everyone has to those holy sites causes a lot of suffering. I don't believe God wants us to fight over a bunch of old dead bricks and burial sites that may not even be the ones we think they are. I think God far prefers that we treat the living with love and compassion over clinging to cold stone and sand because of words in ancient books. These sites aren't just holy to Jews; they are recognized as holy sites by Christians and Muslims, too. People are fighting over them like children fight over toys; when we grow up we realize how stupid it is to fight over an object, and how much more important it is to treasure life, and to love each other.

Both China and Russia *ARE* pariahs, and in both cases uneasy relations with them exist because of their respective military and economic clouts in spite of their dismal human rights records. But we also have Iran, Syria, and Sudan, which have worse associations in the minds of Westerners than Israel.

The "historically Jewish" biblical lands were (according to the Bible) invaded by the Jewish people upon their exodus from Egypt. Previously, they had been populated by local Canaanite tribes, such as the "Philistines" (filistiniyya - Palestinians). I mean, if you want to treat the Bible as a literal historical document, which does not make much sense.

Israel is considered by most countries as a part of the community of liberal democracies. She is a prosperous nation with a strong democratic commitment. Because of this, the putative "international community" is more willing to hold Israel to a higher standard than otherwise. So when she effectively cuts off an entire region - Gaza - from aid assistance in order to punish militants contained therein at the expense of the local population (who may or may not support Hamas), the international community is rightly concerned and angered.

Finally, Jews and Israelis have suffered for thousands of years. My concern, as a Muslim married to a Jew, is that Israelis have been acting toward Palestinians in the same manner that those who persecuted Jews have done. Nazis placed Jews in ghettos and surrounded them by walls. Nazi Germany claimed the need for "liebensraum" in order to annex territories that, while historically German, were under the political control of other nations.

Israel has a right to exist; but so do the Palestinians. And the Palestinians have a right to self-determination, whether it is as Palestine or as legal citizens of Israel (in which case they shall probably take issue with the "Jewish character" of the state). Keeping Palestinians in a limbo where they have access neither to independent sovereignty nor political representation as a part of Israel is the very definition of "apartheid."

When neither party can accept that the other should have equal rights under law, then both should be ashamed.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

There was zero connection between the Philistines and the Palestinians:

http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_name_origin.php

The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most closely related to the Greeks originating from Asia Minor and Greek localities. They did not speak Arabic. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs.

Quoting Golda Meir:

* The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs picked it up as their nation's supposed ancient name, though they couldn't even pronounce it correctly and turned it into Falastin - a fictional entity.

China is a Pariah?

I guess I missed that. I was too busy watching them host the Olympics in 2008...

"Israel has a right to exist; but so do the Palestinians."

That must be why Israel accepted the U.N. partition plan in the late 1940s. The Palestinians rejected it, and Israel was attacked by 5 Arab armies.

That must be why Israel has elected Prime Ministers who run on platforms of peace (Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert), and it must be why Israel made peace with Egypt and Jordan. It must be why Israel signed the Oslo accords.

It must be why Ehud Barak accepted Clinton's peace plan in 2000, while Arafat rejected it and didn't counter-offer. Polls consistently show that the majority of Israelis want peace and a two-state solution.

You probably know none of this, because anyone who did wouldn't make moronic Nazi comparisons (I don't remember Hitler accepting any plan to grant German Jews sovereignty, nor do I remember German Jews teaming with enemies of Germany in an attempt to destroy it, a la Hamas)...

Stop doing the time honored Israeli thing of trying to point fingers at everyone else . We are not on a comment section about china or anyone else but Israel!

Yes, the key to being an Israel hater is to keep the spotlight always on Israel, and to excoriate Israel for things that other countries do with regularity. FP is very good at making this play...

Let's not look at the Palestinians and things they have done to exacerbate this conflict. Nope, blame the Jew among the Nations, Israel.

Who has the power in that area right now. Not the Palestinians.
The lack of human rights is unbelievable. You think a people who have been thru so much would have more compassion for others.
It is all about controlling an area. And Power!!!

... it *IS* racist and anti-Arab bigotry.

First of all, "Arab" and "Muslim" are not synonymous. I'm Muslim, and not an Arab. Second, "Islam" does not endorse child marriage, idiots within Islam do. To do so would be like saying that all Jews deny the Holocaust because that one fringe Jew went to the Holocaust denial conference in Tehran. Third, taking a fact (more African-Americans are in prison than their white counterparts) and then generalizing it (all African-Americans are in prison, have gone to prison, or will go to prison) is the simple way to turn an observable fact into prejudicial (that is, pre-judging) supposition.

Are your comments "racist" and "anti-Arab"? No. But they are offensive to Muslims, who are of all races and are not all Arab (actually, there are more non-Arab Muslims than Arab ones).

Funny. People on this board keep accusing Israel defenders of playing the victim card. Seems that it is actually the defenders of the Palestinians who are doing it...

"Though it is unclear whether the Israeli government funded this ad, overseas advocacy organizations generally take their cues from the homeland."

I started reading FP a month or two ago when a friend forwarded an article. I thought, hey, here's a site that believes in journalistic integrity. Then I read this article barely worthy of a movie review blog that somehow connects Israeli policy to an ad some Canadian put together to counter the boycott Israel week.

This article isn't anti-semitism, it isn't even anti-Israel, it's simply idiotic. It angers me because it tries to connect by some vague parenthetical assertion that any viral video made for Israel is somehow dictated by official Israeli policy.

Netanyahu called some shmuck with a video camera that lives in Toronto and said, "the homeland needs you, here's some gold from my club pocket, make an ad to sink the Muslims on campus!"??? Look closely and you'll see Lieberman's shadowed figure behind the curtain at 1:18!!! Holy crap batman is that Herzl's ghost floating about at 2:13?!?!?!

This article is cheap. It cheapens FP. It's baseless and moronic.

THERE IS AN ARTICLE ON FP THAT CRITICIZES ISRAELI POLICY BECAUSE SOME PRO-ISRAELI STUDENT WANTED TO FIGHT THE "BOYCOTT ISRAEL WEEK" with youtube video!!!!!!! LAME! LAME! LAME! WANT TO CRITICIZE A MOVIE...TRY AVATAR IT SUCKED JUST AS BADLY!

You're taking the Prophet's marriage of Aisha out of context. For one thing, back then child marriage was common among many civilizations. So while it's repulsive by our standards, it was the norm back then.

Secondly, marriage at that time was more contractual than what we understand it to be today. Many wives and daughters were left widowed and orphaned by the endemic conflict of the region, so to take many of them in marriage was more foe taking them under your protection than for sexual purposes. Mohammed scarcely had any sexual relations with most of his wives, and those that are reported are still disputed. Solomon's taking of 700 wives, many believed to be underage, is never scrutinized, so why should Mohammed's?

Regardless, this debate is being taken out of context. Too many people in the pro-Israeli camp seem to justify Israel's actions in the region by invoking it's 'higher' culture and civilization when compared to the Arabs. That is a dangerous practice that dilutes that humanity - and therefore legitimacy - of the other side.

Besides, it ignores the barbarity of some in the Israeli camp as well. Orthodox settlers who train their children with guns to fight Arabs, who have taken many wives themselves, or who even give prostitutes to boys reaching bar mitzvahs. Granted, this doesn't describe all Jews, far from it. But these are among the minority that is pushing for ever more encroachment into Palestinian land.

Centuries of pogroms against Jews were backed by the belief that there were a barbaric people. Similar motivations were behind the mass slaughter and subjugation of indigenous people the world over. Today we learn that these actions were wrong, period. That is regardless of the nature of the victims. For the record, Arab attempts to paint the Jews in an uncivilized light is just as despicable. I hold both sides into account for this.

Except HIJINX, in this case it was Jews from Europe and elsewhere who invaded and drove out Palestinians from their land and are now stealing the last bits left with Palestinians.

Muslims only constitute 3% of the UK's population, a number not expected to get any higher than 5 or 6 percent by 2030. Such fear mongering of a Muslim takeover is unjustified, especially when most of the Muslims in the UK come from former colonies that were subjugated by British imperialism.

Taking in some of the people it once ruled is the least the UK can do.