Is Israel going fascist?-3/3

Israeli Professor Neve Gordon and Palestinian Lawmaker Mustafa Barghouti on the Israeli Elections

With 99 percent of the votes counted Wednesday morning in the Israeli election, Tzipi Livnis centrist Kadima Party was in first place with twenty-eight seats, while Benjamin Netanyahus right-wing Likud Party was a close second with twenty-seven seats. They are both claiming victory but would need coalition partners to gather the sixty-one seats needed to form a government in the 120-seat Knesset. For analysis of the election results, we are joined by two guests. Dr. Mustafa Barghouti is an independent Palestinian lawmaker and democracy activist. He joins us from Washington, D.C. And on the line from Beersheba, Israel is Neve Gordon, a professor of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University and the author of Israels Occupation. [includes rush transcript]

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[sugarpuddin88]

Just look at what happened to the USS Liberty

Israel is a terrorist state

If you can't see that, then you live in a world shaded by denial

Here on YouTube are countless videos showing in color the crimes against humanity, genocide, and evils which brought convictions in Nuremberg after WW2

[cheddyrod]

Exactly! We covered up Israels bombing of the USS Liberty. Israel knew it was a US ship,. Why did they attack it? Why did we cover up for Israel? Is it the tail wagging the dog?

[TheCCCKKK]

No matter what you say about what the Nazis did to the Jews during WWII will ever justify Israel's actions today. Israel is a corrupt government ruled by people who aren't truly Jewish. A real religious country would NEVER act the way Israel does today. I think it is sad that Jewish people allow their government to rule their country this way.

[shayshalom]

arab propoganda in its worse means = the people who support arab terrorism r crazy like hell

[Dragonzrkool88]

Israel is a sick and evil nation, and America allows them to commit any evil! America turns a blind eye to all Israels evils and aids it to commit its many crimes around the world!

[SpeckerWrecker91]

The Jews, living outside of Israel, are very much unlike the other two categories. They are not rooted, very often they are members of professional-levels in society and are also very inadequate at manual feats.

On top of this, they do not view their stereotypic (though almost entirely factual) roles in society as being unproductive as the former two do; they believe they can be the leaders of humanity. They are the largest backers of Communism and International Socialism. We must deport them.

[SpeckerWrecker91]

It is the same kind of stupidity, you're correct; what you aren't correct about is who "has been bad".

Israel acts the same way any logical nation would in that situation; they are acting more and more like a people rooted in soil.

The goal of Zionism was/is to aid in the "rooting" process; they want to move the Jewish People to Israel where they can become productive members of society and not useless members of the merchant-class, incapable of manual action.

[Dramapix]

No, 128 people died, mainly members of the Government of Palestine (mostly Arabs and Brits).

Get your facts right first.

[funkyalexjones]

damn, some of the comments around here are a bit harsh IMO, some people don't seem able to seperate Jews, The Israeli State, and Zionism. It's unfair to just say it's the Jews fault, blanketing them, as not all of them support the bad actions of the leaders.

It's the same kind of stupidity as saying all Americans are bad because some of their leaders in past decades have been bad.

[Avrilmarian]

I do agree that politics are ugly. Your life seems very miserable if everything in your world is so ugly. Don't be so blind and deaf and follow the sheep's backside. Life your head and see that everyone needs to live in peace You are crude and your life must be pretty ugly too. I use the word "sad" again - boohoo for you. Don't bother to reply, you will be deleted without being read. Peace to you, poor, sad little person.

[shockolanu]

Wow! You must have put together a rocket scientists team to realize that the state of Israel lost it's collar bone a long time ago?