By Lawrence Davidson - August 30, 2010

It is not the Palestinian national character that has been shaped by anti-semitism. Rather, it is the Israeli national character that has been shaped by a fear and loathing of all Arabs and Palestinians in particular. If you doubt this just go to Israel and keep your ears open. There you will find that too many of its Jewish citizens see Arabs as dirty, promiscuous, untrustworthy, and all the other things that we Americans once ascribed to Irishmen, Italians, Poles, African Americans, and the Jews as well.

By JONATHAN COOK - June 28, 2010

Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister, [has] set out...what he [calls] a “blueprint for a resolution to the conflict” with the Palestinians that demands most of the country’s large Palestinian minority be stripped of citizenship and relocated outside Israel’s future borders...He accused many of Israel’s 1.3 million Palestinian citizens of acting against Israel while their leaders “actively assist those who want to destroy the Jewish state”.

More evidence of a pariah Israeli state.

By Neve Gordon - August 30, 2010

...[P]ersonal attacks are part of a much broader assault on Israeli higher education and its professors. Two recent incidents exemplify the protofascist logic that is being deployed to undermine the pillars of academic freedom in Israel, while also revealing that the assault on Israeli academe is being backed by neoconservative forces in the United States...Numerous forces in Israel are mobilizing in order to press forward an extreme-right political agenda.

29 August 2010 - Al Jazeera

The spiritual leader of Israel’s Shas party denounced upcoming talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and wished for the death of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas...Ovadia Yosef, a former Israeli chief rabbi, called Palestinians "evil, bitter enemies of Israel"..."[PA President Mahmoud Abbas] and all these evil people should perish from this world...God should strike them with a plague, them and these Palestinians."

By James Carroll - August 23, 2010

...Israeli leaders happily collaborate with a reactionary American religious movement which, while having learned to downplay its Jew-denigrating End Time theology, nevertheless aims in its very essence at the elimination of Jewish faith. Israeli leaders, in their dependence on such Christians, exchange short-term benefit for long-term jeopardy. American Christian Zionism is a particularly lethal form of contemporary fundamentalism.

25 August 2010 - The Electronic Intifada

This violence meted out by [Palestinian Authority] forces...comes amidst growing dissent within Palestinian political parties against the leadership of PA President Mahmoud Abbas...His decision to attend US-brokered direct talks with Israel -- despite the continued construction of Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land and the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza, amongst other rights violations -- has been greeted with condemnation.

The Lobby's influence is sinister and harmful to American interests.

Relentlessly, Israel's war on Gaza continues.

By Yossi Sarid - 18.08.10

Zionism has 70 faces, and each of us has the right to chose the face he prefers. If the face of Zionism resembles that of Im Tirtzu and its funders, we should consider a face transplant.

By Neve Gordon - August 25, 2010

As Israeli citizens, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman want us to prove our loyalty to the flag by supporting a policy of oppression and humiliation. We must champion the separation barrier in Bi’lin and in other places throughout the West Bank...We are also expected to bow our heads and remain silent every time government ministers, Knesset members and public officials make racist statements against Arab citizens.

There is no chance for an equitable peace because Israel and Washington won't tolerate it.

By Omar Barghouti - Thursday 12 August 2010

Created and guided by Palestinians, [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] opposes all forms of racism, including anti-semitism, and is anchored in the universal principles of freedom, justice and equal rights that motivated the anti-apartheid and US civil rights struggles.

By GARETH PORTER - August 13-15, 2010

The use of blatantly distorted rhetoric about Iran as a threat to Israel...goes back to the early 1990s, when the Labour Party government...began a campaign to portray Iran's missile and nuclear programmes as an "existential threat" to Israel...An internal Israeli inter-ministerial committee formed in 1994 to make recommendations on dealing with Iran concluded that Israeli rhetoric had been "self-defeating", because it had actually made Iran more afraid of Israel, and more hostile toward it...

By Juan Cole - August 18, 2010

It is not so hard to get up a war. You position the war as inevitable. As Right. As Necessary. You re-imagine the poor weak ramshackle enemy as a science fictional superpower, months away from possession of a Neutron Bomb that could Destroy the Universe. It has to be done. We are in danger.