There aren’t words to describe how disgusting and unjustifiable this is. Israel is moving toward banning Israeli-Arab political parties from participating in the forthcoming elections. (Via Yglesias.) The only reason this is being done is because the Arab parties are against the Gaza war. Under a proposal that passed a Knesset committee, Arabs can vote, just only for political parties that are controlled by Jews; and can run for office in those same parties. So it’s the Mideast’s Only Democracy, with 20 percent of the population disenfranchised based on race?
For the love of God, Israeli parliamentarians: turn back. There is no upside to what you are doing. Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi says he’ll appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court, which has to rescue Israel from the brink.



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Wow lets talk about the ME “only democracy”. Give me a break.
This is a dangerous step. Haven’t they done this before, though?
Isn’t it time to assume that a grand conspiracy is in fact being carried out as we speak, with the complicity (via Blackmail) of the US Government? How many more shocking revelations must we attribute to coincidence before Conspiracy becomes a First Consideration?
1,890 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Spencer Ackerman and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
Anyone out there who doesn’t believe that God didn’t create Israel as a lesson in cosmic irony needs to look up the Nuremberg Laws…Israel is now led by nihilist barbarians unleashed by the corporate rulers of the United States.
There is no redemption for the United States or any of us citizens if we don’t swiftly and forcefully join the rest of the civilized world in condemning Israel and this horrible genocidal war on the Paslestinians.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, ALL THESE WARS MUST END NOW!!!
Ah Democracy. As long as everyone votes for the approved parties. So Communistic doncha think?
I don’t think they even have a Constitution…do they? If not, then how does their Supreme Court make decisions…some democracy. They need to cool their over-reactive jets.
Comparisons to Apartheid have been made for the past 40 years. I have always bristled at this comparison, but at a certain point it can’t be denied.
http://www.takeoverworld.info/conquest.html
“Peace is ABNORMAL. … Peace increases our peril by making discipline less urgent, encouraging some of our worst instincts, in depriving us of some of our best leaders.’ Peace . . . is a dream . . . and would undermine the power of the state.” – Michael Ledeen
“Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader—a dictator—willing to use those dreaded ‘extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.’ – Michael Ledeen
“All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
— David Rockefeller, speaking at the United Nations
“It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.”
President George Bush addressing the General Assembly of the U.N. February 1, 1992
Ledeen is one of the Masters of the Israeli Genocide and creation of Eretz Israel, along with Myrav & David Wurmser. Blame them for all you see unfolding before you. They are dual-citizen traitors.
http://209.85.165.104/search?q…..#038;gl=us
Here’s the cast of traitorous villains:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler……_Next.html
Israel, with U.S. help and encouragement, is headed down the path toward destruction.
It’s just a matter of time and demographics.
Everyone’s all afraid of Iran have “the bomb”…I’m more worried about Israel (who already has tons of them) being a nation that uses them at some point….their aggression is out of control.
God DAMN it (pun intended)! Are they trying to get themselves wiped off the map? That’s the only reason I can think of for angering a fifth of a population all ready beset by racial tensions and discrimination. Take away people’s voices, and they’ll speak through their guns.
I pray the Supreme Court stops this insanity.
Spencer – would you like to comment on the other story today?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20…..e_newsmlmm
Olmert called Bush out of a meeting to make him tell Condi she couldn’t vote on her OWN UN RESOLUTION for a ceasefire? (Is it the ‘Royal We’?)
“In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote in favour,” Olmert said.
“I said ‘get me President Bush on the phone’. They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn’t care. ‘I need to talk to him now’. He got off the podium and spoke to me.
“I told him the United States could not vote in favour. It cannot vote in favour of such a resolution. He immediately called the secretary of state and told her not to vote in favour.”
This is the kook faction hell bent on the creation of Eretz Israel, from the Nile to the Euphrates:
http://utenti.lycos.it/Delenda…..10904.html
They don’t want anything remotely resembling peace. They want all Arab Territory, and they want all Arabs dead. Any discussion of “borders” is a joke to these people.
http://www.geocities.com/alaba…..round.html
If this doesn’t prove that the US Government
is controlled by Israel, nothing will.
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan, December 22, 2003.
Q Is the President in favor of international inspection of Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which is pretty well known?
MR. McCLELLAN: I don’t know that I agree with that, the premise of your question. But the United States has a longstanding position of universal adherence to the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. That has been our longstanding position –
Q They never signed it.
MR. McCLELLAN: — and that is universal adherence. Well, we have urged all states that have not yet adhered to the treaty to do so, and to accept the IAEA safeguards on nuclear activities that would come with it.
Q Are we trying to persuade Israel to sign it, and to be open to inspection?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think that, one, in terms of specifics about the Israeli government, you need to refer those questions to the Israeli government.
Q No, no, I’m asking our position.
MR. McCLELLAN: And I’ve told you that the long held position of the United States is the universal adherence to the nonproliferation treaty.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/briefing.html
It is my understanding from the link that this has already happened. Neocons love to point to Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East. What a joke.
Just remember.
Don’t expect Obama to do anything unless you (we) press him.
Any failure on Obama’s part is ours.
He’s inside the system.
We’re outside. We must push for change.
That’s what so many say.
Why would they stop at the Euphrates? The rotting carcass of Persia could be in their beaks as well, don’t you think?
My emphasis.
Methinks the anonymous State Dept official hasn’t been around DeeCee very long. Israel has been making US policy for decades.
Yes..
As a popular party with Israel’s large Arab minority, the Balad Party has been seen as a prime mover behind the nation’s domestic antiwar movement. Though officials have repeatedly warned them that “there is a limit to democracy” in Israel, this opposition party never seems to have fully learned its lesson.
“The goals of Hamas and Balad are the same: to destroy Israel,” insists the always bellicose Yisrael Beitenu chairman Avigdor Lieberman, who favors a ban on the party. The Balad Party’s stated goal is to “transform the state of Israel into a democracy for all its citizens, irrespective of national or ethnic identity,” a goal which makes it dangerously radical in a state which views its non-Jewish citizens as second-class in the best of times and traitors during most wars.
Balad was barred from the 2003 elections amid claims that it was secretly involved in terrorism, though this ban was later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court citing insufficient evidence. Lieberman hopes to see the ban renewed in time for next month’s elections, and in a war-time Israel where censorship is rampant and antiwar protesters are traitors to the state, he may just get his wish.
http://atheonews.blogspot.com/…..party.html
Ding. Thus pleaded PEBO: “Make me do it.”
There truly is a limit to Democracy in Israel…
Jimmy was right, it’s Apartheid!
Jimmy was almost always right.
The word you’re looking for is “apartheid.”
More info on Israel’s government here.
It’s been an interesting discussion on Israel controlling the US government on this thread. I will continue reading about this on Stormfront.
/s
KenoshaKid = Mossad
We prefer the term “Hasbara” (wink)
“Israel First” sums it up.
We’re Americans here, so we have a problem with that.
plunger,
stop using your head that way
By all means, pull it out.
Oh! The wit displayed!
Thank him that God created the Nazis, so that millions of brainless idiots could have a default comparison to reach for and inject into any discussion on any topic at any time. So much pointless thinking avoided. And with such benefit to everyone else involved.
Why, if God hadn’t created the Nazis, that whole “You’re just like Satan” line of persuasive, reasoned discussion might be getting old at this point. Kudos.