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The image of Israel in the USA public as a benign democracy, surrounded by blood thirsty wild Arabs is probably the greatest hoax ever, brilliantly perpetuated by the relentless Israeli propaganda machine, aided by the laughably shallow and gullible US corporate owned media. A vhronicle of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, from the massacres and ethnic cleansing of the 1948 war of independence and through the 41 years of occupation will easily reveal that Israel's conduct is much closer to the Waffen-SS and the notorious apartheid state security police, than to anything remotely acceptable in the West. The profound anti-Arab racism in Israel is also an unmentionable in the US. Of course, if the US public realized the depth of the Israeli racism, the explanation for the total disregard for the Gazan civilians in the current operation would become obvious. Just a small example:IDF soldiers manning the infamous West Bank check-points refer among themselves to the Arabs they process as "djukim", a Hebrew vernacular that means cockroaches.
