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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00 AM

What "Waltz With Bashir" can teach us about Gaza

The stunning new Israeli film reveals painful parallels between one of Israel's darkest moments and the current conflict.

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  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 01:14 PM

    It is a wonderful wonderful world the neocons created for the democratic Jewish state of Israel.

    The world according to Zionists:

    - West Bank colonies are to be expanded constantly. Palestinian land and water resources can be stolen and given to people coming from anywhere else as long as they are Jewish.

    - Palestinians have to keep passive about it. Otherwise they are terrorists (even if all they do is throw a stone at the colonists stealing their land or protest peacefully like at Bil'in).

    - Palestinians are to be confined in fenced-in areas that keep on shrinking.

    - The Israeli army and armed settlers have the right to go into Palestinian areas and kill at will using lethal force that typically exceed whatever provocation the Palestinians may have committed by many orders of magnitude. If innocents are killed it must be the fault of the terrorists (either that or there are no innocents because all Palestinians are terrorists). This is called self defense.

    - Naturally the rest of the world has to continue to support Israel (or a least keep silent). Otherwise, they are anti-semites.

    - Anyone who doesn't agree is a terrorist sympathizer or worst!

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