Reply #13: I love it when articles like this

[Shaktimaan]

seek to present Israel as undemocratic or racist because they inevitably must abandon honesty to make their argument. This author apparently hasn't ever even read Haaretz if he thinks that "its progressive character is generally no where to be seen when Israel initiates a war against one of its neighbors—its opposition to the previous two wars came only after the newspaper provided support to the policies of the government and the military—or abuses against the Palestinian people."

Haaretz isn't progressive when it comes to abuses against the Palestinians?

And his assertion that the progressive camp in Israel "...accepts the assumption that in a Jewish state, full and real citizenship is possible only for a Jew. And not just for any Jew, but a Jew according to the definition of the religious establishment." is just outright bullshit.

But it is this line that highlights either his willingness to completely misrepresent Israeli society or his total and complete lack of understanding regarding the most basic elements of this conflict. "The editors of Haaretz and their friends from the liberal camp, however, are not secular at all. The majority loathe religious people with a racist hatred, but do not raise the idea of separating the state from religion, for religion provides them with justification for the claim to exclusive ownership over the territory, in addition to the definition of citizenship that removes the Palestinian from the whole and leaves them, in best case, in the position of second-class citizens."

Most authors in the anti-zionism biz play loose with the truth by leaving out important facts or by taking things drastically out of context but this guy has gone the extra mile and committed himself to just reporting on an Israel that doesn't exist outside of his imagination. He's really just flat out lying, this whole article is bullshit. It's a rare example of the genre in that regard. Thank you PM, this is quite a bold specimen.