Israel’s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.

“It’s very satisfying.”

Incorrect. They made one move against the West Bank settlements and that almost brought down the government. Since then they have been meek towards the immense Israeli Right and MORE settlements are planned. If anything the situation is worsening and it would take a radical peace-seeker willing to put up with a lot of ear-ache to improve upon it.

That man or woman does not exist, accordingly the “Two State” solution is about to become a piece of history (or perhaps fantasy).

That is already true of the suicide bombings, by the way. They haven’t happened for years, the last one being during the intifada.

I think I saw this software used on this site a few hours ago. Apparently the trigger world was the name “Israel Shahak” that appeared in a message.Shahak, who has now passed away, was a chemistry professor at hebrew University who wrote several books that are on the top of the Israeli hate and censorship list.

I have been told that simply typing the worlds “Israel Shahak” will get a blog message immediately targeted for removal by the ADL software. Apparently it just happened here.

Israel has been closing settlements for a while now and have been trying to play nice and it still gets rockets dumped on it and young Palestinian women strap bombs on their bodies to go off in Israeli civilian areas. Some brute force may just be what the doctor ordered to bolster the Arab countries to come together with Israel to broker a political deal once and for all.

My not so simple solution: http://www.scriboergosum.org.uk/revamp/2088

I’m not deeply into these “perspectivist” approaches (although there is some call for the relentless barrage of “But what if you were an Israeli” to be backed with the fairly obvious: “But what if you were a Palestinian?”) but even when engaging in one I can’t really see the long term advantage for Israel.

Short term for a centrist party needing to hold out against the right, though? Most definitely. Kadima is in a tricky situation and hopes to bomb their way out. Electorally, it could well work. On any other level…

On a more practical level, I can’t help thinking that any solution to the problem must hinge on a high level of disengagement by the Israeli’s from involvement with the Palestinians. That is, The Israeli’s need to wall themselves in behind legitimate borders and let the Palestinians work with the Jordanians to create their state. I’m assuming that this will involve a good deal of American money as anything touching on this question eventually does, but it will be money well spent if it ends the conflict.

Unfortunately, as I write, Israeli tanks are rolling into Gaza. Israel’s long term plan is unclear but one thing is certain. What will happen next will create massive international anger against Israel and us. The only way for the the Jewish state to make certain that no rockets are fired from Gaza is to occupy Gaza. The occupation of Gaza will entail the suppression and killing of many Gazans, which in turn will fuel a never ending underground resistance. Since this state of affairs was instigated by Israel’s deliberate strangle hold on Gaza as a tool to topple the elected government of Gaza, a war crime is now in progress.

Unfortunately our government is a co-conspirator.