It seems to me that Zionists and pro Zionist commentators are getting increasingly worried that they are losing the battle of ideas over the question of Israel/Palestine.

Sixty years after the founding of Israel the stain of the expulsion of the Palestinian people from their homeland continues to spread.

And we have seen what the Zionist programme has meant for the Palestinian people and the peoples of neighbouring countries.
For the Palestinians it has meant mass murder in places like Deir Yassim as the Israeli state was founded.It has meant the occupation and theft of Palestinian land and the eradication of hundreds of Palestinian villages with the systematic attempt to eradicate them from their land and history.

There have been decades of military attacks on Palestinian civilians and refugees and massacres directed by the Israeli military in Beirut and elsewhere.

There has been the continued attaempt to break the spirit of the Palestinians with mass arrests,the closure of Palestinian universities ,the endless checkpoints, the torture of prisoners, the theft of precious water and the building of the huge Apartheid Wall.

After 60 years of this display of military might and the backing of the US a person would think that the future of Israel is rosy.

How come then it is a society which has turned in on itself as it seeks to justify its racism,its oppression,its petty and vindictive cruelties and its military swagger?

Last year it was stopped in its tracks by handfuls of Hezbollah fighters in the hills of South Lebanon but not before it had made a determined attempt to wipe out the civilian infrastructure of that country.
Today it is throttling poor starving Gaza but still it cannot bring the Palestinian Gazans led by Hamas to heel.
And with Mubharrak in Egypy looking like an over the hill thug and the debacle in Iraq the future of the whole Middle East and Israel's role as America's attack dog there is in turmoil.
albert