The Truth About Xenophobia – Features

 An IDF Jihad? Religious Extremists Rising Through the Ranks
 
By JONATHAN COOK

    February 4, 2009
 
Nazareth.
 
Extremist rabbis and their followers, bent on waging holy war against the Palestinians, are taking over the Israeli army by stealth, according to critics.
 
In a process one military historian has termed the rapid “theologisation” of the Israeli army, there are now entire units of religious combat soldiers, many of them based in West Bank settlements. They answer to hardline rabbis who call for the establishment of a Greater Israel that includes the occupied Palestinian territories.
 
Their influence in shaping the army’s goals and methods is starting to be felt, say observers, as more and more graduates from officer courses are also drawn from Israel’s religious extremist population.
 

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“JINNAH: India, Partition, Independence”
 Author: Jaswant Singh

By Iqbal Jassat – Chairman: Media Review Network

Completely unaware that the book I had purchased from a street vendor in the Kolaba suburb of Mumbai would be the subject of a huge controversy in India, I was taken aback at the ferocity of attacks against its author Jaswant Singh, as the debate on Pakistan’s founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah took the country by storm the next day.

Newspapers ranging from the “Times of India” to the “Hindustan Times” and a whole host of television channels devoted extensive space and time to the ensuing debacle surrounding the author’s views on the partition of India. With calls for the banning of the book and demands that Singh be dismissed from his post as Chairman of the Lok Sabha’s Public Accounts Committee, the howls of outrage increased in intensity each passing day.

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7. The Long–and Largely Untold–History Of Jewish Opposition to Zionism

by Allan C. Brownfeld

  Tuesday, January 20, 2009   
 
"No one who reads Yakov Rabkin’s thoroughly researched book will ever again believe that Zionism and Judaism are the same, or that Zionism enjoys the level of support among Jews in the United States and elsewhere in the world which it claims."
 

While many in Israel and in Jewish communities here and in other countries now promote the idea that Zionism and Judaism are, in effect, the same, and that opposition to Zionism constitutes “anti-Semitism,” the historical–largely untold–fact is that, for most of its history, Zionism has been a decidedly minority movement among Jews throughout the world. 
 
 

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Erdogan urges world to recognize Hamas

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:24:15 GMT

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for recognition of Hamas which won a landslide victory in Palestinian elections.

In an interview with The Washington Post published Saturday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said isolating Hamas is the reason for the ongoing tensions in the region.

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