Monday, May 16, 2011
Nakba Day Rally and March in New York City
THOUSANDS GATHERED AT THE UNITED NATIONS SUNDAY, MAY 15 FOR A MARCH TO TIMES SQUARE
When the Shoah Met the Nakba: 1948, the Palestinians are forced out and invaders take their homes and businesses
When the Shoah met the Nakba
May 15, 2011 08:42 pm | Max Blumenthal
The Nakba briefly appears in Tom Segev’s magisterial history of Israel and the Holocaust, The Seventh Million. In a single (very long) paragraph, Segev tells the story of how survivors of a genocide were transformed by the Zionist enterprise into participants in a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Segev writes on pp. 161-62:
Then the War of Independence broke out, and tens of thousands of homes were suddenly available. This was what Shaul Avigur called ‘the Arab miracle’: Hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled, and were expelled from their homes. Entire cities and hundreds of villages left empty were repopulated in short order with new immigrants. In April 1949 they numbered 100,000, most of them Holocaust survivors. The moment was a dramatic one in the war for Israel, and a frightfully banal one, too, focused as it was on the struggle over houses and furniture. Free people–Arabs–had gone into exile and become destitute refugees; destitute refugees–Jews–took the exiles’ places as a first step in their new lives as free people. One group lost all they had, while the other found everything they needed–tables, chairs, closets pots, pans, plates, sometimes clothes, family albums, books, radios, and pets. Most of the immigrants broke into the abandoned Arab houses without direction, without order, without permission. For several months the country was caught up in a frenzy of take-what-you-can, first-come, first-served. Afterwards, the authorities tried to halt the looting and take control of the allocation of houses, but in general they came too late. Immigrants also took possession of Arab stores and workshops, and some Arab neighborhoods soon looked like Jewish towns in prewar Europe, with tailors, shoemakers, dry goods merchants–all the traditional Jewish occupations.
The post originally appeared on Max Blumenthal's blog.
May 15, 2011 08:42 pm | Max Blumenthal
The Nakba briefly appears in Tom Segev’s magisterial history of Israel and the Holocaust, The Seventh Million. In a single (very long) paragraph, Segev tells the story of how survivors of a genocide were transformed by the Zionist enterprise into participants in a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Segev writes on pp. 161-62:
Then the War of Independence broke out, and tens of thousands of homes were suddenly available. This was what Shaul Avigur called ‘the Arab miracle’: Hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled, and were expelled from their homes. Entire cities and hundreds of villages left empty were repopulated in short order with new immigrants. In April 1949 they numbered 100,000, most of them Holocaust survivors. The moment was a dramatic one in the war for Israel, and a frightfully banal one, too, focused as it was on the struggle over houses and furniture. Free people–Arabs–had gone into exile and become destitute refugees; destitute refugees–Jews–took the exiles’ places as a first step in their new lives as free people. One group lost all they had, while the other found everything they needed–tables, chairs, closets pots, pans, plates, sometimes clothes, family albums, books, radios, and pets. Most of the immigrants broke into the abandoned Arab houses without direction, without order, without permission. For several months the country was caught up in a frenzy of take-what-you-can, first-come, first-served. Afterwards, the authorities tried to halt the looting and take control of the allocation of houses, but in general they came too late. Immigrants also took possession of Arab stores and workshops, and some Arab neighborhoods soon looked like Jewish towns in prewar Europe, with tailors, shoemakers, dry goods merchants–all the traditional Jewish occupations.
The post originally appeared on Max Blumenthal's blog.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Suzanne Mubarek: the Queen of Egypt on the Hot Seat
Deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarek and his two sons have been detained for the last few months by the new government and questioned about their accumulation of many millions (or more, they are still searching for the money) of dollars held in bank accounts in Egypt and around the world. The former president is also under investigation for the deaths of Tahrir Square protesters killed by the police. Another important issue being looked into is the charge that the Mubareks personally profited from selling natural gas to Israel at below market prices.
Now Mubarek's wife, Suzanne Mubarek, has also been detained for official questioning about involvement in the family's corruption. She holds an Egyptian bank account of over three million dollars and owns a large mansion and has access (she is the only one who can sign checks) to a 70 million dollar bank account in the name of the Library of Alexandria
Suzanne Mubarek, was known as the most influential woman in Egypt during the Mubarek's over 30 year reign. She cultivated an image of a caring, socially conscious, peace promoting person. She was also know as the main promoter of her son Gamal to succeed his father in the presidency.
The Egyptian people are joyous over the fall of Mubarek tyranny and obviously don't have any sympathy for Hosni Mubarek's plight or that of his sons and wife. All of them are rightfully seen as part of a violent, repressive dictatorship that jailed, tortured and killed anyone who challenged their rule. Their time in power saw the masses fall into poverty while the Mubareks and their army and businessman cronies grew rich. The Egyptian people have also expressing their loathing of the Mubarek's kowtowing to the US and Israel and their cooperation in the Israel/US oppression of the Palestinians.
Suzanne Mubarek was part and parcel of the former Egyptian government and an accomplice in all of its crimes domestic and foreign.
Why am I bothering to state the obvious? Because some people who should have known better were taken in by Suzanne Mubarek's games.
Suzanne Mubarek's ballyhooed reputation as a humanitarian and defender of women's rights was very useful to Hosni Mubarek's National Democratic Party dictatorship in Egypt. The iron fist of repression wanted their image to be sugar coated by the supposedly charitable doer of good, the president's wife.
It was the old "hard cop, soft cop routine." While the hard cop is beating a suspected dissident to death in a back alley, the soft cop is bringing flowers to patients in hospital for poor children.
Mrs. Mubarek cultivated illusions among some peace activists from the US and Europe that she was concerned about the plight of the people of Gaza and played on these activist's sad delusions that they could be big time players and make deals with Suzanne Mubarek to get things done. The predictable results led to a situation where these "leaders" disgraced themselves and embittered those who made the mistake to trust them.
There is no quick fix, no clever cutting of corners to winning battles for human rights.
Now Mubarek's wife, Suzanne Mubarek, has also been detained for official questioning about involvement in the family's corruption. She holds an Egyptian bank account of over three million dollars and owns a large mansion and has access (she is the only one who can sign checks) to a 70 million dollar bank account in the name of the Library of Alexandria
Suzanne Mubarek, was known as the most influential woman in Egypt during the Mubarek's over 30 year reign. She cultivated an image of a caring, socially conscious, peace promoting person. She was also know as the main promoter of her son Gamal to succeed his father in the presidency.
The Egyptian people are joyous over the fall of Mubarek tyranny and obviously don't have any sympathy for Hosni Mubarek's plight or that of his sons and wife. All of them are rightfully seen as part of a violent, repressive dictatorship that jailed, tortured and killed anyone who challenged their rule. Their time in power saw the masses fall into poverty while the Mubareks and their army and businessman cronies grew rich. The Egyptian people have also expressing their loathing of the Mubarek's kowtowing to the US and Israel and their cooperation in the Israel/US oppression of the Palestinians.
Suzanne Mubarek was part and parcel of the former Egyptian government and an accomplice in all of its crimes domestic and foreign.
Why am I bothering to state the obvious? Because some people who should have known better were taken in by Suzanne Mubarek's games.
Suzanne Mubarek's ballyhooed reputation as a humanitarian and defender of women's rights was very useful to Hosni Mubarek's National Democratic Party dictatorship in Egypt. The iron fist of repression wanted their image to be sugar coated by the supposedly charitable doer of good, the president's wife.
It was the old "hard cop, soft cop routine." While the hard cop is beating a suspected dissident to death in a back alley, the soft cop is bringing flowers to patients in hospital for poor children.
Mrs. Mubarek cultivated illusions among some peace activists from the US and Europe that she was concerned about the plight of the people of Gaza and played on these activist's sad delusions that they could be big time players and make deals with Suzanne Mubarek to get things done. The predictable results led to a situation where these "leaders" disgraced themselves and embittered those who made the mistake to trust them.
There is no quick fix, no clever cutting of corners to winning battles for human rights.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Navajo Story
this is one of those jokes that circulate via email:
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the
astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training.
One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew
walking among the rocks.
The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question.
His son translated for the NASA people: "What are these guys in the
big suits doing?"
One of the astronauts said that they were practicing for a trip to
the moon.
When his son relayed this comment the Navajo elder got all excited
and excited and asked if it would be possible to give to the astronauts a
message to deliver to the moon.
Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA
official accompanying the astronauts said, "Why certainly!" and told an
underling to get a tape recorder.
The Navajo elder's comments into the microphone were brief. The NASA
official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said.
The son listened to the recording and laughed uproariously. But he
refused to translate. So the NASA people took the tape to a nearby Navajo
village and played it for other members of the tribe. They too laughed long
and loudly but also refused to translate the elder's message to the moon.
Finally, an official government translator was summoned. After he
finally stopped laughing the translator relayed the message:
"Watch out for these pricks. They have come to steal your land."
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the
astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training.
One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew
walking among the rocks.
The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question.
His son translated for the NASA people: "What are these guys in the
big suits doing?"
One of the astronauts said that they were practicing for a trip to
the moon.
When his son relayed this comment the Navajo elder got all excited
and excited and asked if it would be possible to give to the astronauts a
message to deliver to the moon.
Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA
official accompanying the astronauts said, "Why certainly!" and told an
underling to get a tape recorder.
The Navajo elder's comments into the microphone were brief. The NASA
official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said.
The son listened to the recording and laughed uproariously. But he
refused to translate. So the NASA people took the tape to a nearby Navajo
village and played it for other members of the tribe. They too laughed long
and loudly but also refused to translate the elder's message to the moon.
Finally, an official government translator was summoned. After he
finally stopped laughing the translator relayed the message:
"Watch out for these pricks. They have come to steal your land."
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Man Cleared In Central Park Jogging Case Demands Apology from Trump
NY1 News
April 28, 2011
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/138192/ny1-exclusive--man-cleared-in-central-park-jogging-case-demands-apology-from-trump
Man Cleared In Central Park Jogging Case Demands Apology from Trump
One of the young men exonerated in the Central Park Jogger case has
strong words for Donald Trump.
In an exclusive interview with NY1, Raymond Santana is demanding an
apology from the real estate mogul who is now considering a run for
president.
Trump paid $85,000 for full-page ads in four city newspapers in 1989
calling for the death penalty for Santana and four other teens whose
videotaped confessions outraged the city -- confessions they insisted
had been forced by police.
In the ads, which have the banner headline "Bring Back the Death
Penalty," Trump wrote, "They should be forced to suffer and, when they
kill, they should be executed for their crimes. They must serve as
examples so that others will think long and hard before committing a
crime or an act of violence."
Santana was 14 years old at the time. He says Trump's call for the
"death penalty" helped fuel the media firestorm before the suspects
even went to trial.
"It says a lot about his character. If he can give the death penalty
to 14-year-old, 15-year-old kids then there's nothing he would not do.
Those are characteristics of a tyrant, not characteristics of a
president," Santana said.
Santana served seven years in prison in connection with the rape and
beating of Trisha Meili.
Then another man, Matias Reyes, confessed to the crime and was linked
to the scene by DNA evidence. He told officials he acted alone.
The convictions of Santana and the four others were vacated in 2002.
Trump has never apologized for his ads.
"He took the ads out on us. Donald Trump is an opportunist, he's also
a user and abuser. He has been using our community since the
beginning," said Santana. "It's time that people wake up and see
Donald Trump for what he really is. He's a phony. He could've come out
and apologized he could have came out and said I was wrong. I think
that would have made him look more human in the eyes of society. But
he never did that."
Santana and the four other men are now suing the city for malicious prosecution.
NY1 has reached out to Trump for comment.
April 28, 2011
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/138192/ny1-exclusive--man-cleared-in-central-park-jogging-case-demands-apology-from-trump
Man Cleared In Central Park Jogging Case Demands Apology from Trump
One of the young men exonerated in the Central Park Jogger case has
strong words for Donald Trump.
In an exclusive interview with NY1, Raymond Santana is demanding an
apology from the real estate mogul who is now considering a run for
president.
Trump paid $85,000 for full-page ads in four city newspapers in 1989
calling for the death penalty for Santana and four other teens whose
videotaped confessions outraged the city -- confessions they insisted
had been forced by police.
In the ads, which have the banner headline "Bring Back the Death
Penalty," Trump wrote, "They should be forced to suffer and, when they
kill, they should be executed for their crimes. They must serve as
examples so that others will think long and hard before committing a
crime or an act of violence."
Santana was 14 years old at the time. He says Trump's call for the
"death penalty" helped fuel the media firestorm before the suspects
even went to trial.
"It says a lot about his character. If he can give the death penalty
to 14-year-old, 15-year-old kids then there's nothing he would not do.
Those are characteristics of a tyrant, not characteristics of a
president," Santana said.
Santana served seven years in prison in connection with the rape and
beating of Trisha Meili.
Then another man, Matias Reyes, confessed to the crime and was linked
to the scene by DNA evidence. He told officials he acted alone.
The convictions of Santana and the four others were vacated in 2002.
Trump has never apologized for his ads.
"He took the ads out on us. Donald Trump is an opportunist, he's also
a user and abuser. He has been using our community since the
beginning," said Santana. "It's time that people wake up and see
Donald Trump for what he really is. He's a phony. He could've come out
and apologized he could have came out and said I was wrong. I think
that would have made him look more human in the eyes of society. But
he never did that."
Santana and the four other men are now suing the city for malicious prosecution.
NY1 has reached out to Trump for comment.
New Entry into the Obama/Netanyahu Dictionary: Democracy is a good thing so long as it means Egypt will continue to follow US/Israel orders
Counterpunch May 5, 2011
A New Mood in Cairo
Egypt and Israel Headed for Crisis
By JONATHAN COOK
Nazareth.
Israeli officials have expressed alarm at a succession of moves by the interim Egyptian government that they fear signal an impending crisis in relations with Cairo.
The widening rift was underscored yesterday when leaders of the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation pact in the Egyptian capital. Egypt's secret role in brokering the agreement last week caught both Israel and the United States by surprise.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the deal "a tremendous blow to peace and a great victory for terrorism".
Several other developments have added to Israeli concerns about its relations with Egypt, including signs that Cairo hopes to renew ties with Iran and renegotiate a long-standing contract to supply Israel with natural gas.
More worrying still to Israeli officials are reported plans by Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah crossing into Gaza, closed for the past four years as part of a Western-backed blockade of the enclave designed to weaken Hamas, the ruling Islamist group there.
Egypt is working out details to permanently open the border, an Egyptian foreign ministry official told the Reuters news agency on Sunday. The blockade would effectively come to an end as a result.
The same day Egypt's foreign minister, Nabil Elaraby, called on the United States to recognise a Palestinian state -- in reference to a move expected in September by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to seek recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations.
Israel and the US have insisted that the Palestinians can achieve statehood only through negotiations with Israel. Talks have been moribund since Israel refused last September to renew a partial freeze on settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
According to analysts, the interim Egyptian government, under popular pressure, is consciously distancing itself from some of the main policies towards Israel and the Palestinians pursued by Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown by a popular uprising in February.
Mubarak was largely supportive of Israel and Washington's blockade policy to contain Hamas' influence. Egypt receives more than $1.3 billion annually in US aid, second only to Israel.
But the popular mood in Egypt appears to be turning against close diplomatic ties with Israel.
A poll published last week by the Pew Research Centre showed that 54 per cent of Egyptians backed the annulment of the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, with only 36 per cent wanting it maintained.
Israel's Yedioth Aharonoth daily reported this week that Egyptian social media sites had called for a mass demonstration outside the Israeli embassy tomorrow, demanding the expulsion of the ambassador, Yitzhak Levanon.
In comments to several media outlets last weekend, unnamed senior Israeli officials criticised Egypt's new foreign policy line. One told the Wall Street Journal that Cairo's latest moves could "affect Israel's national security on a strategic level".
Another unnamed official told the Jerusalem Post that "the upgrading of the relationship between Egypt and Hamas" might allow the Islamic movement to develop into a "formidable terrorist military machine".
Silvan Shalom, Israel's vice-premier, told Israel Radio on Sunday that Israel should brace for significant changes in Egyptian policies that would allow Irancook to increase its influence in Gaza.
Egypt's chief of staff, Sami Hafez Anan, responded dismissively on his Facebook page to such statements, saying, "Israel has no right to interfere. This is an Egyptian-Palestinian matter."
In a sign of Israeli panic, Netanyahu is reported to be considering sending his special adviser, Isaac Molho, to Cairo for talks with the interim government.
In recent weeks, Netanyahu has repeatedly complained to visiting European ambassadors and US politicians about what he regards as a new, more hostile climate in Egypt.
Late last month Elaraby said Egypt was ready to "turn over a new leaf" in relations with Tehran, which were severed after the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty more than three decades ago.
Egyptian offiials have also warned that the supply of natural gas to Israel may be halted. The pipeline has been attacked twice on the Egyptian side, including last week, in acts presumed to be sabotage.
Even if Egypt continues the flow of gas, it is almost certain to insist on a sharp rise in the cost, following reports that Mubarak and other officials are being investigated on corruption charges relating to contracts that underpriced gas to Israel.
Yoram Meital, an expert on Israeli-Egyptian relations at Ben Gurion University in Beersheva, said Egypt's policy change towards Gaza threatened to "provoke a severe crisis in Egyptian-Israeli relations" by undermining Israel's policy of isolating Hamas.
With the toppling of Mubarak's authoritarian regime, Meital noted, the Egyptian government is under pressure to be more responsive to local opinion.
"We are at the beginning of this crisis but we are not there yet. However, there is room for a great deal more deterioration in relations over the coming months," he said.
Analysts said Cairo wanted to restore its traditional leadership role in the Arab world and believed it was hampered by its ties with Israel.
Menha Bahoum, a spokeswoman for the Egyptian foreign ministry, told the New York Times last week: "We are opening a new page. Egypt is resuming its role that was once abdicated."
That assessment is shared by Hamas and Fatah, both of which were looking to Egypt for help, said Menachem Klein, a politics professor at Bar Ilan University.
He noted that Abbas had lost his chief Arab sponsor in the form of Mubarak, and that the Hamas leadership's base in Syria was precarious given the current upheavals there.
With growing demands from the Palestinian public for reconciliation, neither faction could afford to ignore the tide of change sweeping the Arab world, he said.
Meital said: "We are entering a new chapter in the region's history and Israeli politicians and the public are not yet even close to understanding what is taking place".
Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. His latest books are “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). His website is www.jkcook.net.
A New Mood in Cairo
Egypt and Israel Headed for Crisis
By JONATHAN COOK
Nazareth.
Israeli officials have expressed alarm at a succession of moves by the interim Egyptian government that they fear signal an impending crisis in relations with Cairo.
The widening rift was underscored yesterday when leaders of the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation pact in the Egyptian capital. Egypt's secret role in brokering the agreement last week caught both Israel and the United States by surprise.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the deal "a tremendous blow to peace and a great victory for terrorism".
Several other developments have added to Israeli concerns about its relations with Egypt, including signs that Cairo hopes to renew ties with Iran and renegotiate a long-standing contract to supply Israel with natural gas.
More worrying still to Israeli officials are reported plans by Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah crossing into Gaza, closed for the past four years as part of a Western-backed blockade of the enclave designed to weaken Hamas, the ruling Islamist group there.
Egypt is working out details to permanently open the border, an Egyptian foreign ministry official told the Reuters news agency on Sunday. The blockade would effectively come to an end as a result.
The same day Egypt's foreign minister, Nabil Elaraby, called on the United States to recognise a Palestinian state -- in reference to a move expected in September by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to seek recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations.
Israel and the US have insisted that the Palestinians can achieve statehood only through negotiations with Israel. Talks have been moribund since Israel refused last September to renew a partial freeze on settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
According to analysts, the interim Egyptian government, under popular pressure, is consciously distancing itself from some of the main policies towards Israel and the Palestinians pursued by Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown by a popular uprising in February.
Mubarak was largely supportive of Israel and Washington's blockade policy to contain Hamas' influence. Egypt receives more than $1.3 billion annually in US aid, second only to Israel.
But the popular mood in Egypt appears to be turning against close diplomatic ties with Israel.
A poll published last week by the Pew Research Centre showed that 54 per cent of Egyptians backed the annulment of the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, with only 36 per cent wanting it maintained.
Israel's Yedioth Aharonoth daily reported this week that Egyptian social media sites had called for a mass demonstration outside the Israeli embassy tomorrow, demanding the expulsion of the ambassador, Yitzhak Levanon.
In comments to several media outlets last weekend, unnamed senior Israeli officials criticised Egypt's new foreign policy line. One told the Wall Street Journal that Cairo's latest moves could "affect Israel's national security on a strategic level".
Another unnamed official told the Jerusalem Post that "the upgrading of the relationship between Egypt and Hamas" might allow the Islamic movement to develop into a "formidable terrorist military machine".
Silvan Shalom, Israel's vice-premier, told Israel Radio on Sunday that Israel should brace for significant changes in Egyptian policies that would allow Irancook to increase its influence in Gaza.
Egypt's chief of staff, Sami Hafez Anan, responded dismissively on his Facebook page to such statements, saying, "Israel has no right to interfere. This is an Egyptian-Palestinian matter."
In a sign of Israeli panic, Netanyahu is reported to be considering sending his special adviser, Isaac Molho, to Cairo for talks with the interim government.
In recent weeks, Netanyahu has repeatedly complained to visiting European ambassadors and US politicians about what he regards as a new, more hostile climate in Egypt.
Late last month Elaraby said Egypt was ready to "turn over a new leaf" in relations with Tehran, which were severed after the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty more than three decades ago.
Egyptian offiials have also warned that the supply of natural gas to Israel may be halted. The pipeline has been attacked twice on the Egyptian side, including last week, in acts presumed to be sabotage.
Even if Egypt continues the flow of gas, it is almost certain to insist on a sharp rise in the cost, following reports that Mubarak and other officials are being investigated on corruption charges relating to contracts that underpriced gas to Israel.
Yoram Meital, an expert on Israeli-Egyptian relations at Ben Gurion University in Beersheva, said Egypt's policy change towards Gaza threatened to "provoke a severe crisis in Egyptian-Israeli relations" by undermining Israel's policy of isolating Hamas.
With the toppling of Mubarak's authoritarian regime, Meital noted, the Egyptian government is under pressure to be more responsive to local opinion.
"We are at the beginning of this crisis but we are not there yet. However, there is room for a great deal more deterioration in relations over the coming months," he said.
Analysts said Cairo wanted to restore its traditional leadership role in the Arab world and believed it was hampered by its ties with Israel.
Menha Bahoum, a spokeswoman for the Egyptian foreign ministry, told the New York Times last week: "We are opening a new page. Egypt is resuming its role that was once abdicated."
That assessment is shared by Hamas and Fatah, both of which were looking to Egypt for help, said Menachem Klein, a politics professor at Bar Ilan University.
He noted that Abbas had lost his chief Arab sponsor in the form of Mubarak, and that the Hamas leadership's base in Syria was precarious given the current upheavals there.
With growing demands from the Palestinian public for reconciliation, neither faction could afford to ignore the tide of change sweeping the Arab world, he said.
Meital said: "We are entering a new chapter in the region's history and Israeli politicians and the public are not yet even close to understanding what is taking place".
Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. His latest books are “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). His website is www.jkcook.net.
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