Over Netanyahu's New Israel, the B.S. light is on

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There's an instructive irony in all of this. After all, these are Israelis we are talking about. A people which prides itself on candor without compromise, on, in Netanyahu's choice of phrase at the UN, dugriyut, directness, unfiltered honesty. The actual truth.

And there's the rub. It was not The Truth that Netanyahu was talking about. It was Our Truth. The truth that makes room for settlements, nuclear weapons, lack of due process, self-determination - as long as they're on our side.

Make no mistake, this is a people which knows its way around an untruth. Like the apocryphal 50 words for snow, the Hebrew language is rich in synonyms for something south of honesty. But nothing in the ancient lexicon quite fits the Black Flagging campaign. You need something more contemporary, more Western in origin. Something that recognizes the true common denominator of Netanyahu's New Israel, the fact that the ends and the means are now one and the same.

The purpose of the laws, as well as the blind eyes turned to the likes of misogynistic, seditious, racist rabbis and their violent disciples, is not to institute apartheid, fascism, Jim Crow, tycoonocracy, the Chile of Allende or the Afghanistan of the Taliban. The purpose of these laws is to disguise the ways in which we have grown to resemble parts of each. The purpose of the laws is to shield the system by shielding us from it. To allow it to flourish beyond the range of our senses of hearing, sight and smell.

http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/over-netanyahu-s-new-israel-the-b-s-light-is-on-1.397088

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1. I hope they meant the Chile of Pinochet.

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2. That seems to have been fixed .nt