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While Israel is one of the stable regimes in the Middle East, it is also one of the major destablizers of the Middle East. With its consistent policy of stealing Arab lands and populating them with Jews, daily outrages against Arabs and their homes, their endless mass detention, its periodic brutal military adventures involving the mass killings of Arab citizens, and persistent refusal to negotiate peace in good faith (eg the Saudi initiative, UN 242) it has contributed much to the rift between Arabs and their leadership.

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From: Micah Leshem <micahl@psy.haifa.ac.il>
To: SEGEL-PLUS@list.haifa.ac.il
Sent: February 7, 2011

Interesting article, Fania, but like all the others, misses the point that we are no innocent bystanders here. While Israel is one of the stable regimes in the Middle East, it is also one of the major destablizers of the Middle East. With its consistent policy of stealing Arab lands and populating them with Jews, daily outrages against Arabs and their homes, their endless mass detention, its periodic brutal military adventures involving the mass killings of Arab citizens, and persistent refusal to negotiate peace in good faith (eg the Saudi initiative, UN 242) it has contributed much to the rift between Arabs and their leadership, eg by preventing Mubarak from cementing a true peace with Israel that could have spearheaded a general peace here instead of leaving Egypt precariously excusing its agreement with Israel which all the while clobbers Egypt's friends and allies and undermines its popular mandate (I now see President Perez [sic] takes the same view – you read it first here)..

We all believe the Shabbach [sic] and its colleagues in Mossad and IDF know the outcome of these events, forgetting how these genius analysts totally failed to predicted them (same geniuses who kept their jobs after assuring us about Saddam's WMDs (twice – spending 9-10 milliard [sic] shekels on gas masks) and we now we are all agreed with their inspired intelligence that the Muslim brotherhood spells disaster for Israel etc, as we uncritically believed them on Fatah and now Hamas.

Truth is, no one here has a clue, but is using our usual reflex tactic predicting the worst so that our gung-ho Military and its Ministerial progeny can act it before they can think – witness Bibi's hallucinatory and inane instructions to our diplomats to engender [sic] support for Mubarak.

None of this was in your article, Fania, but then few Israelis want to admit any wrong headedness [sic] on our part – Denial rules.

It would be instructive to consider the response of the masses in Rabin Square and Ramle, and our Government's negotiating stance, while a million Palestinians return to settle their homeland in the Sharon, Negev and Galilee, their towns and moshavim, under the their self-defined Law of Return and legal auspices of UN 242 stating that THE territory remains negotiable.

Micah