By Arjan el-Fassed (Electronic Intifada 02/2001) - "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East" rather than a democracy for Jews, a colonialist and a religiously exclusive state. Even Jews (of denominations other than Orthodox and/or of Sephardi origin) are discriminated against in Israel.
- "Israel made the desert bloom", but no mention of the sources of water such as the headwaters of the Jordan river, Sea of Galilee and the lakes above it that were being used to irrigate Arab lands, which now, as a result of water shortage, were turning into desert. See page 131 of Cockburn Dangerous Liaison, 1991. (Of course not to mention the erasing of 418 Palestinian villages and uprooting of 726,000 and enslaving the rest, as part of blooming the desert.) Also noted is Israel's systematic uprooting of tens of thousands of Palestinian trees, 50,000 since the beginning of the Oslo "Peace Process" alone (See article by Gideon Levy 'A tree grows in Palestine' and 'Olive trees becoming casualties in Mideast' by Michael Browning and Larry Kaplow, (American-Statesman 11/28/2000), and 'Do you remember the tree that you planted?' by Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 02/11/2001)
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