There is an Israeli lobby media buzzsaw coming at 60 Minutes over this piece.  Even economist and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Krugman commented on the dangers of disagreeing with Israel in this recent post in the NYT

April 24, 2012, 2:54 PM

The Crisis of Zionism

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The truth is that like many liberal American Jews — and most American Jews are still liberal — I basically avoid thinking about where Israel is going. It seems obvious from here that the narrow-minded policies of the current government are basically a gradual, long-run form of national suicide — and that’s bad for Jews everywhere, not to mention the world. But I have other battles to fight, and to say anything to that effect is to bring yourself under intense attack from organized groups that try to make any criticism of Israeli policies tantamount to anti-Semitism.

"There is an Israeli lobby media buzzsaw coming at 60 Minutes over this piece.  Even economist and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Krugman commented on the dangers of disagreeing with Israel in this recent post in the NYT"

It is hard for any reasonable person to understand why don't Jews themselves stand up to this kind of nonsence. Surely they realise what damage it is doing to the reputation of Jewish communities worldwide. It is kind of a thing everybody knows about and talks about but you must speak with hushed voice for fear a 'wrong' person will hear you.

This is going back to the dark ages.

May 2, 2012 -- 2:57PM, browbeaten wrote:

If half-truths are considered "eye-opening", then what does that say about the ADC.  Shame.

>>>>>>>> Well that is the popular Arab-American opinion of "Israeli charm offense" in the holy land. Gotta deal with it my friend.

Thanks God it is the USA!!

Not Israel...

May 4, 2012 -- 3:32PM, BDboy wrote:

I think CBS had to be very couragious to show parts of Zionist agenda to the world. Since it is very difficult to speak about this topic in America for political reasons.

Not America alone. Most of the western countries are like one large playground  and their ruling classes parrot each other. Luckily, now and then few brave souls stand up and speak out. They may be threatended, lose their job, but they are admired by the citizerns of the world who value freedom of thought/speech and dignity of man.

I doubt that Israel's apologists will be happy with anything that doesn't blame Muslims for everything.  This guy is hardly objective.  He's an official that represents evangelical Christians in Israel.  Funny, in an 2008 article, Missionaries under threat in Israel, Parsons accused Jews of ". . . a series of incidents here in the land that involve harassment, intimidation and physical violence" against Messanic Jews, and said the test would be how vigorously Israeli authorities persued the crimes (sounding not so sure they would).  Parsons is in Israel to represent the interests of a proselytizing faith that opposes other proselytizing faiths, like Islam.  If he has to suck up to Israel's vision of itself, he will, for his mission.

BTW, Bob Simon is Jewish.  Doesn't his view of Israel count?

May 6, 2012 -- 4:21PM, rocketjsquirell wrote:

Update on the discussion . . . although I doubt that the apologists for Arab Palestinian religious apartheid, racism and terror will pay any attention.

The real root of the Christian exodus
By DAVID PARSONS
05/06/2012 21:59
Palestinian Christians often deflect Muslim anger away from themselves by directing it at the Jews.

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If Bob Simon had truly wanted to know why Arab Christians have been fleeing in droves from Palestinian areas, he should have asked those émigrés now living in Toronto, Sydney and Santiago. Because that is where the majority of Palestinian Christians now reside – in dispersed communities in Canada, Chile, Australia, Germany, the United States and elsewhere.

The disturbing truth is that more than 60 percent of the Arab Christians born in Palestinian areas over the past several generations now live abroad. Yet the same holds true for Lebanese Christians, as a similar 60% of their beleaguered community now live in foreign lands.

Indeed, there has been a widening Christian exodus from all the surrounding Arab countries, with Iraq’s ancient Assyrian Christian community collapsing from 1.5 million to as few as 250,000 since the Second Gulf War commenced in 2003. The Coptic Church in Egypt is also losing tens of thousands of parishioners in the wake of the Arab Spring.

So it is indisputable that Arab Christians are fleeing all across the Middle East, and surely the Israeli occupation is not to blame. Rather, this flight has been primarily due to local conflicts and the rise of Islamic militancy, as noted by Ambassador Oren, and the Palestinian Christians are no exception to this trend. The lone exception, in fact, happens to be the State of Israel, the only place in the entire region where the community of Arab Christians is growing and where Arab Christians are afforded their democratic rights.
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For many Christians in the Middle East, the rebirth of Israel actually stands as a light and model of freedom from Muslim tyranny. But for Palestinian Christians, the conflict that seeks to destroy the Jewish state has been too close for comfort. They are powerless to end it and struggling to survive.

Thus many Palestinian Christian leaders have taken to patriotically waving the flag of Palestinian nationalism higher than even their Muslim neighbors, in the hope such loyalty to the cause will safeguard their flocks.
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We must all understand that they are employing an ancient survival mechanism ingrained through centuries of Muslim oppression. Unable to name the real culprit, Palestinian Christians often deflect Muslim anger away from themselves by directing it at the Jews. Meantime, Ambassador Oren is giving voice to the things they cannot say.

The writer is media director for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.

full article:
www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/...