The First Officially Western Planned and Recognized Judenrei Country

Maybe I am a little slow, or maybe it's something that nobody has yet realized, but in the process of debating the issue of the settlements in the West Bank, it dawned on me that all official proposals for an agreement between Israelis and Palestinians - whether the ones submitted in Oslo or Camp David, or the ones still at the US or the Quartet's drawing board - are racist in their very essence.

The idea that the Palestinian state to be established as a result of the agreement should be free of Jews, is quite racist on itself. But what is more appalling is that this idea is being supported and actually crafted by whom? By countries like the US, France, Great Britain among others, countries that supposedly are the first line of defense against racism and apartheid!

And to add insult to the injury, the media at large are the public endorsers of this plan. Think of it: many in the media that are highly critical of Israel and that often publish articles claiming that Israel is a racist and apartheid state are the ones defending a plan to have a Judenrei Palestine.

How incredible is that? Not incredible at all... it's happening just in front of our eyes! Is it possible that nobody - not one single person, has raised his/her voice to denounce this absurdity?

Time Magazine - anything goes...

This week's Time magazine reflects how personal and group ideology took over large sectors of journalism and how once big name newspapers and magazines, in their desperate attempt to survive are resorting to anything and everything.

Newsweek was sold last month for $1 dollar.

Time seems to feel the heat. Their newsstands sales went down by about 35% during the second semester of 2009, and by another one third in the first months of 2010. Overall subscription went down by 17% from 2006 to 2009 and by another 6% in the first half of 2010.

Rick Stengel, Time's managing editor, its most senior editor, said this past June: "we convert information into knowledge".

But judging from the latest Time Magazine cover and corresponding article "Why Israel doesn't care about peace", it looks like Rick Stengel would better define Time's editorial guidelines as "we convert the journalists ideology into a hypothesis offensive enough to generate polemics and hopefully .... sales."

To Stengel and Vick (the author of the article, who got his five minutes of fame, and whose name will for sure fade away in journalism's history), I have one question: how many parents did you interview for your article, in order to substantiate your claim? How many parents did you interview with the following question:"How happy are you to send your children to the army for 3 full years once they reach 18 years of age."

Only distorted minds like Stengel and Vick's could have published in the front page of their magazine that Israeli parents don't care about peace. But, hey, for sure they were thinking "anything goes to save our jobs..."

Two States: one state for the Palestinians and the other for whom?

This is from special envoy to Middle East peace talks, George Mitchell:

"They agreed that for these negotiations to succeed, [the talks] must be kept private and treated with sensitivity," Mitchell said, adding that "both Netanyahu and Abbas condemned all forms of violence that target innocent civilians. They reiterated a common goal of two states for two peoples."

Hmmmm: "They reiterated a common goal of two states for two peoples."

However, the Palestinian camp has always proclaimed that it won't recognize Israel as a Jewish State. Just yesterday Palestinian negotiator Nabil Sha'ath stated it again.

So, let me understand: Israel and Palestinians agree to work towards a two-state state solution: one state for the Palestinians and the other for....?

Now, if someone will tell me that the other is for Israelis - Jews or Arabs - then, please tell me if the future Palestinian State will also be for Arabs and Jews...

So, again, one state for the Palestinians and the other for....?

Can someone help complete the phrase and also help define the character of the Palestinian state?