The leftist US and UK goverment paid NGO's just like the Egyptian NGOs are beung paid to overthrow Israels democratically elected goverment. And Bibi does nothing to fight back against them.

Arabs, Sudanese,Africans starving to death because of Islamofascists or persecuted minorities in Islamic countries or anything else unless it suits their political agenda. When it suits them they play the humanitarian card and make lots of noise as empty vessels are wont to do. An excellent book on their motivation is "What's left",in a word they are pathological haters of the West.!

to care for Israel? There are traitors and in a normal country they would be tried for treason. Piss now and all the others are funded by the European anti-semites along with other Jewish useless idiots. They work to weaken Israel from within. They will only be happy when they dance on Israels grave..

It is the role of the Jew to protect our own ethical standards and not be the moral policeman of the world particularly in places and on issues where we have no leverage. Every Zionist leftist I know condemns the barbarians described by the author. However organizationally, like any good farmer,we are concerned with the quality and health of our own orchard. Don't mask your domestic battles with the cloak of sanctimonious international self-righteousness. I would concede that those elements of the Arab left in Israel who defend the butcher of Damascus have what to answer for.

without giving a thought of the consequences of their reporting or responsibility to actually report the entire news. Only the news they want to report, the way they want it reported, never mind that they were and are wrong.

With no way to defend the fascist behavior of his compatriots, Daum has to manufacture some "critique" of something the left should have done. Since "expelling" people from their homes, I expect that Daum is on the front lines of defending against Bedouin evictions in the Negev. Is that about the right logic of your argument, Daum?

that walk hand in hand in demonstrations in paris,rome, madrid...calling for the death of jews. The same lefties that slam Christianism and Judaism, but attack you if you dare critisize islam. The same lefties that call for gay rights,and still makes friends with the iranian regime. The same lefties who want sex equality yet say nothing when women in islam are stoned to death. The same lefties who are against capitalism yet have the latest phone,computers,large screen tv and fly to every demonstration they can manage on their tax funded wages,or hand out. The same lefties who will go and smash banks ,bussinesses during a riot, but moan when bank charges and prices in shops go up. The same lefties who envy you your wealth but can´t be bothered to find a job,because life on benefits is their due. The same lefties who decry world poverty while drinking champagne at a 5 star hotel. I must stop,I have a bussiness to run.

these "leftist" NGOs, such as Breaking the Silence, are concerned with human rights violations in Israel, and, since you give no examples of previous statements by the groups vis a vis the arab spring it would be out of context for them to say anything about atrocities committed elsewhere.

So basically anyone can type up 200 words with little-to-no substance and get an Op-Ed on Ynet these days? Fantastic! Here's my Op-Ed in response to this Op-Ed. I agree to some parts of this and disagree with others, but I won't provide any proof or really make anything but a passing claim about anything in particular. (Ynet is *rushing* to publish my expert statements now) Whether you agree or disagree with Daum, let's all just agree that this is cop-out, tripe posing as journalism, shall we?

are working hard to weaken the one entity--the Israeli army--that stands between the Israeli people and the kind of horrifying barbaric aggression we see around us.

See what the result of the arab "spring" brings : instability , anti Israeli brotherhood . I think we should be bothered if the anti assad's are winning . Look how the Egyptians are blackmailing the USA : no more aid , we change the "peace treaty" [ if we Israelis can call it "peace" of course ] Secondly , it are arab "interior" problems . Are the "rightists" bothered with what happens in Sudan , Nigeria , Zimbabwe ?

Leftists are silent on Syria because they are obsessed - literally obsessed - with Israel and its alleged misdeeds. Nothing else matters to them.

The left exists to hate Jews. Whatever Arabs do or don't do to one another is irrelevant. That's why.

See what the result of the arab "spring" brings : instability , anti Israeli brotherhood . I think we should be bothered if the anti assad's are winning . Look how the Egyptians are blackmailing the USA : no more aid , we change the "peace treaty" [ if we Israelis can call it "peace" of course ] Secondly , it are arab "interior" problems . Are the "rightists" bothered with what happens in Sudan , Nigeria , Zimbabwe ?

YNET must raise the intellectual level of their columnists. I have been reading many columns for the past several months and, with the exception of Yair Lapid's op-eds, find apallingly low the level of discussion. The columnists seem to be 11th graders in high school, giving a speech based on what they hear at home, in front of their classrooms. Are there no right-wingers with a bit of a more serious argument to defend their positions? I guess this is Pop Journalism...

Governments of Israel, Iran, Syria and all Arab dictatorships all belong to the same category. They are all Fascists.

...pure racists. Simply put they are elitist limousine liberals of the most self appointed superior strain. RACISTS!!!!! Progressive national socialist racists who expect less and are smug with the internal acts and actions of "lesser" forms of society other than those hochmenschen who proudly wear their "brown shirts" with the same elan as the SA did as they swished and beat their way through the 1930's. Progressive-elitist-racists. They are found everywhere. In the present USA they are on the left and far left of the American political divide.

because leftists=mentaly deranged, scicopathic, closet commies, whom only goal is to make themselves feel good, inspite of their rotting inside. poor devils!

Why are leftists silent when Arabs kill each other but scream blue murder when an Israeli kills an Arab in self defense? The answer is simple. They are liars, hypocrites and anti-Israel racists. But that's hardly news.

have a wrapped mind, and a distorted view of justice. I therefore don't expect them to get their feet wet in the conflict in Syria

Zack as in Zacharia?!? You sure don't sound it! Learn your roots, .man!

I'm surprised to read such a childish and foolish article in a supposedly respected newspaper. Why should Israelis who oppose the activities of their own government have a responsibility to protest the activities of the government in a different country? Makes no sense whatsoever.

What you wrote seems to me Leftist hypocrisy. Let me explain why and correct me where I am wrong. 1. Leftist condemn the IDF based on baseless facts always looking for the worst in us shotgun fashion (such as the WIB activist supporting the Fogel butchr's son) 2. Leftist ignore context for Israeli actions such as putting up roadblocks in hopes of stopping suicide bombers yet reverse the cause and effect to make it appear that Israeli roadblocks caused the bombings 3. Leftists condemn Israeli operations such as Summer Rains and Cast Lead, but remained silent over the years rocket attacks were conducted on Israeli civilians. 4. Many Leftists (not all but the lefter of the left) condemned Israeli soldiers for Muslims violence on the Mavi Marmara The conclusion is the left calls itself pro-peace of pro human rights, but is actually nothing but pro-violence on Jews, pro-terrorists and pro-Israeli ethnic cleansing of Jews. Never once did they condemn the Arabs for their actions and never once did they condemn calling for the ethnic cleaning of Jews based solely on their ethnicity.

Monitor their actions, and prove antisemitism, and racism against Jews and Israel. if they do not come out against the murders, racism and other acts being perpretrated against arabs by their government and military; then take them to court and shut down their offices.

How nice to live in your moral universe where all of us Jews of the zionist left are self hating fools and fifth columnists, all arabs are terrorists, the behavoir of our leaders and the IDF is always wise and impeccable (except when they show signs of compromise), and the whole world is against us while all Jews east of the green line are above average in all they do. Sort of like a Lake Wobegon of virtue. Brothers and sisters, chevra: we disagree profoundly but neither side has a total monopoly on our love for our people or even our connection to the land -- and neither side knows for certain the way out of our abyss of perpetual war and the occupation of another people. I and many of my friends on the left, despite our different solutions to thie situation, know your dreams and feel your pain and frustration. Perhaps a better dialog would get us to a better place.

Why do you criticize the poor leftist's souls? They want to be more compassionate than G-d himself and as blind as people)))))

Leftists have never had brains, you are the role model to that

No, you cannot but you somehow believe Bedouins have the right to take whatever land they want as their own, from the State and its 7 million citizens collectively. Doesn't work that way in a democracy, my friend. It only goes to prove the author's point. The Left claim high-moral ground and laws as justification for its agenda, until it needs to break the laws and act immoral by treading on other persons' rights.

when such an article with "little-to-no substance" will usually land a person w full-time role at the New York Times.