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Israel’s siege mentality
Chanan Naveh
Published: 14.09.11, 23:46
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31. State funded Sapir College in Sderot, where dear
tanya ,   tel aviv israel   (09.15.11)
author lectures, is well known for it's anti-Israeli activity. Last April left mazohists organised "Hamas week" there.
32. NO! No, she is not plain wrong!
Gábor Fränkl   (09.15.11)
She is just a base, petty traitor. Everyone sees it.
33. A question to Miss Naveh and her colleagues, chief/rector
Gábor Fränkl   (09.15.11)
so you won't mind then if I will work towards your boycott and possibly choke of funds for your criminal transgressions through legal means and hopefully one day you 'll find yourselves out on the streets, right?
34. The scare tactis is a mind control measure
Josh   (09.15.11)
At the base of mind control is the idea that all outsiders must be shun and are a danger. Understand it is not to punish the outsider, but rather to imprison the followers. Abraham had non-jewish friends and no one lost his "Jewishness" as the Rabbis would say, in his family. It is not because Israel is free that this mentality is perpetuated but because they are oppressed from within. The tents prove it. The vitamin P proves it. The ruling elitist families proves it. The game is spook the child that monsters are under the bed and he will stay in bed as instructed.
35. #16, Terry. "Help! Rape! - Zionism-Israel Web-Log."
tanya ,   tel aviv israel   (09.15.11)
There you find this "famous study" by another Left pervert.
36. Let see if I get this
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (09.15.11)
Just because every country around us has attempted multiple times to invade and kill everybody here, we have become paranoid. Exactly when was the last Arab attack, 5 or 10 minutes ago and you can read this at anytime in our history and the answer is the same. Yes our neighbors want to commit genocide and the world is funding the terrorists to do it. They proclaim their intent every single day. All one has to do is listen. Guess that is too much to expect from a 'professor' of communications.
37. A syndrome? No,a reality...they want to exterminate Jew...
Anna M Sedda ,   Rome-Italy   (09.15.11)
....until the last one!!!!! And this will be until the End of Ages... So Israel has to show endurance;who last will win and live... Who think is winning now,will loose... To all losers:you think your are winning...
38. Paranoia?
Randy ,   Austin, USA   (09.15.11)
We have a saying, "Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that people are not out to get you!" Sometimes paranoia is enlightened self-interest!
39. paranoid
dan kaplan ,   usa   (09.15.11)
any jew who is not paranoid is either stupid or crazy. hanan - stand up and be counted.
40. No more Masada Syndrome, BIG ISRAEL only real option left.
Jerry ,   The Netherlands   (09.15.11)
41. # 12
Dan ,   USA   (09.16.11)
Honey bunny ? Wow, you must really like me, my wife doesn't even call me that. On the serious note that you bring up, I hope that you are correct, but I somehow fear "never again" may not be the slogan of Israel's new generation of citizens and leaders. Just look at Livni, and there are many more like her, she would lay in the dirt with any Arab dog rather than fight to the death.
42. # 14
Dan ,   USA   (09.16.11)
Gabriel, you are correct, every country does need academics to prosper, however I stand by what I said and that is the academics will be the first to be slaughtered when their forward looking country is defeated by backward Islamists.. I might add that here in the United States our academics in the colleges and universities are overwhelmingly liberal and anti Israel and are passing this on to the liberal young masses who attend these places of higher learning.
43. To # 12
Yosef Y. PHD ,   Coral Gables, USA   (09.16.11)
Sara B, dear, Yishar Koach for a simple and most profound statement, for this is the truth - EMET LE AMITA. Samson Option is coming closer, every day - may the Almighty save the righteous. Amen For those unfamiliar, check the book by NYT correspondent Seymour Hirsch "The Samson Option.
44. The reality unfortunately is increasingly a seige situation
Shalom Freedman ,   Jerusalem Israel   (09.16.11)
The reality is that we are in a seige situation. Our neighbors or a good share of them wish to destroy us. We are the only country in the world which a very large bloc of countries the Islamic bloc aims to destroy. We have a Islamic Revolutionary regime in Iran calling for our destruction. The mobs in Cairo and in Gaza also do not exactly cheer our existence. This is reality not a 'mental complext'. The fact that the state of Israel has been in a seige more or less since its existence, and of course even before, is not because we wish this. Finally the belief that it is our conduct which is responsible for Erdogan's provocations, or for the Palestinian Arabs wish to wipe us from the map is simply wrong.
45. Massada C
Adam ,   London   (09.16.11)
46. Silly Psychobabble
Isaac Storm   (09.16.11)
I have never seen such silly psychobabble. I suppose this writer would tell Israel that the wars were a figment of Israel's imagination.
47. Piece of trash!
Maurice ,   Montreal   (09.16.11)
Hard to beleive a "Doctor" could write such rubbish! I would never send my kids to study under you. idiot!
48. Victims of crimes always want retribution and
Edithann ,   USA   (09.17.11)
their property back TATA
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