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Culled from BBC online
I say it again, the state of Israel is a racist state and it should be
recognised as exactly that!
If the Arabs cannnot have their fundamental rights respected, and the world
would forever close their eyes,plug their ears to their pleas for help and shut
their gubs on condemning their daily nightmare, then i urge them to wear the
belts and blow themselves up and in the process take along as many of the
zionist dogs as they possibly could, after all they do not have a super power
arming them with the latest mod-cons of warfare and having that state's law
makers out-sharoning each other on what the israelis should do to further
humiliate and subjugate the Palestinians. Tear their hearts out, even if you
have to do it with your bare hands.

Regards
Manneh
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Israel's Arabs: Enemies within?

By BBC News Online's Martin Asser
The latest Intifida is more than a year old now, with its established rituals
of stone-throwing and sudden, violent death.


While it has been mostly able to contain Palestinian unrest inside the occupied
territories, the last thing Israel needed was to have to face another front in
its own heartlands

 But alongside the Palestinian uprising, a new and possibly more ominous
phenomenon for Israel has reared its head.

Soon after the Intifada began, first blood was also drawn between Israeli Jews
and Israeli Arabs (the Palestinians who did not flee their homes when Israel
was established in 1948).

The two communities had coexisted with little of the rancour characterising
other Arab-Israeli relationships.

But in the last year, battles have raged between Arab and Jewish civilians in
Galilee and in mixed towns on the Mediterranean coast.

Jewish mobs, chanting "Death to the Arabs", have burned tyres and attacked Arab
properties in Tel Aviv. There have been reports of Arabs being stabbed in Bat
Yam, riots in Acre.

'Fifth column'

For the Israeli Government, whose language has always been focused on ending
the violence in the Palestinian territories, dealing with this new phenomenon
has become a priority.

"I call on all Israeli citizens to refrain from violence," former Prime
Minister Ehud Barak said in a special televised appeal to shore up Jewish-Arab
coexistence within Israel's 1948 borders.


He went on to say that the Arab minority - making up about 20% of Israel's
population - deserved special protection under the Jewish rule, as the Jews
were "a nation that experienced much suffering as a minority".

Mr Barak's solicitude towards this minority reflected a long-held Israeli
anxiety that the Arab minority might become "Palestinianised" and eventually
prove to be a fifth column - or an internal security risk.

While it has been mostly able to contain Palestinian unrest inside the occupied
territories, the last thing Israel needed was another front in its own
heartlands.

But now it is facing a wave of Arab-Israeli protest, a reaction to historic
prejudices and inequalities experienced in the Jewish state, as well as
feelings of solidarity with their brethren in the occupied territories.

Ugly attacks

Jewish Israelis may have been shocked by the banner of revolt being raised
by "our Arabs", and the Jew-on-Arab violence that followed proved it.

The trigger for Jews may have been the abandonment by Israeli forces of a
controversial Jewish shrine in the West Bank town of Nablus, and its subsequent
ransacking by angry Palestinians.

Their first target was an abandoned mosque in Tiberias; after that came the
most serious clashes, in Nazareth, when two Arabs were killed by a Jewish mob.

Meanwhile, in the occupied territories Palestinians and Jewish settlers have
also exchanged tit-for-tat acts of brutality.

These and the memory of other recent events will be a hurdle for peaceful
coexistence for a long time in the future.

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