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Created on: January 18, 2009

David Brooks tells us in the NYTimes that Israel is in a psychological war with HAMAS. And, a Norwegian physician treating Palestinian war victims in Gaza describes the use by the Israelis of new and illegal weapons. Max Blumenthal in the HUFFINGTON POST describes the claims of Zionist American pundits on how good are Israel's assaults on Gaza and how this is withering away US support for Israel.

All in all, we are seeing a seismic shift in the moral standing of a nation that is really not a nation because it has no recognized borders, being in constant violent expansion and so refusing to define its limits. A noted Israeli political theorist once concluded that, as a result of no defined borders and consequent non-recognition of this expanding state by its neighbors, it cannot call itself a nation. So, a fetus of a nation on a very richly $$$ supplied American placenta, Israel has had the illusion that it is bound by no law either of physics or man. Even in response to American Jews that risk their own American standing in support of Israel, the Jerusalem Govt insisted since 2001 that these are foreigners and should mind their own business as Israel does whatever it wants. Yet, Israel is a helpless fetus on an American cash placenta supplying it billions of dollars a year.

And today, Israel is swinging between the Nazi Lebensraum thesis and the Holocaust victim due from the world reparations- cash for moral hazard- as it perpetrates war crimes for which, in the past, others have been hung.

The question is: does Israel do all this for "existential survival"?

The answer obviously is NO, particularly as TV news footage of the combat was interspersed with "shalom" appeals for tourism to Israel at this very time. Rather, numerous analysts in Israel and abroad define Israel's real existential problems as two:

1) Young Israelis, once educated, "sneak out" of Israel to take offers of jobs abroad that pay well in recognition of the high quality of Israeli education;

2) Diaspora Jews who have something to contribute to Israel refuse to move there. For example, Israel feels no compunction about advertising to American Jewish doctors- DESPITE AMERICA'S DESPERATE SHORTAGE- to "make the aliyah" to Israel, offering them all sorts of grants and fees at US taxpayers' expense (Ha'aretz). Yet, only older Diaspora Jews, in the main, retire to Israel; however, invariably, they leave in disgust as their pensions are exhausted on high taxes.

Today, "settlements" sneak out over Palestinian

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