by Brian O'Rourke on January 11 2009, @08:13 pm Hello Adbusters, Has the State of Israel lost its collective mind? Or has it become the beast it despises? Considering the treatment of Jews during WW2, Israel's behaviour is akin to a victim of paedophilia growing up and becoming the high water mark for paedophile behaviour. The State of Israel and its successive Leaders' methods currently have as much in common with Robert Mugabe as it does with Theodore Herzl. With few exceptions, Israeli Leaders, from Ben-Gurion to Olmert, have succeeded in bastardising Zionism into a form of Ethnic Cleansing, and have encouraged such belligerence in Policy that it is now impossible not to see parallels between Israel's treatment of Arabs and the Nazi's treatment of Jews. Though there may be no extermination camps, what is the difference to an individual, whether they are gassed in a group by the SS in a camp in a State-run ghetto, or being blown up with your entire family by the IDF, in your house in a State-run ghetto. If Israel needs to find reasons why the World is sick of them viewing Arabs/Gentiles with suspicion, as well as exploiting the past to their own advantage, perhaps they should look at the ways their Government continues to play idiotic Clausewitzian end-games with their neighbours. Giving Israel the benefit of the doubt no longer makes any sense. Brian O'Rourke Melbourne Australia