Israel Imperial News Today
Laura Susijn
It's a shock to read the back issues of the Israel
Imperial News and it’s a shock to see in black and white the
Zionist attitude. That the commentary in these pages is full of
wit, intelligence and brilliant satire only makes the points being
made come across more clearly and powerfully. It's both depressing
and hopeful.
So little has changed within Israeli foreign policy
but the world seems to have at least taken on some of what the Israel
Imperial News was pointing out - some, not all - making it crucial
for people to read and reread these editions.
It is ever important for people to understand
the roots and base of Zionist thinking (not least because they are
echoed elsewhere), politicians may be more careful as to how they
express themselves nowadays but these pages give non-Hebrew readers
a rare chance to see the attitudes that underlie Zionist ideology
and allow a supposed democracy to behave in ways which seem incomprehensible
to most of us.
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