Israel’s Assault on the Gaza Flotilla

By Herbert p. Bix, ZNet, June 7, 2010

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Why does Israel have virtually no moral standing and legitimacy in the eyes of most of the world’s citizens–except in the United States, where the Obama administration, the congress, the Israel lobby, and the media defend its policies and promulgate its lies?  What psychological attributes do the leaders of these two nuclear powers share that put them so out of sync with all the rest? A quick glance at Israel’s behavior in 2009 and 2010 suggests some answers.

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