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The Israeli newspaper Haaretz, quoting statements from the State Department, indicated that the US would not back Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand for this recognition. of course this demand for being recognized as jewish, and therefore somehow as validating their right to continue their oppression of non-jewish (read: palestinian) citizens living on their land under a brutal colonial regime, is also used to leverage their right to be free of all criticism because it better facilitates their conflation of anti-zionism or critiques of their state to anti-semitism. one example of that is the fact that in spite of removing all of the platform issues on palestine from the world conference against racism, the zionist entity, the united states, canada and now austria, and holland are boycotting the durban 2 conference in geneva this week. fabulous nora barrows-friedman explains the context of the removal of palestine from the conference agenda in electronic intifada:

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Posted on April 7, 2009 by marcy / مارسي newman / نيومان there are certain journalists i want to clone: jonathan cook is one. nora barrows-friedman is another. jeremy scahill is another. i have been ketir frustrated by the reports on barack obama's visit to turkey and the way in which people in this region are so easily duped again. what is it about hungry people who need to jump at the slightest sight of a crumb? how is it possible that empty words about islam can make people think that somehow obama gave a great speech? people who make speeches full of empty words are not great orators. they are great manipulators at best. just look at one example of this that people seem to be salivating over:

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