<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<div class="wpcom-reblog-snapshot"> <div class="reblog-post"><p class="reblog-from"><img alt='' src='https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/7ca7586b9b38849e41f3d521048ff853?s=32&#038;d=identicon&#038;r=G' class='avatar avatar-32' height='32' width='32' /><a href="https://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/israel-on-the-brink-of-certified-madness/">Desertpeace</a></p><div class="reblogged-content">
<p><em>Spending a week in Israel these days is like being trapped within a scene from the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.</em></p>

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<h1 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#808000;"><strong>Israel rides the rollercoaster of mass hysteria</strong></span></h1>

<div>Ilan Pappe*</div>

<div><div><div><div><div><img src="http://electronicintifada.net/sites/electronicintifada.net/files/styles/large/public/120417-netanyahu-obama.jpg"><div><p>The US continues to indulge Netanyahu’s manufactured hysteria. (<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/people/pete-souza">Pete Souza</a> / <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/people/white-house-photo">White House Photo</a>)</p></div></div></div></div><p>Spending a week in Israel these days is like being trapped within a scene from the movie <em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest</em>.</p><p>Like Jack Nicholson in the lead role of that classic film, you might not be insane but the doctors and nurses who run the psychiatric ward manufacture every few minutes a collective hysteria to keep everyone in the grip of fear and hatred. Everyone is an enemy, every a visitor an existential threat.</p><p>A retired French activist in her sixties — part of the most recent <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/welcome-palestine-2012">Welcome to Palestine fly-in</a> — is met in the airport by…</p></div></div>
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