Germans and Israel: 60 Years of a Neurotic Obsession
Germans once fixated on all they saw as good in the Israeli state. Now they fixate on all they imagine as evil.
In 2003 the European Commission sponsored an opinion poll whose results imply that Israel must be some sort of superpower — at any rate, in the eyes of German television viewers.
Germans are incessantly preoccupied by the small Mediterranean country. But the activities of a few ostentatious and kitschy “philosemites” like Lea Rosh, one of the principal promoters of Berlin’s gigantic Holocaust Memorial, have evidently not had the desired effect. There has long existed in Germany a sort of parallel world of uplifting speeches about Israel, on the one hand — and then, on the other hand, there is this: the poll in question showed that some 65% of Germans feel themselves threatened by Israel. (Another 45% feel threatened by the USA.)
How can that be? Threatened by such a small country with only six million inhabitants: about the size of the German state of Hesse?
The German satirist Wiglaf Droste once rightly said that by “freedom of speech” many Germans understand finally being allowed to say something negative about Jews and Israel again. And thus in the German context the real subject of many stories relating to Israel is just how one can go about doing this.
Germans are obsessed with the issue. Even a master thinker like the political commentator Heribert Prantl of Germany’s bestselling broadsheet, Die Süddeutsche Zeitung, cannot let go of the subject. In 2006, during the Israel-Hezbollah war, Prantl showed how it can be done: namely, by asserting that one cannot say anything against Israel — in order then to do so at great length.
“Bombs falling on Beirut, war in the Gaza Strip, a hundred thousand refugees. What criticism of Israel and how much criticism is permitted in Germany these days?”
Of course, all criticism is permitted. It is only that people like Prantl are always holding themselves back (happily), in order then at some point to out themselves as heroic rebels fighting against their authentic selves and to declare their own inner struggle as universal.
Prantl forms part of a long tradition of German reflection on Israel, which once upon a time started out in a quite different vein. But no matter what the tenor was, Israel was always the object of all sorts of projections. When Germans talk about Israel, they are always only talking about themselves.
Until well into the 1960s, Israel had an ecstatically positive image in West Germany: it was the land of pioneers and Kibbutzim. Germans — the original fans of cooperative arrangements — found this appealing.
The military played a particular role in this fascination. With their own curious army (as one common joke among the ranks put it: “The Bundeswehr exists in order to hold off the enemy until a real army comes”), Germans felt themselves curiously attracted by the heroic deeds of precisely a real army: namely, the Israeli army.
In 1967, the German weekly Der Spiegel wrote enthusiastically about “Israel’s Blitzkrieg”: “By virtue of an exemplary demonstration of iron-willed soldierly virtues — for Germans always the most impressive of all qualities — they captured the hearts of the very nation in whose name all Jews were supposed once to be exterminated. In contrast to the German master race, Jews of all people — whom German Nazis regarded as cowardly, lazy, and decadent — won a war for the third time against an overwhelmingly superior force.”
This view was in fact widespread back then in a Germany where the “economic miracle” was losing steam and that projected its own military fantasies on the mini-state on the Mediterranean.
The same sort of projection exists still today. Thus in a recent interview with the German edition of Vanity Fair, Ulrich K. Wegener, a former commander of Germany’s GSG-9 anti-terror unit, claims that the Israeli Army studied and adopted the guerrilla tactics of the Wehrmacht’s “Brandenburg” special unit — a fact that was supposed indeed to speak for the quality of the Nazi paramilitary formation.
(Implicit in similar remarks made by more malicious spirits than Wegener is the idea that Nazis and Israelis are hardly distinguishable and that the Palestinians are the “Jews of the Jews” — as it used to be put in left-wing terrorist circles in the 1970s.)
The enthusiasm for Israel (which was also apparent in the popularity of Israeli artists like Abi and Esther Ofraim or Daliah Lavi) reached a high point in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the same time, however, a new tone began to be heard. First emerging on the far left, it has come in the meanwhile to express the repressed, but quietly festering sentiment of many Germans.
The sympathy for the Kibbutz-nation was driven out by a sort of new version of the ideal of the “noble savage” as embodied in the oppressed Palestinians (and later too Latinos and Kurds).
The Palestinian scarf became fashionable. Already in the sixties, the “alternative scene” leftist, Dieter Kunzelmann, suggested that Germans had to get over their “tick about the Jews.” He and his comrades thought they could do this, for instance, by putting a bomb in the Jewish community center in West Berlin.
Of course, the majority of Germans are not so radical. But they are, nonetheless, preoccupied by this “tick about the Jews” — of which they themselves show symptoms and whose treatment they obviously consider to be urgent.
A German neurosis. A neurosis that consists, for instance, in the fact that in Germany no country is criticized so harshly as Israel — and then at the same time Germans complain that “one is not allowed to say anything negative about Israel.”
A neurosis that consists in the fact that Heribert Prantl of Die Süddeutsche Zeitung can set off some of the classic pyrotechnics from the anti-Semitic arsenal — so long as they are just slightly repackaged as anti-Israeli rather than anti-Semitic. For example, the standard charge that Jews are responsible for creating their own enemies. One does not need to draw on any negative anti-Semitic “associations,” Prantl claims, “in order to criticize Israel’s aggression against Lebanon, which will prove to be a help to Hezbollah’s recruitment efforts. One may, indeed one must deplore the fact that Israel is rearing its own enemies and helping to make a murderous conflict eternal.”
Israel’s aggression? In fact it was the other way around: Israel was attacked. But no: Israel has, of course, to be held responsible.
Prantl continues: “In combating Islamist fanaticism, Israel’s self-fanaticization is no help. The right to self-defense cannot lead to international norms, like that of the protection of the civilian population, being suspended.”
“Israel’s self-fanaticization”? One needs to savor this defamatory coinage by Die Süddeutsche Zeitung’s amateur psychologist.
Needless to say, Prantl’s remarks were met with applause at the time. In fact, not just applause — rapturous applause.
This is probably of no concern to Israelis. They are used to it. Unlike Germans, who spend the whole day thinking about Israel, Israelis do not spend the whole day thinking about Germany.
It is similar with Americans, who could not care less about Germany and are more likely to show interest in Asia than in messed-up Europe.
Israelis would rather spend their time developing software and conducting research on biotechnologies, an area in which the country is among the world leaders.
And here in Germany, we will spend another 60 years obsessing over the question: “What may — no — what must we be permitted to say against Israel?”
Well, have fun with your ruminations — but I want nothing to do with them.
Happy Birthday Israel!
The above article first appeared in German on the author’s Vanity Fair blog here. The English translation is by John Rosenthal.
CORRECTION: The article intially stated that Brandeburg was a SS unit; it was a Wehrmacht special unit.
Jost Kaiser writes for the German edition of Vanity Fair magazine.
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1. Don:The Brandenburg Regiment was a Special Operations element that was nominally part a of “Heer” (the German Army) under the Wehrmacht. It actually worked (somewhat exclusively) for the Abwehr (the German intelligence service) under Admiral Canaris. It was NOT an SS unit (though I’m sure there are occasions where they worked with the SS).
The Germans are conflicted in many aspects. The perception of anything akin to “National Pride” is considered “inappropriate” and suspect (I was at the HofBrau Haus in Munich when the subject of German history came up, I happened to say that Rommel, Von Manstein, etc were “Outstanding soldiers” some Germans aghast said “Dass darf man nicht sagen!” one should not say that!, when I asked why, the reply was the same . . .). A aery creative dynamic people with a self loathing streak (and we think our Liberals hate themselves!!) a mile long (or is it 1.7 Kilometers?).
Jun 4, 2008 - 4:20 am 2. David P:Israel fights to defend itself against a backdrop of relentless aggression from 100’s of millions of its neighbors which have pledged and attempted to destroy the tiny Jewish nation time and again over the past 60 years. The Germans of all people should understand what it means to be hunted in your own land, as they hunted us to near extinction a few decades ago. If they find it hard to contain themselves from criticism of Israel, I’m not surprised, as the Jew-hating gene is a prevalent as ever in their biological make-up. Shame, remorse, humility are all temporary feelings which can easily whither away evolving into cynicism and contempt.
Jun 4, 2008 - 6:02 am 3. jost kaiser:1. The reason why Rommel is not seen here as a hero is, because if he would have been sucessful, the german army would have beaten the english army, who was fighting a just war.
The Wehrmacht was fighting an unjust war.
You cannot divide strategic abilities from the aim that you have. The aim of the Wehrmacht was occupation of half of the world.
2. I believe we have our national pride. Just watch TV during the football european championships. We maybe do not believe that our land is the home of the brave. But our land is the home of midfielder and scorer Michael Ballack. Fear us!
But I think of course we should be a little more pathetic about our national symbols, as the “Bundesrepublik” is a real sucess story.
Jun 4, 2008 - 6:53 am 4. Anonymous:http://www.pi-news.net/2008/06/die-tradition-des-islamischen-antisemitismus/
Jun 4, 2008 - 7:38 am 5. vb:Jost, the problem I see is that everytime thoroughly healthy pride (such as the WM flags) is expressed, there is alwys a group of gutmenschen that tries to supress it.
Jun 4, 2008 - 8:18 am 6. Bulgaricus:Fascinating article with a lot of truth in it. Being of German heritage, I found a lot to agree with. Yet, methinks deep down that most Germans have a through dislike of Isreal & Jews. No, they do not hate them, but they sure don’t like ‘em. Several years ago, we became friends of a consular officer of the German Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Nice guy & we taught his daughter. But he hated Jews.
Frankly, the German nation is completely neurotic. They obsess about their past, can’t get past it & have become a nation of wimpy pacifists. Heck, if there was a war between Germany & Vatican City, I’d bet my life on the Vatican.
Geeze, my dead great granny could kick the Bundeswehr’s butt w/ one hand tied behind her back.
And, as someone mentioned, they can’t see anything good or honorable in their own troops or soldiers of WWII. You simply cannot give a professional complement on Rommel or anyone else or they think you are a closet nazi.
All that aside, though, the real Jew haters in the world, aside from the Arabs, are the Russians. I have never seen such viceral hatred of Jews from anyone but them. Long tradition of centuries of attacks & persecution against the Jews.
Me? I’ll take the German neurosis about the Jews & Isreal over the Russian’s relationship w/ ‘em anyday.
But I sure do wish that the Germans would get over it as well as their part in WWII.
Look, Germany was de-nazified over 50 years ago. There are no statues of Himmler, Hitler et al, in Germany. But just look at post Communist nations. Statues of Commies everywhere & tons of unrepentant Communists in their governments. Yeah, I digress, but this is a huge problem & Germany sure doesn’t have it.
Jun 4, 2008 - 8:50 am 7. Errol Smythe:Israel had the Masada complex in history books but in these end times they have the Samson Complex and so God Himself will step in otherwise all flesh will be lost .God Himself will fight and destroy the gathering of all ungodly apostate nations that would think evil in their hearts and go against His Holy WORD and go against Israel. The Lord God, the Creator of Heaven and earth rememners His Covenant to Isael and willnot and cannot forget nor forsake Israel .The godless apostate nations that seek to gather against Israel will perish in the valley of Meggido in the battle of ARMAGEDDON.(Zechariah Chapter 14 ).
Jun 4, 2008 - 9:32 am 8. bjamnjm:Israel has nothing to fear. America stands by it now and forever.God bless Isarael and God bless America. Errol Smythe.
I am 1/2 German, 1/2 Czech and an unrepentent United States citzen. I am very proud of my heritage. Once someone told me being Czech was cool but being German was scary. I’m proud of my German heritage.
I’ve studied as much history as possible understanding what led to WWI and WWII. Their causes were quite different. Germany got hosed after WWI despite not starting it they were left to pay all reparations mostly b/c they were the strongest axis power and held out the longest. The German people should feel no shame about that war.
WWII started for different reasons. The country was hopelessly in debt and it is very easy to see how someone like Hitler could come along, stir up pride that hasn’t been there in a long time and before you know it you’re at war.
The German people should no longer feel badly about WWII. Those responsible were dealt with long ago. There is nothing wrong with being proud of or respecting the abilities of “The Desert Fox”. The German army fought bravely and was considered the best soldiers in military history. You should respect that and seek to emulate it today but for better reasons. We will all be at war with the Muslims and Russians soon enough.
The same thing as happened to German from mid ’20s through late ’30s could easily happen right here in the US. All it takes is a hopeless population and a good public speaker with wrong intentions. Sure we have a moral obligation to resist but this is hard to do practically as those who resist are usually dealt with swiftly and with deadly force.
Someone previously mentioned the Russians. I agree, the Russians and Chinese have a far more dark history than Germany. Stalin and Mao murdered thousands, millions(?) of their own countrymen. It doesn’t justify what the Nazis did to the Jews but their actions aren’t alone in their insanity.
Again, I am proud of my German heritage, I am proud to be a US citizen. I can’t imagine Germany needing to fear the US for any reason. The US and Germany should grow closer. There are many in the US with German heritage. The US and all European countries should assist and protect Israel as they are the only nation to fearlessly take on the Muslim hoards and win.
Thanks.
Jun 4, 2008 - 9:34 am 9. david levavi:The Jew looms large in Christian imagination–German, Russian and all others–because the Jew plays so large a role in Christian myth.
Jesus the Jew is the embodiment of all that is good. Judas the Jew, the embodiment of all that is bad. All the characters in the Christian drama are outsize. And almost all are Jews.
Jews don’t loom nearly so large in the Indian or Chinese imagination. This is because Hinduism and Buddhism owe nothing to Judaism. Only the billions who follow faiths directly derivative of Judaism hate Jews. AntiSemitism is a byproduct of supercession.
Jun 4, 2008 - 10:04 am 10. Michael W. Perry:I quote bjamnjn: “I’ve studied as much history as possible understanding what led to WWI and WWII. Their causes were quite different. Germany got hosed after WWI despite not starting it they were left to pay all reparations mostly b/c they were the strongest axis power and held out the longest.”
You’ve obviously not studied much history. Events in the Balkans and some nasty behavior by Austria-Hungary may have been the cause of the war, but the war began when Germany attacked France through Belgium.No Belgian invasion, no war. No one at that time debated that. They quarreled over whether Germany was justified in starting the war because Russia had mobilized its huge army, threatening it in the East.
I quote again: “The same thing as happened to German from mid ’20s through late ’30s could easily happen right here in the US. All it takes is a hopeless population and a good public speaker with wrong intentions.”
No it couldn’t. The U.S. simply doesn’t have the numerous cultural pathologies that haunted Germany at that time, pathologies that were frequently discussed then and best expressed by G. K. Chesterton, who warned during WWI that if Europe did not force Germany to change, within a generation the nation would start another and still more horrible war. In 1932, he went still further and warned that Germany would soon acquire a dictator and that the next war would break out over a border dispute with Poland, precisely what happened in 1939.
In Germany, the Great Depression produced militarism. In Britain it produced appeasement. In the US it produced isolationism. Each was an expression of national character at that time. No “good public speaker” could have led the U.S. to launch wars of aggression. It took FDR’s considerable powers as a speaker and a politician merely to get the US into a just war in defense of democracy, and even he needed Pearl Harbor.
Like people, who have a character that determines what they will and will not do, nations have an underlying culture that determines how they act in the world for good or ill. The horrors of WWI and WWI were expressions of German culture, not merely the result of an unfortunate series of events. Chesterton explain that quite well. Read the collection of his articles on war that I edited if you want to know more.
–Michael W. Perry, editor of Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II.
Jun 4, 2008 - 10:47 am 11. Don:Respect in the honor, expertise and accomplishment of individual soldiery (whatever the political climate) is a time honored characteristic, the Romans respected Hannibal, All respected Lee, Napoleon was admired (and emulated) by most of his opponents. The Nazis were an aberration built by the circumstances of the end of WW! (circumstances we seemed doomed to repeat by the actions of that idiot Bremer).
Attacking or defending, advancing or retreating in victory or defeat the German soldiery inflicted casualty levels of 8 to 1 against their opponents. Say what you will (deservedly) about Hitler and his cabal, but give the German soldier his due. Remember one thing about that statistic, it says nothing about the “politics”, what is does say is much about the depth of talent, and the loyalty (which at the sharp end is loyalty to ones buddies) that the institution had.
They were great Soldiers and there is no shame in admitting that (at the same time as denouncing the NAZIS and the institutions they created for mass extermination).
Israel pounding is a European tradition since the war. The Jews had the effrontery (for some) of surviving and flourishing. Where this “anti Israel” bias comes from is in the petty jealousy of the “progressive” left (who kept secret their yearning for a more united Socialist Europe even if under the Soviets).
Jun 4, 2008 - 11:35 am 12. Elle:Europe,and Germany in particular, has a long tradition of anti-semitism. However with the influx of millions of Muslims to Europe the bigotry and hate taught in the Mosques have inflamed Western Christian nations nnot only against Jews but even against their own Christian values and traditions. Europe now appologizes to and appeases its own avowed enemies.
Jun 4, 2008 - 12:42 pm 13. jost kaiser:I have to remarks to make:
1) There is no such thing as a supression of patriotism in Germany by “Gutmenschen” (people who argue politically correct). I am so bored by this argument. It is repeated again and again but its absolutley not true. It is a conspiracy theory by people who habe an obsession with the so called “68er” (liberals) The discussion about what german patriotism could look like occurs every two years an it is the most boring discussion you could imagine.
Let the people decide, and they have decided: they waved german flags during the Soccer World Championships in Germany two years ago, but they would never use this flags celebrating the day of german unity (October 3rd, comparable to your July 4th). You cannot force people to feel patriotic. They will do that for themselves. I repeat: The Bundesrepublik (Federal Republic) is a success story. I like this country. Many enjoy its benefits, though they wouldn’t name this enjoyment “patriotism”. The problem is, that these people do not feel the threat of this liberal society by ne totalitarism like radical islam.
2) In the past Germans acted aggressively and went to war. Now they don’t go to war (well, a little, in Afghanistan) but they still want to heal the whole world. They believe they have learnde their lesson, they became pacifists, now the rest of the world has to learn from us.
Jun 4, 2008 - 1:19 pm 14. Johanna:It is still agressive. It is an aggressive pacifism. In New York I lately saw a lady with an button that had the claim “I am not at war” on it. I first believed, it was an eastcoast liberal. But then I found out it was a german lady.#
It was a painful idea, that a german lady runs through the street of NYC teaching the bad guys, the Americans a lesson. The lesson how bad they are. Disgusting.
In Germany, we do have the leftist antisemites.
However, please do not generalize. Not “every German” thinks and feels that way.
I sympathize with Israel being constantly threatened by Islamists.
Jun 4, 2008 - 1:53 pm 15. King Abdul of Eurabia:Bulgaricus “Look, Germany was de-nazified over 50 years ago. There are no statues of Himmler, Hitler et al, in Germany. But just look at post Communist nations. Statues of Commies everywhere & tons of unrepentant Communists in their governments. Yeah, I digress, but this is a huge problem & Germany sure doesn’t have it.”
I disagree. Germany is de-nazified but it has not gotten over its communist past. In east Germany there are still statues of Marx and streets named after him.
They even have the old communist party of east germany (SED “Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands” now named “Die Linke” ‘the left’ in english.) in their national parliament, and many federal state parliaments.
I hope for Germany that they somehow get rid of their socialist cancer.
Lucky for Germany, the left in germany is splitted into three partys of which Die Linke is the leftmost (together they have roughly one half of the vote, the other half have the two, more or less, conservative partys), and it is still an affront to the general public to work with Die Linke on a national level, or, in west germany, on a state level.
Jun 4, 2008 - 2:00 pm 16. David P:Jost you claim in your argument that Germans, in general have evolved, and wish to extol upon humanity the great wisdom gained from Germanic experience:
“they still want to heal the whole world. They believe they have learnde their lesson, they became pacifists, now the rest of the world has to learn from us.”
If this is the case, why isn’t Germany taking a greater stand against nations who vocally & actively pursue & advocate yet another holocaust against the Jews? If Germany has blossomed into such a “learndne” nation, why do they legitimize these hostile countries with business arrangements & trade agreements, instead of providing them with much needed lectures on coexistence and pacifism?
Jun 4, 2008 - 4:46 pm 17. narciso:Did Ulrich forget that the lead trainer for most Israelis in the Palmach,(the predecessor to the Army) was Orde Wingate, an Englishman.
Jun 4, 2008 - 7:38 pm 18. Germans and Israel « 沈匿名:IS he trying to expiate the guilt about how German police were unable to protect the athletes at Munich; that was the major impetus
for the creation of GSG-9 correct. The irony continues in the fact, that many of the PLO
cadres at Munich and other events were trained
by either Egyptian or Syrian security services; (ie; Ali Hassan Salameh, the red prince) and they were in turn advised by German expatriates like Alois Brunner, and Fritz Buench; who were in turn working for the BND.
[...] 5 June 2008 Or perhaps more aptly, the enduring respectability of anti-Semitism in Europe. Germans and Israel: 60 Years of a Neurotic Obsession [...]
Jun 4, 2008 - 8:38 pm 19. Don:I doubt that Gehlen (the BND) would have much to do with ideological/real enemies (which Brunner most assuredly was as a denizen of the Gestapo and member of the Allgemeine SS). Gehlen’s Boss was Canaris (of the Abwehr) who was part of the conspiracy against Hitler (and was executed). The reason Brunner and Buench were working with the Pan-Arab Fascist movement lies in the tight relationship the NAZI’s had with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who was an eager if not so successful ally). If the Germans had more appreciation for the facts of their history (and the context within which Salafist radicalism grew) they might have a different picture of who their real threats are. Al Queda (and it’s Shia equivalents) were inspired by the Mufti . . .Iran? = “Land of the Aryans” . . . what political movement would inspire a name like that?
Jun 5, 2008 - 5:15 am 20. jost kaiser:I talked to Wegener, he was deeply depressed and ashamed by the desaster of munich. That was an honest emotion. But he’s a man of the military, who always tend to feel supressed by political correctnes. He thinks that the Brandenburg Unit has to be honoured for theit tactital abilities.
So he’s a strange man: attracted by German Miltarism and at the same time friend of Israel.
Jun 5, 2008 - 1:19 pm 21. narciso:I understand he probably meant it as a compliment, in so far as Israeli military is much more focused than the Arab military. It does seem curious since Munich in ‘72, that Germany attracks more Arab and Islamist militants; the RAF role in Mogadishu, the
Jun 5, 2008 - 7:06 pm 22. Don:Frankfort contingent for Pan Am 103, the Hamburg cell; which included KSM at one point.
There is a great deal of difference (and not “Nuances”) between SS units (some of which participated in “Einsatzgruppen” atrocities), and the Brandenburg Regiment. One was the military arm of a political movement, the other? A highly trained (and motivated) special operations unit that conducted direct action (raids, etc), intelligence operations, guerrilla and counter guerilla operations in every theatre (usually independently and quite far behind enemy lines) the Germans operated in, some of these small units were active deep within the Soviet Union for quite a time after the end of WW2. Wegener is quite not off base when he remarked that some of the SO knowledge base for the Israelis (as well as for most of the professional armies) comes from lessons learned by units like the BR (and the OSS, and the SOE) during the most costly war in history.
Jun 6, 2008 - 10:00 am 23. jost kaiser:I’m sorry, I was wrong with saying Brandeburg was a SS-Unit.
Jun 7, 2008 - 2:45 am 24. anonymous:Maybe the webmaster can correct this into “Wehrmacht Special Unit” so that we can end this discussion.
All military units of the SS and even the Wehrmacht were involved in the Holocaust.I am here to post a few links;
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