I've posted as Mike in all cases.
I have never screamed and left. I did make a personal attack for which you decided to block me. There is a difference though I realize the discerning distinctions is not your forte'.
I have responded to all counter arguments. Like I stated above there have been times when I responded only to see my post disappear after I pressed "submit comment", so don't take my laziness in trying to re-post as an excuse to "moderate" comments.

Apparently you don't ever listen to what hamas tells its own people. Here is Khaled Mashal the true leader of Hamas and other hamas leaderrs in their own words to their people. It is common for leaders in the muslim world to say one thing to western media and openly say another to their own people and their media. They do NOT do this covertly and this has been recorded.
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=palestinian&ID=SP221909

When you make the ignorant comment of grouping the american media and asking me if i understand something about it you show your lack of knowledge on the subject. The media in america is diverse, you have anarchist newspapers to leftist shows like democracy now and jim lehrer all the way to fox news and other media outlets on the right. Do not group american media into one entity and pass judgement. I try to listen to all of them to get a broad picture, including french, english, arab and israeli media outlets.

As for Norman Finklestein. I have actually heard him give a lecture live. After hearing his lecture i understood why the man could not hold a job in any university he applied for. Most recently De-Paul. Also, citing the fact that he is jewish does not give him credibility, which you seem to think it does.

Antisemitism was a term coined by Wilhelm Marr in 1873 of germany specifically in order to stop people from hating jews for religion reasons and to start hating them for ethnic reasons. What you are doing is just playing with semantics. You know exactly what the term refers to but you say it can't mean what it means because another group is semitic as well. If you don't like the word pick another i don't care, but we both know what we are talking about. Also, I never said a word about antisemitism in any of my comments below so i wonder why you bring it up.

I do know Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is against a two state solution. I never said the rightwing of israel was the best solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israel has not banned arabs from standing in the elections, which you claim, as is apparent from the many arab parties and arabs in them that were elected in the recent elections. There was an attempt by a few right wing parties to ban anti-israel parties which most of them happened to be arab. The attempt was was appealed by the supreme court. Your attempt at disinformation is pathetic.

In regards to the reports of abuses which were mostly hearsay -

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/middleeast/28israel.html?_r=1&hp

and if there were israeli soldiers who committed murder they should be tried and convicted, as were american soldiers who went on a shooting rampage in Iraq. Though if you had bothered to read the Haaretz article you would have come to the conclusion that the death of the woman was a mistake for taking a wrong turn in a time of war. There was no mention of a deliberate homicide as depicted in other media outlets who had the audacity to make false claims while at the same time sourcing the haaretz article