Chemi Shalev, an analyst with the Haaretz daily, noted: "After years that Israel has toiled to prevent the loaded term 'ethnic cleansing' from entering the Israeli-Palestinian lexicon, Netanyahu is now pushing it in himself, through the front door."

As a counter-video hurriedly produced by the Palestinian Authority pointed out, (in this video) Israel's founding fathers spoke out repeatedly in favour of ethnic cleansing.

Extending Netanyahu's logic, another commentator in Haaretz observed that, if Jews had an inviolable right to live on Palestinian land, why should Palestinians expelled in 1948 not have an equivalent right to live in their former homes now inside Israel, in cities like Haifa and Jaffa?

Netanyahu's claim not only shines an embarrassing light on Israel's past crimes. Palestinians are currently being driven off their land to allow for the expansion of Jewish-only settlements, with Israel demolishing Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and in West Bank communities, in the Hebron Hills and Jordan Valley.

It is doing the same to Palestinian citizens inside Israel. The homes of 1,000 Bedouin residents of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev are about to be demolished so that an exclusively Jewish town - also called Hiran - can be built in their place.

In short, ethnic cleansing - of the kind defined by international law - is very much an ongoing project by Israel.

Then there is the matter of the United States, Israel's patron. Netanyahu chose to issue his video in English, indicating that it was intended for a foreign as much as a domestic audience.

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Germany may be targeted by jihadists at any time with air, railway transport as well as crowded places such as fairs, markets and festivals being especially vulnerable to possible terror attacks, according to secret governmental report on domestic security.

The terrorist threat in Germany continues to increase and the country could be targeted any time, a secret governmental report on domestic security said as cited by a local newspaper Thursday.

"The Federal Republic of Germany is a declared and actual target for jihadists' violence. German agencies and interests are subjected to the hypothetical threat within the country as well as in other parts of the world," the Bild newspaper quoted the secret report prepared in June.

The paper said that there is the heightened risk that sympathizers of terrorist organizations that have no direct links to such groups may commit their own attacks.

According to the report, there is an almost uncalculated in the long term threat posed by jihadists, who left for Syria and Iraq and later returned in Germany.

The document concluded that Germany may be targeted at any time with air, railway transport as well as crowded places such as fairs, markets and festivals being especially vulnerable to possible terror attacks.

The report was prepared a month before Germany suffered a number of terror attacks in July.

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