Prominent ’Israeli’ Seeks Despicable Nazi Remedy for Palestinians

-- By F. Michael Maloof A Zionist commentator for the "Israeli" newspaper Haaretz has invoked the ominous specter of the Nazi past by calling on the "Israeli" government to undertake a "Lebensraum" policy of expanding the "living space" of the Zionist state to include what amounts to all of the territories that the Palestinians seek to create for their own nation-state, and then some. The appeal by Yossi Sarid in his Aug. 26 column of Haaretz echoes the despicable German concept of Lebensraum that reflected an expansionist effort by Nazi Germany under the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. Lebensraum was the most important German foreign policy goal under Adolf Hitler. The policy was designed to provide extra space for the growth of the German population for a "Greater Germany." It also carried ethnic and racial overtones that eyed the then Soviet Union for its extra space for growth of the German population because of its vast and rich agricultural land which Hitler also saw as being inhabited by Slavic Untermenschen, or sub-humans. Hitler's perception of history was that of a struggle between different races. Those races that possessed vast territory were innately stronger than those who did not. The Soviet Union was to become the breadbasket for Germany under the Lebensraum concept, but the Slavic peoples who populated the country would not be fed and would be allowed to starve to death toward extinction in order to preserve the German society. Sources say that despite the horrific treatment of the Jewish people at the hands of Nazi Germany in events leading up to and during World War II, Sarid's call for Lebensraum reflects current thinking of the Jewish state's leadership and has been an implicit policy followed ever since the June 1967 Six-Day War. Sarid bases his call for Lebensraum on lands which he says belong to the Jewish people through some biblical right. "According to the school of thought based on history and faith, the Land of Israel was received by the Jewish people from the hand of God, and we are commanded to take all of it by dint of the Covenant of the Pieces that God made with Abraham," Sarid wrote. "That was a nice big gift, we have to admit, stretching from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates," he said. "It was granted on various festive occasions not only to Abraham but to his heirs as well. Eventually it was forced to shrink, and now there is really no reason to shrink it further out of choice." These comments echo those of Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, in his Complete Diaries , Vol. II, p. 711. Herzl said that the area of the Jewish state would stretch "from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates. In testifying before the United Nations Special Committee of Enquiry on July 9, 1947, Rabbi Fischmann , member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared that "The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates (and) it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon." Sarid contends that the "Israelis" are "short of space which has become full to capacity and needs lebensraum." In referring to lands "from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates," Sarid also has in mind the reoccupation of the Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai is three times the size of current "Israel" and has considerable natural resources such as uranium deposits, oil and natural gas which, if reoccupied, would guarantee its energy independence. Increasingly, "Israeli" officials have been expressing concern about what they say is an increasing security threat posed by infiltration from the Sinai. The concept of Lebensraum for the "Israelis" is not new. In a paper titled, "A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties ," Oded Yinon inferred such a need without mentioning the word Lebensraum, per se. Yinon, who worked for the foreign ministry when he published his paper in 1982, basically outlined a strategic plan for regional conquest and dominance by also calling for "balkanizing" the Arab nations into small states along ethnic and sectarian lines as "Israeli" satellites. He said there was a need to disperse the population and treat this effort as a domestic strategic aim "of the highest order." "Otherwise, we shall cease to exist within any borders," Yinon said. "Judea, Samaria and the Galilee are our sole guarantee for national existence, and if we do not become the majority in the mountain areas, we shall not rule in the country and we shall be like the Crusaders, who lost this country which was not theirs anyhow, and in which they were foreigners to begin with." Yinon pointed out that the June 1967 Six-Day war including the seizure of the Golan Heights and "Judea, Samaria reflected this policy," as well as the 1978 and 1982 invasions of Lebanon. In his column, Sarid reinforced Yinon's contention that the original purpose of the June 1967 Six-Day war was to seek greater lands. "When we embarked on the Six-Day War, did we want to remove a threat or did we want to gain control in order to spread out?" Sarid said. "That's what happens after 44 years of mire and moral corruption, which distort things and make us forget the original objective and replace it with an entirely different one," he said. "We were fortunate when we occupied the West bank because had we not done so, where would we have come to live?" Sarid added. "The founding fathers, as opposed to the Diadochi who fought for control after Alexander the Great's death, represented a different approach for the most part," Sarid said. The Diadochi were the generals under Alexander. "Between 'A little goes a long way,' and 'Don't bite off more than you can chew,' they chose to bite; they even agreed to the 1947 U.N. partition plan for lack of choice," he said. "They believed that all the objectives of rational Ben Gurion-style Zionism could be fulfilled even in 'Lesser Israel,' which is more complete and more at peace with itself," he said. "And it has no need for lebensraum, may God preserve us." All of that has changed now, as Sarid has revealed. Current Israeli policy supports his call for Lebensraum, as shown right after the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks got underway in September 2010 with great fanfare in Washington. By August 2011, however, those talks were suspended due to a decision by the "Israeli" leadership to resume settlement construction on the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Salid's call for Lebensraum goes a long way to explain why that leadership appeared so intractable to the idea of suspending that construction in favor of working toward the greater goal of establishing a Middle East peace. Besides being a columnist for Haaretz, Sarid was a member of the Knesset, or parliament, for 32 years, served as Education minister, Environment minister and opposition leader as head of the Meretz party from 1996 to 2003. Ironically, the Meretz party supports a two-state solution for Palestine, peace with the Palestinians, human rights and religious freedom. ______________________________________ F. Michael Maloof is a former senior security policy analyst in the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Sarkozy – from Tripoli to Damascus and Tehran

Posted on September 6, 2011 by rehmat1|

“France, they had their spies there for decades. Religious movements have had their people there for decades. So they are going to do whatever they can to use their influence to change the regime in a way that they see fit,” believes Lode Vanoost, a former speaker of the Belgian parliament.
It seems French President Nicolas Sarkozy, an Israeli assest, is on its way to rebuild old French colonial power and pro-Israel regime changes among Israel’s Arab neighbors. After occupying Libya, he is eyeing on Syria – a French colony after WW II out of which Paris carved Lebanon for Christians to maintain French influence in a Muslim-majority Middle East.

A Lebanese boy relaxes inside a cluster bomb container
dropped by Israeli warplanes in Aita al-Shaab, Lebanon

In 2006, France supported Israel’s 34-day war on Lebanon in which Israel tasted its first major military humiliation at the hands of Arabs. On June 23, 2006 – In his address at Israeli Knesset Sarkozy assured the Zionazi lawmakers that his efforts to repair the situation in the region would take place firmly within the parameters of what is acceptable to Washington and Tel Aviv.

Sarkozy also denounced Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program and reaffirmed France’s commitment to Israel’s security. On Iran he said: “Iran’s military nuclear program calls for an extremely firm reaction from the entire international community. Israel must know that it is not alone! France is determined to pursue with its partners a policy allying the most severe sanctions with openness, if Tehran decides to honor its international obligations. But I want to say forcefully: a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable for my country!”

Sarkozy told Israelis that “the old dream of Mediterranean unity is not dead, but rather alive enough to raise the world” and that “Israel, the Palestinian authority (under Zionist dual agent Mahmoud Abbas), Lebanon, and Syria will all find their place in it”. Sarkozy had invited Libyan President Qaddafi to attend the group’s meeting in Paris last year, which Qaddafi refused and as a result lost Libya to Israel-supported rebel forces.

On August 31, 2011 – Sarkozy threatend Islamic Republic that country’s alleged attempt to build long-range missiles and nuclear weapons could lead some countries to launch a pre-emptive attack. In response to Sarkozy’s rant – Iranian MP Karim Abedi said: “Sarkozy should not speak about Iran when he is drunk“.

“Its military nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventive attack against Iranian sites that would provoke a major crisis that France wants to avoid at all costs,” said Nicolas Sarkozy. I wonder if the Crypto-Jew Sarkozy has the gutts to ask Israel to dismantle its 240-400 nuclear bombs which not only pose a great threat to Iran and other Arab countries in the region. Last year, noted Israel’s military historian, Martin van Creveld, had threatened to Wipe Out Europe if Israel’s existence is threatened.

“We have hundreds of nuclear warheads and missiles that can reach different targets in the heart of the European continent, including beyond the borders of Rome, the Italian capital,” Creveld said, adding that most of the European capitals would become preferred targets for the Israeli air force.

The US-Israel-Saudia has created a new Libyan-style Revolutionary Council of the Syrian Coordination Committees whose leader Mohammad Rahhal said on Sunday that his group has decided to arm Syrian rebels and any foreign help to topple Bashar Assad’s regime will be welcomed.

Syrian protesters now carry banners calling for a no-fly zone over Syria, like that imposed in Libya. One banner read, “We want any intervention that stops the killing, whether Arab or foreign.
On Monday, Jakob Kellenberger, the head of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) met Bashar Assad. Later during a press confrence he praised Syrian government for its good treatment of the protesters imprisoned. The ICRC president’s remarks came despite efforts by Western countries to portray Damascus as a government using excessive force to end months of unrest in the country.
Contrary to Zionists’ propaganda accusing security forces of being behind the killings, the government blames outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups for the deadly violence, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.

Turkey has voiced in favor of a possible NATO attacks on Syria to resolve the six-month old riots in Syria by installing a government which is subversive to US-Israel and distance itself from anti-Israel resistance groups and the Islamic Republic – as part of their goal of isolating Islamic Republic before an imminent military attack.

On August 28, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi told the official IRNA news agency, “Syria is the front-runner in Middle Eastern resistance (to Israel) and NATO cannot intimidate this country with an attack … If, God forbid, such a thing happened, NATO would drown in a quagmire from which it would never be able to escape”.

Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi, a senior Indian journalist and editor of Media Star News & Features visited various cities in Syria last month. He said that the ongoing agitations against Bashar Assad regime are outcome of policies of the US, Israel and their allies in the region.

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Armed attacks continue against Syrian security forces

LEFTWING-CHRISTIAN.NET

The so-called "peaceful protesters" in Syria have launched another armed attack against the country's security forces. The following is from Press TV:

At least 15 people, including Syrian Security Forces, have been injured after a roadside bomb hit a military bus near the southern city of Dara'a, SANA reported.

According to the official Syrian news agency four civilians and 11 security officers were injured in the explosion of a bomb, detonated remotely, in the al-Na'aeema village near Dara'a on Wednesday.

Syrian authorities have blamed armed groups for the attack. Dara'a Police Chief, Brigadier General Mohammad Deib Asaad told SANA that armed terrorist groups are trained for such operations and that the explosive device was handmade.

Armed groups have also attacked a military hospital in the crisis-hit central city of Homs. According to SANA, terrorists attacked the hospital with RPGs and heavy machine weapons. Read more.

So is the Syrian government supposed to stand by and allow such attacks to occur? This essentially is what Western leaders such as Obama and Sarkozy are demanding. If you were the president of Syria, what would you do? The slightest effort by Bashar al-Assad to protect his people, including his police and military personnel, from the Western-backed armed gangs operating in his country results in Western media accusing him of waging a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. In fact, the U.S. demand for Assad to step down seems to be the one thing the Obama administration and the Republicans agree on.

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department has applied sanctions against Dr. Bouthania Shaaban, a political and media adviser to the Syrian government and one of the most eloquent champions for peace and social justice in the Arab world whose articles have appeared at Counterpunch (see here, here, here, and here ). Do yourself a favor. Go and read some of her writings. Then consider the fact that she is now considered an enemy of the United States. It will give you a better understanding of the situation in Syria, why the country is being targeted, and by whom. Here is what Dr. Franklin Lamb reported yesterday on the issue:

On August 28, 2011, the US Treasury and State Departments targeted Dr. Bouthainia Shaaban, and froze any assets she might have in the US.

According to State Department spokesman, Victoria Nuland, who two US Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers speculate may view Dr. Shaaban as a rival of sorts given their job descriptions, and Dr. Shaaban’s stellar performances during meetings with US officials both in the US and Syria, the explanation for blacklisting a Syrian nationalist and media advisor remains: “She (Dr. Shaaban) has served as the public mouthpiece for the repression of the regime.” Read more

And consider also this report from RT featuring James Corbett:



This latest attack on Syrian security forces comes after a June attack which left 120 Syrian policemen dead. In a post a week ago, I wrote:

Who is fomenting the strife in Syria? You simply need to ask who benefits. And it seems to be the U.S. and Israel. Back in June, approximately 120 Syrian police were killed in attacks coordinated by armed groups operating inside the country. Eighty-two of the victims died in an initial armed assault on the city center in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, while some 28 more were apparently targeted while enroute to provide assistance. This was obviously a well-planned, well-executed operation carried out by highly-trained military personnel of some kind. The question is, who funded them and sent them in there?
Can you imagine if 120 police were killed like this in the United States? Imagine the media response, the outrage that would be voiced. Imagine the calls for a government crackdown, for the perpetrators to be hunted down. Imagine the police—and possibly even the military—response that would ensue.

Clearly the armed groups have received some form of clandestine support, most likely from Western governments. Now there are signs the support may be moving from the realm of the clandestine into the open.

According to Western diplomats and political observers watching the developments in Syria, the next stage of the international community’s response to events in Damascus will move from supporting the people’s uprising and condemning the oppression of the regime by waving the stick of economic and financial sanctions – including the travel ban on political officials who have been blacklisted – to arming the Syrian opposition, similar to what was done in Libya.
There, rebels were able to take control of the country, including areas that were subject to Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s rule, and assume power gradually through the National Transitional Council which is now recognized by the international community, as was demonstrated by last week’s conference in Paris.

The U.S., France and Britain will participate in strengthening the military side of the opposition in Syria to create a balance with the security apparatus controlled by President Bashar Assad and his regime. It’s likely that Turkey will spearhead the operation to arm the opposition given the overlap of political, geographic and demographic factors between it and Damascus, which have led Ankara, more than once, to show its discontent with the Syrian regime’s elusive promises of reform. Read more

Meanwhile questions have been raised about Aljazeera colluding with Western media in distorting the events in Syria. This from Jonathan Azaziah:

The Western media’s alliance with Al-Jazeera reared its ugly head from the onset of the ‘Syrian Revolution.’ As the last section completely exposed, the ‘peaceful demonstrators’ were actually armed rebels, with their weapons coming from Zionist ally Jordan and their orders coming from Tel Aviv, Washington D.C. and Riyadh. After months of lies and propaganda, the United States government has finally admitted that there are indeed armed rebels carrying out violence in Syria, stating ‘there are a lot of them (81).’ Mainstream media has deliberately ignored the provocations of and attacks on Syrian security forces that have occurred from the opening week of the revolt, in which the Saudi-Israeli-directed armed gangs fired on and killed policemen and torched courthouses, hospitals, communications centers and Bashar al-Assad’s party headquarters (82). Hundreds of soldiers have been killed by this Zionist-designed insurrection and at least three mass graves filled with Syrian security forces have been found already (83).
Instead of reporting these facts, Al-Jazeera has fabricated multiple eyewitness reports, bloated the death toll, broadcasted incitement against Bashar al-Assad, put forth the foreign policy objectives of the GCC dictatorships to bring down the Syrian government and ignored the vital fact that the Zionist-run National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is active on the ground in Syria (84). Instead of reporting these facts, the mainstream media and Al-Jazeera peddle the (admittedly) unverifiable, false casualty claims of London-based Syrian opposition groups, which boast about their membership with Zionism’s NED (85). Instead of reporting these facts, Al-Jazeera is manipulating imagery to fit with its anti-Syria agenda and paying actors to make false statements against Bashar al-Assad (86).

Mainstream media has consistently reported on snipers shooting at ‘pro-democracy’ protesters and has published recorded ‘eyewitness’ testimony from a member of Syrian security forces who ‘admitted’ that the snipers are Syrian military. The problem with this ‘eyewitness,’ like every other ‘eyewitness’ presented by the Al-Jazeera-Zionist media axis, is that his name isn’t real, his voice has been modified, and the person who supposedly produced the recording isn’t using his real name either (87).
None of it is real and everything is muddled because it’s another Zionist media fabrication. What is not being reported in the mainstream, is that the Syrian government has fully disclosed that there are indeed snipers firing not only on ‘protesters,’ but security forces as well (88). Read more

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The Mossad in Hollywood Movies

By As'ad AbuKhalil - Wed, 2011-09-07 11:49       

Someone should write a study of the portrayal of Mossad agents in US movies. Israel’s spy agency has a special place in US popular culture. It is rather bizarre, if you think about it. It is unimaginable that Turkish intelligence or Syrian intelligence would be heroically portrayed in American culture. But the centrality of Israel in the American imagination is unmatched. No country has achieved that status: not even the UK. No one speaks of a British lobby as they speak of the Israeli lobby. And since Israel does not have an actual history beyond its years of conquest since 1948, it had to invent for itself a narrative derived from science fiction. Former CIA director (in Carter’s administration), Stansfield Turner, once said that the Mossad excelled in PR and not in intelligence.

The Mossad’s propaganda was so effective that it penetrated into the Arab psyche and affected how Arabs viewed their own capabilities. Arab regimes helped in that effort: they wanted Arabs to feel impotent vis-à-vis Israel in order to accept the regimes’ defeatism and weakness. There are no good books that talk about Mossad failures (like the Lavon affair, for example, or the bungled pursuits of commanders of Black September which reveal deep ignorance of their real culprits), but there is a number of books that talk about the case of Elie Cohen.

We now know that Israel wildly exaggerated the achievements of Cohen, who was exposed by a diligent Syrian intelligence officer. 
Instead, several books and movies were dedicated to Israeli skill in penetrating the highest echelons of Syrian government. But Western accounts always ignored the facts: that Cohen never reached the highest echelons of government, and that he never ever met Col. Amin Hafiz (not in Argentina and not in Syria during his spying years). Arabs were fascinated by the spy novel narrative of the Mossad’s excellence and the Mossad most likely helped in recruiting journalists to sing its praises (there are Western journalists who are specialized in praising the Mossad’s work). The Mossad’s chase of Black September operatives involved so many mistakes and blunders that the story lent itself to comedy were it not for all the innocent people that Israel habitually kills.

The Mossad’s propaganda focuses on “espionage” ignoring the terrorist work of the organization. This is an organization that works more through car bombs than through chases and spy work. I thought about all that as I watched the new movie, The Debt. It is based on a work of fiction but talks about the Mossad’s attempt at capturing a Nazi doctor and bringing him to face trial in Israel. The Mossad likes to pretend that the bulk of its work is to chase and punish Nazi war criminals while in reality the Israeli government has for years worked closely with Western right-wing political organizations possessing anti-Semitic leanings or ideology (like the Israeli alliance with the Christian Right in the US). The Mossad (and Hollywood movies) want to focus on Israel’s hunt for Nazi criminals but not on the Mossad’s murder of a Moroccan waiter because he merely resembled a Palestinian leader. In the movie, Mossad agents are portrayed, typically, as smart, strong and burdened with moral indoctrination. They don’t even want to beat a Nazi war criminal: this is about Israelis who have regularly been seen beating and murdering Palestinian children.

Western depictions of Israeli terrorists always include invented stories of “anguish” and moral “reflection”: Western Zionists need to offer propaganda in order to soften the impact of Israeli terrorism. And certainly, Western portrayals of Mossad “adventures” skip over their most memorable acts: their kidnapping of a man in Lebanon in 2006 because they mistook him for his namesake Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah; their many assassinations of innocent Palestinians because of mistaken identities typical Israeli terrorist recklessness; their famous dispatch of a hit team of fools to Dubai last year to target an unarmed Palestinian; the uncovering of more than 180 Israeli spy in Lebanon in the last two years (none of the Western media took note of that because they deemed it to be too embarrassing to Israel). But the Mossad needs extra help these days: what they can’t or fail to do on the ground, they can do instead in Hollywood movies.

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Graffiti: Bringing Down Israel's Embassy Wall in Cairo

Alakhbar

Photo Blog by Maggie Osama

Pro-Palestinian activists turned the 100 meters long and three meters high wall surrounding Israel's embassy in Cairo into a site of creative protest. The wall was erected by the Egyptian army last Saturday. The wall replaced an iron fence smashed by protesters last month. The military junta claimed that it was set up to protect public property and not the embassy in particular.

Activists sprayed the wall with pro-Palestine, anti-SCAF and anti-Zionist messages such as "No to reconciliation", " We will not forget Deir Yassin", "No to Israel", "Bethlehem," and finally "the Liberation of Palestine starts with the liberation of Egypt", amid shouts of encouragement by passers-by and cars' drivers. Some of them decided to participate in the event.

After several hours, some army officers and military police showed up demanding that activists & others stop drawing and leave. The military accused protestors of distorting the wall's appearance. "It is a shame to draw over the Egyptian flag the symbol of the country!" they told protestors. Military officers and activists discussed and argued about the action for half an hour until the activists decided to leave.

Egypt above all
(Photo: Maggie Osama)

(Photo: Maggie Osama)

(Photo: Maggie Osama)

Palestine
(Photo: Maggie Osama)

No to reconciliation
(Photo: Maggie Osama)

Deir Yassin
(Photo: Maggie Osama)

Bethlehem
(Photo: Maggie Osama)

Sabra and Shatilla
(Photo: Maggie Osama)

"the Liberation of Palestine starts with the liberation of Egypt",
(Photo: Maggie Osama)

No to Israel
(Photo: Maggie Osama)

'Wall to Wall to ...Wall' to protect Israel!

"... There are those, notably in Israel, who will no doubt regret that it has come to this: Israeli diplomats being protected from an angry Egyptian population that is now as anti-Israeli as anytime since the two countries were at war. They should face the reality: this anger does just stem from the shootings, it also comes the fury at their own government's inaction (or connivence) over the Gaza war, the Lebanon war, the ever-expanding settlements in the last three decades..."

Posted by G, M, Z, or B at 3:54 AM

Egyptians call for a 'Million Men 'pee' on the Israeli embassy wall in Cairo!'

Posted by G, M, Z, or B at 5:24 PM

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Israel’s settler army and government poised to commit a new outrage



URI - with Begin and Sadat - 1979

Uri Avnery an old settler claiming that Israel’s settlers dominate that political and military establishments.
I should remind the old settler again, that he himself is a coloniser just like his WB dear Gaza settlers, the only difference is he settled in Palestine Land 19 years before his dear WB settlers.

Six months ago Uri, the son of Irgun terrorist group wrote:

"What will happen if hundreds of thousands of Palestinians march one day to the Separation Wall and pull it down? What if a quarter of a million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon gather on our Northern border? What if masses of people assemble in Manara Square in Ramallah and Town Hall Square in Nablus and confront the Israeli troops? Mr. Avnery asks.

Uri failed to imagine a million Palestinian refugees in SYRIA gather on Majdal Shams, then he warns: “Perhaps this will not happen tomorrow or the day after. But it most certainly will happen – unless we make peace while we still can”

On that Sister NAHIDA commented:

"Too little too late Mr. Avnery

That day you are so fearful of is undoubtedly coming insha’Allah."

Return in Practice

And it has happened, Return to Palestine, is no more a right, that will never die, its now an exercise ( Return in Practice ), and what happened on Nakba day in Marou al-Ras, Majdal shams, occupied WB, and besieged Gaza, is the beginning of the full liberation, and the millions great march to Jerusalem.
the countdown has begun.


Uri is "afraid that the preparations for the third intifada, which is anticipated to start next month, are proceeding on the same lines (of the first and second intifadas). But the circumstances would be quite different. After the events in Egypt and Syria, Palestinian protesters may react differently this time, and the “bloodbath” may be much more severe. So will international and Arab reactions"

URI imagines "posters condemning Binyamin al-Assad and Bashar Netanyahu."

But why Uri is putting "Binyamin al-Assad and Bashar Netanyahu." in the same Basket?
Both, though at odds, threatens URI's light calorie zionist project.

"Peace with the Palestinians is no longer a luxury. It is an absolute necessity. Peace now, peace quickly.' Uri Avnery

"Peace would necessarily entail the removal of a large number of settlements and the evacuation of the settlers throughout the West Bank." and Netanyahu objects "giving up even one square inch of occupied territory" Uri added, but failed to tell why he imagines posters condemning Bashar al-Assad.
Because, Syria, as Nasrallah said, is the last FORT.

“The Syrian regime had prevented the elimination of Palestinian cause, and this shouldn’t be forgotten,” Its a fact well known to URI, and to Ramalla traitors, therefore, encouraged by people such as "Brother" Khalid Amayreh, dared to imagine "posters condemning Binyamin al-Assad and Bashar Netanyahu."

”It’s the settlers, stupid” Uri wrote

Yes its the settlers stupid the Settlers in WB, and every inch of Palestine from river to sea

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Israeli security forces with their combat
dogs preparing for the September hunt.

Israel’s settler army and government poised to commit a new outrageSeptember 3, 2011 by occupiedpalestine

Uri Avnery says Israel’s settler-dominated political and military establishments may be planning to provoke serious violence to coincide with the Palestinian bid to gain UN recognition later this month.

Uri- a soldier in the Nakbah war
(80% Palestine was occupied)

Such terrifying dogs have not been seen since the Hound of the Baskervilles.

They have been bred by an ardent admirer of the late “Rabbi” Meir Kahane, who was branded by the Israeli Supreme Court as a fascist. Their task is to protect the settlements and attack Palestinians. They are settler-dogs or, rather, dog-settlers.

All our TV stations have reported on them at length and lauded their effectiveness and ardour.

All in preparation for “September”.

September is not just the name of a month, the seventh in the old Roman calendar. It is the symbol of a terrible danger, an unspeakable existential menace.

Uri-in the Irgun terrorist group

In the next few weeks, the Palestinians will ask the UN to recognize the state of Palestine. They have already mustered a large majority in the General Assembly.

After that, according to the official assessment of our army, all hell will break loose. Multitudes of Palestinians will rise, attack the “Separation” Wall, storm the settlements, confront the army, create chaos.

“The Palestinian Authority is planning a bloodbath,” Avigdor Lieberman cheerfully asserted. And when Lieberman predicts violence, it would be unwise to ignore him.

”A handy pretext for shooting at non-violent protesters”

“…there is no clear distinction between the [Israeli] army and the settlers – many settlers are officers in the army, and many officers live in settlements.”

For months now, our army has been preparing for just such an eventuality. This week it announced that it is training the settlers, too, and telling them exactly when they are allowed to shoot to kill. Thus, it confirms what we all know: that there is no clear distinction between the army and the settlers – many settlers are officers in the army, and many officers live in settlements. “The army defends all Israelis, wherever they are,” is the official line.

One of the scenarios the army is preparing for, it was stated, is for Palestinians shooting at soldiers and settlers “from inside the mass demonstrations”. That is an ominous statement. I have been at hundreds of demonstrations and never witnessed anyone shooting “from inside the demonstration”. Such a person would have to be insanely irresponsible, since he would expose all the people around him to deadly retaliation. But it is a handy pretext for shooting at non-violent protesters.

It sounds so ominous, because it has happened already in the past. After the first intifada, which was considered a Palestinian success story (and brought about the Oslo agreement), our army diligently prepared for the second one. The chosen instruments were sharpshooters.

The second (“Al-Aqsa”) intifada started after the breakdown of the 2000 Camp David conference and Ariel Sharon’s deliberately provocative “visit” to the Temple Mount. The Palestinians held non-violent mass demonstrations. The army responded with selective killings. A sharpshooter accompanied by an officer would take position in the path of the protest, and the officer would point out selected targets – protesters who looked like “ringleaders”. They were killed.

This was highly effective. Soon the non-violent demonstrations ceased and were replaced by very violent (“terrorist”) actions. With those the army was back on familiar ground.

All in all, during the second intifada 4,546 Palestinians were killed, of whom 882 were children, as against 1,044 Israelis, 716 of them civilians, including 124 children.

I am afraid that the preparations for the third intifada, which is anticipated to start next month, are proceeding on the same lines. But the circumstances would be quite different. After the events in Egypt and Syria, Palestinian protesters may react differently this time, and the “bloodbath” may be much more severe. So will international and Arab reactions. I imagine posters condemning Binyamin al-Assad and Bashar Netanyahu.

But most Israelis are not worried. They believe that the entire scenario has been invented by Netanyahu as a trick to end the huge social protest movement that is rocking Israel. “The young protesters demand social justice and a welfare state, like children demanding ice cream while disaster is lurking around the corner,” as one of the colonels (ret.) put it.

”It’s the settlers, stupid”

“…the settlers now play a pivotal role in the conflict. It is they who prevent any peace agreement, or even meaningful peace negotiations.”

The settlers and their dogs loom large in the upcoming scenarios.
That is quite logical, since the settlers now play a pivotal role in the conflict. It is they who prevent any peace agreement, or even meaningful peace negotiations.

It is quite simple: any peace between Israel and the Palestinian people will necessarily be based on ceding the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip to the future state of Palestine. A worldwide consensus on this is now in place. The only question is where exactly the border will run, since there is also a consensus about minor mutually-agreed swaps of territory.

This means that peace would necessarily entail the removal of a large number of settlements and the evacuation of the settlers throughout the West Bank.

The settlers and their allies dominate the present Israeli government coalition. They object to giving up even one square inch of occupied territory of the country God has promised us. (Even settlers who do not believe in God do believe that God has promised us the land.) Because of this, there are no peace negotiations, no freeze on building activities in the settlements, no move of any kind towards peace.
The settlers went to their locations in the West Bank specifically for this purpose: to create “facts on the ground” that would prevent any possibility of the establishment of a viable Palestinian state. Therefore, it is quite immaterial whether it is the settlers who prevent the return of the occupied territories for peace, or whether the government uses the settlers for this purpose. It comes to the same: the settlers block any peace effort.

As the Americans would put it: It’s the settlers, stupid.

Some nice Israelis are indeed playing stupid, or really are stupid.

It is now the fashion in certain circles to “embrace” the settlers in the name of national unity. Jews should not quarrel among themselves, they say, drawing on ancient dhetto wisdom. Settlers are people like us.

Shelly Yachimovich

Prominent among those who say so is Shelly Yachimovitch, a member of the Knesset and one of six candidates for the chair(wo)manship of the moribund Labour Party. For years she has done a good job as an advocate of social justice, never wasting a word on peace, occupation, settlements, Palestine and such trifles. Now, as part of her campaign, she has come all out for loving the settlers. As she put it: “I certainly do not see the settlement enterprise as a sin and crime. At the time, it was completely consensual. It was the Labour Party which promoted the settlement in the territories. That is a fact, a historical fact. “

Some believe that Yachimovitch is only pretending to feel this way, in order to garner mainstream votes for a takeover of the party, and that she intends to merge what remains of the party with Kadima, where she would try to displace Tzipi Livni and perhaps even become prime minister.

Perhaps. But I have a lurking suspicion that she really believes what she is saying – and that is an awful thing to say about any politician, male or female, of course.

No peace, no social justice

“…there is no way to embrace the settlers and fight for social justice at the same time. It just can’t be done,”

But seriously, there is no way to embrace the settlers and fight for social justice at the same time. It just can’t be done, even though some of the leaders of the social protest movement advocate this on tactical grounds.
There can be no Israeli welfare state while the war goes on. The border incidents of the last two weeks show how easy it is to divert public opinion and silence the protests when the banner of security is unfurled. And how easy it is for the government to prolong any incident.

Sowing the fear of “September” is yet another example.

But the reasons for the impossibility of separating social justice from security go deeper. Serious social reforms need money, lots of money. Even after reforming the tax system – more “progressive” direct taxes, less “regressive” indirect taxes – and breaking the cartels of the “tycoons”, tens of billion of dollars will be needed to rescue our schools, our hospitals and our social services.

These billions can only come from the military budget and the settlements. Huge sums are invested in the settlements – not just in heavily subsidized housing for the settlers, government salaries for many settlers (a far higher percentage than in the general population), but also for the infrastructure (roads, electricity and water supply, etc.) and the large number of troops needed to defend them. The preparations for “September” show again how much this costs.

But even this is not the full story. Beyond all these facts there is the main reason for the deformation of Israel: the conflict itself.

Because of the conflict, we are obliged to keep a huge military establishment. We pay for the armed forces, per capita, far more than the citizens of any Western country. Israel, a country of a mere 7.5 million people, maintains the fourth or fifth largest military establishment in the world. US military aid pays for only a small part of this.

Therefore, putting an end to the war is a necessary precondition for any real effort to turn Israel into a “Scandinavian” welfare state, with a maximum of social justice. The conflict is not just one item among many that must be considered. It is the main item.

You can love the settlers or hate them, oppose them or embrace them as much as you like – the fact remains that the settlements are by far the main obstacle to peace and the welfare state. Not just because of their cost, not just because of the pogroms their inhabitants carry out from time to time, not just because of the way they dominate the political system. But because of their very existence.
Unlike the hound of the Baskervilles, the dogs of the settlements are barking loudly. It is the sound of war.

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Israel focuses on coercing the 'Supreme Council', having lost faith in the Egyptian people!

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"...There is not much Israelis can do about Egyptian public opinion so they have focused their attention on trying to figure who they can trust and building a relationship with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). There are both good practical reasons for the Israelis to reach out to the military--the SCAF is, after all, in charge and there is a security problem in Sinai--and a more profound rationale: the officers are the only people left whom the Israelis know and with whom it is not political suicide (yet) to have contact. ..."

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Looming Tragedy: Vision of the “New Libya”: Visit the “New Iraq"

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Another “Liberation”, another Unimaginable International Criminal Tragedy

By Felicity Arbuthnot

Global Research, September 3, 2011

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.)
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As Eid, the great post Ramadan celebration of that month of abstinence, self sacrifice and reflection, dawned on Libya, marked there this year on August 31st, the NATO “liberated” country, after seven months, looks a lot like “liberated” Iraq after eight years.

Queues of cars now wait for petrol in another oil rich country; other queues form, carrying containers for water. The multibillion dollar development of Libya’s vast underground aquifers had been dubbed the “eighth wonder of the world. Libya`s water supply infrastructure has been been systematically bombed throught the country.

Shops are without food.

The all is: “absolute disaster”, according to an eminent legal observer, very familiar with the country.

And with electricity largely off, those seeking knowledge as to whether friends and relatives are alive, injured, fled, dead, find internet, and phones dead.

As the terribly injured overwhelm hospitals, many are bombed, damaged or without power and pharmaceuticals.

No power: no incubators, life support machines or surgery.

Another country with a modern, developed infrastructure reduced to a pre-industrial age – with the rebuilding contracts reportedly already being divvied out – in the West.

NATO Members, however, eat, as their bombs destroy humanity and vital necessities for the living. Over a “working lunch”, on the 14th of April, they “deplored violence” and underlined the: “need ... to restore water, gas, electricity and other services ...”

Still depriving others of the means to cook, or of any semblance of normality, at another “working lunch” (June 8, 2011) they further discussed their: “clear mandate to protect civilians (and) populated areas ...taking the utmost care to avoid civilian casualties.” This as: “Tripoli experienced what were perhaps the heaviest daylight bombardments by NATO since the air strikes began in March.” (Guardian, 8 June 2011)

As they masticated and munched, they vowed to bring “a speedy resolution ... to put an end to the violence”, under “Operation Unified Protector.” They are delusional and arguably psychotic.

Just twenty four hours later, on the 9th of June, the decade long destruction of Afghanistan eclipsed Libya. NATO Defence Ministers met to declare it: “NATO’s top operational priority.” General David Petraeus, returned from the ruins and about to be confirmed as CIA Head: “explained ... progress.”

“A working lunch commenced at 13.00 hours.”

A number of lunches later, on the 23rd August, NATO spokeswoman, Oana Lungesco, re-affirmed their “mandate to protect civilians.”

How this squares with hitting: “over five thousand [official figures] legitimate targets [in a] 24/7 operation [with] over twenty thousand sorties”, is confusing.

The actual number of strikes has not been reported. Its in the tens of thousands.

Equally so is how destruction of services essential to maintaining life, State institutions, schools, hospitals, archeological sites and treasures, attacking of all which is illegal under swathes of international law, are included in this “legitimacy.”

By September 1st, NATO operations from 31st March had reached: “a total of 21,090, including 7,920 strike sorties.” (1)

In context, this latest “shock and awe” brigandage is being rained down by a twenty eight country alliance, on a country of 7 million. The population of Tripoli is over 1 million (or was, until unknown numbers of souls were liberated from their lives in a bombardment which, started with the unleashing of one hundred and ten Cruise missiles, on March 20th, eight years to the day - GMT- of the start of the Iraq invasion.)

Coincidentally, the considerably Western backed and funded “uprising” in Benghazi, which preceded the bombing, began on the 15th of February, the eighth anniversary of millions, in the largest global peace rally in history, from Manchester to Melbourne, Hong Kong to Honolulu, rallying against an attack on Iraq.

The invaders though, have “learned from past mistakes.” The “New Libya”, will not be like the “New Iraq.” It is surely beginning to look chillingly like it. A legitimate head of State again has a million dollar bounty on his head and is “wanted dead or alive.” Since “boots are on the ground” only unofficially, the pack of playing cards with the “most wanted” on, has not yet been printed. But times are hard, and in 2003, the United States Playing Card Company, commissioned by the US Defence Intelligence Agency, received orders for 750,000 of the packs within a week. (2)

Further, if the US and UK were blindly ignorant of Iraq’s social and tribal complexities, those of Libya are more so in orders of magnitude. (3)

Just prior to the Iraq invasion, General Colin Powell was quoted as telling George W. Bush, that after the onslaught: “You will own twenty seven million people, Mr President.”

At the “Friends of Libya” gathering in Paris on 1st September, hosted by Prime Minister Cameron and President Nicolas Sarkozy, a gloating, unnamed British official is quoted in The Economist as saying that: “NATO’s involvement in the Libyan uprising means that now we own it.”

(For the omen-prone, watching Western threats to an ever rising number of countries, Syrian and Iran currently topping the list, 1st September marks the 62nd anniversary of the German invasion of Poland, and the Second World War.)

Sarkozy – recipient, claims Qaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, of his family’s funding for his 2007 French Presidential election campaign (4) - is widely reported to have been promised one third of Libya’s oil by the insurgents, the “National Transitional Council”, prior to NATO involvement. With “Friends” like these, Libya certainly needs no enemies.

“The international community will be watching and supporting” Libya, said Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, adding requirements to the new Libyan constitution. There is a “clear road map to democracy.” Afghan and Iraqi puppets, now joined by Libyan ones.

When it comes to the rebuilding of Libya, “investors can’t call the tune”, was one theme, it must be “Libyan led.”

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague blew that lie. Britain, he said: “would not be left behind.” Much focus was on rebuilding the oil industry. Heaven forbid that too, follows the Iraq model, with the bereaved, dispossessed and invaded blowing up the pipelines – and contractors.

It also transpires that the UK’s surely mis-titled “International Development Minister”, former oil trader, Alan Duncan, allegedly, had a hand in, and connections to Swiss based energy giant Vitol, which established links with the NTC rebels, whilst starving Qaddafi’s troops of transportation fuels.

Vitol President, Ian Taylor, has allegedly donated very large sums to Cameron’s Tory Party. Opposition MPs are citing a possible covert “Libyan Oil Cell”, an allegedly billion dollar deal, questioning whether Mr Duncan’s fingerprints are on it.

As to the Conference, there was one dissenting voice. Bertrand Badie, an expert on international relations, told Xinhua: "I think this conference is a very bad sign, because [it consists in] starting a process of state building by an international conference dominated by western powers ... "

But even he did not mention mind-bending illegalities.

The half day carve up (sorry, “Meeting”) regarding assets of another sovereign land, was followed by “a dinner”, according to a US State Department spokeswoman.

Incidentally, the Paris Cabal took place on the fortysecond anniversary of the Free Officers Movement bringing Qaddafi to power on the 1st of September 1969.

“You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists", said George W. Bush on 1st November 2002. Ten years is certainly a long time in politics. There are many who would say they are now funded by the same US and protected by the might of NATO.

Activist Sandra Barr, has compiled just a small snapshot of a vast tragedy. A few incidents amongst uncounted others, “collateral” humanity, to add to a pitiless twenty year rampage through mortality, legality, basic values and all the normal hold precious:

“13 May 2011: The murder of 11 Muslim Imams in Brega.

30 April 2011: The bombing of the Downs Syndrome School in Tripoli

30 April 2011: The bombing of a Gaddafi residence, murdering Saif Gaddafi, his friend and 3 Gaddafi children.

12 June 2011: The bombing of the University of Tripoli. Death toll not yet established.

22 July 2011: The bombing of the Great Man made Waterway irrigation system, which supplies most Libyans with their drinking water.

23 July 2011: The bombing of the factory which makes the pipes for the water system, and the murder of 6 of its employees.

8th August 2011: The bombing of the Hospital at Zliten. Resulting in the murder of a minimum, of 50 human beings, many of them children. The bombing of hospitals is against all international laws, and a most grievous crime.

9 August 2011: The bombing of the village of Majer, resulting in the murder of 85 civilians. 33 Children, 32 women and 20 men.

The persistent ongoing bombing of the civilian population in Zliten and Tripoli, death toll not yet established.

David Cameron has admitted that UK special services have assisted the terrorists on the ground, in defiance of the UN mandate.”

Today, Cameron has gone further, admitting that British forces played a: “key role.”

Ms Barr demands that the ICC take a stance. Sadly, it would amaze if they did.

On the 1st of May, Muammar Qaddafi’s youngest son, Saif al-Arab, and three grandchildren were reported killed in an allied air strike on Tripoli. Another nauseating anniversary: George W. Bush, declaring: “Mission Accomplished” - the destruction of Iraq.

One can only fervently pray that we do not hear another sickening, “Viceroy” Paul Bremer wannabe, declaring: “Ladies and gentlemen, we got ‘im.” With accompanying kangaroo court and lynchings.

The “New Libya”, it seems, with its formerly free, high quality health care, is in serious trouble.
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Another “Liberation” another unimaginable, international, Criminal Tragedy.

Felicity Arbuthnot is Global Research`s Human Rights Correspondent based in London

Notes:

1. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=26332

2. http://www.enotes.com/company-histories/united-states-playing-card-company

3 http://www.temehu.com/Libyan-People.htm

4 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/16/sarkozy-election-campaign-libya-claim

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Gilad Atzmon: Israel Better Think Twice

As the rift between Israel and Turkey deepens, the Israeli media is preparing its crowd for another possible exciting bloody conflict.

Israel’s leading news outlet Ynet, published yesterday a detailed comparison between Israel’s and Turkey’s military capacity - it outlines the size of the air force, navy, ground forces in the respective countries. “Turkey”, it says, “posses much bigger navy but our air force is larger.’

I guess that this is what one would expect from Israel, a morbid collective driven by war enthusiasm and some bizarre craving for bloody conflict.

We have to remember, that at least on the face of it, this new emerging rift between Israel and Turkey, is not about land, oil or assets. It is all about apology. Relations between the two old allies have soured further in recent days after the publication of the UN investigation into Israel's murderous assault on a Turkish Mavi Marmara in high seas. In the attack nine peace activists were murdered; some of them were clearly executed in cold blood. Turkey demands Israel’s. apology. For some reason Israel failed to react. The meaning of it is simple. Israel prefers the prospect of a violent development instead of confronting its sin.


I will make myself as simple, short and clear just to make sure that the Israelis and their allies around the world understand how futile their agenda is.

Islam is unbeatable and indestructible. The Israelis should remember their latest military blunders. In 2006 its army was humiliated by the Hezbula, a small Lebanese paramilitary organisation. In just a few weeks the heroic Hezbollah managed to bring Israel to its knees. In 2008-9 Israeli Army mounted a massive attack on Gaza, the initial objective was to dismantle the democratically elected Hamas. Israel murdered more than 1400 Palestinians but it achieved none of its military objectives. Hamas and Hezbollah won these battles without air force, navy or tanks. In fact resilience was enough to defeat the IDF.

But Israel is not alone, The English speaking Empire is also heavily beaten in Iraq and Afghanistan. Similarily, Iraqi insurgency and Taliban do not posses tanks, F 16s or submarines. In the age of Islamic resistance, tables of contents with numbers of tanks, vessels, and airplanes are obsolete. It is the spirit and the will rather than the tank that wins the battle. This spirit better be called The Islam Spring, and it is unbeatable indeed.

The message for Israelis is plainly clear. Israel and its supporting lobbies had better learn how to contain their inherent violent tendencies. Israel cannot win this battle. The sooner the Israelis encompass this obvious fact, the better it is for Israel and for world peace.

You can now pre-order Gilad Atzmon's New Book: The Wandering Who? on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

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Thank you Gilad for this.

The reason that is "israel" is losing and WILL eventually lose is as natural and organic as the principles of life itself.

"israel" is an artificial creation, a myth that came into being through many myths:

"exclusivity" of an imagined "race";

"distinction" of its imagined "mission";

and the "uniqueness" of its imagined perpetual "suffering".

Collectively, it has become a force of destruction, it carries within its womb the seeds of its own demise.

The battle now is defined:

It is between forces of good and forces of evil.

civilization and barbarity;

cooperation or conflict;

enslavement or brotherhood;

supremacy or equality;

arrogance or modesty;

selfishness or generosity.

The battle is no doubt a spiritual one as well as it is physical.

When I first came across the ugly ideology that festers amongst the Jewish supremacists Chabad Lubavitch, I thought that it was only a worm in the can.

When I started digging deeper, to my horror and dismay, I discovered that it wasn't just a worm in the can, it was a CAN of WORMS.

Judaism has been hijacked a long time ago, nothing left of its original teachings, what we have now is an infestation of wicked arrogance self-worshiping ideology that the world yet to discover, and maybe suffer the consequences before it takes an honourable stance against it.

That day is no doubt coming, and coming soon insha'Allah

Patience is a virtue.
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