Saturday, 14 August 2010

Israel: How to kill three birds with one stone

Posted on August 14, 2010 by rehmat1



The latest hasbara scoop from Israeli daily, The Jerusalem Post, which quoted Italian daily Corriere della Sera, having ties with Italian Freemason lodge – saying that both Istanbul and Tehran are arming Lebanese Islamic Resistance group Hizbullah. And living in a civilized western society, we all know that it’s okey to donate billions of dollars’ worth world’s most deadly arms to anti-Muslim and anti-Christian Zionist regime on annual basis – but to arm some anti-Zionist resistance group with guns and rockets – is a shear case of ‘anti-Semitism’.

Hizbullah is declared as ‘a terrorist organization’ by only three countries – Israel, the US and Canada. Hizbullah is also the only Arab organization which has defeated world’s fourth powerful Israeli army without a single tank or F16 or helicpter.

The ‘smoking gun’ behind this Israeli hasbara allegation happens to be the meeting between Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Taeb to discuss relations between the two Muslim countries. As we know that when two Wall Street Shylocks meet, they always talk about how to get governmet bailout – therefore, it’s natural that when two Islamist meet they must be discussing their common Zionist enemy.

Since Israel has already lost its strategic ally in the Muslim world and Hizbullah has become a big thorn in Israel’s military supramacy plus Ahmadinejad is bent on destroying Israel’s nuclear edge – it makes sense that all three of them pose great threat to Israel’s security which in words is a threat to Israel’s guardian angle – the US.

Some “Zionist expert” on Iran’s economy, Hossein Askari, told the powerful Jewish think tank, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), that although, the USraeli sanctions has “weakened but resourceful Iran” – the people would not rise against the present regime because the socialist economy can stand up to such sanctions. According to the expert it the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps which is suffering the most as “it has not been able to, for over thirty years, import the most sophisticated equipment – as Israel, Saudi Arabia and South Korea had”. Now, who the hell is going to educate this “expert” that with all these “sophisticated arms”, why the 30,000 Israeli army could not defeat less than 2,000 Hizbullah fighters armed with guns and rockets?

Ex-Israeli Jew writer, Israel Shamir, has written a brilliant article under the title Fear Not, saying:
So many people have sent and forwarded so many warnings of the forthcoming US-Israeli attack on Iran that it is hard to ignore them. A piece written by a few ex-spooks warning of a new round of war is one of these messages. In our view, spooks, ex or not, are not the most reliable people, and the CIA is not the best reference. However, this item fits with the dire predictions of Fidel Castro. It fits with the recent heating up of the Gaza and Lebanon borders. It fits with the relocation of some American warships and accompanying Israeli U-boats to the shores of Iran. Rumours of Israeli advance forces being placed in Azerbaijan and even Saudi Arabia are used as supportive evidence. The Jewish state certainly wants to break Iran, just as Iraq was broken.

I am amazed by the strong nerves of President Ahmadinejad: a weaker person on his place might flinch and pre-empt the imminent attack. He does not – apparently he thinks that the jaw-jaw is not likely to become war-war. This is also the view of the well-informed Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram: The current escalation of US and Israeli sabre-rattling against Iran is probably no more than that, writes Amani Maged.

Many observers have correctly remarked that an attack on Iran is likely to become a full-fledged disaster for all parties involved, or even lead to nuclear world war. One does not feel that either Obama or Netanyahu has the guts to step recklessly into the abyss.

In Israel there is a hidden fear that should Israel attack Iran, the US president will not rush in to save it and defend it. Obama certainly did not promise he would; and he has no knee-jerk instinct to defend Tel Aviv come what may.

Israelis are notorious for their “kiss and tell” indiscretion (“larutz lesaper lehevre”, in Hebrew). A confidante of Netanyahu, Ari Shavit, has told us that “the Israeli leader applied hidden pressure to the American leader,” which made him fall on his knees and beg for mercy. The name of the “hidden pressure” is a Jewish billionaire from Chicago Lester Crown, who “made Obama” and supposedly retains full control over his creature, or alternatively, another Jewish Chicagoan Marty Nesbitt. However, even if the US President was forced by his Jewish benefactors to do a volte-face, he certainly bore a grudge for this humiliating turn.

The most likely interpretation for the sabre-rattling is that Israelis plan yet another invasion of Lebanon, while hoping that Iran will be scared into immobility by the threat of an all-out war. Like all previous invasions of Lebanon, that would be a great crime and a huge mistake, but hardly an apocalyptic event.

Indeed for all appearances it is a re-run of 2006, when the predictions of American attack on Iran were also running high, but eventually Bush has got cold feet and the Israeli army was roundly defeated in the mountain valleys of South Lebanon.

In the name of profanity they go to fight the pious puritans of Persia and the warrior monks of Lebanon. The Masters could overlook Iranian nuclear reactors, it is their belief in God they can’t tolerate.

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Israeli Officials Are Terrorists

Israeli Officials Are Terrorists

Chris Hedges
A sister taking farewell with her baby brother,
murdered by Israeli officials. (The WE!)

Those who send tanks and fighter jets to bomb the concrete hovels in Gaza with families crouching, helpless, inside -- they are the terrorists.

When I lived in Jerusalem I had a friend who confided in me that as a college student in the United States she attended events like these, wrote up reports and submitted them to the Israel consulate for money. It would be naive to assume this Israeli practice has ended. So, I want first tonight to address that person, or those persons, who may have come to this event for the purpose of reporting on it to the Israeli government.

I would like to remind them that it is they who hide in darkness. It is we who stand in the light. It is they who deceive. It is we who openly proclaim our compassion and demand justice for those who suffer in Gaza. We are not afraid to name our names. We are not afraid to name our beliefs. And we know something you perhaps sense with a kind of dread. As Martin Luther King said, the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice, and that arc is descending with a righteous fury that is thundering down upon the Israeli government.

You may have the bulldozers, planes and helicopters that smash houses to rubble, the commandos who descend from ropes on ships and kill unarmed civilians on the high seas as well as in Gaza, the vast power of the state behind you. We have only our hands and our hearts and our voices. But note this. Note this well. It is you who are afraid of us. We are not afraid of you. We will keep working and praying, keep protesting and denouncing, keep pushing up against your navy and your army, with nothing but our bodies, until we prove that the force of morality and justice is greater than hate and violence. And then, when there is freedom in Gaza, we will forgive ... you. We will ask you to break bread with us. We will bless your children even if you did not find it in your heart to bless the children of those you occupied. And maybe it is this forgiveness, maybe it is the final, insurmountable power of love, which unsettles you the most.

And so tonight, a night when some seek to name names and others seek to hide names, let me do some naming. Let me call things by their proper names. Let me cut through the jargon, the euphemisms we use to mask human suffering and war crimes. “Closures” mean heavily armed soldiers who ring Palestinian ghettos, deny those trapped inside food or basic amenities—including toys, razors, chocolate, fishing rods and musical instruments—and carry out a brutal policy of collective punishment, which is a crime under international law. “Disputed land” means land stolen from the Palestinians. “Clashes” mean, almost always, the killing or wounding of unarmed Palestinians, including children. “Jewish neighborhoods in the West Bank” mean fortress-like compounds that serve as military outposts in the campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. “Targeted assassinations” mean extrajudicial murder. “Air strikes on militant bomb-making posts” mean the dropping of huge iron fragmentation bombs from fighter jets on densely crowded neighborhoods that always leaves scores of dead and wounded, whose only contact with a bomb was the one manufactured in the United States and given to the Israeli Air Force as part of our complicity in the occupation.
“The peace process” means the cynical, one-way route to the crushing of the Palestinians as a people.
These are some names. There are others. Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish in the late afternoon of Jan. 16, 2009, had a pair of Israeli tank shells rip through a bedroom in his Gaza apartment, killing three of his daughters—Bessan, Mayar and Aya—along with a niece, Noor.

“I have the right to feel angry,” says Abuelaish. “But I ask, ‘Is this the right way?’ So many people were expecting me to hate. My answer to them is I shall not hate.”
“Whom to hate?” asks the 55-year-old gynecologist, who was born a Palestinian refugee and raised in poverty. “My Israeli friends? My Israeli colleagues? The Israeli babies I have delivered?”
The Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali wrote this in his poem “Revenge”:


At times ... I wish
I could meet in a duel
the man who killed my father
and razed our home,
expelling me
into
a narrow country.

And if he killed me,
I’d rest at last,
and if I were ready—
I would take my revenge!


***

But if it came to light,
when my rival appeared,
that he had a mother
waiting for him,
or a father who’d put
his right hand over
the heart’s place in his chest
whenever his son was late
even by just a quarter-hour
for a meeting they’d set—
then I would not kill him,
even if I could.


***

Likewise ... I
would not murder him
if it were soon made clear
that he had a brother or sisters
who loved him and constantly longed to see him.

Or if he had a wife to greet him
and children who
couldn’t bear his absence
and whom his gifts would thrill.

Or if he had
friends or companions,
neighbors he knew
or allies from prison
or a hospital room,
or classmates from his school …
asking about him
and sending him regards.


***

But if he turned
out to be on his own—
cut off like a branch from a tree—
without a mother or father,
with neither a brother nor sister,
wifeless, without a child,
and without kin or neighbors or friends,
colleagues or companions,
then I’d add not a thing to his pain
within that aloneness—
not the torment of death,
and not the sorrow of passing away.

Instead I’d be content
to ignore him when I passed him by
on the street—as I
convinced myself
that paying him no attention
in itself was a kind of revenge.



And if these words are what it means to be a Muslim, and I believe it does, name me too a Muslim, a follower of the prophet, peace be upon him.

The boat to Gaza will be named “The Audacity of Hope.” But these are not Barack Obama’s words. These are the words of my friend the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. They are borrowed words. And Jerry Wright is not afraid to speak the truth, not afraid to tell us to stop confusing God with America. “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands [killed] in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Rev. Wright said. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”

Or the words of Edward Said:

edward saidNothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take. You do not want to appear too political; you are afraid of seeming controversial; you want to keep a reputation for being balanced, objective, moderate; your hope is to be asked back, to consult, to be on a board or prestigious committee, and so to remain within the responsible mainstream; someday you hope to get an honorary degree, a big prize, perhaps even an ambassadorship.

For an intellectual these habits of mind are corrupting par excellence. If anything can denature, neutralize, and finally kill a passionate intellectual life it is the internalization of such habits. Personally I have encountered them in one of the toughest of all contemporary issues, Palestine, where fear of speaking out about one of the greatest injustices in modern history has hobbled, blinkered, muzzled many who know the truth and are in a position to serve it. For despite the abuse and vilification that any outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights and self-determination earns for him or herself, the truth deserves to be spoken, represented by an unafraid and compassionate intellectual.

And some of the last words of Rachel Corrie to her parents:

I’m witnessing this chronic, insidious genocide and I’m really scared, and questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of human nature. This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don’t think it’s an extremist thing to do anymore.

I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers. But I also want this to stop. Disbelief and horror is what I feel. Disappointment.
I am disappointed that this is the base reality of our world and that we, in fact, participate in it. This is not at all what I asked for when I came into this world. This is not at all what the people here asked for when they came into this world. This is not the world you and Dad wanted me to come into when you decided to have me. This is not what I meant when I looked at Capital Lake and said: “This is the wide world and I’m coming to it.” I did not mean that I was coming into a world where I could live a comfortable life and possibly, with no effort at all, exist in complete unawareness of my participation in genocide. More big explosions somewhere in the distance outside. When I come back from Palestine, I probably will have nightmares and constantly feel guilty for not being here, but I can channel that into more work. Coming here is one of the better things I’ve ever done. So when I sound crazy, or if the Israeli military should break with their racist tendency not to injure white people, please pin the reason squarely on the fact that I am in the midst of a genocide which I am also indirectly supporting, and for which my government is largely responsible.

And if this is what it means to be a Christian, and I believe it does, to speak in the voice of Jeremiah Wright, Edward Said or Rachel Corrie, to remember and take upon us the pain and injustice of others, then name me a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ.

And what of the long line of Jewish prophets that run from Jeremiah, Isaiah and Amos to Hannah Arendt, who reminded the world when the state of Israel was founded that the injustice meted out to the Jews could not be rectified by an injustice meted out to the Palestinians, what of our own prophets, Noam Chomsky or Norman Finkelstein, outcasts like all prophets, what of Uri Avnery or the Israeli poet Aharon Shabtai, who writes in his poem “Rypin,” the Polish town his father escaped from during the Holocaust, these words:

These creatures in helmets and khakis,
I say to myself, aren’t Jews,


In the truest sense of the word. A Jew
Doesn’t dress himself up with weapons like jewelry,
Doesn’t believe in the barrel of a gun aimed at a target,

But in the thumb of the child who was shot at—
In the house through which he comes and goes,
Not in the charge that blows it apart.

The coarse soul and iron first
He scorns by nature.

He lifts his eyes not to the officer, or the soldier
With his finger on the trigger—but to justice,
And he cries out for compassion.

Therefore, he won’t steal land from its people
And will not starve them in camps.

The voice calling for expulsion
Is heard from the hoarse throat of the oppressor—
A sure sign that the Jew has entered a foreign country
And, like Umberto Saba, gone into hiding within his own city.

Because of voices like these, father
At age sixteen, with your family, you fled Rypin;
Now here Rypin is your son.

And if to be Jew means this, and I believe it does, name me a Jew. Name us all Muslims and Christians and Jews. Name us as human beings who believe that when one of us suffers all of us suffer, that we never have to ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for us all, that the tears of the mother in Gaza are our tears, that the wails of the bloodied children in Al Shifa Hospital are the wails of our own children.

'<aLet me close tonight with one last name. Let me name those who send these tanks and fighter jets to bomb the concrete hovels in Gaza with families crouching, helpless, inside, let me name those who deny children the right to a childhood and the sick a right to care, those who torture, those who carry out assassinations in hotel rooms in Dubai and on the streets of Gaza City, those who deny the hungry food, the oppressed justice and foul the truth with official propaganda and state lies.
Let me call them, not by their honorific titles and positions of power, but by the name they have earned for themselves by draining the blood of the innocent into the sands of Gaza.

Let me name them for who they are: terrorists.
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Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute.

He writes a regular column for TruthDig every Monday.

His latest book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.
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Source: http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/147786
URL: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2010/08/12/israeli-officials-are-terrorists

Once again, is the West's Frankenstein out of control?

Once again, is the West's Frankenstein out of control?
(Wednesday, July 28, 2010)


"While Israel demolishes Palestinian homes and expropriates the properties of absent Palestinians by forcibly expelling them from their homes, it demands that Arab countries return the possessions of the Jews who used to live in them. It expels African children from Israel so that it remains ‘Jewish and white’.

 Reading Mya Guarnieri’s article “children are just Israel’s latest victims” in The Guardian (July 20, 2010) makes you disgusted at a policy that does not give value to any human being or any human relationship. What makes you angry is that such a policy receives support and funding from most western countries which never tire of talking about human rights and freedom."


When international condemnation intensified in relation to the crime committed by Israel against the aid flotilla unarmed activists, who were trying to bring food and medicine to the civilians besieged in Gaza, the Netanyahu government started to use expressions like ‘intentions to ease the blockade’. But here is Catherine Ashton, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who visited Gaza last week, saying that she saw no sign of easing the blockade and declaring, on behalf of the EU that keeping the blockade on one and a half million Palestinian civilians is “unacceptable”.
But such statements remain statements if not translated into an action plan or sanctions to force Netanyahu’s extremist government to lift the blockade. And here is Israel, months after the publication of the Goldstone report and the UN request that Israel respond to the report, “pledging” to reduce civilian casualties and limit the use of “phosphorous bombs”. In other words, Israel confirms that it will continue to target Palestinian civilians and use internationally banned weapons against them.

On the same day, Israel demolished Palestinian houses and shops and expelled hundreds of Palestinians from pre-1948 Palestinian territories to the West Bank in implementation of its declared racist ‘transfer’ policy. It will also build a separation barrier with Egypt next week. At the same time, the Israeli defence minister will visit Washington soon to discuss bilateral cooperation and conditions for resuming negotiations.

In other words, Ehud Barak, indicted with war crimes against civilians in South Lebanon and Gaza, will ask the American administration for more financial, military, political and diplomatic support in order to continue the policies of blockade, demolition, oppression, starvation and transfer against Palestinian civilians. This will of course be given coverage by the pro-Israeli media in order to maintain Israel’s image as “an oasis of freedom in the Middle East”, in Joe Biden’ words.
For western governments and media to accept a brutal blockade to be imposed on one and a half Palestinians is shocking, particularly that they claim to defend ‘human rights’ and support the causes of justice, freedom and democracy. It is also shocking that the United Nations calls on Israel to stop demolishing Palestinian houses, while it has, for years, carried out a policy of judaizing Jerusalem and demolished some of the most beautiful architectural monuments in the neighbourhoods of Jarrah and Silwan without the UN taking any measure against Israel as it has done with other countries.

This contradiction and use of double standards exposes the false claims of western democracies that they support human rights and believe in the rule of law; for every day we see Palestinians being arrested for demonstrating peacefully against the demolition of their houses; and we see them turned into refugees. Accepting words like ‘easing’ and ‘reducing’ means not respecting Palestinians’ life and not equating their suffering and pain with the suffering and pain of western people. Otherwise, why had all human-rights organizations, the United Nations, the United States and Europe failed to impose sanctions against Israel because of all these crimes committed against unarmed Palestinian, while they do so against countries for mere suspicion that they have intentions to develop weapons?

The credibility of the White House in supporting peace in the Middle East is completely shattered when an official in this house, which has a long history of supporting dictatorships, expresses pride that the United States provides Israel with $ 4 billion to equip it with the most devastating weapons, including nuclear weapons, while it spends $ 3 billion on more than seventy other countries.

There is no need to interpret intentions here, because Israel has demonstrated for the past sixty years that it uses these American weapons to eliminate the Palestinian people, suppress their right to freedom, steal their land and water and destroy their future. So, why arming Israel is a source of pride, while other countries’ attempt to get weapons to defend themselves justifies accusing them with terrorism? Why are not the measures and standards applied against others, who have not committed a crime, be applied against Israel?

This is the question raised by Seth Freedman in The Guardian (July 15, 2010) in an article entitled “Force Israel’s hand on Palestinian home demolition”. The writer stresses that “Israel's resumption of demolition in East Jerusalem requires firm intervention to prevent a total breakdown in talks”, and I say to prevent more crimes against innocent people. The writer goes on to say “Unfortunately, it is not hard to see where their arrogance stems from: for years, no American or European leader has dared match their angry words with concrete actions, such as sanctions against Israel”. He adds: “Judaising" East Jerusalem is a stated policy of numerous settler groups and their financial and political backers, and every home demolition and family eviction expedites the process of ethnic cleansing already embarked upon”.

While Israel demolishes Palestinian homes and expropriates the properties of absent Palestinians by forcibly expelling them from their homes, it demands that Arab countries return the possessions of the Jews who used to live in them. It expels African children from Israel so that it remains ‘Jewish and white’. Reading Mya Guarnieri’s article “children are just Israel’s latest victims” in The Guardian (July 20, 2010) makes you disgusted at a policy that does not give value to any human being or any human relationship. What makes you angry is that such a policy receives support and funding from most western countries which never tire of talking about human rights and freedom.

I once wrote that Israel is the 20th-century Frankenstein invented by the west. Has this Frankenstein gone beyond the control of its western creators? Or, is there still no sufficient conviction of its danger to others, to itself, and ultimately to the entire world?

Source:
by courtesy & © 2010 Bouthaina Shaaban

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Friday, 13 August 2010

220 Swiss organisations support Freedom Flotilla 2

[ 13/08/2010 - 02:21 PM ]

BERN, (PIC)-- 220 NGOs and unions have expressed support for the Freedom Flotilla 2 which is slated to sail to the Gaza Strip before the end of the year, by participating in one of its ships, the Swiss ship.

The head of the Swiss "rights for all society", Anwar Gharbi, said in a press release "Political parties of significant weight announced its support for the flotilla providing 450 activists to participate in it."

Gharbi, who is also a member of the European campaign to end the siege on Gaza said that his organisation fully supports the Swiss ship which will participate in the flotilla.

He also said that some Swiss parliamentarians had called for organising flights to the Gaza Strip to break the siege.

Gharbi said that Swiss civil society is positively engaged in all activities to break the siege and that thousands of activists have expressed interest in participating in the Freedom Flotilla 2, including some well known athletes and artists.

He added that over the past three weeks the Swiss media has covered the preparations of the ship and interviewed a number of participants.


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Germany sets free Mossad assassin


13/08/2010 A German court released on bail Friday an alleged Israeli agent suspected of links to the January killing of a Hamas leader, saying he may now return home as he is only facing a fine.

Polish authorities, who had arrested Uri Brodsky in June at Warsaw airport on suspicion of obtaining a German passport under false pretences, had extradited him to Germany Thursday.

He appeared Friday before a magistrate in the western city of Cologne, who released him on bail, a spokesman for the city prosecutor's office told AFP. Brodsky may now return to Israel as his maximum penalty would be a fine covered by the bail payment.

"The arrest warrant was suspended after an agreement between the district court and the prosecutor's office," the spokesman said, adding that bail had been set at "an appropriate amount" without providing details.

Brodsky is accused of illegally obtaining a German passport under the name Michael Bodenheimer which was later found to have been used by a member of the hit-squad that killed Mahmud al-Mabhuh of Hamas in a Dubai hotel room.

The squad, which Dubai police believe was from Israeli spy agency Mossad, was found to have used 26 doctored foreign passports, sparking diplomatic fallout not only with Germany but
Australia, Britain, France and Ireland.
(AFP)


Germany sets free Mossad assassin

Via Friday-Lunch-Club


"... Cologne prosecutors' spokesman Rainer Wolf said after a closed-doors hearing that the suspect known as Uri Brodsky is free to travel wherever he wants to go while judicial proceedings against him in Germany will continue...."
Posted by G, Z, or B at 11:02 AM

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An anti-semite is not someone who hates Jews; it is someone the Zionists hate.

Anti-Semitism

  1. Jonathan Freedland, without knowing that he is doing so, comments on the rise of progressive anti-Semitism. "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas", indeed. It used to be a key, if stupid, liberal shibboleth that the evil should be able to hide behind the cloak of anti-racism in order to do their evil deeds. Thank goodness that is ending. The sad fact of the matter is that the wicked State of the Jews will continue to engage in mass slaughter and other atrocities until we all draw the obvious conclusions as to motive.
  2. Deborah Lipstadt (!) on the ADL's polling in Europe. The ADL ran what amounts to a 'push poll', convincing many Europeans that they were in fact anti-Semites, all in aid of increasing the size of the cloak.
  3. "According to the European Union Monitoring Center, the ‘New Antisemitism’ involves:
    • Denying the Jewish people their right to self determination
      Applying double standards to Israel
    • Using the symbols and images associated with the classic antisemitism to characterize Israel or Israelis
    • Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis
    • Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel"
    Decent, moral individuals around the globe should use this as a guide on what to do.
  4. If Venezuela’s Jews are nervous (and note how the NYT naturally fails to mention the inside-job nature of the attack), they should be nervous about that upcoming false flag attack.
  5. The Rat is put on the rack (don't forget that the timing of the Williamson ex-excommunication was surely connected to the Gaza slaughter, when Vatican right-wingers, who have been dying to do this for years, thought they could slip one by). I love this paragraph, written, I guess, for the benefit of Americans who are a little iffy on history (my emphasis in various colors; and yes, the Holocaust happened, however morally irrelevant the Jews have subsequently made it):

    "Last month the Vatican lifted the excommunication of a rebel bishop just days after the broadcast of an interview in which he denied the existence of gas chambers and said no more than 300,000 Jews had died in Nazi concentration camps. Scholars have in fact documented approximately 6 million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust."

  6. "Israel's central role in the resurgence of 'anti-Semitism'"
  7. "Brooklyn camera stores: The scam stops here" Read through to the comments.
  8. "The Quebec City Carnaval is apologizing for an ice sculpture of a traditional Ukrainian Christmas scene after a visitor complained that it included a stereotypical bearded Jew in a skullcap, holding a bag of money."
  9. More laughs (Anne Frank on skates; note this is a story from the 1890s):

    "Canada's honor has again been upheld abroad, and now Louis Rubenstein is not only champion figure skater of Canada and the United States, but of the world.

    Rival skaters weren't the only opponents Louis Rubenstein had to vanquish to become world figure skating champion. His triumph, in St. Petersburg, was also a triumph over the virulent anti-Semitism then rampant in imperial Russia."
    Be prepared for a heaping dose of this kind of bullshit, as the Jewish Billionaires are starting to panic.
  10. And, of course, my new hero, Rowan Laxton: "Fucking Israelis, fucking Jews."

Theodor Hertzl“It is essential that the sufferings of Jews. . . become worse. . . this will assist in realization of our plans. . .
I have an excellent idea. . . I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth. . .
The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews.
The anti-Semites shall be our best friends”
— Theodor Herzl, Founder of Zionism in 1897
*****************************************************
If it does not already exist, hate against the Jews must be created, by the Jews themselves!
Teodor Herzl said in his Book (Der Juden Staat [The Jewish State]);
"The Jewish question exists. It would be foolish to deny it...The Jewish problem exists wherever Jews live in noticeable numbers. Where it does not exist, it is introduced by Jews who move in...I believe I can understand anti- Semitism, which is in many ways a complicated movement. I look on this movement from the standpoint of a Jew - but without hatred or fear. I believe I recognize in anti-Semitism what is crude humor, ordinary economic envy, inherited prejudice, religious intolerance - but also what is deemed to be self-defense.'

'Anti-Semitism grows daily, hourly, among the peoples, and must continue to grow, since its causes continue to exist and cannot be alleviated."
This was right when Teodor Herzl, the Arch-Zionist, said that, it was right 3000 years ago and it is still right today!

I wonder though, was the Internet an uncalculated factor to the Zionists, who seem to be the Jewish authority to execute the last sequence of an ancient old conspiracy against us, the Goy? Or are we mistaken in thinking of the Internet as our chance to alert an unsuspected Goy-majority of the danger, when in fact the Internet is being used to confuse us even further?

Which ever it may be, I in the course of time, in which I have tried to reach and educate people of the true Zionist intentions, have learned, that the Internet is de facto the extension of their battle field and is as deadly to the Goy-combatants, as it is on the ground!

And as it is out in "real life", a minority no matter how small, can derail an entire factual correct concept and can confuse an uninformed readership greatly, with a statement just 3 or 4 lines in size. These statements are usually of insulting nature and in almost every instants ridicule the author, rather than debating or commenting on the subject in question.

It is grotesque how some of the most obvious facts are being denied or distorted and are without scruple and usually in just one phrase twisted in to a credible lie, to overturn a factual true statement. And if overwhelmed by facts known to a majority of the population where denial or distortion would unveil their true evil agenda, they resort to name calling and accuse the author of being an anti-Semite, a Racist or even a Nazi, while they in the same phrase remind the reader of their "Holocaust, where 6 Million Jews have perished" during World War II. - And their 4-liner then ends with "never again, never again!" -!
And it is hate, what they are looking to inflict in us, hate against them without which their pretension to be the victims would lose its credibility. Because only as victims can they enjoy protection and keep preying on their unsuspected hosts.

Therefore, as Herzl himself concluded in his Book, "anti-Semitism cannot be alleviated" it must go on, it does not hurt, because it is a movement that serves a purpose and the purpose is to remain the eternal victim that has more privileges than others, and as victim must be protected, no matter what the costs are!
And it is anti-Semitism, that opens all doors in all nations and to all, even the highest positions for them. It is not, as they claim, hard work and special skills, no, it is the sorrow people feel for these poor victims, who have always been persecuted and have been dispersed throughout the world.

Imagine, they would be disarmed; They would be stripped of their weapon, the weapon of anti-Semitism, no one would hate them anymore and they could not call us racist anymore. Imagine, they would suddenly be treated as every one else, just as normal people, don’t you think the Palestinians would get their State? Don’t you think the world would be a better, a more peaceful place to live, with many less Wars and conflicts to fight?

rzuercher/July 2002

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Menachem BeginOur race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."
— Menachem Begin - Israeli Prime Minister 1977–1983
If a Gentile exposes Zionism, they are called "anti-semitic" which is nothing more than a smokescreen to hide the Zionists actions.
But, if a Jew is the person doing the exposing, they resort to other tactics.
First, they ignore the charges, hoping the information will not be given widespread distribution. If the information starts reaching too many people, they ridicule the information and the persons giving the information. If that doesn't work, their next step is character assassination. If the author or speaker hasn't been involved in sufficient scandal they are adept at fabricating scandal against the person or persons. If none of these are effective, they are known to resort to physical attacks. But, NEVER do they try to prove the information wrong.
Jack Bernstein, (assassinated by MOSSAD)

Banjamin H. FreedmanBenjamin H. Freedman





Freedman, a former Zionist, explains some of the diabolical plots that helped set the stage for the endless wars in the Mid East.

Please listen to his speech, and pass this link around. Click here to listen online.




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Henry Ford

Henry FordHenry Ford printed a booklet that he distributed with his cars. The title was The International Jew, and thanks to the Internet it is more widespread today than it ever was in his lifetime. Now we have the book in our own archive for your education. Please read what he had to say.



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Israel Shahak
Israel Shahak


Israel Shahak's book "Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of 3,000 Years" is all the more important for being a document by a aknowledgeable Jew -- a Jewish "insider" -- about the beliefs and behavior of his fellow Jews.
Born in Warsaw in 1933, Shahak spent a portion of his childhood in the concentration camp in Belsen, from which he immigrated to Palestine in 1945. He grew up in Israel, served in the Israeli military, and became a chemistry professor. Like all Israelis, he became fluent in Hebrew.
He also became acclimated to the peculiar moral atmosphere of Israeli society: a combination of overweening arrogance and deceit, a mixture of pugnacious self-righteousness and duplicity.

Unlike his fellow Israelis, however, Professor Shahak is deeply troubled by this peculiar atmosphere. Whereas the Jews around him take it for granted that the goyim on whom they depend for economic, military, and diplomatic support are too stupid ever to figure out what the Jews think about them and say about them behind their backs and plan to do to them when they can, and too sheeplike ever to take effective action if they do figure it out, he worries. He remembers that the Romans figured it out, and they consequently sacked Jerusalem and ended their cult in Palestine. He remembers that the Germans figured it out, and that's why he became an involuntary tenant in a concentration camp. He's worried that if his fellow Jews continue behaving as they always have, they will get themselves into some really serious trouble -- again.

Via Friday-Lunch-Club

That should delight those Phoenicians who believe that the Cedarless country is still at the center of America's foreign policy and the .....universe!

"... But amid growing protests in Congress, President Obama could soon face a dilemma: whether to abandon the institution-building effort Bush began because the army won't confront Hezbollah, or continue to fund the army to maintain stability and fight other militant groups it is willing to act against. .... Some lawmakers in both parties have also expressed frustration at the Lebanese military's lax patrolling of the border with Syria and the continued flow of Iranian-made weapons to Hezbollah. ....
Many of the army's key figures are Shiites sympathetic to Hezbollah, including the powerful deputy head of Lebanese military intelligence. The last two Lebanese army commanders, both Christians, struck a pro-Hezbollah stance that helped them become presidents...."
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Internet Killed Israeli PR (must watch)


Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 11:35PM Gilad Atzmon

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London Says No to IsraHell

Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 11:24PM Gilad Atzmon



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Gilad Atzmon: A Glimpse into Israeli Paranoia


Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 9:40AM Gilad Atzmon

Watch this amusing new Hasbara video. It seems as if the Israelis start to acknowledge that the days of their ‘Jews only state’ are numbered.

They clearly gather that they are about to be forced out of the West Bank. In this short  propaganda film Israel seems to acknowledge that it will be squeezed  into the 1949 armistice lines.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0



*Every state has the right of ‘self defence’ says the Hasbara video, yet,  someone better remind the Israelis that not many countries celebrate their symptoms at the expense of others.
*According to this Hasbara film, in 1967 Israel was attacked by four countries, until recently we were all convinced that it was actually the other way around, it was  Israel that launched that war. Truth and historical truthfulness is not highly valued in the Jewish state.
* What are Israel's ‘defensible borders’? The Jordan Rift Valley says the film, for tanks, ballistic missiles or airplanes can never cross this unbridgeable natural barrier.
* Ladies and gentlemen, 2 minutes and forty seven seconds into this new Hasabara video the voice over explains why Israel should never be “forced back into the 1949 armistice lines”. In other words, the  Israelis start to realise that the legitimacy of their Jewish state is under question.  They somehow start also to grasp  that their one and only recognised international border is the 1949 Armistice lines.
* I never thought that it would be that quick and easy.
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From Goldstone to Uribe


Despite a credible start, the fix is in. Expect justice again to be denied. After the Gaza War (Operation Cast Lead), the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) appointed Justice Richard Goldstone to lead an independent four-person fact-finding Commission to investigate human rights and humanitarian law violations committed on both sides, Israel doing everything possible to obstruct him in vain.

The Commission conducted 188 interviews, got over 300 reports, submissions and other documents, comprising more than 10,000 pages, 30 videos, and 1,200 photographs, much of it gathered first-hand. Secondary sources added corroboration, in total providing clear evidence of Israel crimes.

On September 15, 2009, the Commission concluded that:

"there is evidence indicating serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law were committed by Israel during the Gaza conflict, and that Israel committed actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity."

"While the Israeli Government has sought to portray its operations as essentially a response to rocket attacks in the exercise of its right of self-defense, the Mission considers the plan to have been directed, at least in part, at a different target: the people of Gaza as a whole."

Rocket attacks were a pretext for well-planned naked aggression. The Commission's findings were conclusively damning despite Israeli war criminals not punished, justice still denied but not forever.

Daily, Israel commits crimes against humanity through targeted assassinations, street violence, mass arrests, torture, regular incursions, land theft, dispossessions, and other law violations, including suffocating Gazans under siege, then attacking humanitarian missions breaking it, most recently on May 31 against Freedom Flotilla participants, murdering targeted activists in cold-blood in international waters, claiming self-defense, a clear bald-faced lie, the evidence overwhelming, conclusive, and damning.

Two UN Commissions Investigating the Flotilla Massacre

On June 2, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) approved formation of an international commission comprised of lawyers and international law and human rights experts, its findings to be presented in September during the Council's three week Geneva session.

Its members include:

-- Desmond de Silva, a UK lawyer and former chief prosecutor for the Sierra Leone Special Court investigation into widespread killings there;

-- Karl Hudson-Phillips, a former International Criminal Court (ICC) judge and former Trinidad and Tobago attorney general and parliament member; and

-- Malaysia's Mary Shanthi Dairiam, active in gender equality issues, including on the UN Development Program's gender equity task force.

In emergency session, the HRC criticized Israel's "outrageous attack on aid ships attempting to breach a blockade on the Gaza Strip," calling it "piracy, (an) act of aggression, (a) brutal massacre, (an) act of terrorism, (a) war crime, (a) crime against humanity - unprovoked, unwarranted, atrocious, (and) brutal," calling activists onboard "peaceful, innocent, noble, unarmed, (and) defenseless, setting a hopeful tone for a Goldstone Commission-like investigation and conclusions.

However, on August 2, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named his own commission, unsurprisingly showing obvious bias toward Israel after earlier criticizing the HRC for "picking on Israel," a Reuters June 7 report quoting him saying:

"The Secretary-General is disappointed at the council's decision to single out only one specific regional item given the range and scope of allegations of human rights violations throughout the world," the statement omitting Israel or Palestinian Authority (PA) by name.

At the same time, Alejandro Wolff, deputy US permanent UN representative accused the council of "a pathological obsession with Israel," saying "I think the record is starting to speak for itself," a clear reference to the Goldstone Commission.

On July 11, on Press TV, former Iraq UN Humanitarian Coordinator Denis Halliday and former UN chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter accused Ban Ki-moon of being a Security Council (SC) instrument, meaning, of course, a US imperial tool. Halliday said the SC corrupted him, undermining his credibility, shown numerous times, his latest announcement clear evidence.

According to AFP, Ban's commission includes:

-- Geoffrey Palmer, former New Zealand Prime Minister, the commission's chairman;

-- Joseph Siechanover, former head of Israel's Defense Mission to the US and Canada, and Israel's Defense and Agriculture ministries' general counsel;

-- Ozdem Sanberk, former Turkish ambassador and Foreign Ministry Undersecretary; and

-- Alvaro Uribe, former Colombian president, the commission's vice-chairman, a man tainted by corruption and scandal, with close links to his country's drug cartels and paramilitary death squads, responsible for murdering thousands of trade unionists, campesinos, human rights workers, journalists, and others opposing Colombia's narco-state terrorism and ties to US imperialism.

James Petras accused him of conducting "a scorched earth policy (against) Colombia's countryside," murdering thousands criticizing his regime. "Entire regions of the countryside were emptied - like the US Operation Phoenix in Vietnam, farmland was poisoned by toxic herbicides. Over 250,000 armed forces (allied with death squads) decimated vast (areas) where (FARC-EP resistance fighters) exercised hegemony."

Human Rights First accused him and his administration of calling human rights activists "terrorist sympathizers and have insinuated that illicit connections exist between human rights NGOs and illegal armed groups."

Former UN Human Rights Rapporteur, Margaret Sekaggya, visited Colombia in September 2009, then reported in March 2010 on the "Stigmatization (of human rights activists) by public officials and non-State actors; their illegal surveillance by State intelligence services; their arbitrary arrest and detention; their judicial harassment; raids (against their) premises and theft of information," ordered by Uribe, calling them:

-- "rent-a-mobs at terrorism's service who cowardly wave the human rights flag;

-- human rights traffickers;

-- charlatans of human rights;

-- bandits' colleagues; and

-- (the) intellectual front (for) FARC" resistance fighters.

Contemptuous of human rights, international law and justice, his appointment destroys the commission's credibility, guaranteeing bias and whitewash. It's results will be announced in mid-September. HRC's conclusions will be marginalized, Ban's assured top-featured prominence, sanctifying cold-blooded murder.

A Hopeful Sign

On August 10, Haaretz Service reported that Turkey has set up its own Flotilla inquiry to "investigate the attack and the treatment the activists faced." The commission will include "officials from the foreign, justice, interior and transport ministries as well as from the country's maritime agency."

Turkey holds Israel responsible for the massacre, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu saying "No one else can take the blame for killing civilians in international waters." President Recep Erdogan agrees, harshly condemning Israel for the crime.

A Final Note

In late May, Israel's Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi vowed to block the Gaza aid Flotilla, stopping short of explaining how. On August 11, before Israel's Turkel commission, he defended the massacre as "proportional and correct," praising his commandos' calm and morality.


On August 12, he repeated the warning, telling a naval graduation class he'll block future flotillas, saying "There is no doubt that you will manage to stop the nearing threats." Now we know what he has in mind.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/.

posted by Steve Lendman @ 2:58 AM

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Hezbollah Ready to Submit Data to Lebanese Authorities


13/08/2010 Following the exceptional press conference made by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah in which he directly accused the Israeli enemy of involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the Resistance party's stance remained fixed…

For Hezbollah, the international tribunal is politicized and therefore, can't be trusted. That's it: a tribunal rejecting to sue false witnesses, a tribunal rejecting to adopt the Israeli hypothesis, a tribunal with verdicts issued in media is a political one.

Therefore, Hezbollah refuses to cooperate with such tribunal. Hezbollah Secretary General said it clearly in his famous press conference: "Hezbollah does not trust the international tribunal. However, if the Lebanese government is willing to form a Lebanese commission to investigate the matter, we will cooperate."

On Friday, the same stance was reiterated following the request submitted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare to provide him with the data and footage in Hezbollah's possession.

In this context, member of the Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Nawwaf Moussawi announced readiness of Hezbollah to hand over to Lebanese authorities footage shown during Sayyed Nasrallah's footage "and let them do whatever they want afterwards."

"Data and evidence in Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah's possession has been made public," Moussawi told Lebanese daily Ad-Diyar. "Hezbollah, however, doesn't trust the International Tribunal or the international investigation," Moussawi added.

He said Hezbollah was ready to provide such information to the Lebanese judiciary.

In response to a question about Lebanese authorities giving the data to Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare, Moussawi said: "So what, it's their business."

In the same context, Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar quoted sources close to Hezbollah as saying that the Resistance path's stance was clear since August 9, the day of the famous press conference, "when Sayyed Nasrallah made it clear he wouldn't cooperated with the STL but that he's ready to provide the data in his possession to the Lebanese authorities or any trusted investigative team."

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"... For Syrians worried about the carnage in Iraq, the Baathist government offers security..."

Via Friday-Lunch-Club

The National:
"... Hariri was close to the Saudi royal family, and his death further strained relations between Syria and the kingdom. Things reached a new low during the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbollah, when Assad called his fellow Arab leaders “half-men” for their criticism of it. In 2008, King Abdullah boycotted an Arab League summit in Damascus and withdrew his ambassador from the Syrian capital.

In response to the cold shoulder from the US and its Arab allies, Mr Assad became more dependent on Iran, which helped shore up the Syrian economy with construction investments and cheap oil....

It is a mistake to assume that the latest diplomatic manoeuvering means that Syria will abandon Iran or fall in line behind Washington. The Syrian-Iranian alliance has endured for nearly 30 years; it cannot be undone lightly....Thanks to the Iraq war, Mr Assad’s regime became stronger. For Syrians worried about the carnage in Iraq, the Baathist government offers security ..... Syria has consistently offered to sign a separate peace agreement with Israel in exchange for the Heights, but the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shown little willingness to negotiate with Damascus. For now, the path to negotiations is bleak. The Syrian regime will continue to play on regional dynamics to advance its interests. In other words, Mr Assad is keeping all of his options open – as his father taught him to do."
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Badran: We receive Ramadan with full determination for freedom

[ 13/08/2010 - 12:17 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Husam Badran, a Palestinian leader imprisoned in Israeli jails, has said that Palestinian captives in Israeli jails receive the holy month of Ramadan in full determination for freedom and great resoluteness to be reunited with their children and families.

In a message he was able to leak outside the prison where he is detained, Badran said that Palestinian captives in Israeli jails feel the vicious conspiracy concocted by the Israeli occupation and those supporting it, including a number of Arab regimes, and implemented by some Palestinians who sold themselves to the devil and lost their Palestinian identity.

He also highlighted the miserable conditions the Palestinian captives are living in Israeli prisons, explaining that many of them live Ramadan inside solitary confinement, and others like captive Nael Al-Barghouthi receives it for the 30th successive year in jail.

He also underscored that captives missed they days where they used to join their families during Ramadan around one table for breaking their fast, they missed the Taraweeh prayers in local mosques, and they missed the smiles of Palestinian children in the streets of Palestine.

Badran called on the Palestinian people to rally behind the Palestinian resistance and not to be deceived by the mirage of peace with the Israeli occupation that certain Palestinian and Arab parties are trying to market among the Palestinian people.


He also called on the Palestinian factions to consolidate their ranks and to adhere to the Palestinian people’s legal rights and national aspirations, expressing great hope that next Ramadan would come while all captives are freed from Israeli jails and reunited with their families and children.

At least 10,000 Palestinian captives have been detained in Israeli jails, many of them for decades, making their issue one of the top issues for Hamas Movement and other Palestinian resistance factions as well as the entire Palestinian people.

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