Syria: "The UNSC statement represents a face-saving way out for anyone who wants to back away from previous hard-line positions!"

Via FLC

'A very Unhappy British rep... leaving as the 'Statement is recited!'

"...“The positive outweighs the negative,” is perhaps the phrase that best expresses the official Syrian position on the United Nations presidential statement issued on Wednesday......... from the Syrian government’s point of view, the statement is still nothing but “empty words” even though it represents a face-saving way out for anyone who wants to back away from their previous hard-line positions against the Syrian regime.

The Syrian position seems to highly value Russian efforts at the UN Security Council (UNSC), especially Moscow’s insistence to all concerned parties that its acceptance of this non-binding compromise does not mean a change in its principled position on the crisis in Syria.

Syrian official sources say that “there is a clear direction now toward a political solution led by Syria and sponsored by the international community.”The source adds, “The question of President Bashar Assad stepping down...has been thrown in the trash bin. The only option offered by the international resolution is a dialogue within the framework of a political process led by Damascus.”...

They point out that “there would no longer be a predetermined result to the dialogue which is what previous Arab decisions had demanded when Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco wanted a dialogue with set limits and a predetermined outcome, namely Assad’s departure.”

These sources indicate that as far as Damascus is concerned “the mechanisms of the solution have become clear to everyone. The first step is to calm down the situation and provide emergency humanitarian aid, to be followed by a dialogue involving all those that have weight on the ground, after armed groups lay down their weapons.”

They stress that “the last point is significant because it is the first time that the UNSC has recognized the presence of armed groups inside Syria.”

The sources confirm that “Syria is committed to positive engagement. Now the opposition, along with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco, should do the same. If that were to happen then it will be the beginning of the end of the crisis.”....

Sources close to the Syrian regime note that a “colossal efforts” was made by the Russians to get to this statement, pointing out that “Moscow exerted tremendous pressure and was keen to inform all concerned parties from the US to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar that its acceptance of the statement does not mean that there has been a change in its principled position on the Syrian crisis.”.........

The sources point out that the statement also confirms the willingness of Syrian authorities to provide humanitarian assistance to all areas affected by the fighting but “at the right time,” meaning it will be up to the Syrian government to determine if it is possible to do so based on the situation on the ground.

The same sources maintain that the question of humanitarian assistance is not a simple one. It requires defining a clear mechanism for delivering aid after it gets inspected.

“There is a basic question at stake, namely, who guarantees that aid items won’t include weapons especially since civilians in many conflict areas have fled, leaving only the fighters who know how to fend for themselves. So why is there this insistence on delivering materials to these places?” they wonder.......

When asked about the Syrian government’s position on this statement, the sources confirm that “for Syria, the outline is clear and that is: reject anything having to do with the Arab League and welcome anything related to the humanitarian situation based on conditions on the ground.”.... These sources confirm that the UN statement is a reflection of the Syrian authorities success in controlling the situation on the ground.

They say: “the Russians cannot defend you this way unless you are strong. They would not have been able to do the same thing had you been defeated. Incidentally, every time you hear about an attack or explosion in Damascus or Aleppo, know that armed groups are responding to a setback they suffered somewhere else in Syria.”

These sources are keen to confirm that “the whole story with Annan and his initiative is, until this moment, nothing but dust in the wind.”

He came to Damascus and held talks offering what is called in diplomatic language a “non-paper,” and we replied in kind. We welcomed his effort without a paper. He left. He told us I will send a team to discuss the details and we welcomed that step too.

“In the end,” they say, “we welcome any effort that contributes to finding a Syrian solution to the crisis without undermining Syrian sovereignty. But until now, there is no agreement with Annan and no agreement on his initiative.”

The sources add that the UN envoy “sent a delegation of observers to Syria to discuss matters on the ground. But you know, observer missions are flexible.”

“The Arab observers,” they add, “came here to carry out a specific mission and ended up working on delivering assistance to troubled areas. The same thing happened with Annan’s team. They are touring flashpoint areas and are still exploring the situation on the ground.”

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More from wallowing March14ers: "Clinton told the Turks & Saudis not to move forward against Assad"

Via FLC

"... this means that Washington, which at one point subcontracted its Syria policy to Ankara, has now called the Turks off the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

According to well-informed Turkish and US sources, during his meeting with Secretary Clinton, Davutoğlu put forward a set of measures, including, among others, creating a buffer zone and/or a humanitarian corridor, as well as organizing and equipping the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The secretary of state responded in no uncertain terms that the Obama administration had no interest in pursuing any of these options. In fact, according to one account, Clinton told her Turkish counterpart no less than three times, “We are not there.”

This conversation fits well with the administration’s message to other regional allies, namely Saudi Arabia, against arming the FSA and pushing Washington’s preferred policy of going through the Russians, in an attempt to reach a “political solution” to the Syrian crisis.

There were hints of Davutoğlu’s agenda on the eve of his meeting with Clinton, along with some speculation about Turkish-US consultation regarding the creation of a safe zone in northern Syria. The idea was that Turkey was prepared to move in this direction following the failure to reach an agreement with Moscow ..... Apparently, the Turks, much like the Saudis, were looking to the first Friends of Syria meeting in Tunis as a possible forum to bypass the Russians and begin a more muscular effort, with US backing. The Saudis found out at the meeting that no such action was forthcoming, and withdrew in frustration, while publicly voicing their preference for arming the Syrian rebels.

The Turks got their answer from Secretary Clinton well before the Tunis gathering, and, according to the Turkish sources, were dismayed at the Obama administration’s extraordinary passivity and refusal to lead.

The message conveyed to the Turks was the same one made clear to the Saudis. According to one US source, when Davutoğlu ended up asking Clinton where the administration was on the issue, her response simply repeated the mantra about the Arab League initiative and going to the Security Council again for another go at the Russians. In other words, it was more of the same.

Not surprisingly, following the meeting, the Turkish foreign ministry pulled back, stating that direct intervention “is not on our agenda at the moment.” The Turks may have finally decided that more aggressive measures are needed. However, and despite the fact that Clinton may not have objected to Turkey moving on its own, Ankara remains reluctant to lead such an endeavor on its own, especially without explicit US approval and backing. In effect, therefore, the administration was actively blocking any such move on Turkey’s part, just as it held a red light to possible Saudi and Qatari plans to arm the FSA.

However, last week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan once again floated the idea of a buffer zone, adding that the next Friends of Syria meeting, scheduled to take place in Istanbul on April 1, would come up “with very different results,” ..... there has been speculation that the Saudis, too, are waiting for the April 1 meeting before beginning their efforts to arm the FSA in earnest. The purpose of such declarations could be to pressure the US to take more aggressive action.

If this reading is correct, then it would explain the Obama administration’s eagerness to support the Kofi Annan mission, as well as its praise for the non-binding UN Security Council statement issued yesterday. Secretary Clinton hailed the statement even when it contained no mention of Assad’s departure from power, no time constraints on Annan’s mission, and no specific or credible threat of action in case of Syrian non-compliance, ....... Whether the Saudis and the Turks will decide to proceed regardless with their plans following the next Friends of Syria meeting, remains to be seen. But the administration’s latest move certainly has limited their maneuverability.

The Obama administration’s reasoning is simple. It calculates, rather correctly, that such regional efforts will likely end up drawing the US in down the road, one way or another. President Obama wishes to nip in the bud any possibility of this happening in an election year. And so, such regional moves were opposed in order for the president not to be forced to take action he’s adamantly intent on avoiding, regardless of the consequences.

As a result, the administration has found itself in the surreal position of siding closer with Assad’s Russian ally..."

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"The Saudis are worried ...."

Via FLC

"... Analysts say Riyadh sent troops last year because of alarm that Bahrain had not contained protests that had the potential to spill over into the Shi'ite Eastern Province region, where major Saudi oilfields are located.
An opposition politician, who did not wish to be named, said Saudi Arabia now feared that the conflict in Syria, in which Shi'ite Iran and its ally Hezbollah back Bashar al-Assad's rule, could sharpen Bahrain's sectarian divide - detracting attention from Syria and firing up Saudi Shi'ites.
"The Saudis are worried (the stalemate) could push the Shi'ites towards Iran... and at what could emerge as a consequence of Syria," he said.....
Unrest in the Saudi Eastern Province has flared again in recent months.
"The Saudis really don't need unrest in the Eastern Province right now," said Michael Stephens, researcher at the Doha-based Royal United Services Institute. "The policy priority for Saudi Arabia has been Syria for last three months."

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Hana Shalabi – Freedom or Death

Free Hana Shalabi

Stephen Lendman

On March 22, Hana Shalabi’s 36th hunger strike day began. After examining her, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I) said she’s in imminent danger of death.

Israel wants her to die. She requires immediate hospitalization. At PHR-I’s request, she was sent to Meir Hospital on March 19 but not admitted. The same night, she was transferred back to Ramleh Prison Hospital. Healthcare there and in all Israeli prison facilities is an oxymoron. There’s none worthy of the name.

Her doctor wasn’t told she’s back in prison until the next day. He and others deplore the appalling care she’ll get in terms of quality, efficacy, and timeliness. Israel condemned Hana to death unless effective intervention prevents it.

A joint PHR-I, Addameer, Al Haq statement quoted Hana saying:

“To all the free and loyal Palestinian people, I direct my words to you—while I and all my brothers and sisters in the occupier’s prisons are on hunger strike, we call on you to continue your solidarity and for the issue of prisoners to be on the highest priority list….I call on foreign states to continue action in applying pressure (on Israel) towards the release of all our courageous prisoners.”

The joint statement “expressed grave concern” for her health. Without proper care, she risks imminent death because of significant physical deterioration.

PHR-I’s chairman asked the Israel Prison Service (IPS) chief medical officer, Dini Orkin, why Hana’s hospitalization was denied. She responded saying the IPS commissioner wants another medical opinion, despite the urgency given her health.

Especially troubling is what Hana told her doctor. During March 19 transfers, she was grossly mistreated, including being “dragged across the floor.” Doing so aggravated her weak condition.
Hana’s also being pressured to begin eating. Force-feeding is threatened despite clear medical ethics issues and international treaties prohibiting the practice. Attempts have also been made “to undermine her confidence and trust in her PHR-I doctor.”

She’s been lied to, including spurious claims that he doesn’t care about her. In fact, he’s her best hope to survive.

At the same time, a military court of appeals judge again postponed ruling on her case. No announced date was given.

“The judge requested a detailed medical report on Ms. Shalabi’s health condition, which has been prepared by the PHR-Israel doctor and submitted to the court.”

Addameer lawyer Mahmoud Hassan said:

“(T)he Israeli military prosecution’s concern is to get Hana to end her hunger strike as opposed to seriously considering the reasons underlying Hana’s protest, including the infringement on her right to fair trial and right to an effective defense.”

Like thousands of other wrongfully imprisoned Palestinians, Hana’s denied all rights, including due process and judicial fairness. They’re also subjected to torture, inhuman, and degrading treatment. It’s official Israeli policy. Fundamental international law is routinely spurned.

In Hana’s case, she denied her right to live. She wants freedom or death. Her lawyer, Jawad Boulos, quoted her saying:

“It’s true our lives are very precious, but our freedom is even more precious and more powerful than their cells.”

PHR-I member Yael Maron said:

“The story of Hana Shalabi, like that of Khader Adnan before, is, in my opinion, a remarkable example of a struggle that’s completely nonviolent towards one’s surroundings. It is the last protest a prisoner can make, and I find it brave and inspiring.”

Except for UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine Richard Falk, UN officials ignore her. In response, Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees chairwoman Khitam Saafin said:

“The UN must be responsible for the whole of violations that are going on against our people. These prisoners are war prisoners, not security prisoners, not criminals. They are freedom fighters for their rights.”

Falk said her courage “should move even the hard-hearted.” She’s “young, tender,” nonviolent, and dedicated to what deserves universal praise, not lawless imprisonment and brutality.

Hunger striking reflects her struggle against injustice. It’s not about her alone. It’s for thousands of other wrongfully incarcerated and mistreated Palestinian prisoners. Israel persecutes them mercilessly.
Hana’s resisting her only way. Doing so shows extraordinary courage. She’s willing to die for justice. What greater sacrifice than that!

Despite appalling mistreatment, her spirit’s indomitable. She inspires others to resist injustice their way and support her and others like her.

Hana explained it best, saying:

“This is for all the prisoners and not for me alone.”

It’s also about wanting global attention paid to intolerable abuses vital to condemn and end. Hana’s willing to die so others can live free.

What greater sacrifice than that! Her struggle is ours. We’re all Hana Shalabi!

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An Open Letter to Baroness Catherine Ashton from Buddy the Goy

Dear Baroness Ashton:

It seems that in one of those unguarded moments we all experience from time to time, you slipped up and allowed your true feelings about the situation in Gaza to emerge. My, my! What on earth were you thinking that day? Now you’re in a real pickle!

I noticed that in an apparent effort at being equitable and even-handed in your conference remarks you included the words “Gaza” and “Sderot” in the same sentence. But that’s actually probably where you made your fatal mistake. Jews frequently aren’t interested in “fairness” and “even-handedness,” not when they themselves are the subject being talked about. As much of the world is by now beginning to understand, a good manyJewish people, especially Israelis,  consider themselves superior to others and rather enjoy hearing acknowledgement of such from those with whom they come in contact.

In listening to your entire speech, I have to say it was all pretty innocuous-sounding. Yes, young Palestinians have the same hopes and dreams as other young people throughout the world. That’s not exactly a controversial statement. You’d think it would be safe to say something like that. You even went so far as to echo the conventional NATO line about Syria. So what gives here? Why they jumpin’ all over you? Could it be just the fact that you spoke at a Palestinian youth conference at all—is that what upset your detractors so much? It sure makes me wonder. And hey! Even the part of your speech that ignited all that Jewish angst and outrage we’ve been hearing over the past few days—even that part seems pretty tame and inoffensive. I mean really! Come on! Here is what you said:

And in days when we remember young people who have been killed in all sorts of terrible circumstances—the Belgian children having lost their lives in a terrible tragedy, and a friend of mine’s child being part of that; when we remember what happened in Toulouse today; when we remember what happened when I was in Norway last week a year ago; when we know what’s happening in Syria; when we see what’s happened in Gaza and Sderot; in different parts of the world we remember young people and children who lose their lives.

The comment about being “killed in all sorts of terrible circumstances” clearly applies to the children of Gaza as much as to those who died in Toulouse. How could anybody argue otherwise? How could even a Zionist Jew possibly claim the two daughters of Khaled Abed Rabbo—shot dead by an Israeli soldier while their grandmother carried a white flag attached to a mop handle—did not die under “terrible circumstances”? How could even the most hardened criminal in the worst prison in America not have been affected by that picture of little four-year-old Ahmed Samouni with the two bullet holes in his chest? Let’s face it, Baroness, no rational person could have found reason to get apoplectic over anything you said. But in the subsequent explosion, what did we see? A bunch of Israeli leaders and other Jewish big-wigs throwing hissy fits and calling for your resignation. And I have to tell ya—it was without much hope I observed you attempting to defuse the crisis by asserting you had drawn “no parallel whatsoever between the circumstances of the Toulouse attack and the situation in Gaza.” This doesn’t seem to have cut the mustard, though, as I feared it wouldn’t, and as we see now, the European Jewish Parliament and the European Jewish Union have launched a campaign calling for you to either apologize or resign.

Yes, it does appear as if you’re in a pickle. So here’s my friendly suggestion. Extend your middle finger and tell all the Jews who are attacking you to go hop on a frickin’ freight train to hell. Then retire from public life and publish your memoirs telling how you were hounded out of your job as the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs by the crazed, maniacal leaders of the state of Israel. Guaranteed to be a bestseller! Such a book might even head off a nuclear war! Plus you’ll emerge with your dignity intact and with the respect and gratitude of people all over the world for having had the courage to tell the truth. This as I say would be my preferred option for you.

I have a feeling, however, despite the fact that you’re a nice lady and all, you may not have quite the spunk to take this on, so here’s an alternate suggestion. The next time you have a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, get down on your belly, slither up to his feet, and pour out your humblest, most abject apology. Be sure and mention that the words “terrible circumstances” were in no way intended to apply to Gaza, that you misspoke, and that Israel’s blockade and repeated attacks and war crimes have never been anything other than benevolent and wonderful. Also, while you’re having this conversation with his shoes, be sure and tell Netanyahu you support Israel’s war with Iran and that you’re totally in favor of Europeans going and fighting it for them. It wouldn’t hurt to confide as well that you’re a devoted adherent of the seven laws of Noah and you fully believe it’s incumbent upon Europeans to be the Jewish state’s water carriers and wood hewers. Also propose to him the idea of setting up Jewish-run penal colonies throughout the EU where those who question the holocaust or suggest Israeli involvement in 911 can be incarcerated and forced to hard labor. But don’t leave it at that! As you’re giving voice to all these things, don’t forget to mention while you’re at it that the Holocaust was terrible, Hitler was mean, that Jewish suffering surpasses all other, etc. and so on. I’m sure you’ve got all that down pat by now, but you’ll really want to pour it on thick while giving your apology.

Finally, finish up by telling Netanyahu that Germany’s gift of six submarines is, in your opinion, totally inadequate, and that at the very least they need to give six more. Once you’ve articulated all this, repeat the process with the heir apparent to the throne, Avigdor Lieberman. That should mollify’em, at least for now. You may even get to keep your job.

Hey Baroness, good luck! Hope things work out for ya! Stay cool!

Your pal,

Buddy the Goy

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The ‘Pressure Cooker’ tactics – A Glimpse Into Israeli Psychosis

Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 10:23PM Gilad Atzmon

By Gilad Atzmon

The Israeli Yet (Hebrew edition) published a few hours ago an interview with retired Israeli police commissioner, Major General Assaf Hefetz. Hefez is highly critical of the French police’s recent operation in Toulouse. According to the Israeli Major General, the French waited for too long (32 hours). He contends that the French police should have been more assertive and far more aggressive. I hope that you have a hard stomach to read how Israel would handle a similar situation.

They should have implemented the ‘pressure cooker tactics’ says Hefetz-

“massive fire at the walls of the house, throwing grenades around the building followed by bulldozer erasure of the building walls till the suspect turns himself.”

Frightening isn’t it? Welcome to occupied Palestine. It seems as if Major General Hefetz came short of suggesting to evacuate the city and to nuke the neighborhood.

In fact General Hefetz is describing here the Palestinian reality. Hefetz lethal approach explains the devastation the Israel left behind in Jenin (2002). It also explains the genocidal tactics employed by the IDF in Gaza massacre (2009). It is more than likely that General Hefetz better seek help and find a way to deal with his aggression.

Yet, we have to remember that at the time of Operation Cast Lead, 94% of Israeli Jews supported IDF genocidal tactics. It seems as if we are dealing here with a psychotic collective.

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The French newspapers are really ridiculous...

This is the front page of the French magazine Le Figaro:

That's right - a Dubya-style "mission accomplished". It took these folks 32 hours to get a single guy. And they got at least three colleagues shot in the process...

Even the excuse "we were told to get him alive" is not credible. There are plenty of "special technology weapons" which can be used to catch an armed terrorist which, in this case, was made even easier by the fact that he had no hostages and that the entire building was evacuated. As a Russian anti-terrorist officer commented in the newspaper Rossiiskaia Gazeta, the use of special weapons such as "flash-bang" grenades and paralyzing gas should have made this a 3min operation, not a 32 hours one.

The French special police forces (RAID, GIPN, GIGN) have a very good reputation and some of their success were spectacular (remember the successful storming of the Air France Flight 8969 in 1994?). I have no idea what went so wrong this time, but the kind of jingoistic flag-waving nonsense printed by Le Figaro is really only an embarrassment for the French police.

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The Last Americans

by Kashif Ahmed
Friday, March 23rd, 2012

 

December 28^th 2012 marks the 122^nd Anniversary of the U.S. massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee.

The United States of America was founded upon genocide, amassed a fortune from slavery and now sustains its weakened edifice through rape and armed robbery. Its presidents, with a few honourable exceptions, were Rothschild appointed stooges: obedient, homicidal gimps for Jewish extremism.

Every fixed election saw these pork barrel prostitutes; these congressmen, representatives and senators put on a shorter leash by their usurious overlords; heads halted, pulled and bought to their knees by the criminal state of Israel and its parasitic financiers.

For America, the real America, died with Chief Hupah ‘Shining Elk’ Glešká at the massacre of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, December 28^th 1890; when Western European immigrants besieged and opened fire on Native Americans of the Lakota Sioux tribe.

The so-called U.S. military spared no one; as men, women and children were torn to ribbons by a cowardly barrage of machine gunfire and mortar rounds. Anywhere between 153-300 American Indians, were killed in the attack; dumped in mass graves as their country was looted at gunpoint. The last real Americans, or Natives if you prefer, can now be seen trying to scrape a living in some barren dustbowl down in the worst parts of Dakota, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and North Carolina. Theirs is a story of hopeless struggle, a nation lost and a people enslaved in their own land.

An eyewitness account by Oglala Lakota Chief American Horse describes the ruthless and savage manner in which the invaders struck at Wounded Knee:

CrazyHorse Memorial, South Dakota

(Image source.)

“There was a woman with an infant in her arms who was killed as she almost touched the flag of truce. A mother was shot down with her infant; the child not knowing that its mother was dead was still nursing…The women as they were fleeing with their babies were killed together, shot right through…and after most all of them had been killed a cry was made that all those who were not killed or wounded should come forth and they would be safe. Little boys…came out of their places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded them and butchered them there.” 

As America was buried, gleeful immigrants doled out looted spoils and planted foreign flags on land still damp with the blood of its original inhabitants. What eventually arose from the Earth was an imperial aberration. An extremist Jew controlled, Anglo-American Frankenstein; a mad beast that would squander every chance to join humanity, reject every friendly overture and retain only the base emotions with which it was born: violence, racism, paranoia and greed.

The Native Americans were successfully indoctrinated to hate themselves, demoralized by a vicious propaganda campaign, chillingly summarized by its slogan: ‘Kill The Indian, Save The Man’. Having lost their country and slowly divided by collaborators and self-defeating tribalism, material dispossession led to despair which led to alcoholism which led to the gutters of gambling and a downward spiral that was sure to end in absolute ruin for this once brave and magnificent race.
Now those with a penchant for comparative martyrology have tried to draw parallels between the persecutions of Jewry in Europe to that of the Natives in America. The irony being that few, if any, of those who peddle this preposterous canard know, or will ever admit to the fact, that it was ‘The Benefactor of Jews’ Edmond James de Rothschild who bankrolled the slaughter of Native Americans (via Jacob Schiff’s ‘Kuhn, Loeb and Co’, August Belmont, Nicholas Lowe, J.P. Morgan, Albert Pike, Sigmund Shlesinger and other agents of influence).

President Jackson,"driving out the devils and money changers"
with his order to withdraw public money from the central bank
- Edward Clay lithograph, published 1833

By 1846, learned members of the international community were aware of Rothschild’s murderous obsession to regain their economic stranglehold over North America (they’d been kicked out en-masse by President Jackson in 1836 but their system of fractional reserve banking continued to decimate the country) by securing a charter to impose a central bank (i.e. permission to print dollars, determine the rate of interest and fully control the American economy ergo U.S. policy).

Jackson’s successor President Jon Tyler, despite numerous death threats, upheld the ban on Rothschild; the next five Presidents would also hold the line against Rothschild. But the criminal banking cartel got the upper hand by assassinating anti-Rothschild Presidents Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and James A. Garfield in 1881.

The destruction of the remaining Native Americans would clear the way for the Rothschild controlled Union and Southern Pacific Railroad (deepening their economic occupation of America en route to regaining the central bank charter in 1917), and serve to seal a Faustian pact between power hungry Western European immigrants and the megalomaniac proponents of Jewish supremacy.

Even today, you’ll often find the same Zionist Jews who try and compare their suffering to the American Indians, emotionally blackmail white America (irrespective of whether they condone or condemn the crimes of their forefathers) to back their genocide against the Palestinian Arabs. After all, if it was Kosher for them to wipe out the ‘Red Skins’, why should they object to the likeminded extermination of the ‘Rag Heads’?

Such was the universal disdain for Rothschild meddling in the 19^th century, that less than a year after Wounded Knee, and in spite of the fact that Britain is also a vassal state of Rothschild, the following editorial appeared in the ‘The British Labour Leader’ newspaper:

“This blood-sucking crew (Rothschild) has been the cause of untold mischief and misery during the present century, and has piled up its prodigious wealth chiefly through fomenting wars between States which ought never to have quarrelled. Whenever there is trouble in Europe, wherever rumours of war circulate and men’s minds are distraught with fear of change and calamity you may be sure that Rothschild is near the region of the disturbance.” 

But it was too little too late for the Native Americans.

U.S. journalist L. Frank Baum vocalized the sentiments of the ignorant masses, and less than a week after the massacre, as frozen corpses were still being excavated and Native youth ruthlessly exterminated by U.S. troops, Baum wrote:

“Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untameable creatures from the face of the earth. The whites are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit is broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are.” 

And despite the vile sentiments expressed in Baum’s polemic, his last description of the native’s plight was, and remains, a fairly accurate observation. For today, their situation is worse than ever. As Rothschild crooks go for another run on the markets, perhaps softening America up to contract the money supply and instigate another crash / depression, the Native Americans are the still first to suffer.

Life on the Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota, seems to have come to standstill a long time ago.

The red desert landscape is dotted with poorly built wooden shacks, fitted with corrugated iron fronts; the majority of these houses have no hot water and others have only just been connected to the power grid. Torn pieces of canvas and cloth attached to cover the broken windshield of a pickup truck, flutter in the mid autumn breeze like rags on an injured leper. Three Native American girls in their early twenties huddle outside a shack; one cradles a puppy against her chest as the other rubs both hands against her arms in an effort to stay warm. Further down the road; a drunkard lies unconscious, empty bottle in hand, on the porch of a beaten up old saloon as a skinny black Labrador staggers through the empty streets, his tongue hanging out as if to imitate the wasted winos around him.

Its’ not hard to be affected by the monumental tragedy that occurred just a few miles from here in 1890: For if Wounded Knee was the death of the dream, than Pine Ridge is the dreamer’s tortured spirit, a meandering wraith trapped between life and death: patronized, forgotten and left to rot. The majority of American Indians live below the poverty line, education opportunities are limited, employment is virtually non-existent, 23.1% of the prison population are Natives, the average life expectancy for an American Indian is just 50 and teenage suicides are the highest in the country.

The ancient Greek historian Myron of Priene wrote of the persecuted Helot civilisation in 280 B.C., and described how the savage Spartan minority imposed upon the Helots “…every shameful task leading to disgrace”. And went onto reveal that if any Helot “…exceeded the vigour proper to a slave’s condition, they (Sparta) made death the penalty”.

Well I’ve seen the Helots of today, a people who had everything and lost it all, who tried their best to resist but where decimated and trampled by an enemy more brutal than such a people could ever imagine much less overcome. An enemy that now threatens the world and looks upon the Earth with the same covetous eyes with which it once looked upon the Americas, a mad beast plagued with violence, racism, paranoia and greed. And yet despite their hardships and the impossible task of having to reside inside the belly of the mad beast, Wounded Knee is not just the site of a loss, its’ also the site of a small, but significant, victory: 22 years ago, this historic site was home to a renewed freedom struggle, a 71 day siege where the AIM (American Indian Movement) declared independence from the U.S. regime and liberated part of their country. They were, alas, thwarted by the same problems that’d led to their ancestor’s downfall. But it was a cri de Coeur heard around the world, one which reminded the U.S. that American Indians will not be swept under the colonial carpet, but rise up as a defiant, albeit dying, reminder, of the sins of those who fraudulently call themselves Americans.

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