“A European tradition to accuse Jews” Cry the Jews!

Art of Resistance – A Comment on Günter Grass

By Gilad Atzmon

Outrage in Germany, Nobel Laureate Günter Grass has, once again told the truth about Israel being the greatest threat to world peace.

Günter Grass, Germany’s most famous living author and the 1999 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, sparked outrage in Germany on Wednesday with the publication of a poem, “What must be said,” in which he sharply criticizes Israel’s offensive approach towards Iran.

Once again, it is the artist rather than the politician, who tells the truth as it is.  Once again it is the Artist rather than the academic who speaks out.

 ”Why did I wait until now at this advanced age and with the last bit of ink to say: The nuclear power Israel is endangering a world peace that is already fragile?” Wrote Grass.

In the poem, published by Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and other European dailies on Wednesday, Grass also calls for an

“unhindered and permanent monitoring of Israel’s nuclear potential and Iran’s nuclear facility through an international entity that the government of both countries would approve.”

Israel and some German Jewish prominent voices were quick to react. The Israeli Embassy in Berlin issued a statement offering its own version of ‘What must be said.’

“What must be said is that it is a European tradition to accuse the Jews before the Passover festival of ritual murder,” the statements reads.

Pretty outrageous, don’t you think? In the open Israel together with its supportive Jewish lobbies (AIPAC, AJC)  are pushing for a new global conflict. Yet, shamelessly the embassy defies criticism tossing in the air the old blood libel. The appropriate timely question here is why Israel and AIPAC are pushing for a world war and a potential nuclear conflict just before Passover? Can they just wait for another Yom Kippur (atonement day)?

Watch this:

The Israeli Embassy continues,

“in the past, it was Christian children whose blood the Jews allegedly used to make their unleavened bread, but today it is the Iranian people that the Jewish state allegedly wants to annihilate.”

Isn’t it really the case? Every military expert suggests that Israeli pre-emptive attack on Iran could escalate into a nuclear conflict. If anything Grass tries like others, including your truly, to prevent Israel from celebrating its lethal symptoms once again.

The Israeli embassy noticed though that “Israel is the only state in the world whose right to exist is openly doubted.”

Correct, and so it should be. Israel is a racist, expansionist state, it doesn’t have room amongst nations.

The Central Council of Jews in Germany also called the poem an “aggressive pamphlet of agitation.” I wonder, is it really aggressive to try and restrain an aggressor?

The German newspaper Die Welt, which apparently obtained an advance copy of Grass’ poem, published a response by rabid Zionist Henryk Broder,  the country’s most prominent Jewish writer. “Grass always had a problem with Jews, but it has never articulated it as clearly as he has in this poem.”  Broder said  “Grass has always had a tendency toward megalomania, but this time he is completely nuts.” I would expect Germany’s  leading Jewish writer to come with something slightly more astute.

Border however may be correct when he notes that Grass is “haunted by guilt and shame and also driven by the desire to settle history, he is now attempting to disarm the ’cause of the recognizable threat.’”

Wednesday’s poem is not the first time Grass has come out with critical views of Israel. In a 2001 interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he offered his own solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Israel doesn’t just need to clear out of the occupied areas,” he said at the time. “The appropriation of Palestinian territory and its Israeli settlements are also a criminal activity. That not only needs to be stopped — it also needs to be reversed. Otherwise there will be no peace.”

Broder contends that such a statement is “no less than a demand for Israel to not just cede Nablus and Hebron, but also Tel Aviv and Haifa. ” he continues, “Grass does not differentiated between the ‘occupied areas’ of 1948 and 1967.” Needless to say that from an ethical perspective Grass is correct-there is no difference between 1948 and 1967. The Jewish State located itself on historic Palestine on the expense of the Palestinian people. I guess that Grass understood already in 2001 that the Jews only State must be transformed into a ‘State of its Citizens’. Israel should embrace the true notion of peace, universalism and inclusiveness.  But I guess that we shouldn’t hold our breath for it is not going to happen soon.

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Church Leader Tells Palestinians and Israelis “eat together and listen to each other’s stories”

An appalling shallowness has descended over Mainline Protestantism.

by James M Wall

Episcopalians, United Methodists and Presbyterians are actually debating how they should deal with the Israeli Occupation

Martin Luther King, sitting in that Birmingham city jail, would most certainly inform these prelates that there is no debating evil. A brutal military occupation is not open to debate.

It is a disturbing spectacle. The collective ignorance displayed by many of the men and women—though, thank God, not all—who govern these denominations, boggles the mind.

The issue, my dear Christian friends, is justice, pure and simple. And yet, there they are, these robed religiosos, dripping with interfaith piety, proclaiming that the simple act of divestment of church funds is too harsh a tactic to use against Israel’s settlement obsessed, right-wing government.

What do they teach in seminary these days? Have those Old Testament professors who lead their Israeli-sanctioned “study groups” to the Holy Land removed the prophets from their syllabi?

Here is the Episcopal News Service report on the current presiding Episcopal bishop explaining why she, and the church that elevated her to denominational leadership, oppose the simple, non-violent tactic of targeting divestment of church funds from US corporations that profit from Israel’s military occupation:

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori urged Episcopalians to “invest in legitimate development in Palestine’s West Bank and in Gaza” rather than focusing on divestment or boycotts of Israel, during a March 25 “Middle East Peacemakers” luncheon in Los Angeles.

“The Episcopal Church does not endorse divestment or boycott,” the presiding bishop told more than 200 people gathered at the California Club in downtown Los Angeles. “It’s not going to be helpful to endorse divestment or boycotts of Israel. It will only end in punishing Palestinians economically.”

She also called for “a two-state solution with a dignified home for Palestinians and for Israelis” and for “deeper engagement, people of different traditions eating together, listening to each other’s stories,” she said, adding that the interreligious, multi-ethnic gathering hosted by Bishop J. Jon Bruno of the Diocese of Los Angeles was an example of what is possible.

Punishing Palestinians economically?

That statement is an incredible display of ignorance of the political realities of a brutal military occupation.

Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori wants investment in Palestine, not divestment from Israel’s occupation.

Who proposed that approach?

Sounds very much like the warden of the world’s largest outdoor prison inviting church members to come inside the prison and do their good works.

Cottage industries in cell block six?

Starting April 24, delegates to the United Methodist Church General Conference will debate the issue of using targeted divestment as a legislative tactic against injustice.

The United Methodist and the Presbyterian national churches have labored for many years to develop resolutions that focus tightly on US corporations that profit from the Occupation.

One of these corporations, Caterpillar, produces heavy equipment that Israel uses to build its apartheid wall, a wall that has nothing to do with security and everything to do with stealing even more Palestinian land.

Caterpillar also produces those monstrous bulldozers that tear down Palestinian homes, another “security” measure that is really designed to tighten the Occupation noose.

An Israeli soldier drove one of those American-built bulldozers over an American citizen, peace activist Rachel Corrie, on March 16, 2003, as she tried to stop an attack on a Palestinian home. In death, this young woman has become a symbol of non-violent courage to Palestinians.

Not so in the US, where neither action nor formal government protest was taken against the army that killed her.

And yet, here is an Episcopal bishop, standing before 200 of her fellow Episcopalians actually calling for Palestinians and Israelis to “eat together and listen to one another’s stories”.

This is blatant Israeli propaganda. These words were not uttered in the spirit of Amos; they sound more like an American politician scrambling for Israel Lobby money than they do of a Christian leader who must at some point in her career reflected upon, and perhaps even preached on, the call from Amos 5:4 to “let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never failing stream!” (NIV).

The saddest thing about this failure of a church leader to grasp the reality of injustice is that she offers palliative words that sound more like a Southern bishop of the 1950s begging the segregated and segregator to live together peacefully.

Bless you bishop, but there are people in Palestine on protest hunger strikes. Others are dying under the boot of a brutal occupying army. This is not a problem that will be addressed by our “eating together and talking to one another”.

For an example of the pepper spray at work, see the Ammar Awad Reuters photo above of Israeli soldiers spraying a Palestinian protestor.  This took place on Land Day, when Palestinians remember their land losses.

Richard Silverstein, who writes the Tikun Olam web site, posted this photo from the New York Times and adds:

The Times headline for the slideshow presentation of Land Day images that includes this one was: Protesters Scuffle With Forces.

I don’t see protesters scuffling with Israeli forces.  I see Israeli border police mauling unarmed Palestinian demonstrators.  I see them pepper-spraying one at point-blank range.

That headline confirms once again that the New York Times is not just biased on this issue on behalf of Israel. It is simply an Israeli hometown paper. Its perspective is always that of the home team, that is, Israel.

Silverstein is Jewish, one of many Jews who knows the damage that the Occupation does to Israelis as well as to Palestinians. Fortunately, Silverstein is also a blogger with a large following.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori knows better than to speak of the Palestinian issue in the language she used.   One of my sources who follows this issue with diligence, wrote to say:

It was she who, perhaps three years ago, visited Gaza, was duly appalled, and vowed to press with all of her and her church’s authority, to end the sadistic blockade and occupation of all of Palestine.

It mystifies me that she can ignore the precedent of, and successful use of BDS, in the closest parallel, South Africa. Schori has succumbed to expedience or the copout of “interfaith” wishy-washiness-cum-cowardice.

How can one have any hope for justice and a viable existence for the Palestinians in the face of such cavalier disregard for the well-known and often courageously expressed recitations of the “facts on the ground” created by the Zionist enterprise?.

Well stated, and true. Trips by church leaders, who finally see first -hand the ugliness of Occupation, are the best way to break through Israeli propaganda.

But, based on Bishop Schori’s public display of hasbara (propaganda) in Los Angeles, the power of the Israel Lobby trumps the truth.

All is not lost. Another source, who attended the bishop’s presentation, did not find the audience very receptive to her call for kum ba yah.

Two denominations will debate divestment resolutions over the next few months, first, the United Methodists and then, the Presbyterians.

The United Methodist supporters of targeted divestments are encouraged at the feedback they are hearing from the grassroots.

Blocking their way to the passage of a divestment resolution is the denomination’s General Board of Pensions, which objects to non-financial types interfering in their decisions to maximize pension profits.

This body has determined over the years that it will not invest in corporations that profit from, for example, South African apartheid, and that old reliable United Methodist staple, alcohol.

Faced with requests that it extend its no-no list  to include three companies supporting the Occupation,  the General Board of Pensions has adopted the Episcopal mantra of “eating together and sharing stories”.

Of course, the General Conference has the final say in this matter. Starting April 24, in their Tampa, Florida, meeting, the Methodists will have their chance to remember that its founding parent,  John Wesley was not a “get along” guy; he was a justice guy.

This is the same denomination, by the way, that moved its 2012 meeting from Richmond, Virginia, to Tampa, Florida, because Richmond has a baseball team named, “The Braves”, a no-no among United Methodists who have agreed not to patronize locations with sports teams the Methodists believe denigrate Native Americans.

Good for them. Now let us see what can be done about the denigration of Palestinians.

 James M. Wall is currently a Contributing Editor of The Christian Century magazine, based in Chicago, Illinois.  From 1972 through 1999, he was editor and publisher of the Christian Century magazine.  He has made more than 20 trips to that region as a journalist, during which he covered such events as Anwar Sadat’s 1977 trip to Jerusalem, and the 2006 Palestinian legislative election. He has interviewed, and written about, journalists, religious leaders, political leaders and private citizens in the region.  Jim served for two years on active duty in the US Air Force, and three additional years in the USAF (inactive) reserve. Jim launched his new personal blog Wallwritings, on April 24, 2008.

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Jerusalem World News: the Audacity!

It is almost superfluous to add that there has never been a Palestinian state or a sovereign Palestinian entity of any kind.

The words of Jewish extremists and terrorists who cry for “peace” while making abhorrent, discriminatory and false remarks to justify their NaZionist agenda. The article was posted on “Jew” World News and by a writer identified only as “ a former Israeli ambassador to the United State.”

What does one expect from a NaZionist?

Let me first define NaZionist for the average reader. You surely have noticed that it is a combination of Nazi and Zionist and thus NaZionist.

Nazis advocated the extermination of Jews in Europe as generally accepted by the masses and those who wrote history. Zionists advocated the same: the extermination of Palestinians from their lands of thousands of years, claiming that God, the Creator had promised it to Abraham and therefore it must belong only to Jews!

Mind you, Abraham never even heard of Judaism. And according to the Islamic faith, it is Abraham who named those who followed God’s words as Muslims! He and his son Isma’eel, built the Ka’aba in Mecca, the place millions of Muslims seek for the annual pilgrimage and honor the famous incident in which Abraham almost sacrificed his son, Isma’eel (then 16 years old) as commanded by God Himself – as a test of Abraham’s resolve and faith.

Judaism then, never existed until after the death of Moses.

The descendants of Abraham (Jacob’s – Israe’eel – sons) and the 12-tribes, were the 12 tribes of “Bani-Isra’eel” (the children of Isra’eel – or Jacob) who like Abraham, never new what the word Jew meant since it never existed… Bani-Israe’eel are also referred to Israelites and the country was named Israel to create the argument that Israel and the Israelites were one and the same!  Clever! I mean, amazing Jewish deception!!!

Now then, with this simple introduction, a person of average intelligence will deduce that Zionism came to the world, brainwashing the masses into believing that the Israelites were the early Jews of today’s Israel…

 

Yet and amazingly,  a Jewish Israeli Professor, Dr. Shlomo Sand, was the one who published a book about the Invention of the Jewish People! Dr Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation – whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the founding of the state of Israel – is a myth invented little more than a century ago. Read more here.

But NaZionists strategies continued with their brainwashing techniques and reversed the words to state that it was the Palestinians who were invented.

Desperate acts.. using religion – as violent as it was and continues to be – to justify massacring and exterminating Palestinians.

The “former ambassador” also tries to use ignorant and absurd logic to convince us that Arabs never identified themselves as Palestinians yet Jews did define themselves as Jews – in the Holy Land. Hold on to your horses here, Mr. ignorant former Israeli ambassador…

1. A Jew is one who follows Judaism; a religion.
2. A Palestinian is one who identifies himself  by the land he inhabits. Palestinians did refer to themselves by their faiths: Christian and Muslim.
3. Likewise, Lebanese, Jordanians, Saudis, etc… must also be “invented” since they never referred to themselves by the land in which they resided.
4. Then the demise of the Ottoman empire and the “christian invaders, if you will” divided and conquered the Middle East and North Africa into the countries we know today: then “educated” each division that their “citizenship” is now “Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian and so on..”
5. Then we have Americans… the invented people of the West. Americans should be recognized then as Colonists and only native Americans should be honored and called Americans. But that’s another story… and this is exactly what NaZionism is trying to achieve… an America-like scenario where Palestinians will only exist in “reservations” while European and American Jews who will emigrate to the Holy Land will eventually be referred to as Israelis.

Dream on… 

The Jewish faith predicts the demise of this heathen violent country of blasphemous inhabitants (Israeli NaZionists) and every year we hear a new interpretation of the demise of Israel by a Rabbi – and the year in which it is supposed to happen – per Talmudic teachings and the Rabbis who interpret the “scriptures…”

We know one fact for sure: Palestine will be freed. The second coming of Jesus peace be upon him will establish justice in the land after he, Jesus, kills the anti-Christ (I suspect he would be a Jew) and his followers, then it’s a matter of time – no prophecy had exactly pinpointed this – before the final day and The Day of Judgement!
 

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The Brave Men of the U.S. Army

Some ignorant anti-Semitic Rednecks and Nazis around the globe fear that Iraq would plunge into chaos – after the US army pulled out. This is what the U.S. army was doing in Iraq! (Let’s not forget Abu Ghraib and other such acts)

How many times have we seen such despicable acts by these low-life gang-like sub-human degenerates?  And then we are asked to “support our troops?” Yes, please do – by demanding their immediate return and court-marshal for every degenerate who used the army to fulfill their  despicable thirst for blood. Whether a Private and all the way to generals, everyone who allowed this to happen should be thrown in jail.. a dishonorable discharge is a minimum punishment.

Where do we train these gangs? In Israel?

 

 

 

 

 

Fear the Turkey: Kosher and Halal?

This is priceless!

IGNORANCE IS BLISS!

 

 

 

CIA Asset Susan Lindauer.. Can Now Speak 10 years after 9/11

The USA is guilty of committing GENOCIDE!

And we elect these barbaric heathens???

 

 

The Arab League & Syria: Dictators vs. Dictators?

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The audacity of the so-called Arab League.. run by dictators, for dictators.

As the Arab League “discusses” Syria sanctions and the finance ministers meet in Cairo after Syria failed to sign a protocol allowing rights monitors into the country, one could only wonder about the facts on the ground.

No, I am not pro-Assad or his Alawite mercenaries.

However, whenever the United States suddenly cares about the ill-treatment of Arabs somewhere in the Arab world, take notice: U.S. interests are the only interests that will be served; not the Arabs’ regardless of where they may be. Whatever protects the largest state of terrorism in the world, Israel, this is where the current U.S. policy and interests lie.

 

 

We're often told "protests" are against Assad... and this says what?

Back to the Arab League.

There’s a move to convince the international community to move forward and impose sanctions coupled with a military intervention in Syria. The first step to make this happen and easily accepted by the world, is to sell the idea that the Arabs themselves imposed sanctions against Syria, which failed and therefore, the Arab League sought help from the United Nations (the cover name for U.S. intervention). Thus, a military action against Syria will ensure – so the U.S. and Israel think – that the following is within their ultimate goals:

1. Bombing Syria and sending it the stone-age as was done with Iraq.
2. Eliminating Syria’s support to Hizbollah – the only freedom-fighting group that humiliated Israel at least twice!
3. Bomb Iran – once in Syrian air-space, the despicable Arab dictators support to this U.S. intervention will provide bases and launching points to accomplish this act.

Interestingly, the United Nations says more than 3,500 people have been killed since the start of the uprising in March. Maybe so. But what about the Palestinians who are killed daily and openly in Palestinian territories? Over 6,000 Palestinians have been killed by the terrorist state of Israel since 2000, while a little over 1,000 Israelis have been killed in the same period. Did the U.N. ever cry foul or expressed concern?

1. Where was the Arab League when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982?
2. Where was the Arab League when Israel attempted to invade south Lebanon again in 2006?
3. Where was the Arab League when Israel launched its terror offensive against Gaza?
4. Where IS the Arab League when on a daily basis Palestinians are evicted from their homes, their homes are confiscated, their women and children jailed indefinitely and so on?
5. Where was the Arab League when the Israeli terrorists committed another Massacre on the Marmara?
6. Where was the Arab League when Israel imposed the illegal blockade and thus creating an Auschwitz-like “open camp” against Palestinians in Gaza?
7. Where is the Arab League NOW as Israel blatantly steals Lebanese water along the Mediterranean and steal natural gas resources from the Lebanese?

The facts are disturbing. Especially when the enemies of Humanity, the terrorist state of Israel claims openly that Assad’s fall is good for Israel!

No one knows what will replace the brutal Assad regime: A Jihadist junta, a drawn out civil war or, or even the eventual rise of a freedom loving society. But it is certain that breaking the Syria-Iran axis will benefit Israel and the world also stands to gain through any weakening of the ambitious Iranian war machine.

Iranian war machine? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! We see what Israel is doing to those it occupies: with tanks, F-16′s and Apache helicopters! All courtesy of over $4 billion of annual U.S. aid to support terrorism and Israel!

 

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The Irvine 11, UCI and Michael Oren

UPDATE September 23, 2011:

Last week, the public saw the best and worst of Tony Rackauckas. On Wednesday, the Orange County district attorney concluded a thorough yet timely investigation into the death of a homeless man, which resulted in the unusual decision to file charges against two Fullerton police officers. On Friday, in a case that never should have been filed, a jury delivered guilty verdicts against 10 of the 11 Muslim students who disrupted a UC Irvine speech by the Israeli ambassador to the United States. After one stupid incident, those students will forever have to answer yes if they are asked by, say, potential employers whether they were ever convicted of a crime. Source

No doubt that should that tables have been turned, and should the 11 students had been Jews, UCI, the despicable Tony Rackauckas – who serves foreign interests, AIPAC and the illegitimate terrorist state of Israel, and possibly the media would have all bowed down and dismissed such a case,  citing, naturally that the Jewish students were allowed to object because they were.. the descendants of those who suffered during the Holocaust!

Then we have the surprising comment by Erwin (Hypocrite) Chemerinsky, the dean of UC Irvine’s Law School, who said that although freedom of speech is not an absolute right, university sanctions were enough for the students. He also added that he believes criminal sanctions go too far.

Chemerinsky told The Times last week that “it makes no sense” to use such resources. “It’s so minor.”

This is the same hypocrite who told the students they FAILED THEIR EXAMS even before they had taken them!

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No doubt that many have heard of the Irvine 11 by now.

On February 8, 2010, Michael Oren, a representative of, and the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.,  was invited to UCI to speak on U.S.-Israeli relations. The speech by Oren was sponsored by the UCI Law School and the Political Science Department.

Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren was invited by several sponsors, including the law school (of which I am dean) and the political science department (of which I am a member) to speak at the university on Feb. 8.

Erwin Chemerinsky Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, UC-Irvine School of Law

Michael Oren: Israeli soldier!

Wikipedia presents Oren as follows: notice how certain points are worded to disguise the ugly truth that this person denounced his U.S. citizenship in favor of becoming an Israeli citizen!

Oren was born Michael Bornstein in upstate New York. His father was an officer in the U.S. Army who took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944 and fought in the Korean War.  Oren grew up in New Jersey in a Conservative Jewish household. As the only Jewish boy in a Catholic neighborhood, he says he experienced anti-Semitism on a daily basis. Of course, this the first line of defense such Zionists use any and every time! In his youth, he was an activist in Zionist youth groups such as USY  and a gold medal winning athlete in the Maccabiah Games.  At 15, Oren made his first trip to Israel with youth movement Habonim Dror, working on Kibbutz Gan Shmuel.

In 1977, Oren completed his undergraduate degree from Columbia University. He continued his studies at Columbia, receiving a Masters in International Affairs in 1978 from the School of International and Public Affairs.  After college, he spent a year as an adviser to the Israeli delegation to the United Nations headed by Yehuda Blum.  In 1979, Oren immigrated to Israel.  In 1979, Oren joined the Israel Defense Forces. He served as a paratrooper in the 1982 Lebanon War.  His unit was caught in a Syrian ambush on the second day of the war. His commander was killed and nearly everyone was wounded. He then joined a unit stationed in Sidon. Oren married in the summer of 1982 and returned the next day to Beirut.   During the 1991 Gulf War he was Israeli liaison officer to the U.S. Sixth Fleet.  He served as an army spokesman in the IDF Reserves during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.  During the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict, he was a media relations officer.

A few years later, Oren returned to the United States to continue his education, studying at Princeton University. In 1986, he earned a Ph.D. in Near East Studies.

On May 3, 2009, Oren was appointed as Ambassador of Israel to the United States by Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu,

How does a U.S. citizen become a foreign government’s Ambassador? Michael Oren renounced his US citizenship in favor of becoming an Israeli.

“..a solemn ritual that involves signing an oath of renunciation. He [Oren] said he got through it with the help of friends from the American Embassy in Tel Aviv who “stayed with me, and hugged me when it was over.” source

If anything, Oren should have never be allowed in the U.S. again or should have been immediately arrested for treason and for serving in a foreign army, representing a state accused of War Crimes and Genocide as proven by the Goldstone Report.

But that would have been anti-Semtism! [chuckle]

Michael Oren, born in the US and a dual citizen, is about to become Israel’s ambassador to the US which will require him to give up his US citizenship, the JPost reports.  No problem, says Oren. Now, the question is: At what moment does a Jewish American who chooses to make aliyah cease being a patriotic American and come out of the closet,  so to speak, as a patriotic Israeli wannabe? At what point does a Jewish American supporter of Israel become a potential security risk if that person is employed in an agency of the US government? To say that it is the moment the person announces his or her decision to make aliyah to Israel or give up his American citizenship is ludicrous. The person who makes that decision could understandably as well as logically be viewed as having been politically compromised at some point before that and therefore it is reasonable for US government officials, particularly in areas where intelligence in involved, to look at Jewish American employees with a degree of suspicion. But when they do, it elicits the predictable accusations of anti-Semitism. source

The act of renouncing US citizenship is a very serious action to take and should not be done lightly. Prior to this it is imperative that you understand what happens as a result. This is not something that can be reversed, revoked or changed once it is completed.

Treason:

1. Convicted For An Act Of Treason Against The United States

Treason is a serious crime, and the Constitution defines the requirements for convicting someone of treason.   Treason is waging a violent war against the United States in cooperation with a foreign country or any organized group.   It includes assisting or aiding any foreign country or organization in taking over or destroying this country including abolishing the Constitution.   Treason also consists of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the US government or of betraying our government into the hands of a foreign power. If you are caught and convicted of treason, you can pretty much count on losing your US citizenship as well as serving lots of jail time.

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Now then, what about Rahm Emanuel?

Moskal also charged that Emanuel had dual citizenship with Israel and had served in the Israeli Army – Wikipedia

Whose interests are these people serving?

The Irvine 11

Since Michael Oren represents a country which engaged in war crimes and potential crimes against humanity as determined by Justice Richard Goldstone (a Jewish person) and the UN Human Rights Council, it is only natural to denounce and disrupt this terrorist’s speech and/or lies that would defend Nazism, Israeli style.   Israel continues to commit war crimes by maintaining a 3 year siege on Gaza, which is nothing less than collective punishment, in contravention to Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israel is also expanding settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, in direct opposition to U.S. policy!

The 11 students who peacefully left the room and did not resist arrest, are accused of disrupting this terrorist’s [Oren's] speech! Erwin Chemerinsky threatened the students as they walked out with: “YOU ARE FAILING YOUR EXAMS!”

Erwin C You are failing your exams!

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The Audacity of this professor to retaliate with such threats! Is this not anti-Semitism? Will he simply select every Muslim sounding name from his class roster and simply FAIL them? This man is an education terrorist and should be banned from teaching! Period!

UCI: the Hypocrisy

Protection from Discrimination & Harassment

Harassment and discrimination is prohibited by University policies and procedures. Unwelcome, severe, and persistent behaviors that are unlawful and interfere with another person’s rights and educational opportunities will not be tolerated. Visit the OEOD website for more information on nondiscrimination and harassment policies.

Statement from Chancellor Michael Drake on Behalf of the UC Irvine Campus Community

Feb. 23, 2010

On numerous occasions during the past year, I have spoken and written about the manner in which we discuss and debate our differences, our values and how we use those values to guide our decision-making.

As you may have read, earlier this month I was very disappointed when some members of our community seemed more comfortable engaging in confrontation than collaboration, and in trying to close channels of communication rather than opening them.

As a brief frame of reference: Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren had been invited to speak on campus by a number of campus and community organizations (I bet it was Erwin and only Erwin and whoever he would threaten with anti-Semitism if they did not accept and agree with his invitation). His speech was repeatedly and systematically interrupted by a group of students. The individuals involved were removed by campus police immediately, and are facing disciplinary proceedings.

Our primary goals are to ensure a UCI experience that delivers the highest standards of academic preparation, and an unparalleled richness of intellectual and cultural diversity. We are committed to growing our students as whole people. [but allow your professors to threaten students with failing them if they disagreed with his political views?]

All of our students learn that at UCI, whether we agree or disagree with someone’s views, we respect the right of everyone to share their experiences, insights and ideas. This is how we grow. This is among our greatest contributions as a learning community.

The 11 students have pending criminal charges and have been threatened with university disciplinary actions. Spokespersons of UCI have stated that the students may be dismissed or suspended for standing up in protest. While the students’ speech was protected, the University seems to be sending a political message. The disproportionate response of the University and the Irvine police is undeniably due to outside pressures and lobbies!

UCI had a 30% fee hike and decrease in the quality of their education. This is due to the recession which has left California nearly bankrupt! Rather than funding our universities, the U.S. Government maintains approximately $4 billion a year of military aid to Israel: the only nuclear arsenal in the Middle East! US tax dollars must not support a state which commits war crimes, particularly when tax dollars would be better utilized paying for students’ classrooms and tuition!

Another War Criminal’s speech interrupted!

Israel: Terrorist State commits another Atrocity; Massacres 20 on Aid Flotilla!

Israel ‘attacks’ Gaza aid fleet

This state of terrorism and thugs deserve to be bombarded into submission. This will be the beginning of the End for these barbaric Nazis!

UPDATE: Smuggled Video

Despite the Israeli government’s thorough efforts to confiscate all footage taken during the attack, Iara Lee was able to retain some of her video recordings. Below is the unedited footage from the moments leading up to and during the Israeli commandos’ terrorists’ assault on the Mavi Marmara. You can also download this footage by clicking here.

Israeli Thugs Preparing to Commit Flotilla Massacre

Flotilla Attacked

Israeli Thugs Terrorize and Kill Civilians on Flotilla

Protesting Israeli Terrorism

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Up to 16 people were killed and more than 30 people injured when troops stormed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday, the Israeli Army Radio said.

The flotilla was attacked in international waters, 65km off the Gaza coast.

Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country’s siege on Gaza, according to a Turkish aid agency being quoted by Turkish media.

War Criminal and Lies just before the Massacre

At least two people were killed and more than 30 people injured, the report said early on Monday.

Footage from the flotilla’s lead vessel, the Mavi Marmara, appeared to show armed Israeli soldiers boarding the ship and helicopters flying overhead.

Earlier, the Israeli navy had contacted the captain of the Mavi Marmara, asking him to identify himself and say where the ship was headed.

Shortly after, two Israeli naval vessels had flanked the flotilla on either side, but at a distance.

Organisers of the attempted siege break, dubbed the Freedom Flotilla, then diverted their ships and slowed down to avoid a confrontation during the night.

They also issued all passengers life jackets and asked them to remain below deck.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, including a Nobel laureate and several European legislators, are with the flotilla, aiming to reach Gaza in defiance of an Israeli embargo.

But Israel has said it will not allow the flotilla to reach the Gaza Strip and vowed to stop the six ships from reaching the coastal Palestinian territory.

The flotilla had set sail from a port in Cyprus on Sunday and aimed to reach Gaza by Monday morning.

Israel said the boats were embarking on “an act of provocation” against the Israeli military, rather than providing aid, and that it had issued warrants to prohibit their entrance to Gaza.

We’ve become accustomed to Israeli propaganda, lies and deception. What does one expect from NaZionists?

It asserted that the flotilla would be breaking international law by landing in Gaza, a claim the organisers rejected

Haaretz Reports:

Report: Israel Navy opens fire on Gaza aid flotilla; 2 activists killed

Several pro-Palestinian campaigners wounded after six-ship convoy sailing for Gaza Strip ignored Israel’s order to turn back, Turkish news reports.

Israel Navy troops opened fire on pro-Palestinian activists aboard a six-ship aid flotilla sailing for the Gaza Strip, killing two and wounding several others after the convoy ignored orders to turn back, Turkey’s NTV reported early Monday.

Turkey condemns Israel over deadly attack on Gaza aid flotilla

The decision by Israeli troops to storm a flotilla of ships carrying aid to the Gaza Strip, killing at least 15 people, was inhumane and unacceptable, Turkey has warned.

Published: 6:57AM BST 31 May 2010

“We strongly condemn these inhumane practices of Israel,” a written statement said.

“This deplorable incident, which took place in open seas and constitutes a fragrant breach of international law, may lead to irreparable consequences in our bilateral relations,” it said.

“Whatever the reason is, such action against civilians involved only in peaceful activities is unacceptable.

“Israel will have to bear the consequences of this behaviour, which constitutes a violation of international law,” it said.

Gaza flotilla drives Israel into a sea of stupidity

Of course the peace flotilla will not bring peace, and it won’t even manage to reach the Gaza shore. The action plan has included dragging the ships to Ashdod port, but it has again dragged us to the shores of stupidity and wrongdoing

By Gideon Levy

Israel defending the indefensible

By Marwan Bishara

on May 31st, 2010

The Israeli military attack on the ‘break the siege of Gaza’ flotilla in international waters, 65km off the shores of Gaza, has broken the barrier of silence over the Gaza siege.

The Israeli military’s justification that its soldiers were lynched and hence were defending themselves adds insult to death.

Israeli spokespeople and officials have used the same military strategy in the battle for public opinion: offence is the best defence. Israel had no other option, say the Israeli officials, but to attack!

However, regardless of exactly what happened on those solidarity ships, Israeli use of force will prove self-defeating. Attacking other nations’ citizens in international waters because they resisted arrest is not only illegal, but serves to demean international legal norms.

The UN Goldstone Commission report considered the siege of Gaza to be a possible “war crime”. Defending such an illegal and inhumane siege through an attack on a civilian international solidarity group, will make defending Israel’s actions ever more challenging for its allies.

And you can be sure that Barack Obama, the US president, would be relieved not to have to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Israeli premier at this time.

Meanwhile, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, may cut his overseas trip short. And you can be sure that Barack Obama, the US president, would be relieved not to have to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Israeli premier at this time.

Europeans are no less embarrassed. Only a few days ago, they rooted for Israel’s membership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

But will that lead to the lifting of the siege of Gaza or will it be more of the same empty indignation and paralysed condemnations?

What ‘international community’? Where are the Arabs?

‘International community’ is a loaded term. And when it comes to Israel and Palestine it means a lot of talk and little or no action – hence 43 62 years of occupation.

The so-called ‘international community’ acts when Israel’s allies – the US and its Western allies – agree. So resolutions concerning Iraq or Iran, for example, are passed while those regarding Israel are blocked.

The emergence of a civic ‘international community’ committed to taking action to break the siege of Gaza comes as a result of the incapacity of the official ‘international community’ to do more than issue UN resolutions and condemnations.

Israel’s worst nightmare is becoming a reality. The civic ‘international community’ is organising much as it did against Apartheid South Africa.

Israel has referred to the international solidarity movement as Hamas’ “Jihadi friends”. But the diversity and plurality of the movement and the identity of the passengers on the attacked flotilla render any such claim transparently ridiculous.

Meanwhile, the weakest link in the ‘international community’ seems to be the official members of the Arab League who have reduced their role to that of mere spectators.

Security or arrogance?

The Israeli attack on and takeover of the solidarity flotilla – when Israel had been informed that the Turkish authorities had checked the ships in their ports - appears to be based less on security concerns than on a calculated effort to deter others from attempting more of the same.

A cold cost and benefit analysis of the Israeli operation shows no particular benefit – security or otherwise – but potential major losses.

Among other possible diplomatic fallouts, Turkish-Israeli relations – which have been deteriorating over the past couple of years – have been severely damaged by this attack and it is unclear now how Israel will be able to regain its strategic relationship with Turkey after killing Turkish civilians.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has already accused Israel of “knowing how to kill”. Turkey will now also be aware that Israel is capable of taking matters into its own hands, regardless of what anybody says.

Unlike most of the Arab states, Turkey is not under one man rule. Rather, Erdogan answers to a party and to vibrant public opinion that seems ever more irritated by Turkish-Israeli relations.

Israel’s motto has long been: ‘Israel does whatever it must, and the world (Goyim) can say all they want.’

Israel’s Attack on Us All

Raid on the Gaza Flotilla

Israel’s Attack on Us All

By JONATHAN COOK

Nazareth.

It is quite astounding that Israel has been able to create over the past 12 hours a news blackout, just as it did with its attack on Gaza 18 months ago, into which our main media organizations have willingly allowed Israeli spokespeople to step in unchallenged.

Israeli Terrorists Attacking Flotilla

“If you take guns, ships, missiles and helicopters to attack and kidnap free civilians in International Waters,
you had best be prepared to be thrown overboard.”

How many civilians were killed in Israel’s dawn attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla of aid? We still don’t know. How many wounded? Your guess is as good as mine. Were the aid activists armed with guns? Yes, says Israel. Were they in cahoots with al-Qaeda and Hamas? Certainly, says Israel. Did the soldiers act reasonably? Of course, they faced a lynch, says Israel.

If we needed any evidence of the degree to which Western TV journalists are simply stenographers to power, the BBC, CNN and others are amply proving it. Mark Regev, Israel’s propagandist-in-chief, has the airwaves largely to himself.

The passengers on the ships, meanwhile, have been kidnapped by Israel and are unable to provide an alternative version of events. We can guess they will remain in enforced silence until Israel is sure it has set the news agenda.

So before we get swamped by Israeli hasbara let’s reiterate a few simple facts:

• Israeli soldiers terrorists invaded these ships in international waters, breaking international law, and, in killing civilians, committed a war crime. The counter-claim by Israeli commanders that their soldiers responded to an imminent “lynch” by civilians should be dismissed with the loud contempt it deserves.
  
• The Israeli government approved the boarding of these aid ships by an “elite unit of commandoes.”  [a joke] They were armed with automatic weapons to pacify the civilians onboard, but not with crowd dispersal equipment in case of resistance. Whatever the circumstances of the confrontation, Israel must be held responsible for sending in soldiers and recklessly endangering the lives of all the civilians onboard, including a baby and a Holocaust survivor.
  
• Israel has no right to control Gaza’s sea as its own territorial waters and to stop aid convoys arriving that way.  In doing so, it proves that it is still in belligerent occupation of the enclave and its 1.5 million inhabitants. And if it is occupying Gaza, then under international law Israel is responsible for the welfare of the Strip’s inhabitants. Given that the blockade has put Palestinians there on a starvation diet for the past four years, Israel should long ago have been in the dock for committing a crime against humanity.

Today Israel chose to direct its deadly assault not only at Palestinians under occupation but at the international community itself.

Will our leaders finally be moved to act?

Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. His latest books are “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). His website is www.jkcook.net.

UN Human Rights Council in Geneva condemns Israel: “Outrageous Attack”

The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, condemned Israel for its outrageous attack.

The 47-member body passed a resolution on Wednesday establishing a fact finding mission into possible international law violations.

Authorities said 682 people from more than 30 countries had been on board the six ships that tried to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The activists included hundreds of Turks, four of whom were killed.

Turkey has warned it will cut off diplomatic ties with Israel if its citizens killed and injured in the Gaza flotilla raid are not returned by Wednesday night.

Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, said 210 Turkish nationals were scheduled to be flown to Istanbul from Israel on Turkish planes, while it is believed around 20 injured people will return via Ankara, on ambulance planes.

Differing Accounts

Sherine Tadros, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reporting from Beersheva in southern Israel, said that while nine people have been confirmed killed, no information had been made public about their identities.

The activists were killed when Israeli troops, using helicopters and dinghies, stormed the Mavi Marmara, the lead vessel of the six-ship convoy dubbed the Freedom Flotilla, on Monday.

“The Israeli assault took those of us on the ship by complete surprise. We saw about 30 war vessels surrounding this ship, and helicopters attacking with very luminous bombs.” Mohamed Vall, freed Al Jazeera reporter

Activists’ accounts of what happened contradict Israeli explanations of the raid.

Huseyin Tokalak, the captain of one of the seized ships who was freed on Tuesday, told a news conference in Istanbul that an Israeli navy ship threatened to sink his vessel before troops boarded and trained their guns on him and his crew.

“They pointed two guns to the head of each of us,” Tokalak said.

Others said that the soldiers had opened fire even after passengers had raised the white flag.

Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall, who was on board the Mavi Marmara and was released into Jordan on Wednesday morning, said the size of the Israeli attack surprised the ship’s passengers.

“The Israeli assault took those of us on the ship by complete surprise,” Vall said.

“We saw about 30 war vessels surrounding this ship, and helicopters attacking with very luminous bombs.

“More troops came and immediately opened fire, and killed people on the ship without any distinction.”

“Israeli commandos started shooting from the air without warning,” said Mubarak al-Mutawa, a lawyer who was on the main vessel, the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara.

“They killed a number of volunteers even before landing aboard the ship,” he said on arrival at Kuwait Airport.

The UN Security Council has called for “a prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation conforming to international standards” into the Israeli raid.

Another vessel

As a new standoff with another aid ship loomed, David Cameron, the British prime minister, said Monday’s pre-dawn Israeli attack was “completely unacceptable”.

Israel remains defiant about the raid and says it is ready to intercept another aid ship, the Rachel Corrie, that organisers of the Freedom Flotilla planned to send to the Gaza Strip next week.

Israeli Arrogance

Accusing international critics of “hypocrisy,” Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, defended the seizure of the aid ships on Wednesday.

In a televised address to the nation, he said he would continue to blockade Gaza, saying that to lift the embargo would turn it into a base for Iranian missiles that would threaten both Israel and Europe.

Amid the international condemnation, Egypt said it was opening the Rafah border it shares with Gaza, to allow in humanitarian aid after a request from the governing Hamas Palestinian faction.

Egypt, in co-ordination with Israel, has rarely opened the border since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007 from forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian (puppet) president.

Abbas meanwhile criticised Israel’s actions as being “stupid, terrorist and ugly”.

Speaking in Bethlehem, Abbas said that “the way to seek peace has to start by Israel lifting the siege on Gaza, freezing all settlements without preconditions, and the recognition of international references”. [Abbas talk to the Media pre-approved by his Masters, the Israelis]

Hillary Clinton’s Arrogance – US relations

The bloodshed on Monday also put Israel’s tense ties with the US under further strain and placed under scrutiny the relationship between the allies.

Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught, reporting from Istanbul, said Erdogan, in his speech, “mentioned the unmentionable, saying that Israel acts because it has powerful friends”.

The US has, thus far, refused to condemn the Israeli raid, with Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, telling reporters in Washington DC that “the situation from our perspective is very difficult and requires careful, thoughtful responses from all concerned”.

If it’s not Israeli loss of lives, the U.S. Secretary of State doesn’t give a damn!

Clinton called on the Israeli government to ease the blockade of Gaza, saying that the “situation in Gaza is unsustainable and unacceptable”.

“Israel’s legitimate security needs must be met just as the Palestinian’s legitimate needs for sustained humanitarian assistance and regular access to reconstruction materials must also be assured,” she said.

What about their freedom and Independence Mrs. Clinton?

Turkey to Israel: Don’t &^%$ with Us!

Turkey’s response to Israel over flotilla attack: Don’t test our patience

Hats off to Turkey and its honorable stand against the Terrorist State of Israel!

Helen Thomas; Never Apologize for telling the Truth!

IN DEFENSE OF HELEN THOMAS – On apologizing to apologists

Helen Thomas was the dean of the White House Press corp.  She has a fifty-year history of tough-minded journalism and is one of the very, very few journalists in the mainstream press who has had the guts to question US policy towards Israel. On Monday she was pressured into resigning, “effective immediately”.

On Friday she was asked by a guy who stuck a video camera in her face, for any comments on Israel and she said, “Tell them to get the get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, these people [the Palestinians] are occupied and it’s their land. It’s not Germany, it’s not Poland.” She was asked where they should go and she answered, “They should go home, to Poland, Germany and America”. The video has been making its way around the Internet.

This was said days after the Israeli attack on the aid flotilla that killed at least nine activists as their boat sailed in international waters. [NOTE: When I originally wrote this article, I was mistaken about the sequence of events. The video was shot on May 27th, a few days before the Israeli attack. It was released on the Internet on Friday. Of course it was after the Israeli war on Gaza and the blockade].

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She later apologized in a short statement on her website “”I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”

Her apology was not enough to stop calls for her head from those who have wanted to shut Thomas up for years.

Ari Fleischer, President George W. Bush’s press secretary, led the call in an e-mail Friday to the Huffington Post saying Thomas’ comments amount to “religious cleansing.”

“She should lose her job over this,” Fleischer wrote. “As someone who is Jewish, and as someone who worked with her and used to like her, I find this appalling.”

Perhaps Fleishcher should also add that he is someone who knows something about apologies . . . being the leading apologist for the Bush administration as their war led to the deaths of at least one million Iraqis.

But Lanny Davis, former special counsel to and White House spokesman for President Bill Clinton, went even further than Fleischer. He issued a statement on Sunday saying Thomas, “has showed herself to be an anti-Semitic bigot.”

Now, Davis should know something about apologies and apologists as well. TheHill.com reported that Davis led a lobbying effort against deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on behalf of Honduran business leaders. This is in defense of a regime that came to power in an illegal coup and is killing journalists and activists.  Hmmm  . . . defending those that kill activists . . .

Davis went on, “Her [Thomas] statement that Jews in Israel should leave Israel and go back to Poland or Germany is an ancient and well-known anti-Semitic stereotype of the Alien Jew not belonging in the ‘land of Israel’ — one that began 2,600 years with the first tragic and violent diaspora of the Jews at the hands of the Romans,” said Davis.

due to fact that the American, Canadian and British governments wouldn’t drop their anti-Jewish quotas even after the horrors of the genocide were fully exposed (let’s talk about some real anti-Semites).

Thomas was not talking about Jews that lived in the region from Roman times. If she had been given more of a chance to explain herself, rather than the 30-second sound bite traveling around the web, she might have made it clear that she also wasn’t referring to the thousands of Jews who lived in Palestine prior to 1948.

What Thomas clearly did say she was talking about was Jews that had come from Germany, Poland and America. Now it’s likely that most of the Jewish refugees that came to Palestine from Europe just after the War, did so not because they “belong to the land of Israel”, but due to fact that the American, Canadian and British governments wouldn’t drop their anti-Jewish quotas even after the horrors of the genocide were fully exposed (let’s talk about some real anti-Semites).

I don’t know of any opinion polls taken at the time, but if those refugees had a real choice to go to some impoverished potentially war-filled land in the Middle East or join the Jewish community in New York, I know what I would have chosen.

The American Zionist organizations at the time did not fight for a more open immigration policy to allow Jews into America; they lobbied furiously for the Jewish refugees to go to Palestine as part of a move towards the founding of a Jewish state.

As is well known, this state was created in the process of expelling thousands of Palestinians from their lands, people who had nothing to do with the European genocide against the Jews. You cannot say the same about the Anglo-American countries that for much of the ’30s were quite happy to equip Hitler with cars and machinery. Quite content to shut their mouths as Hitler began an ethnic cleansing that would end in barbaric genocide.

As far as the American Jews that went to live in Israel after 1948, it’s difficult to believe they went to escape persecution, as many of the Jews from other places that went to Israel, in fact did. So, one can understand a certain specific resentment against American Jews who decided that it was ok, at someone else’s expense, to work out their identity crisis and pick up some free airline tickets to boot.

Lanny Davis statement continued, “If she had asked all blacks to go back to Africa, what would White House Correspondents Association position be as to whether she deserved White House press room credentials — much less a privileged honorary seat?”

Our defender of illegal coups knows very well this is not analogous.  The obvious comparison is asking all European Americans to “get the hell out”, and leave the land to its rightful owners, Native Americans.  One could argue Mexican Americans might have an argument to stay in certain parts of the country.

The European migration to America isn’t such a stretch if one thinks about it. Colonialism makes use of people fleeing religious persecution to populate their new possession . . .

At any rate, we all know what’s going on here. The hyper-pro-Israel lobby, in both parties, hasn’t much liked the fact that Helen Thomas dares to speak up and question that most sacred of topics, and right from the front row of the White House Press Gallery. Heck, she had the gall to ask President Obama about Israel’s “secret” nuclear weapons. She even asked the current White House spokesman why the US had not condemned the Israeli attacks on the aid flotilla. No wonder they want her the hell out.

Do I think all Jews (that came after 1948) should get out of Palestine? Well, no more or less than Europeans should get out of North America, or the Portuguese should get out of Brazil, or the British should get the hell out of Australia. There does come a point where such things are simply not possible.  [ATW's Opinion differs; the Law of Return for Palestinians must be implemented].

There’s really no need anyway, there’s plenty of land and resources. The only issue is, are the rights of the people who owned the land before colonization going to be respected now; is there proper compensation; do they have the right to self-determination and so on.

In the case of the Palestinians, what Israel needs to do has been made very clear in UN resolutions and in the demands of the Palestinians. In spite of the illegal blockade of Gaza, almost no one, including the Hamas representative I interviewed a few weeks ago, says the Jews have to get out. Ok there are some that say it, people get very angry after 62 years in a refugee camp, but what most Palestinians want is to live as equals with Jews in a truly democratic state.

It’s way past time that we can discuss Israel and Palestine without the McCarthyite witch hunt atmosphere that has ruled for sixty years.

I said in my last blog, not all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism – but some is.

Helen Thomas’ isn’t.

Paul Jay is the CEO and Senior Editor of The Real News Network. He is an award-winning filmmaker, founder of Hot Docs! International Film Festival and was for ten years the Executive Producer of the CBC Newsworld show counterSpin.

A Tip of the Hat to you Ms. Thomas!

Amazingly, no one objects to the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians. The Apartheid terrorist state of Israel continues this practice until this day with a public agenda of ensuring that Jews/ Israelis outnumber Arabs – or what’s left of them – to no more than 30%!

Benny Morris was among the first of the younger Israeli scholars to receive widespread notice when he refuted Ben-Gurion’s long-accepted assertion that the Palestinian refugees of 1947-48 left Palestine at the instruction of Arab leaders.

According to Ben-Gurion, “they did so under the assumption that the invasion of Arab armies at the expiration of the mandate will destroy the Jewish state and push all the Jews into the sea, dead or alive.”

In The Birth of the Palestine Refugee Problem, published in 1988, Morris concluded that Arab leaders had not urged the local population to leave but that the exodus was mainly the result of attacks by the official Jewish army, the Haganah, and the Irgun, a militia headed by Menachem Begin that had carried out assassinations and bombings against both the British and the Palestinians during the British mandate.

Plan Dalet, or Plan D, exposed how the Jews were determined to expel the Palestinians from as much territory as possible and by whatever means necessary.  Ilan Pappé, emphasized the importance of Plan D in the creation of Israel.  In The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-51, Pappé writes that the Jewish army formally adopted the plan in early 1948 after Arabs protested a U.N. partition proposal that allocated to the Palestinians only 38 percent of mandatory Palestine although they made up more than 65 percent of the population.

Under Plan D, once the British authorities were out of the way, Jewish fighters would treat all of Palestine as a no-man’s land and seize any Arab village or town from which an attack on Jews was launched. But officials of the Jewish Agency’s Land Department, which was headed by a close ally of Ben-Gurion, chose to ignore the difference between friendly and hostile villages and encouraged local commanders to evacuate Arabs wherever there was fertile land. Jewish forces also attacked villages that lay along strategic routes, such as Deir Yassin, where on April 9, 1948, the Irgun slaughtered more than 250 men, women, and children. After Deir Yassin, frightened Palestinians fled in even greater numbers. From April 1, 1948 to the end of the war, Pappé writes, “Jewish operations were guided by the desire to occupy the greatest possible portion of Palestine.”

Pay Attention Ari Fleischer: or is it because of your NaZionist origin you wouldn’t want to expose your kinfolk?

Commit Yourself To The Truth: Israel/ Palestine

Cutting Through the Confusion About Israel/ Palestine

By Richard Forer

June 22, 2010 “Information Clearing House” – I was a member of a group that put up a billboard criticizing Israel’s lethal use of force during Operation Cast Lead. A college student wrote to us to tell us that he disagreed with our assessment of Israel’s behavior. He asked that we remove the billboard. I replied to the student with the following letter, some of which contains passages from my book.

Hi J,

Thank you for your letter. First, I assume you are Jewish. Is that correct? Before I get into the specifics of your letter I want to talk about a few things you might find interesting. I do so because everyone involved in the Israel-Palestine issue has the potential to change the world from an arena of Us against Them into one of peace and respect. But that requires undeviating self-honesty, which leads to compassion, clarity and understanding. Most people do not take up the challenge of looking deeply within for fear of what they might find. They revert to the safety of their presumed identity and the beliefs and images that make up and reinforce their identity. Attachment to a limited or exclusive identity always carries with it the consciousness of Us against Them. The consciousness of Us against Them requires that there be unending conflict.

Perhaps you have it within yourself to look beyond what you currently see as all sides of the issue. I hope so because the lives of those who suffer on either side of the conflict depend upon people like you. Peace is only possible when we care for people on both sides equally. We do not have to like the other but we have to recognize that he is just as entitled to self-determination as us, that he has the same human needs for respect and dignity as do we. We also have to begin to understand and ask why the other acts as he does. Does his motivation arise in a vacuum or does it arise in relationship to our own behavior. Have we played roles in inciting his behavior? Until we take responsibility for the parts we play in the drama of human suffering and as it relates to the Israel-Palestine conflict, peace has no chance; and the people we claim to care about will continue to suffer and die, now and into the bloody future, in Israel, in Palestine and throughout the world. They will die and suffer because our true goal is not their well being; our true goal is to maintain our presumed identity; it is to confirm the beliefs and images that we incorrectly associate with our personal and collective identity.

As long as we believe in a world of Us against Them we will see a world of Us against Them. Our emotions, our attitudes toward others, the way we interpret events, what we notice and what we don’t notice will mirror our world view, thereby confirming and reinforcing it. In short, individually and collectively, we create the world we live in. Thus, the great struggle all of us must take on, if we truly want peace and respect between peoples, is to transform our consciousness from Us against Them to one of tolerance and understanding.

To be honest your letter can only fully be answered with a comprehensive look at the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The book I have completed would be a good reply but that is beyond the scope of our discussion for now. Obviously you are very passionate and concerned about this situation. With that in mind I have included at the end of this letter a list of some well-researched books on the subject. Most of these writers have come to similar conclusions. Most of them are Jewish. Cypel and Hirst are famous journalists from France and England respectively. Cypel lived in Israel for ten years and his father was a Zionist leader. Ben-Ami, a historian and former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Internal Security, was Barak’s chief negotiator at Camp David. Pappe, Shlaim, Segev and Morris are all famous Israeli historians and among the group known as “new” or “revisionist” historians because of their access to the primary archives and their refutation of common Zionist myths. Reinhart and Kimmerling were two of the most renowned and courageous sociologist/historians in Israeli academia. King is an expert on collective non-violent action who has worked with Martin Luther King (no relation) and Jimmy Carter. Swisher was a VIP security guard at the Camp David talks in 2000. He interviewed many of the participants. Baltzer, an American, is one of the most compassionate people I have ever had the honor to meet. She is brilliant, fair and honest. She cares about Israelis as well as Palestinians.

And even though he is particularly controversial, Norman Finkelstein, despite his blunt critique of Israel’s defenders, is included because of his genius and meticulous research. You can watch him on YouTube. I researched a great deal of the claims he makes by reviewing his sources. In every case he checks out perfectly. I saw no distortion, obfuscation or deceit. Additionally, one cannot ignore the sources he cites. Truthfully, if one wants to criticize Israel, deceit is unnecessary. The words and confessions of Israeli leaders are more than enough.

Again, before I respond to the points you make about Gaza, let me tell you a little about me. I was born a few months before Israel declared its statehood. Both of my parents were first generation Americans. My mother lost 17 relatives in the Holocaust. My father and his family never discussed anything about that horror. My younger brother is president of one of the largest Jewish congregations on the east coast. My identical twin brother is an ultra-Orthodox Jew who lived for a few years in Israel. Both of his daughters are married with children and live in Jerusalem. Some of their friends are militant Jews from Hebron and other messianic communities, who believe that the sixth commandment, which they translate as “Thou shalt not commit murder,” cannot be violated by killing any Arab, since Arabs are inherently predisposed to want to murder Jews; and Arabs are not human anyway. One of my brother’s sons recently served in the IDF. I have a friend who lives in Ma’ale Adumim, in occupied territory outside of Jerusalem. She was a member of Kach (Meir Kahane’s group) for 15 years. She now holds Palestinian-Israeli dialogue groups and prefers a one-state solution.

I was extremely “pro-Israel” my entire lifetime. I was utterly supportive of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in the summer of 2006. I joined AIPAC and donated to the Jewish Federation. Midway through the war in Lebanon, after arguments with close friends who were critical of Israel, I decided to actually engage myself in a real study of the Israel-Arab conflict. My purpose was to alleviate my suffering and to find more historical arguments to refute the claims my friends were making. Up to that point in time I had only read Joan Peters’ highly influential book From Time Immemorial, a book that I learned has been universally debunked and called a “hoax,” “phony,” “worthless,” “recycled Zionist propaganda,” “previously modified and discredited Zionist propaganda,” etc. by scholars from Israel, Europe, the U.S. and the Jewish World Congress. I had used Peters’ research to justify my claim that there never were a Palestinian people; that Israel had always treated the so-called Palestinians kindly and had always bent over backwards for peace.

During my research that began in the midst of the Second Lebanon War I chose to study Jewish scholars only, knowing that if I studied the subject from the perspective of any Arab or Muslim scholar I would suspect bias. My study became a full-time and daily practice to this very day. As mentioned above, many of the scholars I studied had access to the most primary of sources, among them the Israeli state, IDF, Ben-Gurion, Haganah, Palmach, and Central Zionist archives. I read the arguments of many Israeli officials, including a number of heads of Shin Bet (Israel’s Internal Security Agency) and I read numerous respected international publications (none Arab) including the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz and Yediot Aharonoth. I also studied the websites of the Israeli ministries of Defense, Internal Security, Foreign Affairs and Health as well as respected Human Rights organizations such as B’Tselem, HaMoked (Center for the Defense of the individual), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, OCHA (The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), UNICEF, the International Red Cross, National Lawyers Guild, Goldstone Report, etc., all of which (including the two Israeli NGO’s) at one time I would have suspected of being anti-Semitic. I read from both sides of the divide including Alan Dershowitz, Aaron David Miller, Dennis Ross, Shlomo Ben-Ami, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and more. If I wasn’t sure who a source was I checked it out. I discarded anyone whose claims I could not verify through further research and I discarded anyone who appeared anti-Semitic and/or seemed to be promoting their own prejudices without, at the very least, solid proof from reputable sources. I also randomly checked the sources of virtually all of the articles, books and publications I examined to make sure the author was not taking quotes out of context, was not distorting the real message his source was conveying or was not simply lying. All of the actual historians checked out well; and the human rights organizations, independent of each other, are of a very similar mind. I doubt there has ever been a more solidly documented conflict in world history than the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Other than Peters the one author who was clearly distorting history for his own purposes is Alan Dershowitz.

Anybody can debunk The Case for Israel. At one time Dershowitz was someone I admired but his spiteful and slanderous participation in the Israel-Palestine issue has only inflamed Zionists and given them apparent justification for their unjustified verbal attacks against not only Palestinians but honest and courageous scholars as well as Jimmy Carter, who is committed to a fair peace between both sides and without whose help in brilliantly brokering the Camp David Accords Israel would not exist in its present form. Remember, Dershowitz is not a historian; he is an attorney and his book is written with the mind of an attorney. He ignores and distorts evidence that could convict his client; and he obfuscates where obfuscation clouds any issue that could also convict his client. Unlike historians who start out with a hypothesis and do research to confirm, modify or deny the hypothesis, and who allow the facts to determine their conclusions, Dershowitz decides on the conclusions and then researches (or not) accordingly. To cite only two examples out of many, on page 184 he quotes Raji Sourani:

Even Raji Sourani, the director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza and a strident critic of Israel, says that he remains “constantly amazed by the high standards of the legal system [sic].” [Dershowitz cites Greg Myre, “Trial of Palestinian Leader Focuses Attention on Israeli Courts,” NY Times, May 5, 2003].

Here is the actual quote from the NY Times:

Despite his many frustrations with the Israeli courts, Mr. Sourani says he remains “constantly amazed by the high standards of the legal system.” “On many issues,” he said, “when the courts are dealing with purely Israeli questions, like gay rights, I admire their rulings. But when it comes to the Palestinians, these same people seem to be totally schizophrenic’” (emphases added).

On page 42 Dershowitz says the following without citing source material:

The developing clash between the Jews of Palestine, led by David Ben Gurion, and the Muslims, led by the uncompromising Jew-hater, Haj Amin Al-Husseini, was not over whether the Jews or Muslims would control all of Palestine . . . . Instead, it was – realistically viewed – whether the remainder of Palestine was to be given exclusively to the Muslims of Palestine or whether it would be fairly divided between the Jews and the Muslims of Palestine, each of whom effectively controlled certain areas.

What is particularly egregious about this quote, which is nothing more than Dershowitz’s own made-up version of history, is that his primary source, Benny Morris, shows that Ben-Gurion’s intention was the opposite of what Dershowitz attempts to deceive his reader into believing. Dershowitz quotes Morris’s Righteous Victims 59 times in the first 83 pages of his book. He quotes Morris a total of 87 times within the 244 pages of the book. Here is what Morris (who is a Zionist and believes that Palestinians are “psychopaths” and “serial killers”) says in Righteous Victims, p. 138:

[Weizmann and Ben-Gurion] saw partition as a stepping stone to further expansion and the eventual takeover of the whole of Palestine . . . . [Ben-Gurion] wrote to his son, Amos: ‘[A] Jewish state in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning. . . . Our possession is important not only for itself . . . through this we increase our power, and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in its entirety. Establishing a [small] state . . . will serve as a very potent lever in our efforts to redeem the whole country.

The above passage by Ben-Gurion expresses a common intention that he and the majority of Zionists shared for more than a decade before 1948. Confirmation of this can be found in many books on the subject.

Even though I am going to disagree with you I appreciate the fact that you are doing your own research. One bit of advice that I think is important for everyone is: Do not believe a thing anyone tells you about this issue. Find out for yourself through the most objective research possible, as I did, and be sure to do it out of a sense of integrity. Do not demean yourself by selectively researching the subject in order to prove to yourself that what you believe is accurate. Otherwise you will never discover your role in the suffering of others, nor will you discover how to alleviate that suffering. And you will never resolve your own anxiety and suffering. As a Jew you will always be left with the dilemma of victimization: Why does the world not understand my people and why is the world anti-Semitic juxtaposed against compelling evidence that is impossible for all but the willfully deaf and blind to ignore.

J, all that I am going to say here can be found in the many sources I list above or in sources available in my forthcoming book. I cannot divulge these readily available sources at this time because I want to protect the integrity of my book. I also want you to know that I have provided more than twenty Jewish supporters of Israel with evidence similar to what I provide in this letter. I have asked them to examine my evidence and to read one book to either confirm or deny the beliefs they take for granted. Not one has been willing to read a book. Not one was willing to challenge his beliefs. All claim concern for their Jewish brethren, yet none have compassion for the Palestinians. I try to impress upon them that as long as people continue to distort the history of the Israel-Palestine problem and character assassinate the Palestinian people – as has been going on for over sixty years – peace will not be possible. Their response is to ignore me or accuse me of being anti-Israeli. Denying reality, perpetuating an illegal and brutal occupation, character assassinating the people you need to make peace with is a road to more suffering, not just for the weak but also for the strong. Acknowledging the truth and working to restore integrity is indeed a road to peace. Who really cares about Israel and who really cares more about holding onto false and unexamined beliefs?

You start your letter with the statement that “we must look at both the Palestinian side and the Israeli side.” I agree but you have not really looked at the Palestinian side. Take, for example, the letter you quote from Tom Adam of Sderot. Yes, he has had to deal with fear of rocket attacks but why? Without condoning these rocket attacks we have to ask: Why have Palestinian groups launched these rockets? Has Israel incited them? Is the launching of these primitive rockets the only way they know to let the world know that their parents, grandparents and children are being oppressed from birth to death? What about Palestinian children, whose lives are at the mercy of the Israeli military? Many of these kids have seen their father’s beaten by Israeli soldiers, their mothers humiliated and called “whores,” have seen violence committed by Israeli soldiers or settlers on a regular basis, yearn for a glass of uncontaminated drinking water, are malnourished, maimed, deaf, blind, paraplegic, amputees, have endured Israeli sonic booms that cause all kinds of trauma including bedwetting, nausea, miscarriages, nosebleeds, anxiety, muscle spasms, temporary loss of hearing, heart and breathing problems. These Palestinian children are the lucky ones because they are not dead, the victims of rockets, bullets, white phosphorus and Israel’s common refusal to allow medical supplies into Gaza. Also, you should know that Israel fortified public buildings and constructed shelters to protect its Jewish population in the line of rocket attacks. You should also know that Israel did nothing to protect its Palestinian-Israeli citizens in their villages in the line of these same attacks.

You say the $30 Billion Coalition “depicts Israel as the perpetrator and sole cause of the atrocities committed during Operation Cast Lead.” I do not agree that the Coalition depicts Israel as the “sole cause of the atrocities,” the vast majority of which were in fact perpetrated by Israel. Rather they see Israel as the primary cause. Israel, as military and civil and illegal occupier, whose force is thousands of time more powerful than the Palestinians,’ is the party that has the power to make peace. What is particularly counter-productive is Israel’s refusal to abide by international conventions and laws, which are designed to bring about a degree of civility between peoples.

Speaking of peace I will mention only one example of Israel’s continual sabotage or ignoring of peace proposals since 1948. That is the 2002 Roadmap for Peace that the Palestinians accepted in full. Israel “accepted” but with fourteen prerequisites. Among them:

[C]essation of incitement against Israel, but the Roadmap cannot state that Israel must cease violence and incitement against the Palestinians.” “The waiver of any right of return of refugees to Israel; No discussion of Israeli settlement in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza or the status of the Palestinian Authority and its institutions in Jerusalem; No reference to the key provisions of U.N. Resolution 242.

Any objective research leads to the inescapable conclusion that Israel has never wanted peace; what Israel has always wanted is more territory. Israel’s greed has necessitated the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people in order to grab their territory.

You may not be aware, for example, that Israel conspired with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in 1987 to create Hamas. Israel also armed Hamas.

It wanted an alternative to the PLO. The First Intifada began in 1987. It was primarily nonviolent on the part of Palestinians (not Israelis). Israel arrested or deported most of the nonviolent leaders while allowing Sheik Yassin, Hamas’s spiritual leader, to distribute anti-Jewish hate literature calling for the violent overthrow of the Zionist government. It is far easier for Israel to portray the Palestinians as psychotic killers in order to divert the world’s attention from its strategy of land theft and ethnic cleansing and thereby deceive the world into believing the Israeli army is merely defending itself than it is to justify land theft and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians when their resistance is nonviolent.

You need to do a lot more research if you want to discover, as close as possible, the truth. Your research looks like it comes from either public Israeli government sources, which are notoriously unreliable, or Israeli apologists who have a record of justifying virtually anything Israel does. You also need to more carefully review the Goldstone Report. Israel committed terrible atrocities against civilians. Just because Hamas is also guilty of terror (to a significantly less extent than Israel) does not exonerate Israel of anything.

Israel has a National Information Directorate whose purpose is to coordinate the various sectors of the government apparatus into disseminating self-serving messages (propaganda) to the public. I do not trust the Israeli government to publicly admit to their crimes. To do so would hurt their image to Jewish supporters around the world who still believe in Israel’s “purity of arms” and it would implicate its leaders in war crimes for which they could eventually be prosecuted. Israel has always lied about its actions. Its history of lies is astonishing. I prefer to rely on sources that have nothing to gain and everything to lose with their admissions of honesty. Benny Morris:

For decades Ben-Gurion, and successive administrations after his, lied to the Israeli public about the post-1948 peace overtures and about Arab interest in a deal. The Arab leaders (with the possible exception of Abdullah) were presented, one and all, as a recalcitrant collection of warmongers, hell-bent on Israel’s destruction. The recent opening of the Israeli archives offers a far more complex picture.

Akiva Eldar:

Without lies, it would be impossible to talk about peace with the Palestinians for 36 years while at the same time seizing more and more Palestinian land. Without lies, it would be impossible to claim that there is no partner for the road map, while at the same time injecting more and more money into outposts that the road map calls for dismantling. Without lies, it would be impossible to promise “painful concessions” in exchange for peace, while at the same time terming people who concluded such an agreement “traitors.”

Former Israeli Chief of Military Intelligence, General Yehoshafat Harkabi:

We must define our position and lay down basic principles for a settlement. Our demands should be moderate and balanced, and appear to be reasonable. But in fact they must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them. Then we should manoeuvre and allow him to define his own position, and reject a settlement on the basis of a compromise position. We should then publish his demands as embodying unreasonable extremism.

Moshe Dayan:

[The state of Israel] must see the sword as the main, if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may, no – it must – invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation-and-revenge. . . . And above all – let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries, so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space.

You say that the “fundamental truth is that this is a two-way conflict.” The Palestinians could end the conflict by lying down and allowing Jewish settlers, with the support of their government, to overrun them, allow them to take the remainder of their agricultural lands, their villages and their homes, and drive them out of the country into generations of poverty and homelessness. Is that a real peace? The fundamental truth is that Zionism, and the lies perpetrated by its founders, leaders and supporters from the days of Theodore Herzl on, has initiated and perpetuated this conflict. If someone attacks you, tries to steal everything you own, abuses and humiliates your children and then tells the world that you are a liar who never owned the land in the first place would you accept that?” I do not know any person or country in the world who would passively accept the theft of their land. In 1948 Jews owned about 6% of the land of Palestine. They now control 78% of the land outright, which both the PLO and Hamas have de facto accepted as irreversible. Additionally Israel has illegally seized or controls about half of the West Bank. And Israel maintains land, sea and air control over the Gaza Strip. In short the Palestinians subsist on about 10% of their indigenous homeland.

In order to dissociate Palestinian resistance from Jewish resistance Israel supporters have to make up myths to portray the Palestinians as not a real people, as inherently anti-Semitic, as murderous and hateful, as not the real owners of the land, as a psychotic society etc., etc.

Mostly Ashkenazi Jews fought the British and the Arabs for a Jewish National Home. Their connection to the land called Palestine was far less than the connection Palestinians had and still have to that same land. Yet I know of no Jewish supporter of Israel who does not applaud the acts of the Haganah, Irgun and even Stern Gang for their roles in establishing Israel. I know of no Jewish supporter of Israel who resents the uprising of Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto against their Nazi oppressors. In order to dissociate Palestinian resistance from Jewish resistance Israel supporters have to make up myths to portray the Palestinians as not a real people, as inherently anti-Semitic, as murderous and hateful, as not the real owners of the land, as a psychotic society etc., etc. These myths are designed to deceive all of us. They deprive Jews and others of their natural intelligence and compassion. Palestinian resistance, while mostly nonviolent, is similar to the resistance of any occupied people throughout history.

Israel did kill almost 400 children in Operation Cast Lead. I am not saying that Israel’s leaders said “let’s go kill Palestinian children” but there is no question that Israel’s leaders knew perfectly well that hundreds of Palestinian children and other civilians would die. Gaza is, after all, the third most densely populated place on earth, with 50% of its inhabitants less than sixteen years of age. Gaza has been a closed military area since 1967. Its citizens have nowhere to go to flee Israeli bombs and rockets. I suggest you look up Israel’s Dahiya Doctrine (or Strategy), which is designed to punish a civilian society for the actions of its leaders (a war crime). As General Gadi Eisenkot said after Lebanon:

We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases. This isn’t a suggestion. This is a plan that has already been authorized.

Israel’s most eminent military strategist, Zeev Schiff said: “the Israeli Army has always struck civilian populations, purposely and consciously… the Army . . . has never distinguished civilian [from military] targets … [but] purposely attacked civilian targets.”

Former chief-of-staff Mordecai Gur, a moderate, admitted that Israel always targeted civilians (see Hirst). Rafael Eitan, chief-of-staff during Israel’s destruction of Lebanese society in the early 1980s, was an extreme hawk who served for years as Ariel Sharon’s second-in-command. He was responsible for the murders of hundreds of Egyptian POWs at the end of the Suez War. He proposed that for every incident of stone throwing Israel should build ten settlements. He said “the only good Arab is a dead Arab.” He was founder of the extreme right ultra-nationalist Tzomet party (Movement for Zionist Renewal). Later in life he admitted to ordering his troops to brutalize prisoners and impose collective punishment upon Palestinians (both war crimes). He said: “I don’t believe in peace, because if they had done to us what we did to them we’d never agree to make peace.” Think of the implications of that statement. Yitzhak Rabin admitted that “ruling over another people has corrupted us.”

Operation Cast Lead was not “a reaction due to the Islamic Resistance Movement.” It was collective punishment designed to intimidate a people into rejecting Hamas; and it was a reestablishment of the deterrent force Israel relinquished to a certain extent in Lebanon. Ephraim Halevy, former head of Mossad and former National Security Director said: “If Israel’s goal were to remove the threat of rockets from the residents of southern Israel, opening the border crossings would have ensured such quiet for a generation.”

Yuval Diskin, head of Shin Bet, acknowledged that Hamas is willing to accept a long-term ceasefire on the 1967 borders.

Amira Hass reported in Haaretz: “The Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Saturday his government was willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.”

Jimmy Carter:

But one of the things that they [Hamas] committed to me that was very significant, and they announced it publicly, by the way, to Al Jazeera and others, was that they would accept any agreement that’s negotiated between the Israelis and the Palestinians if it’s submitted to a referendum in the West Bank and Gaza, and the Palestinians approve it.  That means they would accept Israel’s right to exist if that’s in the agreement and so forth.

Roger Cohen of the New York Times:

Henry Siegman, the president of the U.S./Middle East Project, whose chairman is [Brent] Scowcroft . . . told me that he met recently with Khaled Meshal, the political director of Hamas in Damascus. Meshal told him, and put in writing, that although Hamas would not recognize Israel, it would remain in a Palestinian national unity government that reached a referendum-endorsed peace settlement with Israel.

Regarding Hamas’s use of hospitals the Goldstone report states: “The Mission did not find any evidence to support the allegations that hospital facilities were used by the Gaza authorities or by Palestinian armed groups to shield military activities and that ambulances were used to transport combatants or for other military purposes.”

In 2006 Israel made a similar claim that Hezbollah embedded their forces within civilian areas in order to attract Israeli firepower. That claim was debunked by Human Rights Watch which clarified that most of Hezbollah’s rockets were “stored in bunkers and weapon storage facilities located in uninhabited fields and valleys.”

You are correct that “Eighty percent of the weapons used were precision guided, and 99% of all strikes hit their targets.” Yes, these precision guided rockets destroyed or killed civilians, whole neighborhoods, minarets where there was no room for any fighter to hide and launch rockets, and UN buildings. B’Tselem reported: “Whole families were killed; parents saw their children shot before their very eyes; relatives watched their loved ones bleed to death; and entire neighborhoods were obliterated.”

A United Nations General Assembly report quoted the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross): “The Israeli military ‘failed to meet its obligation under international humanitarian law to care for and evacuate the wounded.’ Israel made no effort to allow civilians to escape the fighting.”

The Goldstone report is particularly damning. Again, please read through it. Goldstone rejected the HRC’s request to investigate possible war crimes by Israel until they altered the wording to include Hamas as a possible perpetrator. The Israeli government acknowledged his “record of impartiality.” His findings are in line with the numerous human rights groups I mentioned earlier in the letter. IDF soldiers have testified to deliberately killing civilians, just as they have testified to similar brutalities in Hebron. The evidence is overwhelming. If Goldstone had not been head of the Mission there is a high likelihood that the Report would have been even more critical of Israel.

Goldstone, as any reasonable person knows, is not an anti-Semite. Eliyahu Yishai was Deputy Prime Minister during Operation Cast Lead. At the beginning of the invasion he urged the IDF to “bomb thousands of houses, to destroy Gaza.” Nine months later, as Minister of the Interior, Yishai slandered Goldstone as an “abominable anti-Semite” for heading a mission that concluded that the IDF did exactly what Yishai wanted them to do. Yishai is not a reasonable person.

Israel’s internal investigations were designed to cover up their atrocities. Chief-of-Staff Gabi Ashkenazi is not going to implicate himself or other Israeli officials in possible war crimes and crimes against humanity. Amnesty International responded to the IDF “internal investigation:”

The information made public only refers to a handful of cases and lacks crucial details. It mostly repeats claims made by the army and the authorities many times since the early days of Operation “Cast Lead . . . . It does not even attempt to explain the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths nor the massive destruction caused to civilian buildings in Gaza. . . . [T]he army’s claims appear to be more an attempt to shirk its responsibilities than a genuine process to establish the truth. Such an approach lacks credibility.

Regarding rocket and mortar fire, from 2000 through 2008 Palestinian groups launched 8,088 unsophisticated rockets and mortars against Israel. From 2001 through 2008 eighteen Israelis were killed as a result of these attacks. Contrast those figures with the 7,700 sophisticated rockets that Israel launched against Gaza in nine months, between September 2005 and June 2006. From 2005–2007, 1,290 Gazans, including 222 children, were killed as a result of these kinds of attacks. Who is the perpetrator and who is the victim?

Your statement that “Israel warned the Palestinian people that election of Hamas to the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) would only cause more conflict” is a reflection of an authoritarian mentality that places one party in control over the lives of another. It is the same mentality that is at the root of this conflict. Hamas was elected in a fair election that the U.S. pushed for. Who is Israel to decide for the Palestinians who their leaders should be? Hamas is not monolithic, is not particularly corrupt as is Fatah, and is not a collaborator with the Israeli government. That is why they were elected and that is why Israel wants them removed. Hamas makes the continued dispossession of the Palestinian people more difficult. What you call Israel’s warning was actually a threat. Hamas has repeatedly stated its willingness to establish a long term truce. Ephraim Halevy and American strategists said that Israel and the U.S. have the ability to strengthen Hamas’s moderate wing and engage them in a peace process. But, as Moshe Dayan states above, Israel is not interested in a peace process.

If you honestly are looking for the truth your study of Operation Cast Lead is simply not thorough or objective enough. With regard to the ceasefire, if you read the analysis of The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center (IICC) you will learn that “The lull was sporadically violated by rocket and mortar shell fire, carried out by rogue terrorist organizations, in some instance in defiance of Hamas (especially by Fatah and Al-Qaeda supporters). Hamas was careful to maintain the ceasefire.”

Israel never really adhered to the ceasefire. They only allowed the average number of trucks entering Gaza to increase from seventy per day to ninety, not the five hundred per day that crossed before Israel instituted its blockade. On November 4, 2008 IDF troops entered Gaza and killed six or seven Hamas soldiers because they were allegedly digging a tunnel for the purpose of kidnapping Israeli soldiers. Hamas said its members had been digging the tunnel for defensive purposes. On November 5 Israel sealed all crossing points into Gaza. Yossi Alpher, former Mossad official and former adviser to then Prime Minister Ehud Barak:

[The blockade is] collective punishment, humanitarian suffering. It has not caused Palestinians in Gaza to behave the way we want them to, so why do it. . . . I think people really believed that, if you starved Gazans, they will get Hamas to stop the attacks. It’s repeating a failed policy, mindlessly.

On December 14 a high-level Hamas delegation met with Egyptian Minister of Intelligence Omar Suleiman who, as mediator, had helped negotiate the June to December ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. Hamas offered to end all rocket attacks in return for Israel ending its raids into Gaza and re-opening the border crossings. Suleiman conveyed Hamas’s proposal to Israeli authorities. On December 19, Robert Pastor, a senior adviser at the Carter Center, met with Khaled Mashaal, who made the same offer. The next day Pastor passed Mashaal’s offer on to a “senior official” in the IDF, who told Pastor he would get back to him. He never did. As for the Egyptian offer, it is unclear whether Israel ignored the offer or rejected it outright. At an Israeli cabinet meeting on December 21, Yuval Diskin, said: “Make no mistake, Hamas is interested in maintaining the truce.” Diskin said that if Israel ended the blockade, Hamas would restore the ceasefire.

If you’ve gotten this far, I can tell you the billboard you object to was taken down by Lamar Advertising on April 28, 2009. It was designed to provoke reaction from a mostly apathetic public in the wake of a brutal invasion. Calls from AIPAC supporters influenced Lamar’s decision. Rather than seeing themselves and Israel as victims these AIPAC people would be far more effective if they took the time to actually look at the evidence. None whom I have met have any intelligent knowledge of the actual history. For them, the childhood myths they were raised with supersede years of honest and objective research. Their attitude is identical to fundamentalist Christians who believe non-Christians will go to Hell for their failure to accept Jesus Christ into their lives. They claim to care about Israelis but their continued support of a brutal occupation only demeans an entire people and perpetuates conflict for both sides of the issue. It also paints Judaism, once known for its commitment to ethics and justice, as a religion and culture of hypocrisy and bigotry.

Please do not fall into the trap that so many who remain unconscious of their participation in the suffering of others have fallen into. Please do not allow bigotry to influence you as it has influenced them. I urge you to avoid losing your humanity. Commit yourself to the truth. It is the only path that will free you of your own suffering and free others less fortunate than you of the suffering imposed on them by others.

Sincerely, Rich Forer

BOOK LIST

Anna Baltzer, Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories

Anna Baltzer, DVD: Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos

available at www.AnnaintheMiddleEast.com . Excerpts on YouTube.

Shlomo Ben-Ami, Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy

Jimmy Carter, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

Sylvain Cypel, Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse

David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East

Norman Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Norman Finkelstein, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

Baruch Kimmerling, Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians

Mary Elizabeth King, A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance

Benny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999

Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Tanya Reinhart, The Road Map To Nowhere: Israel/Palestine Since 2003

Tanya Reinhart, Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948

Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust

Tom Segev, 1949: The First Israelis

Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall

Clayton Swisher, The Truth About Camp David: The Untold Story about the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process

Richard Forer is a former member of AIPAC. His identical twin brother is a prominent member of an Ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism. His younger brother is an attorney and President of one of the largest Reform synagogues on the East coast. Forer is a practitioner of the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method, a unique system of healing developed by an Israeli. His book, Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion – A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict will be available in the Fall. He can be reached at rich_forer@yahoo.com.

‘Israel trying to block U.S.-Saudi Arabia defense contract’

Haaretz

The audacity of the NaZionist state! They expect Saudi Arabia to look the other way if and when they decide to bomb Iran, yet, only they (the Zionists) are allowed to arm themselves!

Defense source says deal includes purchase of scores of new F-15 fighter jets and the upgrading of the 150 F-15s already in the Saudi air force.

By Barak Ravid

Israel is trying to prevent a big defense contract between the United States and Saudi Arabia from going through, a senior defense source told Haaretz. The deal includes the purchase of scores of new F-15 fighter jets and the upgrading of the 150 F-15s already in the Saudi air force.

The source said Israel expressed a number of reservations to the Americans over the past month, and the issue is expected to come up in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meetings in Washington on Tuesday.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak raised the deal in meetings with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and National Security Advisor General Jim Jones two weeks ago in Washington. Israel also made its reservations clear at a meeting in Tel Aviv between top Israeli defense officials and a delegation led by U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy.

The aircraft deal was also raised in talks between Saudi King Abdullah and U.S. President Barack Obama last week. The defense source told Haaretz the Americans are interested in building up the Saudi air force vis-a-vis Iran, which would help deter the Islamic Republic.

Israel, however, hopes that if the deal goes forward, Saudi Arabia will receive fewer advanced versions of the F-15 than those possessed by Israel, which seeks to maintain its air force’s superiority. “Today these planes are against Iran, tomorrow they might turn against us,” the source said.

Israel and the United States held a number of meetings over the past 18 months on Israel’s superiority. The two sides agreed that neither would surprise the other by agreeing a military deal with a third party. A senior source in the U.S. administration told Haaretz the United States has promised Israel it would have priority access to any new weapons system and, in some cases, exclusive rights to buy new weapons systems, as opposed to Arab states.

“The administration is conducting open and completely transparent talks with Israel on the matter, and we are updating Israel on any planned deal to hear its reservations,” the official said. “We believe that there are many cases in which the Iranian threat commits us to strengthen the ability of states in the region to defend themselves.”

Palestine on the Map

Palestinians never had either a State, nor any distinct Culture!

Isn’t it true that Palestinians never had either a state, nor any distinct culture or language of their own?

For the moment, let’s assume that the Palestinian people should not have a country of their own because they have never had a state, then why should the peoples of Salvador, Guatemala, Congo, Algeria, … etc. have the right of self determination?

Palestine under Assyrian Empire

It should be noted that none of these countries had a state prior to gaining independence, nor a distinct language or culture that set them apart from their neighboring states. In other words, even if it’s true that the Palestinian people had neither a state, nor a distinct culture or language:

• Is that a good reason to confiscate their homes, farms, and businesses?
• Is that a good reason to block their return to their homes?
• Is that a good reason to nullify their citizenship in the country in which they were born?

According to historical facts, Zionism, as an ideology, evolved in response to the rise of Europe’s nationalism and anti-Semitism in the late 19th century, especially in Tsarist Russia (Pale States), France during the Dreyfus affair, and Germany after WW I.

Similarly, Palestinian nationalism evolved in response to the presence of Zionism in Palestine,

..and most importantly because of the British intention to turn Palestine into a “Jewish National Home,” see the Balfour Declaration for further details. These central facts were well articulated by David Ben-Gurion (Israel’s 1st Prime Minister) and Moshe Sharett (Israel’s 1st Foreign Minister) on many occasions. For example:

• A few months before the peace conference convened at Versailles in early 1919, Ben-Gurion expressed his opinion of future Jewish and Arab relations:
  

  “Everybody sees the problem in the relations between the Jews and the [Palestinian] Arabs. But not everybody sees that there’s no solution to it. There is no solution! . . . The conflict between the interests of the Jews and the interests of the [Palestinian] Arabs in Palestine cannot be resolved by sophisms. I don’t know any Arabs who would agree to Palestine being ours—even if we learn Arabic . . .and I have no need to learn Arabic. On the other hand, I don’t see why ‘Mustafa’ should learn Hebrew. . . . There’s a national question here. We want the country to be ours. The Arabs want the country to be theirs.” (One Palestine Complete, p. 116)

• On May 27, 1931, Ben-Gurion recognized that the “Arab question” is a
  

  “tragic question of fate” that arose only as a consequence of Zionism, and so was a “question of Zionist fulfillment in the light of Arab reality.” In other words, this was a Zionist rather than an Arab question, posed to Zionists who were perplexed about how they could fulfill their aspirations in a land already inhabited by a Palestinian Arab majority. (Shabtai Teveth, p. xii, Preface) [Shabtai Teveth (Weizmann Institute, Tel-Aviv University) is one of the few official Ben-Gurion's biographers]

• As the number of Jews in Palestine (Yishuv) doubled between 1931-1935, the Palestinian people became threatened with being dispossessed and for Jews becoming their masters. The Palestinian political movement was becoming more vocal and organized, which surprised Ben-Gurion. In his opinion, the demonstrations represented a “turning point” important enough to warrant Zionist concern. As he told Mapai comrades:
  

  “. . . they [referring to Palestinians] showed new power and remarkable discipline. Many of them were killed . . . this time not murderers and rioters, but political demonstrators. Despite the tremendous unrest, the order not to harm Jews was obeyed. This shows exceptional political discipline. There is no doubt that these events will leave a profound imprint on the [Palestinian] Arab movement. This time we have seen a political movement which must evoke the respect of the world. (Shabtai Teveth, p. 126)

• But Ben-Gurion set limits. The Palestinian people were incapable by themselves of developing Palestine, and they had no right to stand in the way of the Jews. He argued in 1918, that Jews’ rights sprang not only from the past, but also from the future. In 1924 he declared:
  

  “We do not recognize the right of the [Palestinian] Arabs to rule the country, since Palestine is still undeveloped and awaits its builders.” In 1928 he pronounced that “the [Palestinian] Arabs have no right to close the country to us [Jews]. What right do they have to the Negev desert, which is uninhabited?”; and in 1930, “The [Palestinian] Arabs have no right to the Jordan river, and no right to prevent the construction of a power plant [by a Jewish concern]. They have a right only to that which they have created and to their homes.” (Shabtai Teveth, p. 38)
  
  In other words, the Palestinian people are entitled to no political rights whatsoever, and if they have any rights to begin with, these rights are confined to their places of residence. Ironically, this statement was written when the Palestinian people constituted 85% of Palestine’s population, and owned and operated over 97% of its lands!

• In February 1937, Ben-Gurion was on the brink of a far reaching conclusion, that the Arabs of Palestine were a separate people, distinct from other Arabs and deserving of self-determination. He stated:“The right which the Arabs in Palestine have is one due to the inhabitants of any country . . . because they live here, and not because they are Arabs . . . The Arab inhabitants of Palestine should enjoy all the rights of citizens and all political rights, not only as individuals, but as a national community, just like the Jews.” (Shabtai Teveth, p. 170)
  
• In 1936 (soon after the outbreak of the First Palestinian Intifada), Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary:“The Arabs fear of our power is intensifying, [Arabs] see exactly the opposite of what we see. It doesn’t matter whether or not their view is correct…. They see [Jewish] immigration on a giant scale …. they see the Jews fortify themselves economically .. They see the best lands passing into our hands. They see England identify with Zionism. ….. [Arabs are] fighting dispossession … The fear is not of losing the land, but of losing homeland of the Arab people, which others want to turn it into the homeland of the Jewish people. There is a fundamental conflict. We and they want the same thing: We both want Palestine ….. By our very presence and progress here, [we] have matured the [Arab] movement.”
  (Righteous Victims, p.136)
  
• In 1938, Ben-Gurion also stated against the backdrop of the First Palestinian Intifada:“When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves —- that is ONLY half the truth. As regards our security and life we defend ourselves. . . . But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict, which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves.”
  (Righteous Victims, p. 652)
  
• In 1936, Moshe Sharett spoke in a similar vein:
  
  “Fear is the main factor in [Palestinian] Arab politics. . . . There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews’ entry into Palestine.” (Righteous Victims, p.136)

1946 Map of Palestine – signed by Moshe Dayan.
Note: Sderot did not exist then: it’s just another Israeli Settlement built on Palestinian Land

So if the causes of Zionism had not risen, meaning European anti-Semitism, then Palestinian nationalism might not have evolved into what it is today. It’s worth noting that the Palestinian people, prior to WW I, always identified themselves as being part of “The Great Syria” (Suriyya al-Kubra), however, that drastically changed when Britain intended to turn Palestine into a “Jewish National Home”, see the Balfour Declaration for more details.

This declaration, which was made to the Zionist Movement in 1917, signaled the future dispossession and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people because it did not address their political rights. On the other hand, the declaration recognized the political rights of the “Jewish people” around the world, despite the fact that the Jews in Palestine were under 8% of the total population as of 1914 (Righteous Victims, p. 83). In that respect, Lord Balfour, who was the British Foreign Secretary and a self-professed Christian Zionist, stated in 1919:

“Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-old traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder importance than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 [Palestinian] Arabs who now inhabit the ancient land.” (Righteous Victims, p. 75)

In response to this declaration, the Palestinian people started to collectively oppose the British Mandate, Jewish immigration, and land sales to the Zionist movement.

Rather than dealing directly with the issues, sadly many Israelis and Zionists have chosen to ignore the existence of the Palestinians as a people. It should be emphasized that the hawk of all Israeli hawks, Ariel Sharon, has accepted the existence of a Palestinian state, in principle, in a portion of historic Palestine. Whether Israelis and Zionists like it or not, Palestine now exists as a postal code, international calling code, internet domain name, …etc. in the heart of “Eretz Yisrael“. The 8.5 million Palestinians are not going away, and the sooner Israelis and Zionists understand this simple message, the faster they shall start dealing with core issues of the conflict in a pragmatic way.

Finally, applying such logic is very dangerous since it would eliminate half United Nations’ members overnight. It is simply not just to suppress the political, economic, and civil rights of the Palestinian people by claiming that they never previously had a state, distinct language, and distinct culture. Ironically, the Zionist movement has been encouraging Jews from all corners of the world to emigrate to “Eretz Yisrael”, so that there is no real common denominator between all of these immigrants such as a common language, culture, country of origin, or even a unified interpretation of “who is a Jew”.

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Can We Talk?

On July 7, CNN fired its senior editor of Middle East affairs, Octavia Nasr, after she published a Twitter message saying, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah,” one of the most prominent Lebanese Shiite spiritual leaders who was involved in the founding of the Hezbollah militia. Nasr described him as “one of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.”

I find Nasr’s firing troubling. Yes, she made a mistake. Reporters covering a beat should not be issuing condolences for any of the actors they cover. It undermines their credibility. But we also gain a great deal by having an Arabic-speaking, Lebanese-Christian female journalist covering the Middle East for CNN, and if her only sin in 20 years is a 140-character message about a complex figure like Fadlallah, she deserved some slack. She should have been suspended for a month, but not fired. It’s wrong on several counts.

To begin with, what has gotten into us? One misplaced verb now and within hours you can have a digital lynch mob chasing after you — and your bosses scrambling for cover. A journalist should lose his or her job for misreporting, for misquoting, for fabricating, for plagiarizing, for systemic bias — but not for a message like this one.

What signal are we sending young people? Trim your sails, be politically correct, don’t say anything that will get you flamed by one constituency or another. And if you ever want a job in government, national journalism or as president of Harvard, play it safe and don’t take any intellectual chances that might offend someone. In the age of Google, when everything you say is forever searchable, the future belongs to those who leave no footprints.

Then there is the Middle East angle. If there is one thing that we should have learned from our interventions in Lebanon, Afghanistan and Iraq, it is how few Americans understand these places. We need interpreters alive to their nuances.

I was in Baghdad after the U.S. invasion and met these young Bush appointees who, as Rajiv Chandrasekaran notes in his book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City,” were often chosen because they were 100 percent loyal to Bush, even if they were 100 percent ignorant of Iraq. Their ignorance helped fuel our failure there.

“Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority [in Iraq] said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade,” Chandrasekaran wrote.

I’ve never met Octavia Nasr or Fadlallah. Fadlallah clearly hated Israel, supported attacks on Israelis and opposed the U.S. troops in Lebanon and Iraq. But he also opposed Hezbollah’s choking dogmatism and obedience to Iran; he wanted Lebanon’s Shiites to be independent and modern, and he built a regional following through his social commentaries.

Augustus Richard Norton, of Boston University, a Shiite expert, said this about Fadlallah, whom he knew:

“He argued that women should have equal opportunities to men and be well educated. He even argued that women have a right to hit their husband back because it was not appropriate for a spouse to be beaten by their husbands. He was not afraid to speak about sexuality, and he even once gave [a mosque sermon] about sexual urges and female masturbation. It was common to find young people who followed his writings all over the region.”

Indeed, Nasr later explained that her tweet about Fadlallah was because he took a “contrarian and pioneering stand among Shia clerics on women’s rights.”

Michael Tomasky, the editor of “Democracy: A Journal of Ideas,” pointed out an essay by the liberal secular Shiite Lebanese journalist Hanin Ghaddar — on the Web site Now Lebanon — recalling how Fadlallah intervened with her conservative father to allow her to live alone in Beirut, telling her father in a letter that he “had no right to tell me what to do, as I was an independent and sane and adult woman.”

Ghaddar said she came to understand that “only figures like Fadlallah could change the status quo. People who position themselves as anti-Hezbollah, critics of resistance, or atheists, will rarely be heard within the Shia community, because people will not listen to them. … Fadlallah on the other hand could reach out to the people because he was one of them. … People like him, if strengthened, can bring about real change. He is one of those rare people whom Hezbollah and the Iranian leadership feared … because people liked him and respected him.”

Of course, Fadlallah was not just a social worker. He had some dark side. People at CNN tell me Nasr knew both. But here’s what I know: The Middle East has to change in order to thrive, and that change has to come from within, from change agents who are seen as legitimate and rooted in their own cultures. They may not be America’s cup of tea. But we need to know about them, and understand where our interests converge — not just demonize them all.

That’s why I prefer to get my news from a CNN reporter who can actually explain why thousands of men and women are mourning an aged Shiite cleric — whom we consider nothing more than a terrorist — than a reporter who doesn’t know at all, or worse, doesn’t dare to say.

The Forbidden Reconciliation!

Translated from Arabic: article by M. Seif-El Dawla.

الصلح المحرم

The Forbidden Reconciliation!

Arab leaders are in race these days, under the guidance of the new U.S. administration, to move forward in completing the steps to waive most of Palestine to the Zionists, and the recognition of their so-called state of Israel, in exchange for some form of a Palestine stripped of everything: sovereignty, arms, jurisdiction, the right of return .. etc..

This clearly shows in their propaganda machines in an attempt to create acceptance for such “peace treaty”  by focusing only on peripheral issues such as freezing the building of settlements, without approaching or addressing core issues.

This is the most appropriate time to recall the document an important reference issued by the scholars of Al Azhar in 1956 on the reconciliation with the enemy and cooperation with nations that support it, we publish in full, in the hope that the text of the advisory opinion of Al-Azhar that it is not permissible to make peace with Israel, all of us save, copy, disseminate, and build upon.

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The Committee for Fatwa Al-Azhar Mosque concluded, on Sunday 18 Jumada I 1375 AH corresponding to the first of January 1956 and under his virtue Professor Sheikh Hassanein Makhlouf, a member of a group of senior scientists and Egypt’s Muftis, the former and the membership of their honor, Sheikh Issa Menon member of a group of senior scholars, Sheikh Faculty of Sharia (formerly Shafi doctrine) and Sheikh Mahmoud Shaltout Member of the Senior Ulema (Hanafi doctrine) and Sheikh Mohammed Tneji member of a group of senior scientists and director of preaching and guidance (al-Maliki doctrine) and Sheikh Mohammed Abdul Latif Subki member of a group of senior scientists and the Chief Inspector of Al-Azhar (al-Hanbali doctrine) and the presence of Sheikh Zakaria land the Secretary of the Fatwa Committee .

Considered in the referendum and issued the following advisory opinion the following:

In the name of God the Merciful

Praise be to Allah, and prayers and peace be upon the master of messengers, Muhammad, and his family and companions.

As yet – the Al Azhar Fatwa Committee [Commission] has reviewed a referendum submitted to it on the rule of Islamic law in the conclusion of peace with Israel; a country which usurped Palestine from its people, expelled Palestinians from their homes, and displaced women and children, young and old in the prospects for land, usurped their money, and committed the worst sins in places of worship, historic places and places of the Islamic holy sites -  and the rule of mutual affection and cooperation with the countries of colonialism, which championed and advocated in this aggression and outrage, and gave [Israel] the succor of political and material support to set up a Jewish state in this country in the midst of Islamic countries, disguised by alliances promoted by the colonial States, with goals that enable Israel to stay in the land of Palestine to implement the policy of colonization – and the duty of Muslims towards Palestine and and about the projects that Israel and the colonial powers want to expand their turf and invite immigrants to strengthen its existence, and the strengthening of their jurisdiction, which had a stranglehold on its [Arab] neighbors, and increased threat to them and the preparation of eliminating them.

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According to the Commission, making peace with Israel – as the promoters want it – is not permissible in Islam, because it involves the adoption of the usurper to continue and establish its tyranny, recognition of  the hand of the usurper, and the empowerment of the abuser to remain as the aggressor.

As the heavenly religions are unanimous on the sanctity of what has been illegally and forcefully taken,  and that such rights must be returned to its rightful owners, and urged the owner the right to defend and claim what has been illegally stolen from them. In the Hadith: (One who is killed defending his wealth is a martyr, one who is killed defending his honor is a martyr) and in another: (It’s obligatory that what has been taken by hand to be returned).

It is not permissible for Muslims to reconcile with those Jews who have usurped Palestine, assaulted its people and robbed them of their money [livelihood] in any way nor allow these Jews to establish their own nation in the holy Islamic lands;  they [ Muslims] must cooperate in all different tongues and colors and races and respond by enforcing the return of [Palestine] to its people, and maintaining  the Al-Aqsa Mosque where revelations and prayer of past prophets that God had blessed, and maintaining the monuments and Islamic sites from the hands of these rapists; [these Muslims] must aid the Mujahideen [resistance] with weapons and other forces to establish  Jihad and do what they can, until Palestine is purified from the effects of these tyrants and aggressors.

8:60 Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly.

Whomsoever falters in this issue, or let down/ disappointed Muslims with [faltering], or called for division and distract unification, and empowered the colonial States and Zionism to further implement their plans against the Arabs and Islam,  then such a person in the view of Islam is one who has abandoned Islam and Muslims, becoming the perpetrator of the greatest sins . People know that  Jews have been scheming against Islam and Muslims and their homes, since the time of [Mohammad's] message and until now, and they are determined not to stop the attack on Palestine and the Al Aqsa Mosque, but also have plans to acquire Islamic countries located between the rivers Nile and Euphrates.

And since Muslims are but one indivisible unit to defend Islam and its lands, then it’s obligatory upon them to unite their voice to prevent this danger and to defend the countries of Islam and save it from the hands of rapists; Allah says: “ And hold fast, all together, by the rope which Allah (stretches out for you), and be not divided among yourselves;” and the Almighty also said: “Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur’an: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah. then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme. ” He says: “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah, and those who reject Faith Fight in the cause of Evil: So fight ye against the friends of Satan: feeble indeed is the cunning of Satan.“

As for the cooperation with countries that embolden this oppressive rapists, supplying money and equipment, enabling them to remain in this country [Palestine], it is not religiously permissible, because that is helping this group in its hostility against Islam and their homes. Allah says: “Allah only forbids you, with regard to those who fight you for (your) Faith, and drive you out of your homes, and support (others) in driving you out, from turning to them (for friendship and protection). It is such as turn to them (in these circumstances), that do wrong” Allah also says: “Thou wilt not find any people who believe in Allah and the Last Day, loving those who resist Allah and His Messenger, even though they were their fathers or their sons, or their brothers, or their kindred. For such He has written Faith in their hearts, and strengthened them with a spirit from Himself. And He will admit them to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow, to dwell therein (for ever). Allah will be well pleased with them, and they with Him. They are the Party of Allah. Truly it is the Party of Allah that will achieve Felicity. “

God Almighty collected in one verse all imaginable human motives that ensure relationships, contact and one’s business, which man fears will be depressed -  and warned the faithful of vulnerability in taking the enemies of Islam as allies -  as a reason for  taking the enemies of Islam as allies: “Say: If it be that your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your mates, or your kindred; the wealth that ye have gained; the commerce in which ye fear a decline: or the dwellings in which ye delight – are dearer to you than Allah, or His Messenger, or the striving in His cause;- then wait until Allah brings about His decision: and Allah guides not the rebellious. “

There is no doubt that becoming allies with the enemies will further strengthen their side and ideals, weapons and power: in secret and openly, directly and indirectly. All these things are forbidden for a Muslim regardless of what he may imagine as excuses and justifications.

It is so clear that these alliances advocated by the colonial powers, are working hard to divide and conquer (the Islamic countries) in order to empower themselves in Muslim countries, and further implementation of their policy, are not permissible for any Muslim country to respond to or share in them, because that is the great danger to Islamic countries, especially Palestine, which was delivered by the colonial powers to the Zionist oppressive entity which holds malice for Islam and its people and in order to establish a state in the center of the Islamic countries, to be the example and base for the implementation of a defunct colonial power harmful to Muslims, their money and their homes, and at the same time one of the strongest manifestations of loyalty that is forbidden. God said that: “And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.” The Koran noted that aiding the enemy arises from  disease in the hearts which pushes people to such humiliation. Allah says: “Those in whose hearts is a disease – thou seest how eagerly they run about amongst them, saying: “We do fear lest a change of fortune bring us disaster.” Ah! perhaps Allah will give (thee) victory, or a decision according to His will. Then will they repent of the thoughts which they secretly harboured in their hearts. “

It is equally and religiously prohibited for Muslims to enable Israel which is supported by the colonial powers, and have ensured its protection and survival – the implementation of those projects that are only intended to boom the Jewish state and remain in a life of plenty and fertility  so as to antagonize the Arabs and Islam at the heart of their homes, and spoil the country in corruption, and conspire against the Muslims in their own countries. Muslims must quell with full force such implementation, and stand united in defense of the hands of Islam; in thwarting such plots malignant which have such harmful projects. He who falters from defending [Islamic lands] or aide in the implementation of a negative view of Islam,  has committed a great sin.

And Muslims should follow in the footsteps and approach of the Prophet [Muhammad] peace be upon him, learn from a good example in the position of the people of Mecca and their tyranny in expelling him, along with his companions, God bless them all, from their homes and prevented them from their money or establishing their worship – and further, [the nonbelievers (Meccans)] desecrated the sacred House of Worship [Kaaba] with idols, that Allah commanded him [the Prophet] to prepare and save the Kaaba from the assailants, by applying pressure upon the Meccans and their ways of life unti wars broke out between him and them. God by His grace, made Muslims the victors and liberated Mecca, saved vulnerable men, women and children, and purified the house of God [Kaaba]] from idols and eliminated shirk [multiple gods] and tyranny.

How similar is this with Palestine:  the difference  being that that Mecca was shared with the non-believers, believers and infidels, and a homeland for their companions, while  the land of Palestine,  belongs to Muslims, not Jews. However, God rejected the wrong of the Meccans and returned its control to Muslims:   the Almighty commanded His Prophet, peace be upon him, to fight the aggressors. He says: “And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have Turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first) fight you there; but if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who suppress faith.” Yet God Almighty warned the Muslims to only defend themselves if attacked by saying says: “If then any one transgresses the prohibition against you, Transgress ye likewise against him. But fear Allah, and know that Allah is with those who restrain themselves.“  One of the principles of Islam is to fight all evil that harms the servants [Muslims] and the country. In this case, this aggression did not stop the assault with expulsion of Muslims from their homes and robbed of their money and displaced them from their country, but beyond that, among other things,  did not offer respect for all the heavenly mosques and places of worship. As stated in the verse says:  “ And who is more unjust than he who forbids that in places for the worship of Allah, Allah’s name should be celebrated?-whose zeal is (in fact) to ruin them? It was not fitting that such should themselves enter them except in fear. For them there is nothing but disgrace in this world, and in the world to come, an exceeding torment“

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Having said that, this is the Islamic ruling on the question of Palestine, and likewise on Israel and its  supporters of colonial States and others, in supporting such an aggressor, that it is the duty of Muslims, as alerted by Al Azhar Fatwa Committee, and calls upon Muslims in general that to unite in faith and strengthen their ties in God, to achieve the pride and dignity, and gather to do the right thing God had ordered to preserve the rights of future generations, and the affinity for the True religion.

Burn it: Quran under fire!

Burn a Koran? What If It Were a Torah?

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On Wednesday, the State Department has ordered U.S. embassies around the world to assess their security ahead of the planned weekend demonstration in Florida.

Officials said U.S. diplomatic posts have been instructed to convene “emergency action committees” to determine the potential for protests over the congregation’s plans to burn the Quran to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The posts are to warn American citizens in countries where protests may occur.

Whether he decides to carry out this stunt or not the fact that a person who claims to be a man of God, wants to burn a sacred scripture of another faith is despicable.

“Mr. Terry Jones,”  the pastor of this church believes that the Quran is from Devil and hence the devil should be destroyed. Little does this ignorant Pastor know that he is desecrating and lighting fire and the spirit and essence of the great teachers of humanity, Jesus, Moses and all the other prophets in this process.

This Florida church has only fifty members yet the impact they have created all over the world is immense. Even though we wish our “free press” had not given so much attention to this insignificant group but let this be a teaching moment.

This small band of radical Christians claim that they are the true Christians the same way as those who destroyed the Twin Towers in 2001 claimed that they were true Muslims.

If it’s fame this  Nazi Pastor wanted, he could have called for a BURN A TORAH day!  Did he know that Jews do not accept Jesus as the Messiah? Or are the Jews untouchable because he would be accused of being an anti-Semite?

Jews do not accept Jesus as the messiah because:

1. Jesus did not fulfill the messianic prophecies.
2. Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah.
3. Biblical verses “referring” to Jesus are mistranslations.
4. Jewish belief is based on national revelation. source

The Messiah will become the greatest prophet in history, second only to Moses. (Targum – Isaiah 11:2; Maimonides – Yad Teshuva 9:2)

Interestingly, this ignorant “pastor” will also burn Jesus and references to him in the Quran:

Quran

2:87 We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of apostles; We gave JESUS the son of Mary Clear (Signs) and strengthened him with the holy spirit. Is it that whenever there comes to you an apostle with what ye yourselves desire not, ye are puffed up with pride?- Some ye called impostors, and others ye slay!

2:253 Those apostles We endowed with gifts, some above others: To one of them Allah spoke; others He raised to degrees (of honour); to JESUS the son of Mary We gave clear (Signs), and strengthened him with the holy spirit. If Allah had so willed, succeeding generations would not have fought among each other, after clear (Signs) had come to them, but they (chose) to wrangle, some believing and others rejecting. If Allah had so willed, they would not have fought each other; but Allah Fulfilleth His plan.

3:55 Behold! Allah said: “O JESUS! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make those who follow thee superior to those who reject faith, to the Day of Resurrection: Then shall ye all return unto me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye dispute.

3:59 The similitude of JESUS before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him: “Be”. And he was.

3:45 Behold! the angels said: “O Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ JESUS, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to Allah.

4:171 O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ JESUS the son of Mary was (no more than) an apostle of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His apostles. Say not “Trinity” : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah. Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs.

5:46 And in their footsteps We sent JESUS the son of Mary, confirming the Law that had come before him: We sent him the Gospel: therein was guidance and light, and confirmation of the Law that had come before him: a guidance and an admonition to those who fear Allah.

5:110 Then will Allah say: “O JESUS the son of Mary! Recount My favour to thee and to thy mother. Behold! I strengthened thee with the holy spirit, so that thou didst speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. Behold! I taught thee the Book and Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel and behold! thou makest out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and thou breathest into it and it becometh a bird by My leave, and thou healest those born blind, and the lepers, by My leave. And behold! thou bringest forth the dead by My leave. And behold! I did restrain the Children of Israel from (violence to) thee when thou didst show them the clear Signs, and the unbelievers among them said: ‘This is nothing but evident magic.’

5:114 Said JESUS the son of Mary: “O Allah our Lord! Send us from heaven a table set (with viands), that there may be for us – for the first and the last of us – a solemn festival and a sign from thee; and provide for our sustenance, for thou art the best Sustainer (of our needs).”

43:63 When JESUS came with Clear Signs, he said: “Now have I come to you with Wisdom, and in order to make clear to you some of the (points) on which ye dispute: therefore fear Allah and obey me.

57:27 Then, in their wake, We followed them up with (others of) Our apostles: We sent after them JESUS the son of Mary, and bestowed on him the Gospel; and We ordained in the hearts of those who followed him Compassion and Mercy. But the Monasticism which they invented for themselves, We did not prescribe for them: (We commanded) only the seeking for the Good Pleasure of Allah. but that they did not foster as they should have done. Yet We bestowed, on those among them who believed, their (due) reward, but many of them are rebellious transgressors.

61:14 O ye who believe! Be ye helpers of Allah. As said JESUS the son of Mary to the Disciples, “Who will be my helpers to (the work of) Allah.” Said the disciples, “We are Allah’s helpers!” then a portion of the Children of Israel believed, and a portion disbelieved. But We gave power to those who believed, against their enemies, and they became the ones that prevailed.

Middle East Peace? Never!

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Since when did Israel ever participate in Peace Talks with integrity and genuine interest?

The Israelis openly admit that they build more settlements in order to use such “facts on the grounds” in their negotiations.

In other words, deception is the way of life for the Israeli government. By turning Palestine – or what remains of of it into little enclaves surrounded by tanks and Israeli terrorists and settlements, they want us to believe that they are negotiating for peace.

And the U.S. Administration is as weak as a slaughtered lamb in front of these belligerent, human-rights violators and terrorists! When will we stand up to this country of terrorism and thugs and say: Do as we say or you are on your &^%$ own!”

62 years of Israeli terrorism, peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt… and what is the outcome? More Palestinian lands being stolen, more terror from the skies, the seas and the hills… more expulsions, home demolitions and prisoners.. more tortured children… and you want me to believe that Israel is a democracy? Sure it is: just like Nazi Germany was a democracy!

Clinton and Mitchell have been trying to resolve a dispute over Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank that could derail the talks barely a month after they were started in Washington Sept. 2. While Mitchell reported progress on the issue, there was little sign a solution will be found before Sept. 26, when a 10-month moratorium on housing construction declared by Netanyahu expires.

Abbas, who dined with Clinton at Netanyahu’s home yesterday, has threatened to abandon the talks if construction resumes in West Bank settlements. The Israeli leader has said there has been no change in plans to let the order suspending construction lapse at the end of the month.

ATW

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U.S. servicemen killing for sport in Afghanistan

The American Terrorist Emerges! Again.

From Drew Griffin, CNN Correspondent

Tapes obtained by CNN of interrogations of a group of U.S. servicemen charged with the unprovoked killings of Afghan civilians describe gruesome scenes of cold-blooded murder carried out under the influence of illegal drugs.

The following is a partial transcript of those tapes, between a military investigator and Cpl. Jeremy Morlock, one of the five U.S. soldier charged with the premeditated murder of three Afghan civilians.

“So we met this guy by his compound, so Gibbs walked him out, set him in place, was like standing here,” said Morlock, detailing how, on patrol earlier this year and under the command of his sergeant, Calvin R. Gibbs, he and others took an Afghan man from his home, stood him up and killed him.

“So, he was fully cooperating?” the military investigator asks on the tapes.

“Yeah,” Morlock responds.

Investigator: “Was he armed?”

Morlock: “No, not that we were aware of.”

Investigator: “So, you pulled him out of his place?”

Morlock: “I don’t think he was inside. He was by his little hut area … and Gibbs sent in a couple of people. He sent Rodriguez off a little ways, far side security. As I said, I’m not even sure Rodriguez knew what was going on and them.”

Investigator: “Where did they stand him, next to a wall?”

Morlock: “Yeah, he was kinda next to a wall, so where Gibbs could get behind a wall when the grenade went off and then he kind of placed me and Winfield off over here so we had a clean line of sight for this guy and, you know, he pulled out one of his grenades, an American grenade, popped it, throws the grenade and tells me and Winfield, ‘Alright, wax this guy. Kill this guy, kill this guy.’ “

Investigator: “Did you see him present any weapons? Was he aggressive toward you at all?”

Morlock: “No, not at all. Nothing, he wasn’t a threat.”

The Army alleges that three Afghan civilians were killed between January and May of this year.

Morlock’s civilian attorney, Michael Waddington, did not deny that his client killed for sport. “That’s what it sounds like,” he told CNN.

Waddington said his 22-year-old client was brain-damaged from prior IED attacks, was using prescription drugs and smoking hashish and was under the influence of and in fear of his commanding officer, who is also charged.

A hearing is set for Monday for Morlock, the first of five soldiers charged with the premeditated murder of three Afghan civilians.  The hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington will determine whether the military has enough evidence against him to proceed with a court-martial.

Some background on the case:

Over this summer, 12 U.S. soldiers were charged for a variety of crimes in what military authorities believe was a conspiracy to murder Afghan civilians and cover it up, along with charges they used hashish, mutilated corpses and kept grisly souvenirs.

Five soldiers face murder charges, while seven others are charged with participating in a coverup. All of the men were members of a 2nd Infantry Division brigade operating near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010.

According to the military documents, Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs and four other soldiers were involved in throwing grenades at civilians and then shooting them in separate incidents. Three Afghan men died.

Authorities allege Gibbs kept finger bones, leg bones and a tooth from Afghan corpses. Another soldier, Spc. Michael Gagnon II, allegedly kept a skull from a corpse, according to charging documents. Several soldiers are charged with taking pictures of the corpses, and one – Spc. Corey Moore – with stabbing a corpse.

Five soldiers were originally arrested in June and seven others were charged last month.

The five facing murder charges are Gibbs, of Billings, Montana; Pfc. Andrew Holmes of Boise, Idaho; Winfield, of Cape Coral, Florida; Spc. Michael Wagnon, of Las Vegas, Nevada; and Spc. Jeremy Morlock of Wasilla, Alaska.

The five are from the 5th Stryker Brigade of the 2ID, based out of Fort Lewis, Washington.

In May, CNN reported that the Fort Lewis Stryker Brigade, known as the “5-2,” had been the subject of controversy for months inside Army circles. The unit has suffered some of the highest casualty rates of the war. Several senior U.S. Army officials had told CNN there has been a growing belief inside Army circles the brigade was not embracing McChrystal’s counter-insurgency strategy and was too heavily focused instead on combat operations.

In one of the most comprehensive analyses of the 5-2′s troubled tour in southern Afghanistan, the Army Times reported in January that the brigade commander Col. Harry Tunnell replaced one of his company commanders whose group had suffered high casualties.

But the Army Times, a privately-published newspaper, quoted several soldiers who said that company commander was very popular with the troops, and that the unit’s deep-set troubles and casualties resulted from a lack of training for the type of counter-insurgency warfare now being called for.

“What we’re doing is not working, and we need to go on a different tack,” the Army Times quoted one soldier as saying.

A senior U.S. Army official directly familiar with Stryker operations said the command of the 5-2 has been a concern to the Army for months.

Source: CNN

Freedom of Speech: Why not at work?

It’s amusing that we debate and argue the issues of what constitutes Free Speech. Quran burning, attacking the Quran’s text, attacking the Prophet of Islam, dehumanizing Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, or anyone we don’t understand or “relate” to, will – for the most part – fall under “Free Speech!” Try, on the other hand to express your “Free Speech” right on, say, Judaism: you’re immediately an anti-Semite!

Any of you old enough to remember that at one time, here in the U.S., “Blacks” (African Americans) and “Whites” were segregated? Or that there were signs that did not allow Jews and Dogs in restaurants?

Jews Not Allowed

Has anything changed?

In the work-environment, “Free Speech” is anything but!  Or, why isn’t the following “DON’T's” also considered free speech?

When one wants to bend the rules, one simply renames the issue/ topic to make it “acceptable.”

Enjoy:

Water Cooler Chat

One way to blow off steam and recharge your batteries at work is to chat with co-workers. While talking about topics unrelated to work may seem unproductive, it actually helps to build the relationships that are necessary for good teamwork and workplace morale.

However, it’s important to remember that no matter how comfortable with or friendly toward your co-workers you feel, there are simply some topics that are better suited to Saturday night than Monday morning.

This article explores seven topics that are acceptable, and seven topics that are taboo.

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Water cooler do: Sunday hike

Go ahead and highlight the great hike you took on Sunday morning. Sharing your interests, hobbies, and passions is a good way for co-workers to get to know you.

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Water cooler don’t: Sunday service

Don’t discuss the church service you attended on Sunday morning. Religious preferences should never be discussed at work, and proselytizing is even more off limits.

It’s fine to tell someone what religion you practice if they ask, but don’t go any deeper than that.

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Water cooler do: Book group book

Go ahead and enlighten others about the book you are currently reading in book group.

If you’ve recently found yourself enjoying a real page-turner you can’t put down, other readers at work will definitely appreciate hearing about it.

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Water cooler don’t: Hot button book

Mentioning the book you are currently reading about health care reform, global warming, or some other political hot button, followed by a 10-minute diatribe stating your opinion is not a good subject for conversation.

Nothing gets people worked up like politics. It will be best for you in the long run if your colleagues, bosses, and supervisors, all of whom have an impact on your career, aren’t aware of your leanings.

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Water cooler do: Travel talk

Definitely report on how you spent your recent vacation (without too many boring details).

Whether you traveled somewhere exotic or explored the local scene on a “staycation,” your  co-workers will most likely love to hear about your experiences.

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Water cooler don’t: Pillow talk

Keep to yourself what you and your husband/wife/significant other did in the hotel room.

It’s absolutely verboten to discuss your sex life with co-workers. No one wants to hear about it.

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Water cooler do: Goals and dreams

Sharing your career and life objectives, as well as how you plan to meet them, not only boosts relationships, it can increase your productivity. When you share your goals with someone, your accountability increases.

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Water cooler don’t: Personal finances

Sharing how much money you currently make, or how much money you need to make, is unprofessional. Discussing finances is important, as long as these discussions are between you and your family.

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Water cooler do: Family and friends

Share stories about people you spend your time with outside of work, as long as they are  positive.

Talking about your spouse, significant other, kids, or other people outside of work who are important to you gives insight into who you are, and shows how you spend your time.

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Water cooler don’t: Personal problems

Avoid addressing marital, boyfriend, or other personal problems. There are enough issues to solve in the workplace.

No one needs the added burden of your personal problems. In addition, sharing personal problems indicates a level of familiarity that most co-workers aren’t comfortable with.

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Water cooler do: Restaurant reviews

Do recount the details of the terrific meal you had last night at the new Tapas joint in town.

Sharing experiences that others also enjoy is a great way to connect.

Water cooler don’t: Drunken disorderly

Don’t notify your colleagues about the six shots of tequila that accompanied your meal.

Never share any information that casts you in a negative light, or highlights your bad habits.

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Water cooler do: Good news

Feel free to disclose a co-worker or colleague’s promotion, engagement, new baby, or other good news.

As long as you have the person’s permission, it’s nice to spread joyful, positive news.

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Water cooler don’t: Bad news

Don’t reveal a co-worker or colleague’s medical problems, financial problems, marital problems, or other personal problems.

Sharing negative information portrays you as a gossip, as well as someone who is not trustworthy.

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Keep the chatter cheerful

Chatting with co-workers and colleagues can be a great way to get to know one another, build relationships, and foster teamwork.

Sharing can be good for the work environment, as long as you are aware of what to share!

‘Sexual element’ in Saudi prince’s servant killing

UPDATE: (<<– click link)

Prince Sentenced to 20 Years! Justice Prevails.

The Saudi Royal Family is nothing more than corrupt, degenerate and abusive sub-human beings! Let’s see if the “prince’ will be subject to beheading or stoning as the Saudis do to foreign “commoners” in their country!

BBC

CCTV of Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud and his servant was shown at the Old Bailey

A Saudi prince murdered his servant in an attack which had a “sexual element”, the Old Bailey has heard.

Bandar Abdulaziz, 32, was found beaten and strangled in the Landmark Hotel, Marylebone, central London, on 15 February.

The court was told Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud had carried out several assaults on the victim before he died.

Mr al Saud, 34, admits manslaughter but denies murder and one count of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

The jury has been asked to decide whether he is guilty of manslaughter or murder.

When the body was found the prince claimed his aide had been attacked and robbed three weeks before his death.

But the jury was told Mr al Saud carried out the killing – and injuries including bite marks to Mr Abdulaziz’s face showed the “ferocity of the attack to which he had been subjected”.

The prince has claimed he was “friends and equals” with his servant and denied being gay.

Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said: “The evidence establishes quite conclusively that he is either gay or that he has homosexual tendencies.

“It is clear that his abuse of Bandar was not confined simply to physical beatings.

“There is clear evidence, over and above the bite marks, that there was also a sexual element to his mistreatment of the victim.”

The court heard that the prince and his aide had been staying together at the hotel since 20 January as part of an extended holiday.

Mr Abdulaziz’s body was found with blood on the pillow and the defendant appeared “shocked and upset”, the court heard.

Mr al Saud told police officers they had been drinking in the hotel bar until the early hours of the morning before returning to the room and that when he woke at about 1500 GMT he could not rouse the victim.

The prince had tried to clean up some of the blood and wash some of Mr Abdulaziz’s bloodstained clothing, Mr Laidlaw said.

‘Sexual connotation’

Bloodstains found in the room were “consistent with the victim having been the subject of a series of separate assaults before he was killed”, the jury heard.

Asked by police about the injuries suffered by the victim, Mr al Saud said he had been robbed three weeks earlier on Edgware Road, in central London.

But CCTV footage showed the prince attacking his servant in the lift of the hotel on two separate occasions in previous weeks and kicking him outside a restaurant on the night of his death.

The post-mortem examination showed Mr Abdulaziz had suffered heavy blows to his head and face, leaving his left eye closed and swollen, his lips split and his teeth chipped and broken.

There were also injuries to his neck, ears and internal organs, bleeding to the brain and a rib fracture.

“There were bite marks to his cheeks, which had ‘an obvious sexual connotation,” Mr Laidlaw said.

The case continues.

October 1973: The Myth of the Israeli army Shattered and Destroyed!

Burn in Hell!

 

The Proud days of a victorious Arabs and Muslims against the enemies of Humanity: the Israeli Terror Forces! The 1973 Yom Kippur War was a day Israel was shamed. This continued as we have witnessed, in south Lebanon (mind you, against a few unorganized group called Hizbollah) and later in Gaza against Hamas.

 

 

It shall be done again… when Arabs are committed to their lands and people instead of being puppets to money, pleasures and superpowers!

 

 

Anti-Semitism: It works both ways!

Se·mit·ic  (s-mtk)

adj.

1. Of or relating to the Semites or their languages or cultures.

2. Of, relating to, or constituting a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic language group that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic.

n.

1. The Semitic languages.

2. Any one of the Semitic languages.

The Zionists have successfully manipulated the definitions above to exclude the other groups from this definition. This allowed them to extract the word and its usage exclusively for Jews! This is parallel to the satanic belief that Jews are God’s Chosen people! It’s as if God created Jews and the rest of us were created by… what?

The following pictures and drawings show how Jews and Israelis cry foul when a cartoon for example depicts them as evil: to them, this is anti-Semitic! But when they have signs and graffiti against Arabs and Palestinians, it’s freedom of speech! You wouldn’t dare label a Jew anti-Semitic because then YOU are immediately an anti-Semite! Go figure!!!

The Real Monster of the Middle East!

While it continues its propaganda that Iran is the monster and threat to Middle East peace, Israel silently confiscates and steal more Palestinian lands. And the excuse?

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday condemned an Israeli military order to confiscate 1,000 acres of the Palestinian Al-Jalud village, south of Nablus. The order says that the commander of the Israeli army “believes that this is necessary for military needs, following the special security conditions which prevailed in the area and the need to take steps to prevent terrorist acts.”

The PA said in a statement that “The occupation continues to steal Palestinian land, using ridiculous justifications. The only terrorism in this area comes from Israeli settlers, committing acts of theft and vandalism against Palestinian olive farmers. Israel cannot expect to steal land while talking peace. The Israeli Government should be held accountable by what it does and not by what it says.”

The statement, which was issued by the PA’s Government Media Center, added: “The Israeli authorities should be taking action against their own citizens who regard themselves as above the law, instead of itself stealing Palestinian land. We call on the international community to take serious action to stop the Israeli continuous violation of International law and disregard of International community positions.”

Should we be worried about Iran? Heck no! It’s the barbaric Israeli forces, the Nazis of the 21st century who should be annihilated!

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Former Captain in Israeli Air Force Denounced

Ardent Zionist turns boycott advocate

Yonatan Shapira (Mel Frykberg) Occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) – A former captain in the Israeli Air Force, previously an ardent Zionist who lost many members of his family in the Holocaust, has been labeled a psychopath and denounced by many Israelis for the moral stand he has taken against the Israeli occupation.

Yonatan Shapira, 38, was fired from his job, has been verbally abused in public, subjected to death threats in newspaper talk-back comments, called a traitor by many Israelis, falsely charged with assaulting Israeli security forces, and interrogated by Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet.

While Israel often gets a lot of negative publicity for its brutal treatment of Palestinians and the inherent racism within its society, there is a growing core of Israeli human rights activists who are challenging government policy — and paying a high price for their courage.

Shapira made international headlines recently while on board the Irene, a boat sent by Jews for Justice in an effort to break the siege of Gaza but which was intercepted by Israeli commandos. On board the small boat were a number of Israelis and several Holocaust survivors. “The commandos separated my younger brother Itimar and me away from the other passengers. It was obvious we were being targeted. I was tasered twice on the shoulder and once near the heart area after my life jacket was lifted by the commando to get better access,” Shapira told IPS. After media equipment was confiscated the passengers were taken to a police station in Ashdod where they were interrogated. Shapira was charged with assaulting a commando, despite eyewitnesses disputing this. This was the second time the Israeli activist was charged with assaulting a member of the Israeli forces.

Earlier this year he was targeted by Israeli soldiers while taking part in a protest against land confiscation in the Palestinian village Nabi Saleh near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Video footage refuted the assault claim. What really irked Israel’s security establishment was what came to be known as “The Pilot’s Letter” in 2003.

“We the undersigned are no longer willing to be part of the indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians in the occupied territories. We declare our refusal to participate in what we believe to be illegal and immoral activities.”

Shapira was then a captain in the Israeli Air Force (IAF), a member of Israel’s military elite in a country that hero-worships its military. Together with thirty other pilots Shapira penned a letter which stated, “We the undersigned are no longer willing to be part of the indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians in the occupied territories. We declare our refusal to participate in what we believe to be illegal and immoral activities.” “I had heard about so many acts of brutality and unnecessary killing. But what really brought the situation home to me was the then commander of the IAF Dan Halutz‘s comments on the indiscriminate bombing of a residential building in a densely populated neighborhood of Gaza City in 2002,” recalls Shapira. A one-ton bomb was dropped on a building housing Saleh Shehade, a military commander of the Islamic group Hamas. Fifteen innocent civilians, including many children, were killed, and approximately 150 injured in the attack along with Shehade.

“All I would have felt when the airplane dropped the bomb was a slight tremor of the aircraft,” responded Halutz when asked how he felt about the deaths of so many civilians.

Three months after Shapira signed the “Pilots’ Letter,” his older brother Zohar signed the “Commandos’ Letter” that said much the same as the “Pilots’ Letter.” Zohar was a member of Israel’s elite Sayaret Matkal commando unit. Younger brother Itimar was subsequently imprisoned by the Israeli military during the 2006 Lebanon war for refusing to serve in Lebanon.

“Our opinions changed drastically during the second Palestinian intifada which broke out in 2000 when we witnessed the ongoing criminality and cover-ups by the [Israel army]. My mother became very politically active and now spends a lot of time in the West Bank,” Shapira tells IPS. Shapira’s family has come a long way from its Zionist roots. “My father was a squadron commander in the IAF and took part in Israel’s wars from 1967-1982. I myself used to regret not being born earlier so I could’ve taken part in the War of Independence in 1948 [the establishment of the State of Israel] too.” “Now I believe Israel is a racist state that brutalizes the Palestinians in the occupied territories and discriminates against [Palestinians] within Israel. My friends and I have come to the conclusion that the only way to save Israel from itself is through international support of the boycott, disinvestment and sanctions campaign against Israel,” says Shapira.

“The current government is the most extreme and right-wing Israeli government ever. It is no longer enough to try and change Israel from within. Israel has to be pressured in the same way apartheid South Africa was forced to change.”

He believes the reason for Israel’s sharp swing rightwards in the last few years is Israel’s growing difficulty in portraying itself as the victim in the conflict with the Palestinians. “Israel was established on the basis of victimhood and has continued to use this as a political tool in the face of growing criticism but this is increasingly being questioned.

“Israelis have two choices. To either admit to the injustices committed against the Palestinians and take responsibility for this or to continue to play the role of the victim and become more entrenched in racist behavior,” says Shapira.

Source

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• Israel deports Jewish boat activists (globalnation.inquirer.net)

Boxer or Fiorina: who should California Elect!

I hope we choose Boxer! Not because I like Boxer… I just don’t want to see Fiorina take charge! We’ve seen what she did to HP! She couldn’t run a company. Is she going to run a state?

First of all, do you trust someone with a name of a dish? Whenever I hear the word Fiorina, I’m expecting to be served a Pasta dish.

Secondly, I think the Fiorina’s PR personnel put a Spin on this issue with her hospital visit! Looking for sympathy votes among women? Please!

Thirdly, since when do US Senate candidates need to be vetted by Israel before they can hope to be elected? We see this time an again! This is what Fiorina tried: a visit to Israel – she thought, would guarantee her the Jewish vote? Anyone who kisses-up to a foreign country to appease the local supporters of such country should be expelled from office, running for office or even be in politics.

ISRAEL IS, AND REMAINS, A FOREIGN COUNTRY. With a bizarrely undue amount of sway over US politics, I must add.

More embarrassing to this ignorant woman should be her dabbling with foreign policy! She dared open her big mouth about why we should support Israel: especially “when [Iran] continues to defy the International community, threaten the existence of Israel and build nuclear weapons!”

Really! Fiornia, you belong in a kitchen on a shelf – as a forgotten Pasta dish! What country defied over 60 UN resolutions? It’s Israel!

What country is a threat to Middle East peace and its neighbors?  For 62 years, it was Israel that initiated all – except one – wars with the Arabs. Until this day, Israel holds the largest concentration camp since – and putting Auschwitz to shame! And it is Israel with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons! It almost deployed its nuclear “power” in 1973 (Yom Kippur humiliating War)!  It is also Israel that was found guilty of War Crimes by a Jewish judge! (Goldstone Report).

I’d rather vote for Senator Boxer; the Jewish and current CA Senator who does not need to kiss ass! Although she is a supporter of Israel – and maybe blindly, she’s straight forward and does not go around “begging” for Jewish vote or selling her soul to the devil to succeed.

Related Articles

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Philly BDS: Support The Boycott [Israeli Goods]

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions:

 

A beautiful and Creative way to spread the message about the Apartheid State of Israel and why we should Boycott its products!

ATW

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Explosive Story: literally!

Explosives found in suspicious packages packed powerful punch – CNN

(CNN) — Two packages found abroad that were bound for Jewish organizations in the United States contained a massive amount of explosive material that would have triggered a powerful blast, a source close to the investigation has told CNN.

U.S. officials believe that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, commonly referred to as AQAP, is behind the plot.

President Barack Obama confirmed that the packages — intercepted in the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates — originated in Yemen, the stronghold of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Both packages were bound for the United States, “specifically two places of Jewish worship in Chicago,” Obama said.

While I think any terrorist attack is abhorrent, I personally don’t believe everything we’re told. Sometimes the story just “feels” wrong!

Why? Remember last Christmas?   Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to set off an explosion aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it approached Detroit, Michigan, on December 25…  the Underwear bomber who alluded the toughest security measures? AbdulMutallab is alleged to have been carrying 80 grams of PETN in that botched attack — also believed to be the workings of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Have you ever wondered how such an ignorant uneducated moron did all that? I submit that this moron was anything but: that he was a Mossad implant to keep us, the American people, scared of – and under the mercy of terrorists!  This way, Israel would get Americans to “sympathize” with her and justify their (U.S.) government’s inavsion of yet another “Arabian Peninsula” country! Yemen to be exact.

Funny that a year later we have a similar-type of a story.

But why does Alqaeda send these devices/ bombs to the U.S. and specifically, Jewish places of worship? Is Alqaeda, who we claim to be so sophisticated, dumb enough to think that the whole Jewish congregation would be at the “door” waiting to receive the explosive device? How many did Alqaeda expect to murder? 100? CNN reported that just (6) six grams of PETN is enough to blow a hole in the fuselage of an aircraft.

Alright, and how many grams does a Cell Phone/ Printer/ Toner Cartridge carry?

The source said the two devices found Friday contained multiple times more PETN. The source also said it

Interesting! Multiple Times more? But how much does a cell phone way?

Let’s assume that the Phone is a blackberry: the Blackberry 8100 Pearl GSM Cell Phone weighs 3.1 oz. The 9700 weighs a little more: 4.3 ounces! (I don’t like Blackberry so this is why I selected this phone)!

If the WHOLE phone was made of Explosives, then it would weigh about 85 grams! (3 ounces = approx 85 grams). But we know that the shell and other “stuff” in the phone will still be required to remain in the phone to disguise the explosive, right? So I’ll assume that the explosive was around 1.5 ounce: or about 40 grams.

I Googled PCB Cell Phone and got this: A Nokia PCB is approximately 40 grams – or 1.5 ounces approximately)!

From the picture we see on the right, I’m assuming that the gray material is most likely the explosive. If my assumption is correct, then the explosive is possibly less than an ounce or about, say, 10 grams! So if 6 grams blew a hole in an aircraft, then 10 grams will at best, create double the size of this hole/ damage.

Would it not have been better then to blow up the plane and increase the chances of a killing a larger number of victims (around 400 on a full flight) than to ship to a synagogue were at best – and assuming the device was taken inside the temple where worshipers pray – would murder less than that?

If you analyze the story and claim as I have, you will begin to understand why after years of being lied to by our government (who cannot apprehend Osama Bin Laden still!) I consider this another elaborate lie.

If WordPress (and my blog) is still around in the year 2040, then I hope that new evidence would have been de-classified and we would learn that my post was closer to the truth than CNN or the Saudi’s or UAE claims.

The last puzzle here is this:

Dubai police said explosives in a package set to be shipped on a FedEx cargo plane had been “professionally” loaded in a package and connected via an electric circuit to a mobile phone chip hidden inside a printer.

The Saudi Arabian government gave the United States tracking numbers of the two packages, allowing for quick tracing to the United Kingdom and Dubai.

Why did these governments have all this information yet ALLOWED the packages to be sent?

ATW

Euro-English!

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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”.. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publikenthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”.. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vordskontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

 

 

Beware Sharia Law!

Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips stated this week that Keith Ellison should be voted out of Congress because, among other reasons, he is a Muslim. (He also stated, erroneously, that Ellison was the only Muslim member of Congress.) But now, according to Salon, he’s put up a new post “clarifying” his views.

The erroneous assumptions he makes while “clarifying” are that (a) Islam decrees that people should be killed if they disagree with Muslims, (b) that Islam supports the imposition of a theocracy, and (c) that Islam urges killing Jews and infidels.

I think there’s some projection going on here. “Infidel” was the word that Christian Crusaders used for Muslims, not vice verse. Muslims traditionally have not referred to Christians and Jews as “infidels.” In 1099, Christian Crusaders attacked Jerusalem and killed thousands of “infidels” — i.e., Jewish and Muslim men, women, and children.

Who’s Afraid of Shariah?

by Sumbul Ali-Karamali.

Hasn’t the whole notion of shariah in America gotten a bit out of control? No, it hasn’t — it’s gotten hugely, obscenely, ignorantly out of control. How many of those anti-Islam protesters holding “NO SHARIA LAW” signs (as if anyone were advocating shariah law in the U.S.) actually know what the word means? I’d say, oh, none. Roughly.

Shariah (also spelled shari’ah or sharia or shari’a) is the Arabic word for “the road to the watering place.” In a religious context, it means “the righteous path.” Loosely, it can mean simply, “Islam.”

There are six principles of shariah. They are derived from the Qur’an, which Muslims believe is the word of God. All Islamic religious rules must be in line with these six principles of shariah.

Aha! The six principles must be about killing infidels, veiling women, stoning people for adultery, honor killings and female genital cutting, right? Nope.

Here they are, the six principles of shariah:

1. The right to the protection of life.
2. The right to the protection of family.
3. The right to the protection of education.
4. The right to the protection of religion.
5. The right to the protection of property (access to resources).
6. The right to the protection of human dignity.

Well, bless me, as a pledge-of-allegiance-reciting, California-raised Muslim girl; these six principles sound a lot like those espoused in my very own Constitution of the United States. Except that these were developed over a thousand years ago.

This is the core of shariah — these six principles. The term “shariah law” is a misnomer, because shariah is not law, but a set of principles. To Muslims, it’s the general term for “the way of God.”

But how do we know what the way of God is? Early Muslims looked to the Qur’an and the words of the Prophet Muhammad to figure this out. They filled books of interpretive writings (called fiqh) about how to act in accordance with the way of God. They rarely agreed — the fiqh is not just one rule, but many differing opinions and contradictory rules and scholarly debates.

Sometimes, shariah also refers to the whole body of Islamic texts, which includes the Qur’an, the sayings of the Prophet, and the books of interpretive literature written by medieval Muslim scholars. The first two are considered divine. The interpretive literature, thefiqh, is not.

The fiqh was meant to develop and change according to the time and place — it has internal methodologies for that to happen. It is not static, but flexible. No religion gets to be 1400 years old and the second largest in the world unless it’s flexible and adaptable.
The Qur’an is old. The fiqh books of jurisprudence are old. To modern eyes, they can look just as outdated as other ancient texts, including the Bible and Torah. That’s why, just like the Bible and the Torah, the Islamic texts must be read in their historical context.
Assuming all Muslims follow medieval Islamic rules today is like assuming that all Catholics follow 9th century canon law. Islam, like Christianity, has changed many times over the centuries, and it continues to change. Focusing only on the nutcases who advocate a return to medieval times is ignoring the vast majority of modern Muslims.

For example, stoning for adultery is a punishment that appears in fiqh, as well as early Judaic law. But it does not appear in the Qur’an. In Islam, therefore, stoning was a result of cultural norms imposed on the religious texts. Moreover, in the fiqh, though the punishment for adultery was stoning, adultery was made such a fantastically difficult crime to prove that the punishment was impossible to apply. Historically, stoning was very rarely implemented in the Islamic world, which is ironic, since today the Saudi and Iranian governments apply it as though they’d never heard of the strict Islamic constraints on it.

The vast majority of Muslims today do not believe in stoning people for adultery, and many are working hard to eradicate it. Stoning is horrific and has no place in our world. The miniscule percentage of Muslims who advocate it are imposing the medieval penalty while ignoring all the myriad limitations meant to make it inapplicable.

As for other scary stories attributed to shari’a, like honor killings, veiling of women, and female genital cutting, these are [primitive] cultural practices and not Islamic. They are practiced by non-Muslims of certain cultures as well as Muslims.

Shari’a is a set of religious principles and is not the law of the land anywhere in the world. The 50-some Muslim-majority countries are all constitutional states and nearly all of them have civil codes (many of these based on the French system). Being Muslim does not require a governmental imposition of something called “shari’a law,” any more than being a Christian requires the implementation of “Biblical law” (though there are, of course, a tiny minority of both Christians and Muslims who do advocate such things, including Sarah Palin).

 

As for Islam being a political system, there is nothing in the Qur’an about an “Islamic state,” and the Prophet himself never tried to implement an “Islamic state,” despite hysterical accusations to the contrary. Those under his leadership practiced a variety of religions.

 

Traditionally, in the Islamic world, the institutions that governed were always separate from the institutions that developed religion. In fact, they often checked and balanced one another. Although no civilization has been free from all conflict, every Islamic empire was a multi-religious, multicultural empire, in which religious minorities were governed by their own laws.

The term “Islam as a religion and a state” really only became popular in the 1920s, as a reaction to Western colonization of the Muslim world. In fact, Islam contains plenty of concepts consistent with modern democracy — for example, shura (consultation) and aqd (a contract between the governed and the governing). In other words, Muslims can be perfectly comfortable in America, following state and federal laws.

 

The Qur’an contains many verses advocating religious tolerance, too, though the anti-Islam protesters won’t believe it. The Qur’an says that: God could have made everyone into one people, but elected not to (11:118); God made us into different nations and tribes so that we can learn from one another (49:13); there is no compulsion in religion(2:256); and that we should say, ”to you your religion, to me mine” (109:6).

 

The only verses about fighting in the Qur’an refer specifically to the polytheistic Arab tribes who were trying to kill the Prophet in the 7th century. So the Islamophobes who look in the Qur’an for the fighting verses and assume that these verses refer to them personally are simply being narcissistic. Contrary to counting Jews and Christians as “infidels,” the Qur’an repeatedly commands particular respect of Jews and Christians. It is established in Islam that you don’t need to be Muslim to go to heaven.

Repeating a lie over and over again doesn’t make it true; but it certainly results in people believing the lie. That’s what the Islam-haters are counting on. That, and the ignorance about Islamic tenets.

So the best thing to do is find out what Islam really is about. Talk to a Muslim in person. Read an introduction to Islam (try a fun one like mine). Read Loonwatch to read about the holes in the anti-Islamic rhetoric. Or take a look at the University of Georgia’s informational website on Islam, for some quick answers and further reading. If you read the anti-Islam fear-mongering websites, all you’ll learn will be tall tales.
Bigotry may be a human tendency, but America has never stood for bigotry. I believe in an America that stands for pluralism and multicultural understanding. The hysteria and hate toward Muslims – resulting in several acts of violence against Muslims, such as stabbing and arson – is un-American. We must stop it, and the first step is understanding and education.

Sumbul Ali-Karamali is an attorney with an additional degree in Islamic Law, as well as the author of “The Muslim Next Door: the Qur’an, the Media, and that Veil Thing.”

“I’m On My Way” – to Free Palestine!

 

“We can attach soulful songs to images of Palestinians and give votive offerings,” but when you try to talk about Palestine there is silence. When you talk about the role the U.S. plays in supporting Israel and its military coffers, there is no room for discourse. If you bring up the right of return to land they were forced out of, or mention that over 1400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed in Gaza, there is no room to speak in Jewish centric spaces in this country”  Rx4pabulum (comment)

 

See also Rx4pabulum’s Channel

 

 

Israel continues to Terrorize and Ethnic Cleanse!

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Eviction of Palestinian Family, After a “Legal” Battle, Underlines Tensions Over Jerusalem

By ISABEL KERSHNER
Published: November 23, 2010

JERUSALEM — Israeli police officers evicted a Palestinian family from their home in a predominantly Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, and a group of Jewish settlers [thugs] moved into the property at night.

The episode struck one of the more sensitive nerves in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship at a time of increasing tension and as the Obama administration is working to restart stalled peace negotiations. Such evictions have drawn international condemnation in the past.

but nothing is ever done about that!

The Palestinian family, the Karains, lost a legal battle for ownership of the house. They said it had been sold to settlers illegally and without their knowledge by a relative, Ali Karain, who was a part-owner of the house, and who has since died.

The Israeli courts upheld the sale about six months ago.

Note that Israeli courts always rule in favor of replacing Palestinian families.. this is how they “legally” ethnic cleanse!

After the eviction, family members milled about in the street and on a neighboring rooftop, while Israelis protected by armed police officers went about installing security cameras and sealing the windows and balconies of the building with boards and wire mesh.

“My uncle died almost two years ago,” said Fadi Karain, 21, who is studying to be a teacher at an Israeli college in predominantly Jewish West Jerusalem. “A month after he died, we heard from the bailiffs that the house had been sold.” He said that the new owners were associated with Elad, a group that promotes Jewish settlement in Arab areas of Jerusalem, and particularly in Silwan.

The settler takeover of the Karain house will represent a new point of Jewish settlement in this contested city. The three-story stone building is wedged among other houses on a steep slope in the Farouk section of the Jebel Mukaber neighborhood, with a panoramic view of the Old City, the Aksa Mosque and the golden Dome of the Rock. Those shrines sit atop the plateau revered by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, and by Jews as the Temple Mount.

A stone slab set into the wall of the house is engraved with an image of the Dome of the Rock and the words “Al mulk lillah,” Arabic for “Everything belongs to God.”

The Pride of Palestine: always Arab; always palestinian!

A Jewish volunteer who was helping to prepare the house for its new inhabitants said he was acting out of “Zionism.” Israelis have the right to live and buy property anywhere in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, he said.

Zionism, terrorism, Nazism, barbarism.. all the same!

The issue of Israeli construction in Jewish sections of East Jerusalem has been a source of tension in recent months between Israel, the Palestinians and the United States. Jewish settlers are increasingly moving into predominantly Arab neighborhoods, deepening confusion about the future shape of the city.

Israel annexed East Jerusalem shortly after capturing it and the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war. The annexation was never internationally recognized, and the Palestinians claim the territory as the capital of a future independent state. But many Israelis maintain that Jerusalem belongs entirely to Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently had a sharp exchange with the Obama administration in which his office released a statement defending Jewish construction in Jerusalem, saying, “Jerusalem is not a settlement; Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Israel.” (Never was and Never will be)

In recent years, settlers have evicted Palestinians and taken over several houses in Sheikh Jarrah, a coveted area near the Old City, after the Israeli courts, including the Supreme Court, upheld rulings from the 1970s that the properties had originally belonged to Jews.

Activists of the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity group were in Jebel Mukaber on Tuesday, helping the Karain family remove boxes of food and some last belongings from the house.

The group issued a statement saying that the objective of the new settlement was “without doubt to undercut the rationale of the 2000 Clinton Proposal, namely the division of Jerusalem into two capitals,” referring to an idea put forward by President Bill Clinton.

On the upper edge of Jebel Mukaber, dozens of Jewish families now live in a private Jewish development, Nof Zion, built on land that was purchased by an Israeli developer.

Udi Ragones, a spokesman for Elad, said the Karain home was purchased a few years ago by a foreign-registered company called Lowell.

Mr. Ragones did not acknowledge any direct Elad role in buying the property, but he said that there had been contacts between the group and the purchasers.

But groups like Elad, also known as the City of David, are known to use foreign-registered straw companies to buy properties in East Jerusalem. They say that they have to work discreetly in order to protect the Palestinian sellers whose lives are threatened by other Palestinians who oppose such deals.

The Korean Joke: North attacks South!

The Korean Island of Yeonpyeong, which came under fire on on November 23, 2010 by the North, lies near the Northern Limit Line and only 12 km (7.5 mi) from the North Korean coastline. Because of its location and the rich fishing in nearby waters, it has been a point of tension between the two Korean governments. South Korea has stationed 1000 soldiers on the islands, and two naval skirmishes have occurred nearby, in 1999 and 2002.

Yeonpyeong Island sits just two miles from the so-called northern limit line, a watery extension of the demilitarized zone dividing the Koreas. It was the scene of two deadly sea battles in the past decade.

Visitors to the island are screened at the ferry landing by military police officers searching for North Korean agents. Though the island is just eight miles from the coast of North Korea, its only regular link to the rest of the South is a 66-mile, two-and-a-half-hour ferry ride.

I don’t know what you think.. but this Island doesn’t seem to belong to the South! And is the South provoking the North? Sounds like it!

The South seems almost to be spoiling for a fight. At a recent ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the first of the two previous naval battles here, when the South said it bested the North by sinking 10 of its vessels, Lt. Cmdr. Kwon Young-il vowed that if the North struck again, “we will sink them.”

The United States, which has more than 28,000 troops stationed in South Korea, condemned the attack. In Washington, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called on North Korea to “halt its belligerent action,” and said the U.S. is committed to South Korea’s defense.

What’s really sad is the fact that while this story makes headlines around the world, condemning this “barbaric” attack against a population of 1,600 on this tiny Island, other similar acts across the globe are ignored!

When Israel attacks, shells and destroys Gaza or Palestinian infrastructure, and kills and injures more than the whole population on this South Korean Island, not a single world power warned the terrorist government of Israel to halts its murderous and heinous crimes against humanity and against Palestinians.

Israel shells Palestinian Schools with White Phosphor. Crimes against Humanity are the norm for the Israelis.

 

 

Who should we condemn first? It’s the Israeli NaZionist state of israel!

WikiLeaks: Truth Rewarded by Jail!

 

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denounced the release of classified diplomatic cables as an “attack on the international community”.

Mrs. Clinton also stated:

“This disclosure is not just an attack on America’s foreign policy interests,” she said. It is an attack on the international community: the alliances and partnerships, the conversations and negotiations that safeguard global security and advance economic prosperity.”

 

This is quite bizarre. Global security through murders and killings? Exposing American forces savagery in Iraq is now a threat and/or attack on the international community? Insulting world leaders while schmoozing up to these world dictators, is justified as “partnership? Let me get this straight: Saddam was accused of hiding WMD, invaded a sovereign country next door and was immediately dealt with, toppled, executed and the country is in complete chaos. We “brought Iraq democracy.” Or so we’d like to claim while millions of innocent people including children have been executed by our forces!

Yet, Israel, a terrorist nation of Apartheid and NaZionism continues with its crimes against humanity – and we quickly reward this nation of terrorists and Nazis with more advanced planes and weapons.

Clinton with Mutassim Qaddafi, Libyan Security Adviser. Supporting Dictatorships!

But why are these leaked “secrets” considered a threat to our National Security? Let’s look at some:

As to diplomats’ portrayals of world leaders, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is said to have been described as feckless, vain and ineffective and sharing a close relationship with the “alpha dog”, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is said to be thin-skinned and authoritarian, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel is described as risk-averse.

Corruption in Afghanistan with concerns heightened when a senior official was found to be carrying more than $52m (£33m) in cash on a foreign trip

Meanwhile, Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi always travels with a “voluptuous blonde” Ukrainian nurse, according to one of the cables.

This is such sensitive information! After all, the voluptuous Ukrainian nurse is really another form of WMD! And the $52 million in cash? Secret? I say this is just the type of story I expect to hear on the 7 o’clock news!

Wikileaks has posted only some of the 200 of the 251,287 messages it says it has obtained. However, the entire bundle of cables has been made available to five publications, including the New York Times and the UK’s Guardian newspaper. Will more “secrets” be revealed to the cattle (human race) of the world? If it “serves our foreign policy and national interests,” you bet… and other trash is revealed or leaked to us so that we would think there’s really nothing of value in these leaked secrets!

For example, Wikileaks argues the release of the documents has shed light on the wars, including allegations of torture and reports that suggest 15,000 additional civilian deaths happened in Iraq. We also know that… but the sad truth is that Banning, the one accused of such leaks, is imprisoned… as the news reported this morning (Tuesday November 30, 2010) for releasing a video of American forces in a helicopter, executing Iraqi civilians indiscriminately.  I remember the story well: when it was first reported, we were told that these people were insurgents… then the truth came out briefly and the story quickly buried  and disappeared!

But if another country committed such atrocities, we would be invading them to restore “justice.”

And if an “ally” committed the same atrocities, we praise them for their self-control in not killing more civilians!

This is exactly why Private First Class Bradley Manning is in jail!

 

 

Clooney and Sudan: Trip On Dateline NBC Friday

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NBC says Clooney takes “Dateline” cameras on a fact-finding tour across the war-torn area and speaks with Curry about his experiences working with people who are living in dire poverty and struggling for peace. The special “reveals a side of Clooney outside of Hollywood’s glitz and glamour — a Clooney leveraging his celebrity status to focus international attention on those who need it most, before it’s too late,” NBC says.

 

 

The arrogance!

Why is Clooney interested in this part of the world? Is it justice he’s after? For whom, really?

The show isn’t just about the Sudan, where experts fear there could be more violence when residents there vote on whether or not to secede and form their own country.  “Dateline” also follows the 1979 Augusta HS grad and Oscar winner ”on his whistle-stop tour across the U.S.” with John Predergast — a former Clinton Administration Africa expert who now heads an anti-genocide group called the Enough Project — who also accompanied Clooney and Curry to Southern Sudan. Throughout their U.S. tour, they meet with students, officials, and political leaders in the White House and on Capitol Hill, aiming to bring attention to the problem in Sudan and work to find a peaceful solution, NBC says.

Interesting!

I’m writing this as I watch the show on Dateline right now. What a pathetic attempt to disgrace a country (Sudan) because we (the USA) think that we must label the Northern Sudan as “the Muslim Sudan” and the southern part as “people wanting their freedom!

What?

Why does Clooney and his cattle-like-followers think this must happen: break-up Sudan into North and South. I’ll tell you why and it’s really that simple: the southern part of Sudan is sitting on vast reserves of Oil, in addition to having the Nile run through this part – through which we can control the North and even Egypt!

Oil will make Sudan a richer country with a booming economy. No more poverty and famine – especially in Darfur. But WE (the USA) see it differently. We want to get our hands on this oil in the name of bringing justice and democracy to the southern part and/or people of Sudan. It’s really at their expense.. nothing less!

 

This way, we will keep Sudan (the north) poor and suffering. We will have a rich and prosperous south where we will promote Christianity and democracy… then point our fingers and claim that where Christianity and democracy is one will find prosperity! Sounds good, doesn’t it?

What a hypocritical policy. Clooney, NBC and Dateline are no more than puppets. Ignorant, unjust and despicable.

Strong words? Then answer a simple question. Why are Palestinians being ignored by Clooney (not that they wish for his help or hypocrisy)? Aren’t they living under a brutal Nazi-like occupation by a state that practices terror more than the Sudan? Aren’t its leaders (Israel’s) wanted for War Crimes?

But Palestinians have no oil. So why should we help?

We did however, help the Kuwaitis and liberated them from Saddam, didn’t we? Of course: there’s a lot of Oil in Kuwait. And they are a supposedly Muslim country. Do we like those Muslims and hate those in Sudan (or Palestine)?

Of course we do: we like those who we can benefit from.

Period.

Sharks: No, not lawyers.. Israel’s Mossad!

Foreign Office issues warning to British tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh after German holidaymaker dies in shark attack 

Read more here:

Witnesses told how the woman screamed for help after an oceanic white tip shark tore off her arm and part of her thigh. She is said to have died within minutes. Briton Ellen Barnes frantically swam for the shoreline after describing the water around her turning red with blood. She told The Sun: ‘I have never felt pure terror like that. The water was churning like I was in a washing machine.

‘The shark was thrashing and tearing at this poor woman and I could barely keep my head above the water it was so choppy.

‘And the swimmer was screaming “Help me! Help me!” in English. It was spine-chilling. I just threw myself on to the beach.’

Maybe the caption on the right should read: Jews of Death!

For the strange and sudden appearance of these sharks in Sharm el-Sheikh may only be the result of the barbaric tactics of the filthiest organization on earth, the Mossad. Israel has its own holiday resorts on the Red Sea coast, and Sharm el-Sheikh is popular with its citizens.

The attacks will deal a serious blow to Egypt’s tourist industry.

And that is exactly what the Mossad wanted.

The Israeli Terrorist State is airing a lot of commercials these days to encourage tourism to the NaZionist state.  Apparently these promos aren’t working! So, what’s better than to force tourists to change their minds than by introducing such terror! After all, isn’t that what the Mossad did in Syria and Iraq to force the Jews there to go to Israel?

Meanwhile, Israel has dismissed Egyptian claims that a series of shark attacks in the Red Sea could have been the result of a plot carried out by its foreign un-intelligence agency, Mossad.

Condemning unilateral declarations of a Palestinian state?

This blatant attack on freedom and self-determination, is brought to you by the NaZionist-Ass-Sucking Rep. Howard Berman, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Rep. Berman and Hitler: much in common!

 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” [that] the worst stumbling block to freedom’s advance is the person who “paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s [or woman’s] freedom.”

Rep. Berman’s resolution today, December 15, 2010 seeks to subjugate Palestinian freedom and self-determination to Israel’s indefinite time-line!  As MLK said, “‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’”

It is wrong for Congress to condemn Palestinian attempts to achieve freedom and self-determination.  Congress has no business putting a time-line on Palestinian human rights.

Israel has shown repeatedly that it prefers to colonize Palestinian land, rather than end its illegal 43-year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip and negotiate in good faith to establish an independent Palestinian state.

This resolution paternalistically demands Palestinians “resume direct negotiations with Israel immediately” even while Israel continues to illegally colonize Palestinian land supposedly designated for a future Palestinian state.

This resolution calls on the Administration to meddle in the internal affairs of other countries by opposing the recognition of a Palestinian state by other nations.

Just how do these ignorant NaZionists, AIPAC-ass-suckers even get elected?

What a despicable act… what a disgrace to humanity!

Rep Berman, you have earned your place in history… right next to Hitler!

 

The Most Intolerant Center dares cry “Anti-Semitism!”

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is a staunch supporter of Israel and its Jewish supremacist regime.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center just published what it calls “The Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010!”

The Pot calling the Kettle Black!

Since its founding in 1977, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has grown to become one of the most important and influential Jewish organizations in the world.  Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York, Jerusalem, Paris, Miami, Toronto and Buenos Aires, it reports a membership of more than 300,000 and an annual income of some $30 million.

The Center’s imposing “Museum of Tolerance” in West Los Angeles, which presents a relentlessly Jewish-Zionist version of history, draws some 350,000 visitors each year, including tens of thousands of school children who are brought in busloads. 

Although it calls itself “an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust fostering tolerance and understanding,” the Center in reality is a propaganda agency whose agenda is to further Jewish-Zionist interests.

Other major financial contributors, likewise Jewish, have included Ivan Boesky, who is perhaps best known for his prominent role in a mid-1980s Wall Street insider trading scandal, and Gary Winnick, founder and chairman of Global Crossing, Ltd., who donated $40 million for the Center’s “Museum of Tolerance” in Jerusalem

In its glossy magazine, Response, and in its other propaganda materials, the Center relentlessly conjures up a frightening image of militant, hate-crazed anti-Jewish legions on the march everywhere, determined to eradicate all Jews in a genocidal new “Final Solution.” Its record of exaggerating anti-Jewish sentiment to raise money is no secret. Even the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), another major Jewish-Zionist group, has acknowledged that the Center makes “inaccurate” and “exaggerated claims” about anti-Semitism to raise money. It found, for example, that a Center fund-raising letter is “replete with factual misstatements and exaggerations” about anti-Jewish sentiment in the United States and Europe.

Alright. Enough introduction! You can read the rest here. Then again, I’m sure you get the idea.

So about the list.. funny, but all these remarks seem to be opinions of the speakers. Isn’t this what we call Free Speech? Don’t we look the other way when Muslims are insulted on TV, in the movies and in any other media?  Or is it the Zionism’s hold on the media is as strong as these people did report – and the Center of Intolerance just couldn’t digest these facts?

Here’s the list:(source)

Norman Finkelstein calls the Center the “extortion racket” by Israel and organized Jewry to blackmail billions of dollars from European countries and corporations.  Finkelstein, himself a son of Holocaust survivors, calls the Center “a gang of heartless and immoral crooks, whose hallmark is that they will do anything for a dollar.”

In partnership with politicians who put their own interests ahead of the public good, it both reflects and contributes to the corruption of American political and cultural life.

Remember also that the Center is also behind the insensitive, immoral and total disregard to the Muslim dead in a Muslim cemetery.. where the Center decided it would build its other Zionist Center in Jerusalem! On Muslim Palestinian stolen land… such “tolerance..”

Separate and Unequal: Israel’s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians

Under Discriminatory Policies, Settlers Flourish, Palestinians Suffer

(Jerusalem) – Israeli policies in the West Bank harshly discriminate against Palestinian residents, depriving them of basic necessities while providing lavish amenities for Jewish settlements, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

The report identifies discriminatory practices that have no legitimate security or other justification and calls on Israel, in addition to abiding by its international legal obligation to withdraw the settlements, to end these violations of Palestinians’ rights.

The 166-page report, “Separate and Unequal: Israel’s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” shows that Israel operates a two-tier system for the two populations of the West Bank in the large areas where it exercises exclusive control. The report is based on case studies comparing Israel’s starkly different treatment of settlements and next-door Palestinian communities in these areas. It calls on the US and EU member states and on businesses with operations in settlement areas to avoid supporting Israeli settlement policies that are inherently discriminatory and that violate international law.

“Palestinians face systematic discrimination merely because of their race, ethnicity, and national origin, depriving them of electricity, water, schools, and access to roads, while nearby Jewish settlers enjoy all of these state-provided benefits,” said Carroll Bogert, deputy executive director for external relations at Human Rights Watch. “While Israeli settlements flourish, Palestinians under Israeli control live in a time warp – not just separate, not just unequal, but sometimes even pushed off their lands and out of their homes.”

By making their communities virtually uninhabitable, Israel’s discriminatory policies have frequently had the effect of forcing residents to leave their communities, Human Rights Watch said. According to a June 2009 survey of households in “Area C,” the area covering 60 percent of the West Bank that is under exclusive Israeli control, and East Jerusalem, which Israel unilaterally annexed, some 31 percent of Palestinian residents had been displaced since 2000.

 

Human Rights Watch looked at both Area C and East Jerusalem and found that the two-tier system in effect in both areas provides generous financial benefits and infrastructure support to promote life in Jewish settlements, while deliberately withholding basic services, punishing growth, and imposing harsh conditions on Palestinian communities. Such different treatment on the basis of race, ethnicity, and national origin that is not narrowly tailored to legitimate goals violates the fundamental prohibition against discrimination under human rights law.

Israeli policies control many aspects of the day-to-day life of Palestinians who live in Area C and East Jerusalem. Among the discriminatory burdens imposed on Palestinians that Human Rights Watch found are Israeli practices of expropriating land from Palestinians for settlements and their supporting infrastructure; blocking Palestinians from using roads and reaching agricultural lands; denying access to electricity and water; denying building permits for houses, schools, clinics, and infrastructure; and demolishing homes and even entire communities. Such measures have limited the expansion of Palestinian villages and imposed severe hardships on residents, including leaving them with limited access to medical care.

By contrast, Israeli policies promote and encourage Jewish settlements to expand in Area C and East Jerusalem, often using land and other resources that are effectively unavailable to Palestinians. The Israeli government grants numerous incentives to settlers, including funding for housing, education, and infrastructure, such as special roads. Those benefits have led to the consistent and rapid expansion of settlements, the population of which grew from approximately 241,500 inhabitants in 1992 to roughly 490,000 in 2010, including East Jerusalem.

“While Israeli policy makers are fighting for the ‘natural growth’ of their illegal settlements, they’re strangling historic Palestinian communities, forbidding families from expanding their homes, and making life unlivable,” Bogert said. “The policies surrounding Israel’s settlements are an affront to equality and a major obstacle to ordinary Palestinian life.”

One of the Palestinian communities that Human Rights Watch examines in the report is Jubbet al-Dhib, a village with 160 residents southeast of Bethlehem that dates from 1929. The village is often accessible only by foot because its only connection to a paved road is a rough, 1.5 kilometer-long dirt track. Children from Jubbet al-Dhib must walk to schools in other villages several kilometers away because their own village has no school.

Jubbet al-Dhib lacks electricity despite numerous requests to be connected to the Israeli electric grid, which Israeli authorities have rejected. Israeli authorities also rejected an international donor-funded project that would have provided the village with solar-powered street lights. Any meat or milk in the village must be eaten the same day due to lack of refrigeration; residents often resort to eating preserved foods instead. Villagers depend for light on candles, kerosene lanterns, and, when they can afford to fill it with gasoline, a small generator.

Approximately 350 meters away is the Jewish community of Sde Bar, founded in 1997. It has a paved access road for its population of around 50 people and is connected to Jerusalem by a new, multi-million-dollar highway – the “Lieberman Road” – which bypasses Palestinian cities, towns, and villages, like Jubbet al-Dhib. Sde Bar operates a high school, but Jubbet al-Dhib students may not attend. Settlements are designated closed military areas that may be entered only with special military permits. Residents of Sde Bar have the amenities common to any Israeli town, such as refrigerators and electric lights, which Jubbet al-Dhib villagers can see from their homes at night.

 

“Palestinian children in areas under Israeli control are studying by candlelight while watching the electric lights in settlers’ windows,” Bogert said. “Pretending that depriving Palestinian kids of access to schools or water or electricity has something to do with security is absurd.”

In most cases where Israel has acknowledged differential treatment of Palestinians – such as when it bars them from “settler-only” roads – it has asserted that the measures are necessary to protect Jewish settlers and other Israelis who are subject to periodic attacks by Palestinian armed groups. But no security or other legitimate rationale can explain the vast scale of differential treatment of Palestinians, such as permit denials that effectively prohibit Palestinians from building or repairing homes, schools, roads, and water tanks, Human Rights Watch said.

Moreover, in addressing security concerns, Israel often acts as if all Palestinians pose a security threat by virtue of their race, ethnicity, and national origin, rather than narrowly tailoring restrictions to specific individuals who are shown to pose a threat. The legal prohibition of discrimination prohibits such broad-brush restrictions.

“The world long ago discarded spurious arguments to justify treating one group of people differently from another merely because of their race, ethnicity, or national origin,” Bogert said. “It’s time for Israel to end its policies of discrimination and stop treating Palestinians under its control markedly worse than Jews in the same area.”

Israel’s highest court has ruled that certain measures against Palestinian citizens of Israel were illegal because they were discriminatory. However, Human Rights Watch is not aware that the courts have adjudicated whether any Israeli practice in the West Bank discriminated against Palestinians, although petitioners have raised such claims in a number of cases.

Human Rights Watch said that the blatantly discriminatory practices make it an urgent matter for donor countries to avoid contributing to or being complicit in the violations of international law caused by the settlements. These countries should take meaningful steps encourage the Israeli government to abide by its obligations, Human Rights Watch said.

Human Rights Watch reiterated its recommendation that the United States, which provides US$2.75 billion in aid to Israel annually, should suspend financing to Israel in an amount equivalent to the costs of Israel’s spending in support of settlements, which a 2003 study estimated at $1.4 billion. Similarly, based on numerous reports that US tax-exempt organizations provide substantial contributions to support settlements, the report urges the US to verify that such tax-exemptions are consistent with US obligations to ensure respect for international law, including prohibitions against discrimination.

Human Rights Watch called on the EU, a primary export market for settlement products, to ensure that it does not provide incentives for settlement exports through preferential tariff treatment, and to identify cases where discrimination against Palestinians has contributed to the production of goods. For example, the report documents how crops exported from settlements using water from Israeli-drilled wells have dried up nearby Palestinian wells, limiting Palestinians’ ability to cultivate their own lands and even their access to drinking water.

The report also describes cases in which businesses have contributed to or benefited directly from discrimination against Palestinians, for example through commercial activities on lands that were unlawfully confiscated from Palestinians without compensation for the benefit of settlers. These businesses also benefit from Israeli governmental subsidies, tax abatements, and discriminatory access to infrastructure, permits, and export channels. Human Rights Watch called on businesses to investigate, prevent and mitigate such violations, including ending any operations that cannot be separated from discriminatory Israeli practices.

“Discrimination of the kind practiced daily in the West Bank should be beyond the pale for anyone,” Bogert said. “Foreign governments and businesses at risk of being tainted by Israel’s unlawful practices should identify and end policies and actions that support them.”

Related Link(s): http://www.hrw.org/node/95061

Source: IMEMC

Table of Contents

• Separate and Unequal
• I. Summary
• II. Recommendations
• III. Methodology
• IV. Background
• V. Northern Jordan Valley
• VI. Bethlehem District
• VII. Nablus District
• VIII. Ramallah District
• IX. Jahalin Bedouin and Ma’ale Adumim
• X. East Jerusalem
• XI. Rights to a Home, Adequate Housing and Property
• Appendix: Human Rights Watch Letters to Israeli Authorities and Their Responses
• Acknowledgments

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Politically Correct? No, It is Christmas Stupid!

Who stole Christmas?

Whatever happened to “Merry Christmas?”

On a Jay Leno show last night, the idiotic remark of being “politically correct” was made… that one, therefore, is required to say “Happy Holidays” vs. Merry Christmas!

Pardon me?

But it’s OK to say Happy Hanukkah?

So what is it that we’re celebrating?

Many Christians feel there is an active War on the religious theme of Christmas…

A Pastor [David Bouler of Highland Park Baptist Church] says, “Christmas is about Jesus.” The church sponsors a sign along Interstate 24 that proudly declares “Jesus is the reason for CHRISTmas.”

UTC Religious Studies Professor Charles Lippy says a diversity of cultures and religious beliefs is part of what makes America great. But he says a push to be politically correct, in many cases, may have gone to far…

People try to justify the “Happy Holidays” greeting by reference to Pagan Holidays at such time when exposing one’s religion meant that one would be thrown to the lions. Supposedly, the solution was to co-opt an existing Roman celebration: the winter solstice.  This allowed them to celebrate the birth of their savior under cover of the ancient pagan solstice celebration.

Whatever the justification… why do we greet Jews with Happy Hanukkah? The offensive fact is that Hanukkah does not even fall during the Christmas season. That is to say, since it follows a Hebrew Calendar (which is a lunar calendar), the time of the month would be different every year! As a matter of fact, the Hebrew calendar was manipulated over time. Until the Tannaitic period, the months were set by observation of a new crescent moon, with an additional month added every two or three years to keep Passover in the spring.

Keep Passover in the Spring?

How convenient! It’s like Muslims – who also follow a Lunar Calendar for the Islamic Calendar (Hijri), would then keep Ramadan in Winter (when days are shorter and it’s easier to fast and abstain from food and drink from dawn till sunset).

Don’t be afraid: Go ahead… make their day. Scream:

“Merry Christmas”

It ain’t about Shopping!

Make no mistake – Israelis have always been racist

 

The racist, extreme right wing gets in and fills the vacuum left by the negligent social left.

By Merav Michaeli

 

Among those shocked at the “spread of racism” are people who claim that the residents of the neighborhoods protesting against foreigners are not racist but merely afraid, merely in distress. Indeed, the chief activist in the neighborhood of Kiryat Shalom, Eli Mizrahi, said, “There is no hatred …. We know they are suffering …. I don’t understand: Why is it necessary to make it harder for us, in a place with a weak population? … Why pile weakness on weakness?”

It’s true; the neighborhoods are weak, with weak residents who have a hard time making a living and getting ahead. One can just read the reports on increasing poverty, declining wages and growing nutritional insecurity to know how tangible the distress is; a struggle for survival. Israel neglected these people and communities, and in recent years is only increasing their number.

But the distress does not contradict the racism, it goes hand in hand with it. In its early days, when Israel’s character was taking shape, it determined that the white race was superior. When the people who would eventually become “Mizrahim” arrived and were brought here from North Africa, it wasn’t suggested or made possible for them to take part in the government, the land, the systems of power and the media. Very quickly they became citizens, but second-class citizens subject to humiliation and inferior conditions. They were excluded from public life and official cultural life, living with the knowledge and experience of inferiority. And separation: They were put in separate housing projects and separate neighborhoods.

 

Falasha - Black Jews Protesting!

 

People who grow up with this experience of inferiority, when racism is directed at them, internalize that racism. When a landlord, the master, determines that white is good and black is inferior, you internalize that standard and hate yourself because you are not white. The standard of white superiority and the racism that comes with it become part of you, even when you are its victim.

And then you project your racism onward, to anyone who is darker and more inferior than you. Add to that the existential distress and the inflaming of baser instincts by types like extreme right-wing activist Itamar Ben-Gvir, who don’t miss an opportunity to gather new believers, and you get the recent racist demonstrations.

After all, this is always how it works: The racist, extreme right wing gets in and fills the vacuum left by the negligent social left. But make no mistake – the hatred and racism were always here; now they are emerging more loudly.

The white upper classes sublimate their racism: They employ the people they perceive as inferior; they have the money to pay them (not much ) to clean for them and take care of them. Once it was the Arabs and the Mizrahim, now it’s the “infiltrators” and the foreigners (in fact, upper-class women are the employers, the men don’t even have any contact with them ).

And so this class does just what the white and racist prime minister is doing, inciting against the very things that step on the weakest points of the weak: “a concrete threat to the Jewish and democratic character of the country,” and a “wave threatening Israeli workplaces”. And immediately thereafter, warning Israelis “not to take the law into their own hands and not to hurt the illegal infiltrators” so he can wash his hands of the matter: They are the racists, those baboons, not him.

That’s the way this class is, part of which belongs to the good old “left,” disappointed with the peace process and party to the building of the separation fence, the roads for Jews only and acceptance committees to communities. And in the same breath, they frame the others with the charge of racism, those others from the Hatikva neighborhood and Bat Yam.

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And Israelis wonder why Palestinians want to throw them in the Mediterranean?

Israel forces Palestinians to demolish their own homes

“families were faced with the decision either to demolish their own home and pay a fine of 60,000 shekels (approximately $17,000 US) “or refuse, and watch as soldiers demolish their house and punish them with a fine of 120,000 shekels ($34,000)”

Palestinian women from Lyd sit on top of the rubble of their home after it was destroyed by Israel, December 2010. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills)

These NaZionist scum wonder why Palestinians wanted to throw them into the Sea? Just like Israeli Nazis expel Palestinians now, the day Palestinians will reciprocate and expel these thugs, is not too far! Justice will prevail and the Holy Land will be CLEANSED from the terrorism of the Jewish religion!

EI, December 31, 2010

More than 100 Palestinian protesters and their supporters blocked a main street in the city of Lyd on 28 December, demonstrating against the recent demolition of Palestinian homes and what residents say is a rise in racism and police brutality.

On 13 December, officials with the Israel Lands Administration (ILA), the government agency that manages and leases state land, entered the Palestinian section of the segregated city flanked by bulldozers and hundreds of municipal, riot squad and border police forces. The bulldozers then demolished seven homes all belonging to the Abu Eid family in Lyd.

The demolition, which took several hours, subsequently displaced 67 members of the entire family, including dozens of children, during one of the worst rainstorms of the season. Dozens of other Palestinian homes have been demolished over the years in Lyd, which is a few miles east of Tel Aviv inside the state of Israel.

Lyd is a so-called “mixed city,” as is the neighboring city of Ramle, with significant Palestinian minority [after being the majority before being ethnically cleansed] communities living alongside the Jewish majority. Palestinian residents of these communities have been chronically discriminated against and brutalized by police.

Oren Ziv, a photojournalist with Israeli-based photography collective ActiveStills, witnessed the demolitions of the Abu Eid homes and told The Electronic Intifada that the family knew that the ILA had issued demolition orders against their homes, but they were given no notice of exactly when the destruction would take place.

“During the destruction, I climbed onto the roof of a neighboring house and I saw several bulldozers demolishing the fourth house,” Ziv said. “Many neighbors and a few activists were watching it all happen. I’ve been documenting [home demolitions] for seven years and this was one of the biggest demolitions I’ve ever seen.”

Ziv added that when the bulldozers finished demolishing the seventh house, children were starting to come back from school only to find their homes reduced to rubble.

“People were trying to salvage their papers and belongings from underneath the destroyed homes,” he said. “It was hard to find a solution for the family, especially during the terrible weather. They built a protest tent and a tent camp.”

Ma’an News Agency reported that the homes were among more than 100 in the city “under immediate demolition orders” following a decision in the Israeli parliament to destroy an estimated 4,000 “illegal” housing structures “in a plan said to cost millions of shekels” (“Family takes stock after mass Lod demolition,” 13 December 2010).

The ILA claims that the homes and structures that were demolished, or are facing demolition, were built in an “agricultural” zone, and have therefore denied retroactive building permits to residents of Lyd.

Members of the Abu Eid family told Ma’an that they had “paid rent for decades to a state-owned company to use the land, but [were] only allowed to build up to 100 square meter homes since it was zoned as agricultural … As the family grew, it requested but was declined approval to expand their houses.” After they lost a series of appeals, the family was told by the local court to expect demolitions.

Ziv said that after the destruction, the Abu Eid family placed a banner alongside the tents declaring it the “Abu Eid refugee camp.”

He added that the presence of the Israeli border police, usually designated to areas along checkpoints and during demonstrations in the occupied West Bank, was a stark indication of how the Israeli government views Palestinian communities — whether inside Israel or in the West Bank and Gaza strip.

“In the last few years, Israel has been bringing in the border police to deal with Palestinian communities, or poor communities [in Israel],” he said. “I think it shows where the real borders are inside Israeli society — they’re not where you would expect. Israel brings them to guard the borders between Tel Aviv and Jaffa, and within communities in Lyd.”

Ziv added that Israeli police returned to the area a week later, with the clear intention of destroying the Abu Eid family’s tent camp, but residents and solidarity activists blocked the police forces and prevented the destruction.

Following the 28 December protest, residents and activists in Lyd vowed to stage similar demonstrations on a weekly basis.

Arafat Ismayil, a leader of the popular committee in Dhammash, a Palestinian village beside Lyd that is under constant threat of home demolitions, told EI that the recent activism has strengthened solidarity between his community, Lyd and Ramle.

“What happened in Lyd is the same as what will happen in Dhammash,” Ismayil said. “We feel that the homes that were demolished in Lyd were our homes, and the Abu Eid family are our family too. If we are together in solidarity, hopefully the Israeli government won’t demolish another home. We’re hoping to inspire more activism within our communities.”

Meanwhile, home demolitions continued in the Negev region, and in numerous places around the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Negev

On 29 December, Israeli forces bulldozed several homes belonging to one family in the “unrecognized” Bedouin village of al-Sadir, according to Ma’an News Agency (“Israel continues Negev home demolitions,” 29 December 2010).

More than 80,000 indigenous Palestinian Bedouins live in dozens of so-called “unrecognized villages” in the Negev region, communities that the Israeli government refuses to acknowledge despite the fact that they have existed before the state’s establishment in 1948. People living in such villages are denied social services, including running water and electricity, and face regular home demolitions.

Less than a week earlier, the Bedouin village of al-Araqib was destroyed for the eighth time since July 2010. Arab News reported that Israeli bulldozers returned to al-Araqib on the morning of 23 December, flanked by dozens of police officers who “acted violently” towards villagers who attempted to prevent the destruction of their homes (“Israeli Bedouin village razed for the 8th time,” 24 December 2010).

Police declared the area a “closed military zone” and prevented access to journalists. Afterwards, residents and solidarity activists working with the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, a political representative body for Palestinian citizens of Israel, once again helped rebuild the homes and structures that were destroyed, Arab News reported.

The Jewish National Fund (JNF), an Israeli land institution, has been a driving force behind the destruction of al-Araqib and many other Bedouin communities in the Negev.

The JNF plans to build a forest on the village land, continuing a historic policy of cutting off indigenous populations from their land since Israel’s establishment in 1948.

As The Electronic Intifada has reported, international human rights organizations have openly condemned the repeated destruction of al-Araqib and Israel’s policies of violent dispossession of indigenous populations.

Occupied West Bank

Jerusalem

The Palestine News Network (PNN) reported that Israeli forces destroyed an agricultural storehouse, a gas station and other industrial structures in the village of Hazma, near Jerusalem, on 29 December (“Israel Demolishes Industrial Buildings North of Jerusalem, Settlers Uproot 30 Olive Trees,” 29 December 2010). PNN added that at the same time, Israeli bulldozers razed sections of land in the Sheikh Anbar district near the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.

 

In the at-Tur neighborhood, also on 29 December, Ma’an News Agency reported that several structures were demolished by Jerusalem municipality police as bulldozers uprooted dozens of olive trees ([Arabic only], 29 December 2010.)

Several days earlier, two Palestinian families were forced to demolish their own homes in Sur Bahir village. The families had received demolition orders from Jerusalem Municipality officials three days before, citing “illegal construction” (“Two Palestinian families demolish own homes under municipal orders in Sur Bahir,” SILWANIC, 25 December 2010).

Maryam Iraqi, a member of one of the families, told the Wadi Hilweh Information Center (SILWANIC) that they were forced to destroy the homes themselves, or would face a huge bill if the municipality demolished it. “When they would come to demolish [our home],” Iraqi added, “we would not be able to take the furniture out. The municipality gave us a one-week period in which to destroy our home ourselves.”

SILWANIC added, “The Israeli state does not provide alternative housing or financial compensation to Palestinian families whose homes are ordered to be demolished, going so far as to actually charge families for demolition costs.”

According to Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem are faced with discriminatory housing and building policies, forcing residents to build homes without obtaining building permits — thereby designating the homes as “illegal” and subject to demolition (“East Jerusalem: Policy of discrimination in planning, building and land expropriation“).

In Ras al-Amoud, 13 Palestinians were left homeless after being forced to demolish their own home on 21 December, following a demolition order posted on their door by Israeli police. The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) reported that the families were faced with the decision either to demolish their own home and pay a fine of 60,000 shekels (approximately $17,000 US) “or refuse, and watch as soldiers demolish their house and punish them with a fine of 120,000 shekels ($34,000),” ISM stated. “Soldiers showed up outside with a bulldozer. Finally, on 21 December, they tore down their own house” (“13 homeless after home demolition in Ras al Amoud,” 24 December 2010).

After their home was razed to the ground, the family constructed a few tents with their possessions stacked to one side.

United Nations officials visited areas of occupied East Jerusalem last week, and condemned Israel’s ongoing policies of home demolitions in the city, according to Agence-France Presse (“UN envoys criticize Israel home demolitions,” 23 December 2010). Barbara Shenstone, a field worker with the UN Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), which oversees services for Palestinian refugees, admonished Israel’s policies as “cruel and distressing.”

“While children around the world are enjoying the holiday season in their homes, these children have suffered the trauma and indignity of watching their homes destroyed in the presence of their parents,” Shenstone added.

The day before, Maxwell Gaylard, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories, said that “The government of Israel must take immediate steps to cease demolitions and evictions in the West Bank, including east Jerusalem.”

The United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) released a report documenting the destruction of 49 homes and structures over a one-week period in the West Bank’s “Area C,” which includes East Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley, encompassing nearly 60 percent of the West Bank (“Report: Protection of Civilians,” December 8-14, 2010 [PDF]).

Under the Oslo accords signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the mid-1990s, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were carved up into areas A, B and C, the latter of which indicates full Israeli control. Under the Oslo regulations, Area C, which includes East Jerusalem, is administered and controlled by the Israeli government and its military. Approximately 40,000 Palestinians live in Area C.

 

In its report, UNOCHA said that between 8 and 14 December, 29 buildings, including homes, animal structures and an elementary school, were demolished in Khirbet Tana, near Nablus in the northern West Bank. The demolitions resulted in the displacement of 61 Palestinians, including 13 children. “This is the third time this community has suffered extensive demolitions since 2005,” UNOCHA stated.

The report added that 14 water cisterns were destroyed in the Bedouin communities of Umm ad Daraj, Khashem ad Daraj, both near Hebron, and eight trees were uprooted as four vegetable stalls were destroyed in one area of the Jordan Valley.

In addition, UNRWA released a similar report on 23 December stating that there has been an increase in demolitions in the West Bank including East Jerusalem.

In all of 2010, states the report, “396 Palestinian structures were demolished in East Jerusalem and other areas under full Israeli control in the West Bank. This compares to 275 in the previous year — an increase of almost 45 percent. As a result this year, 561 people have been displaced, including 280 children, and the livelihoods of over 3,000 people have also been affected” (“The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, condemns Jerusalem home demolitions and assists affected families,” 23 December 2010).

Days earlier, leading international human rights advocacy organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a 166-page report documenting the effects of Israeli policies of dispossession and discrimination, and called on Israel “in addition to abiding by its international legal obligation to withdraw the settlements, to end these violations of Palestinians’ rights (“Israel/West Bank: Separate and Unequal,” 19 December 2010).”

HRW stated in its press release on the report that it “looked at both Area C and East Jerusalem and found that the two-tier system in effect in both areas provides generous financial benefits and infrastructure support to promote life in Jewish settlements, while deliberately withholding basic services, punishing growth, and imposing harsh conditions on Palestinian communities.”

“Such different treatment on the basis of race, ethnicity, and national origin that is not narrowly tailored to legitimate goals violates the fundamental prohibition against discrimination under human rights law,” HRW reported.

Al-Baqaa

East of Hebron in the southern West Bank, four commercial structures were destroyed in the of al-Baqaa valley on 20 December, according to the Alternative Information Center (AIC) (“Israel Demolishes 2 East Jerusalem Homes, 4 Hebron District Commercial Centers,” 21 December 2010). Al-Baqaa is near the illegal Israeli settlement colony of Kiryat Arba in Hebron.

In the same report, the AIC stated that Israeli forces destroyed a home in the Numan village, between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, on 21 December.

Settlements expand

As the US-brokered peace talks remain dead in the water, illegal Israeli settlement colonies continue to expand in the West Bank including East Jerusalem.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on 15 December that construction began in a new settlement near the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem (“E. Jerusalem apartment construction begins,” 15 December 2010). Twenty four housing units are being built for students attending a nearby orthodox Jewish yeshiva named after American millionaire Irving Moskowitz, who has bankrolled numerous right-wing settler movements and financed settlements in and around Jerusalem.

In a front-page article in the New York Times, Hagit Ofran of the Israeli settlement watchdog group Peace Now stated that there are 2,000 new housing units currently under construction since the ten-month settlement moratorium officially ended at the end of September, while an additional 13,000 are “in the pipeline” that do not require special government-issued building permits (“After freeze, settlement building booms in the West Bank,” 22 December 2010).

The Palestinian Authority (PA), led by Mahmoud Abbas, drafted a resolution to the United Nations Security Council, demanding that the international body formally declare Israeli settlements to be illegal and call for a halt in construction and expansion, according to the Associated Press (“Palestinians target Israeli settlements in UN resolution,” 29 December 2010).

The PA called the settlements an obstacle to peace, but did not demand sanctions be placed on the Israeli state for its violations of international law. The Associated Press added that the United States, for its part, “has already balked at the resolution and might veto it.”



Another American “Christian Terrorist!”

He’s referred to as “Giffords shooting suspect!”

Imagine. A heinous act of deliberate intent to massacre innocent people is as simple as “the shooter” or “suspected gunman Jared Loughner.”

As of the time of this post, six people, including a 9 year old girl were massacred by this WHITE CHRISTIAN TERRORIST. Earlier on Saturday, and hours before his act of terrorism, Loughner posted on his MySpace account:

 

“Goodbye, Dear friends … Please don’t be mad at me.”

 

On both the MySpace and YouTube web pages, Loughner mentions his concern over literacy rates and the fact that few people speak English. He also talks about his distrust of the government and suggests that anyone can call anyone a terrorist.

“I can’t trust the current government because of fabrications,” Loughner wrote in a YouTube slide presentation. “The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar.”

Ironically, Loughner, who is white and supposedly – and conveniently “religion-less” has not been referred to as Terrorist, Christian Terrorist or any such descriptive name that would associate him with a militant faith or group.

This is always the case with any White American who commits an act of terror!

See Timeline: US gun massacres

Yet, had he been African American, or his name was Abdullah, Mohammed or Ali, he would have been immediately labeled as a terrorist who had some sort of a relationship with Al-Qaeda or Muslim terrorists and so on!

 

 

The Jewish media quickly jumped on the news and cried: Antisemitism!

Jewish media quickly spotted that Hitler’s Mein Kampf is among the “alleged” gunman’s favorite books — an eclectic list that also included Aesop’s Fables.

Giffords is the granddaughter of Akiba Hornstein, the son of a Lithuanian rabbi who in the 1940s moved from New York to Tucson. He later changed his name to Giff Giffords in an effort to avoid anti-Semitism. YnetNews

Giffords, 40, was raised “mixed” by a Christian Scientist mother and Jewish father, but said that after a visit to Israel in 2001, she had decided she was Jewish only. She attended services at a local Reform synagogue. JTA News.

Gifford had once stated:

If you want something done, your best bet is to ask a Jewish woman to do it. Jewish women — by our tradition and by the way we were raised — have an ability to cut through all the reasons why something should, shouldn’t or can’t be done and pull people together to be successful.”

Israeli Jews are really Blasphemous!

Israel destroys East Jerusalem hotel for settlements

Where’s George Clooney now?

Israeli bulldozers have demolished part of a hotel in East Jerusalem to make way for 20 homes for Jewish Nazi settlers.

The destruction of the Shepherd Hotel has angered Palestinians, who want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

And our government says what?

The US called the demolition a “disturbing development”.

Israel says it has a right to build homes in any on any part of the stolen city.

The Jewish Infested Media reports the news as such:

The Shepherd Hotel was built in the 1930s and was once home to Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who became an ally of Adolf Hitler in World War II.

Yet the same report conveniently ignores a piece of history that remains unchallenged: Jews funding Nazis to kill Jews!

The hotel, like most Palestinian property and land, was seized illegally after Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967.

‘Contradicts logic’

“By doing this, Israel has destroyed all the US efforts and ended any possibility of a return to negotiations,” said Nabil Abu Rudeina, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

“Israel has no right to build in any part of East Jerusalem, or any part of the Palestinian land occupied in 1967.”

I’ll add: Israelis have no right to build anywhere Palestine. Period!

Attempts by the US to revive peace negotiations stalled last year, after Israel refused to end settlement building on occupied Palestinian land.

In a statement, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the demolition “undermines peace efforts to achieve the two state-solution”.

“In particular, this move contradicts the logic of a reasonable and necessary agreement between the parties on the status of Jerusalem,” she said.

Wow! Mrs. Clinton. Such strong words against NaZionism, Apartheid and terrorism! Please, restrain yourself!

I wonder what Mr. George Fuc*&^ Clooney thinks of THIS injustice? Or is he worried about what just might happen to his movie career if he even uttered a word against the barbarian Jews of Israel?

Nearly 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Not to worry, just a few more barbarians to later deport back to the ghettos of Europe! [note that this statement was changed since some readers found the original text was in distaste. I do "listen" to readers comments and have no issue, when I think it's warranted, in removing or changing distasteful words].

The settlements are considered illegal under international law.

Tunisians Revolt: Egyptians, Jordanians are you Next?

Update: Egypt protests; Three reported dead in ‘day of revolt’

Update:

Ben Ali clan fled Tunisia with 1.5 tonnes of gold

(And the Saudis welcomed him? This man should be hung by the testicles!)

PARIS – RELATIVES of the ousted Tunisian leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are thought to have fled the country with 1.5 tonnes in gold, Le Monde reported Monday, citing French intelligence sources.

At Monday’s prices 1.5 tonnes in gold would fetch $65 million dollars (S$83.7 million on the open market.

According to Le Monde, President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office has been briefed by French intelligence that Leila Trabelsi, Ben Ali’s second wife, withdrew gold ingots from the Tunisian central bank last week.

The governor initially resisted her request, but backed down under pressure from Ben Ali himself, the report said.

Ben Ali and Leila have now fled Tunisia, under pressure from an unprecedented wave of street protests and amid anger that their family is accused of looting the country’s resources. — AFP

Tunisians drive leader from power in mass uprising

GAME OVER!

Bravo Tunisia! More power to you. You’ve had enough: enough torture, corruption, dictatorship and God only knows what else. Freedom is here. Finally! Celebrate, cherish and establish JUSTICE.

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We wish you success! We wish you Justice. We wish you prosperity. Tough times are over.

EGYPT, JORDAN, LIBYA, MOROCCO… etc., TAKE NOTICE!

Your dictators have been there too damn long! Time to expel them. Protect your interests first so that they don’t steal more of your countries and the people’s resources!

Palestinians:

You’re already doing it. Soon, you will expel this Zionist venom and disease from the Middle East!

Tunisia unrest a wake-up call for the region

Vultures: “the poor bird;” Israel is “concerned”

“I hope they release the poor thing.”

A “concerned” bird specialist at Israel’s Park and Nature Authority

 

Saudi Arabia ‘detains’ Israeli vulture for spying

Saudi Arabian officials have “detained” a vulture on accusations of being a spy for Israel, media reports say. [source]

The griffon vulture was carrying a GPS transmitter bearing the name of Tel Aviv University, prompting rumours it was part of a Zionist plot.

Israeli wildlife officials dismissed the claims as ludicrous and expressed concern about the bird’s fate.

Last month, Egyptian officials implied the Israeli spy agency Mossad was to blame for shark attacks off its coast.

The vulture, which can have a wing span of up to 265cm (8ft 8in), was caught after it landed in the desert city of Hyaal a few days ago.

When locals discovered the GPS transmitter, they suspected the worst and handed it over to the security forces, said Israel’s Ma’ariv newspaper.

“The device does nothing more than receive and store basic data about the bird’s whereabouts, and about his altitude and speed,” a bird specialist at Israel’s Park and Nature Authority told the newspaper.

Right! And our cell phones cannot be spied on by Government agencies even when not in use!

Conspiracy theories quickly began circulating in Saudi newspapers and on websites that the bird was involved in espionage.

‘Terrible price’

Israeli officials told Ma’ariv they were “stunned” by the allegations and concerned that the bird could meet a horrible punishment in the notoriously severe Saudi justice system.

Now that’s a first: Israelis are concerned more about Vultures than they are about human lives! This explains why Israel continues to commit atrocities against Palestinians and think nothing of it. Ethnic cleansing, children held in Israel’s prisons, families prevented from visiting, checkpoints and the dehumanization of Palestinians must be an acceptable practice in Israel’s equally – if not more, notoriously inhumane ” justice” system!

 

The data would be used to improve understanding of the endangered species’ behaviour.

“Now, this poor bird is paying a terrible price. That’s very sad,” said the unnamed expert.

“I hope they release the poor thing.”

I hope your heart starts beating!

Dutch Democracy: under threat from Israel lobby

David Cronin

Since I first came here to Amsterdam in 1998, I have been in the Netherlands on many occasions and have always enjoyed myself. While I intend to continue visiting this country, I have realised that I need to reassess some of my assumptions about it. 

Until recently, I was under the impression that the Netherlands was a democracy, in which freedom of expression was regarded as sacrosanct. Then I read some comments attributed to your foreign minister Uri Rosenthal.

The minister is putting pressure on the Dutch anti-poverty organisation ICCO to cease funding The Electronic Intifada, an excellent website that consistently defends the rights of the Palestinian people. Rosenthal has indicated that he cannot tolerate how ICCO supports this website, given that the Dutch government is a strong supporter of Israel. He has threatened to withdraw Dutch state grants to ICCO, telling the organisation: “It is alright to be critical but not to directly oppose the government”.

Rosenthal’s comments about The Electronic Intifada follow a report by a Zionist lobby group called NGO Monitor. This group accused The Electronic Intifada of being anti-Semitic without providing any evidence to back up its claims. Sadly, this is a typical tactic of the pro-Israel lobby. As soon as somebody tells the truth about Israel being an apartheid state and a vicious colonial project, it is only a matter of time before the lobby will label him or her an anti-Semite. This is a deliberate move designed to muzzle debate. 

When Rosenthal says “it is alright to be critical but not to directly oppose the government”, we need to ask exactly what he means.

I am proud to be a contributor to The Electronic Intifada because I know that it defends the core human values enshrined in international law. It fearlessly exposes how international law is violated by such activities as the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the merciless blockade of Gaza.

Can somebody please explain to me how one Dutch organisation can be treated as a charity, when it supports violations of international law? But when another Dutch organisation – such as ICCO – defends international law, the government threatens to punish it. Where is the justice here?

Is it no longer acceptable in the Netherlands to defend international law?

 

Rather than becoming so exercised about The Electronic Intifada, I would urge Rosenthal and his government colleagues to investigate those Dutch organisations that facilitate abuses of international law.
Perhaps, for example, they could take a trip to the Israel Centre in Nijkerk, which is run by Christians for Israel. I visited this centre myself last summer and discovered how its shop sells many products manufactured by companies who are active in illegal Israeli settlements. These included cosmetics from Ahava, a firm based in the West Bank settlement of Mitzpe Shalem.

Perhaps, too, the Dutch government could examine the activities of the Sar-El Foundation, one of several organisations here in the Netherlands dedicated to supporting the Israeli army. Max Arpels Lezer, the chairman of this foundation, has boasted of how Dutch volunteers who take part in training exercises with the Israeli army “help the battle against the Palestinians” as if helping the oppression of an entire people is something admirable.

For some bizarre reason, the Sar-El Foundation is considered to be a charity. Donations to the foundation are, therefore, tax deductible. This is despite how the Israeli army that it supports has committed crimes against humanity, according to the United Nations investigation led by the retired South African judge Richard Goldstone into Israel’s attacks on Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009.

Can somebody please explain to me how one Dutch organisation can be treated as a charity, when it supports violations of international law? But when another Dutch organisation – such as ICCO – defends international law, the government threatens to punish it. Where is the justice here?

Late last year a very interesting diplomatic cable from the American embassy in The Hague was released by the website WikiLeaks. Drafted by Clifford Sobel, as he was preparing to step down as ambassador to the Netherlands in 2005, the cable states that Britain and the Netherlands are America’s most trusted allies in western Europe. The cable commends Dutch diplomats for being willing to act as America’s “eyes and ears” in the countries where they are posted and describes the Dutch as “go-to-guys” when the US is seeking a mediator to resolve internal disputes in NATO.

Among the similarities between The Netherlands and the US are that both governments consistently accommodate Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. Some veteran observers of the Israel-Palestine conflict to whom I have spoken have gone so far as to name The Netherlands as Israel’s most steadfast supporter in Western Europe.

Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch foreign minister until last year, proved especially amenable to Israeli propaganda.

During 2008 and 2009, Verhagen blamed the violence in Gaza entirely on Hamas. In doing so, he ignored how Hamas observed an Egyptian-brokered truce with Israel between June and November 2008. It was Israel which resumed the cycle of violence by attacking Gaza on 4 November that year, a day when the world was preoccupied with the election of a new American president.

Almost all of the victims of Operation Cast Lead, the three-week bombardment of Gaza that Israel launched in late December 2008, were Palestinians. In total, 1,387 Palestinians were killed. Almost 800 of these took no part in the hostilities, according to investigations by human rights monitors. These included 320 children.

By contrast, nine Israelis were killed during the violence. Six of them were Israeli soldiers, three were non-combatants.

If gestures of solidarity were required in early 2009, then surely it was the people of Gaza who required them most. Verhagen decided instead to express his solidarity with Israel. In January 2009, he travelled to Sderot in southern Israel, where he voiced concern about the rockets being fired by Hamas. If he had extended his trip by a few kilometres and ventured into Gaza, Verhagen would have witnessed far worse suffering caused by far more lethal weapons. But he refused to visit Gaza, showing no interest in seeing first-hand what was happening.

Could this be the same Maxime Verhagen who had previously presented a strategy paper to the Dutch parliament officially aimed at giving human rights a central role in his country’s foreign policy? Could it be the same Maxime Verhagen who stated in 2008 that “human rights apply to all people, in all places and at all times”?

I have a question for Verhagen and for other Dutch politicians today. Why do the human rights you claim to champion not apply to the Palestinian people?

·Excerpt from a presentation given in the ABC Treehouse, Amsterdam, 15 January 2011. Thanks to the Netherlands Palestine Committee for organising the event.

Posted by David Cronin at 12:26 AM

Labels: Ahava, Amsterdam, Christians for Israel, Electronic Intifada, Hamas, ICCO, Israel lobby, Maxime Verhagen, Sar-El Foundation, Uri Rosenthal

Tunisia’s Uprising: the “Reverbaration!”

Update:

Egypt protests: Three reported dead in ‘day of revolt’

more here

And Egypt’s Foreign Minister said “It won’t happen here..”

 

It’s been just two days since the people of Tunis forced a heathen-dictator out and became free. This is the first dictatorship in the Middle East that has evaporated. This is the first chance ever for a real and first democracy to descend upon the Middle East and North Africa.

Every Arab leader – and the Israeli War Criminal Netanyahu – has watched Tunisia‘s revolt in fear while citizens across the Arab world watch in solidarity, elated at that rarity: open revolution.

Egypt, Jordan, Algeria and Morocco are seen as the other countries most likely to face serious popular unrest over unemployment, corruption and hopelessness, though social, political and economic conditions vary considerably between them. [Guardian]

Libya

Dictators – and frankly morons – like Gaddafi of Libya, condemned the Tunisian uprising; he had to open his mouth making such ridiculous comments that “Tunisians rushed into this.. and that the deposed dictator was “the best Tunisian to have ever ruled Tunisia..”[source]

Today – January 16, 2011, Libyans are about to do the same – and hopefully, topple this old senile and arrogant so-called leader as they pretty much make the same demands.

Jordan

Thousands of Jordanians have taken to the streets. While we still hope to see them topple their corrupt dictator-King, they have demanded an end to corruption and demonstrated in front of the Jordanian Parliament and shouting anti-government slogans. It’s a start. (source Aljazeera)

"No to Corruption.. YES to holding the Corrupt Accountable"

Egypt

Egypt’s idiotic foreign minister claimed that what happened in Tunisia will not be repeated in Egypt!He accused foreign media to be instigating chaos and

Abu Algait, Egypt's Foreign Minister dared to share his "wisdom"

I don’t know what Zodiac influence he’s under, but I am willing to bet a dollar that Egypt will be next, followed by Jordan. Source

Algeria

A young and unemployed man set himself afire today following in the footsteps of the young Tunisian who later died of his burns. Source

Yemen

The people here have warned the government to take notice of what happened in Tunisia and warned against adjusting the country’s constitution to extend the current dictator’s term!

Israel and Palestine

While the protests may not be related to the Tunisian uprising, thousands of Israelis rallied in defence of human and civil rights alongside Palestinians.

Under the banner of the “Democratic Camp”, a coalition of organisations and prominent individuals, the marchers heard speakers lambast the Israeli government, singling out the rightwing foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, who is seen as threatening Israel‘s democracy.

Source

Lebanon

Saad Hariri faced calls to remain in exile after 11 Hezbollah ministers quit, causing his government to collapse. Anything to do with Tunisia? You be the judge: the timing suggests that it may just be!

Hariri said today that the crisis, Lebanon’s worst in nearly three years, would not be solved without further mediation from Saudi Arabia and Syria, the two parties in a failed deal that was supposed to help end months of political paralysis.

Happy New Year. We’re off to a fantastic start!

Freedom and True Democracy coming to a country near you!

ATW

Quest for Freedom

Pictures Paint a Complete History of an Oppressed Peaceful People: The Palestinians.

Then NaZionism arrived, duplicating massacres from which they escaped, creating:

The New Holocaust!

against Palestinians!

Meanwhile…

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday (January 20, 2011) expressed opposition to a draft U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity. The proposed resolution was introduced Wednesday and has broad support on the council.

Clinton, for now, is stopping short of threatening a U.S. veto of the resolution if it comes to a vote in the Security Council.

But she says the only viable way to get a two-state settlement of the Middle East conflict is through the face-to-face talks the United States has been trying to broker.

And how long has the US been brokering Peace? The Nazi Israelis continue stealing Palestinian lands and property, ethnic cleanse and commit atrocious massacres against men, women and children! And Ms. Clinton thinks that the “conflict” can be resolved with face-to-face talks?

How long has the INF (Israeli Nazi Forces) been promising to “talk?”  10 years? 20 years? Try 62!

Yet, we rushed to Sudan to encourage and lead the Separation of people and create a new independent homeland for the southern Sudanese.

Why, Mrs. Clinton, wouldn’t you support the Palestinians with the same?

I’ll tell you why: you suck Israeli-Jewish butt!

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The Palestine Papers: why Now?

Over the last several months, Al Jazeera has been given unhindered access to the largest-ever leak of confidential documents related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are nearly 1,700 files, thousands of pages of diplomatic correspondence detailing the inner workings of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. These documents – memos, e-mails, maps, minutes from private meetings, accounts of high level exchanges, strategy papers and even power point presentations – date from 1999 to 2010.

 

Notice the area outlined with RED lines, including the famous Armenian and Jewish Quarters. This is almost half of East Jerusalem that the Traitors of the so-called PA wanted to give away! This would place the militant NaZionists right at the walls of the Al Aqsa Grounds so that they could  carry on more terror and destruction of Islam’s second Holiest Site.

 

By now..

…you have surely read ample reports on the Palestine Papers and formed an opinion. Regardless, I will include it again towards the end of this post.

For now, I want to address the Los Angeles Times irresponsible report on this issue – as quoted by the Guardian here.

Here’s Edmund Sanders, Jerusalem bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, who can barely keep himself awake while reading them:

The documents so far haven’t revealed anything that someone moderately familiar with the Mideast hasn’t already heard.

Neither side is shown offering anything very fresh or sweeping, though it appeared the talks were serious, detailed and respectful.

“Old news” is also the standard response of a journalist who has been scooped.

I posted a comment on the LA Times site – that I doubt will be approved. Here’s what I submitted:

The LA Times, surprisingly, comes across as ignorant as third-world countries’ media!

It’s easy to claim that “Palestinians so far don’t really seem to have anything to be ashamed of in the leaks from the 2008 talks. Despite the spin by Al-Jazeera and critics of the Palestinian Authority, the documents released don’t show Palestinian negotiators giving away the store. “

It’s responsible journalism to have actually watched the almost 2 hour segment about this issue and learned the facts first hand.

I watched the whole program on Aljazeera. The so-called Chief Negotiator, Mr. Erekat, was visibly upset, shaken and flustered. He couldn’t even make a single credible point that would allow the viewer to suspect what Aljazeera had reported.

This is further confirmed by the old rumors that the so-called PA is simply interested in looking like an ally to the U.S.  Of course, as we have supported dictators in the past while at the same time cry out for democracy in the Middle East, we are as arrogant and hypocritical as are the dictators we supported. Look what happened in Tunisia. It’s also happening in Algeria, Yemen and soon maybe in Egypt and Jordan.. all ruled by the dictators we call allies. And when they are ousted, then we extend our “measured and calculated” support to people seeking democracy.

Yet when it’s about Palestinians, our media is quite arrogant in its reporting. You seem to support the PA giving away the store because it’s in Israel’s interests.   Israel, a country founded on – and one who introduced terrorism, ethnic cleansing and daily massacres, land annexation and defying over 60 UN resolutions is now “rightfully” claiming the settlements as part of Jerusalem?

International Laws do not allow an occupying power to annex any part of occupied territories. We went to war with Saddam when he invaded and tried to annex Kuwait. We rushed to help Sudan split up and give the southern Sudanese independence. Yet, we always side with Israel regardless of its war crimes against humanity and repeat whatever the Israeli Occupation Forces want us to repeat.

A great deal for Palestinians? What an irresponsible claim. A great deal for Palestinians would be to offer them the same justice we offered Kuwait and Sudan. A great deal for Palestinians is for Israel to be forced back to 1967 borders and live and let live. It’s bad enough that they [Palestinians] have lost a whole country: now you want them to have a divided East Jerusalem surrounded by militant Israeli settlers?

Here’s the MAP the so-called Palestinian Authority was ready to accept:

Annexing more Arab Lands while returning nothing

Annexing East Jerusalem lands to surround Palestinians

In return? What do Palestinians get? Absolutely nothing! As stated above, the Israeli Occupation Forces have no claim or any rights whatsoever in post 1967 occupied territories. I personally believe, like Orthodox Jews from the Naturei Karta, believe that Israel has no claim or right in Palestine. Period.

"Yessir.. these idiots will do whatever we demand"

The Palestine Papers

The material is voluminous and detailed; it provides an unprecedented look inside the continuing negotiations involving high-level American, Israeli, and Palestinian Authority officials.

Al Jazeera will release the documents between January 23-26th, 2011. They will reveal new details about:

• the Palestinian Authority’s willingness to concede illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem, and to be “creative” about the status of the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount;
• the compromises the Palestinian Authority was prepared to make on refugees and the right of return;
• details of the PA’s security cooperation with Israel;
• and private exchanges between Palestinian and American negotiators in late 2009, when the Goldstone Report was being discussed at the United Nations.

Because of the sensitive nature of these documents, Al Jazeera will not reveal the source(s) or detail how they came into our possession. We have taken great care over an extended period of time to assure ourselves of their authenticity.

We believe this material will prove to be of inestimable value to journalists, scholars, historians, policymakers and the general public. More..

I don’t doubt the validity of the so-called Palestine papers.   The top scum-so-called four “leadership,” claiming to represent the Palestinian people and their interests, have just shocked the  world in general and the Palestinians in particular, with their treason, corruption, lies, deception and their readiness to play in the world political arena simply because they enjoy the world of politics: sex, lies and videotapes. So-to-speak!

A simple fact evident by Mr. Abbas’ chauffeured car: yes, the latest-style Mercedes… the man who’s “people” are unemployed, starving, are humiliated by the Israeli Nazi Forces daily, imprisoned, ethnic cleansed, massacred… you get the picture… and the SOB is chauffeured around in a brand-new Mercedes!

To continue the lavish lives and life-style, at the expense of Palestinians, the degenerate four (including and) around Abbas: Saeb Erikat,  Ahmed Qureia,  Yaser Abdrabu and Salam Fayyad, were prepared to kiss Israel’s ass in exchange for a few million by and from the U.S.  This is in addition to the biggest traitor of them all: Dahlan.

Dahlan actively collaborated with Israel against the Palestinian resistance groups under the rubric of carrying out official policy. He co-planned and co-plotted and connived with Israel against Hamas. In Gaza, he commandeered the notorious death squads to liquidate people he deemed hostile or non-conformist.

 

 

The question remains: why now?

Is this an Israeli leak timed just right so that the U.S. (Clinton’s) opposition to Palestinians bid for a UN resolution would simply collapse without having to be embarrassed in front of the whole world by Vetoing the resolution?

See:  Clinton opposes Palestinian bid for UN resolution

See: Clinton Opposes Palestinian UN Move on Settlements

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday expressed opposition to a draft U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity. The proposed resolution was introduced Wednesday and has broad support on the council.

to be continued…

 

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The New United States..

..of Arabia!

Are we on the threshold of an historic and explosive change? I never thought this day would come but here it is, happening before our very own eyes.

I see a new world and country emerging: The United States of Arabia!

Far fetched? I don’t think so. History repeats itself and we will, God Willing see a Democratic, Just and Economically sound United States of Arabia.

The New USA is being created as the Arab world finally explodes against corruption, tyranny and Pharaoh-like Dictators who defied the Creator Himself.

Today the Arab world is erupting!

“Enough,” said the people!

Mubarak, Gaddafi, Abdullah, Assad and the rest of you puppets.. pack your bags and disappear before you are arrested and hanged in front of the masses you have oppressed and humiliated long enough!

Meanwhile, Aljazeera reports:

US urges Egyptian government not to prevent peaceful protests or block social networking sites…

Just days ago the US considered Tunisia and the Egyptian governments “allies!”

Ripple protests could topple U.S. allies – CNN

Tunisia has brought a blast of reality to Mideast politics. Aging autocrats have been put on notice they can no longer count on docile citizens.

But is an era of unrest approaching? Will the winds of change sweep east along the Maghreb and bring down regimes from North Africa to the Levant and even the Arabian Peninsula?

Beyond doubt, those winds are blowing. Across the region they are being driven by the same social and economic factors, including high unemployment, a booming birth rate, and exploding food prices.

More than 500 demonstrators have been arrested as thousands return to streets in Egypt to protest over poverty and political repression.

A New Map is in the making!

What a beautiful year 2011 is turning out to be!

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• U.S. urges restraint in Egypt, says government stable – Reuters (news.google.com)
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Mubarak’s family Flees Egypt?

Aljazeera (Arabic site) reports that there are rumors of Mubarak’s family escaping Egypt from an airport/ military base west of Cairo.

The [Egyptian] media reports had indicated that Mubarak’s wife and his son Gamal Mubarak of Egypt escaped to London out of fear that protests demanding political and social reforms will result in the ousting of Mubarak and his family, as was the case two weeks ago in Tunisia.

“Arab News,” published in the United States, reported that Mubarak’s wife and daughter fled on a private jet flown from Cairo West Air Base.  Prior to boarding, the plane was loaded with 97 bags and 36 large boxes.

In Cairo and surrounding cities and villages, tens of thousands of Egyptian demonstrators chanted slogans against Gamal Mubarak, saying (rhymes in Arabic):

“يا جمال قول لأبوك المصريين بيكرهوك”

Translation: O Gamal tell your father, Egyptians abhor you!

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Game Over Hosni un-Mubarak

Game over, O you Pharaoh of modern times.

Mubarak in Arabic means Blessed! This is why the name is stated as Un-Mubarak!

May the Almighty punish you in a manner equal to that of the Pharaoh when he dared follow Moses!

May you be humiliated prior to your death in a manner that will make you beg to die but death will slowly and painfully extract your soul!

You have earned your seat in history: next to, and as the Last Pharaoh, Hitler, Sharon and Netanyahu!

 

And all of you thugs: uneducated peasants with helmets and sticks, you shall be stampeded to death by the masses. This is the least payback Egyptians can offer you, tyrant thugs! And those of you who may survive, justice awaits. Then you would have wished that you were killed during the demonstrations!

 

Good Riddance Hosni!

 

Welcome Justice and True Democracy!

Gaddafi: You’re Next!

 

 

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What part of “We Hate You Mubarak” don’t you Understand?

 

As I post this, I am watching the evening news with Diane Sawyer when I was shocked by the ignorant and idiotic statements by Martha Raddatz!

“Egypt [Mubarak] is an ally.. they help us in the fight on terrorism.. they are just to the south.. [she meant Israel]..”

So that’s it Martha! Mubarak is “important” to us because he’s essentially a tyrant and dictator who is paid $1.5 billion a year to maintain his iron-grip and choke a country and its citizens so that he would “prevent” terrorism? What an ignorant and Zionist-minded journalist! As long as a dictator is maintaining Israel’s security from the south, then the hell with 83 million people in Egypt, right?

You are pathetic Martha!

Then we have Mubarak.. does he really think he can appease the millions who would rather see him shredded to pieces? Doesn’t his TV appearance remind us of what Zain el Abidine Ben Ali, the dictator of Tunisia said just hours before his escape?

Mubarak, you mummified devil. Do these pictures show that”YOUR” people would even want your remains around?

 

 

 

 

Read Biden’s equally idiotic and ignorant words!

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Canada in bid to expel Tunisian Belhassen Trabelsi

The Canadian government is working to arrest and expel Belhassen Trabelsi, the brother-in-law of former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

Mr Trabelsi, a billionaire, was said to be staying at the Chateau Vaudreuil Suites Hotel near Montreal

BBC

Canada has revoked Mr Trabelsi’s residency permit and has moved to seize the billionaire’s Canadian assets.

Mr Trabelsi and his family reportedly arrived in Montreal on a private jet last week after Mr Ben Ali was ousted.

Officials at the Tunisian embassy in Ottawa have asked Canada to arrest and extradite Mr Trabelsi.

Speaking to Canadian media in Val D’Or, in the province of Quebec, Mr Cannon said the government would make “every effort” to track down Mr Trabelsi’s assets.

“He is not welcome,” Mr Cannon said. “We are going to find – in the context, obviously, of current legislation – ways to assure, as quickly as possible, that we might comply with the demand from the Tunisia government.”

‘On the run’

It is believed Mr Trabelsi and his family fled the Chateau Vaudreuil Suites Hotel in Montreal on Thursday, and their whereabouts remain unknown.

It is unclear how long Mr Trabelsi had residency status, which allows non-Canadian citizens to live in the country and can require a lengthy application process.

Mr Ben Ali, who was president for 23 years, was forced from power this month by a series of protests against poverty and corruption. The former president fled with his wife to Saudi Arabia.

Interpol also issued an alert for the arrest of Mr Ben Ali and six family members on request from Tunisia, which has accused them of property theft and illegal transfer of foreign currency, among other charges.

The international police agency said member states had been asked to “search, locate and provisionally arrest Mr Ali and his relatives”.

During a recent trip to Morocco, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said members of Tunisia’s former regime were not welcome in Canada.

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Dictators in solidarity with Mubarak

The Joke of the century… these dictators, scared that they may be next, dared to even open their mouths! Dictators supporting dictators. Human lives have no value with these monsters.

Arab States

The first Arab support to Mubarak came from the Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, who held a telephone conversation Saturday with the Egyptian-soon-to-be-ex-President, in which he expressed his support, and criticized the continuing popular protests since last Tuesday.

The Saudi news agency quoted the Saudi King Abdullah as saying

“Egypt’s Arabism and Islam cannot stand the tampering with their security and stability of some lurking on behalf of freedom of expression among the masses of our sister country Egypt, and the exploitation of blowing their own hatred devastating and traumatizing and burning and looting and try to create malicious havoc.”(translation from Arabic)

From one Dictator to Another

Then the traitor Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, is quoted to have also called Mubarak, saying:

The “Palestinian people” are in solidarity with the Egyptian leadership and people in the current circumstances and the challenges posed.

Abbas the Traitor

Abbas: you do not represent the Palestinian people you degenerate traitor! The Palestinian people are in solidarity with the Egyptian people. Period. You’re next, trust history!

According to the news agency MENA Mubarak also received calls – to express their aspiration to restore calm and stability in Egypt – from Libyan mad-leader Muammar Gaddafi, and King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.

Birds of the feather…

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Robert Fisk: Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship

Our writer joins protesters atop a Cairo tank as the army shows signs of backing the people against Mubarak’s regime

suspicions that much of the looting and arson was carried out by plainclothes cops..

The Egyptian tanks, the delirious protesters sitting atop them, the flags, the 40,000 protesters weeping and crying and cheering in Freedom Square and praying around them, the Muslim Brotherhood official sitting amid the tank passengers. Should this be compared to the liberation of Bucharest? Climbing on to an American-made battle tank myself, I could only remember those wonderful films of the liberation of Paris. A few hundred metres away, Hosni Mubarak‘s black-uniformed security police were still firing at demonstrators near the interior ministry. It was a wild, historical victory celebration, Mubarak’s own tanks freeing his capital from his own dictatorship.

 

 

Army Joins Protests

 

In the pantomime world of Mubarak himself – and of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Washington – the man who still claims to be president of Egypt swore in the most preposterous choice of vice-president in an attempt to soften the fury of the protesters – Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s chief negotiator with Israel and his senior intelligence officer, a 75-year-old with years of visits to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and four heart attacks to his credit. How this elderly apparatchik might be expected to deal with the anger and joy of liberation of 80 million Egyptians is beyond imagination. When I told the demonstrators on the tank around me the news of Suleiman’s appointment, they burst into laughter.

Their crews, in battledress and smiling and in some cases clapping their hands, made no attempt to wipe off the graffiti that the crowds had spray-painted on their tanks. “Mubarak Out – Get Out”, and “Your regime is over, Mubarak” have now been plastered on almost every Egyptian tank on the streets of Cairo. On one of the tanks circling Freedom Square was a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Beltagi. Earlier, I had walked beside a convoy of tanks near the suburb of Garden City as crowds scrambled on to the machines to hand oranges to the crews, applauding them as Egyptian patriots. However crazed Mubarak’s choice of vice-president and his gradual appointment of a powerless new government of cronies, the streets of Cairo proved what the United States and EU leaders have simply failed to grasp. It is over.

Mubarak’s feeble attempts to claim that he must end violence on behalf of the Egyptian people – when his own security police have been responsible for most of the cruelty of the past five days – has elicited even further fury from those who have spent 30 years under his sometimes vicious dictatorship. For there are growing suspicions that much of the looting and arson was carried out by plainclothes cops – including the murder of 11 men in a rural village in the past 24 hours – in an attempt to destroy the integrity of the protesters campaigning to throw Mubarak out of power. The destruction of a number of communications centres by masked men – which must have been co-ordinated by some form of institution – has also raised suspicions that the plainclothes thugs who beat many of the demonstrators were to blame.

But the torching of police stations across Cairo and in Alexandria and Suez and other cities was obviously not carried out by plainclothes cops. Late on Friday, driving to Cairo 40 miles down the Alexandria highway, crowds of young men had lit fires across the highway and, when cars slowed down, demanded hundreds of dollars in cash. Yesterday morning, armed men were stealing cars from their owners in the centre of Cairo.

Infinitely more terrible was the vandalism at the Egyptian National Museum. After police abandoned this greatest of ancient treasuries, looters broke into the red-painted building and smashed 4,000-year-old pharaonic statues, Egyptian mummies and magnificent wooden boats, originally carved – complete with their miniature crews – to accompany kings to their graves. Glass cases containing priceless figurines were bashed in, the black-painted soldiers inside pushed over. Again, it must be added that there were rumours before the discovery that police caused this vandalism before they fled the museum on Friday night. Ghastly shades of the Baghdad museum in 2003. It wasn’t as bad as that looting, but it was a most awful archeological disaster.

All we want – all – is Mubarak’s departure and new elections and our freedom and honour

In my night journey from 6th October City to the capital, I had to slow down when darkened vehicles loomed out of the darkness. They were smashed, glass scattered across the road, slovenly policemen pointing rifles at my headlights. One jeep was half burned out. They were the wreckage of the anti-riot police force which the protesters forced out of Cairo on Friday. Those same demonstrators last night formed a massive circle around Freedom Square to pray, “Allah Alakbar” thundering into the night air over the city.

And there are also calls for revenge. An al-Jazeera television crew found 23 bodies in the Alexandria mortuary, apparently shot by the police. Several had horrifically mutilated faces. Eleven more bodies were discovered in a Cairo mortuary, relatives gathering around their bloody remains and screaming for retaliation against the police.

 

 

Cairo now changes from joy to sullen anger within minutes. Yesterday morning, I walked across the Nile river bridge to watch the ruins of Mubarak’s 15-storey party headquarters burn. In front stood a vast poster advertising the benefits of the party – pictures of successful graduates, doctors and full employment, the promises which Mubarak’s party had failed to deliver in 30 years – outlined by the golden fires curling from the blackened windows of the party headquarters. Thousands of Egyptians stood on the river bridge and on the motorway flyovers to take pictures of the fiercely burning building – and of the middle-aged looters still stealing chairs and desks from inside.

Yet the moment a Danish television team arrived to film exactly the same scenes, they were berated by scores of people who said that they had no right to film the fires, insisting that Egyptians were proud people who would never steal or commit arson. This was to become a theme during the day: that reporters had no right to report anything about this “liberation” that might reflect badly upon it. Yet they were still remarkably friendly and – despite Obama’s pusillanimous statements on Friday night – there was not the slightest manifestation of hostility against the United States. “All we want – all – is Mubarak’s departure and new elections and our freedom and honour,” a 30-year-old psychiatrist told me. Behind her, crowds of young men were clearing up broken crash barriers and road intersection fences from the street – an ironic reflection on the well-known Cairo adage that Egyptians will never, ever clean their roads.

Mubarak’s allegation that these demonstrations and arson – this combination was a theme of his speech refusing to leave Egypt – were part of a “sinister plan” is clearly at the centre of his claim to continued world recognition. Indeed, Obama’s own response – about the need for reforms and an end to such violence – was an exact copy of all the lies Mubarak has been using to defend his regime for three decades. It was deeply amusing to Egyptians that Obama – in Cairo itself, after his election – had urged Arabs to grasp freedom and democracy.  These aspirations disappeared entirely when he gave his tacit if uncomfortable support to the Egyptian president on Friday. The problem is the usual one: the lines of power and the lines of morality in Washington fail to intersect when US presidents have to deal with the Middle East. Moral leadership in America ceases to exist when the Arab and Israeli worlds have to be confronted.

And the Egyptian army is, needless to say, part of this equation. It receives much of the $1.3bn of annual aid from Washington. The commander of that army, General Tantawi – who just happened to be in Washington when the police tried to crush the demonstrators – has always been a very close personal friend of Mubarak. Not a good omen, perhaps, for the immediate future.

So the “liberation” of Cairo – where, grimly, there came news last night of the looting of the Qasr al-Aini hospital – has yet to run its full course. The end may be clear. The tragedy is not over.

 

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U.S. Losing Credibilty on Egypt!

The United States is ‘losing credibility by the day’ in calling for democracy in Egypt while continuing to support President Hosni Mubarak, leading dissident Mohamed ElBaradei says.

‘The American government cannot ask the Egyptian people to believe that a dictator who has been in power for 30 years will be the one to implement democracy,’ ElBaradei told US network CBS from Cairo on Sunday.

On MEET THE PRESS today, Sunday January 30, 2011, the only two worth-while guests one should listen to and learn something from, were Martin Indyk, Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Tom Friedman, Columnist, New York Times. Full scripts and video on MSNBC.

The interview really revolved more about Israel than about the Will of the Egyptians. We show no support or concern that a real democracy be installed in the Middle East. We just worry about Egypt opening its borders to Gaza – and that would break the illegal Israeli siege! No concern whatsoever to the starving Palestinians and their well being.. no empathy with Egyptians to be a free democratic state… all we are concerned about is how this revolution in Egypt will affect our – OUR – interests… the hell with everyone else! Shameful.

And we [U.S.A.] are the advocates of democracy? Do we now understand why the people – not dictators – of the Middle East don’t trust us and our politics?

Excerpts – Martin Indyk:

Egypt is at the epicenter. But not just geostrategically central, it’s the largest militarily most powerful by far the most influential country. Where egypt goes will have a tsunami effect. It may start in Yemen but the if it end up in Egypt this is very profound. Because american interests are so tied up with Egypt, what happens there will have a profound effect.

We have to walk a very fine line because some of our interests are tied up with this leadership in egypt.

[Mubarak] He’s 80 years old. He’s sick and an old man. The compact with his people has been broken. Unfortunately because he’s been a good friend of the United States, but he did not open his political space. He did not allow for the people to express themselves and now he’s reaping the consequences and basically nothing that he or we can do about its.This is such a big deal that could have profound consequences for the peace treaty and the whole process of reconciliation between Israel.. The regime is critically important. There’s a head of the military who has been put in place as vice president. They are the ones who have to hold the ring now, tell Mubarak to go and announce that there will be presidential elections within, I think six months. Omar Suleiman, the Vice President now will not stand but the military will oversee a process of democratic evolution.

I often wonder how “politicians” get their positions and speak with such eloquence ignorance!

A more intelligent outlook and foresight comes from Tom Friedman:

Excerpts – Tom Friedman, Columnist, New York Times

We got to this moment, basically, because our concern about having a stable Egypt first and foremost to preserve the Peace Treaty with Israel and later after 9/11 to be a partner in the war on terrorism. Basically let us give Mubarak a pass on democratization. For the first 15 years of his rule Egypt stagnated. I visited 12 years ago I remember writing Mubarak had more mummies in his cabinet than King Tut. Then he slowly under our pressure and pressure over globalization, started to open up.. and in the last few years actually appointed a lot of reformers to his cabinet who produced a real opening, 6% growth, I believe, last year. Egypt is in such a hole economically, David, that it needs to grow at China-India [7.5%] rates if it’s going to even remotely have chance to keep up with this population.

I think what the United States should be focusing on are three things. One, emphasizing that we hope whatever transition there, is peaceful. Two, that we hope that it will be built around consensual politics, not another dictatorship and Three, whatever regime, whatever government emerges, whether the Muslim brotherhood or not, it’s a government that’s dedicated to ushering Egypt into the 21st century.

Egypt and really most of the Arab world has been on vacation from history for the last 50 years thanks largely to oil.

Egypt didn’t have oil.. it had the peace treaty with Israel. What peace with Israel was to Egypt, oil is to Saudi Arabia: it got Egypt all of this aid [$1.5 billion a year].

Mubarak has had three decades, basically, to make the big decision of making Egypt, promoting Egypt in a transition to democratization. He did not use this opportunity all these years and now he’s got to make a big decision. Egypt’s got to make a decision not from a position of strength but at least from the government’s point of view from a real position of weakness.

You never make good decisions, you never make far sighted decisions from a position of weakness. So it’s hard to see something positive ever coming out of the Mubarak-Egyptian relationship again.

I would add that Israel today, though, I think israel should really reflect what’s going on in Egypt. It does not want to be the Mubarak of the peace process. Israel has never been stronger militarily or economically. This is exactly the time it should be looking to forge and close a peace deal with the Palestinians, not because it will change the Arab world but because it will be a huge opportunity and stabilizer for that relationship.

I think for all of us analysts inside, outside, the most dangerous thing you can do in a situation like this is confuse your hopes with your analysis. I know what my hopes are. My hopes are we’ll see a transition in Egypt that will allow the emergence of a Muslim moderate progressive center there, precisely what Mubarak never built. But my analysis and my fear, especially looking at the news, the looting today and whatnot is that when you open the lid on a society like this, where the government has done nothing basically to build civil society for the last 20 years, what comes out is anger, rage. And makes the building of a kind of a modern progressive center that much more difficult. Now the implications are enormous. One of the big questions is the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, a huge powerful movement.. will they go for one of three strategies? One is to emulate Iran.. the other is Hamas. Or the option we hope they choose is the Turkey model, be a partner in a consensual rebuilding. Egypt and basically try to build their strength on a democratic foundation.

ATW Views

If we are really for democracy and justice, then we (the USA) should offer genuine help to the Egyptians in this process. We should respect the wishes of the people and the direction their country will take. We should get our heads out of the sand and stop the attacks on anyone and everyone criticizing Israel. When we offer Israel $4 billion in aid a year and less than half of that to a country of 80 million (10 times the size of Israel), what message are we sending Egyptians and the Arabs? Long gone are the days Israel claimed it was a victim. As Friedman said above, Israel has never been stronger militarily and economically. It’s time to treat everyone equally if we expect peace to work.

And those who are quick to blame Hamas and Hizbollah and that any aid falling in their hands will be used against Israel, look at the facts before you insert you Zionist shoe in your mouth. Palestinians have been deprived from any and all humanitarian aid by Israel. Israel continues to annex and ethnic cleanse Palestinians and openly discriminate against Palestinians whether they are Israeli-Arabs or Palestinians seeking rebuilding permits.   And the US just looks the other way. The death toll of Palestinians outnumber that of Israelis by at least 10 to 1.The chart below is from an Israeli Human Rights group: B’Tselem.

Breakdown of Deaths

	Israelis	Palestinians
Children Killed (More on the impact on children.)	124 Remember These Children	1,452 Remember These Children
Civilians* Killed	731 B’Tselem	3,535 – 4,226 B’Tselem
People killed in the course of a targeted killing	1	408 or more B’Tselem
People who were the object of a targeted killing	1	238 B’Tselem
People killed on own land	586 (54.1%) B’Tselem	6,359 (98.9%) B’Tselem
People killed on others’ land	498 (45.9%) B’Tselem	71 (1.1%) B’Tselem

It’s time for the U.S. to apply the “Equal Opportunity” principles here:

1. Our first and foremost concern should not be to worry about a dictator we continue to call ALLY! Our allies should be democracies not dictatorships we install and reward with billions!
2. If we are against the occupation of Kuwait by Iraq and will use power to reverse such occupation, the same should be applied to Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
3. If we advocate the freedom of southern Sudanese, we should equally advocate Palestinian freedom and the right for them to have their own state – not threaten to Veto any such UN resolution.
4. If we intend to apply U.N. resolution by force – against Iraq, Iran, Syria, etc., then the same is to be applied against Israel’s violation of over 60 UN resolutions.
5. If we support dictatorships – whether in Saudi Arabia, Jordan or the Gulf states, then we should continue to expect a turbulent Middle East. Maybe that’s really our interest… keep it in chaos while we exploit the resources.
6. If we are serious about a peaceful prosperous Middle East and eliminate terrorism, we should extend both hands to all, support democracies, topple dictatorships without meddling in internal politics and end-up with a European-Union type of a region.

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Without Egypt, Israel will be left with no friends

Without Egypt’s Mubarak and with relations with Turkey in shambles, Israel will be forced to court new potential allies.

The fading power of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s government leaves Israel in a state of strategic distress. Without Mubarak, Israel is left with almost no friends in the Middle East; last year, Israel saw its alliance with Turkey collapse.

Israel is worried that the Peace treaty with Arabs – particularly Egypt, is now threatened.

Threatened?

What did this “peace” produce for Egypt, Jordan or others who signed “peace treaties” with the Nazi state?

It simply bought silence:  that Israel will continue in its ethnic cleansing, expelling Palestinians, demolishing their homes, committing more atrocities – all in the name of a so-called peace. The Arab dictators were paid off for their silence! They became richer than ever: Jordan’s King Abdullah and his father before him, Ben Ali of Tunisia and Mubarak of Egypt are but some examples.

Yes, Israel should be fearful.

The Arabs, ignored and dismissed by the West because of their dictatorships and corrupt regimes, have now erupted against tyranny, injustice and humiliation. Now they will decide their future on their own. Democracy and the WILL of people is the new wave.

This is the wave that scares Israel, a terrorist state founded on terrorism and violence. With U.S. help, Israel arrogantly dictated the terms of any dealings with Arabs. Peace meant that Egypt will not attack Israel. But Israel attacking Arabs is an open game.

Israel‘s concern at the popular unrest in Egypt is not just about the internal affairs of a near neighbor, but the strategic issue of its 30-year peace treaty with the largest Arab country, once its bitter enemy.

“Once?” Egyptians still consider Israel as a terrorist state and enemy. Those who suffocate people in Gaza with the help of their soon-to-be-hanged leader, are enemies of humanity!

Arabs will unite, sooner or later. Thanks to the awakening and for the West’s ignorance. The day Israel should fear is near: no longer will Arabs stand for Israel’s violence and terrorism. With the West’s blind support to the terrorist state of Israel, Arabs will resort to resolving their own issues.

They can liberate Palestine just by walking into Palestine. Imagine, out of 300,000,000 Arabs, 100,000,000 decide to march into Palestine.

The result? Waves of 1,000,000 at a time will be massacred by Israel’s terrorist army… 70,000,000 will die! But 30,000,000 will arrive. They will take over Palestine. Jews of Palestine will welcome them. Settlers will flee back to the ghettos from which they came. Zionism will cease to exist!

 

 

 

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Egyptian Army will NOT Use Force Against Protesters

Mubark, did you get the message yet?

Today, the Military spokesman Major-General Ismail Osman, in a speech broadcast on Egyptian television said that the armed forces are aware of and familiar with the demands of citizens and freedom of expression through peaceful means is guaranteed.

source: Aljazeera

Gen. Ismail Osman said that the army would not resort to the use of force against the Egyptian people, and called on citizens to not to take what would impair the general security of the country.

I guess Mubarak, the senile Mummy, miscalculated, as did the Israelis.

A tip of the hat to the Egyptian army!

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Astounding Ignorance: “Journalists” and the Middle East

Middle East Unrest Demonstrates Difference from American Values

Remaking the Middle East

Now Dawning: The Next Era of Middle East History

 

Many journalists are rushing to enlighten us about the events in Egypt, or to offer their “wisdom” and “analysis” into the Arab world, Israel and the region as a whole.

Some attribute the events to differences in cultures: ours vs. theirs!

Our values of free speech, individual liberty and our civil behavior foster a fundamentally different culture than suppression and coercion by threat of force.

The writer ignored the fact that our culture is the one who is responsible for thriving dictatorships in the Middle East. We had some leaders on the CIA payroll.. others receive billions in aid which is used primarily for lavish life styles, ignoring the people’s needs… and we just look the other way.

In what increasingly looks like a tsunami of popular unrest in North Africa and the Middle East, Israel has not been given enough consideration by the press.

And this writer thinks that the world revolves around Israel. Here’s an oxymoron: we claim to support freedom and democracy yet we will continue to support Israel’s Nazi-like oppression of Palestinians. I suspect that the leaks (The Palestinian Paper) – although they were welcome, to be our doing! Why? Palestinians were gaining momentum and support in the world about voting for a Palestinian State: something Israel and our culture of freedom and democracy, rejects!

Then there are those who want to continue to brainwash us with words that only started to exist recently! “Islamists” they claim, may be coming to power… and what does one think when hearing the word “Islamist” (as stupid of a word as it is)? “Terrorism.”

In other words, the media successfully brainwashed us – with the help of Israeli propaganda and AIPAC’s lobbying thugs, into making us associate anything Muslim with terrorism!

Then one can argue that Christianity and Nazism are synonymous. Hitler was Christian. Or should I say, Christianist!

Absurd, isn’t it?

The Media is scrambling to prove its utter ignorance. If they only read.. and learn a little about the history of the region. For example, according to Islamic history, it was Omar bin Khattab, the second Caliph, who stood against slavery by stating “.. since when do you enslave people when their mothers gave birth to them as free people?  The Prophet Muhammad encouraged manumission of slaves, even if one had to purchase them first. Almost 1,200 years later, Christianity and the New America, went to great lengths to acquire and enslave Africans.

The people of the Middle East continued to be free until the demise of the Ottoman Empire and the start of dividing and colonizing the Arab world. The colonists installed dictators who we supported throughout history and until this day, with millions of dollars, so that they could be silenced and in return, silence their  own people.

Yes cultures are different, ours seem to be based on hypocrisy; we create the situation then wonder why dictatorships and oppression exist!

 

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Jordan’s king sacks cabinet; lesson learned!

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Monarch asks ex-army general to form new government in the wake of streets protests over prices and reforms.

The Arab Uprising in Tunisia and Egypt is a wake-up call to rulers, dictators and those who thought they were invincible!

King Abdullah II of Jordan has sacked his government in the wake of street protests and has asked an ex-army general to form a new cabinet, Jordan’s Royal Palace has announced.

King Abdullah’s move on Tuesday comes after thousands of Jordanians took to the streets, inspired by anti-government protests in Tunisia and Egypt. Jordanians had been calling for the resignation of prime minister Samir Rifai who is blamed for a rise in fuel and food prices and slowed political reforms.

A Jordanian official said the monarch officially accepted the resignation of Rifai, a wealthy politician and former court adviser, and asked Marouf Bakhit to form a new cabinet.

“[Bakhit] is a former general and briefly ambassador to Israel who has been prime minister before. He’s someone who would be seen as a safe pair of hands,” Rosemary Hollis, professor of Middle East policy studies at London’s City University, said.

“I wouldn’t see it as a sign of liberalisation. With his previous premiership, he talked the talk of reform but little actually happened,” she said.

Protests have spread across Jordan in the last few weeks, with demonstrators blaming corruption spawned by free-market reforms for the plight of the country’s poor.

Many Jordanians hold successive governments responsible for a prolonged recession and rising public debt that hit a record $15bn this year in one of the Arab world‘s smallest economies, heavily dependent on foreign aid.

 

Dr. Marouf Suleiman al-Bakhit ‎, born 1947 is the current Prime Minister of Jordan.  He first served as Prime Minister from November 27, 2005 until November 25, 2007.  He was previously the Jordanian ambassador to Israel and the national security chief.  Bakhit’s main priorities are to maintain security and stability (notice wording) in Jordan..

Commentary:

Why would the Monarch request a former general and ambassador to Israel, to form a new government? Isn’t this similar to Mubarak appointing a Vice President, military intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, who was no better than himself?

Do these rulers think that people are so ignorant or so uneducated that they can be fooled? Jordanians are very sophisticated and highly educated people. Literacy rate in Jordan is at 91%. Compare that to its neighbors (Syria 83%, Saudi Arabia 85%, Egypt 66%, Palestine 93% and Lebanon 90%). To discount their demands or treat them with disrespect is to ensure more protests..  may be even demanding the monarch to leave!

 

Al Azhar Message to Mubarak: Priceless!

Al Azhar Statement on the recent speech وَقَدْ خَابَ مَنِ افْتَرَى

[20:61 Moses said to him: Woe to you! Forge not ye a lie against Allah, lest He destroy you (at once) utterly by chastisement: the forger must suffer frustration!" ]

Such does God Almighty decrees, and the rule in the Holy verses,  disappointment is the ultimate disgrace for each forger, disappointment in his resolutions, and disappointment in his own words, and frustration in every relationship, and disappointment in everything and in all situations, and frustration in the hearts of people, and disappointment in his home and his family!

And disappointment in all things in life, and then the greatest disappointment when he faces God’s promise:

(36:65 That Day shall We set a seal on their mouths. But their hands will speak to us, and their feet bear witness, to all that they did).
The Azhar scholars issued their statement in Arabic on the 25th of Safar, 1432, corresponding to 29 of January 2011.

They called Mubarak a liar, cheater, traitor and a forger. They warned him from a worse day he will face when he faces God and then the biggest disappointment of all: his hands and feet will bear witness against his evil deeds while his mouth will be sealed shut. God will not allow this Hitler to utter a word – lie, again! Period.

They have requested the legal system to place Mubarak under house arrest – in preparation for justice to take its course on this Pharaoh.

This is the document in its original Arabic language. Arabic readers may click here for the source.

بهذا قضى الله في عليائه ، وحكم في محكم آياته، قضى وقوله الحق أنَّ الخيبة هي الحظٌّ  الأوفى لكل مفتر، الخيبة في قراراته، والخيبة في عباراته، والخيبة في كل علاقته ، والخيبة في  جميع التقديرات، والخيبة في جميع المواقف، والخيبة في قلوب الناس، والخيبة في  بيته وأهله ، والخيبة  في جميع أمور حياته، ثم الخيبة العظمى حين يُودِّع الحياة على شر حالٍ ليواجه الخيبة العظمى يوم يعاين بنفسه ويسمع بأذنيه  قول الله تعالى ( اليوم نختم على أفواههم وتكلمنا أيديهم وتشهد أرجلهم بما كانوا يكسبون).  ذلك أن البغي لا يعرف لنفسه حدا ينتهي إليه وأن  خلق الا فتراء  كذلك لا يقف في المفتر عند  حدٍّ، إنه يبدأ بالافتراء على الله ، حيث يرى في إمهاله له إهمالا ، ولولاه لما جرأ على الافتراء على عباد الله،  ثم الافتراء على الحقائق، ليكون عاقبة ذلك  هو على ما جاء في تلك الآية ” السحت للمفتري  بالعذاب الأليم” ( ويلكم لا تفتروا على الله كذبا فيُسْحِتكم بعذاب وقد خاب من افترى) طه 61.

ومعنى السحت  هو الإجهاد بالعذاب في الدنيا والآخرة ، ذلك أن هؤلاء المفترين من طبعهم أنهم لا يزدادون على افترائهم إلا خفة وطيشا  ،ونزقا ، فكان عاقبتهم السحت  بالعذاب ، إذ السحت هو القشر الذي يستأصل[  بصائر ذوي التمييز3/ 196] .
لقد استمعنا إلى خطاب الرئيس الأخير الذي لم نجد فيه إلا إفكا مرجفا، وبغيا أثيما ، فمن الذي نقض الأيمان بعد توكيدها إن لم يكنه؟، ومن فرَّق الكلمة بعد توحيدها إن لم يكنه ه، ومن الذي فصم العروة بعد توثيقها إن لم يكنه ؟

حديث بعد طول انتظار جاء ملؤه المكر، والخداع، والكذب، والالتواء  – هذا على تقدير أن يكون سيداته قد  اطلع على  هذا الخطاب  الذي أعد له قبل أن يقرأه على الناس – حيث  تغوفل فيه عن جرائم التعذيب، والنهب والتدمير،  النهب الذي به بلغت به ثروات طبَّالٍ جاء مصر فارا مع أبيه من فلسطين فإذا بثرواته فاقت فينا بغدره  وغشه المئات من المليارات ، ونافسه في ذلك كل من جاوره أو استأنس به من وزير أو نائب، أو خادم، أو عميل ، لم يكن أقلهم  هذا الوزير لذي يملك عشرا ً من القنوات التلفزيونية ، وكذا محمد أبو العنين الذي اشترى أرضا منهوبة بثلاثين مليونا أخذ عليها قرضا من الدولة ثلاثين مليارا [ قناة المستقلة مساء الجمعة 28 يناير ]  مما مكن للباغي أن يُحْكِم أمرَه في شرايين البلد و وسائل الاتصالات وقت الثورة على هذا الوجه الدنيء ؟ نهبٌ  لم  ينْجُ منه سبيل، ولم يسلم منه ذو كبد ، خطاب يَعِدُ فيه بحرية الرأي بعد أن أغلق كل وسائل الاتصال الحديثة حتى عزل مصر لأول مرة عن العالم والأمة ، مصر التي هي بمنزلة الرأس والقلب من الأمة فصلها واعتقلها بعد أن سحلها  عزلها عن أمتها، ثم يعد بحرية،  ويزعم في خطابه  أنه حَكَمٌ بين المؤسسات وهو طرف متهم ،باغ ، هو المسؤول الأول  عن جرائم نظامه،  ثم يهدد فيه ويتوعد المخربين وما كان المخربون إلا فلول نظامه ، ثم يزعم انحيازه إلى الشعب، الشعب الذي أنهكته الفواجع، وأتت عليه المواجع منذ أن أبتلي به وبمن معه.
إن عزة الأذلاء هي الكذب الهازل، فعلى الثائرين أن يذكروا ذلك  أبدا ،وأن يوقنوا بأن فضيلة الكذابين هي استمرار الكذب.

إننا قبل أن يرحل هذا الرئيس بنظامه نأمل منه  وهو لا يزال شكلا  رئيسا نأمل  أن يجيبنا على هذا السؤال :

سيادة الرئيس:

لقد رمَتْك صحيفة الدستور المصرية منذ ما يزيد على خمسة أعوام نقلا منها عن صحيفة ” ويسترن ميل” الصادرة في 8/ 10/ 1981م ، التي رمتك  بأقبح ما يرمى به ذو دين  ، حيث  قالتا إن اسم سيادتك الرسمي الذي  تنادى به في انجلترا هو ” جورج”، وان اسم ابنك علاء يدعى عندهم ب” ألن” ، وكذا  ابنك ” جمال “  الذي كان يعد للوراثة  عرف عندهم  ب ” جيمي” ، ونشر ذلك لك  بصحيفة الدستور  بالعدد 118، ليوم الأربعاء 20 يونيو 2007، 5 من جمادى الآخرة 1428هـ وبالصفحة الأولى.

أيها الرئيس وأنت في مراحلك المتأخرة – لماذا لم يُغضبْك هذا  وأغضبك من تلك الصحيفة ما تكلَّمتْ به بعد ذلك بكثير عن صحة سيادتك ، فهل كانت صحتك أغلى عليك من دينك؟

سيادة الرئيس؟

وإلى أن يأتينا منك جواب  فإنا نأمل على الشعب المصري وغيره من الشعوب أن لا يركنوا إلى مواعيد عرقوب حتى يفصل الله بيننا وبينه بالحق وهو الفتاح العليم .
واقتراح منا إلى السادة أهل القانون بمصر برفع دعاوى أمام المحاكم المختصة بطلب الحجر علي سيادتك بعد ما ظهر من أمارات الضعف  البين عليك في حطابك الأخير ، الأمر الذي لا يصلح عليه قول، ولا يستقيم معه  قرار ولا عمل .
والمرء أتعبُ ما يكون إذا ابتغى        سعة المعيشة في الزمان الضيق
وعلى أصحاب الفضيلة الأئمة والدعاة لزوم القنوت في جميع الصلوات بأن يبيد الله سلطان كل غادر غشوم، وسلطان من معه، وأن يدك بنيانهم أجمعين، وأن يجعلهم سلفا ومثلا للآخرين .
ثم رجاؤنا إلى الذين وقعوا في شباك المفسدين فأدمنوا شيئا من برامج اللهو والعبث حتى عذلوا عن الأحداث ،  نقول لهم جاهدوا أنفسكم لفطمها عنها  وفاء لحق الدماء التي بُذلت وتُبذل على ثرى مصر وميادينها واستعدادا لأيام جد قادمة لا ريب فيها .

صدر عن جبهة علماء الأزهر في 25 من صفر الخير 1432هـ الموافق 29 من يناير 2011م

 

بيان بشأن الخطاب الأخير (وقد خاب من افترى)

بهذا قضى الله في عليائه ، وحكم في محكم آياته، قضى وقوله الحق أنَّ الخيبة هي الحظٌّ  الأوفى لكل مفتر، الخيبة في قراراته، والخيبة في عباراته، والخيبة في كل علاقته ، والخيبة في  جميع التقديرات، والخيبة في جميع المواقف، والخيبة في قلوب الناس، والخيبة في  بيته وأهله ، والخيبة  في جميع أمور حياته، ثم الخيبة العظمى حين يُودِّع الحياة على شر حالٍ ليواجه الخيبة العظمى يوم يعاين بنفسه ويسمع بأذنيه  قول الله تعالى ( اليوم نختم على أفواههم وتكلمنا أيديهم وتشهد أرجلهم بما كانوا يكسبون).  ذلك أن البغي لا يعرف لنفسه حدا ينتهي إليه وأن  خلق الا فتراء  كذلك لا يقف في المفتر عند  حدٍّ، إنه يبدأ بالافتراء على الله ، حيث يرى في إمهاله له إهمالا ، ولولاه لما جرأ على الافتراء على عباد الله،  ثم الافتراء على الحقائق، ليكون عاقبة ذلك  هو على ما جاء في تلك الآية ” السحت للمفتري  بالعذاب الأليم” ( ويلكم لا تفتروا على الله كذبا فيُسْحِتكم بعذاب وقد خاب من افترى) طه 61. ومعنى السحت  هو الإجهاد بالعذاب في الدنيا والآخرة ، ذلك أن هؤلاء المفترين من طبعهم أنهم لا يزدادون على افترائهم إلا خفة وطيشا  ،ونزقا ، فكان عاقبتهم السحت  بالعذاب ، إذ السحت هو القشر الذي يستأصل[  بصائر ذوي التمييز3/ 196] . لقد استمعنا إلى خطاب الرئيس الأخير الذي لم نجد فيه إلا إفكا مرجفا، وبغيا أثيما ، فمن الذي نقض الأيمان بعد توكيدها إن لم يكنه؟، ومن فرَّق الكلمة بعد توحيدها إن لم يكنه ه، ومن الذي فصم العروة بعد توثيقها إن لم يكنه ؟ حديث بعد طول انتظار جاء ملؤه المكر، والخداع، والكذب، والالتواء  – هذا على تقدير أن يكون سيداته قد  اطلع على  هذا الخطاب  الذي أعد له قبل أن يقرأه على الناس – حيث  تغوفل فيه عن جرائم التعذيب، والنهب والتدمير،  النهب الذي به بلغت به ثروات طبَّالٍ جاء مصر فارا مع أبيه من فلسطين فإذا بثرواته فاقت فينا بغدره  وغشه المئات من المليارات ، ونافسه في ذلك كل من جاوره أو استأنس به من وزير أو نائب، أو خادم، أو عميل ، لم يكن أقلهم  هذا الوزير لذي يملك عشرا ً من القنوات التلفزيونية ، وكذا محمد أبو العنين الذي اشترى أرضا منهوبة بثلاثين مليونا أخذ عليها قرضا من الدولة ثلاثين مليارا [ قناة المستقلة مساء الجمعة 28 يناير ]  مما مكن للباغي أن يُحْكِم أمرَه في شرايين البلد و وسائل الاتصالات وقت الثورة على هذا الوجه الدنيء ؟ نهبٌ  لم  ينْجُ منه سبيل، ولم يسلم منه ذو كبد ، خطاب يَعِدُ فيه بحرية الرأي بعد أن أغلق كل وسائل الاتصال الحديثة حتى عزل مصر لأول مرة عن العالم والأمة ، مصر التي هي بمنزلة الرأس والقلب من الأمة فصلها واعتقلها بعد أن سحلها  عزلها عن أمتها، ثم يعد بحرية،  ويزعم في خطابه  أنه حَكَمٌ بين المؤسسات وهو طرف متهم ،باغ ، هو المسؤول الأول  عن جرائم نظامه،  ثم يهدد فيه ويتوعد المخربين وما كان المخربون إلا فلول نظامه ، ثم يزعم انحيازه إلى الشعب، الشعب الذي أنهكته الفواجع، وأتت عليه المواجع منذ أن أبتلي به وبمن معه. إن عزة الأذلاء هي الكذب الهازل، فعلى الثائرين أن يذكروا ذلك  أبدا ،وأن يوقنوا بأن فضيلة الكذابين هي استمرار الكذب. إننا قبل أن يرحل هذا الرئيس بنظامه نأمل منه  وهو لا يزال شكلا  رئيسا نأمل  أن يجيبنا على هذا السؤال : سيادة الرئيس: لقد رمَتْك صحيفة الدستور المصرية منذ ما يزيد على خمسة أعوام نقلا منها عن صحيفة ” ويسترن ميل” الصادرة في 8/ 10/ 1981م ، التي رمتك  بأقبح ما يرمى به ذو دين  ، حيث  قالتا إن اسم سيادتك الرسمي الذي  تنادى به في انجلترا هو ” جورج”، وان اسم ابنك علاء يدعى عندهم ب” ألن” ، وكذا  ابنك ” جمال “  الذي كان يعد للوراثة  عرف عندهم  ب ” جيمي” ، ونشر ذلك لك  بصحيفة الدستور  بالعدد 118، ليوم الأربعاء 20 يونيو 2007، 5 من جمادى الآخرة 1428هـ وبالصفحة الأولى. أيها الرئيس وأنت في مراحلك المتأخرة – لماذا لم يُغضبْك هذا  وأغضبك من تلك الصحيفة ما تكلَّمتْ به بعد ذلك بكثير عن صحة سيادتك ، فهل كانت صحتك أغلى عليك من دينك؟ سيادة الرئيس؟ وإلى أن يأتينا منك جواب  فإنا نأمل على الشعب المصري وغيره من الشعوب أن لا يركنوا إلى مواعيد عرقوب حتى يفصل الله بيننا وبينه بالحق وهو الفتاح العليم . واقتراح منا إلى السادة أهل القانون بمصر برفع دعاوى أمام المحاكم المختصة بطلب الحجر علي سيادتك بعد ما ظهر من أمارات الضعف  البين عليك في حطابك الأخير ، الأمر الذي لا يصلح عليه قول، ولا يستقيم معه  قرار ولا عمل . والمرء أتعبُ ما يكون إذا ابتغى        سعة المعيشة في الزمان الضيق وعلى أصحاب الفضيلة الأئمة والدعاة لزوم القنوت في جميع الصلوات بأن يبيد الله سلطان كل غادر غشوم، وسلطان من معه، وأن يدك بنيانهم أجمعين، وأن يجعلهم سلفا ومثلا للآخرين . ثم رجاؤنا إلى الذين وقعوا في شباك المفسدين فأدمنوا شيئا من برامج اللهو والعبث حتى عذلوا عن الأحداث ،  نقول لهم جاهدوا أنفسكم لفطمها عنها  وفاء لحق الدماء التي بُذلت وتُبذل على ثرى مصر وميادينها واستعدادا لأيام جد قادمة لا ريب فيها . صدر عن جبهة علماء الأزهر في 25 من صفر الخير 1432هـ الموافق 29 من يناير 2011م  .

Mubarak’s Sudden Supporters:One Chicken Per?

No doubt that everyone is surprised by the sudden appearance of the “few” thugs who caused havoc and violence in Cairo‘s Liberty (Tahrir) Square.

So where did these people come from? And why so suddenly? Who may be behind this?

ATW suspects that:

1. These “supporters” are the so-called police force who were pulled back in order for  Mubarak to prove a losing argument and point: that it’s either him or chaos! Grade:
2. These supporters were promised a fully cooked chicken each if they carried Mubarak’s pictures and ran into the streets.
3. If point 1 is valid, then these thugs and what they violence and havoc they created, were the result of Israel’s Mossad training and/or directive to maintain Mubarak’s iron grip on Egypt and protect israeli interests. May be the Mossad offered Mubarak to fully cooked chickens!
4. Witnesses said the military allowed thousands of pro-Mubarak supporters, armed with sticks and knives, to enter the square. Opposition groups said Mubarak had sent in thugs to suppress anti-government protests.

“But we will not leave … Everybody stay put”

Khalil, anti-government protester

Khalil, in his 60s and holding a stick, blamed Mubarak supporters and undercover security for the clashes.

“But we will not leave,” he told Reuters. “Everybody stay put.”

Mohammed el-Belgaty, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, told Al Jazeera the ”peaceful demonstrations in Tahrir Square have been turned into chaos”.

“The speech delivered by President Mubarak was very provocative as he used very sentimental words.

Protesters showing Police ID's they confiscated from Mubarak's thugs

“Since morning, hundreds of these paid thugs started to demonstrate pretending to be supporting the President. Now they came to charge inside Tahrir Square armed with batons, sticks and some knives.

“Mubarak is asking the people to choose between him or chaos.”

The arrogance of Mubarak is unparalleled and unlike any other tyrant’s – save for the Pharaoh’s arrogance,  some 4,000 years ago. We all know what eventually happened to the Pharaoh and the humiliating and violent end he faced.

Adolf H Mubarak

 

Mubarak must be waiting for the same thing! And Ye Shall Have it!

I have no idea whether this tactic will work. But the idea that President Mubarak should make the case that he is necessary for Egypt’s stability by unleashing violence and chaos on his nation’s youth — it’s a sad and shameful end to his career. And I hope that the international community will firmly denounce this kind of brutality apparently organized by the government. source

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Syrians Calling for “Syrian Revolution”

Calls for weekend protests in Syria

Pages on Facebook have been urging Syrians to stage anti-government demonstrations
after Friday prayers

UPDATE: Syrian Massacre in Latakia and more.

Several pages have been set up on Facebook, with the most popular one, named “The Syrian Revolution“, ”liked” by about 13,000 people by Thursday.

However, many of those writing comments on Facebook appeared to be Syrians living abroad calling on their “brothers” at home to protest.

Sources in Syria told Al Jazeera they doubted that the calls for protests would really result in much action on the ground.

“I think the day of anger will turn out to be no more than a day of mild frustration,” one journalist told Al Jazeera.

“There’s no appetite for regime change in Syria as there has been in Egypt for a while. The president isn’t hated as much as [Hosni] Mubarak, or seen as out of touch. Also, the local context is very different … and the poverty rate is significantly lower in Egypt.”

While World busy with Egypt, Israeli warplane attacks Civilians!

 

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An Israeli warplane has once again pounded the southern Gaza Strip, targeting the tunnel network used to transfer vital goods from Egypt to the blockaded territory.

The F-16 jet flew over the city of Rafah on Wednesday and fired a missile at a Palestinian tunnel, witnesses told Xinhua news agency.

The attack caused a huge explosion which destroyed the tunnel, but there were no immediate reports on the possible injuries.

Israeli warplanes frequently target underground tunnels connecting Gaza to Egypt, accusing Palestinian resistance fighters of using the cross-border tunnels for storing and smuggling weapons.

But the Palestinians dismiss the allegations, arguing they have resorted to the tubes to deliver their basic needs to the impoverished coastal enclave which has been sealed by an Israeli blockade for over four years.

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The siege has pushed nearly 1.5 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip on the verge of a humanitarian crisis.

At the turn of 2009, Israel launched a huge military offensive against the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians. The 22-day onslaught also inflicted a damage of above $1.6 billion on the enclave’s economy.

 

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Aljazeera: Arabic vs English Versions; Mubark is “Fed Up!”

Although one of my favorite sources for accurate information and reporting on the Middle East and elsewhere around the world, I am baffled why the Aljazeera English version is quite different from the Arabic site.

Example:

The areas of important and/or Breaking News are highlighted in RED.

Under Number 1 (yellow) – the Breaking News here states that the Arab League is demanding an immediate investigation into the events in Tahrir Square yesterday! Glad the Arab League finally woke up!

Under Number 2 (yellow) – the Breaking News states that (literal translation):

“The Egyptian Army’s tanks push Mubarak supporters into retreat from the Tahrir Square”

This is major and welcome news. Yet, no such mention – at the time of this post, is anywhere on the English version.

Why?

And here’s the English version screen capture, taken at the same time the Arabic version screen capture was taken.

YET, on the English Version, the following is reported:

Mubarak says he ‘wants to go’

Egyptian president tells ABC News he is “fed up” but fearful about the consequences were he to resign immediately.

Last Modified: 03 Feb 2011 21:27 GMT

Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has said in an interview to America’s ABC News that he is “fed up” and wants “to go” after 62 years in public service. 

However, he fears the consequences if he were to quit immediately, saying his resignation would bring chaos to Egypt.

Protesters demanding an end to Mubarak’s 30-year rule continue to clash with his supporters on the streets of Cairo. The uprising has been blamed on poverty, corruption and recession.

“I am fed up. After 62 years in public service, I have had enough. I want to go,” Mubarak said during Thursday’s interview with ABC’s Christiane Amanpour.

Mubarak, 82, who remains inside his heavily guarded presidential palace in  Cairo, also said he was troubled by the violence that erupted during the protests and that his government was not responsible for it.

What sort of a leader, if he was a leader, would “give up” on his country and people UNLESS HE KNEW he was a disservice to both the country and his people? He knows he hasn’t done anything for his country. The only thing he did is serve Israeli and American Interests.. at the expense of 83 million people!

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When Israel Praises Mubarak…

A senior Israeli politician has strongly defended out-of-favor Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, describing a revolution in Israel’s southern neighbor as a loss for Tel Aviv.

Praising Mubarak for standing by Israel during his three-decade long rule, labor lawmaker Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said on Thursday that Mubarak’s possible collapse would be painful for Israel.

Ben-Eliezer, who has held several ministerial posts, including Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister, also criticized Washington’s policy toward Egypt, saying by withdrawing its support from Mubarak’s regime, the US has pushed the Middle East toward a catastrophe.

The Israeli lawmaker also predicted that if elections are held in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s Islamist opposition party, would win.

Tel Aviv is anxiously monitoring political developments in its powerful southern neighbor Egypt. Israeli officials have repeatedly warned that the implications of a regime change in Egypt, the country’s only ally in the Arab world, would be enormous in Israel.

Mubarak..the “lackey of the Zionist regime of Israel”

- Ben-Eliezer

Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979 following days of secret negotiations at Camp David, US. Many Egyptians, however, believe that the treaty did not end Israeli occupation and therefore are opposed to it.

Tel Aviv fears that the ongoing popular uprising against the Egyptian president could jeopardize its 31-year-old peace treaty with Egypt.

“Peace with Israel under its present terms can only be enforced by a dictator like Mubarak. Democracy will give the people a voice and their voice clearly demands that the peace accord be broken,” Ray Hanania, an Israeli journalist, wrote in the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.

Egypt is one of the main suppliers of Israel’s natural gas.

Israel also shares a long border with Egypt and both have a frontier with the Gaza Strip. For years, with the help of Cairo, Israel has managed to impose a crippling blockade on the Palestinian territory. Tel Aviv fears that a regime change in Egypt would spell the end of the Gaza siege.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the recent developments in North Africa are the result of the “Islamic awakening, which followed the great [Islamic] Revolution of the Iranian nation.”

The Leader also described Mubarak as the “lackey of the Zionist regime [of Israel].”

HM/HGH/MMNSource: Press TV

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Spark in Tunisia, Fire in Egypt; Explosion (soon) in Syria!

Any and all dictatorships in the Middle East must be eliminated.

Generally speaking, Middle Easterners fear their governments because they were raised to keep their mouths shut: dare criticize governments, and you are wiped off the pages of history. Period.

Syria is no different. As in any country in the Middle East, the affluent praise the regime and boast the freedom with which the dictator bless the masses… so they think! The rest are worried about being terrorized, jailed and even executed. Officials will then claim such dissidents never existed!

 

In Damascus, Syria, protests failed to get underway on Friday despite heavy promotion on social networking sites.

Image via Wikipedia campaigns on Facebook and Twitter had called for a "day of rage" on Friday and Saturday, following similar actions in Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia.

But despite 12,000 “likes” on its campaign site, the streets of the Old City remained quiet on Friday.

The city did see a higher number of security agents but it was not clear whether protesters had been put off by authorities.
The city did see a higher number of security agents but it was not clear whether protesters had been put off by authorities.

“Syrian dissidents, including Kurds, did not respond to this call because they are convinced protests would be inefficient under the current conditions,” Abdel Karim Rihawi, president of the Syrian League for the Defence of Human Rights, was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.

Earlier, Human Rights Watch called on the country’s authorities to “respect” the right of its people to protest, following reports that protest organisers had been intimidated by security forces.

 

“Syria’s government should immediately cease its intimidation and harassment of demonstrators expressing solidarity with pro-democracy campaigners in Egypt,” the human rights group said in a statement.

Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president, has resisted calls for political freedoms and jailed many critics of his regime.

On Wednesday, a group of 20 people in civilian clothing beat and dispersed 15 demonstrators who had gathered in old Damascus to hold a candlelight vigil for Egyptian demonstrators.

 

“Security services also detained two young male demonstrators for a few hours … and have exerted pressure on organisers to cease any public gatherings,” Human Rights Watch said.

But the voices calling for freedom, and the souls yearning for democracy, shall not be silenced. Each dictator in the Middle East will be disgraced, not just by history, but by the people they enslaved, tortured and crushed!  Sooner or later, these people will be paraded in their own capitals and taken to the Guillotine to face justice and “enjoy” the worst day of their lives!

 

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Most Horrible Video from Cairo

Submitted by DOWN IN THE DARK

 

WARNING: Quite Disturbing!

 

The diplomatic car that ran over 20 people in cairo (28th-Jan-2011)

 

Whoever was behind this crime needs to face the most severe punishment, especially if they actually caused any deaths!

 

 

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Behind Every Great Revolution..

..is a GREAT WOMAN!

Meet Asmaa Mahfouz.. the one who helped spark the revolution in Egypt! May God protect her and her family.

 

 

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The wrong Mubarak quits. Soon the right one will go – Robert Fisk

Protesters in Tahrir Square are right to be sceptical despite the apparent shake-up in Egypt’s ruling party

The old man is going. The resignation last night of the leadership of the ruling Egyptian National Democratic Party – including Hosni Mubarak‘s son Gamal – will not appease those who want to claw the President down. But they will get their blood. The whole vast edifice of power which the NDP represented in Egypt is now a mere shell, a propaganda poster with nothing behind it.

The sight of Mubarak’s delusory new Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq telling Egyptians yesterday that things were “returning to normal” was enough to prove to the protesters in Tahrir Square – 12 days into their mass demand for the exile of the man who has ruled the country for 30 years – that the regime was made of cardboard. When the head of the army’s central command personally pleaded with the tens of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in the square to go home, they simply howled him down.

In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez outlines the behaviour of a dictator under threat and his psychology of total denial. In his glory days, the autocrat believes he is a national hero. Faced with rebellion, he blames “foreign hands” and “hidden agendas” for this inexplicable revolt against his benevolent but absolute rule. Those fomenting the insurrection are “used and manipulated by foreign powers who hate our country”. Then – and here I use a precis of Marquez by the great Egyptian author Alaa Al-Aswany – “the dictator tries to test the limits of the engine, by doing everything except what he should do. He becomes dangerous. After that, he agrees to do anything they want him to do. Then he goes away”.

Hosni Mubarak of Egypt appears to be on the cusp of stage four – the final departure.

Image by robertxcadena via Flickr

For 30 years he was the “national hero” – participant in the 1973 war, former head of the Egyptian air force, natural successor to Gamal Abdel Nasser as well as Anwar Sadat – and then, faced with his people’s increasing fury at his dictatorial rule, his police state and his torturers and the corruption of his regime, he blamed the dark shadow of the country’s fictional enemies (al-Qa’ida, the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Jazeera, CNN, America). We may just have passed the dangerous phase.

Twenty-two lawyers were arrested by Mubarak’s state security police on Thursday – for assisting yet more civil rights lawyers who were investigating the arrest and imprisonment of more than 600 Egyptian protesters. The vicious anti-riot cops who were mercifully driven off the streets of Cairo nine days ago and the drug-addled gangs paid by them are part of the wounded and dangerous dictator’s remaining weapons. These thugs – who work directly under ministry of interior orders – are the same men now shooting at night into Tahrir Square, killing three men and wounding another 40 early on Friday morning. Mubarak’s weepy interview with Christiane Amanpour last week – in which he claimed he didn’t want to be president but had to carry on for another seven months to save Egypt from “chaos” – was the first hint that stage four was on the way.

Al-Aswany has taken to romanticising the revolution (if that is what it truly is). He has fallen into the habit of holding literary mornings before joining the insurrectionists, and last week he suggested that a revolution makes a man more honourable – just as falling in love makes a person more dignified. I suggested to him that a lot of people who fall in love spend an inordinate amount of time eliminating their rivals and that I couldn’t think of a revolution that hadn’t done the same. But his reply, that Egypt had been a liberal society since the days of Muhammad Ali Pasha and was the first Arab country (in the 19th century) to enjoy party politics, did carry conviction.

If Mubarak goes today or later this week, Egyptians will debate why it took so long to rid themselves of this tin-pot dictator. The problem was that under the autocrats – Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak and whomever Washington blesses next – the Egyptian people skipped two generations of maturity. For the first essential task of a dictator is to “infantilise” his people, to transform them into political six-year-olds, obedient to a patriarchal headmaster. They will be given fake newspapers, fake elections, fake ministers and lots of false promises. If they obey, they might even become one of the fake ministers; if they disobey, they will be beaten up in the local police station, or imprisoned in the Tora jail complex or, if persistently violent, hanged.

Only when the power of youth and technology forced this docile Egyptian population to grow up and stage its inevitable revolt did it become evident to all of these previously “infantilised” people that the government was itself composed of children, the eldest of them 83 years old. Yet, by a ghastly process of political osmosis, the dictator had for 30 years also “infantilised” his supposedly mature allies in the West. They bought the line that Mubarak alone remained the iron wall holding back the Islamic tide seeping across Egypt and the rest of the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood – with genuine historical roots in Egypt and every right to enter parliament in a fair election – remains the bogeyman on the lips of every news presenter, although they have not the slightest idea what it is or was.

But now the infantilisation has gone further. Lord Blair of Isfahan popped up on CNN the other night, blustering badly when asked if he would compare Mubarak with Saddam Hussein. Absolutely not, he said. Saddam had impoverished a country that once had a higher standard of living than Belgium – while Mubarak had increased Egypt’s GDP by 50 per cent in 10 years.

What Blair should have said was that Saddam killed tens of thousands of his own people while Mubarak has killed/hanged/tortured only a few thousand. But Blair’s shirt is now almost as blood-spattered as Saddam’s; so dictators, it seems, must now be judged only on their economic record. Obama went one further. Mubarak, he told us early yesterday, was “a proud man, but a great patriot”.

This was extraordinary. To make such a claim, it was necessary to believe that the massive evidence of savagery by Egypt’s state security police over 30 years, the torture and the vicious treatment of demonstrators over the past 13 days, was unknown to the dictator. Mubarak, in his elderly innocence, may have been aware of corruption and perhaps the odd “excess” – a word we are beginning to hear again in Cairo – but not of the systematic abuse of human rights, the falsity of every election.

This is the old Russian fairy tale. The tsar is a great father figure, a revered and perfect leader. It’s just that he does not know what his underlings are doing. He doesn’t realise how badly the serfs are treated. If only someone would tell him the truth, he would end injustice. The tsar’s servants, of course, connived at this.

But Mubarak was not ignorant of the injustice of his regime. He survived by repression and threats and false elections. He always had. Like Sadat. Like Nasser who – according to the testimony of one of his victims who was a friend of mine – permitted his torturers to dangle prisoners over vats of boiling faeces and gently dunk them in it. Over 30 years, successive US ambassadors have informed Mubarak of the cruelties perpetrated in his name. Occasionally, Mubarak would express surprise and once promised to end police brutality, but nothing ever changed. The tsar fully approved of what his secret policemen were doing.

Thus, when David Cameron announced that “if” the authorities were behind the violence in Egypt, it would be “absolutely unacceptable” – a threat that naturally had them shaking in their shoes – the word “if” was a lie. Cameron, unless he doesn’t bother to read the Foreign Office briefings on Mubarak, is well aware that the old man was a third-rate dictator who employed violence to stay in power.

The demonstrators in Cairo and Alexandria and Port Said, of course, are nonetheless entering a period of great fear. Their “Day of Departure” on Friday – predicated on the idea that if they really believed Mubarak would leave last week, he would somehow follow the will of the people – turned yesterday into the “Day of Disillusion”. They are now constructing a committee of economists, intellectuals, “honest” politicians to negotiate with Vice-President Omar Suleiman – without apparently realising that Suleiman is the next safe-pair-of-hands general to be approved by the Americans, that Suleiman is a ruthless man who will not hesitate to use the same state security police as Mubarak relied upon to eliminate the state’s enemies in Tahrir Square.

Image via Wikipedia

Betrayal always follows a successful revolution. And this may yet come to pass. The dark cynicism of the regime remains. Many pro-democracy demonstrators have noticed a strange phenomenon. In the months before the protests broke out on 25 January, a series of attacks on Coptic Christians and their churches spread across Egypt. The Pope called for the protection of Egypt’s 10 per cent Christians. The West was appalled. Mubarak blamed it all on the familiar “foreign hand”. But then after 25 January, not a hair of a Coptic head has been harmed. Why? Because the perpetrators had other violent missions to perform?

When Mubarak goes, terrible truths will be revealed. The world, as they say, waits. But none wait more attentively, more bravely, more fearfully than the young men and women in Tahrir Square. If they are truly on the edge of victory, they are safe. If they are not, there will come the midnight knock on many a door.

The key players

Hosni Mubarak

A former Egyptian air force commander who was thrust into power after Anwar Sadat’s assassination in 1982, Mubarak has proved to be a ruthless and resilient President. By combining political repression at home with close relations with the US, and relatively cordial relations with Israel, he has been able to retain Egypt’s place as a pivotal voice in the Arab world. His handling of the Egyptian economy has been less successful, however.

Ahmed Shafik

Like President Mubarak, Prime Minister Shafik’s background is in the Egyptian air force, which he at one point commanded; he has also served as aviation minister. Both his military background and his reputation for efficiency as a government minister made him an obvious choice during the reshuffle forced by the protests.

Omar Suleiman

As the head of the Mukhabarat, Egypt’s secret service, Suleiman was one of the most powerful and feared men in Egypt. He also cultivated a close relationship with the US: Mukhabarat cells became one of the destinations for terror suspects who had been “renditioned” by the CIA. As Egypt’s new Vice-President, however, he hardly represents a new face for the Mubarak regime. Reports of an assassination attempt against him last week have been denied by the Egyptian authorities.

Mohamed Elbaradei

Winner of the Nobel Peace prize, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has the highest international profile of Mubarak’s potential successors. However, he still lacks a strong domestic support base in Egypt, and among the Tahrir Square protesters. It remains to be seen whether he has time to build that kind of support before Mubarak leaves.

Quotes…

“We need to get a national consensus around the pre-conditions for the next step forward. The President must stay in office to steer those changes.”

Frank Wisner, US special envoy for Egypt

“There are forces at work in any society, and particularly one that is facing these kinds of challenges, that will try to derail or overtake the process to pursue their own specific agenda…. [That is] why I think it is important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian government, actually headed by now Vice-President Omar Suleiman.”

Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State

“We need a transition of power within a constitutional framework. At this stage, we have two possible directions: either constitutional reforms or a coup d’état by the army. I don’t see another way out.”

Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, secretary general of the liberal Wafd Party

“I don’t believe that we solve the world’s problems by flicking a switch and holding an election…. Egypt is a classic case in point.”

David Cameron, speaking at security conference in Munich

“I think a very quick election at the start of a process of democratisation would be wrong…. If there is an election first, new structures of political dialogue and decision-making don’t have a chance to develop.”

Angela Merkel, German Chancellor

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‘US sends warships to Egypt’

Monday, 07 February 2011 10:24

PressTV

The US has deployed two warships, including one with 800 troops, and other military assets to Egypt as the revolution in the North African country gains momentum.

Officials in Washington have stated that the move is to be prepared in case of an evacuation of Americans from Egypt.

Meanwhile, Pentagon has denied that military intervention in Cairo is being contemplated.

HA/MGH

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A Democracy called Israel.. Death of the so-called Democracy!

As you can see on the home page – under Top Posts, A democracy called Israel is of course about anything but democracy!

 

Pro NaZionists, this article may be hazardous to your sick views!

Aljazeera reports:

The death of Israeli democracy

 

Right-wing Israelis have recently taken to the streets to express their views, but will left-wing Israelis be able to make their voices heard?

As Egyptians demand their freedom, I ask a Muslim in Jaffa if we will see the same in Israel. “I don’t think so,” he answers. “Even with all the mess here, we have democracy.”

But, do we? And for how much longer?

As we speak, the Knesset is debating one of a slew of anti-democratic bills. Some of the legislation targets Palestinian citizens of Israel – people like this man and his wife, who is quick to offer me coffee and her opinions.

If the Admissions Committee law passes, for example, this young couple and their three children could find themselves barred from living in certain communities and villages, even those built on public land. If the Nakba Bill is approved, organisations that commemorate the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians will be ineligible for public funds. This is a “watered down” version of the bill. The original version sought to imprison anyone who publicly marked the Nakba Day. Other legislation aims to silence individuals and groups that criticise the government.

The Israeli Democracy Institute (IDI) says that such bills pose “serious threats” to the country. Explaining that the death of democracy is “a gradual process,” the IDI, a non-partisan think-tank based in Jerusalem, warns:

“People who are concerned but are waiting for the ‘moment of real danger’ to abandon their routines and take steps to defend democracy are making a mistake. The moment of real danger is now.”

It is worth noting that the IDI managed to publish this op-ed in The Jerusalem Post, a centre-right daily, while the centre-left newspaper Haaretz has recently published a number of pieces voicing similar concerns about Israel’s democracy. This suggests that even the Israeli centre – however apathetic – is worried about the state of the state.

Diminishing democratic space

Some critics might say that Israel was never a democracy in the true sense of the word. Arab citizens of the state were under martial law from 1949 to 1966. A year later, the decidedly undemocratic occupation of Palestinian territories began.

Knesset member Dov Khenin, of the Jewish-Arab party Hadash, puts it like this:

“In Israel there is a specific democratic space. It’s not big, and in connection to the topic of Arabs, it’s even smaller. But the space is important to us because it’s the space we’re standing in.”

He gestures to the room in Jaffa, where he is giving a talk under the banner of “The Danger of Fascism”. There are about 20 people present – a sad number considering what is at stake.

“What has happened in recent years – and it’s a process that’s very dangerous – is that the space is being attacked and clamped down upon,” Khenin continues.

“One of the attacks is coming in the form of racism,” he says.

He explains that while Arab Knesset members have always been regarded with suspicion – the vicious verbal assault Haneen Zoabi faced in the Knesset after she participated in the flotilla comes to my mind – the government is “now attacking not just the Arab Knesset members but all the Arab population”.

“The process is spreading,” Khenin adds. “And if we look at the past two years, it’s not just the Arab population, [the government is] also attacking Jews who think differently.”

A political witch-hunt

That assault is coming in the form of anti-democratic legislation that would limit free speech and campaigns against Israeli human rights organisations.

The Boycott Bill seeks to criminalise those who advocate for the international boycott of Israel, subjecting them to steep fines.

The Anti-Incitement Bill criminalises those who publish anything that denies Israel’s Jewish and democratic character. Because I have authored articles calling for a bi-national democracy, this one could land me in jail. (And, if I’m already headed for the clinker, I might as well state the obvious: A country that must force people to call it democratic, on pain of imprisonment, is not a democracy).

And the Knesset is considering the creation of committees that will investigate the funding of left-wing civil and human rights organisations – most of which are critical of the Israeli occupation. Critics have likened the move to a political witch-hunt as right-wing groups will not be investigated. They also point out that such an investigation, which is the responsibility of the legal branch, would exceed the Knesset’s power.

So the question remains: Will Israel become out-right fascist?

‘Sliding towards fascism?’

At an October protest against legislation commonly referred to as the loyalty oath – a bill that would require non-Jews seeking Israeli citizenship to pledge allegiance to a “Jewish and democratic” state – Gavriel Solomon, a prominent academic and peace activist, likened Israel to Nazi Germany, circa 1935.

That was the year that the Nuremberg Laws – racist legislation that led to the systematic and deadly persecution of Jews – were created.

“There were no [concentration] camps yet but there were racist laws,” he said. “And we are heading towards these kinds of laws.”

Speaking to Al Jazeera by telephone, Solomon softened his message, remarking that: “The question was really if we are not sliding towards fascism.”

“Even though we very clearly have people like [Avigdor] Lieberman [the foreign minister] who are not sensitive to the issue … there [are] enough people on the right not to allow such Lieberman laws to go through,” he says, pointing to members of Likud like Dan Meridor.

But Haaretz recently revealed that right-wing activists are working in Jewish settlements to recruit Likud voters who would push Meridor out of the Knesset.

And rightists are taking other moves to silence dissent. Haaretz reports that they have successfully shut down the Facebook pages of several left-wing groups.

Depending on how these right-wingers spin their projects – are they trying to silence dissent or are they taking necessary measures for Israel’s image and security – the Israeli public may be willing to march lockstep with them.

A recent poll, conducted by the Geocartography Knowledge Group, found that more than half of Jewish Israelis are willing to limit press freedom if the media poses a threat to the state’s image. And nearly two-thirds would clamp down on freedom of speech for the sake of security.

Top-down racism

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is one of the organisations leading the fight against anti-democratic legislation. Spokeswoman Ronit Sela remarks: “I think what’s troublesome is that it’s not just groups or people on the street that are voicing things that are racist and anti-democratic … [it is] the Knesset and the government.”

“And we don’t see such a strong opposition from the prime minister [Binyamin Netanyahu].”

Sela emphasises that whether or not the bills pass they are damaging.

“When the person on the street reads in the newspaper that there are Knesset members who want to interrogate these organisations about their funding, it makes an impression,” she says. “Damage has already been done to the reputation of the human rights organisations, to the Arabs of this country and to the Jewish citizens who work with them.”

“It is anti-democratic content that is slipping into the Israeli mainstream,” she adds.

Just as Sela warns against focusing solely on the passage of legislation, Khenin cautions against pinning Israel’s political crisis on one person or group.

“When we’re talking about the rise of fascism in Israel, we’re talking about the groups of extreme rabbis and the settler armies,” he says. “But it’s a mistake to focus just on those groups … The danger of fascism is wider.”

He points to a weak high court and problems within Israel’s political parties, as well as a political centre that has disappeared and can no longer keep the right in check.

“We need to understand that fascism isn’t an expression of power, it’s an expression of weakness.”

Khenin points out that not long before Netanyahu became prime minister he called Palestinian citizens of Israel a demographic threat. “And now he’s head of the government,” he adds.
And because the death of democracy is tied up with the occupation, “a people who oppresses another people cannot be free,” Khenin says, paraphrasing Friedrich Engels.

Change is in the air

Will the people hit the streets for democracy?

Oded is a 29-year-old industrial designer who asked to be identified by a pseudonym because he fears social and professional repercussions from voicing his political opinions and doing so on an “Arab” media outlet.

He says that, if current trends continue, it is likely that Israel will see a fascist government. In the past, Oded recalls, dissenting opinions were tolerated. “Now, it’s impossible to say anything against the state or the government. If you do, you’re a ‘traitor’ because the state is the value that’s important.”

And Oded, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, remarks that this kind of ultra-nationalism is at the root of both racism and fascism.

“Are you going to protest?” I ask.

“No,” he says. “Right now, however self-centred it sounds, it doesn’t really interest me because I have things in my personal life that are more important. And I’m lazy.”

When I ask him if he thinks such apathy might allow extremists to take over, he nods. “I think [if we had a fascist government,] I would just leave,” he says, voicing something I have heard many Israelis say.

A recent demonstration held under the banner “March for Democracy while we still can,” attracted some 20,000. Many held signs that read: “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies.”
And, on Saturday night, some 200 Palestinian citizens of Israel and far-left Jewish Israeli activists gathered to stand in solidarity with Egypt’s pro-democracy protestors and to demonstrate against oppression in Israel.
A Palestinian-Israeli demonstrator said, in Hebrew, that the Middle East must get rid of “the three b’s: Barak, Bibi [Netanyahu] and Mubarak”.

While meaningful change is probably a long way off for Israel – it may take something huge, like fascism, to wake Jewish Israelis from their apathy and dreams of maintaining both a Zionist and democratic state – change is in the air.

Mya Guarnieri is a Tel Aviv-based journalist and writer. A regular contributor to Al Jazeera English, her work has also appeared in The Guardian and The Huffington Post, as well as other international media outlets.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial policy.

 

Meanwhile…

 

Jerusalem set to approve contentious Jewish housing in Arab neighborhood

 

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US backs Mubarak’s cling to power

 

Ain’t that just lovely! Days ago, they were calling for the immediate transition of power to a ” more democratic government. ” Now they support a dictator openly!

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has voiced her support for embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, alleging that his early exit could raise electoral complications.

Mubarak may need to stay on longer than many of his opponents want in order to ensure elections succeed, Clinton said on Sunday.

“We’re going to try to work with a lot of like-minded countries around the world to offer whatever assistance we can,” she said.

“We have experts in holding credible elections, we have experts in writing constitutions.”

“This is important, to look over the horizon. You don’t want to get to September, have a failed election, and then people feel … what was the point of it?” she added.

 

Speaking to reporters on the way back from international talks on Egypt in Germany, Clinton stressed that the timetable of Mubarak’s departure lies with the Egyptian people.

For the past 30 years, Egypt has been not only a crucial US partner in the Middle East, but a linchpin in Washington‘s strategy for a future Israeli-Palestinian agreement.

Washington gave Cairo USD 1.3 billion in military aid and USD 250 million in economic aid in the 2010 fiscal year.

Clinton backs Mubarak’s stay at a time the Egyptian army fires into the air to disperse protesters in the capital’s Liberation Square amid continuing demonstrations against the unpopular president.

Millions of Egyptians have for two weeks taken to the streets across the country to call for the ouster of the Mubarak regime. More than 300 people are estimated to have been killed since the protests began.

 

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Israeli Economy For Beginners

 

Tuesday, 08 February 2011 00:41, Gilad Atzmon

We learn from the press and  political analysts that, against all odds and in spite of the global financial turmoil,  Israel’s economy is booming. Some even suggest that Israel is one of  the strongest economies around.‘How come?’ you may ask; besides maybe avocado, oranges, and some Dead Sea beauty products, none of us has actually ever seen an Israeli product on the shelves. They don’t make cars; nor do they make electric or electronic appliances, and they hardly manufacture any consumer goods. Israel claims to be advanced in high-tech technologies but somehow, the only Israeli advanced software ever to settle within our computers have been their Sabra Trojan Horses.  In the land they grabbed by force from the indigenous Palestinians, they are yet to find any lucrative minerals or oil.

So what is it? How is it that Israel is impervious to the global financial disaster? How can Israel be so rich?

Israel may be rich because, according to the Guardian, “out  of the seven oligarchs who controlled 50% of Russia’s economy during the 1990s, six were Jewish.” During the last two decades, many Russian  oligarchs have acquired  Israeli citizenship. They also secured their dirty money by investing in the kosher financial haven; Wikileaks has revealed lately that “sources in the (Israeli) police estimate that Russian organised crime (Russian Mafia) has laundered as much as US $10 billion through Israeli holdings.”[1]

Israel’s economy is booming because mega swindlers such as Bernie Madoff have been channeling their money via Zionists and Israeli institutions for decades.[2]

Israel is ‘doing well’ because it is the leading trader in blood  diamonds. Far from being surprising, Israel is also the fourth biggest weapon dealer on this planet. Clearly, blood diamonds and guns are proving to be a great match.

As if this is not enough, Israel is also prosperous because, every so often, it is caught engaged in organ trafficking and organ  harvesting.

In short, Israel is doing better than other countries because it runs one of the dirtiest- non -ethical economies in the world. In spite of the Zionists’ initial promise to bring about a civilised ethical Jew, Israel has, instead, managed to develop an outstanding level of institutional  dismissal of international law and  universal values. It operates as a safe haven for money made in some horrendous global criminal activities. And it employs one of the world’s strongest army to defend the wealth of just a few of the wealthiest Jews around.

Increasingly, Israel seems to be nothing more than a humongous  money laundering haven for Jewish oligarchs, swindlers, weapons dealers, organ traffickers, organised crime and blood diamond traders.

Such a realization can  certainly explain why Israel is totally impervious to social equality within its borders.

Poor Israelis

Since Israel defines itself as the Jewish state, one may expect the Jewish people to be the first to benefit from their country’s booming economy. This seems to be not at all the case. In spite of the economy’s strength, Israel’s record on social justice is appalling. In the Jewish state 18 families control 60% of the equity value of all companies in the land. The Jewish State is shockingly cruel to its poor. As far as the gap between rich and poor is concerned, Israel is listed right at the top of the scale.

The meaning of all of that is pretty devastating; though Israel operates as an ethno-centric  racially orientated, tribal setting, it is proving to be totally careless of the members of its own tribe – In fact, in the Jewish state, a few million Jews are serving the darkest possible interests, the fruits of which, are to be enjoyed by just a very few rich  villains.

Smoke Screen

But there is a deeper and far more devastating meaning implicit within it all.  If my reading of the Israeli economy is correct, and Israel is indeed a monstrous cash haven for the dirtiest money around,  then the Israeli Palestinian conflict is, at least, from the Israeli-elite’s perspective ,  nothing but a smoke screen.

I hope that my readers and friends will forgive me for saying it –  I hope that I will  forgive myself for saying it — But it seems to me that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Israel’s horrendous crimes against the Palestinian people, actually serves to divert attention away from Israel’s complicity in some colossal and global crimes against vast populations around the world.  Instead of addressing the above relentless greed-driven attempt to grab wealth on the expense of the rest of humanity, we are all focusing on a single territorial conflict, that actually brings to light just one devastating criminal side of the Jewish national project.

It is more than likely that the vast majority of Israelis also fail to detect the deceitful role of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The Israelis are indoctrinated to look at every possible issue from a national security perspective. They have failed to realise that along the intensive militarization of their society, their Jewish state has become a money laundering haven and a refuge for villains from all over the world.

But here is some bad news for Israel and its corrupted elite.  It is just a question of time before the Russians, Americans, Africans, Europeans, all of humanity, begin to grasp it all — We are all Palestinians and we all share one enemy.

I would even take it further, and argue that it is possible that, not before too long – some  deprived Jews and Israelis will also begin to realise how deceptive and  sinister  Israel and Zionism truly are.

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[1] For more information about global organized crime connections with Likud or other major Israeli political parties. Please follow this link http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/topic.php?tid=147

[2] Also, it is rumoured that, prior to its collapse, Lehman Brothers transferred 400 billion dollars to Israeli banks. I am not in a position to substantiate any of these theories – but I would strongly suggest that it is of some urgency to find out how truthful these accusations are.

Source: Gilad Atzmon

Exposed: U.S. Duplicity in Egypt

The mask has slipped badly from the two-faced Obama administration.  I have been reporting on the duplicity of the U.S. policy in Egypt since January 31 when President Obama sent a high-level C.I.A. man as personal envoy to manage the crisis.

BOLLYN EXPLAINS U.S. DUPLICITY IN EGYPT ON PRESS TV

The envoy’s father was Frank Wisner Sr., the infamous C.I.A. boss behind the overthrow in the 1950s of presidents in Iran and Guatemala.  Frank Wisner Jr., Obama’s “personal envoy” to Egypt, admitted on February 5 that he supported the Mubarak dictatorship staying in power – while Obama has been telling the world that he wanted immediate change.  This blatant duplicity reveals the true character of the Obama administration.

The envoy’s father was Frank Wisner Sr., the infamous C.I.A. boss behind the overthrow in the 1950s of presidents in Iran and Guatemala.  Frank Wisner Jr., Obama’s “personal envoy” to Egypt, admitted on February 5 that he supported the Mubarak dictatorship staying in power – while Obama has been telling the world that he wanted immediate change.  This blatant duplicity reveals the true character of the Obama administration.

WHILE OBAMA SUPPORTED THE PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTORS…

AND CALLED FOR IMMEDIATE CHANGE…

“What is clear — and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak — is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now.” – President Obama, 2 February 2011

HIS PERSONAL ENVOY WAS SUPPORTING THE DICTATORSHIP…

AND THE USE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PROTESTORS.

Pro-Mubarak thugs on horseback attacked the peaceful protestors.

U.S. Pursues Dangerous Two-Faced Policy
Violence Erupts After Obama’s C.I.A. Man Advises Mubarak
Mubarak Appoints “C.I.A. Partner” Suleiman Vice President
Broadcasting Equipment Confiscated from Foreign Journalists
Links to Cairo are Cut as Egyptians Demand End of U.S.-Supported Dictatorship

“I’m extremely concerned, I mean this is yet another symptom, or another indication, of a criminal regime using criminal acts. My fear is that it will turn into a bloodbath.”

- Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian opposition leader

“To the people of Egypt, particularly the young people of Egypt, I want to be clear: We hear your voices. I have an unyielding belief that you will determine your own destiny and seize the promise of a better future for your children and your grandchildren.”

- U.S. President Barack Obama, 1 February 2011

CAIRO, February 1 – Egyptian women join thousands of protestors at Tahrir Square demanding the end of the U.S.-supported Mubarak dictatorship.

More than 100,000 protesters had massed in the square by midday.

February 1 – Mubarak speaks on national television saying he will step down on – in September…

while Obama says Egypt’s change of leaders must start immediately.  “The status quo is not sustainable,” Obama said in comments given after Mubarak’s speech.  “An orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now,” Obama said.  The Egyptian dictator has been America’s most reliable (read pro-Israel) ally in the Middle East for 30 years.  Mubarak has blocked much-needed relief from reaching the besieged Palestinians of Gaza, who share a mostly closed border with Egypt.  Photo – Barack Obama and Hosni Mubarak at the White House, 1 September 2010.

Mubarak has appointed his intelligence chief, C.I.A. “partner” Omar Suleiman, as vice president.  Suleiman is clearly the man who the C.I.A. hopes will replace Mubarak.  A senior U.S. intelligence official described Suleiman as deeply involved in every aspect of the diplomatic relationship between the two countries, as well as a C.I.A. partner in sensitive programs, including transfers and interrogations (read kidnap and torture) of prisoners captured in counterterrorism operations. As the C.I.A. point man in Egypt, Suleiman meets often Israeli leaders. Here he shakes hands with Ehud Barak, the war criminal who killed 1,400 civilians in Gaza as Barack Obama became president in January 2009.  At the time, Obama said he would have plenty to say about Israeli war crimes in Gaza – but has said nothing ever since.

President Barack Obama sent Frank Wisner of the C.I.A. (Vice Chairman of A.I.G. and director of Enron) to Egypt on January 31 to advise the besieged dictator Hosni Mubarak, who is quickly losing control of the nation.  Shortly after Obama’s “special envoy” arrived in Cairo, broadcasting equipment was confiscated from foreign journalists (including the BBC) and all roads and rail links to the capital were cut. This is a very dangerous game and reveals the two-faced nature of the Zionist-controlled Obama administration.  While Obama talks about supporting “democratic change”, he sends a “dirty tricks” man in a last-ditch effort to prevent the U.S.-funded dictatorship from falling.  This desperate and deceitful action by the Obama administration can only harm future relations with Egypt.

A protester looks at a burnt Egyptian Army armoured vehicle in downtown Cairo 28 January 2011.  (Reuters)

The Israeli war criminal and terrorist Ehud Olmert with Hosni Mubarak, the detestable 82-year-old tyrant of Egypt known for his support of U.S. and Zionist criminal policies against the Palestinian – and Egyptian people.

Mubarak and Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister from the extreme right-wing Likud Party.  The Zionist state depends on corrupt leaders in the Middle East (and the United States) for its survival.  Despite its claims to support democracy in the region, the prospect of a democratic state in Egypt is seen as a great threat to Israel.

This video shows the Egyptian police shooting a teenage protestor in cold blood.

The uprising in Tunisia has spread to Egypt, the most populous and important nation of the Arab world.  Massive protests with tens of thousands of people have also broken out in Yemen.  Having followed the developments in Tunisia closely on the BBC World Service, I noticed an attitude of unusual concern by the BBC toward the popular uprising that overthrew the Tunisian dictator Ben Ali.  When similar uprisings have happened in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, China, or Burma they have invariably been praised and promoted as a sign of the progress of western democracy.  This supportive attitude, however, was conspicuously lacking in the BBC coverage uprising in Tunisia.  The first question asked (with obvious concern) of every commentator was always, “Will the unrest in Tunisia spread to Egypt and other Arab nations?”

One got the distinct impression that the BBC is somehow afraid of democracy in the Arab world.  Their attitude seems to be that the people of the Middle East do not have the same right to demand democratic governments as the people of Europe.  Decades of U.S. (and British) support for dictators like Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak and the refusal of the U.S. and the “international community” to accept the democratically elected Hamas government of Palestine are proof (if any were needed) that the U.S. government does not really support democracy in the Arab world.  Dictators are, after all, so much easier to control.  Having fostered and supported virtually every dictator in the Middle East, the U.S. regime now finds itself wrong-footed and in an increasingly weakened position in the region.  These popular uprisings will have profound consequences on U.S. stature and policies in the region.

Protestors tear down an image of the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria on 25 January 2011.

The naysaying pundits on the BBC notwithstanding, the growing intifada in Cairo and across Egypt has shown that the popular revolt is spreading and will not be put down by Mubarak and his security forces.  The writing on the wall is clear - the many long years of Hosni Mubarak’s brutal tyranny are over.  The dictators across the region are now planning their own escapes.  A new day is dawning in the Middle East and there will be no going back to the darkness of the days of the dictators.  The protests that are rocking the Middle East today will eventually result in great changes for the people of the entire region by ending the decades of tyranny imposed on their nations by the Zionist-controlled regimes of the United States, Britain, and Israel.

ISRAEL IN “STATE OF STRATEGIC DISTRESS”

The overthrow of the Mubarak dictatorship puts Israel in “a state of strategic distress”, according to Aluf Benn of Ha’aretz:  “The fading power of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s government leaves Israel in a state of strategic distress. Without Mubarak, Israel is left with almost no friends in the Middle East; last year, Israel saw its alliance with Turkey collapse.”  Israel’s strategic distress at the possibility of a democratic Egypt emerging from the overthrow of Mubarak led the Zionist-controlled Obama administration to take desperate and deceitful measures to support the dictatorship the U.S. has funded with billions of dollars every year – for 30 years.

U.S. SENDS C.I.A. DIRTY TRICKS MAN – VIOLENT ATTACKS BEGIN

The Obama administration sent Frank Gardiner Wisner 2nd, the son of one of the founders of the C.I.A.’s propaganda and special operations branch to control the critical situation in Egypt.  In 1947-48, Frank Wisner Sr. established the C.I.A.’s Operation Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic and foreign media.  “By the early 1950s, Wisner ‘owned’ respected members of The New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles,” Deborah Davis wrote in her 1979 book entitled, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and The Washington Post.

Sending Wisner Junior to Egypt indicates that the United States is engaged in a dangerous and dirty operation against the Egyptian protestors, who massed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on February 1.  If the U.S.-backed dictatorship resorts to violence, as it did with the orchestrated attacks on the protestors by men on horseback, the U.S. will be seen as responsible because it sent Wisner, a veteran “dirty tricks” agent with a long history of counter-revolutionary actions.

YE SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS

Wisner reportedly left the country the day after Mubarak sent hordes of paid thugs and plain-clothes police into the square to attack the peaceful protestors with Molotov cocktails and weapons.  It is not believable that Mubark would take such drastic actions against the wishes of Obama’s special envoy.  The controlled media has reported that Obama sent Wisner to Cairo to urge Mubarak to step aside, but that is clearly false.  Wisner’s arrival coincided with a pronounced change in tactics against the protestors. The crack down tactics advised by Wisner culminated in the violent attacks against the protestors in Tahrir Square and other places on February 2.  When we consider that the United States is controlled by a highly deceitful and criminal regime, which is actually protecting the real culprits of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, we can understand that the U.S. government shares the same criminal nature as those it supports in Egypt and Israel.  As Jesus said, “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.”

Wisner’s father became the head of the C.I.A.’s Directorate of Plans (DPP) in 1952 and Richard Helms was his chief of operations. The DPP, formed by the merger of the Office of Policy Coordination and the Office of Special Operations (the espionage division) accounted for three quarters of the C.I.A. budget and 60 percent of its personnel.  In the early 1950s, Wisner orchestrated the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala.

This is a very dangerous move because it shows that the Obama White House is pursuing a two-faced policy of trying to keep Mubarak in power while it pretends to be supporting democratic change in Egypt.  Shortly after Wisner arrived in Cairo the Egyptian authorities began confiscating broadcasting equipment from foreign journalists, including the BBC – on arrival at the airport.  As millions of Egyptians prepared for a huge rally in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on February 1, roads and rail links to Cairo were cut.  These actions were clearly being taken on orders given by Wisner.  This shows that the United States has actually been working to support the Mubarak dictatorship in the face of massive protests by the Egyptian people.  This is an extremely ill-advised and dangerous game to be playing while the Obama administration pretends to support “democratic change.”

Frank Gardiner Wisner was on Enron’s board of directors since 1997 and was Vice Chairman of Maurice Greenberg’s fraudulent American International Group (A.I.G.) through 2009, after A.I.G. had received hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to support its criminal enterprise.  Both Enron and A.I.G. were engaged in criminal fraud operations that cost the U.S. taxpayer dearly.  Wisner has also been involved in C.I.A. activity since the early years of the Vietnam War.

Sources and Recommended Reading:

 

“US playing a ‘two-faced deception’ game in Egypt”, Bollyn on U.S. role in Egypt, PressTV (Iran) 3 February 2011
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/163424.html

“Frank Gardiner Wisner – Commander, United States Navy; Central Intellignce Agency,” ArlingtonCemetery.Net
http://arlingtoncemetery.net/fgwisner.htm

“The Empire’s Bagman: Frank Wisner in Cairo,” by Vijay Prashad, 2 February 2011
http://www.counterpunch.org/prashad02022011.html

“Frank Wisner, the Diplomat Sent to Prod Mubarak,” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 2 February 2011

“Obama says an orderly transition ‘must begin now’”, by Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, 2 February 2011

“Without Egypt, Israel will be left with no friends in Mideast”, by Aluf Benn, Haaretz, 29 January 2011

“The Power Elite: Enron and Frank Wisner”, People’s Democracy, 16 November 1997
http://www.apfn.org/enron/wisner.htm

“Egypt’s intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, could be called on to smooth turmoil,” by Joby Warrick and Greg Miller, Washington Post, February 1, 2011

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Israel plans to wall off Egypt

Israel plans to wall off Egypt

Tue Feb 8, 2011 1:32PM

Israeli President Terrorist Shimon Peres

Israel is set to put up an electronic security barrier on the border with Egypt as the anti-Tel Aviv sentiment is on the rise in the North African nation.

Israeli President Shimon Peres ordered the immediate construction of the wall at a conference in the seaside town of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, Israel’s Foreign Ministry reported on Monday.

The decision comes as a popular revolution in Egypt against the three-decade rule of Israel’s long-time ally Hosni Mubarak has raised serious concerns in Tel Aviv.

Politicians at the Herzliya meeting pointed to the complexity of the situation in the Middle East and expressed concern over the possible developments in the future.

Peres also insisted on an immediate resolution to Israeli-Palestinian conflicts so that “real issues of the Middle East” could be addressed.

“The dramatic events of recent days raise the need to remove the Israeli- Palestinian conflict from the daily agenda as soon as possible because the conflict is being exploited to the detriment of both sides,” Peres said.

Head of the Israeli army’s planning directorate and the foreign ministry’s director general, in their speeches, warned of more severe crises in the year to come.

Informed sources, meanwhile, insist that the recent developments in Egypt and their impact on other Arab nations are indicative of more hassles underway for Israel.

Israel has given its full support to Mubarak despite widespread calls in Egypt demanding that the dictator leave the Egyptian soil.

To prevent a revolution in the country, Israel earlier allowed Egypt to deploy its troops to the Sinai Peninsula in contrast to an agreement between Cairo and Tel Aviv to leave the peninsula demilitarized.

But fearing a complete breakdown of the treaty, Israel refused Egypt’s request for more troops in the region.

MRS/PKH/AKM

source

Ironic, isn’t it: that a sovereign country would “request” permission to deploy its troops on its land.. further proof that the so-called peace treaty with Egypt is no more than a CIA-MOSSAD plan to contain Egyptians, with the help of their man, Adolf Hosni Mubark!

But we know that the will of people can destroys barriers: the Berlin Wall, the Bar Lev Line, and soon the Apartheid Wall Israel uses to confine and dehumanize Palestinians!

This new barrier will only raise the level of hate towards a NaZionist country founded on, and practices terrorism daily!

 

 

 

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من اميركا الى احبائنا و إخواننا وأخواتنا في مصر: نصركم الله ورفع شأنكم

تحية لكم يا أبطال مصر.. يا أعزة مصر.. يا أحرار مصر

ان شاء الله النصر على طغاة وفراعنة هذا الزمان لآت. انتم في قلوبنا وأفكارنا وصلوانتا ودعائنا

انتم الأخيار الأبطال…أنتم رمز الحرية ورمز العزة – والعزة لله –  وها هو فرعون يتضعضع وسيغرق كما غرق جدّه الفرعون الملعون.. وان شاء الله فرحتكم قربية

هنيئا لشهدائكم وهنيئا لكم بالحرية والديمقراطية الفعلية وليس ما يبيع الغرب من نفاق وديمقراطية خايبة.. للبعض فقط!

كرّوا فأنتم الاحرار

وفرعون وشياطينه هم الأفرار

 

Looks like un-Mubarak!

We salute you O heroes of Egypt .. O noblest of Egypt .. You who are freeing Egypt..
God willing, victory over the tyrants and the pharaohs of these times, is coming!  You are in our hearts, our thoughts and our prayers
You are the heroes  and the symbol of freedom and pride..  Witness as this Pharaoh plunges in the abyss.. as his cursed “grandfather” drowned and died a humiliating death! God willing, you will soon celebrate and Joy will return to Egypt!

Blessed are your martyrs. Congratulations to you for your fight for the real freedom and democracy:  not what is sold in the West;  hypocrisy and failed democracy ..
Forward! You are the free!

And the Pharaoh and his demons are the defeated ones.

Israel: No to Democracy in Egypt

What does one expect from a government of thugs and terrorists?

 

Israel openly opposes democracy in ME

Wed Feb 9, 2011 2:56PM

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s second-in-command has strictly rejected the establishment of democracy in Egypt, alleging it could have dire consequences.

Deputy Premier Silvan Shalom said attempts at promotion of democracy in Egypt could strengthen what he called radical elements in the country, said Israeli website The Marker, a subdivision of the Ha’aretz newspaper.

He asserted, “We know that, recently in the Middle East, democratic elections have caused the accession to power of radicals like Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon.”

The resistance movements, who owe their presence in the defense and political arenas to popular consensus, have invariably defended the Palestinians and Lebanese against deadly Israeli invasions.

“Think of what would happen if the radicals become dominant over Egypt and decide to close the Suez Canal,” he said.

The comments came amid popular revolution in Egypt against the country’s three-decade-long President Hosni Mubarak’s regime.

The uprising, which entered its 16th straight day on Wednesday, has been severely confronted by Egyptian security forces. More than 300 people have lost their lives since the popular movements began, reports say.

Israel has, however, supported Mubarak’s stay in power.

To prevent the revolution, Israel has also allowed Egypt to deploy troops to Sinai Peninsula despite a Tel Aviv-Cairo peace agreement, which has kept the peninsula demilitarized for decades.

US diplomatic cables, exposed by British newspaper The Telegraph on Monday, showed that Tel Aviv preferred Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman to succeed Mubarak.

Suleiman, who was appointed as VP on January 29, kept daily contact with Tel Aviv through a secret “hotline,” the cables said, and noted that he also had very good ties with Israeli figures.

HN/PKH/AKM

 

How radical indeed.. yet Israel doesn’t think that “closing off Gaza” and creating the largest Auschwitz-like detention “camp” with over 1.5 million people, is radical?

The loss of human life is unimportant to the Israelis… their record of Nazism in Palestine is proof.

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Imposing its Will on People!

These are the words of Egypt’s Foreign Minister.

Foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, rejects calls for immediate repeal of emergency law and says US “imposing its will” on Cairo!

Imagine the audacity of such a statement. Did this thug forget that his corrupt government imposed its will on the Egyptian people for 30 years?  Those who refused to submit, were imprisoned, if not executed!

Give me time – he says!

“Allow me to have control to stabilize the nation, to stabilize the state and then we would look into the issue.”

As Donald Trump would say:

“Aboul Gheit, You’re Fired!”

Egyptian protesters carry a sign that reads:

The sons of the Martyrs are dying while Mubarak possesses $70 billion.. We Demand an immediate trial (for Mubarak)

 

One of the best comments on Aljazeera Web Site:

The Prophet Mohammed said: “Those who preceded you were smitten [destroyed] because when their “nobels” stole, they would leave them alone, while when  their poor (weak) stole, they would severely punish them. By God: If Fatima, Mohammed’s daughter, were to steal, I would cut off her hand [in equal punishment.]“

And Mubarak steals $50 billion? Amazing that this amount seems minimal in your eyes… War hero??? A hero who stole his subjects? A hero who wrongs his people?  And a hero who lies in broad daylight!

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Hague warns Israel to soften rhetoric

The Middle East peace process is in danger of falling victim to the revolutionary tide sweeping the Arab world, foreign secretary William Hague has warned.

Speaking on an emergency tour of the region, Mr Hague also urged Israel to tone down its “belligerent” language in the wake of the uprisings which have spread from Tunisia to Egypt and beyond.

The intervention came as the situation in Egypt intensified, with thousands of protesters again on the streets of Cairo demanding President Hosni Mubarak‘s immediate departure.

In an interview with The Times en route to Jordan, Mr Hague said: “Amidst the opportunity for countries like Tunisia and Egypt, there is a legitimate fear that the Middle East peace process will lose further momentum and be put to one side, and will be a casualty of uncertainty in the region.”

He added: “Part of the fear is that uncertainty and change will complicate the process still further. That means there is a real urgency for the Israelis and the United States.

“Recent events mean this is an even more urgent priority and that’s a case we are putting to the Israeli Government and in Washington.”

Mr Hague responded to pronouncements by Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been urging his nation to prepare for “any outcome” and vowing to “reinforce the might of the state of Israel”.

“This should not be a time for belligerent language,” the Foreign Secretary said. “It’s a time to inject greater urgency into the Middle East peace process.”

Despite two weeks of steadfast pressure, Egyptian protesters have not achieved their goal of ousting Mr Mubarak.

Yesterday, thousands of civilians – including about 5,000 university professors and teachers – packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square to continue their demonstrations calling for the president’s removal.

In Alexandria, the country’s second largest city, 18,000 people crammed into the main square, while some 3,000 service workers for the Suez Canal also demonstrated in Suez city.

Around 8,000 people also chanted anti Mubarak slogans in the southern city of Assuit.

The beleaguered president has refused to step down, insisting on serving until elections in September.

His regime offered more concessions to the protesters in hopes of appeasing them while keeping as firm a grip on power as it possibly can.

Vice president Omar Suleiman, who is managing the crisis, offered to set up committees to propose long-sought constitutional amendments and monitor the implementation of all proposed reforms. [of course this is The Independent's view; the reality is as we see elsewhere, that this thug is a CIA/ Mossad favorite and does what he does to appease anyone but his people!]

Mr Mubarak also ordered a probe into last week’s clashes between the protesters and government supporters as well as mass detentions of human rights activists and journalists. [another lie and tactic...]

How did Egypt become so corrupt?

A picture is emerging of a state where wealth fuels political power and political power buys wealth.

It has been nearly two weeks and the protesters in Egypt are still calling for the president to leave.

Many Egyptians feel that the only ones benefitting from the country’s wealth are businessmen with ties to the ruling National Democratic Party.

Reports about the wealth of Hosni Mubarak, his family and the people close to him have started to emerge. According to some reports, Mubarak himself has an estimated net worth of $40bn to $70bn.

We should keep this in mind when some Egyptian and U.S. officials bleat on about Mubarak’s “60 years of devoted service to his country” and that he deserves an “honorable exit.”

They paint a picture of a state where wealth fuels political power and political power buys wealth.

“In the name of what, exactly, has the United States been ready to back and fund an ally whose contempt for the law, fake democracy and gross theft flouts everything for which America stands?”

According to Transparency International’s annual corruption index, Egypt ranks an ignominious 98th of 178 countries, just ahead of Mexico.

The super rich grew ever more dominant and flashy while 30 per cent of the population remained illiterate — an astonishing non-achievement — and gross national income is a mere $2,000 per family.

 

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MUBARAK WILL STEP DOWN TONIGHT – or will he?

The SOB refuses to quit…

Unbelievable.

Has his arrogance completely taken over?

 

 

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NBC and ALJAZEERA JUST REPORTED THIS! Thursday Feb 10, 2011 – 7:50 AM Pacific. A Day to remember!

WHAT AN HISTORIC EVENT!

 

Congratulations to our brothers and sisters in Egypt!

Next?

Mubarak left Egypt: presidential sources

Egyptian demonstrators wave their national flag that bear the date ‘January 25,’ referring to the first day of the start of pro-democracy protests, at Cairo’s Liberation Square on February 10, 2011.

Presidential sources say Egypt’s three-decade ruler Hosni Mubarak has left the country, noting an address he is scheduled to deliver in a few hours is taped.

The reports by presidential sources came on Thursday on the heels of remarks by Hossan Badrawi, the general secretary of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party, who said Mubarak will “probably” address the nation in the evening.

He told state-funded BBC that he hopes Mubarak will transfer power to Vice President Omar Suleiman.

The opposition Muslim Brotherhood earlier said on its official website that Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq confirmed the possibility that the out-of-favor Egyptian president will step down within a few hours and leave amid continued pro-democracy protests.

Unconfirmed reports also said Mubarak had already travelled to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh with his army chief of staff.

Other reports indicated that the Egyptian army has taken over presidential powers, saying it supports the legitimate demands of people and that it is taking measures to protect the people.

‘Coup’

Essam al-Erian, a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s biggest opposition group, said he feared that the Egyptian military was staging a coup.

“It looks like a military coup … I feel worry and anxiety,” he told Reuters.

“The problem is not with the president, it is with the regime.”

The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Leon Panetta, said he had received unconfirmed reports that Mubarak would step down on Thursday evening. He said Suleiman would possibly take control.

“I’ve received reports that, possibly, Mubarak might do that,” he told a congressional intelligence hearing. “We have not gotten specific word that he, in fact, will do that.”

Egypt’s information minister, however, denied reports that Mubarak intended to step down, insisting that the president “is still in power.”

“The president is not stepping down and everything you heard in the media is a rumor,” Anas el-Fekky told Reuters.

Egyptian state television showed images of Mubarak sitting behind a desk in silence while Suleiman talked. It was not immediately clear when it was filmed, though the channel said the meeting was happening now.

Press TV

MRS/AKM

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Egyptian activists asking for Help

Stand with Egyptian Change.org members and all Egyptians fighting for their civil rights. Dear Atw, Ten days ago, when the government turned the phones back on for a few hours, two young Egyptian street activists called us from Tahrir Square: Mahmoud Salem, a well known 29-year-old Egyptian activist and blogger, and Gihan Ibrahim (pictured to the right), a 24-year-old activist who calls herself “Gigi.” The two of them dictated the text for an international campaign over the phone. It’s become one of the top petitions ever on Change.org. You can add your name here: http://www.change.org/petitions/support-the-peoples-revolution-in-egypt-?alert_id=EVTdCNXGMB_iDPUBTDcBp&me=aa Earlier today, we spoke with Gigi and Mahmoud again. Here is their dictated letter to you:   Dear fellow Change.org members, We’ve been in Tahrir Square — at the epicenter of the Egyptian revolution — day and night since January 25th. People here are tired. We’ve been beaten, shot at, tear-gassed, rained on, denied medical access, and have lived in a public square for more than two weeks. Mercenary thugs on horses have attacked us with whips, swords, and knives. Hundreds of people have lost their lives and thousands are hurt or missing. But when we tell people here that more than 41,000 people from 120 countries have added their voice to our campaign, it gives them a sense of vindication, telling us that we are not crazy and what we are asking for is something that all human beings deserve. The revolutionary feeling here is incredible. Every day this square is full of peasants, workers, students and professionals, engineers, teachers, singers, writers and celebrities, Muslims, Christians, young, old, rich and poor. We are demanding things which everyone can agree on: an end to corruption, dictatorship and oppression; the ability to vote in free, fair and democratic elections; freedom, dignity and social justice to all citizens. Yet many governments around the world still do not support us. They call for “stability” in the region, even when we lack democracy and human rights in a “stable” country. This is why your solidarity is so important. It sends a simple message to those in this square who are risking their lives to support democracy: Even if the governments of the world aren’t with us, the people of the world are. After just two weeks of protest, President Mubarak has called off his brutal police forces, modified the constitution, and promised to step down ahead of upcoming elections. But these are only baby steps, which should happen as part of open negotiations after the president’s resignation, not instead of it. We are dealing with a corrupt, brutal government led by a dictator of 30 years. This has to stop, it has to change, and we will not leave until he does. Are you with us? http://www.change.org/petitions/support-the-peoples-revolution-in-egypt-?alert_id=EVTdCNXGMB_iDPUBTDcBp&me=aa أشكركم على تضامنكم (Thank you for your solidarity) Gigi Ibrahim and Mahmoud Salem The January 25 Movement Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt

كل عام وأنتم بخير يا أبطال مصر.. هنيئا لكم ولصمودكم

Happy New Year! Happy Days are here again!

Congratulations Egypt! You’re finally free! You have toppled a most despicable dictator!

This is a GREAT DAY for Egypt! Celebrate and enjoy!

Omar Suleiman: CIA Agent atop Egyptian Pyramid?

Next to be toppled.. soon

“He is basically your main go-to guy in Egypt,” former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin said. Suleiman has been “helpful in many arenas,” including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. McLaughlin said.

 

 

A 2006 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, disclosed by the WikiLeaks website in January, called intelligence collaboration with Suleiman “probably the most successful element” of the U.S. relationship with Egypt. But that relationship is “a little like being in bed with the Mafia,” author Ron Suskind told CNN’s “Parker Spitzer.”

“If someone knocks on your door at night and you disappear, Omar Suleiman is probably behind it,” said Suskind, whose 2006 book “The One Percent Doctrine” detailed the Bush administration’s post-9/11 counterterrorism policies. “He is a feared man, and certainly not a man with any legitimacy when it comes to rule of law or any of the principles we prized in America.”

In 2002, al Qaeda captive Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi “was tortured rather dramatically” by Suleiman’s agents, Suskind said, yielding a “confession” that Iraq had trained the terrorist group in the use of chemical and biological weapons. His assertion was a key point in the Bush administration’s arguments for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but he recanted it once back in U.S. hands.

That sort of history leaves an opening for critics to question U.S. support for democratic change in Egypt, Suskind said.

“The fact is, we are allied with the people they’re trying to overthrow, and right now the United States hasn’t done much to separate those bonds,” he said.

Suleiman had long been mentioned as a possible successor to Mubarak, along with the aging ruler’s son, Gamal. A 2007 U.S. cable called his loyalty to Mubarak “rock solid,” and some analysts viewed his vice presidential appointment as a way for Mubarak to make a graceful exit.

Suleiman is even credited with saving Mubarak’s life. On a state visit to Ethiopia in 1995, Mubarak was to have traveled in a normal vehicle but Suleiman insisted that the president’s armored Mercedes be flown in from Cairo.

Accounts of an assassination attempt on Mubarak vary but it’s believed that Suleiman was sitting next to Mubarak when a hail of bullets pinged off the car. The bond forged that day cemented their relationship.

But Suleiman’s attempts at dialogue with opposition parties were derided by protesters, and the Obama administration criticized the talks for including too few opposition groups. Vice President Joe Biden told Suleiman on Tuesday that Egypt needed “immediate, irreversible progress” toward meeting protesters’ demands, and leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei said Suleiman and Mubarak “are twins.”

“This is an act of deception at a grand scale,” ElBaradei said.

Nathan Brown, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at George Washington University, said Mubarak’s Thursday speech did him little good. Not only was it too little, too late, he said, but his announcement that he was ceding power to Suleiman was buried in an “incredibly patronizing” speech.

“Had he done this a couple of weeks ago, it actually may have done something,” Brown said. But now, he said, “All the constitutional, legal tools are in their hands, and it doesn’t’ do them any good. So I don’t think they’re sure what to do.”

Source: CNN

 

 

Image by messay.com via Flickr

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Hear O Israel: You have every right to Worry!

Israel hopes peace accord will remain as Egypt changes to democracy – Haaretz

Don’t hold your breath!

The Arab world and People REJECT a peace treaty based on terrorizing, ethnic cleansing and uprooting Palestinians!

There’s no peace when thugs known as settlers cheerfully – supported by the Israeli Occupation Terrorists – evict Palestinians from their homes… throw them in the street and then have the audacity to bill them for the “cost of removing their belongings” from their own homes!

There’s no peace with Nazi-like government who kills and justify the killing of Palestinians through a corrupt violent Talmudic “religion.”

Long gone are the days of traitors you bought…

One by one, these dictators are falling.. and you will face the ugly truth that Arabs never supported their dictator’s “peace-treaties” with Nazi Israel.

Sooner or later you shall let Palestinians  return to their lands and homes.. else await your ultimate fall and demise. And just as the U.S. abandoned its “dictators and so-called allies,” the day will come when you, O’ Israel will be abandoned.

You’ve been served!

Predicted here first: an explosive Middle East!

It was predicted here first, on Attending the World, that the Tunisian uprising would inspire the rest of the Arab world to erupt against their ruthless despicable dictators.

 

 

Although the spark of freedom skipped Libya and ignited the first Facebook revolution ever, in Egypt, toppling a powerful dictator (who we continued to call as “friend” throughout this uprising), strangely enough, the remaining dictators still don’t get it. Bahrain‘s King in his joke of a-kingdom,  offered each family $1,000 per family (in their currency).

What was he thinking?

Libya, finally, and Yemen are in the process of toppling their despicable dictators.

Soon, North Africa will become the first dictator-free Arab land – and on the way to establishing the new United States of Arabia!

After Yemen ousts its dictator (who has been in power longer than Mubarak), Saudi Arabia and Jordan must go next. Then Syria, Iraq, the UAE and Bahrain… maybe even Sudan. Even Iran is exploding! Maybe Israelis will soon explode against their Nazi-like government as well since they know that their government is a most hypocritical and ruthless dictatorship.

What a beautiful picture this will finally paint.

Israel will no longer be surrounded by complicit Arab dictators who bowed to Israel’s every humiliating demand, despite Israel’s continued Nazi-like massacres, uprooting and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The Israeli terrorist government, feeling the heat, issued statements indicating their commitment to “peace.”

Now? For 62 years of tyranny and brutality in the name of a religion, Israel reigned terror on Palestinian civilians. Not once have we seen any serious attempt for peace from the side of Israelis. On the contrary, they continued to create an Auschwitz-like camp (Gaza) and starved 1.5 million Palestinians to death. They continued to build settlements on occupied territories to create what they called “facts on the ground.”

Israel will soon face a real democratic United States-like “Arab country” which will be treated with the utmost respect throughout the world. Then, the U.S. will abandon its other dictator-ally called Israel.  And then the Arabs (Jews, Christians and Muslims) will liberate Palestine from Zionism, in the simplest most effective way: a peaceful Intifada or protests!

Then there shall be peace!

 

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“Key” U.S. Ally seeking Freedom!

Protests have been banned in Bahrain and the military has been ordered to tighten its grip after the violent removal of anti-government demonstrators, state TV reports.

“This is the first time in Bahrain’s history that I see this many people in an open area like this,” Maryam al-Khawaja from Bahrain Center for Human Rights told Press TV on Wednesday.

The army would take every measure necessary to preserve security, the interior ministry said.

Three people died and 231 were injured when police broke up the main protest camp, said Bahrain’s health minister.

Tiny but Ruthless

This is how little of a country Bahrain is… it’s as if someone abandoned a little island, and another rushed to claim it… as his Kingdom!

Yet the brutality with which this regime met protests is ten fold the violence against protesters in Algiers, Tunisia and/or Egypt.

Why do these ruthless tyrants and dictators feel as they are formidable against the will of the people? Could they possibly be supported by external powers and forces?

My assessment is that the U.S. does not wish for Bahrain to become a democracy:

The crackdown has caused unease in the West. Bahrain is a key UK and US ally and hosts the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet.

This is exactly the name of the game: United We Stand against democracy and Human Rights when it comes to protecting “our” bases (and interests) on foreign lands. People and freedom, are suddenly unimportant.

Probably larger than the "kingdom" of Bahrain

USS Nimitz in Bahrain

Meanwhile, as dictators continue to insist on living in their own fantasy worlds, Bahrain’s “king” claims that “Reform” takes time!

Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa made a rare national TV address, offering condolences for the deaths, pledging an investigation into the killings and promising to push ahead with reforms, which include loosening state controls on the media and Internet.

 

The king had previously called for an emergency Arab summit to discuss the growing unrest.

Yesterday Bahraini riot police have stormed a protest camp in the capital Manama, killing at least four people, as the government tried to quell the protests.

The World Reacts

The British Foreign Office confirmed Thursday that it has temporarily closed its embassy in Bahrain.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he spoke to the Bahraini foreign minister and stressed the “need for peaceful action to address the concerns of protesters” and “the importance of respect for the right to peaceful protest and for freedom of expression.”

“We also urge all sides to avoid violence and the police to exercise restraint,” Hague said.

Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief, deplored the violence and loss of life.

“She also calls on the Bahraini authorities to fully respect and protect the fundamental rights of their citizens, including the right to assemble peacefully. The peaceful expression of people’s concerns should be met through dialogue,” according to a statement from her office.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon weighed in on Thursday, saying that he is “disturbed by the violent means used to disperse the demonstrators” and that “there should be no violence.”

Secretary Clinton to Call Bahraini Counterpart as White House Monitors Uprising Against Another Ally…

I suspect that Clinton is only interested in the well-being of our forces and assets in this tiny spec of land in the Arabian Gulf. As for democracy, she will only issue her support after the success of the revolution, calling on the new government to honor its commitment to the U.S. and maintain the U.S. fleet’s presence in the Gulf!

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US Administration Supports Dictators!

US vetoes UN draft on settlements

The Obama administration finds itself all too often nowadays on the wrong side of history, embarrassingly supporting dictators and occupiers instead of people in their march to freedom.

Washington blocks resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories as an obstacle to peace.

As an obstacle to peace? What peace? 62 years since the illegal establishment of the NaZionist terrorist state and all Israel is interested in, is creating the Greater Terrorist State of Israel – from the Nile to the Euphrates.

The US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlements as “illegal” and called for an immediate halt to all settlement building. All 14 other council members voted in favour of the resolution.

We still wonder why they hate us! Hint. Read the headline again!

The Obama administration claims that, if passed, such a resolution would have hardened the position of both sides without advancing peace between Israelis and Palestinians and that the ‘Peace Process‘, not the UN Security Council, is the venue to tackle such issues.

In reality, however, the parties’ positions have already hardened because of the settlements’ proliferation with total impunity.

In Israel, Jewish settlers today make up the hardcore base of its right-wing government (arguably the most extreme in its history). And for their part, the Palestinians have for the last two years rejected direct negotiations as long as settlement activity continued.

Moreover, settlements have been most damaging to the peace process, and its goal of a two states solution.

Since the start of this US-sponsored diplomatic process decades ago, the settlers have quadrupled in numbers from 75,000 to 300,000 scattered in about 200 settlements in the West Bank, and has doubled in cosmopolitan East Jerusalem, making it ever more improbable to separate Palestine from Israel, or establish a contiguous viable state.

Washington’s partners in the International Quartet, the EU, France, the UK and Russia, understand that all too well and hence decided to vote in favour of the draft resolution.

It’s terribly embarrassing for the Obama administration that promised to integrate the US and improve its image around the world, to be seen to be so diplomatically isolated.

It’s also humiliating not to be able to pressure Israel to freeze settlement activity and be forced to veto a resolution that was drafted in line with its own declarations.

But Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN, says that Washington rejects the legitimacy of these settlements and supports the emergence of a Palestinian state, but that such a resolution would advance neither cause?

Declaring the settlements illegitimate but refusing to call them illegal, relieves Israel from possible sanctions and other international reaction, while at the same time, protecting the US, Israel’s main ally and funder, from possible accusations of complicity.

In reality, settlements have led to terrible instability and further complicated the resolution of the conflict while destroying any hope for the two state solution in the process.

But the Obama administration finds itself all too often nowadays on the wrong side of history, embarrassingly supporting unpopular dictators and occupiers instead of people in their march to freedom.

Allowing Israeli colonisation of Palestine to go on unabated and with impunity in the age of de-colonisation doesn’t bode well for wanting to be on the side of history.

To escape this uncomfortable position, the Obama administration has been using acrobatic statements and formulas to rewrite history in a way that portrays it supporting peoples’ rights.

Does the US veto risk a backlash in the Arab world?

Washington’s refusal to join the international community in affirming the applicability of international law in Palestine, could further alienate an Arab world already in turmoil.

In fact, it could add fuel to Arab anger and deepen disappointment at those crucial times.

But the Obama administration has been carefully balancing its options between angering Palestinians and Arabs or alienating Israel and pro-Israeli groups in the US.

Good to his reputation, the pragmatic president has opted for appeasing Israel and its friends.

When weighing in the costs and benefits of supporting such a resolution, the Obama administration seems to have concluded that angering Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, pales in comparison to angering Israeli premier Netanyahu and his allies in Washington and in Congress.

It’s possible that Netanyahu will reciprocate by offering Obama a tactical compromise to ease the international pressure on both of their countries.

Whether this is in the US national interest or simply in the interests of politics as usual in Washington remains to be seen.

It’s clear, however, that neither the Obama administration nor Congress have internalised the historical transformation sweeping through the Arab region.

Rather, it continues to deal with the Arabs and Palestinians with the same imperial mindset that long managed its relations with self-serving Arab dictators and clients, as if nothing has changed in the region.

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Analysis

Barbara Plett BBC UN correspondent 

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On paper this was a defeat for the Palestinians but they and representatives of other Arab nations seemed to be in a buoyant mood. They had held out some hope that America would abstain, but not much, so the veto was predictable.

The degree of support, on the other hand, was overwhelming: some 130 countries co-sponsored the resolution, and all the other members of the Security Council voted for it.

The result was strong endorsement of the Palestinian position on Israeli settlements – that they are illegal, and an obstacle to peace – which isolated Israel. It also isolated the United States.

No matter what reasons America gave for the veto (it insisted bringing the matter to the Security Council complicated chances for peace talks) or how fulsomely it criticised settlement building (as a folly and threat to peace) it appeared out of sync with the international consensus, and as Israel’s only defender.

Given the ferment in the Arab world at the moment, that is not a good position for Washington to be in.

Gaddafi should stay!

In the wake of the massacres committed by a regime more brutal than Mubarak, Hitler and Sharon of Israel, Gaddafi should not be asked to leave.

He must remain in Libya so that he can be tried and executed by hanging, for his crimes against Libyans. The execution should be carried out in the middle of the city of Tripoli and broadcast live on Libyan TV!

 

 

At the time of publishing this post, the news reported that one of the largest tribes in Libya, 1,000,000 strong, have joined the call for democracy and to oust this Libyan Hitler, Gaddafi.  A local witness said that a section of the troops had joined the protesters on Sunday as chaos swept the streets of the city, worst hit by the uprising against Gaddafi’s 42-year old rule.

Freedom and democracy is coming soon to Libya. The fall of this tyrant who dared call himself “The King of Kings of Africa” is eminent and his execution should be a day of celebration for all those who seek freedom and democracy.

The same should be the fate of the fat ugly Bedouin dictator in Bahrain.

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Libyan Diplomat in China Resigns; Gaddafi escapes to Venezuela

A Libyan Diplomat (Hussain Sadeq Almesrati) just announced on Aljazeera that he resigned his post in China in protest of the massacres by Gaddafi and his thugs.

Also reported that there is an internal conflict between Gaddafi’s two sons regarding what’s happening right now against the Libyan population. Another claim is that Gaddafi is preparing an escape (or has already escaped) to Venezuela.

To Venezuela:

ARREST this criminal! Rise for Justice and Democracy and Support the Libyan people: Arrest Gaddafi and demand your government to arrest him in the event he does show up in Venezuela.

Do not allow your government to host this tyrant and terrorist.

And Europe and the US still support dictators!

And Saif spoke live.. wish he kept his mouth shut!

Saif el Islam, Gaddafi’s son just spoke live on Libyan television.. said there is a plot to break Libya into small Islamic states…. Jeez, isn’t that the same thing Mubarak said? Saif is as delusional as the other ignorant tyrants of the Arab world. He threatened that [the government] will fight [the people] till the last man and bullet!

Just Shut the *&^ Up!

When will these MF’s ever understand the people or the… situation?

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Here we go again: Saudi King Supports Bahrain King

Saudi Arabia has pledged to stand “with all its capabilities” by Bahrain’s ruling royal family amid pro-democracy protests inspired by revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt which toppled US-backed government. Press TV

The Saudi Government [as reported by Aljazeera Arabic site] demanded their religious leaders to issue fatwas condemning any type of protest..

The Saudi, Jordanian and Syrian corrupt governments are very concerned… that their thrones will soon become as good as toilets!

The statement came as US Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, for a two day visit.

He told reporters that he was in Riyadh to “reassure, discuss and understand what is going on.”

Bahrain is home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, which has served as a hub for operations in Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and East Africa.

Bahrainis, inspired by revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, dubbed have been expressing disappointment with the political reforms of the past decade, which have failed to bring prosperity and real change.

The protests, however, took a new turn on Thursday after the brutal crackdown on protesters in Manama, which left at least five people dead and more than 230 injured.

At least eight people have been killed and hundreds injured in the clashes since the uprising in the Arab world reached Bahrain last week.

Thousands of protesters continue to mass in Manama’s Pearl Square. They are pressing for political reforms, including the release of political prisoners and the sack of the incumbent Prime Minister Khalifa Bin Salman.

A group of protesters, however, called for the ouster of the entire ruling monarchy.

 

Meanwhile, in Jordan

The Jordanian religious leaders issued Fatwas SUPPORTING protests and stating that such are but a religious mandate to speak against evil, corruption and oppression. Unlike the Saudis, who issued fatwas declaring protests… sacrilegious!

Jordan’s king enjoys absolute powers, ruling by decree: He can appoint and dismiss cabinet and parliament whenever at anytime.

Amani Ghoul, a teacher and member of the movement that organised the protests insisted the protests will continue until their demands are met.

“We want a complete overhaul of the political system, including the constitution, the parliament dissolved and new free and fair elections held,” she said.

 

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Check Mate Gadogfi!

This lunatic is trying to prove that he’s a dictator.

He’s reported to have said when asked by 4 officers to leave:

I will not leave until I burn the whole country and everyone in it!

Translated.

I do pray that Egypt and Tunisia rush in – with their armies and air power – to bomb Gaddafi’s headquarters and every one of his residences and exterminate this lunatic. Immediately!

If he survives, this blood-thirsty-heathen should be hung by the testicles… and that’s a little too merciful.

The Dog of Libya

Please help me spread the word and demand from all Libyan embassies around the world to resign and stand with the people.

It is now permissible to kill this tyrant and to rid humanity of such evil. His tyranny and brutality has seen no equal in the Arab world- save that of the Israeli terror forces against Palestinians.

Libyan Pilots refuse to bomb Libyans; defect to Malta

UPDATE Feb 22, 2011

The military spokesman announced on behalf of the armed forces under the leadership of the Green Mountain, full accession of the army in his area to the people. He said in a statement:

“We are officers and soldiers of the armed forces under the leadership of the Green Mountain announce our alliance with the revolution of the people, and we will work to ensure the maintenance of security in the region, and God is our Source of strength.”

Aljazeera also obtained photographs showing/a group of Libyan army joining the people as it arrested a group of mercenaries [Gaddafis thugs].

Aljazeera also got pictures showing/ proving  demonstrators claims that they were fired upon from all directions  in each of the cities of Benghazi and Tripoli, the capital.

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Refusing to Bomb Benghazi, Pilots Crash Planes – Latest from Libya

A Libyan military aircraft has reportedly crashed near the city of Benghazi after pilots refused to bomb peaceful pro-democracy protesters, reports say.

The pilot and co-pilot had refused bombing orders and parachuted out of their aircraft in an uninhabited area.

A Libyan daily says the plane had orders to bomb the city but the crew refused to carry out the deadly mission.

This comes after Libyan tyrant Colonel Muammar Gaddafi pledged to crush the popular revolution in the oil-rich country. The government has even used air raids to suppress persisting mass demonstrations.

This is while government forces are losing grip on the country amid the ongoing revolution in Libya

Soldiers in the coastal town of Tobruk, which lies close to the Egyptian border, say Gaddafi’s forces have lost control of the region.

They say they no longer back the Libyan ruler. Protesters have over-run the eastern province of Cyrenaica.

Meanwhile, military defectors in eastern Libya are reported to be mobilizing to defend the people against possible attacks by Gaddafi’s forces.

The dictator’s military forces have even used air raids to suppress demonstrations.

Many governments and international bodies across the world have reacted strongly to the crisis in Libya.

Reports widely indicate that government-led violence in the country has left at least one thousand protesters dead over the past several days.

PressTV

Carlos Latuff, an artist, a visionary, sums up the Libyan Dictator Lunatic in his drawings!

As Libya was stained with the blood of its revolutionists martyrs, the national Libyan television broadcasted Gaddafi addressing a rambling speech, in which he refused to step down, claiming himself as the head of the revolution and that he had no official position from which to resign.

Gaddafi speech came on Tuesday evening, after a bloodbath spreaded over libyan cities. The place of speech was unknown.

“I would die as a “martyr” on the land of my ancestors and fight to the last bullet,” the hardheaded Gaddafi said, standing against the backdrop of what looked like a damaged building.

“I will purge Libya ‘house by house’ to crush revolt,” he stated.

“Capture the rats,” he said of anti-regime demonstrators.

“If I wanted to use weapons against you (the revolutionists), the hole country would be burnt,” he threatened.

Source: Al-Manar

 

Gaddafis Nurse!

Gaddafi insists on dying a humiliating death. Maybe his female bodyguards or his favorite voluptuous Ukrainian nurse would turn on him, and inject him with a painful, agonizing, slow-killing fluid that will make him beg for an immediate execution.

 

Gaddafis Nurse!

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American Hypocrisy in “supporting” Democracy in the Middle East

The US State Department has admitted that American military cooperation with Yemeni officials includes military aid to maintain “stability” of the Sana’a regime.

According to the State Department, military relations between Yemen and the United States are steadily improving with the resumption of International Military Education and Training assistance and the transfer of military equipment and spare parts, Press TV’s Marjan Asi reports from Washington.

However, political analysts believe that the so-called “security” and “stability” that the US has been promoting in Yemen is actually intended to keep the embattled ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh in power.

The majority of Yemenis are unhappy with the expanding US military ties with their government, especially considering the harsh crackdown on protesters in recent days. This has led to an uneasy alliance between the two governments, facing an uncertain future.

In recent days, thousands of Yemeni protesters have taken to the streets across the country, calling for the ouster of Saleh.

The Yemeni president has described the pro-democracy protesters as “elements of a coup.”

Saleh, in power for 33 years, said that he would leave power after his term expires in 2013. He has also promised not to hand power to his son.

The Yemeni incumbent president has also pledged to raise wages of government employees and to provide 60,000 job opportunities for university graduates.

The Yemeni government crackdown on protesters, inspired by revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, has so far left at least 24 people dead.

The US also occasionally carries out drone attacks in Yemen. Despite such extraordinary measures, the country has grown increasingly unstable.

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• Yemeni protesters shot dead at Sana’a University (guardian.co.uk)
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The Women of Revolution in the Middle East

 

 

 

 

 

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Different Traditional Costumes

Caesar Maddness: Gaddafi

 

Caesar Gaddafi

 

 

The similarities between the recent actions of the Libyan dictator with Nero in the Great Fire of Rome suggest that the Libyan dictator is suffering from Caesar madness.

Nero Claudius Caesar, the fifth emperor of ancient Rome, burned down the city of Rome in the year 64 AD out of sheer madness; he finally committed suicide in the year 68 AD.

Currently, the people of Libya are faced with a complicated figure like Colonel Muammar Gaddafi who has brutally bombed public places and killed hundreds of his own countrymen.

The violent oppression of the people suggests Gaddafi is not willing to learn from history as he continues his struggle to maintain his grip on power.

In the recent upheaval in Libya, a large number of aircraft have reportedly fired at crowds of protesters in the city of Benghazi and Tripoli, launching one of the most violent mass killings.

In a televised conference, Colonel Gaddafi called protesters hooligans and said he would fight the people of Libya until the last bullet.

Gaddafi, who is regarded as the strangest leader in the Arab world, was born in the city of Sirte on June 7, 1942.

 

The Libyan People’s Committee for General Security, the regime’s highest security agency, has broadcast a message on state-run television calling on “citizens to co-operate and inform on those who led on the youth or supplied them with money, equipment or intoxicating substances and hallucinatory pills.” The Telegraph

He entered the army when he was 18. In 1969, he led a bloodless rebellion with junior military officers against the former king Idris al-Senussi when he was only 27-years-old.

Gaddafi came to power at a time when Arab nations were in a difficult psychological state following their defeat in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

By using new rhetoric about fighting Zionism and imperialism in the post-war political climate, Gaddafi managed to attract the attention of most Arab nations.

In the past 42 years Gaddafi has used various political techniques but over the past seven years, in a 180 degree turn, he embraced the United States and the West.

Since the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq Gaddafi has submitted to the United States and the West as he worries that the time for his own collapse has come as well.

In 2003, Gaddafi signed an agreement with the United States handing over control of nuclear installations and advanced weaponry to the United States.

The Libyan dictator also paid USD 1 billion as compensation for the 1988 explosion of the Pan American flight over Lockerbie Scotland.

Since then, Gaddafi’s regime has become a favorite of the US and the West’s because he provided information about Islamic and Arabic resistance movements to the CIA.

Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, who has long been seen as the successor to his father, has established deep ties with Israeli leaders and the Zionist Lobby of the United States.

Thereby, Libya abandoned the anti-US and anti-Israel bloc to join the American and Western allies. This unimportant change, however, failed to gain the approval of the Libyan population.

This is because the people of Libya question the logic behind Gaddafi’s decision to hand over control of expensive weaponry worth upward of USD 20 billion to the United States without referring to public opinion.

By complying with the West, Gaddafi intended to prepare grounds for the transfer of power to his son Seif al-Islam.

At the time, the US and European nations had agreed to the gradual transfer of power from Gaddafi to his son Seif al-Islam.

Despite the agreements, Colonel Gaddafi witnessed increased domestic turmoil and he was faced with the waves of political dissatisfaction within his own office.

The waves of the tsunami of Egypt and Tunisia quickly reached the shores of Libya creating a difficult situation for the Libyan dictator.

Millions of Libyans protested the domestic and foreign policies of Colonel Gaddafi and confronted government forces.

The wave of unrest reached various cities across Libya and thousands of people have been killed by the direct bullets of African mercenaries.

Gaddafi has hired 50,000 mercenaries from all over Africa and has placed them in major Libyan cities.

Some say Seif al-Islam has contacted Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak requesting a squadron of fighter jets to bomb the people of Libya.

Eyewitnesses in various cities have reported that several F-16 fighter jets have bombed crowds of people protesting against Colonel Gaddafi.

The United States and countries that support Gaddafi have been quiet about the massacre of Libyans at the hand of mercenaries in a bid to advance their own interests.

Western analysts believe the reason why the US gave Gaddafi a free rein to commit the massacres was to create mayhem in the nation.

The US and NATO member-states will then occupy Libya and control its oilfields using the protection of Libyan people.as an excuse.

The current situation is too complicated to be able to make an accurate assessment of the outcome of the protests.

But still it seems Gaddafi’s situation is not better than that of Ben Ali and Mubarak’s, the former Tunisian and Egyptian dictators.

Many of Libya’s political figures compare Gaddafi’s recent oppressive measures to a headless chicken that will soon inhale its last breath.

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• Libya: Colonel Gaddafi To Speak On State Television (news.sky.com)
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Libya’s Gaddafi could find refuge in Israel

 

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Israel’s Channel 2 News last year interviewed two Israeli women of Libyan origin who claimed to be distant relatives of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

The older of the two interviewees, Guita Brown, said she is Gaddafi’s second cousin (Brown’s grandmother was the sister of Gaddafi’s grandmother). The younger of the two women, Rachel Saada, granddaughter of Brown, explained in more detail:

“The story goes that Gaddafi’s grandmother, herself a Jewess, was married to a Jewish man at first. But he treated her badly, so she ran away and married a Muslim sheikh. Their child was the mother of Gaddafi.”

While Gaddafi’s grandmother converted to Islam when she married the sheikh, according to Jewish religious law (and common sense), she was ethnically still Jewish.

At this point the news anchor stated, “So, the point is that Gaddafi doesn’t just have Jewish relatives, he is Jewish!”

Rumors of Gaddafi’s Jewish background are nothing new. But with the current uprising in Libya that threatens to ultimately overthrow the dictator, as has happened in the neighboring countries of Tunisia and Egypt, Gaddafi may be looking for an exit strategy.

And Now it’s the Palestinian Youth Revolution

From Aljazeera Arabic site

translated

Fadi Qar'an: The youth have the right to shape their country and future

Ramallah – A group of Palestinian youth envisioning a new “national meeting” that represents the aspirations of all Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and occupied Palestine (1948) and refugees in the diaspora, and considers resistance is the only strategic option for national liberation.

The document – published by the youth group of the cities of Jerusalem and Nazareth, Ramallah and Al Bireh – alerts people to “the disastrous situation faced by Palestinians in light of division and confusion of agendas and priorities that led to a state of failure.”

The document demands that the Palestinians are required to re-read their history and their struggle and building a realistic vision for their future, based on the formulation of social reform for all Palestinians, on the basis of their right to self-determination.

The group announced its has no name, but operates under the heading “Document 80%,” in reference to the percentage of the youth among Palestinians.

The activist group Nagwan Bayrakdar – one of the city of Nazareth, occupied in 1948 – This document derives its legitimacy from the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza and Occupied Palestine of 1948, and the Diaspora, and is based on the liberation movement by Egypt and Tunisia.

 

The document rejects  “reduction” of the Palestinian people to less than a third of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and “ignoring” the nearly five million Palestinians at home and abroad, and the vast majority of refugees.

It stipulated that the Palestinians in Occupied 1948  Palestine who were forced to carry Israeli citizenship,  are also an integral part of the Palestinian people, and they have the right to participate in self-determination, and get rid of the apartheid regime and the Zionist occupation, “which has been a heavy burden on their chests since the Nakba.”

Rebuilding

The document also calls for the re-building of the Palestine Liberation Organization in a democratic way that does not exclude any Palestinian and is free from any Israeli influence.

Read more (Arabic only) here.

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Dictators Are Us; Toppled One by One

QADDAFI’S HORRIFIC CRIMES – VERY GRAPHIC!

What are these people thinking?

Are they that dumb, deaf and blind?

They all repeat the same thing… it’s as if they have the same mother.. or father (Ramses II) for that matter!

Some Predictions for the remaining morons!

‘Gaddafi’s son joins Libyan protesters’

The youngest son of the embattled ruler Muammar Gaddafi has joined the pro-democracy protesters in eastern Libya as the outpouring of rage against Gaddafi remains unabated, reports say.

According to the reports, Saif al-Arab, Gaddafi’s youngest son, who was sent by his father to cooperate with Libyan security forces in the massive crackdown on pro-democracy protesters joined forces with the demonstrators on Thursday, while hinting that his father would commit suicide or flee to Latin America.

According to reports, Saif al-Arab had the backing of combat troops and had military equipment that were dispatched to the eastern parts of turmoil-hit Libya.

WAR CRIMES OF QADDAFI HERE – WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC!

 

As many as 1,000 Libyans have so far been killed by the Gaddafi’s forces, reports say.

A total of 130 Libyan soldiers have been executed for refusing to open fire on protesters.

Pro-democracy demonstrations inspired by the popular revolutions that deposed decades-long rulers in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia, have engulfed Libya since Feb 15, with thousands of people taking to the streets of the eastern city of Benghazi and calling for the ouster of the 68-year-old Gaddafi.

Gaddafi, who came to power 41 years ago in a bloodless military coup, delivered rambled, in a televised address on Tuesday, in which he vowed to fight on to his “last drop of blood” and called on his supporters to take to the streets to confront the protesters.

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Meanwhile Aljazeera Arabic just reported that Chavez (of Venezuela) claimed that Qaddafi’s mercenaries are non other than the American Neocons’!

Related Articles

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U.S. Oil Companies Big Lie; Gas Prices Up due to Mid East Unrest?

Oil – exports(bbl / Day) 2011 Country Ranks, By Rank

Rank		Country	Value		Date of Info
1		Saudi Arabia	8,728,000		2007 est.
2		Russia	5,430,000		2009
3		United Arab Emirates	2,700,000		2007 est.
4		Kuwait	2,349,000		2007 est.
5		Nigeria	2,327,000		2007 est.
6		Iran	2,210,000		2009 est.
7		European Union	2,196,000		2008 est.
8		Venezuela	2,182,000		2007 est.
9		Norway	2,061,000		2008 est.
10		Canada	2,001,000		2008 est.
11		Iraq	1,910,000		2009 est.
12		Algeria	1,891,000		2007 est.
13		United States	1,704,000		2008 est.
14		Netherlands	1,660,000		2008 est.
15		Libya	1,542,000		2007 est.
16		Angola	1,407,000		2007 est.
17		United Kingdom	1,393,000		2008 est.

Bahrain and Yemen – where the unrest is, rank 48 (Bahrain) and 42 (Yemen)

40		Sudan	303,800		2007 est.
41		Colombia	294,000		2008 est.
42		Yemen	274,400		2007 est.
43		Thailand	269,100		2009 est.
44		Denmark	268,500		2008 est.
45		Sweden	248,500		2008 est.
46		Trinidad and Tobago	248,300		2007 est.
47		Congo, Republic of the	241,100		2007 est.
48		Bahrain	238,300		2007 est.
49		Aruba	231,100		2007 est.

 

Oil – exports(bbl / Day) 2011 Country Ranks, By Rank

Rank		Country	Value		Date of Info
1		Russia	10,120,000		2010 est.
2		Saudi Arabia	9,764,000		2009 est.
3		United States	9,056,000		2009 est.
4		Iran	4,172,000		2009 est.
5		China	3,991,000		2009 est.
6		Canada	3,289,000		2009 est.
7		Mexico	3,001,000		2009 est.
8		United Arab Emirates	2,798,000		2009 est.
9		Brazil	2,572,000		2009 est.
10		Kuwait	2,494,000		2009 est.
11		Venezuela	2,472,000		2009 est.
12		Iraq	2,399,000		2009 est.
13		European Union	2,383,000		2009 est.
14		Norway	2,350,000		2009 est.
15		Nigeria	2,211,000		2009 est.
16		Algeria	2,125,000		2009 est.
17		Angola	1,948,000		2009 est.
18		Libya	1,790,000		2009 est.
19		Kazakhstan	1,540,000		2009 est.
20		United Kingdom	1,502,000		2009 est.
21		Qatar	1,213,000		2009 est.
22		Indonesia	1,023,000		2009 est.
23		Azerbaijan	1,011,000		2009 est.
24		India	878,700		2009 est.
25		Oman	816,000		2009 est.
26		Argentina	796,300		2009 est.
27		Malaysia	693,700		2009 est.
28		Colombia	686,600		2009 est.
29		Egypt	680,500		2009 est.
30		Australia	589,200		2009 est.
31		Sudan	486,700		2009 est.
32		Ecuador	485,700		2009 est.
33		Syria	400,400		2009 est.
34		Thailand	380,000		2010 est.
35		Equatorial Guinea	346,000		2009 est.
36		Vietnam	338,400		2009 est.
37		Yemen	288,400		2009 est.

 

 

Get it? Libya’s exports to USA are just 5%!

Reviewing all charts here, why then are we being brainwashed that the price of Gasoline at the Pump will jump to at least $4.00 per gallon?

 

Related Articles (how we’re being brainwashed)

• Libya unrest hits markets (lv.com)
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Under the Spell of Israel

As Israel carries out their illegal US funded attacks on civilian populations in Gaza, we look back at the origin of Israel, which is rooted in violence and racism; and the video, Who Were the First Terrorists in the Middle East?

When Gilad Atzmon sent this video across from London today I watched it and shook my head. For me the information isn’t all new but it is enlightening and equally suited for those of us in the know as well as people who are just opening their eyes to Israel’s insane, cruel and needless pattern of violence and cruelty and massive war crimes.

The west has been under a spell for decades, dismissing the real history, meaning and implications of Israel; blindly accepting and funding and protecting what truly is a rogue government without question or delay.

Israel, most unfortunately, is guided by a philosophy that they are more entitled. Israel’s approach to resolving real and perceived problems, as I have written before, is similar to gangland mentality where the biggest guns and sharpest knives, are used to decide the outcome of a situation.

Fortunately, everyone in Israel doesn’t believe in ‘Zionism’; the concept that Jewish people are allowed to take land from other human beings because ‘God gave it to them’.

This philosophy burdens not just Muslim and Christian people who live in occupied Palestine, but also Israeli citizens who speak out against the politicized, violent version of Judaism that Israel represents.

Today Israel is defined by its acts of state sponsored terrorism. As this video reveals, the story dates back to Israel’s very first days

Zionist Gunzels Slaughter A Village - (Note: See many pictures of Irgun terrorist activities at this link.)

We revealed in a recent report; Rahm Emanuel’s Father Specialized in Bus Bombings in Palestine Wayne Madsen Special to Salem-News.com, that Benjamin Emanue, father of Chicago’s newly elected mayor, Rahm Emanuel, was a Jewish terrorist who specialized in the bombings of buses carrying British troops and policemen during the British Mandate in Palestine.

Things are often not how they seem, and as Egypt’s quest for Revolutionary freedom glows, we receive word that an Israeli bomb has just injured 15 people in Gaza.

Israel is such a terrible player in the world political arena; they are deadly and murderous and prejudice and they cross national borders to conduct military action with impudence; as if beyond reproach.

Irgun, the army of Rahm Emanuel's father, is short for Irgun Zvai Leumi- "National Military Organization" in Hebrew, was a terrorist Zionist group that operated in Palestine, killing innocent Palestinians and British soldiers; blowing up buildings

Rahm and pop- Chicago.. can only hope the apple landed far from the tree. The next Israeli President of the United States?

This is the same group that has been killing the people of Palestine in a cold blooded manner for over sixty years. They must be stopped.

We do wonder if the Israelis are targeting our friends in Gaza who are in the ground putting the news out in real time; people like Ken O’Keefe, our writer who Israel branded a ‘terrorist’ after the deadly incident involving the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara which was attacked by Israel in the dark with murderous intent.

Nine men were killed, one was American, they were all unarmed.

Ken O’Keefe and others overpowered Israeli commandos and disarmed them, taking them captive. To what end? Ken and the other unarmed peace activists protected the captured Israeli soldiers and gave them medical attention. Then they were released.

Ken O’Keefe is a former U.S. Marine who was aboard the Mavi Marmara when it was attacked by Israel during a recent attempt to break the siege of Gaza.

If only Israel played the same way. I am so sick and tired of hearing Muslim people referred to as terrorists when no place in modern history can even slightly compete with Israel’s record number of terrorism events.

This video shows how from the beginning, Israel has only represented death and violence to the world. Nobody denies the fact that Jewish people suffered during the Holocaust, but anyone who accepts their current behavior certainly should equally agree with Hitler’s quest, at least in concept.

There is no race or culture that is entitled to more than another. The world should not be governed by religious concepts or hate.

Salem News

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Netanyahu’s March Offensive

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Israel is worried from an internal uprising and is desperately searching for a weapon of mass distraction. Reality is that Israel cannot reach any peace

Image by Abode of Chaos via Flickr

agreement with the Palestinians because these have no agreed leadership. Mahmoud Abbas is holding his position as President of the Palestinian Authority illegally. Elected to serve until January 9, 2009, Mr. Abbas unilaterally extended his term as president of the Palestinian Authority for another year and continues in office even after that deadline expired. Palestinian legal Prime Minister – Ismail Haniyeh – said in September 2010 that “Palestinians worldwide do not support absurd talks with Israel,” and that “the scheduled negotiations would not restore Palestinians’ rights or give them control over religious sites.” Khaled Mashal, said that the upcoming talks were illegitimate and the result of coercion by Washington. I expanded on that in Next Bomb is Courtesy of Netanyahu. Moreover, its peace agreement with Egypt may be in jeopardy, especially if it is to face a referendum of the Egyptian people. Without an advancing peace process, Israelis and Palestinians directly suffering under the violent hands of the Israeli Administration may upraise as Tunisians, Egyptians and Lybians did, asking for their human rights and freedoms. The State of Israel – an illegitimate, terror inflicting organization – is not different from them.

In the last week of February 2011, Netanyahu said over the phone to the German chancellor that he was about to launch a diplomatic initiative, explaining he is making a speech in two weeks in which he will outline a new peace plan. The prime minister claims he intends to launch a new peace plan that would be a continuation of his Bar-Ilan University speech of June 2009, in which he agreed to establish a Palestinian state. Israeli media confirmed that, saying that Netanyahu is frantically looking for a way to jumpstart the peace process, in view of Israel’s growing international isolation. “Netanyahu has recently begun talking about a second Bar-Ilan speech,” said a senior Foreign Ministry official close to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (in the lingo of the Hebrew media this probably refers to Lieberman himself). The speech would outline an alternative to the interim agreement with the Palestinians, similar to Lieberman’s plan.

The initiative consists of establishing a Palestinian state within temporary borders on about 50% of the West Bank.

This is an awesome statement showing an attempt to contaminate another society with the illnesses of the Jewish State. So many years after Israel tricked the UN to give it independence (Israel fails even now to meet the basic conditions imposed by the UN on its sovereignty), it is attempting to create the same contraption with a Palestinian state. A state with no clear boundaries, no well-defined population, and probably even without a Constitution; in other words a Palestinian replica of the State of Israel, for the shame of humanity. Another make-believe fake solution to real problems; another attempt of the Deep Pocket Families to bury the peoples heads in the sands of the Middle Eastern Deserts while enriching themselves with the Business of War.

No, thank you, Mr Netanyahu – proud heir to the Mishpaha Lohemet – please skip your speech, we prefer our freedoms.

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Qaddafi’s “Voluptuous” Nurse Leaves!

Gaddafis Nurse!

According to Aljazeera’s Arabic site, Qaddafi’s nurse has abandoned him. This news comes from her daughter who supposedly informed the Ukrainian Newspaper (Segodnya) that her mother (Qaddafi’s nurse) had contacted her family on Friday expressing her wish to return home.

The New York Post also reported the same:

The voluptuous Ukrainian nurse believed to be Moammar Khadafy’s constant companion is ready to get out of Dodge.

Galyna Kolotnytska told her daughter she is planning to return home to Kiev, Ukraine’s Segodnya newspaper reports.

Tatyana Kolotnytska told the paper that her mother was shocked by the violence in Libya.

“Mom called [Friday]. She says that she is in Tripoli,” the daughter said. “There is shooting, fighting. She asked us not to worry and said she will be home soon.”

Tatyana added that she did not know if her mother was currently with Khadafy.

Read more:

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Gaddafi forces abandon parts of Tripoli; Vote for Next Dictator!

Reports say forces and foreign mercenaries loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi have surrendered parts of the capital Tripoli to pro-democracy protesters.

The residents of some neighborhoods in the capital have barricaded their streets and proclaimed open defiance. Protesters have also taken control of the city of Zawiyah, some 50-kilometers west of Tripoli.

This is while revolutionary forces are advancing towards Tripoli. Forces loyal to Gaddafi continue the violent suppression of anti-government demonstrations as protesters are fighting their way into the capital.

As pro-democracy demonstrations continue across Libya, more cities are falling into the hands of protesters, who have already seized control of several cities including Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi.

The opposition is planning to form an interim government in cities liberated from Gaddafi’s rule, to pave the way for free and fair elections.

The UN Security Council has imposed sanctions on the Libyan regime and has referred Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court.

The United Nations’ refugee agency says nearly 100,000 people have fled Libya in the past week amid simmering tension in the North African country.

According to the UNHCR, most of the evacuees were foreign nationals.

The agency described the situation as a humanitarian crisis, urging the Tunisian and Egyptian governments to support the evacuees.

Earlier, border security officials at Ra’s Jedir crossing said over 38,000 people have crossed Libya into Tunisia since February 20.

The evacuation of foreign nationals has picked up speed since Colonel Gaddafi announced plans to arm his supporters to fight his opponents.

JR/HGH/MMN

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Our absurd obsession with Israel is laid bare

The Middle East meant only Israel to many. Now the lives of millions of Arabs have been brought to Europe’s attention

Nick Cohen The Observer, Sunday 27 February 2011

The Arab revolution is consigning skip-loads of articles, books and speeches about the Middle East to the dustbin of history. In a few months, readers will go through libraries or newspaper archives and wonder how so many who claimed expert knowledge could have turned their eyes from tyranny and its consequences.

The Map erroneously includes Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of the Arab World.

To a generation of politically active if not morally consistent campaigners, the Middle East has meant Israel and only Israel. In theory, they should have been able to stick by universal principles and support a just settlement for the Palestinians while opposing the dictators who kept Arabs subjugated. Few, however, have been able to oppose oppression in all its forms consistently. The right has been no better than the liberal-left in its Jew obsessions. The briefest reading of Conservative newspapers shows that at all times their first concern about political changes in the Middle East is how they affect Israel. For both sides, the lives of hundreds of millions of Arabs, Berbers and Kurds who were not involved in the conflict could be forgotten.

If you doubt me, consider the stories that the Middle Eastern bureau chiefs missed until revolutions that had nothing to do with Palestine forced them to take notice.

• Gaddafi was so frightened of a coup that he kept the Libyan army small and ill-equipped and hired mercenaries and paramilitary “special forces” he could count on to slaughter the civilian population when required.

• Leila Ben Ali, the wife of the Tunisian president, was a preposterously extravagant figure, who all but begged foreign correspondents to write about her rapacious pursuit of wealth. Only when Tunisians rose up did journalists stir themselves to tell their readers how she had pushed the populace to revolt by combining the least appealing traits of Imelda Marcos and Marie-Antoinette.

• Hearteningly, for those of us who retain a nostalgia for the best traditions of the old left, Tunisia and Egypt had independent trade unionists, who could play “a leading role”, as we used to say, in organising and executing uprisings.

Far from being a cause of the revolution, antagonism to Israel everywhere served the interests of oppressors. Europeans have no right to be surprised. Of all people, we ought to know from our experience of Nazism that antisemitism is a conspiracy theory about power, rather than a standard racist hatred of poor immigrants. Fascistic regimes reached for it when they sought to deny their own people liberty. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the forgery the far-right wing of the decaying tsarist regime issued in 1903 to convince Russians they should continue to obey the tsar’s every command, denounces human rights and democracy as facades behind which the secret Jewish rulers of the world manipulated gullible gentiles.

Syrian Ba’athists, Hamas, the Saudi monarchy and Gaddafi eagerly promoted the Protocols, for why wouldn’t vicious elites welcome a fantasy that dismissed democracy as a fraud and justified their domination? Just before the Libyan revolt, Gaddafi tried a desperate move his European predecessors would have understood. He tried to deflect Libyan anger by calling for a popular Palestinian revolution against Israel. That may or may not have been justified, but it assuredly would have done nothing to help the wretched Libyans.

In his Epitaph on a Tyrant, Auden wrote:

“When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter
And when he cried, the little children died in the streets.”

Europe’s amnesia about how tyranny operated in our continent explains why the Libyan revolution is embarrassing a rich collection of dupes and scoundrels who were willing to laugh along with Gaddafi. His contacts in Britain were once confined to the truly lunatic fringe. He supplied arms to the IRA, funded the Workers’ Revolutionary Party, Vanessa Redgrave’s nasty Trotskyist sect, and entertained Nick Griffin and other neo-Nazis. We should not forget them when the time comes to settle accounts. But when Tony Blair, who was so eloquent in denouncing the genocides of Saddam, staged a reconciliation with Gaddafi after 9/11, his friendship opened the way for the British establishment to embrace the dictatorship.

It was not only BP and other oil companies, but British academics who were happy to accept his largesse. The London School of Economics took £1.5m from Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, money which by definition had to have been stolen from the Libyan people, despite being warned to back away by Professor Fred Halliday, the LSE’s late and much-missed authority on the Middle East, who never flinched from looking dictators in the eye.

“I’ve come to know Saif as someone who looks to democracy, civil society and deep liberal values for the core of his inspiration,” purred the LSE’s David Held as he accepted the cheque.

Human Rights Watch, once a reliable opponent of tyranny, went further and described a foundation Saif ran in Libya as a force for freedom, willing to take on the interior ministry in the fight for civil liberties. Meanwhile, and to the surprise of no one, Peter Mandelson, New Labour’s butterfly, fluttered round Saif at the country house parties of the plutocracy.

Last week, Saif, the “liberal” promoter of human rights and dining companion of Mandelson, appeared on Libyan television to say that his father’s gunmen would fight to the last bullet to keep the Gaddafi crime family in business, a promise he is keeping. The thinking behind so many who flattered him was that the only issue in the Middle East worth taking a stand on was the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and that the oppression of Arabs by Arabs was a minor concern.

 

 

The longevity of the regimes presided over by the Gaddafi, Assad and Mubarak families and the House of Saud ought to be a reason for denouncing them more vigorously, but their apparent permanence added to the feeling that somehow Libyans, Syrians, Egyptians and Saudis want to live under dictatorships.

The European Union, which did so much to export democracy and the rule of law to former communist dictatorships of eastern Europe, has played a miserable role in the Middle East. It pours in aid but never demands democratisation or restrictions on police powers in return. That will have to change if the promise of the past month is to be realised. If it is to help with democracy-building, Europe will need to remind itself as much as the recipients of its money that you can never build free societies on the racist conspiracy theories of the Nazis and the tsars. They are and always have been the tunes that tyrants sing.

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Gaddafi: My beoble luff me!

This is the best interview yet. This man is delusional, insane, lives in a world that exists only in his little brain.  His nurse must have slipped him a couple of hallucinatory pills in his favorite drink…

Click the picture and watch and Enjoy!

 

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No Fly Zone over Libya? The Hypocrisy!

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has said that Gaddafi must leave power “now, without further violence or delay”.

“Gaddafi and those around him must be held accountable for these acts, which violate international legal obligations and common decency,” she said.

“We have seen Colonel Gaddafi’s security forces open fire on peaceful protesters. They have used heavy weapons on unarmed civilians. Mercenaries and thugs have been turned loose to attack demonstrators.”

Clinton said Washington was keeping “all options on the table” in terms of action against the government,  and that a no-fly zone was “an option we are actively considering”.

Now, Ms. Clinton, why not send your ships to the shores of Israel where international legal obligations and common decency are being violated by this country of terrorists daily?

Israeli terrorist forces open fire on peaceful Palestinian protesters daily, using heavy weapons on unarmed Palestinian civilians! The Israeli settlers thugs have been turned loose to attack Palestinians.

Calls for no-fly zone?

Mrs. Clinton:  Your hypocrisy and two-faced foreign policy is not welcome in Libya.

 

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Israel planning new War on Neighbors

Israel is reportedly planning to launch a new war to strengthen its position in the Middle East, following recent political reforms in regional states.

A Western diplomat in the Jordanian capital Amman said on Wednesday that Israel has decided to attack Syria and Lebanon following the downfall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt, which served as a great loss to Tel Aviv, the Lebanese daily Assafir reported.

The diplomat reiterated that since Tel Aviv is seriously worried about consequences of the Egyptian revolution and future developments in the region, it wants to start a new war in the Middle East in order to turn the situation back in its favor.

“Israel intends to overthrow Bashar al-Assad government in Syria in a matter of weeks after a war with Lebanon’s resistance movement of Hezbollah east of Lebanon, near the border with Syria,” Assafir quoted the diplomat as saying.

He added that Israel has already informed Washington about the plan.

Egypt, which shares a long border with Israel, was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Tel Aviv in 1979, following secret negotiations at the Camp David resort in the US.

For years, Egypt Mubarak helped Israel impose a deadly siege on the Gaza Strip by closing the Rafah crossing to Palestinians, keeping Gaza’s 1.5 million population trapped in the tiny coastal enclave.

The Israeli regime now fears that by the opening of Rafah, Hamas, the democratically-elected government of Gaza, will gain more power.

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Israel has informed Washington? And Washington, apparently approved! Do these morons-of-so-called-leaders learn anything from history, let alone current events?  Then the Western Powers “discuss” a No Fly Zone over Libya? Makes sense!!!

May be Israel should start a war. The last two aggressions against Palestinians in Gaza and the Lebanese resulted in humiliating defeats for the Israeli Terror Forces. Maybe we need to celebrate another humiliation of Israel.

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US soldier sentenced for sport killing!

An American soldier charged with killing Afghan civilians and mutilating their corpses has been sentenced to 60 days hard labor.

A US military judge has found Specialist Corey Moore, 22, guilty of serious misconduct — including mutilating the corpse of a dead Afghan civilian, AFP reported.

He was also found guilty of smoking hashish and assaulting another soldier, Adam Winfield, who blew the whistle on the activities of the so-called “kill team.”

 

WARNING: Link to gruesome videos and images!

 

Winfield first altered his father about the unit’s activities on Facebook while stationed in Afghanistan, but has since been charged with having a role in the murders.

A dozen soldiers from the Bravo Company unit of the Fifth Stryker Combat Brigade in Kandahar province now stand accused of various crimes in the case.

According to a US Army investigation, five members of the unit are charged with committing three counts of premeditated murder against unarmed Afghan civilians.

Defendants include Special Sergeant Jeremy Morlock, 22, along with three others, who were allegedly following orders from Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, 25. They are accused of killing Afghan civilians as a sport and collecting their body parts — including a human skull — as trophies.

 

The seven others have been charged with related crimes such as drug use, impeding the investigation and retaliatory gang assault on the private who blew the whistle.

Reports indicate that one soldier was scheduled to stand trial on Thursday but that has been postponed.

The first unprovoked murder is alleged to have occurred on January 15, 2010.

LF/MB

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8 British troops captured in Libya

Eight British soldiers have been captured in eastern Libya as they escorted a senior diplomat through territory under the control of revolutionary forces.

According to a report published by The Sunday Times, the unexpected presence of a British special forces unit along with the diplomat “angered Libyan opposition figures, who ordered the soldiers to be locked up on a military base.”

The Britons have reportedly been taken to Benghazi in eastern Libya. The diplomat they were protecting had wanted to contact the anti-government forces.

The British newspaper added that anti-government forces “fear Muammar Gaddafi could use any evidence of Western military interference to rally patriotic support for his regime.”

On Saturday, Gaddafi said he wanted the United Nations or the African Union to investigate the anti-government protests in the country.

On the same day, pro-Gaddafi forces backed by tanks launched an assault on Zawiyah, 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of the capital Tripoli, firing heavy mortar rounds at houses and attacking a hospital.

The clashes began hours after revolutionary forces repelled an effort by government forces to retake the city.

Reports by human rights groups say over 6,000 people have been killed so far in the government’s harsh crackdown on anti-government protesters.

The Libyan revolution came in the wake of the monumental events in Tunisia and Egypt, where dictators who led undemocratic and repressive regimes were driven out of power.

However, Gaddafi does not want to see the writing on the wall, and the bloody conflict in Libya drags on.

Waves of demonstrations have rocked several other Middle Eastern and North African countries in recent weeks.

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Gaddafi Reportedly Offers To Step Down.. For A Price

 

Libya Rebels Reject Potential Gaddafi Offer To Step Down: Reports

 

CAIRO, March 7 (Reuters) – Two Arab newspapers and al Jazeera television said on Monday Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was looking for an agreement allowing him to step down, but there was no official confirmation of the reports.

Al Jazeera said Gaddafi had proposed to Libyan rebels to hold a meeting of parliament to pave the way for him to step down with certain guarantees.

It said Gaddafi made the proposal to the interim council, which speaks for mostly eastern areas controlled by his opponents. It quoted sources in the council as saying Gaddafi wanted guarantees of personal safety for him and his family and a pledge that they not be put on trial.

Al Jazeera said sources from the council told its correspondent in Benghazi that the offer was rejected because it would have amounted to an “honourable” exit for Gaddafi and would offend his victims.

The London-based daily Asharq al-Awsat and the daily al-Bayan, based in the United Arab Emirates, also cited unnamed sources as saying Gaddafi was looking for an agreement.

A source close to the council told Reuters he had heard that “one formula being proposed by the other side would see Gaddafi hand power to the head of parliament and leave the country with a certain guaranteed sum of money.”

“I was told that this issue of money is a serious obstacle from the national council’s point of view,” he said, adding that his information came from a single source close to the council.

 

Essam Gheriani, a media officer for the council, said: “No such offer has been been put to the council as far as I am aware.”

APPEAL FOR DIALOGUE

Jadallah Azous Al-Talhi, a leading member of the ruling establishment and a prime minister in the 1980s, appealed to rebel leaders for dialogue on Monday, in the clearest sign yet Gaddafi may be ready to compromise with opponents challenging his four-decade rule.

The fact that state television screened Talhi’s appeal indicated that it was officially endorsed.

But the council said there was no room for broad dialogue with Gaddafi and any talks must be on the basis that he quits.

Asked about Talhi’s address, rebel official Ahmed Jabreel told Reuters: “Talhi is a close acquaintance of mine and he is widely respected in Libya as a man who stood up to Gaddafi.

“But we have made it clear all along that any negotiations must be on the basis that Gaddafi will step down. There can be no other compromise.”

Asharq al-Awsat, citing “informed Libyan sources” in Benghazi, said Gaddafi sent a negotiator to the rebel council with an offer to step down provided he had guarantees for his personal safety and that of his family as well as his money.

Al Bayan quoted a source close to Gaddafi’s inner circle as saying the Libyan leader had begun looking for a safe haven outside Libya.

“He has begun making contacts with African and Arab states in search for a safe haven that will allow him to leave Libya in a way that suits his position and would not infringe on his dignity,” it quoted the source as saying.

The source said that “great divisions” within the Libyan army had caused Gaddafi to lose control of large parts of the country to rebels, according to an advance copy of the article.

One of Gaddafi’s sons, Saadi, said Libya would descend into civil war if his father stepped down, Al Arabiya television reported on Monday.

“The situation is very dangerous. From the perspective of a civil war, the leader must play a very, very big role in calming Libya and convincing people to sit together,” Saadi Gaddafi said in an interview with the Arabic satellite channel.

“If something happened to the leader, who would be in control? A civil war would start,” he added.

(Reporting by Tom Pfeiffer in Benghazi, Edmund Blair in Cairo and Sami Aboudi in Dubai; writing by Myra MacDonald; editing by Diana Abdallah)

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FREE PALESTINE: Messages on Israeli Currency

Less than a week after Palestinian youth group initiated a campaign to write “Freedom for Palestine” on the Israeli currency in Arabic and English, the Palestinian banks decided to stop honoring bank notes with these statements written on them.

The Palestinian bank association issued a statement that although it “appreciates the good intentions of those in charge of this initiative, it called upon the citizens to understand the negative impact of this practice on the Palestinian national economy.”

The participants in this campaign wanted to deliver a message to the Israelis that freedom is the most important requirement of the Palestinian people.

Very Creative!

 

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Peter King’s Anti Muslim Hearings: Loathsome!

Mark Potok

Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project

 

Some people seem to have great difficulty in understanding why U.S. Rep. Peter King’s hearings on radicalization of American Muslims, set to open this Thursday, are seen as so loathsome by so many. Let me try to explain.

Imagine, for starters, if another congressman — say, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Democrat and the only Muslim in Congress — decided to hold hearings on the Christian fundamentalist community and the radicalization of some of its members. After all, it is undeniably fundamentalists who have formed the bulk of the extremists who have burned or bombed hundreds of abortion clinics and murdered eight providers or their assistants. The vast majority of these people have been motivated, as most have said themselves, by their interpretations of Christianity.

Chairman Homeland Security Peter Hitler King

 

Well, I think you can see where this is going. You wouldn’t have time to snap your fingers before outraged Americans, metaphorically speaking, surrounded the Capitol carrying pitchforks and torches, demanding the heads of their representatives. Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, to mention just a couple of the far-right talking heads, would erupt before their Fox News audiences. After all, just think back to the self-righteous hullabaloo that broke out when a leaked 2009 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report on the radical right suggested that hate groups were interested in recruiting returning veterans with military skills. Conservatives around the country went into outrage mode, shouting to the skies that the perfectly accurate report was calling all veterans potential Timothy McVeighs. The political right is the first to scream “demonization” when it feels it is being targeted.

There’s another very good reason why the hearings organized by King, a Republican from New York who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, amount to what an editorial in today’s New York Times called “Mr. King’s show trial.” Peter King does not come to the question of radical Islam with clean hands.

This is a man who has said that 80% to 85% of American mosques are run by extremists — jihadists — and who told a reporter that “unfortunately, we have too many mosques in this country.” He says that Al Qaeda is aggressively recruiting Muslims in this country. Last month, he was the first guest on a cable television show hosted by Brigitte Gabriel, the founder of the aggressively anti-Muslim ACT! for America group and one of the more obnoxious Muslim-bashers around (the Times reported Monday that she claims radical Muslims have “infiltrated” the CIA, FBI, Pentagon and more). He claims that the vast majority of American Muslims and their leaders have refused to cooperate with law enforcement investigations of jihadists — but then says he can’t reveal his law enforcement sources.

In fact, like virtually all King’s claims, that last is baloney. As a study last month from the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security revealed, 48 of the 120 Muslims suspected of plotting terror attacks in the United States since 9/11 were turned in by fellow Muslims. What’s more, leaders of virtually all responsible law enforcement groups report that most Muslims are highly cooperative.

King is holding his version of the McCarthy hearings at a time when extremist groups in the United States — hate groups, antigovernment “Patriot” zealots and extremist vigilante organizations — are expanding dramatically. Just last month, a new Southern Poverty Law Center report showed that the number of three strands of the radical right went from 1,753 groups in 2009 to 2,145 last year. In January, authorities arrested a neo-Nazi apparently planning a bomb attack on the Arizona border; found a powerful bomb set to explode by a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade; and seized a man apparently about to bomb a Michigan mosque. And just last week, a large group of Muslim-haters screamed a litany of insults against Muslims at a California fundraisers, terrifying their cowering children, as can be seen in video of the event.

But King has no interest in these threats. To him, Islam is the enemy.

The reality is that King’s hearing are about demonizing Muslims, and they are, unfortunately, very likely to accomplish that goal. After all, they come in the midst of a renewed bout of Islamophobia — a round of hatred and fear that began last summer when other opportunistic politicians ginned up alarm about the Islamic center planned for lower Manhattan. They follow by just a few months the adoption of an absurd Oklahoma law designed to prevent the introduction of Islamic religious law in the state’s courts — a law that is now being emulated elsewhere.

Ultimately, this kind of demonization leads to violence against the targeted minorities. President George W. Bush understood that, and that is why, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, he gave a number of speeches saying that Muslims and Arabs were not our enemies – Al Qaeda was. As a result, anti-Muslim hate crimes, which had spiked up an astounding 1,700% after the attack, dropped by two thirds the following year. Bush may have made many mistakes as a president, but he clearly understood that demonizing minorities ultimately leads to violence.

Words have consequences — unfortunately, even Peter King’s.

 

Muslims Are Not the Enemy

Rev. Al Sharpton

President, National Action Network

During the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy led Americans on a wild goose chase to hunt down ‘communists’ and ‘communist agents’ within the United States. As a consequence, anyone who dared to even question him, quickly became the subject of harassment as well. A virtual state of paranoia quickly spread across the nation. Many innocent people were tormented, many lost their jobs and perhaps worst of all, many felt for the first time that they were outsiders in their own country. The delusional actions of Senator McCarthy eventually resulted in his own demise, but the fear mongering of his twisted ideology provided a dangerous platform by which another group could be scapegoated in the future. Unfortunately, that moment has reared its ugly head this week as Rep. Peter King of NY begins Congressional hearings on American Muslims.

Dubbed “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and That Community’s Response,” the hearings have been orchestrated to investigate extremism within the American Muslim community and their cooperation with authorities, according to King’s explanations. Openly disparaging mosques and Muslims across the country for not going far enough in preventing radicalization, King fails to realize that a vast majority of foiled attacks in the U.S. were a direct result of Muslims stepping up and reporting suspicious individuals/behavior. Rep. King is ignoring the blatant reality that his investigations will in fact do more to deepen the mistrust between Muslims and their own government. And perhaps most damning of all, these hearings are nothing short of racial/religious profiling that will only further an alarming rise of Islamophobia.

No one — not even Muslims themselves — will dismiss the idea that extremism and violence must be eliminated so that we all can attain a peaceful future. Muslims are, after all, the greatest victims of acts of terrorism around the world. But to state or imply that terror and violence is only created and perpetrated by this one group is categorically false and disturbingly misleading. If an individual like Jared Loughner, the accused Tucson shooter, allegedly pulled the trigger and killed innocent civilians, do we now start investigating all young White men? And if there are now more than 1,000 hate/militia groups in the U.S. — the highest number ever — why are we not holding Congressional hearings on the radicalization of this segment of the population?

By marginalizing a religious minority, King is sending a dangerous message to the Muslim community and the entire populous that runs counter to the very foundation of our nation. If we truly believe in religious freedom and tolerance, we cannot lump an entire group of people with a notion of collective guilt for the grievous crimes of a few. And we cannot arbitrarily hold hearings on all American Muslims — in effect saying that they are different from everyone else. We cannot allow King or anyone else to dictate whose patriotism can be questioned, and whose will not.

Senator McCarthy created hysteria that paralyzed this country and distracted us from more pertinent issues. Today, as we face rampant unemployment, a struggling economy, an educational crisis and an unstable future, perhaps we should direct our energy towards these very grave dilemmas instead of profiling Muslims and creating a notion of ‘otherness’. Unlike what Islamophobia purports, Muslims have been in this country since its inception and it’s time we acknowledge their contribution to the fabric of American society — not demonize them with unnecessary investigations.

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“Muslim” murders “Jews” in Israeli Settlement!

The posts attacking Muslims and depicting the thugs (Israeli Settlers as victims) have quickly sprung up on WordPress by the hateful  mob of NaZionists and their Muslim-hating supporters.

These Israeli settler thugs who are really subhuman, have committed atrocities against Palestinians daily and as the Israeli Terrorist Forces simply stood by! Even Israelis themselves hate settlers but will use them as a propaganda serving “piece” when it suits the NaZionist regime.

A key event in these was a Day of Rage declared by the Jewish settlers and its brutal oppression by the Israeli police (including severe sexual harassment of a 15 year-old girl by a Jewish police officer). The violence reached the Knesset, where the police was unable to defend its grave offenses: “uniformed criminals” was the general verdict on them.

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The recent killing of a family is now Headlines: “The religion of peace: killing Jews in their sleep” or some ignorant self-serving propaganda.

Yet, when these thugs occupy Palestinian homes by force, commit murders and are authorized to terrorize and kill Palestinians, everyone is suddenly silent. They look away hoping for a “Muslim” Palestinian to commit a murder that they could use to bury and hide their own crimes.

Killing in the name of Judaism

But they can’t!

Here’s a sample and simple list of these thugs crimes against Palestinians that – till this day, hardly surface unless one is persistent in one’s search for the truth.Some of the sources are Israeli sources too, which makes this more amazing: that the western media would not even refer to such crimes, because, after all, they’re Jewish crimes.. and stating that fact would be anti-Semitic!

1. Two Palestinians killed by Israeli Settlers
2. Israeli Court Rules Shooting Palestinian OK
3. Settlers Attacking Elderly Palestinians – on Video
4. “We Killed Jesus and We’re Proud of it” – on Video
5. 2 Palestinians Killed, 9 Wounded, 31 buildings damaged
6. Settlers or Nazis? Video
7. The Terror State of Israel a Democracy?
8. Settler thugs attacking Palestinian Schoolgirls
9. Facts about Jewish Settlements
10. Settlers: The Jewish Terrorists

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Freshman Republican Congress: Elected to serve Israeli Interests?

This is a letter from freshman Republican Congress people who want to keep getting pro-Israel money and/or who don’t want it to go to their opponents. They are either profoundly unprincipled or profoundly ignorant. People in their districts should expose and oppose them strenuously. How abhorrent that they are typical of the majority of our Congressional representatives from BOTH parties.

A successful political career is apparently dependent on how much Israeli-Ass-Kissing a Congressman/woman is willing to do or to what extent they will go to serve foreign interests instead of their own constituents.
It’s also outrageous that these profoundly ignorant and unprincipled Congress people will refer to Middle Eastern countries seeking freedom and democracy as “Upheaval!” Is it because the majority is Arab and Muslim? Yet they support the “upheaval” in Sudan and the independence of the oil-rich South Sudan seeking its freedom from the Muslim north!

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Egypt gas flow to Israel Must Not Resume

Huge flames erupt from an explosion at Egyptian gas pipeline supplying
Israel and Jordan in El Arish, Egypt, February 05, 2011.

 

The Egyptian gas supply to Israel that has been disrupted since a February 5 pipeline explosion does not seem to be restored at its full capacity any soon.

Egypt’s East Mediterranean Gas Company has informed Tel Aviv authorities of a leak in one of its pipes in the El Arish area.

The news of further delay comes as the resumption of the vital gas supplies to Israel was expected to happen on Monday.

The flow of Egyptian natural gas to Israel was halted five weeks ago after an explosion in the Sinai pipeline at the peak of popular protests against ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s regime — which was seen as Tel Aviv’s closest Mideast ally.

Meanwhile, experts speculate that once the gas supply is resumed, Israel will not receive more than one-quarter of the quantity supplied before the pipeline explosion.

Israeli authorities have estimated the damage caused to Tel Aviv’s economy by the absence of Egyptian gas at $1.7 million a day.

Egypt has been supplying 40 percent of Israel’s natural gas, used to produce 20 percent of Israel’s electricity, since May 2008.

The Egyptian opposition is openly against the gas deal signed between Cairo and Tel Aviv under Mubarak in 2005.

MRS/PKH/MGH

 

ATW Comment:

Supplying the enemy of humanity and terrorist state of Israel is a mistake. As these thugs continue to defy all international laws, blockade Gaza, and now blockading Nablus while the settler degenerates attack Palestinians, annex lands, ethnic cleanse and kill and massacre civilians, Israel should not receive any gas from Egypt or any Arab country! As the Israelis blockade Palestinians, Egypt must boycott Israel and/or exporting anything to this thugs-infested country!

Egyptians and Jordanians should immediately nullify their so-called “peace” treaties. If Israel wants peace they must begin by halting and abolishing their Nazi-like conduct and withdrawing to 1967 borders. Period.

U.S. foreign Policy encourages Oppression

Although the US did not explicitly condone nor condemn the GCC’s (Gulf Cooperation Council) latest decision to sanction the deployment of its forces into the island kingdom, the Barack Obama administration has taken a cautious approach to the growing protests there so as not to undermine the opposition parties’ demands or inadvertently strengthen Iran’s ability, real or imagined, to leverage the opposition leaders of Bahrain’s roughly 70 per cent Shia majority.

“We urge the government of Bahrain to pursue a peaceful and meaningful dialogue with the opposition rather than resorting to the use of force,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement Sunday. “In particular, we urge our GCC partners…to act in a way that supports dialogue instead of undermining it.”

 

This is the exact same verbiage (or garbage) the U.S. Administration uses with Israel: “We urge the Israelis and Palestinians to pursue peace talks..” while the Israelis massacre, expel, ethnic cleanse and annex Palestine using brutal and barbaric force, courtesy of the U.S. Tax Payers’ money.

• When Saddam invaded Kuwait, the U.S. was quick in establishing a No Fly Zone and then invade Iraq to bring the country “democracy.”
• When South Sudan wanted their freedom, U.S. and Mr. George Hypocrite Clooney rushed to the south’s aid and cries for Hypocrisy.. I mean, Democracy!
• When Libyans are being massacred by a tyrant thug, responsible for heinous crimes against his own, let alone other people, as in Lockerbie,  and uses planes, tanks and poisonous gases to crush the people, we issue Bahrain-like statements.
• When Yemeni’s are under daily attack by the most vicious of weapons: chemical gases that paralyze and send bodies into violent convulsions, we issue Bahrain-like statements.
• When Palestinians wanted to establish their state and live in peace, the U.S. determined (under the direction of its masters, AIPAC Zionist thugs) that “the time wasn’t right” and vetoed the reolution that called for an independent state called Palestine!

In other words, we do not condemn the tyrants unless we are absolutely certain that they will be vacating their seats of power and tyranny. This is the U.S. foreign policy and democracy!

 

• We preach Democracy and practice Tyranny!

• We preach Peace and practice Destruction!

• We preach Justice and practice Injustice!

 

 

Freedom & Dignity for Palestinians: Mona Eltahawy’s Remarks; J Street 2011

Mona Eltahawy speaking at the J Street Conference 2011 (2.27.11) . These are her complete opening remarks.

History before Our Eyes: Broader Implications of Democracy Movements in the Arab World.

Panelists:

Mona Eltahawy, Journalist
Ron Pundak, Director General, The Peres Center for Peace
Robert Serry, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process

Moderator: Steve Clemons, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Chair: Ambassador Samuel Lewis, Former American diplomat and former head of the U.S. Institute of Peace

 

If the world is Crazy, we will be Crazy too! Gaddafi

UN authorizes No-Fly Zone over Libya

Jeez.. what’s the rush? Wait a little longer so that this mad thug can commit more atrocities!

 

 

In Benghazi, the main opposition stronghold, a large crowd watching the vote on an outdoor TV projection burst into celebration and green and red fireworks filled the air.

The resolution came just a few hours after Muammar Gaddafi, the embattled Libyan leader, warned residents of Benghazi that his forces would show “no mercy” in an impending assault on the city.

“The matter has been decided … we are coming,” he said in a radio address on Thursday.

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The Libyan leader called pro-democracy fighters in Benghazi “armed gangsters” and urged residents to attack them, saying: “You all go out and cleanse the city of Benghazi.

“We will track them down, and search for them, alley by alley, road by road … Massive waves of people will be crawling out to rescue the people of Benghazi, who are calling out for help, asking us to rescue them. We should come to their rescue.”

‘We will be crazy too’

In an interview broadcast just before the Security Council voted on the resolution, Gaddafi dismissed its actions.

“The UN Security Council has no mandate. We don’t acknowledge their resolutions,” he told the Portuguese public Radiotelevisao Portuguesa.

He pledged to respond harshly to UN-sponsored attacks. “If the world is crazy, we will be crazy too,” he said.

Speaking to reporters in Tripoli after the vote, Khalid Kaim, the Libyan deputy foreign minister, took a conciliatory tone, offering to negotiate a ceasefire with the rebels.

“We are ready for this decision (a ceasefire) but we require an interlocutor to discuss how to implement it,” Kaim told a news conference.

“We discussed last night with the UN envoy (for Libya, Jordan’s Abdul Ilah Khatib) and asked legitimate questions on the application of a ceasefire,” he said.

 

ATW thinks that the U.N. resolution should have authorized somebody to drop a bomb on this mad man and rid humanity and the Libyans from such terror. He’s threatening to retaliate.. against his own people?

I do hope that the resolution doesn’t reduce Libya to rubble as was done in Iraq! Just bomb Gaddafi, shoot his planes down and sink his ships if they dare leave their berths!

Let the SOB know that his end is just around the corner!

 

Spies, Lies and Demise: Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Flees!

Israel’s Ambassador Itzhak Levanon, left Cairo yesterday evening, returning to Tel Aviv with his wife following the announcement of the Egyptian authorities of uncovering an Israeli spy network  working with an Egyptian businessmen who was assisting them in recruiting agents.

Interestingly, Levanon is the son of the first Israeli Madam: the Mossad agent Shula Cohen, and the brother of David Kishik, head of a mafia of thieves and criminals operating out of the military headquarter Beit El.

Yitzhak Levanon is the son of Israel’s first Madam in Lebanon, “Shulamit Arazi Cohen” a.k.a. “Shulamit Cohen Kishik” a.k.a. “Schulamit Mayer Cohen” a.k.a. “Shula Cohen”  who sold her favors to hundreds of high government officials in Lebanon between 1947 and 1961. She attended to her customers in her private house in the district of Wadi abu Jamil in Beirut among other locations.

The mother of Yitzhak Levanon, the First Israeli Madam Shula Cohen, was not only a spy in Lebanon but a mossad agent who worked there from the late 40s and until 1961. She was part of a network which caused the bankruptcy of the Lebanese economy after transferring the money to the Zionist Agency, then to Israel, and she was also involved in “helping” Jews to immigrate to Israel after stealing everything they could from the various Arab countries.

Yitzhak Levanon was born in Lebanon and he stayed there while his prostitute mother was in jail. He was the only member of the family who visited his mother in jail while the other members of the family left Lebanon. This relation to the economic destruction of Lebanon is why he calls himself “Levanon” and not Cohen, or Kishik, or Mayer, as one would expect due to the names of his ancestors.

Levanon has not announced the reason for his departure to Cairo or the date of his return.

The Egyptian public prosecutor referred the three defendants, including two Israelis considered  “fugitives” and an Egyptian person already in custody awaiting trial on charges of spying for Israel and harming national interests of the country.

Egyptian security forces arrested an Egyptian, Tarek Abdel-Razek, 37, who owns a company for export and import.

Kidnapped tourists

An Egyptian official told The Associated Press that the authorities arrested four people suspected of spying for Israel and “conspiracy to destroy the economy through the kidnapping of tourists.”

Now we know what really happened in the so-called terrorist attacks against tourists in Egypt. The Mossad is behind every filthy incident in the Middle East!

The official revealed that the suspects, all Egyptians, opened several offices in Egypt, Britain, Israel and Gaza to record telephone conversations of officials and gather information about Chinese and Japanese tourists who visited the Sinai Peninsula.

On the other hand, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said he had no information about the case.

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Palestinian Child Perspective: a Message to Israelis

One of the brave Palestinian Children: the reason Israel will never succeed in its ethnic cleansing!

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Is Zuckerberg Mossad?

Image via CrunchBase

Why did Facebook shut down a Palestinian page that gathered over 300,000 Palestinian members?

Then another page sprung up and immediately got over 200,000 Palestinians. And it too was immediately threatened by Facebook to be shut down.

It seems that Zuckerberg doesn’t mind Arabs seeking their freedoms and democracies, but when Palestinians do the same against the NaZionist terrorist state of Israel, Zuckerberg will not allow it! Loyal to his kinfolk?

The Hypocrisy! Zionism in action, is what this is.

Read this interesting article about Zuckerberg here.

ATTENDING THE WORLD blog is linked to a facebook page. I wonder if this post will remain on facebook or will be taken down.

The challenge!

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Barbaric Children Killers

The pigs of the Middle East, AKA Israelis – whether settlers or ITF: Israeli Terror Forces) promoted the death of a couple of settler children in a recent attack in which we were told that the perpetrator was a merciless Palestinian!

Judge for yourself who the merciless barbarian is. These merciless sons of the Devil himself: the Israeli Terror Forces, commit another brutal and barbaric attack  on Palestinian children in Gaza.

2008 victims of the "victims" of Europe!

 

WARNING

Extremely Graphic Video of a Massacred Palestinian Child

Surely, NATO will be bombing Israeli tanks and terror forces for committing such crimes against humanity!!!

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George Galloway: the truth about involvement in Libya

The three most important letters in any conflict:

O        I        L

 

I will add: why aren’t we bombing the Israelis? Their warplanes and tanks unleash disproportional retaliation against Palestinian civilians and what’s left of their economy!

“This war is about oil, control and a message to the rest of the world and region that we can do it if we want to. I fear we will soon be involved in a ground war, the partition of Libya and the theft of that country’s oil and resources.

“What is even more worrying is the fact that David Cameron ignored my request, in the House of Commons … for assurance that cluster bombs and depleted uranium weapons would not be used,” he added. “This is not peace. Let there be no mistake. This is war.”

Hudson agreed, calling the attacks “utterly reprehensible”. Galloway predicted that the air strikes would cost the Libyans “hundreds of thousands of lives and even more livelihoods … just as the shock and awe savagery has in Baghdad”.

He predicted: “This bombing will not succeed. This will be a long war, casualties will occur far from the scenes of battle and the radicalisation of Arab and Islamic world will proceed apace. This is not peacekeeping. This is imperialist war-making.”

German warned people not to be “taken in” by claims that the goal of the air strikes is to “help the poor people of Libya”. She said: “The people of Libya will not be helped but will be harmed by this intervention, just as the people of Afghanistan and Iraq have been. The only people who can change the situation in the Middle East are the people in the Middle East.” – more

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81 Reasons Why Gaza has every right to Self Defense

81 Reasons Why Gaza has the right to self-defense

By Julie Webb-Pullman

Seventy-nine of them can be found in United Nations Security Council Resolutions “directly critical of Israel for violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Conventions, international terrorism, or other violations of international law.” (1)

Ironically, after violating 80+ UN Resolutions,  Israel Demanded UN Response to Palestinian Rocket “Attacks!”

Number 80 can be found in the Goldstone Report (2), the recommendations of which have yet to implemented some 18 months after its submission to the Human Rights Council, and Paragraph 1912 of which stresses “all States parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949 have in addition the obligation, while respecting the United Nations Charter and international law, to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law as embodied in that Convention.”

Has that happened? Clearly not. (3)

The most compelling reason number 81, can be found in the United Nations Charter, Article 52 which states: “Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.” (4)

There would also be a Reason 82, but for the United States power of veto exercised in the Security Council in February 2011. (5)

Read Ashkelon: Why Gaza Exists

If the international community has abandoned its responsibilities towards Palestinians, and particularly towards Gaza, as the above examples over the last 63 years plus this map of Palestinian territories so graphically illustrate, what else is left to Gaza but self-defense?

The Stealing -and Ethnic Cleansing - of Palestine

 

Israel and its chorUS disingenuously cite Israel’s right of “self-defense” to justify not only Israel’s disproportionate military response to Gaza – and Palestinians’ – genuine right to self-defense, but also to attempt to disguise Israel’s blatant land-theft from existing citizens.

Contrast the “newcomers” in Israel, for example, to many of those who in recent years have arrived in Australia. The latter have been considered illegal immigrants and incarcerated in off-shore islands or desert detention camps –the subtle distinction being that

1. those latterly arriving in Australia sought refuge from repressive regimes whereas the Israeli immigrants came from European and North American democracies…(enough said, perhaps) and
2. unlike Australia’s (and New Zealand’s) immigrants, who now accept the existing population’s rights to their existing property, culture and citizenship, Israel’s immigrants bulldoze and destroy the homes of existing residents to build their own in their place, not only rendering thousands homeless but also destroying historic, economic and culturally-important sites such as religious buildings, olive groves, farms, and cemeteries – and now legislating that they also be of the Jewish religion in order to have citizenship.

Is not our perception of the wrongness of such actions why New Zealanders, for instance, just spent thirty years redressing such wrongs in their own country, through the Waitangi Tribunal? Is not our perception of the wrongness of such discrimination why we all fought to end similar structural apartheid in South Africa?

In the past week, Israel has killed at least 10 people and seriously wounded scores more in in Gaza in sustained military attacks with sophisticated weaponry targeted at civilians, a week in which so-called ‘rocket’ attacks from Gaza (into traditional Palestinian territory) have not caused any Israeli deaths, or physical injury. Yet Israel on Wednesday threatened “After barrage of rocket and mortar fire, Vice Premier Shalom says Israel may have to consider wide operation in Gaza; Minister Limor Livnat: Operation Cast Lead 2 may be in order.” (6)

After a cosy telephone chat to US President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Thursday said from Moscow that “Israel’s reaction to rocket attacks will be measured” (7) – but by what, is the question…caesium, perhaps?

US Secretary of Defense Robert now waits in Israel for Netanyahu’s return, discussing with his Israeli counterpart Barak how to ensure Israel maintains its ‘qualitative military edge’ in ‘a period like now when Israeli-US security relations were so strong.’ (8)

Obama in South America while his troops hammer Libya, insisting that the US role will be minor, Netanyahu in Moscow proclaiming the same for Gaza…this arms’ length war-mongering to give an appearance of moderation makes me very suspicious – to paraphrase Shakespeare, “Methinks they doth protest too much.”

Yes, on any reading of the situation, Gaza certainly does have good cause for concern about their security and territorial integrity.

In the face of continuing military attacks against civilian targets and the absence of any meaningful and/or enforceable UN Security Council Resolution to protect them, and of any meaningful assistance from the international community in preventing Israel’s ongoing use of force, they have every legitimate reason to resort to self-defense, under Article 52 of the UN Charter.

Source

 

References

(1) Israeli Violations of UN Security Council Resolutions

(2) HUMAN RIGHTS IN PALESTINE

(3) Amnesty International UK et al (2008) The Gaza Strip: A Humanitarian Implosion , and
Amnesty International UK et al (2010) Dashed Hopes: Continuation of the Gaza Siege
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (2010) The illegal closure of the Gaza Strip: Collective Punishment of the civilian population
UNICEF, UNRWA and Minister of Education and Higher Education (2010) Palestinian children deprived of basic rights to education ;
UNDP (2010) One Year After GAZA Early Recovery and Reconstruction Needs Assessment ;
OCHA (2010) Farming without Land, Fishing without Water: Gaza Agriculture Sector Struggles to Survive
(4) Charter of the United Nations Chapter V11 Article 52

(5) United States vetoes Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements

(6) and (7) links: broken or do not load.

(8) Gates calls for bold action to reach two-state solution

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Seeking West’s Support, Yemen’s Saleh “delivers” City to Al Qaeda

Source: Aljazeera Arabic.

Note: the story on Aljazeera English is quite different. While the former states that Saleh, Yemen’s President handed over the the city to al-Qaeda to lure the world’s attention towards the risks involved should he be ousted, the English version stated:

Away from the political drama in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, troops clashed with fighters in the south of the country.

The army on Sunday tried to dislodge an armed Islamist group that had taken control of several key buildings, including an ammunition factory, in the town of Jaar in Abyan province.

One soldier was reported killed in the clash and other reports suggested that the police had deserted the town. A day earlier, five soldiers were killed in an ambush in Lowdar, also in Abyan.

The province is seen as a stronghold of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemeni wing of the network which Western countries and neighbour Saudi Arabia fear could take advantage of any power vacuum if protesters succeed in ousting Saleh.

Whether Saleh or Gaddafi, these two thugs use Al Qaeda at will to achieve their criminal objectives! The love they have for ruling, oppressing and stealing their countries resources, one would think these two thugs believe that they “own” their countries!

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Israel West Bank Annexations Considered

This, if allowed to take effect by world “democracies,” would be reason 82 why Palestinians should seek freedom and expel the Zionists thugs from their holy lands. The Middle East’s “only so-called democracy” was not “created” to live in peace: it is a country founded by terrorists and thugs on stolen lands to spread terror and disrupt a region of over 300,000,000 Arabs. It’s time for an Arab Palestinians uprising against this disease called Zionism!  Israel does not belong in the Middle East. Period.

JERUSALEM — Israel is considering annexing major West Bank settlement blocs if the Palestinians unilaterally seek world recognition of a state, an Israeli official said Tuesday – moves that would deal a grave blow to prospects for negotiating a peace deal between the two sides.

Israel has refrained from taking such a diplomatically explosive step for four decades. The fact that it is considering doing so reflects how seriously it is concerned by the Palestinian campaign to win international recognition of a state in the absence of peacemaking.

The Palestinians launched that campaign after peace talks foundered over Israeli construction in West Bank settlements. On Tuesday, the Israeli Interior Ministry said it would decide next month whether to give final approval to build 1,500 apartments in two Jewish enclaves in east Jerusalem. Israel captured both east Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan in 1967.

Israel annexed east Jerusalem, home to shrines sacred to Judaism, Islam and Christianity, immediately after seizing it. But it carefully avoided annexing the West Bank, where 300,000 settlers now live among 2.5 million Palestinians.

Although it is widely assumed that under any peace deal, Israel would hold onto major settlements it has built in the past 44 years, any decision to formally annex West Bank territory would be a precedent-setting move that could increase Israel’s already considerable international isolation. The Palestinians claim all of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, in addition to the Gaza Strip, for a future state.

The government official who disclosed the possible annexation said he did not know how seriously authorities were considering the option. He said that “adopting unilateral measures is not a one-way street” and added that other options were also being considered.

These could include limiting water supplies beyond agreed-upon amounts and restricting Palestinian use of Israeli ports for business purposes, he said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was aware of the moves being discussed, he added, speaking on condition of anonymity because no final decisions have been made.

Netanyahu’s office had no comment. Nimr Hamad, an aide to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, said “these threats are not new. … But we are continuing (our campaign) and are convinced our position is right.”

Although peace negotiations have taken place since Netanyahu came to power two years ago, they have been sporadic and largely mediated by the U.S. Three short weeks of direct talks broke down in September over Palestinian objections to continued Israeli settlement construction.

Palestinians say they won’t talk peace with Israel unless Israel freezes all construction in both the West Bank and east Jerusalem, lands they claim along with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for their hoped-for state. Israeli officials fault Palestinians for the peacemaking impasse, saying a construction moratorium should not be a condition for peacemaking, because it never was in the past. [The Arrogance!]

Israeli building in east Jerusalem is especially contentious because the Palestinians want to create their future capital there. Because of the annexation, Israel does not consider the Jewish enclaves housing 200,000 Jews there to be settlements, but the rest of the international community does.

Settlers are Terrorists

Roi Lachmanovich, a spokesman for Interior Minister Eli Yishai, said officials would decide the fate of the 1,500 new apartments on April 14. The homes would be built in two existing “Jewish enclaves” in east Jerusalem.

Major Western powers have not given up on the concept of a negotiated solution. But with talks deadlocked, Palestinian leaders plan on seeking international recognition of a state, with or without an agreement with Israel, at the United Nations in September.

Their campaign has received a boost from Latin American countries that have lined up in recent months to offer recognition. It hasn’t received crucial U.S. or Western European support.

Although international recognition wouldn’t immediately change the situation on the ground, it would isolate Israel and put additional pressure on it to withdraw from occupied territories.

source: Huffington Post (see below)

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Israeli Barbarians torturing Palestinians!

This video must be seen by all those who still belong to the Human Race or or have a Conscience!

 

Which means most Israelis (NaZionists) are excluded.

 

This is the so-called “only democracy” of the Middle East!

 

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“Conspirators” behind Unrest: Syria’s Assad enlightens us!

UPDATE: Massacre in Latakia, Syria.

“Freedom does not come in ‘Home Delivery.’”

Whether the event took place in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain, Syria and Jordan, we keep hearing the same exact accusations by the tyrants who think they “own” the countries they rule.

• On December 30, 2010 Zein El Abedine Ben Ali’s threatened to “punish the rioters”in his speech. He said he “understood” people’s anger but that violence will not be tolerated (source)
• On January 31, 2010, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt “acknowledged” the grievances of the demonstrators, but blamed the “Muslim Brotherhood” opposition movement for the disorder and looting of recent days, saying that Islamists had “striven to cause chaos”.
• King Abdullah of Jordan blamed Israel for Arab anger!
• On February 18, the “King” of Bahrain blamed Iran for the uprising against his family’s 200+ years in power!
• On February 26, 2011 Qaddafi claimed that the protesters were young people who had been manipulated by Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda’s leader, and were acting under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs!  A day earlier, Qaddafi’s son blamed Canada for the Libyan unrest! Later,  Qaddafi blamed the United States, hallucinogenic drugs, Egypt, young adults, “greasy rats,” gangsters, and (my personal favorite) “someone with a beard.“
• On March 2nd, 2011 Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen dismissed the rally by his people as “a copycat action” mimicking protests in other Arab countries. He charged that the “riots” had been fanned by Israel and the United States.
• And On March 30, 2011 Assad blamed conspirators for the uprising! His “aides” stressed how important his address to his people would be, that it would contain “great news,” but turned out to be no more more than the speeches delivered by Mubarak, Qaddafi and Saleh! Same wording, same blame and same wish: to hold on to power!

And so on!

The rulers, naturally, never fault themselves or even question their governments of tyranny and oppression! If it’s not outside and/or foreign forces they can place the blame on, then it’s definitely the people’s fault!  Meanwhile, the guilty people are getting poorer while the rulers are becoming billionaires!

Compare this to the times of the Islamic Empire (632-1918) when the Arab world was united and border-less. Israel and Zionism did not exist and people lived in absolute peace and in unparalleled prosperity. At that time, Europe was deep in the abyss of its Dark Age period (5th – 15th Century)!

The political system then was really parallel to what we currently have in the U.S.: one elected President and “governors” running the vast parts of the empire. History attests to this prosperity and advancement in sciences, literature, architect, medicine, etc. Even the numbers we use (1, 2, 3) are Arabic numbers! The empire introduced the “zero” and everyone paid the “tax” (Zakah) and at one time, no poor family could be found to whom this “tax” could be paid in the form of assistance.

Now it’s exactly the opposite: Rulers are attached to their thrones! They steal the wealth and appoint their families to help them suffocate and steal more of their countries resources. They bribe and steal to achieve more power. Getting to power, as the modern world had witnessed was often based on a militant uprising against another (previous) ruler, promising prosperity and economic changes and such empty and false promises. Assad himself had promised, when he took office after the death of his father, that he would make Syria the envy of the Arab world and that every Arab would wish that s/he had the Syrian citizenship!

And such are the oppressive regimes of the Middle East. Blind, Ruthless, Tyrants… and we support them because of OIL or “our” interests while we call for democracy! The hypocrisy.

These regimes must GO!

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Islam: a Religion of Peace?

 

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Creve Coeur, MO (KSDK) — With rising anti-Muslim sentiment across the country, an untold story is raising greater awareness about the Muslim faith and the teachings of the Quran. That awareness comes from an unlikely source: a small Jewish congregation in Creve Coeur.

لَيْسُواْ سَوَاء مِّنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ أُمَّةٌ قَآئِمَةٌ يَتْلُونَ آيَاتِ اللّهِ آنَاء اللَّيْلِ وَهُمْ يَسْجُدُونَ

Among the followers of earlier revelation there are upright people, who recite God’s messages throughout the night, and prostrate themselves [before Him]

Temple Emanuel is premiering a groundbreaking exhibit of photos that reveals Albanian Muslims who saved 2,000 Jews during World War II.

It’s a story you’ve likely never heard. It is a story told through the faces of Albanian Muslims who risked their own lives to live by a code of faith and honor called Besa.

Dr. Ghazala Hayat is a neurologist at St. Louis University and serves as spokesperson for the Islamic Foundation of Greater Saint Louis.

Hayat said while Besa is an Albanian word, it is part of Islamic culture and teachings. According to Dr. Hayat, Besa is an ancient code which requires people to endanger their own lives if necessary to save the life of anyone seeking asylum. To this day, Besa is the highest moral law of the region, superseding religious differences, blood feuds, and even tribal traditions.

The exhibit is opening eyes throughout the world.

“You don’t have to share the same faith. You have to respect each other’s faith,” Hayat said.

Pictures of the Albanian Muslims in the exhibit tell a lifetime of stories. As a young mother, one woman did not have enough breast milk to feed her son. A Jewish woman she hid nursed him instead. She was asked if she minded that a Jewish mother had fed her baby.

“Jews are God’s people like us,” the woman said.

Another man who also hid Jewish families said, “I did nothing special. All Jews are our brothers.”

And the head of the Bektashi sect, with more than seven million followers, tells the story of Albania’s prime minister, who gave a secret order during the Nazi occupation.

“All Jewish children will sleep with your children, all will eat the same food, and all will live as one family,” the order read.

In post-war Europe, it is said Albania was the only Nazi-occupied country to boast a greater number of Jews than before the Holocaust.

“They were among the people who at great personal risk sheltered Jews and protected them in their homes and did so out of a religious obligation,” said Rabbi Justin Kerber, Temple Emanuel.

The Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis and several local Jewish agencies hope the St. Louis community will experience this rare look at the role Albanian Muslims played in sheltering Jews from the Nazis.

“At this time of tension over Islam in America, there is so much more to understanding Islam,” Rabbi Kerber said.

The BESA exhibition at Temple Emanuel was held October 21- December 1, 2010
12166 Conway Road
Thursday 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays, 12 p.m. to 4pm and by appointment

For more information, contact Gail at gail@testl.org or call 314-432-5877.

KSDK

 

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Netanyahu to UN: Retract Gaza war report! What?

Netanyahu to the U.N.?

Now Netanyahu recognizes the UN? Isn’t this a joke and a sign of unparalleled NaZionist arrogance?

Netanyahu stated that Hamas never conducted “a probe”  into its strikes against civilians! let’s not forget Mr. Yahoo that every Israeli “probe or investigation” Israel has conducted always resulted in exonerating its terrorist forces from the crimes they committed. Israel “never does any wrong!”

“Everything that we said proved to be true,” said Netanyahu. “Israel did not intentionally target civilians and it has proper investigatory bodies. In contrast, Hamas intentionally directed strikes toward innocent civilians and did not conduct any kind of probe.”

Following is a list of United Nations Security Council resolutions directly critical of Israel for violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Conventions, international terrorism, or other violations of international law.

See all resolutions here – this is only a partial list!

Res. 1403 (Apr. 4, 2002) – Expresses grave concern “at the further deterioration of the situation on the ground” and “Demands the implementation of its resolution 1402 (2002) without delay”.

Res. 1405 (Apr. 19, 2002) – Expresses concern for “the dire humanitarian situation of the Palestinian civilian population, in particular reports from the Jenin refugee camp of an unknown number of deaths and destruction”, calls for “the lifting of restrictions imposed, in particular in Jenin, on the operations of humanitarian organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East”, and “Emphasizes the urgency of access of medical and humanitarian organizations to the Palestinian civilian population”.

Res. 1435 (Sep. 24, 2002) – Expresses grave concern “at the reoccupation of the headquarters of the President of the Palestinian Authority in the City of Ramallah that took place” on September 19, 2002, demands “its immediate end”, expresses alarm “at the reoccupation of Palestinian cities as well as the severe restrictions imposed on the freedom of movement of persons and goods, and gravely concerned at the humanitarian crisis being faced by the Palestinian people”, reiterates “the need for respect in all circumstances of international humanitarian law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War”, “Demands that Israel immediately cease measures in and around Ramallah including the destruction of Palestinian civilian and security infrastructure”, and “Demands also the expeditious withdrawal of the Israeli occupying forces from Palestinian cities towards the return to the positions held prior to September 2000”.

Res. 1544 (May 19, 2004) – Reaffirms resolutions 242, 338, 446, 1322, 1397, 1402, 1405, 1435, and 1515, reiterates “the obligation of Israel, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War”, calls “on Israel to address its security needs within the boundaries of international law”, expresses “grave concern at the continued deterioration of the situation on the ground in the territory occupied by Israel since 1967”, condemns “the killing of Palestinian civilians that took place in the Rafah area”, expresses grave concern “by the recent demolition of homes committed by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Rafah refugee camp”, reaffirms “its support for the Road Map, endorsed in resolution 1515”, “Calls on Israel to respect its obligations under international humanitarian law, and insists, in particular, on its obligation not to undertake demolition of homes contrary to that law”, and “Calls on both parties to immediately implement their obligations under the Road Map”.

Res. 1701 (Aug. 11, 2006) – Expresses “its utmost concern at the continuing escalation of hostilities in Lebanon and in Israel” that “has already caused hundreds of deaths and injuries” and “extensive damage to civilian infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons”, and “Calls for a full cessation of hostilities” including “the immediate cessation by Israel of all offensive military operations”.

Res. 1860 (Jan. 8, 2009) – Expresses “grave concern at the escalation of violence and the deterioration of the situation, in particular the resulting heavy civilian casualties since the refusal to extend the period of calm”, expresses “grave concern also at the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza”, “calls for an immediate, durable and fully respected ceasefire, leading to the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza”, “Calls for the unimpeded provision and distribution throughout Gaza of humanitarian assistance, including of food, fuel and medical treatment”, and “Condemns all violence and hostilities directed against civilians and all acts of terrorism”.

Israel was founded on the principle of terrorism. The Israeli propaganda that Israel is always acting in self-dense is no longer believable. This is further proof.

• Res. 57 (Sep. 18, 1948) – Expresses deep shock at the assassination of the U.N. Mediator in Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, by Zionist terrorists.

• Res. 89 (Nov. 17, 1950) – Requests that attention be given to the expulsion of “thousands of Palestine Arabs” and calls upon concerned governments to take no further action “involving the transfer of persons across international frontiers or armistice lines”, and notes that Israel announced that it would withdraw to the armistice lines.

• Res. 93 (May 18, 1951) – Finds that Israeli airstrikes on Syria on April 5, 1951 constitutes “a violation of the cease-fire”, and decides that Arab civilians expelled from the demilitarized zone by Israel should be allowed to return.

• Res. 100 (Oct. 27, 1953) – Notes that Israel had said it would stop work it started in the demilitarized zone on September 2, 1953.

• Res. 101 (Nov. 24, 1953) – Finds Israel’s attack on Qibya, Jordan on October 14-15, 1953 to be a violation of the cease-fire and “Expresses the strongest censure of that action”.

• Res. 106 (Mar. 29, 1955) – Condemns Israel’s attack on Egyptian forces in the Gaza Strip on February 28, 1955.

• Res. 111 (Jan. 19, 1956) – Condemns Israel’s attack on Syria on December 11, 1955 as “a flagrant violation of the cease-fire” and armistice agreement.

• Res. 119 (Oct. 31, 1956) – Considers that “a grave situation has been created” by the attack against Egypt by the forces of Britain, France, and Israel.

• Res. 171 (Apr. 9, 1962) – Reaffirms resolution 111 and determines that Israel’s attack on Syria on March 16-17, 1962 “constitutes a flagrant violation of that resolution”.

• Res. 228 (Nov. 25, 1966) – “Deplores the loss of life and heavy damage to property resulting from the action” by Israel in the southern Hebron area on November 13, 1966, and “Censures Israel for this large-scale military action in violation of the United Nations Charter” and the armistice agreement between Israel and Jordan.

• Res. 237 (Jun. 14, 1967) – Calls on Israel “to ensure the safety, welfare and security of the inhabitants where military operations have taken place” during the war launched by Israel on June 5, 1967 “and to facilitate the return of those inhabitants who have fled the areas since the outbreak of hostilities”.

• Res. 242 (Nov. 22, 1967) – Emphasizes “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war”, emphasizes that member states have a commitment to abide by the U.N. Charter, and calls for the “Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied” during the June 1967 war.

• Res. 248 (Mar. 24, 1968) – Observes that the Israeli attack on Jordan “was of a large-scale and carefully planned nature”, “Deplores the loss of life and heavy damage to property”, “Condemns the military action launched by Israel in flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the cease-fire resolutions”, and “Calls upon Israel to desist from” further violations of resolution 237.

As one reader eloquently stated:

UN to Netanyahu: Undo everything that you’ve done and we will unsay everything that’s been said

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So Much Going on: The Muslim Brotherhood?

I find it interesting that some bloggers here assume that people are as ignorant as they are. Or maybe by making certain statements (look it up yourself…) they assume that people will just take their word for it.

An uneducated (as in ignorant) blogger wrote this about the situation in the Middle East – and particularly, Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood:

If you are not familiar with these gangsters of islam then you should spend some time doing a bit of research about them.  It isn’t hard to find all sorts of information about them on the internet, they’re a highly visible group.  They are a well organized, determined and frightening bunch intent on overthrowing western-minded civilizations and instituting rigid compliance with sharia law.

Interesting and false claim. Here’s what my own research about the Muslim Brotherhood revealed:

Wikipedia:

It was founded in 1928 in Egypt by the Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna. The Brotherhood’s stated goal is to instill the Qur’an and Sunnah as the “sole reference point for … ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community … and state”.^[4] Since its inception in 1928 the movement has officially opposed violent means to achieve its goals.

Wikipedia also states that the Council on Foreign Relations says: “At various times in its history, the group has used or supported violence and has been repeatedly banned in Egypt for attempting to overthrow Cairo’s secular government. Since the 1970s, however, the Egyptian Brotherhood has disavowed violence and sought to participate in Egyptian politics.”

Interestingly, Wikipedia does not provide a link to the Council on Foreign Relations ( an impressive name and one that projects authority), regardless of their biased and incorrect anti-Islamic statements. If a couple of “personalities” are among its members, then we consider it a credible source? Further research reveals who they are. For now, let’s stay on the topic of the Brotherhood.

You can read more details about the Brotherhood on Wikipedia and the link is provided; unlike the moron who wrote the hate-statement in which he’s really trying to undermine a religion, based on his own anti-Semitic views and without any reference.

What is really intriguing on Wikipedia, is the fact that Osama Bin Laden had criticized the group!

The Mubarak oppressive and tyrant regime was behind the Brotherhood being accused of terrorism. It was a classic “Divide and Conquer” principle in which Mubarak’s regime ensured its grip remained supported and financed by the West.

Jewish Virtual Library

From the name, one can be certain that this militant Jewish view will have nothing positive to say about another religion, especially Islam. They write (about the Brotherhood):

The organization’s motto is as follows: “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

An important aspect of the Muslim Brotherhood ideology is the sanctioning of jihad such as the 2004 fatwa issued by Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi making it a religious obligation of Muslims to abduct and kill U.S. citizens in Iraq.

I must say that these are impressive and strong accusations. I searched English and Arabic sites in which any of the above would appear as a direct quote to Qaradawi, or, at least something similar, and I failed to find one such statement. If you, the reader can, I welcome any reference and we’ll jointly evaluate and debate. When a group or a government wants to discredit someone or another country or group, it will make such statements as if they were facts without any reference, credible or otherwise!

The above image was found on an Arabic Blog. It reads:  Allah is our [ultimate] objective. The Prophet is our Example. Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration.”

Jihad of course is the word Zionists and Neocons cleverly use to “prove” that Islam is all about war an/or killing; an utterly hateful and false claim. The Arabic word (Jihad) means struggle; not war. However, when it was used as struggle against the pagans of Mecca during the days of the Prophet, then of course it meant war!  That was when Muslims had to defended themselves against the pagans of Arabia.

The “Dying in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration/ hope” does not – promote war. During the time of the Prophet and in Muslims defending themselves against the pagans, the Quran comforted those new Muslims that their reward is highest than anyone elses if they were killed defending themselves against the pagans. This reward is an immediate entry to Paradise, according to Islamic belief, and living eternity directly below the Throne of God Almighty. In other words, the ceiling of one’s abode, is the Throne of Almighty!  Today it still means the same thing: that if one were to die defending his family, his honor or his country, the reward would be the same. The Quran clearly states that:

2:190 Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors.

60:8 Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for (your) Faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: for Allah loveth those who are just.

On Wikipedia, it is stated that the Brotherhood preaches that Islam enjoins man to strive for social justice, the eradication of poverty and corruption, and political freedom to the extent allowed by the laws of Islam. The Brotherhood strongly opposes Western colonialism, and helped overthrow the pro-western monarchies in Egypt and other Muslim countries during the early 20th century.

Sounds like what we stand for in the U.S., does it not? We value freedom and don’t like colonialism, unless it is us doing it!

Sharia Law

Again, this blogger antisemitic and hate to Muslims and Islam is quite apparent in and from posting the famous photo-shopped picture of  a woman who was supposedly stoned to death. If you examine the picture casually, you will notice that the woman’s image is inserted in what seems to be a “hole” with rocks all around her and red marks on her face. Yet, there’s no spilled blood, no torn dress, dust or dirt on her “very black” garments. Little details the “creator” of the photo neglected to add.

I am yet to post something about the so-called Sahria “Law”  and prove that what most politicians and the media’s views are influenced by pro-Zionist terrorism to discredit Islam and Muslims in America. Period.

There is not even a single verse in the Quran that calls for stoning anyone!  Nor does the so-called Sharia “Law” support the stoning and/or killing as claimed. But if Iranians and/or Shiites do this, Islam and Muslims have nothing to do with this.

Does anyone accuse Christianity of being a racist and violent religion based on the KKK and its white-supremacist beliefs? Does one accuse Judaism in general to be an evil religion even when the Talmud contains violent and despicable teachings – from sex with infants to the permissibility of killing any non Jew?

Examples:

MISHNAH.WHEN A GROWN-UP MAN (7) HAS HAD SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH (8) A LITTLE GIRL, (9) OR WHEN A SMALL BOY (10) HAS INTERCOURSE WITH A GROWN-UP WOMAN, OR [WHEN A GIRL WAS ACCIDENTALLY] INJURED BY A PIECE OF WOOD (11) — [IN ALL THESE CASES] THEIR KETHUBAH IS TWO HUNDRED [ZUZ] … — Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Kethuboth 11a
Soncino 1961 Edition, page 57

Stoning in the Bible

1 Samuel 30.6: David was in great danger; for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in spirit for their sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

Acts of the Apostles 7.59: While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’

2 Corinthians:  Five times I have received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. ²⁵Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning.

More from the Bible:

Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)

You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives. (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)

A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)

Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)

If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)

But if this charge is true (that she wasn’t a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father’s house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)

 

The flavor of the day is anti Islam and Muslims. The morons of the day do not realize and understand that this is parallel to, and downright antisemitism.  Yet most have been “trained” to associate antisemitism with Jews only.

One only needs to read, research and explore… the truth is right at one’s fingertips.

Why I don’t believe in the Holocaust revisited

A response to Eustace Mullins’ speech concerning Zionist complicity with the alleged ‘Jewish Holocaust’

Last week, a video was making the rounds of a speech given by one of the greatest historians of the 20^th century, Eustace Mullins, in which he was suggesting that the Nazi concentration camps were the result of Zionist cooperation with the German Nazis for the purpose of eliminating those parts of European Jewry who were opposed to the Zionist plan of relocating all European Jews to a future Jewish State in Palestine.

1933: Zionists sign a deal with Hitler – The Transfer Agreement

Implied in Mullins’ suggestion was that at least some of the Nazi concentration camps had in fact – as the law-enforced Judeo-Bolshevik narrative of WWII wants us to believe – the purpose of industrial-scale mass killings. That’s obviously nonsense.

Yes, the Jews have cooperated with the Nazi, as they have been doing for centuries with any political or religious cause of any traction, in pursuit of their own evil agendas. I call it the ‘Jewish dark art of gate-keeping‘. In fact, as we have learned from Edwin Black’s book titled ‘The Transfer Agreement‘ and Hennecke Kardel’s ‘Adolf Hitler – Founder of Israel‘ , the Zionists did not only closely cooperate with the Nazis on their common goal of relocating all European Jews to Palestine, but they actually financed and controlled the Nazis. In fact many first and second tier Nazis were (crypto-)Jews themselves and there have been hundreds of thousands of Jews fighting for Hitler in the German Wehrmacht.

However, you don’t even have to bother studying the excellent revisionist work of an Arthur Butz^[1], Robert Faurisson^[2], Carlo Mattogno^[3] or Germar Rudolf^[4], available in the online books sections of the Rebel News site, or invest a couple of evenings watching the irrefutable and undisputed evidence provided in oustanding revisionist documentaries such as ‘One Third of the Holocaust (2008)‘, ‘Buchenwald (2008)‘ and even ‘David Cole in Auschwitz (1992)‘, published in the history category of Rebel News’ opinion section, to figure out that the Judeo-Bolshevik narrative of the so-called Jewish Holocaust is a hoax. The mere fact that 65 years after the alleged events, anyone performing or publishing research that contradicts the official narrative is systematically destroyed, even risks being abducted and imprisoned, is sufficient evidence that the official narrative is a lie. In places like Germany revisionists aren’t even allowed to defend themselves by providing evidence for their claims. What more proof does common sense need?

In other words, Mullins was right to the extent that German National Socialism was indeed a merger of Italian style fascism, an anti-Communist movement controlled by elements in the Italian aristocracy and Catholic Church, and Rothschild-Zionism. Much of the blatant racism displayed by some Nazis towards non-Germans, for example Julius Streicher’s “Der Stuermer”, was nothing more than a Germanised version of 3000 year old Jewish supremacism, which is exactly the reason why the Israeli conduct in Palestine reminds us so much of Nazi Germany.

Footnotes:
[1] Arthur Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
[2] Robert Faurisson, The Leuchter Reports
[3] Carlo Mattogno, Concentration Camp Majdanek
[4] Germar Rudolf, Lectures on the Holocaust, Dissecting the Holocaust and The Rudolf Report

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The heretics dilemma: Attack or not attack the Zionist Achilles heel
Pro-Palestinian Activism and the Holocult: A Modern Tragicomedy
The Jewish Holocaust and the New World Order
Which German debt?
Hitler, his bankers and the Holocaust
Why I believe the Jews are lying about the Holocaust
The Holocaust and the Middle-East

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The trials of Jewish-American political scientist Norman Finkelstein

“Every single member of my family on both sides was exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. And it is precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents taught me and my two siblings that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians.”

Norman Finkelstein

American Radical is the probing, definitive documentary about Jewish-American political scientist Norman Finkelstein.

A devoted son of holocaust survivors, an ardent critic of Israel and US Middle East policy, Finkelstein has been steadfast at the centre of many intractable controversies, including his denial of tenure at DePaul University.

“You don’t know who Norman Finkelstein is. He’s poison, he’s a disgusting self-hating Jew.”
Leon Wieseltier, literary editor, The New Republic

Called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational street-fighting revolutionary by others, Finkelstein is a deeply polarising figure.

“Norman is a very careful scholar. And he feels very passionately about the Holocaust. His parents are both survivors of extermination camps and he was deeply involved in their lives and the tragedies and so on. [He] knows everything about the Holocaust. And when he sees somebody using it, exploiting it, demeaning the memory of the victims for personal gain, he doesn’t like it. I can understand that.”

Noam Chomsky, friend and professor of linguistics, MIT

From Beirut to Kyoto, the filmmakers follow Finkelstein around the world as he attempts to negotiate a voice among both supporters and critics.

“If he were not a Jew – that is, I don’t think he is a Jew. As someone once put it ‘he’s only Jewish on his parents side”. If he were not a Jewish person or a person of Jewish heritage with a name like Finkelstein, nobody would have any doubt that he was an anti-Semite.”

Alan Dershowitz, author ‘The Case for Israel’

He taught me everything—how to be a civil libertarian, a Jewish activist, a mensch

Filmmakers: David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier
The documentary was recently voted fifth best political documentary of all time by www.screenjunkies.com.

The second part of American Radical can be seen from Tuesday, April 19, at the following times GMT: Tuesday: 2000; Wednesday: 1200; Thursday: 0100; Friday: 0600; Saturday: 2000; Sunday: 1200; Monday: 0100; Tuesday: 0600.

Source: Al Jazeera

If one disagrees with Israeli Zionist Nazi-like war crimes and conduct, one is a “self hating Jew” and anti-Semite! Go figure!!!

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ISRAEL: Criminal to the marrow of the bones

TheNakedTruthInAConfusedWorld: ISRAEL: Criminal to the marrow of the bones

Israeli prison raid footage released

Television images shows Israeli Terrorist troops using live ammunition in deadly operation at detention centre.

Hundreds of Palestinian have died inside Israeli prisons and now an Israeli television channel has aired shocking footage of Israel’s so-called Control and Restraint unit, or Masada, attacking Palestinian prisoners.

Activists have demanded people in charge of the operation, carried out in 2007, be charged and the family of one of the victims told Al Jazeera that they would consider suing Masada.

The basic Talmudic doctrine includes more than a “super-race” complex. It is an “only” race concept. The non-Jew thus ranks as an animal, has no property rights and no legal rights under any code whatever. If lies, bribes or kicks are necessary to get non-Jews under control — that is legitimate. There is only one “sin,” and that is anything which will frighten non-Jews and thus make it harder for the Jewish “humans” to get them under control. “Milk the Gentile,” is the Talmudic rule, but don’t get caught in such a way as to jeopardize Jewish interests.

Summarized, Talmudism is the quintessence of distilled hatred and discrimination — without cause, against non-Jews.

Robbery, Stealing, Murder — Approved Against Gentiles

The “chief repository of the criminal law of the Talmud” (together with Makkoth or “beatings”) is the book of Sanhedin (See Exhibit 43). The non-human status of the non-Jew so far as legal or human rights are concerned is reiterated in Sanhedrin 57a. (See Exhibit 57)

A footnote explains that the Talmudist censor inserted the word “Cuthean” in the text for the word goy or Gentile, thus deceiving a possible non-Jewish reader as to the real meaning.

To quote: (Exhibit 57):

“With respect to robbery — if one stole or robbed [Footnote: "by secret stealing or by open violence"] or seized a beautiful woman, or committed similar offenses, if these were perpetrated by one Cuthean against another, the theft, etc., must not be kept, and likewise the theft of an Israelite by a Cuthean, but that of a Cuthean by an Israelite may be retained.”

Sufficient filler is then inserted in the footnotes to confuse the “goy” reader, with a reference to the footnote concerning Baba Kamma 37b (See Exhibit 39). There, the false supposition that non-Jews have no “laws of social justice” is said to justify an inhuman standard of immorality taught by the “ox-goring” Talmud reference, a standard repeated elsewhere throughout the whole Talmud.

On murder of Gentiles (Exhibit 57):

“For murder, whether of a Cuthean by a Cuthean or of an Israelite by a Cuthean, punishment is incurred: but of a Cuthean by an Israelite, there is no death penalty.”

The same doctrine abides throughout the whole Talmud. Glancing at the Jewish Encyclopedia section on “Gentiles” we see that Rabbi Simon ben Yohai’s edict is:

“The best among the Gentiles deserves to be killed.”

source

Israeli Jewish Terrorism at Al Aqsa Mosque

The Jerusalem International Foundation warned of the continued Israeli aggression on Al Aqsa Mosque, after Israeli soldiers threw a petrol bomb at the mosque on Wednesday.

The firm said in a statement on Thursday – a day after celebrations of the Jewish Passover, which began Monday and continue until the twenty-fifth of this month – that this targeting of the mosque is part of the escalation of the project of conversion (to Jewish Only)  the occupied city of Jerusalem.

In its barbaric “efforts” of the Judaization of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Israel took advantage of the current revolutions in the Middle East to accomplish a most despicable and barbaric act. Then again, what’s new?

It was an Israeli soldiers who, during evening prayers yesterday, threw a petrol bomb at the forest area on the east side of Door of Mercy of the mosque, igniting a fire and almost cause an outbreak of fire in the mosque. Luckily Palestinian guards immediately noticed and extinguished the fire.

Eyewitnesses stated that they saw an Israeli military patrol in the area and one of its members drop the bomb before being driven away towards the Mount of Olives.

Meanwhile, a group of extremist thugs (settlers) attempted last Monday evening to enter mosque to “make a sacrifice” at the Dome of the Rock. Mosque guards were able to control the situation. Source

There’s Israel for you: a country based on NaZionism and terrorism by heathens and thugs!

The Jewish Lie about Joseph and Joseph’s Tomb

The recent incidents in the Arab Palestinian city of Nablus, where a a group of supposedly Ultra Orthodox Jews went to pray inside the Tomb of Prophet Joseph (when Jews don’t even consider Joseph a Prophet), is simply a joke. Maybe its the Jewish version of April’s fool!

Ultra-Orthodox Jews frequently defy a military ban on entering the shrine that is in Palestinian-controlled territory.

The incident came in the wake of Israeli forces’ Friday attack on a group of Palestinian and international activists protesting Tel Aviv’s separation barriers built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.

At least 13 demonstrators were injured on Friday when Israeli soldiers attacked protesters in the town of Bil’in, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Elsewhere, three Palestinians were wounded in separate incidents after Israeli troops attacked the blockaded Gaza Strip on the same day, according to medical sources.

Israel has been regularly bombarding Gaza ever since its 22-day massacre on the impoverished enclave in December 2008 and January 2009, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians — most of whom were women and children.

Jews and especially these terrorist-settlers will create any lie to justify the stealing of more Arab Palestinian lands.

The facts (and comparisons) are as follows:

• Joseph is represented as a “perfectly righteous man” the rabbinical literature! One opinion holds that the Holy Spirit dwelt in Joseph from his childhood until his death (Pirke R. El. 38).
• Judaism began after the revelations to Moses.
• 300 to 500 years separate Joseph and Moses

Therefore Joseph, his father Jacob and his father Isaac and his father Abraham could not have been Jews. Period.  See I will bless those who bless thee

For the Ultra-Orthodox to claim his shrine in Nablus as “their own,” or for that matter, Abraham’s tomb in Hebron as Jewish shrines, are despicable historic manipulations to serve a Zionist Nazi-like Jewish-supremacist agenda.

It is Palestinians who are the real descendants of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and Jesus!  The real descendants of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Judah are the Palestinians as Dr. Shlomo Sand explains in his best seller (When and How Was the Jewish People Invented):

“It is not taught in Israeli schools but most of the early Zionist leaders, including David Ben Gurion [Israel’s first prime minister], believed that the Palestinians were the descendants of the area’s original Jews. They believed the Jews had later converted to Islam.”

Meanwhile, the Nazi forces of Israel will use any excuse to massacre and kidnap more Palestinians. And Palestinians will retaliate and the cycle will continue until the Holy land is cleansed from the filth of Zionists!

The Quran and Joseph (Yusuf)

12:4 LO! Thus spoke Joseph unto his father: “O my father! Behold, I saw [in a dream] eleven stars, as well as the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrate themselves before me!”

12:5 [Jacob] replied: “O my dear son! Do not relate thy dream to thy brothers lest [out of envy] they devise an evil scheme against thee; verily, Satan is man’s open foe!

As in the Biblical account of Joseph’s story, the Qur’an shows that Jacob did not fail to understand the meaning of his son’s dream-vision of future greatness, with the eleven stars symbolizing his brothers, and the sun and the moon his parents. But whereas the Bible quotes the father as “rebuking” his son (Genesis xxxvii, 10) in the obvious assumption that the dream was an outcome of wishful thinking, the Qur’an makes it clear that Jacob – who was himself a prophet – at once realized its prophetic quality and its deeper implications.(Quran Ref: 12:5 )

12:6 For, [as thou hast been shown in thy dream,] even thus will thy Sustainer elect thee, and will impart unto thee some understanding of the inner meaning of happenings,  and will bestow the full measure of His blessings upon thee and upon the House of Jacob -even as, aforetime, He bestowed it in full measure upon thy forefathers Abraham and Isaac. Verily, thy Sustainer is all-knowing, wise!”

12:7 Indeed, in [the story of] Joseph and his brothers there are messages for all who search [after truth]

12:8 NOW [Joseph's brothers] spoke [thus to one another:] “Truly, Joseph and his brother [Benjamin] are dearer to our father than we, even though we are so many. Behold, our father is surely suffering from an aberration!”

12:9 [Said one of them:] “Slay Joseph, or else drive him away to some [faraway] land, so that your father’s regard may be for you alone: and after this is done, you will be [free to repent and to live once again as] righteous people!”

12:10 Another of them said: “Do not slay Joseph, but -rather – if you must do something – cast him into the dark depths of this well, [whence] some caravan may pick him up.”

12:11 [On this they agreed; and thereupon] they spoke [thus to their father]: “O our father! Wherefore wilt thou not trust us with Joseph, seeing that we are indeed his well-wishers?

12:12 Let him go out with us tomorrow, that he may enjoy himself and play: and, verily, we shall guard him well!”

12:13 [Jacob] answered: “Behold, it grieves me indeed [to think] that you might take him with you, for I dread lest the wolf devour him at a moment when you are heedless of him!”

12:14 Said they: “Surely, if the wolf were to devour him notwithstanding that we are so many-then, behold, we ought ourselves to perish!”

12:15 And so, when they went away with him, they decided to cast him into the dark depths of the well. And We revealed [this] unto him: “Thou wilt yet remind them of this their deed at a time when they shall not perceive [who thou art] !”

12:16 And at nightfall they came to their father, weeping,

12:17 [and] said: “O our father! Behold, we went off racing with one another, and left Joseph behind with our things; and thereupon the wolf devoured him! But [we know that] thou wouldst not believe us even though we speak the truth”

12:18 and they produced his tunic with false blood upon it. [But Jacob] exclaimed: “Nay, but it is your [own] minds that have made [so terrible] a happening seem a matter of little account to you! But [as for myself,] patience in adversity is most goodly [in the sight of God]; and it is to God [alone] that I pray to give me strength to bear the misfortune which you have described to me.”

12:19 AND THERE CAME a caravan;  and they sent forth their drawer of water, and he let down his bucket into the well – [and when he saw Joseph] he exclaimed: “Oh, what a lucky find, this boy!” And they hid him with a view to selling him: but God had full knowledge of all that they were doing.

12:20 And they sold him for a paltry price – a mere few silver coins: thus low did they value him

12:21 And the man from Egypt who bought him said to his wife: “Make his stay [with us] honourable; he may well be of use to us, or we may adopt him as a son. And thus We gave unto Joseph a firm place on earth; and [We did this] so that We might impart unto him some understanding of the inner meaning of happenings. For, God always prevails in whatever be His purpose: but most people know it not.

12:22 And when he reached full manhood, We bestowed upon him the ability to judge [between right and wrong], as well as [innate] knowledge: for thus do We reward the doers of good.

12:23 And [it so happened that] she in whose house he was living [conceived a passion for him and] sought to make him yield himself unto her; and she bolted the doors and said, “Come thou unto me!” [But Joseph] answered: “May God preserve me! Behold, goodly has my master made my stay [in this house]! Verily, to no good end come they that do [such] wrong!”

12:24 And, indeed, she desired him, and he desired her; [and he would have succumbed] had he not seen [in this temptation] an evidence of his Sustainer’s truth: thus [We willed it to be] in order that We might avert from him all evil and all deeds of abomination -for, behold, he was truly one of Our servants.

The interpolated phrase “and he would have succumbed”, is implied in the above sentence. The moral significance of “virtue” consists in one’s inner victory over a wrongful desire, and not in the absence of such a desire.  The well-known saying of the Prophet, recorded, on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, by Bukhari and Muslim: “God, exalted be He, says: ‘If a servant of Mine [merely] desires to do a good deed, I shall count this [desire] as a good deed; and if he does it, I shall count it tenfold. And if he desires to commit a bad deed, but does not commit it, I shall count this as a good deed, seeing that he refrained from it only for My sake…”‘ -i.e., in consequence of a moral consideration (which, in the present instance, is described as “an evidence of God’s truth”).(Quran Ref: 12:24 )

12:25 And they both rushed to the door; and she [grasped and] rent his tunic from behind-and [lo!] they met her lord at the door! Said she: “What ought to be the punishment of one who had evil designs on [the virtue of] thy wife – [what] but imprisonment or a [yet more] grievous chastisement?”

12:26 [Joseph] exclaimed: “It was she who sought to make me yield myself unto her!” Now one of those present, a member of her own household, suggested this:If his tunic has been torn from the front, then she is telling the truth, and he is a liar;

Here, again, the Qur’anic narrative differs from the story as told in the Bible, since according to the latter (Genesis xxxix, 19-20), the husband immediately believed the false accusation and cast Joseph into prison; the episodes related in verses 26-34 of this surah do not appear in the Biblical account.(Quran Ref: 12:26 )

12:27 but if his tunic has been torn from behind, then she is lying, and he is speaking the truth.”

12:28 And when (her husband] saw that his tunic was torn from behind, he said: “Behold, this is [an instance] of your guile, O womankind! Verily, awesome is your guile!

12:29 [But,] Joseph, let this pass! And thou, [O wife,] ask forgiveness for thy sin-for, verily, thou hast been greatly at fault!”

According to almost all the commentators, the meaning is, “do not mention this to anyone”, the implication being that the husband was prepared to forgive and forget.

12:30 NOW the women of the city spoke [thus to one another]: “The wife of this nobleman is trying to induce her slave-boy to yield himself unto her! Her love for him has pierced her heart; verily, we see that she is undoubtedly suffering from an aberration!

12:31 Thereupon, when she heard of their malicious talk, she sent for them, and prepared for them a sumptuous repast, and handed each of them a knife and said [to Joseph]: “Come out and show thyself to them!” And when the women saw him, they were greatly amazed at his beauty, and [so flustered were they that] they cut their hands [with their knives], exclaiming, “God save us! This is no mortal man! This is nought but a noble angel!”

12:32 Said she: “This, then, is he about whom you have been blaming me! And, indeed, I did try to make him yield himself unto me, but he remained chaste. Now, however, if he does not do what I bid him, he shall most certainly be imprisoned, and shall most certainly find himself among the despised!

12:33 Said he: “O my Sustainer! Prison is more desirable to me than [compliance with] what these women invite me to: for, unless Thou turn away their guile from me, I might yet yield to their allure and become one of those who are unaware [of right and wrong].”

12:34 And his Sustainer responded to his prayer, and freed him from the threat of their guile: verily, He alone is all-hearing, all-knowing. -

12:35 For, presently it occurred to the nobleman and his household [even] after they had seen all the signs [of Joseph's innocence] – that they might as well imprison him for a time.

12:36 NOW two young men happened to go to prison at the same time as Joseph.One of them said: “Behold, I saw myself [in a dream] pressing wine.” And the other said: “Behold, I saw myself [in a dream] carrying bread on my head, and birds were eating thereof.” [And both entreated Joseph:] “Let us know the real meaning of this! Verily, we see that thou art one of those who know well [how to interpret dreams]

According to the Biblical account (not contradicted by the Qur’an), they were the King’s cup-bearer and baker, both of them imprisoned for unspecified offences.(Quran Ref: 12:36 )

12:37 [Joseph] answered: “Ere there comes unto you the meal which you are [daily] fed, I shall have informed you of the real meaning of your dreams, [so that you might know what is to come] before it comes unto you: for this is [part] of the knowledge which my Sustainer has imparted to me. “Behold, I have left behind me the ways of people who do not believe in God, and who persistently refuse to acknowledge the truth of the life to come;

Joseph wants to avail himself of this opportunity to guide his two fellow-prisoners towards the true faith; and so, while promising that he would explain their dreams presently, he asks them to listen first to a short discourse on the oneness of God.(Quran Ref: 12:37 )

12:38 and I follow the creed of my forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It is not conceivable that we should [be allowed to] ascribe divinity to aught beside God: this is [an outcome] of God’s bounty unto us and unto all mankind -but most people are ungrateful.

12:39 “O my companions in imprisonment! Which is more reasonable: [belief in the existence of numerous divine] lords, each of them different from the other” – or [in] the One God, who holds absolute sway over all that exists?

12:40 “All that you worship instead of God is nothing but [empty] names which you have invented – you and your forefathers- [and] for which God has bestowed no warrant from on high. Judgment [as to what is right and what is wrong] rests with God alone-[and] He has ordained that you should worship nought but Him: this is the [one] ever-true faith; but most people know it not

12:41 “[And now,] O my companions in imprisonment, [I shall tell you the meaning of your dreams:] as for one of you two, he will [again] give his lord [the King] wine to drink; but as for the other, he will be crucified, and birds will eat off his head. [But whatever be your future,] the matter on which you have asked me to enlighten you has been decided [by God].”

12:42 And [thereupon Joseph] said unto the one of the two whom he considered saved: “Mention me unto thy lord [when thou art free]!” But Satan caused him to forget to mention [Joseph] to his lord, and so he remained in prison a few [more] years.

12:43 AND [one day] the King said: Behold, I saw [in a dream] seven fat cows being devoured by seven emaciated ones, and seven green ears [of wheat] next to [seven] others that were withered. O you nobles! Enlighten me about [the meaning of] my dream, if you are able to interpret dreams!”

12:44 They answered: ” [This is one of] the most involved and confusing of dreams, and we have no deep knowledge of the real meaning of dreams.”

12:45 At that, the one of the two [erstwhile prisoners] who had been saved, and [who suddenly] remembered [Joseph] after all that time, spoke [thus]: “It is I who can inform you of the real meaning of this [dream]; so let me go [in search of it].” 

12:46 [And he went to see Joseph in the prison and said to him:] “Joseph, O thou truthful one! Enlighten us about [the meaning of a dream in which] seven fat cows were being devoured by seven emaciated ones, and seven green ears [of wheat appeared] next to [seven] others that were withered – so that I may return [with thy explanation] unto the people [of the court, and] that they may come to know [what manner of man thou art]!”

12:47 [Joseph] replied: “You shall sow for seven years as usual; but let all [the grain] that you harvest remain [untouched] in its ear, excepting only a little, whereof you may eat:

12:48 for, after that [period of seven good years] there will come seven hard [years] which will devour all that you shall have laid up for them, excepting only a little of that which you shall have kept in store.

12:49 And after that there will come a year in which the people will be delivered from all distress,and in which they will press [oil and wine as before].”

12:50 And [as soon as Joseph's interpretation. was conveyed to him,] the King said: “Bring him before me!” But when the [King's] messenger came unto him, [Joseph] said: “Go back to thy lord and ask him [first to find out the truth] about those women who cut their hands-for, behold, [until now it is] my Sustainer [alone who] has full knowledge of their guile!”

12:51 [Thereupon the King sent for those women; and when they came,] he asked: “What was it that you hoped to achieve when you sought to make Joseph yield himself unto you?”  The women answered: “God save us! We did not perceive the least evil [intention] on his part!” [And] the wife of Joseph’s former masterexclaimed: “Now has the truth come to light! It was I who sought to make him yield himself unto me – whereas he, behold, was indeed speaking the truth!”

12:52 [When Joseph learned what had happened, he said:  "I asked for] this, so that [my former master] might know that I did not betray him behind his back, and that God does not bless with His guidance the artful schemes of those who betray their trust.

12:53 And yet, I am not trying to absolve myself: for, verily, man’s inner self does incite [him] to evil, and saved are only they upon whom my Sustainer bestows His grace. Behold, my Sustainer is much forgiving, a dispenser of grace!”

12:54 And the King said: “Bring him unto me, so that I may attach him to my own person.” And when he had spoken with him, [the King] said: “Behold, [from] this day thou shalt be of high standing with us, invested with all trust!”

12:55 [Joseph] replied: “Place in my charge the store-houses of the land; behold, I shall be a good and knowing keeper.

By making this request, Joseph wanted to assure an efficient build-up of grain reserves during the coming years of plenty, knowing well that they would be followed by seven years of scarcity. It is obvious from the sequence that his request was granted, and that he was able to fulfil the task which he had set himself.(Quran Ref: 12:55 )

12:56 And thus We established Joseph securely in the land [of Egypt]: he had full mastery over it, [doing] whatever he willed. [Thus do] We cause Our grace to alight upon whomever We will; and We do not fail to requite the doers of good.

12:57 But in the eyes of those who have attained to faith and have always been conscious of Us, a reward in the life to come is a far greater good [than any reward in this world].

12:58 AND [after some years,] Joseph’s brothers came [to Egypt] and presented themselves before him: and he knew them [at once], whereas they did not recognize him.

Le., to buy wheat from the stores which Joseph had accumulated during the seven years of plenty: for all the countries in the vicinity of Egypt were by now affected by the famine which he had predicted, and Egypt alone had a surplus, the distribution of which he supervised personally (cf. Genesis x1i, 54-57).(Quran Ref: 12:58 )

12:59 And when he had provided them with their provisions, he said: “[When you come here next,] bring unto me that brother of yours from your father’s side. Do you not see that I have given [you] full measure and have been the best of hosts?

Lit., “a brother of yours from your father”-i.e., their half-brother Benjamin, who was Joseph’s full brother (their mother having been Rachel, Jacob’s favourite wife), whereas the other ten had different mothers. Benjamin, the youngest of Jacob’s children, had not accompanied his brothers on their first journey to Egypt, but they had presumably mentioned him in the course of their conversation with Joseph.(Quran Ref: 12:59 )

12:60 But if you do not bring him unto me, you shall never again receive a single measure [of grain] from me, nor shall you [be allowed to] come near me!”

12:61 They answered: “We shall try to persuade his father to part with him, and, verily, we shall do [our utmost]!”

12:62 And [Joseph] said to his servants: “Place their merchandise in their camel-packs, so that they may find it there when they come home, and hence be the more eager to return.

“Their Merchandise” I.e., the goods which they had bartered for wheat (Ibn Kathir): a very plausible explanation in view of the fact that barter was the most common form of trade in those ancient times.(Quran Ref: 12:62 )

12:63 And so, when they returned to their father, [Joseph's brothers] said: “O our father! All grain is [to be] withheld from us [in the future unless we bring Benjamin with us]: send, therefore, our brother with us, so that we may obtain our measure (of grain]; and, verily, we shall guard him well!”

12:64 [Jacob] replied: “Shall I trust you with him in the same wayas I trusted you with his brother (Joseph] aforetime? [Nay,] but God’s guardianship is better [than yours], for He is the most merciful of the merciful!”

12:65 Thereupon, when they opened their packs, they discovered that their merchandise had been returned to them; [and] they said: “O our father! What more could we desire? Here is our merchandise: it has been returned to us! [If thou send Benjamin with us,] we shall (again] be able to bring food for our family, and shall guard our brother [well], and receive in addition another camel-load of grain That [which we have brought the first time] was but a scanty measure.”

12:66 Said [Jacob]: “I will not send him with you until you give me a solemn pledge, before God, that you will indeed bring him back unto me, unless you yourselves be encompassed [by death]!” And when they had given him their solemn pledge, [Jacob] said: “God is witness to all that we say!”

12:67 And he added: “O my sons! Do not enter [the city all] by one gate, but enter by different gates. Yet [even so,] I can be of no avail whatever to you against [anything that may be willed by] God: judgment [as to what is to happen] rests with none but God. In Him have I placed my trust: for, all who have trust [in His existence] must place their trust in Him alone.”

12:68 But althoughthey entered [Joseph's city] in the way their father had bidden them, this proved of no avail whatever to them against [the plan of] God [His request] had served only to satisfy Jacob’s heartfelt desire [to protect them]: for, behold, thanks to what We had imparted unto him, he was indeed endowed with the knowledge [that God's will must always prevail ]; but most people know it not.

When Jacob gave his sons this advice, he followed only an instinctive, humanly-understandable urge, and did not really expect that any outward precaution would by itself help them: for, as he himself pointed out on parting, “judgment as to what is to happen rests with none but God”. This stress on man’s utter dependence on God – a fundamental tenet of Islam – explains why Jacob’s advice (which in itself is not relevant to the story) has been mentioned in the above Qur’anic narrative.(Quran Ref: 12:68 )

12:69 AND WHEN [the sons of Jacob] presented themselves before Joseph, he drew his brother [Benjamin] unto himself, saying [to him in secret]: “Behold, I am thy brother! So grieve thou not over their past doings!”

Thus, contrary to the Biblical account, Joseph is stated here to have disclosed his identity to Benjamin long before he revealed himself to his ten half-brothers. The words “their past doings” obviously refer to their treacherous behaviour towards himself which Joseph had now presumably disclosed to Benjamin.(Quran Ref: 12:69 )

12:70 And [later,] when he had provided them with their provisions, he placed the [King's] drinking-cup in his brother’s camel-pack. And [as they were leaving the city,] a herald called out: “O you people of the caravan! Verily, you are thieves!

This extremely plausible explanation contrasts sharply with the Biblical account of this incident (Genesis xliv), according to which the false accusation was part of an inexplicable “stratagem” devised by Joseph. If we discard-as we must-this part of the Biblical version, it is far more logical to assume that Joseph, who had been granted by the King full authority over all that belonged to the latter (see verse 56 above), had placed the royal cup as a present in the bag of his favourite brother; and that he did this secretly, without informing his servants, because he did not want anyone, least of all his ten half-brothers, to know his predilection for Benjamin.

12:71 Turning towards the herald and his companions, the brothers asked: “What is it that you miss?”

12:72 They answered: “We miss the King’s goblet; and he who produces it shall receive a camel-load [of grain as reward]!” And [the herald added:] “I pledge myself to this _ [promise]!”

12:73 Said [the brothers]: “By God! Well do you know that we have not come to commit deeds of corruption in this land, and that we have not been thieving!”

12:74 [The Egyptians] said: “But what shall be the requital of this [deed] if you are [proved to be] liars?”

12:75 [The brothers] replied: “Its requital? He in whose camel-pack [the cup] is found-he shall be [enslaved as] a requital thereof! Thus do we [ourselves] requite the doers of [such] wrong.

12:76 Thereupon [they were brought before Joseph to be searched; and] he began with the bags of his half-brothersbefore the bag of his brother [Benjamin]: and in the end he brought forth the drinking Cupsout of his brother’s bag. In this way did We contrive for Joseph [the attainment of his heart's desire]: under the King’s law, he would [otherwise] not have been able to detain his brother, had not God so willed. We do raise to [high] degrees [of knowledge] whomever We will – but above everyone who is endowed with knowledge there is One who knows all.

The meaning of this story is now clear: it is a further illustration of the basic doctrine that “judgment [as to what is to happen] rests with none but God” (verse 67 above). Joseph had wanted to keep Benjamin with himself, but under the law of Egypt he could not do this without the consent of his half-brothers, who were the legal guardians of their minor brother; and they -bound as they were by the solemn promise given to their father-would certainly not have agreed to Benjamin’s remaining behind. The only other alternative open to Joseph was to disclose his identity to them; but since he was not yet prepared td go so far, he was obliged to allow Benjamin to depart with his brothers. The accidental discovery of his gift, entirely unexpected by Joseph, changed everything: for now Benjamin appeared to be guilty of theft, and under the law of the land Joseph was entitled to claim him as his slave, and thus to keep him in his house. The words, “In this way did We contrive for Joseph [the attainment of his heart's desire]“, referring to the incident of the cup, indicate that its final outcome was neither planned nor even foreseen by Joseph.(Quran Ref: 12:76 )

12:77 [As soon as the cup came to light out of Benjamin's bag, the brothers] exclaimed: “If he has stolen-well, a brother of his used to steal afore-time !”Thereupon Joseph said to himself, without revealing his thought to them: “You are far worse in this respect, and God is fully aware of what you are saying.

12:78 They said: “O thou great one! Behold, he has a father, a very old man: detain, therefore, one of us in his stead. Verily, we see that thou art a doer of good!”

12:79 He answered: “May God preserve us from [the sin of] detaining any other than him with whom we have found our property-for then, behold, we would indeed be evildoers!”

12:80 And so, when they lost all hope of [moving] him, they withdrew to take counsel [among themselves]. The eldest of them said: “Do you not rememberthat your father has bound you by a solemn pledge before God – and how, before that, you had failed with regard to Joseph? Hence, I shall not depart from this land till my father gives me leave or God passes judgment in my favour:for He is the best of all judges.

12:81 [And as for you others,] return to your father and say: `O our father! Behold, thy son has stolen-but we [can] bear witness to no more than what has become known to us;and [although we gave you our pledge,] we could not guard against something that [lay hidden in the future and, hence,] was beyond the reach of our perception.

12:82 And ask thou in the town in which we were [at the time], and of the people of the caravan with whom we travelled hither, and [thou wilt find that] we, are indeed telling the truth!”‘

12:83 [AND WHEN they returned to their father and told him what had happened,] he exclaimed: “Nay, but it is your [own] minds that have made [so terrible] a happening seem a matter of little account to you! But [as for myself,] patience in adversity is most goodly; God may well bring them all [back] unto me:verily, He alone is all-knowing, truly wise!”

12:84 But he turned away from them and said: “O woe is me for Joseph!”-and his eyes became dimfrom the grief with which he was filled.

Lit., “white”: i.e., dim with the tears that filled them. Although Jacob was now deprived of three of his sons, his grief for Joseph was the most acute because he was the only one of the three of whom Jacob did not know whether he was dead or alive.(Quran Ref: 12:84 )

12:85 Said [his sons]: “By God! Thou wilt never cease to remember, Joseph till thou art broken in body and spirit or art dead!”

12:86 He answered: “It is only to God that I complain of my deep grief and my sorrow: for I know, from God, something that you do not know.

Namely, that “judgment as to what is to happen rests with none but God”, and that “all who have ‘trust [in His existence] must place their trust in Him alone” (verse 67): the twin ideas which underlie the whole of this surah, and which Jacob now seeks to impress upon his sons. In addition to this, his remembrance of Joseph’s prophetic dream (verse 4) and his own conviction at the time that his beloved son would be elected by God for His special grace (verse 6), fills Jacob with renewed hope that Joseph is still alive and this explains the directives which he gives his sons in the next sentence.(Quran Ref: 12:86 )

12:87 [Hence,] O my sons, go forth and try to obtain some tidings of Joseph and his brother; and do not lose hope of God’s life-giving mercy:verily, none but people who deny the truth can ever lose hope of God’s life-giving mercy.

12:88 [AND THE SONS of Jacob went back to Egypt and to Joseph;] and when they presented themselves before him, they said: “O thou great one! Hardship has visited us and our folk, and so we have brought but scanty merchandise;but give us a full measure [of grain], and be charitable to us: behold, God rewards those who give in charity!”

12:89 Replied he: “Do you remember what you did to Joseph and his brother when you were still unaware [of right and wrong]?”

By coupling his own name with that of Benjamin he possibly hinted at his brothers’ early envy and hatred of the two sons of Rachel (cf. verse 8 of this surah); alternatively, the mention of Benjamin may have been due to the readiness with which they accepted the “evidence” of the latter’s guilt (verse 77).(Quran Ref: 12:89 )

12:90 They exclaimed: “Why – is it indeed thou who art Joseph?” He answered: “I am Joseph, and this is my brother. God has indeed been gracious unto us. Verily, if one is conscious of Him and patient in adversity behold, God does not fail to requite the doers of good!”

12:91 [The brothers] said: “By God! Most certainly has God raised thee high above us, and we were indeed but sinners!”

12:92 Said he: “No reproach shall be uttered today against you. May God forgive you your sins: for He is the most merciful of the merciful!

12:93 [And now] go and take this tunic of mine and lay it over my father’s face, and he will recover his sight.And thereupon come [back] to me with all your family.”

12:94 AND AS SOON as the caravan [with which Jacob's sons were travelling] was on its way,their father said [to the people around him]: “Behold, were it not that you might consider me a dotard, [I would say that] I truly feel the breath of Joseph [in the air]!”

12:95 They answered: “By God! Thou art indeed still lost in thy old aberration!”

12:96 But when the bearer of good tidings came [with Joseph's tunic], he laid it over his face; and he regained his sight, [and] exclaimed: “Did I not tell you, `Verily, I know, from God, something that you do not know’?”

12:97 [His sons] answered: “O our father! Ask God to forgive us our sins, for, verily, we were sinners.”

12:98 He said: “I shall ask my Sustainer to forgive you: He alone is truly forgiving, a true dispenser of grace!”

12:99 AND WHEN they [all arrived in Egypt and] presented themselves before Joseph, he drew his parents unto himself,saying, “Enter Egypt! If God so wills, you shall be secure [from all evil]!”

According to the Biblical account – not contradicted by the Qur’an – Joseph’s mother Rachel had died while giving birth to Benjamin. We may, therefore, assume that the “mother” implied in the term “parents” was another of Jacob’s wives, who had brought up Joseph and Benjamin; this would be in consonance with the ancient Arabian custom of applying the designation “mother” to a foster-mother.(Quran Ref: 12:99 )

12:100 And he raised his parents to the highest place of honour [throne]; and they [all] fell down before Him, prostrating themselves in adoration. Thereupon [Joseph] said: “O my father! This is the real meaning of my dream of long ago, which my Sustainer has made come true.And He was indeed good to me when He freed me from the prison, and [when] He brought you [all unto me] from the desert after Satan had sown discord between me and my brothers. Verily, my Sustainer is unfathomable in [the way He brings about] whatever He wills:verily, He alone is all-knowing, truly wise!

The fulfilment of Joseph’s childhood dream consisted in the high dignity with which he was now invested and in the fact that his parents and his brothers had come from Canaan to Egypt for his sake: for “no reasonable person can expect that the fulfilment of a dream should be an exact replica of the dream itself”.(Quran Ref: 12:100 )

12:101 “O my Sustainer! Thou hast indeed bestowed upon me something of power,and hast imparted unto me some knowledge of the inner meaning of happenings.Originator of the heavens and the earth! Thou art near unto me in this world and in the life to come: let me die as one who has surrendered himself unto Thee, and make me one with the righteous!”

12:102 THIS ACCOUNT of something that was beyond the reach of thy perception We [now] reveal unto thee, [O Prophet Muhammad:] for thou wert not with Joseph’s brothers when they resolved upon what they were going to do and wove their schemes [against him].

Like father, like son; Syria’s Wahsh (assad) massacres his people

These so-called Arab leaders who believe they “own” the countries they rule, are earning their place in history alongside Hitler, Sharon, Gaddafi and Netanyahu.

When their tanks attack civilians… but dare not fire on Israeli Occupation forces..

When they accuse the seekers of reform and liberty as terrorists…

When they commit atrocities parallel to those of Israelis against palestinians…

It’s time for these regimes to be toppled and “burnt alive” at the stake! And that’s a little too merciful!

More than 400 people have been killed in Syria across several weeks as the government has cracked down on protesters seeking reform, a human rights group in the country said Tuesday.

Bashar Al-Wahsh (literally meaning The Beast, and is his real legal name) has confirmed the name and proved to be  just like his father: a murdering blood-thirsty degenerate oppressor, who drew criticism for repressing his own people, in particular for ordering the Hama massacre of 1982, which has been described as “the single deadliest act by any Arab government against its own people in the modern Middle East.”

The Beast made no significant changes to the state of politics in Syria, as the Baath Party has stayed in control of the country and the reforms that he promised at the beginning of his rule never materialized.

In a country where Sunni Muslims make up the majority, the “Beast’s” regime is dominated by the Alawite minority, which make up about 12% of the population.

It’s time for democracy in the whole of the Middle East. Israel and Jordan, you’re next! The people have spoken!

The U.S. ignorant foreign policy

The United States is preparing new sanctions against members of al-Assad’s regime who are overseeing the violent crackdown, according to several senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the action. A new Treasury Department executive order targeting senior officials accused of human rights abuses would involve an asset freeze and travel ban, as well as prohibiting them from doing business in the United States.

“The Syrian people’s call for freedom of expression, association, peaceful assembly and the ability to freely choose their leaders must be heard,” Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, said in a statement Monday.

The U.S. State Department also issued a statement Monday urging U.S. citizens to defer any travel to Syria.

CNN reported that the United States would welcome the prospect of the Syrian-Iranian alliance being broken, and with it their joint sponsorship of the Lebanese Shiite militia, Hezbollah. There might be the chance of movement toward peace with Israel (though surely not in the chaotic short term). “Peace with Israel?” What for? How does one make peace with terrorists supported by a superpower? Has the U.S. taken notice of the recent Egyptian poll in which over 54% are against the peace-treaty with Israel? When Arabs see their brothers and sisters being massacred and ethnically cleansed by the Israelis while the world looks the other way,  there will be no peace in the Middle East!

Meanwhile, the U.S. remains silent as Palestinians continue to be oppressed, humiliated and massacred by the Israeli Nazi-like (NaZionist) forces! Why wouldn’t the U.S. impose sanctions on this little country of Israeli terrorists? Then we wonder why they hate us!

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This Day in History: Israeli Terrorist Organization Irgun, fails

From the archive, 26 April 1948: Irgun fails to seize Jaffa

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 26 April 1948

Irgun, the Jewish terrorist organisation, yesterday morning assembled a strong force on the “frontier” of the Jewish city of Tel Aviv and began an attack on the Arab port of Jaffa. The attack was not authorised by Hagana, the Jewish Army, and its members on the spot stood by and watched.

At the scene of a drive-by shooting where Irgun terrorists shot several Arab bystanders after raiding the Jaffa Ottoman Bank, a Palestinian policeman with gun drawn, crosses the street to confer with a British soldier. Jerusalem, September 13th, 1946. Title derived from Yankee Nomad, p. 227, and the Sept. 30th, 1946, issue of Life.

Irgun put down a heavy mortar fire on the Arab side of the frontier and then claimed to have advanced. Exactly what happened is not clear, as the only statement made last evening by any party concerned in the fighting was one broadcast by Hagana, over its radio from Tel Aviv. This said that Irgun’s claim to have advanced was “fictitious”. The Jews may have met Arab resistance or, as one report says, the British forces may have threatened resistance.

Minutes after Irgun terrorists raided the Jaffa Ottoman Bank, their get-a-way car pulls into an intersection to pick them up; a gunner, visible in the back seat of the car, fires at Arab bystanders. Jerusalem, September 13th, 1946. Title derived from Yankee Nomad, p. 227.

The only thing certain is that the firing died down last evening and that the Arabs still hold Jaffa, although it is said they suffered casualties from Irgun’s mortar fire. Many Arabs left the port during the day by sea and road. The terrorists are said to have concentrated more men than they have ever used for one operation. To do this they stole about eighty buses and private cars.

Hagana and Irgun cooperated in the attack on Haifa, a port awarded to the Jews by the United Nations Commissioners. Jaffa, however, was given to the Arabs.

An illegal immigrant ship carrying some 700 Jews without visas, which was intercepted off the Palestine coast, was expected to reach Haifa some time yesterday.

Lydda airport was either evacuated by the British yesterday or will be to-day. Communication with the airport was sabotaged yesterday and correspondents in Jerusalem were unable to confirm the many reports circulated. Jewish staff apparently left yesterday. The “Times” and “Manchester Guardian” special correspondent in Jerusalem reports that the last Dakota leaves to-day and will take all B.O.A.C. employees away. Yesterday a company of the Argylls was still on the aerodrome. Jewish reports that the Arabs are in occupation are denied in Jerusalem. A stern conflict, he says, between the Arabs and the Jews for the airport seems likely. Messages to the airlines speak of “dangerous circumstances” at Lydda.

The British have also withdrawn from Wilhelma Camp, just across the road from the airport and controlling its entrance. The Arabs are said to have occupied the camp at once.

A small military airfield called Ein Shemer, midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa, meanwhile fell into Jewish hands when the British left it yesterday.

Donald “Duck” Trump: You’re Fired!

The arrogance and shallowness of the rich: Trump.

Now that the White House released the “dreaded birth certificate” that Trump insisted there was something on it that the President did not want anyone to see, Trump should eat his shoe and STFU.

Responding to the development, Trump said, “I have accomplished something nobody else has accomplished.”

“I want to look at it, but I hope it’s true,” he told reporters in New Hampshire. “He should have done it a long time ago. I am really honored to have played such a big role in hopefully getting rid of this issue.”

What? Played a big role in what? Making a fool of yourself Donald Duck?

A USA Today/Gallup opinion poll  sample that was asked if Donald Trump was born in the US, produced this result:

For what it’s worth, not everyone is convinced Trump was born in the USA either: 43% say he definitely was born here, and 20% say he probably was; 7% say he definitely or probably was born in another country. Nearly three in 10 say they don’t know enough to say.

More nonsense from Donald Trump earlier

Why he didn’t do it when the Clintons asked for it, I don’t know.

That’s just a flat untruth. The Clintons never asked for Obama’s birth certificate to be published – although some suggest the origins of the birther argument came from the Clinton campaign during the 2008 primaries. Whether or not that is true, what is true is that the birthers set sail under their own wind long ago.

FactCheck.org Clarifies Barack’s Citizenship

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

Donald Duck Trump: You’re Fired!

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Washington censors Arab TVs covering violent clampdown in Bahrain

Washington censors Libyan TV plus Arab TVs covering violent clampdown in Bahrain

On 23 April 2011, Libyan state television antennas were hit by NATO airstrikes. Transmissions were cut off for more than 30 minutes before they could resume.

According to NATO’s mouthpiece, the target were not the antennas – since NATO respects and promotes freedom of the press – but the adjoining compound of Muammar Gaddafi.

Meanwhile, going by Saudi media reports, the U.S. Department of State asked Arabsat, the satellite management company, to suspend broadcasting by Libyan channels.

Moreover, a jamming station – located in rebel-controlled Libyan territory and coordinated with another station operating from Saudi territory – is used by Washington to obstruct any program on Arab television channels, regardless of where they are, covering the brutal repression in Bahrain.

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People in Bahrain have been holding anti-government protests since February 14, demanding constitutional reforms as well as an end to the Al Khalifa monarchy.

Demonstrators maintain that they will continue to protest until their demands for freedom, constitutional monarchy, and a proportional voice in the government are met.

The peaceful popular movement in Bahrain has been violently repressed, leaving scores of anti-regime protesters killed and many others missing.

Bahrain’s military court has sentenced four anti-government protesters to death, in a move to further crush the ongoing revolutionary movement in the small Persian Gulf country.

This comes while the Manama regime rejects reports by a number of human rights groups on massive rights violations in the country.

According to local sources, Bahraini authorities have raided hospitals, torturing doctors and injuring anti-government protesters in an effort to quell mass protests.

Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders and Physicians for Human Rights have charged Bahraini security officials with systematic attacks on doctors and patients.

Physicians for Human Rights say doctors and nurses have been detained, tortured or disappeared because they have “evidence of atrocities committed by the authorities, security forces and riot police” in the crackdown on anti-government protesters.

Since mid-February, thousands of anti-government protesters in Bahrain, home to the US Navy Fifth Fleet major military base, have poured into the streets calling for an end to Al-Khalifa dynasty, which has ruled the country for over forty years.

On March 13, Saudi-led forces were dispatched to the Persian Gulf island at Manama’s request to quell countrywide protests.

According to local sources, dozens of people have been killed and hundreds arrested so far during the government clampdown on the peaceful demonstrations.

ASH/MB

Source: Press TV

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Israel slams Hamas-Fatah unity deal

Israeli Terrorist and NaZionist Avigdor Lieberman

Israel has slammed a deal between the Palestinian Hamas and Fatah factions to form an interim unity government and hold elections within a year.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that “with this accord, a red line has been crossed,” AFP reported on Thursday.

Tel Aviv could “freeze the transfer of taxes collected by Israel for the Palestinian Authority,” Lieberman said.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak also commented on the issue saying that “the latest events do nothing but reinforce the necessity of relying only on ourselves.” [and so did the Palestinians: relied only on themselves after years of deceptive Israeli practices and actions]

He boasted that the Israeli army and security forces “will use an iron fist to deal with any threat and challenge.”

Delegations representing Hamas and Fatah came to an understanding on Wednesday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, where they resumed unity talks.

Shortly after the deal was announced, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas must “choose between peace with Israel or peace with Hamas.” [Abbas replied: "Choose between Peace and illegal Settlements"]

The latest deal is expected to be followed by signing of a reconciliation agreement between all Palestinian factions in Egypt.

Hamas and Fatah have been at odds since the former won the Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006.

Fatah set up headquarters in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with Hamas arguing that the faction works in cahoots with Tel Aviv.

Last year, Hamas complained about an arrest campaign against its members led by the so-called security forces functioning under Fatah’s leader, Mahmoud Abbas, declaring that its rival faction works “in close coordination with those of the Israeli occupiers” in the West Bank.

Source: PressTV

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Osama and Obama

While the ignorant celebrate Bin Laden’s death, believing he was behind the 9/11 events when we all know that a Bedouin living in hills and mountains up until recently, did not have the resources and manpower to mastermind such an elaborate scheme (9/11). Yet we know  that Israelis were present and waiting close by [the towers], awaiting the collapse of the twin towers, then celebrated once they came down, is proof enough that it was the Bush-Cheney and Mossad/ Israeli thugs behind this crime.

But how does Obama benefit from Osama? Talk about timing!

1. Obama’s approval rating is sure to sky rocket and,
2. Obama’s re-election is eminent because now he has justification to bring the troops home.

And that’s simple politics, stupid. It’s about re-election.

So those who are celebrating today will not be celebrating again tomorrow after they realize that they simply sealed the country’s fate with Obama at the helm for four more miserable years!

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The Butcher of Syria, II.

Update: June 5, 2011

The Courageous Syrian Army continues to attack their own people of unarmed civilians. I wonder if they were to face the Israeli Terror Forces, would they last more than 10 minutes? Why don’t they point their guns towards the occupiers of their lands and liberate the Golan Heights?

Shame on these thugs. Meanwhile, Israel celebrates such Arab and Syrian stupidity and continues to humiliate Syrians in Golan Heights.

The video aboveclearly shows the Syrian’s regime terrorists in action. These people should be remembered, captured and hung by the balls!

A family of murderers and criminals, the Assad (wahsh: beast) clan thinks it owns the country of 22,000,000 people.

The news and video footage of what’s happening throughout Syria leads one to think that this can’t be happening. It’s like a nightmare and something that happens in fiction.. “leaders” killing their people?

One would expect this from the only terrorist country of the Middle East; Israel, an enemy of humanity and enemy of the whole Middle East. These people think they have a Cart Blanche from God to kill and massacre in His name… despicable! But when Arab “leaders” act in the same manner, it’s more horrific. Their tanks and guns should be directed at the enemy, not their brothers and sisters.

In a show of force, Bashar Al Assad (Al Wahash) tanks have taken up positions near the urban centres of Homs, Rastan and Banias in the past two days.

Last week, Assad ordered the army into Deraa, yet claims that he’s unaware of any killings (didn’t all the deposed tyrants say the same thing?) cradle of the uprising that began with demands for greater freedom and an end to corruption and is now pressing for his removal.

Point turret towards Israeli Terror Forces, not Syrians!

Assad said the protesters were part of a foreign conspiracy to cause sectarian strife!

His father, Hafez al-Assad, used similar language when he crushed those who challenged his rule in the 1980s, culminating in the violent suppression of an uprising in the city of Hama in which 30,000 people were killed.

An ultra-loyalist division led by his brother Maher shelled and machinegunned Deraa’s old quarter on Saturday. Like father, like son! A bunch of terrorists who think they own the country. 22,000,000 do not want him or his family and they, the few, the degenerate, the heathen, want to stay?

Human rights campaigners say security forces killed at least 62 civilians, including 17 in Rastan alone, during those protests. To date, the death toll is approaching 500!

Tyrant on Fire

The so-called Arab leaders, whether Assad, Gaddafi, Saleh of Yemen or any other, must remember: the will of the people is stronger than  their desire to stay on their thrones. They will be arrested, tried, and hung to death. Too merciful. Too bad they cannot be shredded alive in some public gathering or square, where their deaths would quench the victims thirst for justice.

Did Obama really kill Osama? Why were these Photos Released?

As the morons and simple minded people continue to be in complete and utter euphoria over what they call “Justice Served,” the facts on the planet do not support the U.S. Administration story and claim that Osam Bin Laden was killed. Obama tried to convince us that we, the American people, “are not like that” meaning that we are not so “barbaric” as to release or show photos of those we kill/ execute.  B.S.

Consider the following points. You be the judge.

1. When Saddam Hussein of Iraq was executed, the Americans allowed a few Shiite degenerates to watch the execution AND video-tape it. So contrary to Obama’s claim that he did not want to show the photos of the executed Osama are hogwash. We “are [exactly] not like that!
2. When Saddam’s sons (Uday and Qusai) were executed/ killed, their bullet-riddled bodies were also photographed and shared. We are exactly like that!
3. Why were the following photos released, yet we claimed that “we’re not like that?”
4.  If Osama, as the Administration claimed, was unarmed, then why was he shot dead at such close range? With the Seals securing the compound (took their time collecting computers and papers after the raid), how was Osama a threat? According to the news and released graphics of what had happened, there were at least 3 SEALS in the room with their guns targeting the only two people in the room: Osama and his wife. The SEALS shot the wife in the leg. So they actually felt safe enough not to execute her even when she charged the SEALS. Yet, an unarmed Osama was shot in the chest and head. Why?
5.  According to 20/20 on Friday May 6, 2011, the SEALS analysis of Osama’s DNA had “high probability” that it was that of Osama’s. High probability? With the man’s dead body in possession, shouldn’t the “probability” be conclusive?
6. Why was Osama’s body dumped in the ocean? We’ve heard many justification so far: “We don’t want his followers to use his burial place as a shrine” or “we did not want him to be glorified” and such idiotic matters. Interesting: the U.S. Administration is applying Islamic teachings now and are concerned for the well-being of Muslims! The Administration is competing in issuing “fatwa” now. After all, weren’t we told that Osama’s body was washed according to Islamic teachings, wrapped and “prayed upon?” By whom Mr. President?
7. Look at the photo(s) again.Do they seem “professionally taken?” The official story is that a Pakistani just happened to walk in the compound and snapped these photos the very next day… Is it possible that a Pakistani in that part of the world just happened to have a camera, or innocently walk into the compound and just take pictures?There are two additional problems with this:
• Would anyone of us have the presence of mind seeing bodies and blood  and casually focus his camera to take these photos?
• If these photos were taken (as the report stated) the NEXT day, the blood seems to be fresh and reflective – not blood that is almost a day old. Day old blood would be dark and almost black, would it not?
• If we believe the official story that these photos were taken by a Pakistani, then there’s a problem with the time on the photos. 2:30 and 2:39. AM or PM? If AM, the official story is immediately refuted and the pictures were taken the same day and right after the raid. The times correspond to the timing of the raid.
• If PM, then that means they were taken the next day at 2:30 PM. Again, the blood seems too fresh for a day old blood.
• We’re told that Bin Laden’s wife was shot in the leg. Then she survived. So what happened to her?
• Finally, why is there a 9 minutes difference between these photos? Would a casual photographer take his time taking photos when no one knew Bin Laden was there? I don’t know about you, but I would probably need a surgical mask to prevent the horrendous smell of such a scene. If I had the presence of mind to spend time taking photos, I would have gone in and out. There would be no 9 minute difference… maybe 3 or 4 maximum!

Is our government lying to us? We sound just like Gaddafi and his lies about the events in Libya, or Assad’s lies and claims to the events in Syria.

What are the Demoncrats hiding?

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The day Palestine was infected by a virus called Israel

The victims of Europe and the Holocaust decided that they want a state of their own, somewhere, anywhere in the world.

After considering many options (at the expense and with total disregard to whoever may have already lived in the selected lands), Palestine was chosen. Among the Jewish Zionist options were such countries as Argentina, Ghana and other countries.

The Zionist movement arose in late nineteenth-century Europe, influenced by the nationalist ferment sweeping that continent. Zionism acquired its particular focus from the “ancient Jewish longing” for the return to Zion and received a strong impetus from the increasingly intolerable conditions facing the large Jewish community in Tsarist Russia. The movement also developed at the time of major European territorial acquisitions in Asia and Africa, and benefited from the European powers’ competition for influence in the shrinking Ottoman Empire.

One result of this involvement with European expansionism, however, was that the leaders of the nascent nationalist movements in the Middle East viewed Zionism as an adjunct of European colonialism. Moreover, Zionist assertions of the contemporary relevance of the Jews’ historical ties to Palestine, coupled with their land purchases and immigration, alarmed the indigenous population of the Ottoman districts that comprised Palestine. The Jewish community (yishuv) rose from 6 percent of Palestine’s population in 1880 to 10 percent by 1914. Although the numbers were insignificant, the settlers were outspoken enough to arouse the opposition of Arab leaders and induce them to exert counter pressure on the Ottoman regime to prohibit Jewish immigration and land buying.

As early as 1891, a group of Muslim and Christian notables cabled Istanbul, urging the government to prohibit Jewish immigration and land purchase. The resulting edicts radically curtailed land purchases in the Sanjak (district) of JERUSALEM for the next decade. When a Zionist Congress resolution in 1905 called for increased colonization, the Ottoman regime suspended all land transfers to Jews in both the Sanjak of Jerusalem and the Wilayat (province) of Beirut.
After the coup d’etat by the Young Turks in 1908, the Palestinians used their representation in the central parliament and their access to newly opened local newspapers to press their claims and express their concerns. They were particularly vociferous in opposition to discussions that took place between the financially hard-pressed Ottoman regime and Zionist leaders in 1912-13, which would have let the world Zionist Organization purchase crown land (Jiftlik) in the Baysan Valley, along the Jordan River.

The Zionists did not try to quell Palestinian fears, since their concern was to encourage colonization from Europe and to minimize the obstacles in their path. The only effort to meet to discuss Palestinian and Zionist aspirations occurred in the spring of 1914. Its difficulties illustrated the incompatibility in the aims of both sides aspirations. The Palestinians wanted the Zionists to present them with a document that would state

• Zionists precise political ambitions,
• Zionists willingness to open their schools to Palestinians, and
• Zionists intentions of learning Arabic and integrating with the local population.

The Zionists rejected this proposal.

The proclamation of the BALFOUR DECLARATION on November 2, 1917, and the arrival of British troops in Palestine soon after, transformed the political situation. The declaration gave the Zionist movement its long-sought legal status. The qualification that: nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine seemed a relatively insignificant obstacle to the Zionists, especially since it referred only to those communities’: civil and religious rights, not to political or national rights. The subsequent British occupation gave Britain the ability to carry out that pledge and provide the protection necessary for the Zionists to realize their aims.

Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, placed maximalist demands before the Paris Peace Conference in February 1919. He stated that he expected 70,000 to 80,000 Jewish immigrants to arrive each year in Palestine. When they became the majority, they would form an independent government and Palestine and would become: “as Jewish as England is English”

Weizmann proposed that the boundaries should be the Mediterranean Sea on the west; Sidon, the Litani River, and Mount Hermon on the north; all of Transjordan west of the Hijaz railway on the east; and a line across Sinai from Aqaba to al-Arish on the south. He argued that:

“the boundaries above outlined are what we consider essential for the economic foundation of the country. Palestine must have its natural outlet to the sea and control of its rivers and their headwaters. The boundaries are sketched with the general economic needs and historic traditions of the country in mind.”

Quite an expansionist dream for a Russian Jew!

The irony is that all most Jews living in Israel today are Europeans. Those born in Palestine since 1948 cannot claim the land as theirs. They are Palestinians but of Jewish faith. Does the fact that, say, American Muslims who were born and raised in the USA, have any right to claim America as a “Muslim State?”

Thank You!

The map above (Palestine 1946), published as a United Nation Map number 93 (b) in 1950, clearly proves – when compared to present-day Israelis maps,  that the Nazi-like Zionist simply occupied, terrorized and continue to ethnic cleanse the land of Palestine.

The seven well equipped Arab armies who attempted to destroy the poorly armed and newly founded ‘Jewish State’!

he baseless myth, of how the Arab armies wanted to destroy the ‘Jewish State’, has been propagated in all sectors of the Israeli society, especially in its school system, military boot camps, and media. As it will be proven below, this myth was deemed necessary by most Zionists to legitimize their continued USURPATION of the Palestinian people’s political, civil, and economic rights.

Often when Israelis and Zionists are confronted with facts contrary to their liking, they counter by accusing the sources of fabrication or being part of the “anti-Semitic” Arab propaganda. To avoid such a “confusion”, we’ll directly quote two of the most prominent pro-Israeli historians, Martin Van Creveld (the renowned Israeli military strategist and historian) and Martin Gilbert, who wrote:

• “In the Event of invading [Arab] forces were limited to approximately 30,000 men. The strongest [consider this fact while reading the next quote] single contingent was the Jordanian one, already described. Next came Egyptians with 5,500 men, then the Iraqis with 4,500 who ….. were joined by perhaps 3,000 local irregulars. The total was thus around eight rather under strength brigades, some of them definitely of second-and even third-rate quality. To these must be added approximately 2,000 Lebanese (one brigade) and 6,000 Syrians (three brigades). Thus, even though the Arab countries [population] outnumbered the Yishuv by better then forty-to-one, in terms of military manpower available for combat in Palestine the two sides were fairly evenly matched. As time went on and both sides sent reinforcements the balance changed in the Jews’ favor; by October they had almost 90,000 men and women under arms, the Arabs only 68,000.” (The Sword And The Olive, p. 77-78)
  
• “Senior Hagana commanders met with committee [UN Special Committee On Palestine-UNSCOP] members in Jerusalem’s Talpiot quarter in similarly surreptitious circumstances to express confidence that Jewish forces, which they numbered at 90,000, including 35,000 reservists, could overcome any Arab assault should it come to war.” (Jerusalem Post)
  
• “Ben-Gurion made serious efforts, shortly before the United Nations vote on the Partition proposal, to seek the neutrality of King Abdullah of Transjordan, whose British trained and officered army, the Arab Legion, was the STRONGEST fighting force in the Middle East. The king had long been at loggerheads with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, for the moral leadership of the Arabs of the whole region. Abdullah’s secret interlocutor was to be Golda Meir:”‘ …… He [King Abudullah] soon made the heart of the matter clear: he would not join in any Arab attack on us. He would always remain our friend, he said, and like us, he wanted peace more than anything else. After all, we had a common foe, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.’”(Israel: A History, p.149-150)

• “As for Abdullah’s Arab Legion, it had fought better than any other Arab force. Yet on scarcely any occasion had the Arab Legion attempted to conquer territories allotted to the Jews by the partition plan, preferring to stay on the defensive.” (The Sword And The Olive, p. 95)
  
• “…. there was no common military headquarters, no attempts at coordinating the offenses of the Arab armies, and … not even a regular liaison service for sharing enemy intelligence.” (The Sword And The Olive, p. 83)
  
• “Perhaps the most important [of the Arab armies problems] was a crippled shortage of ammunition, owing to the international arms embargo …, in the case of the Iraqis and Egyptians, long lines of communications. For example, after February 25, 1948, the Arab Legion received no new ammunition for its 20mm guns. Some of the ammunition used by the Iraqi artillery was more than thirty years old; the Syrians had no ammunition for their heavy 155mm guns. Whereas Jewish stockpiles were growing all the times [especially the big arms shipment from Czechoslovakia in May 1948], the enemies were so depleted they stole ammunition shipments for each other. In addition, they were ill-coordinated, technically incompetent, slow, ponderous, badly led, and unable to cope with night operations that willy-nilly, constituted the IDF’s expertise.” (The Sword And The Olive, p. 95-96)
  
• Soon after the execution of Operation Dani in the first half of July 1948, Yigal Allon wrote a Palmach (Haganah’s strike force) report stating that the expulsion of Lydda‘s and Ramla‘s inhabitants had:
  

  “clogged the routes of the advance of the [Transjordan Arab] Legion and had foisted upon the Arab economy the problem of “maintaining another 45,000 souls . . . Moreover, the phenomenon of the flight of tens of thousands will no doubt cause demoralization in every Arab area [the refugees] reach . . . This victory will yet have great effect on other sectors.” (Israel: A History, p. 218 & Benny Morris, p. 211)

Although we disagree with the Arab armies’ statistics (30,000 men) that was presented by Mr. Creveld, the reader could conclude the following:

• The strongest Arab army to enter Palestine was in cahoots with the Israelis from the start. Based on H.M. King Abdullah‘s orders (who also commanded the Iraqi Army in addition to Transjordan’s), the strongest Arab armies did not even encroach on the areas allotted to the Jewish state by the 1947 UN GA Partition plan. On the contrary, the truth was the exact opposite, for example:
  
  1- Lydda, Ramla, and the Triangle Areas were handed over to the Israelis without a fight. Although Transjordan’s Army withdrew based on the orders of H.M. the King, the Iraqi Army (which was positioned few kilometers north in Ras al-’Ayn) was given explicit orders not to intervene (their motto in Arabic was: maku ‘Awamer). It should be noted that these areas used to be densely populated with Palestinians, were fertile, and were strategically located for both Arab and Israeli supply lines.
  
  2- When the Israeli Army attacked the Egyptian (south) and Syrian (northeast) armies in mid-October, 1948, the Iraqi and Jordanian armies were forbidden from opening a third front in the middle and south. The Iraqi Army was capable of splitting Israel in half if it was given the orders, and the Jordanian Army watched from the sidelines as the Israeli Army mauled the Egyptians in southern Hebron and Beersheba areas (Righteous Victims, p. 244). Note that the Iraqi Army was well positioned in the Tulkarm-Jinin areas (southeast of Haifa) which is only 12-14 kilometers from the Mediterranean, click here for a map illustration.
  
• The other strongest Arab armies, Egyptian and Iraqi, had long supply and communication lines away from their bases in their respective countries.
  
• Saudi Arabian and Sudanese armies contributed few thousand soldiers in the middle of the war to shore up the exhausted Egyptian army in southern Palestine.
  
• Under American and French pressure, the Lebanese Army was sidelined from the start, and it did not even cross the international borders. At the most, the Lebanese army provided a mediocre artillery cover to some ALA [Arab Liberation Army] volunteers at the beginning of the war. (Righteous Victims p. 233-234)
  
• When the Arab armies entered Palestine on May 15, 1948, close to 400,000 Palestinian refugees were already ethnically cleansed out of their homes, and they clogged the roads, burdened local economies, and demoralized the Arab populations and armies, as it was admitted by Yigal Allon. In other words, the Palestinian refugees were used as a weapon against Israel’s enemies.
  
• The Arab armies neither coordinated their military operational plans, nor shared military intelligence among themselves. In fact, it wasn’t until April 30, 1948 that the Arab armies’ chiefs of staff met for the first time to work out a plan for military intervention. It’s worth noting that this plan was later wrecked by H.M. King Abdullah, when he made last minute changes just before the entry of any Arab army into British Mandated Palestine. (Simha Flapan, p. 133 & Iron Wall, p. 35)
  
• According to a Jewish Agency assessment of the Arab intentions and capacities, submitted in March 1948, reported that the Arabs chiefs of staff had warned their government against an invasion of Palestine and any lengthy war because of the internal situation in most of the Arab countries. For example, revolt in Yemen kept the Saudis at bay and there was a mass riot in Iraq against the Anglo-Iraqi treaty, (Simha Flapan, p. 123-124)
  
• Yochai Sela of Tel-Aviv University, has provided the following breakdown for the number of Israelis killed during the 1948 war:

Fatality Category	Value	Percentage of Total
Civilians killed*	1,150	20.15%
Military killed	4,558	79.85%
Total	5,708	100%
Soldiers killed between Nov. 30, 1947 – May 15, 1948	1,345**	23.56%
Soldiers killed between May 15, 1948- March 10, 1949	3,213**	56.29%
Killed within the areas designated by the UN	1,581	27.70%
Killed outside the areas designated by the UN	2,759***	48.33%
Killed defending Jewish settlements	984	17.24%
Killed attacking Arab settlements	1,212	21.23%

Source: Simha Flapan, p. 198-199.
* Majority died in Jerusalem
** The number of Israelis killed while fighting the Arab Legion 1,367; the Palestinians, 1,092; the Egyptians, 910; the Syrians, 238; the Iraqis, 241; the Lebanese 129; Qawukji’ ALA, 336, the British 30.
*** Mostly soldiers, non-civilians.

• These statistics clearly show that the number of Israeli soldiers killed in offensive actions were well over 60% (2,759/4,558) of the total Israeli soldiers killed between November 30, 1947 and March 10, 1949. So from the Israeli prospective, the so called “War of Independence” was more offensive than defensive in nature.
  
• The Israelis maximally exploited the rivalry between H.M. the King Abdullah of Transjordan and al-Hajj Amin al-Husseini. For example, before the entry of any Arab armies to Palestine on May 15th, 1948, al-Hajj Amin (who resided at the time in Tyre-southern Lebanon) wanted to declare a provisional Palestinian government in the Galilee, with Safad being its capital. To preempt such a plan, H.M. the King pulled out Transjordan’s irregulars troops out of Safad on May 11th, 1948, which was the primary reason for its falling into Israeli hands few days later (Benny Morris, p. 105). Another good reason that enticed H.M. the King to collaborate with the Jewish Agency was the promise of future payments of $4 million a year for the next subsequent 5 years. (Simha Flapan, p. 138)
  
• Although there was an arms embargo on the warring parties in the Middle East, the embargo negatively affected the Arabs more than the Israelis. While the Arab armies were depleting their arms and ammunitions, the Israeli army was stockpiling weapons and ammunitions from a huge arms shipment from Czechoslovakia that arrived in early May, 1948.
  
• By October 1948, the Israeli army had 90,000 armed men, while the Arab armies had 68,000 armed men.
  
• It’s a fabricated myth that seven well equipped, organized, and coordinated Arab armies attempted to PUSH the poorly armed Jews into the sea, click here to read our rebuttal to this myth.

Ben-Gurion, the first Israeli Prime Minister, recognized that Palestinian nationalism created the very danger he was most afraid of. He knew that the victory in 1948 was achieved not because the Israeli Army was more heroic but because the Arab armies were corrupt and the Arab world was divided. He became obsessed with the fear that a charismatic leader would modernize Arab education, their economies, and unite all the Arab states. He wrote on November 11, 1948:

“The Arab people have been beaten by us. Will they forget it quickly? Seven hundred thousand people beat 30 million. Will they forget this offense? It can be assumed that they have a sense of honor. We will make peace efforts, but two sides are necessary for peace. Is there any security that they will not want to take revenge? Let us recognize the truth: we won not because we performed wonders, but because the Arab army is rotten. Must this rottenness persist forever? The situation in the world beckons towards revenge: there are two blocs; there is fear of world war. This tempts anyone with a grievance. We will always require a superior defensive capability.” (Simha Flapan, p. 238)

Finally, directly quoting the famous Israeli historian Avi Shlaim who stated in his famous Iron Wall book:

• “This popular-heroic-moralistic version of the 1948 war has been used extensively in Israeli propaganda and is still taught in Israeli schools. It is a prime example of the use of a nationalistic version of history in the process of nation building. In a very real sense history is the propaganda of the victors, and the history of the 1948 war is no exception.” (Iron Wall p. 34)

• “Despite all the political miscalculations and failures of those who planned the Sinai Campaign, it is their version that became firmly entrenched in the mind of the overwhelming majority of Israelis. The popular perception of the 1956 war in Israel is that it was a defensive war, a just war, a brilliantly executed war, and a war that achieved nearly all of its objectives. This version of the war was propagated not only by members of the Israeli defense establishment but by a host of sympathetic historians, journalists, and commentators. However deeply cherished, this version does not stand up to scrutiny in the light of the evidence now available. It is a striking example of the way in which history can be manipulated to serve nationalist ends. The official Israeli version of the 1956 war, like that of the 1948 war, is little more than the propaganda of the victor.” (Iron Wall, p. 185)

The Israeli virus that infected a region of 300,000,000 Arab Semites has no room for such foreign and Nazi-like criminals. It is time these “people” move back to their countries of origin (except the descendants of the original Jews who lived in Palestine prior to Zionism’s arrival) or face the erupting Arab revolutions sweeping the Arab world. There will be no mercy then.

Remember: the Jewish “good book” demands that its followers kill with NO MERCY! So, an Eye for an Eye!

And that’s probably  why the Jewish teachings and prophecies expect the demise of “Israel” in the near future!

Congress applauds Netanyahu’s lies; seeking more of AIPAC’s support!

You may have read Netanyahu and the Lies about Jerusalem back a year ago.

The Nazi-Zionist is back… addressing a sleepy Congress (Israel’s puppets) and continuing with the charade.

Is Congress as ignorant as they appear? Are these the same people condemning Gaddafi and Assad and Saleh for oppressing their people yet applaud Netanyahu’s continued massacres of Palestinians?

“Israel will not return to the indefensible boundaries of 1967,” Netanyahu said, prompting a big standing ovation.

There you have it! The U.S. Congress blesses and approves terrorism and oppression!

Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israelis were prepared to make “painful compromises” in a peace deal that would leave some or outlying Jewish settlements beyond the state’s agreed borders! The only painful compromises Israelis are willing to make are those directed at increased pain and sufferings they exert on Palestinians. 63 years of lies and continued annexations and aggressions and our ignorant congress continues kissing Israel’s ass…

It’s simple… these ignorant degenerate hypocrites are seeking AIPAC’s blessings and money. It’s re-election time. This is the usual “Kiss Israel’s Ass and Win.”

“The status of the settlements will be decided only in negotiations..”

Talk about hypocrisy and deception. First steal Palestinian lands, then build illegal Israeli settlements and finally negotiate… brilliant! So if I may, I will hijack your car, for example, steal and enjoy it and then offer you something back if you are willing to negotiate with me an agreement, whereby I keep the car and maybe hand you back the key-chain. Perfect.

Netanyahu’s at times belligerent tone is not likely to persuade countries considering how to vote at the UN on Palestinian statehood, particularly European governments. He said support for any such move would undermine not further the cause of peace. The Guardian

What does one expect from a NaZionist? Yet I’m still baffled by these subhuman elected morons in congress. Holding a Bible behind their backs, they bless the Devil himself!

Benjamin Netanyahu speech to Congress unlikely to do much for peace process. The Telegraph got it right.

The sleepy dwarfs in congress and their “hero” Netanyahu should learn something or two from the events and revolutions sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. Israel will face the same uprising. Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular are unafraid of tanks, guns and F-16′s. Half of the population is willing to die in peaceful protests to guarantee their children freedom and democracy.

And it’s coming soon.

It’s Time for Normal Relationships with Israel

Israeli Barbaric Peace Initiative: erasing Palestinian
babies from existence, hoping to do to Palestinians what Hitler failed
to accomplish with Jews!

In the wake of the butcher’s speech in front of a sleepy bunch of puppets in the U.S. Congress, the Palestinians and Arabs in general must revert to normal and natural relationships with Israel.

• Israel is a natural enemy and must be viewed and treated as such.
• Israel is guilty of war crimes and ethnic cleansing and must be treated in equal and non-discriminatory-like manner.
• Jews are welcome to live among Arabs as they have been for centuries, under Arab rule only.
• The Arab league must immediately cease any and all “peace initiatives” with Israel based on the latter’s deceptive and criminal record.
• Arab countries with Israeli Embassies in their countries must immediately close these criminal’s “dens” and deport all Israelis from their lands.
• Israel understands one language: power! Arabs should practice the biblical “eye-for-and-eye” approach with Israeli crimes.

When such normal relationships return to the table, Israel will find itself alone-in-the-dark. Even the U.S. will then abandon Israel.

And that’s when the liberation of Palestine will be achieved. Zionism, if it wants to exist, will be forced to practice its Nazi-like approach in some other country… assuming anyone would welcome these heathens in their lands.

Long Live Palestine. Palestinians shall return to their lands and homes with heads held high!

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The Butcher of Yemen escapes to Saudi Arabia?

Reported on Aljazeera this morning that the Yemeni president butcher is already in Saudi Arabia for, what is referred to as medical treatment.

The Yemeni butcher was supposedly injured from shelling of the president’s palace. He had ordered the shelling of the tribal leader’s (Al Ahmar) house earlier. Rumors state that the shelling of the presidential palace was really staged by the butcher and his thugs, hoping for world’s sympathy!

Let’s hope that the butcher of Yemen rots in Saudi Arabia. May he fall into a coma like the butcher Sharon of the terrorist state of Israel.

More power to Yemen and its people seeking freedom and Democracy.

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Attention NaZionists: We Shall Liberate Our Lands

 

The Israeli thugs and NaZionists may have killed 14 of these brave young men. More are ready to die in order to liberate their lands. Watch closely you nation of thugs and terrorists: these Arab Syrian men are unarmed. We shall cross the border and we’re ready to die for our just cause and the liberation of our lands. And without weapons even. For wave after wave of Arabs will cross.. and you may kill as many as you like, in the end, we shall trample you to death.. and then we will dump what is left of your filthy bodies in the Mediterranean.

On second thought, why pollute the Mediterranean? Maybe we should just burn your remains so that you are erased from history!

 

Next Year in Jerusalem!

Next Year in Golan Heights!

 

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Israelis Rush for Second Passports: Good Riddance!

“Perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if political and social trends continue.”

Dr. Franklin Lamb

Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to exercise their right to depart, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepared to exercise their right of Return.

One of the many ironies inherent in the 19^th century Zionist colonial enterprise in Palestine is the fact that this increasingly fraying project was billed for most of the 20th century as a haven in the Middle East for “returning” persecuted European Jews.  But today, in the 21^st century, it is Europe that is increasingly being viewed by a large number of the illegal occupiers of Palestinian land as the much desired haven for returning Middle Eastern Jews.

To paraphrase Jewish journalist Gideon Levy “If our forefathers dreamt of an Israeli passport to escape from Europe, there are many among us who are now dreaming of a second passport to escape to Europe.

Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National  Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue.  A 2008 survey by the Jerusalem-based Menachem Begin Heritage Center found that 59% of Israelis had approached or intended to approach a foreign embassy to inquire about or apply for citizenship and a passport. Today it is estimated that the figure is approaching 70%.

The number of Israelis thinking of leaving Palestine is climbing rapidly according to researchers at Bar-Ilan University who conducted a study published recently in Eretz Acheret, (“A Different Place”)   an Israeli NGO that claims to promote cultural dialogue.  What the Bar-Ilan study found is that more than 100,000 Israelis already hold a German passport, and this figure increases by more than 7,000 every year along an accelerating trajectory. According to German officials, more than 70,000 such passports have been granted since 2000.

In addition to Germany, there are more than one million Israelis with other foreign passports at the ready in case life in Israel deteriorates.  One of the most appealing countries for Israelis contemplating emigration, as well as perhaps the most welcoming, is the United States. Currently more than 500,000 Israelis hold US passports with close to a quarter million pending applications.

During the recent meetings in Washington DC between Israeli Prime Minister Terrorist Netanyahu’s delegation and Israel’s US agents, assurances were reportedly given by AIPAC officials that if and when it becomes necessary, the US government will expeditiously issue American passports to any and all Israeli Jews seeking them.

 

Israeli Arabs need not apply.

AIPAC also represented to their Israeli interrogators that the US Congress could be trusted to approve funding for arriving Israeli Jews “to be allocated substantial cash resettlement grants to ease transition into their new country.”

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Apart from the Israeli Jews who may be thinking of getting an “insurance passport” for a Diaspora land, there is a similar percentage of Jews worldwide who aren’t going to make aliyah. According to Jonathan Rynhold, a Bar Ilan professor specializing on U.S.-Israel relations, Jews may be safer in Teheran than Ashkelon these days—until Israel or the USA starts bombing Iran.

Interviews with some of those who either helped conduct the above noted studies or have knowledge of them, identify several factors that explain the Israeli rush for foreign passports, some rather surprising, given the ultra-nationalist Israeli culture.

 

The common denominator is unease and anxiety, both personal and national, with the second passport considered a kind of insurance policy “for the rainy days visible on the horizon,” as one researcher from Eretz Acheret explained.

Now, they know they can live in Russia as part of a community and they don’t need Israel.”

Other factors include:

The fact that two or three generations in Israel has not proven enough to implant roots where few if any existed before. For this reason Israel has produced a significant percentage of “re-immigration” — a return of immigrants or their descendants to their country of origin which Zionist propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding, is not Palestine.

Fear that religious fanatics from among the more than 600,000 settlers terrorists in the West Bank will create civil war and essentially annex pre-1967 Israel and turn Israel more toward an ultra-fascist state.

Centripetal pressures within Israeli society, especially among Russian immigrants who overwhelmingly reject Zionism. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, some one million Jews have come to Israel from the former Soviet Union, enlarging the country’s population by 25 percent and forming the largest concentration in the world of Russian Jews. But today, Russian Jews comprise the largest group emigrating from Israel and they have been returning in droves for reasons ranging from opposition to Zionism, discrimination, and broken promises regarding employment and “the good life” in Israel.

Approximately 200,000 or 22% of Russians coming to Israel since 1990 have so far returned to their country.  According to Rabbi Berel Larzar, who has been Russia’s chief Rabbi since 2000, “It’s absolutely extraordinary how many people are returning. When Jews left, there was no community, no Jewish life. People felt that being Jewish was an historical mistake that happened to their family. Now, they know they can live in Russia as part of a community and they don’t need Israel.”

No faith in or respect for Israeli leaders, most of whom are considered corrupt.

Feelings of anxiety and guilt that Zionism has hijacked Judaism and that traditional Jewish values are being corrupted.

The increasing difficulty of providing coherent answers to one’s children, as they become more educated and aware of their family history, and indeed honesty to oneself, on the question of why families from Europe and elsewhere are living on land and in homes stolen from others who obviously are local and did not come from some other place around the World.

The recent growing appreciation, for many Israelis, significantly abetted by the Internet and the continuing Palestinian resistance, of the compelling and challenging Palestinians’ narrative that totally undermines the Zionist clarion of the last century of “A Land without a People for a People without a Land.’

Fear mongering of the political leaders designed to keep citizens supporting the government’s policies ranging from the Iranian bomb, the countless ‘Terrorists” seemingly everywhere and planning another Holocaust, or various existential threats that keep families on edge and concluding that they don’t want to raise their children under such conditions.

Explaining that he was speaking as a private citizen and not as a member of Democrats Abroad Israel, New York native Hillel Schenker suggested that Jews who come to Israel “want to make sure that they have the possibility of an alternative to return whence they came.”  He added that the “insecurities involved in modern life, and an Israel not yet living at peace with any of its neighbors, have also produced a phenomenon of many Israelis seeking a European passport, based on their family roots, just in case.”

Gene Schulman, a Senior American-Jewish fellow at the Switzerland-based Overseas American Academy, put it even more drastically, emphasizing that all Jews are “scared to death of what is probably going to become of Israel even if the U.S. continues its support for it.”

Many observers of Israeli society agree that a major, if unexpected recent impetus for Jews to leave Palestine has been the past three months of the Arab Awakening that overturned Israel’s key pillars of regional support.

According to Layal,  a Palestinian student from Shatila Camp, who is preparing for the June 5^th “Naksa” march to the Blueline in South Lebanon:

“What the Zionist occupiers of Palestine saw from Tahir Square in Cairo to Maroun al Ras in South Lebanon has convinced many Israelis that the Arab and Palestinian resistance, while still in its nascence, will develop into a massive and largely peaceful ground swell, such that no amount of weapons or apartheid administration can insure a Zionist future in Palestine. They are right to seek alternative places to raise their families.”

Why does everyone remain blind to the obvious?

When you’re asking the wrong question, you never get the right answer. The question is not “who and what is Al-Qaida?” The question is — who hired them.

If you live long enough, you see the same stories, generation after generation — credit manipulation causes depression and starvation, followed by war and weapons based economic recovery; the names may change but the situations and scams do not, from the French Revolution forward to today.

And if you look hard enough, you discover that the people really running the world are not the familiar names you read in the newspapers. You also realize that stories about those famous names are really endless and irrelevant distractions from the more important question that needs to be asked:

Who is responsible for all this confusion? All they talk about is peace. And all we get is war. Is this the human paradigm? Is that why nothing ever gets fixed in the world?

Yes, it’s because the real questions are never asked. The real criminals are never identified.

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Why are they never identified? Because the real criminals own the media. Every story you ever read is what good guys they are, and not about what colossal crimes they have committed. The same is so very true about Americans, who believe they are benevolent heroes, when in reality they have accounted for more unjust murders of innocent people than any other country in history. All in the name of freedom and democracy. How did this happen?

The answer is simple. You know what it is. The people we have been taught not to mention in polite company control every aspect of our lives, and if we mention them in a derogatory way, our lives are then destroyed . . . economically, socially, and in other ways that are worse.

Even the best reporters on the Internet maintain the fiction that it is countries which actually run the world, when for at least the last hundred years those really in charge have been the international money lenders, who have owned and ruled every king and president who has reigned during this period. But this is not reported on, not even by our best reporters, who either know what they have to do to keep their jobs, or they lose their jobs.

I can phrase this question in an even more vivid way. Name me one company, one industry, one profession . . . that is not owned outright or totally manipulated from behind the scenes by Jews? The Catholic church joined the club hundreds of years ago when it let the Rothschilds manage their money. Dupont? Monsanto? Bill Gates? Larry Page? All Jews.

Ezra Pound’s words resonate louder than ever.

“Since the Civil War, It has been useless to speak of the United States as an autonomous entity.”

Anybody who still draws a paycheck from a Jewish source (and that would include the U.S. government, certainly a Jewish source) better realize that by this very act they are no part of any solution, but part of the problem that is well on the way to destroying everything we ever loved or hoped to build.

Two things we must remember now in our political thinking.

1. The wrong side won World War II. Three Jewish countries got together to destroy the one country in world history that openly opposed this Jewish financial hammerlock on the world. These false pretext invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and a multitude of other countries would not have happened but for the result of World War II. At least they wouldn’t have happened driven by the U.S. military working for Israel.
2. Anyone who calls themselves a Jew subscribes to the philosophy that they have a right — no, a religious duty — to rob and kill or enslave all the non Jews of the world. This is clearly a pathology that is kept secret by the very commercial interests that are ruled by the insanity of this very philosophy. So when some liberal do-gooder with a degree from Jewish-controlled Harvard University tells you she’s acting in your best interests — and this applies to schools, medicine and practically every category there is — you better think again.

The vast majority of Internet writers who tiptoe around use of the world “Jew” are actually complicit in the coverup of Jewish control of the world by their play-it-safe don’t-want-to-jeopardize that ad-revenue-stream timidity.

“It’s just business,” they chirp, not realizing that each time they fail to call a Jew a Jew, it puts another nail in the collective coffin of humanity, which tries to remain, though comatose, decidedly and happily non Jewish.

So the answer to all of the world’s pressing problems — assuming that most of them can be fixed by the proper application of money — are directly hooked into this Jewish problem, which is control of reality from behind the scenes and by sophisticated technological media manipulation that keeps people locked into their trivialities and oblivious to the colossal murder plot now being executed throughout the world by the same families that have been doing essentially the same thing for hundreds of years.

And exactly what are they doing?

Well, think about what you have left. All that other stuff you used to have, they already took that. Your future earnings? They’ve already taken most of that, not to mention stolen most of the industries from your country that you might have worked for. What they are doing is what they have always done. They’re about to take the rest of what you have, and when they have that, what do you think they’ll do to you?

So now you have the answer. BFD. What are you going to do about it? Let them etch it on your tombstone?

It’s also very important to mention that this is not the problem of one country, or a few countries. It’s the problem of all countries. The countries who refuse to go along with these demonic world bankers, at least those nations which have not already been obliterated, remain under constant threat of sabotage and destabilization.

Always a pack of savage beasts since the Jewish whiskey sellers doused the blankets for the Pequot tribe with smallpox in 1639, Americans have become much better killers since the Jews took over completely, don’t you think?

I’m still trying to decide on the greatest Jewish achievement in American history. There is no shortage of nominees. So you get to decide. Was it:

1. The sabotaging of the U.S. Constitution by allowing the bankers who funded the Revolutionary War to retain control of U.S. currency? Or was it .
2. Fomenting the Civil War by first flooding the land with slaves at a high price, then destroying the fabric of fledgling America by insisting the slaves be free. (This destabilization plan is still in operation with unbridled immigration.)
3. Inventing the atomic bomb. Oh Fukushima.
4. Putting cancer-viruses in the polio vaccine.
5. Hiding Tesla’s discoveries, a decision which precipitated all of the petroleum wars of the 20th century and changed the course of world history for the far worse.
6. Killing Royal Rife. 100 percent success rate curing cancer with vibrational medicine in the 1930s. Think of the people who have been needlessly robbed and killed by Jewish doctors prescribing radiation and chemotherapy.
7. Television.
8. Fluoride.
9. The World Wars, totally unnecessary.
10. Ruination, prostitution and debauchery of all arts and sciences with the ulterior motive of making Jews superior when they clearly are not, can’t be because of their philosophy. That’s why they buy their Nobel Prizes.

Feel free to write in your own nomination. There is no shortage of evidence. It should eliminate the possibility of you ever asking the wrong question again. This will greatly increase the probability that you will finally, despite massive forces arrayed against you, acquire the correct answer.

John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida preaching the message that no problem in the world can be authentically addressed without first analyzing tangents caused by Jewish perfidy, which has subverted and diminished every aspect of human endeavor throughout history. Support for his work is wholly derived from people who can understand what he’s saying and know what it means. http://johnkaminski.info/ 250 N. McCall Rd. #2, Englewood FL 34223 USA

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Satan’s Chosen People

“I know Israel mistreats the Palestinians and stole their land. I know Israel spies on America and sells top secret info to Russia and key business plans to China. I know Israel has hundreds of illegal nuclear missiles but I don’t care because the Jews are God’s chosen people. I know this because the Jews wrote a book that says so.”

The other day I read an email from Rev. Ted Pike linking to an interesting audio titled Can Christians Defend Old Testament Killing of Canaanites? His speech is symptomatic for the cognitive dissonance many Christians are experiencing when confronted with the antics of the Jewish God. I still remember vividly my disgust listening to the story of the slaughter of an army of 200,000 Hethitians by the archangel Gabriel who came to aid of the ‘Chosen People’.

Whenever I think about these things, I am reminded of Jesus’ famous words in Matthew 7:20, “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Forget about their twisted arguments and self-serving claims of ‘higher orders’. Just look at their actions. Are they good or are they evil? Do they treat others the way they would like to be treated if they were in the other person’s shoes?

There can be no doubt that throughout history the God of the ‘Chosen People’ has made them commit the most horrific crimes.

There can be no doubt that throughout history the God of the ‘Chosen People’ has made them commit the most horrific crimes. From the ritual killing of the first born child to countless genocides. I don’t care what kind of excuses they concoct to justify the unjustifiable. If there is any higher authority telling them to do these horrid things, it’s certainly not the loving and forgiving father figure Jesus told us about.

The reason why the Pharisees hated Jesus so much, and got him killed, was that he told them right into their face that they were utterly evil. “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” – Matt 23:33. And in John 8:44, Jesus is quoted as calling the Pharisees “children of the devil”.

Some people blame the perversions of Babylon. The ‘oral tradition’^[1] – they say – have hijacked Judaism and secretly replaced God with Satan. My view is that Judaism has always been utterly evil. Either the God of the Jews is suffering under multiple personality disorder, or Jewish priests have never preached anything but Satanism in disguise.

By their fruits ye shall know them. Their fruits are telling me that the Jews are – and always have been – Satan’s Chosen People.

Footnote:
^[1] After the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by the Romans, the ‘oral traditions’ Jesus rallied against were codified as the Babylonian Talmud and are widely considered to be the highest religious authority in Judaism.

One Brave Jewish Boy Stands Up to Barbarians and Terrorists!

Really, there’s nothing else that needs to be stated… it’s Demoncracy, Israeli style!

Greece: Financially and Morally Bankrupt!

Greece has a chance to settle its moral debt by reversing its decision, and if it does, who knows, that might just be the invitation some were waiting for to help it in settling its economic balance.

Israel’s willingness to kill indiscriminately is not new; what is astonishing, is the morally bankrupt alliance between Greece and Israel.

Greece stands to gain nothing from joining the “lets bend over backwards for Israel and be complicit in occupation and killing” club.

Israel does not invest economically abroad, it does not give out loans to countries, and it’s not like it’s top of the “most popular country” charts at the moment either.

Even domestically, the vast majority of Greeks are sympathetic with the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

In 2010, when there were also national workers’ strikes, Greek labourers suspended picket lines to load aid onto the first Freedom Flotilla in a gesture of solidarity with their Palestinian comrades – many of whom are on involuntary strike because of Israel’s siege and the massive unemployment it has caused.

Possibly the only thing Greece has to gain from this decision is to spite neighbouring Turkey.

But even if that is the motive, it’s a very short sighted and politically immature one at best.

Turkey is a greater regional and international power than Greece will ever be.

Israel will never abandon its attempts at trying to warm relations with Ankara, because of economic and geopolitical reasons as well as Turkey’s massive strategic importance.

Greece’s attempts to score points with Israel is like the rebound girl after a man gets divorced by the much more beautiful and successful wife who’s realised she could have always done better than him and never wants to see him again.

The rebound girl doesn’t realise she’s being used, and when she does it’s too late.

“Greece sold its body to the banks and its soul to Israel and the United States,”

Gaza’s 1.6 million inhabitants have been living under an economic blockade by the terrorist state of Israel.

 

Israel has also been embarrassed by the release of an anti-flotilla video which was later exposed as an elaborate hoax, seemingly produced by somebody with government links. The Guardian

Fraud Pays: Walid Shoebat & Keith Davies deception!

 

 

 

Rapid City, South Dakota (CNN) — Walid Shoebat Shoe-butt had a blunt message for the roughly 300 South Dakota police officers and sheriff’s deputies who gathered to hear him warn about the dangers of Islamic radicalism.

Terrorism and Islam are inseparable, he tells them. All U.S. mosques should be under scrutiny.

“All Islamic organizations in America should be the No. 1 enemy. All of them,” he says.

It’s a message Shoebat is selling based on his own background as a Palestinian-American convert to conservative Christianity. Born in the West Bank, the son of an American mother, he says he was a Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorist in his youth who helped firebomb an Israeli bank in Bethlehem and spent time in an Israeli jail.

That billing helps him land speaking engagements like a May event in Rapid City — a forum put on by the state Office of Homeland Security, which paid Shoebat $5,000 for the appearance. He’s a darling on the church and university lecture circuit, with his speeches, books and video sales bringing in $500,000-plus in 2009, according to tax records.

“Being an ex-terrorist myself is to understand the mindset of a terrorist,” Shoebat told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”

But CNN reporters in the United States, Israel and the Palestinian territories found no evidence that would support that biography. Neither Shoebat nor his business partner provided any proof of Shoebat’s involvement in terrorism, despite repeated requests.

Back in his hometown of Beit Sahour, outside Bethlehem, relatives say they can’t understand how Shoebat could turn so roundly on his family and his faith.

“I have never heard anything about Walid being a mujahedeen or a terrorist,” said Daood Shoebat, who says he is Walid Shoebat’s fourth cousin. “He claims this for his own personal reasons.”

CNN’s Jerusalem bureau went to great lengths trying to verify Shoebat’s story. The Tel Aviv headquarters of Bank Leumi had no record of a firebombing at its now-demolished Bethlehem branch. Israeli police had no record of the bombing, and the prison where Shoebat says he was held “for a few weeks” for inciting anti-Israel demonstrations says it has no record of him being incarcerated there either.

Shoebat says he was never charged because he was a U.S. citizen.

“I was born by an American mother,” he said. “The other conspirators in the act ended up in jail. I ended up released.”

He said his own family has vouched for his prison time. But relatives CNN spoke to described him as a “regular kid” who left home at 18, eventually becoming a computer programmer in the United States.

Shoebat, now in his 50s, says he converted to Christianity in 1993 and began spreading the word about the dangers of Islam. He has been interviewed as a terrorism expert on several television programs, including a handful of appearances on CNN and its sister network, HLN, in 2006 and 2007.

Since al Qaeda’s 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, expertise on terrorism has been in high demand. The federal Department of Homeland Security has spent nearly $40 million on counterterrorism training since 2006. The department doesn’t keep track of how much goes to speakers, nor does it advise officials on the speakers hired by states and municipalities.

Shoebat spoke at a 2010 conference in South Dakota and was so well-received that he was invited back for the May event in Rapid City, according to state officials. He warned the police and first responders gathered in the hotel conference rooms that the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah had operatives working in Mexico and that drug cartels were raising money with Islamic groups. He also asserted that federal agents could have prevented the 9/11 attacks by looking for a chafed spot, called “zabibah,” that sometimes forms on the foreheads of devout Muslims.

“You need ex-terrorists who can tell you what life is like and what thinking is like of potential terrorists,” Shoebat said. “But had we looked at the zabibah only, we would have deflected a suicide action of killing 3,000 Americans.”

But Shoebat also told the group there were 17 hijackers when there were 19. And perhaps more surprising from a man who bills himself as a terror expert, Shoebat said the Transportation Security Administration could have stopped them. The TSA wasn’t created until after the 9-11 attacks.

Jim Carpenter, South Dakota’s homeland security director, said Shoebat brought “a point of view that certainly is not mainstream.”

“He brings in commentary about living and being raised as a Muslim and converting over to Christianity — gives them a different aspect of breaking the mold, so to speak,” Carpenter said. But he said Shoebat’s appearance was “a small portion” of the two-and-a-half-day conference.

“It’s not like we’re talking about setting up training and a discipline we would follow, that this is the only way and that’s the particular point of view of a Muslim or somebody of the Islamic faith. That’s not the case,” Carpenter said. “That’s his point of view.”

Carpenter said there is “no fear of threat” from Islamic terrorism in South Dakota, where the last census reports showed the state’s Muslim community made up less than one-half of 1 percent of the population. According to Rapid City’s local newspaper, about two dozen Muslims live in the city.

During Shoebat’s presentation, he criticized Muslim organizations and told audience members to be leery of Muslim doctors, engineers, students and mosques.

“Now, we aren’t saying every single mosque is potential terrorist headquarters. But if you look at certain reports by the Hudson report, 80 percent of mosques they found pamphlets and education on jihad. So they’re in the mosque, the mosque in accordance to the Muslim brotherhood is the command post and center.”

The conservative Hudson Institute said it never issued such a report and has no idea why its name was invoked.

Shoebat warned that making special accommodations for Muslim beliefs was a step toward establishing Islamic religious law. And he recounted how he wore a T-shirt that read “Profile me” on a trip to the airport and approached the screeners at the security checkpoint.

“I got tapped down, I got checked, I got all these different things,” he said. “I say it’s wonderful.”

Shoebat and business partner Keith Davies run several foundations and three websites that are all linked. Shoebat said the major group, the Forum for Middle East Understanding, includes his own Walid Shoebat Foundation.

In tax records filed by Davies, the Forum for Middle East Understanding reported 2009 earnings from speaking engagements, videos and book sales of more than $560,000. The documents are thin on specifics, and so is Shoebat.

“Basically, we are in information, and we do speaking and we do also helping Christians that are being persecuted in countries like Pakistan, and we help Christians that are suffering all throughout the Middle East,” he said. Asked how they do that, he said, “None of your business” — adding that disclosing details could endanger people he was trying to help in Islamic countries that have laws against blasphemy.

Shoebat’s name doesn’t appear on any of the paperwork. As for his own salary, he said he makes “probably what a gas station makes or a garage makes.”

“Everybody thinks I’m just raking in the dough, which is absolutely incorrect,” he said. He referred details to Davies, who offered to provide a copy of the group’s tax returns — but didn’t. When asked who served on the foundation’s board of advisers, Davies gave “Anderson Cooper 360″ the name of a former pilot, who didn’t return phone calls. But he could not name the high-ranking military officers he said were on the board.

Federal officials say they don’t know exactly how much money has gone to speakers like Shoebat. But in April, the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee raised concerns about “vitriolic diatribes” being delivered by “self-appointed counterterrorism experts” at similar seminars.

Sen. Susan Collins, the committee’s Republican chairwoman, and Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman asked the department to account for how much federal grant money went to state and local counterterrorism programs and what standards guided those grants. The request followed reports by the liberal Political Research Associates and the Washington Monthly that raised similar questions.

The Homeland Security Department told CNN that it has standards — and if training programs don’t meet them, “corrective action will be taken.”

“We have not and will not tolerate training programs — or any DHS-supported program — that rely on racial or ethnic profiling,” the agency said in a written statement.

 

 

The Oslo Massacre: Christian Terrorism?

 

As abhorrent the Norway massacre is, it must be quite annoying and “deflating” to the Muslim bashing community of degenerates who wished that the terror act would have been carried out by Muslims rather than one of their “own.” It seems that Christians are terrorists too! We’ve seen that in the massacres and crimes committed in the U.S.A – the likes of Timothy McVeigh, Andrew Joseph Stack III, Jared Loughner just to name a few! Yet, in the U.S., the media would not refer to these degenerates as “terrorists.”

One comment that struck me on a news site, stated:

I am shocked this had nothing to do with muslims. Why were muslims groups claiming they were responsible for the attacks then? 

Who was the “Muslim Group” that claimed credit? Well, someone please share this piece of “enlightening” information. I bet that the claim came from some sadist media reporter or agency who quickly assumed that it had to be “Muslims” who committed the crime, and by being the “first” to report this, their fame and incredible “sources” would become the talk-of-the-town.  Regardless, if such a Muslim group is somehow linked to the terror attack, I would also bet that they will bear a new name – and one which contains the word “Jihad” in it – and we’ll be led to believe such “reports” because, like cattle, we believe whatever garbage we’re being fed.

The sad truth is atrocities like this are a daily occurrence in Palestine. Israelis jail, massacre, kill and ethnic-cleanse Palestinians daily. They even publicly discriminate against non-white Jews in Israel!

Israel is most probably the only country in the world which imprisons women and children of “suspected” so-called terrorists, indefinitely. The world always chooses silence over Israeli terrorism (Deir Yasin, Qana, Hebron, Jenin, Gaza, Jerusalem, International Flotilla, etc.) and their use of prohibited weaponry (cluster and phosphorus bombs against civilians) so as not to upset “Jews” or be referred to as “anti-Semite!”

The Arab Uprising… now in “Israel”

The recent wave of Arab uprisings and calls for change, including justice and democracy must be contagious.

The occupying terrorists – who terrorized Palestinians and stole and occupied their lands, are now facing the same calls for reform. The so-called “only democracy” in the Middle East seems to be as corrupt and dictatorial as are/were the [previous] Arab regimes.

An estimated 300,000 people took to the streets on Saturday August 6, 2011 to press their demands for social justice and lower living costs in the largest demonstrations over social issues ever seen in “Israel.” Despite scepticism that turnout could surpass previous events, almost twice as many people joined marches in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other towns and cities.

The average Israeli salary is about $2,500 per month while teachers and social workers typically earn less than $2,000 per month. Naturally, the Israeli-terrorist apparatus is more interested in using all its resources to expel, ethnic cleanse and terrorize Palestinians. Building illegal settlements as a way to “claim” more Palestinian lands, is where the money goes!

And the Israeli government response? It was as parallel as that of Ben Ali, Mubarak, Saleh and Assad!

Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, was “forced” to respond to the spiralling protests with the establishment of a committee to “listen to the distress” and recommend action.

“we know that we must make the internal corrections … social corrections, with sensitivity” – he said!

He added: “We will listen to everyone. We will speak with everyone.” However, Netanyahu has so far refused to meet a delegation from the tent protesters.

Sounds familiar? The same was said by the deposed Arab dictators and those still in power.

The wave of change will soon create a new Middle East. The USA – or the United States of Arabia, will be the end result. I say this will happen in the next 10 years and maybe sooner. Israel, Zionism and terrorism, will cease to exist!

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U.S. Congress on Vacation… in Israel

Israel ensures a continued Ass-Kissing Congress by using some of the AID the U.S. Government pays Israel ($5 billion a year – or what we, the U.S.A, declare) as a… Rebate?

And you wonder why this body of degenerate congressional individuals always veto’s any resolution condemning  Israeli atrocities and war crimes against Palestinians.

 

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Saif Al Islam [not] Arrested: Libya Liberated!

Saif Al Islam said he would not leave Libya and that he would fight until he was dead or victorious.
Apparently he wasn’t. Whatever happened to Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the ICC prosecutor’s claim that Saif had been arrested???
Celebrate for a few more “hours” you thug.. but you will soon be dragged like a dead dog in the streets of Tripoli!

 

COMING SOON: Saif Al Islam in Prison Garb – the series! Don’t miss it! Stay tuned…

Nice claim from this heathen who “married” an Israeli actress.. his Jewish blood was calling!

Now begins the call for Justice against this thug and his father! A trial in Tripoli, Libya and hopefully a public execution for the crimes he and his family committed against Libyans!

Good Riddance you Thug!
Victory to the Libyan People
and soon the
Syrians and Yemenis …
and the rest of the
Arab world.

UN: Apply Here for Freedom – but..

The despicable UN report that Israel did not violate international law by imposing the illegal siege of Gaza…

Or the report that Israel simply used “excessive force” in its attack on the Mavi Marmara (Flotilla) and executing at least 9 civilians in cold blodd…

Or the UN’s call for freedom of South Sudan yet remains silent on Palestinians quest for freedom and independence…

 

These and more – prove that the United Nations is simply a puppet in the hands of Super Powers to be manipulated at will! Those seeking freedom will only get their freedom if the Superpowers “approve” their application!!!

If a “terrorist” supporting government like Sudan is in question, we go in full force to demand and support the liberation of the South – seeking its freedom and Independence. People like Clooney and other despicable opportunists run to “inform” the world of the severity of the Southern Sudanese…

Yet as Israel continues its Apartheid practice, ethnic cleansing policies, building more illegal settlements on Palestinian lands, torturing Palestinian prisoners of all ages, Clooney and the U.N. choose silence!

And the terrorist state of Israel and its actions against Palestinians, more horrific than the Holocaust itself, are simply “regrettable” actions…or excusable or whatever terminology that spins the ugly truth into something less negative-sounding!

 

And when Palestinians seek a vote to support their independence from the terrorist regime of the Israeli NaZionists, we – the USA – threaten such a freedom-seeking action with Veto, halting all aid to Palestinians (of which they see none – it goes into the pockets of the puppets played by the US government – as was the case in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and many more) and publicly demanding that such a request by Palestinian is hasty, illogical and produces mistrust with the Israelis…

In other words, Palestinians must be disbanded more and reduced to tribes like the Indian “nations” that remain in the U.S.

So when will the UN ever find Israel guilty of any crime?

When pigs fly!

Or when the superpowers become real democracies seeking justice for all…

Otherwise, the oppressed will continue to fight back for their freedom. And sooner or later, the oppressed and occupied win. History has just slapped the Universe with such evidence: Libya, Tunisia and Egypt have been liberated!

Kudos to Turkey and its expulsion of the Israeli diplomats terrorists from Turkey!

The demise of Israel is coming soon… the previews are almost over!!!

 

ATW

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Uncommon Alliances: Jews & Muslims

The bill finally passed with an amendment allowing ritual slaughter on the condition that firm scientific evidence is provided within five years to the European Food Safety Authority, proving that slaughter without pre-stunning(?) causes animals no unnecessary suffering.

 

Jewish and Muslim communities are unhappy with the compromise, saying that it puts the future of religious practices into the hands of scientists and avoids the issue of religious freedom. This is a bizarre state of affairs in a pluralist European society. A recent report by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance notes that the tone of Dutch political and public debate around integration has shown a “dramatic deterioration” in the last ten years. The surprising recent electoral success of the Dutch Freedom Party can be explained by the fact that it provides parliamentary support to the minority cabinet, which in turn seems inclined to protect Wilders, perhaps because of the minority cabinet’s fear of losing its ability to govern.

Some Dutch politicians however, have been outspoken in their call for parliamentary debate about xenophobia in the Netherlands, notably Tofik Dibi, one of seven members of parliament who identify as practicing Muslims. Dutch Labor Party leader Job Cohen has also called for dialogue on the need “to moderate our tone…not to avoid debate but to engage in it openly and with mutual respect.” One hopes that these voices of reason will be heeded.

The common cause of Jews and Muslims uniting against the ban in their concern to protect their traditions of halal and kosher meat is due to the importance both religions place on preventing animal suffering. Many Jews and Muslims view the modern mechanical methods of stunning and killing animals in Western slaughterhouses far more barbaric, and no one seems yet to have come up with a positive scientific measurement of the pain felt by the animals at the point of death by either method.

The arguments for and against ritual slaughter are passionate, subjective and liable to misinterpretation, and provide a potent mixture for populist politicians to exploit when national economies are in trouble and unemployment is rife. Hopefully, the Dutch Senate will reconsider the issue in the light of freedom of religion as laid down by Article 9 in the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

The Senate’s treatment of the ban will be a test of this mature liberal European democracy’s ability to provide consensus, compromise or conformity on a divisive issue within a centuries-old tradition of liberalism, human rights and tolerance for religious minorities.

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The Quest for Statehood: Palestinians need not apply!

Aljazeera English

Palestinian statehood bid ‘papers ready’

The Palestinians will not be deterred from seeking UN membership, senior officials say in response to a report that the the US is trying to head off their bid.

The New York Times reported on Sunday that the US has launched an attempt to persuade the Palestinians not to seek statehood at the annual UN General Assembly meeting beginning on September 20.

“When it comes to going to the United Nations, I think the train has left the station,” Muhammad Shtayyeh, a member of Fatah’s central committee who is overseeing the UN bid, said on Sunday.

“We’re already on the way to New York. We are very ready for this. All our papers are ready.”

The New York Times, citing US officials and foreign diplomats, said the US has tried to restart peace talks with the Israelis in a bid to convince Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and leader of Fatah, to drop the bid.

The Obama administration has made it clear to Abbas that it will veto any request to the UN Security Council to make a Palestinian state a new member outright, the newspaper said.

But the US does not have enough support to block a vote to elevate the status of the Palestinians’ nonvoting observer “entity” to that of a nonvoting observer state, according to the newspaper report.

‘No chance for talks’

Palestinians expect “more than 150″ of the 192 UN member countries to endorse full Palestinian membership.

But this would fall short of the number needed to ratify an application, which must be approved by the Security Council.

If approved by two-thirds of the General Assembly, it would allow the Palestinians for instance to gain full membership of UN agencies such as WHO, UNESCO or UNICEF.

The US argues that the Palestinians will only achieve meaningful statehood through a revival of direct peace talks with Israel.

Comment: The US never argued that “peace talks” would resolve the Sudan division and the south seeking independence. Nor did the U.S. argue that “peace talks” would ensure that Saddam Hussein and the Kuwaitis would be able to resolve their differences. So what is it about the Palestinians? Are they the Children of a Lesser God? Israel’s negotiations tactics are clear: build more settlements and negotiate grabbing more Palestinian lands!

The New York Times said the US was labouring to find language that would be sufficient to lure the Palestinians away from their bid, bring Israel to the negotiating table and be acceptable to the other members of the peacemaking Quartet – the EU, UN and Russia.

But Shtayyeh, the Fatah official, said the Palestinians had made every effort to negotiate.

“The only thing Israel wants to talk about is security, security and security,” he said. “There isn’t really any chance for negotiations with this current Israeli government.

He said that until now, the Palestinians had not received any serious offer from the international community.

“All these offers are to stop us from going to New York. They are not really about genuine peace,” he said.

EU divided

In a related development, EU foreign ministers meeting in Poland have urged both Israel and the Palestinians to return to direct peace talks while offering to take a lead role in hammering out a solution acceptable to all sides.

Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, said on Sunday the Palestinian proposal, to be formally detailed in the coming days by Abbas, could prove a failure for Israel, the Palestinians and the US.

Should the Palestinians receive widespread backing “Israel would be isolated”, the Palestinians “would face a poor tomorrow” after losing vital funding, and the US too will “face isolation”, he said.

Guido Westerwelle, the German foreign minister, said separately that it was key to “try to influence different parties to act constructively”. Germany opposes the Palestinian initiative.

Europe stands divided on the question, with the Czech Republic, Italy and the Netherlands also opposed but Spain pledging to vote in favour.

Despite the fast-approaching deadline, Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, insisted that a return to the talks table remained a possibility.

“We believe that we need to have a negotiated settlement as quickly as possible and that anything that can help that process is good,” she said.

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Raising Pigs in the Holy Land?

Yes! A new breed of pigs is now being bred and allowed to roam freely!

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These pigs are the Israeli Settlers Terrorists that Israeli Terror Forces recently announced they wanted to arm and train to quell any Palestinian uprising!

QUSRA, West Bank (Reuters) – Jewish settlers set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinians said, in a likely reprisal for Israel’s dismantling of three buildings in an unauthorised settlement outpost hours earlier.

Abdel Azeem Wadi, a member of the village council in Qusra near the Palestinian city of Nablus, said settlers threw burning tyres into the mosque, damaging the entire first floor.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad denounced the attack as an act of terrorism.

“These acts are what threaten to pull the region into a cycle of violence,” Fayyad’s office said in a statement, adding that the Palestinians themselves would not revert to violence.

An Israeli police spokesman said police and army personnel had entered the village to inspect the damage to the mosque and that the investigation was ongoing. [Oh we feel much better now!]

Earlier on Monday, Israeli authorities enacted a court order and demolished three houses in Migron, a Jewish hilltop outpost.

The names of Migron and a second outpost were written in Hebrew on the mosque walls.

Some settlers have threatened to exact a price on Palestinians in response to Israeli government actions against unauthorised settlements.

Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that Israel must evacuate the entire Migron outpost by the end of March 2012, a spokeswoman for the court said.

Migron is one of about 100 small outposts that settlers built without government approval on land that Israel captured in a 1967 war and which Palestinians want for a future state.

The World Court deems all Israeli settlements illegal under international law — a ruling that Israel rejects.

Settler-related incidents resulting in Palestinian injuries and damage to property are up more than 50 percent this year, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which documents violence in the Palestinian territories.

Palestinian authorities say settlers have attacked at least six mosques in the West Bank in the past two years. Fayyad’s office criticised the Israeli police for failing to track down those behind previous such violence.

“The prime minister holds Israel completely responsible for the continuation of these terrorist acts because of its failure to pursue the perpetrators of this type of attack on previous occasions and bring them to account,” its statement said.

Settler and military officials said last week that Israel’s military has been training Jewish settler security units to cope with any eruption of Palestinian protests alongside a planned bid for statehood at the United Nations this month.

(Reporting by Abed Omar Qusini, Tom Perry and Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Louise Ireland)

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Egypt: the land of Heroes!

My love and admiration for Egypt grows daily!

Egyptians are the real Arab heroes. They toppled the biggest CIA agent and dictator and forced him behind bars… just like a monkey, adding to the humiliation this degenerate and his family will receive in this life. Where are “his” partners now to save him?

And on the day of judgment he will be asked again to bring forth those partners he so believed in, and see if they could save him from eternal Hell and damnation.

And now our heroes are back in action: they want to topple the Israeli’s terrorist so-called embassy!

Egyptians must continue applying the pressure and demand the eviction of these heathens from the pure and holy Arab lands. If only other Arab countries and men/women were as courageous. Maybe the Egyptians have already ignited the fuse for the rest!

The Israeli terrorists have no place in the Middle East.  Their embassies should be immediately closed and all their people evicted from Arab lands. It’s outrageous for Arabs to accept these heathens on their lands while the NaZionists continue annexing and build the so-called settlements – they’re actually building terrorist camps!

Then there’s the pro-terrorist-Israeli-media! Have you noticed their “headlines?” “Muslims storm Israeli Embassy..” and such garbage. Speaking of “spinning the facts/ truth and history” – something Israelis are excellent and experienced in!

Get out of my land: my Arab and Holy Land!

 

An Egyptian protester spray-paints the words "Egyptians want the fall of the wall" on a wall of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo

North Africa Spark topples 3; in a row!

Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya!

Dictators are toppled one by one; the most criminal of whom faced the ultimate humiliation then death!

Dictator's Ultimate End

The people have spoken. The “western powers” were quick to congratulate and urge the same people they helped oppress through their puppets, to be mindful of democracy and “positive” change.

Excuse me?

What they really mean is that they wish for a democracy that fits the western ideologies… a sort of dictatorship that we would bless and label as a “democracy.”

What scares the West is that the Arab people want their religious values to influence their communities, eliminate usury and corruption (Sharia “Law”), build an Islamic Empire as one existed in the past during which prosperity and science flourished, poverty eliminated and the Arab/ Muslim world stood united (also Sharia “Law”).

This is when the despicable state of terrorists and pigs will vanish… and the Middle East will be Holy again.

So let the spark continue and burn the tyrants and dictators of the region (who also use what they call democracy to hide their crimes against humanity).

Today we celebrate the demise of Zine El Abidine of Tunisia, Mubarak of Egypt and Gaddafi of Libya.

Dictator’s Ultimate End

Tomorrow we shall celebrate the demise of Netanyahu, Abdallah, Assad, Saleh and Al Malki

And then we shall have peace and prosperity.

 

Israel; more cruel than Nazis

The recent act by the state of terror and so-called democracy, punishes the occupied Palestinians for joining UNESCO and immediately announces that settlers (state-armed terrorists) will have 2000 or so homes built on Palestinian lands.

Now tell me why the Israelis should not be thrown into the sea – and the Dead Sea in particular.

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