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Israël - Une quantité d'articles qui atteste de la réalité
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Israël - Une quantité d'articles qui atteste de la réalité
Des fois, il est plus économique de présenter des nouvelles accumulées depuis des mois de toutes sortes de sources différentes pour dresser un tableau concluant de la situation. Voici donc plus de 60 pages de liens vers des articles qui dépeignent ce qui se passe en Israël.
Muslim nations 'would recognise Israel' in peace deal
Abdullah told the Times that on offer for
"We are offering a third of the world to meet them with open arms," he said.
"The future is not the Jordan river or the Golan Heights or the Sinai, the future is
If the peace agreement failed there could be another war in the
Webmaster's Commentary:
This is actually not new. The Muslims nations have agreed all along that they will recognize
Un professeur et historien israélien : «Nous détruirons le monde avant qu’Israël ne disparaisse»
Un professeur et historien militaire israélien a laissé comprendre qu’Israël pourrait venger l’holocauste en exterminant des millions d’Allemands et d’autres Européens. Il a, par ailleurs, menacé de détruire le monde entier.
Le Quotidien - Agences
.Lors d’une interview, le professeur Martin Van Crevel a déclaré qu’Israël avait « la capacité d’atteindre la plupart des capitales européennes avec ses armes nucléaires ».
«Nous possédons plusieurs centaines d’ogives atomiques et de fusées et pouvons atteindre nos cibles dans tous les azimuts, et même Rome. La plupart des capitales européennes font partie des cibles potentielles de notre Armée de l’air ».
Crevel, un professeur d’histoire militaire à l’Université hébraïque d’Al Qods, a précisé que la «déportation collective» par Israël était la seule stratégie efficace à appliquer aux Palestiniens.
«Les Palestiniens doivent tous être expulsés. Les gens qui luttent dans ce but (Le Gouvernement israélien) attendent simplement la venue de “la bonne personne au bon moment”. Il y a seulement deux ans, 7 ou 8 % des Israéliens étaient d’avis que ce serait la meilleure solution, il y a deux mois c’était 33%, et maintenant, selon un Sondage Gallup, le chiffre est de 44%».
Crevel a déclaré qu’il était sûr que le Premier ministre israélien Ariel Sharon avait déjà voulu expulser les Palestiniens.
« Je pense qu’il est tout à fait possible qu’il ait voulu le faire. Il voulait intensifier le conflit. Il savait que rien d’autre ne pourrait réussir».
A la question de savoir « s’il s’inquiétait du fait qu’Israël deviendrait un état voyou s’il mettait en œuvre une déportation génocidaire à l’encontre des Palestiniens, Crevel a cité les paroles de l’ancien Ministre israélien de
Crevel soutient qu’Israël ne se soucie pas du fait de devenir un «état voyou ».
«Nos forces armées ne sont pas au trentième rang, mais aux deuxième ou troisième rang mondial. Nous avons la capacité de détruire le Monde avec nous. Et je peux vous assurer que cela arrivera avant qu’Israël ne disparaisse».
The Judeo-Russian Mafia : From the Gulag to Brooklyn to World Dominion
The very fact that the Jewish mafia (often misnamed the “Russian” mafia) was capable of completely covering its tracks, being completely left out of all news reports surrounding the incident, while the common people (in Russia) were utterly convinced of their complicity, proves the immense strength of this rather new movement of organized crime. The Jewish mafia is nothing like their Irish or Italian predecessors in its American or European operations. They are richer, more international in scope and far more violent and ruthless. They kill children. They kill policemen and their families. They kill whomever they like.
There has been nothing like it before in the history of the globe. And they are just getting started.
The chutzpah of these people. First, they barge into
Israeli Parliament advances a bill to make Jerusalem capital of Israel and all the Jews
The bill was submitted by the right wing Israeli National Religious party to amend the Basic law which considers
UN Resolution 250: " . . . 'calls' on
UN Resolution 251: " . . . 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in
UN Resolution 252: " . . . 'declares invalid'
UN Resolution 267: " . . . 'censures'
UN Resolution 271: " . . . 'condemns'
UN Resolution 298: " . . . 'deplores'
UN Resolution 476: " . . . 'reiterates' that
UN Resolution 478: " . . . 'censures (
The old lie that
"A Land without a People for a People without a Land"?
For decades, Zionists and Israelis sold to the world the myth that
Click for larger map of Palestine as seen in 1851
Click for larger map of Palestine as seen in 1864
Click for larger map of Palestine as seen in 1866 Click for larger map of Palestine as seen in 1887
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6870
To all the morons who say Palestine never existed
DOCUMENTAIRE 1:19:14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjEBQ_bE7uA
Israel hopes to colonize parts of Iraq as ‘Greater Israel’
Israeli expansionists, their intentions to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical “Greater Israel.”
Israel reportedly has plans to relocate thousands of Kurdish Jews from Israel, including expatriates from Kurdish Iran, to the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Nineveh under the guise of religious pilgrimages to ancient Jewish religious shrines. According to Kurdish sources, the Israelis are secretly working with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to carry out the integration of Kurdish and other Jews into areas of Iraq under control of the KRG.
Russian Mafia is in fact Jewish
Israel's "Free Press"? Broken pencils, broken bones and broken lives of reporters
More than 250 breaches of freedom of journalism happened in the Occupied Territories by Israeli forces during 2007. And the Palestinian territories under Israel's occupation ranked last year at number
Israel is an Occupation authority, that's why it is interested in withholding information and concealing its crimes and violations of Palestinian s' human rights. Like what was happening in villages like Bil'in, and Umm Salman.
Israeli settlers caught on film beating elderly Palestinian woman
In Sunday's attack, an elderly woman, Thamam al-Nawaja, was herding her family's sheep when four masked and armed Israeli settlers came running toward her from the settlement of Susia. When her son and husband saw what was happening, they came over, and the settlers beat the whole family with baseball bats. Al-Nawaja, who suffered the brunt of the beating, spent three days in the hospital after the attack. Her face was beaten badly, and one cheekbone was shattered.
This is the face of Israeli racism, in its ugliest, and most brutal manifestation.
To the people who beat her, this older woman's only crime was breathing.
And I would be willing to bet real money that the perps who did this will never be caught or brought to justice on this.
VIDEO: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7451569.stm
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m44843&hd=&size=1&l=e
Rabbi: Hang Arab children from trees
In the newsletter Eliyahu proposes "hanging the children" of those who attacked the Mercaz Harav yeshiva from a tree.
From a reader: And yet if it was being screamed from the Arabs to the Jews then all hell would be breaking lose right now.. But because Israel is saying this it will get no media attention from the MSM bozos.. This is the shit that my taxes are paying for???? when we have so many homeless in America... I want my money back..
10-year-old subjected to torture by Israeli soldiers
A 10-year-old boy was subjected to physical abuse amounting to torture for 2.5 hours by Israeli soldiers who stormed his family's shop on 11 June, seeking information on the location of a handgun. The boy was repeatedly beaten, slapped and punched in the head and stomach, forced to hold a stress position for half and hour, and threatened. He was deeply shocked and lost two molar teeth as a result of the assault.
You've just gotta love how the IDF treats Palestinian children!
1.015 Palestinian Children Killed Through September 2000 - March 2008
From September 29 year 2000, in the eruption of the second Palestinian Intifada, through March 16 2008, at least 1.015 Palestinian children and youths, under the age of 18, were killed by the Israeli army,in the Palestinian occupied territories. During the same period,more than thousand Palestinian children have been injured, many children have lost their limbs and other body parts.
Israeli Army raids Hebron Orphanage home to 110 girls
At
Video and Photos: Israeli Army Raid and Loot Hebron Orphanage home to 110 girls
Gaza: The children killed in a war the world doesn't want to know about
"I was always with him. He was an innocent person, kind. He was talking to me about how he was going to inherit part of his father's land and farm it and how he was going to get married and stay here." Nayef added tearfully: "He was a boy who had hopes. He wanted to live his life." He added: "What is my daughter going to think? She is going to grow up hating the Israelis."
Gazan Palestinian kids are routinely exterminated.....just for being in the wrong place at the absolutley wrong time.
One third of those banned from travel for treatment are children
The popular committee against the siege stated Monday that 31 percent of Gaza patients whose travel for medical treatment abroad was not approved by the IOA for flimsy security pretexts are children under age 15.
Would someone take a good hard look at the kid in the picture in this article, and explain to me with a straight face how they could ever be described as a "security risk"?
This is a sick kid who needs treatment which is being denied by the Israeli government, period, end of discussion.
IOF troops killed 45 Palestinians including five children last month
Israeli soldiers who beat, tortured Palestinian teens receive light sentence, no demotion
An Israeli military court ruled Tuesday that three Israeli soldiers who beat, humiliated and attached electrodes to the faces of two 17-year old Palestinian detainees would not be demoted to the rank of private.
The IDF court obviously couldn't bring itself to mete out a harsher sentence, because this is what their soldiers do all the time when it comes to Palestinians- and worse.
What happened is that this case became public knowledge, so they had to do at least a little something to these men.
Wilful killing of baby by Israeli army in Gaza house raid
For several hours, Israeli soldiers directed gunfire towards the house and its occupants, including 15 children, and subjected them to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. During the raid, Israeli soldiers fired upon unarmed civilians, including children, as they followed orders to exit the house. This unlawful act claimed the life of 20-day-old Amira, who was shot in the head while in her mother's arms.
Girl, 6, killed by Israel tank fire in Gaza
Medics say the girl was decapitated by a shell. Dr. Moaiya Hassanain, a Palestinian Health Ministry official, says two others are being treated for injuries sustained in the shelling.
"Horrible situation for children", Israel blocks UN committee from entering
'Half of the population of Gaza is made up by minors: their current situation is horrible and could worsen still', said a special UN committee that accused Israel of having forbidden its access to Gaza 'to hide the violations of human rights perpetrated against Palestinians'. In Cairo, Prasad Kariyawasam, president of the committee and Sri Lanka's ambassador to the UN, said that Israeli authorities have blocked the group's access to Gaza, forcing it to 'interview local witnesses by phone and to speak with humanitarian operators to understand what is happening on the ground'. After outlining the damage done to the population by the longstanding blockade of Gaza, Kariyawasam stressed the serious situation faced by children, described as 'the first victims of the siege'.
Israel clearly doesn't want people to see what it has done to the children of Gaza, courtesy of the siege.
The international campaign to save the schools and orphanages in the city of Hebron which are affiliated with the Islamic Charitable Society (ICS) has had a strong impact, forcing Israeli embassies around the world to respond to requests for information and answers. Relying on information obtained from the Israeli military, embassies are working to create a climate of terror against the ICS, thereby justifying Israel's actions.
Israeli military refuses entry of food aid to Gaza
A shipment of food aid for the people of the Gaza Strip was denied entry by Israeli military forces on Monday. The shipment consisted of several trucks full of food aid from Egypt that were denied entry at the Israeli-controlled Karem Abu Salem crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
The WHO estimates that the malnutrition rates for children in Gaza runs at around 45%.
And the world watches and does nothing.
The only way Israel will understand that this siege is perceived by the rest of the world as a really, really, bad idea is for all foreign aid in money, and military assistance to stop, immediately, until there is a permanent status resolution for a functioning Palestinian state.
That's billions alone from the US, which could be used to fix our crumbling infrastructure, and get our homeless vets off the streets and into appropriate care and shelter.
Gaza power plant to shut down by tomorrow due to lack of fuel
The sole power plant in Gaza declared on Tuesday it will stop generating electricity for Gaza's 1.5 million residents by tomorrow evening, due to sharp shortage of gasoline, needed to generate current.
The outcome of this shutdown will be more misery, death, and disease.
Understanding that this would be the outcome, this appears to be precisely what the Israeli government had in mind.
Israeli army carries out ethnic cleansing near Hebron for settlement expansion
Israeli army bulldozers, backed by soldiers, on Wednesday swooped on four Palestinian hamlets in southern Hebron hills, demolishing 11 homes and structures and rendering dozens of men, women and children homeless.
The wanton demolitions are ostensibly aimed at expanding adjacent Jewish colonies inhabited by fundamentalist settlers advocating ethnic cleansing of all non-Jews in Palestine.
Israelis open fire on Gazan protesters
Gaza emergency services said six people were wounded when Israeli forces fired on the protesters who approached the frontier fence.
LETTER FROM A BEREAVED PALESTINIAN FATHER TO ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER
The blood of Abir will remain as a black crown on the brow of every Israeli and every Jew in the world until her murderer is brought to justice and passes the remainder of his days in jail, among the murderers and the criminals.
IOF troops destroy agriculture sector in Gaza; kill Palestinian farmers
The agriculture ministry in the PA legitimate government in Gaza Strip asserted on Wednesday that the IOF troops had bulldozed vast agricultural areas in the eastern sector of the Gaza Strip which is considered the food basket of the 1.5 million Palestinians living there.
Bulldozing agricultural land, uprooting trees, and killing farmers tending to their fields; all in a day's work for the IDF.
Was this simply to prevent desperately needed food to the Palestinians, or the IDF's sick idea of a "joke"??
"There will be no choice but to overthrow Hamas. They are essentially Iranian offshoots sitting within us. It's intolerable that Israel allows its cities to be fired upon; we must move from a war of attrition to a war of decisivness," said Opposition Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday in a meeting with local journalists in Netivot as he addressed Palestinian rocket attacks from Gaza.
This sounds like the statement of a man with massacre on his mind.
And of course, the timing couldn't be more ironic, because a number of Palestinian groups have said that they are willing to respect an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire, which Egyptian officials will be presenting to Israel.
VIDEO - ISRAEL'S RESPONSE TO PALESTINIAN PEACE OFFER
Terrorism is Israel’s answer, time and time again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQzp39X6r0
Israel rejects Hamas offer for Gaza truce
Gaza Strip - Israel dismissed on Friday a proposal by Hamas to call a conditional six-month truce in the Gaza Strip, calling it a ruse aimed at allowing the Palestinian Islamist group to recover from recent fighting.
There is no truce offer Israel will ever be willing to accept from Hamas for any reason, and that is the problem.
Hamas: Israel's rejection of ceasefire offers means war declaration
Israel's rejection of Hamas' ceasefire proposals means a declaration of war, a senior leader of the Islamic movement said on Sunday.
Unless Hamas (as the duly elected government of Palestine, per the last elections) is included as a serious and vital component to the peace process, there can be no peace.
Palestinians agree Israel truce
Twelve Palestinian factions have agreed to proposals for a truce with Israel, starting in the Gaza Strip, Egypt's state news agency Mena says.
Hamas says it's willing to accept Gaza Strip cease-fire
Hamas has softened its position and is willing to accept a cease-fire in just the Gaza Strip, dropping a demand that the truce immediately include the West Bank, the group's senior representatives said Tuesday.
The move marked a significant concession by Hamas as Egyptian mediators try to halt fighting between Palestinian militants and the Israeli army in Gaza. For weeks, Hamas insisted on a mutual cease-fire in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
One has to wonder how Amos Gilad, political advisor to Israeli war minister Ehud Barak, is going to manage to characterize this as "nothing new", as he did with Carter's Ceasefire Plan.
The Beginning of Legal Apartheid?
What is the term for people who live under occupation for over 40 years, and pay taxes to the occupying authority, and yet do not have any rights under that same authority?
What is the term for people being issued different color ids and license plates so as to determine whether they can enter another part of their own homeland?
And how, with all this going on, can one even begin to characterize Israel as a "democracy", when it functions as a democracy for only some of its citizens?
Report: Israeli siege claimed lives of 116 patients since beginning of 2008
According to the report, the total number of the siege victims since the Israeli siege imposed about a year ago, thus, has reached 192 patients.
The campaign had warned that the specter of death is threatening a long list of patients who suffer chronic and serious diseases due to the lack of medicines and the Israeli restrictions imposed on travel for medical treatment outside the besieged Gaza Strip.
How someone can look at a sick kid any kid - and not try to get them care is an astonishing insight into how the minds of some people work.
Palestinians Murder, Israelis Have Accidents
With all that the Palestinians go through under Israeli occupation, how self-centred do we have to be to think it was specifically the case of an American victim that influenced him? If he really was motivated to murder by the example of Israel's own use of bulldozers to murder its opponents, wouldn't it be more likely for him to be influenced by cases involving fellow Palestinians, like Jamal Fayed:
Jamal Fayed, 38 and severely disabled, was killed on 11 April [2002] when the bulldozing of his home caused a wall to collapse on him. The family had shown the soldiers preparing to demolish the house Jamal Fayed's ID to prove that he was paralysed and could not get out of the home without their help. The soldiers refused to help and soon after a bulldozer approached the house. The family yelled at the driver to stop. He did not, and Jamal Fayed, still trapped inside the house, was killed.
There are currently as many as 12,000 Palestinian detainees languishing in Israeli detention camps, many of them without charge or trial. They include hundreds of university professors, engineers, school teachers as well as religious and civic leaders, students, resistance fighters and women activists.
Well, now we know where the US got the idea...
The 'Rogue Entity' - Twenty Questions Radio/TV interviewers avoid asking about Israel....
The abysmal performance of western TV and radio interviewers when dealing with issues surrounding Israel - that 'Rogue Regime' or 'Zionist Entity', as many now call it - is not only embarrassing but a blot on the escutcheon of journalism.
Even the most fearsome inquisitors purr like a pussycat. Their rottweiler instincts evaporate, their investigative skills desert them, objectivity takes a nosedive. Penetrating questions are seldom asked, lies go unchallenged. Any Israeli spokesperson or cheerleader is guaranteed an easy ride.
Have the nation's truth-seekers fallen under some wicked Zionist spell? Are their researchers on strike? Did somebody nobble the programme editors?
While we wait with mounting frustration for our broadcasters to get their act together, here are 20 simple questions the BBC and others seem anxious not to ask......
Last week, the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem released video clips showing masked Jewish settlers ganging up on and severely beating elderly Palestinian peasants near the town of Yatta, southwest of Hebron. At least three Palestinians were wounded in the unprovoked assault, including a man and his wife, both in their early sixties.
The latest act of settler terror was not an isolated incident, as official Israeli spokespersons would often claim. It represents a disturbing and persistent phenomenon as young and usually heavily armed settlers continue to attack Palestinian farmers, peasants and shepherds and vandalize their property in an effort to drive them away from their lands and villages.
The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem deserves a tremendous amount of credit for their work in making clear to the world what Palestinians are enduring on a constant basis at the hands of Israelis.
BLINDNESS IS KILLING THE PEOPLE IN GAZA
Desmond Tutu came and went.... issued a report of what has been going on in the Gaza Strip.... HAS ANYONE READ IT???
DOES ANYONE GIVE A DAMN ABOUT GAZA AND THE REST OF PALESTINE???
The madness and killing will not stop until the world says something about it... TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF YOUR EYES AND SPEAK UP/OUT!
YOUR BLINDNESS IS KILLING US ONE BY ONE.....
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/blindness-is-killing-the-people-in-gaza/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7425082.stm
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/updates-on-desmond-tutus-visit-to-gaza/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/29/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1IV88EFkos
DEMOLITION DERBY IN OCCUPIED JERUSALEM
Israeli Authorities demolish apartments in Jerusalem, intend to demolish 22 more.
Israeli Housing Minister to permit 1460 new housing units in East Jerusalem settlements
In another blatant violation of the promise made in Annapolis in September 2007 by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to halt settlement construction, the Israeli Housing Minister Ze'ev Boim announced Friday that he will be issuing permits for 1,460 new housing units in three Israeli settlements built on Palestinian land in East Jerusalem.
The announcement came just days before the Israeli Prime Minister plans to visit Washington to report on the progress of the peace process.
The hubris of this announcement, right on the heels of Olmert's next trip to Washington, is nothing short of amazing.
And regarding this being a meeting regarding the "progress of the peace process", I would look at that pretext with great skepticism.
More than likely, it will be about how some kind of a strike against Iran can be pulled off successfully between now and the end of Bush's term.
Remember: Bush has promised to support Israel militarily, no matter who starts the shooting.
Carter: Hamas is willing to accept Israel as its neighbor
Former President Carter said Monday that Hamas -- the Islamic militant group that has called for the destruction of Israel -- is prepared to accept the right of the Jewish state to "live as a neighbor next door in peace."
But Carter warned that there would not be peace if Israel and the U.S. continue to shut out Hamas and its main backer, Syria.
For Carter to have gotten this far with Hamas is a major breakthrough; but were I a betting person, I would be willing to bet that Israel will reject it out of hand.
Israel, having stolen such large quantities of land from the Palestinians, and continuing to build in Palestinian areas, will never go back to the 1967 borders.
The problem is that Israel (and their bitch the US) will insist that HAMAS "prove" its sincerity by halting all violence. But Israel will continue as it always has, bulldozing, killing, stealing, until HAMAS once again realizes that Israel is not bargaining in good faith. HAMAS will then call off the cease fire and Israel will put the blame for the "failure" of the peace process onto them.
Israel: Carter ceasefire plan a failure
Hamas presented nothing new in its demands for a truce during Carter's recent meetings with officials of the group, said Amos Gilad, political advisor to war minister Ehud Barak, on Tuesday.
This was completely predictable on the part of Israel, because the government doesn't want peace: it wants territory.
And the longer they can draw this process out, and the more building they can do on disputed lands, the smaller the country of Palestine will be when it finally becomes a country.
U.S. fumes after Israeli envoy to UN envoy brands Carter 'a bigot'
The United States registered an official protest with Israel against its ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, for calling former U.S. President Jimmy Carter an "enemy of Israel" prior to Carter's recent visit to the region.
In addition, the State Department is planning to issue a public statement condemning comments made by Gillerman at a press conference in New York on Thursday, where he called Carter a "bigot."
Subdued as this statement is, I'm glad that someone in the state department decided that this comment was not going to go stand without at least some kind of response.
The true reaction should have been a complete and abrupt halt to any and all military and financial aid, from the US, period, end of discussion.
Carter: "US Candidates MUST do as Israel says"
Carter announces that criticism from Obama, Clinton and McCain came as the Government of Israel DID NOT AGREE WITH HIS TRIP!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F583p_KZyGU
Carter: Gaza residents 'starving to death'
'For every Israeli killed,' says Carter, 'between 30 to 40 Palestinians are killed because of the extreme military capability of Israel'
What Carter is saying is honest, logical, and done in an attempt to get some real dialogue going.
This is why the Israeli government can't stand him.
And remember; in the last Palestinian election, universally judged to be free and fair, Hamas won that election.
the Palestinian people where absolutely disgusted with Fatah, because of the massive corruption of its political machine.
GOP Rep.: Revoke Jimmy Carter's passport for Hamas visits
"He's just unilaterally going off on his own and undermining everything the international community and the United States is (sic) trying to do," protested Republican U.S. House Rep. Sue Myrick (NC-09) today in the call to revoke the passport of former president Jimmy Carter.
Unflipping believable.
Looks like Israel and AIPAC have gotten to this lady, big-time.
And what they hate, and what terrifies these folks, is the possibility that Carter just might come up with a breakthrough which might move the region of the Middle East on a more peaceful, non-adversarial path.
And of course, that's something they can't tolerate.
Carter: Gaza blockade is an atrocity
Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip is an "atrocity," former US president Jimmy Carter said after meeting with Hamas officials in Cairo. Carter also said he had asked Hamas officials to stop rocket attacks into Israel and defended his controversial meetings with the Palestinian terrorist group, saying it was necessary to talk to all parties to achieve peace.
Carter, defying Israel, meets Hamas ex-minister
Ooooooh, bad, bad, BAD, Jimmy Carter. Defying Israel! Ooooooooooooh!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Jimmy Carter for everything, even for using the apartheid word
Israel is not ready for such comparisons, even though the situation begs it. It is doubtful whether it is possible to complain when an outside observer, especially a former U.S. president who is well versed in international affairs, sees in the system of separate roads for Jews and Arabs, the lack of freedom of movement, Israel's control over Palestinian lands and their confiscation, and especially the continued settlement activity, which contravenes all promises Israel made and signed, a matter that cannot be accepted. The interim political situation in the territories has crystallized into a kind of apartheid that has been ongoing for 40 years. In Europe there is talk of the establishment of a binational state in order to overcome this anomaly. In the peace agreement with Egypt, 30 years ago, Israel agreed to "full autonomy" for the occupied territories, not to settle there.
Congresswoman tries to yank Carter's passport
It's not likely to happen, but Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., wants Carter's U.S. passport pulled because he met Thursday with members of Hamas in the Middle East.
Myrick is "in bed" with AIPAC, which is spying on the US for Israel.
Who is wiping who off of the map?
Burning Conscience: Israeli Soldiers Speak Out
A searing interview with Avichai Sharon and Noam Chayut, both veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces and members of Breaking the Silence. Sharon and Chayut served during the second intifada, an on-going bloodbath that has claimed the lives of over three thousand Palestinians and nine-hundred-fifty Israelis. After thorough introspection, these young men have chosen to speak out about their experiences as self-described "brutal occupiers of a disputed land." Producer: Sat Gwin
Alternate Focus is available on the Dish Network, Free Speech TV, Channel 9415, Saturdays at 8:00pm EST and on cable stations near you. Check www.alternatefocus.org for details.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MFa7ZKQWo
Zionists Poisoned/Radiated 100k Jewish Children
The maximum dose to be given a child in Israel was .5 rad. There was no mistake made. The children were deliberately poisoned. David Deri, makes the point that only Sephardi children received the x-rays.
"I was in class and the men came to take us on a tour. They asked our names. The Ashkenazi children were told to return to their seats. The dark children were put on the bus."
As long-time readers know, the Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the Biblical Hebrews, but from Khazars who converted to Judaism in 800AD. The Sephardi Jews are true descendants from Biblical Hebrews, being the descendants of Judeans who fled Palestine in 70AD following the failed rebellion against the Romans.
From the crime detailed in this article. it seems that the Ashkenazi are well aware of their tenuous claim to the Jewish heritage, and are out to eradicate anyone who has an actual genetic link to Palestine in biblical times.
Association for Civil Rights in Israel publishes annual report; reveals country overwhelmed by racism, restriction of personal freedoms, discrimination, especially towards Israeli-Arabs. Report not surprising, say Arab MKs
FLASHBACK: Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians
A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled from a leading journal. Academics who have already received copies of Human Immunology have been urged to rip out the offending pages and throw them away.
Such a drastic act of self-censorship is unprecedented in research publishing and has created widespread disquiet, generating fears that it may involve the suppression of scientific work that questions Biblical dogma.
The Ashkenazi, who are not descendants from the Biblical Hebrews but are in fact descendants of converted Khazars, like to claim an ancestral right to Palestine, but the scientific evidence shows that it is the Palestinians and Middle Eastern Jews and not the Ashkenazi, who are the descendants of the Biblical Hebrews.
'Israeli warship violated Lebanese waters'
"An Israeli Saar warship entered Lebanese territorial waters at 7:30 am (0530 GMT) yesterday morning before being intercepted by the Italian navy's Bettica, which is part of UNIFIL," an army spokesman told AFP on Tuesday.
Israel secretly warned Syria about Hezbollah
Israel recently conveyed a warning to Syria through a third party that it would hold Damascus accountable if Lebanese Hezbollah launched attacks on the Jewish state, Israeli and European sources said on Friday.
Translation: expect some kind of "false flag" operation against Israel which Israel will pin on Hezbollah, and they're off an running in a military confrontation with Lebanon and Syria.
Israel braces for pro-Hezbollah terror
Translation: Israel is looking to start some kind of false flag operation to justify another attack on the Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Syria is ready to face any Israeli attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon
Lebanese sources have revealed that the Syrian army is reinforcing its military presence along the Lebanese-Syrian borders point from the western Bekaa valley area to Deir Al Ashaer.
The sources linked the military reinforcement to increased speculation inside and outside Lebanon about the possibility that Lebanon will be lured into a war with Israel, which could be triggered by Hezbollah in retaliation for the assassination of its commander Imad Mughniyeh.
Israeli soldiers shoot another peaceful protestor in head
The shooting of a European activist participating in the weekly non-violent protest in Bil'in village yesterday, just two days before the fifth anniversary of the killing of Rachel Corrie, has once again underlined that international solidarity activists remain the targets of Israeli military violence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzIAYQmIDRU
MODERN HOLOCAUST ~~ MODERN METHODS « Desertpeace
The nazis had a rough time conducting their holocaust; first they had to round up the Jews, the Gypsies, The Communists, the Trade Unionists, the Gays, and anyone else that 'posed a threat' to their regime.Then they had to transport these millions of people to either forced labour camps or death camps. Afterwards there were mass burials or cremation of the victims...
HISTOIRES D'ISRAËL 1948-2008 http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/mav/98/ Numéro coordonné par Dominique Vidal * Politique de la force, force de la politiqueDominique Vidal http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/mav/98/VIDAL/15754 Did you know that by law the US guarantees israel's oil supply - no matter what?
...even if it causes US a DOMESTIC SHORTAGE???
PLO: "Israel killed 274 residents, including 50 children, 18 women, since the beginning of 2008"
The National and International Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) reported that the Israeli army killed 274 Palestinians, including 50 children and 18 women since the beginning of 2008.
'Try accepting criticism instead of screaming anti-semitism': Rabbi Joel
If Israel acknowledge, and stopped, its ongoing attempt at Genocide perhaps you would earn more friends. Until then we can only remind people that Israel is a Zionist state not a Jewish one, there can be no Jewish state until the Messiah comes, and that Zionists are racists not Jews Rabbi Joel
Gaza Holocaust: forced to drink polluted water.
They have no choice: Israeli blockade has cut the provisions of chlorine to disinfect the water. Those who can't afford to buy bottled water have to drink that poison or die of dehydratation.
Palestinian Gazans cannot even boil the water to purify it , because with Israel's fuel rationing, there is not fuel with which Palestinians can boil it .
The medical results of drinking polluted water are all outcomes Israel knew would happen, including outbreaks of cholera and diarrhea
'JEWS SHOULD REFRAIN FROM EMPLOYING ANY NON-JEWS'
So declared a 'top Torah Sage' in Israel this week. New laws are being written as I write this, laws which not only permit the slaughter of Palestinians, but also in regard to Jews employing them.
"Not that we are being racist, or anything like that. and only an anti-Semite would dare suggest it anyway!"
FLASHBACK: ISRAEL'S NEW POLICY OF TERRORISM:... ON AMERICAN SOIL
A recent UPI report outlined Israel’s new policy of assassinating suspected terrorists on American soil. In other words, Israel is now going to officially carryout terrorism on U.S. soil.
Like assassinating candidates they do not approve of?
Estulin: Neo-Cons Behind Potential Hit On Ron Paul
Investigative reporter Daniel Estulin has gone further with his bombshell revelation first voiced last week that political insiders are considering a plot to assassinate Ron Paul, today identifying the Neo-Con camp as being behind the potential hit.
See Israel to kill on U.S., allies'' soil.
Israel to hold massive emergency drill
This is something a government does before it goes into its next round of military carnage against one of its neighbor.
Lawyer files class-action suit against the US government for NOT bombing Hungarian bridges in WW2.
Note President Bush's response to the suit.
Soldiers sue over nerve gas guinea pigs
A GROUP of former Israeli army recruits are suing the government for compensation after it allegedly made them unwitting guinea pigs by testing them for nerve gas antidotes, a newspaper reported.
I seem to remember something like this happening in a European country in the last century. Now let's see.
Oh yeah, I remember: Nazi Germany!
RESTE
*****So, you think Israel is a good country and Jews are "God's Chosen?"
Look at the atrocities they commit in this 9 minute video
195 pages sur les atrocités d’Israël sur le peuple Palestinien
Ziegler: Israel is the worst colonial regime
Jean Ziegler, the UN special rapporteur on right to food, castigated the Israeli occupation and described it as the only "colonial regime" which refuses to abide by any international law, calling on the UN to adopt an effective policy forcing Israel to respect human rights and the Geneva Convention.
"The Israeli occupation is a colonial regime and an illegal military occupation from the UN's point of view, it continues to annex more Palestinian lands; and thus the Israeli occupation is the worst in the history of colonialism," Ziegler stated in a TV interview.
Lieberman demands population exchange
Didn't Germany do this in the 1930s???
racist israeli soldier calling palestinians animals
Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more".... Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000
" [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982.
"The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." " Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
"We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum"
Israeli, Palestinian envoys trade blame at the UN over Gaza
The session was called after the United States thwarted a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel over the closure of the Gaza Strip.
"Veto! Veto! Oh, veto, veto, veto, vetovetoveto VEE-TOE!!!" -- Official White Horse Souse
Israel, U.S. to boycott UN rights council meet on Gaza blockade
This would be the first time that Israel has boycotted a session of the Human Rights Council, in a sign of rising tensions between Israel and UN institutions.
"They are all anti-Semites!"
“Damned Proud” of Dead Arab Women & Children
Summer Camp Teaches U.S. Teens To Fight Israeli Style
Jewish-American teenagers can sign up for an eight-week training course run by the Israel Defense Forces where they fire weapons, live in military barracks and saunter around in an Israeli military uniform.
If you are a young Muslim American and head off to the Middle East for a spell in a fundamentalist "madrassa," or religious school, Homeland Security will probably greet you at the airport when you return. But if you are an American Jew and you join hundreds of teenagers from Europe and Mexico for an eight-week training course run by the Israel Defense Forces, you can post your picture wearing an Israeli army uniform and holding an automatic weapon on MySpace.
Dugard Slams Israel for its Violation of International law in Gaza Strip
UN rights official slams 'cowardly Israeli war crime' in Gaza
Israel's targeting of a Hamas government office which caused serious casualties at a nearby wedding party was a "war crime" and those responsible should be punished, a United Nations official said Saturday.
"Veto! VETO! Oh, veto, veto, veto, veto, veto, vetovetovetovetovetovetovetovetovetovetovetoveto VEEE-TOE!" -- Official White Horse Souse
Israel, Israel, Israel, Kill, Kill, Kill - that's all I ever read online
Clearly, air force planes violated international law and entered Syrian air space in the absence of any danger to Israel. This is the kind of Israeli provocation that is well known from the 1950s. Clearly the planes bombed some facility, perhaps a missile facility or something else. The statement of condemnation by North Korea - a country that does not generally issue statements of condemnation for any incident in the region - indicates that perhaps it involved a shipment of arms it sent to Syria. Others are talking about a nuclear facility.
As Israel tightens economic screws, Gaza fears a run on banks
Gaza is entirely dependent on Israel for trade, and the Israeli shekel is the primary currency. Following the Hamas takeover, Israel and Egypt closed the borders with Gaza, and Israel allowed only basic items, such as food and medicine, into the territory.
On Sunday, Israel began cutting vital fuel shipments to the Gaza Strip after the Israeli government warned it would use the tactic to pressure Hamas after months of Palestinian rocket attacks.
When the legacy of Israel is written by future historians, for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, that legacy will be neatly described in two words: collective punishment.
The tales they tell are unbelievably shameful and expose yet another aspect of the racism inherent in zionism…. I’ll deal with just one of these stories in this post, but keep in mind that this is just one of a thousand of such examples…
ISRAEL.... THE ONLY FAILED DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
What Our Tax Dollars Pay For (Brace Yourself)
And here I was thinking that our tax dollars went to build schools, roads, bridges, flood control, and to develop new technologies on which new industries (and jobs) could be built.
`Do not have children if they won't be healthy!'
Castrating the mentally ill, encouraging reproduction among families "numbered among the intelligentsia" and limiting the size of "families of Eastern origin" and "preventing ... lives that are lacking in purpose" - these proposals are not from some program of the Third Reich but rather were brought up by key figures in the Zionist establishment of the Land of Israel during the period of the British Mandate. It turns out there was a great deal of enthusiasm here for the improvement of the hereditary characteristics of a particular race (eugenics). This support, which has been kept under wraps for many years, is revealed in a study that examines the ideological and intellectual roots at the basis of the establishment of the health system in Israel.
FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ISRAEL
Anti-Zionist Jews Brutally Beaten by Israelis
Israel accused of recruiting the ill to be informers
Since Hamas won control of Gaza in a mid-June military rout of its rival, the secular group Fatah, Israel has worked to isolate the coastal strip and its 1.5 million residents. About the only people allowed out of Gaza these days are Palestinians who need emergency medical care.
Now, the rights groups charge, Israel is trying to turn them into collaborators.
The Israeli government pulls stunts like this routinely: what they hate like hell is getting caught at it.
IDF builds fake Muslim city to prepare for war
Note the tacit admission that Israel is planning wars of conquest. If they were training for defense, they would have built a fake Israeli city.
Jewish Magazine Shows How To Cook A Gentile
Okay, I wanted to make sure this wasn't something taken out of context, but sure enough, here is the actual page from HEEB Magazine's website with the cartoon.
I don't think it is funny, and I am certain that if this cartoon had Arabs talking about how to cook a Jew that civil liberties types would be (justly) up in arms.
There seems to be a double standard at work here where this cartoon is seemingly above criticism.
Israel's long-standing practice of unlawful collective punishment
The extensive military operations that have been conducted by the Israeli army in and around the Gaza Strip over the past weeks have displayed a marked disregard for international humanitarian law and have involved the imposition of grave and unlawful measures of collective punishment on the Palestinian population.
Israel approves Gaza power cuts
Israel's defence minister has approved sanctions against Gaza, including cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel to try to halt rocket attacks.
The only true legacy of Israel in the 20th and 21st centuries will be this: developing collective punishment to one of the highest levels ever achieved by humankind in its history on this earth.
Israeli troops invade southeast Gaza
Israeli troops rolled into southeast Gaza Strip Thursday morning and bulldozers leveled agricultural lands, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said.
Storming agricultural lands translates as tearing up what precious little food the Gazans have to ear.
This is ethnic cleansing carried out as "death by a thousand cuts", Israeli style.
Israeli Nuclear Threats and Blackmail
Which gets us back to the question of why there is a radiation "hot spot" at the Israeli consulate in New York City.
Israel, world Jewry drifting apart
President of Jewish People Policy Planning Institute points to wearing of relationship between Jews in Diaspora, Israel; says Jewish state is 'no longer viewed as safe-haven, source of pride’
Israel has become a threat to the safety of the world's Jewish people. Everything the government of Israel does makes the world more hostile to Jewish people. At the same time, Israel's intentional blurring of the line between Israel and the world's Jewish people to evade criticism makes targets of the world's Jewish people as retaliation for Israel's crimes.
Israel furious over Norway torture claim
The Norwegian state radio network NRK reported Thursday it had obtained a secret diplomatic document from the embassy urging action by "expressing our concern that torture is still practiced in Israel." According to NRK, the embassy's concern stemmed from a report by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel claiming that prisoners were sometimes beaten during interrogation, held in painfully tight handcuffs and suffered isolation, threats, humiliation and sleep deprivation.
Israel indulges in this kind of behavour with impunity: it just hates getting caught at it, which apparently is what this report has documented.
And notice for all their being "furious", the Israeli government can't really refute the charges, because the whole world knows that this kind of thing goes on all the time from other reports by other human rights organizations.
Officials: Israel to allow construction in existing W. Bank settlements
A senior Israeli official said "We don't need American approval if we are doing something that we think, as a sovereign state, we should do."
Memo to the unnamed Israeli official: if America's concern about building Israeli settlements in the West Bank is of no concern to the Israeli government, perhaps now is the time to yank all American aid - financial and military - from Israel in perpetuity.
By own admission, IDF (Israel Defense Force) doesn't care if it kills kids
But the IDF does not care whether its victims are liable to be children. The fact is that it shoots at figures it considers suspicious, with full knowledge - according to its own contention - that they are liable to be children. Therefore, an IDF that fires at launcher collectors is an army that kills children, without any intention of preventing this. This then is not a series of unfortunate mistakes, as it is being portrayed, but rather reflects the army's contempt for the lives of Palestinian children and its terrifying indifference to their fate.
A society that holds ethical considerations in high regard would at least ask itself: Is it permissible to shoot at anyone who is approaching the launchers, even if we know that some of these people may be small children, lacking in judgment, and thus not punishable? Or are we lifting all restraints on our war operations?
Five Palestinian children killed in one week
There is no dispute over the fact that the children were killed near rocket launchers. However, the people near rocket launchers are usually civilians, and not the operating crews. The crews operating the launchers do so from a distance, and later they send others, including children, to collect the launchers for further use. Even though the Palestinians claim that the children cannot lift such launchers because they are too heavy, the Israel Defense Forces thinks otherwise. It believes the launcher is light and the rocket is heavy, and therefore launchers can be collected by children.
israel kills three kids - no rocket launchers in sight
Eyewitnesses in Gaza said a girl and two boys were killed and a number of other children were injured from IDF artillery shells fired on the neighborhood of Jabalya in the northern Strip.
Rabbi Shlomo Aviner: Rabbinical Law Forbids Democracy For Arabs
"A prominent Zionist rabbi ruled this week that according to the Halacha, a non-Jew cannot serve as a Knesset member in the State of Israel, even if the public agrees to it. "This is irrelevant," said Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, "This is a Jewish state and Jews are the ones leading the Jewish state."
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Not that we are being racists or anything tacky like that! and only an anti-Semite would even notice!
Israel learns of a hidden shame in its early years
After the Sabbath meal the platoon commander, identified by Ha'aretz as a man called Moshe who had served in the British army during the second world war, proposed a vote on what should be done with her.
One option was to put her to work in the outpost's kitchen.
Most of the 20 or so soldiers present voted for the alternative by chanting: "We want to fuck". The commander organised a rota for groups of his men to gang rape the girl over the next three days. Moshe and one of his sergeants went first, leaving the girl unconscious. Next morning, she complicated matters by protesting about her treatment. Moshe told one of his sergeants to kill her.
Israel moving closer towards State Bankruptcy
There are numerous signs appearing, that the zionist entity spent too much during the last year and especially for the criminal war against Gaza. Such high spending now adds heavily into the financial abyss opening in front of the zionists due to the economic downturn.
ISRAELI FASCIST’S HISTORY EXPOSED
Haaretz exclusive: Avigdor Lieberman was member of outlawed radical Kach movement
Since it went into effect last week, at least eight violations of the new ceasefire agreement with Hamas and the Palestinian factions have been recorded, a UN source told Ynet on Thursday. According to the source, seven violations were committed by the IDF, while the Palestinians are responsible for just one.
The Popular Committees slams army attack against a Hebron orphanage
The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees issued a press release on Monday slamming the Israel Army's attack against an orphanage in Al Salaam Street in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Like the revolutionary movie "Matrix," every totalitarian state will eventually produce an underground resistance, which will find its own charismatic leaders, who can convince enough fellow slaves to rise-up into an irresistible critical mass. It will be the same way here in America, once Internet researchers finally manage to blow the lid off the 911 cover-up, or one of the other pressure cooker political cover-ups that are now being brought to a boil on the stove. When the people can finally get a clear glimpse of the totalitarian state rising around them, they will throw off all pretense of self-serving self-restraint.
Palestinian leaders and Christian peace activists as well as representatives of human rights organizations operating in the occupied Palestinian territories on Thursday made an impassioned appeal to "all men and women of conscience all over the world" to help stop Israeli army plans to close down and take over several orphanages and boarding schools sheltering thousands of orphans and impoverished students. Many of the orphans' parents had been killed by the Israeli army and paramilitary Jewish terrorists, also known as "settlers."
The following essay gives a pretty good picture as to what the status of Palestinians with Israeli Identity Cards really is. I have always referred to these people as 'second class citizens'.... but in reality, as the article points out, they are actually only 'semi-citizens'. In other words, Palestinians are "citizens without citizenship."
Israeli armed forces storm SE Gaza, raze farms
Israeli army troops backed by tanks and attack helicopters stormed on Thursday morning the village of Abbas southeast of the Gaza Strip, Hamas security sources and witnesses said.
Farmers in the village said Israeli army bulldozers razed their farms cultivated with olive trees amid intensive gunfire and armed clashes with several militant groups.
"They were olives of mass destruction. THAT'S why!"
The following are merely some examples of Zionist terrorism prior to the creation of the Zionist state in 1948: The list doesn't include the bigger massacres such as Dir Yasin, Dawaymeh, Tantura and others.
Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz has called for a “counter-disinvestment campaign” against Hampshire College unless the school explicitly denies claims that their recent decision to withdraw from a mutual fund represents an act of divestment from Israel, reports The Harvard Crimson.
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What Alan M. Dershowitz doesn't understand (or maybe he just assumes you are too stupid to see) is that it is actions like this which validate concerns that Jewish people use their money to bludgeon US society to their will.
This is the same mistake they made with regard to Germany in the 1930s.
I understand that did not work out too well.
ZIONISM IS THE CAUSE OF RISING ISLAMOPHOBIA
"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves." Former Israeli Prime Minister Menechem Begin
Segment from a PBS special showing how Jewish settlers plotted to bomb a Palestinian Girl's School in East Jerusalem.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=f5s9hHycmiQ
New Israeli Military System around Gaza Threatens Civilians
The systems, which are equipped with a camera and a machine gun, enable soldiers to watch any activity that takes place near the fence and if necessary to fire at the push of a button. The new system will soon be officially declared "operational," Ynet said.
The fact that these systems have a camera is absolutely no guarantee that innocent civilians won't get slaughtered, depending upon the mood of the IDF soldier handling the machine gun that particular day.
In fact, the use of this technology may well lead to an uptick in Palestinian deaths.
Netanyahu Says Any Abbas-Olmert Agreement Will be Voided
Widely expected to be the next prime minister, Netanyahu said he would not honor an agreement reached between Fatah chief Abbas and Olmert - who are currently engaged in frantic negotiations on final status issues. The nature of the hurried negotiations with the questionably-sovereign head of a fractured PA is to reach a US-imposed deadline of at least a theoretical deal for a Palestinian state by the end of 2008.
What Netanyahu has done has been to literally sabotage any possibility of an agreement by saying that Israel won't honor any agreement between Abbas and Olmert.
If "Bebe" Netanyahu unilaterally voids a peace deal made by the previous Prime Minister, the diplomatic future of any agreements made with any other nations is also in peril. .
Because if one Israeli PM can void out an agreement a previous Prime Minister has signed off on, then absolutely no foreign policy accords with any country with Israel can ever be seen to be binding, including those done with the US.
This means that Israel's word, as a nation, to another sovereign nation, can be scuttled at the whim of any future prime minister who doesn't like what his predecessor did.
That said, I do not think that Likud Chairman Netanyahu really has to worry.
Olmert appears to be just "running out the clock" on the current administration, waiting for what he believes may be a "better deal" on any Palestinian statehood from whoever winds up in office after the November elections.
Law sets 3-year jail penalty for car-owners who go to mechanics in PA
A penalty of three years' imprisonment will be imposed on Israeli vehicle-owners who take their vehicles to mechanics in the West Bank under a law passed by the Knesset on Monday.
Jewish settlers flood Palestinian neighbours with sewage
The authorities in the illegal Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit, which is built on stolen Palestinian land, regularly open their sewage tanks on to the farmlands of the Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen, ruining crops, contaminating the water table and posing a serious health threat to villagers.
JEWISH "KLANSMEN" TIE PALESTINIAN TO POWER POLE, BEAT HIM SAVAGELY
Even in his wildest dreams, Midhat Radwan Abu Karsh never imagined that one day he would be tied up to a power pole and savagely beaten by bigoted Jewish settlers who believe that non-Jews are animals in a human shape.
Israel's Illustrated Manual for Police Brutality
Monday, March 17, 2008
The Illustrated Manual for Police Brutality
Welcome to the Israeli Police, those guardians of civil rights and liberties.
Israeli soldiers film themselves humiliating a bound Palestinian man
Israeli Television, Chanel 10, showed on Thursday a video footage taken by Israeli soldiers filming themselves humiliating a bound and blindfolded Palestinian man at a military roadblock in the occupied West Bank, Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported.
Israeli siege leads to soaring anemia in Gaza newborns
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m44333&hd=&size=1&l=e
The Israeli siege of Gaza that has restricted access to food, water, and medicine is beginning to cause serious problems for newborn babies and pregnant mothers. "Many babies are born suffering from anemia that they have inherited from their mothers," said Dr. Salah al-Rantisi, head of the women's health department at the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza. The mothers are becoming anemic because they do not get enough nutrition during pregnancy due to the Israeli blockade that has choked the supply of food and medicines.
The Israeli government understood precisely that this would be one of the outcomes of their siege of Gaza.
Apparently, this is an outcome they wanted to have happen.
Israeli occupation army invades Gaza, kidnaps farmers
Witnesses said that the tanks stormed the area and surrounded a group of farmers working their land then kidnapped at least five of them and took them to unknown locations. Meanwhile other Israeli forces attacked areas on the central Gaza/Israel borders and kidnappedat least three civilaians , local sources reported. On Wednesday the Israeli army attacked areas east of Gaza city killing five and injuring at ten others.
Israeli military announces plan to uproot 440 olive trees from Naalin village
According to the Israeli military, the Wall must be built through the village's land for Israel's 'security' concerns. But villagers point out that the village lies far from the established 'Green Line' border between the West Bank and Israel, and the route of the Wall through their land is actually to annex for Israel hundreds of acres of land on which Israeli settlements have already been constructed - in direct violation of international law.
Shaving off slivers of Palestinian land, one olive grove at a time..............
Israel's Shin Bet Intimidates Top Human Rights Medical Director and His Family
The type of intimidation outlined by PHR is simply beyond belief. The dialog reads like a bad movie from the late 1940's. When a state organization, this time Israel's secret service Shin Bet, tells a human rights medical professional that "we know where your family members sleep" or that "we know where your children go to school" there is something seriously and systemically wrong in the state of Israel.
According to Haaretz, the Shin Bet interrogator even asked Yehya: "Would you mind if I called you once a while?" Would a US citizen be thrilled at the US Secret Service or Homeland Security giving them a periodic call to check in?
Israel indulges in this kind of behavior all the time; they just hate like hell getting caught at it.
Israeli army officials: “War with Gaza will could talk place in the coming two months”
Senior Israeli military officials stated on Wednesday that they believe that the Gaza Strip will witness a new war in the coming two months. The officials said that this war could happen although Hamas, in control of Gaza, is not interested at all in ending the truce.
Israeli military sources stated that even if Hamas is not interested in a new confrontation with Israel, "there are other factions in Gaza, such as the Islamic Jihad and other group close to Al Qaida, that will be interested in a new confrontation", according to the Israeli sources.
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What we have here is a laying of the groundwork for a potentially massive Israeli invasion of Gaza before President-Elect Obama is sworn in, with some kind of "false flag" to be blamed on any group convenient, to kick it off.
The people of Gaza do not want war. The have seen enough violence, enough cruelty, and enough of the very real consequences of Israel's siege.
They want food, medicine, potable water, education, and the ability to live with dignity and prosperity beside their neighbors.
What Israel wants, and has always wanted, is ever-increasing land to create "Eretz Israel", or "Greater Israel", which in the minds of some Israelis, should stretch from the Nile to the Euphrates. Take a look at a map. That's some swath of territory.
Israeli politicians not going to let a small matter of the 1.3 million Palestinians who live here (roughly about one third of them living in UN refugee camps) get in their way on this issue, if they think they can get away with it.
ISRAELI ARMY NOW DICTATES WHO ONE CAN MARRY
When I read the following I had flashbacks to a time in the USA when certain states had it written into law forbidding a white person from cohabiting with a black person.... the same was true under the apartheid regime in South Africa....
Well, in its capacity as the apartheid capital of the world today, Israel is following suit....
Israel won't consider deal with Syria over Golan Heights
Israeli President Shimon Peres said Sunday that Israel will not make a deal with Syria to return the Golan Heights, the Jerusalem Post reported.
"It's mine. MINE, MINE, MINE!!!!!"
Israel Commits Daily Acts of Terrorism Against Palestinians: Where's the Outrage?
What the American public doesn't hear about from any mainstream news source is the history of Israel's terrorism from the 1940s to the present.
Imagine Germany celebrating the 60th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of the Jews
Controversial conductor to lead orchestra of Israeli, Palestinian youths in concert 'against ignorance' in Jerusalem, says he will not partake in upcoming festivities marking Israel's independence out of respect for Palestinian suffering
Hizbullah Slams International 'Inaction' over Israeli Incursions
Hizbullah on Wednesday slammed the international community for failing to act in the face of what it called repeated incursions by Israeli troops. "The Israeli violations are taking place every day on Lebanese soil... in front of everyone, including the United Nations troops" stationed in the south of the country, a statement said.
FISHING INDUSTRY IN GAZA DESTROYED BY SIEGE
Of the 40,000 fishermen and others who make a living from the catch, only about 700 are still busy, according to the Fishing Syndicate in Gaza. The boats need oil, and Israel will not let the fishermen have it.
Collective punishment is a war crime.
ARABIC: A SECONDARY LANGUAGE RESERVED FOR SECOND CLASS CITIZENS
Now there is a move within the government to completely remove Arabic from the list of official Primary languages in Israel. With sixty years of ethnic cleansing of the Arab population in Israel, this move comes as no surprise.
COVENANT OF THE 'CHOSEN PEOPLE' OFF LIMITS TO THE IMPERFECT
Anyone inflicted with a severe hearing and speech impediment cannot undergo Jewish conversion. This harsh statement was recently made by Rabbi Avraham Sherman of the Chief Rabbinical Court, in a ruling now made public.
I couldn't believe I read that.... it's a total admission of plans to become the 'master race'. Today it's the deaf, tomorrow it's the disabled, Heaven only knows who's next.
Blast kills Gaza teacher in front of her children
The UN is demanding an investigation into how the Israeli military killed one of its Palestinian school teachers by blasting open the front door of her Gaza home with explosives in the presence of three of her children.
The IDF indulges in this kind of behavior all the time; they just hate like hell getting caught at it.
And the UN will not get any kind of an investigation; they will get some sort of pro forma apology, which will be delivered with "sincere regret at this unfortunate accident".
Unfortunately, that will not stop the killings.
Bedouin resist Israeli plan to build Jewish towns on ancestral lands
Finesh and his extended Bedouin family didn't intend to live in the middle of the Israeli military's training grounds. The Israeli government came along a few years ago and transformed the unauthorized Bedouin community into a military training site.
Last month, Israeli officials returned with a new warning for Finesh and the 200 other Bedouin residents: Move, or we'll demolish your homes.
AMERICANS MUST SEE THIS ~~ THEY PAID FOR IT
This is what remained from the 8 years old Palestinian girl, Aya Al-Najjar, after being hit by an "Israeli" missile which "mistaken" its target during an air strike on a house in southern Gaza Strip.
Israel kills a 20-year-girl, Siege Victims up to 180
Medical sources reported that the new casualty was seeking treatment outside Gaza strip. Rnia Thabet, aged 20 years old died due to the Israli ban over leaving. Israeli authorities neither secured her medicines nor allowed her to leave for treatment abroad.
Israeli politicians should be ashamed of themselves; unfortunately, it appears that shame over causing preventable deaths for sick Palestinian Gazans is not a part of their moral character.
Ambulance cars in Gaza no longer operational due to lack of fuel
The department of ambulance and emergency in the Gaza Strip announced that all ambulance vehicles in the Strip would come to a complete standstill by 0600 pm local time Saturday due to the lack of fuel.
That the policies insuring slow death for sick, suffering Gazans could have come from people who are themselves the children, and grandchildren, of Holocaust survivors, is very difficult for thinking people to comprehend.
Take a good, hard look at the woman in the picture at the top of this article.
"Security threat?"
Not bloody likely.
A VIDEO YOU REALLY DON'T WANT TO SEE
Israeli Army Uses Live Rounds on Peaceful Protest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF1ibN40FJE
Will you admit to your children that you helped finance this?
During this past week, Israeli military forces invaded civilian villages trapped within Gaza's closed borders with tanks, helicopters, warplanes, and drones, massacring 39 and wounding over 100, including scores of unarmed children, babies, and women. Israel says this is punishment for the homemade Qassam rockets fired this week toward Sderot. The total number of Israelis killed by these Qassams was zero.
The Qassams are a perfect weapon from Israel's point of view. They are home-made, therefore untraceable, never hit anything important, and are always fired just when Israel needs an excuse to go bulldoze some more of Palestine.
UNIFIL chief slams Israeli occupation
The Chief of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon condemns Israel's recurrent violations of UN Security Council resolution
UN suspends Gaza food deliveries
The UN has suspended food aid deliveries in the besieged Gaza Strip due to fuel shortages.
It appears that Israel is attempting to stave Palestinian Gazans into submission.
Unfortunately, this action is having the absolutely opposite effect, and is galvanizing Palestinian Gazans even more deeply against Israel.
Does this siege look at all anywhere near the kind of action by a government screaming it wants peace?
Israel gives fuel to UN aid agency in Gaza
UNRWA spokesman says fuel would be enough to continue food delivery operations for 20 days
This only happened because UNRWA made the issue a global issue by letting the world know that Israel was refusing to provide fuel to deliver food to the Palestinians.
Had they not, Gazan Palestinians would be starving by now.
UN says Israel erected more West Bank roadblocks
The number of roadblocks in the West Bank has increased by 41 since September despite Israeli pledges to reduce them, the United Nations reported on Friday.
The number of roadblocks in the West Bank has increased by 41 since September despite Israeli pledges to reduce them, the United Nations reported on Friday.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev, speaking before the OCHA report was published, said Israel is doing its utmost to improve freedom of movement in the West Bank.
Apparently, no matter what the Israeli government states it will do regarding the Palestinians, one can always count on them doing the absolute opposite.
Two sick children die on Thursday due to the ongoing Israeli siege on Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday evening that a 10-month old infant died at a local hospital in Gaza after Israel barred his family from transferring him to a hospital outside the Gaza Strip. Earlier n Thursday a 6-year old child died of kidney failure.
Earlier on Thursday a 6-year old child, identified as Imad Al Oweiny, died of kidney failure, at a local hospital in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli policy makers seem to be very happy with their very own "final solution" for sick Gazan Palestinian kids.
Denying medical treatment to infants and children?
Unflipping believable.
What should be done, collectively internationally, is a complete cessation of all international aid to Israel until the siege of Gaza is stopped.
Unfortunately, this will only happen when pigs fly, as international political leaders are terrified of being branded "anti-Semitic" for stopping aid to Israel.
So the international community watches, knows the suffering and death the siege has created, and does .....absolutely nothing.
The economic, social and political disaster produced by the Zionist project
The Zionist state was conceived as the answer to the problem of the European persecution of the Jews—a state where the Jews would find a safe haven, social justice and equality.
It was realised in the form of a capitalist state created by the dispossession of another people and maintained through war and repression, and social inequality at home.
Testimonies from Hebron: Soldiers choke, beat Palestinians
Representatives of Breaking the Silence claim that their goal is "to encourage a public debate about the moral price paid by Israeli society as a whole due to the harsh reality faced by young soldiers forced to take control of a civilian population."
According to the organization, all testimonies were investigated fully before being printed and cross-referenced with witnesses' testimonies and archives of other human rights organizations.
This, coming out of Ynet, one of Israel's on-line English news resources, demonstrates, very clearly, that a dialogue among Israelis must be undertaken about what the IDF's torture of Palestinians is doing to the very psyche and fabric of the Israeli nation.
The other factor is that now, a number of these atrocities have been documented on cell phone cameras, and those grueling, horrific images can be sent around the world in a heartbeat.
Settler rabbi: The State of Israel is an enemy of the people
RACISM AND THE ISRAELI ELECTIONS
The upcoming Israeli elections appear set to be a competition in racist extremism, writes Khalid Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem.
Rabbi Eliyahu: Life of one yeshiva boy worth more than 1,000 Arabs
Former Sephardi chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu called on the government to decree that for every life lost in the attack another yeshiva and township will be formed.
"Even when we seek revenge, it is important to make one thing clear - the life of one yeshiva boy is worth more than the lives of 1,000 Arabs.
The Talmud states that if gentiles rob Israel of silver they will pay it back in gold, and all that is taken will be paid back in folds, but in cases like these there is nothing to pay back, since as I said - the life of one yeshiva boy is worth more than the lives of 1,000 Arabs," added Rabbi Eliyahu.
Palestinians barred from Dead Sea beaches to 'appease Israeli settlers'
Acri says that the ban is to appease Israeli settlers operating concessions along the Dead Sea's northern shore. They fear losing Jewish customers if there are large numbers of Arabs using the beaches in territory seized by Israel during the Six Day War in 1967.
Opposition slams decision to allow aid into Gaza
Knesset members outraged over government decision to reopen Gaza crossing on Tuesday for humanitarian aid despite terror attack at Kerem Shalom on Passover Eve. MK Eitam: 'Government busy rescuing Hamas instead of overthrowing it,' Labor's Yatom: 'Israel not responsible for Gaza'
Some day, in a dictionary, when the word "Israel" appears, there will be an asterisk and a direction to "see: brutal collective punishment".
There are some pretty choice quotes from shockingly honest Zionists. You can find them in places like here and here. A few samples (emphasis in red; if you wonder about my continuing concerns about the Zionist Empire, see 12 to 16; 11 is so accurate a statement of Israeli negotiating procedure it is almost funny):
- "We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village." – Moshe Dyan, March 19, 1969, speech at the Technion in Haifa, quoted in Ha’aretz, April 4, 1969.
- "Among ourselves, it must be clear that there is no place in the country for both peoples together. With the Arabs we shall not achieve our aim of being an independent people in this country. The only solution is Eretz-Israel, at least the west part of Eretz-Israel, without Arabs . . . And there is no other way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries. Transfer all of them, not one village or tribe should remain . . ." –Joseph Weitz, entry in his diary for 1940 (quoted in his article: ‘A solution to the Refugee Problem: An Israeli State with a small Arab Minority’, published in Davar, 29 September, 1967.
- "I gathered all of the Jewish mukhtars, who have contact with Arabs in different villages and asked them to whisper in the ears of some Arabs that a great Jewish reinforcement has arrived in Galilée and that it is going to burn all of the villages of the Huleh. They should suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while there is still time . . . The tactic reached its goal completely. The building of the police station at Halsa fell into our hands without a shot. The wide areas were cleaned . . ." – Yigal Allon, Ha Sepher Ha Palmach, Vol. 2, p. 268, 1948.
- "...as uncontrolled panic spread through all Arab quarters, the Israelis brought up jeeps with loudspeakers which broadcast recorded 'horror sounds'. These included shrieks, wails and anguished moans of Arab women, the wail of sirens and the clang of fire-alarm bells, interrupted by a sepulchral voice calling out in Arabic: ‘Save your souls, all ye faithful: The Jews are using poison gas and atomic weapons. Run for your lives in the name of Allah'.” – Leo Heiman, Israeli Army Reserve Officer who fought in 1948. Marine Corps Gazette, June 1964.
- "Because we took the land this gives us the image of being bad, of being aggressive. The Jews always considered that the land belonged to them, but in fact it belonged to the Arabs. I would go further: I would say the original source of this conflict lies with Israel, with the Jews – and you can quote me." – Yehoshofat Harkabi, former Israeli Chief of Military Intelligence, in ‘Peace Won't be a Plane Ticket to Cairo,’ International Armed Forces Journal, October 1973, p.30.
- "It is unacceptable that nations made up of people who have only just come down from the trees should take themselves for world leaders . . . How can such primitive beings have an opinion of their own?" – Yitzhak Shamir, in reference to the black African nations who voted in support of the 1975 U.N. resolution, which denounced Zionism as a form of racism, in Yediot Ahronot, November 14, 1975.
- "The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war." – Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.
- "Let us not today fling accusations at the murderers. Who are we that we should argue against their hatred? For eight years now they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their very eyes, we turn into our homestead the land and the villages in which they and their forefathers have lived." – Moshe Dyan, 1953, quoted by Uri Avneri in Israel without Zionists, p. 134.
- "I don't understand your optimism. Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country." – David Ben Gurion, 1956, quoted by Nahum Goldmann in The Jewish Paradox, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p.99.
- "We take the land first and the law comes after." – Mr. Palmon, Arab affairs adviser to the Mayor of Jerusalem, quoted in The Guardian, 26 April 1972.
- "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 solution. We should then publish his demands as embodying unreasonable extremism." – General Yehoshafat Harkabi, Ma'ariv, 2 November 1973.
- "To maintain the status quo will not do. We have to set up a dynamic state bent upon expansion." – David Ben Gurion, Rebirth and Destiny of Israel, The Philosophical Press, New York, 1954, p. 419.
- "During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road." – Moshe Dyan, Ma'ariv, 7 July 1968.
- "Palestine is a territory whose chief geographical feature is this: that the river Jordan does not delineate its frontier but flows through its centre." – Vladimir Jabotinsky, at the 16th Zionist Congress (1929), quoted by Desmond Stewart in The Middle East: Temple of Janus, p.304.
- "Take the American Declaration of Independence for instance. It contains no mention of the territorial limits. We are not obliged to state the limits of our State." – Ben Gurion's diary, 14 May 1948, quoted by Michael Bar Zohar in The Armed Prophet, p.133.
- "The Achilles heel of the Arab coalition is the Lebanon. Muslim supremacy in this country is artificial and can easily be overthrown. A Christian State ought to be set up there, with its southern frontier on the river Litani. We would sign a treaty of alliance with this State. Thus when we have broken the strength of the Arab Legion and bombed Amman, we could wipe out Transjordan; after that Syria would fall. And if Egypt still dared to make war on us, we would bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo. We should thus end the war and would have but paid to Egypt, Assyria and Chaldea on behalf of our ancestors." – Ben Gurion's Diary, 21 May 1948, quoted by Michael Bar Zohar in The Armed Prophet, p.139.
- "I shall not be ashamed to confess that if I had the power, as I have the will, I would select a score of efficient young men – intelligent, decent, devoted to our ideal and burning with the desire to help redeem Jews – and I would send them to the countries where Jews are absorbed in sinful self-satisfaction. The task of these young men would be to disguise themselves as non-Jews, and plague Jews with anti-Semitic slogans such as 'Bloody Jew', 'Jews go to Palestine' and similar intimacies. I can vouch that the results in terms of a considerable immigration to Israel from these countries would be ten thousand times larger than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been preaching for decades to deaf ears." – Davar, 1952, Editor Sharan, quoted by Alfred Lilienthal in The Other Side of the Coin, Devin-Adair, New York, p.47.
- "We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel . . . Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." – Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces – Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.
- "We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return." – David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.
- "We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" – Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.
- "There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than over those of a tenant. [I] tend to support the latter view and have an additional argument: . . . the need to sustain the character of the state which will henceforth be Jewish . . . with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15 percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as early as 1940 [and] it is entered in my diary." – Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis, p.5.
- "Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours . . . Everything we don't grab will go to them." – Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
- "Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment . . . Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." – Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine, Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.
- "We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not . . .You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world." – Chaim Weizmann, in Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920.
- “The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.” – Ehud Barak, current Israeli Minister of Defense, in the Jerusalem Post, Aug. 30, 2000.
- "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." – Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27,
- "I'm a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel." – mega-political donor, mostly to the Democratic Party, Haim Saban explaining how to make your political donations go further in NYT, September 5, 2004.
PALESTINE REMEMBERED ~~ 60 YEARS LATER ~~ TEN FACTS ABOUT THE NAKBA
Sixty years ago, more than 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes and belongings, their farms and businesses, their towns and cities. Jewish militias seeking to create a state with a Jewish majority in Palestine, and later, the Israeli army, drove them out. Israel rapidly moved Jews into the newly-emptied Palestinian homes. Nakba means "catastrophe" in Arabic, and Palestinians refer to the destruction of their society and the takeover of their homeland as an-Nakba, "The Catastrophe."
"The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more".... Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000
" [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982.
"The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." " Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to." Golda Maier, March 8, 1969.
"There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969
"The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war." Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.
David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : "We must do everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. "The old will die and the young will forget."
"We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves." Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio. (Certainly the FBI's cover-up of the Israeli spy ring/phone tap scandal suggests that Mr. Sharon may not have been joking.)
"We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.
"We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return" David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.
"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai." David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum"
"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." Moshe Dayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.
"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.
Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet. "We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters" Uri Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser on Arab Affairs, 1960. From "The Arabs in Israel" by Sabri Jiryas.
"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them." Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism,colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
"Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.
"One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]
"We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own." (You Gentiles, by Jewish Author Maurice Samuels, p. 155).
"We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent." (Jewish Banker Paul Warburg, February 17, 1950, as he testified before the U.S. Senate).
"We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world." (Chaim Weizmann, Published in "Judische Rundschau," No. 4, 1920)
Barak hints Gaza incursion imminent
In the meeting, which included US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Barak asked the members of the bipartisan congressional delegation to think how they would act if for seven years San Diego had been bombarded by rockets from Tijuana, just across the Mexican border.
Ever the champion of the false comparison, Barak once more does a tap dance on his tonsils.
Let's start with the most obvious.
The US is not trying to wrest territory from Tijuana.
With its accelerated building program, Israel is continuing to build on- and encroach - Palestinian land.
The US doesn't have massive concrete barriers which take away land from Mexicans, making a reasonable 15 minute trip take two hours because of "US only" roads and barriers.
The US does not have pregnant Mexican women stand for hours at checkpoints, screaming in the pain of labor, and frequently losing their children because no medical care is allowed.
The US does not demolish homes of Mexicans in Tijuana because of "illegal building"; Israel does that to Palestinians on a daily basis.
The US has not cut off Tijuana from outside medical care if they need it; daily in Gaza, Palestinians die because they are denied life-saving treatments (and yes, this includes infants and children as well).
The US does not routinely murder women and children in Mexico; the IDF does this to Palestinian women and children with impunity; they just hate like hell getting caught at it.
The US has not created a siege condition in Tijuana, where food, water, and fuel are scarce to the point of near-starvation.
Israel has done this to Gazan Palestinians.
As horrendous as any deaths in this situation are on either side, is it any wonder that Palestinian fury at being treated as non-humans erupts in violence?
And the violence inevitably leads to completely non-proportional retribution on the Israeli side, which is what the world is about to witness, yet again.
And the world will again be silent, refusing to understand that if peaceful revolution is impossible, violent revolution is inevitable.
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Salut François
Tiens, la vidéo "stop Israël war crimes" a été censurée au Québec également (comme en France)
Pourtant cette vidéo est made in England !!!
Si tu en as besoin, envoie moi un mail pour me le dire et je te l'enverrai en .flv ou au format que tu désires (j'ai un converter)
J'ai publié chez moi ton dernier article (très bon)
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