Wake up America , it is time to speak out

December 30, 2008
America's Crimes "Never Happened"
May We No Longer Be Silent
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
The title of my article comes from the sermon of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC, John Bryson Chane, delivered on October 5, 2008, at St. Columba Church. The bishop’s eyes were opened to Israel’s persecution of Palestinians by his recent trip to Palestine. In his sermon he called on “politicians seeking the highest office in [our] land” to find the courage to “speak out and condemn violations of human rights and religious freedom denied to Palestinian Christians and Muslims” by the state of Israel.
Bishop Chane’s courage was to no avail. When America’s new leader of “change” was informed of Israel’s massive air attack on the Gaza Ghetto, an area of 139 square miles where Israel confines 1.4 million Arabs and tightly controls the inflow of all resources--food, medicine, water, energy--America’s president-elect Obama had “no comment.”
According to the Jerusalem Post ( December 26), “at 11:30 a.m., more than 50 fighter jets and attack helicopters swept into Gazan airspace and dropped more than 100 bombs on 50 targets. . . . Thirty minutes later, a second wave of 60 jets and helicopters struck at 60 targets . . . More than 170 targets were hit by IAF aircraft throughout the day. At least 230 Gazans were killed and over 780 were wounded . . .”
As I write, news reports are that Israel is sending tanks and infantry reinforcements in preparation for a ground invasion of Gaza.
Israel’s excuse for its violence is that from time to time the Palestinian resistance organization, Hamas, fires off rockets into Israel to protest the ghetto life that Israel imposes on Gazans. The rockets are ineffectual for the most part and seldom claim Israeli casualties. However, the real purpose for the Israeli attack is to destroy Hamas.
In 2006 the US insisted that the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank hold free elections. When free elections were held, Hamas won. This was unacceptable to the Americans and Israelis. In the West Bank, the Americans and Israelis imposed a puppet government, but Hamas held on in Gaza. After unheeded warnings to the Gazans to rid themselves of Hamas and accept a puppet government, Israel has decided to destroy the freely elected government with violence.
Ehud Barak, who is overseeing the latest act of Israeli aggression, said in interviews addressed to the British and American publics that asking Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas would be like asking the US to agree to a ceasefire with al Qaeda. The terrorism that Israel inflicts on Palestinians goes unremarked.
According to the London Times (December 28), “Britain and the United States were on a collision course with their European allies last night after refusing to call for an end to Israeli airstrikes on Hamas targets in Gaza. The wave of attacks marked a violent end to President George W. Bush’s sporadic Middle East peace efforts. The White House put the blame squarely on Hamas.” The British government also blamed Hamas.
For the US and UK governments, Israel can do no wrong. Israel doesn’t have to stop withholding food, medicine, water, and energy, but Hamas must stop protesting by firing off rockets. In violation of international law, Israel can drive West Bank Palestinians off their lands and out of their villages and give the stolen properties to “settlers.” Israel can delay Palestinians in need of emergency medical care at checkpoints until their lives ebb away. Israeli snipers can get their jollies murdering Palestinian children.
The Great Moral Anglo-Americans couldn’t care less.
In his 2005 Nobel Lecture, British playwright Harold Pinter held the United States and its British puppet state accountable for “the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought.” Everyone knows that such crimes occurred in the Soviet Union and in its East European empire, but “US crimes in the same period have only been superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged, let alone recognized as crimes at all,” this despite the fact that “the United States’ actions throughout the world made it clear that it had concluded it had carte blanche to do what it liked.”
Soviet crimes, like Nazi ones, are documented in gruesome detail, but America’s crimes “never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”
America’s is “a scintillating stratagem. Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words ‘the American people’ provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don’t need to think.”
Pinter presents a long list of American crimes and comes to Iraq: “The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was . . . an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading--as a last resort--all other justifications having failed to justify themselves--as liberation.” Americans and their British puppets “have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East.”
“How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal?” Pinter’s question can also be asked of Israel. Israel has been in violation of international law since 1967, protected by the United States’ veto of UN Resolutions condemning Israel for its violent, inhumane, barbaric, and illegal acts.
American evangelical Christians, who are degenerating into Zionists, are Israel’s greatest allies. Jesus is forsaken as Christians swallow whole the Israeli lies. A couple of years ago the US Presbyterian Church was so distressed by Israel’s immorality toward Palestinians that the church attempted to disinvest its investment portfolio from assets tainted with Israel. But the Israel Lobby was stronger. The Presbyterian Church was unable to stand up for Christian principles and knuckled under to the Israel Lobby’s pressure.
This is hardly surprising considering that the US government doesn’t stand for Christian principles either.
America’s doctrine of “full spectrum dominance” means that, like Lenin’s dictatorship, America is not bound by law or morality, but by power alone.
Pinter sums it up in a speech he had dreams of writing for President George W. Bush:
“God is good. God is great. God is good. My God is good. Bin Laden’s God is bad. His is a bad God. Saddam’s God was bad, except he didn’t have one. He was a barbarian. We are not barbarians. We don’t chop people’s heads off. We believe in freedom. So does God. I am not a barbarian. I am the democratically elected leader of a freedom-loving democracy. We are a compassionate society. We give compassionate electrocution and compassionate lethal injection. We are a great nation. I am not a dictator. He is. I am not a barbarian. He is. And he is. They all are. I possess moral authority. You see this fist? This is my moral authority. And don’t you forget it.”
If only our ears could hear, this is the speech we have been hearing from Israel for 60 years.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

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A Must See Video: Israeli Terrorist Settler Shooting Palestinians in HebronBy Haitham Sabbah • Dec 6th, 2008 at 10:04 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Video
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Footage filmed by Jamal Abu-Sa’ifan, a Palestinian resident of Hebron, documenting a terrorist Israeli settler shooting two members of his family.
The event occurs following the eviction settlers from a Palestinian house they occupied in Hebron. Settlers attacked the nearby house of the Abu-Se’ifan family, and during ensuing clashes, a settler fired his handgun at Hosni Abu-Se’ifan (40), who was hit in the chest and is in stable condition, and his father, ‘Abd al-Hai Abu-Sa’ifan (65) who was moderately wounded in his arm. The two were taken to a Hebron hospital. The video shows other members of the family manage to overcome the shooter, later more terrorist settlers from the nearby settlement Kiryat Arba arrives and the scene, and fires their weapon toward the Palestinian family.
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In the hours after the eviction, the terrorist Jewish settlers rioted in Hebron, throwing stones at police and Palestinians and setting fire to Palestinian trees and attacking Palestinian homes.
B’Tselem handed the video to Israeli police in Hebron last night and was “demanding that the assailant is immediately brought to justice and that the involvement of the security guard be investigated”.“Additionally, the security forces must investigate the failures that allowed settlers to riot throughout the afternoon and evening in Hebron’s Palestinian neighbourhoods,” the rights group said.
There are more than 470,000 terrorist Jewish settlers living in the West Bank and Jerusalem and their numbers are increasing every year, even though all settlements in the occupied territories are illegal under international law.
The settlers at the Hebron house claimed they had bought the building legally nearly two years ago from a Palestinian and said they had documents and videotape as proof. However, the Palestinian has since denied selling the building to the settlers and last month the Israeli supreme court said the house should be evacuated until the ownership dispute was settled.

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Israel National Taboo

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:47 AM CDT
Israeli Bestseller Breaks National Taboo
by Jonathan Cook
No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel’s bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel’s biggest taboo.
Dr. Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation – whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the founding of the state of Israel – is a myth invented little more than a century ago.
An expert on European history at Tel Aviv University, Dr. Sand drew on extensive historical and archaeological research to support not only this claim but several more – all equally controversial.
In addition, he argues that the Jews were never exiled from the Holy Land, that most of today’s Jews have no historical connection to the land called Israel and that the only political solution to the country’s conflict with the Palestinians is to abolish the Jewish state.
The success of When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? looks likely to be repeated around the world. A French edition, launched last month, is selling so fast that it has already had three print runs.
Translations are under way into a dozen languages, including Arabic and English. But he predicted a rough ride from the pro-Israel lobby when the book is launched by his English publisher, Verso, in the United States next year.
In contrast, he said Israelis had been, if not exactly supportive, at least curious about his argument. Tom Segev, one of the country’s leading journalists, has called the book “fascinating and challenging.”
Surprisingly, Dr. Sand said, most of his academic colleagues in Israel have shied away from tackling his arguments. One exception is Israel Bartal, a professor of Jewish history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Writing in Haaretz, the Israeli daily newspaper, Dr. Bartal made little effort to rebut Dr. Sand’s claims. He dedicated much of his article instead to defending his profession, suggesting that Israeli historians were not as ignorant about the invented nature of Jewish history as Dr. Sand contends.
The idea for the book came to him many years ago, Dr. Sand said, but he waited until recently to start working on it. “I cannot claim to be particularly courageous in publishing the book now,” he said. “I waited until I was a full professor. There is a price to be paid in Israeli academia for expressing views of this sort.”
Dr. Sand’s main argument is that until little more than a century ago, Jews thought of themselves as Jews only because they shared a common religion. At the turn of the 20th century, he said, Zionist Jews challenged this idea and started creating a national history by inventing the idea that Jews existed as a people separate from their religion.
Equally, the modern Zionist idea of Jews being obligated to return from exile to the Promised Land was entirely alien to Judaism, he added.
“Zionism changed the idea of Jerusalem. Before, the holy places were seen as places to long for, not to be lived in. For 2,000 years Jews stayed away from Jerusalem not because they could not return but because their religion forbade them from returning until the messiah came.”
The biggest surprise during his research came when he started looking at the archaeological evidence from the biblical era.
“I was not raised as a Zionist, but like all other Israelis I took it for granted that the Jews were a people living in Judea and that they were exiled by the Romans in 70AD.
“But once I started looking at the evidence, I discovered that the kingdoms of David and Solomon were legends.
“Similarly with the exile. In fact, you can’t explain Jewishness without exile. But when I started to look for history books describing the events of this exile, I couldn’t find any. Not one.
“That was because the Romans did not exile people. In fact, Jews in Palestine were overwhelming peasants and all the evidence suggests they stayed on their lands.”
Instead, he believes an alternative theory is more plausible: the exile was a myth promoted by early Christians to recruit Jews to the new faith. “Christians wanted later generations of Jews to believe that their ancestors had been exiled as a punishment from God.”
So if there was no exile, how is it that so many Jews ended up scattered around the globe before the modern state of Israel began encouraging them to “return”?
Dr. Sand said that, in the centuries immediately preceding and following the Christian era, Judaism was a proselytizing religion, desperate for converts. “This is mentioned in the Roman literature of the time.”
Jews traveled to other regions seeking converts, particularly in Yemen and among the Berber tribes of North Africa. Centuries later, the people of the Khazar kingdom in what is today south Russia, would convert en masse to Judaism, becoming the genesis of the Ashkenazi Jews of central and eastern Europe.
Dr. Sand pointed to the strange state of denial in which most Israelis live, noting that papers offered extensive coverage recently to the discovery of the capital of the Khazar kingdom next to the Caspian Sea.
Ynet, the website of Israel’s most popular newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, headlined the story: “Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital.” And yet none of the papers, he added, had considered the significance of this find to standard accounts of Jewish history.
One further question is prompted by Dr. Sand’s account, as he himself notes: if most Jews never left the Holy Land, what became of them?
“It is not taught in Israeli schools but most of the early Zionist leaders, including David Ben Gurion [Israel's first prime minister], believed that the Palestinians were the descendants of the area’s original Jews. They believed the Jews had later converted to Islam.”
Dr. Sand attributed his colleagues’ reticence to engage with him to an implicit acknowledgement by many that the whole edifice of “Jewish history” taught at Israeli universities is built like a house of cards.
The problem with the teaching of history in Israel, Dr. Sand said, dates to a decision in the 1930s to separate history into two disciplines: general history and Jewish history. Jewish history was assumed to need its own field of study because Jewish experience was considered unique.
“There’s no Jewish department of politics or sociology at the universities. Only history is taught in this way, and it has allowed specialists in Jewish history to live in a very insular and conservative world where they are not touched by modern developments in historical research.
“I’ve been criticized in Israel for writing about Jewish history when European history is my specialty. But a book like this needed a historian who is familiar with the standard concepts of historical inquiry used by academia in the rest of the world.”
This article originally appeared in The National, published in Abu Dhabi.

When will America wake up

When Will America wake up from her slumber?
When future Historians look into the factors that ultimately brought down the American empire, one of the main factors they will feature prominently is the “Israeli factor.”
It is well known that Israel, through the numerous Zionist lobbies and pressure groups, more or less controls America’s politics, media and financial institutions.
I am not going to provide statistical data showing the extent to which nearly every aspect of American life is infiltrated and penetrated by Zionism. Such data are readily available for those seeking the truth about Zionist dominance in America.
Instead, I suggest that skeptics speak to some of those senators or congressmen and women who dare to “tell it like it is,” or privately ask some people in the media and show-business about their respective experiences with regard to the “Lobby.”
Undoubtedly they will hear hair-raising stories they have never thought they will ever hear.
In the late 1970s, the American Jewish intellectual Alfred Lilienthal wrote an extremely important book on the Jewish lobby that controls contemporary America. The book is titled “The Zionist Connection: What Price Peace,” and is in my opinion one of the greatest books written in the twentieth century.
The reason I mentioned Lilienthal’s book is because the Zionist control of American political life and institutions is today deeper, tighter and more encompassing than ever before. And there is no doubt under the sun that America’s steady downfall is imputed first and foremost to this impenetrable Israel-worshiping lobby which utilizes America’s power and resources for the sake of serving and promoting Zionist goals both in the Middle East and at the global level.
Didn’t Israeli emissaries in the 1990s, following the collapse of the former Soviet Union, tell the rulers of Central Asia and Eastern Europe that “we control the US government, and the way to America’s mind and heart goes through Jerusalem?”!!!
Sounds anti-Semitic? Well, don’t be too sure, just listen to what Zionist leaders and rabbis in Israel are saying! Maybe you will change your views.
Some of the most strident and audacious acts Israel and her agents in America have taken to destroy America from within has been the American invasion and occupation of Iraq. That unnecessary and manifestly disastrous war was conceived in and planned by Israel through the mostly Jewish neocons in Washington, D.C.
Interestingly, not only has this criminal war killed more than a million Iraqis and several thousand American soldiers, but it has also ruined the United States financially and dealt the American currency, the US dollar, what seems to be an irreversible crushing blow.
Needless to say, the current mega crisis in America, on the one hand, and the ongoing Israeli-conceived wars America is fighting in many parts of the world, on the other, are inextricably entwined. American leaders and politicians won’t say that openly. But America doesn’t lack the brain power to know the facts and find out the truth about the umbilical connection between the Israeli factor and the ravaging financial crisis now facing the US.
Again, if you are in doubt, ask those who dare to speak in Washington and they will tell you what you can’t count on the Zionist-controlled media to tell. After all, Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Time and Newsweek, to mention a few of the so-called “agenda setters,” are not really answerable to the American people. They are answerable to the lobby, because if and when officials at these outlets don’t go with the flow, they get fired immediately. Have you ever thought why it is easier to criticize Israel in Tel Aviv than in New York? Have you every figured out why it is easier for an Israeli politician to lambaste his own government for its misdeeds than it is for an American official to do so? There are Israeli academics and intellectuals who have called Israel “a Nazi state.” Can an American professor or intellectual call Israel a Nazi state and retain his job?
Now Israel has got America deeply sinking in the futile war on terror, which is actually another meaningless war on Israel’s enemies, namely the Muslims, for supporting the just Palestinian cause and demanding Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab land.
Like the Iraq war and the Afghan war, the apparently nihilistic war on terror is being waged on Israel’s behalf because, in the final analysis, there is really no conflict between Muslims and America.
Yes, “9/11″, we are told, was carried out by a few terrorists who held Muslim names and who wrongly thought that they were serving the Palestinian cause and the cause of Islam by killing innocent people.
But these misguided individuals, if indeed they were the real villains (because there is a growing mass of evidence prompting honest people to doubt and question the authenticity of the official American narrative in this regard) only represent a tiny part of the Muslim world. Muslims generally don’t hate America and the American people. Most people don’t hate other people, regardless of religion and culture. It is only due to deep and grievances that oppressed people harbor ill feelings toward their oppressors.
Otherwise, I am sure a hundred per cent that Palestinians and Muslims in general have no inherent ill-feelings toward the American people.
Of course, Zionist Jews, some of who are now distributing anti-Islamic DVDs in America to instill hatred and fear of Islam and Muslims in the hearts of Americans in order to serve Israeli interests, dread the day Americans will know the truth about Israel, e.g. that Israel is nothing less than a crime against humanity and that it represents the ultimate antithesis of everything the American people hold dear and stand for.
Yesterday, America had to allocate 700 billion dollars to bail out another ramshackle American financial institution.
I am afraid there will be more bad news in this regard if America doesn’t reclaim its liberty from the Zionist Rober Barons who have come to tightly control the American financial establishment.
Moreover, should the US decide to act on Israel’s instructions (or orders) and go to war against another Muslim country, this time Iran, one could imagine the magnitude of the financial and therefore economic disaster that would befall America and the world.
A few years ago, it was rumored that former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, that certified war criminal, told Shimon Peres, then Israel’s foreign minister, during an acrimonious cabinet meeting “that we control America from California to New York and the stupid Americans know it.”
And while I am not completely sure about the authenticity of the statement, it is amply clear that the disgraceful pandering to Zionism by American politicians, including Presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain and their running mates, vindicates the veracity of that statement, uttered or unuttered.
Today, Israel is trying to consummate its hateful enterprise of ethnic cleansing in the Middle East, using American money and American power. Israel will fight the Muslim world to the last American dollar and the last American soldier.
Hence, it is time ordinary Americans wake up from their slumber to reclaim their country from rapacious Zionism. Because their very future is at stake.

They are killing our babies , even before birth

Twilight Zone / Dead on Arrival
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 03:23 PM CDT
WRITTEN BY Gideon Levy
Nothing helped. Not the pleas, not the cries of the woman in labor, not the father’s explanations in excellent Hebrew, nor the blood that flowed in the car. The commander of the checkpoint, a fine Israeli who had completed an officers’ course, heard the cries, saw the women writhing in pain in the back seat of the car, listened to the father’s heartrending pleas and was unmoved. The heart of the Israeli officer was indifferent and cruel. For over an hour, he would not let the car with the young woman in labor pass through the Hawara checkpoint on the way to the hospital in Nablus. Not to Tel Aviv; but to Nablus; not for shopping, not for work; but to get to the hospital in an emergency. Nothing helped.

Nahil Abu-Rada is not the first woman to lose her baby this way because of the occupation, and she won’t be the last. At least a half-dozen checkpoint births that ended in death have been documented here over the years, and nothing has changed. No punishments, no lessons, not even a request for forgiveness from parents who lose their children because of the coldheartedness of soldiers.

The occupation kills - never has this slogan sounded so true as on that night, two weeks ago, at the Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus. No convoluted excuse or explanation from the Israel Defense Forces spokesman (military sources were quoted the day after the incident, making this Moutrageous comment: “This baby would have died anyway”) can erase the simple, chilling fact that for officers and soldiers in the occupation army we have established, human feeling has become alien, at least when it comes to Palestinians. Or the fact that there are still officers and soldiers in the IDF who behave with such lack of feeling toward a woman in labor who is about to lose her child.

What went through the mind of the officer who refused to let Nahil pass? He saw her in agony, he heard her husband’s desperate pleas, and he surely knows how children come into this world and how they can leave it just aseasily, without lifesaving medical treatment.

The couple had gone to bed at nine. They woke up after midnight when Nahil, 21, suddenly went into labor; she was at the beginning of her seventh month of pregnancy. This was on the night between September 5 and 6, at their home in Qusra, a quiet and relatively well-off village east of the Tapuah Junction, at the foot of the Migdalim settlement in the northern West Bank.

The closest hospital was in Nablus, a 15-minute drive at night to the Hawara checkpoint, and then another 10 minutes from there to Rafidia Hospital, if all goes smoothly. But that night, nothing went smoothly.

The husband, Mu’ayyad, 29, called his brother Uday to come quickly with his car. The two brothers work in different industrial plants on the Ma’ale Ephraim settlement. They speak Hebrew well. Their father works as a gardener in Ma’ale Ephraim. They come from a family of 16 siblings, most of whom attended university; they had never been in any trouble. Uday’s phone’s ring tone is the Hebrew song “Hayal mishmar hagvul” (Border Police Officer), with the lyrics: “We were a pair of lovebirds, innocent and shy, suddenly it all ended, my heart is broken … You went to the army and love went with you, now I’m lonely and sad.” Now, Uday’s cell phone also carries a horrifying photograph of his brother’s dead baby.

Uday arrived within minutes and they carried Nahil to his red Opel and lay her down in the back seat. There is no ambulance in the village. Had they called for one to come from Nablus, it would take much longer, they thought. Uday drove quickly, using flashing red lights in the back, while Nahil lay moaning with her husband by her side. The brothers’ mother joined them in the car, too.

Shortly before 1 A.M., they reached the Tapuah checkpoint and after a delay of a few minutes, they were allowed to continue on their way. Nahil’s cries grew stronger. Every so often, she would anxiously ask her husband: Where are we? How much longer? Mu’ayyad reassured her: We’re almost at the hospital, just a few more minutes. Some minutes later, they reached Hawara.

The checkpoint was deserted. They stopped where cars are supposed to stop. “It’s the army: If you don’t stop the right way, they can shoot you and you can be killed,” Mu’ayyad explains later.

A soldier stood 25 meters away. Mu’ayyad began walking toward him carrying the identity cards of all the passengers in the car. “Come here a second; it’s an emergency. My wife is in labor and I have to take her to the hospital, to Rafidia,” Mu’ayyad said. The soldier said he’d have to consult his superior officer. “He walked really slowly, not in any hurry,” as Mu’ayyad describes it.

Adds Uday: “They’re working very quietly, very slowly, it’s all quiet. She’s yelling and they’re quiet. Moving very slowly.”

The soldier disappeared into the building next to the checkpoint. The two brothers say it was 15-20 minutes until he returned, accompanied by the officer. Meanwhile, Nahil had started bleeding in the car. “What’s the problem?” asked the officer. “My wife is suffering, she’s bleeding in the car. Please, do me a favor, check the car quickly and let us go.” The officer: “You need a permit.”

Mu’ayyad pulled out a work permit that’s good for Judea and Samaria, 24 hours a day, but the officer didn’t even bother to look at it. “I started to plead with him. I told him: The situation is serious. I told him: Keep all the IDs with you and keep me with you, and my brother will just bring her to the hospital and come back.” It didn’t help. Nothing helped.

The cries of agony from the car grew louder and more frequent, the officer must have heard them quite well. He heard, but closed his ears. “I opened all the doors so they would hear my wife’s cries,” says Mu’ayyad. “I was not asking to go into Tel Aviv. I was asking to go to Nablus, and not so I could stroll around at one in the morning, but so I could bring my wife to the hospital.”

After all his pleas fell on deaf ears, Mu’ayyad tried one last request: “Help me. Maybe you have the phone number of an ambulance? I’m from the villages and I don’t know it. Could you help me in this situation? Look, my wife is screaming in pain, she’s bleeding, help me, please.” Nothing. A heart of stone. “He didn’t want to help me, the officer,” Mu’ayyad recalls dryly.

Desperate and terrified, he phoned his brother who lives in Nablus and asked him to call an ambulance to rush to the checkpoint. But by the time the ambulance arrived, the birth had begun. The tiny head was emerging; Mu’ayyad is sure he saw the baby move its head. He quickly grabbed hold of either side of the head to protect it.

“I said to them: Look, the baby is starting to come out! I show the soldiers my wife in this condition. It’s no easy thing for me to show them my wife in this condition, but I wanted to save my son. I’m ashamed, but out of fear for my wife and child, I showed her to them. We need oxygen, you have to do something, I say. He didn’t listen to me. In the end, the baby started to come out, my wife was lying in the car, her legs sticking out. I grabbled hold of the baby so he wouldn’t fall between the seats. I thought I could feel his heart pounding. I felt that my son was still alive. He moved his head to the side two or three times; he needed someone to take care of him right away to get him out and save him.”

But the birth stopped, with the baby half out and half in. Mu’ayyad and Nahil were desperate, frantic. The officer and the soldier outside didn’t lift a finger to help. “We needed someone to take care of him. He’s a neonate. He needs to be taken right away to an incubator with oxygen,” Mu’ayyad yelled. He tried to get help, but no one at the checkpoint responded.

Meanwhile, the ambulance from Nablus arrived. Mu’ayyad says that precious minutes passed before it was allowed to cross to the other side, where Nahil was. He says he screamed at the soldiers: “You didn’t help me! Now I think my son is dead! Help me save my wife’s life, at least. I lost a child, but my wife has to be saved! I started yelling like a madman until they let the ambulance approach.”

The paramedic put on gloves and entered the car. The baby was still only halfway out; the paramedic pronounced him dead.

Mu’ayyad: “He said to me: “I have to take the child out, before we take your wife to the ambulance. I think he’s dead.” He removed the baby and cut the umbilical cord. We took the bag with the clothes that we’d brought for the baby, dumped them out and put my son inside. We tore out the upholstery from the car and carried my wife to the ambulance. Then the medic removed the placenta and put it in the bag with my baby.”

A while later, the couple arrived at Rafidia with the bag holding their dead son. The doctor started shouting: “What happened? Why is she bleeding this way?” Mu’ayyad explained: “An hour and a quarter at the checkpoint.”

“Actually, I felt like it had been a year, but we left home at 12:40 A.M. and arrived at Rafidia at 2:45 A.M.,” he recalls now.

It also pains him that no one at the hospital opened the bag to examine his dead son: “I heard they gave the soldier a 14-day sentence. This is a person who not only killed my son, he killed me and my wife. What kind of punishment is that? This is something horrific, what happened to us. I don’t wish it upon anyone, not even the soldier. He killed my son. With a cold heart, he killed my son. Everyone should try to put himself in my place.

What would happen if something like this happened to the soldier’s wife? He’d kill 100 people. My son died and I couldn’t help him. What kind of father am I?”

They were thinking of calling their son Zaid. They have another baby, a girl, at home. On the way back, the couple placed the baby’s body in a cardboard box. At the Hawara checkpoint, the soldiers asked to see what was in the box.

“It’s my son, who died yesterday at the checkpoint when you wouldn’t let me get to the hospital,” Mu?ayyad told the soldier.

The response from the IDF Spokesman’s Office: “This is a difficult and unfortunate incident, following which a comprehensive investigation was carried out by the battalion commander of the soldiers at the checkpoint.

The Coordination and Liaison Office also clarified the circumstances with the woman in question. The findings were presented to the head of the Samaria brigade, and the officer in charge of the checkpoint sentenced the squad commander to imprisonment in a military facility and dismissed him from his position.”

“From the investigation it appears that on September 4, a civilian vehicle arrived at the Hawara checkpoint at about midnight with a resident of Qusra,his pregnant wife, his brother and mother. The soldiers on duty did not allow the Palestinian to enter Nablus, as he did not have an entry permit for the vehicle. An ambulance was ordered and the woman was treated on the spot; the infant was stillborn. The woman was evacuated by ambulance for continued medical treatment in Nablus.”

“In light of the fact that this was a humanitarian incident, it would have been proper if it had been dealt with differently, and the IDF regrets this.”

Nahil is not willing to talk or have her photograph taken now. For two weeks, she hasn’t spoken, and has hardly eaten or slept. Signs of trauma are obvious in the slim, pale woman in traditional garb. Mu’ayyad says he also has trouble sleeping.

On the day we met this week, the couple had spent about six hours waiting in the Coordination and Liaison Office in Hawara until their testimony was taken down by an investigator. Six hours, during the Ramadan fast, after giving birth at a checkpoint. That’s how it works.

Attorney Michael Sfard of the Yesh Din human rights organization has written an urgent letter to the military advocate general, requesting a postponement of the disciplinary sentence imposed on one of the soldiers involved - two weeks of military detention - so as to allow a possible criminal proceeding.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1022799.html

For THe Murdered Children Of Palestinew

Palestine Think Tank Digest
David Baldinger - For The Murdered Children Of Palestine
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 01:36 PM CDT
By David Baldinger
Boy from Susiya almost dies from suffocation after journey to hospital is delayed by Israeli roadblock
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 01:18 PM CDT
On the 31st August, one and a half year old Omar almost died from suffocation as his journey from Susiya to hospital was prolonged from 5 to 20 minutes due to Israeli road block. Sunday afternoon Omar had caught a fever which caused his tongue to swell up and and fall back blocking his windpipe. As a part of the reaction his brain went into shock and closed his mouth. In order to save the boy from suffocation, it was crucial to get him to the hospital as quickly as possible.
Under normal conditions it would take the family 5 minutes to drive the direct road to the Al Er Demat hospital, but this road has been closed by a Israeli roadblock for the past 8 years. As Susiya is in Area C the Palestinians have no authority to build and repair roads without Israeli authorisation, which meant the family had to use an old dirt-road to get to the hospital. Even though they raced over the dirt-road to get to the hospital in time, the journey was still prolonged by 20 minutes.
Omar was only saved because his uncle managed to open the boy’s mouth and get his tongue out of his windpipe during the drive. Otherwise it would have been too late before they got to the hospital. When arriving to the hospital Omar was quickly taken care of and after spending 2 hours there he was discharged.
A similar incident ended fatally last year in the neighboring town of Tuwani as a 14 year old girl died from suffocation on the way to the hospital.
These two incidents are only examples of problems caused by the restriction of movement that Israel has imposed on the Palestinian population.
In 2007 the number of permanent checkpoints averaged 102 a month. On top of this, the army sets up dozens of temporary “flying” checkpoints every week. In addition, Israel has blocked access to severel main roads.
The system of restrictions on Palestinian movement, enables Israel to designate some of the roads in the West Bank for only the use of Israelis, mainly settlers living in the West Bank. Israel prohibits Palestinian vehicles from even crossing certain roads. Palestinians are forbidden to use, or are restricted in their use of, more than 300 kilometers of roads in the West Bank.
Via: International Solidarity Movement

What if Israel had never been created

What If Israel Had Never Been Created?
Posted: 16 Aug 2008 06:05 AM CDT
William Hughes
“Imagine there’s no countries…Nothing to live or die for…Imagine all the people living life in peace.” - John Lennon
Thanks mostly to U.S. President Harry S. Truman and his “susceptibility to Zionist influence,” Israel came into existence in 1948. (1) Humanity, and in particular, the Palestinians, have paid dearly for his decision. The land on which the Palestinians had been living for centuries, in peace, with a minority Jewish population, has been gradually transformed into an Apartheid state by the machinations of the Zionist Movement. That Apartheid state, in turn, is today dominated by Israel’s Death-Mayhem-and- Occupation Machine. (2)
One wonders: What would the world look like today, if the state of Israel had not been created in 1948? Its improvident formation seems to have set in motion a chain of events, mostly negative, in the affairs of Mankind. In the movie, “Click,” the lead character finds a “universal remote” that allows him to rewind to different parts of his life and to change what had happened. If I possessed such a “universal remote” and could stop President Truman from aiding and abetting the establishment of an Israeli state, then, it is my speculation, (a theory), that the following 25 propositions would probably be our present day reality. They are:
1. The U.S. would not have any enemies in the Islamic World.
2. There would be no Al-Qaeda Terrorist Network.
3. Gasoline would be selling for less than $1 a gallon.
4. There would have been no 9/11.
5. There would be no USA Patriot Law.
6. There would be no Homeland Security Agency.
7. The Israeli Lobby’s “unmatched power” over the U.S.’ foreign policy, for over four decades, would not had existed. (Its support for the Iraqi War was deemed by the experts to be “critical.”) (3)
8. There would also not have been any Neocon ideologues; like Paul Wolfowitz, William Kristol, Richard Perle, et al, to help, (along with other “Special Interests”), to push the U.S. into an illegal war with Iraq. (4)
9. Iran would not be the next target for U.S. aggression. (No Israel. No “A Clean Break” document. No Israeli Lobby. No Neocons. No need for the U.S. to attack Iran.) (5)
10. The Zionist fink, Jonathan Pollard, wouldn’t be in prison for stealing U.S. military secrets and hawking them to Israel.
11. The three million-plus Palestinians, who were forcefully dispersed from their homeland, since 1948, by the Israeli Occupation Forces, (IOF), would, instead, be living happily there today, in a free and independent state of Palestine. There would be no Apartheid Wall, or as a corollary, a Hamas organization. (6)
12. Jerusalem would have a vibrant Christian population. (7)
13. Rachel Corrie of Olympia, WA, would be alive and well. (8)
14. The 2,544 Americans who have died in Iraq would be alive; and the 18,777, who have been seriously wounded there, would be fully participating in our Republic. U.S. taxpayers would have an additional $295 billion, (the cost of the war), in the treasury to use to serve the social needs of the people. Universal Health Care would be a real possibility and Social Security would not be in jeopardy. Iraq would be at peace. There would be no Gitmo Bay detention center, or an Abu Ghraib Prison, or a reason for the Bush-Cheney Gang to gut Habeas Corpus. No need for it to also employ torturers, or chemical weapons, or hold detainees without charges or trial. The Geneva Convention would be respected. The tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis, who have died as a result of the war, would instead be alive today. (At the following footnote, see horrific photos of some of the Iraqi dead.) (9)
15. The battle to save our planet, its fragile ecosystem, its fast vanishing animal life and plants and to combat global warming, would be issue “No. 1.” (10) Instead, we are perpetually bombarded with propaganda about defending “Israel’s security.”
16. If there was no Israel, then the “five dancing Israelis” on 9/11 wouldn’t have been arrested. They were nailed after “celebrating” in NJ, while watching the Twin Towers collapsed. (11)
17. U.S. taxpayers would be $140 billion richer! This is the staggering amount they have shelled out over the last 58 years to support the ultra-greedy interests of the Zionist Cartel. (3)18. The 34 Americans onboard the USS Liberty, who were slaughtered by the IOF, on June 8, 1967, would be alive today; and the 174 others who had suffered injuries that day would not have had to endure their horrific experiences. The shame the U.S. carries for not having quickly defended the men of the Liberty, and retaliated against the Israelis for their deliberate attack on the vessel, would have been avoided. (12)
19. On June 13, 2006, the IOF killed ten Palestinians, including three medical workers and two children, in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, labeled the missile attack an example of “state terrorism.” Only God knows how many Palestinians the Israelis have actually wasted since 1948; or exactly how many refugees it has created, or how many homes, a la Oliver Cromwell, the IOF have demolished. None of this would have been possible without the dubious “state of Israel.” (13)
20. Paul Bremer, a coat holder for Henry “Iago” Kissinger, would have never been appointed Viceroy for an Occupied Iraq. No Israel. No Iraqi War. No Zionist Bremer as Viceroy of Iraq. (14)
21. One of the reasons the Warren Commission failed to properly investigate the murder of JFK was because of Arlen Specter (R-PA), a card carrying Zionist. He was then a “Special Counsel” to the Commission. He concocted the preposterous “Magic Bullet” theory, which shut down any real conspiracy-type probe. It is also interesting to note, that Jacob Rubenstein, aka, “Jack Ruby,” Lee Harvey Oswald’s murderer, had close ties to Meyer Lansky’s National Crime Syndicate. I believe the answer to who really plotted JFK’s killing, died with Oswald. In any event after JFK’s death, Israel’s nuclear weapons program, which he had opposed went ahead. U.S. aid to Israel also increased dramatically. (15)
22. There would have been no reason for a French Ambassador to refer to Israel as “that shitty little country.” (16) In fact, the Jews of the world would have been liberated to fulfill their deepest spiritual quest, as embodied in their religion - Judaism. According to the highly respected Orthodox Rabbi, Dovid Yisroel Weiss, “Zionism has hijacked Judaism.” The courageous Rabbi insists that, “Zionism creates anti-Semitism…And we know…Zionism is the root cause for the pain, suffering and bloodshed of the Jewish people…and, they, (the Zionists), are the greatest factory of anti-Semitism worldwide…Judaism and Zionism is not one and the same. They are diametrically opposite…We should not be mistaken one for the other. And, we shouldn’t be responsible for the actions of what the Zionists do…Now, another of the problems that emanate actually from the Zionist Movement is the fact that they are encroaching upon the rights of the Palestinian people, the indigenous people, who are living there. And, this is terribly wrong. It is against every concept of the Torah…So, whatever they are doing is totally wrong!” (17)
23. Thousands of Israelis have died attempting to build a nation in a land, Palestine, which belonged to another people, the Palestinians. Their deaths would have been avoided. (18)
24. The widespread spying on Americans, without a court order, by operatives of the Bush-Cheney Gang, would have never happened. (No Israel. No 9/11. No spying on U.S. citizens.)
25. On April 4, 2003, a European Union (EU) poll named Israel as the “greatest threat to world peace.” (19) On June 27, 2006, the IOF proved the EU right by reoccupying Gaza, savagely terrorizing the civilian population, blowing up their electric/water generating facilities, conducting a mass arrest of their elected officials, and also, without just cause, provoking the Syrians. In response to the repeated shelling by the IOF of Gaza, Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, wisecracked, “Nobody dies from being uncomfortable!” When he addressed a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, on May 24, 2006, Olmert received 38 breaks of applause and 18 standing ovations from that entity of mostly lapdogs. This is also the same Israeli leader, who, paraphrasing George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” said that he had a “deep regret” about the effects of some IOF’s operations which had killed 14 innocent Palestinians in just nine days, but that the lives of Israeli citizens were “even more important.”(20) Finally, if there wasn’t a Zionist-created Israel, there also wouldn’t be any need for a commentary like this one!
Notes:
1. http://www.counterpunch.org/clark06032006.html
2. http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/index.htm
3. http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011/%24File/rwp_06_011_walt.pdf; and, http://www.counterpunch.org/christison06162006.html
4. http://batr.net/neoconwatch/archives/2004_12_01_neoconswatch_archive.html; and http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/offtowar.html
5. Chalmer Johnson’s “Sorrows of Empire.”
6. http://www.ameu.org/index.asp
7. http://hcef.org/hcef/; Scott McConnell’s “Divided & Conquered,” TAC, 07/03/06; http://woodstock.georgetown.edu/publications/column_Feb2001.htm; and http://www.icahduk.org/documents/SupportSabeel.htm
8. http://www.rachelcorrie.org/
9. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/uncensored
10. http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/448
11. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html
12. http://www.ussliberty.org/
13. http://www.pchrgaza.org/
14. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1522983,00.html
15. Peter Dale Scott’s “Deep Politics and the Death of JFK” and Stephen Green’s “Taking Sides: America’s Secret Relationship with a Militant Israel.”
16. http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/french-ambassador.html
17. http://www.nkusa.org/index.cfm and http://usa.mediamonitors.net/headlines/rabbi_weiss_rips_ariel_sharon_zionism and http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/5200/index.php
18. http://wrmea.org/
19. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1022127,00.html
20. Ravi Nessman’s “Israel Steps Up Offensive,” AP, 07/03/06; Boston Globe’s “Agony of Gaza,” 07/07/06; and http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1095841.ece
William Hughes 2006.
William Hughes is the author of “Saying ‘No’ to the War Party” (IUniverse, Inc.). He can be reached at liamhughes@comcast.net.
Source: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/11391

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Are Israeli lives worth more than Palestinian? Press Release, Arab Media Watch, 7 July 2006

A Palestinian carrying the body of a murdered boy after Israeli mobile artillery fired shells at Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip July 6, 2006. (MaanImages/Mohamed al-Zanon) Arab Media Watch expresses its concern at the amount of coverage given to Israel's killing yesterday of almost two dozen Palestinians, including civilians, compared with the kidnapping* of an Israeli soldier on 25 June, as well as the continued portrayal of the current crisis as being triggered by the kidnapping.Comparing the initial report of each incident in the British national dailies, the Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Sun devoted more words to the kidnapped soldier than the Palestinian deaths, with the Times devoting around the same amount of coverage. The Daily Express and Daily Star report nothing today on yesterday's deaths.The Mail devoted 4 times as many words to the kidnapping (661, compared with 167), the Sun devoted just 79 words to the killings (105 for the kidnapping), and the Guardian devoted more than twice as many words to the kidnapping (826, compared with 393).The Times devoted 514 words to the kidnapping and 553 words to the killings, though the headline today says nothing of the deaths ("Israeli tanks roll back into abandoned settlements").Furthermore, the media is continuing to portray the current crisis as being triggered by the kidnapping, which is not the case.Besides the issue of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails (including women and children) that the Palestinian kidnappers have been trying to highlight, and the well-documented humanitarian crisis caused by Israel's near-total control of the Gaza Strip (despite its withdrawal last September), Israel has been shelling the territory ever since, intensively so for weeks before the kidnapping.This caused UN monitor John Dugard to state that "there has been a substantial deterioration in respect of human rights," and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to remind Israel "to respect international law."On 12 April, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that Israel had "fired more than 2,300 artillery and tank shells into the Gaza Strip since 29 March, more than 150 shells a day." It added that "the continuous firing of artillery shells and launching of�missiles are causing immense psycho-social strain on the Gaza population, especially on children. There are also additional risks from unexploded shells.In April, five human rights organisations (three Israeli and two Palestinian) said that "the massive artillery fire causes disproportionate harm to the civilian population...subjects Israeli army officers and soldiers to war crimes charges," and constitutes "a blatant violation of the Basic Rule of the laws of armed conflict whereby civilians and civilian objects must be distinguished from military objectives. The fact that Israel is confronting illegal firing of Qassam missiles at its own civilian population does not legitimize disproportionate responsive measures, which will knowingly lead to civilian casualties." From the start of June to the kidnapping of the soldier on 25 June, 49 Palestinians were killed and 170 injured, including women and children, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society, causing great concern among human rights groups and threats of revenge from militant groups:"We have decided to tell the occupier 'no more truce from today' in response to the bloodletting of our women, our children and our elderly. We will not suffer your repeated crimes in silence."Furthermore, the tank base from where the soldier was kidnapped is one of the locations from which Israel has been relentlessly shelling the Gaza Strip, and just one day earlier, Israeli commandos had raided Rafah and captured two brothers, Mustafa and Osama Muamar."All of this is well known but did not make it to the front page," wrote Naftali Lavie, who served in an Israeli tank unit near Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, in Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper. "Can it be that Palestinian lives are nothing, Israeli lives everything? That Palestinian captives are nothing, Israeli captives everything?"Editor's Note: The dictionary definition of the word "kidnap" necessitates that the abduction of a person is illegal. As the Israeli soldier was part of an occupying force, captured during a military raid against a military target, in international law he is considered to be a "prisoner of war", not a kidnap victim. The rules governing the treatment of prisoners of war are spelled out in the third Geneva Convention of 1949, article 13 of which requires that POWs "must at all times be treated humanely".

The Zionists gave God a bad name

Iqbal Tamimi - The Zionists Gave God a Bad Name
Posted: 27 Jul 2008 06:55 PM CDT
Part one of a report: Some people do not know much about the suffering of Palestinians. Most Israelis suggested over and over again that they have the right to live in Palestine and kick its people out. The Jewish people came from all over the world without any connection to Palestine but a promise under their armpits.
They claim that Palestine was given to the Jews 2000 years ago… by God.They claim God promised that they could have Palestine regardless of where they came from, or whether or not they are practicing Judaism. They just inherit this promise because they are extra special people. Inheritance here has nothing to do with blood relationships, if you are from the Land of Oz and you claim to be a Jew, you have all the right to pack your stuff, including your dentures, and get on the first flight to Palestine, and have a go at any Palestinian you encounter. You can start by massacring the people, and then you can build your own home from their children’s bones.
It seems that when God created mankind he took some of the dough on the side, and added to it a secret special ingredient and gave it a little whisper to make the Jews his own chosen nation. It could have been anything… but God only knows why they make him look like a biased God. A God who created everyone, but enjoys seeing some who are supposed to be his own, chewing the flesh of others who were also created by him, and still gain his blessing.
The Scenario the Zionists created of God has stripped him of any kind of mercy. By the way, God’s chosen people were not supposed to do anything to earn this privilege or honour. They can just say the magic words “I am a Jew”, and then all will be well.
They are even feeling chosen enough to a point they know for sure that they can commit all atrocities against other races, and the Almighty will allow them to do so because they are his chosen spoiled rotten nation.
It seems they do not have to do anything to take other people’s lands and properties; they do not even have to produce a document to cancel all the documents the Palestinians have for owning their homes and land for 2000 years. God seems to promise to give some people other people’s properties…just because he loves them; he has chosen them 2000 years ago. And regardless of their achievements, or barbarism, they claim that God, the just God, has promised them they can come at any time they chose, from all over the world and steal other people’s homes. I wonder why God did not come with this idea of creating his own chosen people earlier.Those same chosen people who came from Russia, USA, EU countries suggest that the Palestinians should find themselves another place to live in. They even suggested that because Palestinians speak the Arabic language that they should go and live in any other Arabic speaking country.
This is embarrassing even for God. I mean, God is expected at least to advise them to invite others to live with them as guests. If they were really the owners of the land, he could have advised them to share what they found. Or even tell them, “well the people who happen to worship me, like Christians and Muslims, can stay.”
So, if we can apply the Jewish approach of handling things, then Muslims can now go and claim Spain as their homeland since they ruled there for a few hundred years. And anyone who claims that his God promised him a land can go and massacre the people of that land by the name of his God. I think many people would suggest that their God promised them Hawaii or Monaco. I wonder which nation God promised to occupy the USA!
Religion is a great thing, people can use it and abuse it in any way they choose to get their hands on whatever they like, and then when anyone opposes, God’s name will be brought up like a veto card.
Imagine that you are living in the Moomoo land and because you speak English, some aliens will suggest that you should go and claim England as your own land.
Thank God that I knew Judaism through Qur’an and that’s why I think we are supposed to be brothers, not through the Jews who smeared his name in such a way, should he apply to any humane group he will be denied membership.
I will just talk about the story of a group of Palestinians who were forced because of the Jewish mentality to end up refugees over and over again, and now they are in the desert, in camps on the borders of Iraq.
The story starts almost here…… I will continue later….

This is how Israelis kill Palestinians in COLD blood

http://aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/10342EC2-CBAF-48A9-A36C-5F78D66923EF.htm

see for yourself , how they excute Palestiniana live
this is a pic from a video was prodcasted on Aljazeera to day
how they kill Palestinians in cold blood ,
THIS IS THEIR CIVILIZATION AND DEMOCRACY OF KILLING

read for yoursef

see and read for yourself

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

Israel Fears The womb More Than THe Bomb

POPULATION-MIDEAST: Israel Fears the Womb More Than the BombBy Peter HirschbergJERUSALEM, Jul 10 (IPS) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has laid it out in the starkest possible terms for his fellow Israelis. If they do not relinquish control of the occupied territories, he has warned them, Israel will ultimately cease to exist as a Jewish and democratic state.If Israel does not extract itself from the West Bank and a Palestinian state is not established alongside the Jewish state, he said in an interview late last year, Israel will find itself trapped in an apartheid-like reality. "The day will come when the two-state solution collapses and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights," he said. "As soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished." Olmert's conviction is driven by what many Israelis call "the demographic threat" -- a scenario in which Arabs, due to their higher birth rates, outnumber Jews in the geographic area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, which includes Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Once the demographic balance tilts against Israeli Jews, Olmert has warned, they will find themselves in a quandary in which a Jewish minority rules over an Arab majority. When that happens, he explained, Israel will be confronted by a battle it cannot win: Palestinians will abandon their demand for a separate, independent state in the West Bank and Gaza and instead will demand one-person, one-vote in a single state -- a demand that will become irresistible within the international community, as happened with South Africa. Demographics have always been at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Leaders have brandished fertility rates as if they were loaded guns. Most famous for this was late Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat, who coined the adage that the Palestinians' most potent weapon was the womb -- a statement that increased skepticism amongst Israelis of his readiness to reach a peace agreement. The mass flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the fledgling Jewish state during the 1948 Mideast war and the mass migration of Jews to Israel in the late 1940s and early 1950s ensured a large Jewish majority in Israel. Today, almost all Israelis oppose the Palestinian demand for the "right of return" for refugees, believing this would see Israel swamped by millions of returning Palestinians, and would spell the end of the Jewish state. The demographic reality changed again when Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza, which were inhabited by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, in the 1967 war, and subsequently began to build Jewish settlements there. Now, for Israel, the demographic implications of that settlement policy are coming home to roost. Israel's population, including 270,000 settlers living in the West Bank, stands at close to 7.3 million. Of those, 5.5 million are Jews and another 300,000 are the spouses of Jews -- most from the former Soviet Union who came during the period of mass immigration in the 1990s -- who tend to identify themselves as part of the Jewish population. There are 1.4 million Arabs in Israel, the vast majority of them Muslims, who are Israeli citizens. Inside Israel, Jews therefore constitute a clear majority, making up almost 80 percent of the population. But bring the West Bank and Gaza into the equation and the demographics change dramatically. Take the 3.5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza and add them to the 1.4 million Arabs living in Israel, and you get the following result: 5.8 million Jews and 4.9 million Arabs living in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Now factor in significantly higher Arab birth rates and higher Jewish mortality rates, as a result of an older population, and the demographic tipping point is only a few years away, says Sergio DellaPergola, a professor of population studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and one of Israel's leading demographers. While the fertility rates in Israel are high for a developed country -- on average there are 2.7 children per family -- they do not come close to those in Gaza, where the average is around 5.5 children per family. "We are almost at the point of demographic parity," DellaPergola told IPS. "It is changing every day in favour of the Arabs. It's dramatic. Arab natural growth is more or less twice that of Jews." The demographics, he continues, have political implications. "Will Israel be a Jewish state? Or a bi-national state? You cannot ignore demography." Some opponents of the demographic argument insist that the Palestinian figures are inflated. Even if they are, says DellaPergola, this would not dramatically alter the overall demographic trend towards an Arab majority and a Jewish minority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Others, especially the Jewish settlers, put their faith in another wave of mass immigration, like in the 1990s when one million Jews from the former Soviet Union arrived in Israel in the space of a decade. But the remaining large concentrations of Jews outside of Israel are in developed countries like the U.S. and the UK, and they are not about to exchange their comfortable lifestyles for a more precarious existence in the Middle East. Traditionally, it has been the Israeli left which has championed the demographic argument, hoping it would persuade Israelis to relinquish the territories, forego settlements and support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it was only a few years ago, when some right-wing political leaders like Ehud Olmert were finally persuaded by the left's demographic equation, that Israel for the first time began to dismantle settlements. Olmert, who for years had been a member of the Likud party, which led the biggest settlement drives in the West Bank and Gaza, emerged from the closet in a 2003 interview in the daily Haaretz newspaper, when he was serving as deputy prime minister in Ariel Sharon's government. A growing number of Palestinians, he said at the time, "are uninterested in a negotiated, two-state solution, because they want to change the essence of the conflict from an Algerian paradigm to a South African one. From a struggle against 'occupation', in their parlance, to a struggle for one-man-one-vote. That is, of course, a much cleaner struggle, a much more popular struggle -- and ultimately a much more powerful one. For us, it would mean the end of the Jewish state." This demographic awakening explains Olmert's enthusiastic support for the idea of withdrawing from Palestinian territories, and his determined backing of former prime minister Ariel Sharon's decision to pull all the settlers and the army out of Gaza in August 2005. "Olmert became convinced of the demographic trends when he was mayor of Jerusalem," says DellaPergola, who carried out studies for Olmert on demographic shifts in the city, which has a large Jewish and Arab population. "He then influenced Sharon." Campaigning in the general election in 2006, Olmert made it clear that if elected he planned a unilateral pullout from much of the West Bank, along the lines of the Gaza withdrawal. But the Lebanon war in the summer of 2006, which the Israeli public believes he badly mismanaged, and the incessant rocket fire by Palestinian militants from Gaza, despite the pullout, swayed Israelis against further unilateral moves and Olmert ditched his plan for a West Bank exit. But while Israelis may have become disenchanted with unilateralism, that doesn't mean the demographics have changed. And Olmert, even if he has put his plan on ice, remains a leading proponent of the demographic argument. In the interview he gave late last year, and which was published on the 60th anniversary of the UN decision to partition Palestine, he spelled out, in dramatic terms, what would happen the moment Jews became a minority. "The Jewish organisations, which were our power base in America, will be the first to come out against us because they will say they cannot support a state that does not support democracy and equal voting rights for all its residents," he warned. (END/2008)

I shall vist Israel , WHEN ??????

I Shall Visit Israel, by Paul Grenville
Posted: 03 Jul 2008 02:27 AM CDT
I shall visit Israel
I shall visit Israel when the olive trees are in blossom
I shall visit Israel when an Arab can marry a Jew
I shall visit Israel when Torah Jews are no longer beaten up in the streets of Jerusalemfor reminding their countrymen of the commandments of Moses
I shall visit Israel when the speaking of Arabic in certain neighbourhoods no longer causes heads to turn
I shall visit Israel when the learning of Arabic is mandatory in Israeli schools
I shall visit Israel when Arab and Jewish children mingle freely in one system of state education
I shall visit Israel when the 7 million refugees from the land of Palestine can choose between a country they can call their own, or compensation for what they lost
I shall visit Israel when the invaders make peace with the invaded (not the other way about)
I shall visit Israel when there is a public apology for the war crimes of 1948
and compensation for the families of the victims
I shall visit Israel when West Bank settlers on stolen land no longer shoot to kill the natives and get off scot free
I shall visit Israel when her soldiers no longer shoot down unarmed children in cold blood and call it a mistake
I shall visit Israel when the Wall is demolished by Israelis and Palestinians together
I shall visit Israel when the house demolitions stop
I shall visit Israel when 600 West Bank checkpoints are taken down and the bullying, humiliation, beating and rape of Palestinian citizens stops
I shall visit Israel when to be born Palestinian is not a reason to be hunted and spied upon
I shall visit Israel when Jews stop arriving from far away and calling it their land
I shall visit Israel when Gaza is no longer the cruel laboratory experiment in slow genocide that it is today
I shall visit Israel when her planes stop bombing and strafing towns in Gaza
and terrifying the people at night with sonic booms
I shall visit Israel when the Lebanon and Gaza are no longer grisly testing grounds for new weapons
I shall visit Israel when Israel ceases to invade her neighbours on the slightest of pretexts and cause devastation
I shall visit Israel when 10,000 Palestinian prisoners are released from jail and pardoned for acts of resistance
against a state that took their country by force of arms and terror
I shall visit Israel when the routine practice of torture in Israeli prisons stops
I shall visit Israel when a Romanian fascist is no longer part of the government
I shall visit Israel when the illegal villages are made legal
I shall visit Israel when the Bedouin of the Negev are no longer persecuted
I shall visit Israel when Arab towns and villages have the same status and funding as Jewish ones
I shall visit Israel when the land is shared by all Semites - Arabs and Jews
I shall visit Israel when the Jewish state is an unhappy memory
I shall visit Israel when Nazi war crimes against the Jews are used to justify every
imaginable cruelty in a land where they are still the uninvited guest…
I shall visit Israel when the name of Israel is no longer another excuse to hate the Jews
Paul Grenville 1st July 2008

Doubble standards of the west

Posted: 05 Jul 2008 03:36 AM CDT
Iqbal Tamimi and I urge you to please write to the addresses below to ask for formal investigation on an incident of torture of a child by Israeli soldiers who stormed his house. Abuse and torture is always wrong, but to do it to a child is absolutely evil and cannot remain unchallenged. Not only was he physically and psychologically abused, his family was strip searched, humiliated and their possessions were destroyed. Can we just sit and watch something like this? Can normalisation with Israel happen when something like this IS normal??
http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=811&CategoryId=1
Name: Ezzat HAge at incident: 10Date of incident: 11 June 2008Location: Sanniriya, QalqiliyaAccusation: None
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.
On Wednesday 11 June 2008, at around 10:30am, 10-year-old Ezzat, his brother Makkawi (7) and sister Lara (8) were in their father’s shop selling animal feed and eggs in the village of Sanniriya, near the West Bank city of Qalqiliya. The children were suddenly startled to see two Israeli soldiers storm in to the shop.
Interrogation and abuse in the shop
One soldier wearing a black T-shirt started shouting in a loud, menacing voice in Arabic, “your father sent us to you to collect his gun”. A terrified Ezzat responded, “My father does not own a gun”. The soldier responded by slapping Ezzat hard across the right cheek and his brother Makawi across his face. The soldier then ordered Makkawi and Lara to leave the shop. Once the younger children had left the soldier demanded once again that Ezzat hand over his father’s gun. Although Ezzat repeated that his father did not own a gun the soldier ordered him to search for it in the sacks containing the animal feed. Ezzat kept insisting that there was no gun in the shop so the soldier slapped him once again, this time across his left cheek.
One of Ezzat’s friends, realising that something was wrong, tried to enter the shop but was kicked by the soldier standing at the door and prevented from entering. Soon a group of local people had gathered outside the shop. Some of the people in the group also tried to enter the shop but were prevented from doing so by the soldier at the door.
The soldier in the black T-shirt asked him once again to produce the gun. Ezzat answered, “We do not have anything”. The soldier responded by punching him hard in the stomach causing Ezzat to fall over on to empty egg boxes. Ezzat started screaming and crying out from pain and fear. The soldier in the black T-shirt started making fun of Ezzat and imitated him crying. Ezzat remained in the shop alone with the soldiers for a further 15 minutes when the soldier in black abruptly grabbed him by his T-shirt and dragged him out of the shop. Ezzat asked the soldier if he could lock up his father’s shop but the soldier said he wanted it to remain open so that it could be robbed. The soldier also threatened to put Ezzat in his jeep and take him away.
Once they were out of the shop, Ezzat was ordered to walk in front of the soldiers to his house, whilst a gun was pointed at his back. The soldiers hit him several times on the nape along the way. On approaching his house Ezzat saw many Israeli military officials surrounding the house and a number of green military vehicles parked outside. One of the olive coloured jeeps had the word “police” written on it.
Interrogation and abuse in the home
After arriving at the family’s home the soldier in the black T-shirt stood Ezzat in the yard and ordered him to search the flower basin for the gun. Before Ezzat had a chance to respond the soldier slapped him so violently that Ezzat fell down face first into the basin. Without giving him the chance to stand up the soldier grabbed him by his T-shirt and lifted him up roughly. He was then instructed in Arabic by another soldier to head to the guestroom.
On approaching the guestroom Ezzat could see his father standing by the door. The soldier slapped him on the neck and Ezzat fell to the ground. As Ezzat stood up the soldier slapped him a second time making him fall to the ground once again. All this happened in front of his father. He then grabbed Ezzat by his T-shirt and lifted him in to the air. The soldier told Ezzat’s father that he was going to take his son to prison. He also threatened to take Ezzat’s 19-year-old sister to prison. Ezzat was then pushed forcibly in to the guest room where his mother and four of his other siblings including his sisters Diana (19), Raghda (18), (Aya) 15 and brother Jihad (3), were being held. His mother was crying. Ezzat was also crying and when asked by his mother why he was crying, he said it was because he had been hit by the soldiers. His mother asked the soldiers to stop beating her son and to beat her instead.
After several minutes Ezzat was taken out of the guestroom and slapped several times by the soldier in black, once so hard that he fell to the ground. After being moved to several locations in the house Ezzat was told to stay in the boys’ bedroom. The same soldier then left the room but would return every five minutes to slap Ezzat and also to punch him several times in the stomach. Each time this took place Ezzat would shout and scream out in pain and burst in to tears. The soldier would then imitate him and make fun of him. The soldier hit him around six times.Destruction of property and use of stress positions
A short time later, five soldiers entered the room and proceeded to destroy the family’s property using hammers. In all, the soldiers destroyed wooden ventilation panels in the attic, a small refrigerator in the bedroom and it contents, damage to the kitchen, a fan and the fireplace.
Ezzat spent one hour in the bedroom alone with the soldiers. In that hour he was ordered by the same soldier to stand on one foot for half an hour, with his back against the wall and with both his hands lifted up in the air (see picture). Ezzat was exhausted by this but was too scared to put his foot down on the ground. Eventually he was told by one of the other soldiers that he could put his foot down. He was then asked to sit down in a squat position. He managed to remain in this position for two minutes and then had to stand up. A female soldier then walked in to the room and asked him to sit on the refrigerator box.
Shortly after the soldier in the black T-shirt returned accompanied by Ezzat’s older sister Diana. He proceeded to ask Ezzat whether he cared for his sister to which Ezzat responded, “Yes I do”. The soldier then asked him to tell him where the gun was hidden and that if he told him where it was hidden that he would not tell Ezzat’s father. The soldier left the room with Ezzat’s sister. He then returned to the room on his own and hit Ezzat all over his body. He left the room once again and after a while came back offering Ezzat 10 Shekels in return for telling him where the gun was. Ezzat responded that he did not care about money. This made the soldier extremely angry and he took off his helmet and started throwing it at Ezzat from two metres away. Ezzat was in extreme pain. The soldier continued to hit him with the helmet and then left the room once again returning to slap him across his face and on his stomach. This continued for some time with the soldier leaving the room and returning to hit Ezzat and to question him over the gun.
Interrogation of family
Ezzat then witnessed the soldier in the black T-shirt and the female soldier leading his sisters and mother to one of the rooms close to the boys’ bedroom. They closed the door of the room but Ezzat could hear the soldiers shouting at them. He overheard the soldier telling the female soldier to hit his mother because she was refusing to take her clothes off to be searched. After the incident was over Ezzat’s sister informed him that they were all strip searched by the female soldier, while the male soldier waited outside.
Meanwhile, a soldier wearing black sunglasses entered the bedroom in which Ezzat was being held. He walked in pointing a rifle, a few centimetres away from Ezzat’s head. Ezzat was so terrified that he began to shiver. The soldier laughed and made fun of him. He asked Ezzat to tell him where the gun was and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t. Ezzat continued to maintain that there was no weapon hidden away. The soldier, getting agitated shouted at Ezzat, “for the last time, tell me where the gun is before I shoot you”. Ezzat repeated that he did not have a gun. Hearing this, the soldier lowered his rifle and left the room. After about five minutes the soldier in the black T-shirt entered the room along with four other soldiers and said that they were leaving but would return.
The soldiers spent two and half hours in the house in total. After the incident Ezzat spent the night at his uncle’s house because he was too scared to sleep in his home. As a result of the physical assault Ezzat lost two of his molar teeth and is deeply shocked by the incident.
DCI/PS Statement
DCI/PS is appalled that Israeli authorities would subject a 10-year-old child to beatings, position abuse and threats over the course of several hours. The treatment of Ezzat falls within the definition of torture and other acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment as defined in the UN Convention Against Torture, to which Israel is a State Party. The treatment of Ezzat also infringes numerous other international conventions to which Israel is bound, as well as Israeli military and domestic law.
DCI/PS again calls on Israel to immediately ensure its compliance with the UN Convention Against Torture and to thoroughly and impartially investigate the allegations of torture and abuse of Ezzat and bring those found responsible for such abuse to justice.
DCI/PS also calls on the EU to make the upgrade of EU-Israel bilateral relations conditional upon measurable and confirmed progress by Israel to uphold the EU human rights standards in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) – article 5; Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) – articles 27 and 31 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) – article 7; and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) – articles 2(2), 3, 16 and 37(a).
2. Israeli military law establishes the specific offence of “ill treatment” which prohibits the beating or other abuse of any person in a soldier’s custody: see Military Adjudication Law, 5715-1955, Article 65. See also articles 378-382 of the Israeli penal code.
** Take Action **
Please send appeals in English, Arabic, Hebrew or your own language to Israel and/or the EU:
Israel
Urging Israeli authorities to comply with the UN Convention Against Torture and thoroughly investigate the allegations of torture and abuse of Ezzat and other Palestinian detainees and bring those responsible for such abuse to justice.Appeals to:
President of the State of IsraelShimon Peres, President of the State of IsraelOffice of the President3 Hanassi St., 92188Jerusalem, Israel.Tel: +972 2 6707211Fax: +972 2 5610033Email: president@president.gov.ilSalutation: Dear President
Prime Minister of the State of IsraelEhud Olmert, Prime MinisterTelephone: +972 2 6753277Telephone2: +972 2 6753547Email: eulmert@knesset.gov.ilSaluation: Dear Prime Minister
Israeli Minister of Foreign AffairsMs. Tzipi Livni, MK9 Yitzhak Rabin Blvd., Kiryat Ben-Gurion, Jerusalem 91035Fax: + 972 2 5303367Email: sar@mfa.gov.ilSalutation: Dear Foreign Affairs Minister
European Union
Urging the EU to pressure Israel to immediately ensure its compliance with the UN Convention Against Torture and thoroughly investigate the allegations of torture and abuse of Ezzat and other Palestinian detainees and bring those responsible for such abuse to justice.Urging the EU to make the upgrade of EU-Israel bilateral relations conditional upon measurable and confirmed progress by Israel to uphold EU human rights standards in the occupied Palestinian territory.Making the EU aware of the recent inclusion of Palestine/Israel as a priority conflict for the implementation of the EU Guidelines on Children and Armed Conflict, and of the subsequent reporting tasks on child rights violations incumbent upon EU diplomatic missions and EU institutions in the field.Appeals to:
Mr. Bernard Kouchner, Ministre des Affaires EtrangèresMinistère des Affaires Etrangères français37, quai d’Orsay, 75 007 Paris, FranceEmail: bernard.kouchner@diplomatie.gouv.fr
Personal Representative for Human Rights (CFSP) of the EU Secretary General/High Representative Javier SolanaMs. Riina Kionka175 Rue de la Loi BE 1048 Brussels, BelgiumFax. : +32 2 281 61 90Email : riina.kionka@consilium.europa.eu
The Commissioner for External Affairs and European Neighbourhood PolicyHE Ms. Benita Ferrero- WaldnerEmail: relax-enpinfo@ec.europa.eu

Killing is their Democracy and Civilization

75 children and 23 women killed, the harvest of Israel’s terrorism in the first 6 months of 2008

http://palestinethinktank.com/2008/07/02/75-children-and-23-women-killed-the-harvest-of-israel%e2%80%99s-terrorism-in-the-first-6-months-of-2008/

Truth wqill never vanish

Zionists were celebrating in NYC while documenting 9/11

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/7261

Please Be Aware

GAZA will be wiped off the map ,
Please read and circulate as you can : -

http://palestinethinktank.com/2008/06/08/gaza-is-about-to-be-wiped-off-the-map/

Casting Stones

Casting Stones
Posted: 04 Jun 2008 05:40 PM CDT
WRITTEN BY DAN ALBAThe United States government is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism.
George Bush, Dick Cheney, and fellow neocons—including most member of Congress, the State Department, the Pentagon, and so-called think tanks—are war criminals, terrorists, and traitors. They have hijacked U.S. policy and have chosen to continue and accelerate on a crookedly jagged path to self-destruction via aggressive war, regime-change, permanent belligerent occupation, black-ops, extrajudicial executions, and the ever-lucrative enterprise of conflict-propagation.
They hide behind the façade of “public servant,” but should instead be serving as defendants in their own impeachment, treason, and war crimes trials. Neocon-Likudnik militarism and corporatism defaces the U.S. Constitution, erodes civil liberties, crushes dissent, violates international law as a matter of course, and attacks the dignity and livelihood of peoples the world over. They know it too, which is why they are always the loudest and most vociferous when it comes to divining who is and who isn’t a terrorist, war criminal, or rogue regime. They cast the first stones and biggest ones. They doth protest too much.
But people are slowly waking up to the reality that neocon-Likudniks are not waging their so-called war on terror for the sake of Americans, Israelis, Lebanese, Palestinians, Iraqis, and the rest of the world’s peoples, but that, rather, the peoples of the world are dying in the superpower states’ terror wars for the material gain of the neocon-Likudniks and their puppet dictators.People don’t take too kindly to that state behavior when they recognize it for what it really is. Sadly though, the American people are amongst the worst entities when it comes to both recognizing and fighting terrorism. We have miserably failed to eradicate this, this, this, this, and this, for example—due in no small part to ignorance and apathy fueled by a mind-numbing constant flow of fluff and lies and other distractions perpetrated by mainstream corporate media for the sole purpose of concealing state crimes.
Some entities, however, have done quite well for themselves in the area of counter-terrorism. What entities do I speak of?
The terrorists, of course.
(Or at least those entities referred to as terrorists by the superpower coalition of states waging war against them.)
State-sponsored terror, when waged militarily and over the airwaves, is a virtually indomitable lever for gaining political influence, whether domestically or in foreign lands. There is no greater challenge than to defeat such a threat: the only entities that have successfully done so have been popular peoples’ resistance groups, like the ones in Gaza, S. Lebanon, and Iraq.
The popular Lebanese Resistance, led by Hizballah, has several notches on its belt in this regard, spanning back to the mid-80s. Most notably, they drove the U.S.-sponsored terrorist army of Israel out of most of South Lebanon in 2000, and handed the Zionist invaders a humiliating defeat again, in the Summer of 2006.
The most recent outbreak of internecine violence in Lebanon has been blamed on the Hizballah-led people’s opposition, but was really set up to be a pretext for a 60th Anniversary Israeli bash on the Lebanese people, planned by U.S. and Israeli entities — like the Israeli campaign of terror upon the Lebanese people in 2006. Unfortunately for the terrorist entities, however, Hizballah just so happened to be the most prolific anti-terror force on the planet, and it showed. They swiftly snuffed out the U.S. and Israeli scheme before it could gain any momentum, causing the Israelis to call off their ill-advised plan.
Now, the Hizballah-led opposition and the U.S.-suckling majority government in Beirut are hashing out the details on a unity government, and the quisling majority has rescinded its earlier-stated, U.S.- and Israeli-instructed intentions of sabotaging Hizballah’s ability to wage future anti-terror battles in defense of the Lebanese people.
Another entity with a good record of defense against state-sponsored terror is the popular Palestinian Resistance, led by Hamas.
After Hamas’ January 2006, Parliamentary election victory over rival party Fatah, Israeli Zionazi and U.S. government terrorist Elliot Abrams (Iran-Contra pal of Oliver “suspend the Constitution” North’s) was so humiliated that he planned an armed coup against the legitimate, popular majority party in Palestine. The operation failed miserably: Hamas blew up the U.S./Israeli/Jordanian-supported Fatah insurrection, despite Hamas cabinet ministers, militia members, and supporters being snatched up by the dozen and sometimes assassinated by Israel terrorists for over a year prior to the actual operation.
Meanwhile, U.S. and Israeli war-planners have not had to face such existential threats, yet can not seem to prosecute their own massively-funded projection of guilt known as the “war on terror” against what they call “rag-tag militias.” No members of “al Qaeda” (the officially-alleged, “cave-dwelling” perpetrators of the September 11, 2001, attacks on U.S. soil) have been brought to ethical justice, and Osama bin Laden (the allegedly-breathing financial backer and spiritual co-leader of the neocon-named group alleged to have committed the evil acts) isn’t even on the FBI’smost wanted list. 17 of the 19 alleged hijackers were from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, yet the U.S. coalition has been waging aggressive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq against everyone but the suspects. What’s up with that?
The neocon-Likudniks are losing so heinously at their own sadistic war games; they can’t remember which terrorist group they hired last. This is especially true in Iraq, where the U.S. war-schemers have harbored, funded, and armed various militant groups for the purpose of propagating sectarian violence, thus providing an excuse for permanent military occupation of Baghdad and job security for the Military-Industrial Complex in the region. (And they call Iran the world’s leading sponsor of terror.)
But no matter which sectarian or regional militia the neocon-Likudniks are employing at any given time, the people’s Resistance of Iraq know a real terror threat when they see it.
In March of 2004, four U.S.-sponsored mercenaries from the Resistance-designated terrorist group, Blackwater, were killed by everyday Iraqis who were defending their turf in Fallujah. (Blackwater is the same U.S.-based, militant group that was hired by the DHS [Department of Hitlers and Stalins] to commit terror upon the victims of Hurricane Katrina, assisting the U.S. Gestapo [ATF, DHS-infiltrated local police, etc.] with disarming and brutalizing otherwise peaceful and law-abiding citizens on their property and publicly. Not only is that a violent subversion of the U.S. Constitution upon the people; it is domestic terrorism.) Their bodies shouldn’t have been mutilated and burned and suspended from a bridge the way they were: that’s sick and evil. But the Blackwater militants were no angels themselves, and they were killed on the battlefield by their chosen enemies.
Speaking of neocon-Likudnik treachery and self-humiliation in Iraq…
British militant forces withdrew from Southern Iraq due to the success of grass-roots Iraqi resistance groups like Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army, which has successfully fought off U.S.-sponsored terror and continues to be a thorn in the side of neocon-Likudnik terrorists to this day.
Iraqi police, are not too shabby at counter-terrorism either. They played a part in the British withdrawal by apprehending British SAS terrorists who were posing as Arab insurgents (”terrorists”) in Basra, armed with explosives and donning authentic Arab dress. Of course their state sponsors busted them out of jail with tanks and helicopters almost immediately, presumably to avoid the possibility of exposing to the world the bigger, U.S.-Israeli-British complex of false flag operations that have bolstered phony neocon talking points about sectarian violence and insurgency. (Who, again, are the biggest sponsors of terrorism?)
What separates the successful anti-terror resistance groups from the rogue U.S. and Israeli state sponsors of terror is that the resistance groups (”terrorists”) are on their own turf battling foreign invaders. That’s called lawful defense—a concept the neocons, to their perpetual detriment, have no respect for. And when resistance groups whoop big-bad military states under those circumstances, it makes the superpower aggressors look evil, cowardly, and self-defeating—as neocon-Likudniks are anyway.
Using the power of state, the U.S. and Israeli regimes commit genocide as their accomplices in corporate media Orwellianly sell it all to the world as “defending our way of life” and a “clash of civilizations” where we are the “good” and they are the “evil.”
But no matter how they flood the airwaves and the press with propaganda—labeling this, that, and the other people’s militia as terrorist organizations with a rock’s sense of irony—the record speaks for itself on whom the most prolific sponsors, doers, and extinguishers of terrorism are.
When Israeli-occupied Palestinians cast stones at Israeli tanks, helicopters, jeeps, and militants, they are doing it with the world embracing them in the knowledge that they didn’t cast the first one.
That’s the spirit of the people’s resistance to state aggression, the righteousness of self-defense, and counter-terrorism at its finest.
Written by Dan Alba, originally published 23 May 2008 on Detain This
Thanks to Friends of Lebanon www.friendsoflebanon.org