28 dec 2008
ISRAEL: No civilian casualties in Gaza!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlZd3vR6Kzk
13 nov 2011
IDF Rehearsed Scenario Like Itamar Infiltration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwBaIto2ZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwwUKPFacNc
(and 16 nov 2011)
Shin Bet arrests two West Bank terror cells
ISRAEL: No civilian casualties in Gaza!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlZd3vR6Kzk
13 nov 2011
IDF Rehearsed Scenario Like Itamar Infiltration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwBaIto2ZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwwUKPFacNc
(and 16 nov 2011)
Shin Bet arrests two West Bank terror cells
- The (True) history of the zionist state of Israel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9m74Eb_k1s
19 oct 2011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeQmRHbtm7A
24 oct 2010
Prager University: The Middle East Problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63hTOaRu7h4
27 oct 2010
THE PALESTINIANS MADE THE DESERT BLOOM : ZIONIST LIES ABOUT PALESTINE BEING A LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE.
1948 Lest We Forget has obtained a copy of the full Survey of Palestine (Including the map survey) for its records. The following outline extracts shed more light on the Zionist lies about Palestine being a land without people. We recommend that Survey to all our Supporters.
1948: LEST WE FORGET
www.1948.org.uk
In December 1945 and January 1946, the British Mandate authorities carried out an extensive survey of Palestine , in support of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine . The results were published in the Survey of Palestine, which has been scanned and made available online by Palestine Remembered; all 1300 pages can be read here http://amzn.to/d6gXBw , http://bit.ly/bCluCT and http://bit.ly/bj487L .
One of the subjects investigated in the Survey of Palestine is land use; specifically, which crops were Palestine's leading agricultural products at the end of the British Mandate, and whose farms were producing them.
So, according to the Survey of Palestine,
who really made the barley fields of Beersheba bloom?
The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 210,000 tons of grain.
About 193,400 tons of that grain were cultivated on Palestinian farms; about 16,600 tons were cultivated on Jewish farms.
See the precise numbers, from a scan of the relevant page of the Survey of Palestine , http://bit.ly/ctWZ9P
Who made the melon patches of Jaffa bloom?
The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 143,000 tons of melons.
About 136,000 tons of those melons were cultivated on Palestinian farms; a little over 7,000 tons were cultivated on Jewish farms.
See the precise numbers, from a scan of the relevant page of the Survey of Palestine , http://bit.ly/dpCLy9
Who made the tobacco fields of Safad bloom?
The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 1,683 tons of tobacco, on 28,169 dunams of land. Virtually all the land under tobacco cultivation was Palestinian.
Who made the vineyards of Hebron bloom?
The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 40-50,000 tons of grapes, and between 3-4 million litres of wine. About 86% of the land that produced these products was owned and cultivated by Palestinians.
See a scan of the relevant page of the Survey of Palestine here http://bit.ly/bzgXg7 .
Who made the olive groves of Tulkarm bloom?
The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 79,000 tons of olives.
About 78,000 tons of those olives were cultivated on Palestinian farms; a little over 1,000 tons were cultivated on Jewish farms.
See the precise numbers, from a scan of the relevant page of the Survey of Palestine, here http://bit.ly/dpCLy9 and here http://bit.ly/dj0dkk .
Who made the banana groves of Tiberias bloom?
The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 8,000 tons of bananas.
About 60% of the land that produced these bananas was owned and cultivated by Palestinians.
See the relevant page of the Survey of Palestine, here http://bit.ly/9Qewtw .
Who made the vegetable fields of the coastal plain bloom?
The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 245,000 tons of vegetables.
About 189,000 tons of those vegetables were cultivated by Palestinian farmers; about 56,000 tons were cultivated by Jewish farmers.
See the precise numbers, from a scan of the relevant page of the Survey of Palestine, here http://bit.ly/dpCLy9 .
So, on the eve of the partition resolution, in which the United Nations proposed to allocate 55 percent of the land to Jewish Palestine (including those parts that produced most of Palestine's leading crops, with the sole exception of the olive crop), and 45% to Arab Palestine, Palestinian Arabs were producing:
92% of Palestines grain
86% of its grapes
99% of its olives
77 % of its vegetables
95% of its melons
more than 99% of its tobacco
and 60% of its bananas.
Palestine's agricultural produce at that time had an annual value of approximately 21.8 million pounds sterling; 17.1 million of which was produced by Arab cultivation, and 4.7 million by Jewish cultivation. (See the exact numbers here http://bit.ly/9Otr71 ).
So, who made the desert bloom? The Palestinians made the desert bloom.
Photos: All the photographs of Palestinian farmers cultivating their crops in Palestine under the British Mandate are from Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History Of The Palestinians 1876 1948, by Walid Khalidi.
http://bit.ly/amgqfm
2 nov 2010, 16:09 , Respect -
Maria 31 oct 2010
GORDON DUFF: BOMBS, TERRORISM AND MANURE
TYPICAL MUSLIM TERRORIST (NOTE STAR OF DAVID TATTOO)
IS THAT A BOMB IN YOUR PANTS OR ARE YOU JUST GLAD TO SEE ME?
Worse still, the terrorists father, described by the press as a Muslim banker turned out to be a partner in an Israeli managed defense company and a close friend of the CIA.
Never was America, its freedoms and security less free and less secure as when Michael Chertoff was watching over us.
Last week, we were told courier services were carrying powerful and undetectable bombs, sent from Yemen, mailed to Chicago synagogues to strike out at America's Jewish population just before the elections. This would seem like a credible terrorist act if it were not for a few things:
* Recent debunked terror threats, Adam Perlman Gadahn, the actor playing American Taliban and the long dead Osama bin Laden had both issued terror alerts that had, as usual, made no reference to Israel or Palestinians. This time, the press noticed and Israel became suspect number one as to the real origin of these threats.
* Wikileaks has also been outed as a source unique in its protection of Israel and its interests. Reports have been proven to be, not only altered or falsified, but carefully filtered using PROMIS software, proving high level government complicity in filtering and fabricating data. Today, Israel announced that Wikileaks proves they were singled out by the UN for investigation for atrocities in Gaza as proven by the Goldstone Report. They now ask for a similar investigation of the United States, a nation they used to consider an ally, the nation that underwrites their economy with massive economic aid.
* Newspaper reports, so often horribly unreliable, have universally misrepresented the nature of the explosive used, PETN, its detectability and function. This is not a minor thing, not at all. Literally hundreds of reporters were fed information easily disproven in Wikipedia.
We have seen it all before. Last Christmas, the Crotch Bomber was another PETN/Yemen terror fiasco. Press stories blamed Al Qaeda and were ready to build this into a new 9/11 except that reliable witnesses, Detroit area attorneys, saw the terrorist, no passport, no visa, escorted onto the plane. Before that, newspapers said the bomber had a diplomatic passport, a visa and had evaded security.
Security put him on the plane, security employed by a company whose management and employees are largely IDF and Mossad and whose owners are Israeli.
Worse still, the terrorists father, described by the press as a Muslim banker turned out to be a partner in an Israeli managed defense company and a close friend of the CIA.
Now we have the arrest, today, of a young woman in Yemen, one with no ties to extremist organizations or terrorism. When this story is peeled away, beneath the spin, where will it go? The problem is, every story is spin and has to be discarded. What does this tell us?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNXb9NWPtcw
BOMB DETECTION MYTHOLOGY
Every newspaper in the country has reported that PETN, Pentaerythritol tetranitrate, is undetectable. Look at the word. See the part that says nitrate? Most common explosives are nitrates and there is nothing the least bit difficult about finding them. The game is simple. We now have to put a useless $5 million dollar Michael Chertoff package scanner in every post office in America to find explosives easily detected by 1970s technology. This is the heart of mythology and the racketeers that run, not only counter-terrorism but may well in fact run terrorism as well.
30 years ago, I was talking with my good friend Leo Crampsey about portable explosive detectors. Those of you who know Leo, know him as the last man up the ladder in 1975, last American to leave the embassy in Saigon as South.
State's Security Bureau Takes on Expanded Role
State Department security personnel shield Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The department's security unit provides protection for some foreign leaders.
Protective Force Grows in Terror Era
By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 7, 2004; Page A21
The State Department likes to call it the harbinger of both the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security.
One of the department's least-known operations emerged in the heated early days of World War I, when Secretary of State Robert Lansing was determined to hire someone to help him with security, espionage and intelligence threats, including the sensitive issue of tracking, expelling or interning diplomats from countries that were suddenly enemies. There was no CIA.
But wartime resources were tight in 1916, so the first "special agent" was paid out of Lansing's own pocket, according to State Department lore.
One agent soon grew to eight in the new Bureau of Secret Intelligence. But the quiet operation remained largely unknown even within government circles.
Nine decades later, with almost 1,400 special agents and a staff of 32,000, the renamed Bureau of Diplomatic Security has more agents deployed around the world than any other U.S. law enforcement agency. Its diverse and often dangerous missions are now on the frontline of the war on terrorism. Yet it remains little known -- deliberately.
At the recent Olympics, Diplomatic Security had about 100 agents embedded with the U.S. men's swimming team, women's gymnastics and several other teams, again more than any of the half-dozen or so U.S. agencies deployed in Athens.
During the 1995 raid in Islamabad, Pakistan, that captured World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, two agents were in the raid with Pakistani forces who seized him -- while the FBI waited outside. One agent had been the first to speak with the walk-in informant who identified Yousef's hideout. He then coordinated plans for the raid with Pakistani security forces.
Since the end of the U.S.-led occupation in Iraq on June 28, Diplomatic Security has taken over protection of the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the largest diplomatic operation by any nation in the world.
It is also in charge of shielding about 7,000 American staff and many more relatives at the 265 U.S. embassies and consulates in 180 countries, an increasingly challenging mission since the 1998 bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania by al Qaeda. More than 200 were killed and more than 1,000 were injured in those al Qaeda attacks.
"The long tradition of diplomacy also has been marked by more sacrifice than most Americans will ever know. There are few professions more dangerous than the practice of foreign affairs, and there are few professionals who put more on the line for this nation than the agents of the Diplomatic Security service," Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage said last year.
In a role symbolic of its mission, one of the last people in the final helicopter to evacuate the U.S. Embassy during the fall of Saigon in 1975 was Leo Crampsey, Diplomatic Security's regional security officer, according to the State Department.
But its mission is far more than protection, U.S. officials say. Diplomatic Security is also in charge of investigations, from threats against the United States' diplomatic facilities overseas to visa and passport fraud, a central component in the war on terrorism.
Diplomatic Security's mission has expanded again recently to include the same service for foreign leaders. In Afghanistan, the bureau that normally protects Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and other high-profile U.S. diplomats is also now providing protection for President Hamid Karzai.
In Haiti, Diplomatic Security is protecting the interim president and prime minister while its agents train a new unit to replace them.
http://wapo.st/dyqJhb
LEO CRAMPSEY (LEFT) WITH FIDEL CASTRO
In a role symbolic of its mission (the Diplomatic Security Service), one of the last people in the final helicopter to evacuate the U.S. Embassy during the fall of Saigon in 1975 was Leo Crampsey, Diplomatic Security's regional security officer, according to the State Department.
CRAMPSEY WITH GERMAN CHANCELLOR ADENAUER AND SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN FOSTER DULLES
We had gotten a new British model, one extremely effective at detecting nitrate based explosives like PETN. It was very portable, rechargeable battery, and a good application for use by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Letter bombs had become a big issue and inspecting mail received by the president while traveling became the first application.
This much can probably be said, considering the years that have passed. Suffice it to say, I have been around these technologies and counter-terrorism for awhile and recognize the smell of manure in today's press stories.
Counter-terrorism was a science long before 9/11 and the people of the United States had been looked after quite effectively for some time, before terrorism became an industry onto itself.
PETN
PETN is interesting stuff. It is actually a heart drug. There are more than a few ways to detect it, certainly those airport swabs can pick it up, sniffers and the newer scanners. It doesn't hold together well so you can't shape it as with other explosives unless you mix it with something else. It also requires a trigger of some kind, another explosive device, something that makes it even easier to detect. Ah, but the press doesn't care about any of this, they are willing to fabricate stories about the new magic undetectable explosive, one that requires that airports, post offices, courier companies, all buy new inspection equipment.
Former head of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, represents many of the companies that make this extremely expensive equipment. Do we want to say who owns these companies? This, and a few things about Chertoff leap out at us in a second. Never was America, its freedoms and security less free and less secure as when Michael Chertoff was watching over us.
The smell we get is false flag.
HOW BIG IS THE THREAT OF FALSE FLAG TERRORISTS?
False Flag means terror for profit. One thing the 9/11 Truth movement never looks at is the money trail. Who profited from 9/11? So often the ideas about terrorism, the ones sold by the media, seem a bit thin.
You hate America because of what? You're kidding!
Terrorism is 90% industry and 10% crazy Arab extremists. When we are told to believe a cover story about a terrorist attack, we are asked to discount the very well established fact that intelligence agencies are all, in reality, the real terrorist organization. They do the assassinations, the bombings and certainly are the ones who get the crazy and too often childish threats spread across the media. Terrorism is how they work. They do two things, they get information and they influence events.
Influence.
This means bribe, this means blackmail but mostly it means murder, terrorism and lots and lots of doing things to blame on someone else. This, in fact, is the very heart of most intelligence agency activities and always has been. Then why does our media pretend none of this is what we know it to be when half the TV shows, books and movies we see talk about little else. Try getting a job with the Mossad or CIA if you can't speak Arabic or look like a cardboard cutout terrorist.
When two idiots in Kansas City want to blow something up, probably because they have seen it done on TV so many times or just got their orders from, yes that long dead Osama bin Laden, orders relayed to them by ABC News, the help they get, where do you think it comes from? Look at Oklahoma City. Without delving into conspiracy theory, nothing added up there. Every terror attack since has had some kind of cover-up involved or as Colonel Shaffer calls it, whitewash.
WHO PROFITS FROM FALSE FLAG TERROR?
The first thing to come to mind is, of course, scaring the public to stop looking at their own government, its mismanagement, the massive corruption and the foreign influence that many say makes America seem more and more like a colony. The invasion of Iraq had some very interesting aspects to it, too many to count but these are worth looking at:
* The phony intelligence created to justify the attack on Iraq was created prior to 9/11 but was written as an answer to 9/11. Are there really psychics?
* The invasion of Iraq, in answer to 9/11 2001, was planned as early as 1999 or before, by people who weren't even in government yet. Are there really psychics?
Look at Iraq alone. Haliburton Corporation, an oil tool company once headed by Dick Cheney began selling food, water, in fact everything imaginable to the US government on no bid and cost-plus contracts with no oversight whatsoever. Dirty water, electrocuted troops, unfinished projects, massive overruns and worse were the result, that and endless billions misplaced.
Bush political insiders formed companies overnight and were awarded contracts for everything imaginable, in reality, funding political dirty tricks and election rigging in the US at the same time, the same way the drug profits from Afghanistan are being laundered back into congressional campaigns for the upcoming 2010 election.
Our ill planned invasion, now termed a war crime by almost everyone, turned into an insurgency, then a civil war and finally a total disaster for the United States, leaving Iraq unstable and believed by many under the total control of Iran.
If anyone can find a war aim other than stealing money from America and oil from Iraq, please let me know.
THE DANGER OF PRESS COMPLICITY
When Israel attacked the Mavi Marmara in international waters, executing 9 humanitarian activists and then photoshopped video for the press, piracy and terrorism by a government have never been as obvious. When Israel demonstrated its stranglehold on the press, suppressing news stories quite openly, it signaled to the world that we live under a real terror threat that has nothing to do with Islam or extremism.
Abuses like this, the news media totally discredited, only embolden profiteers who would use terror as a daily business practice. Yes, terrorism is nothing but a way of drumming up business, selling body scanners, bulldozers to knock down homes, drones to bomb weddings and funerals, endless think tanks and consultants who all do nothing but misdirect, misinform, mislead and, in reality, betray.
Terrorism is organized crime in its purist form, managed from Wall Street and New York, perhaps Washington, London and Tel Aviv also, maybe more so.
With the news, our military, the intelligence agencies, the drug cartels, big oil and defense all inexorably tied together financially, an endless revolving door, defended by a totally complicit and equally guilty press, terrorism can be expected to remain the only growth industry in the world. Thus, the only safe investment in America today....terrorism.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/31/gordon-duff-bombs-terrorism-and-manure/ 13 nov 2010, 23:00 , Respect -
Maria 20 nov 2010
Settlers accused activists of arson, but video shows otherwise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc-mM2_7uAo
One week after Ynet reported settlers claims that anarchists and Palestinians were filmed committing arson in a field in the West Bank, Maan News published a video clip and report supplied by people who participated in the incident. The video obtained by Maan shows that the settlers were well, let's just say they were mistaken (I am feeling generous today).
In a November 7 item headlined Leftists filmed torching Gush Etzion land, Ynet reports as follows:
Six foreign nationals and Palestinians set fires alight near the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin in the Gush Etzion bloc. Police said the suspects were taken in for questioning on suspicion of arson and illegal congregation.
Settlers said that at about 11 am they saw fires on lands they said belonged to Bat Ayin. Security sources said it was apparently land whose ownership is not regulated.
A video clip, filmed from a distance by settlers from Bat Ayin, an extremist settlement established illegally in the early 1990s, is embedded on the Ynet report page. The caption on the video is, Caught on camera: anarchists at work.
The rest of the article continues in a similarly editorialized fashion. It is, to put it bluntly, a piece of far-right propaganda that is totally unsuited to what is supposed to be a credible, mainstream news source. It is the most appalling, crap excuse for journalism that I've seen in a very long time.
In the Ynet piece, a settler leader says that anarchists from abroad were helping Palestinians to establish facts on the ground by burning "state land." In fact, the land belongs to the Palestinian village of Saffa, which is in the occupied West Bank. It most certainly does not belong to the State of Israel at least, not according to international law.
The Ynet reporter did not trouble to obtain a statement from any of the people seen in the video or from any other Palestinian source. None of the foreign activists is quoted; and no evidence is presented to support the theory that they are anarchists.
A few days ago, Ma'an News published a report accompanied by a video of the same field-burning incident. This time, however, the video was filmed from up close by people who were in the fields. It turns out that some activists associated with the International Solidarity Movement were helping Palestinian farmers from the village of Saffa to clear weeds from their own land, in preparation for replanting.
The group was assisting Palestinian farmers clearing weeds on farmland to prepare it for replanting, one international told Ma'an. Part of that work necessitated burning various piles of brush in bundles controlled by dirt and stones, he said noting that the method is typical among farmers across the West Bank.
In the Ynet report, the last line is a quote from Shaul Goldstein, head of the Gush Etzion Council. Whoever loves this land, does not burn it. That is an extraordinary statement, coming from a settler, given that settlers burned more Palestinian olive groves this year than on any previous year.
http://bit.ly/dqZsZ1
9 dec 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woIuFRL1Q6g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKOmLP4yHb4
Manipulated radio communications Flotilla/Israely Navy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6KYf3DV25E
This 7 minute segment about the radio communications between the Flotilla and the Israeli navy shows that the Israeli spokesman doesn't appear to know that the Mavi Marmara was on a different channel than channel 16. This is important, because the Israeli spin doctors said and continue to say that the comments purported to come from the Mavi Marmara, followed by comments from Huwaida Arraf had to be on the same channel.
There is no evidence that these comments came from any of our ships. It's more likely they came from somewhere else, including the possibility of Israel itself.
The commentary is in Swedish, but the Israeli spokesperson and Huwaida speak in English.
original video : http://svtplay.se/v/2262359/den_manip...
Israel Taps Every Single Phone In America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6u8KVIi0M
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Maria Gaza War Lies Vs. Facts (mirror)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNlVQhJ_U2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spl5j7Yi4eE -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRisp8EIRIM -
Maria 3 jan 2011
Netanyahu talks about the demonstrations, 21/6/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-73nf6dea8
Netanyahu talks about the courageous demonstrations in Bili'n... sorry, in Iran.
Reporters Call tzipi Livni Terrorist and a Murderer During DC Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaZj1da5YbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnLyDOjfusQ
israel LIES about GAZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GCJsfVBo-8
We Are Not Allowed to Critize Israel!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXAbHHgxT6o
31 mrt 2011
SIEGMAN: Israel’s lies 15Jan09
Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza: that Hamas consistently violated the six-month truce that Israel observed and then refused to extend it; that Israel therefore had no choice but to destroy Hamas’s capacity to launch missiles into Israeli towns; that Hamas is a terrorist organisation, part of a global jihadi network; and that Israel has acted not only in its own defence but on behalf of an international struggle by Western democracies against this network.
I am not aware of a single major American newspaper, radio station or TV channel whose coverage of the assault on Gaza questions this version of events. Criticism of Israel’s actions, if any (and there has been none from the Bush administration), has focused instead on whether the IDF’s carnage is proportional to the threat it sought to counter, and whether it is taking adequate measures to prevent civilian casualties.
Middle East peacemaking has been smothered in deceptive euphemisms, so let me state bluntly that each of these claims is a lie. Israel, not Hamas, violated the truce: Hamas undertook to stop firing rockets into Israel; in return, Israel was to ease its throttlehold on Gaza. In fact, during the truce, it tightened it further. This was confirmed not only by every neutral international observer and NGO on the scene but by Brigadier General (Res.) Shmuel Zakai, a former commander of the IDF’s Gaza Division. In an interview in Ha’aretz on 22 December, he accused Israel’s government of having made a ‘central error’ during the tahdiyeh, the six-month period of relative truce, by failing ‘to take advantage of the calm to improve, rather than markedly worsen, the economic plight of the Palestinians of the Strip …
When you create a tahdiyeh, and the economic pressure on the Strip continues,’ General Zakai said, ‘it is obvious that Hamas will try to reach an improved tahdiyeh, and that their way to achieve this is resumed Qassam fire … You cannot just land blows, leave the Palestinians in Gaza in the economic distress they’re in, and expect that Hamas will just sit around and do nothing.’
The truce, which began in June last year and was due for renewal in December, required both parties to refrain from violent action against the other. Hamas had to cease its rocket assaults and prevent the firing of rockets by other groups such as Islamic Jihad (even Israel’s intelligence agencies acknowledged this had been implemented with surprising effectiveness), and Israel had to put a stop to its targeted assassinations and military incursions. This understanding was seriously violated on 4 November, when the IDF entered Gaza and killed six members of Hamas.
Hamas responded by launching Qassam rockets and Grad missiles. Even so, it offered to extend the truce, but only on condition that Israel ended its blockade. Israel refused. It could have met its obligation to protect its citizens by agreeing to ease the blockade, but it didn’t even try. It cannot be said that Israel launched its assault to protect its citizens from rockets. It did so to protect its right to continue the strangulation of Gaza’s population.
Everyone seems to have forgotten that Hamas declared an end to suicide bombings and rocket fire when it decided to join the Palestinian political process, and largely stuck to it for more than a year. Bush publicly welcomed that decision, citing it as an example of the success of his campaign for democracy in the Middle East. (He had no other success to point to.)
When Hamas unexpectedly won the election, Israel and the US immediately sought to delegitimise the result and embraced Mahmoud Abbas, the head of Fatah, who until then had been dismissed by Israel’s leaders as a ‘plucked chicken’. They armed and trained his security forces to overthrow Hamas; and when Hamas – brutally, to be sure – pre-empted this violent attempt to reverse the result of the first honest democratic election in the modern Middle East, Israel and the Bush administration imposed the blockade.
Israel seeks to counter these indisputable facts by maintaining that in withdrawing Israeli settlements from Gaza in 2005, Ariel Sharon gave Hamas the chance to set out on the path to statehood, a chance it refused to take; instead, it transformed Gaza into a launching-pad for firing missiles at Israel’s civilian population.
The charge is a lie twice over. First, for all its failings, Hamas brought to Gaza a level of law and order unknown in recent years, and did so without the large sums of money that donors showered on the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority. It eliminated the violent gangs and warlords who terrorised Gaza under Fatah’s rule. Non-observant Muslims, Christians and other minorities have more religious freedom under Hamas rule than they would have in Saudi Arabia, for example, or under many other Arab regimes.
The greater lie is that Sharon’s withdrawal from Gaza was intended as a prelude to further withdrawals and a peace agreement. This is how Sharon’s senior adviser Dov Weisglass, who was also his chief negotiator with the Americans, described the withdrawal from Gaza, in an interview with Ha’aretz in August 2004:
What I effectively agreed to with the Americans was that part of the settlements [i.e. the major settlement blocks on the West Bank] would not be dealt with at all, and the rest will not be dealt with until the Palestinians turn into Finns … The significance [of the agreement with the US] is the freezing of the political process. And when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and you prevent a discussion about the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package that is called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed from our agenda indefinitely. And all this with [President Bush’s] authority and permission … and the ratification of both houses of Congress.
Do the Israelis and Americans think that Palestinians don’t read the Israeli papers, or that when they saw what was happening on the West Bank they couldn’t figure out for themselves what Sharon was up to?
Israel’s government would like the world to believe that Hamas launched its Qassam rockets because that is what terrorists do and Hamas is a generic terrorist group. In fact, Hamas is no more a ‘terror organisation’ (Israel’s preferred term) than the Zionist movement was during its struggle for a Jewish homeland. In the late 1930s and 1940s, parties within the Zionist movement resorted to terrorist activities for strategic reasons.
According to Benny Morris, it was the Irgun that first targeted civilians. He writes in Righteous Victims that an upsurge of Arab terrorism in 1937 ‘triggered a wave of Irgun bombings against Arab crowds and buses, introducing a new dimension to the conflict’. He also documents atrocities committed during the 1948-49 war by the IDF, admitting in a 2004 interview, published in Ha’aretz, that material released by Israel’s Ministry of Defence showed that ‘there were far more Israeli acts of massacre than I had previously thought …
In the months of April-May 1948, units of the Haganah were given operational orders that stated explicitly that they were to uproot the villagers, expel them, and destroy the villages themselves.’ In a number of Palestinian villages and towns the IDF carried out organised executions of civilians. Asked by Ha’aretz whether he condemned the ethnic cleansing, Morris replied that he did not:
A Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of 700,000 Palestinians. Therefore it was necessary to uproot them. There was no choice but to expel that population. It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland and cleanse the border areas and cleanse the main roads. It was necessary to cleanse the villages from which our convoys and our settlements were fired on.
In other words, when Jews target and kill innocent civilians to advance their national struggle, they are patriots. When their adversaries do so, they are terrorists.
It is too easy to describe Hamas simply as a ‘terror organisation’. It is a religious nationalist movement that resorts to terrorism, as the Zionist movement did during its struggle for statehood, in the mistaken belief that it is the only way to end an oppressive occupation and bring about a Palestinian state. While Hamas’s ideology formally calls for that state to be established on the ruins of the state of Israel, this doesn’t determine Hamas’s actual policies today any more than the same declaration in the PLO charter determined Fatah’s actions.
These are not the conclusions of an apologist for Hamas but the opinions of the former head of Mossad and Sharon’s national security adviser, Ephraim Halevy. The Hamas leadership has undergone a change ‘right under our very noses’, Halevy wrote recently in Yedioth Ahronoth, by recognising that ‘its ideological goal is not attainable and will not be in the foreseeable future.’ It is now ready and willing to see the establishment of a Palestinian state within the temporary borders of 1967.
Halevy noted that while Hamas has not said how ‘temporary’ those borders would be, ‘they know that the moment a Palestinian state is established with their co-operation, they will be obligated to change the rules of the game: they will have to adopt a path that could lead them far from their original ideological goals.’ In an earlier article, Halevy also pointed out the absurdity of linking Hamas to al-Qaida.
In the eyes of al-Qaida, the members of Hamas are perceived as heretics due to their stated desire to participate, even indirectly, in processes of any understandings or agreements with Israel. [The Hamas political bureau chief, Khaled] Mashal’s declaration diametrically contradicts al-Qaida’s approach, and provides Israel with an opportunity, perhaps a historic one, to leverage it for the better.
Why then are Israel’s leaders so determined to destroy Hamas? Because they believe that its leadership, unlike that of Fatah, cannot be intimidated into accepting a peace accord that establishes a Palestinian ‘state’ made up of territorially disconnected entities over which Israel would be able to retain permanent control. Control of the West Bank has been the unwavering objective of Israel’s military, intelligence and political elites since the end of the Six-Day War.[*] They believe that Hamas would not permit such a cantonisation of Palestinian territory, no matter how long the occupation continues. They may be wrong about Abbas and his superannuated cohorts, but they are entirely right about Hamas.
Middle East observers wonder whether Israel’s assault on Hamas will succeed in destroying the organisation or expelling it from Gaza. This is an irrelevant question. If Israel plans to keep control over any future Palestinian entity, it will never find a Palestinian partner, and even if it succeeds in dismantling Hamas, the movement will in time be replaced by a far more radical Palestinian opposition.
If Barack Obama picks a seasoned Middle East envoy who clings to the idea that outsiders should not present their own proposals for a just and sustainable peace agreement, much less press the parties to accept it, but instead leave them to work out their differences, he will assure a future Palestinian resistance far more extreme than Hamas – one likely to be allied with al-Qaida. For the US, Europe and most of the rest of the world, this would be the worst possible outcome. Perhaps some Israelis, including the settler leadership, believe it would serve their purposes, since it would provide the government with a compelling pretext to hold on to all of Palestine. But this is a delusion that would bring about the end of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
Anthony Cordesman, one of the most reliable military analysts of the Middle East, and a friend of Israel, argued in a 9 January report for the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the tactical advantages of continuing the operation in Gaza were outweighed by the strategic cost – and were probably no greater than any gains Israel may have made early in the war in selective strikes on key Hamas facilities. ‘Has Israel somehow blundered into a steadily escalating war without a clear strategic goal, or at least one it can credibly achieve?’ he asks. ‘Will Israel end in empowering an enemy in political terms that it defeated in tactical terms? Will Israel’s actions seriously damage the US position in the region, any hope of peace, as well as moderate Arab regimes and voices in the process? To be blunt, the answer so far seems to be yes.’ Cordesman concludes that ‘any leader can take a tough stand and claim that tactical gains are a meaningful victory. If this is all that Olmert, Livni and Barak have for an answer, then they have disgraced themselves and damaged their country and their friends.’
Henry Siegman, director of the US Middle East Project in New York, is a visiting research professor at SOAS, University of London.
http://bit.ly/hVMkvw 10 jun 2011, 11:48 , Respect
Israeli Army Confessions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZI0IC4WVds
Mark Regev responds to IDF Soldiers Confessions of War Crimes in Gaza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtVEtKXUVs4
Israeli Confessions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6edg7OjLyw
Maria Interview with Israeli settlers June 2011
Unknown facts about violence and deceit - Interview with Israeli settlers June 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0MDKfyB4gE
24 juni 2011
Jewish Man Exposes Israel's Lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCKWDarNdGw
The General's Son. Miko Peled is a peace activist who dares to say in public what others still choose to deny. Born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family, his grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His Father, Matti Peled, was a young officer in the war of 1948 and a general in the war of 1967 when Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and Sinai.
Miko's unlikely opinions reflect his father's legacy. General Peled was a war hero turned peacemaker.
Miko grew up in Jerusalem, a multi-ethnic city, but had to leave Israel before he made his first Palestinian friend, the result of his participation in a dialogue group in California. He was 39.
On September 4, 1997 the beloved Smadar, 13, the daughter of Miko's sister Nurit and her husband Rami Elhanan was killed in a suicide attack.
Peled insists that Israel/Palestine is one state—the separation wall notwithstanding, massive investment in infrastructure, towns and highways that bisect and connect settlements on the West Bank, have destroyed the possibility for a viable Palestinian state. The result, Peled says is that Israelis and Palestinians are governed by the same government but live under different sets of laws.
At the heart of Peled's conclusion lies the realization that Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace as equals in their shared homeland.
24 juni 2011
Gaza-Bound Ships Pose Danger to Israeli Civilians
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KtK_TwjIo
Fox News Bias For Israel in Gaza Conflict?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovugclIWMEk
US Media Bias Israel Palestine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWWlRwSkZBA
19 jul 2011, 13:29 , Respect -
Maria How Israel Deceives The World: The Lies About Hamas Rockets - Fake Adverts
How Israel Deceives The World: The Lies About Hamas Rockets - Fake Adverts 1/2 1 x viewed
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3-YqZkoMs
- Israel Defense Forces report Rocket Attacks Toward Israel http://fwd4.me/zzV
How Israel Deceives The World: The Lies About Hamas Rockets - Fake Adverts 2/2
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRC1Fvaimgw
Maria Non violent demonstrations
Bil'in Riot (February 25, 2011 IDF version)
Bil'in Riot (February 25, 2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5N_IHMlfTY
Palestinian version
Bilin weekly demonstration 25.02.2011 by [email protected]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exFhiqEkTgI
Violent Riot in West Bank Village of Bil'in, February 18 2011
(IDF version)
Violent Riot in West Bank Village of Bil'in, February 18 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um-6VBVluvY
Hundreds mark six years of resistance in Bil'in, 18.2.2011
Palestinian version
bilin marks six years of struggle 18-02-2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isLkHw0L40c
Hundreds mark six years of resistance in Bil'in, 18.2.2011, by [email protected] -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnH9a_2BQIk
Maria 30 juni 2011
Hamas, and Flotilla 2, Human Rights Activists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_1qZ5dN_As
3 juli 2011
Why Is There A Flotilla To Gaza?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR6h-HpIrwk
21 aug 2011
Eilat Attacks and Escalation in Gaza
A deadly three-pronged attack by unidentified gunmen on Israeli soldiers and civilians near the Red Sea resort town of Eilat on Thursday triggered a serious escalation in violence, with Israel launching three nights of air raids on the Gaza Strip.
Following the attacks, Israeli forces also pursued the attackers into Egypt, where Egyptian security officers were shot dead, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
Prior attacks
Even before Thursday's attack, Israel carried out a series of deadly military actions in Gaza this week.
Early on Tuesday 16 August, Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike that killed a 29-year-old Palestinian man. The Israeli military said the strike was in response to a rocket from Gaza that caused no damage or injuries.
In a separate incident later on Tuesday, Israeli troops shot dead a teenager near Gaza's boundary with Israel. Palestinian medical officials said the teen was shot more than 10 times.
Triple strike
According to Britain's Guardian newspaper, six Israeli civilians and one soldier were killed during Thursday's triple attack.
In the first incident, men following a public bus opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles. The attack took place on Israel's Highway 12, about 12 miles north of the city of Eilat.
In the second incident, an Israeli military vehicle several miles away was hit by a roadside bomb, while mortars were fired at workers building a fence along Israel's border with Egypt.
The third incident was a gun battle between Israeli forces and militants. According to the UN peacekeeping force in the Sinai, Israeli forces pursued the gunmen across the Egyptian border, and an Israeli helicopter fired on Egyptian security officers, killing at least three of them.
Gaza blamed
Israeli officials immediately blamed the attacks on Palestinian armed groups from Gaza, claiming the gunmen crossed into the Sinai Peninsula through tunnels from Gaza, and then infiltrated Israel.
"This is not speculation, not conjecture, not joining the dots. They are sure these terrorists left Gaza," said Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev.
In the first Israeli airstrike following the Eilat attacks, Israel targeted the leadership of the Popular Resistance Committees, a secretive armed group in Gaza. According to the Palestinian news agency Maan, the strike hit the home of official Khaled Shaath, who was killed instantly. His two-year-old son Malek later died of injuries sustained in the strike.
The raid, in the city of Rafah, killed four other men reported to be senior members of the PRC.
Following the bombardment, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, "We have killed the heads of the organization that sent the terrorists."
Lack of evidence
Aside from the insistence of Israeli officials, no evidence has come to light clearly linking the Eilat incident to any group in Gaza. Indeed, Hamas and the PRC themselves denied responsibility for the attacks.
In addition, the governor of Egypt's North Sinai region, Abdel Wahab Mabruk, denied militants had entered the territory from Gaza, citing his country's heavy security presence in the area.
In a striking turnaround on Saturday, the Israeli military's chief spokesperson, Lt. Colonel Avital Leibovitz, denied that Israel blamed the PRC for the Eilat attack.
In an interview with The Real News Network's Lia Tarachansky, Leibovitz said, "We did not say that this group was responsible for the terror attack. We based this on intelligence information as well as some facts that [we] actually presented an hour ago to some wires and journalists."
Dubious Evidence Israeli Bus Attackers Based in Gaza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHewp5PkjJ8
'Volatile and dramatic week in store for Middle East'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bm3g8mlZng
As evidence that the attackers came from Gaza, she said, "Some of the findings that were from the bodies of the terrorists, and they are using, for example, Kalashnikov bullets and Kalashnikov rifles [which] are very common in Gaza."
Leibovitz's claim makes little sense, however, since the Kalashnikov is the most popular gun on the planet, with more than 75 million produced since the Second World War. Paul Woodward, the author of the blog War in Context, responded to this assertion saying, "that's about as logical as saying they know they came from Gaza because they appeared to be Arabs."
Gaza under fire
Despite the apparent lack of concrete evidence linking the Eilat attackers to groups in Gaza, Israel pressed ahead with an air offensive on Gaza.
The first night of airstrikes left a total of seven Palestinians dead, including a 13-year-old boy named Mahmoud Abu Samra, who according to medics was killed when Israeli warplanes struck a Hamas intelligence compound in Gaza City.
After three nights of Israeli bombardment, the death toll in Gaza stood at 14 Palestinians dead and more than 40 wounded.
The bombing also damaged civilian infrastructure, including government and NGO offices, water and sewage pumps, and a psychotherapy clinic.
Lopsided response
Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, including the PRC and the military wing of Hamas, responded to the Israeli strikes by launching rockets into Israeli territory.
Some of these rockets were homemade projectiles - so-called Qassam rockets - that ordinarily have a maximum range of five kilometers, although some have been recorded to fly up to 20 kilometers (12 miles). These crude rockets are completely unguided and rarely cause casualties.
Armed groups also fired Grad missiles, another primitive weapon, originally developed by the Soviet military in the 1960s. In contrast with the Qassam, however, the Grad is in fact a deadly weapon. One Israeli man was killed by a Grad fired from Gaza into the city of Beersheba on Friday.
By any measure, however, the armaments of the Palestinian guerilla fighters are no match for those of the Israeli armed forces. In three days of strikes on Gaza, the Israeli military has already used American-made F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters, along with unmanned aerial drones.
Israel is one of the best-armed states in the region, possessing more than 500 combat aircraft, more than 3,300 tanks, nuclear weapons, and its own communications and surveillance satellites.
End of the ceasefire
After 24 hours of strikes, the military wing of Hamas, Al-Qassam Brigades, announced on Friday that it no longer considers itself bound by a unilateral ceasefire that had been in place since the end of Israel's winter offensive in Gaza in 2009.
The truce was agreed upon by all of the armed factions in Gaza, and was periodically reaffirmed in consultations among the groups. However, a handful of small, radical Salafist groups refused to abide by the ceasefire.
In spite of intermittent confrontations, the ceasefire had produced relative calm in Gaza and its surroundings. The Hamas government took pains to enforce the truce, frequently jailing members of splinter groups who violated the agreement.
Hamas and the rival Fatah movement reaffirmed the ceasefire when they signed a reconciliation agreement in April 2011.
Although some Palestinian individuals and groups violated the ceasefire over the course of two and a half years, Israel has violated it with far more deadly consequences.
According to data compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, from the end of the 2009 offensive until 28 July 2011, Israeli military action killed 202 Palestinians in Gaza.
By contrast, during the same period, according to the UN database, Palestinian armed groups killed only three Israeli soldiers. Israeli government data show that Palestinian shelling from Gaza during this time killed another two people.
http://imeu.net/news/article0021365.shtml
Jewish Man Exposes Israel's Lies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCKWDarNdGw
This author born in Israel condems Israeli policies and lies and reveals the truth about the zionist state. 25 oct 2011, 12:38 , Respect -
Maria 24 sept 2011
Wicked Witch Osama and Wizard Obama!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTAWlizUe1w -
Maria 2 nov 2011
Gaza Rocket Barrage against Israel Sparks War Talk
Gaza Rocket Barrage against Israel Sparks War Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egwxAccFUG0
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Weekend rocket attacks on southern Israel -- which killed one Israeli -- have sparked concerns that Israel could soon slide into a war.
"Terror does not allow Gaza citizens to live normally.... I am telling our [Arab] neighbors: You nor we want war. But Gaza missiles are a declaration of war," Israeli President Shimon Peres said hours after the deadly attacks.
Palestinian terrorists launched dozens of rockets, missiles and mortar shells at Israel over the weekend, killing one Israeli, leaving many in shock and doing extensive property damage.
Some of the rockets landed in Ashdod -- 22 miles from the Gaza Strip. Residents there say they are terrified.
"It's been really tense and really scary," Ashdod resident Terri Millstone told CBN News "You just don't know where it's going to come from."
The Israeli army released a video showing what it said were Palestinians preparing to launch a rocket at Israel.
Israel fought back, attacking terror targets in the Gaza Strip.
"The Israeli Defense Forces acted against the launching of rockets by terrorists from Gaza into Israel," said Mark Regev, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman. "They are trying to kill our civilians."
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for most of the rocket attacks, but experts say the terror group takes orders from Iran.
Netanyahu says Hamas is responsible for Gaza.
The violence follows the recent swap of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for hundreds of Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons. Hamas held Shalit captive in Gaza for more than five years.
Some say now that he's free, Israel should act more aggressively toward terrorists in Gaza.
The weekend escalation also comes as Palestinians continue their unilateral bid for statehood at the United Nations.
Israel says the move will lead to instability and potentially to violence. Israeli leaders are calling on the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table.
But many believe peace talks are unlikely now and are concerned Israel is in for troubled times ahead.
25 sept 2011
UN - Goldstone Gaza Report Col. Richard Kemp testifies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nYNacVCYa4
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Maria 9 nov 2011
Netanyahu: lying then, still lying now
Netanyahu admitted lying before Prepared by Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
Israeli PM Netanyahu: I "stopped" Oslo peace process - ENGLISH SUBTITLES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl60X_jOsR0
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I do not know why people are surprised at what Sarkozy and Obama said to each other in private about Netanyahu as a liar. This is after all the same Netanyahu who gave a speech to dozens of Likud Party members in Eilat in which he admitted this is his strategy. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (15 July 2001): “…giving his audience a bit of advice on how to deal with foreign interviewers (Netanyahu said):
‘Always, irrespective of whether you’re right or not, you must always present your side as right.’“ So Netanyahu admits lying and Sarkozy and Obama merely agreed with Netenyahu and most of the Israeli public that the current Israeli prime minister is a liar. And here is Netanyahyu, thinking cameras are off, bragging about how easy it is to manipulate the US and go around the Oslo commitments:
Sarkozy - Israeli PM Liar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kEnDcNojFg
The faux pas at the G20 apparently happened when Sarkozy and Obama were alone and a microphone connected to a media room was still on. Sarkozy apparently said to Obama at one point that he cannot stand Netanyahu who is a liar and Obama answered that he has to deal/work with him every day.
While unintentional this shows something more disturbing about politicians than the issue of lying (which they are well known for). They know what is right but they act based on fear of lobbies and they lie about what they know to their public. I think Western politicians buy the anti-Semitic notion of Jewish influence and control (a notion unfortunately propelled by Zionist Jews).
Israeli airforce (IAF)
Israel is begonnen, al meer dan 4o jaar geleden, wel75 jaar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0LS_La2ar0
As one Zionist leader once said “we rather be feared than loved.” And as anyone who knows fear (including the one Zionist spread among Jews), it is always the image of it than the reality that matters. I personally think that just a few more people acting on their convictions rather than on their fears would change things. If Obama and Sarkozy stand up to the Zionists while they are in office (not like Carter after he left office), what would happen?
The answer is: we will have a better world and these politicians would be more popular. I say this because I do not think Sarkozy is smarter than the average French or Obama smarter than the average American. The people know and the people do not like to be lied to and pulled to wars to serve the racist ideology of political Zionism. This is especially the case when the leaders of this ideology claim they want peace and security while they do everything in their powers to undermine peace and security.
Witness occupation Israeli soldiers told to cleanse Gaza
EXCLUSIVE IDF INTERVIEW - Israeli Soldiers Told To 'Cleanse' Gaza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pw8m4azLcg
Those of us who do not have memories stretching back decades, can at least think of the 2003 war on Iraq and who pushed for it, with what lies (WMD, terrorism etc) and what was their real motives (people like Perle, Wolfowitz, and yes Netanyahu). Now the same criminal gang is pushing for a war on Iran.
Israeli soldiers at Qalandia checkpoint
That's how it is in Qalandiya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNu0j0kHpiA
Unfortunately, like the war on Iraq, there are self-interested Arab leaders who think this is an opportunity to support the power that keeps them in power (US government which is under fear of influence of the lobbies). I am worried about the collusion of dictatorships in the Arabian Peninsula who (mistakenly) think that such a war might end the Arab spring.
But after my visit to Egypt and Jordan and talking with Arabs from other countries (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain etc), I am convinced that they (policy makers in Washington and Tel Aviv who push for war) are miscalculating again just like they did with Iraq. The neocon conservatives/Zionists who pushed for the war on Iraq believed it would strengthen Israeli hegemony. Instead it strengthened Iran and groups like Hezbollah and Hamas.
An attack on Iran might only accelerate the already evident decline in colonial power. I know some Palestinians would like to see that but others like me believe it is too costly in lives of Iranians and Israelis (and of course Iranian weapons will not distinguish Israeli from Palestinian lives as we are intricately mingled now thanks to Israeli colonial activities all over historic Palestine). I hope politicians in power see the danger before it is too late.
and here at an impromptu checkpoint
"Today: ease-ups at the checkpoint"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4prjjYC0EtI
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