- 10 apr 2012
Israel Is A Threat To All People On This Planet - Ken O'Keefe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFGCyW3xAhs
The Zionist State of Israel is engaging in massive human rights violations. "Israel is a truly rogue state that is threatening the safety and security of all people on this planet...The Palestinians in the eyes of the power structure within Israel are sub-human" - Ken O'Keefe.
MP Sarsour: Israel was built on Palestinian Blood
NAZARETH,(PIC)-- Ibrahim Sarsour, the Israeli-Arab member of the Knesset, said that Deir Yassin massacre was a turning point in the Palestinian people’s history, and to the Arab nation and Palestine as a homeland, followed by many critical moments that had very tragic and bloody results at the hands of the same Israeli occupation that still continues its bloody crimes against children, women and men.
Sarsour said in a press statement, on the 64th anniversary of Deir Yassin massacre, that on the 9th of April in each year, while the Jewish people celebrate "the Israeli independence day”, the Palestinian people commemorate Dier Yassin massacre in which the Zionist gangs, the IDF today, killed the village's people a day after the death of the Palestinian leader Abdel-Qader al-Husseini in the Qastal battle which represents an important event in Nakba history in 1948.
The MP stressed that Deir Yassin massacre was not just a brutal massacre but it was a horrific premeditated political agenda aimed to expel the native Palestinian people from their original towns and lands to resettle the new Zionist comers.
The massacre was a truly premeditated crime against humanity carried out by the Zionist gangs against an innocent people who never commited anything wrong neither against Jews nor any other. Their only fault was their rejection to the Zionist-western project which has aimed to establish a Jewish state on the Palestinian land whatever the cost even if it was the killing of the whole Palestinian people, Sarsouri added.
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Maria 15 apr 2012
Zoabi: “Israel Violates Freedoms At A Global Level”
Arab member of Knesset, Hanin Zoabi, stated that Israeli pressures and threats against nonviolent solidarity activists, the Welcome To Palestine campaign, in addition to the German and British cancellation of airline tickets that belong to several activists due to Israeli pressure, are clear indications that Israel considers itself above the law, and gives itself the right to violate international freedoms.
She added that by cancelling the tickets, Germany and Britain are violating the basic rights of their own citizens, especially their right to travel.
“Israel’s long arm is now openly targeting basic human rights, it did not hesitate in attacking its own citizens, Arabs and Jews”, Zoabi stated, “What happened in Europe should be of concern to the International Community; Israel’s policies are now a threat to everyone”.
Zoabi, a member of the Israeli Knesset, strongly denounced the Israeli claims that the peace activists “violated it laws”, and added that the activists are peacefully struggling against injustice, racism, and Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.
She said that “the pathetic Israeli attempts will not deter the peace activists from continuing their legitimate peaceful struggle in support of the Palestinians living under illegal Israeli occupation.
The MK also said that Israel’s paranoia is a clear indication of the effectiveness of international campaigns conducted in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and that “Israel might have succeeded in preventing several activists from entering the country, but its illegal action sheds a light on its true face as a bitter state that fights against nonviolent resistance by all means.
She affirmed that all solidarity campaigns will continue, and will continue to expose Israel’s illegal policies.
“This is what will lead to an increased international solidarity with the Palestinian people” Zoabi concluded, “Israel will never be able to stop these waves of solidarity, it will stand isolated amidst increasing international support to the legitimate Palestinian rights”.
http://www.imemc.org/article/63310
Israel will have to go, sooner or later
By Khalid Amayreh
Israel is undoubtedly a powerful state, which also controls the governments of even more powerful states. Israel is a nuclear state that is armed to the teeth, which enables the apartheid entity to threaten other states, near and distant. Thus, one could argue that the German poet Guenter Grass was absolutely right when he said Israel was the state that, more than any state on earth posed the greatest threat to the peace and security of the world.
But Israel is also an obscenely and intrinsically sinful state that lacks the moral underpinnings which historians and moralists insist is necessary for a long life.
I think many Israelis are conscious or at least subconscious of the existential perils lying in wait for their maverick state.
Sometimes, these perils can be objectified, but in most cases the perils are abstract, even seemingly phobic given tangible, visible realities on the ground. However, the conspicuous lack of objectification and therefore verification in no way is a cause for less fear and less anxiety about the future.
This explains the psychotic psychosis engulfing the collective Israeli mindset which one can feel throughout Israel at various levels. Israel is the only country in the world that possesses more than 300 nuclear bombs and warheads in her arsenal and at the same time is dead worried about its future. Israel is the only country in the world that equates a statement or a conference or a demonstration as amounting to its destruction. Israel is immensely powerful, but conspicuously insecure.
Israel's worries about the future, while all nearly seemingly phobic in nature don't mean that these worries are not real, real in the sense that they don't have manifestations, ramifications and consequences.
Israel knows in the depth of her heart that it is based on ethnic cleansing, oppression, racism and aggression. Israel knows that, even according to the prophetic Jewish heritage, that God's and history's day of reckoning may be postponed, but never revoked. Otherwise the entire universal moral system of right and wrong turns upside down.
Today, Israel is intoxicated by its arrogance of power, especially the power of having the United States at her beck and call. But this powerfulness is material, not moral or spiritual. It is this arrogance of power that allows Israeli and Jewish leaders to run roughshod at the rest of humanity. Thus, Jesus is the Hitler of Bethlehem, and Ahmadinegad represents the Haman of our time, and Guenter Grass is pathetic, and so on and so forth. Never do we see Israelis self-inspect their approach toward non-Jews. Never do we see them reexamine their moral inconsistencies, especially those related to anti-Semitism.
And when Palestinians, Israel's and Nazi Germany's ultimate victims, cry out for justice, they are dehumanized, demonized and called terrorists, Islamo-fascists and what have you.
Moreover, Israel obscenely abuses some of the charitable and benevolent traditions of Judaism by treating others, not as Jews would want to be treated. One could write voluminous books on this particular aspect of Israel's depravity of the mind.
God reminded Jews ad nauseam that they were oppressed in the land of Egypt and that they shouldn't oppress others who live in their midst.
But, alas, the Ben Gurions, Begins, Sharons and Netanyahu's of Israel seem to have followed a different Torah, not the Torah that originated at Mount Sinai but the Torah of fascism, hatred, and savagery which originated in Eastern Europe.
Even men and women who are supposed to fear God provide the worst example to follow and emulate. It is really lamentable to see these rabbis of God, sorry, rabbis of Satan, grant their equally deformed followers a license to murder others because their "mothers are whores and their flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses."!!!
Judaism was supposed to be a light unto the nations, but Zionism has morphed the Sharia of Moses into an esoteric cult that sees the world as being composed of the sons of God and the sons Satan or the sons of light and sons of darkness. Even the universal ten commandments have been distorted. Thus the rabbinic sages would want us to believe that "thou shall not murder" actually means "thou shall not murder a Jew." As to non-Jews, the best of Gentiles kill'em."
In addition, Zionism has transformed most contemporary Jews into land thieves, child killers and pathological liars seeking to blur or conceal their depravity and Godlessness with a thin façade of sanctimony.
Such a diabolic ideology, by which most Jews have been ensnared, will be proven a false golem eventually..
We hope and pray that moment of reckoning will not be far away, because the farther it is, the more pain and suffering there will be, and history won't be especially merciful to evil doers, regardless of race and creed.
Today, Israel has virtually completely succeeded in killing all prospects for resolving the Palestinian issue in a dignified and peaceful manner. But Israel is seriously and fatefully miscalculating in thinking that what has been done has been done and that it is over for the Arabs.
It is not and won't be over for the Arabs and Jews until the slate is made completely clean.
The creation, phenomenal strength, predominance and ultimate downfall of Israel are clearly predicted in the Quran. The striking Quranic references to Israel, its insolence and pugnacity, followed by its crushing defeat and downfall, should be a source of hope and confidence to all followers of Islam.
It gives them hope and confidence for tomorrow, a tomorrow that will witness the defeat and disappearance of Israel as a geo-political entity. Then and only then will Jews and Arabs be able to live together in this land in peace, harmony and equality. (notice: I am only referring to Israel as a political entity, not to Jews).
Wishful thinking? Well, for those believing in God, it is not wishful thinking. The problem, however, is that men don't live long enough to overcome the limitations of their understanding of the world around them.
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Maria 25 apr 2012
Israel tries to prevent airing a report on displacing Christians from Palestine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p65xKqdVe8s
Graffiti on Muslim and Christian graves in a Jaffa cemetery read "Death to Arabs"
NAZARETH (PIC)-- American Network "CBS" disclosed, on Tuesday, that there was Zionist pressure exerted on the network to stop it from broadcasting a report within "60 Minutes" program discussing the Zionist policies to displace Palestinian Christians from Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
The correspondent on the U.S. news program "60 Minutes", Bob Simon, has scolded Israel's ambassador to US Michael Oren for his intervention and his attempt to prevent the airing of the report, saying that he had never received a reaction to a story that hadn't been broadcast yet. The ambassador replied that there is always a first time for everything, and that he is serving his country and protecting it, pointing out that the channel should have broadcast reports on the situation of Christians in other countries in the region.
The channel aired last night, the report unveiling the policy of the Zionist entity to displace Palestinian Christians from the Holy Land revealing the harassment and oppression by the occupation that Christians face and that turns their lives into hell.
The Zionist ambassador told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who intervened with the channel’s management to stop the airing of the report, that if the report contains the information he was told it contains then it would be a strategic disaster for our relations with United States' Christians.
The Hebrew Ha'aretz newspaper pointed the ambassador had tried to mitigate the impact of the report through publishing, in advance, a press release in an American newspaper talking about the religious freedom that Christians enjoy in the Palestinian territories, "contrarily to the oppression they face in the Arab world" as he said. The newspaper refused to publish the reactions of Christians from Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
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Maria 26 apr 2012
Zio-Nazi group attacks academics critical of Israel
From Khalid Amayreh
A small supremacist Jewish group is launching a smear campaign against a number of professors and academics on North American campuses for daring to criticize racist Israeli policies against native Palestinians.
The group, called Campus Watch and headed by David Horowitz, an extremist Zionist stalwart, has published advertisements inciting to hatred against a number of prominent professors on American campuses.
The academics are accused of vilifying Israel and of indulging in hate speech that would endanger the very existence of the apartheid Israeli state.
However, it is widely thought that the witch-hunt campaign is aimed first and foremost at silencing legitimate criticisms of murderous and brutal Israeli practices. College campuses are considered the last bastion of liberalism in the United States where right-wing Jewish robber barons and Christian Zionist groups are joining forces to suppress freedom of speech and expression.
Howowitz and his group readily ignore the manifestly Nazi-like discourse in Israel, or what is referred to as Talmudic Nazism, such as denying the very humanity of non-Jews, the genocidal trends harbored by supremacist Jewish groups like Chabad and the nefarious conduct of Jewish settlers in the West Bank.
Last year, the most famous rabbi in Israel, Ovadia Yosef, was quoted as saying during a Sabbath homily that non-Jews are effectively donkeys and that the Almighty created them solely to serve Jews.
"Goyem," Yossef said " were born to serve us."
Yossef is the spiritual mentor of the fundamentalist party, Shas, which represents Jews from the Middle East. He has hundreds of thousands of faithful followers.
A rabbi affiliated with the Chabad cult, was heard on video claiming that a Jew could without the slightest compunction murder a gentile in order to extricate an organ from the victim if the Jew needed one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYBsDwjezQI
The academics targeted by Horowitz and his so-called "Freedom Center" include the following:
Bill Ayers, University of Illinois, Chicago (emeritus);
Khalid Abu Alfadl, University of California, Los Angeles, Law School;
Hamed Algar, University of California, Berkley;
Joseph Massad, Columbia University;
Julio Pino, Kent State University, Manljeh Nasserabad, NY University;
Carlos Munoze, Jr. University of California, Berkley;
Timothy Michell, Columbia University;
Abha Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and
William J. Tompson, University of Michigan. Dearborn.
In the advertisement the Horowitz group urged citizens and students to contact the president of local universities and ask them to publicly condemn their faculty's participation in activities deemed anti-Israeli, such as opposing the Israeli lebensraum and ethnic cleansing policies in the West Bank.
Many intellectuals around the world have compared the Israeli approach toward the Palestinians with the Nazi policies in Europe.
Last month, the famous German poet Guenter Grass described Israel as the most dangerous state in the world.
Even liberal Jewish intellectuals made Zionist-Nazi analogies on several occasions. However, such criticisms have utterly failed to redirect Israel toward peace and civility as the Israeli Jewish society continues to drift toward Jewish fascism and jingoism.
This fascism, one of whose manifestations is the current Israeli government which is made up of fanatical and genocidal settlers, is viewed with particular gravity around the world since Israel is widely believed to possess a large stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Many observers also think the Israeli-American fixation on the Iranian nuclear program is first and foremost intended to divert attention away from Israel's huge nuclear arsenal used to maximize and spread Jewish hegemony and supremacy in the region and beyond.
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Maria 13 mei 2012
Arab-Israeli drivers denied access to Kirya canteen
After Japanese defense minister's convoy parks in military compound, security guards instruct Arab drivers to remain in their vehicles; Jewish drivers allowed to do as they please.
16 mei 2012
Nunu: Barak’s statement a slap in the face of those still betting on negotiation
GAZA, (PIC)-- Gaza government spokesman Taher Al-Nunu has said that the statement by Israeli war minister Ehud Barak on borders of the Hebrew state pointed to uselessness of any future negotiation process.
He said in a terse statement on Wednesday that the statement was a slap in the face of those still betting on negotiations.
Barak said in a statement on Tuesday that Israel would remain the only state between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. He also said that Beit El and Ofra settlements (in the West Bank) would be annexed to Israel in any future settlement.
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Maria 17 mei 2012
Turkey accuses Israel of violating north Cyprus airspace
ISTANBUL,(PIC)-- Turkish army accused Israel on Thursday of violating the airspace of Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus in a controversial oil and gas exploration area.
The Turkish army said in a statement that the Israeli aircraft violated the airspace of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus only recognized by Turkey, five times in Monday's incident which saw Turkish fighter jets chase out the intruder. The army statement gave no other details about the incident and did not identify the type of Israeli plane involved.
The Turkish ministry of foreign affairs has summoned Israel's Ambassador, demanding an explanation on the incident, the Anatolia news agency quoted Turkish diplomatic sources as saying, adding up till now there is no definite answer.
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Maria 20 mei 2012
Discrimination against 1948 Palestinians in Israeli hospitals
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Palestinian human rights organization in occupied Palestinian territories called for an end to the discrimination practiced against 1948 Palestinians in Israeli hospitals.
Mossawa Center (MC) for Arab citizens in Israel pointed out that Meir hospital in the Zionist settlement "Kfar Saba" in 1948 occupied Palestine had separated between Arab and Jewish mothers in maternity wards.
"Meir hospital continues its racist practices and discrimination against Arab citizens," the center stated in a press release, pointing out to another serious and racist act where Kfar Saba's Meir Medical Center has banned Arab teachers and students from speaking Arabic.
The MC statement said that this incident took place when the assistant teacher asked the Arab teacher, in Arabic, for an explanation about a children's activity in the center. To everyone's surprise the department's supervisor ordered them to stop talking in their mother tongue. "We don't speak Arabic among the staff here, at the ministry's instructions," the supervisor said.
The Mossawa Center noted that Arabic is one of Israel's official languages and the supervising teacher's conduct and alleged ministry instructions are racist and forbidden by law, the center also demanded explanations from the hospital and asked who was responsible for such instructions and demanded that the person be reprimanded.
"In view of the racist atmosphere prevailing in Israeli society lately, Mossawa's legal department is making efforts to monitor racist incidents in state and public institutions," The center's attorney, Sameh Iraqi, said.
A report prepared by the MC shows that state and public institutions are the most racist institutions in the country, and practice the worst discrimination against members of the Arab community. Only about 6 percent of the state's budget is allocated to the Arab community, and the center's report for 2012 found a rise in the number of racist incidents in state and public institutions, compared to the previous report.
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Maria 21 mei 2012
Jews must clean their own house first
By Khalid Amayreh
Israeli and Jewish hypocrisy is so brazen that it probably has no match under the sun. Jewish and Zionist circles never stop accusing other countries of harboring "hate" against Jews.
Jewish propaganda arms, such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Simon Wiesenthal Center as well as the Israeli foreign ministry recently criticized several countries, including Greece, for allowing nationalist parties to function.
We are told that the appearance of these parties in Europe should sound an alarm note because certain red lines are being crossed.
It is always good and auspicious to stand against and be vigilant about fascist and extreme nationalist parties which advocate xenophobia, bigotry and racism, such as Islamophbia and anti-Semitism.
But this is not the point here. The point is that Israel is inherently and absolutely unfit to lecture other countries and other peoples on the evils of racism as Israel itself is probably the ugliest and most brazen of embodiment of racism on earth.
For example, Israel and Jewish circles protest rather vociferously, usually with a great degree of sanctimony, the alleged hatred existing in Palestinian and other Arab textbooks when every Jewish school child is taught that Jews are the master race and that non-Jews are either lesser or sub-humans.
Just try to thoroughly examine the text-books used in hundreds of Talmudic schools across Israel and the occupied territories and you will see strange wonders. You will see text-books teaching that the Almighty created the entire universe solely for the sake of the Jew. You will see books teaching that the Almighty created all the nations "Goyem" (people like you and me) solely in order to serve the master race or Chosen People. According to some Talmudic texts, the lives of non-Jews have no sanctity.
Indeed, according to some rabbis affiliated with the Nazi-like Chabad sect, a Jew may murder a non-Jew, without any compunction, in order to extricate an organ from his or her body if the Jew needs one.
I really thought that this was a far-fetched canard until I ascertained its veracity.
Now, how Jews and Zionists could have the Chutzpah to criticize others of harboring "hate" toward Jews when Jews don't even recognize those people's very humanity? This is undoubtedly an uncomfortable question for the Israeli hasbara apparatus, which refuses to be honest in tackling such questions.
For example, when Zionist propagandists, such as Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson and Elie Wiesel are confronted with irrefutable facts pertaining to brash Jewish racism and there is no point denying the obvious, they try to prevaricate or evade the issue. Some, like Wiesel, have the audacity to claim that the rest of mankind has no right to criticize Jews even when Jews indulge in war crimes against humanity.
Unfortunately, many westerners, who are either scared to death by the Jewish Golem or scandalously brainwashed by a pliant media that is at Zionism's beck and call, readily listen to and even dignify these morbid Zionist vagaries which go beyond the pale. After all, it would be foolish to challenge the self-righteousness of people like Wiesel especially when his Jewish supremacist sickness is accorded solemn and ample media attention from Sydney to California .
Another point. When any writer or intellectual thoughtfully and sincerely criticizes the Talmudic edicts that keep resurfacing in Israel, edicts which dehumanize and demonize non-Jews, or question Israeli regional hegemony and bellicosity, as did the German poet Guenter Grass recently, we see the shipyard dogs of Zionism fire a round after round of the anti-Semitism bombs at the "emulators of Hitler."
Well, some short-sighted Zionists may still think that this is the right way to go but this is wrong because the Zionists are playing on borrowed time and invoking anti-Semitism every time Israel's vile behavior is criticized serves only to cheapen anti-Semitism in the eyes of the non-Jewish world.
Still, many Zionist supremacists just don't care, even if they know in the bottom of their hearts that the once effective weapon of anti-Semitism is becoming stale and losing its effectiveness.
This is how arrogant and sick minds think. It is the same minds that expect Palestinian children who have just watched their fathers and mothers and relatives mercilessly and brutally killed by Israeli soldiers or Gestapo-like Jewish settlers to love Jews and sing hatikva (the Israeli national anthem) and not harbor a sliver of hate toward Zionism and Jews.
Can a Palestinian school child, who has just returned home from school, seeing his home being bulldozed by a Jewish bulldozer, driven by a Jewish soldier, with a helmet bearing the Star of David, harbor love for his and his people's tormentors? Of course, I am not speaking metaphorically as I witnessed hundreds of house demolitions ever since I was a little kid in the village of Kharsa south west of Hebron.
A final point. Everyone knows too well that most if not all the political parties represented in the Israeli Knesset can be judged as manifestly fascist. Just read the ideological and political platforms of the Habayt ha-Yehudi (the Jewish home," the Ehud ha-Leumi (the national Union), Shas, whose spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef shamelessly teaches that all non-Jews are donkeys or beasts of burden, and even the Likud, and you will know what I am talking about.
Now, with clearly Nazi-like parties represented in the Israeli Knesset, do Zionists have a moral right to complain about some political parties in Greece or the Ukraine or Norway?
I hope that this and similar articles will provide some food for thought to Jews who might be prompted to think that life itself is hasbara and that if you succeed in this field you get it done.
No, life is not Hazbara, and if Jews succeed in obliterating the truth for sometime, they won't be successful for ever.
Jews have much to do in terms of getting their own house clean. They'd better get busy putting their house in order rather than hurling baseless charges and accusations here and there. People living in glass houses don't throw stones at people's houses.
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22 mei 2012
US Congress promoting visa exemption for Israelis
Californian Democrat Sherman introduces bill allowing Israelis to enter US as temporary visitors for tourism or business for up to 90 days without a visa. 'Israel is our closest friend and democratic ally in the Middle East,' he says.
WASHINGTON – US Congressman Brad Sherman (Democrat, California), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced the Visa Waiver for Israel Act, a bill allowing Israel’s entrance into the US Visa Waiver Program.
The Visa Waiver Program allows nationals from certain countries to enter the US as temporary visitors for tourism or business for up to 90 days without obtaining a visa from a US consulate abroad.
“I’m pleased to join with my colleagues Ted Poe (Republican-Texas), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Republican-Florida) and eleven additional members of Congress to introduce the Visa Waiver for Israel Act,” said Sherman. “Israel is our closest friend and democratic ally in the Middle East. Adding Israel to the Visa Waiver Program will boost business, tourism, and job creation here in the US and enhance cultural ties between our two nations.”
In the past, a similar proposal to add Israel to the Visa Waiver Program was rejected by the Senate.
The Embassy of Israel released a statement in support of the legislation, saying it would "stimulate numerous business endeavors, and help promote closer cultural, economic, and touristic ties. The passage of this legislation would further strengthen the special and deep relationship between Israel and the United States.”
There are 36 countries currently in the Visa Waiver Program, including western and central European countries, as well as South Korea, Japan, Brunei, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2010, 17.1 million visitors entered the United States under the Visa Waiver program, constituting 42% of all overseas visitors.
Israel is one of the “road map countries” which are most interested in joining the Visa Waiver Program and have been in discussions with the US Departments of State and Homeland Security to join the program since 2005.
“Almost one-third of a million Israelis entered the US as temporary visitors annually in recent years,” continued Sherman. “Each had to get a US visa through a bureaucratic process that sometimes takes weeks. The number of Israeli visitors would increase substantially if Israel enters the Visa Waiver Program. That means more business, tourism, academic and cultural exchanges, and most importantly, job creation. This is an important way to further strengthen ties with our close friend and ally in the Middle East – Israel.”
The legislation contains counter-terrorism and information sharing provisions, and would ensure that Israel adopts biometric travel documents prior to being admitted to the program.
In addition to Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Sherman and Poe were joined by Representatives Charles Rangel, Edolphus Towns, Steve Rothman, Bill Pascrell, Shelley Berkley, Eliot Engel, Michael Grimm, Mazie Hirono, Rush Holt, Aaron Schock, and Robert Dold in introducing the bill.
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Maria 25 mei 2012
Israel is a crime against humanity
By Khalid Amayreh
Thanks to the fact that much of the western media deliberately avoids exposing Israeli criminality, probably for fear of being accused of anti-Semitism, much of the brutal ugliness of the Jewish state remains unknown to millions of Europeans and North Americans.
This is the reason that many people in the west are still buying the big, obscene lie that Israel is a western democracy which upholds basic human rights and civil liberties. But the facts on the ground are much uglier than many people think, irrespective of how vociferous and dogged Israeli hasbara operatives get when defending and justifying Israeli misdeeds and crimes.
The truth of the matter is that institutionalized oppression, racism and terror against the native Palestinians have always constituted and continue to constitute Israel's modus operandi.
Yes, the shipyard dogs of Israeli propaganda will concoct a thousand lies and point to a thousand red herrings to divert attention from the subject. They would invoke the holocaust, Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Treblinka, the Jewish origin of Christianity and many other impertinent issues in an effort to justify or more correctly distract attention from the real issue, namely the brazen evil fact of Jewish Nazism.
They would fornicate with the truth and with language in order to convince misinformed and often gullible westerners that Israel has to behave the way it does because otherwise its very survival would be in danger.
But the truth remains sufficiently plain for anyone willing to call the spade a spade. The task is certainly not easy, but not quite impossible, provided one maintains a respectable degree of rectitude and honesty.
I am saying this because the bulk of Israel's supporters are malicious liars, e.g, know well they are supporting oppression and evil, or ignoramuses, like most Israel's supporters on the American arena.
We don't deny the obvious fact that there are in the region other nefarious regimes which savage, torment and murder their own people in order to remain in power. However, violence in the neighborhood, however pornographic it may be, should never make Israel look good.
After all, Israel itself remains a crime against humanity, if only because it uprooted, supplanted and is seeking the national obliteration of millions of Palestinians whose main "guilt" is their being non-members of the holy tribe.
Israel stole their land, demolished their homes, destroyed their villages, burned their fields and then expelled them to the four winds, while filling the ether with endless mendacious hasbara about Jewish democracy, morality and genius.
This week, the London-based human rights organization, Amnesty International, published its 2012 report about the status of human rights all over the world.
The group accused Israel of a long list of violations, including torture, restricting movement, limiting freedom of speech, detaining people without charge or trial for prolonged periods as well as maintaining a siege that strangles 1.6 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The truth of the matter, however, is that quasi-academic reports of Israeli human rights violation, even those published by respectable human rights groups, remain quite insufficient to fully communicate the ugly reality of the Israeli state. In the final analysis, Israel is sinking in a sea of racism, fascism (it doesn't matter if it is blunt or insidious racism), oppression and terror. One Israeli cabinet minister declared a few months ago that "we are already a fascist state."
When I was studying at the University of Oklahoma in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Jewish circles, such as the Bnai Brith organization left no stone unturned, protesting a local Baptist minister who claimed that God didn't hear prayers of Jews since Jews didn't recognize Jesus as their personal lord and Savior. After an avalanche of protests, the priest apologized.
Today in Israel, there are prominent politicians and religious leaders who shamelessly claim that non-Jews are donkeys in human shape, whose lives have no sanctity and who are not entitled to human dignity. There are rabbis who issue fatwas or edicts allowing Jewish doctors to let non-Jews injured in a car accident on Saturday die of their wounds rather than give them medical treatment.
There are even rabbis who would permit Jews to murder non-Jews in order to harvest their organs if the Jews needed one.
Unfortunately, such scandalous abominations raise very few eyebrows in Israel. This happens at a time when Jewish leaders routinely, even innately, hurl the charges of hate and immorality at anyone and everyone who mentions Israeli criminality.
But so what? Israel and Jews have nothing to fear or worry about as long the US, its government, congress, and media, are in the Jewish pocket. The fact that the powerful and intimidating Jewish lobbies have succeeded in morphing most American politicians into absolutely docile political whores readily at Israel's beck and call.
Interestingly, this had a profound insolent effect on Israel. It was rumored a few years ago that former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to silence Shimon Peres, then foreign minister, telling him "don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We control the American people and the stupid Americans know it."
Besides, the ruling elite in Israel seems to have discovered that the more extremist and the more criminal and murderous Israel becomes, the more support and backing it receives from a disgracefully pliant Washington.
It is difficult to explain this strange phenomenon from the point of view the political sociology or political psychology. The only plausible explanation is that Jewish money and power have thoroughly corrupted American political culture so much that the U.S. is sinking down the drain, definitely though no dramatically.
I have no doubt that the Palestinian people will never be able to deliver themselves from the clutches of Zio-Nazism as long as America remains thoroughly enslaved, beguiled and manipulated by world Zionism.
Zionism might soon switch alliance to China the moment China's ascendancy to the helm of the world and America's demotion to the status of second or third-class global power is asserted.
In any case, the peace and stability of the world depends to a large extent on the world community's willingness and ability to check the cancerous growth and lebensraum of Zionism.
To be sure, Zionists will not raise the white flag upon the first clash with a determined world community that is serious about justice and peace; they are too powerful and too arrogant to do that.
However, a meaningful transformation in the willingness of the international community to check the Nazi-like Zionist hegemony and supremacy will definitely make Zionism think twice before pursuing it genocidal drive toward world domination.
I have no doubt that Israel will disappear one day. I don't know when that day will come, but I feel it will come sooner than many people think. Israel is based on evil and oppression. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.
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Human rights activist: fake Jewish graves in Jerusalem
OCCUPIED JEUSALEM,(PIC)-- A Palestinian human rights activist warned against the Israeli planting process of thousands of fake Jewish graves in the land surrounding al-Aqsa Mosque and the old town in occupied Jerusalem, pointing out this process is part of a campaign of falsification of the facts and deceit practiced by the occupation against the history of the city of Jerusalem.
The Chairman of the Committee for Defense of Silwan Fakhri Abu Diab told Quds press that the occupation besieged Al Aqsa Mosque by thousands of fake Jewish graves and a chain of Talmudic gardens within the Zionist plan, "holy house envelope", aims to isolate it from the old city and the Arab population.
The occupation authorities began planting the graves in the late seventies during closing the main street of the town of Silwan, near to the Al Aqsa Mosque where the occupation implanted thousands of fake Jewish graves, he explained.
He added that the "Tsunami of fake Jewish graves" stretching from the east to the south of the city of Jerusalem had increased since 2003 where the occupation, through its executive power in the city of Jerusalem, implanted thousands of fake Jewish graves around Al-Aqsa Mosque and in the Old City, under governmental decisions.
He pointed out that the number of the Jewish graves built since the beginning of the year is ten times than the real number of the Jewish deaths in the same period which confirms that hese graves are fake.
It is noted that the Israeli authorities prohibit the restoration of the Islamic historical graves in the city of Jerusalem and are demolishing and washing away hundreds of them.
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German poll: "Israel" is an aggressive state
BERLIN,(PIC)-- A poll in weekly Stern magazine, conducted by Forsa pollsters, finds that majority of Germans think that Israel is an aggressive state.
The survey came in contrast with the German government's supportive position to Israel. The poll was conducted shortly before President Joachim Gauck's visit to Israel and occupied West Bank May 28-31.
The Forsa poll found 59 percent of Germans considered Israel as an “aggressive state", up 10 percent compared to 2009. Some 60 percent disagreed with the statement that Germany owed a special obligation to Israel after the Holocaust, while 65 percent said that Germany ought to recognize a Palestinian state.
The survey found 70 percent of Germans agree with the statement that Israel pursues its interests without consideration for other nations, up 11 percent compared to 2009.
This poll came after a debate in Germany about a poem written by a German poet and Nobel Prize laureate Guenter Grass, 84, published in April in a German newspaper, in which he said “the nuclear power Israel is endangering the already fragile world peace,” criticizing Israel's settlement policy in occupied West Bank.
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Maria 28 mei 2012
Netanyahu's power play pays off
By Jonathan Marcus
Having created one surprise in pushing for an early general election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now delivered an even greater bomb-shell.
The plan for early elections has been abandoned. Instead a new broadly-based governing coalition has been called into existence with the opposition centre-right Kadima party of Shaul Mofaz joining the government.
Many of Kadima's members of parliament were facing defeat in any early general election: they will breathe a great sigh of relief.
But the real victor in all of this is the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself. A general election is not now due until November 2013.
And with the broadest-based Israeli coalition for many years supporting him, Mr Netanyahu has an opportunity to deal with some of the pressing issues facing Israeli society.
'Extreme elements'
A new law is promised dealing with the system of exemption from military service for ultra-orthodox Jews - more of them will be encouraged to serve.
In a country where the military is still based upon conscription, the issue of how the burden of military service is divided up remains a controversial one.
Issues of social justice and the economy could also be tackled and there are promises from the new government for the reform of Israel's fractious political system to provide more stable, broadly based government.
Israeli prime ministers have tended to be prisoners of the more extreme elements in their own coalition governments, with small ultra-orthodox parties or the more hawkish elements of the settler lobby having an altogether disproportionate influence on policy.
Now with a large coalition behind him, Mr Netanyahu has at least a chance to change some of this. But success is not certain. Institutional reform in the past has led nowhere. But above all else it is going to depend upon Mr Netanyahu himself.
International authority
Mr Netanyahu is expected to look at the issue of ultra-orthodox Jews' exemption from military service
He emerges from this re-alignment with his power and prestige significantly enhanced. While much of the driving force for this change stems from domestic considerations, it clearly reinforces his stature in foreign policy as well.
It will give him more authority when tackling the issue of Iran's nuclear programme; it has the potential to allow him to try to get things moving on the peace front with the Palestinians; and it will bolster Israel's government at a time when the familiar politics of the region has been up-ended by the Arab Spring.
Seasoned observers would caution against any great hope of movement with the Palestinians.
Much could depend upon whether the new US administration moves swiftly to try to reinvigorate negotiations. But the same regional uncertainties that confront Israel also face the Palestinians.
Some analysts note the recent death of Benjamin Netanyahu's father as potentially a factor in all of this.
He was undoubtedly a highly conservative influence on his son. Will this be the moment that Mr Netanyahu moves out from beneath his father's ideological shadow?
The prime minister's critics may say that while he has once again proved himself highly adept at political manoeuvring, he is yet to prove himself equally capable as a statesman.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17988577
- 29 may 2012
Israel: Jewish, Democratic... & White- Anti-African pogrom in Israel? What anti-African pogrom? To my knowledge, the only Australian ms media reference to Tel Aviv's anti-African refugee pogrom of May 23 came on SBS' World News program.
Briefly, after attending a rally in south Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighbourhood addressed by Likud MKs, one of whom described Israel's African refugees as a 'cancer in our society', a Jewish mob went on the rampage, smashing shop and car windows, and beating up any Africans they could find.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier set the scene by referring, at a cabinet meeting, to the refugees as "illegal infiltrators flooding the country," and adding that, "[i]f we don't stop their entry, the problem that currently stands at 60,000 could grow to 600,000, and that threatens our existence as a Jewish and democratic state." (Israel PM: illegal African immigrants threaten identity of Jewish state, Harriet Sherwood, guardian.co.uk, 20/5/12)
After viewing some of the video footage of the pogrom, I couldn't help but notice that the most frequent insult on the lips of the mob was the word kushi, generally translated from the Hebrew as 'nigger'. Written, web-based accounts, corroborate this:
"I went to a demonstration led by MK Michael Ben-Ari 2 days ago... and was joined by my girlfriend, Galina. Ben-Ari, a Kahanist, was inciting the crowd against the African refugees in a distinctly anti-Semitic manner, peppering his talk with incessant references to excrement and urine. At some point, Galina couldn't take it any longer, and shouted something back. Within minutes we were surrounded by an angry mob of about 20 people, composed mostly of women, who hurled curses at her. Someone pulled out a tear gas canister and waved it at her face. Racist and sexual slurs filled the air repeatedly. Time and time again, people expressed the wish she would be raped by Sudanese, and asked her if she was bedding them. A boy, between 10 and 11 years old, screamed at her point blank that what she needs is a 'nigger's cock'..." (Thoughts on an attack by a Jewish mob, Yossi Gurvitz, 972mag.com, 24/5/12)
Gurvitz reflects on the experience:
"And after the shock and fear, an attempt at understanding what took place. The legend that African refugees turned the paradise that was south Tel Aviv into a terrorized crime zone has to be rejected... Statistics proved time and time again the crime wave exists mostly in the minds of the politicians stoking the hatred, of which Ben-Ari is an ambitious competitor. I lived in Hatikva for 2 years; I've seen the people, the despair, the fear at nights, the absence of infrastructure, the flooding every winter when the sewage system collapsed - with my own eyes. Spare me the bullshit about a quiet neighborhood of happy poor workers. First there's the economic hardship, which prevents people from getting an education and getting the hell out of there. Above it, we find Jewish supemacism, the concept of a Chosen People, 'every Jew is the son of a King'. Proud Jews are often people whose Jewishness is the only thing they can be proud of. The blow I received came after I was asked if I am a Jew, and replied in the negative." (ibid)
The 'n' word is apparently in such frequent use that it (and worse) has even been internalised by the refugees themselves:
"I accompanied a group of asylum-seeking children to their homes tonight, as we also do on the days of protests with potential racist developments. As usual we got barraged with swearwords, but policemen advised us about safer routes. The kids sang along the way: 'I'm a nigger, I'm a nigger, nigger, and I clean Israeli homes'. ('What, you don't know it, Rami? Look it up on Youtube'.) Two 12-year-old girls asked me if I know that pretty soon the Sudanese will suffer the same fate as Jews did in Germany. One asked the other to tell her about that man, Korczak, who saved children. They asked if he was Jewish and if he would have saved all the children. One girl asked me: 'What's the opposite of free?' I had trouble finding the word: imprisoned? shackled? She said: 'OK, whatever it is, say shackled, we were born shackled and we'll die shackled'. The girls asked me why the Israelis want to deport them. I asked them: If the streets in your country would suddenly fill up with white people that speak a different language you don't understand, what would you feel? One girl said: 'I'd become a teacher and teach them my language!' Toward the end two 12-year-old girls asked me: 'Say, Rami, if you were in our place, what would you have done?'" (African kids in Tel Aviv: They'll do to us what they did to Jews in Germany, Dimi Reider, 972mag.com, 23/5/12)
Another Israeli, Uri Horesh, explains:
"When I was growing up, kushi was a perfectly neutral term for 'black person', more like 'negro' in the 1960s than 'nigger' ever was. However, nowadays, since more Hebrew speakers in Israel actually know black people, and there are indeed black people living in Israel who speak Hebrew (including migrant African laborers, but of course, Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia), the connotations of kushi have shifted towards the negative - perhaps not to the degree of the taboo that is associated with 'nigger' in the American context, but it is gradually moving in that direction." (Kushi didn't always mean 'nigger', tlvphl.blogspot.com.au, 23/5/12)
One might assume from the testimony above that the kind of anti-black/white supremacist racism, which finds vivid expression in the use of the word 'nigger' on the streets of south Tel Aviv today, is a relatively recent development in Zionist history. Not so, apparently. Given that political Zionism is primarily a European settler-colonial power-trip, it should come as no surprise to find that earlier generations of Zionists were far from immune to an obsession with European 'whiteness'.
Here, for example, British Jew and Zionist, Redcliffe Salaman, Regimental Medical Officer to the 39th Royal Fusiliers, 2nd Judean Battalion, writes of the arrival in Cairo on July 13, 1918 of the Jewish Battalions' latest batch of volunteers from Palestine's pre-World War I Jewish colonies. Salaman refers to them as "the Palestinians":
"The moment they rolled into the station I spotted a nigger amongst them, and before the train stopped I cleared that question up - his mother was a negress, his father a Sephardi (these Sephardim are a fearfully mixed lot; give me Ashkenazim for blue blood!). Then the types varied from blue-eyed handsome pseudo-Gentiles to dark, purely semitic Yemenites - and scattered between were a dozen, perhaps, of semi-negroid but often very handsome Moroccan Jews." (Palestine Reclaimed: Letters from a Jewish Officer in Palestine, 1920, pp 24-25)
Salaman adds, some pages later, that:
"The Yemenites are for the most part undersized and rather poor-spirited natives. They are not racially Jews. They are black, long-headed, hybrid Arabs. Last Saturday I worked with J. M. in the library and we got hold of every authority we could, and, from the historical evidence, it is at once clear that they have but a trace of Jewish blood in them though they probably have rather more than the Falashas. The real Jew is the European Ashkenazi, and I back him against all-comers." (ibid, p 28)
The irony of the Hatikva pogrom is that many of the participants may well have been the descendants of the very Yemeni Jews that Salaman scorned as insufficiently white to be really Jewish.
Maria 30 mei 2012
AOHR calls on Paris to cancel the Zionist participation in Eurosatory 2012
PARIS, (PIC)-- The Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain considered that the participation of the Zionist occupation army in the military exhibition Eurosatory 2012 in Paris as "a stain on the principles and ethics upon which the French Republic is based," and called on the French government to cancel such participation immediately.
The organization called on the European Union, in a statement on Wednesday, to take practical steps against the Zionist violations in the occupied territories and to issue a legislation preventing the Israeli army from promoting its military hardware in Europe.
The statement expressed regret that Paris is allowing the Zionist entity to participate in its military exhibition with hardware that killed innocents and civilians over years in the Palestinian occupied territories and southern Lebanon and have been causing losses of human lives as well as property, adding that it is a shame that Paris is allowing the Israeli Army to promote such bloody weapons in the exhibition.
The Arab Organization for Human Rights denounced in its statement allowing the Israeli tools of murder and destruction to be promoted, whereas preventing modern medical equipment to enter the occupied territories.
The statement added that the exhibition will be held under the supervision of an institution under the Ministry of Defense called" SIBAT" which coordinates with all the Israeli military and security factories, to facilitate the display and marketing of their products abroad.
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Maria 6 juni 2012
Netanyahu Says He Would Fire Ministers Voting For “Regulation Bill”
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated Tuesday that he would fire any minister who votes for the so-called “regulation bill”, meant to legalize illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank, during a Knesset vote that will be held on Wednesday.
Israeli Ynet News reported that Netanyahu stated that any minister of deputy minister who back the bill will be fired as the proposed bill, if passed, would lead to the legalization of Ulpana illegal outposts in the Beit El settlement, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and the rest of the illegal Jewish settlement outposts installed by extremist settlers on privately owned Palestinian lands.
The Ynet News added that after Netanyahu made his announcement, ministers of the Shas religious movement said that they not attend the voting session, adding that ministers of the Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home) fundamentalist party of Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, will likely skip the vote.
The website also said that Shas movement’s members of Knesset said that they will vote for the bill.
The “Regulation Bill” was proposed by member of Knesset, Zevulun Orlev, from the Jewish Home (Habayit Hayehudi) party, with the sole purpose of avoiding the implementation of a ruling made by Israel’s High Court that ruled in favor in evicting five homes illegally built in Ulpana outpost.
But the Israeli Prime Minister provided another plan that calls for relocating the homes to a military zone in Beit El settlement.
Netanyahu said that his government has to deal with what he called with “infiltrators” (referring to alleged Palestinian attempts to attack the settlements) and several major domestic challenges, adding that “such issues can only be dealt with by a unified government”, the Ynet said.
On the ground, several hundred settlers held a protest, on Tuesday evening, in front of the High Court in Jerusalem; the protest was held in front of a protest tent installed by a number of settlers who are holding a hunger strike.
The protesters were joined by Member of Knesset, Danny Danon, of Netanyahu’s Likud Party, and the Rabbi of Keryat Arba’ illegal settlement in Hebron, Dov Lior, in addition to heads of local councils of several illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
The Ynet quoted Lior stating that “the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people”, and called on the ministers to vote for what he called “true democracy” during the cabinet vote on Wednesday.
Addressing Likud MK’s, Danon said that they should remember “what they promised the voters during elections”, adding that the removal of the Ulpana outpost “is a surrender that will be followed by thousands of concessions in the West Bank”, the Ynet said.
The Ynet further reported that some settlers living in the Ulpana outposts have started preparations for resist the evacuation, adding that, several days ago, the settlers brought a truck loaded with tires, likely to be placed and burnt in the streets to obstruct the army.
Furthermore, The Ynet said that local Rabbis in the settlement are likely the ones who determine the level of resistance to the evacuation, and added that this does not mean that extremists will not resort to violence.
Israel’s settlements in occupied Palestine, even those built on what Israel dubs as “state lands”, are illegal under International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention to which Israel is a signatory.
The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank had to peace talks with the government of Netanyahu due to the ongoing Israeli violations against the Palestinians in the West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
These violations include the demolition of homes and the destruction of private property, ongoing settlement construction and expansion, the escalating violence carried out by extremist settlers, and the ongoing Israeli military invasions into Palestinians communities in the occupied territories.
http://www.imemc.org/article/63676