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November, 2012

Nov 30, 2012

John Pilger: Humanitarian interventions reframing the war on terror Media And War Conference | YouTube
Arguably the greatest journalist of our time...

Why I am no longer a Zionist, by Wayne Myers | The Independent
  I'm a nice Jewish boy from North West London. I was brought up in a family that was never particularly religious – we belonged to a Reform synagogue, not an Orthodox one - but where my Jewish identity was considered extremely important, and where support for Israel was an absolute given. Not blanket, unquestioning support, but support nonetheless...
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Israel and Palestine: an animated introduction, by Jewish Voice for Peace | YouTube
  Hey friends - it's time to stop saying, "It's too complicated!" You can't stay on the sidelines anymore. Watch this Jewish Voice for Peace 6 minute mini-primer about why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, why the US-backed peace process has been an impediment to peace, and what you can do to make a difference...
[An excellent introduction for children; could also be effective for millions of brainwashed “adults.”]

The genocidal yearnings of Israelis, by Lawrence Davidson | Redress Information & Analysis
...By the middle of the 19th century the multi-ethnic empire was on its way out as the dominant political paradigm in Europe. Replacing it was the nation-state, a political form which allowed the concentration of ethnic groups within their own political borders. This in turn formed cultural and “racial” incubators for us (superior) vs. them (inferior) nationalism that would underpin most of the West’s future wars.. Zionism was born in this milieu of nationalism and imperialism, both of which left an indelible mark on the character and ambitions of the Israeli state...
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Israel Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: What Really Happened in Gaza, by Norman Finkelstein | Counterpunch
  The official storyline is that Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense on 14 November, 2012 because, in President Barack Obama’s words, it had “every right to defend itself.” In this instance, Israel was allegedly defending itself against the 800 projectile attacks emanating from Gaza since January of this past year. The facts, however, suggest otherwise...
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Reflections on Yugoslavia’s Socialist Past and Present-Day Colonization, by Milina Jovanovic | ZNet
  In this essay I present my personal reflections on the life in the former Yugoslavia and on the current trends of privatization and corporate takeover of Yugoslav natural, economic, and human resources. Years ago, I personally experienced the best phase of Yugoslav socialism and worked in academic and research institutions. Even though the following pages don’t appear in the form of a scholarly article, I attempt to briefly present and explain the most important institutions and aspects of the Yugoslav socio-political and economic system, highlighting “the Yugoslav way of life” and what it meant for the diverse peoples of Yugoslavia...
[I was there in the early 70's - it was like she says, before the Empire crashed the party]
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Netanyahu’s War Crime, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar
...Not only was Netanyahu preparing to kill largely defenseless Palestinians, he was also putting his own countrymen at risk and again wittingly involving the United States as an accomplice in his own reckless behavior. Israel and its friends are fond of saying that there is a madman loose in the Middle East when they refer to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but in truth there is only one madman who is assiduously seeking war and more war and that is Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
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Why Arab States align themselves with Israel against Shias, by Shabana Syed | deLiberation
...The paradox here is why Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Gulf States which are dictatorships, are aligning themselves with Israel and US and funding the so called Arab Spring? To implement democracy? Or is it that instead of democracy all they are doing is leaving a bloody trail of death and destruction to establish a greater Israel which will be easier to implement once Shia Iran has been dismantled. Which probably suits all parties concerned...
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Ron Paul Exposes Neo Conservatives | YouTube
  A clear, comprehensive and insightful analysis...

Shah of Iran: Jewish Media Control & Jewish Lobby | YouTube
  The Shah of Iran in an interview with Mike Wallace nearly 40 years ago candidly spoke of the Jews control over America and the influence and manipulation of the Jewish mainstream media...
[Well, even the puppet installed by the CIA got that right, and shooting from the hip. Hats off to the Persians.]

When It Comes to Gaza, Don’t Let Obama Speak for Black Americans, by Jesse Hagopian | Common Dreams
...With more African American men in prison today than were slaves on plantations in 1850, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Blacks generally would sympathize with the 1.7 million Palestinians currently living in what many commentators have described as the open-air prison of the Gaza Strip—a territory that has faced a humanitarian disaster for years because of the Israeli blockade that has prevented of the movement of people, food, medical supplies, and nearly all goods...
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Operation Pillar of Death: Naming Gaza's Dead - a film by Harry Fear | Gaza Report on YouTube
  Names, not numbers: a film commemorating the Palestinians killed by Israel's Operation Pillar of Cloud, by Harry Fear...
[For Americans - under the crushing influence of constant, massive Zionist propaganda for all of their lives - it may be difficult to fully appreciate that these people were just as human as they are. It isn't a video game.]

The Jewish 'Progressive' View Of The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict | Gilad Atzmon
  The following video is a pretty impressive educational video produced by JVP (Jewish Voice for Peace). I believe that the intentions behind this video are sincere. It clearly points at Israel being Judeo-centric. Yet, it focuses on Jewish victimhood - 'one group of refugees was seeking a shelter' (Jews) at the expense of another group (Palestinians). The video claims to seek peace, yet, it is not clear how it can be achieved as long as Israel remains 'The Jewish State.'..
[Not for much longer, god willing. Israel, that frightful, death-dealing tumor, must be excised.]



Nov 28-29, 2012

Pillar of Superstition: The Politics of the Exodus Myth, by William A. Cook | Counterpunch
...the Israeli military together with the Prime Minister chose to lead the Israeli IDF into this latest “incursion” of Gaza with the announcement beforehand that the ancient G-d of the tribes would be visible as a pillar of clouds by day and a pillar of fire by night. This is an appeal to the religious parties and the rigid right wing “settlers” who accept the word of their bible that G-d has defined the true borders of Israel and determined how that “historical” land should be regained...

The Ten Mythologies of Israel, by Ilan Pappe | Israel and Palestine
...The wide acceptance in the world of the Zionist narrative is based on a cluster of mythologies that, in the end, cast doubt on the Palestinian moral right, ethical behavior and chances for any just peace in the future. The reason for this is that these mythologies are accepted by the mainstream media in the West, and by the political elites there as truth. Once accepted as a truth, these mythologies become a justification, not so much for the Israeli actions, but for the West’s inclination to interfere...

The Palestinians’ only option, by Alan Hart | My Catbird Seat
...As things are and look like going, and given that the Palestinians are never going to surrender to Zionism’s will by accepting crumbs from its table, the only alternative to one state for all is a final Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine. That might buy Zionism some more time for the short term, but in the longer term it would most likely guarantee that the rising global tide of anti-Israelism was transformed into classical anti-Semitism, setting the stage for Holocaust II, shorthand for another great turning against Jews everywhere, and starting quite possibly in America...

Post-US world born in Phnom Penh, by Spengler | Asia Times Online
  It is symptomatic of the national condition of the United States that the worst humiliation ever suffered by it as a nation, and by a US president personally, passed almost without comment last week. I refer to the November 20 announcement at a summit meeting in Phnom Penh that 15 Asian nations, comprising half the world's population, would form a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership excluding the United States...

Perpetual conflict by Israeli design, by Graham Peebles | MCW
...the illegal occupation of the West bank, the siege of the Gaza Strip, extended settlement building, the false imprisonment of Palestinians, men, women and children, the illegal use of the draconian ‘administrative detention’ order, the demolition of Palestinian homes, torture of Palestinians held in Israeli custody, including children, withholding of business permits, blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza and on and on. The list is long, endlessly so, burgeoning with actions that violate all manner of international laws and countless United Nations resolutions, violations that individually and collectively add up to little more than State criminality...

UK shielding Israel from war crimes prosecutions, by Gilad Atzmon | Redress Information & Analysis
...in return for Britain supporting the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN, the Palestinians would have to overlook Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity, and refrain from insisting that Israel stop the ongoing theft of Palestinian lands in the occupied territories by building new Jewish settlements and expanding existing ones, practices that are illegal under international law. I wonder why the British government is so keen to protect Israeli war criminals? Could it be because 80 per cent of Conservative Party MPs belong to the pro-Israel lobby group, Conservative Friends of Israel?..

How to End the Gaza Tragedy, by Ron Paul | Counterpunch
...Last week, as the fighting raged, President Obama raced to express US support for the Israeli side, in a statement that perfectly exemplifies the tragic-comedy of US foreign policy. The US supported the Israeli side because, he said, “No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.” Considering that this president rains down missiles on Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and numerous other countries on a daily basis, the statement was so hypocritical that it didn’t pass the laugh test. But it wasn’t funny...

The Carnage in Gaza: To Appease the Gods, Human Sacrifices Must Be Offered, by Raouf J. Halaby | Counterpunch
...Noam Chomsky said it best when he stated the following: “Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war. IT IS NOT WAR. IT IS MURDER.”..
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Israel's slow-motion collapse | The Vineyard of the Saker
...In the latest Israeli attack on Gaza, they IDF failed even to do that and this is really devastating for the IDF's deterrent capability. This time the operation lasted only one week, and it ended with Palestinians filling the streets of Gaza in a mass demonstration of joy and gratitude for having so rapidly forced Israel to seek a ceasefire. There used to be a time when the IDF would go all the way to Beirut to hunt down Arafat and when Mossad would go all the way to Tunis to kill Abu Jihad. Now the IDF can't even occupy Bint Jbeil right across its border, and it is afraid to even enter the Gaza Strip. How the mighty fall indeed...

Who are the terrorists now? by Stuart Littlewood | My Catbird Seat
  First, the courage and resilience of the Palestinians in Gaza has won the hearts and minds of the world. In Stephen Lendman’s words, “we’re all Gazans now”. The Hamas government, which has been forced to operate under impossible conditions ever since it was elected in 2006, earns grudging admiration and can hold its head high. Hated in the West because they are not for sale, Hamas should be accepted as a key player in the diplomatic process from now on...

Israelis and Palestinians: Biblical Fiction vs. Natural Rights, by Hasan Afif El-Hasan | Palestine Chronicle
...The history of ‘Ancient Israel’ is based on the myth of the Hebrew biblical narrative which is nothing but unverifiable stories about ‘god and prophets’, a ‘chosen people’ and a ‘promised land’. It uses historical fiction to express ideological beliefs. Which god gives one tribe a license to kill and evict indigenous people from their homes unless this god’s name was Arthur James Balfour? The historian Giovanni Garbini argues that ‘without the use of external documentation it is impossible to identify where the biblical narratives are sound.’..

Israeli Terror: The “Final Solution” to the Palestine Question, by Prof. James Petras | Global Research
...The process of Israeli territorial expansion throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem has greatly accelerated in recent years, converting Palestinian-held territory into non-viable isolated enclaves – like South Africa’s Bantustans – surrounded by the Israeli soldiers who protect violent settler-vigilantes as they assault and harass Palestinian farmers at work in their fields, beat Arab children on their way to school , pelt Palestinian housewives as they hang their laundry and then invade and defecate in Palestinian mosques and churches...

Brzezinski: US must stop following Israel “like a stupid mule” | Truth Jihad News
...By denying any US “obligation” to “follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do,” Brzezinski accurately implied that this is exactly what the US has been doing up until now. And by plaintively opining that “the United States has the right to have its own national security policy,” the former National Security Adviser underlined the fact that since the assassination of John F. Kennedy, who secretly went to war with Ben Gurion in a doomed effort to abort the Israeli nuclear weapons program, the US has not enjoyed that right...

The Mundanity of a Criminal President, by John Glaser | Antiwar
  The essence of the Obama administration’s legal justification for the drone war in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere is that the bombs are dropped only to disrupt an imminent threat to America from militants involved in terrorist operations. This narrative is important for the administration to keep. And it is a complete lie...

Jews Against the Occupation answers its critics | YouTube
  Jews Against the Occupation (JAO) respond to critics: from claims that 'Israel is a democracy' to 'you are not real Jews', and explain why they support for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) and why Israel is an 'apartheid state'..

A Different War in Gaza, and the War Ahead, by Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle
  In life, some phenomena cannot be explained by ordinary logic or technical language, let alone official discourses. How did Gaza manage to fight back with such ferocity and undying vigor in quelling the latest Israeli war despite years of a bloody siege and one-sided war in 2008-9? It simply cannot be explained by the outmoded language of today’s media analysts. Notwithstanding, a new reality is about to emerge...

Gaza War may strengthen Iran's hand, by Kaveh L Afrasiabi | Asia Times Online
  Now that the dust of the eight-day Gaza war has settled, the war's shift of geostrategic fortune in favor of Hamas's Iranian military patron state is rather unmistakable. Israeli leaders may publicly boast of inflicting heavy damage to Hamas's rocket capability, yet the fact remains that they failed to reach their ultimate objective of dismantling that capability, which is sure to be replenished and strengthened in the months to come...



Nov 27, 2012

Why a new war on Gaza?: "Operation Pillar of Cloud," by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net
...At most, "Pillar of Cloud" might open the way for an old Zionist plan – the proclamation of Jordan as a Palestinian state, the transfer of the population of Gaza (perhaps also that of the West Bank) into Jordan, and the annexation of the territories thus evacuated. In this case, the military operation must not target all Hamas leaders indiscriminately, but only those who oppose the former political head of the organisation, Khaled Mechaal, since he is slated to become the first President of a Palestinian State in Jordan...

America: The Second Jewish State, by Richard Edmondson | deLiberation
  What exactly is the “Iron Dome Missile Defense System”? The commonly held view is that it’s a US technological achievement made available to Israel. But it is growing increasingly difficult these days to determine exactly where to draw the line between “US technology” and “Israeli technology.” This is underscored by a recent article at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, or JINSA:..

Is Gaza Outside Israel? by Tom Engelhardt | Antiwar
  On returning from his first trip to the Gaza Strip, Noam Chomsky told Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman, “It’s kind of amazing and inspiring to see people somehow managing to survive as caged animals subject to constant, random, sadistic punishment only to humiliate them, no pretext. Israel and the United States keep them alive basically. They don’t want them to starve to death. But life is set up so you can’t have dignified lives...

Kristol’s Thanksgiving Meditation Makes Central Role of Israel in Neo-Conservatism Clear | Lobe Log
  For those, particularly in the timid or intimidated U.S. foreign-policy elite, who still pretend or somehow make themselves believe that Israel is not absolutely central to the neo-conservative worldview, I commend this week’s Thanksgiving editorial by Bill Kristol, scion of one of the movement’s two founding families, in The Weekly Standard, entitled “The West Fights Back”. While it deserves to be read — and deconstructed — in full, here’s the meat:..

Miko Peled (Part 2): The Right of Return | YouTube
[Straight from the horse’s mouth]

How Europe courted Israel's arms industry on eve of Gaza attack, by David Cronin | New Europe
  Haneen was 10-months-old; Omar 11 months; Ibrahim one year. For the offence of being reared in Gaza, these infants were killed with the aid of Israel's "precision-guided" missiles. A few days before their deaths, the European Commission sponsored the "second international homeland security conference" in Tel Aviv. More of a bazaar than a talking shop, the event featured exhibits by Israel's top weapons companies. Shimon Peres, the state's president, gave the closing address, using this august occasion to boast of how, as a youthful arms dealer, he was "part of founding Israel's defence industries"..

The Law In These Parts (trailer) | YouTube
  In this Sundance prize-winning documentary, the architects of Israel's military rule in the Occupied Territories are asked to consider the consequences in a series of uncomfortable interviews...

The suffering of Sderot: how its true inhabitants were wiped from Israel's maps and memories, by Robert Fisk | The Independent
  I think I found the village of Huj this weekend – but the road sign said “Sederot”. The world knows it as Sderot, the Israeli city where the Hamas rockets fall. Even Barack Obama has been there. But Huj has a lot to do with this little story. By my map calculations, it lies, long destroyed, across the fields from a scruffy recreation centre near the entrance to Sderot, a series of shabby villas on a little ring road where Israeli children were playing on the Shabat afternoon...

A goy’s view of Israel, by Scarlet Wilde | men will pause
  The continual wars in the Middle East were an ongoing background noise as I grew up. Whenever I asked someone “Why?” I was always told “It’s complicated.” Watching the mini war over the past few days, I got pretty confused. There was so much disinformation around. And my birth country, England, were taking a somewhat one-sided view. So much for the impartiality of the BBC. It felt like watching two boys fighting in a playground and then having the big boy, that started it all, say things like:..

Top Ten Myths about Israeli Attack on Gaza, by Juan Cole | Informed Comment
  Israeli hawks represent themselves as engaged in a ‘peace process’ with the Palestinians in which Hamas refuses to join. In fact, Israel has refused to cease colonizing and stealing Palestinian land long enough to engage in fruitful negotiations with them. Tel Aviv routinely announces new, unilateral house-building on the Palestinian West Bank. There is no peace process. It is an Israeli and American sham. Talking about a peace process is giving cover to Israeli nationalists who are determined to grab everything the Palestinians have and reduce them to penniless refugees (again)...

Iran facing medicine shortages, by Naomi Conrad | DW.DE
  Medicine is getting more and more expensive in Iran. Experts blame the trend on currency fluctuations and economic sanctions. Meanwhile, patients are the ones to suffer. Doctor Nosrat Firusian remembers a time when he gave a patient an Iranian anesthetic. A few minutes later, the patient was still staring at him wide awake. "He simply didn't fall asleep," Firusian recounted to DW. Since then, the Iranian doctor living in Germany brings a big suitcase full of medicine with him every six weeks to Tehran...
[The Israelis will never give a damn about “collateral damage,” but if a significant number of Americans ever start to care - it's just a video game for most of them, where the "good guys" waste a bunch of towelheads - Israel’s days will be numbered.]

Barak Quits | Roi Tov
...Ehud Barak ("barak" means "lightning" in Hebrew) stole the political thunder when he announced he will not run for the upcoming elections in January. "My decision to retire stems from my desire to devote that time to my family, and also because I have never felt that politics was the height of my ambition," Israel's Minister of Defense announced. The most striking reaction came from Minister of Information and Diaspora Yoel Edelstein, a Likud member, who chanted to the media a Jewish prayer: “Blessed be God for ridding us of his punishment”..



Nov 26, 2012

Why Israel Didn’t Win, by Adam Shatz | London Review of Books
  The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its assault on the Strip, and Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at southern Israel, but it leaves Gaza as miserable as ever: according to a recent UN report, the Strip will be ‘uninhabitable’ by 2020. And this is to speak only of Gaza. How easily one is made to forget that Gaza is only a part – a very brutalised part – of the ‘future Palestinian state’ that once seemed inevitable, and which now seems to exist mainly in the lullabies of Western peace processors...

Palestine Government Pursues Terrorist Threat | The Macondo News Service
  Yesterday, Gaza Defense Force (GDF) artillery brigades and elite commando units armed with mobile rocket launchers pounded weapons factories and command and control centers within Usurped Palestine (UP), killing numerous terrorist operatives believed to be responsible for the repeated tank and helicopter gunship attacks upon the defenseless population of the small and largely undefended seaside enclave. In a press conference following the raids, GDF spokesman, Ihab al-Ghussein declared “We believe we have delivered a strong blow against a terrorist infrastructure that has, for some time now, threatened Gazan civilians as they seek to peacefully live their daily lives...

USA Cancels the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit | Roi Tov
...Israel is attempting to cancel the conference, or at least to postpone it as much as possible. Until now, the USA was mumbling nonsense pleasantries towards all.. Most people understand that the only active nuclear threat in the Middle East is posed by Israel, especially since it acquired its nuclear armed submarines from Germany...In its recent announcement, the USA imposed a veto on a diplomatic process because it didn't fit its goals.. The USA is the most violent country on earth, having conducted over 500 wars and military operations in its short existence. Whenever something turns against American tastes, that country resorts to violence...

New balance of terror in the Middle East, by Kaveh L Afrasiabi | Asia Times Online
  In the week-long war between Israel and the Palestinians, slowly but surely signs have emerged of a new "balance of terror" reflecting Hamas's enhanced ability to strike back at Israel via the Iran-made long range Fajr-5 rocket. Compared with the previous war in 2009, when Hamas relied on the shorter range and more inaccurate rockets that rattled southern Israel before a ceasefire went into effect, this time we are witnessing a "more disciplined" and sophisticated Hamas missile brigade that reportedly has some 15,000 military personnel operating through a network of tunnels...

The many faces of Sheikh Ahmad Moaz Al-Khatib: A lobbyist for Shell at the head of the Syrian National Coalition, by Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Net
  Completely unknown to the international public only a week ago, Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib has been catapulted to the presidency of the Syrian National Coalition, which represents pro-Western opposition in the Damascus government. Portrayed by an intense public relations campaign as a highly moral personality with no partisan or economic attachments, he is in truth a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and an executive of the Shell oil company...

Gaza redux analysis, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
  Analysis of conflicts and destruction should not be done in the heat of the moment when emotions are high. In wars, everybody loses but to variable degrees. But certain parties can claim achieving certain goals they set for themselves. Taking stock of the attack on Gaza, the players in this game come out differently (Civilians, Hamas, Fatah, the Israeli government, the U.S. etc.) and it is worth reflecting...

On the Use and Abuse of Hatred and Violence: Why Israel Desires to be Hated by Palestinians, by Oren Ben-Dor | Counterpunch
  Yet another massacre is unfolding in Gaza, the largest prison in the world. We are surrounded by familiar chatter: ‘Israel’s right to defend itself’; ‘Palestinians’ legitimate resistance to (the 1967) occupation’; ‘who started it this time?’ Most insidious, however, is the stale refrain, sung by a chorus which includes President Obama, that the violence is disastrous for the ‘peace process’ aimed at a ‘two-state solution’..

China will force peaceful solution to Syrian crisis on West: Kourosh Ziabari interviews German pundit | Voltaire Net
...Since the failure of the Free Syrian Army to secure Aleppo as seat for a transitional government in June and July 2012 both the political and the military foreign backed opposition have fallen literally apart. An attempt to compensate militarily by massively importing Wahabi and Salafi organizations and fighters, many of them with ties to Al-Qaeda, has even made it more difficult to unite a politically or militarily credible foreign backed opposition. The recent meeting in Doha and the establishment of a new political opposition is not much more than a recycling of a failed strategy...

Targeting journalists: a modest proposal, by Kevin Barret | Truth Jihad News
..In the spirit of Jonathan Swift, I modestly propose the following question: What would happen if anti-Zionists behaved like Zionists? What if anti-Zionists decided to target Zionist journalists using the massively disproportionate retaliation – the hundred-eyes-for-an-eye policy – favored by Zionists?.. It’s not like there aren’t a whole lot of fat, juicy soft targets out there. Almost every journalistic outlet in the US, and most journalistic outlets in Europe, are dominated by Zionist Jews...

Palestine’s Liberation from the ‘Palestinian Authority,’ by Ludwig Watzal | MCW
  To liberate the Palestinian people from Israel’s occupation is as important as liberating them from their own so-called Palestinian Authority (PA). The latest conflict between Israel and Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, could not have shown better the needlessness of this collaborationist body. “President” Mahmoud Abbas, whose term expired in 2009, was sitting in his armchair giving meaningless and helpless statements about the bombing of the people in the Gaza Strip...



Nov 25, 2012

Pillar of Impotence | Gilad Atzmon
...For many years I have argued that the Palestinian war of the rockets should be seen as sending a message: Israelis! You are on stolen land! You took our houses, villages, cities, fields and orchards. You pushed us into the desert. You surrounded us with barbed wire. You starve us and you kill us simply to suit your political ambitions. So this rocket is a message to you all. Think about us and then look at yourself in the mirror. Enough is enough!’ For more than six decades the Israelis have dismissed this message. They surrounded themselves with ghetto walls and have sealed their skies with an Iron Dome. However, with Tel Aviv now under attack, Israel and Israelis have been confronted with their original sin...
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Gaza Ceasefire: An Early Assessment, by Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle
  The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after eight days of murderous attacks. It is just possible that it will be looked back upon as a turning point in the long struggle between Israel and Palestine...
[As is often the case when they don’t like the content, the ZioNazi cyberterrorists have inserted some malware into this page. They are sending a message that searching for the truth may be hazardous to your computer. Just make sure you have good anti-virus protection installed and active. I use AVG – they always deflect such incoming missiles, unlike Israel’s comical Iron Dome system.]
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Iron Dome, Pillar of Cloud, and Netanyahu's Next War | Roi Tov
...Most polls show disgust towards the Prime Minister, who is being portrayed as too soft and indecisive. Most articles portray the Iron Dome antimissile system as "Hero of the Hour" while criticizing the Israeli Air Force. The role of Egypt in ending the conflict is overlooked. The recruitment of over 50,000 IDF reservists, who eventually weren't deployed, is not mentioned anymore. Israel is showing such a strong combination of a bad memory and poor analytic capabilities, than one must ask oneself whether this is an intentional tactic aimed at disguising the actual date of a ground attack on Gaza...
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Khaled Meshal speaks..(very clearly indeed) | Paul Eisen
  There's a great deal I admire about Hamas but probably most of all it's their truthful clarity. And the funny thing is, the tougher their message, the clearer and more truthful they become...
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Where’s our humanity for Gaza? by Sara Roy | The Boston Globe
...The Gaza Strip is now in its 46th year of occupation, 22nd year of closure, and sixth year of intensified closure. The resulting normalization of the occupation assumes a dangerous form in the Gaza Strip, whose status as an occupied territory has ceased to matter in the West; the attention has shifted — after Hamas’s 2006 electoral victory and 2007 takeover of the territory — to Gaza’s containment and punishment, rendering illegitimate any notion of human rights or freedom for Palestinians...
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Democracy in America today, by Dmitry Minin | Strategic Culture Foundation
...Among the most important challenges facing America are growing social inequality, discrimination on racial, ethnic and religious grounds, the practice of indefinite detention without charges, judicial bias, prisons operating outside of the law, torture, the impact of government agencies on court processes, a poor penal system, the denial of freedom of speech, Internet censorship, legalized corruption, lack of electoral rights of citizens, intolerance based on race and ethnicity, the violation of children's rights, the extraterritorial application of U.S. law, leading to human rights violations in other countries, kidnapping , tracking dissidents, disproportionate use of force against peaceful demonstrators etc...

My All-Time Favourite Holocaust Frauds | Paul Eisen
  Everyone has a favourite Holocaust Fraud - this is mine...
[There are so many – in the hundreds at least, not to mention the thousands who share the collective ‘memory,’ almost certainly imaginary, of “gas chambers” in the concentration camps.]
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Israel’s Gaza adventure backfires, by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis
  Israel’s latest brainless onslaught has spectacularly backfired. First, the courage and resilience of the Palestinians in Gaza has won the hearts and minds of the world. The Hamas government, which has been forced to operate under impossible conditions ever since it was elected in 2006, earns grudging admiration and can hold its head high. Hated in the West because it is not for sale, Hamas should be accepted as a key player in the diplomatic process from now on. Israel comes out of it smelling even worse than before and is now universally despised. It has shown itself to be the ultimate terror state and should be booted out of the United Nations...
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IDF Murders Gazan in First Major Ceasefire Violation, by Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam
  The ink was barely dry on the ceasefire document Israel signed, before it had already violated the terms by killing a 20 year old Gazan farmer and wounding ten others who’d dared to take seriously the terms of the agreement. It allowed them free movement in formerly no-go border zones which Israel had established unilaterally...
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The American Gulag as the latest form of capitalism, by Valentin Katasonov | Strategic Culture Foundation
...Commercial prisons in the United States today hold 220 thousand people behind bars. In American literature, this phenomenon is dubbed «prison slavery». This refers to the use of prison labor. It should be clarified: it is the use of prison labor for profit by private capital (as opposed to, say, such work as cleaning areas and facilities in prison, or the execution of any work in the public interest)...
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Israel Is Not Jewish, by Myles Hoenig | Dissident Voice
...The extent of gross human rights violations in Gaza has certainly reached Nazi-like proportion. The enormity of collective punishment in Gaza equals the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto. Rockets fired into Israel proper that certainly cause terror amongst the inhabitants but does so little damage with such few casualties is being met with F-16 bombardments of Gaza neighborhoods. Firing indiscriminately into neighborhoods from the air is reminiscent of Guernica, where the Luftwaffe practiced aerial bombardment on a civilian population...
[True enough, but saying it is not ‘Jewish’ is more than a bit disingenuous. It is being done by the ‘Jewish State’ in the name of the Jewish People, and with all the appropriate references and symbols. It may not be your notion of ‘Jewish,’ nor mine, but it is most certainly Jewish – just ask the various representatives of organized Jewry in the US or Canada or the UK.]
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Israel’s sewage war | Redress Information & Analysis
  A picture is worth a thousand word. The videos below are both instructive and appalling. They sum up the character of the Jewish settlers – the misfits, thieves and squatters from the United States, Europe, the former Soviet Union and elsewhere who are stealing and blighting Palestinian lands in increasing numbers – and they expose the deep-seated racism that underlies their contempt for Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular...



Nov 24, 2012

Fareed Zakaria: "Israel Dominates the New Middle East" | David Shasha
  With a glee bordering on the erotic, the ubiquitous CNN pundit Fareed Zakaria describes Israel’s orgy of military power. It is a description that consumes many American Jews who see in this military might a profound existential meaning. And while the article ends with the by-now clichéd call for creative thinking about peace – which has never been part of Israel’s strong-suit, the examples given are just more smoke-and-mirrors trickery grounded in PILPUL – it is Israel’s supercharged military extravaganza that garners our attention...

What Is Pilpul, And Why On Earth Should I Care About It? by David Shasha | Huffington Post
...What is thought to be the Jewish "genius" is often a mark of how pilpul is deployed. The rhetorical tricks of pilpul make true rational discussion impossible; any "discussion" is about trying to "prove" a point that has already been established. There is little use trying to argue in this context, because any points being made will be twisted and turned to validate the already-fixed position. Pilpul is the rhetorical means to mark as "true" that which cannot ever be disputed by rational means. The contentiousness of the Middle East conflict is intimately informed by pilpul...

The Split: Differences over Israel tear apart a Jewish marriage, by William T. Hathaway | MCW
  Stan and Hannah Cooper are friends of mine from college days. Both are Jewish, but they have diametrically opposed views about Israel, and their differences have become so bitter that they've decided to divorce. As the three of us talked about this, it became clear that their dispute is a microcosm of the conflict that is tearing the Jewish community apart and also destroying lives in an increasingly large part of the world...
[On one side paranoid lunacy and mythology masquerading as history, in a thick pilpul sauce - on the other wisdom and humanity – kind of a slam dunk, don’t you think?]

Coup and counter-coup in Washington, by Webster G. Tarpley | PressTV
..This year, a cabal of generals evidently believed it could secure the White House for Mitt Romney by staging the Benghazi incident and using it as the signal for a cold coup under cover of elections - probably including computer-generated election fraud -- to bring down Obama. They guessed wrong...

Pillar of Cloud ends Unfinished | Roi Tov
...On January 18, 1943, the Germans entered the Warsaw Ghetto resolved to perform forced deportations.. By imposing a blockade on Gaza, Israel has created a new Warsaw Ghetto, this one four times larger than the original one. Like the Germans, the Israelis will fail to force its inhabitants to surrender. Israel also failed to learn that out of this Ghetto ashes, a new phoenix will emerge...

Twitter Warzone: Israel losing battle of words on social media | RT on YouTube
..Violence on the ground and diplomatic wrangles are not the only battlefields in the Middle East - they're also online, and they're proving decisive. Aleksey Yaroshevsky explains...

A Deadly Déjà Vu, by Clive Hambidge | MCW
...It is both ironic and welcome is it not that words of peace would flow from a perceived Iranian tyrant openly reviled by Israel and the US, as rockets, winged by Israel’s hatred pound the Gaza Strip and compound the world’s condemnation for attacking its neighbour. They condemn Israel’s wilful derogation of enshrined international norms, as Israel continues to commit barbaric acts with impunity...

The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall, by Norman Finkelstein | My Catbird Seat
  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Israel has just suffered a historic defeat.
One only had to watch the international news coverage. BBC persisted in its typically awful reportage on the Israel-Palestine conflict during Israel’s latest rampage. But tonight it had to acknowledge that the people of Gaza were out in the streets celebrating. It desperately sought some “balance” by positing that “some people in Israel are probably also celebrating.” Fat chance...

As Gaza is savaged again, understanding the BBC's historical role is vital | John Pilger
...Standing in the rubble from an Israeli attack, one BBC journalist went further and referred to "Gaza's strong culture of martyrdom". So great is this distortion that young viewers of BBC News have told Glasgow University researchers they are left with the impression that Palestinians are the illegal colonisers of their own country. The current BBC "coverage" of Gaza's genocidal misery reinforces this...

What really happened in Gaza 14-22 November 2012, by Owen Jones | YouTube
  On BBC's Question Time on 22.11.12, journalist Owen Jones described the reality - largely ignored by the mainstream media - of Israel's brutal attack on Gaza, 14-22 November 2012, that left close to 160 killed, over 30 of them children...

Once And For All! by Uri Avnery | MCW
...Until this round, Hamas had a powerful presence in the Gaza Strip, but practically no international standing. The international face of the Palestinian people was Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian National Authority. No more. Operation Pillar of Cloud has given the Hamas mini-state in Gaza wide international recognition...

Palestinians: Dying to Live Free | Stephen Lendman
  Occupied Palestine is the longest unresolved conflict of our time. After 64 years, Palestinians remain largely isolated on their own. Their suffering continues. Their rights don't matter. Western nations scorn them. Rhetorical support only is provided. It's insulting, demeaning and meaningless. Ending Operation Pillar of Cloud changed nothing. Israel will provoke confrontations any time it wishes. Pretexts will be invented. Hamas and other resistance groups will be blamed...



Nov 23, 2012

We're All Gazans Now, by Stephen Lendman | Indybay
  The whole world's watching. Growing millions know. Israel’s a rogue terror state. It's amoral, brutish, and ruthless. Arabs are murdered for not being Jews. Gazans suffer most of all. Israel's been terror-bombing them daily. Civilians are maliciously targeted. Growing numbers are killed. Official totals way understate the toll. Many others are injured. Children are traumatized. Parents are frantic. How much more of this can people take?..

The World As Slaughterhouse, by Arthur Silber | The OtherSite
...Dead children are now a commonplace of the ceaseless death campaigns conducted by the United States and Israel. That alone reveals a great deal, more than anyone decent cares to know, about the nature of the "civilization" involved. But … a pregnant woman. That's a new and creative touch. Does someone in Israel get extra points for that? A special medal for extraordinary heroism? I suspect so.. Israel's "right to defend itself" — to defend itself from what exactly? The prisoners of a concentration camp? This is reality and morality turned upside down and inside out...

The Zionist devil’s advocate, by Gilad Atzmon | Redress Information & Analysis
  Ethnic cleansing advocate Alan Dershowitz is not at all happy. He is devastated by the failure of the media and the international community to distinguish between the Israeli military and “Hamas terrorists” (this is how he refers to Palestinian freedom fighters). Last week, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz lent its pages to this Talmudic spin master – and I was delighted because Dershowitz’ arguments throw new light on the depths of Jewish ideological and political morbidity...
[Dershowitz made a career out of getting murderers off the hook. I’ll bet he came in his pants when he realized he could be the lead defense attorney for a genocidal, terrorist State.]

Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All, by Chris Hedges | Truthdig
  Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many impoverished regions of the world, which have fallen off the economic cliff, are beginning to resemble Gaza, where 1.6 million Palestinians live in the planet’s largest internment camp. These sacrifice zones, filled with seas of pitifully poor people trapped in squalid slums or mud-walled villages, are increasingly hemmed in by electronic fences, monitored by surveillance cameras and drones and surrounded by border guards or military units that shoot to kill...

Gaza and after the ceasefire, by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis
  Oppression will resume, the land-grab will continue, more rewards for Israel will flow.. And it will be business as usual for Western leaders and their Zionist friends...

Wholesale Treason: Why Israel Bought Congress, by Gordon Duff | Sabbah Report
...Chomsky doesn’t come out and say “Israel did it.” However, he does point out that the attack on Afghanistan was illegal and that there has never been a shred of proof that anyone in Afghanistan had ever been involved in 9/11 at any time, not Osama bin Laden, not the Taliban, nobody. In fact, when it came time for America to submit proof to justify attacking Afghanistan, America began a series of subterfuges that have left the United States branded an aggressor and criminal state...

Tear gas in Bethlehem and bombings in Gaza, by the Editor | Redress Information & Analysis
  Not content with trashing Gaza, the Israeli occupation army – “the most moral army in the world” – is now taking it out on Bethlehem, invading the town and firing tear gas at civilians...

Israeli mayor: expel Palestinian citizens of “hostile” Nazareth to Gaza for opposing war, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada
  The Israeli mayor of Upper Nazareth, a town in the Galilee, has demanded that the adjacent city of Nazareth be declared “hostile” to the state of Israel, and its predominantly Palestinian population, who are citizens of Israel, be expelled to Gaza. “If it was in my hands, I would evacuate from this city its residents the haters of Israel whose rightful place is in Gaza and not here,” Mayor Shimon Gapso wrote in a letter to Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai...
[An appropriate response would be to call for the expulsion of the Jews from Palestine, as they are clearly hostile to the rest of humanity and they have no legal or moral right to be there.]

International law, the Gaza war, and Palestine's state of exception, by Mark LeVine and Lisa Hajjar | Al Jazeera
  The large-scale military assault launched by Israel on Gaza, and the manner in which both Israeli and Palestinian forces are fighting this war, raise numerous red flags regarding large scale violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.. in the Israeli-Palestinian context those who perpetrate human rights violations and war crimes seem largely immune to legal accountability...

New York Times selective reporting about Iranian torture charges | Iran Affairs
  You would think that a New York Times article about prosecuting Iranian officials for human rights abuses would mention that the US was complicit in the abuses, and that the legal impediments to prosecuting Iranian officials are largely the result of American efforts to ensure its own impunity and immunity from international law...

Israeli-Arab Ceasefire # 6,432,821, by Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam
  Israel and Hamas have announced a ceasefire that was mid-wived by Egypt and the U.S. It will ostensibly end this round of fighting – until the next time. And there will be a next time. Of that you can be sure...

The True Story of Israel & Palestine: War & Peace | PressTV/YouTube
  This is a short film explaining the fact behind the situation in the Middle East. This documentary relies on the knowledge of experts and professors in the field from all sides...

Elite Intrigues and Military Purges: It’s Not About Sex, Stupid! by Prof. James Petras | Global Research
...we are asked to believe that a single, low-ranking, zealous FBI agent has toppled the careers of two top US Generals: one in charge of the principle global intelligence agency, the CIA, and the other in command of the US and allied combat forces in the principle theater of military engagement – on the basis of infidelity and flirtatious banter! Nothing could be more far-fetched simply on prima facie evidence...

'Israel's use of unconventional weapons in Gaza: acts of terrorism' | PressTV/YouTube
  A Gaza-based activist tells Press TV that the use of unconventional weapons such as white phosphorous bombs and shrapnel bullets against the civilian population of Gaza is an act of terrorism by the Israeli regime. On November 14, the Israeli regime launched a deadly war on the blockaded Gaza Strip, which killed more than 160 Palestinians and injured some 1,200 others. To shed more light on the issue, Press TV's News Analysis program has interviewed Harry Fear, a filmmaker and activist, from the besieged costal enclave of Gaza, Kevin Barrett, an author and Islamic studies expert, from Madison; and Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East analyst from Washington...

Sterilize the Palestinian people, Dutch writer Leon de Winter says with Israeli ambassador listening, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada
...The website PowNed reported that de Winter “made his proposal for forced eugenics yesterday evening in Amsterdam at a solidarity meeting of Dutch Jews,” and that the speech by de Winter was broadcast this morning by Dutch mainstream and publicly-funded Radio 1...
[Well sure, as long as we start with de Winter, who is clearly unfit to have children. Then maybe we’ll take another look.]



Nov 22, 2012

The Tragic Truth About the State of Israel, by Luke Hiken | MCW
...The great majority of us went to temple at the North Shore Congregation Israel, and donated $5.00 a shot for stickers to purchase “trees” to plant in the new State of Israel. We were going to transform the desert into a promised land and help the oppressed Jews of Europe to create a homeland where pogroms, ghettos and the Holocaust were a thing of the past. For literally decades, Zionists had perpetuated the myth that the territory that would become the State of Israel was “a land without a people, for a people without a land.” How noble and just it all seemed...
[I too went to a Temple in an overwhelmingly Jewish suburb, of Boston, not Chicago – preparing for my Bar Mitzvah, which was mandated if I wanted to eat. And I bought the same tree stamps. But I thought the whole thing was a bad joke, couldn’t believe that grown up people could take such primitive mythology seriously (the Jewish Sky God of Fear, Wrath and War, etc).]
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Israeli Aggression: Dress Rehearsal for Iran? | Stephen Lendman
Longstanding US and Israeli policies call for regime change in Iran. Replacing its independent government with a pro-Western puppet one is planned. War is the bottom line option if other methods fail. Both countries have longstanding plans. War could erupt any time. Doing so is madness. It's also lawless, unconscionable, and self-destructive. Attacking Iran assures all combatants lose...
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The Anguish of Being a Jew Now, by MJ Rosenberg | Huffington Post
  I understand that the pain Jews like myself feel over Israel's war on Gaza is nothing compared to what Palestinians and other Muslims are going through. But, nonetheless, it is real. In losing the Israel I grew up on, I feel like a wonderful friend has died...
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A Pillar Built on Sand, by John Mearsheimer | London Review of Books
...So what is going on here? At the most basic level, Israel’s actions in Gaza are inextricably bound up with its efforts to create a Greater Israel that stretches from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Despite the endless palaver about a two-state solution, the Palestinians are not going to get their own state, not least because the Netanyahu government is firmly opposed to it. The prime minister and his political allies are deeply committed to making the Occupied Territories a permanent part of Israel...

It's Palestinians who have the right to defend themselves, by Seumas Milne | The Guardian
  The way western politicians and media have pontificated about Israel's onslaught on Gaza, you'd think it was facing an unprovoked attack from a well-armed foreign power. Israel had every "right to defend itself", Barack Obama declared. "No country on earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders." He was echoed by Britain's foreign secretary, William Hague, who declared that the Palestinian Islamists of Hamas bore "principal responsibility" for Israel's bombardment of the open-air prison that is the Gaza Strip...
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Israel's 'right to self-defense': a tremendous propaganda victory, by Amira Hass | Haaretz
  By supporting Israel's offensive on Gaza, Western leaders have given the Israelis carte blanche to do what they're best at: wallow in their sense of victimhood and ignore Palestinian suffering...
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US Media Lackeys for Israel: Weapons of Mass Distraction | YouTube
  Abby Martin takes a look at the corporate media's coverage of the escalating war in Gaza and the elements being left out...

Education ministry to high school students: help with hasbara | Alternative Information Center
  Israel’s Ministry of Education sent a special communication to high school principals throughout the country on Tuesday, calling on students to participate in Israel’s hasbara efforts concerning the attacks on Gaza. Director General of Education Ministry: we can conquer world public opinion with charming humour, visual language.” Students are promised that selected works will be used by Israeli hasbara officials throughout the world, and shown on Israel's Education Television. Children in the service of government propaganda...
[And why Not use the Kosher Hitler Youth? That’s why they feed and clothe them, ain’t it?]
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The US-Israeli Attack on Gaza, by Prof Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research
..While reports acknowledge that president Obama, in the wake of the November 6 elections, had granted a “Green Light” to Tel Aviv, the central issue does not pertain to Washington’s support but rather to the direct involvement of the US government and military in the planning and implementation of the attack on Gaza. There is evidence that Operation “Pillar of Cloud” was implemented in close liaison with Washington in the context of the broader process of allied military planning. Senior US military officials were on location in Israel working with their IDF counterparts in the days leading up to the attack...
[What, USrael involved in aggression against innocent, helpless people? Shocking! And Awing! But Hell, it’s just SOP.]
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Puppet State America, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research
  The United States government and its subject peoples think of the US as “the world’s only superpower.” But how is a country a superpower when its entire government and a majority of the subjects, especially those members of evangelical churches, grovel at the feet of the Israeli Prime Minister? How is a country a superpower when it lacks the power to determine its own foreign policy in the Middle East? Such a country is not a superpower. It is a puppet state...
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Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassionate Jew: Rich Siegel | Ken O'Keefe
  “It is so terribly and dramatically disturbing to have been raised Jewish and Zionist, and to see the death and destruction that my people are bringing to the world. It is so frustrating to say, “Grow as I have grown, see what I see” and to only hear the same broken record of Jewish victimization and accusations of “self-hating Jew” in response. If I, as one born and raised in this death-crazed narcissistic cult, don’t know how to resolve this desperate situation, how will anyone else figure it out? Please- Jews- my people- you are desperately sick. The whole world sees this and knows it, and yet so many are afraid to say so for fear of being called “Anti-Semite”..
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How President Obama Lives In US, by Michael Robeson | Paul Eisen
  Our peace loving President, defender of minorities and articulate spokesmen for the American way of life declared on Sunday: "There's no country on Earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders..”.. Thank you, President Drone, for making that clear. Because that means you believe Pakistanis, Yemenis and Afghanis have the right not to tolerate American missiles raining down on them every day and that they too have the right to defend themselves, even disproportionately, against Americans whose tax dollars are paying for the attacks...
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Michael Ben-Ari hate speech: Israeli hate on display in Tel Aviv | YouTube
  Knesset member Michael Ben-Ari of the National Union party. On 15 November, the second day of the Israeli assault on Gaza, Ben-Ari addressed a hate rally in Tel Aviv, calling for more bloodshed in Gaza. Ben-Ari is also notorious for his incitement against Africans and for his hatred of Christians. In July he tore up a New Testament, calling it "abominable" and threw it in the trash...
[4,000 years of this is enough, don’t you think?]



Nov 21, 2012

Palestinian Resistance: The Political, Social and Human Right of Self-Defense, by Lynda Brayer | Gilad Atzmon
  Once again the bombs are fall­ing on the Gaza Strip, a stretch of ter­rit­ory excised from Palestine proper as a res­ult of con­tinu­ing illegal and ille­git­im­ate actions by Israel. In fact, Gaza has become a closed ghetto, first cut off from Palestine in viol­a­tion of the par­ti­tion plans and polit­ical pro­grams and then turned into a sealed ghetto, fol­low­ing the demo­cratic elec­tions which brought the Islamic Res­ist­ance Party ­­— Hamas — into power...
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In Palestine Something Miraculous Happens | Uprooted Palestinians
In Palestine
Terror reigns
Psychopaths claim dominance
and a "G-d given right" to rob, kill and maim

How many children will Israel slaughter …before world leaders deliver law and justice? by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis
...For decades the Israelis have played for time, whining that they have “no partner for peace” while continuing to seize and colonize all the Palestinian land and water resources needed to fulfill the Zionist dream of a Greater Israel from the Jordan to the Mediterranean – or, some say, the Euphrates to the Nile. To that end the Zionist regime has continually violated UN resolutions, international law and the norms of human decency while rushing to establish irreversible facts on the ground, like the monstrous settlements and their supporting infrastructure, and to press ahead with further demolition of Arab homes and more ethnic cleansing...
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Speaking to the Palestinians in the language of death, but still there is hope | Alan Hart
..What we have been witnessing since the targeted assassination of Hamas’s military leader is the proof (if more was needed) that the language of death is the only language Israel’s leaders have for speaking to the Palestinians.. Though not quite as savage as its 2008/2009 blitzkrieg, Israel’s current offensive is murder; and all Western leaders, taking their cue from President Obama, are complicit (by default if not design). All of their statements that Israel has a right to defend itself ignored the fact that Israel is a brutal, occupying power, and that its occupation.. plus its blockade of the Gaza Strip, plus Israeli provocations, were the cause of the incoming rockets to which the Zionist (not Jewish) state was exposed...
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Sharon the Truth Teller | Gilad Atzmon
...The young Sharon is clearly a truth teller. He offers us a genuine glimpse into the murderous Israeli psychosis, and the message to be drawn is obvious. It is now time to admit that we cannot grasp the Israeli collective psychosis and fascination with violence and death without a deep understanding of Jewish culture, Jewish supremacy and Jewish tribalism...
[Watch video with Sharon on Channel 4]
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Israel: Perpetrator or self-proclaimed victim? by Ludwig Watzal | MCW
...The Israeli military attacks against a defenseless population have been going on since 1948 and follow usually the same pattern, especially, after Israel occupied and colonized the rest of Palestine after 1967. The decades-long occupation is the real cause of the conflict. Would the Israeli government not object to the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people, withdraw its troops and its colonizers from the occupied territories and let the Palestinians live their life in freedom, the conflict could be resolved in a minute...
[To repeat what should be obvious, the Israelis will never agree to a viable Palestinian state. As long as there is a Jewish State in Palestine, there will be war between the ruthless bully and its hapless prey. The only possible solution worthy of that term is a democratic, pluralistic state in the ancient land of Palestine. Needless to say, the Israelis would never agree to such a thing; it must be imposed upon them by an outraged world, just as humanity forced the White Nationalist regime in So. Africa to raise the white flag.]
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Praying for the IDF | Paul Eisen
..Gesoff said that she was not nervous about being in Israel right now, but the same cannot be said for her family in the US. “My family expressed concern, however they think I’m being courageous for staying here. Just to be here, praying in front of such righteous leaders has brought comfort to me. I am confident that Hashem [God] will protect us and that we will defeat our enemies once and for all and be safe in our land.”..
[Well, good luck with that. What if Hashem is a poseur, and he's actually the Other Guy? Duh! Moses tried to tell you, when Hashem was worshipped in the form of the Golden Calf. The Prophets shouted their lungs out to no avail. Jesus tried to tell you when he chased the moneychangers out of the Temple. But you'll never learn, will you?]
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Stay Human: Mazin Qumsiyeh's Human Rights Newsletter 11/20, 11/21
  More than 105 Palestinians were murdered so far in Gaza (and a few in the West Bank), 30 of them children. Israeli warplanes targeted residential neighborhoods in Gaza for the seventh straight day (>1400 bombings) and round the clock. In one shelling of a building (which Israel says was a "technical glitch"), nine members of Al-Dalou family were killed with two neighbors...
Obama's Little Canossa | Roi Tov
..For many years now, Western media and governments like to portrait Myanmar as pure evil. Western Democracies—especially the USA—have based their economies on military industries. Without an eternal war, Western economies would collapse. This explains the incredible chain of wars—that the USA is involved in since WWII. The main ones were lost by America...
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UN resolutions on Israel | MCW
  Note that this is only a subset of UN Resolutions which Israel remains in violation of to this day; e.g. those regarding Gaza and Lebanon...
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World Has Put Up With Zionist Apartheid For Too Long, by Finian Cunningham | The OtherSite
  The massacre of civilians in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine could be stopped right now with one phone call from US President Barack Obama. One phone call telling the Israeli criminals-in-office that the USD 3 billion annual lifeline of economic and military aid from American tax-payers is being terminated would bring this killing machine to a halt...
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Nov 20, 2012

America Planning for a Post-Israel Middle East? by Franklin Lamb | Information Clearing House
...So what is all the fuss about? It’s a paper entitled: Preparing For A Post Israel Middle East, an 82 page analysis that concludes that the American national interest in fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel. The authors conclude that Israel is currently the greatest threat to US national interests because its nature and actions prevent normal US relations with Arab and Muslim countries and, to a growing degree, the wider international community. The study was commissioned by the US Intelligence Community...
[Some observers claim that this was a draft written by a low level analyst, but whether officially approved or not it just states what is no doubt obvious to many members of the intelligence and military organizations. How will they act when the opportunity arises, or will one or more of them provide the opportunity themselves?]

The latest Gaza catastrophe, by Richard Falk | Al Jazeera
...Israel’s policies seemed almost calculated to increase future ‘insecurity’ for its people and the region. There is a slow ongoing mobilization of the region in support of Palestinian claims well expressed by the diplomatic re-positioning of Egypt and Turkey. It will be become much more difficult for the United States to insulate Israel from the consequences of its future aggressions against the Palestinians. This is partly because it is likely that the next time, militants hostile to Israel will be better armed, as was true for Hezbollah after the 2006 Lebanon War and for Hamas since the 2008-09 Gaza attacks, and partly because the balance of regional forces is tilting quickly against Israel...

Is attacking Gaza really about Hamas rockets? by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis
...What if Hamas dumped all its rockets in the sea tomorrow? Would the illegal blockade be lifted? Would Gazans enjoy the same freedoms as other nations? Would their democratically elected government be allowed to get on and govern? Would they be able to open their sea port to foreign ships and rebuild and operate their airport? Would they be able to import and export and carry on trade and develop their economy and prosper like other countries?..

The gravy train that never ends!! | Paul Eisen
  As times get harder and money gets tighter how are the German people and others going to view this? How long can it go on? And, when it can go on no longer, where and how will the anger be directed?..
[Gotta hand it to ‘em – the biggest and most audacious extortion scheme in history, bar none. Are the Germans ever going to stop rolling over and presenting their rump to their new masters?]

Israel Names Its New War After Biblical Story About God Terrorizing Egyptians, by John Cook
  If you speak Hebrew, the Israeli Defense Forces would like you to refer to the wave of assassination strikes it commenced in Gaza today as "Pillar of Cloud," a Biblical reference to the form God adopted in order to protect the Children of Israel and strike terror into the heart of Egyptians. If you speak English, it would prefer you to use the less fanatical "Pillar of Defense."..
[After more than a hundred years of painstaking work trying to substantiate the historicity of the fanciful tales found in the Bible, including the presence of Jews in ancient Egypt, archeologists have come up with close to nada.]

“Flatten” Gaza like Hiroshima and “mow” the population, Israeli public figures urge, by Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada
..Among the latest horrifying examples of incitement to mass murder by Israeli public figures, Gilad Sharon, the son of former prime minister and notorious war criminal Ariel Sharon, has called for the Israeli army to “flatten” Gaza as the US flattened the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 with an atomic bomb. “The residents of Gaza are not innocent, they elected Hamas. The Gazans aren’t hostages; they chose this freely, and must live with the consequences,” wrote Sharon in the extremist publication The Jerusalem Post...

Gaza Murder Machine: Every second bomb death a civilian | RT on YouTube
  Israel's escalating its offensive on Gaza - the number of deaths has doubled within the past day, and now exceeds 80. Almost half the Palestinians killed are believed to be civilians - mostly women and children, with many more feared still trapped under rubble. Journalist and eyewitness Harry Fear brings us his account of what's happening in Gaza...

Operation Security Roof (satire) | Gilad Atzmon
  Following the IDF difficulties in defeating Hamas’s ballistic warfare, the Israeli Government is now searching for contractors with some advanced experience in large scale reinforced concrete constructions. The mission ahead is the building of a solid concrete roof over the entire Jewish State. PM Netanyahu is determined that the only way to defend Israel’s populated area is to cover the Jewish State with a thick layer of iron and cement...

Israel's medievalism, by Michael Marder | MCW
  In one of the most brazen and, at the same time, frank declarations to date, the Israeli Minister of the Interior, Eli Yishai stated regarding the war currently being waged on the Gaza Strip: "The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for forty years."..
[Such a State cannot exist much longer – history, reason and common sense, not to mention simple human decency, are arrayed against it]

Try Talking to Hamas | Roi Tov
  Over the years, I had the doubtful joy of speaking with Israeli Zionists belonging to the right and left sides of the political spectrum. Strikingly, the differences between them were not political in nature, but mainly an issue of style. Rightists were acidly sarcastic, while leftists were naively sarcastic. Both abused the Biblical language, while snatching every opportunity to offend others. On November 19, 2012, the Hebrew media provided an awesome example of that while commenting on the barbaric Israeli offensive on Gaza, Operation Pillar of Cloud...

A Zionist worldview and the slaughter in Gaza, by Lawrence Davidson | Redress Information & Analysis
  Soon after my analysis “In defence of Richard Falk” was published by Media with a Conscience (MWC), the site editor forwarded to me an unusual chastising response. It was unusual because it came from a relatively well-known scholar and writer by the name of Fred Skolnik.. It is not rare for Zionists to take me to task, and Skolnik is most certainly a Zionist. Yet it is rare that those who chastise are of Skolnik’s stature. And so, a reply is in order...

Gaza’s Surprises Shatter Netanyahu’s Political Ambitions, by Elias Akleh | MCW
...These rockets had penetrated all Israeli radar defenses and demonstrated the failure of the very expensive Iron Dome System under the real live situation. A second surprise came as a surface to air missile (SAM) that shot down one Israeli F-16 fighter plane, a drone, and lately an Apache helicopter. A third surprise was a direct hit to Israeli naval gunboat with a missile. And the final surprise was hitting an Israeli military jeep with a rocket and killing its occupants. Palestinian fighters are finally giving Israeli citizens a taste of their own medicine by exacting a deterrent terror to the Israeli terror...



Nov 19, 2012


Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung at World Peace Academy | YouTube
  Professor Dr. Galtung is one of the most educated moral people speaking in English, on the planet. This one hour video is worthy of watching — without distraction — by any educated person and most particularly the President of the United States of America...

Why Gaza must suffer again, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth
  The four guilty parties behind Israel’s attack...

Innocent victims: Children among dozens killed by Israeli airstrikes | RT
  Israeli airstrikes killed seven children and wounded many others in Gaza on Sunday. At least 13 children have been killed since Operation Pillar of Defense began. That number could potentially rise if Israel launches a ground operation on Gaza. An Israeli missile flattened a three-story house in Gaza City, killing at least 9 civilians – including four children.. "We must blow Gaza back to the Middle Ages, destroying all the infrastructure including roads and water,” Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai said, as quoted by Yeshiva World News...

Human Rights: the People vs the UN, by Eric Walberg | Global Research
...though the slaughter and torture in Afghanistan and Gaza continues on a daily basis, with hardly a peep from the media, the force of world opinion has meant that US leaders commanding the likes of Bales, such as Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, and virtually all Israeli leaders, now have to be more careful about where they go. People around the world who refuse to consider the death of millions as an inconsequential statistic are waiting to enforce citizens’ arrests...

Finkelstein: Doubts Gaza crisis will escalate | YouTube
  The Israeli military is converging on Gaza, as it continues to pummel the Palestinians from air, sea and land. The Operation, dubbed "Pillars of Defence" - is on the verge of turning into a new invasion, as Tel Aviv says it's prepared to go all the way - under the pretext of self-defense...

Dissecting IDF propaganda: The numbers behind the rocket attacks, by Phan Nguyen | Mondoweiss
  In this brief study, I examine the many numbers cited by the Israeli military relating to Gaza rocket attacks into Israel. To begin, Israeli spokespeople frequently remind the world that a million Israeli citizens are within range of Gaza rockets, twelve thousand of which have been fired into Israel in the last twelve years, inflicting thousands of injuries and several dead. However, we are rarely told exactly how many people have been killed by these rocket attacks...
[To Israelis, only Jews matter – the goyim simply don’t count. This racist bigotry is inherent in the very idea of a Jewish State in Palestine and provides the simple rationale for a strategy of genocide.]

Israel Approved Killing of Hamas Commander Amid Talks on Long-Term Truce, by John Glaser | Antiwar
  Just hours before Israel assassinated Hamas commander Ahmed Jabari on Tuesday, he received the draft proposal of a permanent truce agreement with Israel. But Israel approved the airstrike anyways, choosing escalation over resolution...

Anonymous takes down over 9000 Israeli sites, wipes databases, leaks email addresses and passwords, by Jacque Fresco | Hang The Bankers
  When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week began taking military action in the Gaza strip against Hamas (as the IDF announced on Twitter), Anonymous declared its own war as part of #OpIsrael. Among the casualties are thousands of email addresses and passwords, hundreds of Israeli web sites, government-owned as well as privately owned pages, as well as databases belonging to the Bank of Jerusalem and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
[You go, Hieronymous!]

The Foreign Press Association is concerned at the attacks by the Israeli IDF on buildings housing journalists in Gaza last night | FPA
  The IDF stated this morning that “The sites that we targeted overnight were all positively identified by precise intelligence over the course of months.” One building houses or has been used by the following FPA members: British news organisations Sky News, and Sky News Arabia, MBC TV, Al Arabiya, ORF and other European broadcasters. The other one the Shawa Husseiri building house: ARD TV. Eight journalists working for various organizations were injured. On the 23 December 2006 the UN Security Council, some of whose permanent members had media organisations which were in the buildings targeted, unanimously adopted resolution 1738 which ‘condemns attacks against journalists in conflict situations...

Obama's kill list policy compels US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza, by Glenn Greenwald | The Guardian
  The US was once part of the international consensus against extra-judicial assassinations. Now it is a leader in that tactic...

Crucial Update: Netanyahu Says No to Ground Operation | Gilad Atzmon
  Ynet reported a few hours ago that Netanyahu gave private assurances to US President Obama that Israel is not planning a ground operation in Gaza, yet...

The Latest Gaza Catastrophe: Will They Ever Learn? | Richard Falk
  ..Since when does ‘the right to defend oneself’ amount to a license to kill and wound without limit, without some clear demonstration that the means of violence are connected with the goals being sought, without a requirement that force be exclusively directed against military targets, without at least an expression of concern about the proportionality of the military response? To overlooks such caveats in the present context in which Gaza has no means whatsoever defend itself indicates just how unconditional is the moral/legal blindfold that impairs the political wisdom and the elemental human empathy of the American political establishment...

War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America, by James Petras
...How do we explain the US governments’ sustained complicity with Israeli war crimes in the face of worldwide reprobation? How do we explain the utterly depraved conduct of the Obama White House and nearly 90% of the US Congress in denouncing the Goldstone Report? These and other related questions are addressed in the chapters discussing the political, economic and cultural power of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish organizations, including but not confined to AIPAC...



Nov 18, 2012

From Stalingrad to Gaza with Love | Gilad Atzmon
  Benjamin Netanyahu, is made of different material than Barak. Unlike Bark, who is obsessed with the banal implementation of military power, Netanyahu is concerned with the power of deterrence and he is also intelligent enough to realise that the consequences of a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip may mean the total eradication of such a power. A large scale deployment of infantry is a complicated thing...

Chomsky Statement on Israel's War on Gaza: It is not a war, it is murder | MCW
  "The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population, is the final phase in a decades-long campaign to ethnically-cleanse Palestinians. Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war. It is not a war, it is murder...

Media Cover for Israeli Crimes | Stephen Lendman
  Israeli aggression is called self-defense. Legitimate defense is called terrorism. Media scoundrels support Israel in lockstep. It plays out the same way every time. Facts on the ground are ignored, sanitized, suppressed, and/or distorted. Readers and viewers get manipulated managed news misinformation...

Proxy Wars in the 21st Century: The New Imperialism, by Timothy Gatto | MCW
This is an expose of what is really happening in the Middle-East and North Africa. Some of this might actually open your eyes to what our country is doing in the rest of the World in the name of “Democracy”..

CrossTalk on Israel-Gaza conflict: Gates of Hell | YouTube
  Will the crisis in Gaza escalate? Should we expect a ground incursion? What does Israel hope to achieve with its military assault this time? How well is Gaza prepared for another conflict? And do the Palestinians have the right to use military force to resist Israel's siege of Gaza? CrossTalking with Norman Finkelstein, Dan Pollak and Harry Fear...

Antimissiles Deployed in Tel Aviv | Roi Tov
  ..Hiding movements of troops in an environment where most people have cellular phones and cameras is impossible, at least in the long term. The ongoing Israeli attack on Gaza—Operation Pillar of Cloud—is providing several proofs of that. The oddest was reported on November 17, 2012, by Haaretz, “Hamas' al-Aqsa Brigades signed text messages sent to many Israelis, reading: ‘We will turn Gaza into a cemetery for your soldiers.’” Unlike the past, Israel is unable to hide the preparations for a ground attack on Gaza, as the large picture below shows...

It’s is not the time to talk on Gaza | Free Haifa
...The leaders of Zionist Apartheid decided to ignite the fire of war and flood Gaza with blood and destruction knowing that the progress of Arab Spring will make it harder for them to act in the future. Now Syria is locked in a deadly civil war and in Jordan the army and the king are still holding the line against the mass movement. They hope that Egypt is so stuck in economic trouble that it will not dare to anger the Americans by acting to save Gaza...
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The Land Grabbers Strike Again, by Rehmat | Darkmoon
...In the Gaza War of 2008-9 (known as ‘Operation Cast Lead’), Israel killed 1400 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and suffered a loss of only 14 Israelis. As has often been stated: this was not a war — it was shooting fish in a barrel...



Nov 17, 2012

Gaza Redux, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
...Is history repeating itself? The Israeli attack on Gaza this week is happening between the US Presidential elections and the Israeli (early) elections. The attack on Gaza four years ago also happened after the US elections and before Israeli elections...

British neocon blog exposed as Israeli mouthpiece, by Laura Stuart | Redress Information & Analysis
  In the past 24 hours the UK-based neo-conservative blog Harry’s Place has exposed itself as an outright propaganda outlet of the Israeli armed forces. For months I have been posting comments on the blog, which in 2006 won the annual Islamophobia award given by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. Although my comments have been generally tolerated, I receive constant verbal abuse for my beliefs as a Muslim from commentators on the blog...

The Holocaust Controversy, by Bradley Smith and Mark Weber | Codoh
  No subject enrages campus Thought Police more than Holocaust Revisionism. We debate every other great historical issue as a matter of course, but influential pressure groups with private agendas have made the Holocaust story an exception. Elitist dogma manipulated by special interest groups corrupts everything in academia. Students should be encouraged to investigate the Holocaust story the same way they are encouraged to investigate every other historical event. This isn't a radical point of view. The premises for it were worked out centuries ago during a little something called the Enlightenment...

Another Superfluous War, by Uri Avnery | MCW
  Conflagrations along the Gaza Strip don’t start. They are just a continuous chain of events, each claimed to be in “retaliation” for the previous one. Action is followed by reaction, which is followed by retaliation, which is followed by...

Tel Aviv Under Fire | Roi Tov
...Operation Pillar of Cloud began with the assassination of Ahmed al-Jabari, commander of Hamas' militant wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, on November 14. In the two days since then, the IDF killed already 18 Palestinians, including 7 civilians while Palestinian militants fired killed three civilians with a rocket that hit a house in Kiryat Malachi. Gaza's Health Ministry announced that among the killed are a pregnant woman, an 11- month-old child, and a 3-year-old girl. Probably only Israel considers these as enemies...

Market Demography, Political Democracy& Capitalism, by Frank Scott | Legalienate
  The most expensive election campaign in American history ended with more good than bad results, given the choices allowed. Voters defeated the possibility of cancer, but were unable to cure the polio we still suffer. A reactionary effort to take us further back than we have already gone was mostly unsuccessful. But the advances made were smaller than some wishful thinkers suppose. We need radical change in substance and got nothing more than stylistic moderation in form...
Jonathan Sacks's Moment of Candour | YouTube
  Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks was caught off guard during a Radio 4 interview this morning when he accused Iran of being part of the Gaza conflict. Appearing on the Today programme broadcast he was asked by presenter Evans Davis for his reaction to the situation in Gaza immediately after delivering the daily peaceful ‘Thought for the Day’. He initially responded: 'I think it's got to do with Iran, actually.' Rabbi Sacks clearly spoke his mind ...

Britain’s William Hague needs a good grilling, by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis
  After yesterday’s dismal performance by the BBC’s flagship “Today” news programme in quizzing the Israeli ambassador over the latest bloody assault on Gaza, this morning’s effort was a little better but still well short of what’s required in order to paint a truthful, balanced picture. We had Sarah Montague interviewing our foreign secretary and long-time Friend of Israel, William Hague...

After The Flood: Requiem for a friend, death knell for a dying paradigm, by Phil Rockstroh | MCW
  So much has been lost to the hubris and cupidity inherent to the hyper-industrialization and commercial hustler that defines the Anthropocene Epoch. To take it all in, to allow oneself to feel the full implications of the dire situation, of the ecocide and humanity lost to endless war and economic exploitation, one would be knocked to one's knees with sorrow or compelled to give voice to bursts of full-throated rage...

Jordan vows 'iron fist' response to unrest | Al Jazeera
  Jordanian authorities have threatened to crack down on those who incite violence during protests with an "iron fist", while opposition groups pledge to continue demonstrations in the kingdom. The protests, which erupted on Tuesday across the country in response to the government's raising fuel and gas prices, are the largest and most sustained to hit the country since the start of uprisings in the region nearly two years ago...
[So, the Arab Spring has arrived in Jordan, too...]

Nov 16, 2012

The inevitable state of Israel and Palestine, by Murtaza Hussain | Al Jazeera English
  Buried within the news of the merger of Israel's two major right-wing political parties, Likud and Yisrael Beitenu, was a subtext which has as yet not registered in popular discourse on the Middle East - the final death of the "peace process" between the Israelis and Palestinians and of the prospect of two separate states existing between them...

Israel’s Goebbels at work over Gaza provocation, by Alan Hart | Redress Information & Analysis
  I imagine I am not the only one who feels the need to vomit.. when Israel’s Goebbels justifies the Zionist state’s ferocious and monstrously disproportionate attacks by air and sea on the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, the prison camp which is home to 1.5 million besieged and mainly impoverished Palestinians. The Israeli to whom I am referring is, of course, Australian-born Mark Regev, the prime minister’s spokesman, for which read spin doctor...

Don’t expect Obama to take on Israel, by Jonathan Cook | The View from Nazareth
  Barack Obama’s victory in the US presidential election last week was greeted with general unease in Israel. Surveys conducted outside the US shortly before polling day showed Obama was the preferred candidate in every country but two – Pakistan and Israel. But unlike Pakistan, where the two candidates were equally unpopular, he scored just 22 per cent in Israel against a commanding 57 per cent for Mitt Romney...

The American Century Is Over: Good Riddance, by Andrew J. Bacevich | Chronicle of Higher Education
  I'm willing to bet that future generations will look back on the period between 2006 and 2008 as the real turning point. Here was the moment when what remained of the American Century ran out of steam and ground to a halt. More specifically, when Bush gave up on victory in Iraq (thereby abandoning expectations of U.S. military power transforming the Greater Middle East) and when the Great Recession brought the U.S. economy to its knees (the consequences of habitual profligacy coming home to roost)...

Israel squirms despite "show trial" claim, by Yvonne Ridley | Middle East Monitor
  Israel squirms and wriggles like a worm on a fishhook over the Turkish trial into the deaths of nine unarmed humanitarian aid volunteers on board a ship bound for Gaza. Tel Aviv has called the hearing in Istanbul a "show trial" with no legal foundation or meaning at all since, rather predictably, the four military commanders at the centre of the brutal air and seaborne assault are being tried in absentia...

Al-Jabari Assassination Opens Israel’s Gate of Hell | Roi Tov
...Israel often claims that it attempts to create deterrence; in other words, create such a fear among its victims, that they would stop struggling for their rights. Instead, Israel just strengthens the determination of the oppressed to gain freedom. Deterrence and fear are just substitute terms for “terror,” we are speaking here about a terror state. State terrorism is a term that has been used to refer to terrorist acts committed by governmental agents or forces. This involves the use of state resources—like its military—to directly perform acts of terrorism...

What You Can Do, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Sharing the Land of Canaan
  Before we address what can be done, we need to ask what Palestinians want from the International Community and what are some goals to adopt for your group to help achieve that. The Palestinian Civil Society Call to action is the best articulation of what Palestinians want from the International community. They include the Palestinian Constants or Thawabet. The Civil Society Call was initially signed by 170 Palestinian civil society organizations and communities and has since been endorsed by thousands of groups...

Tel Aviv is next | Gilad Atzmon
  Soon after we learned that the Israeli Air Force managed to 'dismantle' Hamas' middle range ballistic capability, we happened to read that Tel Aviv is subject to rockets attack. I guess that by the time Israel is 'ready for peace', it may be on its knees. The verdict is clear, the Israelis never learn. I guess that Israel will unleash its wrath tonight. Justice Goldstone better dust off his judicial hammer...

'The Ideology of Hatred': An interview with Niza Yanay, by Neve Gordon | Al Jazeera English
  After 9/11, hate began colonising new spheres, operating as a social and political force that manipulates and mobilises entire publics in very specific ways. Niza Yanay's new book The Ideology of Hatred: The Psychic Power of Discourse may very well change the way we think about hatred and its role in politics. Neve Gordon recently interviewed her in New York City in an effort to better understand her arguments...

Pillar of Biblical Cloud | Gilad Atzmon
  Once again we've learned today that in the Jewish State, Goyim's blood translates into political power. In order to win the Israeli election, Benjamin Netanyahu feels the need to present the Israeli voter with a substantial pile of Palestinian corpses. Like in the case of previous IDF's genocidal operations, the current Israeli Pillar of Cloud also has a Biblical connotation...

Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, by Francis Boyle | MCW
  What we're seeing in Gaza now is pretty much slow-motion genocide against the 1.5 million Palestinians who live in Gaza.... If you read the 1948 Genocide Convention, it clearly says that one instance of genocide is the deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of a people in whole or in part, and that's exactly what has been done to Gaza, since the imposition of the blockade by Israel; then the massacre of 1,400 Palestinians, two-thirds of whom were civilians, in Operation Cast Lead. And that also raises the element in the Genocide Convention, of murder, torture, and things of that nature...



Nov 15, 2012

‘It’s time for Palestinians in Israel to stand firm against the Bantustan plan of Oslo’: An interview with Awad Abdel Fattah | Jonathan Cook
  ...This interview followed the recent publication by Abdel Fattah of a booklet in Arabic arguing both that the Palestinians inside Israel need to take a more central role in rebuilding the Palestinian national movement and that it is time for Palestinians to turn away from the illusions of the Oslo process and develop their thinking about a one-state solution...

Many of the most serious dangers facing Americans today stem from our "special relationship" with Israel, by Alison Weir | Council for the National Interest
  Our uniquely massive support for Israel has cost trillions of dollars and multitudes of lives. It has diminished our moral standing in the world, lessened our domestic freedoms, and exposed us to unnecessary and growing peril. The majority of Americans – as well as our diplomatic and military experts – oppose this unique relationship. Yet, the lobby for Israel continues to foment policies that are disastrous for our nation and tragic for the region...

Possible New CIA Director Already Politically Compromised: Jane Harman and Israeli Spying, by Alison Weir | Counterpunch
  It is astounding to find that one of the handful of prospects being floated to become CIA director following the fall of General David Petraeus is a person reportedly implicated in a 2005 Israeli spy scandal. CNN, Politico, and others have all listed former Congresswoman Jane Harman as a potential new CIA head. Oddly, however, none have mentioned reports in 2006 and again in 2009 that an NSA wiretap in 2005 had picked up Harman promising a suspected Israeli agent that she would aid people indicted for espionage on behalf of Israel...

Palace Revolution, by Justin Raimondo | Antiwar
...There has to come a point when the military is thoroughly fed up with being the instrument of a ruthless and bloodthirsty cabal who think nothing of sacrificing US servicemen and servicewomen on the altar of their bloody ambitions. When that happens, from the War Party’s perspective, it’s time to get rid of them. While the means utilized may be rather complicated, it’s really just as simple as that...

Israel Kills Hamas Commander in Airstrike, Considers Ground Invasion of Gaza, by John Glaser | Antiwar
  Israel killed the military commander of Hamas in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday following days of exchanging fire in a confrontation that could lead Israel to invade the Palestinian enclave. The attack, which represented a restart of Israel’s campaign of targeted assassinations in Gaza, came despite the fact that Hamas proposed a ceasefire days ago and despite signs that Egypt had managed to broker a truce. Israel ignored both overtures...

“The War on Global Anti-Semitism” in the Age of Islamophobia, by Julie Lévesque | Global Research
...Just like Israel uses the Holocaust to justify the collective punishment of the Palestinians and attacking its neighbours, the US uses 9/11 to justify the collective punishment of Muslims worldwide and various military invasions. Long before the Bush administration’s Torture Memos sanctioning torture, Israel did officially authorize torture with the Landau Report in 1987. Islamophobia is without a doubt the most accepted form of discrimination today and in this context the institutionalisation of “the fight against global anti-Semitism” is clearly another twisted expression of it...

Avnery on the deliberate cynicism | MCW
  "Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak have decided - for the second time in a row the State of Israel will conduct general elections under the shadow of war in the Gaza Strip. The cease-fire which already started to stabilize has been broken deliberate. "Aly and shattered to pieces. The inhabitants of the communities of southern Israel, who just started to breathe freely, are sent right back to air raid alarms and to running to shelters" said former Knesset Member Uri Avnery of Gush Shalom...

An Open Letter on my 82nd Birthday | Richard Falk
...As time passes, the political circumstances of the peoples of the world are undergoing a variety of severe stresses, some local, others global, some presently experienced, others threatened in the near and medium future. There are extremely dangerous underlying patterns of behavior emerging: Among the most disturbing is the deterritorialization of conflict epitomized by kill lists and drone technology that ignores the sovereignty of others and defies the moral and legal limits embodied in international humanitarian law...

Update From Gaza Under Zionist Attacks, by Eva Bartlett | The OtherSite
...It’s worth remembering that this exchange began over a week ago with the (Zionist army’s) murder of a 13 year old boy who was playing football, and continued with murder of 2 more children playing football and 2 men who came to their rescue. Now after every major resistance faction in Gaza has offered a ceasefire, the occupying power has decided instead to escalate things...

'Israeli crimes against Palestinians have gone unpunished due to Western cover' | PressTV
...Their Muslim, their Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine, and their Christian brothers and sisters in Palestine deserve the respect and the love and the loyalty that every single sane human being should be giving to the Palestinian people who have now been enduring for over six decades: a criminal psychopathic racist entity, which has devoured and consumed every bit of land that it could and killed with impunity because of its protection from the United States and the EU...
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Nov 13-14, 2012

Delegation to the Gaza Strip, Report 3 | IFPB/Voices of Conscience
...I am sick and traumatized from watching a bomb whiz by my window and the flash, boom shaking everything around me. It landed in the neighboring refugee camp. As many more bombs rain around him, my friend Bassel Barakat comforted me and apologized for my fear. This is the beauty of the people Israel and U.S. call “terrorists”. The ever resilient, smart, caring and beautiful people that will apologize for Israel scaring me...
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Doubling money for settlements, by Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance
  Today, Jewish settlers came to Beit Sahour to look over the area they want to build the new settlement on. Last night, settlers tried to burn a Palestinian family home in Tequa. This week, Israeli ministers give speeches that says they support new settlements and expanding existing colonial settlements. The Jewish state's finance minister even admitted doubling the financial support for these settlements built on stolen native Palestinian lands...
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The House of Rothschild: Full Documentary | YouTube

Zionist Irgun: First Terrorist Act of The 20th Century | YouTube
  The King David Hotel bombing was an attack carried out by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, on the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946. ... The attack was the deadliest directed at the British during the Mandate era (1920--1948) and more people were killed than by any bombing carried out in the subsequent Arab-Israeli conflict. The event has been called by British authorities, major international publications including the New York Times, and academics as a terrorist attack aimed at civilians. ... Israel continues to deny any wrongdoing...

Resisting Hell’s Maelstrom: Syrian Volunteers Exhibit their Humanity, by Franklin Lamb | Al Manar
  Over the past twenty months, as the Syrian crisis continued beyond most early predictions, this observer learned something about the Syrian people that I had known for decades about Palestinians. And that is their great concern for their countrymen wherever they are found and whatever their current condition. When I am in Syria I am frequently asked “how are our people doing in Lebanon as refugees from this crisis?” In Lebanon, I am often asked “how are our (internal) refugees in Syria and what of our people in Jordan, Iraq or Turkey, how are they being treated and are they getting the basic necessities they need to live?”..
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Israel’s Latest Assault on Gaza: The Lie of Who Started It, by John Glaser | Antiwar
  Israel has again attacked Gaza. In its aerial and ground assault that began on Saturday, November 10th, at least 7 Palestinians have been killed, 5 of them civilians, 3 of whom were children. Up to 52 others, including 6 women and 12 children, have been wounded.. As in every vicious military offensive Israel carries out in Gaza, the dominant narrative is that it is a response to rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel. This is how it’s being reported in the US, and this is how virtually every American understands it. And it’s a lie...
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The Age of Terror: In the Name of Liberation | YouTube

IsraHell on Earth | YouTube
  This powerful documentary exposes the hell that the Palestinians have been going through since their land was stolen in 1948. From that day on, the world has been hijacked by a cabal of zionists/occultists, and the support given to them by governments has alienated much of the world. IsraHell on Earth looks at the origins of the abomination that is IsraHell and exposes its apartheid crimes...

Mistress Revealed CIA Ops as Petraeus’ Mouthpiece | Paul Eisen
  The mistress of former CIA Director David Petraeus publicly discussed sensitive and previously unknown details about the assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya...

President Obama: ‘The Best is yet to come,’ by Ludwig Watzal | Media with Conscience
  The American people have spoken: Four more years for the “Nobel Peace Prize Laureate”; they voted for cholera. In any country, policy can be sustained only if you’re a cynic: Look at the European Union, the United States, Russia, China, large parts of Africa, the Near and Middle East and what have you: Chaos all over the place, created by globalization, the distractive influence of the finance oligarchy and plaint politicians. They have long lost their sovereignty against powerful interest groups, and they are doing their bidding...
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Psychopathy | Systems Thinker
...Upon learning just how prevalent and pervasive psychopathy actually is in our society and how likely it is that they themselves have been touched by it, most people are quite surprised. This is actually a curious situation. How is it that a condition that is so common and so influential, and with which nearly all of us are familiar to some extent from the many popular sensationalized accounts, can nonetheless remain under the radar when we are right within its midst? The answer lies in the psychopath’s remarkable capacity for deception...
[When it comes to human behavior, culture outweighs biology. Therefore, I suggest an effort to comprehend the psychopathy inherent in Israeli society, Zionism and tribal Jewry as more the result of memes than genes.]
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Nov 12, 2012Israel-Syria Shooting Exposes Hidden War | Roi Tov
  On November 11, 2012, the headlines of the Hebrew media were dramatic: "IDF fires at Syria for first time since 1973." For the first time since the Yom Kippur War, the IDF's Artillery Corps fired a missile at a Syrian mortar post in response to the firing of a 120mm mortar shell shortly before. The latter had hit IDF's Tel Hazeka stronghold south of the ghost-city of Quneitra, in the Golan Heights. The IDF issued two very different statements...

Why Conservatives Hate War, by William S. Lind | The American Conservative
  One of the odder aspects of present-day politics is the assumption that if you are antiwar you are on the left, and if you are conservative you are “pro-war.” Like labelling conservative states red and liberal states blue, this is an inversion of historical practice...

According to Raul Hilberg, it was Genocide by telepathy, by Robert Faurisson | Journal for Historical Review
...I refuse to believe that which is not believable. I refuse to believe in the incredible. I refuse to believe in what Hilberg himself calls "an incredible meeting of minds." I refuse to believe in mind reading or telepathy, just as I refuse to believe in the intervention of the Holy Ghost or in spontaneous generation. I take exception to any historical thesis, any system of historical explanation, based on such hare-brained notions...

Qatari Emir in Gaza, by Elias Akleh | Media with Conscience
...It is obvious to everybody by now that Qatar is playing the leading role, as it did in Libya, in the Syrian crises. Qatar has gathered mercenary militias of Al-Qaeda terrorists, religious extremists, and anti-Syrian opposition, financed them, trained them, and armed them to destroy Syria as a whole, not just toppling the government. Qatar has played an aggressive role in calling for international military intervention in Syria...

Israel Doubles West Bank Settlements Budget | Roi Tov
  On November 12, 2012, Israeli insolence reached a new peak after Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s current Minister of Finance, announced in an interview given to Galei Israel (“Waves of Israel,” a radio-station operated by the settlers) that in the last year, Israel has secretly doubled the West Bank settlements’ budget. He was not uttering empty words for the sake of the upcoming Israeli elections; we know that for sure because the interview was given on the occasion of his receiving the “Yakir HaItyashvut,” (“Settlements’ Beloved”) award from the settlers’ establishment...

Petraeus: Resignation or Sacking? | Stephen Lendman
...In 2008, James Petras described him well in an article titled "General Petraeus: Zionism's Military Poodle. From Surge to Purge to Dirge." He explained what spin doctors concealed. He quoted Petraeus' former commander, Admiral William Fallon, calling him "a piece of brown-nosing chicken shit." Petras added: "In theory and strategy, in pursuit of defeating the Iraqi resistance, General Petraeus was a disastrous failure, an outcome predictable form the very nature of his appointment and his flawed wartime reputation."..

"Hitler founded Israel": 1933 The Transfer Agreement (Part 1) | YouTube
  The Transfer Agreement is Edwin Black's compelling, award-winning story of a negotiated arrangement in 1933 between Zionist organizations and the Nazis to transfer some 50,000 Jews, and $100 million of their assets, to Jewish Palestine in exchange for stopping the worldwide Jewish-led boycott threatening to topple the Hitler regime in its first year...
[The author is a card-carrying member of the Tribe, so much of what he says is mind-numbing hasbara, but he does talk about the transfer agreements. For a less kosher view of things, see 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With The Nazis, by Lenni Brenner]

Lies in the Media about Israel's reluctantly being "drawn" into war with Syria, by Ariadna Theokopoulos | deLiberation
  Below is a freshly published piece of hasbara “news,” stating in all the seriousness usually mimed by its peddlers that Israel is being reluctantly dragged into war with Syria, much like the people in the video above...



Nov 11, 2012


Assange: Reelected Obama a 'wolf in sheep's clothing' | RT
  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sees no reason to celebrate the reelection of US President Barack Obama. The US aggressively pursued and “persecuted” the whistleblower site under a Democratic administration, he explained. “Obama seems to be a nice man, and that is precisely the problem,” the 41-year-old told AFP, speaking from his room in London’s Ecuadorian embassy. “It's better to have a sheep in wolf's clothing than a wolf in sheep's clothing,” he said. “All of the activities against WikiLeaks by the United States have occurred under an Obama administration.”..

As Sanctions Hit Iran’s Most Vulnerable, the Man Who Dared to Feed Sanction-Starved Iraq Remains in Prison, by John Pilger | Antiwar
  In 1999, I traveled to Iraq with Denis Halliday, who had resigned as assistant secretary-general of the United Nations rather than enforce a punitive UN embargo on Iraq. Devised and policed by the United States and Britain, the extreme suffering caused by these “sanctions” included, according to Unicef, the deaths of half a million Iraqi children under the age of five...

Time for a Reset on Human Rights, by Suzanne Nossel | Foreign Policy
..Although Obama faced truculent political opposition in his first term, his weak record on human rights cannot be explained away by economic exigencies or even congressional defiance. Obama now openly embraces the concept of a global "war on terror" as grounds to override international human rights norms and reinterpret the Constitution...

RT TV interviews Syrian President Bashar Assad | The Vineyard of the Saker
  This is the first full-length interview of Bashar Assad I have seen and I have to admit that I am favorably impressed: while Assad does not strike me as particularly impressive, he is most definitely not a clown like Gaddafi or megalomaniac like Saddam. Sofiko Shevarnadze did an excellent job of asking him the right questions, and he did a rather good job answering them. What I miss most in this interview is a sense of vision on his part: all I hear is a determination to go on fighting, but without any explicit rationale about how a victory could be achieved...

The Air Defense on 9/11: Anomalies and Questions | Global Research TV
  The systematic failure of every level of the US air defense on the morning of September 11th provides one of the clearest "smoking guns" in the full complicity of key elements of the US government and defense department in those attacks. In his new peer-reviewed article published at the Journal of 9/11 Studies, author and researcher Paul Schreyer outlines many of these key anomalies and the way they have been carefully covered up by the so-called 9/11 investigations...

It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World, by Ellen Brown | Web of Debt
  In the 2012 edition of Occupy Money released last week, Professor Margrit Kennedy writes that a stunning 35% to 40% of everything we buy goes to interest. This interest goes to bankers, financiers, and bondholders, who take a 35% to 40% cut of our GDP. That helps explain how wealth is systematically transferred from Main Street to Wall Street. The rich get progressively richer at the expense of the poor, not just because of “Wall Street greed” but because of the inexorable mathematics of our private banking system...

Presidential Elections: Powerful “Special Interest Groups” Won Again, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research
..Washington is controlled by powerful interest groups, not by elections. What the two parties fight over is not alternative political visions and different legislative agendas, but which party gets to be the whore for Wall Street, the military-security complex, Israel Lobby, agribusiness, and energy, mining, and timber interests. Being the whore is important, because whores are rewarded for the services that they render...
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10 Israeli Counterterrorism Soldiers Hit | Roi Tov
...The Israeli Supreme Court rendered the attack illegal and ruled that there is an obligation of soldiers to disobey manifestly illegal orders. Firing upon unarmed farmers is such an order. More than fifty years later, Israeli soldiers have manifestly failed to understand the court ruling, targeting unarmed Palestinian civilians with fire weapons. Yet, people learn, and in their physical weakness have learned to bravely face the commandos with sticks and stones. Wasn’t that the main lesson learned from the Nazi Warsaw Ghetto?..

Rabbi Aaron Cohen speaks | Paul Eisen
...Jewish notions of specialness, chosenness and even supremacism, are fine for a small, wandering people, but, when empowered with a state, an army and F16s become a concern for us all...



Nov 10, 2012

Mr. Bean calls for repeal of British hate speech law | YouTube
  Rowan Atkinson, one of Britain’s most popular film and television comedy stars, has told the government that the hate speech provisions of the Public Order Act must be repealed to uphold the country’s ancient traditions of freedom of speech. He said he wanted to counter “the Outrage Industry: self-appointed arbiters of the public good, encouraging media-stoked outrage, to which the police feel under terrible pressure to react.”..

Russia 1917-1918: A Key to the Riddle of An Age of Conflict, by Ivor Benson | Institute for Historical Review
  While all are agreed that the overthrow of the Russian Empire in 1917 was one of the most important happenings in recorded history, honest attempts to find out exactly what did happen, how it was planned and carried out, have always been attended by difficulty and danger. In the Soviet Union the propagation of any opinions and ideas not approved by the state was for many years a punishable offense, incurring even the death penalty. And in the West methods of persuasion, pressure and intimidation have been used consistently to sustain the fiction that all that happened in Russia was the overthrow of a harsh Tsarist tyranny by Russia's long-suffering masses...

Jewish Obamas | YouTube
  Mark Obama Ndesandjo, Author of Nairobi to Shenzhen, younger brother of Barack Hussein Obama II. Currently residing in East Asia with his Chinese wife...

The Meaning of Obama's Win: By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them, by Michael Hudson | Counterpunch
...In the face of overwhelming voter opposition to the Bush-Cheney policies, the President has averted popular demands to save the economy from the 1%. Instead of sponsoring the hope and change he promised by confronting Wall Street, the pharmaceutical and health care monopolies, the military-industrial complex and big oil and gas, he has appeased them as if There is No Alternative...

Netanyahu's Nightmare | Roi Tov
...Netanyahu's backing of Romney was as absolute as media reports indicate. The links between the two go beyond shared political activities. It is not their personal friendship. It is not the fact that Netanyahu appeared on Romney's ads. It is not Romney's recent visit to Jerusalem. It is the fact that both of them share the same political platform. Both are lavishly supported by Sheldon Adelson, a gambling magnate. Netanyahu and Adelson rely on political advice from Arthur Finkelstein, an American Jew who is a prominent Republican Party consultant and was considered instrumental in Ronald Reagan's victory...

The Media and Obama's Reelection: The Illusion Continued, by Joseph Richardson | Counterpunch
...For many Americans, however, the potency of the Obama image has given way to the unsightly realities of high unemployment and cringe-worthy obeisance to the diktats of the rich. The sham appeal of Obama is amply borne out by abysmal rates of voter turn out, and the unpalatable fact that, despite intensive campaigning, Obama could only secure two percent more of the popular vote (barely 50%) than a man who prides himself on his vulture capitalist credentials and dismissed half of the population as shameless scroungers...

Impressions of Gaza | Noam Chomsky
  Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment, with no purpose other than to humiliate and degrade, and with the further goal of ensuring that Palestinian hopes for a decent future will be crushed and that the overwhelming global support for a diplomatic settlement that will grant these rights will be nullified...

Beyond Bayonets and Battleships, by Alfred W. McCoy | Huffington Post
...While the technological changes involved are nothing less than revolutionary, they have deep historical roots in a distinctive style of American global power. It’s been evident from the moment this nation first stepped onto the world stage with its conquest of the Philippines in 1898. Over the span of a century, plunged into three Asian crucibles of counterinsurgency - in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Afghanistan - the U.S. military has repeatedly been pushed to the breaking point. It has repeatedly responded by fusing the nation’s most advanced technologies into new information infrastructures of unprecedented power...

The Return of Ali Abu-Fighter | Gilad Atzmon
  Ali Abunimah, the Chicago-based, American-Palestinian activist, is, once again, on the attack. In the last few months he has launched campaigns against some of the most prominent pro-Palestinian figures such as Prof. Finkelstein, Prof. Chomsky, Greta Berlin, Col. Ann Wright and myself. But now he seems to stepping one gear up...

Delegation to the Gaza Strip, Report 2, by Diane Adkin | IFPB/Voices of Conscience
  Although all the members present felt that Israel was not interested in sharing the land, the concept of a single democratic secular state in all of historic Palestine was described as the most appropriate and equitable solution, the closest to a humanitarian vision of the future. This is consistent with what I heard from a conservative Hamas legislator in 2006. They believe in equal rights for all the people in the land, and Israelis are here now...



Nov 9, 2012

Egypt’s president a 9/11 truther: less America-centrism offers hope for Truth movement, by Barrie Zwicker | Truth and Shadows
  In Canada, mainly because of the generality of mass media output, it’s hard to avoid being sucked into America-centrism. For instance the world pretty well has to grind to a halt every four years in deference to the ever more delusional U.S. election circus. For my part I confess to having watched two of the U.S. TV debates. An old friend, upon learning this, rightly admonished me: “Migawd man, you’ll never get back those 180 minutes!”..

Money Party Wins US Election, by Stephen Lendman | Global Research
...Reelecting Obama assures worse than his first term harm. Romney in office would match him blow for blow. Voters likely chose the lesser of two evils. At least they thought they did. In any form, evil is evil. Duopoly power offers no other choice. Expect four more years of permanent wars, greater economic hardships, growing poverty, unemployment, homelessness, hunger, and human misery, handing more of the nation’s wealth to corporate predators, governing lawlessly, and cracking down ruthlessly on resisters...

Review: The Sun Sets on American Empire, by Daniel Larison | The American Conservative
  Throughout the campaign season, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama alike insisted that the 21st century must be another American century—that the U.S. should continue to be the world’s predominant military, economic, and political power for generations to come. After ten years of shattered hegemonic dreams, leaders of both parties still feel compelled to declare their loyalty to the vision that inspired the follies of the Bush era...

Marijuana Legalization in US States Could Encourage Central America, by John Glaser | Antiwar
  Ballot initiatives in Colorado and Washington state legalized marijuana, while Massachusetts further decriminalized it, in decisions that could open the door for countries in Central America to defy the Obama administration and push through their own legalization measures. Numerous political leaders in Central America have voiced support for legalization as a way to cut down on drug war violence, undermine the cartels, and preclude US meddling in the region. But the powers that be in Washington have vehemently battered this down...

Obama’s victory and Israel: Five takeaways, by Noam Sheizaf | +972 Magazine
  Israel was mentioned 34 times in the final presidential debate, and in the end, it didn’t matter. The Republican strategy in the last four years – going after the White House for “throwing Israel under the bus” – did not hurt Jewish support for the president. According to exit polls, Obama got 70 percent of Jewish votes, a slight decrease from 2008, overall matching the votes he lost with the general public...

Expanded Conflict in Syria Promised by Romney Will Proceed Under Obama, by Tony Cartalucci | Global Research
...Almost as if to affirm the absolute irrelevance of elections in the “democratic” West, expanded conflict promised by the perceived “hawkish” Republican candidate Mitt Romney is proceeding immediately ahead under the re-elected President Barack Obama. Aside from superficial window dressing via an elaborate array of proxies through which US cash and weapons will flow, more direct military aid, including securing a defacto no-fly zone over parts of northern Syria using US-made Patriot missile batteries is now being discussed...

War Voyeurs: Israeli tourists watch Syria battles from safe distance | YouTube
Armed with binoculars and cameras, tourists in Israel are flocking to the Golan Heights in the hope of seeing the bloody conflict in neighboring Syria, sparking a trend among tour operators...



Nov 8, 2012

Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and how false flag operations have shaped history | Truth and Shadows
Remember, remember, the 5th of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
- Old English folk rhyme (anonymous)

President Barack Obama has been re-elected | Gilad Atzmon
  In my new book - a Lexicon of Zionist Politics and Jewish Power, President Obama's entry reads as follows: Barack Obama – holds the Guinness world record for the ‘shortest lasting biggest hope.’ Dear president, this is your second and last chance to save us all, please don't disappoint us again. You must give it a try - four years without Yarmulka...

Turkish Justice Pursues Israeli Commanders | Sabah English
  The trial of four Israeli commanders charged for orchestrating a raid on the Mavi Marmara aid flotilla resulting in nine deaths commenced on Tuesday in Istanbul. During yesterday’s hearing a father to one of the victims, a 19-year-old Turkish American not only cried himself, but he brought the whole court room to tears...

Amigo, you think you knew revolting? Meet Shmuely Boteach... | Paul Eisen

Index of published evidence on mass extermination in Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau | Paul Eisen
  The following is a list of evidence on large scale killings in the Auschwitz camp complex, in particular - but not limited to - homicidal gassing. The aim is to highlight the range, diversification and scale of the published evidence on mass extermination in Auschwitz...

This is the Reverend Stephen Sizer | Paul Eisen
  The Board of Deputies of British Jews has just issued a formal complaint against him for all the usual reasons. He's obviously been annoying them for some time now, and obviously all the usual intimidatory practices haven't produced the desired result...

Delegation to the Gaza Strip | IFPB - Voices of Conscience
..The trip across the Sinai was uneventful and we waited in Egyptian Rafah as long as Noam Chomsky did last week, so not bad. In contrast, entry into Gaza was a warm welcome by the Palestinian border control and a representative of the Rafah City Council, along with our hosts, the Palestine Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), and coffee served in an elegant meeting hall with sofas arranged in a square like an oversize Palestinian living room. The message was that they and the people of Gaza were grateful and encouraged by our visit in spite of the siege...



Nov 7, 2012

Israel: Amazing how they get away with it, by Dr. Paul J Balles | deLiberation
  Which country alone in the Middle East..?..
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Britain favoured execution over Nuremberg trials for Nazi leaders, Ian Cobain | The Guardian
  The British government opposed the establishment of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals at the end of the second world war because it wanted selected Nazi leaders to be summarily executed and others to be imprisoned without trial, according to a contemporary account that is declassified on Friday...
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Turkey Begins Nuremberg Trials against Israel | Roi Tov
  Turkey is putting four former Israeli military commanders, including the head of the army, on trial in absentia this week for the 2010 killing of nine Turks on a Gaza-bound aid ship. The trial, which begins in Istanbul on Tuesday, will further test relations between the one-time strategic allies and has been dismissed by Israel as a "show trial" and "political theatre.".. On May 24, it was made public that criminal charges had been placed by Turkey against four IDF officers, demanding life sentences...
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Netanyahu Declares Candidacy for U.S. President, by Barb Weir | deLiberation
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today called a press conference to announce that he would accept the position of U.S. President, which he hoped would end the acrimony and divisiveness of the Romney-Obama rivalry for the office. Following is a transcript:..
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Democrats overjoyed, Republicans angry - Genuine Liberals and Conservatives left out in the Cold

..It is something to marvel at, much like the dumb obstinacy of Congressional Republicans or the stupidity of the GOP rank and file. In its sheer awfulness, it almost rises to the level of the sublime. In comparison, the willingness of leaders of labor, environmental, feminist, latino, LGBT and other progressive constituencies to cut Obama and his fellow Democrats endless slack is merely pathetic...

...Obama backers no longer bother themselves with incidentals like habeas corpus, indefinite detention, military commissions, “kill lists” or Guantanamo. What matters to them is making sure that Darth Romney, the pestiferous private equity pirate from Bain, never sets foot in the Oval Office. Everything else is secondary...



Nov 6, 2012

Israel's key to peace with Palestinians, by Miko Peled | Los Angeles Times
  In early June 1967, as I cowered with my mother and sisters in the "safest" room of our house near Jerusalem — the downstairs bathroom — we feared the worst. None of us imagined that the war that had just begun would end in six days. It was inconceivable that the Israeli army would destroy three Arab armies, kill upward of 15,000 Arab soldiers (at a cost of 700 Israeli casualties), triple the size of the state of Israel and, for the first time in two millenniums, give the Jewish people control over the entire land of Israel, including the crown jewel, the Old City of Jerusalem...

Norman Lear’s “All in the Family” resurfaces, by Kevin MacDonald | The Occidental Observer
  In an argument about Jewish domination of the media, once you get your opponent to admit that yes, Jews do run the media, the usual fall back line is to say that it really doesn’t make any difference. Jews are Americans like everyone else, so we really couldn’t expect anything different no matter who was in charge...

Likud Announces Greater Israel | Roi Tov
..."All colonization, even the most restricted, must continue in defiance of the will of the native population," Jabotinsky said there. “Only one country west of the Jordan,” is the Likud position.. Likud wants to unify all the territories west of the Jordan under one Jewish sovereignty. Likud preaches for democracy. The actual situation is of a highly dense territory populated by an almost equal number of Jews and Palestinians. Unifying it in a single, democratic country, you get a binational country. Jews will have no preference there. In other words, either the Likud is presenting contradictory policies or is hiding from the people its evacuation plans for the Palestinian population...

Voices of Conscience: Delegation to the Gaza Strip | Interfaith Peace-Builders 
  Interfaith Peace-Builders (IFPB) is pleased to announce that our 21 member delegation to the Gaza Strip passed safely through the Rafah Crossing Monday morning and is now safely in the Gaza Strip. Interfaith Peace-Builders has sent more than 44 delegations to Palestine/Israel since 2001. This is the first IFPB delegation to enter the Gaza Strip since 2003. Like other IFPB delegations, its purpose is to educate North Americans about the region and deepen their understanding of its conflicts...

Sir Winston Churchill: Zionist hero | Paul Eisen
...We Jews really did love Winston Churchill.. I wrote about June 5th 1967 when a seventeen-year old me went to the Albert Hall for a Zionist Federation rally. It was two years after the death of Churchill and just a few hours before the outbreak of the Six-Day/June War which seemed such a triumph for us but was such a tragedy for Palestinians and the rest of the world...

Islamophobes Are Upset: Spanish press praises Gilad Atzmon
  The Islamophobic Harry's Place are upset today. They just don't know how to silence me and my book, even Ali Abunimah didn't help much. With 10 new editions of The Wandering Who coming out, they have a good reason to be concerned...

Still weeping for Gaza, by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis
  Exactly five years ago I was in Gaza to see the situation for myself. That was before the murderous blitzkrieg they called Operation Cast Lead, but Israel’s crimes against humanity were already piled high. When I got home memories of the visit so haunted me that I sat down and wrote an article titled “See Gaza and Weep”..



Nov 5, 2012


Elie Wiesel On Haaretz | Gilad Atzmon
  Elie Wiesel, the world's most famous Holocaust survivor, the man who turned the Holocaust into a business career gave this week an interview to Haaretz. This kosher ‘humanist’ whose interest in pain is confined to ‘one people only’ stated that he hopes that “the Mossad, which caught a man like Eichmann, will be able to catch Ahmadinejad and get him tried in an international court.”. This Zionist Elder must have forgotten that Eichmann wasn’t tried in an international court, he was actually sentenced to death by an Israeli court...

Africans Raus!: Israelis vs. Africans | YouTube
  October 28, 2012 Tel Aviv, Israel protest demanding the expulsion of all non-Jewish African asylum-seekers...
[One reason the Israelis are so aggressive and racist about their ‘God given right’ to the land has to be that at some level of consciousness they are aware that it’s totally mythical and that their behavior is deeply criminal – indeed, genocidal.]

Libya on the edge of a precipice, by Nureddin Sabir | Redress Information & Analysis
...Libya will continue its inexorable descent into chaos and violence, unless the international community – the Arab League, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the United Nations or even the devil himself, it no longer matters – acknowledge our lamentable reality and dispatch a sizable peacekeeping force to establish law and order, disarm the militias – by force if necessary – and give the nascent Libyan authorities a chance to grow up, look in the mirror and live up to their responsibilities...

In defense of UN Palestine rapporteur Richard Falk, by Lawrence Davidson | Redress Information & Analysis
...Professor Falk was appointed in 2008 to a six year term in his present position. That means he has been telling the unsettling truth about Israeli behaviour for four years now, with another two to go. Repeatedly, he has documented Israeli violations of international law and its relentless disregard for Palestinian human rights...

Dance of the Drones: Obama’s Secret Wars, by Patrick Cockburn | Counterpunch
  Drones or their equivalent have long attracted political and military leaders dreaming of the surgical removal of their enemies. In 1812, the governor of Moscow, Count Rostopchin, devised a plan to get a hot-air balloon to hover over the French lines at Borodino and drop an explosive device on Napoleon. The source for this is the memoirs of the French writer, traveller and politician Chateaubriand and I have not read it anywhere else, but the story illustrates how, from the first moment man took to the air, he has seen it as a means of assassination...

And now, in my own words | The Vineyard of the Saker
...Voting in these upcoming Presidential elections is both terminally stupid and deeply immoral. What is the alternative? It is rather obvious: do not vote and, even more importantly, tell all your friends not to vote. Help them take the Red Pill and bring them back to the real world, not the media-induced illusion they live in. And then, with your friends, fight the regime itself, the puppeteers rather than their puppets. How? Not through violence, no need for that at all. All that is needed is to follow Solzhenitsyn's advice: live not by lies...

Hillary Mann Leverett on America’s Persistent (and Ever Wrong) Iran Mythology | The Race for Iran
  Speaking at the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations’ annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference in Washington, Hillary pointed out that “for over 30 years, we in the United States—and particularly here in Washington—have put forward a series of myths about the Islamic Republic of Iran: that it’s irrational, illegitimate, and vulnerable. And in so doing, we have consistently misled the American public and our allies about what policies will work” to deal with the Islamic Republic...

The 'Holocaust' and the Failure of Allied and Jewish Responses: The Logic Of Disbelief, by K. C. Gleason | Journal of Historical Review
  Over the past several years, there has emerged with increasing frequency the charge that because it failed to bomb the Germans' concentration camps, the United States bears a significant share of the blame for the Holocaust. There are even those who insist that American officials were well aware of Hitler's crimes during World War Two, yet chose purposely not to stop them. Documentation made available only during the past decade, however, amply demonstrates that the volatile accusations of American indifference - even collusion - are unwarranted...

Your Brain on Obama, by Randy Shields | Counterpunch
...Using Obama makes some people prone to wild mood swings and abrupt changes in personality. In their brainwashed cult-like state, Obama users have turned on friends and colleagues who kept their principles regardless of which capitalist flunky commits the crimes. What were shameful atrocities ten minutes before Obama was inaugurated suddenly became badges of “toughness” after he swore to uphold/destroy the Constitution...



Nov 4, 2012

Sabbath Goy MP Denis MacShane Resigned | Gilad Atzmon
  Seemingly, the list of Zionist swindlers never stops expanding. The shameless Labour MP Denis MacShane who made a political career chasing and harassing the critics of Jewish Power and Israel has resigned from Parliament yesterday after being found guilty by the Parliamentary standards committee. The Zionist stooge who was also the chair of the all-party Parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism was falsifying his expenses...

Sorrow, Sufferance and New York City, by Michael Robeson | Paul Eisen
  There are places in our hearts that do not exist and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence. A village at the foot of a mountain is beset by a torrential thunderstorm. For days on end, rain and lightning pelt the village and the mountain shudders. When the storm completes its task, the villagers are terrified to see that the rain has washed away all of the topsoil, revealing a labrynth of deep crevices and ravines and mysterious caves that have existed under them and all around them for generations. They are terrorized by this...

America's Bête Noires: The Fate of Those Who do Not Love the Empire, by William Blum | Counterpunch
  On October 7 Hugo Chávez won his fourth term in office as president of Venezuela. The feeling of frustration that must have descended upon the Venezuelan and American power elite is likely reminiscent of Chile, March 1973, when the party of another socialist and American bête noire, Salvador Allende — despite the best intentions and dollars without end of the CIA — won about 44 percent of the vote in congressional elections, compared to some 36 percent in 1970...

Das System, by Uri Avnery | OpEd News
..The system of electing governors, senators and representatives is also very dubious, as far as democracy is concerned. It's the ancient British system of "winner takes all." This means that there is no chance at all for ideological or sectarian minorities to be represented in the entire political system. New and controversial ideas have no chance. The philosophy behind such a system is to prefer stability over full democracy, slow down change and innovation or prevent it altogether. It is typical for a conservative aristocracy...

Why Obama, by Hillel Schenker | Jerusalem Post
  What moves Israelis with American citizenship to vote in the American elections? We are essentially concerned with two things: 1) The future direction of American society and how that will affect our family and friends living in the United States; and 2) The American-Israeli relationship and how it affects the future of the State of Israel...

Marlon Brando Interview 1973 (Pt 1 of 6) | YouTube
  Brando on The Dick Cavett Show, June 12, 1973. With representatives of the Cheyenne, Paiute and Lummi tribes...
[The segment labeled "antisemitic" comes later in the interview]

Slick Psychopathic Imposters, by Samuel Leff | Counterpunch
..In the 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney revealed nearly all of the characteristic elements of the flipflopping psychopathic patriarchal mama’s boy pattern. Like George W. Bush, he is competitively fixated and obsessed with achieving what his father failed to do. Like the typical chameleon psychopath, he has been able to convincingly mold his message to fit what he perceives/determines his audience wants to hear...



Nov 3, 2012


Destroying Iran’s Economy. Fighting dollarization, by Eric Walberg | Global Research
...the US has been targeting Iran for destruction ever since it threw off its colonial chains in 1979—a dangerous example for other, especially Muslim countries. It is miraculous that Iran has done so well economically since the revolution, given the unremitting victimization it has experienced. One can only marvel at the stubborn courage it has shown to build an Islamic society in the teeth of opposition by the world empire and even by other Muslim nations allied to the empire...

Anti-Empire Report: The Universe Unraveling, by William Blum | Dissident Voice
...The Syrian leader, for his part, has consistently referred to those in combat against him as “terrorists”, citing the repeated use of car bombs and suicide bombers. The West has treated this accusation with scorn, or has simply ignored it. But the evidence that Assad has had good reason for his stance has been accumulating for some time now, particularly of late. Here is a small sample from recent months:..

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: The Globalization of NATO | Clarity Press
  Nazemroaya's book is a must-read for any European or other NATO state citizen who wants to understand the danger the American-driven Alliance presents to world harmony and peace. I would hope that having done so, the reader would accept appropriate responsibility for actively pursuing ways to terminate this war machine that seeks out opportunities for warfare for all the wrong reasons..Reading this book, may be the first step to finding ourselves before it is too late...

George Galloway on Gay Rights and Hugo Chavez | Oxford Union/YouTube

Israeli Ministry of Tourism map annexes over 60% of the West Bank | Jonathan Cook
  Is Israel preparing to annex Area C, as a growing number of analysts have recently been speculating? This week, on a visit to the Israel’s tourism bureau in Nazareth, I came across an official brochure, “Your Next Vacation: Israel”, that suggests the answer. The brochure is supplied to travel agents around the world as well as to hundreds of thousands of tourists who arrive in Israel each year...

Britain must apologise for the Balfour Declaration | Redress Information & Analysis
  Ever since UK Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour pronounced the Balfour Declaration on 2 November 1917, promising a homeland for the Jews in Palestine, Palestinians have endured ongoing violation of their basic human rights. With only 67 words, seismic changes were forced on the Palestinians, making contradictory, irreconcilable and ambiguous promises: one nation promised another nation the land of a third nation...

From chaos to a new world order, by Graham Peebles | Redress Information & Analysis
  Living at this time is to bear witness to a world in acute turmoil. Noam Chomsky describes the current climate, saying: “We are living in an era of irrationality, deception, confusion, anger and unfocused fear an ominous combination, with few precedents.” Existing political and economic structures that have failed to serve the people are in decay. A new world order based on the universally recognized principles of justice, equality, unity and freedom is the call of many around the world...

Ernst Zundel and David Cole: Censorship is a Jewish issue | YouTube
  Part of an interview done many years ago with a young Jewish Revisionist, David Cole...

Does Obama actually have to BE Jewish? by Joshua Keating | Foreign Policy
  Obama's longtime friend and supporter Alan Solow, former chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has a suggestion on how to sell the president to nervous Jewish voters...



Nov 2, 2012

Religious leaders ask Congress to condition Israel military aid on human rights compliance | Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
  Fifteen religious leaders representing many major faith groups in the country, have written a letter to Congress seeking to make U.S. military aid to Israel contingent upon its government’s “compliance with applicable U.S. laws and policies.”..

Knesset Speaker Urges Israel to Annex the West Bank | Roi Tov
...Rivlin opened his campaign to the upcoming elections by throwing a bombshell. He proposed that the government will adopt silently the Report on the Legal Status of Building in Judea and Samaria published on July 9, 2012, by retired Justice Edmond Levy. In other words, he wants Israeli law to be imposed in the West Bank. Even this phrasing is too soft. He proposed to annex the West Bank without announcing it with a formal law, like done with the Golan Heights...
[They are close to achieving their minimal goal for Eretz Yisrael – between the river and the sea. The broader goal is a Jewish dominated state from the Euphrates to the Nile.]

Ernst Zundel explains: I don't hate Jews | YouTube
  This is a short clip from an interview done many years ago with an Israeli journalist...
[Hating Jews is ignorant and stupid; being aware of some criminal tribal Jewish tendencies, particularly as embodied in Zionism, is intelligent.]

The Wandering Who? | The Conspiracy Review
...I have to be honest and say that I was not expecting much from this book. However, I was wrong. The overwhelming and mind-blowing semi-autobiographical story that underpins the publication is fascinating, and the truth contained in the chapters speaks volumes. From cover to cover, it is only around 200 pages, it's well written, informative and well edited. For those people who have never researched the conflict in Israel and Palestine, this book could really change your world view. For the people already awakened to the truth - this will confirm everything you thought you knew...

British Ex-Envoy Told The Truth | Gilad Atzmon
...Zionist madness is the biggest threat to world peace. it is not just a Jewish issue, it is not an Israel issue, it is a worldwide issue, it is a universal concern...

Board of Deputies issue disciplinary complaint against Anglican Priest | Paul Eisen
  In a move believed to be without precedent in modern times, the Board of Deputies has lodged a formal complaint against Revd Stephen Sizer under the Church of England’s disciplinary process – an Act of Parliament known as the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003. The complaint is based on statements made by Revd Sizer that the Board regards as antisemitic and a series of instances where Revd Sizer has posted internet links to articles on racist and antisemitic websites...
[They are close to achieving complete control over the Western Democracies. There’s still a little time, but only if a lot more people like Rev'd Sizer show some courage.]



Nov 1, 2012


The Global Banking ‘Super-Entity’ Drug Cartel: The “Free Market” of Finance Capital | Andrew Gavin Marshall
...Welcome to the global plutonomy in the age of austerity, the result of living under – and tolerating – a global “super-entity” corporate-financial cartel. Truly, one must pause and, if only for a moment, appreciate the ability of this global cartel to function so effectively in spite of its blatant criminal activities, and face almost absolutely no repercussions. Something truly is wrong with a society when a poor black man caught with 5 grams of crack-cocaine goes to prison for ten years, while rich white bank executives admit to laundering billions of dollars in drug money and receive only a fine and a slap on the wrist (maybe)...

EU drinking in Last Chance Saloon, warns report, by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis
  The window of opportunity for peace between Israel and the Palestinians “is closing before our eyes”, warns a hard-hitting report by 22 well-known and highly regarded non-governmental organizations from nine European Union member states and from Norway and Switzerland. These humanitarian, human rights and faith organizations work at the coal-face in the occupied territories and have witnessed the impact of the illegal Israeli settlements and brutal military rule. Nobody pulls the wool over their eyes and the assessment they have produced ought to be compulsory reading for all Western politicians and businesspeople...

Let Real Politics Resume: Enough Already! by Andrew Levine | Counterpunch
...even if Obama is the lesser evil, and even if he hasn’t been that bad or, more plausibly, if it doesn’t matter how bad he has been so long as Romney is worse, lesser evilism must be resisted because it contributes to the vicious cycle that is running American politics into the ground...

The Bombs-Away Election, by Philip Giraldi | Antiwar
...Romney would also undoubtedly continue the odious policies relating to drones, kill lists, and assassination teams that he would inherit from his predecessor. Obama, on the other hand, will, if reelected, continue his Pilgrim’s Progress to become America’s most distinguished war criminal of the 21st century, even eclipsing the redoubtable George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in that regard. The choice for the voter comes down to how one prefers to see worldwide chaos and the death of the Constitution develop. It would be in heavy doses wrapped in the flag with Romney, while Obama would take pains to hide what he is doing as he marches down what is pretty much the same road. Some choice...
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