Israel is gearing up for another Gaza Massacre on the most
densely populated place in the world - Gaza is one third the area of the City of Dublin
with a population who cannot leave of close to two million. The assault will be financed by American
bilateral aid. A third of America’s overseas aid goes to Israel, the 16th
richest country per capita in the world. It is worthwhile looking at the danger of zealotry to Israel and the
way the extremists of Likud and religious parties have normalised their
extremity to the world media and particularly to the American Public. They have made extremism feel the norm to the extent
that the extremist Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu feels he can lecture the US Congress on
their “duty” to Israel. Remember this is the Israeli demagogue of whom assassinated Israeli Prime Minister's wife Leah Rabin said "Netanyahu created the climate that killed my husband."
Four times in their history the Jewish people have
initially allied themselves and then alienated the regional superpower with
their zealotry The Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and in 70 AD the Romans
who destroyed their Second temple and who under Hadrian in 135 AD banished Jews
from Jerusalem and from Judea which they renamed Syria Palestina. Jewish people
have paid a harsh and lasting price for listening to zealots offering them
false salvation in the past.
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Yitzhak Rabin at the White House with Yasser Arafat in 1993.
He was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a radical right-wing Orthodox Jew who
opposed the signing of the Oslo Accords.
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For modern Israel has fallen into the hands of zealots,
Jewish extremists who believe all “The land of Israel,” including modern Jordan
is theirs to settle, who have ignored the Camp David Peace accords and believe
might is right. The extremist Likud Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is a
Jewish racist and the son of a noted Jewish racist, Professor Benzion Netanyahu, who as a
historian and leader of the revisionist Zionist faction was frozen out by the
founders of Israel as a racist ideologue. When he was 95 he opposed Israel's withdrawal
of soldiers and settlers from the Gaza Strip under a disengagement plan,
describing the operation as "a crime against humanity". He spoke
caustically of Arabs. "The tendency to conflict is in the essence of the
Arab," he once declared. "He is an enemy by essence. His personality
won't allow any compromise or agreement. It doesn't matter what kind of
resistance he will meet, what price he will pay. The Arab citizen's goal is to
destroy us." His reference to "Arab citizens" is deliberate, elsewhere he has stated that there is no such place as Palestine and no such people as the Palestinians.
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| Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago, and his father Benjamin when he led the Irgun's assasination squad |
Those running and influencing the current State of Israel
talk about terrorism with their tongue firmly in cheek for they have deep
terrorist roots. Israel’s former Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, personally led a
terrorist massacre of women and children. During the raid on Qibya, Jordan in
1953, a total of 69 Palestinians were killed and forty-five houses, a school,
and a mosque were blown-up. The act was condemned by the US State Department,
the UN Security Council, and by Jewish communities worldwide.
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| Arik Sharon and the destroyed village of Qibya in Jordan after the terrorist raid he led in 1953 |
And the previous
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s father was Quartermaster of the Irgun terrorist
organisation (you know the guys who killed both the British and UN Peace Envoys
and hanged three British soldiers including a Jewish lad from the East End).
Former Foreign Minister’s Tzipi Livni’s father was the leader of the Irgun
group which carried out the King David Hotel massacre which killed 92 people
including four Jews. And did I mention that another previous Israeli Prime
Minister, Menachim Begin, was the Irgun leader who gave the order? The father
of Barack Obama’s first chief of staff and current Mayor of Chicago, Rahm
Emanuel, Benjamin Emanuel was an Irgun terrorist specialising in assassinations.
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Palestinian girl in a protest on Nakba Day 2010 in Hebron,
West Bank. Her sign says "Surely we will return, Palestine." There
are 788,108 Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA in the West Bank, most
of whom are the descendants of people whose families hail from areas
incorporated into Israel in 1948.
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In human terms, 1948 saw the mass deportation of 700,000
Palestinians from their cities and villages, massacres of civilians, and the
razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages. Mention of the word
'Nakba' in Israeli textbooks was banned by the Israeli Ministry of Education in
2009. The vast majority of Palestinian refugees, both those outside the 1949
armistice lines at the war's conclusion and those internally displaced, were
barred by the newly declared state of Israel from returning to their homes or
reclaiming their property. This dispossession and dispersal of the Palestinian
people is known to them as al-Nakba, meaning "the catastrophe," or
"the disaster.
Today, the UN reports that there are more than 4.75 million
registered Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank
and Gaza. Of these, nearly 1.4 million live in 58 UN-operated refugee camps.
The total number of Palestinian refugees worldwide is estimated to be 5.5
million—the largest population of refugees in the world. Yet Israel has
consistently refused to recognize the Palestinians’ right of return, as
expressed in UN General Assembly Resolution 194, Article 11. Moreover, Israel’s
expulsion and internal displacement of Palestinians continues to this day,
albeit on a much smaller scale than in 1948. In a very real sense, the Nakba
never really ended.
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| Palestine, before European settlers ethnically cleansed the land |
Let us not forget in our PC world why Gaza exists is two
words never used in Israel; Ethnic Cleansing. Gaza exists because the
Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it – Askalaan in
Arabic – were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and
ended up on the beaches of Gaza. They – or their children and grandchildren and
great-grandchildren – are among the almost two million Palestinian refugees
crammed into the cesspool of Gaza, 80 per cent of whose families once lived in
what is now Israel. This, historically, is the real story: most of the people
of Gaza don't come from Gaza.
Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister of Israel has continued
the disastrous and failed policies of Sharon and Olmert of escalating the
racist brutality between Israel and the Palestinians. This determined attempt
to destroy Palestinian Identity and Culture has continued unabated to the
present day supported by American weapons and connivance, over $1.8 Bn. a year
in US military support for Israel and the Israeli lobby hijacking the US
political agenda to blackmail US Presidents and legislators into blind support
for the racist and aggressive policies of Israel.
There is only one Middle Eastern “rogue state” which has
attacked each and every one of its neighbours including destroying the EU
funded infrastructure of Gaza, dismembering Lebanon, occupying the sovereign
territory of Syria, occupying East Jerusalem and the West Bank which it is
illegally settling and applying collective punishment to the civilian
population (in defiance of the “quaint” Geneva Conventions), which has not
signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty and which has developed nuclear
weapons. Let us consider the “achievements” of Israel?
Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear
weapons?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign
the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections? ?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East seized the
sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy
it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely
violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes
and artillery and naval gunfire?
Answer: Israel .
Question: What American ally in the Middle East has for
years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a
practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)?
Answer: Israel .
Question: In which country in the Middle East have
high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war
were executed?
Answer: Israel .
Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to
prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
Answer: Israel .
Question: What country in the Middle East created millions
of refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and
businesses?
Answer: Israel .
Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay
compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated?
Answer: Israel .
Question: In what country in the Middle East was a
high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated?
Answer: Israel .
Question: In what country in the Middle East did the man who
ordered the assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime
minister?
Answer: Israel .
Question: What country in the Middle East blew up an
American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS
Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors?
Answer: Israel .
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| Children killed by Israeli bombing in the morgue in Gaza |
Question: What country in the Middle East employed a spy,
Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents from USA and then gave some of
them to the Soviet Union ?
Answer: Israel .
Question: What country at first denied any official
connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously
demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon?
Answer: Israel .
Question: What Middle East country allows American Jewish
murderers to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and
refuses to extradite them once in their custody?
Answer: Israel .
Question: What Middle East country preaches against hate yet
builds a shrine and a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinians while
they prayed in their Mosque.?
Answer: Israel .
Answer: Israel .
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Tomb of Baruch Goldstein, a doctor and IDF reservist, who
murdered 29 Arabs praying at the Tomb of the Patriarch Abraham in Hebron (In Arabic
Al-Kibran, from Ibrahim al-Kibran, “Abraham, friend of God”) in February 1994. Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin condemned the attack, describing Goldstein as a
"degenerate murderer", "a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment
to Judaism". He has since become an object of veneration among Jewish settlers in the
West Bank city of Hebron who organise a party at his graveside to celebrate on the
anniversary of the massacre. At his funeral Rabbi
Lior said that "since Goldstein did what he did in God's name, he is to be
regarded as a Righteous Man" and asserted that Goldstein was "a
martyr of God; His hands are innocent, and his heart is pure."
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Question: What country on Planet Earth has the second most
powerful lobby in the United States , according to a recent Fortune magazine
survey of Washington insiders?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East deliberately
targeted a civilian U.N. Refugee Camp in Qana , Lebanon and killed 103 innocent
men, women, and especially children?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of
69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29
more by U.S. vetoes?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East receives more
than one-third of all U.S. aid to the world yet is the 16th richest country in
the world?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East receives U.S.
weapons for free and then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at
the objections of the U.S. ?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely insults
the American people by having its Prime Minister address the United States
Congress and lecturing them like children on why they have no right to reduce
foreign aid?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East had its Prime
Minister announce to his staff not to worry about what the United States says
because "We control America ?"
Answer: Israel .
Question: What country in the Middle East was cited by
Amnesty International for demolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes
as a means of ethnic cleansing?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East has just recently
used a weapon of mass destruction, a one-ton smart bomb, dropping it in the
center of a highly populated area killing 15 civilians including 9 children?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely kills
young Palestinian children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored
vehicles, bulldozers, or tanks?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East signed the Oslo
Accords promising to halt any new Jewish Settlement construction, but instead,
has built more than 270 new settlements since the signing?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East has assassinated
more than 100 political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing
hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children?
Answer: Israel .
Question: Which country in the Middle East regularly
violates the Geneva Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire
towns, villages, and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as
demolishing entire villages while people are still in their homes?
Answer: Israel .
In October 2011 the IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was released in
Gaza escorted by Ahmed al-Jabari, the Hamas military commander, and 477
Palestinian hostages released were released initialy by Israel as part of the
deal. During Shalit’s captivity the IDF killed over 2,000 Palestinian men, women
and children, continued the illegal occupation of the West Bank and East
Jerusalem and the blockade and collective punishment of Gaza. It has protected
over 100 illegal Jewish colonies on the West Bank and the annexation of
Palestinian land by the so called “Security Barrier.” Over 5,000 Palestinians
are still interred in Israel mostly without any trial with a minority
“convicted” by Military Courts by the same IDF army of occupation. Ahmed
al-Jabari's assassination by an Israeli drone on 14th November precipitated
the current conflict, deliberately breaking a ceasefire which Egypt was working
to make permanent. Al-Jabari was radicalised in 13 years in Israeli prisons.
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| Israeli protesters who do not share the zealots blood lust protesting in 2009 |
I am not anti- Jewish, indeed quite the opposite. I document
elsewhere in this Blog the Jewish communities of Prague, Krakow, Marrakech and
Kos and the killing machine of Auschwitz-Birkenau. I am not anti-Semitic and
abhor racism in all its forms. I do not equate Zionism with racism and I would
never support in any circumstances any boycott of Israel, no matter how it is
dressed up. I would never support it because I understand the resonance in
Jewish history of boycotts and recognise that Theodor Herzl’s advocacy of
Zionism was a valid response to the bullying and suffering Jewish people were
suffering in 19th Century Europe. After the events of The Shoah there is no way
I could look a Jewish person in the eye and argue in favour of assimilation,
even though over 70% of world Jewry lives outside of Israel.
The only way forward for Israel and the Palestinian people
is a genuine Two State Solution reverting to the 1949 Line of Control and
internationalising Jerusalem. There is no long term strategic interest for the
United States in having Israel as its proxy military power in the Middle East
and for Israel to rely on military might subsidised by a foreign power for its
long term security. And for the United States perhaps when the sugar rush from
the killing of Bin Laden has worn off perhaps it might reflect that the two greatest
threats to its own security come from its own greed. It’s greed for oil which
has made it dependant on the Saudi tyranny and its greed for cocaine which has
created violent corrupt narco states in South America, in North America
(Mexico) and in Afghanistan. Perhaps the greedy and incontinent consumer has to
take some responsibility for the consequences of their own profligate greed?
Israel has denied Gaza a port, control of its air space and
the right of its inhabitants to move to the other Palestinian territory
recognized by the Oslo accords, the West Bank. It is not, as Israel’s
supporters allege, that Hamas is hiding among Palestinian civilians; rather,
Israel has forced Palestinian civilians to live in a tiny strip of land that
Israel turned into a war zone.
Malnourished children, restrictions on Gaza-fisherman,
lacklustre sewage and water systems, and the confiscation of $4.5 billion in
international aid will not improve Israel’s security in the long run. It will
only increase the popularity of the Hamas Movement, decrease the effects of
counterterrorism throughout the globe, and create the next generation of
dangerous faith-based ideologues.
How many more children will die in the open air prison of
Gaza obliterated by American weapons fired from American supplied planes to
maintain the right of Jewish racists from Brooklyn to settle on stolen Arab
land? It is amazing how Israeli politicians always seem find the great courage
to let others fight a coward's war in Gaza coming up to Israeli elections?”
The Israeli zealots have not worked out that since the last deeply cynical and vicious “Operation Cast Lead” in 2008/2009 the world has changed and its neighbours have become more unpredictable with the possibility of Egypt re-militarising Sinai and opening its border to Gaza and Hezbollah having half of Israel within range from the north. This vicious assault far from demonstrating strength exposes Israel and its US sponsors weakness and puts the future existence of Israel in jeopardy. Israel’s policy of regime change in Gaza is doomed to failure now as it was in 2009 and Fatah is not an alternative. Israel could have negotiated with Yasser Arafat but kept him pinned down in his bunker in Ramallah for over three years and his venal successors have no credibility.
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| The misnamed IDF ready to fight another coward's war in Gaza |
What is happening in Gaza is beyond madness, it is pig headed zealotry which once again threatens the Jewish people from within more comprehensively than any external threat. Don’t take my word for it, listen to the most respected Jewish MP in the UK speaking in the House of Commons.
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