Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2012

Breaking the Silence

In the "world of make believe" there comes a time when "WE" ALL must understand,
that life in the "REAL WORLD" must be seen and understood for what it is.

I can't pick up the article so please hit the link and scroll down. On the right hand side there are pictures, but more important are the captions underneath, describing the daily life of a Palestinian by an Israeli soldier and how his thoughts were formed into being.


"Breaking the silence shows..."

... private photos taken by Israeli soldiers in the occupied territories. Candid snapshots give an idea of the harassment Palestinians suffer daily and the stark reality of the soldiers' lives. The exhibition, curated by the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence, opened on Thursday in Berlin as part of its tour of European capitals. The captions stem from soldiers' testimonies to the group of veterans.
This is a caption that describes an Israeli soldiers understanding that wrong is NEVER right.

"They themselves didn't go through a Holocaust...

but I'm sure that some of them are from families that survived the Holocaust. If they're capable of writing on the Arab's doors 'Arabs Out' or 'Death to the Arabs,' and drawing a Star of David, which to me is like a swastika when they draw it like that, then somehow the term Jew has changed a little for me with regard to who's a Jew."

‘Price tag’ tactics of West Bank Jewish settlers

This is Israel. It's the part that the "chosen" don't want you to know about.
It's the same as it's always been for thousands of years.
Revenge, retaliation, repeat.
I don't find a political message here, unless the world has finally accepted, vandalism and intimidation as political.
The children from Nazi Germany acted in this manner, Right before......


With their hoodies, covered faces and cans of spray paint, they may in some ways look like average teenage vandals out for a night of trouble.

But on the streets of Arab East Jerusalem, some young Jewish people are up to more than just graffiti. They are part of what has become known as price tag gangs and they are risking their safety to send a very political message.

Price-tagging is the term they use for a range of acts, from vandalism to arson attacks and religious desecration. They carry out these crimes as an act of revenge - they say there is a price to be paid by Arabs for attacks on Jewish homes and businesses.

They are also warning their own government with these price tags that there is a price to pay for any attempt to give what they believe is Jewish land to the Palestinians as part of the fragile peace process.

They come from the hilltops of the West Bank, Arab territory that has been occupied by Israel since the war of 1967.


 

Friday, September 14, 2012

James H. Fetzer: 9/11 IRAN REVIEW Interview

Well I heard some hings that I never heard before.
It's definitely worth the read

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012) - More than one decade after the 9/11 attacks which completely diverted the path of the U.S. foreign policy and led to the waging of two lethal, erosive wars on Afghanistan and Iraq and killing of thousands of innocent civilians, an influential, diligent group of researchers and authors have dared to question the authenticity and veracity of the claims made by the U.S. government that they were Islamist terrorists who crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center towers and Pentagon and killed some 3,000 people.
One of these high-ranking, renowned researchers is Dr. James H. Fetzer, a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He has written on the philosophy of science and on the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.
According to Dr. Fetzer, George W. Bush and his administration officials were responsible for the atrocities which happened on September 11, 2001. He firmly believes that Israel’s Mossad was involved in the 9/11 attacks and that the U.S. government tries to withhold this truth from the public; however, he has written tens of articles for different magazines and news websites, providing evidence of the involvement of Israel’s intelligence service in the attacks.

EU working on consumer labels for Israeli settlement products

I think the world is very tired of the "rigged" game that Israel plays and is not accepting it any longer.


Denmark is fronting an EU initiative to help consumers boycott Israeli settlement products.

Its foreign ministry is funding an event in Brussels on 23 October to get EU diplomats and NGOs, such as Oxfam and Crisis Action, talking about EU-level guidelines for consumer labels on settlement goods.

The move comes after EU foreign ministers in May said they will "fully and effectively implement existing EU legislation" on the subject.

The EU says settlements are illegal. But its regular complaints about settlement expansion fall on deaf ears.

"The [October] workshop is designed to put the issue back on the agenda and to put action behind the words of the May conclusions ... We want to make it easier for consumers to vote with their wallet," a Danish diplomat told EUobserver.

France, Finland,

Enter Bibi

Food for thought.


It may be, as Jeff Goldberg asserts, that Bibi Netanyahu is just frustrated over President Obama’s refusal to approve an Israeli attack on Iran. Or it may be something else: an unprecedented attempt by a putative American ally to influence a U.S. presidential campaign. Either way, Netanyahu’s recent behavior is outrageous. He is trying push us into a war that is not in our national interest, a war that would only further destabilize a region that is already teetering near chaos. He is trying to get us to damage our relations with the rest of the world–especially the Russians and Chinese, whom we spent great diplomatic effort luring into the Iranian economic sanctions–so that he can pursue a strategy that even the Israeli military and intelligence communities find questionable. President Obama will not yield to this pressure, nor should he–and every American should know the implications of what Netanyahu and his American neoconservative allies, including Mitt Romney, are proposing.

Iran is not Afghanistan or Libya. It is not a bunch of tents in the desert. It is also not Iraq or Pakistan, clumsy collections of tribes and ethnicities cobbled together by Europeans a century ago. It is an actual place, a real country with real borders. It has the best-educated population in the region
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Egypt to take legal action in U.S. against Prophet film makers

President Mursi, I respectfully ask that you give Israel the same course of action, since Sam Bacile considers Israel his native country and purposely set out with political motive to incite violence in the Middle East.


Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi asked the Egyptian embassy in Washington to take legal action in the United States against makers of a film attacking the Muslim Prophet Mohammad, the official state news agency said on Wednesday.

Mursi had requested the mission take "all legal measures",

Monday, September 10, 2012

Family of detained Canadian-Israeli says essentials being withheld




Essential supplies such as summer clothes and contact lens solution were being withheld from Yana Gorelik, her family said Sunday. The 30-year-old Israeli-Canadian was arrested for being an IDF deserter upon entering the country early last week.

The IDF spokesperson unit said it had received no complaints from the family and that Gorelik would meet with the officer in charge of her well-being while in prison and have the opportunity to request missing supplies and issue her complaints, Maariv reported.

Gorelik moved with her parents to Canada at age 17 and had visited Israel several times over the last two years without a problem. However, she was stopped on entry last week and asked to sort out her official release from the IDF, but was later “humiliated” by being handcuffed and sent to the Neve Tirza detention center in Ramle.

Gorelik said the authorities treated her like

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Vatican official says Israel fostering intolerance of Christianity

Has the position of Anti-Christ taken over Israel?
It certainly seems as if it has

The Israeli government's failure to respond adequately to Jewish extremist attacks against churches and monasteries is fostering a climate of intolerance towards Christianity in the country, a senior Vatican official in Jerusalem has warned.

Police inaction and an educational culture that encourages Jewish children to treat Christians with "contempt" has made life increasingly "intolerable" for many, Police inaction and an educational culture that encourages Jewish children to treat Christians with "contempt" has made life increasingly "intolerable" for many, Fr Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Custodian of the Holy Land, said.

Fr Pizzaballa's intervention, unusually outspoken for a senior Catholic churchman, came after pro-settler extremists attacked a Trappist monastery in the town of Latroun.

The door of the monastery was set fire to and its walls were covered with anti-Christian graffiti that denounced Christ as a "monkey".

The incident is the latest in a series of acts of arson and vandalism this year targeting places of worship, including Jerusalem's 11th century Monastery of the Cross, built on the site where the tree used to make Christ's Cross is held to have been planted.

Slogans reading "Death to Christians" and other offensive graffiti were daubed on its walls.
, the Custodian of the Holy Land, said.

Fr Pizzaballa's intervention, unusually outspoken for a senior Catholic churchman, came after pro-settler extremists attacked a Trappist monastery in the town of Latroun.

The door of the monastery was set fire to and its walls were covered with anti-Christian graffiti that denounced Christ as a "monkey".

The incident is the latest in a series of acts of arson and vandalism this year targeting places of worship, including Jerusalem's 11th century Monastery of the Cross, built on the site where the tree used to make Christ's Cross is held to have been planted.

Slogans reading "Death to Christians" and other offensive graffiti were daubed on its walls.

The US Navy AEGIS Destroyer, Nicknamed the USS Rachel Corrie, Warned of Attack

Heads up

The US had scheduled a major exercise with multiple AEGIS surface to air “killer ships” many months ago but decided to put off the exercise because of Israeli interference in the US election and the deteriorating relationship with Israel over Iran.

Now we are told only one ship will be used and very few troops. This news came in before the President ordered language removed from the Democratic Party platform supporting Israel’s claim to Jerusalem as a capitol of a Jewish only state.

The fight over this issue has raged on the floor of the Democratic Convention held, this year, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Now, Veterans Today has learned that naval personnel in the upcoming exercise have “shoot to kill” orders if approached by unknown aircraft, even if clearly marked as “Israeli.”

Sources near the president are quoted:

Saturday, September 8, 2012

NYPD In Israel: Police Department Opens Branch In Kfar Saba With Lone Detective Charlie Ben-Naim

This is to weird


Even if they do dramatically overstate their counterterrorism record, it's no secret that the bigger-than-the-FBI NYPD has extensive counterterrorism operations. These operations often include spying outside NYPD jurisdiction, both nationally and abroad.

According to Al-Monitor, an online newspaper reporting on the Middle East, the NYPD has now officially opened a branch in Israel's Sharon District Police headquarters in Kfar Saba, with former Israeli and veteran NYPD detective, Charlie Ben-Naim. From Al-Monitor:

Friday, September 7, 2012

California passes resolution defining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism

Hit the link, it's actually worse than the part I clipped reads



Last month, the California State Assembly passed a resolution urging state educational institutions to more aggressively crack down on criticism of the State of Israel on campuses, which the resolution defines as “anti-Semitism.” The anti-democratic resolution is the latest step in the broader campaign to stifle and suppress dissent on California’s increasingly volatile campuses.

The California State Assembly is the lower house of the state legislature, consisting of 80 members. The resolution—H.R. 35: “Relative to anti-Semitism”—was passed by a vote of 66 to 80, including a majority of both Republicans and Democrats in the Assembly.

The resolution was drafted by Republican Linda Halderman and passed without public discussion. The vote on the resolution came when most students were between semesters and away from their campuses.

The resolution (available here) uses the classic trick employed by defenders of Israel’s Zionist regime: lumping together any criticism of the Israeli state’s policies or of the US government’s support for them with racist attacks on Jews.

On the one hand, the resolution denounces

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Intelligence Committee Chair Describes Explosive Confrontation Between Netanyahu and American Ambassador

And now, for the ultimate of release coincidences, in a
"No look this way" directive, we will all hear the rehash, Of Mike Roger's much denied argument, with "the Chosen's" very own, bad tempered bad boy,
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Damn I hate reruns

Rep. Mike Rogers, the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, says that his much-discussed meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem late last month did, in fact, devolve into an sharp confrontation between Netanyahu and the American ambassador to Israel, the former National Security Council official (and former Obama campaign Jewish liaison), Dan Shapiro.

Rogers told a Michigan radio interviewer earlier this week that he had not previously witnessed such a high-level confrontation, and he described Israeli leaders as being at "wits' end" over what they see as President Obama's unwillingness to provide them with his "red lines" in the effort to stop Iran's nuclear program. He also said that neither the Israelis nor the Iranians believe that Obama would use force to stop the nuclear program. (UPDATE: Rogers said as well he believes the Israelis will "probably" bomb Iran if they don't get clearer red lines from the U.S.)

Rogers description of the meeting directly contradicts repeated Administration assertions that there is "no daylight" on the Iran issue with the Israeli government. Shortly after the meeting took place, Israeli press reports appeared suggesting that Netanyahu and Shapiro had engaged in an argument, but Shapiro

Gaza Strip: Israeli strikes 'kill six militants'




At least six Palestinians have been killed in two Israeli strikes in Gaza against what Israel says were militants preparing rocket and bomb attacks.

Palestinians said three were killed by Israeli fire in the north of the strip on Thursday morning. Israel said they were planting a bomb near its fence.

Hours earlier, an air strike in central Gaza killed three militants who Israel said were set to fire rockets.

There has been a spate of rocket attacks and air strikes in recent days.

In the latest incident, Israel said it had fired at a "terrorist squad that was planting an explosive device" near the town of Beit Hanoun.

The men were reportedly part of a small militant group called Homat Al-Aqsa.

It came hours after another strike which Israel said...

Witnesses said the air strike hit a car in which four people were travelling near the Bureij refugee camp.

Investor has big plans for Jerusalem, West Bank

Oh my God!!!!!!!!!!!
Now there really will be a Holy War

Australian technology investor Kevin Bermeister has had some hits and misses in his career.

He founded the popular file-sharing network Kazaa, built Australia's largest video game distributor and was an early investor in Skype.

Less successful ventures included the now-defunct Sega World theme park in Sydney and an offshoot of troubled PC-maker Packard Bell.

Now he has set his investment sights on Jerusalem. After buying a 185-room hotel and bidding on a troubled Jewish development in East Jerusalem that was about to be sold to a Palestinian billionaire, he has proposed his most ambitious - some say far-fetched - plan: Jerusalem 5800, a 30-year, $30 billion redevelopment blueprint to transform the ancient holy city into a sprawling international tourist hub.

The businessman, who is Jewish, envisions 50,000 new hotel rooms, a new international airport in the West Bank and an underground metro line running through the city's archaeologically rich terrain.

Bermeister, 52, told the Los Angeles Times that his privately led vision will succeed where government redevelopment plans have failed.

Q: Why so much interest in Jerusalem?

A: I've been coming here for seven or eight years, looking and scouting. We've identified a business opportunity. I think we can take advantage of it, provide a

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Jerusalem And God Vote Gets Booed At Dem Convention


People that vote democrat are going to look to see who sold them out, and those people will not be elected.

Delegates and members of the Democratic party booed after former Gov. Ted Strickland (D-OH) discussed God and moved to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Convention chairman Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles, had to ask for the Yea and Nay vote several times before declaring the motion passed.

C-SPAN cameras captured the dissatisfaction among members after the motion passed.

I think Mitt just won, whether anybody wanted him to or not

Democrats have changed their convention platform to add a mention of God and declare that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

The move came after criticism from Republicans.

Many in the audience booed after the convention chairman, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, ruled that the amendments had been approved despite the fact that a large group of delegates objected.

He called for a vote three times before ruling.

The party reinstated language from the 2008 platform that said

Democrats Fumble Major Israel Issue, Put Jerusalem As Capital In Platform


Rather than make the United States the focus of it's campaign, the democrats have once again COWED to political pressure ( think huge corporate donors here)and Israels priorities come first.
Forget Jobs and the economy or the thieving banks,or almost 50 million households on food stamps, our priority must always be Israel first.
And WHY, because that's who is running this country! That the duel citizenship in our legislative body along with corporate big bucks buying off the party. Once bought , they bend.

Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel, it's Palestinians, and the United States has no right to say it is, even the UN doesn't recognize it as such.
Just because you occupied it for 400 years, and then got thrown out in (get this) 587 BCE (before Christ) does not mean you own it. Britain and the United States had no business offering it to them.
Seriously people it you do it for one, doesn't it ring true that it should be done for all?
Just think of how many "people" could take their original land back. Heck if the Indians do it, there is no United States.



A big flip flop by the Democratic Party has replaced what was perceived as a big snub to Israel.

It was a stunning development. The party had dropped the assertion that Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish state, but on Wednesday evening the Democrats had a change of heart. The vote went down just before 6 p.m. and it was quite contentious on the floor. It needed a two-thirds majority and it took three votes to get it, CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reported.

And even after the vote, many thought the crowd of delegates on the floor was split 50-50, rather than delivering the two-thirds majority needed.

The Democrats caved, changing the platform language to reflect that they now regard Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It came about as a result of intense political pressure,”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concedes Iran sanctions hurting economy


None of this is humane, and it sickens me to think that in this day and age, that a people can be starved to death just because someone else wants them to.
Iran has done nothing wrong, the nuclear inspectors confirm that fact to.
So why the hell are they being starved to death?
Because they don't have a central bank that's why, just like Syria and Yemen and a few others.
This is the rich "elite" Zionists flexing their muscle, to break Iran into submission. Both China and Russia know it.

Facing growing discontent over soaring food prices, the Iranian president accused the West of waging "an all-out, hidden, heavy war" that had impeded Tehran's ability to export oil.

"There are barriers in transferring money, there are barriers in selling oil," he said in a live television talk show.

Although Mr Ahmadinejad predicted that Iran would weather the sanctions, saying "we have oil and the world needs it", his admission stood in stark contrast to earlier claims by his ministers that sanctions were having little impact.
And because Israel (or their government actually) pitches a fit, the people of Iran suffer.
Israel needs to show their own nuclear weapons, the world should question the threat of them.
This is just to bogus anymore, America backs Israel only because Mr. Ahmadinejad wants a fair trade on their oil rather than for the devalued debt ridden American dollar.
And it kills me that this article states that he concedes, no he doesn't he cares about his starving people, unlike Israel who is willing to put it's own people under the atrocities of war just to get their own way.
America make your voice heard, how much is your paycheck buying you now that the damned dollar has been debased so far, by the FED?
World speak up, Israels bull shit has gone on long enough. How long does Gaza have to stay imprisoned by Israel, just because they can?
Everyone it's time to step up and put "the chosen" back in their place like the rest of us.

The International Energy Agency estimates that Iranian oil imported by major consumers had fallen to one million barrels a day since the start of the year, a decline of more than a third.

European Union and US sanctions against Iran's energy and financial sectors have caused a sharp decline in the value of the rial, the country's currency, and pushed the price of even staple commodities to a level that many Iranians cannot afford.

Israel's future 'at risk' if Iran strike sanctioned



Hmm I wonder what those defects were. Here in America we're never told if there were problems. It's all made out to be just guns and roses resulting in the ultimate victory.

The former Supreme Court judge appointed by Israel's government to investigate the defects of its 2006 war against Lebanon has issued an outspoken warning that a unilateral strike on Iran's nuclear facilities could "endanger the future of the country".

Here's hoping Israel will listen for everybody's sake

Judge Eliyahu Winograd's warning came as the US was reported to be planning a series of military preparations designed both to convince Israel to hold back from such a strike and Iran to take more seriously the stalemated negotiations designed to halt its perceived progress towards a nuclear weapons capability.

Oh wow, the things you learn when you're cruisin the news

Judge Winograd used an Army Radio interview to deride the claim by the Defence Minister Ehud Barak that no more than 500 Israelis would be killed in retaliation for a strike and questioned whether his own severe criticism of the military's and the previous government's handling of the Lebanon war had been taken to heart.

According to The New York Times

Jews scrub away the stain of anti-Christian 'price tag' attack


Just so you know, not to condemn all by what has occurred.

Rabbi Dov Lipman didn’t plan to spend his morning cleaning anti-Christian graffiti off of the wall of a monastery.

Not all Jews act the same and their belief systems vary to.

But the American-born Beit Shemesh activist said that it was impossible for him to walk away from the 122 year-old Latrun monastery while it was still bore the marks of the vandalism that took place a day earlier after its door was set on fire and it was defaced with hateful graffiti. The vandalism was suspected to have been a “price tag” attack by right-wing elements angry over the evacuation of Migron.

Lipman had led a six-member group from the community bearing flowers and a message of peace, he recounted:

And this was a very courageous act for him to do, he could easily have just turned the tide of retribution toward himself.
He's American born, they are seen differently by the native born.
They're called Anglos.

“When we were just about to leave and workers were cleaning the door of the monastery that was lit on fire, and there was a guy who was scrubbing that said “Jesus was a monkey.” I felt, how could just give them and give flowers and walk away while this terrible thing another Jew did was up there. So I asked if we could help clean it away. At first, the worker cleaning it hesitated, but then he gave me his brush and cleaning solution, and we didn’t walk away until it was removed. I’m glad we did. It was wonderful to be part of the ‘tikkun’ (repair.)”