Israel's well-fed ambassador to Britain, today threatened Iran, on the BBC, not to cross a RED line for fear of military action.  He conveniently dismissed the fact that his government has crossed an internationally agreed GREEN line in order to build illegal homes for 500,000 settlers to live on Palestinian land in the West Bank.

Is it really politic to allow  Israeli ambassadors time on national broadcasting networks to make such threats against other states when they are themselves arguably a greater threat to world peace?

1. There was a Jewish sect in Jerusalem over 5000 years ago. FACT

2. There has been a majority, indigenous Arab presence in Palestine for over one thousand years. FACT.

3. Prior to the establishment of Israel by the UN, in 1948, against the express opposition votes of all the Arab states, there was only a minority Jewish settlement in Palestine. FACT 

4. There is no legitimate reason for there to be an Israeli state that covers the majority of the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean. FACT

5. If you give Palestine to the Israelis because of a Jewish presence there 5000 years ago, then you must give Florida back to the Indians, FACT
(Is that OK, about Florida, I mean?)

What happened to much vaunted American Democracy?

Political Lobbies openly, and legally, buying legislators, wholesale! THIS IS DEMOCRACY!   It was understood that elected Congressmen represented the welfare of voters in 435 congressional districts - not the voters of a foreign state.

Is this really what AMERICAN servicemen FOUGHT and DIED for during WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan?  To be the subservient minion of a foreign state that is the demanding recipient of billions of dollars every year, in military, civil and economic aid? Yet which refuses to comply with internationally agreed treaties and conventions on Human Rights and Nuclear Non-Proliferation, and denies IAEA inspection of its own massive, unadmitted, nuclear arsenal?

 

This is good government? This is the way to peace? Which electorate does this benefit?  IS THIS DEMOCRACY or this deeply undemocratic and contrary to the spirit and intention of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

 

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Guardian newspaper today reminds us that there is another wall, 'TWICE AS HIGH AND FOUR TIMES AS LONG'. 
Another wall, in another place, behind which tens of thousands of families have been forced into a ghetto that is controlled by an occupying force that imposes its will upon a subjugated people - whilst the world watches and takes no action.
One wonders what it will take for the world to act, and when.

I would have thought it obvious to anyone with just a modicum of intelligence to see that Netanyahu, so ably backed by AIPAC, has been successful in emasculating this president.

Netanyahu is now King! And kings always have it over presidents.

Only problem is accepting the concept of a Likud run Union. I guess we'll get used it. Like we got used to recession and AIDS - just something we gotta live with cos there's sure nobody visible out there who's goin to change it, not anytime soon, anyway.

That's just life, politics and the art of propaganda properly positioned in the mind of the public. Or as they say, living with crap and hasbara.

So, the House of Representatives has confirmed to the world that America is run by an AIPAC administration, headed by an AIPAC president and supported by an AIPAC congress - how absurd!

A reputable South African jurist of world-standing and reputation carries out an independent report for the UN on war crimes in Gaza, last January, and concludes that ISRAEL had committed war crimes by killing 900 civilians. 

AIPAC immediately instructs the White House and congress to rubbish the report as it damages their cause which is the support of the very state that is alleged guilty! And congress obliges! What a horrific outcome for a supposed democracy! What a complete and utter tragedy!

The world laughs at and cries for America. Fortunately, the EU, China, India and Russia will shortly eclipse the US and AIPAC - and not before time.

The Israeli government agenda is in no way comparable to that of the Nazi party. Let that be quite clear.

Let it also be quite clear that Israel does treat Arabs in Jerusalem similarly to how German Jews were treated in Berlin in 1933. Then, they were not killed or murdered, but they were harassed, humiliated and increasingly oppressed and eventually disenfranchised and dispossessed. The comparison is obvious and we should not shy away from the facts.

But it is odious to say that Israeli= Nazi or that Zionism= Judaism, as it is misleading and completely untrue.

Please do not be afraid to acknowledge, and publicize, that which is being carried out in Jerusalem and the West Bank, in our name!

You very seriously underestimate Israel's intentions.

Its past agenda was for the US to attack Iraq and in this it succeeded with manipulated intelligence that was accepted around the world.

Its agenda now is to attack Iran. That there is a weight of opinion against such a strike, is of no consequence. Israel is determined that Iran should be attacked, regardless of the potential disastrous primary and secondary retaliation around the world - to the Gulf states, to Europe and to the US. Its secondary concern is to keep Israeli cities protected from the radioactive fallout, and its agenda makes due provision for that event.

But do not be fooled by propaganda. Israeli nuclear-armed, air and submarine crews are ready and waiting for the order to go. That could be at any time, but the informed consensus is before the end of December.

US warships are already in position, in the Gulf, for the expected blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and plans are ready for the battle to keep oil supplies open to the world.

Do not underestimate either the agenda, or the vast problems worldwide that will result from the anticipated military action that is expected to be of gain for only one country, and devastating to most others.

'Israel is a belligerent rogue state, dominated by a fanatical sectarian ideology of religio-ethnic domination and exclusion, packing hundreds of nuclear weapons and lead by criminal leaders supported by a willing electorate of ethnocentric colonialists and land-grabbers. Maybe its time for American Jews to stop "loving" Israel, and start treating it like the dangerous outlaw and enemy of global peace that it is. The sane future of world Jewish community lies mainly in Europe and the US. Israel itself is an aberrant, gangster cult-state, and it is time for sane and responsible people to cut them loose'.

'By yoking this nation to the support for a warlike outlaw state, and for its undeterrable project for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, American Zionists - whether of the Jewish or Christian variety - have put our own country at risk, made it the target of attacks and prolonged a dangerous source of global instability and threat. The continuing support for this project by its organized backers and their tools in the US Congress is due to a combination of foolishness, cowardice and traitorous malevolence. I now regard Israel and Zionism as an "existential threat" to me and my family'.

The foregoing should be sent to every senator, congressman and voter, in every state of the Union. It should be posted on every board in every room in every university, college and school in America.

The criminal insanity of AIPAC style influence over the American government and three hundred million people by this powerful cabal, must end.

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There is a serious civil rights issue here! And it sure STINKS! 
Gather files on anyone who criticizes Israel - and destroy their careers!

THIS is US style DEMOCRACY?

All legislators controlled by AIPAC staffers!

AIPAC STASI files on everyone!

Thank God I live in Europe. And I do not joke.

'During its military offensive "Cast Lead" from 27 December 2008 to 18 January 2009, Israel banned foreign media from the Gaza Strip for "security reasons" This sealing of the territory constituted a serious press freedom violation. Six journalists were killed, two of them while working, and around 15 were wounded in the conflict. Further, at least three buildings housing media were hit by Israeli fire. Abuses committed by the Israeli army very rarely result in legal proceedings against the soldiers involved, despite international pressure. However, recent accounts given by Israeli soldiers who took part in the Gaza operation contain revelations of the use of excessive force and will perhaps lead the Israeli authorities to agree to set up an independent investigation.'

 

Reporters Without Borders is registered in France as a non-profit organisation and has consultant status at the United Nations. In 2005, the organisation won the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. 

 

Reporters Without Borders is present in all five continents through its national branches (in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland), its offices in New York, Tokyo and Washington, and the more than 120 correspondents it has in other countries. 

United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict

 

 

"The Mission found that, in the lead up to the Israeli military assault on Gaza, Israel imposed a blockade amounting to collective punishment and carried out a systematic policy of progressive isolation and deprivation of the Gaza Strip. During the Israeli military operation, code-named "Operation Cast Lead," houses, factories, wells, schools, hospitals, police stations and other public buildings were destroyed. Families are still living amid the rubble of their former homes long after the attacks ended, as reconstruction has been impossible due to the continuing blockade. More than 1,400 people were killed during the military operation.

Significant trauma, both immediate and long-term, has been suffered by the population of Gaza. The Report notes signs of profound depression, insomnia and effects such as bed-wetting among children. The effects on children who witnessed killings and violence, who had thought they were facing death, and who lost family members would be long lasting, the Mission found, noting in its Report that some 30 per cent of children screened at UNRWA schools suffered mental health problems.

The report concludes that the Israeli military operation was directed at the people of Gaza as a whole, in furtherance of an overall and continuing policy aimed at punishing the Gaza population, and in a deliberate policy of disproportionate force aimed at the civilian population. The destruction of food supply installations, water sanitation systems, concrete factories and residential houses was the result of a deliberate and systematic policy which has made the daily process of living, and dignified living, more difficult for the civilian population.

The Report states that Israeli acts that deprive Palestinians in the Gaza Strip of their means of subsistence, employment, housing and water, that deny their freedom of movement and their right to leave and enter their own country, that limit their rights to access a court of law and an effective remedy, could lead a competent court to find that the crime of persecution, a crime against humanity, has been committed."

The latest edition of the London, Jewish News begs its readers to petition the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to reject the United Nations, Goldstone Report on the grounds that  if the 'report is accepted and Israel is taken to the ICC, it will be a setback for the peace which we all wish to see'.

 

This is the same as saying that if the official police report on a man accused of rape, is accepted by the court, then this will be bad for prostitution. 

 

It is assumed that the (British) government will accept the recommendations of the Goldstone Report when it comes before the UN Human Rights Council.

 

Any other decision would be an endorsement of the alleged war crimes, in Gaza, in January, in which over three hundred children were reportedly targeted and killed.

 

Goldstone has brought us nearer to the truth to ensure that international action is taken to prohibit  war crimes in the future.

Killing and injuring civilians is not warfare, it is TERRORISM, and that must be stamped out at the very least by those states that claim to be liberal democracies.

Any such claimed democracy that uses terrorism must be debarred from trading with the EU, and hopefully with the US.

In Europe, we can only ensure that the EU has no truck with terrorism. CIVILIAN LIFE MUST BE HELD SACROSANCT for otherwise there is NO DEMOCRACY!

Posted by bluecanary 

Any attempted analogy to the Blitz in WW2, or Hamburg, or Dresden or Hiroshima - doesn't wash! The atrocity in Gaza was not collateral damage.

Let me put it very clearly SO THAT THERE IS NO AMBIGUITY:

ISRAELI TROOPS ALLEGEDLY TARGETED AND DELIBERATELY KILLED

OVER 300 CHILDREN AND ONE HUNDRED OF THEIR MOTHERS IN ORDER

TO TERRORIZE THE CIVILIAN POPULATION.

It is in the official report, the principal facts of which are not in dispute.

Those who authorized the killings and those who carried out those orders need to be brought before the International Criminal Court to answer charges. If they claim not to have deliberately killed women and children, the evidence will prove their guilt or innocence.

The ICC is in Europe, not the US, and no one is immune from the prosecution of war crime.