Israeli soldiers say 'shoot to kill' orders put civilians in firing line

[PathWalker]

Here is where the current issues are:






The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is a PR spin, to divert you from the real issues.

[panopticon]

Yep, kind of expect that from the Jerusalem Post.

Typical obfuscation and distraction.

The Israeli government presents itself as the shining light of democracy and decency in the Middle East.

By that standard they have a higher bar to reach for.

This also applies to the US and all the other war mongering western liberal democratic countries.

To on one hand say "we abhor the injustices perpetrated by [insert regime]" but then follow that on with "yep, we tortured some folks" shows a disconnection from reality.

That's why the message gets changed to 'look at how bad they are, they are bad, we a not bad, they are bad'. This of course leaves the listener with the impression that their country is not bad and leading to (using the human natural tendency for dualism) their country is good.

Anyway, while a bit off topic, it is interesting how some cartoons are used to reinforce the Nation States agenda through attempting to control/modify the direction of public discourse...

Cases in point. Using Dry Bones cartoons (which, by the way, has now formed an academy of cartoon activists imaginatively called the Dry Bones Project) during various IDF related conflicts.


Cartoons during Israel's Protective Edge (2014):






Operation Pillar of Defense (2012):




Gaza War (2008-09):






Lebanon War (2006):







For more Dry Bones propaganda the blog site is here.

Now

-- Pan

[Earthlink]

I respect what Miko Peled has said of this, since, he is related to one of the "founders".

And this video below, well, this is the first time in my life that I'd ever even heard an actual Palestinian speak.

And just because one white racist (balfour) decided to give Palestine to another white racist (rothschild), doesn't make it right or acceptable. In my mind Israel is a fictional place, and Palestine is currently an occupied territory, occupied by an idea and occupied by those who are gullible enough to accept free land, free housing, whatever they needed to do to get people to move there, so now all those known as Israelis are living a lie sold to them by their media.

It is just like calling the Native North Americans the bad people because Europeans came to their land and claimed it as their own.

"We teach Life, sir."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM

[Earthlink]

To the uncluttered mind they are playing the victim card, repeatedly, ceaselessly.

Just like those poor settlers in America who had to endure the savages who tried to prevent them from living a free and god fearing life then ...

Incidentally my two favourite old proverbs of the last several years have been a Turkish one and a Jewish one. The Turkish one says "It doesn't matter how far you have walked down the wrong road, turn around." and the Jewish one says "A half truth is still a whole lie."

[Cidersomerset]

Israeli Crimes in Gaza, 2014: Amnesty Whitewashes Another Massacre

Sunday 10th May 2015 at 06:58 By David Icke





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Global Research....

Israeli Crimes in Gaza, 2014: Amnesty Whitewashes Another Massacre
By Paul de Rooij

Global Research, May 09, 2015
Middle East Monitor


Amnesty International has issued four reports on the Israeli massacre in Gaza in 2014.
1Given the scale of the destruction and the number of fatalities, any attempt to document
the crimes committed should be welcomed. However, these reports are problematic, and
raise questions about the organisation itself, including why the reports were ever written
at all.2They also raise questions about the broader human rights industry that are worth
considering.

Basic background

July 2014 marked the onset of the Israeli massacre in Gaza (I will dispense with the Israeli
sugar-coated “operation” name). The Israeli army trained for this attack for several months
before finding a pretext to attack the Gaza Strip, shattering an existing ceasefire; this was
the third such post-”disengagement” (2004) attack, and possibly the worst so far. At least
2,215 people were killed and 10,000+ wounded, most of them civilians. The scale of
destruction was staggering: tens of thousands of houses were rendered uninhabitable;
several high-rise buildings were struck by huge American-supplied bombs; schools and
hospitals were targeted; 61 mosques were totally destroyed; water purification and sewage
treatment plants were damaged; Gaza’s main flour mill was bombed; and all chicken farms
in the territory were ravaged. There was incalculable devastation.3

Israeli control over Gaza has been in place for decades, with violence escalating over time,
and the Palestinians there have been under siege for the past eight years. The Israelis have
placed Gaza “on a diet”,4 permitting only a trickle of strictly controlled goods to cross the
border, enough to keep the population above starvation levels. The whole Gaza Strip is
surrounded on all sides, blocked off from the outside world: military bulldozers raze border
areas, snipers injure farmers, and warships menace or destroy fishing boats with gunfire.
Periodically, the Israelis engage in what they term “mowing the lawn” massacres and large
scale destruction. It is this history that must serve as the foundation of any report that
attempts to describe both the intent of the participating parties and the relative consequences.


Read more: Israeli Crimes in Gaza, 2014: Amnesty Whitewashes Another Massacre

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli...ssacre/5448406

[Cidersomerset]

Ex-U.N. Official John Dugard: Israel’s Crimes are ‘Infinitely Worse’ Than in Apartheid South Africa

Sunday 10 May 2015
By David Icke

Posted in:
War and Terror





Short Vid on link.....http://www.democracynow.org/blog/201..._dugard_israel

‘As Palestine joins the International Criminal Court, former U.N. Special Rapporteur John Dugard
talks about how an apartheid case could be brought against Israel in the ICC. “I’m a South African
who lived through apartheid,” Dugard said. “I have no hesitation in saying that Israel’s crimes are
infinitely worse than those committed by the apartheid regime of South Africa.”‘


http://www.democracynow.org/blog/201..._dugard_israel

[Cidersomerset]

Israeli settlers assault Palestinian woman and her kids in al-Khalil

Monday 11th May 2015 at 05:22 By David Icke


PRESS TV....

Israeli settlers assault Palestinian woman and her kids in al-Khalil





‘A group of Zionist settlers have physically assaulted a Palestinian woman and
her young children in the Old City of al-Khalil (Hebron) in southern West Bank.

The assault occurred on Saturday when the illegal settlers waged an attack on
Palestinian homes in the Old City’s Tel Rumeida neighborhood, Ma’an news agency
reported citing an al-Khalil-based rights organization called Human Rights Defenders.

The report further quoted the group’s spokesman, Badee Dweik as saying that the
Palestinian woman, Mirvat Abu Tuama, was walking home with her children Hazim,
10, Rahaf, 8, Lujayn, 5, and Liyan, 4, when a group of Israeli settlers chased and
assaulted them.’

According to Dweik, the attacking settlers also attacked the home of Yasser Abu
Markhiyya in Tel Rumeida by hurling stones at it.

This is while another group of settlers attacked a Palestinian female teenager
Madlin Abu Shamsiyya while she tried to film them as they were attacking the
home of another area resident, Itidal Qiwar.

The latest attack by the Zionist settlers comes less than a week after another
group of the Israeli occupiers harassed a delegation touring al-Khalil's Old City
that included the head of the Palestinian National Union for Football, Jibril
al-Rajoub, and South African politician and anti-racism activist, Tokyo Sexwale,
the report added.

Nearly 700 settlers live in 80 homes in the center of al-Khalil, surrounded by
nearly 200,000 Palestinians.The settlements, illegal under international law,
remain protected by the Israeli military forces in the tightly controlled city,
where many streets are off limits to Palestinians.

MFB/SS


Read more: Israeli settlers assault Palestinian woman and her kids in al-Khalil

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05...ghts-Defenders

[Cidersomerset]

Netanyahu deputy charged with administering Palestinians says they are ‘beasts, not human’

Monday 11th May 2015 at 08:25 By David Icke





‘Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finalized the formation of a new government
this week when he signed a coalition agreement with far-right settler party Jewish Home.
As part of the agreement, Rabbi Ben-Dahan will be Israel’s next deputy defense minister,
responsible for the army’s “Civil Administration.”

The Civil Administration is responsible for all aspects the occupation that don’t involve
boots-on-the-ground security operations — it administers planning, building, and
infrastructure for both Jews and Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank. It also administers
the Palestinian population database and is responsible for granting and revoking entry and
travel permits for Palestinians, controlling every aspect of their movement.

In other words, the man slated to take charge of an organization entrusted with supervising
the theft of Palestinian land and supervising Palestinians’ lives, is a racist who said he does
not see them as human, but rather as animals (nothing against animals, of course, but we
can be fairly certain Ben-Dahan didn’t mean it as a compliment).

Read more: Netanyahu deputy charged with administering Palestinians says they are ‘beasts, not human’


http://972mag.com/next-head-of-civil...-human/106533/



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Israel orders eviction of Bedouins near East Quds for settlement expansion

Monday 11th May 2015 at 05:16 By David Icke





‘Israeli authorities have issued eviction orders to Palestinian Bedouins living in a
village east of al-Quds (Jerusalem), telling them to leave their homes within weeks.

Local residents said they would be forced from their land in less than a month,
Maan News Agency reported on Saturday.

The residing Bedouin families said, however, they would remain on their land.

The forced evacuation is part of Israel’s plan to expand a settlement located
near the Bedouin village of Abu Nuwwar.’

Read more: Israel orders eviction of Bedouins near East Quds for settlement expansion

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05...ds-settlements