CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years

[Studeo]

CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years
http://arabnews.com/middleeast/article67325.ece
Published: Jun 17, 2010 00:13 Updated: Jun 20, 2010 17:05

A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast
doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years.

The CIA report predicts "an inexorable movement away from a two-state
to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic
principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial
apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947/1948 and 1967
refugees. The latter being the precondition for sustainable peace in
the region."

The study, which has been made available only to a certain number of
individuals, further forecasts the return of all Palestinian refugees
to the occupied territories, and the exodus of two million Israelis —
who would move to the US in the next 15 years.

"There is over 500,000 Israelis with American passports and more than
300,000 living in the area of just California," International lawyer
Franklin Lamb said in an interview with Press TV recently, adding that
those who do not have American or Western passport, have already
applied for them.

"So I think the handwriting at least among the public in Israel is on
the wall...[which] suggests history will reject the colonial
enterprise sooner or later," Lamb stressed.

He said CIA, in its report, alludes to the unexpectedly quick fall of
the apartheid government in South Africa and recalls the
disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, suggesting the
end to the dream of an 'Israeli land' would happen 'way sooner' than
later.

The study further predicts the return of over one and a half million
Israelis to Russia and other parts of Europe, and denotes a decline in
Israeli births whereas a rise in the Palestinian population.

Lamb said given the Israeli conduct toward the Palestinians and the
Gaza Strip in particular, the American public — which has been voicing
its protest against Tel Aviv's measures in the last 25 years — may
'not take it anymore'. Some members of the US Senate Intelligence
Committee have been informed of the report.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=88491&sectionid=351020202

[Studeo]

A Letter From A Recovering Jew
http://www.realzionistnews.com/?p=513
Judaism Articles, Confessions Of A Former Jew, Why I Left Judaism
A LETTER FROM A RECOVERING JEW
As Sent To Brother Nathanael Kapner, Copyright 2010

______________

DEAR BROTHER NATHANAEL — Thank you for your Website. I have learned
much from it and it has changed my life. I want to tell you my story.

I grew up as a Jew in New York and was raised from early childhood to
be a Zionist. Although I received no strong religious training as you
did, most Jews are conditioned in the very same way as me.

I learned that Jews were special and different, and were not to mix
with Gentiles. My family made me fearful of non-Jews. I spent six
years going to a summer camp with all Jewish children. Every year,
each summer, being with only Jews, is a form of Jewish-elitist
indoctrination to young impressionable minds.

My parents would ask me constantly, “Is that person Jewish?” whenever
I made a new friend, or had a new teacher, or, later in life,
co-workers or partners or bosses. The message was the same: Stick with
Jews - only trust the Jews. My grandfather threatened to cut me out of
his will when I dated a Christian boy at age 16.

And yet my experience was that Jews themselves were not trustworthy!
Many Jews hold grudges and cut you off for the slightest infraction. I
didn’t experience or see much forgiveness among Jews. If I couldn’t
trust Gentiles, and couldn’t trust Jews, where did that leave me?
Alone much of the time, not trusting anyone.

There also was no beneficent Higher Power to love and forgive me.
While there were a few vague references to some sort of God, I didn’t
grow up with a Higher Power in my life, certainly not a loving God
like Jesus. Our “god” was the “Jewish people” and the “state of
Israel” which we must never fail in our loyalty to.

Most damaging of all was that I learned to distrust Jesus, to be
afraid of him and see him as the boogey man. I was programmed to
never, ever set foot in a Church. God forbid I practiced Christianity
or loved Jesus! All of this was considered blasphemous. As a loyal
daughter, I obeyed.

This, to me, is the greatest tragedy — that young Jews are brainwashed
to stay away from Jesus Christ. We are guilt-tripped and threatened
with a sort of ex-communication should we stray. What kind of religion
has to use fear and punishment to keep its members in the tribe?

I have been stunned to read on your Website how Jews influenced some
of the most egregious of historical events. I had no idea that Jews
were important players in the Russian Revolution. It floored me to
discover that there was a reason behind Hitler’s blind hatred of the
Jews: The Jews’ corruption of Germany and their attempts to destroy
that Christian nation. Jews have always been portrayed as innocent
victims of anti-Semitism.

Brother, you have written in great detail about how the Jews have now
corrupted this country. You’ve explained how Jews are in control of
the media, law, entertainment, etc. Obama has historically high
numbers of Jews within his administration.

Not only have Jews taken over the reigns of power, but they have
changed the personality of this country from a Christian to a Jewish
one. Jewish-type character traits permeate the entire society: There’s
now the obsession with self, with consumerism, and with saving money —
bargain hunting being a nationwide craze. This cheapness has helped
drive businesses to sweatshops overseas.

We have the worship of pleasure and sex, pornography and trashy
movies, and abortion on demand. Watch the disgusting reality shows and
observe people being humiliated and degraded. Anyone growing up in a
Jewish family knows what it’s like to be subject to searing criticism
and shaming, which often substitutes for true affection.

Christianity is being trashed, and more and more people are becoming
atheists. Look at most of the atheist organizations and notice that
they are run by Jews. It breaks my heart to see what my ethnicity has
done throughout history and is doing right now to this country. I’ve
asked myself, why?

I think it started thousands of years ago when Jews rejected Jesus
Christ, who was a beacon of Light in the world. Jesus brought a new
way of thinking and behaving but the Jews were too obstinate and
arrogant to accept him. Most still are.

And now Jews are doing what their ancestors did back then — trying to
destroy anything or anyone having to do with Christ. It’s partly, I
think, because Jews are too stubborn to admit they were wrong (another
notoriously Jewish trait). Of course, it’s hard to admit you’re wrong
when you have no loving Jesus to forgive you!

Maybe what is happening, and has been happening for centuries, is a
form of Jewish revenge. The Jews are so angry and hurt about being
stood up that they want to destroy the beauty and sacredness
Christians have found with Christ.

They have also taken matters into their own hands by becoming their
own messiahs. Jews have elevated the previously obscure concept of
“Tikkun Olam” to the centerpiece of Judaism. Tikkun means Jews fixing
and repairing the world. It also means that God left the world
imperfect on purpose so that Jews will perfect the world. It’s
delusional, and very, very dangerous.

After much education and introspection, I have decided that I can no
longer be part of this religion, not that it was much of a religion to
begin with! I will always be an Eastern European Jew, for that is my
ethnicity.

However, I have recently accepted Christ as my Savior. This is the
most rewarding, but hardest, action of my life. It is very difficult
for me to trust Christ, given the scars left by my Zionist upbringing.
I feel like I am deprogramming myself from a cult.

I will continue to strive every day of my life to honor and worship
Jesus, even though I have to blast through many layers of scar tissue
to get to him.

Sincerely, A Recovering Jew

[norman]

A Letter From A Recovering Jew
http://www.realzionistnews.com/?p=513
Judaism Articles, Confessions Of A Former Jew, Why I Left Judaism
A LETTER FROM A RECOVERING JEW
As Sent To Brother Nathanael Kapner, Copyright 2010!?

______________

DEAR BROTHER NATHANAEL — Thank you for your Website. I have learned
much from it and it has changed my life. I want to tell you my story.

.....................................................

Sincerely, A Recovering Jew


Yea right!

And I have a photograph of Eric Clapton as a chain smoking alcoholic calling himself a recovered Heroin addict too!:israel:

[Humble Janitor]

Sounds to me like the person in question just gave up and went to Christ. I don't think they're richer for it. All religions are control devices, cleverly disguised as forms of enlightenment.

[Tuza]

I wonder how old the female is in Studeo's post. She had the inside story on what Jewish people are like. I myself have worked a lot with them in the medical field and I have to say there are good and bad just like everybody else, just like many Christians. I saw a report on Jewish doctors in Israel going across the border into Palestine to look after people who needed treatment, that was awe inspiring. I will say one thing though when you get one of those orthodox fundamentalist Jewish people there is no talking to them, they will not listen to a thing a gentile as to say. And as far as gentiles goes I dont consider myself a gentile so stop putting labels on me Jewish people. We all came from the same source so get over it and wake up.

[Lost Soul]

Tuza is right. We are all from the same source.

[Humble Janitor]

It isn't just Jews that are strict about who they mingle with. I know catholic friends that have family who would disown them if they married a non-catholic.

Archaic and outdated but it's an effect form of mind control for these groups.

[Studeo]

'Genocidal' Israel will be put in its place - Chavez

Source: http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE65Q0DS20100627

'Genocidal' Israel will be put in its place - Chavez
Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:59am GMT

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez described Israel on Saturday as a genocidal state that acted as an assassin for the United States, predicting the Middle East nation would one day be "put in its place."

The socialist Chavez is a harsh critic of both Israel and the United States and cut relations with Israel after accusing it of "holocaust" for its 2009 offensive in the Gaza Strip.

"It has become the assassin arm of the United States, no one can doubt it. It is a threat to all of us," Chavez said, during a visit by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Chavez said he supported a peaceful struggle for the return to Syria of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967.

"The territory will one day return to the Syrian hands," Chavez said. "Of course we want it to be peaceful because we don't want more war."

"But one day the genocidal state of Israel will be put into its place, and let's hope that a really democratic state emerges there, with which we can share a path and ideas."

Chavez did not offer further details of what putting Israel "in its place" would entail.

U.S. attempts to isolate Syria and reshape the Middle East have failed, he said, and Israel was fast losing allies.

Israel last week eased its land blockade on the Gaza Strip, allowing in all goods except for arms and related materials. That move followed widespread criticism for a raid on a blockade-busting group of boats, in which nine activists died.

Hugely popular in the Arab world for his fierce "anti-imperialist" stance. Chavez received a hero's welcome when he visited Syria in 2006. He returned to Damascus on a tour last year.

ASSAD TOUR

Assad arrived in Venezuela on Friday, the first stop on a rare Latin American tour. He is also due to visit Argentina, Brazil and Cuba.

Syria has started to raise its international profile in recent years, shrugging off Western efforts to weaken it and developing ties with former foe Turkey, Russia and with Latin American nations.

Assad, who faces a decline in domestic oil production and droughts that have hit agriculture, is looking to reinforce links with a rich Syrian expatriate community in the region and with economic power Brazil.

His tour is expected to focus on bilateral issues and Syria's hopes to attract $44 billion in private foreign investment over five years to repair its infrastructure.

He applauded Chavez's loud criticism of the United States and Israel. "Few politicians are brave enough to say no, when it is necessary to say no," Assad said as he arrived at the Miraflores presidential palace.

"He has revealed an image of Venezuela in resistance, creating a place for Venezuela on the international map. He has been on the side on just causes both in Latin America, in our region the Middle East and in the whole world."

[Studeo]

Israeli soldier 'shot two women as they waved white flag'
The Israeli army has charged one of its own soldiers with the manslaughter of two Palestinian women who were shot dead while waving white flags during the Gaza war.
By Dina Kraft in Tel Aviv
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7875702/Israeli-soldier-shot-two-women-as-they-waved-white-flag.html
Published: 10:12PM BST 06 Jul 2010

The sniper is the only person to face prosecution over the killing of civilians during the three-weekIsraeliincursion launched at the end of 2008.
Investigators said they had uncovered evidence that the soldier identified as "First Sergeant S" opened fire as the victims walked with a group of people waving a white flag.
Witnesses described how he fired at Majda Abu Hajjaj, 35, and her mother Salma Abu Hajjaj, 64.
In a hearing last month, the soldier claimed to have fired at the women's legs but said he had not intended to kill them. He maintained that he thought his fellow soldiers' lives were at risk as the group of about 30 people approached a military post.
But his statements were contradicted by those ofPalestinianwitnesses who said the women were part of a group of civilians waving white flags.
It is the first charge in connection with allegations of misconduct of soldiers during the three weeks of fighting during the war which Israel launched in a bid to halt rocket-fire into its southern towns.
The fighting, which left some 1,400 Palestinians dead and 13 Israelis, sparked international criticism of the Jewish state.
The charge comes as international pressure continues to charge certain officials and soldiers with war crimes for their roles in the operation.
Such cases could be deeply embarrassing for Israel and have made it difficult for some of its most senior politicians and army officers to travel outside of the country for fear of arrest.
Human rights groups said the army's decision to issue the manslaughter indictment along with several other indictments of other soldiers on the basis of misconduct appeared to reflect an understanding that the safety of their soldiers and officers abroad was becoming increasingly perilous.
Sarit Michaeli, spokesperson for the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, was the first group to bring forward details about the soldier who shot on the women carrying white flags.
"The release of the Goldstone Report and various international events triggered the military, we think, to put more effort into these investigations," she said.
"It seemed that were investigations were going at a slow pace until the wide-scale international pressure was launched."
Ms Michaeli said the decision to prosecute within Israel was a part of an attempt by authorities to avoid the scenario of court battles abroad.
"If anything the first line of defence that soldiers have against prosecution abroad are serious investigations at home a court would probably throw out a claim for something being dealt with here," she said.
Other prosecutions announced by the army will include a battalion commander who is accused of violating prohibitions against using civilians for operational activity. He was alleged to have used a Palestinian as a human shield by sending him into a house to speak to gunmen.
A brigadier general and a colonel were also reprimanded for authorising an artillery attack which hit a UN compound in Gaza, the army said in February.
Avihai Mandelblit, the military advocate general also ordered a criminal investigation into the deaths of 29 members of one family in the first days of the war.
The Israeli Defence Forces office defended the military's actions, saying the fighting was, "limited in the scope of fire and forces used". "IDF soldiers operated in crowded urban areas while Hamas made deliberate and cynical use of the Palestinian population, creating a complex security situation," it said.

[Studeo]

Waiting for Gandhi


By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
BILIN, West Bank
Despite being stoned and tear-gassed on this trip, I find a reed of hope here. It's that some Palestinians are dabbling in a strategy of nonviolent resistance that just might be a game-changer.
The organizers hail the methods of Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., recognizing that nonviolent resistance could be a more powerful tool to achieve a Palestinian state than rockets and missiles. Bilin is one of several West Bank villages experimenting with these methods, so I followed protesters here as they marched to the Israeli security fence....

Source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/opinion/11kristof.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

[Studeo]

Israel paves the way for killing by remote control
http://thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100713/FOREIGN/707129834/1002
Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent
Last Updated: July 13. 2010 7:12PM UAE / July 13. 2010 3:12PM GMT

Female soldiers are preferred to operate remote killing devices because of a shortage of male recruits to Israel’s combat units.
NAZARETH // It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick.

The aim: to kill.

Played by: young women serving in the Israeli army.

Spot and Shoot, as it is called by the Israeli military, may look like a video game but the figures on the screen are real people – Palestinians in Gaza – who can be killed with the press of a button on the joystick.
The female soldiers, located far away in an operations room, are responsible for aiming and firing remote-controlled machine-guns mounted on watch-towers every few hundred metres along an electronic fence that surrounds Gaza.

The system is one of the latest “remote killing” devices developed by Israel’s Rafael armaments company, the former weapons research division of the Israeli army and now a separate governmental firm.
According to Giora Katz, Rafael’s vice president, remote-controlled military hardware such as Spot and Shoot is the face of the future. He expects that within a decade at least a third of the machines used by the Israeli army to control land, air and sea will be unmanned.

The demand for such devices, the Israeli army admits, has been partly fuelled by a combination of declining recruitment levels and a population less ready to risk death in combat.

Oren Berebbi, head of its technology branch, recently told an American newspaper: “We’re trying to get to unmanned vehicles everywhere on the battlefield … We can do more and more missions without putting a soldier at risk.”

Rapid progress with the technology has raised alarm at the United Nations. Philip Alston, its special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, warned last month of the danger that a “PlayStation mentality to killing” could quickly emerge.
According to analysts, however, Israel is unlikely to turn its back on hardware that it has been at the forefront of developing – using the occupied Palestinian territories, and especially Gaza, as testing laboratories.

Remotely controlled weapons systems are in high demand from repressive regimes and the burgeoning homeland security industries around the globe.

“These systems are still in the early stages of development but there is a large and growing market for them,” said Shlomo Brom, a retired general and defence analyst at the Institute of National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.
The Spot and Shoot system – officially known as Sentry Tech – has mostly attracted attention because it is operated by 19- and 20-year-old female soldiers, making it the Israeli army’s only weapons system operated exclusively by women.

Female soldiers are preferred to operate remote killing devices because of a shortage of male recruits to Israel’s combat units. Young women can carry out missions without breaking the social taboo of risking their lives, said Mr Brom.
The women are supposed to identify anyone suspicious approaching the fence around Gaza and, if authorised by an officer, execute them using their joysticks.

The Israeli army, which plans to introduce the technology along Israel’s other confrontation lines, refuses to say how many Palestinians have been killed by the remotely controlled machine-guns in Gaza. According to the Israeli media, however, it is believed to be several dozen.
The system was phased-in two years ago for surveillance, but operators were only able to open fire with it more recently. The army admitted using Sentry Tech in December to kill at least two Palestinians several hundred metres inside the fence.

The Haaretz newspaper, which was given rare access to a Sentry Tech control room, quoted one soldier, Bar Keren, 20, last week saying: “It’s very alluring to be the one to do this. But not everyone wants this job. It’s no simple matter to take up a joystick like that of a Sony PlayStation and kill, but ultimately it’s for defence.”


Audio sensors on the towers mean that the women hear the shot as it kills the target. No woman, Haaretz reported, had failed the task of shooting what the army calls an “incriminated” Palestinian.

The Israeli military, which enforces an unmarked no-man’s land inside the fence that reaches as deep as 300 metres into the tiny enclave, has been widely criticised for opening fire on civilians entering the closed zone.


Rafael is reported to be developing a version of Sentry Tech that will fire long-range guided missiles.

Another piece of hardware recently developed for the Israeli army is the Guardium, an armoured robot-car that can patrol territory at up to 80km per hour, navigate through cities, launch “ambushes” and shoot at targets. It now patrols the Israeli borders with Gaza and Lebanon.

Its Israeli developers, G-Nius, have called it the world’s first “robot soldier”.
But Israel is most known for its role in developing “unmanned aerial vehicles” – or drones, as they have come to be known. Originally intended for spying, and first used by Israel over south Lebanon in the early 1980s, today they are increasingly being used for extrajudicial executions from thousands of feet in the sky.

[PathWalker]

Female soldiers are preferred to operate remote killing devices because of a shortage of male recruits to Israel’s combat units.
NAZARETH // It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick.

The aim: to kill.

Played by: young women serving in the Israeli army.

The above post is considered a propaganda article.
Any remote monitoring guard with lethal action power could be described as above.
If you remove the propaganda side it is about all unmanned weapons.

[PathWalker]

I would like to point the spiritual aspect of Israel.

1. Israel is reflection of the Jewish people.
2. The Jewish people are considered the root Chakra of humanity.
3. Watch the spiritual track the Jews take, there is where the world is going.

The state of Israel is the state of pure conflict. The Israeli-Arab conflict is only one of many, believe me you do not want to learn more about the conflicts in Israel.
The city of Jerusalem is the city of intensified conflict. All the conflicts of Israel (ethnic, national, religion, social, race, gender, health, wealth) are concentrated and exaggerated in the city of Jerusalem.

Therefore living in Israel is like living in the hot pot of duality.
Once the reader take side in the polarity game (arab/israeli), the reader is caught in the game.
Israel is reflection of the worst and best of humans, in all camps. The reader chose which side to look at.

Only when the Israeli natives (all camps) will evolve beyond the polarity game. There is chance to peace.
And it was prophesized that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the last one to be resolved, before global world peace.

So choose which wolf to feed. The angry, hateful or the compassionate loving.

[Studeo]

'Ten big media lies' about Israel


Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:51:03 GMT

Michel Collon, a Belgian journalist and author, in his book "Israel,
let's talk about it," has slammed European media over decades of
"lying" to people in order to support Israel.

Collon, in his book, has recounted "10 big lies" spread by Western
media in order to "justify the existence and actions of Israel", which
are concisely presented below:

1. The first lie is that Israel was established in reaction to the
massacre of Jews during the World War II.
This notion is completely wrong. Israel is in fact a domineering
project which was approved in the First Zionist Congress in Basel,
Switzerland, in 1897, when nationalist Jews decided to occupy
Palestine.

2. The second justification for establishing and legitimizing Israel
is that the Jews are returning to their forefathers' land, from where
they had been driven away in 70 A.D. This is a tale. I have spoken to
the famous Israeli historian Shlomo Sand and other historians and they
all believe that there has been no "exodus," so "return" is
meaningless. The people living in Palestine have not left their land
in the ancient era.

In fact the descendents of Jews residing in Palestine are the people
who are currently living in Palestine. Those who claim they want to
return to their lands originate for Western and Eastern Europe and
Northern Africa.

Sand says there is no Jewish nation. The Jews do not have common
history, language or culture. The only common thing between them is
their religion, and religion does not make a nation.

3. The third lie is that when Jewish immigrants occupied Palestine, it
was an empty and uninhibited country.

However, there are documents and evidences that prove that in the 19th
century the agricultural products of Palestine were exported to
different countries, including France.

4. Fourth, some people say Palestinians left their country on their
own free will.

This is another lie, which lots of people believed, including myself.
Until Israeli historians like Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe said that
Palestinians were driven away and banished from their lands by using
force and terror.

5. It is said that today Israel is the only democracy in the Middle
East and it should be protected; it is the "government of law."

But in my opinion not only it is not the government of law; it is the
only regime that no law defines its territory and boundaries. All the
countries of the world have a constitution which defines their
boundaries, but no such thing applies to Israel. Israel is an
expansionist project which knows no boundary, and its law is
completely racist; according to this law Israel is the country for
Jews, and its non-Jew citizens are not considered human. Such law is a
contradiction to democracy.

6. It is said that the US tries to protect democracy in the Middle
East by protecting Israel. And we know that the US annual financial
aid to Israel amounts to 3 billion dollars. This money is used for
bombarding Israel's neighbor countries.

But America is not after establishing democracy in the Middle East; it
wants the undisturbed flow of oil.

7. They pretend that the US seeks an agreement between Israel and Palestine.

This is also completely wrong and a lie. EU former Foreign Policy
Chief Javier Solana told the Israel that "you are the 21st country of
the European Union." The European weapons industries cooperate with
the Israeli military industries and support them financially. But when
Palestinians elected their government, Europe did not recognize it and
gave the green light to Israel to attack the Gaza Strip.

8. When one talks about these facts and the history of Israel and
Palestine, when one reveals the US interests in this situation, they
call you anti-Semite to keep you silent.

But we should say that when we criticize Israel, it is not racism or
anti-Semitism. We criticize a government that does not believe in the
equality of Jews, Christians and Muslims, and so destroys the peace
between followers of different religions.

9. The mass media say that Palestinians cause violence and terrorism.
We say Israel army's occupation is violence, the policy that has
stolen land and home from Palestinians is violence.

10. An issue which is often raised is that there is no way for
resolving this situation, and there is no solution for the hatred and
the grudge caused by Israel and its accomplices.

But there is a solution. The only thing that can stop this process is
the public pressure on the accomplices of Israel in the US and Europe
and other parts of the world; public pressure on the mass media which
refrain from telling the truth about Israel; and using the Internet or
any other media out let to publish real news about Palestine.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=132307&sectionid=351020202

[PathWalker]

'Ten big media lies' about Israel
Michel Collon, a Belgian journalist and author, in his book "Israel,
let's talk about it," has slammed European media over decades of
"lying" to people in order to support Israel.


1. The EU controlled media is extremely negative toward Israel and very pro Arab.
2. The US controlled media is extremely negative toward the Arabs and very pro Israel.
3. There is an active dedicated thread for ranting and venting about Israeli/Palestinian conflict in here: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3539-updates-on-the-Israeli-Palestinian-conflict

[Studeo]

Rattling the Cage: Why we're so unpopular
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=181444
By LARRY DERFNER
07/15/2010 02:33

We’ve gone from being a Jewish state to being a Jewish mini-empire.

Given the way Israel behaves now, it’s pretty sad to remember that it
was envisioned as a country where the Jews ran their own national
affairs – but nobody else’s.

Now it’s not enough for Israel to have its own coast, its own
territorial waters, its own airspace – no, we’ve got to control Gaza’s
coast, Gaza’s territorial waters, Gaza’s airspace, too. The Gaza Strip
is part of our sphere of influence. Let any Turkish ship, Libyan ship
or any other ship we don’t like try to sail into Gaza, and they’ll get
a taste of gunboat diplomacy, Israeli-style. Let anyone try to fly a
plane in or out of Gaza and they’ll be at the mercy of the Israel Air
Force.

Is this what any decent, fair-minded, peace-loving Zionist ever had in mind?

We’ve gone from being a Jewish state to being a Jewish mini-empire. A
Jewish hegemon.

We fly spy planes over Lebanon on a daily basis. We blew up the
beginnings of a nuclear reactor in Syria. We run the lives of two
million Palestinians in the West Bank and take their land piece by
piece.

Why? Because might makes right. If anybody tried to blockade our coast
and our airspace, if anybody flew spy planes over us, if anybody blew
up one of our nuclear installations, if anybody ruled our lives at
gunpoint and built foreign settlements on our land, we’d kill whoever
we had to kill to stop it.

But the Arabs are weak and we’re strong, so we get away with it.

And we wonder why we’re not so popular in the world?

The Arabs want to destroy us, we say, that’s why we have to blockade
this and bomb that and put up a new row of houses over there.

BUT WHAT we don’t see, what we are absolutely unwilling to see, is
that while the Arabs may want to destroy us, or certainly to dismantle
the Jewish state, they can’t do it – and they know they can’t. They’ve
known it since the end of the Six Day War. That’s why they’ve stopped
fighting us, all but the Palestinians, who, coincidentally, are the
only Muslims whose lives we’re ruling at gunpoint.

All the Islamic countries are afraid of Israel, and for good reason –
because this country is much stronger than all of them put together.
We do things to the Palestinians, to Syria, to Lebanon and,
reportedly, to Iran that we would never let anyone do to us in a
million years – and they can’t stop us. They are extremely reluctant
to even try; our military power deters them.

So what more do we want from our enemies before we’ll stop screwing
with them? Love? Recognition of the justice of the Zionist cause? An
admission that they were wrong all these years and we were right?

If that’s what we’re waiting for, we came to the wrong neighborhood.
If we’re going to go on intercepting ships until their sponsors accept
our right to keep Gaza under lock and key, we’re going to be engaged
in gunboat diplomacy for a long time. If we think we can rule the West
Bank Palestinians until they give up even nonviolent resistance, fly
spy planes over Lebanon until Hizbullah agrees that we have the right
to bear arms but it doesn’t, and bomb enemy nuclear sites until the
whole Middle East acknowledges Israel as its sole, rightful nuclear
power, then our future here is untenable.

Maybe the United States and Russia can hold sway over their regions,
maybe they can have spheres of influence, but a little Jewish state
surrounded by 57 Muslim states cannot. Neither our enemies nor our
friends will allow us to be a mini-empire, a hegemon, for long. That’s
a recipe for escalating, never-ending conflict.

The new cry of gevalt around here is that Israel’s legitimacy is under
worldwide attack – but the truth is that the West has accepted the
legitimacy of the Jewish state since 1947, and nothing’s changed. As
for the Muslim world, it never has and never will accept the
legitimacy of the Jewish state – but it has accepted the hard fact of
it since the Six Day War.

Between Israel’s legitimacy in the West and deterrent power in the
Middle East, we have what we need to survive as a Jewish state within
our rightful, democratic borders. But we can’t survive as the
neighborhood bully.

[Fredkc]

Amazing editorial! Benjamin Netanyahu meets Pogo!

http://routingbyrumor.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/pogo.jpg

And the Jerusalem post actually printed it?

Talk about "shock & awe"...

Now, if it'd only make front page of Haaretz ;)

[noxon medem]

Perpetuating traditions:
...
Here are pictures of the Old West (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem
1524 ... 1527
where some people have come with their prayers and complaints.

Here are pictures of the New Separation Wall build around Israel
1523 ...1526
where other people now come with their prayers and complaints.
...
(click on images for larger view)
...

1525
Hopefully at least this will fall within 20 years.
...

[Studeo]

Post updated. Quote removed Thanks noxon.

[Teakai]

[B]Sounds to me like the person in question just gave up and went to Christ. I don't think they're richer for it.[B] All religions are control devices, cleverly disguised as forms of enlightenment.

From one box to another.
I'm thinking it must be an insecurity thing.

[Teakai]

1. The EU controlled media is extremely negative toward Israel and very pro Arab.
2. The US controlled media is extremely negative toward the Arabs and very pro Israel.
3. There is an active dedicated thread for ranting and venting about Israeli/Palestinian conflict in here: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3539-updates-on-the-Israeli-Palestinian-conflict

A perfect example of divide and conquer.

[Studeo]

Besieging Israel's siege

In just a few years the Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods
has become truly global
Omar Barghouti
The Guardian, Thursday 12 August 2010


Despite Israel's siege of Gaza, and the escalating displacement in the
Negev and East Jerusalem, Palestinians have some reason to celebrate.
In Washington a food co-op has passed a resolution calling for a
boycott of Israeli products, confirming that the boycott movement –
five years old last month – has finally crossed the Atlantic. Support
for the move came from prominent figures including Nobel peace
laureates Desmond Tutu and Máiread Maguire, and Richard Falk, the UN's
special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories.

The movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against
Israel was launched in 2005, a year after the international court of
justice had found Israel's wall and colonies built on occupied
Palestinian territory illegal. Over 170 Palestinian political parties,
unions, mass movements and NGOs endorsed the movement, which is led by
the BNC, a coalition of civil society organisations.

Rooted in a century of Palestinian civil resistance, and inspired by
the anti-apartheid struggle, the campaign crowned earlier, partial
boycotts to present a comprehensive approach to realising Palestinian
self-determination: unifying Palestinians inside historic Palestine
and in exile in the face of accelerating fragmentation.

BDS avoids the prescription of any particular political formula and
insists, instead, on realising the basic, UN-sanctioned rights that
correspond to the three main segments of the Palestinian people:
ending Israel's occupation and colonisation of all Arab lands occupied
since 1967; ending racial discrimination against its Palestinian
citizens; and recognising the right of Palestinian refugees to return
to their homes, as stipulated in UN resolution 194.

Created and guided by Palestinians, BDS opposes all forms of racism,
including antisemitism, and is anchored in the universal principles of
freedom, justice and equal rights that motivated the anti-apartheid
and US civil rights struggles.

Characterising Israel's legalised system of discrimination as
apartheid – as was done by Tutu, Jimmy Carter and even a former
Israeli attorney general – does not equate Israel with South Africa.
No two oppressive regimes are identical. Rather, it asserts that
Israel's bestowal of rights and privileges according to ethnic and
religious criteria fits the UN-adopted definition of apartheid.

BDS has seen unprecedented growth after the war of aggression on Gaza
and the flotilla attack. People of conscience round the world seem to
have crossed a threshold, resorting to pressure, not appeasement or
"constructive engagement", to end Israel's impunity and western
collusion in maintaining its status as a state above the law.

"Besiege your siege" – the cry of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish
– acquires a new meaning in this context. Since convincing a colonial
power to heed moral pleas for justice is, at best, delusional, many
now understand the need to "besiege" Israel though boycotts, raising
the price of its oppression.

BDS campaigners have successfully lobbied financial institutions in
Scandinavia, Germany and elsewhere to divest from companies that are
complicit in Israel's violations of international law. Several
international trade unions have endorsed the boycott. Following the
attack on the flotilla, dockworkers' unions in Sweden, India, Turkey
and the US heeded an appeal by Palestinian unions to block offloading
Israeli ships.

Endorsements of BDS by cultural figures such as John Berger, Naomi
Klein, Iain Banks and Alice Walker, and the spate of cancellations of
events in Israel by artists including Meg Ryan, Elvis Costello, Gil
Scott-Heron and the Pixies have raised the movement's international
profile, bringing it closer to the western mainstream. Scepticism
about its potential has been put to rest.

Boycott from Within, a significant protest movement in Israel today,
was formed in 2009 adopting the Palestinian BDS call.

A bill that would impose heavy fines on Israelis who initiate or
incite boycotts against Israel has recently passed an initial reading
at the Knesset. This underlines Israel's fears of the global reach and
impact of BDS as a non-violent, morally consistent campaign for
justice. In many ways, it confirms that the Palestinian "South Africa
moment" has arrived.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/12/besieging-israel-siege-palestinian-boycott

[Studeo]

Universal Jurisdiction To Hold Israel Accountable
By Stephen Lendman
8-15-10

The well-established universal jurisdiction principle (UJ) holds that certain crimes are too grave to ignore, including genocide, crimes of war and against humanity.

Thus, under UJ, nations may investigate and prosecute foreign nationals when their country of residence or origin won't, can't, or hasn't for any reason. Israel used it to convict and execute Adolph Eichmann. A US court sentenced Chuckie Taylor, son of the former Liberian president, to 97 years in prison for torture.

In March 2003, the Special Court for Sierre Leone (SCSL) indicted his father, Charles Taylor, for crimes of war and against humanity. His trial at The Hague's International Court of Justice (ICC) remains ongoing.

Though never held accountable for murdering Chileans and committing other human rights abuses, Britain used a Spanish court provisional warrant to apprehend Augusto Pinochet, hold him under house arrest for 18 months, and set a precedent, making other heads of state and top officials vulnerable. Pinochet's bogus ill health claim sent him home, irreparably damaged and disgraced.

Under Article 7 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg:

"The official position of defendants, whether as Head of State or responsible officials in Government departments, shall not be considered as freeing them from responsibility or mitigating punishment."

No one deserves immunity for high crimes demanding accountability. It's time that applied to America and Israel, the two worst offenders.

In June 2009 at a Madrid, Spain conference, Raji Sourani, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Director made the case, saying:

"Today, the Gaza Strip lies in ruins" months after Israel's offensive, killing about 1,500, injuring over 5,000, and causing vast destruction - "an illegal form of collective punishment" ongoing for over three years under siege. "For too long now, Israel has been allowed to violate international law with impunity....This situation cannot be allowed to prevail....It is for this very reason that universal jurisdiction is so important....(It) offers hope to victims throughout the entire world, in many cases, it is their only hope." It's long past time to hold Israel accountable.

The Compelling Case for UC

A recent PCHR publication is titled, "The Principle and Practice of Universal Jurisdiction," explaining it in detail with examples, its highlights discussed below.

Though horrific, Cast Lead was just the latest example of decades of Israeli lawlessness - little discussed, unaddressed and unresolved. "Regrettably, this lack of accountability, and the resultant climate of impunity, has been a longstanding feature of Israel's" illegal occupation. "Israel has been allowed to act as a State above the law."

Yet it exists to be enforced. Otherwise, it's irrelevant. However, Palestinians have "limited judicial mechanisms available." According to the 1995 Israel-Palestine Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has no jurisdiction over Israel, including its officials, armed forces members, or other citizens.

Nonetheless, Israel is required to investigate and prosecute its citizens accused of international crimes, a responsibility it's ducked with impunity, a glaring deficiency in its judicial system, exempting war criminals from accountability, in violation of inviolable international standards and principles.

"Justice for Palestinians is not attainable within this system." UJ is the remedy, a "stepping stone (to) universal justice," to protect everyone without discrimination, to address crimes too grave to ignore, to set a precedent for future prosecutions, and warn offenders they're vulnerable.

No accountability encourages criminality, offenders knowing they're safe and can act lawlessly with impunity, especially Israel, shielded by America, the West, and regional indifference or complicity. As a result, Palestinians have suffered grievously for decades, world leaders not giving a damn about their rights or the rule of law, breaking it themselves for not caring.

It's high time UJ principles enforce accountability, using Israel as a test case, including its top government and military officials, guilty of high crimes too grave to be ignored, raising hope for all victims of injustice globally.

Above all, "The pursuit of universal jurisdiction is (the) pursuit of justice. It seeks to ensure an effective remedy for victims - combined with the goal of deterrence - and accountability for those responsible for crimes which 'shock the conscience of humanity.' "

The Applicable Legal Framework

Palestine is belligerently occupied. As a result, international law applies, including the four Geneva Conventions, Hague Regulations, other international humanitarian law (IHL), and Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions. As a signatory, Israel is legally bound, including under International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICEPR) provisions such as:

-- Article 2, concerning the right to an effective remedy;

-- Article 14, regarding the right to a fair trial; and

-- Article 26, affirming the right of everyone to protection under the law.

Traditional v. Universal Jurisdiction

Legally, jurisdiction is "the authority of states to prescribe their law, to subject persons and things to adjudication in their courts and other tribunals, and to enforce their law, both judicially and non-judicially," by civil or criminal means.

Five "prescriptive jurisdiction" bases include nationality, territoriality, the protective principle, the passive personality principle, and universal jurisdiction, this discussion focusing on UJ.

It requires "no link of territoriality or nationality between the State and conduct of the offender, nor is the State seeking to protect its security or credit." Only the crime matters, UJ reserved for the worst, ones too serious to go unpunished, their gravity justifying UJ's existence.

Initially for piracy, they were considered outlaws, operating extraterritorially in international waters. Today, international crimes are considered so "threatening to the international community or so heinous in scope and degree that they offend the interest of humanity," all states needing to address them.

However, until post-WW II, UJ applied only to piracy and slave trading, thereafter to genocide, crimes of war and against humanity, as established by the Nuremberg Charter and Judgment, now defined by the ICC to include systematic attacks against civilians, including murder, enslavement, deportation or forcible transfer, false imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, collective punishment, enforced disappearance, and apartheid.

Guilty parties are considered hostis humani generis - enemies of mankind. War crimes are against the jus gentium - the law of nations, international law established to address them.

The International Law Commission's (ILC) principle VI of the Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, determined that crimes of war and against humanity "rise to the level of international crime," now recognized under customary international law.

A national court exercising UJ acts not in its name, but for the international community - only when responsible countries won't, can't or haven't. In other words, as a last resort.

In addition, various post-WW II Conventions, including the four Geneva ones and their Common Article 1 obligates all High Contracting Parties to "respect and ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances;" namely, to apply its principles universally, requiring High Contracting Parties "search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts."

At Nuremberg, the concepts of individual and command criminal responsibility were addressed, the Tribunal Principles holding that "(a)ny person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment....(c)rimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit (them) can the provisions of international law be enforced."

The Rome Statute's Article 25 of the ICC codified this principle, affirming the culpability of persons committing crimes of war and against humanity. In addition, commanders and their superiors are specifically culpable if they "either knew or, owing to the circumstances at the time, should have known that the forces were committing or about to commit such crimes, (and) failed to take all necessary and reasonable measures within his or her power to prevent or repress their commission or to submit the matter to the competent authorities for investigation and prosecutions."

Nuremberg established that immunity is null and void, including for heads of state, other top officials, and top commanders. In addition, genocide, crimes of war and against humanity are so grave that statute of limitation provisions don't apply.

Final Comments

UJ is to ensure that individuals committing high crimes are held accountable, essential under the rule of law. Otherwise, it's meaningless. All too often, however, populations, like the Palestinians, are abused for many decades, Israel getting away with mass murder and other grave breaches of law.

As a result, UJ is the only alternative, national courts willing to use it an essential judicial remedy. It's high time they take the first step to universal justice, sending a powerful message that crimes this egregious won't stand, no matter who commits them or shares responsibility.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

Source: http://www.rense.com/general91/hold.htm

[noxon medem]

..
The Iron Wall.
Documentary of the strategy used by Israel (Zionism) to expand occupation of neighbouring land
and permanently occupy it, in spite of international law and their own promises of the opposite.
Deceit is only one ingredience in this portrait of the most arrogant and racist people on the planet.
..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8PKqqMOOtU

- opening statement:
"Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population.
Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is
independent of the native population behind an iron wall, which the native population cannot breach."
- Vladimir Jabotinski, father of the zionist right, nov. 1923

[Studeo]

Portions of the Book of Jeremiah

The next time someone from the Zionist community talks of the Jews
being ‘God’s chosen people’ and how we are all supposed to ‘bless them
so that we will be blessed’ and why all the violence and suffering
that has been inflicted upon the innocent of the Middle East is
justified because of how favored these people are in God’s eyes,
temper their delusion with just a few words from the Book of Jeremiah,
part of the same ‘Bible’ they use in justifying Israel’s existence–

‘I will pronounce my judgment on these people (the Jews) because of
their wickedness in forsaking me…

I brought you into a fertile land, but you came and defiled my land
and made my inheritance detestable…

The priests did not ask ‘Where is the Lord?’ …

Those who deal with the law did not know me and the leaders rebelled against me…

Therefore I bring charges against you, your children and against your
children’s children…

These people have forsaken me, the spring of living water…

Your wickedness will punish you and your backsliding will rebuke you…

Long ago you broke off your yoke and said ‘I will not serve you!’
Indeed on every high hill, you lay down as a prostitute…

Why did you turn against me and become a corrupt, wild vine?

Although you wash yourself with an abundance of soap the stain of your
guilt is still before me…

As a thief is disgraced only when caught, so too is the house of
Israel disgraced…they, their kings and officials, priests and prophets
have turned their backs to me and not their faces…

You have all rebelled against me…

In vain did I punish these people and yet they did not respond to correction…

Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion…

These people have forgotten me…Even the worst of women can learn from your ways…

On your clothes men find the lifeblood of the innocent poor, and yet
in spite of all this you dare to say ‘I am innocent!’

But I will pass judgment upon you, O Israel…You have lived as a
prostitute with many lovers. Look up to the barren heights and see, is
there any place where you haven’t been ravaged? By the roadside you
sat, waiting for lovers. You have defiled the land with your
prostitution and wickedness. You have the brazen look of a prostitute
and refuse to blush with shame…

These people are fools…They do not know me. They are senseless
children and have no understanding. They are skilled in evil and know
not how to do good…

Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem…Look around and search her
squares…If you can find but one person who deals honestly and seeks
the truth I will forgive this city…

Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them…a wolf from the
desert will ravage them…a leopard will lie in wait near their towns to
tear to pieces any who venture out, for their rebellion is great and
their backslidings many…

Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me. I supplied
all their needs and yet they committed adultery and thronged the
houses of prostitutes…Should I not punish them for this? Should I not
avenge myself upon a nation such as this?

‘O house of Israel’ declares the Lord,

‘I am bringing a distant nation against you,

An ancient and enduring nation,

A people whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand…

They will devour your harvests, sons and daughters, your flocks and herds…

With the sword they will utterly destroy the fortified cities in which
you trust…

Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not
see and ears but do not hear…

Should you not fear me? Should you not tremble in my presence?

Among these people (the Jews) are wicked men who lie in wait like men
who snare birds…Their house are full of deceit, they have become rich
and powerful and have grown fat and sleek and their evil deeds have no
limit…

They defend neither the orphans nor the poor…

Should I not punish them for this? Should I not avenge myself upon a
nation such as this?

A horrible thing has happened in this land of Israel…

The prophets tell lies and the priests rule by their own authority and
my people love it this way…

Therefore this is what the Lord says of Jerusalem–‘This city must be
punished, for it is filled with oppression…

As a well pours out its water so Jerusalem pours out her
wickedness…Violence and destruction resound in her and her sickness is
forever before me…

Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I will make your land desolate so no one
can live in it…

And yet, their ears remain closed and the word of the Lord is
offensive to them. They find no pleasure in it…

From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain, prophet and
priest alike, all practice deceit…

The leaders dress the wound of these people as though it were not
serious, and yet, are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No,
they have no shame at all…They do not even know how to blush…

Therefore they will fall among the fallen and will be brought down
when I punish them…

I will bring an end to the sounds of joy in the towns of Judah and the
streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate…

Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit and no one
repents of his wickedness, saying ‘what have I done?’

Each pursues his own course like a horse charging into battle…How can
you say ‘We are wise, for we have the law of the Lord?’ when the lying
pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?

Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners…

No one speaks the truth…They have taught their tongues to lie and they
weary themselves with doing evil…

It is because they have forsaken me and instead followed the
stubbornness of their hearts that I will make them eat bitter food and
drink poisoned water. I will scatter them among nations that neither
they nor their fathers have known and I will pursue them with the
sword until I have destroyed them…

There is a conspiracy among the people of Jerusalem…

They have returned to the evil ways of their forefathers who refused
to listen to me…

Therefore I will bring upon them a disaster they cannot escape and
although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them…

Do not pray for these people nor plead for them, because I will not
listen in the time of distress…Do not pray for the well-being of these
people, for I will not listen to their cry…

Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague…

The prophets of Israel tell lies in my name…

I have not sent them or spoken to them…

They are prophesying to you false visions and the delusions of their
own mind, saying ‘No sword or famine will touch Israel.’

But those prophets will perish by sword and famine and those who
listen to them will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem…

There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or daughters…

I will pour out upon them the calamity they deserve…

Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem?

Who will mourn for you?

You have rejected me, so I will lay hands on you and destroy you…

I can no longer show you compassion…

I will bring bereavement and destruction on these people for they have
not changed their ways…

Your wealth and your treasures I will give away as plunder, because of
all the sins of your country…

For my anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you, for I, the
sovereign Lord am against you, Jerusalem, and will punish you as your
deeds deserve and will kindle a fire in your forests that will consume
everything around you…

Through your own fault you will lose the inheritance I gave you, for
you have kindled my anger and it will burn FOREVER…

…And of course, what this all proves is that God is a horrible, evil,
rotten anti-Semite, neo-Nazi and Hitler apologist, right?

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/portions-of-the-book-of-jeremiah/
By crescentandcross

[noxon medem]

The israeli separation (annectation) Wall is the result of long time, cynical planning and building,
but seems its very fast to tear it down if dynamite and will is just used smart and focused ...

Gaza wall comes down. Part of the wall on the egyptian border was demolished jan 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBxlDJ2Lmp8&feature=related
report from Al-Jazeera 080123

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_mrk6UpoNo&feature=related
Dubai TV 080124

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdIy3XuWP6M&feature=related
Al-Arabiya 080125