Tag: Palestine

  • Netanyahu’s Last Battle

    Netanyahu’s Last Battle

    Dr. Abdullah Manaz : The MiddleEast Analyst

    The most important development in the last Palestine & Israel war was the results of opinion polls regarding the elections to be held in Gaza and the West Bank. It was clearly understood that the Fetih Movement would lose both the Presidency and its majority in the Assembly in these elections. This situation alarmed both Palestinian President Abbas and Netanyahu.

    The first step came from Abbas and postponed the elections to an uncertain date. Then Netanyahu stepped up his plan to evict Palestinians around Jerusalem from their homes. He took action to evacuate the homes of about 500 Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Radical Jewish Groups also started demonstrations and riots in this neighborhood. However, they encountered resistance from the Palestinians that they never expected. Netanyahu increased his pressure without understanding the religious importance of the month of Ramadan for Muslims. Netanyahu announced on Sunday (May 9th) that the Israeli army will hold a major military exercise in the Lebanese border, the West Bank and Gaza. This was actually the first announcement of the war. The attack of Israeli security forces on the Aksa Mosque ignited the fuse of the bomb. Hamas responded with the same harshness to Netanyahu’s attempt. It announced that if the Israeli Army does not withdraw from the Holy Land, they will respond strongly. Indeed, Hamas fired more than 1000 rockets at Israeli targets overnight.

    The range of Hamas Rockets varied between 70 and 100 km. Such an attack came as a surprise to Israel. The rockets that reached TelAviv have killed 5 Israelis and injured dozens so far. A great panic started within the Israeli Police. On the evening of May 11, Palestinians demonstrated in all Israeli cities. Especially in the city of Lid, the Israeli Police lost control and a state of emergency was declared.

    Netanyahu claimed that Hamas would pay a huge price. Warplanes hit hundreds of targets in Gaza on May 11-12. Around 50 Palestinians have died so far. 13 of them are children and 4 of them are women.

    Although Netanyahu spoke harshly, he contacted Cairo and the United Arab Emirates and offered to mediate with Hamas. Hamas, on the other hand, refused mediation offers and declared that they “do not trust the Israeli government and are ready for a great war”. The Kassam Brigades, which are the Special Military Units of Hamas, said that: “Some of their commanders were martyred in Israeli attacks and they will hit an important target every day”.

    It is the first time that Israel has faced such strong Palestinian resistance. Many Zionist writers within Israel and in the US admit that “Israel fell short for the first time”.

    Although Netanyahu succeeds in staying in the Government by going to early elections last years, this time he will not be able to do so. This war seems to be Netanyahu’s Final War. The Israeli people are tired of the war, with the exception of some radical groups. Especially 17-year-old youth recruited into the army complain of long military service periods. The New Generation aspires to live in peace with the Palestinian people with whom they live on the street.

  • Israeli Apartheid Week: Call it as it is

    Israeli Apartheid Week: Call it as it is

    Jews Only ApartheidCalling the Israeli regime as one of apartheid is not rhetoric, nor is it an exaggeration or a propaganda tool. This is the reality in modern day Palestine, where the Israeli regime is based on discrimination, through laws, practices, education and most aspects of life. This apartheid regime is not only imposed on the people in Palestine, but also on millions of Palestinian refugees denied their right to return home because they are of the wrong religion.

    As awareness across the world continues to increase regarding the Israeli Apartheid regime in Palestine, each effort in this aspect would help accelerate the conclusion of this shameful page in history. And as this awareness rises, campaigns to boycott, divest and sanction this regime provide a very effective and natural response. The world witnessed a similar response transpire and bear fruit in the case of South Africa, and there are very good reasons to believe that it will do the same in the case of Palestine.

  • “Jews May Kill Non-Jewish Babies”–Orthodox Rabbis

    “Jews May Kill Non-Jewish Babies”–Orthodox Rabbis

    Author: Natalie Wood
    Published: November 12, 2011

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    A blistering report by the Israel Religious Action Centre accuses state-funded Israeli rabbis of racism and criminal racial incitement.

    The 40-page dossier, published last week during a conference at The Knesset (Israel Parliament), claims how some rabbis interpret Jewish law to argue that “Jews can kill non-Jewish babies because they may one day grow up to be enemies.”

    IRAC and Anat Hoffman, its Executive Director often come to blows with the (ultra) Orthodox establishment but the impact of this particular report may have been weakened by the coincidental death of Rabbi Natan Tzvi Finkel, head of Jerusalem’s Mir Yeshiva (Talmudic Academy) on the day of publication.

    During December 2010, Hoffman then warned that criminal action could be taken against allegedly racist Orthodox rabbis who forbade people to sell or rent properties to non-Jews. They could also face dismissal, she said. But it seems that almost 12 months on, nothing has changed.

    Writing last week in The Pluralist, IRAC’s newsletter, she said:

    “Racial incitement in the name of Judaism is a regular occurrence in Israel. IRAC works to change this reality. On the last day of the summer Knesset session, we presented a bill supported by 20 Knesset members to better define racial incitement and to regulate enforcement.

    “ … This is the first report of its kind, compiling detailed cases of incitement by state funded rabbis. The 40-page report includes some material that is very difficult, such as the book Torat Hamelech which states that “Jews can kill non-Jewish babies because they may one day grow up to be enemies.”

    “Incitement is a criminal offence in Israel. Unfortunately, there has been almost no enforcement in the case of rabbis. Forty-eight cases have been brought to court and in only one case was there a conviction. None of the rabbis featured in our report, most of whom are state funded, has had a disciplinary case opened against them.

    “We created this report to remind the Israeli public of the harm that incitement can cause. We are also showing that the racist interpretations that some rabbis have espoused are an extremely fundamentalist approach to Halacha, Jewish law. The bible reminds us 36 times to treat strangers kindly because we were once strangers in Egypt. By bringing this report to the Knesset, we aim to raise awareness that these rabbis are being financed by the public and that there should be a limit to what they can or cannot do.

    “Words can kill. The language of incitement that the rabbis use can draw real blood as we learned sixteen years ago when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. Yigal Amir murdered Rabin at a peace rally that followed a barrage of statements by radicals, among them rabbis, calling for Rabin’s death. Without rabbinic consent, this would never have happened. Rabin’s murder was inspired by these extremists. They were using Halacha to challenge theL law of Israel.

    “Has anything changed since Rabin’s assassination? A poll was released today stating that 39% of Israeli Jews believe another politically motivated murder is possible. We continue to see the consequences of incitement. Rabin’s death is only the most extreme example but it doesn’t end there. Seven mosques have been burned in the last few months by price tag attacks inspired by rabbis.

    “The use of provocative language in this country is a dangerous threat to us all. Let’s do something about it.”

    At the report’s launch, she added: “Presumably someone who devotes his life to sacred matters must meet high standards of ethics and morality … but the reality is that these rabbis are not called to account for actions which would be considered a violation of the law, if they were made by any other state employee.”

    * The Israel Religious Action Centre is the public and legal advocacy arm of the Reform Movement in Israel and was founded in 1987 with the aim of advancing pluralism in Israeli society.

  • Marmara raid – the Turkish version

    Marmara raid – the Turkish version

    (Video) ‘Valley of the Wolves – Palestine’ tells story of Turkish agent’s revenge campaign against IDF soldiers following takeover of Gaza-bound flotilla. Turkey’s most expensive production yet slated to be major box office hit

    Eldad Beck

    Published:  11.09.10, 20:03 / Israel News

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    VIDEO – The already tense relations between Israel and Turkey are about to get even more strained. Turkish TV stations and cinemas have began showing trailers of a violent, anti-Israel film focusing on a fictitious Turkish revenge campaign in response to the killing of nine flotilla activists by the IDF last May.

    The film, “Valley of the Wolves – Palestine” will be released in January 28. It is being promoted as an anti-Zionist feature which is meant to raise awareness to “the Palestinians’ terrible suffering” and shows Israel as a bloodthirsty regime. The $10 million production is the most expensive film ever made in Turkey.

    Initial Report

    Next Turkish blockbuster revisits Marmara / Ynet

    New film in ‘Valley of the Wolves’ series tells of secret agent out to avenge deaths of Turkish civilians

    Full story

    The film’s trailer shows a Turkish secret agent brutally murdering IDF soldiers in an attempt to take out the Israeli officer who planned the raid on the Marmara and oversaw it. Israelis are depicted as a nation of murderers seeking to build “greater Israel” on the bodies of Palestinians.

    The film is the third is a series of features considered to be the Arab world’s answer to “Rambo.” The series is abundant in nationalistic-racist violent content and is directed against Turkey’s enemies – The Kurds, Jews and Americans.

    The first installment, “Valley of the Wolves – Iraq,” was released four years ago and sparked outrage in the Jewish world. It depicted Jewish doctors harvesting the organs of Iraqis and transferring them to Israel for transplants. The series’ films, which are hugely popular in Turkey, are based on a television series which has already prompted a crisis in Israel-Turkish relations.

    ‘Valley of the Wolves – Palestine’ trailer

    Last January, Israel summoned the Turkish ambassador to Israel for a reprimand after Ankara refused to remove the series from the air. Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon met with the ambassador who was seated in a lower chair in a humiliating gesture.

    Murdering IDF soldiers

    Production on “Valley of the Wolves – Palestine” began before May’s raid on the Turkish flotilla. The screenwriters used the incident to their advantage and incorporated it into their story.

    The film presents the Turkish version of the deadly raid, showing Marmara passengers fleeing as IDF soldiers shoot at them and emerge unharmed. The hero, former Turkish special agent Polat Alemdar embarks on a revenge campaign after the raid in order to kill the Israeli commander who oversaw the operation, Moshe Ben-Eliezer.

    Alemdar is seen murdering dozens of Israeli soldiers, who are showed abusing innocent Palestinians, throughout the film. In one of the scenes, the Turkish agent discovers how “Moshe burns down villages and kills children.”

    In the film’s website, the producers noted that the feature will “turn the world’s attention to Palestine, where people are facing one of humanity’s biggest dramas.”

    “Our hero acts for the rights of the oppressed,” director Zübeyr Sasmaz said. “We’re talking about things people don’t want to hear,” his brother, Necati Şaşmaz who stars in the film, said. “Up until now we have seen only Western heroes such as Rambo and James Bond. For the first time in the history of cinema there is an undefeatable protagonist from the Middle East.”

    The trailer has already received enthusiastic responses from viewers in various websites, including YouTube. One talkbacker commented: “The Israelis will flip when this is made. Let the Jewish dogs die. I bless whoever made this film. Israel will pay for it. It is a murderer.”

    The film has been widely covered by the Turkish media, as well as by international press. Al Jazeera and various German media outlets have been covering the production and have aired several pieces on it.

    Like its predecessors, the film is slated to be a huge success at the box office.

    Aviel Magnezi contributed to this report

    via Marmara raid – the Turkish version – Israel News, Ynetnews.

  • Israel Admits: “Our Troops Are Psychopaths!”

    Israel Admits: “Our Troops Are Psychopaths!”

    Yesterday’s radio guest Gordon Duff just broke a big story:

    GORDON DUFF: ISRAEL CLAIMS “NO PTSD IN IDF,  JEWS IMMUNE TO MENTAL ILLNESS”: STUDY COMPARES “RESETTLING PALESTINIANS” WITH WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

    Gordon is skeptical of the Zionist claim that their troops, unlike American soldiers, don’t suffer from PTSD. If this is true, Gordon says, maybe it’s because American soldiers are fighting and dying for a Zionist-orchestrated series of lies, and are treated like “broken toys” when they come home; while Israeli soldiers are committing genocide for their own national benefit, and are relatively well-treated by their US-taxpayer-funded regime.

    But there is a simpler explanation: In claiming that its soldiers are immune to PTSD, Israel is implicitly confessing that its troops are psychopaths.

    In On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman shows that throughout history, 5% of the soldiers — the psychopaths and borderline psychopaths — have done 95% of the killing. As Grossman explains, studies by S.L.A. Marshall and associates showed that the vast majority of World War II infantry soldiers found ways to avoid firing at the enemy; and archeological evidence suggests that the same was true of previous wars.

    Normal human beings can only kill at tremendous psychological cost, and thus find ways to avoid killing on the battlefield, even if it means losing their own lives. A non-psychopath who kills in wartime will almost certainly suffer some form of PTSD upon returning to civilian life.

    Marshall’s studies spurred the development of intensive Pavlovian conditioning methods that raised the shoot-to-kill ratio to 50% in the Korean war, and 90% in Vietnam. That, Grossman suggests, is why PTSD rates skyrocketed. Normal, non-psychopathic men were being effectively turned into killers for the first time in history. When they came home, they couldn’t live with themselves.

    It is a tribute to the American character — to the fact that only about 5% of American men are psychopaths — that our troops suffer from so much PTSD.

    The Israelis, on the other hand…how to put this politely?

    Andrzej Lobaczewski, in his seminal study of political psychopathyPolitical Ponerology, writes:

    “The pathocratic phenomenon [a society ruled by psychopaths and those who catch the psychopathic contagion] has appeared many times in history…[it sometimes] occurs when the religious association itself succumbs to infection…succumbs to destruction from within, its organism becomes subordinated to goals completely different from the original idea, and its theosophic and moral values fall prey to characteristic deformation, thereby serving as a disguise for domination by pathological individuals. The religious idea then becomes both a justification for using force and sadism against nonbelievers, heretics, and sorcerers, and a conscience drug for people who put such inspirations into effect.

    Clearly the “religious idea” of Zionism has undergone this kind of pathological shift. Israel is a psychopathic state par excellence. Its soldiers slaughter innocent Palestinian children by the hundreds as they play on sidewalks and schoolyards as a de facto national policy:

    “Two thirds of the 621 children (two thirds under 15 years) killed at checkpoints, in the street, on the way to school, in their homes, died from small arms fire, directed in over half of cases to the head, neck and chest – the sniper’s wound…Clearly, soldiers are routinely authorised to shoot to kill children in situations of minimal or no threat.” (British Medical Journal 10/16/04)

    There are countless eyewitness accounts of these child-killings. For example, Chris Hedges,  one of our nation’s most respected journalists,  wrote in Harper’s magazine (October 2001) that he had been in several war zones,  but he had never seen soldiers luring children within range of their guns, then gut-shooting them for sport, until he saw Israeli soldiers doing it in the Occupied Territories.

    The Israeli soldiers who gut-shoot Palestinian children for sport apparently feel no remorse, and therefore suffer from no PTSD. Israeli society and its judicial system feel no remorse either, which is why they never prosecute the child-killers, and why polls show that more than 90% of Israeli Jews approve of the criminal destruction of Gaza by Operation Cast Lead.

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    A society that slaughters innocent children without remorse is a society of psychopaths.

    Kevin Barrett
    I’m the author of Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters; Truth Jihad; A Guide to Mysterious San Francisco; and editor of 9/11 and American Empire v.2, and have taught Arabic, Islamic Studies, French, American Civilization and others subjects. Widely regarded as the world’s leading Muslim 9/11 truth activist (for what that’s worth) I spent 2006-2008 as the only talk show host featured on all three leading patriot radio networks (GCN, RBN, and WTPRN). I ran for Congress in Wisconsin’s 3rd District in 2008: Currently I’m working on a couple of book projects…

    http://truthjihad.blogspot.com/2010/07/israel-admits-our-troops-are.html, July 25, 2010

  • Chomsky: Palestine and the region in the Obama era: the emerging framework.

    Chomsky: Palestine and the region in the Obama era: the emerging framework.

    Date: 29.10.09
    Time: 14:00
    Location: Logan Hall, Institute of Education, Bedford Way
    Speakers:
    Prof. Noam Chomsky – Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at MIT; world renowned author and leading intellectual
    Tariq Ali – Historian, Author and well known political commentator

    The Imperial College Political Philosophy Society, in association with Palestine societies at UCL, SOAS, Goldsmiths, LSE, Imperial and Kings, proudly present one of the greatest political philosophers of all time: MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, for what could be his last trip to London.

    The Imperial College Political Philosophy Society

    To Watch the video:

    Chomsky: Palestine and the region in the Obama era: the emerging framework. from ICU Political Philosophy Society on Vimeo.

    Chomsky: Palestine and the region in the Obama era: the emerging framework. from ICU Political Philosophy Society on Vimeo.