Global Research, Nov 27, 2012. For the past forty-five years the state of Israel has been dispossessing millions of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories, confiscating their lands, destroying homes, bulldozing orchards and setting-up ‘Jews-only’ colonial settlements serviced by highways, electrical systems and water works for the exclusive use of the settlers and occupying soldiers.
The process of Israeli territorial expansion throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem has greatly accelerated in recent years, converting Palestinian-held territory into non-viable isolated enclaves – like South Africa’s Bantustans – surrounded by the Israeli soldiers who protect violent settler-vigilantes as they assault and harass Palestinian farmers at work in their fields, beat Arab children on their way to school, pelt Palestinian housewives as they hang their laundry and then invade and defecate in Palestinian mosques and churches.
The Rage and Rape of Gaza and its Apologists Israel ’s strategic goal is to impose ‘Greater Israel’ on the region: to take over all of historical Palestine, expell the entire non-Jewish population and subsidize ‘Jews-only’ settlements (for settler-immigrants, often from the US and former USSR ).
While bulldozers and tanks have dispossessed Palestinians in the West Bank for decades, the launching of thousands of missiles and bombs have become the ‘weapons of choice’ for uprooting and eliminating the Palestinians in Gaza.
In just eight days, Israel ’s latest blitzkrieg resulted in the killing of 168 Palestinians (42 children and 100 civilians), the wounding of 1,235, the destruction of over 1,350 buildings and the further traumatizing of over 1.7 million children, women and men fenced in the world’s largest concentration camp.
According to the Israeli Defense Minister, the Jewish State dropped “a thousand times more bombs onto Gaza” than the Palestinians fired back into Israel .
The current Israeli offensive began with the gruesome assassination of a prominent Hamas leader, Ahmed Jabari, and immediately escalated into an assault on the entire Palestinian population of Gaza. Secure in the knowledge that the Palestinians had no capacity to retaliate with similar weaponry, the Israeli High Command ordered the systematic destruction of civilian life, workplaces and densely populated neighborhoods.
Over 75% of the casualties have been non-combatants; almost half are children, women and elders. The Israeli propaganda machine and its ‘Fifth Column’ in the US fabricated and repeated the Big Lie: that the Jewish state was ‘defending itself’… Right… with only six (mostly military) deaths and 280 wounded (the majority non-threatening) versus the nearly 200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, slaughtered.
The US Zionist power configuration (ZPC), embedded in the policy centers of the US Executive, the Congress and both political parties, parroted this line. All the major US TV networks and print media reproduced verbatim Israeli Foreign Office press handouts about Israel ’s ‘defensive’ … genocide … while entire Palestinian families were being buried under the rubble of their bombed apartments.
Death and destruction, planned and executed with the unanimous support of all the major Israeli political parties and leaders, enthralled the mass of its Jewish citizens: Indeed, over 80% of Israeli Jews supported the terror blitz against Gaza. As the Russian media outlet (RT) reported: “A new wave of hatred towards Palestinians is sweeping through Israel from public figures to the man (person) in the street”.
The Israeli Interior Minister declared that “Gaza should be bombed into the Middle Ages”. Israeli demonstrators in Tel Aviv shouted; “they (the Palestinians) don’t deserve to live, they must die”, “may your children die” and “now we must go back there (to Gaza) and kick out all Arabs”.
The prominent Israeli Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, the son of a former chief rabbi, made a speech in the Cave of the Patriarchs in occupied Hebron where he blessed the Israeli soldiers and urged them “to slaughter their enemy”.
Even more to the point, Israel Katz, Israel ’s Transport Minister, demanded “Gaza be bombed so hard the population will have to flee into Egypt (the Sinai desert)”.
Avi Dichter, the Minister of Home Front Defense, incited the Israeli military to “re-format” Gaza – that is to erase its population with bombs.
Almost half of Israeli Jews considered Netanyahu’s terror bombing of Gaza insufficient: According to the independent Israeli Maagar Mohot poll, half of Israelis opposed the cease fire and demanded the bloody assault against the Palestinian population of Gaza continue. The same poll reported that almost a third of Israeli Jews though their government should have sent ground forces into Gaza , an invasion which would have led to tens of thousands of Palestinian casualties and total destruction of their vital infrastructural life-lines.
Netanyahu and his allies in power now confront a new, totalitarian mass opposition that openly embraces a genocidal ‘Final Solution’ to the Palestinian problem. Genocide at the Service of Greater Israel The parallels between the pronouncements and actions of Nazi Germany and Zionist Israel are overwhelming.
The bloodlust in Israel goes far beyond psychopathic raving of a few deranged rabbis and marginal politicians: it extends from the top Cabinet members to the average citizen. In Israel, almost an entire people – over 80% of Jews – support, with varying degrees of intensity, the terror bombing and slaughter of the people of Gaza.
Setting aside the profound sociopathic disorders of the raging and racist multitude in Israel, what is politically more significant are the totalitarian rants of leading Israeli public figures, published as editorials, in such newspapers as the respectable Jerusalem Post: “We need to flatten all of Gaza . There should be no electricity in Gaza , no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing,” writes Gilad Sharon and the statements of prominent Knesset members, like Michael Ben-Ari , “There are no innocents in Gaza … mow them (all) down”.
These outbursts reveal Israel ’s strategic goal: Genocide at the service of Greater Israel – the bloody purge of 5 million Palestinians, the creation of a 100 percent ‘pure’ Jewish State.
Overseas (mostly US) Zionist-Jewish media moguls, Ivy League university academics, billionaires, US Congress people and government officials finance, underwrite, propagandize for and promote with single-minded perseverance the defense of Israel’s most heinous war crimes, its violations of international law and its ongoing crimes against humanity.
During the entire period of the recent Israeli blitzkrieg, Israel ’s Fifth column, the Presidents of the 52 Major American Jewish Organizations, the New York Times and the rest of the major US press rose to the dirty task of giving unconditional support for Israel ’s war crimes. Vocal support from the US White House and by extension the leaders of the European Union echoed Netanyahu’s lies.
In order to grasp the media white wash of these ongoing crimes against humanity one could compare the US press reports on Israel’s bombing of Gaza to those which would have appeared in the leading fascist newspapers at the time of Hitler’s ‘defensive’ attacks on Poland and Belgium and the bombing blitz of civilians in London.
The true purpose of Israel ’s terror bombing raids and assassinations in Gaza and the cutting up of the West Bank is to make these territories uninhabitable for the Palestinians. The daily humiliation and destruction of the basic conditions for normal life are designed to force young, educated, ambitious Palestinians to abandon their land, homes and families for less grotesquely barbaric sites, where they might achieve a normal civilized existence, free from foul-mouthed Jewish settlers, unending military incursions, Israeli soldiers pistol-whipping their fathers or breaking the legs and arms of stone-throwing Arab schoolkids.
This obscene Israeli-Jewish behavior is intentionally open and flagrant: Flaunting Jewish military superiority over the defenseless Arab is vital part of the psychological war reinforcing the idea of Arab inferiority and of Palestinians as aliens in their own country.
Israel ’s underlying slogan “Arab Raus!” (Arabs Get Out!) echoes the Nazi screed, “Juden Rauss” (Jews Get Out!).
The message is clear: “If you are not a Jew then you do not exist! Your very alien presence is an abomination in the eyes of the Zionist God. So if you won’t leave politely we will hasten your departure with a few thousand bombs, missiles and a rain of white phosphorous.” That is the deeper meaning of Israel ’s rape of Gaza .
The Impact of Israel ’s Genocide on US Society Leading journalists in the politically most influential US newspapers, academics from the most prestigious universities and ‘experts’ from the leading research institutes have systematically defended each and every Israeli war-crime, including the rape of Gaza, the demolition of Palestinian civil society and the cruel blockade of 1.7 million Palestinians in the biggest ‘open air concentration’ camp in the world.
As usual, the Uber-Zionist Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz and his acolytes provide a legal gloss on the savage bombing of essential public services and private communication and media centers. Not to be outdone by the loudmouths in Harvard Square, Yale and Princeton professors, with tribal loyalties to the Jewish state, describe the Israeli killing machine as a righteous citizen army defending its eternally victimized people.
“Experts” at the Brookings Institute, Hudson Institute and dozens of other ‘research’ (read propaganda) centers provide ‘scientific’ explanations regarding Israel ’s unique right to dispossess millions of Palestinians.
The experts’ justifications of Israeli war crimes permeate the mass media, penetrate the homes of millions of Americans and fill the heads of elected officials. Meanwhile they ‘convince’ and/or browbeat thousands of non-tribal school teachers and educators into complicity or silence, thus perverting and hollowing out what residual humane and democratic values remain embedded in the citizenry.
It is precisely the much-vaunted ‘high achievements’ of so many Israel-Firsters that has led to their rise to the most influential positions in US society and state and makes their support of terror bombings, ethnic cleansing and genocide so deeply destructive to the US political culture. In spite of this, some of the same expert-academic apologists for Israel’s terror against the Arab civilians are the most vociferous defenders of human rights everywhere else in the world – including the US (piously condemning US war crimes whenever and wherever they are not explicitly aligned with the interest of the Jewish State).
These ‘experts’ have perverted the concept of universal human rights in the minds of the US public. As the US mass audience and political class watches the smoke, debris and wreckage of Gaza – and even catch glimpses of a child’s dismembered small body – they are told by the tribal loyalists that this destruction is morally justified, that the target is really “Hamas” – even over the piercing cries of Palestinian mothers for their slaughtered children.
US citizens are told that Israel ’s aggressive aerial bombing and mass shelling from warships off-shore is really a “defensive” maneuver against a “terrorist” regime – one which just happens to lack a single airplane, warship, tank or missile capable of hitting a single major Israeli military or civilian installation.
The Zionist Academic –Journalist Propaganda Complex
The Israeli academic-journalist propaganda complex in the US has pushed the entire US political narrative even further to the fascist right. It has perverted our political vocabulary, equating mass slaughter with national defense; equating the ‘anxiety’ of Israeli Jewish civilians with the homeless, jobless and traumatized widows and children emerging from their devastated densely-populated urban neighborhoods.
The tribal scholars and mass media pundits excel in transforming executioners into victims and victims into executioners. The Liberal-Zionists, peace-time critics of Israel, remove their peace buttons and pick up scripts defending ‘just wars’, as soon as Israel starts bombing another Arab population or adversary.
For the liberal (human-rights-spouting) Zionists, bombing civilians is always illegal – except when it is Israel launching the missiles. Propaganda zealots for Israel saturate the media attacking any human rights activist critical of Israel with charges of “anti-Semitism”. They smear, threaten and blackmail each and every dissenting voice daring to oppose their narrative. The entire mass media and the most prestigious universities censor any mention of Israeli crimes against humanity.
As bombs rained on Gaza not one single Congressional voice denounced the odious American President Obama when he defended Israel’s eight-day “Guernica” against a defenseless population.
Unlike the citizens in Nazi Germany, we, in the US and Western Europe, cannot claim that we did not know about Israeli war crimes as they were happening. On the other hand, how can the mass of semi-literate TV viewers in the US really ‘know’ what is going on when Israel-Firsters have so thoroughly ‘framed the context’ – claiming it’s all defensive, that only Hamas “terrorists” are targeted …despite the images of children being frantically pulled from the wreckage of their homes.
However, the educated classes in the US do know about Israel ’s tradition and practice of mass civilian bombings; they do remember Lebanon 2006 as well as Gaza 2008-2009 (and countless Israeli massacres in the late 20th century).
At the same time, they also “remember” the vicious reprisals and vitriolic attacks the Zionist ideological attack-dogs launched against the critics. Having ‘learned their lessons’ from the Zionist ‘thought-cops’ they conveniently remember … to forget and walk away… from the whole ‘Middle East mess’.
Worse still, they sanctimoniously blame the Palestinians for their efforts to retaliate in the face of Israel ’s blatant murders of their most prestigious leaders as well as their stubborn refusal to surrender.
There are a few Left-Zionists who actually praise the ‘resilience’ of the Palestinians and their refusal to surrender to the dictates of Israel and its occupying army. They note how the Gazans ‘celebrate’ their ‘victory’ amidst the rubble after having secured a very tenuous cease fire.
Any reasonable observer could reply to this sentimental nonsense: Is survival in an open air concentration camp for another day, the daily prospect of Israeli drone flights overhead and a brutal land and sea blockade any “victory”? There is no cause for celebration: Transforming Israeli war crimes into Palestinian virtues is a cheap liberal Zionist sideshow.
An eight-day Israeli assault, which had successfully destroyed every major and minor public office responsible for providing the people of Gaza with essential services, and the savaging of the water and sewage system, power and electrical grids and media offices (not to mention perishable food and medicine) is nothing to celebrate.
In fact the underlying strategic goal of the Jewish state – to make the remains of historical Palestine uninhabitable (a modern ‘howling wilderness’) for its people – has been advanced by leaps and bounds.
Surviving another day in order to bury loved ones and scrounging among the burnt ruins of a home for a birth certificate or photograph is hardly the noble “Hamas victory” proclaimed by Norman Finkelstein and Uri Avneri.
Why NATO – Washington Support Israel ’s Genocidal War
Unlike in the past, where some international organizations and European states raised tepid objections to Israel ’s military assaults against Palestine or Lebanon, this time around nothing took place. The White House immediately embraced Israel ’s terror bombing as did the governments of Western Europe.
Meanwhile, Turkey , the Gulf States , the Arab League and the pan-Islamic organizations did nothing concrete, offering no arms, no boycotts, no oil embargos – only shallow symbolic gestures.
Netanyahu timed his assault to take advantage of the western imperial offensive against independent countries and leaders who had historically supported the Palestinian liberation struggle for decades. Since NATO states had invaded and bombed the sovereign nation of Libya back into the Stone Age, Netanyahu’s Cabinet Ministers must have reasoned, “Why can’t we send the Gazans back to the Middle Ages with our bombs”?
When NATO and the Gulf States now arm, finance and support a prolonged terrorist-led assault against the secular regime, people and infrastructure of Syria, Netanyahu reasons, “Why don’t we do the same to the Palestinians”?
With the EU, Washington and the Gulf States engaged in covert and overt wars against all of Palestine’s staunchest allies (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya Syria, Iran and the Sudan) and against the people’s movements in Yemen, Bahrain and Pakistan, Netanyahu’s plan to ethnically purge Palestine has advanced with total impunity – indeed with overt Western approval and without concern for any international ‘humanitarian’ sanctions or even protest.
Netanyahu’s murderous war on Gaza, with full US complicity, has unmasked the collaborationist-nature of Egypt ’s Islamist President Morsi. Morsi, together with US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, secured a cease fire only after Netanyahu had accomplished his immediate goal of destroying the public institutions of civil society and undermining the vital public functions of the Hamas government.
Against the protests of the blood-thirsty Israeli public, who wanted their bombers and army to ‘finish the job’, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu negotiated and signed an agreement overseen by Morsi on a cease fire where Israel will pay no indemnity to the devastated civilians of Gaza while confirming the Mubarak-era Israeli– Egyptian treaty and starvation blockade of Gaza.
Right after the ‘cease-fire’, President Morsi assumed dictatorial powers over the Egyptian state. With the shameful terms of the cease fire and Morsi’s assumption of dictatorial powers the ‘Arab Spring’ has come to a tragic end.
Conclusion
The people of the Middle East , especially the Palestinians, are in their worst position ever. Palestinians have lost the political, financial and military support of the independent, secular regimes of Libya, Syria and Iraq. And Iran , the principle source of arms for the Palestinians, faces a US Naval armada off its coast. Israel is accelerating its naked land grabs in the West Bank. The PLO continues to be Israel ’s frontline ‘cop on the block’ – jailing resistance fighters and dissidents by the hundreds.
Israel ’s Fifth Column in the US ensures unconditional support for Israel ’s ethnic cleansing of its non-Jewish population. Above all, as the terror bombing of Gaza reveals, Israel, as a state and as a people, is free to bomb and destroy Gaza in order to force a mass exodus of the Palestinians so that they may establish a ‘pure’ and unadulterated Jewish state on historical Palestine.
Epilogue
Less than 24 hours after the so-called “cease fire” Israeli soldiers murdered an unarmed Palestinian protestor and wounded dozens with live ammunition on the Gazan side of the border. Israel storm troopers raided West Bank homes and arrested 55 Palestinians accused of supporting Hamas. Scores more Palestinians in the Beit Lahia area of the West Bank were summarily arrested and jailed as suspected Hamas members.
Jewish vigilante settlers near occupied Hebron uprooted 400 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers from the village of Hawara. As the missile murderers take their break, the bull dozers rev up their engines: Israel ’s leaders pursue their strategic objective of a “pure” Jewish state with their inexorable and destructive juggernaut. The ‘cease fire’ merely changed the methods and the terrain of dispossession for the time being.
Israel’s assault on Gaza has totally demolished its vibrant recovery and growth since the previous war of destruction. In 2011 the economy of Gaza grew by 20%; after the recent Israeli attack who would dare consider Gaza as a place to live and invest?
By Prof. James Petras
Israeli Terror: The “Final Solution” to the Palestine Question
http://www.globalresearch.ca
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- PLO and Hamas representatives announced an historic unity deal on Wednesday to bring to an end more than seven years of political division between the main Palestinian political parties.
Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced the end of years of Palestinian political division in a press conference in Gaza City, saying that the Hamas and PLO delegations had worked as "one team" throughout the reconciliation dialogue and had stressed the necessity of achieving results in this round of dialogue.
The joint PLO-Hamas statement given at the conference also authorized the Palestinian Authority president to set a date for new elections, and emphasized the commitment of both sides to the reconciliation principles that had been agreed upon in the Cairo Agreement and the Doha Declaration.
They also emphasized the need to reactivate the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Earlier, Palestinian officials announced that they had agreed to form a unity government within five weeks that will be headed by either President Mahmoud Abbas or former Deputy Prime Minister of the 2006 unity government Nasser al-Din al-Shaer, who is a member of Hamas.
The parties also agreed that both Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the occupied West Bank would release prisoners detained for their political affiliation.
The division between the two Palestinian factions began in 2006, when Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections.
In the following year, clashes erupted between Fatah and Hamas, leaving Hamas in control of the Strip and Fatah in control of parts of the occupied West Bank.
The groups have made failed attempts at national reconciliation for years, most recently in 2012, when they signed two agreements -- one in Cairo and a subsequent one in Doha -- which have as of yet been entirely unimplemented.
Fatah leader Azzam al-Ahmad said that neither side will accept the resumption of negotiations with Israel without clear guidelines, and that negotiations had stalled as a result of "Israel intransigence" and "American bias."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx
Reuters: Israel bombs Gaza target, four wounded: medical officials
Two Palestinians injured in an Israeli drone's targeting of a motorcycle in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip.
PLO, Hamas announce agreement to end political division
Palestinian leaders 'agree to form national unity govt'
Israel launches airstrike in Gaza, just after unity negotiations announced
Israel attacks Gaza after Palestinian factions announce unity pact
Hamas, PLO begin 2nd day of reconciliation talks in Gaza
Israeli forces launch air strike on Gaza
Occupation Gunboats Open Fire at Palestinian fishing boats
7 injured in Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza Strip
12 Gazans injured, including two seriously, by Israeli drone missile
Israeli airstrikes target central Gaza Strip
Israeli troops shower Bethlehem-area village with tear gas
Dozens hurt from tear gas as Israeli forces raid Nablus village
Elena Kagan and US Supreme Court takes up status of Jerusalem
Iran Protests at UN Committee on Envoy Ban as US Stands Ground
Official: Yarmouk residents to protest against militant groups
Over 1,000 protest 'price tag' attacks in Umm al-Fahm
Exhibition opening in Ramallah, Palestine featuring works of 40 artists from Gaza
Bomb attack in Cairo wounds 2 police, civilian
Uniformed Gunmen Attack Polling Center in Iraq; 29 Killed, 61 Wounded
Militants Attack Balloting Center in Iraq, Kill 10
Red Cross 'Appalled' by Rising Violence in Syria's Aleppo
US-Israeli Reporter Held by Protesters in East Ukraine
US Sending 600 Ground Troops to Eastern Europe
US Drones Killed Scores, Now Yemen Scrambles to ID 'Suspects'
'Piles and Piles' of Bodies in South Sudan Slaughter
More over, Persepolis is the cradle of the Honor of truth! Pathological lying genocidal Psychopaths!
Not really a surprising behavior of Israeli criminals and backers as they do not know history, not even the Jewish! But they claim the right to Cyrus the Great´s Cylinder - that they do! Psychopaths!
The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel's murderous destruction and genocide of the innocent men, women and children of GAZA and the West Bank.
Dedicated to the children of GAZA.
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On January 29, 2008 a protest took place in front of a North Side Chicago theater that was hosting a benefit for the "young leadership of the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces". The IDF has blocked humanitarian supplies going into to Gaza, which has been put under siege by the Israeli government. This type of collective punishment is a war crime. The action was endorsed by a number of organizations, including International Solidarity Movement, ANSWER-Chicago, Palestinian Solidarity Group, ISO, and others.
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In fact, people all over the world have called for Israel to end the Gaza siege for a very long time now..
UN decries dire Gaza conditions, calls for action
World Bulletin / News Desk - James W. Rawley, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has described humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip as among the most difficult in the world.
At a Monday press conference near the Israel-Gaza Karni border crossing – closed by Israel for the last ten years – Rawley said Gaza's humanitarian situation continued to worsen despite ongoing Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.
At the conference, held to commemorate the launch of a 2013 report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Rawley asserted that Israel's eight-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip was hindering development in the Palestinian enclave and hurting the coastal strip's economy. Rawley called for allowing construction materials into the territory and allowing farmers and fishermen to access their places of work.
He said Gaza has the right to have access to clean drinking water – through the desalination of seawater – and electric power.
The U.N. official called on Egyptian authorities to help alleviate the suffering of the strip's inhabitants by allowing individuals, consumer goods and medical supplies into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing.
UN official calls for Israel to lift siege of Gaza. UN's Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territories James Rowley has called for Israel to lift the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and to reopen the closed legal crossings.
In a press conference held at the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza, Rowley said that although 2013 was the "quietest" year in recent history on the Gaza-Israeli front, the Palestinians in Gaza have witnessed their worst life situation in decades.
Rowley also called upon Egypt to open the Rafah Crossing for passengers, goods and necessary medical supplies. He suggested for the crossing to at least function as it did before July 2013.
To help improve the life of the 1.9 million Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories, Rowley called upon the international community to give $390 million in aid.
Regarding the fishermen in Gaza, the UN official called for allowing them to sail freely in the sea and for the farmers to move freely on their farms adjacent or close to the Palestinian-Israeli border.
During the same press conference, a representative of the World Food Programme spoke about the dangerous situation of food security in the Strip. He noted that food insecurity in Gaza has increased from 48 per cent to 57 per cent.
He stressed that the international community must continue helping the residents of the Gaza Strip in order to meet the huge need for food.
UN decries dire Gaza conditions, calls for action
UN official calls for Israel to lift siege of Gaza
UNRWA calls on Egypt, Israel to lift blockade on Gaza Strip
Amnesty International says Israel must immediately lift the blockade of Gaza
UN condemns Israeli action - Gaza siege unsustainable
Israelis, Palestinians call for an end to Gaza violence
The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza- MAY 2009
Protesters call on Israel to lift blockade on Gaza
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"Gaza Writes Back" - Stories from young writers in Gaza
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Sign up for DC #Gaza5k, May 17 in support of the children of Gaza!
Norman Finkelstein-THE END OF PALESTINE? It’s Time to Sound an Alarm
Norman Finkelstein Workshop: How you can help the Palestinian cause
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSzfo8XgMpA
Finkelstein from 06' - still relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a7jq56gJHs
Finkelstein Workshop: How you can help the Palestinian cause 1-9
#Gaza
Citing kavacenter website: At least 10 bloody Egyptian junta soldiers eliminated by Mujahideen in Sinai car bombing
Sinai militant said to be behind 2011 attack in Israel killed by own bomb
Tawfiq Mohammed Freij, one of founders of Sinai militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, was responsible for cross-border attack that killed eight Israelis, group claims. Egypt's most active militant group says that one of its founding leaders was killed when a bomb he was carrying was set off by a car accident.
haaretz-Sinai militant said to be behind 2011 attack in Israel killed by own bomb
"Chechen refugees are waiting for help."
Omer Bezirgan, General Secretary of IMKAN-DER, visiting Chechen refugee camp in Azerbaijan said: "As martyr spouses can not pay their rents, 7-8 people live in single room houses. Russian propagandists tell that the invasion is over but if the war in Caucasus was over, would these people bear this disgrace?"
Fahrettin Dede, our correspondent, listened impressions of Omer Bezirgan in Chechen camps. Imran Abdulazimov, Chechen Commander in Turkey and Deputy President and Founder of IMKAN-DER was there too.
Chechen Commander in Turkey and Deputy President and Founder of IMKAN-DER at Chechen refugee camp in Azerbaijan
IMKANDER Teams organize events on behalf of the war immigrants located in Turkey, Syria and Pankisi Valley located on Georgia Chechnia borders.
The population of immigrant in Turkey continues growing together with those migrating from several parts of Caucasia, in addition to Central Asian countries where intensive oppressions on Islam are witnessed in countries like Uzbekistan and Eastern Turkistan under occupation of Chine, let alone those Syrian immigrants leaving the country as a result of heavy confrontation.
Having sheltered within more secure regions like Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia, the countries undergoing confrontation and occupations, the war immigrants have been happy once again thanks to the sacrifice organizations also held this year.
IMKANDER, as Human Right and Benefaction Organization in regard to meeting the legal and basic requirements of the war immigrants, has organized sacrifice activities within and outside the country as has been in last year.
Located in Syria and Turkey, in addition to Pankisi Valley at the border of Chechnya, hottest region of Caucasia, the war immigrants were provided with the sacrifice meat.
Pankisi: War Immigrants’ Valley There are now about 10 thousand people from Chechnya sheltered in Pankisi Valley. Caucasian war immigrants mostly consisted from Chechnya people have established an immigrant town in the valley. Pankisi is a 34-km long valley located at Northeast Georgia, stretching from Borbalo Mountains along Alazani River.
Kist People, classified under Vainakh Group live in Pankisi, where the central organization lacks dominating the region. Kist people use their mother language in their society. However, the formal language is used in education.
IMKANDER - Human Right and Benefaction Organization and 10 thousand people from Chechnya sheltered in Pankisi Valley
Dagestani Mujahideen news website
Mujahideen fight Russian invaders in Caucasus in Emirate province of Dagestan
American militarists steal billions of dollars of taxpayers' money
Mujahideen clash with Russian invaders in Dagestani capital
Antiwar.com: At Least 160 Rebels Killed in Heavy Fighting in Damascus Suburb
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic was established on 22 August 2011 by the Human Rights Council through resolution S-17/1 adopted at its 17th special session with a mandate to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law since March 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Shortly after its establishment, the President of the Human Rights Council appointed Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro (Brazil), Karen Koning AbuZayd (United States) and Yakin Erturk (Turkey) to serve as the Commissioners. Yakin Erturk stepped down from the position in March 2012. Following the extension of the Commission’s mandate in September 2012, two new Commissioners were appointed - Carla del Ponte (Switzerland) and Vitit Muntarbhorn (Thailand).
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/IICISyria/Pages/AboutCoI.aspx
Letter dated 9 October 2013 from RE. Remigiusz A. Henczel, President of the Human Rights Council,pdf
Report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, did not mention the grievances and gross violations of human rights, supported attacks and war crimes committed against the Kurdish people in Syria.
"It is not the Islamic extremists who fight in Syria. It is Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, Russia, France and USA who lead the war. These blind youths are just used in a brutal way for the brutal aims against humanity. Why Kurds have to be victim for the brutal aims in a dirty war?"
PYD Co-Chairman addressed the EU and US: “The humanitarian situation is very difficult in Rojava right now, especially since the last year: We are living under the blockade of Turkey, the Islamic / Arabic fanatics and Syrian regime. At the same time we got round half million refugees from different parts of Syria, mainly Christians, including Sunni and Alevi Arabs.
Unfortunately, Kurdistan has no benefit from the so-called humanitarian help from the West. The tax payers’ money, the Western humanitarian aid, including weapons and military support, is going to the hand of Islamic groups."
Belgian senator Karl Vanlouwe (N-VA), said that many countries in Middle East, like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iran are strongly involved in Syrian conflict and it makes the situation more complicated to find a peaceful solution:
"All those terrorist groups and gangs are located in the borders to Syria, mainly in Turkey and they cause the loss of human lives and many millions of people are suffering. In fact, those terrorist groups are linked to Al Qaida and those groups are in the US-EU terror-list, but however they receive direct and indirect support for their crimes."
"We inform you with respect to the report, it did not mention the grievances and gross violations of human rights and arbitrary arrests, indiscriminate and enforced disappearances, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against the Kurdish people in Syria by the regime and armed groups of the resistance, in particular, the calls for ethnic cleansing and bloodshed of Kurds and abuse by terrorist groups linked to al-Qaeda, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusta and Free Syrian Army brigades who are co-operating with them."
These groups have been killing and abducting Kurdish civilians and displacing them from their towns and villages, looting their property and possessions, blowing up their homes and places of work such as happened in the city of Tel-Abyad, and the towns Tel-Hasel, Tel-Aran and villages and other Kurdish towns; and have carried out terrorist operations such as booby-trapped cars and other mechanical vehicles at the checkpoints. These activities have taken many civilian and military lives.
We also draw your attention to the fact that your report did not mention the financial and military support given to these groups by some of the countries in the region that are hostile to the Kurdish people and their issues, who allow their lands to be used by these groups which make their bases there, and create safe corridors for transit in order to perform offensive operations and indiscriminate shelling of cities and towns in Western Kurdistan from outside and inside the Syrian border, in order to destabilize security and impose foreign agendas.
Ludo De Brabander, a Middle East Expert from Flemish Peace Movement gave facts and figures how the Salafists Islamic fanatics are receiving support from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. He told that Qatar continues to ship weapons from Libya to Turkey and from there to the Islamic terrorists. ”Turkey is not only supporter of the war in Syria but it’s also ally with those groups. France is also active supporter of Syrian war after the deal with Saudi Arabia to sell the military arms for about 200 billion USD”.
Vranckx is wondering why Western media are so limited when they are covering the dramatic situation in Kurdistan. “Why no one sends humanitarian aid to the Kurds who are in difficult situation in fight against extremism in Rojava” he asked.
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Global Research, November 24, 2013, What has been happening in Syria for the past three years?
The United States planned the destruction of Syria at a meeting on September 15, 2001, at Camp David. They began to prepare this by adopting the Syria Accountibility Act on December 12, 2003. They tried to plunge Syria into war first by causing the adoption of Resolution 1559 by the Security Council.
They subcontracted the war to the United Kingdom and France who prepared themselves via the Treaty of Lancaster on November 2, 2010.
The signal for the commencement of operations was given by the United States from Cairo in early February 2011. February 2011 – July 2012: the fourth generation war From that date, and for 15 months, NATO and the GCC launched a fourth generation war, based entirely on their domination of the mass media.
In March-April 2012, after the fall of the Islamic Emirate of Baba Amr, Nicolas Sarkozy negotiated the withdrawal of France, The combatants were either Syrian Takfirist (including 3000 captured in Baba Amr) or foreign professionals, particularly the Libyan members of al- Qaeda controlled by Abdelhakim Belhaj. Together, they formed the Free Syrian Army, flanked by British and French officers, with the logistical support of Turkey.
François Hollande ’s election as French president and the appointment of Laurent Fabius as Zionist Ministry of Foreign Affairs relaunched the war. Relying on CIA General David Petraeus and the expertise of Ambassador Robert S. Ford (former assistant to John Negroponte), France signalled a new war, this time Nicaragua style, by gathering the “Friends of Syria” in Paris on July 6th, 2012. Two weeks later, a mega-attack decapitated the army by assasinating members of the National Security Council. Immediately, 40,000 foreign jihadists, supported by a few thousand Syrians and supervised by French and British officers, began the assault on Damascus.
Recruitment centers were opened in Tunisia and Afghanistan. Airlifts were organized from Libya and Yemen to deliver tens of thousands of jihadists who came to die in Syria. As in Nicaragua, they found Syrians to support them, but ultimately they served to control the “liberated zones” rather than to fight the regular army face to face.
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NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council Organized and Financed the Death of 120,000 Syrians
Infowar - Turkey Accused of Killing Kurd Leader — Trying to Trigger Civil War in Syria
Turkey a NATO member, and notorious butchers of the Kurdish people not only within their borders but well beyond them, including multiple incursions into Iraq in 2007, 2008, and 2010, with tank battalions as well as air strikes on “suspected” militant targets on both sides of the border, has played a role in the assassination of Syrian-Kurdish leader Mashaal Tammo according to Kurdish activists.
Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that Kurdish Party leaders accused Turkish intelligence of assassinating Tammo, aiming to ignite sedition throughout the northern province of Hasaka. Hasaka Province conveniently shares a borders with Turkey – a border Turkey has systematically militarized in its decades long war against the Kurdish people. It is also a border Turkey is now conducting “military exercises” along in an overt threat to Syria.
Turkey and its Western sponsors are now hoping the resulting chaos will trigger an armed Kurdish uprising in Syria against the Assad government and be the “tipping point” in an otherwise stalled 7 month-long destabilization attempt. – The assassination was also complemented by mystery gunmen who opportunistically attacked Tammo’s funeral procession, killing several attendees and further provoking Syria’s Kurd minority to rise up in violence.
Details of the shootings were filtered through the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a notorious propaganda front whose second-hand reports are faithfully repeated by Western media outlets as “fact.” The expediency with which propagandists at BBC and the US State Department concluded the shootings were the work of the Syrian government further lends suspicion over who indeed carried out the assassination and the subsequent shootings at Tammo’s funeral – a dream scenario for Western nations bent on ousting Assad by collapsing Syrian society into a Libyan-style civil war.
It should be noted, that out of Syria’s opposition movement, Mashaal Tammo was one of the few leaders opposing foreign meddling in Syria’s affairs, going as far as not attending an opposition confab held in Turkey on this basis. It should be further noted that of all of Syria’s minorities, the Kurds had so far not joined in large scale protests.
Western corporate-funded think tanks and media outlets have been fantasizing over the prospect of Kurdish militants joining the US-funded uprising, despite what, up until now, appeared to be their neutral stance.
The Wall Street Journal’s: “Kurds Look Beyond Assad, With Dreams of Autonomy” acknowledged the muted role the Kurds were playing in the uprising and their hesitation to make wider commitments. Tammo’s assassination may just have been the geopolitical ploy necessary to spur the Kurds past this point of hesitation.
After months of stalled, failing armed opposition against the Syrian government through the Muslim Brotherhood and an assortment of Al-Qaeda linked militant groups, the West is exhibiting an almost palpable madness in pursuit of war with Syria.
Western propaganda networks, including BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera and contrived “human rights advocacy” fronts fully funded by corporate-financier special interests have been caught fabricating in whole, stories of atrocities being perpetrated by the Assad government.
One activist reported by Soros-funded Amnesty International to have been “brutally murdered in custody” turned up alive and well. Amnesty International would later reveal just how tenuous the information was behind what was essentially baseless, sensationalized propaganda aimed at the Syrian government.
After a failed UN resolution, vetoed outright by Russia and China, and receiving no votes from other BRIC nations, more desperate measures are sure to follow, including the increasing prospect of unilateral military action taken by Turkey, on behalf of NATO and its corporate sponsors.
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Peter Clifford: "Before and after Assad´s great plan to save the Nation."
http://www.petercliffordonline.com/syria-news-3
In short: Different groups of people are "fighting" each other and everything that moves for years in a "Syrian revolution" with 130.000 people killed while Assad bombs and kills 600 civilians in Aleppo. Yeah..it sounds like "a great plan to save the Nation."
Starving Refugees: How We Disowned Palestinians in Syria
Palestinian refugees, particularly in the Yarmouk refugee camp, are starving, although there can be no justification, nor logistical explanation for why they are dying from hunger.
Some Palestinian factions were used by other regional powers to declare political stances regarding the conflict in Syria. The refugees should have never been used as fodder for a dirty war and all attempts at sparing the refugees have failed.
Typically, the so-called international community is at the forefront of this shameful episode. "There’s deep frustration in the aid community that a world which came together to deal with Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal cannot do the same when it comes to tackling a deepening humanitarian crisis," reported Doucet, quoting an aid official: "I have never seen a humanitarian crisis on this scale which does not have a Security Council resolution."
There can be no rationale to explain why the Syrian government and the rebels insist on embroiling the Palestinians into their war which is accumulating into an assortment of many war crimes that refuse to end.
Full article: antiwar.com/blog/starving-refugees-how-we-disowned-palestinians-in-syria
Starving to death in Syria - Al-Ahram Weekly
U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees warn of “extreme human suffering” in Yarmuk
PLO Official: "#Al-Nusra among factions preventing #Yarmouk siege relief."
"To All people, brothers and friends. Yarmouk camp is dying of hunger. There are nearly 20.000 Palestinian refugees still living in Yarmouk, there are Also nearly 30.000 people displaced from the neighborhood areas sheltered to Yarmouk because of the huge military conflict at their places, so we have 50.000 innocent civilian person stuck in Yarmouk at least."
There are thousand of children without food , without milk and without their simple right to live in DIGNITY we need all of you to raise your voice against your governments everywhere, to pressure on the Syrian regime to let the civilians depart the area.
The Syrian military forces prevent these innocents from leaving Yarmouk. we have until now 34 civilian person died because of Starvation, please also help us in sending any pictures, drawings and any supportive methods to reach international press and to the international community.
https://www.facebook.com/saveyarmouk
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Israeli forces shoot, injure 3 Palestinians in Duheisha camp
3 injured in Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza
#EndGazaSiege or
"Fair plans"..as in signing natural gas agreements..And.."talks of peace"..Meanwhile, "humanitarians" are going for meeting in Kuwait..
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While "the Palestinians should rein in their terrorist children."
"U.S. Aid - 12.2% of Foreign Aid, of $9,047,227,200, money well spent."
Bringing drone use out of the shadows and into the transparent light of the international community isn’t in the interest of those who make, sell and use drone technologies.
In a report released this week, the U.K. was found guilty of buying technology tested on Palestinian refugees in Gaza.
The War on Want report cites a deal between the U.K. and Israeli governments to develop the new surveillance drone through a joint venture with Israeli arms contractor Elbit Systems and its partner company, Thales UK. The Watchkeeper, War on Want asserts, is built on “the Israeli Hermes 450, described as the ‘workhorse’ of Israel’s military in its operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Israeli companies such as Elbit will often boast of their competitive advantage in the global arms market due to their extensive ‘testing’ of their weaponry in ‘real life’ situations.”
Those “‘real life’ situations” have affected the lives of more than one million Palestinians in Gaza.
John Hilary, executive director of War on Want, wrote in the report’s preface that “the British government is, in effect, buying technology that has been ‘field tested’ on Palestinians. By continuing to license arms exports to and imports from Israel, the British government is giving material support to Israel’s aggression against the Palestinian people, and sending a clear message of approval for its actions.”
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The term “boycott” has its origins in Ireland.
It entered the English language during the Land War of the 1880s — the struggle across the Irish countryside between impoverished tenant farmers and their often absentee landlords.
To their shame, some Irish universities are involved in research partnerships with Israel’s arms industry and its academic supporters. Trinity College Dublin, for example, has participated in a surveillance technology project alongside Elbit, one of two main suppliers of drones used by Israel to attack civilians in Gaza.
University College Cork has teamed up with the Technion, a Haifa-based institution that has developed bulldozers specifically designed for demolishing Palestinian homes.
These projects are financed by the European Union.
Israel has taken part in the EU’s scientific research activities since 1997. Since then, its universities and enterprises have coordinated no fewer than 1,070 EU research projects and participated in 3,000 more.
A veteran Irish politician Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is currently overseeing the EU’s research program.
Despite a row last year over “guidelines” reiterating EU policy that work undertaken in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank should not be eligible for research funding, Geoghegan-Quinn has taken no action to prevent Israeli weapons-producers from receiving subsidies. As a result, companies that make Israel’s tools of occupation and apartheid will be able to benefit from Horizon 2020, the Union’s new multi-annual research scheme.
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