I urge all readers to watch this video, which will be shown some day at the Holocaust Memorial. It is the voice of an Israeli woman (affiliated with Machsom Watch) pleading with Obama to end the occupation–and there are countless images of Palestinians at checkpoints, humiliated, treated like cattle, standing on lines for hours, herded, crowded. Old women bent over with canes forced to walk thru the dust. Students in lines watching their dreams evaporate. Israeli soldiers with their guns pointed at the heads of little girls. Grown women squirming with their shopping through gaps in the wall. Grown men undoing their clothes in public to be searched. All this happened in our time!
The Israeli says she finds it hard to pursue her career and enjoy her children when she knows that just to get to work for Palestinians is a career. Oh save us from this horror, which the New Republic, and the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and all the leading Jewish organizations, have tried to convince Americans for years is not apartheid. And as to my claim in the first line–it will be in the Holocaust Memorial because this is the Holocaust wound in the Jewish people. As Avrum Burg says, having too quickly forgiven the Germans, we have put all that rage on innocent Arabs. (Phil Weiss)
Yes, free us from the suicide bombers of Hamas and Fatah so that we no longer need security fences, check points, security guards in shops, and a stron army.
Heart-rending sequence–even with the sound turned off–with details of the ever-deepening horror that this brave woman wants to stop.
This Israeli woman of Machsom Watch teaches us the sort of spirit that cannot be content when others suffer.
Thanks, Phil.
A big problem is that the rifle is upside down. In other words, it wasn't aimed at the children. That small detail brings all of the pictures into question.
Based on the dancing in the streets, it appears that the Palestinian spirit is not only content when Israeli Jews suffer, it soars in ecstasy.
They are not suicide bombers they are human organism propelled weapon delivery systems, vastly inferior to weapons (made in USA) used by Israel to cause civilian casualties.
Obama and George Mitchell ought to have laptops with this on it right when they meet with Olmert or Livni or Barak or Netanyahu, or Schumer and Berman and etc. when the latter are telling them what "the Israelis" want. Turn it on, turn the screen to them and just sit and let them watch and let them know that there are Israelis that the U.S. can start supporting and playing with—to the thunderous cheering of the rest of the world—other than just those in the ranks of Kadima and Likud.
God would I love being a fly on the wall in those rooms.
What a sweet counterpoint to Aaron David Miller's flabbergasting recent revelation that in all his years and years of being involved in representing the U.S. and talking with the Israelis he never once heard any U.S. figure talk to them about the downsides of the settlements and occupied territories or etc. Not once.
I just watched two short videos of the antiwar demo in TA/Yafo on Jan 17. I have posted one of the two (the non Machsom Watch one) on my blog. I find it interesting that in neither video can any kipa-wearing Jews be seen among the marchers.
I enjoy watching these demonstrations. I feel at least somewhat a part of it, even though I'm so far away. I really would like to get to Palestine and help in some way.
antiwar demo, telaviv/yafo, jan 17
Israeli warplanes hit smuggling tunnels in Gaza
Israeli warplanes pounded smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border early Wednesday, a day after a Palestinian bomb killed an Israeli soldier and the Israeli military vowed to respond harshly to any further attacks.
The border flare-up — 10 days into an informal cease-fire — came just hours before President Barack Obama's new Mideast envoy was due to meet Israeli leaders. The soldier was killed on Israel's frontier with the Gaza Strip by a roadside bomb planted on the Gaza side and set off by remote control, the military said. Three other members of the Israeli squad patrolling the border were injured.
Israel responded swiftly, sending tanks and bulldozers into northern Gaza to plow up the attack site and launching an airstrike that wounded a Hamas militant "who was prominent in the organization accountable for the attack," according to a military statement. Hamas said the Israeli strike injured one of its men as he rode a motorcycle in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis.
The border violence was the worst since the sides separately declared cease-fires on Jan. 18 to end a three-week Israeli offensive.
Since withdrawing its troops, Israel has threatened to retaliate hard for any violations of the informal truce.
One of its main targets is the network of tunnels used to smuggle arms, money and people into Gaza from Egypt but despite hundreds of strikes during the war smugglers resumed work after the cease-fire.
There was no claim of responsibility for Tuesday's bombing, but Ramattan, a Palestinian news agency, released a video of the roadside bombing allegedly filmed by militants it did not identify.
The images showed a large explosion next to a jeep moving on the Israeli side of the border fence. A huge plume of smoke emerges as the jeep stops. Two Israeli soldiers are then seen running toward the jeep and gunfire is directed at them before a secondary blast hits them, too.
The Israeli military said it "sees Hamas as accountable for preserving the peace in Israel's southern villages and will respond harshly to any attempt of undermining it."
Israeli warplanes hit smuggling tunnels in Gaza
Chris writes:
A big problem is that the rifle is upside down. In other words, it wasn't aimed at the children.
Are you saying that upside down guns do not shoot? That they do not intimidate? Do you have any common sense? We invite you to defend Israel's actions Chris, but surely you can come up with better arguements than that. Think man think.
At the border between Israel and a country (-ish) that sends suicide bombers there is a security fence and checkpoints. I'm shocked. We have nothing like a checkpoint at the U.S.-Mexican border, where the worst that you expect is a drug mule.
As I have said elsewhere, the reason that using ambulances as weapon and troop transports is a bad idea is that the people you are attacking stop letting your ambulances through. The borders used to be more open, then the Palestinians sent a stream of suicide bombers.
Yeah, it inconveniences the innocent Palestinians, but then it inconveniences me to take my shoes off at the airport because some jackass tried to blow up a plane with a shoe bomb. Why should I be inconvenienced when I'm not a shoe bomber? It couldn't be because the airport security don't know that I'm not one, could it?
It's almost impossible for anyone to take either the 'ambulances used to carry weapons' or the 'shoe bomber' seriously. Both stories have been extensively criticised for their implausibility and phoney 'evidence'.
Syvanen,
The rifle is upside down, his face is friendly, the kids are looking in wonder. Bad picture to use if you're trying to convince someone that this is frightening.
Actually, the ambulance story was well proven.
A few years ago I remember Reuters had a film of a UN ambulance being used to transport terrorists.
link to youtube.com
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Wasn't very hard to find. There's a bunch of other articles linking Hamas terror to the use of ambulances.
Of course your sources won't cover those stories.
This is not the border. It's within the Territories, all over the place.
The association with Israel corrupts America
US support for Israeli actions is worlds greatest terror-incentive
Every now and again the colony in Arabia with an inhabitable surface-area the size of Delaware and the adjacent Cecil County in Maryland, embarasses America, because it still has the right to decide its own affairs, without being reigned in by America.
America must get its act together and put a screw on the worlds last colony. If the colony's only ally on the face of the earth cannot do this, then who are supposed to do it?
As the professors Mearsheimer and Walt have pointed out, Israels brutal treatment of the palestinians and US concent of Israels construction of settlements in the occupied territories, is one of the worlds greatest terror-incentives. It motivates some people to attack The Unites States. It serves as a formidable recruitment tool for terrorist-organisations. And lastly, it generates a lot of sympathy for terrorist activities among a large number of people in the Arab world.
……….Area……….Population
Israel: 20,770 km²……7,282,000
Negev*: ~ 13,000 km²…….554,000
Israel
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Negev: ~7,770 km²…….6,728,000
Delaware: 6,446 km²
Cecil County, Maryland: 1,083 km²
Barak is trotting out more of that "painful blows" rhetoric today. Also, today, his russian-language address to the electorate goes out, with the splendidly crass line, "AS YOU PEOPLE SAY, "we shall wack them while they are sitting on the toilet." This Putinism will not be in the hebrew version of the address. I think it was Lily Galili who spotted that (what a sweet name).
Genocides in Cambodia, Rawanda, Sudan, Saddam's Iraq, nobody cares.
But a little tiny country defending itself, that causes an uproar and spawns acts of terror all over the world.
Makes you wonder how stupid the majority of the world looks to the rest of us.
Who Profits? Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry
If Americans Knew
Israel spies on the USA part 1
5 Israelis detained for `puzzling behavior' after WTC tragedy
I agree, Chris. Israel is just trying to defend the land it stole at gunpoint. Can't the Jews ever catch a break?
the nazi like jews …how ironic that the people who suffered a holocaust only a few decades ago have turned themselves into the same rappacious animals whom they have villified for the past sixty years.
never again….what a joke.
you zionist jews are a joke to the entire world population, here in america youre living in a buble believing that noone knows and noone cares, that you will have cover for ever, but and thats a big but, in the rest of the world youre a joke.
the world sees you as a joke, with your never again slogans and your mythical tales of being a humane and caring people with a humane and caring religion that can not be questioned.
in the u.s you live in a bubble just remember that, and you know what happens to bubbles, just ask alan greenspan or ben bernanke.
Phil Weiss could very well direct his considerable investigative skills towards the socalled 'Missile-defenceshield' that the Bush administration planned to install in Poland – with a radarstation in Tjekkia.
Many of us in the free world have long been arguing that this is just another of the Israel Lobbys initiatives. Please take note that Walt & Mearsheimers book is called: "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" – not "The Israelæ Lobby anmd U.S. Mid East Policy", as perhaps could be expected. So Mearsheimer ans Walt implies in the title, that control is exerted in aspects of U.S Foreign policy. And of course, anywhere where Iran is involved, you can be sure that they have a role. To think otherwise, would be naive.
A Missile shield in Europe,primarily directed towards Iran, would from their point of view internationalise Israel's strategic concerns, just as has been the case with the socalled 'War-on-terror' which – incidentially – mainly targets Israels strategic foes. Then we would all be 'in the same boat' as Israel – something this country with an inhabitable surface-area the size of Delaware and the adjacent Cecil County in Maryland, would love.
And they don't care about Russia, or whether missiles in an area that Russians liberated and cleared for Nazies in WW2 – hurt Russians feelings.
The Israel Lobbyes view is – in the typical selfish, egocentric and narcissistic manner, that so caracterises this group of people: "Hey, The Russians – aren't they the ones that restricted the operations of representatives from our people – the oligarchs?"
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But Obama might cancel the Missile defence Shield, which is good news for all freedom loving individuals.
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BBC NEWS 28. january 2009
Russia 'halts missile deployment'
"Russia's military has announced it will halt its plans to deploy short-range missiles in Kaliningrad, Russia's Interfax news agency has said.
A Russian military official said a change in US attitude had prompted the latest decision, Interfax reported."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7855216.stm
at some level it seems that the u.s is starting to turn on that shitty little country in the middle east..the weissman rosen franklin arrests…jimmy carter…walt and mearsheimer…and now some press….alleluyah.
Israeli troops killed Gaza children carrying white flag, witnesses say
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/60853.html
EZBT ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip — Nasser Abu Freeh was one of the first to see the Israeli soldiers as they entered this pastoral Gaza neighborhood overlooking the Israeli border on Jan. 3, hours after the Israeli government ordered the first ground forces into Gaza.
Abu Freeh's two-story hilltop home is a favorite spot for Israeli soldiers, who used it as a command post during three previous attempts to deter Gaza militants from firing crude rockets into Israel from the surrounding cattle farms, orange groves and dirt alleys.
Of course the witnesses said. Wasn't there another witness who claimed that 5 of her 10 children where "sophies' choiced" in front of her?
A shield directed against Iran? Or put in place to defend against a missle attack from Iran?
We are a joke? Good thing I'm having the last laugh. I recall a german asking a Jewish comedian why the Germans didn't have such funny comedians. The dead pan answer? "Why, you killed them all".
What chutzpah, complaining about the lack of Jewish comedians in Germany
Hearing the lady saying to Obama "you owe it to me…" because "…I prayed for you," I'm reminded of the particular ways in which jews worship. Anyway, here's Michael Scheuer weighting in on the discussion "After Gaza: Is The Two-State Solution Dead?" at NationalJournal.com.
I've got the UK Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, "Unseen Gaza", up on my blog now. Apparently, it was scrubbed at youtube, but our dedicated teams of fanatical anti-Semite electronics boffins, working round the clock, managed to transfer a copy to Googlevideo. Just click my name.
In The Guardian, Neve Gordon and Yigal Bronner, wrote: "Israeli soccer matches were suspended during the assault on Gaza. When the games resumed last week, the fans had come up with a new chant: 'Why have the schools in Gaza been shut down?' sang the crowd. 'Because all the children were gunned down!' came the answer.
"Aside from its sheer barbarism, this chant reflects the widespread belief among Israeli Jews that Israel scored an impressive victory in Gaza – a victory measured, not least, by the death toll."
PS: In the video clip above, the IDF guns are shown right-side up–except once where the display image is repeated.
The film The Pianist captured the treatment of the Palestinians by Israelis very well in its portrayal of the way Nazis treated the Warsaw Jews, especially the street crossing scene and the scene where the boy is beaten to death while caught in the tunnel under the wall.
PS: In the video clip above, the IDF guns are shown right-side up–except once where the display image is repeated.
Posted by: citizen | January 28, 2009 at 10:28 AM
So, the soldier, once noticing that children wanted to talk to him, after making sure bombs weren't strapped to them turns his weapon upside down. A wonderful picture revealing the humanity of both sides, at least where Palestinian children and Israeli soldiers are concerned.
And you turned it into a horrible piece of hate mongering propaganda.
Shame.
I have a feeling that particularly silly remark may be used to ridicule you in future, chris. You need to remember, it's so awfully easy to hang one really stupid quote around someone's neck and just repeat it every time they appear – or even condense it into a nickname, like happened to Dana 'pig missile' Perino.
Fortunately for you, you've produced far too many silly remarks to stick just one on your forehead.
Palestinian livers are the albatrosses of the Twenty-first Century.
to attempt a mature discussion with a liar whose job is to deliberately lie is a waste of time. having others waste time arguing what all know to be lies is the objective of israel's lie corp. rocks work better against these diseased minds.
Chris Berel.
Genocides in Cambodia, Rawanda, Sudan, Saddam's Iraq, nobody cares.
But a little tiny country defending itself, that causes an uproar and spawns acts of terror all over the world.
Nobody cares? Not true. The US press doesn't care; but moreover, American taxpayers aren't supporting these perps to the tune of $10-$15 billion/year.
Neither did the leaders and lobbies of "Cambodia, Rawanda [sic], Sudan, [and] Saddam's Iraq" inundate our government policy makers with lobby money, nor seek to control our foreign policy in their favor, nor accuse us of being anti-Buddhist, anti-Muslim, or anti-Sunni, nor shut down a congressman's career for daring to criticize their countries, nor smear decent people for speaking up.
Rowan.
How did you get the video uploaded to GoogleVideo. I thought the upload service was suspended last week.
Anonymous @ January 28, 2009 at 09:27 AM
Thanks for the Michael Scheuer link!
Weiss, it appears that you are agreeing with me. Comaritively, no one cared about those actual crimes against humanity.
Except the jews, of course.
But then so many are quick to accuse those same Jews of caring only to reduce attention to their, comparitively, misdemeanors against humanity.
Rowan. How did you get the video uploaded to GoogleVideo. I thought the upload service was suspended last week.
well, Mr W, hidden within the sewers beneath London, we have a secret HQ, which contains state-of-the-art communications and encypherment equipment which allows us to crack and override all these puny 'suspensions'. we seldom come to the surface, because our moustaches and pointy hats attract unwelcome attention.
as has happened once before, my wordpress blog isn't showing all my latest posts on its front page,so I had better give the exact link:
link to niqnaq.wordpress.com
Rowan.
I watched it via the net last week or the week before. Can't remember whether I saw it on YouTube or not. But the fact that it's been scrubbed from YouTube infuriates me. All our living history is being scrubbed clean. And I resent having to spend hours/days/weeks downloading or copying essential documentaries, and the bucks I've had to spend on hard drives to catalogue this stuff for posterity.
I do because when I'm challenged by friends that X did not happen, or such-and-such could not be true, I can shove it in their faces. It's a resentment that stems from real childhood, like 3.5 years old, when what I said happened in a situation was ridiculed as not possible, couldn't be. I became a cataloguer and collector of evidence at age four. Even taught myself how to read and write because of it. Age four.
So now I am merrily — not — copying yours.
it's a really paradoxical period we are living in, in this respect. the internet is simultaneously exploding all the lies, while at the same time the quantity and sophistication of the lies and disinfo we are being exposed to is also growing, though thankfully not quite so fast. It's like a race between knowledge and oblivion.
Here are the source files on googlevideo:
Part One
“>link to video.google.com
At the same time, the lies you post, from the Internet, are exploding.
5 out of 10?
Re Israeli hasbara: "So, the soldier, once noticing that children wanted to talk to him, after making sure bombs weren't strapped to them turns his weapon upside down. A wonderful picture revealing the humanity of both sides, at least where Palestinian children and Israeli soldiers are concerned.
And you turned it into a horrible piece of hate mongering propaganda.
Shame.
Posted by: chris Berel"
Actually, for anyone who watches the video clip. The sequence you state is reversed. Upon first image, the IDF (American paid for rifle) is upside down; then it is right side up for a series of images. Then the first image is repeated. Check it out, anyone who cares to merely click to play. Chris Berel just dreams up his stuff, you will see. He's counting on his readers being–you know, goy kops, animals with no brains. It comes with his territory–err, I mean, what territory the UN goys gave him because they were so innately anti-semitic.
First rule of Jewish law: Don't harm a hair on the head of your
kin for anything they do the goy. Second rule of law: everybody else is expendable–just don't admit it in public.
'it's a really paradoxical period we are living in, in this respect. the internet is simultaneously exploding all the lies, while at the same time the quantity and sophistication of the lies and disinfo we are being exposed to is also growing, though thankfully not quite so fast. It's like a race between knowledge and oblivion.'
Well said Rowan. Which is winning, do you think? Oblivion is better financed and organised, but surely knowledge has a couple billion more members.
Citizen, in every image of the cover photo, the rifle is upside down, the soldier's finger is not on the trigger, the children gaze in interest, not in fear.
It appears that Weiss's posted video has exploded. It proved the Israelis are humane and have no desire to hurt anyone's children, no matter how much hatred has been taught to those children in their home, street, school, and mosque.
Chris your interpretation is ludicrous. Surely if you served in the IDF you were taught never to point a gun at another person unless you were prepared to shoot them. Pointing guns at others is pure and simple intimidation. Your efforts to paint this as a friendly exchange exposes a definite lack of judgment on your part.
The gun is not pointed at anyone. It appears to be pointed at the ground which is the correct position.
Your judgement, and your motives, are suspect.
Which is winning, do you think? Oblivion is better financed and organised, but surely knowledge has a couple billion more members.
There is quite an effort going on to turn the internet into an only slightly more interactive form of cable TV. This would be the informational equivalent of GM agriculture.
There is quite an effort going on to turn the internet into an only slightly more interactive form of cable TV.
Yes, pick your tier. Tier 1 has yahoo, msn, aol, espn, etc. Tier 2 (more expensive) has the same plus facebook, myspace, etc. Tier 3 (even more expensive) has all the above and perhaps a few more sites thrown in.
Mondoweiss and the like? Unless Phil can afford to pay a substantial amount, he won't be able to maintain a site. The excuse is that the "bandwidth requirements" are too extensive to allow just any tom dick or harry to have a website. This is nonsense, but will be the excuse used by the carriers. Pehaps a few "non-mainstream" sites will be allowed to carry on, via "public funding", and they'll turn out like PBS or something – and we all know how truthful PBS is.
Yep, the internet is just way too democratic for those in power. The other thing to watch for is the typical fear propaganda in order to get people to slowly change their minds and allow it to be tightly regulated (along with the lies about lack of bandwidth). These will range anywhere from an insurmountable proliferation of child predators on the net, all the way to classic "terrorists" which use the freedom of the net to put all our lives at risk.
We also forced his employer to fire him and caused his wife's employer to fold up shop. And if anyone would like to borrow my copy of "protocols", I'll be happy to lend it out.