On Italian Yahoo. These young keffiyeh Jews are LA Jews for Peace, and staged a demo outside the Israeli consulate there today. Fabulous poster, huh? And check out the iconic masks of Palestinian suffering…
I feel like young Jews are going to get more and more creative and wild about this stuff, to rip open the hypocrisy of their parents. Also it really feels like a movement. Check out the LA guys' website, unapologetic. Emancipate your country boys. Thanks to Saif Ammous.
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Lebanon Fires Rockets into Israel’s North
In what could be an ominous development, three rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel early Thursday morning, landing around the town of Nahariya, according to the Israeli police. One person was slightly wounded. The rockets, presumably fired by the Hezbollah militia in support of Hamas in Gaza, could presage the opening of a second front. The Israeli army, in a brief statement, said it “responded with fire against the source of the rockets.”
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/07/AR2009010702645.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
An Unnecessary War
An Israeli artillery piece firing into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
An Israeli artillery piece firing into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. (By Anja Niedringhaus — Associated Press)
By Jimmy Carter
Thursday, January 8, 2009; Page A15
I know from personal involvement that the devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided.
At least Carter acknowledges that shelling civilians in Sderot is inhumane. But somehow the Hamas spin gets there. I guess he wants credibility among Hamas leaders to actually be invited.
He ommitted in this article that his request for an audience with Hamas leaders on extending the cease-fire was rebuffed last time he was there.
At least he acknowledged that Israeli officials DID meet with him, and conditionally agreed to continue the cease-fire.
But, the clarification (if true) that the number of trucks passing through the crossings never reached "normal" levels is helpful.
Is there ACCURATE clarification available?
From what I've read, Israelis and Jews were also behind the takeover of the Israeli embassy in Toronto, in protest of what Israel was doing to Gaza. I don't know how they did it. Normally, it is impossible to break through the police barricades. So unless they were let in because they were Israelis, not knowing why they were seeking to get in there, I don't see how they could've done it. Well done anyway.
Hello Richard,
I see that you are using a word "inhumane" in context of the what is happening in Israel and Gaza right now.
That's nice.
Personally, I would reserve this word for some other event or events in this "war". Anything across the border of Gaza, on the other side of the wall from Sderot maybe?
But hey, for the event to be unhumane, it must relate to humans – right?
I see three people in the picture. Maybe there were one or two outside of it. So at this rate, in another 10,000 years Phil, you will finally get a majority of Jews to become anti-Zioinst like you.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1053825.html
Hamas executes dozens of Gazans suspected of collaborating with Israel
By Amira Hass
Tags: gaza, israel news, israel
Since the aerial attack on Gaza began, Hamas has sought to suppress individuals it believes endanger the group's fight against Israel and its hold on power in the Strip, as well as public morale. Prime targets include Fatah members, people convicted or suspected of collaborating with Israel, and "common" criminals.
"Hamas rules with an iron fist even now," said one resident. A political activist who says he supports neither Hamas nor Fatah said that given the difficult conditions created by the ongoing shelling and ground invasion, Hamas is likely to try to prevent collaborators or those suspected to be from working with Israel.
'LA Jews will have signs and banners; bring your own; but no flags please since our message is internationalism and humanism, not nationalism.' — LA Jews for Peace
Probably a good guideline. Flags and nationalism are amazingly polarizing. Some anti-zionists are not necessarily pro-Arab regimes.
Holocaust Denied
The lying silence of those who know
by John Pilger
link to antiwar.com
"When the truth is replaced by silence," the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie." It may appear the silence is broken on Gaza. The cocoons of murdered children, wrapped in green, together with boxes containing their dismembered parents and the cries of grief and rage of everyone in that death camp by the sea, can be viewed on al-Jazeera and YouTube, even glimpsed on the BBC. But Russia's incorrigible poet was not referring to the ephemeral we call news; he was asking why those who knew the why never spoke it and so denied it. Among the Anglo-American intelligentsia, this is especially striking. It is they who hold the keys to the great storehouses of knowledge: the historiographies and archives that lead us to the why.
They know that the horror now raining on Gaza has little to do with Hamas or, absurdly, "Israel's right to exist." They know the opposite to be true: that Palestine's right to exist was canceled 61 years ago and the expulsion and, if necessary, extinction of the indigenous people was planned and executed by the founders of Israel. They know, for example, that the infamous "Plan D" resulted in the murderous depopulation of 369 Palestinian towns and villages by the Haganah (Jewish army) and that massacre upon massacre of Palestinian civilians in such places as Deir Yassin, al-Dawayima, Eilaboun, Jish, Ramle and Lydda are referred to in official records as "ethnic cleansing." Arriving at a scene of this carnage, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, was asked by a general, Yigal Allon, "What shall we do with the Arabs?" Ben-Gurion, reported the Israeli historian Benny Morris, "made a dismissive, energetic gesture with his hand and said, ‘Expel them'. The order to expel an entire population "without attention to age" was signed by Yitzhak Rabin, a future prime minister promoted by the world's most efficient propaganda as a peacemaker. The terrible irony of this was addressed only in passing, such as when the Mapan Party co-leader Meir Ya'ari noted "how easily" Israel's leaders spoke of how it was "possible and permissible to take women, children and old men and to fill the roads with them because such is the imperative of strategy … who remembers who used this means against our people during the [Second World] war … we are appalled."
From Steven Erlanger's report in the NYT today –
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One crucial aspect of any deal is how to prevent new smuggling tunnels from being built under Egypt’s border with Gaza. A senior Israeli official raised the possibility of reaching “tacit agreements” with Hamas to end rocket fire, while also persuading Egypt to allow American and perhaps European army engineers to help seal its border with Gaza above and below ground.
Hamas is insisting that any new arrangement include the reopening of border crossings for trade with Israel and the reopening of the Rafah crossing into Egypt for people.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has said that a 2005 agreement on the Rafah crossing, reached with Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, must be respected. That agreement called for a Palestinian Authority presence at the crossing, supervision by European Union monitors and Israeli video surveillance of who entered and left.
Hamas wants to control the crossing itself and is not eager to cooperate with Fatah, its rival.
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It is an appalling mistake to assign U.S. troops to take over Israel's occupation duties and become the Gazans' jailers.
Consider — the U.S. refuses to recognize the democratically-elected government of Gaza, while subsidizing Egypt's moribund dictatorship with two billion dollars a year.
That Egyptian subsidy was the work of Jimmy Carter. He was dealing with Anwar Sadat at the time, not Mubarak. But 30 years on, the subsidy continues to entrench Mubarak while denying democracy to 70 million people. The moral Jimmy Carter has a moral duty to speak out, but since doing so would tend to undermine the grounds on which his Nobel Prize was awarded, he turns a blind eye to the brutal, teetering Egyptian dictatorship.
Between Jimmy Carter's corroded legacy and Condi Rice's reckless gambit to make America the new Israel, we're all gonna wish we had just stayed at home.
More from Ian Black, writing in the Guardian –
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Israel insists the key to ending the crisis is permanent measures to monitor and destroy tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border.
Elements of the Egyptian-French plan and the continuing discussions at the UN in New York include calls for an international presence on the Egyptian side of the border, the so-called "Philadelphi corridor".
Various sources have reported that there would also be a naval presence to patrol the Gaza shoreline, perhaps commanded by the French. A small naval force was part of the arrangements for a ceasefire in Lebanon at the end of the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
Western officials say any border security arrangement would require US technical aid to Egypt as well as changes to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979 to change military dispositions in Sinai.
Crucially, missing from the plan so far is an agreed mechanism for Israel to lift the Gaza blockade, Hamas's principal demand, though it does mention reopening border crossings. Diplomats said there was hard bargaining over whether the UN statement should use the phrase "full and permanent" with respect to the crossings.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/08/gaza-israel-hamas
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All of this is along the lines of what Jonathan Cook wrote yesterday. Israel is trying to wash its hands of Gaza entirely, putting international forces in charge of policing its borders, while Israel hopes to keep its frontier closed and push Gaza into becoming an Egyptian satellite.
Of course, keeping the Israeli-Gaza border mostly closed to trade would deal another fatal blow to the mythical, mystical two-state fantasy that so many still improbably believe in. Exactly as Israel intends.
For the U.S. to be Israel's facilitator in this process is criminal. It is laying the grounds for the next middle eastern war. Egypt is the new Ottoman empire. Gaza is Sarajevo. And so forth.
All the while, the best path for all concerned is for Hamas to renounce its "resistance" role and become a proto-state, fulfilling the domestic and international responsibilities of a state.
When that occurs, its long-term civility will be observed, and all borders will be normalized.
So long as they remain at war with both Israel and Egypt, vying for the militant path to "nationhood", they will suppress their own people (if they think of all Palestinians as their own, which is greatly questioned on the litmus test of militancy and opposition to Israel).
Nice thinking, there Witty, you just keep telling Hamas how the ought to be running their society. You and your fellow Zionists obviously have the answers, just ask all the dead and dispossessed. You are the ones who think of Palestinians, I suppose, not their own representitives.
Man o' man!
It's Jews like y'all what causes Pogroms, I say . . .
over at takimag.com you have this great piece on that shitty little country.
link to takimag.com
Israel, The Bernie Madoff of Countries
Posted by Taki Theodoracopulos on January 07, 2009
Israel can now safely be called the Bernie Madoff of countries, at it has lied to the world about its intentions, stolen Palestinian lands continuously since 1948, and managed to do all this with American tax payer’s money. Every American taxpayer, starting with George W. Bush, has Palestinian blood on their hands thanks to the butchers that run Israel.
Sderot, where a few homemade harmless missiles have landed, was once an Arab village called Najd, whose 600 Arab inhabitants were expelled by Israelis in 1948. Jewish settlers built over the old town in 1951. Having been ethnically cleansed, the Arabs moved to the Gaza Strip, along with some other 750,000 Palestinians who had been removed from their lands—or murdered, like the villagers of Deir Yassin—before the first Arab-Israeli war had even begun.
UN Resolution 194 and Article 13 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights say the people of Najd and Palestine’s other 384 demolished villages must be allowed to go home. But they can’t because Israel confines them in a small stretch of coastal desert that the Egyptian army held onto in 1949 and became a dumping ground for the displaced population of southern Palestine. Ninety per cent of Gaza’s 1.5 million people are refugees and their descendants. Israel won’t let them come back, nor will it let them have a state of their own in Gaza and the West Bank even if they relinquish their right of return.
I am very busy these days–there are ten thousand dead Israelis in Gaza and I am slowly compiling their names. Also, I am getting the serial numbers of those 150 destroyed tanks.
You don't believe me? I shall soon prove everything . . .
Yawn. The impersonators are getting rather boring.
Hey Phil, looks like your doubts about the massacre story were wrong, unless I am mistaken and this isn't what you were talking about (sorry, can't remember).
Here you go:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/4162193/Gaza-medics-describe-horror-of-strike-which-killed-70.html
I finally figured her out–she's in Lebanon, PENNSYLVANIA!
"Sderot, where a few homemade harmless missiles have landed…"
You would think the people of Sderot should be happy these "harmless" missiles are shot at them.
@bar_kochba132
"So at this rate, in another 10,000 years Phil, you will finally get a majority of Jews to become anti-Zioinst like you."
Don't worry bar_kockba, in another week or two you Israelis and your Murder INC. will have the rest of the world anti-Zionist.
Convincing world Jewry to become anti-Zionist is NOT a prerequisite to forcing Israel to curb the genocide. The more Israel acts, the more they are hated. Face it, it's only in America that there is a bedrock of support (crumble, crumble).
Uh oh, what was that I just heard?
PM
"at this rate, in another 10,000 years Phil, you will finally get a majority of Jews to become anti-Zioinst like you."
I'm looking forward to today's Jewish blogger of the day.
Menawhile, as Phil celebrates each time he finds a Jew who doesn't like Israel, a few thousand young Jews are in Israel right now on Birthright tours, seeing firsthand the virtue of the Zionist cause.
But isn't Israel targeting Hamas infrastructure?
"The international Red Cross accused Israel on Thursday of 'unacceptable' delays in letting rescue workers reach three Gaza City homes hit by shelling where they eventually found 15 dead and 18 wounded, including young children too weak to stand."
link to iht.com
"The virtue of the zionist cause"?
Really?
Look Joe Schtick – there may be a zionist cause, but I can assure you that there is absolutely nothing virtuous about it….
Stevieb: We can agree to disagree on that. As for American Jews – the people of Phil's obsession – I can assure you (to use your phrase) that the large majority are in agreement with me. Phil's excitement every time he finds a few fringe Jews who are with him (and often they are actually pro-Zionist mild critics of Israel) is rather silly.
And young Jews and old Jews alike overwhelmingly support Israel because, like me, they believe in the virtue of Israel and what it stands for.
joe schick = giyus.org
pathetic.
The virtue of Israel is the virtue of JHVH's hypocritically self-righteous propaganda justfying genocide. This, the western protestant churches envy and emulate. not a good exemplar for them though.