The double standard of Israeli militarism will soon literally be on display at a museum dedicated to the history of the central Israeli city Hod Hasharon. Evidently, museum curators recently found "an arms cache dating back to the British Mandate at a Synagogue in Hod Hasharon.
The weapons, which included grenades and bullet casings, were apparently stored in the building by the Hagannah Jewish militia." The article continues:
Simcha Klein and Aviva Even-Hen, curators of the
museum dedicated to the history of Hod Hasharon, found the arms while
they were tidying rooms in the synagogue, which was crammed full of
documents, pictures and old maps dating back to the beginning of the
Zionist enterprise.
"While searching the rooms, we came across one small tin box that
contained grenades, and another that contained dozens of bullet
casings," Klein said…
Klein said that during the British Mandate, the synagogue used to
serve as a shelter from Arab rioters, and therefore has long and narrow
windows, and slits for firing. These slits apparently made the
synagogue an ideal location for stashing the weapons.
Hmmm, why does this sound familiar? Oh yeah, it's because Israel repeatedly justified destroying mosques in Gaza because Hamas was allegedly hiding weapons in them. The IDF even celebrated this practice by releasing a youtube video. And here Israeli Maj. Avital Leibovich offers her commentary on the practice and criticizes Hamas for using human shields. She ends by making it clear that "we in Israel do not use our synagogues and religious facilities to store rockets."
Speaking of double standards for militarism, here is a very strange post by Jeffrey Goldberg about
blacks and Jews "shooting back," saying in essence that it's cool when
black people and Jews get guns and shoot back. Of course Goldberg would
deny that right to Palestinians, as he demonstrated at the start of the
Gaza slaughter, which he endorsed. Palestinians of course are not
"shooting back," but simply "shooting at."
(Phil Weiss & Adam Horowitz)
EXCERPT FROM: "The Nightmare of Netanyahu Returns"
This is the man calling for the re-occupation of Gaza to 'liquidate' its elected government
by Johann Hari – Published on 02/06/09 by The Independent(UK)
Israel is about to make a misjudgement as disastrous – and deadly – as the attack on Gaza. In a few days, it looks as if it could elect Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister once again.
This is a man calling for the violent re-occupation of Gaza to "liquidate" its elected government. This is a man who says he will "naturally grow" the West Bank settlements. This is a man who says he will "never" negotiate over Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights, or control of the West Bank water supply.
This is a man who says establishing a Palestinian state would leave Israel with, "an existential threat and a public relations nightmare reminiscent of 1938 Czechoslovakia". This is a man who Yitzhak Rabin's widow said helped create a climate of hate that led to his murder…….
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Your comment is rather baffling. Did the Israelis object to firing on a synagouge from which weapons were being fired or munitions stored?
Actually, it seems that the Israelis proved that the members of Hamas were actively using the mosque when it was destroyed. Did you expect a trial during wartime, then destroy it?
Or are you merely being disengeuous and producing a straw argument signifying nothing but a exercise of mislaid logic?
Please try to keep your bullshit to a minimum, it is hard enough already wading through the deposits left by your compatriots Rowan, Martin, Eva, Joachim, Citizen, America and the rest of the psuedo-intellectual neo-nazis on your site.
I read the chapter about the Haganagh in Koestler's the other evening after realizing I had a copy on my book shelf after all the talk about The Thirteenth Tribe. A first edition first owned by Irving and Lottie Lyons.
EXCERPT FROM: "Hard man of the right is Israel's kingmaker in waiting"
By Donald Macintyre in Umm el Fahm.
The settler politician dubbed 'Le Pen of the West Bank' wants Israeli Arabs to swear loyalty to the state – or lose their vote
By Donald Macintyre in Umm el Fahm
Avigdor Lieberman, the far-right politician campaigning on a platform that Israeli Arabs should pledge loyalty to the state or lose their right to vote, has become the pivotal figure in next week's election after two polls showing his party has overtaken Labour.
The Yisrael Beiteinu party headed by the Moldovan-born Mr Lieberman, who lives in a West Bank Jewish settlement and has been depicted by his critics as an Israeli version of Jean-Marie Le Pen or Jorg Haider, is in third place with a projected 19 or 17 seats in two newspaper polls yesterday.
If the party did take that number of seats, it would mean it has performed well beyond its original base among immigrants from the former Soviet Union and is in pole position to emerge as the kingmaker determining whether Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu or Kadima's Tzipi Livni can best form the next coalition government…..
…..Avigdor Lieberman once suggested that Arab Knesset members who had talks with Hamas representatives should be executed……
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…Koestler's Promise and Fulfillment Pallestine 1917-1949…
Mishaal: Institutes that contradict Palestinian resistance option not legitimate
DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Mishaal, said that no one argues against the PLO being the home for Palestinians inside and outside Palestine, stressing at the same time that its institutions such as the PLO's executive committee and the Palestinian National Council have lost their legitimacy many years ago.
Mishaal, who was speaking at a rally held in Damascus to mark the victory of Gaza, said that the Palestinian people have chosen the resistance option, thus any institute that contradicts this option is illegitimate.
With regard to the truce negotiations in Egypt, Mishaal said that the aim of negotiations is to establish Palestinian rights to lifting the siege, opening the crossings and rebuilding Gaza, stressing that without achieving such rights, there will be no truce, adding that the Israeli side has not given any guarantees regarding lifting the sieve and opening the crossings yet.
He further said that the resistance factions aim to unite the Ummah towards the Palestinian cause without dividing it into camps and axes.
He greeted the crew and activists who were on board the Lebanese Fraternity relief ship which was hijacked by the Israeli occupation navy.
He also greeted all the delegations and medical teams that went to Gaza to help the people during and after the war.
He thanked Syria, Iran, Sudan, Qatar and Turkey for their support of the Palestinian people.
He also thanked the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez and the Bolivian President Evo Morales and their people for their stand in support of the Palestinian people.
His final message to the Arab people was that supporting the resistance is a better choice than wagering on the Israeli elections saying that to the resistance factions, whether it was Kadima or Labour, they are both enemies, occupiers and murderers.
Institutes that contradict Palestinian resistance option not legitimate
This is so funny!!! Israel kicks the shit out of Hamas, but Hamas claims victory because there is still a piece of shit obscurring their vision.
Just too much!! Talk about "1984".
Synagouge (sic); Synagogue
Disengeuous (sic); Disingenuous
psuedo-intellectual (sic); pseudo-intellectual
Berel, although your illiteracy is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, it certainly shouldn’t be a point of pride either. Cut. Paste. Spell check. Nitwit.
"Klein said that during the British Mandate, the synagogue used to serve as a shelter from Arab rioters, and therefore has long and narrow windows, and slits for firing. These slits apparently made the synagogue an ideal location for stashing the weapons."
What is the truth of this? Yes, there were riots during the mandate, but not for all 30 years. In this place? Against whom, for what reason?
Mark, You can't counter the argument so you complain about the spelling?
FROM "THE MAGNES ZIONIST" – by Jerry Haber (nom de plume): The truth is that Israel finds it easy to justify the so-called collateral damage in Gaza for the same reason that America found it easy to justify the collateral damage in Iraq. Because most Israelis are bigots when it comes to the Arabs, whether they are Hamas terrorists or Israeli citizens. They are gnats, tics, or perhaps, some quasi-humans, who one doesn't really care about. Or as the wife of a rabbi told me, "They are animals, Jerry, all of them."
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This is so funny!!! Israel kicks the shit out of Hamas, but Hamas claims victory because there is still a piece of shit obscurring their vision.
Israel's goal was to topple Hamas. They failed. What they instead accomplished was a situation where their commanders can only appear disguised for fear of being jailed for war crimes. Way to go!! You guys real smart!
RE: FROM "THE MAGNES ZIONIST" – by Jerry Haber
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FROM "THE MAGNES ZIONIST" – by Jerry Haber (nom de plume): "Every time you think that Israel has hit rock bottom with respect to morality, we learn the painful truth – we still can and will descend further into the muck."
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Mark, You can't counter the argument so you complain about the spelling?
Berel, when you (first) make a factual argument, I'll refute it to the extent that it is erroneous. However, all I have seen from you since I began reading this site are ad hominem attacks and juvenile sarcasm. There's nothing of substance to counter. And, I'm not complaining about your spelling, I'm correcting it.
Mark,
You can't counter the argument so you complain about spelling.
When challenged, you then admit the argument is beyond your intellectual capacity.
Good for you.
Excellent, Berel, excellent! Three sentences and not a single misspelling. And no significant syntactical gaff. (That spell check function really is useful for someone of your limited educational background and intellect, isn't it?) Under my tutelage, I see you rising to the heights of mediocrity.
For your next comment, I suggest you try to incorporate some facts, or at least a hyperlink to a factual citation. If you are able to do that we can have a nice little debate. Now run along, I hear the ice cream truck coming up your street. You deserve a reward for all your hard work!
The point is very obviously on top of chris berel's head. What happened to the exalted high AshkeNAZI IQ? Or is chris, shudder–an
other branch?
Synagogues were used as jewish strongholds and weapons deposits
back when the Irgun etc were seen for what they were, jewish terrorists. Now, the shoe is on the other foot, and so too Mosques
are similarly used. The point for goy Americans is this: You are aiding and abetting a rogue state. After the Nuremberg Trials, after the economic boycott of apartheid S. Africa, why do you
allow jewish tribal supremacists to rule you? Be progressive, before it is too late.
I see Mark and citizen are becoming tag team idiots. Mark is still complaining about the use of the english language and citizen is looking for a Jew to blame.
Both must be hitting the bottle quite frequently.
LEHI (the "Stern Gang") were pioneers in the use of terrorism, targeting Palestinian civilians "in a series of notorious bombings of Arab markets, cinemas, and coffee houses during 1937-38." Avram Stern (a self-identified fascist and admirer of Mussolini) and his followers later innovated the use of the car bomb when they found that trap bombs, suitcase bombs, booby-trapped orange crates, and other disguised explosives were not capable of causing sufficient mayhem. (The use of these devices by Palestinians, Lebanese, etc. is, of course, treated as evidence of their inherent savagery.) The ultimate aim of LEHI was to provoke a violent reaction from the Palestinians, radicalizing both populations and undermining any opportunity for a mixed, democratic society. Thus, in response to a Palestinian attack in 1948, David Ben-Gurion wrote: "I had never imagined such destruction. I didn't recognize the streets. Horror and hatred. But I couldn't forget that 'our' thugs and murderers had blazed this trail in Haifa, at the King David, the Goldshmidt House and elsewhere."
All quotes from Buda's Wagon, Mike Davis
A more contemporary example of Israeli hypocrisy is the 'human shield'. Briefly, the Israeli Supreme Court received incontrovertible evidence of an IDF policy of using Palestinian civilians, including women and children, as human shields during military operations, often resulting in their death. The IDF continued its policy of using human shields after a Supreme Court injunction in 2002, and after it entered a final Judgment in 2005, their use continuing through the 2008 war.
Car bombs, booby traps, human shields: All part of the Israeli military tradition.