Where is Secretary of State Clinton? 150 armed settlers are reported to have attacked Palestinians in several Hebron neighborhoods and nearby villages yesterday, crying "Death to Arabs!" The scene, as Benny Morris reminds us in his new book, and as any Zionist will remind you, of a massacre of Jews in 1929. It never stops. My country is on one side. P.S. The settlers are said to be trying to take back that house they were forced out of last year. And how many of these settlers was "armed" by the Central Fund of Israel, exposed by Adam Horowitz on our site, which collects tax-free contributions at a fabric store in Manhattan for settlers' "urgent security needs"?
Related posts:
- Producer of ‘Accidental Husband’ and Other Upstanding Jews Linked to Fabric Store Outfit that Funds Settler Militias
- A list of apparent donors to the Central Fund of Israel, which supports settler militias
- In NY synagogue, Israeli settler leader calls for assassination of Abbas– and tax-deductible contributions
- New York-based foundation supports settler rabbi who justified the killing of non-Jews
- N.Y. Fabric Store Is Home to Tax-Deductible Fund for ‘Urgent Security Needs’ of Jewish Settlers
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More settler attacks in East J'sem. Source: IMEMC & Agencies
OT..but worth mentioning.
This story isn't new to me but probably is to most.
I came across Amb.Dean's papers back in 2004 at the Carter presidential Library and posted his account of the Israeli attack on him over at the Gorilla in the Room blog.
I don't know how many times Israel has to kill Americans, from the USS Libery to Rachel Corrie ..and in between and unmentioned are many attacks like the one on Dean by the Mossad….until we get a president and congress who won't stand for it.
Anyone who really wants to know the US-Isr deal with Israel really should be going thru the presidential libraries…that's where the bodies are buried.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/crossette?rel=hp_picks
US Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats
By Barbara Crossette
March 31, 2009
In the wake of the accusation by Chas Freeman that his nomination to lead the National Intelligence Council was derailed by an "Israeli lobby," a forthcoming memoir by another distinguished ambassador adds stunning new charges to the debate. The ambassador, John Gunther Dean, writes that over the years he not only came under pressure from pro-Israeli groups and officials in Washington but also was the target of an Israeli-inspired assassination attempt in 1980 in Lebanon, where he had opened links to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
US Envoy Writes of Israeli Threats
Dean's suspicions that Israeli agents may have also been involved in the mysterious plane crash in 1988 that killed Pakistan's president, General Mohammed Zia ul Haq, led finally to a decision in Washington to declare him mentally unfit, which forced his resignation from the foreign service after a thirty-year career. After he left public service, he was rehabilitated by the State Department, given a distinguished service medal and eventually encouraged to write his memoirs. Now 82, Dean sees the subsequent positive attention he has received as proof that the insanity charge (he calls it Stalinist) was phony, a supposition later confirmed by a former head of the department's medical service.
Dean, whose memoir is titled Danger Zones: A Diplomat's Fight for America's Interests, was American ambassador in Lebanon in August 1980 when a three-car convoy carrying him and his family was attacked near Beirut.
"I was the target of an assassination attempt by terrorists using automatic rifles and antitank weapons that had been made in the United States and shipped to Israel," he wrote. "Weapons financed and given by the United States to Israel were used in an attempt to kill an American diplomat!" After the event, conspiracy theories abounded in the Middle East about who could have planned the attack, and why. Lebanon was a dangerously factionalized country.
The State Department investigated, Dean said, but he was never told what the conclusion was. He wrote that he "worked the telephone for three weeks" and met only official silence in Washington. By then Dean had learned from weapons experts in the United States and Lebanon that the guns and ammunition used in the attack had been given by Israelis to a Christian militia allied with them.
"I know as surely as I know anything that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, was somehow involved in the attack," Dean wrote, describing how he had been under sharp criticism from Israeli politicians and media for his contacts with Palestinians. "Undoubtedly using a proxy, our ally Israel had tried to kill me."
Dean's memoir, to be published in May for the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Memoir Series by New Academia Publishing under its Vellum imprint, has been read and approved for publication by the State Department with only very minor changes, none affecting Dean's major points. Its underlying theme is that American diplomacy should be pursued in American interests, not those of another country, however friendly. A Jew whose family fled the Holocaust, Dean resented what he saw as an assumption, including by some in Congress, that he would promote Israel's interests in his ambassadorial work.
Dean, a fluent French speaker who began his long diplomatic career opening American missions in newly independent West African nations in the early 1960s, served later in Vietnam (where he described himself as a "loyal dissenter") and was ambassador in Cambodia (where he carried out the American flag as the Khmer Rouge advanced), Denmark, Lebanon, Thailand (where Chas Freeman was his deputy) and India. He takes credit for averting bloodshed in Laos in the 1970s by negotiating a coalition government shared by communist and noncommunist parties.
He was sometimes a disputatious diplomat not afraid to contradict superiors, and he often took–and still holds–contrarian views. He always believed, for example, that the United States should have attempted to negotiate with the Khmer Rouge rather than let the country be overrun by their brutal horror.
As ambassador in India in the 1980s he supported then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's policy of seeking some kind of neutral coalition in Afghanistan that would keep the American- and Pakistani-armed mujahedeen from establishing a fundamentalist Islamic state. For several years after the Soviet withdrawal, India continued to back Najibullah, a thuggish communist security chief whom the retreating Soviet troops left behind. After the mujahedeen moved toward Kabul, Najibullah refused a United Nations offer of safe passage to India. He was slaughtered and left hanging on a lamppost.
It was in the midst of this Soviet endgame in Afghanistan that Dean fell afoul of the State Department for the last time. After the death of General Zia in August 1988, in a plane crash that also killed the American ambassador in Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, Dean was told in New Delhi by high-ranking officials that Mossad was a possible instigator of the accident, in which the plane's pilot and co-pilot were apparently disabled or otherwise lost control. There was also some suspicion that elements of India's Research and Analysis Wing, its equivalent of the CIA, may have played a part. India and Israel were alarmed by Pakistan's work on a nuclear weapon–the "Islamic bomb."
Dean was so concerned about these reports, and the attempt by the State Department to block a full FBI investigation of the crash in Pakistan, that he decided to return to Washington for direct consultations. Instead of the meetings he was promised, he was told his service in India was over. He was sent into virtual house arrest in Switzerland at a home belonging to the family of his French wife, Martine Duphenieux. Six weeks later, he was allowed to return to New Delhi to pack his belongings and return to Washington, where he resigned.
Suddenly his health record was cleared and his security clearance restored. He was presented with the Distinguished Service Award and received a warm letter of praise from Secretary of State George Shultz. "Years later," he wrote in his memoir, "I learned who had ordered the bogus diagnosis of mental incapacity against me. It was the same man who had so effusively praised me once I was gone–George Shultz."
Asked in a telephone conversation last week from his home in Paris why Shultz had done this to him, Dean would say only, "He was forced to."
Well I guess that's the violent loser's answer to Witty's wished for rule of law regarding land title; Witty
has never specifically said what court should decide, although he has cast aspersions on one
international in character. He tries to parse sovereignty and title when this cannot be done since
Israel has no constitution protecting individual property rights with due process of law. Here's
the reality of non-violent title determination in Israel: http://imeu.net/news/article0016153.shtml
I see now that the IMEU story Phil links to actually credits the IMEMC, yet it doesn't appear to be the same story as the one I link to. Phil's (IMEU's) story relates to Hebron and doesn't mention E.J'sem. The story I link to (IMEMC's) relates only to E.J'sem.
Looks like two separate sets of attacks…
American, great link/text.
George Galloway interviewed by Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!
Its no significance that the most reputable human rights organizations work to reform law and the application of law.
To evaluate a specific case, requires looking at the legal arguments of the case. I cannot judge a case on the basis of a headline.
In Hebron, Jews were ethnically cleansed from property that they owned outright. If there is a means to restoring their title, in whatever individual or organizational form it stood, would be justice.
Right now, Israeli courts are not color blind. They do include opportunistic exceptions to due process using security as rationale.
Palestinian courts are FAR worse. Individuals have been tried and killed for selling land to a Jew in the West Bank. (Israel does not even have capital punishment for murder.) Palestine has capital punishment for selling land.
Witty, it's no problem that Israel has no capital punishment. The settlers' brown shirts seem to close that legal loophole and serve justice to those dirty Arabs.
Witty
what court is that again ? Who provides the presiding judge ?
Israel doesn't have capital punishment for murder? Israel wouldn't need it anyways. Israel kills plenty of Palestinians without any sort of justification.
Right now, my sense is that Israeli courts are MORE color-blind than Palestinian.
You want to work for reforms of each, wonderful.
It would take some research and serious thought. Thankfully there are groups that are undertaking that work, without going for cheap shots.
Witty. as usual, you feign ignorance of who has the power; it's really nasty of you to do so as your
son and your taxpayer dollars all fund Israel, not the USA.
I am growing weary of the lack of any solid sanctions and criminal prosecutions for these…daily actions of the occupation with U.S. tax dollars..and aipac in the U.S. whose 437,000. members which are parts of thousands of others should have been jailed but where to find a jail that size will be hard..if they and others resist the arrest can and should they not be deemed as terrorist on the loose and be gunned down? there are nazi guards etc being pursued and they are elderly.
The facts that the media that has connected the masses and brainwashed them should also be held for the lies and blatten mistruths spread for so very long it becomes the truth to everyone. I am waiting for zionist occupation to come to grips with who they are really…they like everyone cannot choose whom they are…but this over paranoid actions of the people that have hijacked the jewish faith that are needing to be reeled in by their own before we all wake up to what is already a very tasteless hollywood movie script come to life. another really messed up thing is all the occupation had to do in the past 10-20 years was buy the land it neeeded outright…since the money was from the taxes of the usa and free to the occupation (over phoney strategic lies) planted by the zionist movement…no one wanted to keep the morality they wanted to murder and breed murderers…and still they hide behind the hijacked faith of judism. I have yet to see any real reaction by the brainwashed newborn christain movements that haven't a clue they have been set up (again) to be the zionist patsies.
Now that Pakistan has stated they would test the nukes on the occupier there is an influx of people leaving but not in the groves I expected..none the less if a suicide bomber decides to tackle the nuclear facilities illegally in place by the occupation they backlash could be devistating
Very Sad the amount of deceit tied to the aipac groups and people supporting them little monsters.
Do any of the people that are involved with this genocidal reign of terror on the Palestinians and the USA population for the funding of such atrocities really believe that g-d wants them to do these things or that a certain group really could be choosen over all others as elite and without punishment, I believe they really do…..and that is scary for the usa and europe from which this occupation was born from.
Just as all leaders and groups have an end every few hundred years and some longer…the time is upon the world for it once again.
With all the nuclear uncertainty and newest technological advances did any of them think about the power factor or that without power it can not be made..what I am getting at is the clock can..and is turning back civilization even with the advancements.
We are surly heading down a path that ..when it ends…we do too.
Did any of the groups think about survival them and how they will achieve basic things. Does anyone see it comming…did the romans>
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