2009The Year in [12] Pictures, from the New York Times/International Herald Tribune.
You might be particularly interested in the first of the pictures: "January." What does it tell Palestinians in Gaza? I’m sure it was awful for those in the picture, but the question remains: Why is it first? Are there pictures elsewhere of Palestinians in Gaza during the fighting? No. Later, for balance, a Palestinian in Jericho, holding a child. A healthy living child.
Also of note: The Gazans “were killed,” in passive sense. You know, because it “just happened,” huh.
Like it was some sort of natural disaster.
“Mistakes weren’t made.” It was deliberate.
Instead of #2 I’d like a pic of a US family without an income due to outsourcing of jobs to India.
Yeah, we can’t let jobs go to furriners when freedom-fightin god-fearin murkins are unemployed.
Interesting change in pictures there. When I looked at the collection over an hour or so ago, the January picture was of IDF soldiers consoling one another over the death of a fellow soldier killed “in battle”.
Now it is a picture of the Samouni family members burying one of their dead. If you click on the picture itself it will lead you to a large screen “year in pictures” slideshow which has the IDF soldiers photo as the second January shot, and another shot of a man in the ruins of his home in Gaza.
This is all the IHT and NYT has to say one year after Operation Cast Lead? A single photo of the Samouni family? I’m rooting for the Wall Street Journal’s upcoming New York City edition to pound the arrogant grey lady to 4th place paper status, and as a consequence to have the Times fall into internet-only status. (Not that the Journal is any better in its M/E reporting . . . )
RE: “I’m rooting for the Wall Street Journal’s upcoming New York City edition to pound the arrogant grey lady to 4th place paper status, and as a consequence to have the Times fall into internet-only status. (Not that the Journal is any better in its M/E reporting . . . )” – Oscar
SEE: “Wall Street Journal pushing discredited story”, By Wayne Madsen, 12/23/09
(EXCERPT) The Wall Street Journal reported that the IL-76 cargo plane detained on December 11 along with a Ukrainian and Belarusian crew at Bangkok’s Don Muang Airport en route from North Korea was destined for Tehran with a consignment of North Korean weapons. However, WMR has learned from informed Asian intelligence sources that Tehran was not the final destination for the North Korean weapons. The weapons were destined for Sri Lanka and Ukraine.
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili has denied any Iranian link to the weapons seized in Bangkok. The denial comes at the same time that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadiejad has condemned as a forgery a two-page Farsi document pointing to alleged Iranian development of nuclear weapons. The Bangkok incident and the forged Iranian document suggests that the disinformation campaign against Iran is reachng levels to that waged against Iraq and Saddam Hussein in the months before the U.S.-led attack on that nation.
The cargo plane used to transport the weapons from North Korea was chartered by an intricate web of CIA front and pass-through companies registered in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Vanuatu, Georgia, British Virgin Islands, and Sharjah…
…The operation to smuggle weapons from North Korea was a CIA sting operation, conducted with the assistance of Mossad assets in Azerbaijan, where the IL-76 stopped en route to North Korea from Ukraine, and Georgian and Ukrainian intelligence….
SOURCE – link to waynemadsenreport.com
Rupert Murdoch bought out the WSJ, so don’t expect anything resembling creditability from them.
Thanks for this, D-3870. . . When it comes to I/P, the MSM is all about disinformation — even my beloved WSJ is manipulating me on a daily basis.
The Who once famously said, “We Won’t Get Fooled Again,” and yet, even after Michael Ledeen’s yellowcake forgery, Judith Miller’s falsified reports on weapons of mass destruction, the drumbeat that led America into disasterous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, we’re still suckers for the upcoming third front in Iran.
Our once great nation is saddled with trillions of dollars in debt and it costs a million dollars per soldier per year for our misadventure in Afghanistan. We learned nothing from the Soviets’ own disastrous attempt to control Afghanistan (as if “Charlie Wilson’s War” is a cute, lighthearted romp by a lone elected official to screw over the commies for having the audacity to invade Afghanistan — deja vu, mothereffer).
Now we’re deluged with a drumbeat of Iran’s bad faith:
1) Iran seeks nuclear triggers:
link to foxnews.com
2) Iran expecting a shipment of high-tech weaponry from North Korea to arm Hamas and Hezbollah:
link to nytimes.com
The Office of Special Plans is reopened for new business . . . and expect more American blood and treasure to be squandered, as Russia and China quietly supplant us as world superpowers.
(The Guardian), frigates jammed with weapons for Hamas
The best thing to do with the WSJ is donate it to an animal shelter for training the puppies.
Scenes from the Gaza Ghetto
link to paltoday.com
So, yonira? Are you merely an opportunistic propaganda-spreading David Duke-style denier? Or are you just a complete and total braindead easily duped bimbo?
Better question… who else who’s a bit more proficient in Arabic willing to translate the text on that page for us? My knowledge is a bit limited, but I can conform that gaza in Arabic appears nowhere in the main text, and the header starts with min balaady which would be from a place (probably proper noun, but not sure) called balaad.
In other words — BZZT! Incorrect, and blatantly so.
It blows my mind you are trying to argue that this isn’t a picture from Gaza. Anyways, since you are probably the most inept person I’ve ever encountered, here is a Translation for you:
link to translate.google.com
Now I know Google was created by a Jew, but perhaps you could look past that and believe that Google Translator isn’t also trying to screw the Gazan people.
The truth will set you free Chaos.
Hmm. Admittedly, I was incorrect — the word for Gaza (غزة) and the Gazans (الغزيون) do appear in the article.
What exactly is this supposed to prove, yonira? Eid al-Adha is the Muslim equivalent of Christmas. Are you saying that just because they actually have one bright spot in Gaza that they all pulled together for a Charlie Brown Christmas, that the UN, Amnesty International, UNWRA, Richard Goldstone, al-Jazeera, the American School of Gaza, Oxfam, Human Rights Watch, and however many scores of human rights organizations that are talking about how desperate things are in Gaza are all lying?
You are the Jewish equivalent of a Holocaust denier. This is your “We have no photos of people in gas chambers at Auschwitz so obviously it’s all a lie” moment.
Do you deny that these are pictures from Gaza, yonira?
link to aisgaza.com
Or how about these pictures?
link to ccun.org
Or these?
link to muslimmatters.org
Go ahead, yonira. Embrace that inner Holocaust denier that’s just bursting to get out of your blackened heart.
Do you deny these pictures are from Gaza?
link to aisgaza.com
Or how about these pictures?
link to ccun.org
link to muslimmatters.org
Go ahead, yonira. Embrace that inner Holocaust denier that’s just bursting to get out of your blackened heart.
Ok,
I reported you for posting a picture of a decapitated child on here Chaos, there is absolutely no need to do that. That is below anything I have seen on this site. Have you no shame?
As for the rest of the pictures and for any link you post in the future, I can’t look at them. Your sources are questionable at best.
Children are dead because of you and of course, the best response you can muster is “Oooh! I’m reporting you!” Never mind the endless parade of Holocaust photography you and your ilk trot out when you want to turn a political dime by dancing on the graves of your murdered ancestors.
Keep living that Zionist Holocaust denier’s dream, yonira. You go girl. Anne Frank would just be so proud of you and your mercy for children.
why, yonira? The dead children are a fact. Anyone who defends “Israel’s right to defend itself” should have those photos tatooed on the inside of their eyelids.
Seriously. You have Little Green Footballs wedged so far up your MEMRI hole, yonira, you can practically taste your own Drudge.
How awful! Call the IAF to bomb the place – Gazans are having a moment of a normal life!
I am so fucking sick of disgusting people like yonira who apparently spend all of their time scouring the internet for this tiny little bright moments that people in Gaza or the West Bank have, just so they can propagandize them.
“See! See here! They have a few bins of candy! The entire UN is lying about the crisis in Gaza! Ha ha! This silly primitive Palestinians, painting stripes on donkeys! They think they’re zebras now! How racially inferior!”
People like you will have your Nuremberg, yonira, and the Palestinians will have their homeland back, and Jews will get their culture and religion back from crazed cold-hearted ZioNazi bitch-trolls like you once you’re in prison for life for the atrocities you support, fund and apologize for.
People like me Chaos? People who want a just end to the crisis in the ME? A just solution for both Jews and Palestinians? People like me who have made zero indications on this blog and others that I want the Palestinians to “up and leave?”
I’ve never said anything like that, but you keep eluded to some just end where all these Jews ‘have their Nuremberg’ like I am some kind of mass murder or something. I don’t support the occupation, I didn’t support Caste Lead, but because I support a two state solution and try to show some truth on here I am some devil.
I have my culture and my religion, its Judaism, something you don’t know shit about, so do me a favor and stop acting like you are some advocate for it.
Well I am off, I am going to go try to photoshop something even more outragous than the images you were sick enough to post on here. I’ll see if I can get a hold of Ahmadinejad’s people, they did wonders photoshopping their ‘missile tests’ (Google it, i am sure you don’t have a clue what i am talking about)
I’ll bet you’re not even a real Jew. I’ll bet you’re one of those Russian immigrant phonies whose ancestors took a knife to some real Jews, and then stole their proverbial skins by taking on the name because that was a free meal ticket to either Israel or America.
I’ll bet you’re not really a homosexual either Chaos.
Which is too bad for both of us, I suppose, because with the way you strut around like you’ve got a sausage stashed down your skirt, I’m probably the only guy who might have been hot for you. I guess we’re both out of luck!
Then again, you and Witty would make a cute couple. All that denial and phoniness. You complete one another!
Yonira please do not pretend to act like you’ve ever been an advocate for peace.
The only peace you accept is one in which the Palestinians are on their knees accepting whatever old turd the Israelis feel like giving to them.
thats bullshit James, is the only peace in your eyes a bi-national state? or a state w/ out Jews at all? is that peace?
How about one state where the laws all apply evenly to all citizens, regardless of “Jewishness?” Xenophobes like you will always have New Jersey and Florida to find your gated community to shut away from the rest of us non-Chosen ones. Do you really need a summer home in the Middle East?
Yonira my ideal solution is of course the 1 state solution a state where Jews and Palestinians can live together as equals in a secular democracy.
However, that does not mean that’s the only solution out there.
If the Palestinians believe a 2 state solution would rectify their problems and effectively end their dispute with Israel, then I will support that too.
Unfortunately Israel shits on that chance everyday by building more settlements, escalating the violence against the Palestinians, and effectively stealing more and more Palestinian land everyday. Its the Israelis who brutally occupy the Palestinians not the other way around. Its the Israelis with the most powerful military in the region enforcing that brutal occupation, not the other way around.
Now if your willing to stand up to the Israeli Government in an effective manner, then I will say that your an advocate for peace. But if you continue to make excuses for the occupation… well then your not an advocate for peace because you insist on living in a fairy tale world where this is a symmetrical conflict when it is anything but.
In any case Yonira, I actually sympathize with the Jewish people and all the misery your people were forced to endure during the holocaust and prior to that in Europe. I also understand how that history can make you feel so attached to the state of Israel, and to be quite honest… I don’t blame you for it either.
So I ask you Yonira, what is your solution and how do you propose we get there?
Yonira doesn’t even believe that Operation Cast Lead really happened and is in total denial of the Goldstone report. Are you really holding your breath for any sort of honest response, Mr. Bradley? I don’t think Yonira Deville is really going to care how many Palestinian children have to be skinned, as long as she gets her nice new coat.
Oh, and yonira sweetie? Here’s something else you can report me for putting up.
link to normanfinkelstein.com
How very inappropriate, huh.
I refuse to look at anymore of your links, I am sure Mr. Finkelstein has the decency to not post pictures of decapitated children on his website, but I will still not look at it.
As for saying I was for Caste Lead, show me one place I said that? Or just look at my post DIRECTLY ABOVE yours where I denounce it, along w/ the occupation. All you do is make yourself look bad when you flat out lie about people’s positions, especially when they are in the exact same thread.
So your saying those pictures should be censored from the American public?
I think we Americans need to see where our tax dollars are being spent in our name.
You’re like if David Duke had a love child with Golda Meir, yonira. You tried to discredit the fact that Gaza has been the site of crimes against humanity of the greatest magnitude by your judenreich with your trite “Gaza Ghetto” post and now you want to backpedal your holocaust-denial tactic?
Oh-ho-ho, and now you refuse to even check information out before you disregard it! Do you have any idea, yonira, any idea how many Germans and Russians did exactly what you’re doing right now? Just turn your head and pretend like it isn’t happening?
I refuse to believe you’re a real Jew, yonira. I just flat-out refuse. Like I said, you’re probably from some Euro-Russo family of imposters who got in on the “Jewishness” when it suddenly became profitable. No honest Jew I have ever met has ever acted anywhere as dishonest, nasty, vicious and callous as you.
I know exactly what happened at Cast Lead and in Gaza, its horrible and that is why I am against it. But I am also against the disinformation on this website. Those were pictures from Gaza, from a Palestinian website (which I read on a daily basis).
what are you talking about Holocaust denial, you’ve said it like 10 times now to me, I have dismissed it w/ the rest of the shit you say, but please what are you trying to say? That I denied the Holocaust?
So I am less of a Jew than the commanders in the IDF and leaders of Israel? because I post a picture of some truth on here? I know the conditions in Gaza are horrible, but its no Warsaw Ghetto.
Yonira what is your solution to the conflict, I honestly want to hear it.
Honestly, a two state solution used as a cooling off period, perhaps even an entire generation where there can be true reconciliation and cooperation.
I would hate to see the Jewish identity of the state of Israel cease, but I wouldn’t be entirely against it either, if that’s what is needed for a just peace for everyone.
Excellent Yonira. But how do we accomplish that 2 state solution and get to that “cooling period.”
How can we ensure that the Palestinians receive a viable state to reach their national aspirations? Is it possible for Israel to remove nearly 500,000 settlers from the West Bank or will they have to remain in the Palestinian state as citizens of Palestine? Will Israel be willing to relinquish its right to the water aquifer in the West Bank? Will Israel allow for a corridor between he West Bank and Gaza? What about the refugees from 1948, do we just ask them to forgive and forget?
These are really big issues because the Palestinians need at a minimum these things to have a state that is viable and capable of allowing them to realize their potential in one form or another.
Of course many people would still love to see a 2 state solution but at this point in time Palestinians and Israelis are so intertwined with each other (in an unequal relationship) that simply cutting them off from one another just really isint possible.
Unless there is something you know that I’m not aware of.
Its all part of the negotiation. The settlers are the biggest issue, but that is something Israel will have to deal with, they allowed these people to settle in the WB, they’ll have to deal with getting rid of them once a solution is reached. I believe there are many who simply became ‘settlers’ because it was to their economic advantage(especially in those areas around Jerusalem), they would be willing to leave in exchange for peace. There are many who will need to be evicted, just like in Gaza and in the Sinai. If they want to be citizens of Palestine, more power to them. Perhaps Jerusalem could be an international area, solving much of the problems concerning the East Jerusalem settlers.
Of course there will be a corridor between the WB and Gaza I don’t think that has ever been an issue.
Those who are still alive from 1948 can have the right of return or if they choose to live in the Palestinian state they’ll need to be some sort of monetary settlement. Those who were born after the Nakba will also need some sort of monetary settlement, but there is no reason that the right of return would apply to them, as it doesn’t and hasn’t ever applied to any refugee population in the past.
The water aquifers will be dealt with using desalination plants and some sort of water cooperative between the two.
The two countries will still be intertwined, much more than they are now. They’ll be an equal partnership.
The world wants a solution to this so badly, the amount of money that will be pumped into the region will be unprecedented. This will be enough to allow the Palestinians to catch up and create a viable economy which will rival that of any economy in the ME.
Now James, I ask you, how can you get two people to live together who’ve been raised hating each other? How would you deal with an already established Israeli economy, how would the Palestinians be treated fair, how would they be integrated into this society? This is one of the my biggest fears, SA isn’t exactly a utopia, the ANC has political control, but the blacks in SA aren’t seeing any real improvement in their everyday lives.
How would you get the Israeli establishment and the ever hated AIPAC to relinquish control of such a vast empire? How would you deal w/ those Palestinians and Israelis who were evicted from their homes in 48? would they be able to get them back? move to different areas? How would you deal w/ the many fundamentalist groups who would oppose this? Who would police the situation and safeguard the rights of both the groups?
What about the military establishment in Israel, how would this be handled?
I think there are more unanswered questions concerning a bi-national state.
Also I would like to thank you for treating me like you are, its nice to have a civil conversation, with real ideas for solutions and reconciliation not just name calling (even if mine are ridiculous :) ).
Chaos, I don’t want to step in the middle of the skirmish with yonira, but whoa . . . the photo essay from Finkelstein’s website is astounding. I think that’s precisely the imagery that got Professor Robinson at UC Irvine in trouble with Abe Foxman and the ADL . . .