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brianct

australian, buddhist, environmentalist, anti-zionist etc

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• Univ. of Buffalo student forces Tony Blair to respond to (and dodge) the Goldstone report
  • brianct October 10, 2009 at 6:18 pm with 2 replies

    Regarding this talk about Israel responding to attacks...its the other way round....As we saw with events leading to the Gaza massacre, and more clearly the 2006 Gaza beach shelling, when Hamas was observing ceasefires...which Israael deliberatly broke:

    Beach strike shakes Hamas cease-fire
    Seven Palestinians die while picnicking on beach
    'JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An Israeli navy gunboat fired shells onto a northern Gaza beach Friday, killing at least seven people and prompting the military wing of Hamas to call off a 16-month-old cease-fire with Israel.
    etc
    link to edition.cnn.com

    So Blairs bull about Israel responding ignoresm recent history! Its in israels interest to be seen as the victim, defending itself....So dont be fooled...Blair was lying during his speech.

• Jewish Voice for Peace tries to open debate around Toronto Film Fest, other Jewish orgs (including J Street) look to shut it down
  • brianct September 12, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    jes kicked out of arab countries?

    or ingathering of the jews:

    'How Israel terrorized Iraqi Jews into leaving Iraq!
    'The Roots of Violence in the Middle East

    Chapter 5:

    Special Uses of Violence: ‘Cruel Zionism’ or the ‘Ingathering of Iraqi Jewry.

    It was the last day of Passover, April 1950. In Baghdad, the Jews had spent it strolling along the banks of the Tigris in celebration of the Sea Song. This was an old custom of the oldest Jewish community in the world; the 130,000 Jews of Iraq attributed their origins to Nebuchadnezzar, the destruction of the First Temple and the Babylonian exile. A good 50,000 of them thronged the esplanade. By nine o'clock in the evening the crowds were thinning out. But on Abu Nawwas street young Jewish intellectuals were still gathered in the Dar al-Beida coffee-shop.

    Suddenly, the convivial atmosphere was shattered by an explosion. A small bomb, hurled from a passing car, had gone off on the pavement just outside. By chance no one was hurt. But the incident shook the Jewish community. They were convinced that Iraqi extremists wanted to kill them. The fainter-hearted began to murmur 'it is better to go to Israel'. The next day there was a rush to the offices where Jews wishing to renounce their Iraqi citizenship had to present themselves for registration. Their right to emigrate had been officially acknowledged by the government on the foot of Purim a month before. Its object was to prevent emigration by illegal means. As the newspapers had explained, 'the encounters between the police and the emigrant groups showed that some Iraqi Jews do not want to live in this country. Through their fleeing they give a bad name to Iraq. Those who do not wish to live among us have no place here. Let them go.'30 There had been little response. Police officers had appeared at synagogues and explained that all Jews had to do in order to leave Iraq peacefully was to sign the necessary form. But the Jews were afraid that this was a trap to unmask the Zionists among them; and Zionism, under Iraqi law, "was a grievous offence
    ...
    It was not long before a bombshell of a different kind hit the pathetic remnants of Iraqi Jewry. They learned that the three explosions were the work not of Arab extremists, but of the very people who sought to rescue them; of a clandestine organization called 'The Movement', whose leader, 'commander of the Jewish ghettoes in Iraq', had received this letter from Yigal Allon, chief of the Palmach commandos, and subsequently Foreign Minister of Israel:

    Ramadan my brother.... I was very satisfied in learning that you have succeeded in starting a group and that we were able to transfer at least some of the weapons intended for you. It is depressing to think that Jews may once again be slaughtered, our girls raped, that our nation's honour may again be smirched ... should disturbances break out, you will be able to enlarge the choice of defenders and co-opt Jews who have as yet not been organized as members of the Underground. But be warned lest you do this prematurely, thereby endangering the security of your units which are, in fact, the only defence against a terrible pogrom.[31]

    The astonishing truth-that the bombs which terrorized the Jewish community had been Zionist bombs-was revealed when, in the summer of 1950, an elegantly dressed man entered Uruzdi Beg, the largest general store in Baghdad. One of the salesmen, a Palestinian refugee, turned white when he saw him. He left the counter and ran out into the street, where he told two policemen: 'I recognize the face of an Israeli.' He had been a coffee-boy in Acre, and he knew Yehudah Tajjar from there. Arrested, Tajjar confessed that he was indeed an Israeli, but explained that he had come to Baghdad to marry an Iraqi Jewish girl. His revelations led to more arrests, some fifteen in all. Shalom Salih, a youngster in charge of Haganah arms caches, broke down during interrogation and took the police from synagogue to synagogue, showing them where the weapons, smuggled in since World War II, were hidden. During the trial, the prosecution charged that the accused were members of the Zionist underground. Their primary aim-to which the throwing of the three bombs had so devastatingly contributed-was to frighten the Jews into emigrating as soon as possible. Two were sentenced to death, the rest to long prison terms.

    link to iraqsnuclearmirage.com

    thats what zionists are capable of.

  • brianct September 12, 2009 at 5:41 pm with 1 replies

    ed:
    ';Because the Palestinian Arabs are not a sovereign nation, they are parasitically dependent upon the largesse and good will of others for their existence'

    just who is the parasite?

    'For many years the American media said that “Israel receives $1.8 billion in military aid” or that “Israel receives $1.2 billion in economic aid.” Both statements were true, but since they were never combined to give us the complete total of annual U.S. aid to Israel, they also were lies—true lies.

    Recently Americans have begun to read and hear that “Israel receives $3 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid.” That's true. But it's still a lie. The problem is that in fiscal 1997 alone, Israel received from a variety of other U.S. federal budgets at least $525.8 million above and beyond its $3 billion from the foreign aid budget, and yet another $2 billion in federal loan guarantees. So the complete total of U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel for fiscal 1997 was $5,525,800,000.'
    etc
    link to ifamericansknew.org

    now thats what i call a parasite!

    'And once the Palestinians have their own country, Israel will no longer be responsible for them.'

    Israel has never behaved 'responsibily'. From the formation of zionism, its goal has been to remove the native population and replace it with jewish immigrants.

  • brianct September 11, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    Tirtzu:

    'As Goes Israel, so goes America and Canada. Those who live in Occupied native Indian lands of America and Canada should think twice before they try to ethnically cleanse the Jewish people from their historic and native homeland of Israel'

    Two wrongs dont make a right.... But i see how you are trying to silence critics.
    The palestinian arabs not the israeli jews are the native peoples. You should think twice about that before you go to far in endorcing ethnic cleansing.

  • brianct September 11, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    'We feel it is very important for the pro-Israel, pro-peace community to clearly articulate the lines that we will defend when it comes to actions that de-legitimize the state of Israel itself''

    so what Jstreet is saying is that pro-israel being anti-arab. = 'jewish democacy'...Peace will come when there are no more arabs in israel or in jerusalem...Hence their 'pro-israel pro-peace stance.

    What is the US was to call its an aryan democracy? being pro-US and pro-peace....
    Jstreet needs to be confronted over their ideological standpoint.

    Jstreet is AIPAC lite.

  • brianct September 11, 2009 at 8:54 pm

    'So JStreet opposes both the protest and the opposition to the protest? I’m confused. '

    im not.
    Jstreet is supposed to be an alternative to AIPAC... but in the end kits just as racist as AIPAC : as jstreet tells us: the two state 'solution' is a form of apartheid, and they endorse israels apartheid.

    'Recognizing both these facts is essential to realizing a two-state solution, which is the only way to secure Israel as a Jewish democracy and provide the Palestinians with a state of their own''

    jewish democracy? Aryan democracy....
    what could be clearer???

  • brianct September 11, 2009 at 8:48 pm with 1 replies

    'As a filmmaker and member of the Academy, I can tell you that this is nothing less than a call for the complete destruction of the Jewish State. '

    what this biut of hysteria means is the end of israel as a jews only state. Its pathetic to see rthe Wiesenthal centre effectively defending the sort of apartheid we saw in nazi germany and its aryan state.

    As for israel's 'legitimacy'..is it legitimate? It certainly hsa no legal foundation:

    'There can be no other interpretation when the legitimacy of Tel Aviv is called into question. If every city in the Middle East would have the cultural diversity, the freedom of expression, and treat its citizens, Jews and Arabs, the way Tel Aviv does, peace would have come to the Middle East long ago'

    Then theytry to turn attention away from the apartheid of telk aviv an jerusalem. Every jewish spokesman for the state is always telling us how arabs and jews are treated equally: which is a barefaced lie....just ask any arab in israel...if you can find foreign journalists who will be allowed in to ask them.

• Toronto film fest protest grows to over 1,000 supporters including Harry Belafonte, Julie Christie and Viggo Mortensen
  • brianct September 11, 2009 at 9:13 pm

    'It calls on Israel to live up to the standard of Jewish ethics that I grew up with. As though this should exonerate Israel, its defenders are always quick to point to the many countries where human rights are routinely violated, leading, inevitably, to the question: "Why are you singling out Israel?"'

    a standard tactic..and an admission of guilt. But as for the 'jewish ethics' where were christian ethics in nazi germany or south africa? Power elites rarely are ethical.

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