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Actually, those are words that the mirror should pitch back at Dersh.
When Zionists argue amongst themselves the bullshet meter goes off the chart. If I had to choose the most delusional and hypocritical of the two; I'd choose Beinart. In my opinion, Liberal Zionists are the biggest threat of all because they actually believe something good can come out of Zionism when history and reality are in their face proving them wrong. It's not the radicals like Dersh that sustain Zionism. If we only had to deal with the radicals; the occupation would be over and Palestinians would have their rights and justice.
But woe is them and us! Liberal Zionists are insufferable keeping the Zionist dream, ergo the occupation, alive with all their endless hopey talk. Zionism is good, if only....blah, blah, blah, BULL!
"Israel is the world’s only Jewish state."
Badge of dishonor.
Bobby Brown? lolololol...keep him!
Pathetic ridicule of Stephen Hawking. Contemptible ignorance.
Hear-hear!
"I have to confess that I was rather looking forward to them spreading poo poo all over their own faces with that one but the stupidest and cockiest of Zionists have a moment and sanity and I guess they decided to spread lies instead of attacking a revered icon such as Hawking."
Have you visited the Huffington Post's article on Hawking's decision? The comments reek with hate for Hawking.
Obama'll probably throw him under the bus for political expediency. It won't be the first time he does that to someone he pretends to admire.
It takes one voice to change a room, to change the world; especially a voice with such gravitas.
Time is your enemy.
The Zionist hasbara are going berserk and twisting with rage against Stephen Hawking's moral stance on Israeli Apartheid. When hasbara come out in droves you know they're worried. There is no low they won't stoop to in defense of their precious Zionism. Their smear campaign against a much-lauded and respected scientist who understands the meaning of suffering is beyond pitiful.
It's actually amusing watching them make utter fools of themselves. They're digging themselves into a deep hole and I love it! This is priceless! Thank you Stephen Hawking!
No doubt the Israelis are up to their eyeballs in this Syria mess. They just want to see that country destroyed by any means possible.
They crossed it some time ago with other terrorist and brutal acts against civilians.
Exactly.
Hasbara grasping at straws.
Who cares what Obama does; I'm glad you think this Zionist puppet is useless. The rest of your post is ridiculous. Israel lives...to provoke. Israel is itching for war. Nothing new.
"Israeli False Flag operation using the Rebels..."
I believe I stated so here as well and, as usual, no one believed me. Mossad, chemistry lessons; very false flag.
Israelis trained the PKK; they trained Jundallah; why not these "rebels"? I scoff at the word! Let's call a spade a spade: Terrorists engaging in TERRORISM, sponsored by the state that conducts war like a terrorist act.
"That`s where the moral of the story lies not the other way around"
Uhh-only if the story ends there. Unfortunately for Israel; this is just the beginning and the worst for Zionism awaits.
Good luck with that! NOT.
How do you attack Syria and by-pass the Russian and Chinese veto at the Security Council? Send in the bully on the block who disrespects the U.N. and thumbs its nose at the Security Council repeatedly. Israelis got the green light for a proxy hit and charged out like bats out of hell.
Israel was itching to get in on the fight in Syria like it found any excuse to destroy Lebanon completely in that civil war and sitting on the sidelines were frustrated that no one else wants to get the job done. Israelis think they're above the law. Their reckless hubris is unmatched.
One day, what they unleash will come back to bite them back hard and I'll be pinned to my seat to watch them get exactly what they've had coming for decades.
Yes, he was "forced" to retreat at the whining of a foreign Lobby because he's just the President of the United States -- that's all. I have no pity!
Personally, I don't give a rat's ass what Fayyad has to say because he helped to build the structure of permanent occupation. He's what I call Col. Nicholson (Bridge over the River Kwai); building for the Occupier, the Oppressor, the Enemy. He was the Occupation's subcontractor; Israel's subcontractor; Zionism's subcontractor.
And what's the result of his "great" endeavor: more land for Israel; no rights for Palestinians.
At the 2010 Herzliya conference here's what E.Barak said: "The settlers are also saying that the security situation is better than ever, and that is thanks to the work of both sides." He was undoubtedly referring to Fayyad who also spoke there and his great contributions to the Zionist cause. Sooo the goal is to ensure the settlers are happy! So the settlers who are in violation of the Geneva Convention should be satisfied with the efforts of Palestinian "leadership"?
Oh yeah, and Fayyad predicted a Palestinian state by 2011 at that conference!
So, here's what Fayyad did: he did everything in his power to please his Zionist masters and got Zeeeeeeeero in return for Palestinians. In my book that's called: COLLABORATION with the enemy.
Fayyad shouldn't have had the opportunity to quit; he should have been booted out along with his side-kick Abbas a long time ago! The PA is what helps to sustain the occupation! If they had any sense, they'd all resign and hand governance over to the APARTHEID STATE, so that the entire world could finally see what Zionism is really about.
If Israelis couldn't hand these two a Palestinian state; then you can be sure they're doing everything in their power to prevent a Palestinian state from ever happening.
Oh and Liberal Zionists represent the snowjob; making Palestinian collaborators believe that the pipe dream is alive and possible if they'll just keep on COLLABORATING and working on behalf of Zionism.
Has Israel imposed its authority on all its own RADICALS? NO.
Only after the terrorists did the dirty work; did Gurion try to reign in the Zionist "militant" group under the family umbrella...how convenient!
The need for a JEWISH state based on ethnic cleansing driven by terrorist acts, the oppression of millions, LAND THEFT and the suppression of the rights of millions of Palestinians. That's some insatiable need Zionists who live comfortable lives in the West have!
Guantanamo should be renamed "Revenge Camp". The few times I see images of this Revenge Camp where the Law don't reach, I think I'm witnessing some sick play called "Total Muslim Submission at the hands of U.S. domination" in a macho military twilight zone; a place where the human in humans is scorched from their system via cruel and inhumane treatment on behalf of the greater apathy and vindictiveness of America.
"Quit apologizing for him."
Hear-hear!
Hell exists and it's U.S. made. The dark side of America.
Is killing scores of civilians in drawn-out nation-building wars an act of terrorism? Is blow-back terrorism?
Islamophobia and revenge now taint the law. I'm not sure if such egregious errors in judgment are reversible. The blindfold has been pulled away from the eyes of Justice.
If Americans don't start practicing what they preach they will no doubt suffer the consequences of the injustice they've created.
Americans think they live in a vacuum. They believe that their actions are exclusively exempt of consequences. They consider consequences as solely driven by the hate of others, while they refuse to see that they are the ones generating those consequences with actions that are just as hateful and irrational. Only Americans think they can slaughter others with impunity. They answer to no one for the hundreds of thousands they kill every five to 10 years. Americans imagine they have some kind of moral authority that places them above the law, when in fact their actions demonstrate they have no moral authority at all.
In addition, Americans presume that everyone wants and envies their lifestyle. They try to impose their "values" on others by force while making absolutely no effort whatsoever to understand those they invade and have absolutely no respect for. They totally disregard the complex social structures and demographics of the countries they invade which also affect the final outcome in a very negative way and create different and often impossible challenges and destruction in the lives of these invaded people.
There are no words to describe the pain, horror and chaos that America's wars and constant meddling in the internal struggles of other countries cause. And because Americans set themselves up as the ultimate authority, they answer to no one and the rest of the world must put up with the mess they make and bear witness to the tragedy they create powerless to put a stop to their actions.
Americans are raised on a culture of violence, revenge, hubris/ethnocentricity, and material pursuit. Everything Americans do is defined by this limited experience. Their compassion is limited by the current enemy flavor and their unwillingness to be confronted with the brutal consequences of their reckless and ignorant behavior in addition to their short attention span. Reality is softened through the sanitized lens and distorted by ethnocentric perception.
The only way to break free of the cycle of violence is to experience compassion for "the other". Time and time again the universe or God has provided opportunities for awareness when tragedy whether natural or man-made strikes Americans and repeatedly they reject spiritual evolution by continuing to cling to the limited experience described above and so the cycle is once again triggered.
First of all, the figure is very conservative.
You should go further in stating the truth. A statistical global analysis should be conducted on the number of Muslims killed in the past 75 years and especially since the partition of Palestine. The U.N. should combine the figures for the number of Muslims killed as a result of wars of aggression or foreign intervention in the Middle East (Algeria, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan (1st Russian invasion, then American invasion), Libya and Syria, Africa, Russia, the Balkans and Asia. Combine this study with another on the rising tide of Islamophobia.And it ain't over...next stop Iran.
And then everyone wonders why they hate us? Because they can read better than us the writing on the wall--Genocide anyone? Of course it's covered up by the fact that there's over one billion and a half of them. What's ridiculous, sad and ironic about this is that even if this is neutralization/control via genocide; it isn't working; it's not going to work; the blowback will continue and the endgame is already lost. They are growing in numbers by leaps and bounds and are much younger than Western civilization. We are swimming against the tide. The notion that we can control them is totally misguided and delusional.
I too do not buy the 225,000 figure. It's really conservative and a sanitized by-product of government and mainstream.
I also believe that deaths resulting from the civil strife created between Sunni and Shia because of these U.S.-initiated wars and political intervention should also be attributed to the U.S. The U.S. is responsible for these deaths which although not a direct consequence of U.S. aggression are nonetheless a consequence of U.S. meddling intervention.
So the umbrella Lobby which includes Zionist groups in universities, because the Lobby's reach is far-and-wide, tried to kill this bill and failed. Unfortunately, the student president seems to have buckled in his language if not his campaign promise not to veto this divestment. He must be considering running for office one day, which is sad, because this proves that nothing will change in Washington in the future.
So now, we should ask: what next? Is the Lobby going to get into kindergarten and middle schools lobbying there as well to rescue its precious Zionism?
Wonderful news!!! This man is a tower of courage and strength. May he live to witness the end of Israeli occupation and oppression and the dawn of FREE PALESTINE with the return of the refugees to their homeland.
Right now Israel is plugging a hole here and a hole there, but when the real downpour begins, it won't know where to turn, because the BDS movement will be unstoppable.
Inundate Israeli injustice and apartheid with BDS!
"America, losing it’s hegemony in the middle east, is currently using the mad dog israel to keep the mideast in a chaotic flux while it figures out how to keep the Chinese and Russians out of the middle east. In case you haven’t noticed, America is rapidly losing the Syrian battle to the Russians..."
The Russians aren't just in Syria but Russian warships are presently on a little visit to a Southern port in Iran where Russian commanders are meeting with their Iranian counterparts. Notice how the mainstream is totally avoiding this event.
link to presstv.ir
So Russia is definitely demonstrating that it means to protect its own interests in the area.
Speaking of Israaaaael, the U.S.'s mad, really maaaad dog, you won't believe the latest crock of bull Israelis have cooked up to get the U.S. to escalate or expand the proxy by civil war invasion of Syria.
""To the best of our understanding, there was use of lethal chemical weapons. Which chemical weapons? Probably sarin," Brun said in the most definitive Israeli statement on the issue to date."
Israelis sure are desperate to trigger full blown war in Syria, Iran and bring on WWIII! They'll DO and say anything to drag everyone into it! There was something too "homemade" about that chemical attack a few months ago. I wonder if Israel is working with the Syrian rebels, like they trained the PKK and worked with Jundallah and MEK in Iran to assassinate scientists and commit other acts of sabotage and terrorism inside Iran?
The Russians have already made a connection between Syrian rebels and the Boston bombings, since all belong to salafist radical groups connected to Al-Qaeda. They all carry that black flag with white writing on it, and there are Chechens actually fighting with the rebels in Syria.
Now that there are Chechens fighting with the opposition side and given the tragedy in Boston, how can the U.S. justify providing more support to that side? Hence the reason Israel cooked up this story to move the red line the U.S. stated would be a legitimate casus belli against the Assad regime.
Israel wants WAR by any means!
In a more perfect world, Obama would have appointed John Kerry Secy of Defense and Hagel, Secy of State; but Obama's too shallow, stupid and weak to recognize the sublime irony in doing so.
In this State position, Kerry is but a whisper of his former self:
link to youtube.com
Back then Kerry roared with the truth, because he felt the horror, but, I love to wonder what he would do confronted with the clamor of war with Iran as Secy of Defense. I wonder if he would remember his own experience of war and those profound words and avoid war with a vengeance. I would put that test before him!
We must end this senseless cycle of violence; grieve for ALL the dead and honor their victims too with a moment of silence and then indignation against the savagery of war, because not doing so is to be less than human OURSELVES! The more advanced the war machine becomes the more ignoble and cowardly it is. Let's make war on WAR!!! And in the words of the wise; for God's sake GIVE PEACE A CHANCE already DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your hubris stinks.
Hope it's contagious! More, more more...
Because they sense Zionists will eventually self-destruct; they want to be in a position to step up and help free their brothers and sisters in the Israeli gulag called the "territories".
I'm grateful for your reporting, but on this incident, you're preaching to the choir. I believe this was a missed opportunity. I guess my nature is different than yours, although, I too suffer physically when I witness an injustice or when someone, anyone, stranger or not, including myself is the victim of ignorance. However, I'm better at defending others than myself. I guess because when it happens to you; it's dehumanizing and paralyzes your spirit; I only wish someone would defend me when I'm the victim of someone's ignorance. Unfortunately, most people today keep to themselves and don't go out on a limb.
But when someone else is a victim of injustice; it's like I'm suddenly possessed and can't be silenced, I could care less who's listening or who I'm confronting, almost recklessly so. I too witnessed a racist incident on a bus once and believe me, the individual who behaved in a racist manner to a young man of another race on that bus got a PIECE OF MY MIND. I shamed the man publicly in front of everyone present. He too behaved as if he was that young man's master, i.e. an act of supremacy, and I was not to be contained. I just couldn't let him get away with it. True, I may be foolishly impulsive even reckless at times for my own good because he could have reacted violently; but I can't stomach injustice and my reaction was so second-nature; I doubt I could have kept quiet even if I tried.
I'm not trying to judge; I know you're a good person, in fact, I really feel the empathy in your pieces; but that woman needed to be exposed for what she is: a RACIST bigot and supremacist. It's too bad that she went on her way with her hubris unchecked and intact, probably setting a horrible example for her own children who will one day be drunken revelers contaminating the atmosphere in Jerusalem with their racism.
I do sympathize though; I don't think I could live in a place like Israel. I don't think I could survive in such an environment. Perhaps, you've been conditioned to put up with it, but when it comes to injustice, I'm so fragile that to be surrounded by it every day would either threaten my health seriously or literally kill me in the long run. Deception also makes me physically ill. Maybe I'm not as strong as I should be; afterall. I don't know how you can live there; but the reporting you deliver is valuable. The world needs to know and ACT against this injustice now.
Zionists fear the potential power the Church holds to change the narrative and public opinion dramatically with its 1.2 billion Catholics on the Palestinian issue like they fear the plague. But can you imagine the tsunami of rage that would be unleashed by Jewish and Christian Zionists against the Church at this critical time in the Church's recovery if the Church took a strong position against Israeli injustice? This predictable onslaught would represent the final nail in the coffin. I suspect the Cardinal views pleas to speak out on Israeli injustice coming from Jews as A TRAP to unleash the full wrath of the Zionist community on the Church with the destruction of the Church to follow.
Zionists have rigged the game against the Palestinians so deviously tight with the U.S., cowardly Europe, their “subcontractor”, the Palestinian Authority, and the Catholic Church which is second to the U.S. in the power it holds to turn this thing on its head.
Cogent.
If you're referring to Cardinal O'Malley's "hypocrisy"; I disagree. I don't think it's hypocrisy; I think he's trying protect the Church from further viral attacks. The Jewish Community has launched massive attacks against the Church in the past. The Church is trying to restore credibility, dignity and humility right now. Can you imagine how devastating it would be at this time for the Church to make itself the target of Zionist power when it's trying to recover from the greatest challenge in its history??? I think sometimes we're too quick to judge.
Look what happened to Kairos International? This Christian organization that does indispensible charity work in different places in the world was DEFUNDED for taking a strong position on Israeli injustice and apartheid.
The Church also does even greater charity work around the world in places others fear to tread inside leper communities and with people with HIV-Aids in America and other places.
"In 2008, the UK's Guardian newspaper reported that:
[T]he Catholic Church is the biggest private provider of AIDS care in the world, providing anti-retroviral treatment, home-care visits and counseling to one in four of the world's 33.3 million AIDS patients, according to the Catholic charity Caritas International. In 2008, members of the Catholic HIV and AIDS network spent 180 million euros (about $235 million) on assistance..." link to en.wikipedia.org
I do agree that the Church needs to take a greater stand on Israeli injustice against Palestinians, I would love it if it did, but Zionists have put the Church in a defensive position, and it would be an even greater tragedy if all the good the Church does around the world also falls prey/victim to Zionist injustice.
I think everyone needs to remember that the Church is the largest charity organization IN THE WORLD, and quit demonizing it with the attacks. Then maybe the Church will finally be in a stronger position to assume the righteous stand on this issue that I'm certain it would like to take, ESPECIALLY, under someone like Pope Francis. But it's everyone's responsibility to help shorten the path to that inevitable outcome and attacking the Church at every turn is a self-defeating, failed strategy that cripples the Church's ability to reach that goal.
Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
While your words appear correct and effective on the surface, the psychology behind them disturbs me.
" You’re aware that Easter raises difficult issues for Jews. Easter reminds Christians that Jews, the great naysayers to Jesus the Christ, are still around in the world. Throughout European history Easter has been a dangerous time for Jews. Sometimes it got rough."
If you want to convince the Cardinal to take a righteous stand condemning Zionist oppression of Palestinians, why do you begin this piece/letter with this guilt-complex meme that most Jews use to SILENCE Christians on their criticism of Israeli injustice against Palestinians?
Right from the start you appear to place a gag on the Cardinal by resurrecting the past that is no longer relevant, as far as the Catholic clergy is concerned since they have already apologized for whatever offenses were committed by Catholics against Jews.
It's like saying: Don't forget what you've done to Jews in the past (...before you open your mouth to criticize the injustice committed by Jews against Palestinians).
You know how often this meme is used against Christians who dare to criticize Jewish oppression of Palestinians? And it's way too effective, since guilt is a powerful tool to censor.
So by putting the Cardinal in his place from the start making him feel guilty about what Easter represents for Jews, when the Church has already apologized for all wrongs against Jews; you make him think twice about voicing whatever feelings regarding the injustice in Israel he may have wished to express.
And tell me, how many Jewish holidays celebrating something redeeming for Jews also represent events where "others" were slaughtered in the process? Easter is the most holy of Christian holy days and represents the sacrifice Jesus made for all humanity and the hope of redemption for all humanity. Why use Easter to undermine the Cardinal from the start?: "Your aware..." Of course he's aware; hence the repeated apologies to Jews by Pope John Paul, Pope Benedict and O'Malley, himself!
There is understated contempt in that single paragraph; that refuses to put the past in the past to heal, move on and focus on the urgent need to condemn injustice against Palestinians in the present. You can't expect him to move on to the injustice against Palestinians when you keep driving the injustice against Jews in his path.
And by the way, are you aware of all the injustices against Christians by Zionists in Israel?
Here's just the latest example:
link to maannews.net
Wouldn't it have been more effective to say: I'm aware (as opposed to "you're aware...") that Jews in Jerusalem, Nazareth and Galilee etc. are committing hateful acts against Christian clergy in Israel, and Jewish intolerance of Palestinian Christians is happening in places like Nazareth so as a Christian you understand the need to speak out against such hate and intolerance and especially against the even greater injustice and hate perpetrated against Palestinians in general.
By appealing to the injustice and intolerance directed at his own faith; you might have made greater strides, instead you choose to again offend him after you "apologized".
(I certainly hope this comment appears, as none on my comments to this individual have ever been posted. Or are we supposed to agree with everything he writes?)
Why don't they write: DON'T DO WHAT WE DID; DO WHAT WE SAY; DO SOMETHING WHILE YOU HAVE A CHANCE?
Sheesh...while it's encouraging they FINALLY spoke their minds; they were spineless while they were actually able to influence the situation.
Will we find Obama too as a signator to a similar letter 5 years from now???
QUIT FEARING ZIONIST POWER AND ENABLING INJUSTICE!
"His depravity is our depravity."
Ditto.
This war will be easy to push now that the terrain is once again fertile with Muslim hate in Liberal Country with the latest hate-fueling odyssey we just witnessed in Boston.
The FBI did indeed interview the suspects in 2011 at the request of a "foreign" government. link to reuters.com
Are we supposed to believe they just dropped the ball AGAIN and dropped them from their radar? Are we supposed to believe they didn't view them as the perfect patsies for either entrapment/foiled terror attack, or false flag/"switch to live" attack or "just let them loose attack" timed during periods of waning terronoia and often carried out in "liberal country" to get liberals back on board with the continuing war on terror?
The FBI foiled the plot (i.e. set-up) in February 2012 of a suspect en route to launch a terror attack on the U.S. Capital. No doubt this was a sting amounting to entrapment. The venue was great, but the terronoia effect was limited by healthy skepticism for a change. link to content.usatoday.com
So a better plan was needed and perhaps it was already in the works. Why would the FBI just shelve the case of these Boston suspects in 2011 when there were signs that the older suspect was railing against American morality and moving in the direction of religious fundamentalism? I wonder if he was already on their radar BEFORE 2011.
The FBI has been playing this game for some time now and they've surely honed their "craft" since then. Speaking of CRAFT, why were those private security contractors spotted at the finish line before the bombing there? Normal procedure?Doubtful.
Let's backtrack in time, because the "baiting" started in the 1990s:
"The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer said.
The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City's tallest towers." link to nytimes.com
The mother of the suspects who claimed that the FBI had been in touch with her sons and were monitoring her sons was telling the truth after all, and we should remain very skeptical about what really transpired during those years the older son was "changing" and whether "friendly" operatives had introduced themselves to the suspects to gain their confidence to provide means and opportunity.
"“My son would never do this. It is a set-up,” the woman continued in her interview with RT. “He was controlled by FBI for like, three, five years. They knew what my son was doing. They knew what actions and what sites on the Internet he was going. He used to come home, they used to come and talk to me. They used to tell me that, you know, that they are controlling his – they were telling me that he’s really a serious leader and they’re afraid of him. They said, they told me that whatever he is, whatever country decides, whatever is there, whatever information he’s getting, they are controlling him, so how could this happen?" link to wnd.com
Yes indeed!: HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?
Timing, location and motive is what we should be looking at:
Motive/Timing: terronoia and Islamophobia, especially among liberals has been on the wane, and war fatigue is predominating when escalation in Syria and war with Iran is in the works. A radical turn around was required.
Location: Massachusetts, ie "liberal country", couldn't be more perfect.
Think about the mood of the masses pre-9/11 and how radically it changed after that. Terronoia was heightened to such a frenzy that it made marching into Iraq and Afghanistan a cakewalk. Maybe this will make more war with Islam i.e. the continuing war on terror a little more palatable to the sheeple.
The suspects just happened to live in the right place; the timing couldn't be better and the marathon was the perfect venue for a sensational effect; so why mess with a "great" plan?
How convenient for the world's most notorious Islamophobes and the Islamophobe state who wants to attack Iran! Now because of this Marathon bombing and internationally-viral Muslim manhunt marathon, Muslim hatred will return to an all-time high and these notorious Islamophobes will have no problem justifying their continuing war on Islam and making palatable another massive slaughter of Muslims to the ignorant masses.
It's this easy:
Entrapment: U.S. intelligence services spy on a Muslim of any stripe or an Islamophobe fingers a Muslim to them who appears disillusioned with American morality and barbaric acts perpetrated by the U.S. in Muslim countries. This Muslim is then approached and befriended by "sympathetic, like-minded individuals" who pretend to “speak his language”, fanning the flames of rage, gaining his trust and flashing resources in his face. These new "friends" then lure him into a “gotcha” plot by providing material, and if necessary for an ultimate end: venue, training and means to carry it out.
False flag: Of course the disenchanted Muslims of any stripe might also be approached by foreign operatives in a similar manner to provide a perfect cover for a false flag operation staged by a foreign country to move American public opinion to support a foreign agenda by merely pointing the way while the Muslim individuals commit the crime themselves which will in turn again create fertile ground with the public for that foreign country’s agenda to be executed without the slightest resistance.
Location, Location, Location: And note of course how these Muslim terrorists always seem to pick majority-liberal cities where Islamophobia is not as high and the war incentive, very low. In other words by staging these terrorist acts in Liberal Country, EVERYONE on the right AND THE LEFT ENDS UP ON BOARD WITH THE PROGRAM, especially with the help of the enabling mainstream who then take over to further inculcate fear and loathing of Muslims.
Media collusion: And predictably, the tube indoctrination is happening exactly NOW and the masses are cheering and lapping it up.
How could they stop there when they're enablers of the deceptive Zionist-only Obama Administration?
Oh my! Isn't identifying Jewish power, anti-Semitic? Oh, but they just couldn't help themselves; their hubris made them do it!
Why do I find this article more enabling of Zionism than disabling?
Maybe because "anti-Zionism" is mentioned just once and Zionism and the perfect excuse for it is all over the place.
"Joudah added: “As my mother reminded me, 'honey, the whole nation is in exile, so you’ve never been any different, you just got a reminder.'""
It takes a mother's wisdom to explain this challenge. Palestinians in the occupied territories need to be reminded of their brothers and sisters living in limbo and poverty in the diaspora refugee camps. Never forget they're there, longing for their land.
Israelis don't like it when Palestinians shape the future for their children on that land. They fear the demographic power Palestinian children represent, and especially educated!
Israelis are basically at war with the innocent children of Palestine as they've proven time and time again.
Here's another reality check:
First of all, the U.S. knows it’s over. Try to convince me the “know-it-all” U.S. government that can find a needle in a Pakistani haystack, doesn’t know the two-state is dead. They know it’s dead alright, they’re kicking the can and they’re praying and waiting for a palatable, Arab League agreed-upon ethnic cleansing or annexation deal to arise.
But the enablers of this Palestinian tragedy don’t only include the warden Israel, the U.S. gatekeepers who shun Palestinian rights and freedoms at every turn and the cowardly Europeans, also included is the Palestinian Authority and I want to share with you the following question which brilliantly describes the PA’s role:
“How long will the Palestinian Authority keep acting as the subcontractor for Israeli rule, of the settlement policy and the diplomatic status quo?”
source: link to friday-lunch-club.blogspot.ca
So Palestinians don’t have a thing going for them. You see, Zionists have feverishly worked everyone over with the guilt trip and emotional blackmail to ensure the system is totally rigged against the Palestinian inmates of the only legitimized 21st century gulag that is run by Zionists.
Indeed, what a web they weave! Zionists are so devious – all bases covered!
The aunt of the suspects believes they were set up. The younger suspect was studying medecine; he was captain of the wrestling team; everyone said he was a nice person; not one person had anything bad to say about him. I heard someone in an interview say he was very intelligent; an honour student. The garage owner where the younger suspect fixed his car stated that recently, the younger suspect was hanging out with individuals who had expensive cars, expensive attire and flashed a lot of money and that this was not the usual friends he would see him with. Who were these people and were they involved in any set up? Why would a kid whom everyone liked and who had EVERYTHING going for him suddenly destroy his whole life and commit this horrific act?
The other suspect was a boxer who participated in competitions and had a wife and young child.
Both the father and the aunt believe they were set up. But by whom? By which country's intelligence services??? Was this a false flag? Because certainly, this does not look to be Al-Qaeda connected.
link to youtube.com
The father of the suspects said this:
"“I learned about the incident from TV. My opinion is: the special services have framed my children, because they are practicing Muslims. Why did they kill Tamerlan? He was supposed to be caught alive. The younger is on the run now. He was a sophomore at a medical school in the U.S. We expected him to come home for vacation. Now I don’t know what’s going to happen. Tell you once again: I believe special services have framed my children.”
I believe SPECIAL SERVICES FRAMED my children...but which country's intelligence set them up and for what reason...a false flag?
Something doesn't jive here. There are too many strange elements in this. Were these kids recruited and BY WHOM? I just heard now on ABC News that the younger guy RECENTLY started hanging out with guys with expensive cars and expensive shoes who flashed a lot of money. Huh?
I don't believe these kids were recruited by Al-Qaeda, sorry. I think something else is going on here.
I don't know if anyone else heard this, Stephanopoulos mentioned it on ABC News. One of the suspects twittered a picture of the marathon bombing with the caption: "FAKE STORY".
THIS, I believe! No doubt there's a cover-up on some level going on here. Here's another thing that's strange. The surgeon or physician who attended to the 1st suspect was in his home in Watertown when the shooting happened. He stated he heard the shots. Then, the surgeon happens to leave a part of the city that is in heavy lockdown in time to attend at Beth Israel to this particular, high-level suspect. Hello!
How did he get from that lock-down'd part of town to that hospital? Was he escorted? Then, when he spoke over the phone with the media; he refused to give even one detail regarding what he saw and the condition of the suspect. Coincidence? He was in Watertown and then poof! all of a sudden he's in the hospital when they wheel in the suspect who conveniently dies.
There are also photos on the web of Blackwater type security agents patrolling the marathon BEFORE the bombing. Why??? Did they have some indication something was going down? Maybe it's just normal procedure to hire private security for these events, mind you. But there were quite a few there all positioned around the finish area.
My feeling is that there is a whole lot here that doesn't jive. I'm thinking, these kids were not recruited by Al-Qaeda, BUT THEY WERE RECRUITED BY SOMEONE. The question is BY WHOM? And why did one of the suspects write: FAKE STORY on twitter with a picture of the bombing???
Heart-warming, sad, empathic and so enlightening! Thank you for shedding light on Gaza's misery. The world cannot forget Gaza.
And a book or volumes binding together activists' experiences in regards to breaking the siege on Gaza, like this one, should also be on exhibit along with a separate account told by those who survived the Mavi Marmara voyage. As a matter of fact, they should build a museum on this site and call it: The Rachel Corrie House with all the artifacts of Israel's destructiveness on display for the world to witness and remember, including a "wall of innocent martyrs" with the names of all the children slaughtered by Israel during the entire occupation. On second thought, there might not be room inside; they'll need a courtyard too!
Oh pooo!
The blockade is legal my derrière!
Israeli "Security" as in miiiiiiiine, alllll miiiiiiiine: the sky, the water, the land, your house, and your last olive.
Self-explanatory; racists without borders expanding their reach.
La Familia. From roots to branches all in it in tacit solidarity up to their eyeballs.
Notice how Zionist Betar fascists are glorified on this site:
link to jewishvirtuallibrary.org
One cannot overstate the manner in which the Nakba was executed resulting in the expulsion and ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and total annihilation of Palestinian villages repeated again in 1967 or the manner in which the Nakba was erased from the pages of history.
It takes a village of well-trained fascists hiding behind legitimacy and a victim facade to commit and get away with such a staggering crime.
"In fact, no Jewish communities support the BDS"
Sadly, I suspect this may be true. Which proves that the majority of Jews support Zionism. Today, you may ask: And what's wrong with that? In some not so distint future, you'll pretend you had nothing whatsoever to do with the crimes actually occuring against a nation of Palestinians and you'll plead "innocent", you didn't provide any kind of support even hasbara propaganda, BUT, a future more just, more evolved society and history will judge your very harshly and DESERVEDLY SO!
Okay, but then no one ever asks how many Jews are Zionists. Why is that? If people don't ask that question; it's because they know Zionism is wrong and they're afraid of the answer...too many.
So be careful when you define anti-Semitism with such a broad interpretation; it limits how far justice can attribute responsibility for damages. It's like saying the German people were not complicit or did not enable what the Nazis did. And they did enable; they were complicit THEN and AS A PEOPLE they were forced to make amends with their tax dollars and rightly so. You can't exonerate people who support a supremacist ideology of all blame.
It's about making a choice to support right or wrong, and if someone supports wrong and others suffer as a result of that material support then that someone is just as guilty as the one actually commiting the wrong. Complicity with a crime is a crime.
And by material support, I don't mean just funding settlement expansion; I mean hasbara propaganda; I mean illegal settlement tourism, sale of products, cooperation with in any way, etc.
I marvel at the spirit of resistance, the will to be free, the resilience and endurance of the inmates; men, women and children confined within the Zionist Gulag and the open air concentration camps of the Zionist enterprise of oppression and occupation. Palestinians are caged animals in the Zionist zoo. They are dehumanized completely.
To the Jews around the world and especially in Israel, the U.S. and Canada supporting this ongoing scourge, I say: you have become unrecognizable even to yourselves in your cruelty and inhumanity.
Ahh, America, land of dreams, you can smell the racism in the air.
Well when Zionists like Jane Harman make a connection between the Boston Tragedy and the Munich Olympics tragedy in one breathe on cable news minutes after the explosion WITHOUT THE FACTS...who incited the viral bigotry?
There's not one misplaced or redundant syllable in that article.
No one listens to wisdom anymore, but this is a good time to underscore it again, regardless! 'An eye for an eye will make us all blind' Mahatma Gandhi
Check out the photo in the following article reporting on a tragedy that happened just last weekend that few paid attention to.: "11 Afghan Children Among Dead in Latest US/NATO Bombing"
link to commondreams.org
Be honest, how many here heard about this tragedy and stopped to think about this recurring injustice? I don't have to worry that the majority who post here are informed and compassionate, but it may be that you didn't hear about this because the biased media conveniently ignore these tragedies caused by our side. So you are not to blame, but imagine the millions of Americans who are ignorant about this and could care less.
Here's the staggering hypocrisy: The U.S. is supporting an opposition in Syria that is in turn backed by AQ and has killed scores of civilians in Syria AND Iraq!
Now, we don't know who's responsible for this tragedy in Boston. It could be ANYONE, domestic or other, and everyone is suspect and all sides are guilty because they are in effect on the same side; they all side with REVENGE. There are no white hats and black hats in this! And when it comes to responsibility WE are all responsible if we fail to mourn all the victims of violence on all sides which pay for a misguided, ignorant, vengeful and ABOVE ALL; SELFISH American foreign policy.
Failing to mourn the "others" victims is dehumanizing the other. My heart too goes out to ALL the victims: last weekend in Afghanistan, this week in Iraq and now in Boston. This world is on the wrong track led by the U.S.
We need to do everything we can to condemn the growing Islamophobe prejudice against Muslims. This endless cycle of violence is destroying us all.
A warning to all reluctant radicals;
to conscious pariahs;
"A warning to the prophet..."
A prophet is not without honour, except in his
own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. -Mark 6:4
This IS war...against WAR.
It's the moment to fight, fight, fight;
Don't surrender!
"That’s just one of the ways to find out the depth of our own commitment."
I accept that. But the temptation to just blend back into the crowd again and hope for positive progress when you know that justice has been delayed for so long and the need is urgent. That's another thing.
See my reply to Citizen. What leads you to believe he doubted himself? I don't see that he doubted himself.
I don't believe he doubted himself; his conviction proved to be solid. He was tempted by great power and rejected it and only when he foresaw the horror about to befall him he asked God if there might be another way, but followed it by "your will be done".
His sacrifice confirmed his conviction.