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  • Itamar video says settlement had night-and-day perimeter surveillance
    • Sarah April 6, 2011 at 3:46 am

      It's also EXTREMELY important to note that the mayor of Itamar in DBG's video link is LYING. He says there is a blind spot in the coverage of the fence where the video cameras can't see the fence. But earlier on, he describes the sensor wire that runs all along the fence. It would not have been possible for the murderer to have gotten past the fence without having been detected by the sensor wire. The video in the opening post says that if the sensor detects any interference with the fence, the cameras instantly focus in on the area of the disturbance, and the security people are immediately dispatched to investigate. If the sensor wire had detected a disturbance at the one area in the fence that did not have video surveillance (and if there *was* such an area, they shouldn't have been promoting the security system as being an adequate safeguard), they would certainly have carefully investigated the disturbance. We know this because we know the people of the community were sufficiently concerned about safety to have taken the trouble and expense of putting the security system up in the first place. There's no way they would be so stupid that they would have a sophisticated security system like that one and knowingly leave such a fatal weakness in it.

      They would have investigated, and if someone *had* tried to enter the colony either through the fence, or over it, they would have either found that person, or they would have found enough traces of that person to warrant a thorough search of the entire colony, and also a warning to everyone in the colony to be prepared for danger. But we have been told that the security people didn' t find any traces of anything that would arouse their concern.

      So we know beyond any shadow of a doubt that they are all lying about this from start to finish.

    • Sarah April 6, 2011 at 2:16 am with 3 replies

      Here's a few more things to consider about Itamar's fence -

      link to facebook.com

      For those who can't open a facebook link, here's the text:

      "Right after the killings in Itamar, we were told that the killer had entered the colony by cutting a hole in the fence. This story must have caused the government of Israel some embarrassment for some reason, because they changed the story to say that he "hopped" the fence. Some accounts say he "jumped over" the fence.

      Here's a picture of the fence.

      link to ynetnews.com

      It astonishes me that allegedly intelligent people can look at this fence, or at a picture of the fence, and actually even begin to entertain the idea that anyone could "hop" or "jump" over it. The fence is at least eight feet tall. It has razor wire coiled up along the bottom of it. It has at least six, possibly more, strands of razor wire in a Y shaped array along the top. The strands of razor wire at the top extend beyond the fence itself both inside and outside the fence, creating an overhang of razor wire on both sides.

      The idea that someone could "hop" or "jump" an eight foot high fence with multiple strands of razor wire along the top is patently ridiculous. Even the idea that someone could climb (a claim that I have not so far seen being made) without getting all tangled in the razor wire at the top, and being seriously injured is patently ridiculous. And that's even not considering that the fence is electrified, and under 24 hour a day surveillance by security cameras.

      And even if someone had tried to climb the electrified fence with the razor wire along the bottom and the top, his efforts would certainly have aroused the security people more than they say they were, because he would have been screaming in pain, and he would have been all tangled up in the wire. And even if he wasn't, at the very least, he would have left very obvious signs of his having been there, like blood and tangled up razor wire at the top of the fence, which would have prompted the security people to investigate a lot more carefully than they say they did.

      So it's entirely safe to say that the story being promoted by the Israeli propaganda machine does not have a shred of truth in it, and we can be quite confident that whoever did the killings did not come from outside the fence. Unless they were let in by someone on the inside."

  • At Yale, Judge Goldstone faces down his accusers
  • 'Never depend on the kindness of gentiles'
    • Sarah December 3, 2009 at 4:15 am

      I wonder how Mr. Kerstein would feel if someone were to suggest that it would be appropriate for African Americans to say that they should never rely on the kindness of Jews because some Jews were slave traders.

  • 'This is a balanced report on an imbalanced conflict'
    • Sarah October 24, 2009 at 6:19 am with 3 replies

      I don't think Moyers had embraced neo-con talking points, or was carrying heavy water for Israel in that interview. I think he was playing devil's advocate to give Goldstone a chance to address a lot of the criticisms that have been made against him and the report, and to give him a chance to poke holes in a lot of Israeli justifications for bad behavior. That's often Moyers' style. I think both of them did an excellent job.

  • Whatever happened to the war for oil?
    • Sarah October 23, 2009 at 6:03 pm

      The US oil people wanted Saddam out of the way because they couldn't control him. He had already made commitments with several other countries for Iraqi oil, favoring them over the US.

      However, I expect that the US would have attacked and occupied Iraq even if that had not been the case for all of the other reasons. And I agree that the government of Israel and its strong-arm people in the US were driving the push for war here in the US. I remember watching Netanyahu on some US talk show during the months before we went in there. He was saying to the US, "Just do it. You don't need anyone's permission. Just do it."

    • Sarah October 23, 2009 at 5:56 pm

      I don't disagree with that.

    • Sarah October 22, 2009 at 10:54 pm with 5 replies

      Remember the "benchmarks" that Iraq was supposed to meet last year? One of those was that they were supposed to sign over their oil rights to the US. The Bush administration was pressuring the Iraqis really hard on that one, but the Iraqi legislature wouldn't agree to it. That was one of the conditions that the Bush people placed on the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, and they were dangling it like a carrot in front of the Iraqis. Fortunately, the Iraqis didn't bite.

      It was a war for oil, and a war for Israel, and a war for the big boys to play with their toys, and a war for the war profiteers to make obscene amounts of money with no strings attached and at the expense of the US taxpayers, US servicemen and women, and the people of Iraq. It was all of those things, and also a war for balance of power and to secure permanent US bases in the Middle East, and a war to keep Iraq's oil out of the hands of the Chinese.

  • 'NYT' continues to justify dropping white phosphorus on school children
    • Sarah October 20, 2009 at 10:48 am with 1 replies

      In saying that "there is a difference between wrongs committed in self-defense and those perpetrated intentionally", Bernstein justifies anything that Hamas does, including sending rockets to Sderot, because the blockade of Gaza, being an act of war, would justify anything at all in self-defense (using his logic).

  • Gazans paint stripes on donkeys so kids can still go to zoo
  • Would you leave your shoes under Dick Cheney's bed?
    • Sarah September 26, 2009 at 12:58 am

      Not Rahm (or Kissinger either), but his brother the doctor is a little bit hot. Especially because of his ideas about health care reform.

  • My wife offers her version of Kopechne's death
    • Sarah September 11, 2009 at 3:09 pm

      If it's a Forester, I'm very jealous. We used to have a green Forester, and I loved that car until it was totaled by a flying deer. The new Foresters all look rather thuggish, but the older ones are great.

  • dog days (and feverish nights)
    • Sarah August 17, 2009 at 2:28 pm

      “River of gold”?

      Is that all that you got from reading Herzl? ammunition?

      Is that all you got from Philip's many posts in the subject of Herzl?

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