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  • Iran has 'promised' 'another Holocaust' -- CBS commentator
    • Sonja April 9, 2012 at 8:59 am

      It is time to call it Israelogy, a sectarian ideology that requires total mind control after extensive brainwashing.

  • Establishment Jews attack Beinart over settlement boycott call
  • The spoils of lawfare, or please do not pet the Islamists: Shurat HaDin's 2012 'Ultimate Mission to Israel'
    • Sonja March 14, 2012 at 10:26 am with 1 replies

      Mission Highlights in 2010 were:

      • Briefings by Mossad officials and commanders of the Shin Bet.
      • Briefing by officers in the IDF Intelligence and Operations branches.
      • Inside tour of the IAF unit who carries out targeted killings.
      • Live exhibition of penetration raids in Arab territory.
      • Observe a trial of Hamas terrorists in an IDF military court.
      • First hand tours of the Lebanese front-line military positions and the Gaza border check-points.
      • Inside tour of the controversial Security Fence and secret intelligence bases.
      • Meeting Israel's Arab agents who infiltrate the terrorist groups and provide real-time intelligence.
      • Briefing by Israel's war heros who saved the country.
      • Meetings with senior Cabinet Ministers and other key policymakers.
      • Small airplane tour of the Galilee, Jeep rides in the Golan heights, water activities on Lake Kinneret, a cook-out barbecue and a Shabbat enjoying the rich religious and historic wonders of Jerusalem's Old City.

  • Pizzarotti should follow in Deutsche Bahn's footsteps
  • Quick to report Gaddafi's use of 'cluster bombs,' the NYT called white phosphorus a 'standard, legal weapon' when Israel dropped it on Gaza
    • Sonja April 21, 2011 at 2:28 am

      NB! American cluster bombs

    • Sonja April 21, 2011 at 2:27 am

      Israel fired over 1.2 Million Cluster Bombs at Lebanon during its 33 day offensive, 90% of which were fired in the last 3 days of the conflict, AFTER the UN Resolution 1701 was passed.

      "What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.
      link to haaretz.com

  • U.S. State Dep't concludes Goldstone found no evidence of Israeli war crimes
    • Sonja April 5, 2011 at 4:48 am

      "Can someone remind me what the Israeli have against them to brand them untermensch?"

      Because zionism, the "Jewish state" and contemporary jewish identity are not viable without Enemies (and war)?

      Read Avraham Burg in Haaretz: When the walls come tumbling down
      link to haaretz.com

    • Sonja April 5, 2011 at 4:41 am with 1 replies

      Belgium newspaper article (translated to English with Google, so, rather crappy):

      Goldstone report will not be revoked

      The report by former Justice Goldstone, Israel is accused of various war crimes.

      The issue of an enforcement or revocation of the Goldstone, which accuses Israel of "war crimes" during his 2008-2009 winter offensive in the Gaza Strip, has decided not. This is the French Foreign Ministry said today. Israel wants the report is canceled.

      "The Goldstone was published in September 2009. It's a document at the request of the United Nations not to be maintained or abolished," said ministry spokesman, Bernard Valero, at a press briefing.

      Valero had questions about the request that Israel did after the author of the report, Richard Goldstone, said that he had recognized the Jewish state had deliberately targeted civilians.

      "We regretted the Israeli decision then to not participate in the mission chaired by Richard Goldstone," said the spokesman. This Goldstone could not bring together all the elements.

      link to hln.be

  • Miral: A Palestinian disappointment
    • Sonja April 5, 2011 at 5:13 am

      Thank you for this very informative review.

      One detail you write: "it often felt like the characters were created to serve as mere vehicles to deliver a political message."

      But that is the case with every mainstream and semi-mainstream movie for the last decades. For instance, most romantic movies are not about love and its emotions, but about role models and the promotion of consumerism. No need to elaborate on war movies.

      The only pro in mainstream movies is, as you indicated, some kind of acceptance as human beings bij the big society, and large numbers of viewers.

  • Ratner & Horowitz talk Goldstone on Democracy Now
    • Sonja April 5, 2011 at 5:32 am with 2 replies

      Even though on Dutch television here the words $%#@ and *&#@ can be uttered without beeps, and there is porn and paranormal advertising the whole night long, no form of real intellectual and informative discussion is possible. What remains are op-eds in our self-proclaimed "quality press", of which 90% is written by dim-witted self-proclaimed "experts" and ideological lunatics. You can boo the US press, but the situation in Europe seems to be ten times worse.

  • Goldstone: ‘retractions’ vs facts
    • Sonja April 4, 2011 at 2:29 am

      The Human Rights Council's statements are endorsed, or not. If "the most barbaric countries on Earth" claim something 'the most civilized countries on Earth' agree with, then all is hunky dory. Also 'the most civilized countries on Earth' seriously lack ethical or moral judgement when it comes to making money. That is barbarism too, only the self-rightious kind. Who calls the kettle black.

    • Sonja April 4, 2011 at 2:12 am

      "Benny Morris maintains a sense of tension in his views."

      And so does Jersey Shore and Dr. Phil.

      "Liberal zionism", what a joke.

  • Israeli spin on Goldstone op-ed doesn’t hold up
    • Sonja April 4, 2011 at 1:28 am

      Well said. The biggest problem is how to steer the zealots, the racists, extremists and lunatics in international politics to reason and common sense. It is them who make the murdering possible.

    • Sonja April 4, 2011 at 1:17 am with 2 replies

      42 cadets, not "hundreds".

    • Sonja April 4, 2011 at 1:14 am

      No, more questions remain:
      - Why does Goldstone write "indicate" and not "show" or "prove"?
      - If intentionally targeting civilians was not a policy, then what was it?

  • The documented record still stands: Israel intentionally targets civilians and civilian infrastructure
    • Sonja April 4, 2011 at 3:33 am with 2 replies

      And the elephant crushed the wasp for stinging him.

    • Sonja April 3, 2011 at 7:22 pm

      Strategic escalation is already in operation.

      "Israel has a long history of deliberately using violence and other provocative measures to trigger reactions in order to create a pretext for military action, and to portray its opponents as the aggressors and Israel as the victim. According to the respected Israeli military historian Zeev Maoz in his recent book, Defending the Holy Land, Israel most notably used this policy of "strategic escalation" in 1955-1956, when it launched deadly raids on Egyptian army positions to provoke Egypt's President Nasser into violent reprisals preceding its ill-fated invasion of Egypt; in 1981-1982, when it launched violent raids on Lebanon in order to provoke Palestinian escalation preceding the Israeli invasion of Lebanon; and between 2001-2004, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon repeatedly ordered assassinations of high-level Palestinian militants during declared ceasefires, provoking violent attacks that enabled Israel's virtual reoccupation of the West Bank."

      Read article:
      War of Choice: How Israel Manufactured the Gaza Escalation
      link to antiwar.com

    • Sonja April 3, 2011 at 7:10 pm

      It has always been a waste of time to report on Israeli atrocities. Remember the UN report on the (last) Lebanon war?

      ***
      UN Rights Council report condemns flagrant Israeli violations in summer war

      4 December 2006 – Israel’s use of weapons such as cluster bombs during this summer’s war with Hizbollah in Lebanon was a flagrant violation of the right to life and property, excessive, not justified by military necessity and went beyond the arguments of proportionality, according to a report mandated by the Human Rights Council.

      Israel violated obligations of international and humanitarian law and it disregarded its international and individual responsibility, according to the report of the High-Level Commission of Inquiry set up by the Council in August to probe “systematic targeting and killings of civilians by Israel,” which was presented to the 47-member body in Geneva on Friday.

      link to un.org
      ***

      Not for the squeamish! And were there consequences? None! Well, some war criminals got promoted. One of them, Michael Oren, is now ambassador in the US. It's sickening.

      I agree with Goldstone: intentionally targeting civilians by Israël is not a policy. It's a TRADITION.

    • Sonja April 3, 2011 at 4:45 pm with 1 replies

      South African Zionist Federation admit to make Goldstone "suffer greatly".

      "We took sides against him, and it encourages us to know that our way had an effect against the international pressure and made him admit and regret his remarks."

      "Goldstone eventually attended his grandson's bar mitzvah, escorted by many bodyguards, in a hostile atmosphere. His arrival was made possible, according to Krengel, only after Goldstone agreed to meet with the leaders of the South African Zionist Federation."

      link to ynetnews.com

  • Goldstone op-ed praises Israeli investigation of Gaza war crimes, but UN committee paints a different picture
    • Sonja April 4, 2011 at 5:10 am

      Goldstone writes: "In the end, asking Hamas to investigate may have been a mistaken enterprise. So, too, the Human Rights Council should condemn the inexcusable and cold-blooded recent slaughter of a young Israeli couple and three of their small children in their beds."

      So, Goldstone knows "Hamas" mudered the Fogel family. Isn't that amazing?

    • Sonja April 4, 2011 at 1:52 am

      We all know how things should be, should be regarded and said. But no one listens to reason when it comes to Israel.“Israel’s right to defend itself” is of course a euphemism for crime and slaughter of the Palestinians. Just as being "a friend of Israel" is a euphemism for collaborating with the rogue state. But is it possible to convince the criminally insane (Israel & friends) with facts and reason? I don't think so. The only thing you can do is use their insane 'logic' to make them listen. I think Goldstone merely tried to be smart that way. But he failed.

    • Sonja April 3, 2011 at 7:50 pm

      Had Richard Goldstone not served as the head of the UN inquiry into the Gaza war, the accusations against Israel would have been harsher, Goldstone's daughter, Nicole, said in an interview conducted in Hebrew with Army Radio on Wednesday.
      (...)
      "It wasn't easy [for him]," Nicole Goldstone said. "My father did not expect to see and hear what he saw and heard."

      link to haaretz.com

      Read this minutely. A transcript of the interview is neccesary, because I can smell hasbara from a mile away.

    • Sonja April 3, 2011 at 5:38 pm with 2 replies

      On the contrary, he wanted to have his report taken seriously by everyone. When writing or even suggesting that Israël doesn't have the right to defend itself, would result in every pro-Israël country to reject it without hesitation. And that would be foolish.

    • Sonja April 3, 2011 at 5:27 pm

      "You may be right with the rest of this statement, but not with the suggestion that it would have been his honest opinion."

      I agree, what I meant was that people take an op-ed piece as an 'opinion', so Goldstone's 'honest opinion', and not as a fact. Also, it cannot be anything else but his 'opinion' because he writes that IDF-investigations made him change his mind. While we all know, and Goldstone not in the least, that these investigations are generally unreliable.

      I can agree with the fact that Goldstone 'broke', but not that he is being steered or prompted.

      "he obfuscated his meanings in order to try to salvage as much as he could of his reputation in the broader (non-Zionist) world."

      I think it is the other way around: he obfuscated his meanings in order to give space for interpretation. As I wrote before: else he would have written that Israël in general was not guilty of war crimes and human rights violations. But he didn't write that.

      But I think we can agree that here we have a man struggling with the fact of outside threats and his conscience. For producing the Goldstone Report, a report that demanded great personal courage, I think he deserves some slack. I also think that this op-ed will not be his last word on the case.

    • Sonja April 3, 2011 at 6:06 am with 4 replies

      (1) Judge Golstone is indeed a zionist. He declared that already well before he started with the UN report. (2) "Washington is the center of the Jewish political world"? Are you sure it's not Jerusalem (and Tel Aviv)? (3) "The Washington Post is the most influential neocon Zionist media organ in the world". No it's not. The Washington Post is no more or less pro-Israel than every other mainstrem newspaper in the US and Israel.

      Conspiracy theories enough - I'm only interested in what actually happens. I don't think Goldstone is "steered" by someone, because in that case he would have written in clear and easy to understand words that Israel, albeit in his opinion, was NOT involved in war crimes and human rights violations. I think he wants to get rid of the pressure, but his conscience made him write a multi-interpretable op-ed.

    • Sonja April 2, 2011 at 6:27 pm with 8 replies

      It must be really hard to not to give in to the pressure of so many people out to destroy you. I think the trick is in the sentence:

      "the investigations published by the Israeli military (...) indicate that civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy."

      1. 'Investigations' by the Israeli military (alone) are unreliable, everybody knows that, and especially a judge. And a murderer's account is never regarded as 'evidence' nor 'proof'. It means nothing, and it keeps meaning nothing until an independent investigation has been done.

      2. "indicate" An indication is not proof, not evidence. "Indicate" means: it appears that way, it suggests that. It's an indication of what might have happenend, not what really happened.

      3. "civilians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy." So, that leaves the option that there was another reason to target civilians intentionally - only not as a "policy" (and who's policy?).

      When I first read the op-ed I thought, yeah, April's Fools Day, what a sick joke. Why would a person like Goldstone, a judge, choose an op-ed in an American newspaper to inform the world? Why not in an official writing? Why not in a report? Essay? Press release? Letter? It's not convincing at all.

  • King hearings come to Flatbush: David Horowitz stokes anti-Muslim sentiment at Brooklyn College
    • Sonja March 16, 2011 at 5:22 am

      I am disgusted. On the other hand, this is what we in the Netherlands are hearing and reading every day. Mosques are targeted with White Pride graffiti, or pigs heads. My daughter is growing up in a diseased racist environment. What to do? It makes me cry.

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