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Zionism and the Art of Genocide Denial
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by angryindian | January 4, 2009 at 06:33 pm
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By The Angryindian
1.4.2009
"We cannot allow the Arabs to block so valuable a piece of historic reconstruction ..... And therefore we must generally persuade them to 'trek.' After all, they have all Arabia with its million square miles .... There is no particular reason for the Arabs to cling to these few kilometers. 'To fold their tents and silently steal away' is their proverbial habit: let them exemplify it now."
Israel Zangwill, Expulsion Of The Palestinians
"The antisemites will become our most loyal friends, the antisemite nations will become our allies."
Theodor Herzl, One Palestine Complete
Now that the much anticipated Israeli ground “war” has begun in earnest, there has been an escalating swell of semantic ju-jutsu concerning the rightness of the Zionist putsch to utterly take apart the Palestinian government-in-exile and by extension, what remains of Indigenous Arab resistance to Ashkenazim White Power.
The mainstream U.S. and British press has narrowly portrayed this crisis as an issue of Jewish self-defence instead of the Arab genocide this really is. There are the numerous obligatory calls by world leaders for a halt to the violence, but they are unanimously committed to admonishing Hamas while deliberately skipping over the facts surrounding the activity which led to the blitzkrieg. The fact that deadly Israeli Defence Forces actions against “suspected” Hamas, Hezbollah and random civilian activists clearly violated this truce on numerous occasions is rarely if ever examined.
While news agencies in the United States report this calamity as a just and humane military action on the part of a besieged Jewish homeland defending themselves against an overwhelming and unstoppable force, Israel’s own press is reporting this as an endeavour long in the planning. Perhaps the most respected newspaper in Israel, Haaretz soberly reported, “Long-term planning, meticulous intelligence-gathering, secret discussions, visual deception tactics and disinformation preceded operation "Cast Lead" which the Israel Air Force launched yesterday in Gaza to take out Hamas targets in the Strip.”
The article goes further:
“Sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the operation over six months ago, even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. According to the sources, Barak maintained that although the lull would allow Hamas to prepare for a showdown with Israel, the Israeli army needed time to prepare, as well.”
Preparations included a widespread intelligence campaign to identify Hamas' security networks and other activist installations and offices present within the confines of The Gaza, the arrival of U.S. military supplies support and the premeditated strangling of vital resources essential to the refugee population including the complete blockage of humanitarian aid. Israel’s government wilfully planned to starve-out the people of The Gaza, to squeeze the very life out of them until they saw signs of people panting on all fours in the streets, too weak and despondent to fight any further. Israel cowardly plotted to punish the Palestinian people as a whole, thereby making any armed or moral resistance to their genocidal plans effectively insignificant if not nearly impossible.
This should be front-page news in the United States but it isn’t. However, the UK, Japan and other news agencies around the world did take notice, providing evidence of the deception programme mentioned above. In a report published on the 19th of June 2008 by the BBC, the British news agency reported comments by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert saying that the truce was “fragile and could be short-lived.” Reuters later reported on Jan. 4th that Israeli President Shimon Peres flatly rejected the likelihood of a physical occupation of The Gaza stating, "We don't intend neither to occupy Gaza nor to crush Hamas, but to crush terror. And Hamas needs a real and serious lesson. They are now getting it." In effect, Israel consciously lied to the Palestinians and the entire world when it said it would abide by the ceasefire. It cunningly used the agreed break in the fighting to prepare itself for a Final Solution programme designed to destroy what is left of the Palestinian resistance Zionist genocide.
A substantial number of people around the world not amused nor swayed by the Zionist lobby in Washington D.C. have long protested Israel’s programme of anti-Arab genocide. They understand what a genocide is, they comprehend the gist of a virulently racist practice designed to eliminate an entire race of people. They are not moved by the rhetorical newspeak of Israel’s partisan “right to exist” or the touted uniquely “intimate” relationship between the United States and the State of Israel. Numerous demonstrations have occurred in conjunction with the siege, so it is clear that not everyone is comfortable with a Jewish-sponsored genocide in the new century.
In response, a number of personalities - particularly African-American celebrities led by Barack Obama and other minority stooges - have been trotted out before the cameras of the mainstream media to pledge their undying loyalty to the State of Israel and the right of Israel to employ engulfing deadly force against Islamic extremists. They are joined by the radical Protestant Imams on cable television calling for the United States to “enter the situation and destroy Hamas for Jesus” and news editorials summing up the ethnocide as "…a testament to the State of Israel's humanity," insisting that the carnage is really "the responsibility of Hamas."
Israel needs and deserves all our support they argue and anyone deemed critical to this course of action, inclusive of this writer, have no right to challenge the state of Israel's xenophobic gratification. This is extremely important we are told, especially during "difficult times such as these" for the Jewish race. The indigenous Palestinian people and their uncertainties are straightforwardly not regarded or treated as if they are of any real importance.
What is of importance according to this view is the pathetic victim narrative of the persecuted Jew, apparently the sole victim of the Catholic-driven ethnocides of Europe. We are repetitively reminded of what the German Nazis did to their population and we shall never forget. But we are rarely reminded of how many other ethnic and political minorities were burned alongside them. We are never reminded of how many Arabs are killed by Israelis armed with weapons stamped “American-made” and we will never know how many newborns and their mothers have expired at the checkpoints because a teenaged IDF conscript from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn would not allow her to pass and reach medical assistance. We are not told about how their homes are bulldozed at a moments notice, or how they are beaten or shot by Zionist-settlers for harvesting their olives or for trying to collect water for their children to drink.
These stories are absent from the debate surrounding occupied Palestine and remain missing from the public discourse at our own peril. There will be a price to pay for colonialist revisionism and the lack of moral courage evident in the coverage of this conflict. And the morgues of the world will not be able to maintain the workload. Simple political and moral consistency with international law demands that there be an honest evaluation of a situation wherein an entire group of people, in this case homeless Arab refugees who were forcibly displaced by the British in favour of other refugees who used terrorism against the United Kingdom and the United States to gain national and territorial independence.
The legal if not moral questions of this issue are for all accounts null and void. Under international law and the United Nations charter, the State of Israel is in principle a belligerent rogue state that by rights should be dissolved. It is a government founded on racial atrocities such as the bombing of the King David Hotel and the Deir Yassin massacre of 1948. They have since graduated from the racial brutality of the Nakba to the unremitting saturation bombing of The Gaza, kicking off 2009 with a new Israeli-Arab Palestinian race war, starting off the year pursuing a policy of Arab Palestinian ethnic removal with full support from the nations of the world. Including their Arab brothers hamstrung by fear of American military or economic retaliation.
Now that we know that the Israeli government planned this ruse long in advance, what next? Will the outgoing Bush administration or the incoming Obama administration call Israel on this deception? "Operation Cast Lead" was commenced two days day after Christmas and it was paired with a vigilant propaganda crusade designed to minimize political fall-out. The Israeli government and its apologists maintain that the Hamas government and its armed resistance is the real target, but it is a calculated plot aimed to demoralise and generate misery to the Palestinian refugees. This is a crime against humanity.
If this siege is to be labelled a “war,” then call what is happening and has been allowed to happen since 1948 has been a war crime, a series of war crimes. In fact, we can just go back to June of last year when the truce officially started and plan Operation Cast Lead began. What we are being told is a necessary and humane response to Palestinian terror has been uncovered as a government-planned programme of Arab ethnocide with the goal of a complete and total expulsion of Palestinians from all claimed Israeli lands by any means necessary. And legitimate Palestinian indignation at being systematically despoiled will continue to be reinterpreted as the real barrier to the sort of communication essential to finding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian “conflict. Europocentrism uber alles.
So, let’s communicate. Let’s discuss how the leadership of a government can plan the destruction of an entire population and not be perceived and acknowledged by the world as monsters. As of right now in the midst of this incredible mishegoss, the silence of the clearly impotent United Nations, the deficiency of integrity shown by the adulterous Arab League and the unspoken racism of the morally-ambiguous American Jew is as deafening as it is illuminating. In the wake of the clobbering of Afghanistan and the rape of Iraq, it is also a sign of things to come. When genocides can occur and the weight of the world sides with the perpetrators, the clock is ticking, for all of us.
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at 20:33 on January 4th, 2009
Palestinian Refugees: Facts and Figures
30/11/2004
Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons in Israel are one of the largest displaced populations in the world today. Approximately one in three refugees worldwide is Palestinian.
Who are Palestinian refugees?
There are five primary groups of Palestinian refugees and displaced persons. The largest group is comprised of those Palestinians displaced/expelled from their places of origin in 1948. This includes Palestinian refugees who receive international assistance from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), i.e., ‘registered refugees’; and Palestinian refugees not eligible for international assistance.
The second major group of Palestinian refugees is comprised of those Palestinians displaced for the first time from their places of origin in the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip (often referred to as ‘1967 displaced persons’).
The third category of refugees includes those Palestinian refugees who are neither 1948 or 1967 refugees and are outside the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967 and unable due to revocation of residency, denial of family reunification, deportation, etc., or unwilling to return there owing to a well-founded fear of persecution.
In addition, there are two groups of internally displaced Palestinians. The first includes internally displaced Palestinians who remained in the area that became the state of Israel in 1948. The second group of internally displaced Palestinians includes Palestinians internally displaced in the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
How many refugees are there?
Available data on the Palestinian refugee and displaced population is characterized by uneven quality and uncertainty primarily due to the absence of a comprehensive registration system, frequent migration for political and economic reasons, and the lack of a uniform definition of a Palestine refugee. Generally, most Palestinian refugees are considered to be prima facie refugees (i.e., in the absence of evidence to the contrary).
The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) administers the only registration system for Palestinian refugees. UNRWA records, however, only include those refugees displaced in 1948 (and their descendents) in need of assistance and located in UNRWA areas of operation - West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. Estimates of the refugee and displaced population may also be derived from statistics maintained by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); census data from host countries and Israel; and, population growth projections.
It is estimated that there were more than 7 million Palestinian refugees and displaced persons at the beginning of 2003. This includes Palestinian refugees displaced in 1948 and registered for assistance with the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) (3.97 million); Palestinian refugees displaced in 1948 but not registered for assistance (1.54 million); Palestinian refugees displaced for the first time in 1967 (753,000); 1948 internally displaced Palestinians (274,000); and, 1967 internally displaced Palestinians (150,000).
Where do refugees live?
Palestinian refugees have tended to remain as close as possible to their homes and villages of origin based on the assumption that they will return with the cessation of conflict. In 1948 an estimated 65 percent of Palestinian refugees remained in areas of Palestine not under Israeli control – i.e., the West Bank and Gaza Strip. During the 1967 war the majority of Palestinian refugees found refuge in Jordan. Information on the distribution of Palestinians displaced within and from the occupied territories since 1967 is less well documented.
Despite the changes in the pattern of distribution of Palestinian refugees over the last fifty years, however, the majority of the refugees still live within 100 km of the borders of Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip where their homes of origin are located. Palestinian refugees residing in host states in the region comprise approximately the same percentage of the total combined population (6 percent) of the area as they did following the first wave of massive displacement in 1948. Palestinian refugees have also been displaced within and from host countries.
More than one and a quarter million Palestinian refugees reside in 59 official refugee camps located in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. There are a smaller number of unofficial refugee camps. The large number of Palestinians remaining in camps after more than five decades of exile can be explained by several factors: family and village support structure in the camp; lack of resources to rent or buy alternative accommodation outside the camp; lack of living space outside the camp due to overcrowding; legal, political, and social obstacles which compel refugees to remain in the camp; physical safety; and, the refugee camp as a symbol of the temporary nature of exile and the demand to exercise the right of return.
How did Palestinians become refugees?
The majority of Palestinians became refugees during armed conflict and war in Palestine. Sources of flight include indiscriminate attacks on civilians, massacres, looting, destruction of property (including entire villages), and forced expulsion. Israeli military forces adopted 'shoot to kill' policies along the armistice lines to prevent the return of refugees. In some cases refugees were forced to sign papers that they were leaving voluntarily. In 1948, it is estimated that more than fifty percent fled under direct military assault. Sixty percent of refugees displaced to Jordan in 1967 fled as a result of direct military assault.
In 1948 eighty-five percent of the Palestinians living in the areas that became the state of Israel became refugees. More than 500 Palestinian villages were depopulated and later destroyed to prevent the return of the refugees. These comprised three-quarters of the Palestinian villages inside the areas held by Israeli forces after the end of the war. In the districts of Jaffa, Ramla and Bir Saba' not one Palestinian village was left standing. Approximately thirty-five percent of the Palestinian population of the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip were expelled during the 1967 war. Two percent of villages were destroyed, as well as several refugee camps.
A smaller number of Palestinians have become refugees due to policies and practices akin to low-intensity transfer. These include expulsion, deportation, revocation of residency rights, denial of family reunification, land confiscation, and house demolition. Between 1948 and the mid-1950s Israel expelled around fifteen percent of the Palestinian population that remained after the war. By 1967 it had expropriated half of the land owned by Palestinian citizens of the state. Israel deported more than 6,000 Palestinians from 1967 occupied Palestine between 1967 and the early 1990s, revoked the residency rights of some 100,000, demolished 20,000 homes and refugee shelters, and confiscated several thousand square kilometers of land.
Why are Palestinians still refugees after 50 years?
Palestinian refugees are still refugees because they are unable to exercise their basic human right to return to their homes of origin. Israel refuses to allow the refugees to return to villages, towns and cities inside Israel due to the ethnic, national and religious origin of the refugees. Israel defines itself as a Jewish state and not a state of all its citizens. This self-definition emphasizes the need for a permanent Jewish majority, Jewish control of key resources like land, and the link between Israel and the Jewish diaspora. Jewish citizens, residents and the Jewish diaspora are therefore granted special preferences to citizenship and land ownership.
Israel's laws prevent Palestinian refugees and IDPs from returning to their homes of origin. Palestinians must be able to prove that they were in the state of Israel on or after 14 July 1952, or the offspring of a Palestinian who meets this condition. Due to the fact that most Palestinian refugees were displaced outside the territory of the state of Israel on or after this date, they are unable to resume domicile in their homeland. Israel's longstanding occupation of the West Bank, eastern Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip and related military orders and administrative procedures prevents refugees from returning to these areas. Emergency regulations, abandoned property laws, military orders and other administrative measures alienate refugees from their land which has been transferred to the state of Israel and the Jewish National Fund as the inalienable property of the Jewish people.
The international community has not exerted sufficient political will to advance durable solutions consistent with international law and relevant UN resolutions. Refugee rights have been absent from the Middle East Peace Process since it began in Madrid in the early 1990s. Unlike peace agreements elsewhere, agreements between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are based solely on an agreed-upon political process between the parties. International law does not provide a framework for conflict resolution and the regulation of future relations between the parties. There is no explicit reference to the right of Palestinian refugees and displaced persons to return to their homes of origin. Nor is there explicit reference to the right to housing and property restitution. The agreements only establish fora in which the parties agree to discuss the future status of Palestinian refugees
*Source: http://www.badil.org.
at 21:25 on January 4th, 2009
I personally am for reparations, but with a twist. I believe that the world allowed Israel to exist. I believe that existence will not end by human force. Therefore, any attempt to try to take the land by force as Hamas is doing is futile. I do however believe that there should be reparations paid to the Palestinians for the loss of their land in 1948. But the responsible party is the world. The world needs to chip in and pay these people and they need to do so fast. There will not be a real and lasting peace until there are reparations.
Though I was raised as a Gentile, my natural father was Jewish, so I believe I have an unbiased view. It is time the world helped the Palestinians, and with that the laying down of arms by Hamas.
at 10:07 on January 5th, 2009
Israel’s military actions in Gaza are entirely justified under international law, and Israel should be commended for its act of self-defense against international terrorism. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter reserves to every nation the right to engage in self-defense against armed attacks. The only limitation international law places on a democracy is that its actions must satisfy the principle of proportionality. Israel’s actions certainly satisfy that principles.
Over the last four years, Palestinian terrorists—in particular, Hamas and Islamic Jihad—have fired more than two thousand rockets at this civilian area, which is home to mostly poor and working-class people. The rockets are designed exclusively to maximize civilian deaths, and some have barely missed schoolyards, kindergartens, hospitals, and school buses. But others hit their targets, killing more than a dozen civilians since 2001, including in February 2008 a father of four who had been studying at the local university. These anticivilian rockets have also injured and traumatized countless children.
Barack Obama reacted to what he had seen in Sderot by saying that if his two daughters were exposed to rocket attacks in their own homes, he would do everything in his power to stop such attacks. I hope and believe that President Obama will take the same position he did as candidate Obama.
at 10:13 on January 5th, 2009
Hamas said an airstrike in Gaza killed Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, a senior leader of the armed wing of the militant group.
The Israeli army would only say it carried out a series of air attacks through the night.
Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilities, training centers and leaders' homes as Israel's offensive against Gaza's Islamic militant rulers entered a second week.
The Jerusalem Post reported the home of al-Jamal was a target of the raids. He was the third senior Hamas operative to be targeted.
In a strike Friday the Israeli Air Force bombed the house of top Hamas operative Imad Akel. The Israeli military reported hearing secondary blasts at the house, indicating the presence of a stash of weapons and explosives in the home, the Jerusalem Post reported.
On Thursday an Israeli warplane dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on the home of one of Hamas' top five decision-makers, instantly killing him and 18 others.
at 11:07 on January 5th, 2009
If the issue is really one of international law, the State of Israel is in clear and open violation of several.
According to the established charter of the United Nations: in particular the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (General Assembly resolution 260 A (III), 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III), 1948), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (General Assembly Resolution 2200 (XXI), 1966), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (General Assembly Resolution 2200 (XXI), 1966) and the rights to liberation of international Indigenous-internal colonies, (General Assembly Resolution 1541(XV), 1966).
Under international law, Israel, (as well as the United States) is guilty of human rights violations on these legal grounds and to date, have never been called to answer to these offenses. Under the Nuremberg Principles established in 1944, the State of Israel, (as well as the United States) is also responsible for crimes against humanity, war crimes and the ongoing genocide of indigenous Arab Palestinians since 1948.
Excellent supplement, Paschen. My thanks.
at 15:05 on January 7th, 2009
oh please. 200 civilians out of 1.5 million people isn't genocide. not even close. the more you lie, the more the war will go on. israel will defend herself from lying haters like you.
at 22:33 on January 7th, 2009
Before you begin name-calling, I suggest you read the United Nations law regarding genocide, and then Google the supplementary information on what genocide really is. Even if all members of a targeted group survive, genocide is still possible and is a violation of international law:
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Prevention_and_Punishment_of_the_Crime_of_Genocide
Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide
Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948.
Article 1 The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
Article 2 In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Article 3 The following acts shall be punishable:
Article 4 Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.
Article 5 The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention and, in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3.
Article 6 Persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
Article 7 Genocide and the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall not be considered as political crimes for the purpose of extradition.
The Contracting Parties pledge themselves in such cases to grant extradition in accordance with their laws and treaties in force.
Article 8 Any Contracting Party may call upon the competent organs of the United Nations to take such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they consider appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3.
Article 9 Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to the responsibility of a State for genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3, shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.
Article 10 The present Convention, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall bear the date of 9 December 1948.
Article 11 The present Convention shall be open until 31 December 1949 for signature on behalf of any Member of the United Nations and of any non-member State to which an invitation to sign has been addressed by the General Assembly.
The present Convention shall be ratified, and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
After 1 January 1950, the present Convention may be acceded to on behalf of any Member of the United Nations and of any non-member State which has received an invitation as aforesaid.
Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Article 12 Any Contracting Party may at any time, by notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, extend the application of the present Convention to all or any of the territories for the conduct of whose foreign relations that Contracting Party is responsible.
Article 13 On the day when the first twenty instruments of ratification or accession have been deposited, the Secretary-General shall draw up a proces-verbal and transmit a copy of it to each Member of the United Nations and to each of the non-member States contemplated in Article 11.
The present Convention shall come into force on the ninetieth day following the date of deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification or accession.
Any ratification or accession effected subsequent to the latter date shall become effective on the ninetieth day following the deposit of the instrument of ratification or accession.
Article 14 The present Convention shall remain in effect for a period of ten years as from the date of its coming into force.
It shall thereafter remain in force for successive periods of five years for such Contracting Parties as have not denounced it at least six months before the expiration of the current period.
Denunciation shall be effected by a written notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Article 15 If, as a result of denunciations, the number of Parties to the present Convention should become less than sixteen, the Convention shall cease to be in force as from the date on which the last of these denunciations shall become effective.
Article 16 A request for the revision of the present Convention may be made at any time by any Contracting Party by means of a notification in writing addressed to the Secretary-General.
The General Assembly shall decide upon the steps, if any, to be taken in respect of such request.
Article 17 The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify all Members of the United Nations and the non-member States contemplated in Article 11 of the following:
Article 18 The original of the present Convention shall be deposited in the archives of the United Nations.
A certified copy of the Convention shall be transmitted to all Members of the United Nations and to the non-member States contemplated in Article 11.
Article 19 The present Convention shall be registered by the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the date of its coming into force.
at 00:17 on January 8th, 2009
These are useless arguments.Israel is a fact and no demonizing it is going to change that fact. You can hate it, wish it away but it is here. If it goes down then all of you every where will suffer the same fate of Iran terror and mushroom clouds will spare no one on this earth. You are wasting your time and energy being angry. Tit for tat is a game for the bored and leisure class. What are we here for anyway. To slash and burn each other with words. Where I come from "words kill" and we all have a share in it. For every piece you put up against Israel I have one to counter it. This is an endless boring game that takes place on so many web sites and now I guess NP has found itself in the same cesspool as the others.
at 10:35 on January 8th, 2009
Israel does what it has to do- because like any other time in history, no one will ever help Jews anyway- if they give me the boot, it's the only place I have to go. That is a fact of life for all diaspora Jews whether they like their identity predicament or not, arguably, give and take you have about a one to two hundred year life cycle living in any given place before you are forced into exile once more. I love Canada, but they could pull the wool over my eyes at any second- just like they forced my one great aunt to travel through here by train in WWII seeking refuge anywhere from Germany, they wouldn't let her out; forced her to travel to Australia, where she was reluctantly let in.
at 18:07 on January 8th, 2009
If you have a better legal or ethical argument based on factual evidence, please present it. So far I have little from your retorts other than talking points from the Zionist party line.
at 07:50 on January 10th, 2009
"Israel does what it has to do- because like any other time in history, no one will ever help Jews anyway- if they give me the boot, it's the only place I have to go." .
"That is the worst lie ever told! EVERY GROUP OF PEOPLE has been persecuted if you REALLY want to look at history. To claim that you are justified in committing theft and murder in order to have a country that is "yours" is a perversity of recent Jewish history. .
"The Holocaust was crime against humanity because it was based on the concept that only a certain race can occupy a particular area, and ye the Israelis have adopted that same concept for Israel and non-Jews living in Israel. .
"ANY country that uses race to first and democracy second to claim power should be sanctioned by the world and isolated. Israel a beacon of light, rather it's exactly the opposite. .
"Israel is a racist state. .
"It was established using racism: .
"Times Online June 2008.
""A pamphlet warning Britons to leave the Middle East or face death has come to light in a stash of illicit propaganda. .
"The document does not hail from Basra or Baghdad, nor was it penned by the Islamists of al-Qaeda or the al-Mahdi Army. .
"It was found in Haifa, about 60 years ago, and it was issued by the underground group led by Menachem Begin – the future Prime Minister of Israel and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...Bombings and murders by underground groups, such as Begin’s Irgun, hastened the British withdrawal and the United Nations declaration that led to the founding of modern Israel. .
"Irgun propaganda targeted the British Army’s wavering morale, already dented by the bomb attack on the Mandate’s headquarters – the King David Hotel in Jerusalem – which killed 91 people. .
"The pamphlet says that the occupation is “illegal and immoral” and “parallel to the mass assassination of a whole people”, in language that echoes that used on a note pinned to the booby-trapped bodies of two British intelligence officers executed by Irgun that same summer." .
"http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4360655.ece.
"Apparently, the Jews tried to hide evidence of their crimes by burning or burying most of these documents. .
"This one was saved as a trophy by an Israeli. .
"And it uses racist policies as part of its daily life: .
"Although Israel has been founded in an area where many non-Jews live, only Jews are permitted to buy land in most of Israel. .
"The Jewish National Fund (JNF) through its relationship with the Israel Land Authority controls approximately 92% of the land in Israel. .
"The JNF has a “jew-only” policy with regards to land sales so that even Christians are effectively prevented from becoming land owners in Israel. .
"This policy has not only been in place for over 52 years, but in January 2008 some of Israel’s most prominent politicians, including Benjamin Netanyahu former Prime Minister of Israel, voted to continue this racist policy .
"http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/884358.html.
"Since Israel’s inception, the Jewish state has implemented a segregated school system similar to school systems in the Jim Crow South.
Under Israeli Law, non-Jewish children are educated in separate schools from Jewish children. .
"Even though non-Jewish citizens in Israel must pay the same taxes as Jews, the Israeli government spends more money on the Jewish children than the non-Jewish children. .
"http://hrw.org/reports/2001/israel2/JILPfinal.pdf.
"This results in over-crowded non-Jewish schools many of which have no counselors, recreational, facilities, or even libraries. .
"Even the US State Department had the following to say about Israel’s policies: .
" “… the Government does not provide Israeli Arabs, who constitute approximately 20 percent of the population, with the same quality of education, housing, employment, and social services as Jews. In addition, government spending is proportionally far lower in predominantly Arab areas than in Jewish areas... Although such policies are based on a variety of factors, they reflect de facto discrimination against the country's non-Jewish citizens.“ .
"http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2001/5697.htm.
"Israel is represents the worst of what the 20th century had to offer. The 21st century will not continue to tolerate a racist Israel.
at 08:32 on January 10th, 2009
Not verified,
Job well done you surely put those Jews and Israelis in their place.