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A Brief History of Killing Children

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The latest Israeli Atrocities, Murders and War Crimes are nothing new. Israel has been ...

Soldiers and pilots have killed 2,171 children and teenagers, and not one of these cases shocked anyone here, or sparked a real investigation or led to a trial.

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FIRST WE WERE ASHAMED, then we were shocked, and we even investigated.

Then we denied it and lied. After that we ignored and repressed it, yawned and lost interest.

Now is the worst phase of all: We’ve started to extol the killers of children. That’s how far we’ve gone.

The first child I remember wasn’t even a day old.

His mother, Faiza Abu Dahuk, gave birth to him at a checkpoint.

She was turned away by the soldiers from there and from two more checkpoints, until she had to carry him, all through a cold and rainy night.

When she arrived at the hospital, he was already dead.

The matter came up at a cabinet meeting.

An officer was dismissed and a mini storm ensued.

This was in April 1996, during the year of hope and illusions.

Four years later, when the second intifada broke out, soldiers killed Mohammed al-Dura in front of the cameras and Israel had already transitioned to the phase of denials and lies: Dura didn’t die.

Israeli soldiers didn’t kill him; maybe he shot himself, maybe he’s alive to this day.

Remnants of shame and guilt still clung somehow.

After that came 20 years of indifference and complacence.

Soldiers and pilots have killed 2,171 children and teenagers, and not one of these cases shocked anyone here, or sparked a real investigation or led to a trial.

More than 2,000 children in 20 years—100 children, three classrooms a year.

And all of them, down to the last, were found guilty of their own death.

Any Israeli would be happy to explain that they were terrorists and the soldiers, or the police had no choice but to execute them.

In the alternative between the lives of the children and the sacred lives of the soldiers, of course we prefer the soldiers, although there’s almost always a third possibility: for no one to be killed.

Last week the next phase was declared. Israel praises the killers of children; they are the new heroes.

This never happened before.

They were Palestinians, terrorists, but still they were children.

From now on, take the life of a Palestinian child and be a hero on the front page of the newspaper or the top item on the TV news, including your daring picture, pixilated.

“The hero from the Old City”—a Border Police officer “took out a terrorist and prevented a major disaster,” according to Yedioth Ahronoth.

No mention in the headline of the age of the dangerous terrorist, of course, but no matter.

“Remember me well,” wrote 16-year-old Omar Abu Sab before he went out with a knife to stab a Border Police officer.

A video clip released by the police shows him approaching two officers from behind and attacking them.

He was smaller and thinner than them, they could have stopped him, they didn’t have to shoot him, and they certainly didn’t have to kill him, like they needlessly killed children with knives before him and after him.

But to turn the shooting of a 16-year-old with a knife into a big story is the crossing of a moral red line.

It will encourage the needless killing of more children, if any such encouragement was needed.

The light trigger finger will become even lighter. If before this there was fear of a sham investigation, now a medal of valor is already in the works.

How words kill. When the killers of children and teenagers, even when they’re armed with a knife, are extolled by the media and the commanders, this encourages the next criminal killing.

There is no child with a knife that the well-armored Border Police can’t arrest without killing. But the police are too cowardly.

That’s how they killed Eyad al-Hallaq, an autistic teenager.

Real heroes would have arrested him, not shot him to death.

But why bother if you can kill and become a hero?

Most of the children that the army and the Border Police kill should not have been killed.

Now it’s worth it to kill them, the media will crown you “the hero of the Old City.”

These are your heroes, O Israel, the killers of children and teenagers.

Is Israel a ‘Sick Society’?

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This video is still priceless!

By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | December 6, 2021

For whatever reason, some mistakenly perceive the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, as liberal, progressive and even ‘pro-Palestinian’.

Of course, none of this is true.

This misconstrued depiction of an essentially Zionist and anti-Palestinian newspaper tells of a much bigger story of how confusing Israeli politics is, and how equally confused many of us are in understanding the Israeli political discourse.

On November 28, newly-elected Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Palestinian city of Al-Khalil (Hebron) with hundreds of soldiers and many illegal Jewish settlers, including the who’s who of Israel’s extremists.

The scene was reminiscent of a similar occurrence where late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, had stormed, along with thousands of soldiers and police officers, the Haram Sharif Compound in occupied East Jerusalem in September 2000.

It was this particular event that unleashed the second Palestinian uprising, Intifada (2000-05), which led to the killing of thousands.

Herzog’s gesture of solidarity with the Kiryat Arba settlers was identical to Sharon’s earlier gesture, also made to win the approval of Israel’s burgeoning and influential right-wing extremists.

Only a few months ago, Haaretz had described Herzog as a “centrist, soft-spoken, ‘no drama’” person who had, at times, “felt out of place on Israel’s stormy and fractured political battlefield”.

According to Haaretz, Herzog “may be exactly what Israel needs.”

A video on social media apperas to show an entire neighbourhood in gaza being destroyed in an hour.

But is this really the case? Marvel at some of the statements made by Herzog as he visited a site where twenty-nine Palestinians were massacred by a Kiryat Arba extremist, Baruch Goldstein, and where many more were shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the aftermath of the tragic event.

Not only did many Israelis celebrate the memory of Goldstein with a shrine befitting of heroes and saints, but many of Herzog’s companions during the provocative ‘visit’ are ardent followers of the Israeli Jewish terrorist.

“We have to continue dreaming of peace,” Herzog declared while marking the first night of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah inside the Ibrahimi Mosque compound, which was previously emptied of its Muslim worshippers.

New Israeli President Isaac Herzog sworn in at Knesset

Proudly, he “condemn(ed) any form of hatred or violence”. Meanwhile, hundreds of Israeli soldiers were terrorizing 35,000 inhabitants of the old city of Al-Khalil.

These Palestinians, who suffer daily violence at the hands of nearly 800 armed Jewish settlers in Kiryat Arba, along with an equal number of Israeli soldiers, were all locked in.

Their shops were closed, their life was put on hold, their walls covered with racist graffiti.

“If he had walked around the corner,” the Israeli news website 972Mag reported referring to the Israeli president, “Herzog might have seen the graffiti on the walls reading ‘gas the Arabs.’

Chances are Herzog already understands – in fact, supports – such racism; after all, he was joined by the likes of Eliyahu Libman, who heads Kiryat Arba regional council and Hillel Horowitz, the leader of the Jewish settlers of Al-Khalil.

It is these two men who preach extremism and violence against the Palestinians as a matter of course.

Aside from hosting the Goldstein grave and shrine, the settlement has a park that carries the name of Meir Kahane, the spiritual leader of Israel’s most violent extremists.

In an emotional speech given by Horowitz in the company of Herzog, the settler leader announced that the Israeli president’s violent storming of the Ibrahimi Mosque “reminds us that we did not take the land of foreigners.”

He followed with “Your visit here strengthens our mission.”

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A settler child with a Keffieh and fake suicide belt poses with Israeli soliders during a Jewish holiday in Hebron, March 21, 2019. Photo | Activestills

From Horowitz, Libman and their ilk’s point of view, their ‘mission’ has been a great success.

They have managed to steer Israeli politics almost entirely towards the right. Even the “centrist, soft-spoken” president is now fully embracing their sinister mission.

But will Haaretz acknowledge this reality? That the ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ editorial line they have allegedly championed for many years has completely failed, and purposely so, to depict the truth about Israel?

Compare Haaretz’s positive portrayal of Herzog with their coverage of the former right-wing Israeli President, Reuven Litvin.

The latter, on various occasions, and rightly so, was criticized for his pro-Likud political line and for his divisive role that contributed to an already fragmented Israeli political scene.

But when Rivlin, in October 2014, had declared that “Israeli society is sick, and it is our duty to treat this disease,” a Haaretz columnist lashed out, suggesting that “Rivlin’s comments are positively bursting with Jew-hatred”.

“First he called Jewish society ‘sick’—dredging up anti-Semitic tropes about Jews as carriers of cultural and ideological disease.

Then he asked whether Jews are ‘decent human beings’: Questioning their humanity itself,” the article argued.

Of course, the sickness of “violence, hostility, bullying, (and) racism”, that Rivlin had then pointed out, is very much real.

Other symptoms of this horrible disease also include military occupation, apartheid and genocidal violence like that frequently meted out against the besieged Gaza Strip.

While this Israeli ‘disease’ is becoming common knowledge globally, with such organizations as Human Rights Watch and many others describing it in the most honest and blunt terms, the vast majority of Israeli society, including their representatives and their ‘soft-spoken’ president, remain blind to it, shielded from the truth by their own hubris, infatuated with their military power and intoxicated by the humiliation and violence to which Palestinians are subjected to, in Al-Khalil, in Gaza, in Jerusalem and throughout occupied Palestine.

There are no indications that Israeli society, government and media – ‘liberal’ or right-wing – will, on their own, develop the necessary antibodies that will cure the disease of racism, military occupation and apartheid.

Yes, it will ultimately be the Palestinian resistance that will make the decisive difference of holding Israel accountable.

But that can only happen when the international community takes a courageous stance in advocating Palestinian rights and unconditionally supporting the Palestinian quest for freedom.

Whether right-wing, left-wing or center, Israel is committed to its military superiority, its racism and to the military occupation more than ever before.

The sooner we accept this fact, and quit subscribing to the illusion that change in Israel will happen from within, the sooner the Palestinian people will finally achieve the justice they need and deserve.

Israhell fails to convince Europe, US of terror label for Palestine HRG’s

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Israel is finding that it has diminished public support across the US and the Western world. Shifting dynamics in global public opinion, particularly in the US and Europe, against Israel, could irreversibly hurt the Middle Eastern state.

Israel failed to convince European capitals and Washington of its recent terror designation of six Palestinian human rights groups, according to a US news organization.

Last month, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz designated six Palestinian rights groups as terrorist organizations, citing alleged links between the groups and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a leftist Palestinian party blacklisted by Israel.

The groups are Al-Haq, Addameer, Bisan Center, Defense for Children International-Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, and the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees.
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The Intercept website said European countries were not convinced by Israel’s secret dossier, sent to them, to justify its terrorist designation of the six Palestinian rights groups.

According to the news outlet, the secret dossier was prepared by Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, and was based on information from interrogation taken under duress from two Palestinian accountants, who worked for a Palestinian rights group that was also labelled by Israel last year as a terrorist organization.

B’Tselem, which was established in 1989, said in a statement that “there is no longer any point in pursuing justice and defending human rights by working with a system whose real function is measured by its ability to continue to successfully cover up unlawful acts and protect perpetrators”.

One of the two accountants was threatened “to arrest his wife and family,” the report said.

“In May, Israeli emissaries sent the dossier to European countries in a bid to persuade the governments to cut funding,” The Intercept said, adding that the dossier “failed to convince the foreign governments”, which decided “to continue their financial support” as the Israeli dossier didn’t contain any “concrete evidence”.

An “Israeli delegation sent to do damage control following outrage over the designations distributed a similar or identical document to members of US Congress and congressional staff,” the report said.

According to The Intercept, there were plans to send the document to the US State Department, which “requested more information on the designations.”

Michael Sfard, an Israeli lawyer representing one of the six Palestinian rights groups, described the designation as a “political attack” taken under “the guise of security”.

Israel aimed, Sfard said, to silence these groups for their criticisms of Israel, “promoting a boycott of Israel and the investigation of war crimes at the International Criminal Court.”

Al-Haq organization, for its part, described the designations as an Israeli attempt to persecute the rights groups and close their offices.

“Israel is now worryingly enforcing its threats with total impunity and complete contempt for the strong statements of condemnation from the international community over the past two weeks,” the group said in a statement.

November 9, 2021 – (Palestinian News Network) – Five European countries expressed “serious concern” at Israel’s designation of six Palestinian civil society organizations as terrorist groups after a Security Council meeting late on Monday and said they will be seeking more information from Israeli authorities on the reasons for their listing.

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members Estonia, France, Ireland, Norway, and Albania signed a statement asking Israel for information on Non-governmental Organisations (NGO) designations.

“These listings are a matter of serious concern, as they have far-reaching consequences for the organizations in political, legal, and financial terms,” the European countries said after the UNSC held a closed-door meeting on the matter in New York on Monday.

The 15-member council took no action after the closed consultations.

But a statement from Estonia, France, Ireland, Norway, and Albania, which will join the council in January, said the listings “have far-reaching consequences for the organizations in political, legal and financial terms.”

“A thriving civil society and respect for fundamental freedoms are cornerstones of open democracies,” said the statement read by Estonia’s UN Ambassador Sven Jurgenson after the council discussion.

“Civil society is an essential contributor to good governance, human rights, international law, democratic values and sustainable development across the world, including in Israel and Palestine.”

Last month, Israel said the six Palestinian human rights organizations were tied to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a secular, leftist political movement with an armed wing that has carried out deadly attacks against Israelis.

Israel and Western countries consider the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) a terrorist organization.

But a confidential Israeli dossier detailing alleged links between the Palestinian human rights groups and the PFLP contains little concrete evidence, and it has failed to convince European countries to stop funding the groups.

The six groups, some of which have close ties to rights groups in Israel and abroad, deny the allegations.

They say the terror designation is aimed at muzzling critics of Israel’s half-century military occupation of territories the Palestinians want for their future state.

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Bill Gates should know better: Israel ravages the environment in Palestine

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From the destruction of Palestinian wells to the poisoning of trees; and from the demolition of entire ecosystems to make space for Israel’s apartheid wall, to the use of depleted uranium in its various military offensives against Gaza, Israel has been on an unrelenting mission to destroy Palestine’s environment in all of its manifestations.

It is a myth that only Zionist Israel “made the desert bloom.” On the contrary, since its establishment on the ruins of more than five hundred Palestinian villages and cities that it has destroyed and wiped off the map, Israel has done the exact opposite. The land inhabited by Palestinian Muslims, Christians and Jews for thousands of years has been disfigured beyond belief by Israel in the matter of a few decades.

Those who are not familiar with how Israel, particularly with its military occupation of Palestine, is actively and irreversibly damaging the environment might conclude erroneously that Tel Aviv is at the forefront of the global fight against climate change. The reality is the exact opposite.

In his speech at the UN Climate Change Conference — COP26 — in Glasgow, right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett pushed the Israeli brand of “innovation and ingenuity” to “promote clean energy and reduce greenhouse gases”.

Israel uses this particular brand to sell everything, whether it be promoting itself as the saviour of Africa; helping governments to intercept refugees fleeing from violence and war; pushing deadly weapons in the global market; or, as Bennett did in Scotland, supposedly saving the planet.

Before dismissing Bennett’s rhetoric as empty words, we must remember that some people actually buy into this Israeli propaganda. One of them is American billionaire Bill Gates.

The day after Bennett’s speech, Gates met with the Israeli prime minister on the sidelines of COP26 to discuss the establishment of a “working group” to study potential cooperation “between the State of Israel and the Gates Foundation in the area of climate change innovation,” reported the Times of Israel.

According to the newspaper, Gates, who had asserted in his meeting with Bennett that only innovation can solve the problem of climate change, commented, “That’s really what Israel is known for.”

The Microsoft billionaire’s obsession with “innovation”, however, might have blinded him from addressing other things that Israel is also “known for”: being the world’s leading human rights violator, for example, whose horrific track record of racist apartheid and violence is known to every member state of the United Nations.

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Something else that Gates might not be aware of is Israel’s systematic and purposeful destruction of the Palestinian environment, resulting from its occupation of Palestine and Tel Aviv’s insatiable appetite for military superiority and constant “innovation” in terms of arms and ammunition.

Every act that is carried out to entrench the military occupation consolidates Israel’s colonial control and the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements, all of which have a direct impact on the Palestinian environment.

Not a single day passes without a Palestinian tree or orchard being set ablaze or cut down by an Israeli. “Clearing” the Palestinian environment is, and has always been, the prerequisite for constructing or expanding Jewish settlements.

For these colonies to be built, countless trees have to be “removed”, along with the Palestinians who have planted them, cultivated them and harvested them for centuries.

Over the years, millions of Palestinian olive and fruit trees have been uprooted in Israel’s constant demand for more land. The resultant soil erosion in many parts of occupied Palestine speaks volumes of this horrendous ecocide.

A man is seen wearing and holding a Palestinian flag outside the COP26 Summit on 2 November 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. [Peter Summers/Getty Images]

A man is seen wearing and holding a Palestinian flag outside the COP26 Summit on 2 November 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. [Peter Summers/Getty Images]

But it does not end there.

For hundreds of illegal Jewish settlements housing more than 600,000 settlers to exist, a heavy price is being exacted from the Palestinian environment on a daily basis.

According to the thorough research of Ahmed Abofou, an independent legal researcher with Al-Haq rights group, illegal Israeli settlements “generate around 145,000 tons of domestic waste daily.”

Indeed, “In 2016 alone, around 83 million cubic metres of wastewater were pumped throughout the West Bank.”

Moreover, Israel has near total control of Palestinian water. It relies on the occupied West Bank’s aquifers to meet its water needs, while denying Palestinians access to their own natural water resources.

According to Amnesty International, the average Israeli receives 300 litres of water per day, while a Palestinian receives just 73 litres.

The problem is accentuated when the water usage of illegal Jewish settlers is also taken into account.

The average settler uses as much as 800 litres per day, while entire Palestinian communities can be denied a drop of water for days and weeks on end, often as a form of collective punishment.

The issue is not just about outright theft, denial of access or unequal distribution of water resources.

It is also about the lack of clean and safe drinking water, an issue that has been highlighted by international human rights groups for many years.

In Hebron Palestinians are attacked if seen on streets by Zionist thugs. They walk above ground.

The result of these unfair policies has forced many Palestinians “to purchase water brought in by trucks” at prices “ranging from 4 to 10 USD per cubic metre,” reported Amnesty.

The human rights organisation highlighted that, for the poorest Palestinian communities, “water expenses can, at times, make up half of a family’s monthly income.”

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As bad as the situation may sound, the plight of the besieged Gaza Strip is much worse than that of the occupied West Bank.

The tiny and overcrowded territory is a prime example of Israeli cruelty.

Two million Palestinians living in Gaza are being denied the most basic human rights, let alone freedom of movement.

Since the Israeli military blockade on Gaza started in 2007, the environment of the coastal region has deteriorated on a constant basis.

With restricted access to electricity supplies and bombed-out sewage plants, the Palestinians in Gaza are forced to dump raw sewage into the sea.

Furthermore, Gaza’s main aquifer is now polluted to such an extent that 97 per cent of the available water is undrinkable, according to UN reports.

This is only the tip of the iceberg.

From the destruction of Palestinian wells to the poisoning of trees; and from the demolition of entire ecosystems to make space for Israel’s apartheid wall, to the use of depleted uranium in its various military offensives against Gaza, Israel has been on an unrelenting mission to destroy Palestine’s environment in all of its manifestations.

In truth, Mr Gates, this is what Israel is “known for” by anyone who cares to pay attention. Allowing Bennett to present his country as a potential saviour of humanity, while legitimising Israel with massive investments in “innovation”, mischaracterises — in fact, invalidates — the entire global campaign to truly understand the nature of the climate problem at hand.

Those who are hurting the planet have no right to claim that they are saving it. As it stands, Israel is the enemy of the environment that it ravages wilfully. This is really what it should be “known for”.

‘Palestinians ready to engage with Chinese to tell them our story’

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Beijing needs allies to ward off US pressure, thus needs to win support of Muslim countries, says expert

Riyaz ul Khaliq   |30.10.2021

As China attempts to expand its reach into the Middle East through its “Belt and Road Initiative” – a massive programme initiated by Beijing to build trade and infrastructure links across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, any turbulence between Israel and Palestine would be a cause for concern, Li Guofu, a researcher at the China Institute of International Studies, said.

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Palestinians are ready to engage with the Chinese government and people to “tell them our story,” speakers and experts told an Istanbul conference on Saturday.

However, a formal engagement with Beijing also requires platforms and vibrant activism, they added.

“We are ready and willing to engage with Chinese lawmakers to explain our story,” said Sheikh Hamid Al-Ahmar, addressing the first international conference on China and the Palestinian cause.

Al-Ahmar is the president of the Association of Parliamentarians for Al-Quds.

He also said Palestinians need to “take into consideration China’s Belt and Road Initiative which requires pure environment without violence and support from everybody.”

“We can build on Pakistan’s relation with China to help Palestine,” he suggested.

“Parliamentarians for Al-Quds look forward to an invitation from the Chinese side to engage with them on Palestine,” he added.

Mousa Abu Marzook, the vice-president of the Palestinian group Hamas, said Palestinians have “ethical, most organized resistance which defends our people.”

“Latest battle for Al-Quds is another example of it,” he said.

Earlier this year in May, Israel launched fresh attacks on Gaza Strip, killing nearly 300 people, including women and children, and left behind a trail of destruction. Health centers and media offices, as well as schools, were among the structures targeted.

Calling Hamas a “main player” in the Palestinian conflict, Marzook said the group has a relationship with “many people in public as well as behind the cameras, we appreciate that gesture.”

He said Palestinians look to a multi-polar world “where we do not have to face wrongs done by the US,” warning China that its “relations with Israel may have short term benefits but it will harm in long term.”

“Roots of terrorism lie in Israel,” Marzook alleged.

“We have historic relations with China and want Beijing away from Israel (…) And we want to enhance bilateral relations with Beijing,” he added.

Referring to the withdrawal of US-led foreign forces from Afghanistan, Marzook said Beijing is going to “fill gap vacuum like this.”

He told Anadolu Agency that Hamas enjoyed the relationship with Chinese people in the past “but it has come down in past one decade because of growing Beijing-Israel relations and opposition by the Palestinian Authority to our relations with Beijing.”

“After the battle of Saif Al-Quds, they (Chinese) contacted us and we are going to make good relations with China,” he added, referring to the latest attacks by Israel against Gaza.

China would need allies in new Cold War era

Sami Al-Arian, Palestinian academic and activist, told the conference the US “will not allow China to yield influence,” referring to forming of new military alliances around China by Washington.

“The US is forming military alliances to besiege China,” he said, adding that Washington “does not allow any country to be neutral.”

“Australia wanted to remain neutral but was forced to choose between security and trade,” he said, referring to the recent AUKUS military pact among the US, UK, and Australia.

Al-Arian, who leads the Istanbul-based Center for Islam and Global Affairs think tank, said that the US has 11 military fleets, and “seven are rotating around the world while Beijing is now building Blue Water Navy to counter Washington.”

Keeping in view the situation which the US is creating around China, al-Arian said, “Beijing would need allies to ward off the pressure on China in new Cold War era.”

“Supporting the struggle of Palestine along the struggle of Kashmiris in their struggle against fascist India would endear China to the Muslim world and defeat the attempt (of the US) to isolate China. But China also needs to resolve the problem of the Uyghurs in a balanced and fair way to receive the support of the Muslim world and beyond,” said Al-Arian, who is also a public affairs professor at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University.

“China has to choose to side with people,” he added.

Referring to the economic cooperation of countries like Turkey, Pakistan, and Iran with China, al-Arian said: “This could turn into possible military alliances.”

“It is in the best interest of China to support Palestine and create dynamics in the region and change nature of the conflict,” he said.

Struggle for Pakistani homeland bedrock for support to Palestine

Mustafa Hyder Sayed, who leads Pakistan-China Institute, told the participants the unprecedented support for Palestine in Pakistan was “because the forefathers of the country themselves struggled for an independent state led by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.”

Dubbing the Palestinian conflict “a very black and white issue,” he said the issue was “not about Islam or religion but it is about humanity, human rights, right to life for next generation of Palestinians who do not know whether their children will survive.”

Sayed urged a formalized engagement by Palestinians with Beijing.

“There is no reason that China will not take a strong stand on Palestine, however, it requires coordinated efforts from countries that want to take it forward,” Sayed said, asking Palestinians to use the upcoming China-Arab summit for lobbying with Chinese people.

Gao Shangtao, the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the China Foreign Affairs Ministry University, told the conference that China supports the two-state solution on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestine state.

“Israel” celebrates old false narrative

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“There it was, the essence of the terror agenda, right in front of our eyes for decades already, waiting to be re-discovered and finally understood.

The most important message of this manufactured Munich 1972 Olympic incident: it presaged and helped lay the foundation for the new essence of our counterfeit reality, culminating on 9/11 2001, bringing to life a monstrous myth.”

The Washington Post has published a moving article, “Russian Jews remember Israeli athletes murdered at 1972 Munich Olympic Games.”

Unfortunately, typical Zionist fashion it gets a few things wrong and provides a one-sided context for the tragedy.

Just 23 years before the Olympic incident, Israel had been created through ethnically cleansing much of the indigenous Palestinian population.

This had been accomplished through at least 33 massacres and was maintained in the years following by still more acts of ethnic cleansing and additional massacres. (These included areas from which the Munich kidnappers came).

 The massacre prompted many European countries to establish permanent, professional, and immediately available counter-terrorism forces, or reorganize already existing units to such purpose.

The massacre also prompted prominent arms designers and manufacturers to produce new types of weapons more ‘suitable’ for “counter-terrorism”.

Israel’s sacrificial lambs for a “war on terror”.

“Enough! Enough with being the scapegoat for Israel’s aggressive and frequently ill-conceived political moves.

Enough with being sacrificed on the altar of the Zionist State for the sake of increasing their worldwide legitimacy and increasing aliyah numbers. Enough!” –Jews to Zionism: Bye Bye 

Five years before the Munich incident, Israel violently conquered even more Palestinian land (illegal under international law), pushing out another 325,000+ Palestinian men, women, and children, and killing at least 13,000 Arabs in all. About 800 Israelis died.

The violence continued, and beginning in 1968 Israeli forces repeatedly savaged 150 or more towns and villages in south Lebanon alone.

By the time of the Munich Olympics, Israel held hundreds of prisoners in its notorious prison system.

It is widely known, but rarely stated, that the goal of the Munich hostage-taking was not to kill them; it was to return the athletes to Israel in return for Israel returning its Palestinian prisoners.

Many of these prisoners were also young people, and, if we could have seen them, they might have looked very much like the Israeli athletes, minus the physical health. Israel is not known for its merciful treatment of those it dislikes.

When the Israeli government refused to consider an exchange, the German police, with the Mossad at hand, were pushed into an ill-planned rescue attempt in which some of the hostages (no one knows how many) were killed accidentally by the attackers, and a German policeman was also killed.

Israeli secret service agent Mike Harari, who played a major role in planning WRATH OF GOD, Mossad’s revenge attacks against Palestinian militants implicated in the 1972 Munich massacre of the country’s Olympics team, has died.

He was 87. Harari was also involved in planning Israel’s dramatic rescue of hostages held by militants in Entebbe (another false flag operation), Uganda in 1976.

The day after the botched and unnecessary “rescue,” Israel launched heavy air attacks against Lebanon and Syria, killing between 200 and 500 Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians, mostly civilians.

While WashingtonPost reporter Kathy Lally gives a great deal of information about the position of Russian Jews, going back over 100 years, it would have been valuable for her to tell a little about what the Munich incident was about – and about all the tragic victims of violence connected to the event, not just the 11 preferred ones.
Source: Counterpunch

“Arab gunmen held hostages and then killed the Israeli athletes.” -BBC
Black September 5, 1972 Eight Palestinian “Black September” terrorists  seized 11 Israeli athletes in the Olympic Village in Munich, West Germany. In  the rescue attempt by West German authorities, nine of the hostages, and five  terrorists were killed.

Israel, and it’s Jews, are once again the victim, and  the Palestinians are demons.

The Mossad was admittedly there, although that admission was based on its standard ruse of ‘coming over just in time’ a day after the initiation of the hoax.
“Black September” is associated with Israeli machinations. The name  depicts the mass slaughter and expulsion of Palestinian fighting forces  from Jordan, an attack which began in September 1970.

Zionist agent, George Sieber, predicted months in advance with eerie detail the exact events which were to follow.

 Wikipedia BS
Operation Wrath of God also known as Operation “Bayonet”, was a covert operation directed by the Mossad to assassinate individuals suspected of being involved in the 1972 Munich massacre in which 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed.

The targets were members of the Palestinian armed militant group Black September and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operatives.

The Truth
Mossad agents have tried to claim they targeted Palestinians … Instead the dead were mainly random Palestinian intellectuals, politicians and poets.

Zionism’s claim that Israel has lived and still lives in danger of annihilation is propaganda nonsense to facilitate the assertion that Israel is the VICTIM, (when actually it is the AGGRESSOR and OPPRESSOR), and therefore must be free to act with impunity in any way it thinks fit, even when its actions demonstrate contempt for international law and the human and political rights of the Palestinians.

Everybody remember the poor terrorized Jews
Jewish groups had petitioned the International Olympic Committee for months to have that commemoration of the 1972 Munich massacre, only to be told that such a tragic remembrance was “not fit” for the atmosphere of the opening ceremony.

Afghanistan withdrawal is a shock to the Israel lobby

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Palestine must never be for the Palestinians. And that is the shock.

Zionism, like American, Australian and South African nationalisms, was at the same time colonial.

Military occupations excite violent resistance throughout history.

The U.S. has given up the fantasy of transforming Afghanistan.

This removes Israel’s cover for its occupation and is generating panic among Israel’s friends.

For the Israel lobby, the U.S. occupation is in the image of the Israeli occupation, which the Israel lobby wants to go on forever even as it laments its presence and wishes this were not necessary.

As we reflect on the Afghan withdrawal, I remember well the ideological thrill experienced by Israel supporters in the sadness and shock of 9/11.

Now you know what it is like to live in Israel.

The U.S. and Israel are in the same boat.

Our tough neighborhood has come to your shores. Let us advise you how to deal with radical Islamist terror.

In the years that followed, the Israeli mindset and model were adopted by American policymakers.

We occupied two Muslim countries and set about to reform their societies and governance.

We dedicated ourselves to fighting the terrorists that hated us for who we are, a democracy.

Yes, I know there were some Good Old American reasons to undertake these militant imperial activities; but the role of Israel and its lobby were significant.

Netanyahu and AIPAC and the leading thinktanks urged the U.S. to go into Iraq.

The neoconservatives who populated the Bush administration and had Rumsfeld’s ear had a near-religious faith in the use of American force (in a world of one superpower) to transform the Middle East.

From the start the causes of terrorism were never thoughtfully considered by our media.

Only leftwingers and realists discussed Robert Pape’s exhaustive research in “Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism,” showing that many suicide terrorists through history were seeking to rid their lands of occupiers.


Alongside that blindness was the failure by the media and the government’s 9/11 Commission to consider a primary motivation of the 9/11 attackers: hatred of America’s role in oppressing Palestinians.

That motivation got a few uncomfortable lines in the massive 9/11 report.

But because Israel support is actually an article of faith in Washington– “unwavering commitment”, in Biden’s words; we support Israel even “if the Capitol crumbled to the ground,” in Pelosi’s words– such support must never be made to seem problematic.

So the media and politicians distort the facts.

Just as the media and political establishment today ignore the fact that the leading human rights groups have labeled Israel an apartheid state.

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The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has delivered a shock to the U.S. identification with Israel.

The Israel lobby liked the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan.

Israel lobbyists said that the occupation could go on indefinitely and the occupation was a lot better than the alternative: a terrorist state created by the people who live there who hate America and the west.

For the Israel lobby, the U.S. occupation is in the image of the Israeli occupation, which the Israel lobby wants to go on forever even as it laments its presence and wishes this were not necessary.

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Now the United States has withdrawn from Afghanistan amid scenes reminiscent of France leaving Algeria or the U.S. leaving Vietnam, and Afghanistan is for the Afghans.

Palestine must never be for the Palestinians. And that is the shock.

The decolonization of Afghanistan damages the Israeli-American identification since 9/11, and removes a geopolitical justification for Israel’s neverending occupation of Palestinian lands.

But neverending occupation is Israel’s only answer to the Palestinian question.

If a Palestinian state is created, it will just be a terror state, the Israeli leaders always say; and the Israel lobby echoes the propaganda.

And says, Afghanistan will become a terror state.

You could see the panic in Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s meeting with Joe Biden last week. Bennett gave a long/bush-league/biblical lecture to the president.

He spoke with evident angst about all the terror groups that surround Israel, from Hamas to Islamic Jihad to Hezbollah.

He urged the U.S. to stay in Syria.

He described Iran as a terror state outside civilized parameters and said Israel will continue to take it on– presumably by continuing to murder Iranian scientists.

It was the same old war on terror, being sold to Americans who polls show overwhelmingly want an end to the Afghanistan war.

And the Israel lobby exulted over the summit meeting, saying it shows that the bipartisan consensus for Israel that Trump wrecked has been restored

. A rightwing PM became “close friends” with a Democratic president, who all but endorsed the use of force against Iran.

Being idealistic, I say the good times at the White House can’t last.

The paradigm has shifted on the war on terror, and Israel as an apartheid state.

Israel will continue to experience terror attacks, and will deliver terror ten-fold back to Palestinians– so long as it constitutes itself as a majority “Jewish” state that grants higher rights to Jews and forces rights-less Palestinian into cantons.

No one in the Israeli government has challenged these concepts of governance.

Israel is in national mourning today for a sniper who was shot at the wall of the Palestinian ghetto of Gaza by a Palestinian who is confined to that space.

The Israel lobby tells Americans that a “Hamas terrorist” killed a good soldier.

The Israel lobby doesn’t care that 2 million Palestinians can’t move outside a tiny area whose water is undrinkable. It doesn’t care that Israeli snipers maim and kill Palestinians who protest their imprisonment.

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When liberal Zionists say the occupation is unsustainable, they leave out the inevitable sequel: Palestinians who want a better future are always going to resist Israeli rule, by whatever means.

That’s why Israel is a security state surrounded by terrorists. It’s not a democracy.

This was all foreseen. Hannah Arendt said during the Nakba in 1948 that Israel was doomed to “degenerate” into a Spartan warrior state so long as it ignored the desires of its neighbors.

In the same year State Department advisers warned the White House that helping to implant a Jewish state in Palestine would result in decades of unrest. Both predictions have come to pass.

Nobel Peace Prize-winner Obama bombed 7 Muslim-majority nations.

The Israel lobby has worked tirelessly to overcome these brutal realities by projecting the Israeli experience and saying the Israeli condition is the American condition, and everything bad about its neighborhood also threatens America.

So Israel is our great ally.

The lobby has repackaged that ally again and again through the Cold War and the war on terror and on Iran too.

“Both of us… are a lighthouse in a very, very stormy world,” Bennett told Biden.

The Afghanistan withdrawal reminds us that the U.S. and the so-called Jewish state have very different interests in the Middle East.

If only we could discuss it.

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The Zionist Holocausts

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In 1943 members of the Jewish population dug in and organized a poorly armed last-ditch resistance.

They were crushed by a heavily armed and massive German army assault.

Today, in the Holy Land, the Zionist government, with the support of the majority of Israel’s population are themselves perpetuating a holocaust against the Palestinian people.

The Israeli government repeatedly denies that its treatment of the Palestinians is anything like the treatment suffered by the Jews under the Nazi regime. But the Nazis too denied that they were engaging in genocide and war crimes.

It may be a different conflict but there are striking similarities between the historical Jewish Holocaust and the current Palestinian Holocaust, which has been going on since the inception of the State of Israel.
The Palestinian Holocaust has the all the hallmarks of the Jewish Holocaust;

  • the long-term use of state terror including the dispossession of 90% of the land
  • forcing of over four million Palestinians into ghettos with a Nazi style encirclement
  • ethnic segregation and ethnic cleansing forcing some five million Palestinians to live in exile
  • the geographically constrained movement of Palestinians between Gaza and the West Bank
  • the continuous expansion of Jewish only settlements in the West Bank and the confiscation of Palestinian homes by Jews
  • the Jewish only roads and plethora of military check points and starving the people of Gaza.

Israel’s ultimate aim, is the “systematic destruction” of the Palestinians as a national group and no doubt is quite deliberate.


What we are witnessing today is a living holocaust, that is being carried out under the eyes of the United Nations, European, Arab and Western World Governments.

Some would say that their silence is deafening.

Martin Luther King said “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

The Israeli regime uses similar methods as the Nazi oppressors did, which included practises of collective punishment, racially based legislation, legalized mass torture and ethnic cleansing (distinguished human rights lawyer Raji Sourani, and director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights calls this the “Gaza Doctrine”).

All are unequivocally illegal but unfortunately all too real in the Occupied Territories.

Israel has imprisoned the 1.8 million people of Gaza by surrounding them with a 7-9 metre wall over 360 square kilometres of land where they cannot escape the bombardments – referred to by many as the “largest concentration camp in the world”.

This makes the former East German, Berlin “Wall of Shame” seem mediocre in comparison to the Israeli “Wall of Terror”.

The situation in Gaza is not unlike that faced by Europe’s Jews under Hitler.

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The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.

It was established in the Polish capital between October and November 16, 1940, in the territory of the General Government of German-occupied Poland, with over 400,000 Jews from the vicinity residing in an area of 3.4 km2 (1.3 sq mi)

The Israeli government has converted the Gaza territory into the world’s largest concentration camp, sealed off and subjected to periodic and murderous bombardment.

For the people of Gaza, there is no place to shelter their children; no friendly countryside that could provide refuge.

And if this mass imprisonment and torture of the Palestinians was not enough, Israel has become even more despicable through its economic blockade where it has rationed food supplies and calculated the calories allowable per person in Gaza to survive – exactly like what the German civilian authorities do to the inhabitants of Warsaw the Ghetto.

Food allotments rationed to the people were not sufficient to sustain life.

In 1941 the average Jew in the ghetto subsisted on 1,125 calories a day and tens of thousands died of starvation.

The only word that can describe this inhumane suffering and terror faced on a daily basis by the Palestinian people is HOLOCAUST.

The word “holocaust” was used in English to denote “great massacres”. In 1943 it was the lawyer Raphael Lemkin who invented the term “genocide,” by combining “genos” (race, people) and “cide” (to kill).

He campaigned for a legal definition which is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, where genocide is “the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group”.

“I am pained by the parallels I observe between my experiences in Germany prior to 1939 and those suffered by Palestinians today. I cannot help but hear echoes of the Nazi mythos of ‘blood and soil’ in the rhetoric of settler fundamentalism which claims a sacred right to all the lands of biblical Judea and Samaria. The various forms of collective punishment visited upon the Palestinian people – coerced ghettoization behind a ‘security wall’; the bulldozing of homes and destruction of fields; the bombing of schools, mosques, and government buildings; an economic blockade that deprives people of the water, food, medicine, education and the basic necessities for dignified survival – force me to recall the deprivations and humiliations that I experienced in my youth. This century-long process of oppression means unimaginable suffering for Palestinians.” 

Dr. Hajo Meyer, ‘An Ethical Tradition Betrayed’, Huffington Post, 27/1/10.

Hajo Meyer was a survivor of Auschwitz.

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But since the 1960s, the term holocaust came to be used and abused by scholars and popular writers to refer exclusively to the genocide of Jews in Europe during the 2nd World War.

It was reported last week, that almost 250 Jewish Survivors and Descendents of Survivors of Nazi Genocide Condemn the Massacre on Gaza and are calling for an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people. They urged people who are survivors of the genocide or a descendent of survivors, to add their name to the letter.

The tragedy is that although the Palestinians were not part of the anti-Semitism of Europe and the West they are the final victims of Hitler’s Holocaust.

The following juxtaposed images show Jewish life in Germany and Poland over 70 years ago and Palestinian life today in the occupied territories.
And these pictures speak more than words ever could.
Warning – Disturbing and graphic images

 

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“Israel’s” ongoing “Water War” against Palestinians

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Israel does not just occupy Palestinian land, it also systematically usurps all of its resources, including water, in flagrant violation of international law which guarantees the fundamental rights of an occupied nation.

By Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle

There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians which is rarely highlighted or even known. It is a water war, which has been in the making for decades.

On July 26 and 27, two separate but intrinsically linked events took place in the Ein al-Hilweh area in the occupied Jordan Valley, and near the town of Beita, south of Nablus.

In the first incident, Jewish settlers from the illegal settlement of Maskiyot began construction in the Ein al-Hilweh Spring, which has been a source of freshwater for villages and hundreds of Palestinian families in that area.

The seizure of the spring has been developing for months, all under the watchful eye of the Israeli occupation army.

 

Now, the Ein al-Hilweh Spring, like most of the Jordan Valley’s land and water resources, is annexed by Israel.

Less than 24 hours later, Shadi Omar Salim, a Palestinian municipal employee, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the town of Beita. The Israeli army quickly issued a statement which, expectedly, blamed the Palestinian for his own death.

The Palestinian victim approached the soldiers in a “menacing manner”, while holding “what appeared to be an iron bar,” before he was gunned down, the Israeli army claimed.

If the “iron bar” claim was true, it might be related to the fact that Salim was a water technician.

Indeed, the Palestinian worker was on his way to open the pipes that supply water to Beita and other adjacent areas.

Beita, which has witnessed much violence in recent weeks, is facing an existential threat.

An illegal Jewish settlement, called Givat Eviatar, is being built atop the Palestinian Sabih Mountain, in Arabic, Jabal Sabih.

As usual, whenever a Jewish settlement is constructed, Palestinian life and livelihood are threatened. Thus, the ongoing Palestinian protests in the area.

The struggle of Beita is a representation of the wider Palestinian struggle: unarmed civilians fighting against a settler-colonial state that ultimately wishes to replace a Palestinian village or town with a Jewish settlement.

There is another facet to what may seem a typical story, where the Israeli army and Jewish settlers work together to ethnically cleanse Palestinians: Mekorot.

The latter is a state-owned Israeli water company that literally steals Palestinian water and sells it back to the Palestinians at an exorbitant price.

Unsurprisingly, Mekorot operates near Beita as well.

The Palestinian worker, Salim, was killed because his job of supplying water to the people of Beita was a direct threat to Israeli colonial designs in this region.

Let us put this in a larger context. Israel does not just occupy Palestinian land, it also systematically usurps all of its resources, including water, in flagrant violation of international law which guarantees the fundamental rights of an occupied nation.

The occupied West Bank obtains most of its water from the Mountain Aquifer, which is divided into three smaller aquifers: the Western Aquifer, the Eastern Aquifer and the North-Eastern Aquifer.

In theory, Palestinians have plenty of water, at least enough to meet the minimally-required water allotment of 102-120 liters per day, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). In practice, however, this is hardly the case.

Sadly, most of the water in these aquifers is appropriated directly by Israel. Some call it “water capture”; Palestinians call it, more accurately, “theft”.

While in Israel the daily per capita water consumption is estimated at 300 liters, illegal Jewish settlers in the West Bank consume over 800 liters per day.

The latter number becomes even more outrageous if compared to the meager amount enjoyed by a Palestinian, that of 70 liters per day.

This problem is accentuated in the so-called ‘Area C’ in the West Bank, for a reason. ‘Area C’ consists of nearly 60 percent of the total size of the West Bank and, unlike ‘Areas A’ and ‘B’, it is the least populated.

It is mostly fertile land and it includes the Jordan Valley, known as the ‘breadbasket of Palestine’.

Despite the fact that the Israeli government had, in 2019, decided to postpone its formal annexation of that area, a de facto annexation has been in effect for years.

The illegal appropriation of the Ein al-Hilweh Spring by illegal Jewish settlers is part of a larger stratagem that aims at appropriating the Jordan Valley, one dunum, one spring, and one mountain at a time.

Of the more than 150,000 Palestinians living in ‘Area C’, nearly 40 percent – over 200 communities – suffer from “severe shortage of clean water”.

That shortage can be remedied if Palestinians are allowed to drill new wells, expand current ones or to use modern technologies to allocate other sources of freshwater.

Not only does the Israeli army prohibit them from doing so, even rainwater is off-limits to Palestinians.

“Israel even controls the collection of rainwater throughout most of the West Bank and rainwater harvesting cisterns owned by Palestinian communities are often destroyed by the Israeli army,” an Amnesty International report, published in 2017, concluded.

Since then, the situation became even worse, especially since the idea of officially annexing a third of the West Bank obtained widespread support in the Israeli Knesset and society.

Now, every move made by the Israeli army and Jewish settlers in the West Bank is directed towards that end, controlling the land and its resources, denying Palestinians access to their means of survival and, ultimately, ethnically cleansing them altogether.

The Beita protests continue, despite the heavy price being paid. Last June, a 15-year-old boy, Ahmad Bani-Shamsa, was killed when an Israeli army bullet struck him in the head.

At the time, Defense for Children International-Palestine issued a statement asserting that Bani-Shamsa did not pose any threat to the Israeli army.

The truth is, it is Beita that is under constant Israeli threat, as well as the Jordan Valley, ‘Area C’, the West Bank and the whole of Palestine.

The protest in Beita is a protest for land rights, water rights and basic human rights. Bani-Shamsa and, later, Salim, were killed in cold blood simply because their protests were mere irritants to the grand design of colonial Israel.

The irony of it all is that Israel seems to love everything about Palestine: the land, the resources, the food and even the fascinating history, but not the indigenous Palestinians themselves.

Israel fakes another video of “Hamas rockets” next to Gaza homes

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The Israeli military tweeted a video containing footage it falsely claimed showed Hamas rockets near civilian homes in Gaza. The tweet was later deleted.

Israel always claims to do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties when it is bombing Gaza, as it has been doing with savage intensity for more than a week.

Yet day after day, Israel has slaughtered men, women and children in their homes, regularly wiping out whole families.

The 200 people killed in Gaza since the Israeli attack began more than a week ago include 59 children and 35 women.

So the dilemma for Israel is how to square this horrific reality with its propaganda about protecting civilians.

The solution is to lie and blame the victims.

Israel’s habitual claim is that Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations use Palestinian civilians as “human shields,” by routinely firing rockets from residential areas, or even the rooftops of homes.

Israel got caught lying again after it posted a video on Twitter on Saturday titled “Hamas’ Use of Human Shields, Explained.”

The tweet also says: “Israel fights to protect its civilians. Hamas uses civilians to protect itself.”

Old video, fake rockets

But as Raphael Satter, a Reuters journalist observed, the video included “footage of a 2018 Israeli training exercise presented as if it had been shot recently in Gaza.”

The footage appears to show a truck carrying missiles near homes through a narrow residential street.

But as Aric Toler, a researcher with Western-government funded think tank Bellingcat observed, the truck with the missiles appears to have been a decoy being used as part of an Israeli training exercise.

And it was not filmed in Gaza.

The image is taken from a video filmed more than two years ago in the village of Abu Snan in the Galilee – about as far as you can get from Gaza within Israel.

Cropped footage of the trucks from the 2018 video was used in the now-deleted Israeli army video posted on Saturday.

The Electronic Intifada was able to view the video in an archived copy in the WayBack Machine.

The 2018 video was posted on an Israeli Facebook page on 25 November 2018.

A caption in Hebrew says, “Trucks with ‘missiles’ took a wrong turn and entered the village of Abu Snan in the north.”

A voice on the video, that of the Arabic-speaking child who apparently filmed it, calls out, “Look guys, the rockets are here.” He sounds excited by the unusual scene.

The visibility of yellow Israeli license plates on parked cars is another clear giveaway that the video was not shot in Gaza.

Israel’s Mako news website reported on 24 November 2018 how Israeli motorists had been surprised to see a truck apparently carrying missiles on a highway near the central Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, heading towards the north.

The report includes a video apparently filmed by an Israeli motorist showing the same sort of decoy truck visible in the Facebook video.

With its lie busted, the Israeli army deleted its tweet, though an archived copy remains online.

Although the video may not play in the archived version for some readers, it had apparently garnered 146,000 views before the Israeli army deleted it.

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This latest fabrication is not Israel’s first during its current attack on Gaza.

Last week, Ofir Gendelman, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, posted a video on Twitter claiming to show Hamas firing rockets from next to an apartment building in Gaza.

But Gendelman deleted the tweet after Twitter labeled it “manipulated media.” It had in fact been a video filmed in Syria and first posted on YouTube in 2018.

Also last week on CGTN television, I debunked the lie told by a member of Israel’s far-right Yamina party that Hamas was firing rockets from the roofs of residential buildings:

Resume requirement for counter-terrorism job appears to include: Zionist Jews

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A “protection racket” is a scam where an aggressor instigates an attack, blames a bogeyman, and then offers to protect the victim from this bogeyman in return for money and power.

The “War on Terror” is a protection racket. The aggressor is the world financial elite known as the “Crown” based in the City of London. Their instrument is the Zionist project, specifically Israel, the Mossad and its Neo Con allies.

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On Monday, President Obama appealed to the Congress to approve his nominee for the counter-terrorism czar in Treasury: Adam Szubin.

“This is a vital position for our anti-terrorism efforts,” Obama said, and Szubin is “highly qualified.”

Is one of those qualifications that Szubin is Jewish? It sure looks that way.

As the Jewish Telegraphic Agency pointed out when Szubin was nominated in April, he would be the third Jew to hold this job: “In 2002, he helped found DC Minyan, an Orthodox congregation based on egalitarian principles.”

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Michael Chertoff, an Israeli citizen, the son of an Orthodox rabbi and a pioneer of the Mossad, headed the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in 2001, and as such was responsible for the retention and destruction of all evidence regarding the 11th of September – from Pentagon cameras to World Trade Center beams. It is to him also that the “dancing Israelis” owe their discreet repatriation. In 2003, he was appointed to head the new Department of Homeland Security in charge of counter-terrorism on U.S. territory, which allows him to control dissent while continuing to restrict access to the file of Sept. 11 through the law of Sensitive Security Information.

The two other men to hold this job before Szubin were Stuart Levey– who studied under Marty Peretz at Harvard and wrote his college dissertation about saving the Zionist “dream” from Meir Kahane’s extremism– and Levey’s deputy David Cohen, who had the blessing of Alan Dershowitz.  “He is very consciously Jewish,” DC attorney Nathan Lewin told the JTA.

It’s a good bet that Szubin also has pro-Israel cred.

The reality is that the position of counter-terrorism czar is an Israel lobby job.

He (they’re all men) is tasked with keeping up sanctions pressure on Iran through the international banking system, but also supporting the president’s efforts to negotiate a new relationship with Iran.

David Cohen talked very tough about Iran when I heard him at NYU 3 years ago; and Obama could certainly point to Cohen and Levey as living proof that he was not being soft on Iran, and is trying to shut down Hezbollah and Hamas even as he seeks change. Covering his bases.

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Levey was a George Bush appointee; but Obama kept him on in his administration, and got cheers from the Jewish community for doing so.

That organized pro-Israel community wanted a signal that Jews who care about Israel are involved in making policy on Iran.

And Obama cared what Jews thought. He has to.

Who else opposes the Iran deal besides the organized pro-Israel Jewish community?

As Eli Clifton reports, it’s megadonors Thomas Kaplan and Sheldon Adelson, both giant supporters of Israel, who are backing one of the leading attack dog groups trying to stop the Iran deal.

This big rally against the deal is being organized at a synagogue in Long Island.

The Iran deal could be a huge win for the president.

But he needs organized Jewish community support to bring it off.

So yes, that’s why Under-secretary of Treasury for counter terrorism and financial intelligence is in essence a Jewish position.

Speaking of the pressure on the Obama administration over Iran from the organized Jewish community, look at the unseemly piece at Huffo about UN Ambassador Samantha Power from rightwing rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

Boteach is Power’s former character reference, which on its face is ludicrous, but a reflection of the political power dynamics.

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He notes that the “Jewish community” never really trusted Power till he stood up for her, but it will turn against “Samantha” — addressing her in a familiar manner– if she doesn’t oppose a Palestinian state…

Ambassador Power wasn’t implicitly trusted by members of the Jewish community when she took her role in the National Security Council.

After writing an op-ed where I encouraged her to clarify her statements, she did just that.

We met in the White House… I became intent on transforming the Jewish community’s opinion of her, working side-by-side to persuade others that she was someone whose judgment and understanding of the conflict could be trusted when it came to issues related to Israel.

Ultimately, when the time came for her nomination to serve as US Ambassador to the United Nations, the Jewish American community registered strong, widespread support.

Yet in recent months, the Ambassador Power currently representing America before the United Nations has been a far cry from Samantha I knew.

It has pained me to see her embrace the disastrous Iran deal, even as its leadership repeatedly and unapologetically threatened Israel with genocide.

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You’d think Boteach is a rightwing loose cannon, but he’s not.

He writes an op-ed and gets invited to the White House.

He’s got power because the lobby transcends party alliances.

Just as Stuart Levey served two presidents, it didn’t matter what party they were.

Just as Hillary Clinton promised that she’d reach across party lines to oppose the international boycott campaign against Israel.

Israel supporter David Makovsky interprets Clinton’s message as a signal to the Obama administration not to OK a French resolution in favor of a Palestinian state because it could hurt her too much in the upcoming presidential race.

As Martin Indyk once explained, “the Jewish factor” caused Obama to fold on settlements back in 2011. 

 [Jews] tend to vote for Democratic candidates and they provide a good deal of funding for political campaigns.

So the Jewish factor is always a critical factor for Democratic candidates.

I don’t think it’s telling any secrets that there are a lot of people who have been upset with President Obama.

And I think that the White House came to the understanding that they have a real problem there and they are going out of their way trying to show they are friendly to Israel and committed to peace.

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What If the Zionist Jews Succeed?

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by Andrew Hamilton

We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. – Maurice Samuel, You Gentiles (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1924), p. 155.

THE PURPOSE of this intellectual exercise is not to state what will happen, but to expose underlying assumptions about the essential nature of Jews, their objectives, and the Gentiles recruited to serve them.

Assume that Jewry and its powerful Rainbow Gentile supporters succeed in exterminating the White race, which they are in the process of doing.

What might happen next? Follow the thought to its logical conclusion, assuming for purposes of argument that nothing decisive intervenes to stop the process before it completely unfolds.

Many readers are familiar with the messianic concept central to Judaism of a global government (really a Left-wing dictatorship) controlled by Jews.

All Gentiles are subordinate to the Chosen in this scheme. Communism and the current new world order are “secular” variants of this ideology. (In truth, they are fanatical cults themselves.)

Given the modern instruments of social control now at their disposal — the mass media, the Internet (a combined brainwashing/total surveillance mechanism), governments, secret police agencies, military troops and armaments, academia, scientists, corporations, the dissolution of nations, replacement migration, miscegenation, destruction of the family and group reproduction, genetic engineering, “transhumanism” — it is easy to envision such an outcome.

David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff.
From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978:

“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.”

In practice the new world order would resemble the Soviet Union, except it would be more gray, aesthetically ugly, oppressive, and impoverished, because there is no longer an external society, no West, no major free zone of the planet to counterbalance and subsidize the dictatorship, no outside civilization to leech off of.

The rulers would be thrown back on their own devices.

They would make a complete botch of it. Their obsequious Gentiles would not be able to correct the situation for them.

Jews would of course possess a monopoly of the best of everything available, but it would not come close to matching what they’re accustomed to now.

This doesn’t mean the rulers of the new order couldn’t eliminate tens of millions of human beings.

They could and they would. They have done it before.

Nor does it mean millions wouldn’t be tortured, prosecuted, and locked away in prisons and concentration camps.

That, too, would happen. It does not mean that the dictators couldn’t maintain their death grip over the peoples of the earth indefinitely. That, too, they could do.

But there would be no utopia.

An extension of this scenario is also conceivable.

Jews need people to hate, people to persecute, people to victimize, people to kill.

They are what they claimed Whites are: “the cancer of human history.”

One of many elastic code words for their enemy-of-the-moment (“anti-Semite” is the most common one), drawn from their religion, is “Amalek”/“Amalekites.” Amalek is interpreted to mean anybody Jews hate. Amalek is not an ancient extinct tribe, but a generic enemy that each generation of Jews is free to identify for itself.

Jews are convinced that they have a “god”-given right to physically destroy “Amalek,” killing even the children and infants of their victims — as Passover itself memorably celebrates.

The same hatred prevails among secular Jews (and Gentiles) fired up on Left-wing ideology, as we daily see confirmed in Jewry’s media, “social media” (the Internet), government, academia, corporations, and other ultra-privileged venues.

This trait will not magically disappear once the US and other governments have eradicated Whites and established their new world order. It is innate.

The Jew, like the scorpion and every other creature, does what it is in his nature to do.

He has always lived not by settling down on a piece of turf of his own and planting his own crops and building his own house, but rather by breaking into someone else’s house.

And once in he doesn’t try to repair the damage he did by breaking in, but he continues to cause more and more damage as he loots everything of value and then, when there is nothing of value remaining, finding another house to break into — and then another — and another.

That is his nature. – William L. Pierce, “The Scorpion and the Frog,” American Dissident Voices, 2001.

An ungovernable genocidal urge to torture and kill has been noticed by many empirically-minded Gentiles skeptical of Jewish behavior and their loud, chauvinist claims to divine right and moral superiority.

An example is German writer, activist, and early Hitler proponent Dietrich Eckart, who penned a posthumously published pamphlet, Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin (Munich, 1924; trans., ed., and slightly modified by William L. Pierce).

The Jew’s very survival, Eckart wrote, involves “unconditional dependence” on the victims he loathes. His goal is,

beyond world domination, the annihilation of the world.

He must wear down all the rest of mankind, he persuades himself, in order to prepare a paradise on earth.

He has made himself believe that only he is capable of this great task . . .

[But] if a halt is not ordered, he will destroy all men.

His nature compels him to that goal, even though he dimly realizes that he must thereby destroy himself.

There is no other way for him; he must act thus.

The first logical step after the destruction of Whites might be the elimination of Blacks, who Jews perceive as our mirror opposite: the two major Gentile races differing most radically from the mean.

But the elimination of Blacks, or large masses of Gentiles, or whatever other target is chosen, will not slake their thirst for blood, just as 60 million victims of European Communism and the slaughters in the Middle East haven’t.

New attacks on an endless succession of nationalities, all “Jew haters,” would proceed apace.

If, one dark day (a new dawn to them), all Gentiles (in their terminology: “anti-Semites”) are eliminated from the planet, what would come next?

A zoological analogy suggests a possible answer.

Certain species of ants, called slave-making ants, exploit the labor or resources of other species of ants — equivalent to the racial Other in our example.

They depend on the subjugated ants to forage for their food, dig and maintain their nests, tend their young, and feed the adult members of the colony.

But if the slave ants are separated from the ants that are exploiting them, the dominant ants perish even in the presence of food.

Jews are analogues of these slave-making ants. They, too, cannot survive on their own. They, too, would perish.

This natural outcome would be accelerated by another: because psychopathic hatred is central to their collective being, Jews would turn on one another. The ferocious malice formerly directed outward would of necessity be directed inward against themselves.

Finally, at some point, “far out in exterior darkness where no breath stirs, no light shines, and no sound is heard,” the Earth would continue spinning — devoid of human life.

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