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Apr 8, 2011

BLOWBACK: Libya to unleash wave of migrants on Europe

 




Libya to unleash wave of migrants on Europe
Libya is unleashing a wave of migrants against Europe as retaliation for the coalition's military strikes against the country.
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Tunisian immigrants in Lampedusa Photo: AFP/GETTY

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By Nick Squires, Rome and Damien McElroy in Valletta 10:18PM BST 07 Apr 2011

The opening of immigration floodgates came as Italy announced that it would grant travel permits to more than 20,000 Tunisian refugees who have reached its southernmost islands in recent weeks.

The Italian government said the temporary permits would grant the refugees freedom of movement within the visa-free Schengen area, but in reality most want to head to France.

Paris reacted angrily to the move, with Claude Gueant, the interior minister, saying the country would not tolerate "a wave of immigration" and warning that migrants without appropriate identity documents and sufficient funds would be prevented from entering.

The Schengen zone excludes Britain and Ireland, but migrants could attempt to enter the UK illegally from the Continent.
The Tunisians are among nearly 26,000 migrants who have managed to reach the tiny island of Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost territory, since January, when president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was toppled by a popular revolt.

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In neighbouring Libya, Col. Muammar Gadaffi's regime is alleged to have been actively encouraging boatloads of migrants to leave the country's shores since March 22, when the first vessel sailed from Tajoura, a suburb of Tripoli.
Libyan armed forces and militias are reportedly turning a blind eye to the thousands of people, many of them sub-Saharan migrant workers who have lost their jobs, who assemble on beaches willing to pay several hundred pounds to be transported to Lampedusa.

The UN estimates that almost 450,000 foreigners have been uprooted by the fighting in Libya but only 218,000 have been able to return home.

Libya appears to be making good on threats issued at the start of the coalition's bombing campaign, when Moussa Ibrahim, the government spokesman, said the regime would no longer stop sub-Saharan and other refugees from trying to enter Europe by boat.

"There will be illegal immigration. It is a very lucrative business and the government had taken action against it, but it cannot any more. Libyans are involved, we are not stopping it."

Col. Gaddafi warned two years ago that he had the ability to turn Europe "black" unless the European Union agreed to pay his regime at least £4 billion a year to block the arrival of illegal immigrants.

Speaking during a three-day visit to Italy in Aug 2010, he warned: "Tomorrow Europe might no longer be European and even black as there are millions who want to come in." He was accused by Italian MPs of holding Europe to ransom but repeated the threat at a summit last year.

At the time Libyan naval vessels were patrolling the coastline and blocking the departure of migrants, in collaboration with the Italians, but that accord has now collapsed as a result of the Libyan civil war.
Nearly 400 boats loaded with illegal immigrants have reached Italy since January.

Some do not make it – Italian authorities scoured the Mediterranean on Thursday in the hope of finding survivors from a boat that sank in rough seas and high winds on Wednesday, having left the Libyan coast two days earlier.
Around 50 people were recovered but another 250 were missing, feared drowned, amid reports that many bodies could be seen floating in the sea.




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Being happy–is it good for the Jews? "Before Professor Dershowitz accused me of being an anti-Semite (news to me), I was a happy person. Since then, I'm still a happy person". –Michael Santomauro

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Michael Santomauro

Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish. Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is "nothing more than a screen to present chosen views." The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually "think outside of the (Jewish) box." --Michael Santomauro

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Thank you and remember: 

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Michael Santomauro
253 W. 72nd Street
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"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011

Being happy–is it good for the Jews? "Before Professor Dershowitz accused me of being an anti-Semite (news to me), I was a happy person. Since then, I'm still a happy person". –Michael Santomauro

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Michael Santomauro

Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish. Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is "nothing more than a screen to present chosen views." The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually "think outside of the (Jewish) box." --Michael Santomauro

Thank you and remember: 

Peace is patriotic!

Michael Santomauro
253 W. 72nd Street
New York, NY 10023

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Norman Finkelstein on Goldstone's revisionism

 


From: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs [mailto:info@wrmea.com]
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 1:25 PM

Subject: Finkelstein Provides Evidence of Israeli War Crimes

ACTION ALERT
April 7, 2011

Contact: news_editor@wrmea.com
Finkelstein Provides Evidence of Israeli War Crimes

The old Richard Goldstone found evidence that Israel committed war  
crimes in Gaza; the new Richard Goldstone suggests it didn't.
Here's the evidence.

Decide for yourself where is the truth.

An expanded and revised edition of Norman Finkelstein's This Time We  
Went Too Far, releasing later this month, refutes Richard Goldstone's  
recent recantation of his report on Gaza.

This significantly revised and expanded edition is the only  
comprehensive book-length study of the 2008-2009 Israeli invasion of  
Gaza and its consequences. It is based on thousands of passages of  
human rights reports as well as the statements of Israeli soldiers  
and Israeli officials. It covers the full documentary record— 
including all the official Israeli reports and investigations—right  
up until Dec. 31, 2010.
In light of Richard Goldstone's recent recantation of the report he  
authored on the Gaza invasion, Finkelstein's book provides a unique  
vantage point for judging whether the original report, or Goldstone's  
current position, is more credible.

The best way to order the Norman Finkelstein's new book is through  
the website: http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/this-time-revised/
Paperback is $15 and e-Book is $10. An excellent companion volume,  
The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the  
Gaza Conflict, edited by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner and Philip  
Weiss, is available for $11.25 through the AET Book Club.

Here is an excerpt from the epilogue of This Time We Went Too Far:

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

The massive destruction Israel inflicted on Gaza during the 2008-9  
invasion was designed in part to exacerbate the effects of an illegal  
blockade that had already wreaked havoc for some three years. "I  
fully expected to see serious damage, but I have to say I was really  
shocked when I saw the extent and precision of the destruction," the  
World Food Program director for the Gaza Strip observed after the  
assault. "It was precisely the strategic economic areas that Gaza  
depends on to relieve its dependency on aid that were wiped out." The  
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted critical civilian infrastructure  
such as the only operative flourmill and nearly all of the cement  
factories so that Gaza would be evermore dependent on Israeli whim  
for staples and would not be able to rebuild after a ceasefire went  
into effect.

A year and a half after the Gaza invasion, major humanitarian and  
human rights organizations uniformly attested that the people of Gaza  
continued to suffer a humanitarian crisis on account of the Israeli  
blockade: "Contrary to what the Israeli government states, the  
humanitarian aid allowed into Gaza is only a fraction of what is  
needed to answer the enormous needs of an exhausted people" (Oxfam);  
"The blockade . . . has severely damaged the economy, leaving 70 to  
80 percent of Gazans in poverty" (Human Rights Watch); "Israel is  
blocking vital medical supplies from entering the Gaza Strip" (World  
Health Organization); "The closure is having a devastating impact on  
the 1.5 million people living in Gaza" (International Committee of  
the Red Cross).
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was nonetheless emphatic that there  
was "no humanitarian crisis" and "no lack of medicines or other  
essential items" in Gaza.

"We mustn't tire of reminding others," Parisian media philosopher  
Bernard- Henri Lévy chimed in, that "the blockade concerns only arms  
and the material needed to manufacture them." Mocking claims of a  
humanitarian crisis Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon gestured to  
Gaza's "sparkling new shopping mall…new Olympic-sized swimming pool… 
five-star hotels and restaurants." Israel circulated photographs of  
these lavish scenes on the Internet. It is true that tiny pockets of  
prosperity have flourished in the Strip. Harvard political economist  
Sara Roy noted the emergence of an economic stratum that had "grown  
extremely wealthy from the black-market economy," and the "almost  
perverse consumerism in restaurants and shops that are the domain of  
the wealthy." But for students of the Nazi holocaust such a  
juxtaposition, however repellent, should hardly surprise. Thus, a  
survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto recalled:

The sword of the Nazi extermination policy hung over all Jews  
equally. But a social differentiation arose in the ghetto, setting  
apart substantial groups who had the means even under those infernal  
conditions to lead a comparatively full, well-fed life and enjoy some  
kinds of pleasures. On the same streets where daily you could see  
scenes of horrors, amid the swarms of tubercular children dying like  
flies . . . , you would come upon stores full of fine foods,  
restaurants and cafés, which served the most expensive dishes and  
drinks. . . . The clientele of these places consisted principally of  
Jewish Gestapo agents, Jewish police officials, rich merchants who  
did business with the Germans, smugglers, dealers in foreign exchange  
and similar kinds of people.

He went on to note that "the Nazis made moving pictures of such  
festive orgies to show the 'world' how well the Jews lived in the  
ghetto.
"Regrettably the ensuing debate on whether Israel had put Gazans on a  
"starvation" or "starvation plus" regimen shifted attention away from  
and obscured the more fundamental point: What right did Israel have  
to put the people of Gaza on any diet?

It was also lamentable how even the sternest critics of the blockade  
nevertheless seconded Israel's right to prevent weapons from reaching  
Gaza. Even if one accepts the highly debatable contention that, after  
acquiescing in the international consensus for resolving the  
conflict, Palestinians still do not have the right of armed  
resistance to end the occupation, the fact remains that, as Amnesty  
International has urged (if on different grounds), an arms embargo  
should be imposed on both Hamas and Israel. It is a curious  
conception of justice that would deny the victims the means to resist  
even as they support the legally mandated norms for achieving peace,  
but allow the perpetrators to replenish their arsenal of repression  
even as they reject these norms and ride roughshod over them.
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Deconstructing today's AP report on Gaza

 



Begin forwarded message:

From: Alison Weir <alisonweir@gmail.com>
Date: April 8, 2011 1:50:33 PM EDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [eFreePalestine] Deconstructing today's AP report on Gaza
Reply-To: eFreePalestine@yahoogroups.com

 

AP's reporting is virtually always profoundly Israeli-centric. Following is an analysis of today's news story on Israel's most recent attacks on Gaza. It discusses what actually occurred over the past week, what AP chose to report, and what AP chose to omit. Please feel free to circulate this widely, especially to local news media:

http://israelpalestinenews.wordpress.com/

--
Alison Weir
President, Council for the National Interest
Executive Director, If Americans Knew


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Jewish Pressure Resulted in Goldstone’s Partial Recantation | The Occidental Observer

 




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"...when you have laws against questioning the Holocaust narrative, you are screaming at the other person to stop thinking!!!" ---Michael Santomauro, March 23, 2011

Being happy–is it good for the Jews? "Before Professor Dershowitz accused me of being an anti-Semite (news to me), I was a happy person. Since then, I'm still a happy person". –Michael Santomauro

An anti-Semite condemns people for being Jews, I am not an anti-Semite.--Michael Santomauro

Most of us are mentally trapped to think Jewish. Actually, it is safe to say that virtually every mainstream publication or or other type of media organ is "nothing more than a screen to present chosen views." The great battle over the last century has been a battle for the mind of the Western peoples, i.e., non-Jewish Euros. The chosen won it by acquiring control over essentially the complete mainstream news, information, education and entertainment media of every type, and using that control to infuse and disseminate their message, agenda and worldview, their way of thinking, or rather the way they want us to think. Since at least the 1960s this campaign has been effectively complete. Since then they have shaped and controlled the minds of all but a seeming few of us in varying degree with almost no opposition or competition from any alternative worldview. So now most of us are mentally trapped in the box the chosen have made for us, which we have lived in all our lives. Only a few have managed to avoid it or escape it, or to even sometimes see outside of it, and so actually "think outside of the (Jewish) box." --Michael Santomauro

Thank you and remember: 

Peace is patriotic!

Michael Santomauro
253 W. 72nd Street
New York, NY 10023

Call anytime: 917-974-6367

E-mail me anything:
ReporterNotebook@Gmail.com


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