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· Published 00:48 07.06.10
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U.S. demands IDF probe how American lost eye at West Bank protest
Emily Henochowicz, 21, an art student in New York, came to Israel six weeks ago as an exchange student at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem.
The United States embassy has demanded an investigation into how an American citizen lost her eye last week at the Qalandiyah checkpoint after being struck by a tear gas grenade.
Israeli morbidity, Guardian's report and Anthony Lawson...
1. A Glimpse Into Jewish Collective Morbidity-introduction By Gilad Atzmon
Saturday, June 5, As I was reading in the Guardian that nine Turkish men on board the Mavi Marmara "were shot a total of 30 times and five were killed by gunshot wounds to the head." I came across "We Con the World', a new Israeli video production. 'The greatest bluff' they call the Free Gaza humanitarian mission . Considering the emerging news regarding Israeli execution on the Mavi Marmara, one would expect the Israelis to restrain their so called 'Jewish humour' for a while.
As it happens, the collective sickening morbidity is spilling over. It can't be contained anymore.
http://www.youtube.
Our leaders better start to think seriously how to dismantle this lethal nation before they turn all of us into an ash cloud.
2. Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range by Robert Booth
Exclusive: Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results reveal
http://www.guardian
Crowds at the funeral of one of the Turkish victims of the Gaza flotilla raid, at the Beyazit mosque in Istanbul. Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of those killed, obtained by the Guardian, revealed they were peppered with 9mm bullets, many fired at close range.
Nine Turkish men on board the Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times and five were killed by gunshot wounds to the head, according to the vice-chairman of the Turkish council of forensic medicine, which carried out the autopsies for the Turkish ministry of justice today.
To read more:
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3. Anthony Lawson: The Voice of America — Part 2 The Treasonous Dollar Drain
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Would Somebody Please Tell CBS News That Gaza is NOT Israel
Would Somebody Please Tell CBS News That Gaza is NOT Israel
Katie Couric: hopeless unintentional pro-Israel bias Image via Wikipedia
Should anyone ever need an example of the hopeless ignorance and bias (albeit unintentional perhaps) of the American media on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, your search is hereby ended.
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Dershowitz to the Rescue? By JAMES ABOUREZK
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June 3, 2010
The Israeli Spin-Machine in Overdrive
Dershowitz to the Rescue?
By JAMES ABOUREZK
Armed Israeli commandos, the elite of the elites, rappelled to the deck of a Turkish ship carrying humanitarian relief supplies to the 1.5 million prisoners in the Gaza concentration camp.
Although the Israelis did not see the attack as an attack, but an action only to defend themselves, as only Israelis have a right to do. It is a right that Palestinians do not have, nor do the other activists who were attempting to deliver the supplies to the Gazans It appears, from the scanty non-Israeli news available, that the Turkish ship was some 40 miles or more off the coast of Gaza, and that the activists aboard were not armed, except with kitchen knives and some clubs lying around the ship that they could round up when they were surprised by the Israeli commandos.
In the melee that followed, nine activists were dead -- mostly Turkish -- and several were wounded. Reports tell us that several of the brave elite commandos were also injured, one of them with gunfire from a gun an activist took away from one of the commandos. The Israeli propaganda spin machine was ready in an instant to spin the news their way about the incident. They were said to be, of course, entitled to defend themselves, a mantra chanted over and over again by the Israeli talking heads we've seen on American television. Listening to these commentators' paeans to Israel's conduct, It's very much like listening to a bully who, after punching someone smaller in the jaw, requires the victim to apologize for getting his face in the way of the bully's fist.
Even more thrilling were the American television commentators becoming instant pro-Israeli dittoheads, the very same characters they laughingly bring up when discussing Rush Limbaugh. One of the first stories attributed to the Israeli propaganda machine was that the commandos were armed only with paint guns--you know, the kind of weapons red-blooded American middle-aged men use to shoot at each other on weekends here in America. We all know how harmless they are. Somehow the Israeli government was unable to stop a couple of reports which told of the commandos whining that they were set upon by these radical terrorists with metal clubs and knives.
President Obama took a strong stand against violence. He did not actually say, "why can't we all just get along?" But when he expressed his regrets over the loss of life, a whiff of Rodney King's famous words blew over the airwaves.
What is desperately needed now is legal advice from Alan Dershowitz, perhaps America's top Israel apologist. If you remember, Dershowit was the legal expert who once wrote in the New York Times that, not to worry, the Israeli Supreme Court was always there to protect the rights of the Palestinians living under occupation. We are certain that the Israeli Supreme Court is sincere in its efforts to protect the rights of the Palestinians living under the illegal occupation, but it's obvious that no one has told the Court about the Palestinian home demolitions, the Palestinian olive trees uprooted by Israeli settlers, and the multiple beatings visited on Palestinians who tend to object to being treated like subhumans.
We are waiting for Professor Dershowitz to inform us that, because Israel is at war, it is perfectly legal to fly 40 miles out to open sea and drop armed pirates on the deck of vessels carrying humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza. He will also be able to explain that the ongoing occupation of Gaza by Israel is legal, on grounds that Hamas took over Gaza by force. He will, no doubt, be able to explain that the supervised democratic election during which Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian governing body somehow doesn't count. He will, by deft semantic footwork, be able to make us forget about how the Zionists first created Israel by the Zionists' ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
In fact, many of those who were driven out of their homeland by the violent Zionist assault in the 1940s, today are living in the cramped and poverty stricken Gaza strip, along with their children and grandchildren. Professor Dershowitz will surely be able to tell us that most Gazans, who are forced, by virtue of Israel's occupation, to live on about a dollar a day, will be extremely happy to get rid of Hamas. Perhaps he will also be able to explain why Hamas, which has never strayed out of their own homeland of Palestine to fight their occupiers, is branded as a terrorist entity by the United States at the behest of Israel. Or he will surely explain why Egypt has cooperated with Israel on the illegal blockade of Gaza. The reason of course, could not possibly be the billions of dollars in foreign aid paid by the U.S. taxpayer to Egypt to keep that government in line so Israel can continue to brutalize the Gazans
The Gazans have absolutely no sense of humor about the situation, but that lack surely can't be because they are constantly short of food, medicines, fuel, and other necessities of life. They did, as we have noticed, turn more sour-faced after the Israeli military used the entrapped Gazans as shooting gallery targets in 2008, where more than 1,200 civilians were killed by the Israeli military's tanks, jets, and howitzers.
Dershowitz may be able to tell us of the lesson we've all learned in the past few years that Israel's vaunted military is all powerful, unless, that is, if their intended victims decide to fight back, as Hezbollah did when Israel invaded Lebanon four years ago. We can count as well the unarmed peaceniks in the number of those who fought back, and who seem to have won a battle against the elite commando unit which invaded the Turkish humanitarian supply ship.
At least, the peaceniks did not whine, as the Elite Israeli Commandos did, when they were wounded defending themselves.
One more event we can now expect is a letter, to be circulated for signature to members of Congress by AIPAC, denouncing the humanitarian activists for forcing the Israelis to attack and to kill many of their group. I remember when Golda Meir, when she was Prime Minister of Israel, stating in public that she could forgive the Palestinians for shooting at the Israelis, but she could never forgive them for forcing the Israelis to kill Palestinians. After all, it's all in the spirit of self defense. If it works for the Israeli propaganda machine, it should work for the Palestinians as well.
James Abourezk is a former U.S. Senator, who practices law in Sioux Falls. He can be reached at georgepatton45@
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Helen Thomas: Jews should leave Palestine and return to Europe, top U.S. journalist says
· Published 11:35 05.06.10
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Jews should leave Palestine and return to Europe, top U.S. journalist says
White House reporter Helen Thomas also slams Obama administration for not condemning 'deliberate Gaza flotilla massacre.'
By Natasha MozgovayaTags: Israel news Barack Obama Gaza flotilla
Israeli Jews should get out of Palestine and go back "home," to Germany and Poland, senior White House Press Corps member Helen Thomas was taped as saying earlier this week, bringing calls for her resignation by Jewish organization B'nai B'rith.
In a recently uploaded Youtube video, Thomas can be heard saying that Israel "should get the hell out of Palestine," adding that the land was Palestinian, "not German, it's not Polish."
Thomas, in response, posted the following statement on her website, saying she deeply regretted the "comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon."
When asked where then the Jews should go, the senior White House correspondent said they should "Go home…. To Poland, Germany…and America and everywhere else."
"Thomas' comments are contemptible, "B'nai B'rith International President Dennis W. Glick said in a statement, adding that Thomas's "distortion of historical reality is astonishing. Her call for Jews to return to Poland and Germany—site of the Nazi genocide, the worst genocide in modern history—is beyond offensive."
Glick added that he felt "Thomas seems to have been schooled by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a belief that Jews appeared in Israel after the Holocaust," while ignoring "historical facts that Jews have called the Land of Israel home for more than 3,000 years, long before any other group made a home in the land."
"These vile comments, unfortunately, are the culmination of Thomas' ongoing anti-Israel sentiments that she kept thinly veiled over the years," B'nai B'rith International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin said.
"There should be no place for her in a news organization. Her comments go beyond commentary and land well in the camp that will stop at nothing to delegitimize Israel."
Last week, during a briefing with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, Thomas' criticized the American reaction to the deadly Israeli raid of a humanitarian aid convoy, saying that "our initial reaction to this flotilla massacre, deliberate massacre, an international crime, was pitiful."
"What do you mean you regret when something should be so strongly condemned? And if any other nation in the world had done it, we would have been up in arms. What is this sacrosanct, iron-clad relationship, where a country that deliberately kills people," Thomas had said.
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Israel "accidentally" distributes Video mocking Flotilla Dead
Israel "accidentally" distributes Video mocking Flotilla Dead
(1) Israel "accidentally" distributes Video mocking Flotilla Dead
(2) Cheese, and missiles for the kids: lyrics to "We Con The World"
(3) Haneen Zoabi cursed and shoved in the Knesset after relating her experience on the Flotilla
(4) US obeisance over Flotilla is price for backing of Zionist financiers & media moguls - James Petras
(1) Israel "accidentally" distributes Video mocking Flotilla Dead
From: Kristoffer Larsson <kristoffer.larsson@
The Jerusalem Post Should Fire Caroline Glick for Making a Racist Video
Eileen Read
Posted: June 5, 2010 05:07 PM
http://www.huffingt
'We Will Slaughter the Jews,' goes a blatantly racist music video <http://www.youtube.
Its title is, 'We Con the World,' sung to the tune of 'We are the World.'
However, the video's keffiyah (headscarf) wearing, knife-wielding 'Arabs' and other members of the 'Flotilla Choir' clearly aren't Turks or Gazans. They're Jewish Israelis singing "there's no people dying" about the Gaza humanitarian-
The lyrics begin:
There comes a time when we need to make a show
For the world and CNN
There's no people dying so the best that we can do
Is create the greatest bluff of all
The press office of the Prime Minister of Israel sent this video around the world. Apparently inadvertently, according to spokesman Mark Regev. Regev notes nonetheless that ""I called my kids in to watch it because I thought it was funny. It's what Israelis feel."
Clearly not all Israelis, since thousands and thousands of them massed in Tel Aviv today to protest the mess their extreme right-wing government is making of their nation's image abroad.
"It was not intended for general release," said a statement from the press office. "The contents of the video in no way represent the official policy of either the Government Press Office or of the State of Israel."
On her blog, the deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick, claims credit for the video. I never take Glick-bylined pieces seriously because they're all the same, since she constantly talks about continuing the occupation of Palestine, trashes Obama (and she is from Chicago!) and is a favorite on the lowest-level of American right-wing tv, like the Laura Ingraham show.
But this is lower than I've ever seen someone go who carries a management title at a journalism organization. I'm ashamed to say that Glick and I are both Columbia alums. Even if she hates people of another race or religion and is allowed by her editors to poke fun at them in a tasteless and blatantly racist way, she should be fired for making fun of the dead.
(2) Cheese, and missiles for the kids: lyrics to "We Con The World"
From: lenczner <atoyuma@yahoo.
Subject: Supreme Arrogance : lyrics to "We Con The World"
Israel "Accidentally" Distributes Video Mocking Flotilla Dead:
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...'There comes a time
when we need to make a show
for the world, the web and CNN
There's no people dying
so the best that we can do
is create the greatest bluff of all
We must go on, pretending day by day
that in Gaza there's crisis hunger and plague
coz the billion bucks in aid won't buy their basic needs
like some cheese and missiles for the kids.
We'll make the world abandon reason
we'll make them all believe that the Hamas is Momma Theresa
We are peaceful travelers
with guns and our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV
Ooooh we'll stab them at heart
they are soldiers no one cares
we are small and we took some pictures with doves
As Allah has shown us
for facts there no demand
so we will always gain the upper hand
We'll make the world abandon reason
we'll make them all believe that the Hamas is Momma Theresa
We are peaceful travelers
we're waving our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV
If Islam and terror brighten up your mood
but you worry that it may not look so good
Well don't you realize you just gotta call yourself
an activist for peace and human aid
We'll make the world abandon reason
we'll make them all believe that the Hamas is Momma Theresa
We are peaceful travelers
we're waving our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV
We con the world
yallah, let me hear you!
we con the people
We'll make them all believe the IDF is Jack the Ripper
We are peaceful travelers
we're waving our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV
Itbach el Yahud ! (slaughter the Jews)
We con the world
we con the people
We'll make them all believe the IDF is Jack the Ripper
All together now!
We are peaceful travelers
we're waving our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV
We con the world
yallah, let me hear you!
we con the people
We'll make them all believe the IDF is Jack the Ripper
We are peaceful travelers
we're waving our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV
(3) Haneen Zoabi cursed and shoved in the Knesset after relating her experience on the Flotilla
From: Dick Eastman <oldickeastman@
Knesset goes wild over Zoabi
By REBECCA ANNA STOIL
June 2, 2010 Wednesday 20 Sivan 5770 21:38 IST
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Arab and Jewish MKs fight in the aisle until ushers separate them.
The Knesset witnessed a rare eruption of violence on Wednesday when MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) was cursed and shoved after relating her experience as a passenger on the Mavi Marmara.
Knesset members from coalition and opposition parties alike sought to shout down the freshman MK, but the furor reached a climax when Anastasia Michaeli (Israel Beiteinu) charged the podium in an attempt to physically block Zoabi from continuing her speech.
It took a battery of ushers to remove MK Eli Aflalo (Kadima), who was called to order three times but remained standing in an aisle yelling and gesticulating until he was forcibly removed.
During the pandemonium, Arab and Jewish MKs scuffled in the aisles, and ushers were summoned to separate them.
"Go back to Gaza, you traitor!" MK Miri Regev (Likud) yelled in Arabic at Zoabi during the heated debate on the Free Gaza flotilla.
Zoabi was released from police custody early Tuesday morning.
At the podium, Zoabi said she was "astonished by the incitement" and "despised the words" she had heard during the Knesset debate on the Monday morning incident.
She said that she had agreed to participate in the flotilla, as it was a "political, human and moral imperative to oppose the imprisonment of 1.5 million people."
She described the blockade of Gaza as an "illegal, inhuman, illegitimate siege opposed by every politician who has a moral position... only the immoral support the blockade."
She blasted the MKs attacking her, saying, "Who is the criminal? Did I murder anyone?"
At that point, one MK shouted, "Check if she has a knife!" resulting in an uproar.
When Michaeli took the podium and attempted to stand between Zoabi and the microphone, Balad chairman Jamal Zahalka also ran forward to try to defend Zoabi.
A number of other Arab MKs also moved toward the podium, yelling. Michaeli and Zahalka were both expelled from the hearing by Knesset ushers. ... ==
Haneen Zoabi
By Stu Harrison
Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 10:00
http://www.greenlef
"We don't live in the territories, we cannot throw stones and we cannot participate in the legitimate resistance against occupation", Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) told Green Left Weekly.
"We participate in the struggle so our own position as citizens. Our unique role is a political resistance and not, for example, an armed resistance."
Zoabi is the first Palestinian woman to be elected to the Knesset, representing a so-called Israeli-Arab party. Israeli-Arab is a term used in Israel to describe the Palestinians that remained after the ethnic cleansing that accompanied Israel's founding.
Zoabi is one of three sitting members from the National Democratic Assembly (BALAD).
She has been speaking in Australia to mark the 61st anniversary of al Nakba — the Palestinian catastrophe caused by the ethnic cleansing that accompanied the founding of Israel in 1948.
BALAD is a nationalist party for Palestinians who still live within Israel. It advocates the reform of Israel away from being a state based on Jewish supremacy, in which the non-Jewish population are second-class citizens, into a democratic state for all. ...
- Stu Harrison is a writer on Palestine related issues for Australian newspaper Green Left Weekly. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.
(4) US obeisance over Flotilla is price for backing of Zionist financiers & media moguls - James Petras
From: Israel Shamir <adam@israelshamir.
Israeli War Crimes: From the U.S. Liberty to the Humanitarian Flotilla
James Petras
Introduction: Israel Crimes on the High Seas
http://axisoflogic.
On June 8, 1967, two squadrons of Israeli warplanes bombed, napalmed and machine-gunned the US intelligence-
Almost to the day, 43 years later, on May 31, 2010, Israeli warships, helicopter gun ships and commandos assaulted a convoy of humanitarian ships carrying ten thousand tons of aid to Gaza in international waters. Prior to the aid mission Turkish authorities had examined the passengers and the ship to ensure no weapons were on board. The Israelis never the less came on board shooting and clubbing the unarmed passengers, killing up to19 and wounding dozens. Despite subsequent Israeli and Zionist claims to the contrary no weapons were found, apart from sticks used by some of the victims attempting to fend off the murderous premeditated assault planned, directed and defended by top Israeli leaders and the entire leadership of the major Zionist organizations in the US and elsewhere. The invading Israeli storm troopers systematically destroyed all cameras, videos and tape recorders that had documented their savage assault, in order to subsequently spread their brazen lies about their being subject to armed resistance.
The World Response
Within hours of Israel's bloody act of piracy, nations, political leaders, human rights organizations and the vast majority of the international community condemned the Israeli state for its violation of international law. Turkey, Spain, Greece, Denmark and Austria summoned their Israeli Ambassadors to protest the deadly assault. The Financial Times, (June 1, 2010) referred to the Israeli assault as a "brazen act of piracy … hurtling into lawlessness" rooted in its "illegal blockage of Gaza". Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Erdogan called the Israeli assault an act of "state terrorism" which would have "serious consequences". Israel's attacks on ships flying Turkish, Greek and Irish flags on the high seas were described by legal experts as an "act of war". The UN Security Council, NATO and the Secretary General of the UN demanded Israel cease its aggression, while tens of thousands of demonstrators marched denouncing Israel's blatant act of state murder and wounding of pacifists, humanitarians and protestors from 60 countries. UN experts demanded that Israeli leaders "must be held criminally responsible". Only the Obama regime refused to condemn the Israeli act of state terror, merely expressing "concern and regret". The Israeli state defended its murderous assault, promised more in the future and insisted on maintaining its blockade of Gaza, even after the US suggested it might be loosened.
The Israeli Defense of Piracy and State Terror
As news of the Israeli massacre slipped out and the international community reacted with horror and anger, the Israeli government "sought to flood the airwaves with their versions of events … more importantly, the authorities ensured that their narrative gained early dominance by largely silencing the hundreds of activists who were on board during the attack" (Financial Times, June 2, 2010, p2.). The Jewish state held all the prisoners alive, wounded and dead incommunicado, seized their mobile phones and prohibited any interviews, barring all journalists. Like most terrorist states, the Jewish state wanted to monopolize the propaganda media. The Israeli propaganda machine via its state sponsored journalists and news media employed several ploys typical of totalitarian regimes.
1.) Israeli storm troopers invading the ship were turned into victims and the humanitarian pacifists were turned into aggressors. "Israeli Soldiers Met by Well-Planned Lynch Mob" (Jerusalem Post, March 31, 2010); "Israeli Soldiers Attacked" (IDF, March 31, 2010).
2.) Israel's act of piracy in international waters was declared legal by a Professor Sabel of the Hebrew University.
3.) The humanitarian organizers were accused of having ties to terrorists according to Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon, though no evidence was presented (Ha'aretz, May 30, 2010). The organizers including the Turkish human rights group accused by Ayalon were cleared by the Turkish intelligence agency, the military and the Erdogan government, a member of NATO and for many years (in the past) a collaborator with the Israeli Mossad. The other 600 plus human rights volunteers, included pacifists, parliamentarians, former diplomats, as well as current members of the Israeli parliament.
4.) While dozens of human rights people were shot, killed and maimed, Israeli propagandists doctored video releases portraying one of the Israeli assailants on the deck, cutting out the preceding sequence of attack (Financial Times, June 2, 2010, p. 2).
5.) The Israeli sea and airborne assailants were described as the victims of a "Brutal Ambush at Sea" (Ynet News, June 1, 2010).
6.) The terrorized human rights workers were accused of being a "lynch mob", attacking the Jewish commandos who were firing automatic rifles wildly across the deck and at cornered victims. The few courageous individuals who fought back to stop the murderous attack were slandered by the Zion-prop, which itself is as monstrous as the crimes they perpetrated.
Once the Israeli propaganda machine started spewing out its gutter lies, the entire leadership of the Zionist Fifth column swung into action … first and foremost in the United States.
The US Zionist Power Configuration: In Defense of the Massacre
Just as the entire leadership of the 51 principle American Jewish organizations defended every Israeli war crime in the past, from the bombing of the US Liberty, to the Occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza so too did these most honorable apologists repeat verbatim the lies of the Israeli state regarding the assault of the humanitarian flotilla.
The Daily Alert (May 31 – June 2, 2010), the official public propaganda organ of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations, published every scurrilous Israeli state lie, about the Israeli commandos being 'lynched', 'attacked' and the human rights victims being responsible for the death of their comrades … at the hands of Israeli commandos. Not a single deviation, not a single word of criticism. Not even a single mention of even the superficial Israeli critics who faulted the execution, the use of deadly weapons, the assault in international waters, and the public relations fiasco. The vast majority of Israeli Jews and organized Zionists in the US supported the bloody massacre and were opposed by a small minority who has no access to the mass media. Zionist control over the mass media was once again demonstrated by the reporting through "Israel's eyes" (FAIR, June 1, 2010). Essentially the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, CBS, NBC presented the Israeli commandos attacking the humanitarian boat as being … "assaulted and beaten" (Washington Post, June 1, 2010). The New York Times gave credence to the Israeli claim that its act of piracy on the high seas was legal (NY Times, June 1, 2010). For the US mass media the problem is not Israeli state terror, but how to manipulate and disarm the outrage of the international community. To that end the entire Zionist Power configuration has a reliable ally in the Zionized Obama White House and US Congress.
The Obama Response to Israeli State Terror
There is only one basic reason why Israel repeatedly commits crimes against humanity, including the latest assault on the humanitarian flotilla: because it knows that the Zionist Power Configuration, embedded in the US power structure, will ensure government support, in this case the Obama White House.
In the face of the world-wide condemnation of Israel's crime on the high seas, and calls from the international community for legal action, the Obama regime absolutely refused to criticize Israel. A White House spokesman said "The United States deeply regrets the loss of life and injuries sustained and is currently working to understand the circumstances surrounding the tragedy" (AFP May 31, 2010). An act of state terrorism does not evoke "regrets" – it normally provokes condemnation and punishment. The power which caused "loss of life and injuries" has a name – Israel; the persons who suffered death and injuries during the Israeli assault – have a name – humanitarian volunteers. It was not simply a "loss of life" but a well planned premeditated murder which is openly defended by Prime Minister Netanyahu and his entire Cabinet. The "circumstances" of the murders are clear: Israel assaulted an unarmed ship in international waters, opening fire as they boarded the ship. The Obama regime's obscene political cover-up of a deliberate criminal act in violation of international law is evident in his description of a serial homicide as a 'tragedy'. Premeditated state terror has no resemblance to a tragic noble ruler forced by circumstances into a criminal act against their closest allies.
Washington, pressed to participate at a UN Security Council meeting, spent 10 hours eliminating all references to Israel's illegal criminal act, ending in a resolution which merely calls for an "impartial" investigation, with Washington pushing for an Israeli investigatory committee. To the world at large, including the Turkish government, the Obama regime and the US government, by refusing to condemn Israel, are "accomplices to a mass murder".
To understand why the Obama regime brought shame and infamy to itself in the eyes of the world, one need look at the Zionist composition of the Obama White House and, equally important, the direct power and access that the principle Jewish-Zionist organizations have over the US political system. In the week preceding Israel's announced assault on the humanitarian flotilla, (pro-Israel) Jewish leaders met with over a third of US senators to pressure them to pass harsher sanctions on Iran by June. Among the key operatives attending were the Jewish Federation of North America, AIPAC and the rest of the Israeli Fifth Column (Jewish Telegraph Agency, May 26, 2010). The following day a squadron of leaders from the Jewish Federations flew into Washington to meet with top Obama administration officials, to ensure that the White House and Congress did not in any way or form publicly express any criticism of Israel's settlement policy. No doubt the Zionist apologists for Israeli war crimes extended their agenda to include no public criticism of the Israeli assault on the flotilla. Rahm Emmanuel, top US Presidential aide, was in Tel Aviv as a guest of top officials of the Israel Defense Force a few days before the IDF launched the assault, no doubt having filled Rahm in on the details. The Israeli-American aide to Obama no doubt assured the war criminals of Washington's unconditional political and military support for Israel's acts of aggression.
From within the Obama Administration and without, the aggressive pressure from the 51 principle organizations of the American Zionists have guaranteed Israeli war criminals immunity from any War Crimes Tribunal, or even serious political condemnation by the UN Security Council. The Zionized White House's tactic is to deflect attention from immediate consequential condemnation let alone sanctions, hoping that over time, aided by the blanket mass media apology in the US, the mass indignation and protest overseas will gradually wither away. Obama and his Zionist cohort are already in a belly crawl mode with Israel. Part of Rahm's mission to Israel was to hand Netanyahu an invitation to the White House, during the week of the slaughter at sea. The only reason Netanyahu did not come to Washington was because he rushed back to Israel to buttress the Foreign Office's defense of the slaughter in the face of world-wide outrage. But in a phone conversation, Obama promised Netanyahu a prompt new invitation – assuring the Jewish statesman that violating international laws and bloodying dozens of humanitarian activists is of no consequence, especially since it insures continued financial support by Obama's Zionist backers.
Like Lyndon Johnson with the cover-up of the USS Liberty, Obama's apology of Israel's war crimes, is the price for ensuring the backing of billionaire Zionist financiers and media moguls, the tens of thousands of pro-Israel Jews and the 51 President of the Major American Jewish Organizations.
In the face of Washington's complicity with Israeli war crimes, the only road is to intensify the world-wide boycott, disinvestment and sanctions campaign against all Israeli products, cultural activities and professional exchanges. Hopefully, the Islamic led mass protests will find echo in the wider anti-Zionist Christian and Jewish communities – especially, when Israeli apologists for state terror make public appearances. Even more important each and every Israeli involved in the mass assault should be subject to criminal prosecution wherever they visit. Only by making the Israelis understand that they will pay a high price for their serial homicides and violations of international law will reason possibly enter their political narrative. Only by moving beyond symbolic protests, like recalling diplomats, and taking substantive actions, like breaking relations, will the international community isolate the perpetrator of state terrorism. All Americans should send loud and clear to President Obama –NEVER AGAIN. Otherwise, with the Zionist Power Configuration active 7/24, the Obama regime, true to the Zionist agenda, will once again focus attention on attacking Iran. Israel's action today with US complicity is a prelude of the kind of deadly force it has in store for sabotaging the recent Turkey-Brazil-
This is dedicated to the brave Turkish martyrs on the Mavi Marmara, May 31, 2010, and to the 34 murdered American sailors on the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967 – all victims of an unrepentant criminal state - Israel.
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