Israeli Settlements Explained

As Ceasefire Talks Begin, Israel Bombs Hospital, Mosques and Homes

The Israeli assault on Gaza has entered its third week as the Palestinian death toll has topped 600, mostly civilians. More than 100 of the dead are children. More than 3,700 Palestinians have been injured. Israel says it’s lost 27 soldiers since they invaded Gaza.

So far today, Israel has struck more than 70 sites inside Gaza, including five mosques and a football stadium. On Monday, at least 103 Palestinians died, including 11 when Israel bombed a residential tower block in Gaza City. Five children died in that attack. In the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah, five people died, 70 were wounded, when Israel shelled the al-Aqsa Hospital Monday. It became the third medical facility to be struck by Israel in the past two weeks. The injured included about 30 medics.

Yet, on American television, ad nauseam the media is slanting this (as always) in a manner sympathetic to the the rogue terror state of Israel? 

Be aware that it is US money (Over $3 BILLION a year in Foreign Aid) flowing into the hands of these Israeli terrorists.  Those are US developed weapons being bought and used.  It's OUR propaganda machine manufacturing consent and keeping it all running smoothly. 

To assist in a crime makes one a criminal by any legal standard. What about the Geneva Convention?*  The idea of a World Court is a joke.  The US and Israel are not held to their crimes.  Instead all we get is more hiding of Israel's war crimes by deliberate misrepresenting people with ad nauseam propaganda.  Sad that in this day and age, with all of our "Cosmopolitanism" that injustice of such proportions is so passively acquiesced.

* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his army have no right to demand people to vacate their homes and having demanded the people to do so, "proves the willful war crime".

* Israel claims that use of white phosphorous is allowed, asserting that it cannot be deemed a chemical weapon.

Israel and Palestine: A very short introduction

ZIONISM IS GENOCIDE

 http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/abc-news-tells-viewers-scenes-destruction-gaza-are-israel

Noam Chomsky, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said and Avi Shlaim on Ariel Sharon

Israel Created Hamas

      "But there is something bitterly ironic in Israel’s support for Fatah against Hamas—and it should be a lesson to governments everywhere that meddle in other states’ affairs. In the past, Israel supported Hamas against Fatah. Indeed, in the 1970s and 80s, Israel played a not insignificant role in encouraging Hamas’s emergence in the belief that such an Islamist group might help rupture support for the mass nationalist movement of Fatah. Twenty years later, Israel has switched sides, hoping that it can encourage Fatah to see off Hamas. It wants “moderate” Palestinians to take on the “extremist” Palestinians it helped create. Like America and Britain before it—both of whom have supported and armed Islamist movements in the Middle East in attempts to undermine secular nationalist parties—Israel is learning the hard way that it is one thing to let radical Islamists off the leash but quite another thing to rein them back in again. If you make monsters, you shouldn’t be surprised if they come back to bite you."

- How Israel helped to create Hamas by Brendan O’Neill, published by the American Conservative

 

     Leaked Wikileaks cable reveal that Israel Said It Would Keep Gaza Near Collapse.
Read the document for yourself here:
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2008/08/08CAIRO1878.html

NO to Netanyahu, YES to Peace

       With all the propaganda in the current mainstream (Zionist funded[1]) media, one can't help being bombarded by propaganda that suggests Iran is a threat to the world and in particular a threat to Israel.  But, what is not discussed by these outlets is any rational logic as to why Iran feels it needs nuclear capabilities.  Even though I consider myself someone who does not agree with the ways of either the Iranian or Israel government, I think it is all the more important to ponder the following seldom heard considerations:  

1.  The United States has at least 45 military bases surrounding Iran.[2]  

Considering this kind of oil thirsty military presence at its borders (think a pack of wolves surrounding a lamb), why wouldn't the resource rich Iranians wish to defend themselves?

2.  Israel is the biggest recipient of US foreign aid.[3]

The U.S. is providing Israel with at least $8.2 million EACH DAY in military aid. B. Michael, an Israeli satirist put it most succinctly when he wrote, “My master gives me food to eat and I bite those whom he tells me to bite.  It’s called strategic cooperation.”  

3.  There are currently EIGHT (known) states with nuclear weapons.  Israel is one of them![4]

It was okay for the U.S. to race against the Soviets for this technology, and when this example is emulated by other competing forces, it is unacceptable.  Also, the fact that we continuously arm Iran's enemy (Israel) and  shower obscene amounts of money (and nuclear weapons?) into Israel, how can anyone be surprised that countries like Iran and Syria wish to defend themselves against the ever spreading tentacles of the Zionists?

4.  The United States is carefully diplomatic with the countries that have nuclear weapons. 

Plain and simple, if you cannot defend yourself against the Empire, you WILL be exploited.

It is obvious to anyone paying attention that the United States is heavily dependent on the Middle East for oil.[5]  We prop up terrible dictators[6], overthrow democracies[7], install puppets[8], fund brutal regimes[9], and do whatever it takes[10] to maintain a strong hand in the region.  Over time, this kind of foreign policy has created much animosity in the Arab nations.  Placing a colony in the very center of the region (by way of the British petroleum interests[11]) and setting up a police state in Israel[12] to protect it may have been a lucrative business move however it is a terrible manipulative maneuver that worked directly against peace in the region.[13]  

These choices are unsustainable and will come to an end eventually.  People on a global scale are waking up to this new form of colonialism and taking a stand.  We see Netanyahu becoming more and more desperate[14] and the true colors of Israel[15] are starting to show to the citizens of the United States at last.  It is refreshing that at long last Americans are beginning to see the stark difference between Israel and Judaism.  Clever branding of the Zionist movement purposely blurred that distinction for a very long time through manipulating feelings of guilt and confusion.[16]  Also, Israel played on its similarities to US historical culture, as Mike Marqusee of the Palestine News wrote, "Both nations (America and Israel) originate as settler colonial societies; both are founded on the mythology of “a land without people for a people without land”; both are deeply imbued with racial hierarchies. “[17]  This relationship is unique and it is why time and time again[18], the United States is the only nation (aside from Israel) to vehemently deny the right to existence of the indigenous Palestinian people.[19]

Obviously, "NO Nuclear Weapons"[20] would be the best policy, but in all fairness, this policy can only work if EVERY COUNTRY DISARMS.  The United States (H-bombers of Nagasaki and Hiroshima), claiming that another country is a threat for having weapons is every bit as hypocritical as Israel (genocidal oppressors of Palestine committed to the extinction of the indigenous peoples of the land they currently occupy) relentlessly warning that Iran poses an imminent nuclear threat.

If the United States would pull its funding from Israel completely, and started ignoring the Israeli lobby that now greatly influences and undermines our elections, the citizens would notice an immediate impact on the economy (again - $8.2 million EACH DAY in military aid!).³  Also, in terms of foreign policy, this move would do wonders for our image all across key geopolitical areas of the map.  But what about our need for control of the regions oil?  Well, I think that just about every American would agree that the time has come to put that sinking ship to rest.  If we could begin funding and focusing on the ingenuity and creativity we are known for, we could be completely done with oil all together while simultaneously creating new booming technological industries to replace it with.  (Can you hear Lennon playing in the background?  You may say that I'm a dreamer...)

Take a moment to read some information presented in the many links mentioned throughout this article and think about the upcoming election and the power that the nation of Israel has on our political process[21] (a special thanks to Citizens United).  Also take some time to think about the beating drums of the impending war we are on the brink of with Iran.  Think outside the suggestive thoughts thrown at you every day by NPR, FOX, MSNBC and other Zionist mouthpieces and see if you can find empathy for the Arab nations in the world.  Threats can realistically be transformed into amazing opportunities that could elevate this country way above the humdrum business as usual tactics we currently employ in the Middle East.  The first step toward peace in the Middle East, is for the United States to stop supporting the brutality of Israel and to develop domestically created alternative means of energy.

Further reading:

Why does the U.S. back Israel?

http://www.mikemarqusee.com/?p=45

Israel, the Holocaust, and Anti-Semitism, Noam Chomsky, Excerpted from Chronicles of Dissent, 1992

http://www.chomsky.info/books/dissent01.htm

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[1] http://www.pakalertpress.com/2009/03/16/six-jewish-companies-own-96-of-the-worlds-media/

[2] http://socioecohistory.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/us_military_bases_surrounding_iran.jpg

[3] http://ifamericansknew.org/stats/cost_of_israel.html

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

[5] http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-s-dependency-on-middle-east-oil/

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[8] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9D7W7rD1R0

[9] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20016181-503543.html

[10] http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/06/26/pentagon-billions-are-flowing-to-middle-east-dictators.html

[11] http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/14/steven_kinzer_on_the_history_of

[12] http://warisacrime.org/content/israel-profile-police-state

[13] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=746557429802139093

[14] http://articles.cnn.com/2012-09-16/politics/politics_israel-netanyahu-interview_1_nuclear-program-nuclear-weapon-nuclear-activities

[15] http://abcnews.go.com/US/york-city-subway-ads-calls-jihadists-savages/story?id=17280805#.UGJR8FGwXTg

[16] http://www.chomsky.info/books/dissent01.htm

[17] http://www.mikemarqusee.com/?p=45

[18] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel

[19] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/26/us-works-to-win-allies-in-security-council-against-palestinian-statehood-bid/

[20] http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_11041963_pacem_en.html

[21] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_lobby_in_the_United_States#Means_of_influence

Censorship by Omission

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict provides much clear evidence that the media game is rigged against Arabs in the United States. This video illustrates how (aside from the vast abundance of financial and military support (by way of weapons) the United States showers onto Israel in aid of the Palestinian genocide) PERHAPS THE MOST CRITICAL AID is the one-sided spin of misrepresentation that American mainstream media dishes out to keep citizens here ignorant and complacent.

After all, if the majority of Americans knew the atrocities and war crimes being committed constantly by Israel onto the Palestinian people, they might have a problem with things - like for example ,the U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel for fiscal 1997 was $5,525,800,000.

Shirl McArthur wrote in the May 2003 issue of Washington Report.*

McArthur's article, "A Conservative Tally of Total Direct U.S. Aid to Israel: $97.5 Billion - and Counting" tallies the hidden costs, such as interest lost due to the early disbursement of aid to Israel and funds hidden in other accounts. For example, Israel received $5.45 billion in Defense Department funding of Israeli weapons projects through 2002, McArthur says.

Loans made to Israel by the U.S. government, like the recently awarded $9 billion, invariably wind up being paid by the American taxpayer. A recent Congressional Research Service report indicates that Israel has received $42 billion in waived loans. "Therefore, it is reasonable to consider all government loans to Israel the same as grants," McArthur says.

Support for Israel has cost America dearly - well over than $10,000 per American.*

This seems to play out as a major motive for Israel to manipulate and distorts American public perceptions. The United States has been considered Israel's most powerful and supportive ally and accounts for around 25% of Israel's military occupation (and genocide) of Palestine.

Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied territories appears to be a defensive move rather than an offensive one.

If you don't have time to watch the entire film, at least take a careful look at 48:08 - 50:05 in the film. This is one instance (amongst many others in the film) very clear picture of how Israel's American PR Campaign works their magic in our media and therefore understanding of the situation:
48:08 - 50:05




Further info:
* http://wrmea.org/component/content/article/245-2008-november/3845-congress-watch-a-conservative-estimate-of-total-direct-us-aid-to-israel-almost-114-billion.html

Watch free on Google Videos: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2165626245072381061