by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
A nation that has violated “every norm of civilized behavior and international law” since its founding in 1948 is held virtually blameless by the U.S. corporate media – Israel sycophants of the lowest order. “Now members of the Israeli Defense Force themselves are coming forward to admit that they committed war crimes” – but the U.S. press is censoring their confessions! Even when Israeli soldiers openly testify to committing “murder” in Gaza, as reported by the Israeli press, the U.S. corporate media “keeps the people of this country ignorant” of the crimes against humanity bankrolled by American taxpayers.
Freedom Rider: Barbaric Israel
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Despite the best efforts of the American corporate media, the Israeli lobby, and compromised politicians, the true nature of Israel’s barbarity towards the Palestinian people is not easily hidden. The massacres of Gaza’s civilian population that were recently carried out by the Israeli Defense Force created a turning point in worldwide public opinion. Only the Israeli and American governments try to deny that war crimes were committed.
The IDF barred the world’s media from witnessing the killings of more than 1,400 people. Every norm of civilized behavior and international law was violated, including the Geneva Conventions prohibition of acts of revenge against civilian populations. Israel kept the borders of Gaza sealed, and would not even allow the population to flee and save their lives. The IDF takes the term “shooting fish in a barrel” very seriously.
Now members of the IDF themselves are coming forward to admit that they committed war crimes. Soldiers have told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that they were ordered to murder civilians without provocation. Haaretz has also revealed that the IDF prepares soldiers to kill civilians by openly condoning the killing of pregnant women and little children.
“The IDF prepares soldiers to kill civilians by openly condoning the killing of pregnant women and little children.”
The shirts are bilingual, written in Hebrew and in English too. It makes sense that the inscriptions are also in English, because were it not for American financial support, the IDF would not exist or be able to bomb Syria or the Sudan or invade Lebanon or carry out massacres in Gaza.
The United States is the Israeli government’s only friend in the world. While boycotts and protests against Israel are carried out all over the globe, concerned Americans are silenced because the corporate media and the political system have turned their country into Israel’s colony.
The Los Angeles Times carried the story of IDF war crimes revelations, but only after censoring the words of the soldiers themselves.
"When we entered a house, we were supposed to bust down the door and start shooting inside and just go up story by story… I call that murder. Each story, if we identify a person, we shoot them. I asked myself – how is this reasonable?"
The Los Angeles Times felt that the word “murder” was too much for sensitive American eyes and left the sentence out. “‘When we entered a house, we were supposed to bust down the door and start shooting inside and just go up story by story,’ he was quoted as saying. ‘Each story, if we identify a person, we shoot them. I asked myself: 'How is this reasonable?’”
Apparently, “I call that murder,” is just not acceptable, even if the words come straight from the horse’s mouth. The Los Angeles Times knows or thinks it knows that it can go only so far when Israel is the subject of what passes for reporting in the American corporate media.
Not only do Israelis kill women and children and use civilians as human shields, but they also occupy Palestinian homes. They routinely desecrate them in ways that are so cruel and malicious, that they must be considered pathological. According to Amnesty International, not only did Israelis in Gaza illegally occupy Palestinian homes, but they left them in a devastated and desecrated condition.
Israelis are not inherently worse than other human beings. They behave as they do because they never pay a price for their actions. The American people have paid and will continue to pay the price as targets of hatred and even of terror because their government has made them complicit in Israel’s crimes. But any suffering experienced by Americans is hardly unjust. Americans do not have a greater right to live in peace than do the people of Gaza.
If Gazans wore t-shirts encouraging the killing of women and little babies they would be no worse than the IDF soldiers whose actions are paid for by the American tax payer. Sadly, the Los Angeles Times and their counterparts in the rest of the media are unlikely to explain that very simple fact. This conspiracy of silence is just one of many that keeps the people of this country ignorant and incapable of making the demands and taking the necessary actions that would enable them to help themselves.
Margaret Kimberley's Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR. Ms. Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached via e-Mail at Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgandaReport.Com.
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War crimes in Gaza
by Yossi Wolfson
"The responsibility lies with Israeli society, of course, to come to its senses and end the lethal tendencies in its midst. But it is no less important that the international community take action. The Geneva Convention obliges all signatory nations to search out war criminals, no matter what their citizenship may be, and put them on trial. The identities of the senior commanders in the Gaza operation are known. So too are the identities of the Defense Minister and the Prime Minister. Any country these persons enter is obliged by the terms of the Convention to arrest, interrogate and try them. About half the Israelis between 18 and 21 serve in the regular army, and many sign up for permanent duty. The minimal duty of other countries is to interview Israelis of the relevant age groups, when these enter their gates, and look for possible war crimes. Readers of the Guardian should keep in mind that the murderers of Gazan families may be found not only on the streets of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. Many go abroad for rest and relaxation, for example to the clubs of London."
http://www.challenge-mag.com/en/article__242
someone can explain Palestinian love of Nazi swastikas
This is in response to the many calls for certain ways of peace in the Middle East regarding the Palestinians. There are some items and issues that you may not know about:
If Arafat was able to call for a cease fire (as he did successfully in the past) and the Palestinian terrorists stop, then that means the opposite is true. If Arafat could stop the terrorists, he also had direct control over the terrorist attacks. Think about it. Even before the 1967 war that brought the "Green Line" into existence, Arafat formed the PLO in 1964 to kill Israeli Jews and destroy their homes and buildings. The reason I know that is that some of my relatives kept newspapers and magazines from that year. Even the press of the USA and other countries discussed Arafat's terrorist actions back in 1964, 1965, and 1966, which were before the Six Day War of 1967. Also recently Palestinian terrorists admitted to the foreign and American news media that they got their orders from Arafat!
On the other side of the Israel/Palestinian issues are things like the following. The United Nations had schools for the Palestinians (such as in Siblin and other places) through the UNRWA. These school was actually photographed with Nazi swastikas and training schools on killing methods and terrorism with various materials there needed for their acts. I have a photograph of this school and a description of the activities in the Siblin school. The Palestinians even learned how to stuff toys that blew up lots of Jewish kids. The UN personnel to whom I talked to about this issue refuse to this day to deal with this deceptive evil. Also, Palestinians to whom I spoke at colleges in the south west USA, during the 1970s, mentioned these practices to me and other people. These Palestinians were brazen in their attitudes of wanting to kill Jews, EVEN in America.
How can anyone believe that it will be "wonderful" when Palestinians can live on both sides of the Green Line and Jews can ONLY live on ONE side of the Green Line? These are just some of the publicly stated goals that Arafat, PLO, Hamas, Hizbullah, and other terrorists and anti-Jewish groups in the Middle East established even BEFORE the 1967 Six Day War and still want. Just think, can it be possible that we are helping to get places like Shomron to be "Judenriden" or rid of the "filthy" Jews (as the PA and PLO have said), just like the Nazis did in certain areas of Europe? The Palestinian schools now teach the kids that they must rid ALL places of Jews, even Tel Aviv and every Israeli house.
But then the world will reward these "politically correct" terrorists with a nation of their own. Even the Al Qaeda fighters know that the PA areas are good areas to move to and escape punishment. Look at the literature coming from the Palestinians and see how they view Israel soon disappearing completely under future wars. They have pictures and graphics of Palestinians stomping all Jews out of the Middle East, sometimes with blood flowing from Jewish bodies. We also have lots of records (evidence) of Arafat plotting and killing Jews even before the Six Day War of 1967 (that made the "Green Line"). Arafat and other Palestinians have planned and executed terrorists acts in the early 1960s and later years that killed innocent children and people even in other countries. Do you remember the September 1972 Olympics when Israeli athletes got killed? Who were the terrorist killers? If you know anything the Middle East, then you will see the connection to the September 11, 2001, attacks also. The picture is bigger than what you see.
Recently many members of the Al Qaeda terrorist group are now slipping into the Palestinian areas. What makes the Palestinian areas so attractive to them? Why is the Palestinian Authority letting the Al Qaeda members into the Palestinian areas?
Have you heard how Palestinian schools teach (openly and secretly) kids that no Jew can live in any area, including Tel Aviv and any Israeli town or any part of the Middle East? These goals will be achieved by killings and wars to "remove" the Jews permanently. The PA and PLO openly promote the eventual "cleansing" of all the area so that no Jew can live anywhere close to them.
Even before 1947, Jewish people purchased several hundred thousand acres of land legitimately and legally in the 1920s and 1930s. But now the Palestinians deny that these purchases are valid anymore. They even have denied the very papers that they signed in the past. WHY? Most now are stating that they were "expelled" from the very lands by "evil" Jews. Previously they said they sold the land, now they say they were expelled. How convenient to change a story when it is "politically correct" and expedient to do so!
Also, how come Palestinians are destroying Jewish archaeological items and artifacts on purpose, despite US Congressional protests? Israel now has international oversight from several universities and groups, but the PA can do as they well please. Why? Haven't you hear of the PA's public announcements that the Palestinians MUST get rid of any EVIDENCE of Jewish ancestry in the land?
Consider that a number of Europeans, especially Germans, working for companies that are the "descendants" (daughter companies) of the manufacturers of the WWI and WWII German gas plants, had been secretly working with the PA and PLO to create poison gas weapons and small gas chambers. These companies were also working with Iraq before the Gulf War, helping them make weapons of mass destruction. I remember talking to Western construction companies' engineers working on projects for Iraq in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They talked about all the other "plants" being built to help the Arabs attack Israel. This was brought to the attention of the US Congress during the Gulf War, but to no avail. The desires for money and oil are "thicker" than morals.
Please read the book, "From Time Immemorial," written by Joan Peters, published 1984, J. KAP publishing, ISBN 0-9636242-0-2. This book addresses some real historical and cultural issues that most news media personnel ignore. BUT even if you or others do NOT believe this book, it is hard or even impossible to disregard the evidence and writings from the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and other early and late cultures and sources in this region from the many centuries of the past.
Here are some other sites for references from the Palestinians:
Palestinians' view of Israel's total removal (a LOT more than just territories)
http://www.omayya.com/
Palestinians glorify suicide bombers and terrorism
http://palestinepics.jeeran.com/Kasam10.htm
http://www.nysun.com/article/20998
http://www.alminbar.net/
http://www.alriyadh.com/
http://www.alneda.com -- http://66.34.191.223.
http://www.moqawama.net/
Finally, think about the millions of donated money given to the PA and PLO from Europe! In the 1990s, there was one time when the European countries gave $400 million dollars to the Palestinians. What happened to that money and why are the people still so poor? Why is it that the Palestinian authorities ended up buying so many weapons with that money instead of feeding their own people???
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=143310
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1280243.cms
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/e6/67234.htm
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/197801
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-01T043933Z_01_FOR100889_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-UN.xml&archived=False
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-12-28T084735Z_01_FLE831207_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-ELECTION-FIGHTING.xml
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20051012%2F1735688293.htm&ewp=ewp_news_1005suicide_bomber
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20050915-090259-7446r.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13923715/
This book is the Zionist *Jewish* equivalent of "Mein Kampf":
QA_Lady on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 22:14 : "Please read the book, "From Time Immemorial," written by Joan Peters, published 1984..."
This book is the Zionist *Jewish* equivalent of Hitler's "Mein Kampf".
(European/White Zionist Jews have learned well, as the once terribly brutally oppressed have become the now terribly brutal racist OPPRESSORS.)
It's also the Zionist Jewish equivalent of the racist movie "Birth of a Nation".
"From Time Immemorial" is a TOTALLY DISCREDITED piece of anti-Palestinian/anti-Arab FICTION -- and not even university accredited *Israeli Jewish* historians (like the anti-Zionist Illan Pappe, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"; Lenni Brenner, the foremost Jewish-American scholar; Tom Segev; or even the Zionist Benny Morris, who proudly admits there was ethnic cleansing in Israel and says that Israel should have finnished the job!) give "From Time Immemorial" ANY credibility whatsoever.
And this racist, right-wing, hardcore Zionist "QA_Lady" is the mini-equivalent of GOEBBELS for trying to propagate such outlandish trash. The Nazis did say that the biggest propaganda lies work better than the small one -- and the biggest, grossest Zionist Jewish propaganda lie, just to start off with, was that historic Palestine was "a land without a people".
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GAZA GENOCIDE
Here are some additional illuminating links:
http://www.propheticimagery.com/Gaza%20Poem/Occupation.htm
http://www.propheticimagery.com/Gaza%20Poem/Innocence.htm
www.propheticimagery.com
4.4.09 March-Wall St. w/US Campaign to End Israeli Occupation
On Saturday, April 4, Join the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation at White and Broadway (south of Canal Street) in Manhattan for the "Yes We Can End Military Aid to Israel" contingent in ufpj's march on Wall Street, or just join the contingent itself. Sign up to volunteer to organize with the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupationon Saturday, April 4 by clicking here: http://endtheoccupation.org/modinput4.php?modin=152 and they'll send instructions on how to get supplies and how to meet up with them.