Map of Israeli aggressions, massacres and war crimes galore.
"How does a defensive action result in the total conquest
of someone else's lands? The answer is that it does not.
Israel is the aggressor.
The maps of Israel then and now prove it.
Stop buying into what Sharon claims Israel "has to do"
and look at what Israel has actually done.
The maps tell the story of a nation eager to
conquer lands which do not belong to it.
Israel has invaded virtually every nation it
shares borders with, including Syria and Lebanon,
and as the map above shows has almost conquered
Palestine and is ready to "ethnically cleanse"
the region. Far from being the poor victimized
society desperately defending itself Israel likes
to pretend it is in order to wrest more money from
Americans, Israel is in fact the most militarily
aggressive nation in the region.
Israel has ALWAYS portrayed non-Israelis as animals,
in order to make it easier for the American tax
payers who pay for the weapons accept their
killing. And Israel has always resorted to
staged terror bombings to further its agenda,
such as the Lavon affair and more recently when a
supposed suicide bomber turned out to be a known
Israeli collaborator.
In one recent case photos showed that what was
reported as a suicide bomb in Jerusalem was
actually a car bomb "
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/mapstellstory.html?q=mapstellstory.html
The compliant support the West's Mainstream Media has given to this Israeli barbarity, against unarmed civilians and lightly armed Hamas belligerents, must be remembered by all. From now on, all Newspaper editors who conspire to hide this kind of atrocity, whilst presenting only the Israeli "side of the story" are guilty of war-crimes and crimes against humanity. Just as at Nuremburg the media will be held to account for their moral failure. The West must purge itself of this Khazar sickness....Before Hamas actually became the democratically voted legitimate government, Israel refused to negotiate with Fatah. Their excuse then was they would not talk with Yasser Arafat. They will always be an excuse. The only country that purports to be a democratic country and yet had an undemocratic election in the last 10 years or so was the US....
The war has been designed by Israel, not to destroy Hamas, but to strengthen them. This whole exercise is designed to destroy Fatah, the only Palestinian authority that the Israeli gov will talk to. By strengthening Hamas, Israel would no longer have a "negotiator" to talk peace with, because like any "legitimate" government, Israel will not negotiate with "terrorists" This would mean an end to the peace process, allowing Israel to continue expansion of settlements, land grabbing etc etc....
Israeli Massacres: Details and Numbers - The following list of massacres is by no means exclusive, but they reflect the nature of the Zionist occupation of Palestine and Lebanon and show that massacres and expulsions were not aberrations that happen in any war, but organized atrocities with only one aim, that is to have a Zionist state which is 'goyim rein'.
The King David Massacre
The Massacre at Baldat al-Shaikh
YEHIDA MASSACRE
KHISAS MASSACRE
QAZAZA MASSACRE
The Semiramis Hotel Massacre
The Massacre at Dair Yasin
NASER AL-DIN MASSACRE
THE TANTURA MASSACRE
BEIT DARAS MASSACRE
THE DAHMASH MOSQUE MASSACRE
DAWAYMA MASSACRE
HOULA MASSACRE
SHARAFAT MASSACRE
Salha Massacre
The Massacre at Qibya
KAFR QASEM MASSACRE
Khan Yunis Massacre
The Massacre in Gaza City
AL-SAMMOU' MASSACRE
Aitharoun Massacre
Kawnin Massacre
Hanin Massacre
Bint Jbeil Massacre
Abbasieh Massacre
Adloun Massacre
Saida Massacre
Fakhani Massacre
Beirut Massacre
Sabra And Shatila Massacre
Jibsheet Massacre
Sohmor Massacre
Seer Al Garbiah
Maaraka Massacres
Zrariah Massacre
Homeen Al-Tahta Massacre
Jibaa Massacre
Yohmor Massacre
Tiri massacre
Al-Naher Al-Bared Massacre
Ain Al-Hillwee Massacre
OYON QARA MASSACRE
Siddiqine Massacre
AL-AQSA MOSQUE MASSACRE
THE IBRAHIMI MOSQUE MASSACRE
THE JABALIA MASSACRE
Aramta Massacre
ERETZ CHECKPOINT MASSACRE
Deir Al-Zahrani Massacre
Nabatiyeh (school bus) Massacre
Mnsuriah Massacre
The Sohmor Second Massacre
Nabatyaih Massacre
Qana Massacre
Trqumia Massacre
Janta Massacre
24 Of June 1999 Massacres
Western Bekaa villages Massacre
(See article for details of some listed massacres.)
So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians.
Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in
another. Not bad for a night's work in Gaza by the army that believes in
"purity of arms". But why should we be surprised?
A must have requirement skill for every Zionist Israeli official
position is the ability to flagrantly lie and to distort even proven
facts. Israeli officials would rudely look you straight in the eyes and
tell you their lies without even the slightest twitch of the face. They
lie first to their own people and they lie to the international community.
Unfortunately and deceitfully the Israeli-terror-sponsored American
major media outlets repeat the Israeli lies although other international
media outlets are exposing these lies at the same time.
The Israeli lies propagate immensely specially during terror attacks the
Israeli terrorist army launches against civilian Arab population like
the latest worse-than-Nazi American supported holocaustal one-sided
all-out onslaught the Israeli terrorist state is inflicting against the
unarmed civilian Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Have we forgotten the 17,500 dead - almost all civilians, most of them
children and women - in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon; the 1,700
Palestinian civilian dead in the Sabra-Chatila massacre; the 1996 Qana
massacre of 106 Lebanese civilian refugees, more than half of them children,
at a UN base; the massacre of the Marwahin refugees who were ordered from
their homes by the Israelis in 2006 then slaughtered by an Israeli
helicopter crew; the 1,000 dead of that same 2006 bombardment and Lebanese
invasion, almost all of them civilians?
What is amazing is that so many Western leaders, so many presidents and
prime ministers and, I fear, so many editors and journalists, bought the old
lie; that Israelis take such great care to avoid civilian casualties.
"Israel makes every possible effort to avoid civilian casualties," yet
another Israeli ambassador said only hours before the Gaza massacre. And
every president and prime minister who repeated this mendacity as an excuse
to avoid a ceasefire has the blood of last night's butchery on their hands.
Had George Bush had the courage to demand an immediate ceasefire 48 hours
earlier, those 40 civilians, the old and the women and children, would be
alive.
What happened was not just shameful. It was a disgrace. Would war crime be
too strong a description? For that is what we would call this atrocity if it
had been committed by Hamas. So a war crime, I'm afraid, it was. After
covering so many mass murders by the armies of the Middle East - by Syrian
troops, by Iraqi troops, by Iranian troops, by Israeli troops - I suppose
cynicism should be my reaction. But Israel claims it is fighting our war
against "international terror". The Israelis claim they are fighting in Gaza
for us, for our Western ideals, for our security, for our safety, by our
standards. And so we are also complicit in the savagery now being visited
upon Gaza.
I've reported the excuses the Israeli army has served up in the past for
these outrages. Since they may well be reheated in the coming hours, here
are some of them: that the Palestinians killed their own refugees, that the
Palestinians dug up bodies from cemeteries and planted them in the ruins,
that ultimately the Palestinians are to blame because they supported an
armed faction, or because armed Palestinians deliberately used the innocent
refugees as cover.
http://newhk.blogspot.com/search/label/AMAN.
The Sabra and Chatila massacre was committed by Israel's IDF Sayyaret
Metkal and the SLA militia brought on the battle scene by Israeli IAF,
C130 Hercules aircraft to AIB, in full view of dozens of living witnesses,
and have all testified to that effect in Beirut, as Israel's own commission of
inquiry revealed, and Israel was the occupying power. When Israel was
blamed, Menachem Begin's government accused the world of a blood libel.
After Israeli artillery had fired shells into the UN base at Qana in 1996,
the Israelis claimed that Hezbollah gunmen were also sheltering in the base.
It was a lie. The more than 1,000 dead of 2006 - a war started when
Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers on the border - were simply
dismissed as the responsibility of the Hezbollah. Israel claimed the bodies
of children killed in a second Qana massacre may have been taken from a
graveyard. It was another lie. The Marwahin massacre was never excused. The
people of the village were ordered to flee, obeyed Israeli orders and were
then attacked by an Israeli gunship. The refugees took their children and
stood them around the truck in which they were traveling so that Israeli
pilots would see they were innocents. Then the Israeli helicopter mowed them
down at close range. Only two survived, by playing dead. Israel didn't even
apologize.
http://newhk.blogspot.com/search/label/CIA%20and%20911%20cover-up
Twelve years earlier, another Israeli helicopter attacked an ambulance
carrying civilians from a neighboring village - again after they were
ordered to leave by Israel - and killed three children and two women. The
Israelis claimed that a Hezbollah fighter was in the ambulance. It was
untrue. I covered all these atrocities, I investigated them all, talked to
the survivors. So did a number of my colleagues. Our fate, of course, was
that most slanderous of libels: we were accused of being anti-Semitic.
And I write the following without the slightest doubt: we'll hear all these
scandalous fabrications again. We'll have the Hamas-to-blame lie - heaven
knows, there is enough to blame them for without adding this crime - and we
may well have the bodies-from-the-cemetery lie and we'll almost certainly
have the Hamas-was-in-the-UN-school lie and we will very definitely have the
anti-Semitism lie. And our leaders will huff and puff and remind the world
that Hamas originally broke the ceasefire. It didn't. Israel broke it, first
on 4 November when its bombardment killed six Palestinians in Gaza and again
on 17 November when another bombardment killed four more Palestinians.
Yes, Israelis deserve security. Twenty Israelis dead in 10 years around Gaza
is a grim figure indeed. But 600 Palestinians dead in just over a week,
thousands over the years since 1948 - when the Israeli massacre at Deir
Yassin helped to kick-start the flight of Palestinians from that part of
Palestine that was to become Israel - is on a quite different scale. This
recalls not a normal Middle East bloodletting but an atrocity on the level
of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. And of course, when an Arab bestirs himself
with unrestrained fury and takes out his incendiary, blind anger on the
West, we will say it has nothing to do with us. Why do they hate us, we will
ask ? But let us not say we do not know the answer....
Can anyone name an insurgent campaign defeated by diplomacy and negotiation?
Egypt has largely behaved after it got Sinai back - though that was not an insurgent operation and the Sinai was a rather large price. Anwar Sadot also paid dearly - though in different coin. Certainly Nazi Germany (also somewhat other than insurgent) was hardly deterred by the gifts of Poland and Czechoslovakia no matter how Neville Chamberlain tried to spin the deal.
The Viet Cong ceased to exist prior to the peace agreements between North and South Vietnam ... which the North of course violated every letter of and did so repeatedly.
Did anyone try to negotiate with Mao Tse Tung? Would anyone have believed he would actually live up to treaty terms?
Can negotiation and diplomacy truly occur when one party's basic belief system endorses every bad faith crime from lying through genocide? (Just to be clear, the lying genocidal party is certainly Hamas.)
So is the negotiation and diplomacy plea out of naïveté? Or organized malice of the 'big lie repeated often' variety?
I've always felt that the Israeli response lacked vision; this ground offensive just seems like more of the same. It will be interesting to see how this current spat unfolds; I wonder if they really do have a plan, besides "beat them up and see if they go away."
Personally, if I wanted to stop the rocket attacks, I'd set up a factory that makes exact duplicates of what Hamas is making. Then I'd make lots and lots of them. When Hamas fires a rocket as Israel, I'd fire back 100. Simple 100:1 logic. When Hamas starts screaming about civilian casualties, I'd say "we have the same guidance system you use; you fire at us, we fire at you." Simple, clear, and easy to communicate.
The whole "disproportionate response" and "civilian casualty" thing is simply because Israel is using smart bombs and Hamas is not. Israel is being held to a higher standard. So, drop the standard; level the playing field. If people complain about the 100:1 ratio, ask them what an appropriate ratio would be. 1:1? How would that stop anyone from being aggressive? What's fair? Israel could easily manufacture 10,000:1 so 100:1 seems quite fair to me. A thousand of those stupid rocket tubes would probably still cost less than a single smart-bomb. If the technology is identical on either side, then peaceniks can only quibble about the numbers, not the intent or results. Even if the Israelis stuck to a 1:1 ratio, they would still be far more effective: more of Gaza is in range, and I expect the Israelis would be better at the trigonometry of aiming.
Right now, the key to survival in Gaza is to stay away from anything Hamas. If the rockets coming in were as unguided as those going out, the only way to ensure survival would be to stop the idiots in Hamas that are launching in the first place.
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Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction
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It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly
bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of
global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
In July 2005 a huge coalition of Palestinian groups laid out plans to do
just that. They called on "people of conscience all over the world to
impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against
Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era."
The campaign Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions—BDS for short—
was born.
Every day that Israel pounds Gaza brings more converts to the BDS cause,
and talk of cease-fires is doing little to slow the momentum. Support is
even emerging among Israeli Jews. In the midst of the assault roughly
500 Israelis, dozens of them well-known artists and scholars, sent a
letter to foreign ambassadors stationed in Israel. It calls for "the
adoption of immediate restrictive measures and sanctions" and draws a
clear parallel with the antiapartheid struggle. "The boycott on South
Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves.… This
international backing must stop."
Yet even in the face of these clear calls, many of us still can't go
there. The reasons are complex, emotional and understandable. And they
simply aren't good enough. Economic sanctions are the most effective
tools in the nonviolent arsenal. Surrendering them verges on active
complicity. Here are the top four objections to the BDS strategy,
followed by counterarguments.
1. Punitive measures will alienate rather than persuade Israelis. The
world has tried what used to be called "constructive engagement." It has
failed utterly. Since 2006 Israel has been steadily escalating its
criminality: expanding settlements, launching an outrageous war against
Lebanon and imposing collective punishment on Gaza through the brutal
blockade. Despite this escalation, Israel has not faced punitive
measures—quite the opposite. The weapons and $3 billion in annual aid
that the US sends to Israel is only the beginning. Throughout this key
period, Israel has enjoyed a dramatic improvement in its diplomatic,
cultural and trade relations with a variety of other allies. For
instance, in 2007 Israel became the first non–Latin American country to
sign a free-trade deal with Mercosur. In the first nine months of 2008,
Israeli exports to Canada went up 45 percent. A new trade deal with the
European Union is set to double Israel's exports of processed food. And
on December 8, European ministers "upgraded" the EU-Israel Association
Agreement, a reward long sought by Jerusalem.
It is in this context that Israeli leaders started their latest war:
confident they would face no meaningful costs. It is remarkable that
over seven days of wartime trading, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange's
flagship index actually went up 10.7 percent. When carrots don't work,
sticks are needed.
2. Israel is not South Africa. Of course it isn't. The relevance of the
South African model is that it proves that BDS tactics can be effective
when weaker measures (protests, petitions, back-room lobbying) have
failed. And there are indeed deeply distressing echoes of South African
apartheid in the occupied territories: the color-coded IDs and travel
permits, the bulldozed homes and forced displacement, the settler-only
roads. Ronnie Kasrils, a prominent South African politician, said that
the architecture of segregation that he saw in the West Bank and Gaza
was "infinitely worse than apartheid." That was in 2007, before Israel
began its full-scale war against the open-air prison that is Gaza.
3. Why single out Israel when the United States, Britain and other
Western countries do the same things in Iraq and Afghanistan? Boycott is
not a dogma; it is a tactic. The reason the BDS strategy should be tried
against Israel is practical: in a country so small and trade-dependent,
it could actually work.
4. Boycotts sever communication; we need more dialogue, not less. This
one I'll answer with a personal story. For eight years, my books have
been published in Israel by a commercial house called Babel. But when I
published The Shock Doctrine, I wanted to respect the boycott. On the
advice of BDS activists, including the wonderful writer John Berger, I
contacted a small publisher called Andalus. Andalus is an activist
press, deeply involved in the anti-occupation movement and the only
Israeli publisher devoted exclusively to translating Arabic writing into
Hebrew. We drafted a contract that guarantees that all proceeds go to
Andalus's work, and none to me. In other words, I am boycotting the
Israeli economy but not Israelis.
Coming up with our modest publishing plan required dozens of phone
calls, e-mails and instant messages, stretching from Tel Aviv to
Ramallah to Paris to Toronto to Gaza City. My point is this: as soon as
you start implementing a boycott strategy, dialogue increases
dramatically. And why wouldn't it? Building a movement requires endless
communicating, as many in the antiapartheid struggle well recall. The
argument that supporting boycotts will cut us off from one another is
particularly specious given the array of cheap information technologies
at our fingertips. We are drowning in ways to rant at one another across
national boundaries. No boycott can stop us.
Just about now, many a proud Zionist is gearing up for major
point-scoring: don't I know that many of those very high-tech toys come
from Israeli research parks, world leaders in infotech? True enough, but
not all of them. Several days into Israel's Gaza assault, Richard
Ramsey, the managing director of a British telecom specializing in
voice-over-internet services, sent an email to the Israeli tech firm
MobileMax. "As a result of the Israeli government action in the last few
days we will no longer be in a position to consider doing business with
yourself or any other Israeli company."
Ramsey says that his decision wasn't political; he just didn't want to
lose customers. "We can't afford to lose any of our clients," he
explains, "so it was purely commercially defensive."
It was this kind of cold business calculation that led many companies to
pull out of South Africa two decades ago. And it's precisely the kind of
calculation that is our most realistic hope of bringing justice, so long
denied, to Palestine.
Further Information:
The only international news network covering every aspect of the war on
Gaza is Al Jazeera English. The station isn't available in North America
but you can watch it live in high-quality through www.livestation.com
(player download is required)....
http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2009/01/israel-boycott-divest-sanction
Obama must lead an international boycott against Isreal and failure to do so
will completely destroy the Amerikkkan economy because there are forces in
motion here that these whimpy earthlings have no understanding of!!
Stop the Israeli kiddie killers!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21673.htm
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i138/nambas/stopmurderingchildren2.jpg
Join the international boycott against Nazi Israel because all Israeli
products are snake oil mixed with the blood of dead Palestinian children
http://www.inminds.com/boycott-israel.php
