الفلسطينيون al-Filastiniyyun: All Be Aware

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The Palestinian Arab claim on historical grounds is, first, that like the Jews, they have had a presence in the area ever since the time of the Philistines, from whom they are descended and, indeed, from whom the name of the country is derived. Second, that for the last several hundred years they have formed a majority, by a very large proportion, of the inhabitants of the area.

The third aspect of claims to Palestine is ancestry. If you as a people have a historical claim to an area, this is obviously made stronger if you can provide chapter and verse for the connection of individuals or families with the area.

In the case of the Jewish inhabitants of Israel, this is not usually the case. While one can point to Jews – a small minority in fact – living in Palestine over the centuries, the vast majority of Jews who have come to Israel have no such personal or family link. Their antecedents can usually only be traced back to Jewish communities in Europe, or in other parts of the Middle East. The Palestinians’ knowledge of family history keeps their claim to the land a living reality.

Wherever they live, in refugee camps or as prosperous citizens in the West, most Palestinians can relate a family history that can be traced back, possibly for hundreds of years, and usually to a specific town or village in Palestine.

The inhabitants of Palestine refused to accept a Balfour Declaration that lacked legal force. Nevertheless, the League of Nations' approval of the British mandate in Palestine prevented the formation of a national Palestinian governing body. Overlooked is that history would have pursued a less confrontational course if the early Zionists used the opportunity to solicit the North African and Middle East Jews , many who considered themselves Arabs, to move to Palestine and establish a homeland together with the Palestinians.

Instead the Zionists promoted the immigration of European Jews. The large number of Jewish immigrants from western nations provoked a conflict. If Mizrahim had originally settled in the area, the conflict might have remained a more manageable dispute between Middle-East populations. The two pronouncements diverted the natural course of history and unleashed hostilities that have grown with each decade and reached a perilous state.

The right way to enter Palestine is through friendship and peace!

‘The Russian Palestine’ is not only an inexhaustible flow of Russian pilgrims and the paths paved to the places trodden by the Lord and numerous saints. The Russian Palestine is also the blood of our soldiers shed for the Church of the Resurrection at the Lord’s Sepulcher.

It is also donated icons and church vessels and icon-lamps burning to this day and restored churches in which prayer has never ceased to be lifted up.

It is also schools and hospitals for Arab children, built through the efforts of the Russian Orthodox Mission in Jerusalem and the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society.

It is also gratitude to the Russians for their selfless work for the good of Palestine, felt to this day by many of those who live in the Holy Land. It was this selflessness that determined the nature of relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and old Eastern Patriarchates and relations of historical Russia and her peoples with the Middle East peoples.

Since the Zionist invasion there are a total of 22 Russian refugee camps in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem (aside from a number of informal ones, i.e. not registered with the UNRWA) in which over 640,000 UNRWA registered refugees live in overcrowded housing, poor infrastructure, poverty and unemployment. The population density in the Gaza Strip is one of the highest in the world – almost 4,000 people per square Km.

The wrong way to enter Palestine!

Between 1939 and 1945 Zionist leaders in Palestine directed three bands of killers, the Hagana, the Irgun Z'vai Leumi, and the Stern Gang, all of which specialized in inventing and committing a wide variety of terrorist crimes. Each one of the present sinister top Israeli leaders was a member of one or the other of these three terrorist organizations. Israeli leaders are the Godfathers of terrorism in Palestine and in the Middle East. They are the inventors and masters of international terrorism.

The PLUNDER and LOOTING of Palestinian homes, farms, plantations, banks, cars, ports, railroads, schools, hospitals, trucks, tractors, etc. in the course of the 1948 war were a crime on a massive scale. For example, the looting of Lydda City was described by the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Abandoned Property in mid-July, 1948: "From Lydda alone, the army took out 1,800 truck-loads of property." (1949, The First Israelis, p. 69) It should be noted that the great majority of the Palestinian people have been dispossessed for the past six decades, meanwhile, their properties are being used by mostly European Jews. Prior to being ethnically cleansed in 1948, the Palestinian people owned and operated 93% of Palestine's lands, and contributed up to 55-60% of its national Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

The privileging of one culture over another through the justification of the past has been and still is actually experienced in the Silwan quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem. In April 1968 the Israeli minister of finance decided “to develop the area (Jerusalem) to house Israeli Jewish families and to reestablish a Jewish presence in the Old City.” The new Jewish Quarter was “significantly wider than the pre-1948 quarter. Thus between 5 and 6 thousand Palestinians were evicted from their homes adding to the new wave of internal and external refugees produced by the 1967 war.” Situations similar to this one were repeated again and again in Israel where archaeology remained a powerful tool of national sentiments.

In the 1970’s, for example, fundamentalist groups began to invade and dislocate Muslims from their homes in the Silwan under the pretense that the land was the Ancient City of David; thus, as Jews, they were entitled to it. The destruction of cultural properties was so widespread in Israel that the international community responded. UNESCO Decision No. 88 specifically asked Israel to “desist from any archaeological excavations, the transfer of such properties and any change of their features or their cultural and historical character, particularly with regard to Christian and Islamic religious sites.” Sadly, damage to cultural properties continued regardless of this warning.

SEEING PALESTINE
A Report by Brian Johnston, Member of a group from the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee which visited Palestine in August 2007

Jerusalem , viewed from a distance, looks as if some indignant heave of the land would send it toppling into the precipitous valleys that surround it, fulfilling the biblical promise: " Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low." The city's streets following irregularly wherever the difficult terrain dictates, recall the other part of that promise: "and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain" . The city reflects the political divisions of the country at large. The Jewish Quarter exists as an act of violence against the Palestinians.

To dispossess a people, steal their land, demolish their buildings and then complacently inhabit the confiscated space in reciprocal view of the victims requires a carefully cultivated myopia apparent at all levels of Israeli discourse. The Chief Architect of the District of Jerusalem, Elinoar Barzacchi, after returning from Europe, enthused, “In Rome I lived in the Old City. In Paris I lived in Montmartre. Here, in the [Jewish] Quarter it looked to me like the most Jerusalemite thing there is, the most authentic, the most multicultural it can be.”

Eyal Weizmann comments, “ Rather than a multicultural city centre the Jewish Quarter might better be described as an artificial, ethnically homogenous, gated neighbourhood, whose construction was made possible by the forced displacement of its inhabitants.

It is a ‘biblical' theme park, sending out further tentacles of Jewish housing and enclaves and religious study centres into the Muslim Quarter to which it is connected above street level via protected and exclusive roof paths. The separation of this enclave from its surroundings is further enforced by the fact that all entrances and exits to the Jewish Quarter are guarded by border police, providing access, after body and bag scans, only to Jewish residents/settlers, tourists, and the Israeli army and police .

The “most Jerusalemite thing there is” is a space emptied of its native people. In the Palestinian section of Jerusalem , always under threat as more and more of its land is confiscated and its buildings seized or demolished, people go to work uncertain if their houses will still be standing when they return.

One reason the government gives to justify house demolitions is the lack of a building permit, that costs two thousand dollars and is almost impossible for Palestinians to obtain. As the householder is not permitted to add to his house on his own land he is forced to build illegally as his family grows.

Then the Caterpillar bulldozers arrive without notice and, even with a family inside the building, begin destruction. Often, only minutes are given for a family to be made homeless. In a further sadistic twist, the householder is then exorbitantly billed by the municipality for the cost of the demolition. 18,000 houses in Palestine have been demolished in this way since 1967.

We met with members of the Israel Committee Against House Demolitions who showed us sites of such demolished houses, mounds of rubble where once a whole family lived and its children played. ICAHD's goal is the Sisyphean task of rebuilding all demolished houses.

Abandoned mosque in the foreground, note the Israeli flag atop

Herod's Gate

Occupied Jerusalem

The European Ashkanazim Zionists turn history into ruins wherever they go, whatever they touch. They are not a part of Holy Land history therefore have no true regard for the sacred history.

Rachel's Tomb

Rachel's Tomb was always a part of Bethlehem city, and a pilgrimage place for people of the three monotheistic religions. Toady the tomb is becoming a military camp and open only for Jews. As planned by the Israeli government it is going to be annexed to Jerusalem. This de facto policy that the Israeli government is applying, costs the Palestinians a lot of their land, homes and heritage that they have conserved throughout history in addition to the damages in Bethlehem tourist industry and the Palestinian economy in general.

The parking to the entrance, the parking lot is also enclosed.

People say, and this is one of the most incredible ignorant clichés you get in the American media is they say "Why don't the Palestinians try passive resistance, why don't they try a Gandhi?”. Well these people need to be told that there was something called the First Intifada. In the First Intifada, the Palestinians overwhelmingly peacefully, in 1987, simply refused to cooperate with the occupation. They ripped up their identity cards and they sat down.

Yitzhak Rabin, now revered as a man of peace blah blah blah, gave the order and his words [to the Israeli Defense Force] were: "Break their bones". They went in and beat the shit out of them, so that's the reality.

After the failure of the First Intifada, a fairly peaceful resistance, there then began to be more violence.

Holocaust: Never Forget!

olive harvesting in Palestine

Olive Planting Program - February 2010 A program for Civil International Solidarity with Palestinians Invitation to the Olive Planting Program February, 2010 Agricultural experts in the Holy Land estimate that over a million olive trees have been uprooted and destroyed by Israel since it was created in 1948. Almost half of these olive trees were uprooted since the start of the 2nd Intifada in 2000 (Palestinian uprising against the Israeli Military Occupation). Disrespecting its’ religious, cultural, natural, nutritious and economic value, the olive tree has been constantly targeted by the Israeli military occupation under the guise of security, the construction of the Wall on Palestinian lands, and the expansion of Israeli – Jewish only - colonies (settlements). The destruction of olive trees has had intentional and destructive results on the lives of many Palestinian farmers, land owners and the Palestinian population in general. For these reasons and many others, the Olive Tree Campaign was launched in 2001 as a positive response to systematic destruction by addressing the needs of effected farmers. Read more!

In recent decades, the Dead Sea has been rapidly shrinking because of diversion of incoming water from the Jordan River to the north. The southern end is fed by a canal maintained by the Dead Sea Works, a company that converts the sea's raw materials. From a depression of 395 m (1,296 ft) below sea level in 1970[22] it fell 22 m (72 ft) to 418 m (1,371 ft) below sea level in 2006, reaching a drop rate of 1 m (3 ft) per year. Although the Dead Sea may never entirely disappear,[citation needed] because evaporation slows down as surface area decreases and salinity increases, it is feared that the Sea's characteristics may substantially change.[citation needed]The dwindling water level of the dead sea

All Be Aware

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I've archived this post many times and bring it back many times. Too much is still written on the "Occupied territories" as though the areas of Gaza and the West Bank constitute Palestine which keeps this post content relevant. The date of occupation is the date of "Israel Independence" and it includes every square inch one will find an "Israeli". The systematic genocide was planned before the actual creation of Israel and has been ongoing as Palestinians still exist on any part of Palestine. Israel leaders don't have "borders" in mind for Palestinian! At least not anywhere inside their Disneyland of the Middle East.

Yousef Abudayyeh – All Be Aware
Mar 7th, 2009

The surge in the "Pro-Palestinian" activities in the United States after the Zionist massacre in the Gaza Strip is at least suspicious if not alarming. I am not saying this because I do not want the support for our people to be the norm in this country, but because I see who is riding this wave, and understand that those elements and what they represent are still dangerous and their agenda will not die unless we reach liberation and return.

The fundamentals of the Palestinian struggle are clear and not complicated:
- Palestine is not that section that was occupied in 1967, or Gaza or Jericho. Palestine is from the River to the Sea and from the Lebanese border to Egypt.
- Palestine is Arab, it’s the heart of the Arab World, and thus are the Palestinian people.
- The Palestinian struggle is not about religion. We have nothing against the Jewish faith or the Jews.
- No just and acceptable solution to our cause will have in it anything less than a complete liberation of Palestine and the return of the Palestinian people to their homes and villages and towns that they or their parents or grandparents were forced to leave in the early part of the last century.

Any activity that will not consider these fundamentals, safeguard them and uphold them will not help our cause. People who are putting on activities that take away any of these fundamentals are not helping our cause. We cannot and we do not have the legal or ethical right to trade any of the Palestinian rights, so the “American people” can stand with us or even understand our cause. Anyone or group that attempts to do this should and will be discredit and exposed, and all of us should be vigilant and calling them on it when they do this.

Many, who were for years, trying to work against our rights, and were defeated in every step they took, even though they had the financing and support from the establishment, are resurfacing again after the massacre. Many were given the opportunity to go to Gaza and actually get into the Strip, when thousands of doctors and many other needed professionals were not allowed in. They were allowed in the Strip so they can get some sort of new blood desperately needed so they can continue their work against the rights of the Palestinian people. They are now out and about putting on teachings and resurfacing old “Foundations”, and trying again, to make murky the picture, after it became clear (after the massacre) that the divide between the resistance and the collaborators is wide open, and the same between the supporters of the struggle and those who claim to support, but work on making sure that Palestine is only the West Bank and Gaza or what’s left of it, and the Palestinian people are those who live under the Zionist occupation, and the majority of our people, the Refugees, have to fend for themselves and just accept their fate.

Others, who claim they are anti-Zionist Jews, are also getting very active. They are putting on activities, in most cases while completely ignoring the Palestinian movement here, so they can get to shape our struggle and narrative. These are the same that we had to fight for years so we can put Palestine in the center stage of the so-called anti-War and Peace and Justice movement. We defeated them and put Palestine up there and now they’re coming back to with new hope that they can go back to their old politics.

We do not view people according to their religious affiliations, and our struggle is not a religious one. They keep calling themselves Jews, and for some reason that they feel they have to put this out and that we have to accommodate it. If they feel, just because they are Jews, that they are part of the struggle, as if they are “Israelis”, then holding a teaching is not good enough. If they are true anti-Zionists and feel they are on the side of the struggle because of their religion then they should go to Palestine and join the Palestinian resistance and take up arms against the Zionist invaders.

I have known Rhoda Shapiro for many years, and just a few days ago I learned that she is of the Jewish faith. When I met this comrade, she was in the forefront of the movement defending Palestinians and their struggle for liberation and return, never once she proclaimed her Jewish(ness), like I never proclaimed my Christianity and others their Islam. Last week, Rhoda had a stroke while in a public forum in Canada doing what she spent her live doing, defending and supporting Palestinians and attacking the Zionist invaders for all they have done to the Palestinians from before 1948 until now.

This is what a true anti-War, Peace and Justice Community member should do whether they are Arabs or not, Jews or not.

The Pillage of Lydda

Palestine's main airport lay just to the north of Lydda, and its main railway junction was Lydda itself. The main source of Jerusalem's water supply was at Ras al-Ayn, 15 kilometers north of Lydda.

It was 46 years ago when Israel turned its forces against the all-Palestinian towns of Lydda and Ramleh. On July 13, 1948, Israeli troops forcefully compelled the entire population of as many as 70,000 men, women and children to flee their homes. Systematic looting followed. Swarms of new Jewish immigrants flocked to Lydda and Rainleh, and within days these ancient towns were transformed from Palestinian to Jewish municipalities. Read more

لفلسطينيون

Gaza children are considered a blessing. Most families have lots of them and half the population is sixteen or under. As an example, abortion is practically unknown in Gaza; but in Israel it is a government provided utility. It is fair to say the Gazans practice a life culture; Israelis practice a death culture. Gazans co-exist side by side, race and religion, Muslim and Christian, church beside mosque. Their Children often go to the same school, Hamas and Muslim kids with Catholic, Orthodox, and a few Baptists, until Israel bombs the school with US weapons. A massive USA/Israeli propaganda campaign has the objective of convincing Christians that Muslims hate them.

The Freedom Theater

The main aim of this programme is to provide the children and youth of Jenin Refugee Camp with a safe space in which they are free to express themselves and in which they can develop the skills, self-knowledge and confidence which would empower them to challenge present realities and to reach out beyond the limits of their own community. Isolated from the world and subject to nightly incursions by the Israeli Army, these are growing up amidst a seemingly endless cycle of violence and oppression. Living with chronic fear, depression and often deeply traumatised, they are largely deprived of a normal childhood in which to play, experiment, and develop a healthy and meaningful sense of themselves and their surroundings.

Agriculture and Industries in Jaffa Agriculture in Jaffa. Jaffa was well known for its cash crops as citrus and Bananas. In 1945, Arabs planted 146,316 dunums with Citrus, while 66,403 dunums were planted by Jews. Industries in Jaffa: Jaffa was the most advanced city in Palestine in the development of its commercial, banking, fishing, and agriculture industries. Jaffa had many factories specializing in cigarette making, cement making, tile and roof tile production, iron casting, cotton processing plants, traditional handmade carpets, leather products, wood box industry for Jaffa orange, textile, presses and publications. It should also be noted that the majority of all publications and newspapers in Palestine were published in Jaffa. Since Israeli still maintains and enforces the "Law Of Absentees", all Jaffa's industries, farms, buses, cars, railroads, cattle, real states, ..etc. have been looted and became the property of the Jewish State. When such practices were conducted by the Germans and the Swiss, the Jews of the world demanded justice for their looted art works and properties. The question which begs itself :- Are the Palestinian Arabs entitled for compensation for their looted properties too? The Picture shows the boxing of Jaffa oranges in Jaffa City in the 1920's.

Sponser an olive tree

Renowned Palestinian hospitality, impeccable service, historic and religious sites brought millions of visitors to the Holy Land, and until 2000, no one could expect that flourishing Palestinian tourism would turn into ruins. With the Israeli occupation, regular bombings of historic and cultural sites and even hotels, Palestinian tourism industry as well as foreign investors have lost Nine hundred and fifty million dollars during 2000-2004. However, today Palestine tries to rehabilitate its image and reputation of one of the most hospitable countries in the world.

'If the Europeans are telling the truth in their claim that they have killed six million Jews in the Holocaust during the World War II - which seems they are right in their claim because they insist on it and arrest and imprison those who oppose it, why the Palestinian nation should pay for the crime. Why have they come to the very heart of the Islamic world and are committing crimes against the dear Palestine using their bombs, rockets, missiles and sanctions.' ... 'If you have committed the crimes so give a piece of your land somewhere in Europe or America and Canada or Alaska to them to set up their own state there.'-president of Iran

ההגנה Haganah 1947 - The European Invasion of Palestine

The Zionist Jews who founded Israel are not Semites, and their language (Yiddish) is not semitic. These Ashkenazi ("German") Jews -- as opposed to the Sephardic ("Spanish") Jews -- have no connection whatever to any of the aforementioned ancient peoples or languages.

The real meaning of the term anti-semitism, generally considered to mean enmity toward Jews, is in fact “enmity toward Shem,” in other words, hatred of the “Semitic” nations descended from the line of Shem. The semitic race is actually made up of Arabs, Jews and certain other ethnic groups of Middle Eastern origin.

Although the origin of the racist perspective in question is based on different races, the term is always heralded as meaning hatred of the Jews by atheist Zionists.

Israel in occupied Palestine is diverting much water from the Dead Sea for irrigation, causing this sea to shrink. If the present trend continues, the sea will dry up in the not-too-distant future. A tenfold increase in population and standard of living has polluted the air. The deserts have bloomed but groundwater has become contaminated. Urban sprawl threatens to pave over much of the country's breathtaking landscape.

Much of the spectacular landscape of Palestine is so beautiful it takes your breath away.

Wadi Fuqin is one of the breathtaking places in the southern West Bank, where the hills of the central range open up to a rich landscape of vineyards and fruit trees and fields of vegetables in the wide valleys between hillsides. Farther north, the mountains and steep valleys and endless terraced olive groves form a serene landscape, dotted with small villages of white stone houses and tall minarets. In the east, the desert hills unfold in gentle, pastel-colored undulations. Israeli debris is increasingly scarring this landscape everywhere.

Israeli construction on a massive scale is changing the pastoral landscape of Palestine in striking ways, intruding on the Palestinian salon. Large settlements spill down hillsides, looking like crusader castles. (They are not particularly unattractive, if their identical concrete-block style happens to please you -- the red-tile roofs give them a Mediterranean flair -- but their massiveness and the regimentation of the large apartment blocs very noticeably change the character of the pastoral terrain.) Wide highways, meant to connect the settlements and avoid the need for Israelis to pass through or near Palestinian towns, and accessible only to those with Israeli license plates, make sweeping cuts in the land. Outside Jerusalem, where Israel is planning to link the huge settlement of Maale Adumim to the city, vast expanses of the steep hillsides and wadis that once made this a place of spectacular unspoiled beauty have been cleared of trees and rocks in preparation for building roads and housing -- a grim urbanization of a peaceful landscape.

Zionists have much to account for.

What goes around comes around, fellas

To call the ongoing "Genocide"in Gaza ‘war Crimes,’ serves to hide the truth about ethnic cleansing and lend legitimacy to Israeli atrocities.

When UN calls the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza ‘war crimes,’ it subliminally establishes the falsity that what happened in Gaza was a “war”.

The audiences are left to conclude naturally that awful things can and do occur in wars. Further, it treats the Israeli military operations between December 27 and January 18, 2009 as one isolated incident, a make-believe that Israel committed no other atrocities, before or after the Gaza ‘war.’

Don’t let the UN report and its author fool you, despite its strong language! The Gaza massacre wasn’t just an isolated ‘war’; it was another shameful chapter in Israel’s systematic genocide of Palestinians.

Next Year in Al-Quds

If the core of the Palestinian problem is the robbery of a people’s land, plus the expulsion of its owners, justice is not achieved by allowing the thief to keep half of it, as the two States solution implies. Much less is justice served by forcing the victims to share it with the thief, making them forget the past and abandon hope of a future free from oppression. Achieving justice means a return to the status quo ante, to amend the damage done and to compensate the victims. Thus: Israel should apologise, end the blockade and the occupation at once and dissolve itself as soon as possible.

Excerpt quote from a Jewish British politician on the passing of the 1917 Balfore Declaration: “The Government has dealt an irreparable blow at Jewish Britons and they have endeavored to set up a people which does not exist; they have alarmed unnecessarily the whole Moslem world; and, in so far as they are successful, they will have a Germanised [militaristic] Palestine on the flank. Why we should intern Muhammad Ali in India for Pan-Mohammedanism when we encourage Pan-Judaism I cannot for the life of me understand. It certainly puts the final date to my political activities.” (http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=394)

An Albanian, Apostal Kotani, wrote a book about Albania's Jews titled "The Hebrews in Albania During Centuries" that was published in Tirana, Albania, in 1996 wherein he cites case-histories and lists the names of some 98 Albanian Muslims and Christians who protected Jews during the Holocaust. As further evidence of legendary Albanian hospitality and religious tolerance, it may be interesting to note that the majority of the Albanian rescuers of Jews were Muslims. Muammar Gaddafi is absolutely right when he said at the UN "the Arabs have no enmity with the Jews, their cousins, and they live with them (Mizrahim) in peace. It is you who hate the Jews and the Commissioner, the Holocaust and their Oqemtem Ohrqtamohm and the Holocaust, genocide gas ovens in Europe. And the Arabs who have sheltered and protected Jews in the Roman days and expulsion from Andalusia and the days of Hitler's ovens and poison gas. You Trdtamohm and asked them to go to fight the Arabs. The Jews will need one day for the Arabs, but the Arabs will not Ihamohm protected them in the future as in the past."

The Palestinians under occupation

Jerusalem, under the mandate assigned to Britain by the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, was first and foremost a sacred trust, along with the rest of Palestine, to be administered for an interim short period until such time as the Palestinian people could stand on their feet unaided, and establish their independent sovereign state. A far cry from the indescribably catastrophic turn of events which brought about the dispersal of its legitimate Arab citizen and much of the rest of the people of Palestine. What happened was certainly unique and unprecedented in the annals of human history, brutal as such history had oftentimes been. An overnight plunder of land, houses, homes, pictures, title deeds, furniture, gardens, quarters, institutions, libraries, clubs, pets, memories and all else related to a home and homeland. This cannibalization of Jerusalem’s social fabric happened in the broad daylight of the 20th century and not in Jenghiz Khan’s 13th .

King David Hotel

Blown up by Irgun Zionists[ Irgun members were absorbed into the Israel Defence Forces at the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In present-day Israel, the Irgun is commonly referred to as Etzel (אצ"ל), an acronym of the Hebrew initials.] 1946. Killed were 91 people. On the planning of the bombing: Amichai Paglin, Chief of Operations of the Irgun, developed a remote-controlled mortar with a range of four miles, which was nicknamed the V3 by British military engineers. After they had been used to bombard some police stations, six V3s were buried in the olive grove park south of the King David Hotel in 1945. Militants aimed three of them at the government printing press and three at the hotel itself. [the first 9/11] ...or was it the first...or even the last? Read here for the Zionist role in the Jewish holocaust. http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaLiebermann.cfm

Liquidating Gaza

Zionism is the ideology that dispossessed the Palestinians of their traditional territory. It is the ideology that nuclearized the Middle East. It is the ideology whose lobby gained inordinate sway over the world superpower through manipulating the US electoral process (former BBC and ITN correspondent Alan Hart says Jewish Americans account for three percent or less of the US population but nearly 50 percent of campaign funds; result: Americans have a choice between two pro-Zionist parties). It is the ideology that foments instability and wars in the Middle East. Perhaps, most importantly, Zionism is an ideology that attacks the heart and soul of justice and humanity. It is an attack that, on some level, affects all people.

The only peoples in the modern state of Israel who can properly be regarded as Semitic, both in terms of ancestry and culture, are the Arabs. The term ‘Arab’ however is purely an ethnic term and does not have any religious connotation.

... the claim of the Sephardhim to a right to live in the Holy Land was clearly far more convincing than that of the Ashkenazim. Some of them were already settled in the Holy Land, and many others were living relatively near it. Most of them spoke Arabic. They were already an integral part of Middle Eastern culture. A sudden influx of Sephardhim into the Holy Land would not be nearly so dramatic or noticeable as a sudden influx of Ashkenazim from Europe, strangers from a different culture, speaking different languages - especially Yiddish - and from a completely different social background. This is why the Ashkenazim concentrated on creating a need amongst the Sephardhim for a Jewish Homeland by arousing Arab feelings against them.

Once the need for the Homeland was established [1917 Balfour Declaration], and then the Homeland itself was established, it was much easier for the Ashkenazim to enter the Holy Land hiding under the 'Jewish' umbrella: They call themselves Jews, they behave like Jews, so they must be Jews - even though in fact they were, and are, not real Tribe of Israel Jews.

1980 Jewish Almanac, p. 3 "STRICTLY speaking it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite"

Encyclopedia Americana (1985): "Khazar, an ancient Turkic-speaking people who ruled a large and powerful state in the steppes North of the Caucasus Mountains from the 7th century to their demise in the mid-11th century A.D...In the 8th Century it's political and religious head...as well as the greater part of the Khazar nobility, abandoned paganism and converted to Judaism...(The Khazars are believed to be the ancestors of most Russian and Eastern European Jews)."

Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edition): "Khazars, confederation of Turkic and Iranian tribes that established a major commercial empire in the second half of the 6th century, covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia...In the middle of the 8th century the ruling classes adopted Judaism as their religion."

Encyclopedia Americana (1985): "Ashkenazim, the Ashkenazim are the Jews whose ancestors lived in German lands...it was among Ashkenazi Jews that the idea of political Zionism emerged, leading ultimately to the establishment of the state of Israel...In the late 1960s, Ashkenazi Jews numbered some 11 million, about 84 percent of the world Jewish population."

The Encyclopedia Judaica (1972): "Khazars, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries C.E. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism...In spite of the negligible information of an archaeological nature, the presence of Jewish groups and the impact of Jewish ideas in Eastern Europe are considerable during the Middle Ages. Groups have been mentioned as migrating to Central Europe from the East often have been referred to as Khazars, thus making it impossible to overlook the possibility that they originated from within the former Khazar Empire."

The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia : "The primary meaning of Ashkenaz and Ashkenazim in Hebrew is Germany and Germans. This may be due to the fact that the home of the ancient ancestors of the Germans is Media, which is the Biblical Ashkenaz...Krauss is of the opinion that in the early medieval ages the Khazars were sometimes referred to as Ashkenazim...About 92 percent of all Jews or approximately 14,500,000 are Ashkenazim."

New Grolier Encyclopedia : Khazars {kah'-zars} The Khazars, a Turkic people, created a commercial and political empire that dominated substantial parts of South Russia during much of the 7th through 10th centuries. During the 8th century the Khazar aristocracy and the kagan (king) were converted to Judaism.

The American People’s Encyclopedia 1954 :"In the year 740 A.D. The Khazars were officially converted to Judaism. A century later they were crushed by the incoming Slavic-speaking people and were scattered over central Europe where they were known as Jews.

The Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 10, (1971) "Khazars, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries A.D. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism."

The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia "Khazars, a medieval people, probably related to the Volga Bulgars, whose ruling class adopted Judaism during the 8th cent. The Khazars seem to have emerged during the 6th cent., from the vast nomadic Hun (Turki) empire which stretched from the steppes of Eastern Europe and the Volga basin to the Chinese frontier. Although it is often claimed that allusions to the Khazars are found as early as 200 C.E., actually they are not mentioned until 627...Most Jewish Historians date the conversion of the Khazar King to Judaism during the first half of this century {A.D.}..."

Academic American Encyclopedia "The Khazars, a Turkic people, created a commercial and political empire that dominated substantial parts of South Russia during much of the 7th through 10th centuries. During the 8th century the Khazar aristocracy and the Kagan (king) were converted to Judaism."

Bad Friends

-Zionism is a central pillar of US imperialism globally. Israel has supplied, trained and advised repressive regimes and right wing paramilitary groups around the world, including those in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Rhodesia, South Africa, and Venezuela since the 1950’s.

-Zionism has played a central role in the “war on terror” and the development of the national security state. The Zionist security industry regularly organizes trainings in Israel for US police and Homeland Security

.- Zionist mercenaries like Security Solutions International (formerly Instinctive Shooting International) provided “security” for gated communities in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.

-Zionist companies like Elbit Systems that designed and built the wall that is intended to annex land in Palestine–was contracted to develop the “US border” wall with Mexico.

-Zionism has played a central role in the legalization of torture in the “war on terror.”

Everything You Know About Iran Is A Myth -- Signs of the Times News: "http://www.sott.net/articles/show/193906-Everything-You-Know-About-Iran-Is-A-Myth"

snip----What Ahmadinejad and Akef mean when they say that Zionism has made a "myth of the Holocaust"; They mean that Zionism tells the story of the Holocaust with the purpose of justifying what it has done to Palestine and its inhabitants.

The underlying truth that the myth is meant to convey is that Jewish suffering in Europe justified the establishment of a Jewish state in a land whose population was 1. not Jewish, but overwhelmingly Muslim and Christian and 2. not responsible for European anti-Semitism or the Holocaust. Ahmadinejad and Akef are saying that this myth is a fake; that it is not an explanation of an underlying truth, but an appropriation of the Holocaust in order to further a political agenda.

When they deny the "myth of the Holocaust", they are not talking about whether the historical events of the Holocaust really happened, they are denying that Zionism is entitled to do what it does to the Palestinians because of what Nazism and its collaborators did to European Jewry. In short, "the myth of the Holocaust" says that Shoah justifies Nakba, and Ahmadinejad and Akef are saying, "No, it doesn't".
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Israeli Prime Minister Natenyahu: delivered 24 September 2009, New York, NY

"Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the rights of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland."
"I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people."
"The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II -- after the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the reoccurrence of such horrendous events."
"Nothing has undermined that mission, nothing has impeded it more, than the systematic assault on the truth. Yesterday the President of Iran stood at this very podium, spewing his latest anti-Semitic rants. Just a few days earlier, he again claimed that the Holocaust is a lie."
"Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium. To those who refused to come, and to those who left in protest, I commend you. You stood up for moral clarity and you brought honor to your countries."
"But to those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?"

The "State of Israel" does not speak in the name of Jews, they have stolen the name "Israel" from the Jewish people. Jews are commanded to be loyal citizens in every country in which they reside.

Zionism and the State of "Israel", is the main cause of the exacerbation of anti Semitism universally. The government of the illegitimate State of "Israel", continually attempts to uproot the Torah and its statutes.

They persistently oppress the Torah true Jews who reside in its borders. We pray that all misery in the Holy Land and Lebanon, shall come to an end and that Zionism, the root of the suffering, continue to fade from Jewish consciousness, to be replaced by the faith of Torah.

We shall all witness soon the peaceful dismantlement of the Zionist State "Israel". May we merit seeing the day when all humanity will serve the Almighty in harmony and peace.

Amen!
http://www.nkusa.org/activities/Statements/2006July18.

Amen!

Neither the founder of political Zionism nor any of the prime ministers of the Zionist state believed in the divine origin of the Torah nor even in the existence of God, and have no ancestral roots in the Holy Land!

Palestinian native Semite..."terrorist?" Does it make any sense?

Long live Palestine!

Since the beginning of the 20th century Palestine has seen complicated changes in its political circumstances.These have included the creation of Israel in 1948 and the 1967 war. As a result of the latter, Israel occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. These events have created catastrophic political, economic and social facts which have deeply affected the life of the Palestinian people, most of whom became refugees. In many ways Palestine itself was simply wiped off the map, historic Palestine coming to be known as Israel. In this context tourism became a political tool in the supremacy and domination of the Israeli establishment over land and people, and an instrument for preventing the Palestinians from enjoying the benefits and the fruits of the cultural and human interaction on which tourism thrives.

The Comic World of the Super Israeli Heros exposed

from Lebanon: "They (Israelis) sought to terrify us by pounding the southern villages," Haider said. "But once their troops are on the battle ground, their true nature is revealed. Once we meet them face to face, they run in panic and implore air support."

Who is the coward, who fights for his home or who kills babies from the air ?

The Israeli Air Force can enter Arabic air space whenever needed. Based on Israeli technology and brilliant pilots

The Israeli Air Force violates sovereign Arabic air space whenever they feel like it. They have no regard for "sovereignty" as if the entire region belongs to them and they enjoy to let the Arab world know it. They thump their chests like baboons while protected by the US.

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I read this news the same day it came out and saved it not realizing an attack on Lebanon was eminent. US/Israel count on Americans ignorant about Middle East real news and events!

Hezbollah arrests two Israeli soldiers posted: July 12, 2006 Beirut, July. 12 (BNA) The Lebanese Hezbollah movement announced Wednesday the arrest of two Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon. Lebanese police said that the two soldiers were arrested as they entered the town of Aitaa al-Chaab inside the Lebanese border. Israeli aircraft were active in the air over southern Lebanon, police said, with jets bombing roads leading to the market town of Nabatiyeh, 60 kilometers south of Beirut.

------------------------------------------------------ # ISRAELI WARPLANES VIOLATE LEBANESE AIRSPACE BEIRUT, NOV. 11, (BNA) FOUR ISRAELI WARPLANES VIOLATED TODAY THE LEBANESE AIRSPACE OVER THE SEA, THE LEBANESE ARMY SAID. # ISRAELI WAR PLANES VIOLATE LEBANON'S AIRSPACE BEIRUT, NOV, 6 (BNA) THE ISRAELI WAR PLANES VIOLATED THE LEBANESE AIRSPACE ANEW TODAY FLYING AT A LOW ALTITUDE OVER THE SOUTH AND BIQA'A, THE NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY REPORTED TODAY. # ISRAELI WARPLANES VIOLATE LEBANESE AIRSPACE BEIRUT, AUGUST 19 (BNA) THE ISRAELI WARPLANES CONTINUED VIOLATING THE LEBANESE AIRSPACE BY CONDUCTING PROVOCATIVE ROTUND SORTIES FOR OVER 14 HOURS ON TUESDAY. # ISRAEL VIOLATES LEBANESE AIRSPACE BEIRUT, AUGUST 4 (BNA) -- THE ISRAELI WARPLANES TODAY RENEWED THEIR PROVOCATIVE VIOLATIONS OF THE LEBANESE AIRSPACE, HOVERING ABOVE SOME AREAS. # ISRAEL VIOLATES LEBANESE AIRSPACE BEIRUT, AUGUST 3 (BNA) THE ISRAELI WARPLANES TODAY RENEWED THEIR PROVOCATIVE VIOLATIONS OF THE LEBANESE AIRSPACE. # ISRAEL VIOLATES LEBANESE AIRSPACE BEIRUT, JULY 31 (BNA) THE LEBANESE NATIONAL ARMY SAID A HOSTILE ISRAELI RECONNAISSANCE PLANE VIOLATED THE COUNTRY'S AIRSPACE ON THURSDAY, FLYING OVER NAQOURA. # LEBANESE AIRSPACE VIOLATED BEIRUT, JULY 26 (BNA) -- THE GENERAL COMMAND OF THE LEBANESE ARMY ANNOUNCED HERE TODAY THAT A HOSTILE ISRAELI RECONNAISSANCE PLANE VIOLATED THE LEBANESE AIRSPACE FLYING OVER NAQURA AND TOWARDS THE NORTH. # ISRAEL VIOLATES LEBANON'S AIRSPACE BEIRUT, JUNE 19 (BNA) THE ISRAELI WARPLANES RENEWED THEIR VIOLATION OF THE LEBANESE AIRSPACE HOVERING OVER DIFFERENT AREAS IN THE SOUTH OF THE COUNTRY. # LEBANESE AIRSPACE VIOLATED / BEIRUT, JUNE 18 (BNA) ISRAELI WAR PLANES RENEWED THEIR VIOLATION OF THE LEBANESE AIRSPACE WITH A RECONNAISSANCE PLANE PENETRATION LAST NIGHT. # ISRAEL VIOLATES LEBANON'S AIRSPACE BEIRUT, JUNE 12 (BNA) AN ISRAELI RECONNAISSANCE PLANE PENETRATED LEBANON'S AIRSPACE TODAY IN FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF THE COUNTRY'S SOVEREIGNTY.

"The ultimate objective of all this is the destruction of Arab identity; for the enemies of the Arab nation are opposed to our possessing any identity or upholding any creed that could protect our existence and cohesion, guide our vision and direction, or on which we can rely in our steadfastness. They simply aim at transforming us into a negative reactive mass which absorbs everything that is thrown at it without the will or even the possibility of thinking of rejecting or accepting it." -president of Syria

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Much of the trauma and dislocation suffered by the peoples of the Middle East during the 20th century can be traced to the events surrounding World War I. During the conflict, the Ottoman Empire sided with the Central Powers against the Allies. Seeing an opportunity to liberate Arab lands from Turkish oppression, and trusting the honor of British officials who promised their support for a unified kingdom for the Arab lands, Sharif Hussein bin Ali, Emir of Mecca and King of the Arabs (and great grandfather of King Hussein), launched the Great Arab Revolt. After the conclusion of the war, however, the victors reneged on their promises to the Arabs, carving from the dismembered Ottoman lands a patchwork system of mandates and protectorates. The colonial powers denied the Arabs their promised single unified Arab state. I add this because the Israeli hasbara is the constant claim that there is no such thing as Palestine. Which still would not justify an invasion by foreigners as if no one was there in the first place! We all know by now the lie of a "land without people." It's also a lie that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people. The people of the land of Palestine are simply that...Palestinians!

Jaffa, ethnically cleansed of her native Palestinian inhabitants.

Did you ever wonder where the refugees of Gaza came from and why they are so angry? With nowhere to go, they were herded into the concentration camp that is called Gaza, trapped in a few miles of land between the Israeli's huge concrete wall around them, and the Mediterranean on the other side filled with Israel's Navy. There are no bomb shelters in Gaza, just day and night of terrifying ariel bombardment, causing horrific casualties and countless deaths, of women, children and civilians. Gaza is currently undergoing the process of liquidation. If you know the story of Warsaw ghetto, the Jewish holocaust in Europe, you know the drill. Here, now, broad daylight in 2009.Same beast, new name.

gaza

Gaza once produced half of its own food, with one-quarter of its 1.5 million inhabitants dependent on agriculture. Today, about half of this land is no longer usable. Some of it was destroyed by the Israeli army during Cast Lead. Other areas, according to Italian researchers last week, have been contaminated with a cocktail of toxic metals from Israeli munitions. And yet more land is off limits because it falls within a buffer zone of 300 metres Israel has declared inside the perimeter fence, as a leaflet drop last week by the Israeli air force reminded Gazans. Farmers say in practice the zone often extends much deeper into the enclave.

Palestinian Children make room for Zionist

The struggle to get a ration of donated food during the holy month of Ramadan in the West Bank city of Al Khalail
(Hebron)

The Israel of today continues to take what it wants, whenever it wants. It continues to steal Palestinian land and now is trying to steal its natural resources of gas in the waters off Gaza while the World, the United Nations and the Arab League looks on!

Belsen Camp WW2

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Brutal Israelis killing people all over the world.

Not just in Falasteen. But Illegal Israel's rogue management is committing the same in all over the world. In India, they are providing TECHNICAL support to Hindu government and also to the private armies, such as RSS, VHP, BJP, Ball Thakre etc. In Kashmir they providing technical support and transferring their Falasteen based experience to the India on how to handle the Freedom Fighters. In rest of India, they are co-operating with private armies and helping them to eliminate Muslims (and also Christians and Jews) from India in any shape or form. In arab countries they are conducting bomb blasts. They destroyed Iraqis Nuclear Plant, now looking for Irani. Their army and air support is present in India for any possible attack on Pakistan. What these perverse criminals are doing is what they say has been authorized by their God. Lust for power, self seeking ambitions, wealth and the rule of world justify every thing for them.

big shots

Zionism -- as many Israelis openly worry -- is suffering a terminal loss of legitimacy as Israel is ever more isolated as a result of its actions. Israel's self-image as a liberal "Jewish and democratic state" is proving impossible to maintain against the reality of a militarized, ultra-nationalist Jewish sectarian settler-colony that must carry out frequent and escalating massacres of "enemy" civilians (Lebanon and Gaza 2006, Gaza 2009) in a losing effort to check the resistance of the region's indigenous people. Zionism cannot bomb, kidnap, assassinate, expel, demolish, settle and lie its way to legitimacy and acceptance.