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jeunempl — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:41:55 +0000

Les médias israéliens se sont attardés au dernier discours du secrétaire général du Hezbollah Sayed Hassan Nasrallah prononcé à l’occasion du jour du martyr, contrairement aux discours précédents, dont la diffusion était interdite, à cause de la censure imposée par les autorités de l’occupation depuis la guerre de juillet 2006.

La couverture médiatique israélienne a mis l’accent sur les menaces de Sayed Nasrallah de commencer par bombarder les villes situées au-delà de Haïfa dans la prochaine guerre, et du sort qui attend les légions militaires israéliennes qui tenteraient d’envahir la terre libanaise.

Selon l’analyste politique Oded Granot, “Nasrallah a confirmé les propos d’Ashkenazi sur la quantité de missiles chez le Hezbollah”, mettant ainsi les positions d’Ashkenazi dans le cadre de calmer ceux qui cherchent à déclencher une guerre contre le Liban, en leur disant qu’il ne faut pas s’impliquer avec le Hezbollah”.

Alone ben David, autre analyste politique, est allé dans le même sens:” Lorsque nous évaluons la force croissante du Hezbollah depuis la deuxième guerre, nous nous rendons compte que ce qui a été découvert à bord du navire Francop n’est qu’une goutte dans la mer de l’arsenal militaire du Hezbollah qui comprend des dizaines de milliers de missiles de courte portée, des milliers de missiles de portée moyenne, en plus de missiles de longue portée qui atteignent Tel Aviv et Dimona, et dont un missile peut à lui seul détruire un ensemble de bâtiments”.

Sur un autre plan, le quotidien Yediot Ahranot a révélé un document qui prouve à quel point le Hezbollah a réussi à s’infiltrer dans l’armée israélienne, ajoutant que le parti libanais possède des sources d’informations très importantes.

Un officier au commandement du nord dans l’armée de l’occupation s’est dit foudroyé à la lecture du document, qui assure que le Hezbollah connait profondément les systèmes de détection israéliens, surtout ceux des avions sans pilote que les Israéliens croyaient qu’ils opèrent en secret.

Le Yediot évoque également la détention par le Hezbollah d’informations sur la technologie israélienne utilisée à la frontière avec le Liban et sur les tactiques de l’armée.

Par ailleurs, la présentatrice de la dixième chaine israélienne a estimé que les renseignements du Hezbollah ont réalisé un bond, ajoutant que le Hezbollah connait comment l’armée opère les avions de reconnaissance, comment elle effectue ses patrouilles et comment elle entraine les chiens renifleurs”, alors que le présentateur de la même chaine a qualifié de “très horrifiantes” les informations précises et détaillées détenues par le Hezbollah.

Le Yediot Ahranot a prétexté que le Hezbollah espionnait le réseau des communications de l’armée israélienne, même les appels codés, concluant qu’il est difficile de ne pas croire que les agents du Hezbollah n’ont pas copié des documents secrets appartenant au commandement de la région du nord.

Styrkan i den israeliska demokratin

sapereau — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:22:40 +0000

Donald Boström, författaren till artikeln i Aftonbladet, där Boström förmedlade beskyllningar om att den israeliska försvarsmakten skulle ha stulit organ från döda palestinier, har bjudits in till en konferens i Israel och nu intervjuats i staden Dimona. Dagen rapporterar.

Buropen skallade, Boström kallades antisemit och statsunderstödet till konferensen drogs in på grund av Boströms närvaro.

Men man måste ändå hålla med borgmästaren i Dimona, Meir Cohen, som försvarade inbjudan av Boström: “Det är ett bevis för styrkan i vår demokrati”.

Visst är det så. Hur sannolikt är det att någon Gaza-kritiker skulle inbjudas till Gaza för att försvara allvarliga beskyllningar mot regimen där, dvs. Hamas? Och om det mot förmodan skulle ske, hur sannolikt är det att vederbörande skulle komma därifrån med livet i behåll?

Inte sannolikt alls. För Gaza är ingen demokrati utan en islamonazistisk diktatur. En diktatur som dessutom bedriver angreppskrig. Israel är tvärtom en stark demokrati som framgångsrikt försvarar sig.

Länkar: Ekot, Arutz7, DN, SvD, SvD.

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The lying game: how we are prepared for another war of aggression - John Pilger

sakerfa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:14:47 +0000

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger compares the current drum-beating for war ag

MORE ON IRAN'S SECOND NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT PLANT - IRAN AGREES TO INSPECTION

chuckman2 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:46:31 +0000

JOHN CHUCKMAN

POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO’S GLOBE AND MAIL

The real question for the world is: when is Israel going to allow inspection of its Dimona nuclear facility?

The answer is, of course, never.

Dimona is a working factory for the production of nuclear weapons components.

Israel doesn’t just have a vague possibility of making nuclear weapons – the charge against Iran – Israel makes and deploys them.

And – unlike Iran which has attacked no one in its entire modern history – Israel has proved to the world, over and over, it is ready to use brutal force whenever it chooses.

It did so twice in Lebanon. It has done so many times in Gaza. It has done so in the West Bank. And it engineered the Six Day War so that it could seize the land of the people it still holds in subjugation more than forty years later.

It deliberately attacked the USS Liberty, an American intelligence ship, in an effort to pull the U.S. into its war. It was a bloody business lasting two hours against a well-marked ship.

Or was that attack – never explained properly – to cover up the war crimes Israel was carrying out in the Sinai, where it is known to have executed hundreds of Egyptian prisoners who had surrendered?

Please, just who is the greater threat to world peace?

______________________

“I have heard no credible argument that a Japanese surrender would have resulted from anything other than a full-scale, D-Day style invasion against the Islands.”

Sorry, this is just ignorant.

The evidence is there for anyone who reads.

The Japanese made a number of backchannel offers of surrender. They had only one proviso of importance, that they be allowed to keep their emperor.

The U.S. just ignored them. It insisted on absolute, unconditional surrender.

So, the U.S. obliterated two non-military target cities, than took the Japanese surrender and allowed the Japanese to keep their emperor.

And, in doing that, it set a terrible example for all time.

All that horror and destruction was for nothing.

It represented the same poor judgment and ugly Puritan attitudes we saw in Vietnam, Iraq, and still see in Afghanistan. We want it our way, or we will obliterate you.

The use of the atomic bombs on Japan also deliberately considered, in the highest councils of the American government, the strategic value of setting a terrible marker against Stalin.

The story of the losses owing to land invasion was just that, a story, planted in a deliberate propaganda effort to white-wash one of the 20th century’s most criminal acts.

Of course, soldiers would have died, but the story leaves out the fact that an invasion was completely unnecessary to get a surrender.

It was all an inexcusable horror, and the United States has no business telling anyone what it may or may not do. It is simply playing God.

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“Our gratitude goes out to John Chuckman for the unrequested, off-topic history lesson on the Japanese surrender and yet another expected anti-Israel rant – neither of which has anything to do with the subject.”

Sorry, Mr Foonman, that too is just ignorant. You have only to scroll through the posts to see reference to America’s use of atomic weapons.

It used them twice, both times on civilians.

So how in God’s name do they have the moral authority to demand Iran behave in this or that way?

Plus, of course, they’ve just killed a million people in Iraq – a next-door neighbor to Iran – in a completely illegal invasion.

Where is their moral authority on such issues?

They have none.

And as far as “rants” about Israel and “anti-Israel” statements, perhaps those are the words you like to use to demonize those with whom you disagree.

It is, after all, a favorite tactic of Israel’s apologists to call everyone who doesn’t agree with them names.

All I’ve done is set out some raw facts.

How can anyone who is rational and not a pathetic propagandist claim that Israel’s illegal nuclear weapons have nothing to do with this issue?

Iran is virtually surrounded by nuclear powers, two of which have very belligerent records of behavior.

Doe it not have the right to look after its defense?

Iran’s nuclear threat is a lie

whitewraithe — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:38:16 +0000

John Pilger Published 01 October 2009 Obama’s “showdown” with Iran has another age

Legally Israel owes the US Billions

Rainbow Warrior — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:43:06 +0000

Israeli Nukes, US Foreign Aid and the Symington Amendment.
Documents
The following document case file reveals the slow decline of the policy of “strategic ambiguity” whereby US and Israeli officials deny the existence of the Israeli nuclear weapons arsenal in order to continue unfettered US military aid.

Document/File Date Contents

1960 (PDF) CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate released on June 5, 2009. Israel’s nukes and role in foreign policy “assertiveness.”

“Possession of a nuclear weapon capability, or even the prospect of achieving it, would clearly give Israel a greater sense of security, self-confidence, and assertiveness…Israel would be less inclined than ever to make concessions…”

1963 President John F. Kennedy insists on US inspections of Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor in a secret letter to Prime Minister Levi Eskol.

1970 Treaty on the Non proliferation of Nuclear Weapons enters into force.

1976 The US passes the Symington Amendment of 1976. Symington Amendment prohibits most U.S. foreign aid to any country found trafficking in nuclear enrichment equipment or technology outside international safeguards. Israel has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

1977 Glenn Amendment of 1977 calls for an end to aid to countries that import reprocessing technology.

1986 The Sunday Times publishes “The secrets of Israel’s nuclear arsenal/ Atomic technician Mordechai Vanunu reveals secret weapons production.”

2008 Former president Jimmy Carter names Israel as a nuclear weapons power.

2008 The US Army names Israel as a nuclear weapons power.

2009 AIPAC and ZOA lobby for $2.775 billion in US military aid for Israel

2009 Congress advised (via fax) that US aid is governed by the Symington Amendment.

2009 President Barak Obama advised (via letter) that US aid is governed by the Symington Amendment

Source

June 1976: Symington Amendment Passed Restricting Aid to Nuclear Proliferators

Senator Stuart Symington. [Source: Bettman / Corbis]Legislation introduced by Stuart Symington, a Democratic senator from Missouri, is passed by the US Congress to set out the US position on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons technology. The legislation, which becomes known as the “Symington amendment,” bans US assistance to any country found to be trafficking in nuclear enrichment or reprocessing technology that is not governed by international safeguards. Authors David Armstrong and Joe Trento will later comment that this puts “both Pakistan [which is thought to be involved in such trafficking] and the Ford administration on notice that nonproliferation would now be taken seriously.”

The CIA report of 1960 states that Israel is going to build Nuclear Weapons.

From 1976 on, all Aid given to Israel should be returned to the citizens of the US. Legally speaking.

Israel has fraudulently, been taking aid from the US..

They hid their Nuclear bomb building complex, from the US as noted by Mordechai Vanunu.

That is a legal opinion.

The US is also breaking their own law by giving Aid to Israel.

That too is a legal opinion.

Reminds me of a Dirty Cop stealing drugs from a bust, then sells it to a Drug Lord who in turn, sells it to people on the streets and neither one ever get busted.

Both are guilty of a crime.

In this case however the Tax Payer is the one who is being ripped off.

President John F. Kennedy insists on US inspections of Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor in a secret letter to Prime Minister Levi Eskol.

He was assassinated. So Who Benefited the most by J.F. Kennedy’s Death? Israel came out a big winner /no inspections /more Aid/ability to pursue Nuclear bombs/ And Terrorism

UN nuclear assembly has called for Israel to open its nuclear facilities to UN inspection

Resolution 487 (1981)Israel to place its nuclear facilities under IAEA/Refrain from Acts or Threats

Israel’s Dirty Nuclear Secrets, Human Experiments and WMD/Mordechai Vanunu

Iran Proposes Control System Aimed at Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

The UN Mission 575 Page Report on Gaza/Israel War

Resolution 1887 2009

THE TREATY ON THE NON-PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS ( NPT ) HTML

From 2001 UN Israel IAEA

The General Assembly adopted five resolutions on the armed Zionist aggression, namely resolutions 36/27, 37/18, 38/9, 39/14 and 40/6, under the item entitled “Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its
grave consequences for the established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international
peace and security”. In the aggregate of these resolutions, the Assembly:

The following is a list of United Nations resolutions that concern Israel and bordering states such as Lebanon From 1947 to 1989 the UN Security Council passed 131 resolutions directly addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict. In early Security Council practice, resolutions did not directly invoke Chapter VII. They made an explicit determination of a threat, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, and ordered an action in accordance with Article 39 or 40. Resolution 54 determined that a threat to peace existed within the meaning of Article 39 of the Charter, reiterated the need for a truce, and ordered a cease-fire pursuant to Article 40 of the Charter. Although the phrase “Acting under Chapter VII” was never mentioned as the basis for the action taken, the chapter’s authority was being used.

1947
- November 29: UN General Assembly Resolution 181: recommending partition of the British Mandate into Jewish and Arab states
1948
- December 11: UN General Assembly Resolution 194: conditional right of return of refugees
1949
- May 11: UN General Assembly Resolution 273: admission of Israel to the UN
1975
- March 22: UN General Assembly Resolution 3379: equating Zionism with Racism
1991
- December 16: UN General Assembly Resolution 4686: annulled Res. 3379

Resolution 42: The Palestine Question (5 March 1948) Requests recommendations for the Palestine Commission

Resolution 43: The Palestine Question (1 Apr 1948) Recognizes “increasing violence and disorder in Palestine” and requests that representatives of “the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Arab Higher Committee” arrange, with the Security Council, “a truce between the Arab and Jewish Communities of Palestine…Calls upon Arab and Jewish armed groups in Palestine to cease acts of violence immediately.”

Resolution 44: The Palestine Question (1 Apr 1948) Requests convocation of special session of the General Assembly

Resolution 46: The Palestine Question (17 Apr 1948) As the United Kingdom is the Mandatory Power, “it is responsible for the maintenance of peace and order in Palestine.” The Resolutions also “Calls upon all persons and organizations in Palestine” to stop importing “armed bands and fighting personnel…whatever their origin;…weapons and war materials;…Refrain, pending the future government of Palestine…from any political activity which might prejudice the rights, claims, or position of either community;…refrain from any action which will endager the safety of the Holy Places in Palestine.”

Resolution 48: The Palestine Question (23 Apr 1948)

Resolution 49: The Palestine Question (22 May 1948)

Resolution 50: The Palestine Question (29 May 1948)

Resolution 53: The Palestine Question (7 Jul 1948)

Resolution 54: The Palestine Question (15 Jul 1948)

Resolution 56: The Palestine Question (19 Aug 1948)

Resolution 57: The Palestine Question (18 Sep 1948)

Resolution 59: The Palestine Question (19 Oct 1948)

Resolution 60: The Palestine Question (29 Oct 1948)

Resolution 61: The Palestine Question (4 Nov 1948)

Resolution 62: The Palestine Question (16 Nov 1948)

Resolution 66: The Palestine Question (29 Dec 1948)

Resolution 72: The Palestine Question (11 Aug 1949)

Resolution 73: The Palestine Question (11 Aug 1949)

Resolution 89 (17 November 1950): regarding Armistice in 1948 Arab-Israeli War and “transfer of persons”.

Resolution 92: The Palestine Question (8 May 1951)

Resolution 93: The Palestine Question (18 May 1951)

Resolution 95: The Palestine Question (1 Sep 1951)

Resolution 100: The Palestine Question (27 Oct 1953)

Resolution 101: The Palestine Question (24 Nov 1953)

Resolution 106: The Palestine Question (29 Mar 1955) ‘condemns’ Israel for Gaza raid.

Resolution 107: The Palestine Question (30 Mar)

Resolution 108: The Palestine Question (8 Sep)

Resolution 111: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people”.

Resolution 113: The Palestine Question (4 Apr)

Resolution 114: The Palestine Question (4 Jun)

Resolution 127: ” … ‘recommends’ Israel suspends its ‘no-man’s zone’ in Jerusalem”.

Resolution 138: Question relating to the case of Adolf Eichmann, concerning Argentine complaint that Israel breached its sovereignty.

Resolution 162: ” … ‘urges’ Israel to comply with UN decisions”.

Resolution 171: ” … determines flagrant violations’ by Israel in its attack on Syria”.

Resolution 228: ” … ‘censures’ Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control”.

Resolution 233 (June 6, 1967

Resolution 234 (June 7, 1967

Resolution 235 (June 9, 1967

Resolution 236 (June 11, 1967

Resolution 237: ” … ‘urges’ Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees”.

Resolution 240 (October 25, 1967: concerning violations of the cease-fire

Resolution 242 (November 22, 1967): Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area. Calls on Israel’s neighbors to end the state of belligerency and calls upon Israel to reciprocate by withdraw its forces from land claimed by other parties in 1967 war. Interpreted commonly today as calling for the Land for peace principle as a way to resolve Arab-Israeli conflict

Resolution 248: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan”.

Resolution 250: ” … ‘calls’ on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem”.

Resolution 251: ” … ‘deeply deplores’ Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250″.

Resolution 252: ” … ‘declares invalid’ Israel’s acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital”.

Resolution 256: ” … ‘condemns’ Israeli raids on Jordan as ‘flagrant violation”.

Resolution 258

Resolution 259: ” … ‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation”.

Resolution 262: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel for attack on Beirut airport”.

Resolution 265: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel for air attacks on Salt, Jordan”.

Resolution 267: ” … ‘censures’ Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem”.

Resolution 270: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon”.

Resolution 271: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel’s failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem”.

Resolution 279: ” … ‘demands’ withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon”.

Resolution 280: ” … ‘condemns’ Israeli’s attacks against Lebanon”.

Resolution 285: ” … ‘demands’ immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon”.

Resolution 298: ” … ‘deplores’ Israel’s changing of the status of Jerusalem”.

Resolution 313: ” … ‘demands’ that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon”.

Resolution 316: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon”.

Resolution 317: ” … ‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon”.

Resolution 331

Resolution 332: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel’s repeated attacks against Lebanon”.

Resolution 337: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel for violating Lebanon’s sovereignty”.

Resolution 338 (22 October 1973): cease fire in Yom Kippur War

Resolution 339 (23 October 1973): Confirms Res. 338, dispatch UN observers.

Resolution 340

Resolution 341

Resolution 344

Resolution 346

Resolution 347: ” … ‘condemns’ Israeli attacks on Lebanon”.

Resolution 350 (31 May 1974) established the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Syria in the wake of the Yom Kippur War.

Resolution 362

Resolution 363

Resolution 368

Resolution 369

Resolution 371

Resolution 378

Resolution 381

Resolution 390

Resolution 396

Resolution 398

Resolution 408

Resolution 416

Resolution 420

Resolution 425 (1978): ” … ‘calls’ on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon”. Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon was completed as of 16 June 2000.

Resolution 426

Resolution 427: ” … ‘calls’ on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon”.

Resolution 429

Resolution 434

Resolution 438

Resolution 441

Resolution 444: ” … ‘deplores’ Israel’s lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces”.

Resolution 446 (1979): ‘determines’ that Israeli settlements are a ’serious obstruction’ to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention”.

Resolution 449

Resolution 450: ” … ‘calls’ on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon”.

Resolution 452: ” … ‘calls’ on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories”.

Resolution 456

Resolution 459

Resolution 465: ” … ‘deplores’ Israel’s settlements and asks all member states not to assist Israel’s settlements program”.

Resolution 467: ” … ’strongly deplores’ Israel’s military intervention in Lebanon”.

Resolution 468: ” … ‘calls’ on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return”.

Resolution 469: ” … ’strongly deplores’ Israel’s failure to observe the council’s order not to deport Palestinians”.

Resolution 470

Resolution 471: ” … ‘expresses deep concern’ at Israel’s failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention”.

Resolution 474

Resolution 476: ” … ‘reiterates’ that Israel’s claim to Jerusalem are ‘null and void’”.

Resolution 478 (20 August 1980): ‘censures (Israel) in the strongest terms’ for its claim to Jerusalem in its ‘Basic Law’.

Resolution 481

Resolution 483

Resolution 484: ” … ‘declares it imperative’ that Israel re-admit two deported Palestinian mayors”.

Resolution 485

Resolution 487: ” … ’strongly condemns’ Israel for its attack on Iraq’s nuclear facility”.

Resolution 488

Resolution 493

Resolution 497 (17 December 1981) decides that Israel’s annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights is ‘null and void’ and demands that Israel rescinds its decision forthwith.

Resolution 498: ” … ‘calls’ on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon”.

Resolution 501: ” … ‘calls’ on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops”.

Resolution 506

Resolution 508:

Resolution 509: ” … ‘demands’ that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon”.

Resolution 511

Resolution 515: ” … ‘demands’ that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and allow food supplies to be brought in”.

Resolution 516

Resolution 517: ” … ‘censures’ Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon”.

Resolution 518: ” … ‘demands’ that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon”.

Resolution 519

Resolution 520: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel’s attack into West Beirut”.

Resolution 523

Resolution 524

Resolution 529

Resolution 531

Resolution 536

Resolution 538

Resolution 543

Resolution 549

Resolution 551

Resolution 555

Resolution 557

Resolution 561

Resolution 563

Resolution 573: ” … ‘condemns’ Israel ‘vigorously’ for bombing Tunisia in attack on PLO headquarters.

Resolution 575

Resolution 576

Resolution 583

Resolution 584

Resolution 586

Resolution 587 ” … ‘takes note’ of previous calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw”.

Resolution 590

Resolution 592: ” … ’strongly deplores’ the killing of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops”.

Resolution 594

Resolution 596

Resolution 599

Resolution 603

Resolution 605: ” … ’strongly deplores’ Israel’s policies and practices denying the human rights of Palestinians.

Resolution 607: ” … ‘calls’ on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Resolution 608: ” … ‘deeply regrets’ that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians”.

Resolution 609

Resolution 611

Resolution 613

Resolution 617

Resolution 624

Resolution 630

Resolution 633

Resolution 636: ” … ‘deeply regrets’ Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians.

Resolution 639 (31 Jul 1989)

Resolution 641 (30 Aug 1989): ” … ‘deplores’ Israel’s continuing deportation of Palestinians.

Resolution 645 (29 Nov 1989)

Resolution 648 (31 Jan 1990)

Resolution 655 (31 May 1990)

Resolution 659 (31 Jul 1990)

Resolution 672 (12 Oct 1990): ” … ‘condemns’ Israel for “violence against Palestinians” at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.

Resolution 673 (24 Oct 1990): ” … ‘deplores’ Israel’s refusal to cooperate with the United Nations.

Resolution 679 (30 Nov 1990)

Resolution 681 (20 Dec 1990): ” … ‘deplores’ Israel’s resumption of the deportation of Palestinians.

Resolution 684 (30 Jan 1991)

Resolution 694 (24 May 1991): ” … ‘deplores’ Israel’s deportation of Palestinians and calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return.

Resolution 695 (30 May 1991)

Resolution 701 (31 Jul 1991)

Resolution 722 (29 Nov 1991)

Resolution 726 (06 Jan 1992): ” … ’strongly condemns’ Israel’s deportation of Palestinians.

Resolution 734 (29 Jan 1992)

Resolution 756 (29 May 1992)

Resolution 768 (30 Jul 1992)

Resolution 790 (25 Nov 1992)

Resolution 799 (18 Dec 1992): “. . . ’strongly condemns’ Israel’s deportation of 413 Palestinians and calls for their immediate return.

Resolution 803 (28 Jan 1993)

Resolution 830 (26 May 1993)

Resolution 852 (28 Jul 1993)

Resolution 887 (29 Nov 1993)

Resolution 904 (18 Mar 1994)

Resolution 1039 (29 Jan 1996)

Resolution 1052 (18 Apr 1996)

Resolution 1057 (30 May 1996)

Resolution 1068 (30 Jul 1996)

Resolution 1073 (28 Sep 1996)

Resolution 1081 (27 Nov 1996)

Resolution 1095 (28 Jan 1997)

Resolution 1109 (28 May 1997)

Resolution 1122 (29 Jul 1997)

Resolution 1139 (21 Nov 1997)

Resolution 1151 (30 Jan 1998)

Resolution 1169 (27 May 1998)

Resolution 1188 (30 Jul 1998)

Resolution 1211 (25 Nov 1998)

Resolution 1223 (28 Jan 1999)

Resolution 1243 (27 May 1999)

Resolution 1254 (30 Jul 1999)

Resolution 1276 (24 Nov 1999)

Resolution 1288 (31 Jan 2000)

Resolution 1300 (31 May 2000)

Resolution 1310 (27 Jul 2000)

Resolution 1322 (07 Oct 2000)

Resolution 1328 (27 Nov 2000)

Resolution 1337 (30 Jan 2001)

Resolution 1351 (30 May 2001)

Resolution 1559 (2 September 2004) called upon Lebanon to establish its sovereignty over all of its land and called upon Syria to end their military presence in Lebanon by withdrawing its forces and to cease intervening in internal Lebanese politics. The resolution also called on all Lebanese militias to disband.

Resolution 1583 (28 January 2005) calls on Lebanon to assert full control over its border with Israel. It also states that “the Council has recognized the Blue Line as valid for the purpose of confirming Israel’s withdrawal pursuant to resolution 425.

Resolution 1648 (21 December 2005) renewed the mandate of United Nations Disengagement Observer Force until 30 June 2006.

Resolution 1701 (11 August 2006) called for the full cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

Resolution 1860 (9 January 2009) called for the full cessation of war between Israel and Hamas.

Over the years nothing has improved. From Day one Israel has been a problem.

Israel Foreign Assistance Appropriations Act, 2010
Bill HR 3160 IH
Israel will get
$2,828,860,000 That’s almost 3 billion.
Except for 25 million it is all for weapons and the military.
So why do Americans tolerate this?

Search for US Bills here

I just put in Word/Phrase “Israel” in search box. Exact Match only, All Bills, House and Senate, From 1907 through 2009. Anything with the word Israel in it should come up for you. It is a very long list. An amazing long list.

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Israel's Dimona Nuclear Weapons Factory In 3D

Boulderdash — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:20:08 +0000

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Israel's Dirty Nuclear Secrets, Human experiments and WMD

Rainbow Warrior — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:19:21 +0000

A symptom, not a solution

August 20 2009

In a human experiment that took place 11 years ago at the nuclear reactor in Dimona, employees were coerced into drinking a mixture containing a concentration containing at least seven times more uranium than the allowable quantity in drinking water.

The experiment, as Yossi Melman reported in Haaretz, contravened the Declaration of Helsinki, and may have caused real damage to the health of the participants. When the report came out, the Atomic Energy Commission quickly asked the Committee for Nuclear Safety to appoint a special committee to investigate the experiment.

It is hard not to be amazed at the number of committees that are supposed to oversee the safety of operations at nuclear centers in Israel, including secret Knesset sub-committees, the state comptroller and internal auditors working at all those secret centers.

The system-wide failures in oversight and supervision of the experiment in question is therefore astonishing. It may be assumed that if the report had not come out in Haaretz, responsibility for this experiment would not have come under review.

The nature of these human experiments carried out by government entities like the Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona, the Israel Institute for Biological Research, or the Israel Defense Forces enjoys secrecy under the pretext of security considerations. The public has learned to acquiesce to these experiments, on the unfounded assumption that they are necessary to strengthen the state’s ability to protect its citizens.

The systems of oversight for these experiments were put in place to reassure the public, and especially those who take part in the experiments, that they are protected by watchful, professional authorities that act as a wall against any breach of law or protocol, in order to prevent improper experimentation.

However, it turns out that there are cracks, at the very least, in this protective wall. That is the case with the uranium-drinking experiment, the dives in the Kishon River, the anthrax experiments, the nerve gas at the Institute for Biological Research and apparently other cases that are still waiting to be aired, or those that “for security reasons” will never be publicized.

These cases require the experiments’ supervisors to reexamine the efficacy of their implementation, and use their authority to set clearer and more transparent procedures that do not permit looking the other way or circumvention. A special investigative committee is part of the symptom, not the solution.

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Israel: Ex-staffer at Dimona nuclear reactor says made to drink uranium
Report by Yossi Melman, There is also a video at the site . The video is extremely informative. Secret nuclear and biological weapons programs in Israel

I also found this in my wanderings

Dimona’s Buried Nuclear Waste Spreads Cancer and Sterility in Southern Hebron and Negev

GAZA, July 6, 2004 (IPC + Agencies) – - Nearly 70 cancer cases and the sterile rate soared to 62% among males and females in the villages south of Hebron was mainly caused by the nuclear waste buried by Israel in Hebron’s mountains.

Many physicians and officials south of Hebron City, adjacent to the Negev Desert, warned of the growing number of people afflicted with cancer and attributed the cause to the nuclear radioactive wind the region.

The Palestinian villages located south of Hebron’s mountains witnessed a growing number of cancer cases and unprecedented mutation rates as most of the specialists said that it is likely due to environmental pollution.

The professor (Y.A) of physics and a specialist of atomic science said that the air in southern Hebron is contaminated by the nuclear radioactive leakage as the area is very close to the Israeli Dimona reactor and to the nuclear waste dumps in the area.

There are no cement blocks around the reactor operating to lower the hazardous impacts of such high radioactivity.

The professor recited the case of his mother who died of visceral cancer, and after a check up, the cause was mainly due the high rates of radioactive elements.

The radioactivity has a tremendous power that could penetrates to the genes of the human, affecting the chromosome that are inherited generation after generation.

Dr. Mahmoud Sa’ada, the co-founder of the Palestinian Medical Relief, was quoted by the Al Nakab daily as saying, “I am a general physician who has been working for 30 years in Al Thaheryia adjacent to Hebron and I could ascertain that during the last years most of the cancer cases has no other diagnosis but nuclear radioactivity.”

He added, “now there are 70 cancer cases in Al Thaheryia admitted to Beit Jala hospital. Recently, a baby was born with red colored half face, and after examining each case it’s hardly to attribute the case to inherited deformations.”

Meanwhile, the rate of sterility has been notably increased to 62% in the villages south of Hebron due to the radioactivity.

Israel has always had a policy of nuclear ambiguity, saying only that it will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.
Late of last June, the Israeli cabinet approved to distribute iodine-based tablets to people living near the Israeli nuclear reactors to give them some protection in case of radioactive leakage.

The pills were to be given to people living near the Dimona reactor, in the southern Negev Desert and those close to the Nahal Sorek nuclear plant, southwest of Jerusalem, officials said on condition of anonymity.

Israel has had nuclear technology for decades but refused to comment on reports of obtaining nuclear weapons.

In 1986, former Dimona technician Mordechai Vanunu provided photographs and descriptions of the reactor to The Sunday Times magazine in London. Based on Vanunu’s material, experts said at the time that Israel has the world’s sixth-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.

The Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, is due to arrive in Israel on Tuesday to discuss a nuclear-free Middle East but the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said earlier today that Israel has no intentions of deviating from its present nuclear policy.

Sharon spoke to the Israeli Army radio hours before the visit of IAEA director, where he said that Israel’s ‘nondisclosure’ policy would be maintained and that Israel has all the weapons it needs to protect itself.

International Press Center (IPC)

September 18, 2003

Preface

“The Israeli nuclear reactor of Dimona is vulnerable to meltdown, like the Russian reactor of Chernobyl two decades ago, which caused a humanitarian and ecological catastrophe. If Dimona melts down, it would affect an area 500 aerial kilometers in radius, reaching Cyprus and the entire neighboring region”, warned Dr. Yousef Abu Safiya, Head of the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority.

A recent study conducted by the Jordanian authorities after a request from the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority revealed that the Israelis are aware of the possibility of a meltdown in Dimona reactor, which in turn would affect the whole region, mainly the Jordanian southern city of Tafila.

The study also showed that radioactive substances are leaking from the Dimona reactor in a way that has increased rates of cancer diseases among nearby populations, particularly those of Tafila City.

What make these assumptions largely based on solid ground are the latest satellite images of the Dimona reactor, which showed that its walls have cracks, which cut its assumed age into half.

With thorough investigation into Dimona Israel’s nuclear plant, one can observe the following facts:

Location:

The location of Dimona’s reactor in the Negev desert is a delicate one, situated between Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority’s territories. The reactor was built in 1963, as part of a deal with France, who pledged to build the reactor in exchange for helping it and the United Kingdom in attacking Egypt in what was known as the 1956-tripartite. As for funding the reactor’s driving material, the United States took care of that, in addition to giving assistance with moving quantities of enriched Uranium to Israel.

The area on which the Dimona reactor is built on includes nine buildings, including the reactor building itself. Each building is tasked with producing a certain type of materials used to produce weapons of mass destruction, such as Plutonium, Lithium and Beryllium, used to manufacture nuclear bombs, in addition to producing radioactive Uranium and Triennium.

The Dimona reactor is considered to be the most mysterious secrets of the “nuclear world”, as Israel categorically refused, since its establishment in 1948 and after building the reactor, any routine inspection that other reactors around the world goes through, which “forcibly” open their reactors’ doors in fear of the American waving of the “club” of international resolutions.

No Inspection Beyond this Point!

Israel might be considered the only state that opposes to the inspection visits conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) all over the world, added to its rejection, until this very day, to sign the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which was signed by all Arab states.

In spite of the complete American support for the Israeli policy, the Americans have expressed their concern over the reactor, as news revealed an American attempt to send some of its nuclear-program officials to inspect Dimona reactor apart from those working in the IAEA, but Israel refused to allow them in, continuing the reactor’s legacy of being “visitation-proof”, as only Israelis are allowed in.

The Fifth Nuclear Power

Israel is considered the fifth nuclear power in the world. In addition to owning nuclear bombs that can be dropped from the air, its nuclear arsenal includes also nuclear warheads that can reach a distance of 1,500 kilometers, using the Israeli-made “Jericho” missiles.

Estimations show that Israel is in possession of 200 nuclear bombs, but Arab sources indicate that Israel own massive quantities of Uranium and Plutonium that enables it of producing an additional 100 bombs. Israel, in the meantime, seeks to increase the production efficiency of its reactor to about three times its current efficiency –from 28 to 100 megawatts.

According to recent reports, the Israeli nuclear reactor consumed 1,400 tons of Uranium last year, which indicates that its efficiency might have reached 150 megawatts.

Dimona’s Hazards

In a study requested by the Palestinian Ministry of Environment Quality from the Jordanian authorities, it was revealed that the average manifestation of cancer in the Al Tafila governorate, south of Jordan, is higher than the other Jordanian governorates and surrounding Arab countries.

According to Dr. Abu Safiya, high cancer rates were recorded in all the southern Jordanian governorates, which confirmed the possible direction of nuclear dust that might be leaking from Dimona.

It was recently revealed that five Israeli families lost their sons who worked in Dimona reactor, and they filed charges in the Central Court in Tel Aviv against the Israeli government and the reactor’s administration, demanding compensations for the cancer that killed those workers due to radiation exposure.

According to the lawsuit, the prosecutors are relatives to five Israelis who worked for a long time in the nuclear “village”: Ze’eiv Schforn, born in 1931 and started working in Dimona in 1962 as the head of the supply crew. He was diagnosed with abdominal caner in 1966 and died in 1967. The second employee was Simon Dray, born in 1942 and worked in Dimona from 1966 until 1992 in the cleaning and decontamination unit. In 1996 he was diagnosed with pharyngeal cancer, and died in 1998. The third was Moshe Zegori, born in 1947, and worked in the reactor from 1965 until 1985, also in cleaning and decontamination. Before he left his job he found out that he had a malignant tumor in his head, and died in 1987. The fourth employee was Yousif Cohen, born in 1938, and worked in the reactor from 1970 until 1995, in maintenance. In 1997 he was diagnosed with several malignant tumors, and died in 1998.

The fifth employee is still suffering from cancer in his body, and is constantly under treatment. He worked in the reactor from 1969 until 1996, in maintenance and mechanical engineering.

The prosecutors of those victims are demanding the Israeli government to take responsibility for their deaths, due to the radiation exposure they suffered inside the reactor, which caused fatal malignant tumors. At the same time, they claim that the reactor’s administration didn’t take enough precaution measures and never warned the employees about the radiation hazard.

Worn-out Reactor

As reports indicate, the reactor has become old now, as its isolation walls have worn-out, which might cause the leakage of some radiation from the reactor, a thing that will lead to devastating health and ecological damages to the surrounding area.

According to the reports also, the reactor suffers from a dangerous crack caused by “neutron” radiation, which caused structural damage, as neutrons cause small gas bubbles inside the concrete support, making it fragile and susceptible to cracking.

The United Arab Emirates-based “Al Bayan” newspaper revealed recently that a serious debate was going on now about whether to stop working in the reactor before the catastrophe occurs or not. Additionally, a report made the by Israeli second TV channel mentioned that dozens of the reactor’s employees died of cancer, and that the reactor’s administration refuses to reveal the true number of casualties and fatalities.

The Dimona reactor wasn’t also immune to many working accidents that happened inside it, including the burning of hazardous and poisonous materials without providing the employees with suitable protective equipment, as many of them died because of that. As well, quantities of radioactive heavy water and nuclear waste leaked into a natural geographical hill extending along the reactor.

Expired!

By continuing to maintain and operate Dimona reactor, Israel is committing a crime against humanity that will be added to the atrocities it perpetrated along its history. Since 1971, the reactor has never been provided with new cooling towers, even though the reactor’s efficiency has increased since then.

Dr. Abu Safiya pointed out that the most dangerous hazards of Dimona reactor is in the element producing Plutonium, which is used to make nuclear bombs. It’s one of the resultant elements of Uranium DK dissipation, and it can be used to synthesize enriched Uranium. It contains 20% out of the 0.05% Uranium, which is the highly radioactive substance that can be used in nuclear fission to manufacture either nuclear bombs or atomic fuel.

Abu Safiya warned that there’s a regional and long-term threat in Dimona reactor, represented in the presence of these nuclear bombs in the possession of a country such as Israel, a thing that raises questions about the inspection visits in Iraq and demanding Iran to be inspected too, as well as surprise inspections by the IAEA officials, while Israel publicly admit to possessing nuclear weapons.

In response to that, Shimon Peres, temporary chairman of the Israeli Labor party, claimed that there’s no comparison between Iraq and Israel, because, according to his claims, Iraq is ruled by a “dictator”, while Israel is a “democratic” state!

Right after this statement, Israel used poisonous gases in the city of Khan Younis, which caused dozens of Palestinian citizens to suffer from unconsciousness and severe illnesses, added to the spasms and hysterical conditions some of them suffered from after inhaling such internationally-banned gases.

Commenting on this incident, Dr. Abu Safiya said that “we ascertained that these are nerve gases, by analyzing a specimen of the Israeli bombs that didn’t burn completely. Through analysis, we revealed that it is composed of a group of nerve gases, due to which affected citizens suffered from spasms… this is an evidence against the state that Peres say it’s “democratic”, which used internationally-banned weapons against the Palestinian people.”

Noteworthy that exposure to small amounts of radiation on the long run might pose a serious threat to embryos and children, as well as causing cancer.

Israel Least Damaged

Dr. Abu Safiya demanded the IAEA “if they truly seek integrity” to run checks in order to discover the level of radiation in the region around the Dimona reactor.

“If we conduct, for example, a Contour Survey for all directions to see the level of radiation and who’s affected the most, we would find that Israel is the safest, having its population localities in the north far from the reactor. In addition, 95% of the wind direction in Palestine is northwestern, which is opposite to the Israeli population localities,” Dr. Abu Safiya said.

The simplest radiation leak resulting from Dimona reactor is that of the depleted Uranium, which is of catastrophic implications, as it is considered one of the heavy elements that ruin kidney, liver and respiratory system functions, leading to death. Only one atom of radioactive Uranium is enough to cause fatal cancer.

What About the Reactor’s Waste?

As for the waste products resulting from nuclear enrichment operations in Dimona reactor, Dr. Abu Safiya said that it’s buried in areas near the Palestinian Authority controlled territories, as well as Jordanian and Egyptian ones, especially in those areas where the flow of aquifer water and direction of the wind is not in Israel’s favor. A report by Israel’s second TV channel revealed that Dimona reactor’s waste products are buried in the areas east of the Al Bureij refugee camp and the town of Deir El Balah. Currently, the Palestinian Authority for Environment Quality is trying to get a permission to get water analysis equipment inside Gaza Strip to check these areas, but Israel is refusing.

“During the current Intifada, Israelis have buried nearly 50,000 tons of industrial chemical waste in Gaza Strip, only 30 meters deep, on an area of 5,000 square meters, as they stole the arable soil and moved it inside Israel and buried industrial waste in its place. This means that there’s 150,000 cubic meters of poisonous waste buried in Gaza, which is a catastrophe. Moreover, Israel isn’t affected by this waste because it was buried opposite to the flow of aquifer water,” Abu Safiya narrated.

In the West Bank, most of what’s buried is in the direction of the eastern hills, because it’s not included in the Israeli-controlled lands, unlike the western hills. Now, the eastern hills are polluted with chemical waster and pesticides.

Covering Up for Their Crimes

In Ramallah and Hebron, the Palestinian Authority had some basic equipment to measure radiation and environmental pollution. These equipment didn’t only check radiation, but pollution in general, such as soil, water, air and chemical pollution.

In this subject, Dr. Abu Safiya said that small devices were discovered inside helicopters, which is used to regulate the fan’s rotation, as well as providing the pilot with some technical data. These devices, if exposed to a person or played with by children, might lead to death or blood and gene mutations, as it contains radioactive materials. The Minister added that “after these devices wore out, the Israelis dump them in the Palestinian controlled lands, and we found three of these devices in Ramallah, one of which was in President Yasser Arafat’s office ‘Al Moqata’a’.” Such devices were also found during the Israeli invasion of Ramallah City on March 29, 2002, after the Authority received warnings of suspicious radioactive materials. When specialists from the Authority of Environment Quality reached the area and checked these parts, they found out that it contained glowing radioactive materials. The instruments those specialists had indicated that radiation levels exceeded the maximum limit. When the manufacturing company was contacted concerning that, the company replied that these parts were sold to the Israeli Air Force, and that it’s used in helicopters of the type CH53.

As soon as the Israeli occupying forces invaded Ramallah, the radiation checking equipment were destroyed, including those equipment used to check the radioactive parts. Additionally, IOF blew up the environment laboratory in Hebron and Ramallah, and destroyed all the equipment by throwing them from the fifth floor.

Lately, a cargo of Israeli waste was uncovered in the city of Hebron, which was composed of 80 barrels, in addition to 120 others in the town of Al Ezareya, Jerusalem district. Furthermore, IOF moved in a cargo of 2,500 tons of radioactive base coarse, and the radiation was further confirmed when it was checked. The shipment was coming from Italy, and when the Israeli Ministry of Environment discovered that the radiation level of the base coarse was four times higher than that internationally allowed, the shipment was illegitimately diverted to Gaza City.

Unveiling the Hidden

The Israeli government has recently decided to boycott the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) after the latter made a documentary film about the Israeli nuclear weapons. Sources in the Israeli Foreign Ministry explained that the film is Anti-Semitic –an accusation used by Israel to anyone or anything that they don’t like.

The BBC had broadcasted previews of the documentary film, in which the narrator’s voice is heard on the background of the Israeli reactor core in Dimona and the photo of Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed the Israeli nuclear secrets, and the narrator asks: Which country in the Middle East possesses nuclear weapons without declaring that? Which country in the Middle East possesses the chemical and biological ability without declaring that? Which country in the world throws away the revealer of its nuclear secrets in jail for 18 years?

As for the producer of the documentary, he interviewed several senior Israeli officials, including that chairman of the Israeli Labor party, Shimon Peres, who is also considered the godfather of the Israeli nuclear program, and the man who created the nuclear reactor in Dimona. The producer asked Peres why Iraq aren’t allowed to possess nuclear weapons while Israeli can, and the answer was clearly not satisfactory, and Peres found a claim to justify this question.

As for Mordechai Vanunu, who is staying in Israeli jails since 1986, as the Israeli court indicted him of espionage, treason and selling Israeli nuclear secrets to the “Sunday Times” British newspaper, and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Now, he spent 16 years of it. Vanunu said that the Israeli authorities prevented him from meeting his British lawyers. “Now, Peres won’t be able to lie to [Ronald] Reagan about not owning nuclear weapons. Now everybody knows that,” Vanunu said.

Israel Protecting Itself

Israel surrounds itself with all means of protection. For example, every Israeli citizen has a pill of “stable Iodine”, and can be taken anytime, as it gives radiation protection.

It was revealed that Israeli provided all its citizens with such a pill, under the pretext of fearing an Iraqi nuclear strike, but the truth confirmed that they dispensed it because of fearing the meltdown of their own reactor, not only Dimona, but the other research facilities around Israel.

On the Palestinian level, the Authority of Environment Quality has tried to take some kind of protection, and sent a letter to the IAEA and Arab Ministers of Health, considering that the Palestinians are the weakest point and closest to the reactor, as Palestinian controlled lands are only 50 aerial kilometers away from Dimona reactor, but all these letters were rejected!

Among the examples that might be shown to indicate the amount of damage caused to the Palestinians due to any nuclear meltdown, the explosion that occurred in the pesticide factory in the city of Al Majdal (Ashkelon), where the stench of the pesticides reached Palestinian cities and towns due to thermal turnover and wind. Here, Dr. Abu Safiya pointed out to the danger that might happen in case an amount of radiation leaks from Dimona reactor, which will jeopardize the entire surrounding region and on a large geographical scale.

Dimona
Negev Nuclear Research Center
Kirya le-Mechkar Garinii (KAMAG)

The Dimona heavy water reactor and an installation for processing irradiated fuel are used to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. Approximately 2,700 scientists, technicians, administrative staff, and other workers are employed at Dimona. Since the facility was constructed in the late 1950’s the surrounding land has been altered to sustain groves of palms and gardens positioned to obscure the facility from the road and air.

Begining around 1958 with French assistance, Israel constructed a natural uranium, heavy-water, research reactor at Dimona in the Negev Desert, about 8.5 miles from the town of the same name and some 25 miles from the Jordanian border. The Dimona facility was constructed in secret and is not under international inspection safeguards. The facility was first noticed by American intelligence when U-2 spyplanes overflew Dimona in 1958. It was not conclusively identified as a nuclear site until two years later. This reactor, nominally rated at 26 megawatts thermal, was put on line in early 1964. However according to Pierre Pean, French officials were surprised to discover that the cooling circuits designed to support three times the nominal power level, which permitted a scale-up to 70MWt without the addition of extra cooling circuits. If true, the power level of the reactor was reportedly 70MWt from the outset. Perhaps the power level has been increased to 150MWt some time after 1976, according to Barnaby.

An installation for processing irradiated fuel was completed with French assistance in the mid-1960s. Between 15 and 40-60 kilograms of fissionable plutonium can be processed annually. This facility probably has the capacity to produce plutonium for five to ten nuclear warheads a year.

In 1986, descriptions and photographs provided by the Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu were published in the London Sunday Times of the Dimona facility. This information supported the conclusion that Israel had a stockpile of 100 to 200 nuclear devices, a significantly larger nuclear capability than previously estimated.

Dimona consists of nine of these blocks called machons (in Hebrew facility or institute).

Machon 1 – The large silver-domed reactor containment vessel, nearly 20 meters [about 60 feet] in diameter, is visible from a nearby highway. Uranium fuel rods remain in the reactor for a few months before being discharged for reprocessing. The heavy water used as a moderator is cooled by ordinary water through a heat exchanger, which reportedly results in steam sometimes visible from the outside. Reports of annual production of as much as 60-kg of plutonium suggest that the reactor power level has been upgraded to 120-150 megawatts, much higher than the original power of 26 megawatts. Tritium can be produced by irradiating lithium-6 targets in the reactor. The reactor is four decades old, and may be reaching the end of its practical lifetime.
Machon 2 – Of the 2,700 employees at Dimona, it is said that only 150 are permitted access to Machon 2, which reportedly extends six floors underground. The chemical reprocessing plant removes plutonium produced in the reactor from the spent uranium rods. Before reprocessing begins, the rods are stored in water filled tanks for several weeks while the short-halflife radio-isotopes decay. The residual uranium is reprocessed to be used in new fuel rods. The facility also separates lithium-6 from natural lithium for use in thermonuclear weapons. According to Vanunu, the average weekly production is 1.2 kilograms of pure plutonium, enough for 4-12 nuclear weapons per year.
Machon 3 – The facility includes processing of natural uranium for the reactor, and conversion of lithium 6 into a solid for use in thermo-nuclear warheads.
Machon 4 – This facility is dedicated to the treatment of radioactive waste products. It includes a waste treatment plant and high-level waste storage. Low-level waste is mixed with tar, taken out in cans and buried nearby.
Machon 5 – Uranium from Machon 3 is made into rods coated in aluminum to be sent to the reactor.
Machon 6 – Supply of services to other Machons, including electricity, steam and specialized chemicals (nitrogen etc). It also hosts emergency electrical generators.
Machon 7 – Unknown – may no longer exist.
Machon 8 – Large laboratory for testing purity of samples from Machon 2, experiments on new processes. A secret unit (Unit 840) has been making enriched uranium since 1979-80 on a production scale. This may consist of a gas centifuge faclity for the production of enriched uranium.
Machon 9 – A laser isotope separation facility can be used to enrich uranium and to increase the proportion of isotope plutonium-239 in plutonium.
Machon 10 – Depleted uranium made into tips of shells for Israeli use and for export to Switzerland.

Israel may have developed a nuclear weapons capability incorporating enriched uranium. Up to 100 kilograms of enriched uranium missing from a facility at Apollo, Pennsylvania, are believed to have been taken to Israel, although other reports suggest that much of the material was recovered from the floors and ventilation ducts of the plant when it was decommissioned. In 1968, 200 tons of uranium ore disappeared from a ship in the Mediterranean Sea and probably diverted to Israel.

Plutonium production reactors which are both cooled and moderated by heavy water [like the Israeli reactor at Dimona] require about 0.75 tons of heavy water per thermal megawatt, and lose about 0.5 % of this heavy water each year.

“Dimona needed about 18t of heavy water to start operation…. France very likely agreed to supply Dimona’s heavy water along with the reactor…. From 1959 to 1963 Israel imported 20t from Norway and 3.9t from the United States. This would supply Dimona indefinitely if the reactor stayed at its rated power of 24 megawatts…. For the reactor to produce the 40 kilograms of plutonium per year described by Vanunu, it would have had to be scaled up to more than 100 megawatts…. If the amount of coolant were quadrupled, which could allow quadrupled power, Dimona would need about 36t of heavy water — 12t of moderator and 24t of coolant. The 36t is slightly less than the total that Israel could have received from Norway, the United States, and France.” HEAVY WATER CHEATERS by Gary Milhollin Foreign Policy Winter 1987-1988, p. 100-119.

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Israeli Nuclear Weapons & Western Hypocrisy

politicaltheatrics — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:51:02 +0000

Once again, Arab states have announced that this year they will submit a resolution at September’s g

Dimona employees 'forced to drink uranium'

realistic bird — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:49:21 +0000

The Israelis never fail to show their true nature for they even hurt their own. So how do we expect

Dricka uran - (o)medvetet?

bimoll — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:35:46 +0000

DN skriver om en man som tvingats dricka uranhaltig juice, när han var anställd vid “kärnkraftanläggningen” Dimona i Israel. Det hela motiverades med att vara forskning.

Kanske var det framtidsforskning? Befolkningarna i Gaza, Egypten och Israel har nu blivit utsatta för spridning av stoft från bomber av DU, utarmat uran. Utarmat uran ger ingen strålning, men blir cancerogent genom att det fina stoftet sprids till luft, vatten och gröda och därigenom kommer in i näringskedjan för människor och djur.

Läs även andra bloggares åsikter om Dimona, Gaza, DU, uran,

Ex-kärnreaktor anställd säger gjorts att dricka uran

svenskisraelinfo — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:06:40 +0000

Arbetstagare vid kärnreaktor anläggningen i Dimona gjordes volontär att dricka uran under 1998 som en del av ett experiment, enligt en stämningsansökan inlämnad fyra månader sedan i Be’er Sheva Labor personaldomstolen av en tidigare anställd på anläggningen.

Experimentet påstås ha utförts utan att ha fått skriftligt godkännande från de anställda eller varna dem för risker och biverkningar, vilket krävs enligt förklaringen i Helsingfors den mänskliga experiment.

I Israel atomenergikommissionen sade i ett uttalande att Dimona anläggning “har säkerhet och hälsa för sina anställda som sin högsta prioritet.”

Kommissionens uttalande tillade att mängden uran i Dimona staffers drack i försöket (100 mikrogram) var mindre än det belopp Be’er Sheva invånarna dricker ur sina kranar i en månad.

De arbetstagare som har lämnat in en stämningsansökan, Julius Malick, nyligen pensionerad efter att han sa att han var hotad av den förre chefen för anläggningen, Yitzhak Gurevich, och direktören för mänskliga resurser, Gary Amal, som om han inte går i pension han skulle bli avskedad.

Malick stämmer Dimona anläggning för totalt NIS 1,8 miljoner i ersättning. Enligt den passar, Malick var ombedda av sina överordnade att delta i ett experiment på fem arbetstagare. Inom ramen för försöket, Mr Malick och andra arbetstagare drack uran. Försöket genomfördes utan medicinsk övervakning och ingen förklaring var med tanke på hälsoriskerna till deltagarna. Mr Malick, av rädsla för sin utkomst och framtid i departementet om att kravet på att han deltar. “

Malick, som arbetade vid Dimona-reaktorn för 15 år före pensioneringen 2008, tog sin kandidatexamen och magisterexamen i kemi vid Bar-Ilan University. Han har en examen i industriell ekonomi från Ben-Gurion University of the Negev i Be’er Sheva.

Processen noterar också att även om de anställda inte fått resultaten av försöket, en artikel om det dök upp i den vetenskapliga tidskriften Health Physics. Enligt den passar, den artikeln, skriven av ett antal forskare – under ledning av Drs. Zeev Karpas och Avi Lorber, direktörerna i Dimona facilitetens analytisk kemi lab – ingår de ämnen namn utan dennes medgivande.

Försökspersonerna fick vindruvor eller grapefruktjuice innehåller uran att dricka och sedan bad om ett urinprov, som sedan analyseras för att avgöra hur uran utsöndras från kroppen via urinen. Forskarna sa att det var inte meningen att vara farliga, Malick berättade hans advokat, Alexander Spinrad. “Lorber och Karpas sagt att även de deltog i försöket, trots att denna dag är det inte klart för mig om de faktiskt gjorde. Efteråt medarbetare som jag berättade detta sa att jag var dum för att dricka det och de skulle inte har kommit överens under några omständigheter att göra det, “Malick också berättade hans advokat.

Malick, en kemist, sa också att en lång tid efter försöket, Lorber sa till honom att det var hans och Karpas privata projekt. “Det är löjligt, naturligtvis, eftersom artikeln anges andra parter, vars namn förekommer under deras namn och har arbetstagare i Dimona anläggning” Malick sagt.

Malick sa också att han en gång klagade över att inga sådana uppgifter förvaras och Karpas “skojade med mig och sa att jag gjorde en storm i en tekanna.” Den passar också att hans överordnade aldrig registreras hans deltagande i experimentet i hans journaler.

Den passar beskriver arbetet olyckan i augusti 1998, där Malick ihållande en brännskada på handen som en följd av kontakt med små mängder av uran och andra material. Malick sade han fick dålig behandling, och att han upptäcktes av en slump att det material som han hade exponerats i olyckan var inte angiven i den medicinska rapport. Malick berättade hans advokat han trodde denna typ av misshandel var systematiska och passar hänvisar så mycket.

Processen också att Malick, i ett internt meddelande till säkerheten avdelning vid Dimona-reaktorn, varnade för att arbetstagare som exponerats i en olycka med radioaktivt material som inte hade fått lämplig medicinsk behandling. Hans första position vid Dimona-reaktorn var i analytisk kemi lab, där hans uppgift bland annat var att utvärdera möjliga skada på arbetstagare som exponeras för farliga material.

Under de första åren, Malick är överordnade mycket berömde hans arbete. Men Malick hävdar att han senare stämplas som en bråkstake när han försökte höja nivån av säkerhet och medicinsk service i fabriken. Han fördes senare över till andra ställen där hans kompetens inte kan komma till god användning, rättegången stater, och slutligen att han avgick under hot om uppsägning. Efter att han avgått, Malick säger att han tvingades att underteckna ett avtal som diskriminerar honom i förhållande till andra pensionärer av anläggningen.

Malick avböjt att intervjuas för den här artikeln av oro över trakasserier från sin tidigare arbetsgivare via hanteringsställets sjöfartsskyddsansvariga och chefen för säkerhetsavdelningen i försvarsdepartementet, som ansvarar för informationssäkerhet och reaktorn. Men han bekräftade att Haaretz att han hade lämnat in en stämningsansökan.

Ref: Haaretz

Ex-nuclear reactor employee: We were forced to drink uranium

beyondtheborder — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:07:33 +0000

The subjects were given grape or grapefruit juice containing uranium to drink and were then asked for a urine sample, which was then analyzed to determine how uranium is excreted from the body through urine. The researchers said it was not supposed to be dangerous, Malick told his lawyer, Alexander Spinrad. “Lorber and Karpas said that even they took part in the experiment themselves, although to this day it’s not clear to me whether they actually did. Afterward co-workers to whom I told this said I was stupid for drinking it and they wouldn’t have agreed under any circumstances to do it,” Malick also told his lawyer.

For full article, visit http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1107980.html

Globalist Think Tank Trots Out Iran Attack Scenario

sakerfa — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:41:40 +0000

In a hare-brained nightmare scenario dreamed up by the Center for Strategic and International Studie

The Day Pakistan and Israel Came Close to War

Khudi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:52:38 +0000

The video details a story when israel dared cast an evil eye on the nuclear installations of Pakista

Israel's Dimona Nuclear Weapons Factory

Oshin — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:34:20 +0000

An excellent 5-minute clip of the super-secret Israeli underground nuclear weapons manufacturing facility in Dimona. It was pieced together and computer-enhanced using photos smuggled out by Mordechai Vanunu.

on anti-semitism

marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:29:56 +0000

when i was teaching the play my name is rachel corrie this semester the subject of anti-semitism came up. there is a part of the play where rachel talks about how difficult it is for non-jews to speak about palestine in the u.s. because of the way that people silence you and say you’re anti-semitic. in the process of discussing this monologue it came up that many of my students think that the nazi holocaust is something that is fabricated. i had not encountered such a view in palestine before, but i understand why it exists and where it comes from. given the ways in which the nazi holocaust has been used against palestinians both as a pretext to steal their land, massacre palestinians, and ethnically cleanse them, i can understand how such thinking might emerge. given that the nazi holocaust has been used to silence those who speak about palestine, i can understand why people may doubt it or question it. but here is the thing. by questioning something that is factually based one only plays into those zionist hands and allows them to say, “oh, see, palestinians are anti-semitic.” also, by quibbling over numbers about how many people were killed in the nazi holocaust you are doing exactly what you don’t want done to you. those who know the facts about palestine, for instance, don’t want people to quibble over the historical facts about the 531 villages that were destroyed or the 750,000 palestinians forcibly removed from their homes during an nakba.

this is not, of course, a majority view in palestine. i think it speaks to the weak education that i have encountered in nablus as well as the lack of access to reading materials here. but at the same time zionists themselves initiated the abuse of and distortion of the nazi holocaust. at the recent aipac (american israel public affairs committee) meeting in washington dc the key item up for discussion was iran as the new germany, ahmadinejad as the new hitler. just check out this speech given there by republican congressman from virginia eric cantor for a glimpse into how this rhetoric pairs the two together in ways that defy logic, history, and reality:

notice cantor remarks at the beginning “at what moment was it too late” in reference to hitler. then he moves into iran with his completely baseless propaganda that “amhadinejad dreams of finishing hitler’s work.” he speaks as if this is true and it is 100% false. i’ll offer an example in a moment, but first look at this discussion on al jazeera’s “inside story” a couple of nights ago with imran garda. he hosted three speakers: imad gad from the al ahram center in cairo, former deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs david mack, and israeli terrorist colonist dan diker with the jerusalem centre for public affairs. here is the episode:

from the outset of the debate you can see diker move right in sync with the new aipac policy agenda:

Both Egypt and Israel are being directly threatened by the Islamic Republic of Iran and their proxies Hezbollah and Hamas, which have now threatened the life of Mr. Mubarak and threatening the Egyptian regime. And they are threatening Israel through their surrogate Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in the north, and Iranian proxies in the West Bank including Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. So both leaders had a very strong set of interests to discuss that both include the Palestinian issue and twinned with the much larger strategic threat that Iran poses to both nations and indeed the entire Sunni establishment in the Middle East.

divide and rule. the big picture. uri avnery, a colonist in the zionist entity, refutes these claims at least in part in an article on anti-war.com:

Like a traveling salesman offering a counterfeit product, Peres is now peddling the merchandise called Binyamin Netanyahu. He presents to the world a Netanyahu we have never known: a peacemaker, the epitome of truthfulness, a man with no other ambition than to go down in history as the founder of the state of Palestine. A Righteous Jew to outshine all Righteous Gentiles.

However, all these lies are nothing compared to trivializing the Holocaust.

In some countries, that is a criminal offense, punishable by prison. The trivializing has many guises. For example: the assertion that the gas chambers never existed. Or: that not 6 million Jews were killed, but only six hundred thousand. But the most dangerous form of minimizing is the comparison of the Holocaust to passing events, thus turning it into “a detail of history,” as Jean-Marie Le-Pen infamously put it.

This week, Shimon Peres committed exactly this crime.

Like a lackey walking in front of the king, strewing flowers on the road, Peres flew to the U.S. to prepare the ground for Netanyahu’s coming visit. He imposed himself on a reluctant Barack Obama, who had no choice but to receive him.

Posing as a new Winston Churchill, the man who warned the world against the rise of Nazi Germany, he informed Obama with solemn bombast: “As Jews we cannot but compare Iran to Nazi Germany.”

About this sentence at least three things must be said: (a) it is untrue, (b) it trivializes the Holocaust, and (c) it reflects a catastrophic policy.

Does Iran really resemble Nazi Germany?

I don’t like the regime there. As a committed atheist who insists on total separation between state and religion, I oppose any regime based on religion – in Iran, in Israel, or in any other country.

Also, I don’t like politicians like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I am allergic to leaders who stand on balconies and declaim to the masses below. I detest demagogues who appeal to the base instincts of hatred and fear.

Alas, Ahmadinejad is not the only leader of this type. Indeed, the world is full of them; some are among the staunchest supporters of the Israeli government. In Israel, too, we do not lack this sort.

But Iran is not a fascist state. According to the evidence, there is quite a lot of freedom there, including freedom of expression. Ahmadinejad is not the only candidate for president in the present election campaign. There are a number of others, some more radical, some less.

Nor is Iran an anti-Semitic state. A Jewish community, whose members are refusing to emigrate, is living there comfortably enough. It enjoys religious freedom and has a representative in parliament. Even if we take such reports with a grain of salt, it is clear that the Jews in Iran are not being persecuted like the Jews in Nazi Germany.

And, most important: Iran is not an aggressive country. It has not attacked its neighbors for centuries. The long and bloody Iraq-Iran war was started by Saddam Hussein. It may be remembered that at the time Israel (contrary to the U.S.) supported the Iranian side and supplied it with arms. (One such transaction was accidentally disclosed in the Irangate affair.) Before the Khomeini revolution, Iran was our most important ally in the region.

Ahmadinejad hates Israel. But it has been denied that he has threatened to annihilate Israel. It appears that the crucial sentence in his famous speech was mistranslated: he did not declare his determination to wipe Israel off the map, but expressed the opinion that Israel will disappear from the map.

Frankly, I don’t think that there is such a great difference between the two versions. When the leader of a big country predicts that my state will disappear, that makes me worry. When that country appears to do everything possible to produce a nuclear bomb, that worries me even more. I draw conclusions, but about that later.

Moreover, Ahmadinejad – unlike Hitler – is not the supreme leader of his country. He is subject to the real leadership, composed of clerics. All the signs indicate that this is not a group of adventurers. On the contrary, they are very balanced, sophisticated, and prudent. Now they are cautiously feeling their way toward dialogue with the U.S., trying to reach an accord without sacrificing their regional ambitions, which are quite normal.

In brief, the speeches of one demagogic leader do not turn a country into Nazi Germany. Iran is not a mad country. It has no real interests in Israel/Palestine. Its interests are focused on the Persian Gulf area, and it wants to increase its influence throughout the Arab and Muslim world. Its relations with Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas mostly serve this purpose, and so does the anti-Israeli incitement of Ahmadinejad.

In brief, the comparison of Iran to Nazi Germany lacks a factual basis.

you can read the entire article if you click the link, but avnery like a typical israeli or jew devolves into the nazi holocaust is unique bullshit that is part of the problem to begin with. norman finkelstein famously refutes this mythology in his groundbreaking book, the holocaust industry:

Two central dogmas underpin the Holocaust framework: (1) The Holocaust marks a categorically event; (2) The Holocaust marks the climax of an irrational, eternal Gentile hatred of Jews. Neither of these dogmas figured at all in public discourse before the June 1967 war. (41-42)

and why was it only after 1967? because they needed that argument to rationalize their colonial expansionist project in the west bank and gaza strip. after that deviation, avnery concludes his article as follows:

Does the comparison of Iran to Nazi Germany serve Israeli interests?

Iran is there. It was our ally in the past, and may be our ally again in the future. Leaders come and go, but geopolitical interests are more or less constant. Ahmadinejad may be replaced by a leader who will see Iranian interests in a different light.

The nuclear threat to Israel will not disappear – not after a (bad) speech by Peres nor after a (good) speech by Netanyahu. All over the region, nuclear installations will pop up. This process cannot be stopped. We all need nuclear energy to desalinate water and to produce electricity without destroying the environment. As an Israeli professor, a former employee in the nuclear center at Dimona, said this week: we must reconsider our nuclear policy. It may well be to our advantage to accept the demand of the American spokeswoman that Israel (as well as India and Pakistan) join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and a regime of strict supervision.

President Barack Obama is now saying to Israel: Put an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That is a precondition for the elimination of the threat to Israel. When the Palestinians, and the entire Arab world, make peace with Israel, Iran will not be able to exploit the conflict for the furthering of its interests. We were saying this, by the way, many years ago.

The refusal of Netanyahu-Lieberman-Barak to accept this demand shows the insincerity of their arguments about Iran. If they really believed that Iran posed an existential menace, they would hurry to dismantle the settlements, demolish the outposts, and make peace. That would, after all, be a small price to pay for the elimination of an existential danger. Their refusal proves that the entire existential story is a bluff.

and it seems as though they are willing to go it alone whether or not the americans help them as daniel luban and jim lobe explained in their article for ips:

Given its preoccupation with AfPak and with stabilising the region as a whole, the Pentagon has naturally been disinclined to increase tensions with Iran, which shares lengthy borders with Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and could easily make life significantly more difficult for the U.S. in each of the three countries.

But the new Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing the U.S. to confront Iran over its nuclear programme, and his allies in the U.S. have similarly argued that Iran should be a top priority.

For the moment, the Iran hawks have mostly expressed muted – if highly sceptical – support for Obama’s diplomatic outreach to Tehran. But they have warned that this outreach must have a “short and hard end date”, as Republican Sen. Jon Kyl put it at the AIPAC conference, at which point the U.S. must turn to harsher measures.

AIPAC’s current top legislative priority is a bill, co-sponsored by Kyl and key Democrats, that would require Obama to impose sanctions on foreign firms that export refined petroleum products to Iran.

In recent Congressional testimony, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the administration would support such “crippling” sanctions against Tehran if diplomacy did not work, but she declined to say how long the administration would permit diplomatic efforts to play out before taking stronger action.

While sanctions seem to be the topic du jour, the possibility of military action against Tehran remains on everybody’s mind, as does the question of whether Israel would be willing to strike Iranian nuclear facilities without Washington’s approval.

In March, Netanyahu told The Atlantic that “if we have to act, we will act, even if America won’t.”

Asked at the AIPAC conference whether Israel would attack Iran without a “green light” from the U.S., former Israeli deputy defence minister Ephraim Sneh joked that in Israel, stoplight signals are “just a recommendation.”

and paul craig roberts’ piece in counterpunch last week explains some of the dangers of privileging the nazi holocaust in all its so-called uniqueness in order to shield the zionist entity’s massive war crimes:

On October 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Israel Lobby’s bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act. This legislation requires the US Department of State to monitor anti-semitism world wide.

To monitor anti-semitism, it has to be defined. What is the definition? Basically, as defined by the Israel Lobby and Abe Foxman, it boils down to any criticism of Israel or Jews.

Rahm Israel Emanuel hasn’t been mopping floors at the White House.

As soon as he gets the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 passed, it will become a crime for any American to tell the truth about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and theft of their lands.

It will be a crime for Christians to acknowledge the New Testament’s account of Jews demanding the crucifixion of Jesus.

It will be a crime to report the extraordinary influence of the Israel Lobby on the White House and Congress, such as the AIPAC-written resolutions praising Israel for its war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza that were endorsed by 100 per cent of the US Senate and 99 per cent of the House of Representatives, while the rest of the world condemned Israel for its barbarity.

It will be a crime to doubt the Holocaust.

It will become a crime to note the disproportionate representation of Jews in the media, finance, and foreign policy.

In other words, it means the end of free speech, free inquiry, and the First Amendment to the Constitution. Any facts or truths that cast aspersion upon Israel will simply be banned.

Given the hubris of the US government, which leads Washington to apply US law to every country and organization, what will happen to the International Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and the various human rights organizations that have demanded investigations of Israel’s military assault on Gaza’s civilian population? Will they all be arrested for the hate crime of “excessive” criticism of Israel?

This is a serious question.

A recent UN report, which is yet to be released in its entirety, blames Israel for the deaths and injuries that occurred within the United Nations premises in Gaza. The Israeli government has responded by charging that the UN report is “tendentious, patently biased,” which puts the UN report into the State Department’s category of excessive criticism and strong anti-Israel sentiment.

Israel is getting away with its blatant use of the American government to silence its critics despite the fact that the Israeli press and Israeli soldiers have exposed the Israeli atrocities in Gaza and the premeditated murder of women and children urged upon the Israeli invaders by rabbis. These acts are clearly war crimes.

It was the Israeli press that published the pictures of the Israeli soldiers’ T-shirts that indicate that the willful murder of women and children is now the culture of the Israeli army. The T-shirts are horrific expressions of barbarity. For example, one shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a crosshairs over her stomach and the slogan, “One shot, two kills.” These T-shirts are an indication that Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians is one of extermination.

It has been true for years that the most potent criticism of Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinians comes from the Israeli press and Israeli peace groups. For example, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and Jeff Halper of ICAHD have shown a moral conscience that apparently does not exist in the Western democracies where Israel’s crimes are covered up and even praised.

Will the American hate crime bill be applied to Haaretz and Jeff Halper? Will American commentators who say nothing themselves but simply report what Haaretz and Halper have said be arrested for “spreading hatred of Israel, an anti-semitic act”?

Many Americans have been brainwashed by the propaganda that Palestinians are terrorists who threaten innocent Israel. These Americans will see the censorship as merely part of the necessary war on terror. They will accept the demonization of fellow citizens who report unpalatable facts about Israel and agree that such people should be punished for aiding and abetting terrorists.

A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. American university professors have fallen victim to the well organized attempt to eliminate all criticism of Israel. Norman Finkelstein was denied tenure at a Catholic university because of the power of the Israel Lobby. Now the Israel Lobby is after University of California (at Santa Barbara,) professor Wiliam Robinson. Robinson’s crime: his course on global affairs included some reading assignments critical of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

The Israel Lobby apparently succeeded in convincing the Obama Justice (sic) Department that it is anti-semitic to accuse two Jewish AIPAC officials, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, of spying. The Israel Lobby succeeded in getting their trial delayed for four years, and now Attorney General Eric Holder has dropped charges. Yet, Larry Franklin, the DOD official accused of giving secret material to Rosen and Weissman, is serving 12 years and 7 months in prison.

The absurdity is extraordinary. The two Israeli agents are not guilty of receiving secrets, but the American official is guilty of giving secrets to them! If there is no spy in the story, how was Franklin convicted of giving secrets to a spy?

Criminalizing criticism of Israel destroys any hope of America having an independent foreign policy in the Middle East that serves American rather than Israeli interests. It eliminates any prospect of Americans escaping from their enculturation with Israeli propaganda.

To keep American minds captive, the Lobby is working to ban as anti-semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.

Most of Europe has already criminalized doubting the Holocaust. It is a crime even to confirm that it happened but to conclude that less than 6 million Jews were murdered.

Why is the Holocaust a subject that is off limits to examination? How could a case buttressed by hard facts possibly be endangered by kooks and anti-semitics? Surely the case doesn’t need to be protected by thought control.

Imprisoning people for doubts is the antithesis of modernity.

don't ask, don't tell: aka the zionist entity's nuclear arsenal

marcy/مارسي newman/نيومان — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:53:00 +0000

mr. fish

this week in ha’aretz there was an article in response to the obama administration’s nuclear non-proliferation treaty. read carefully in the quoted paragraphs below to see how they couch their language so as not to admit that the zionist entity has a nuclear arsenal, though the world knows they do (also click on the link for the rest of the article to see how they are shaking in their boots over the hypocrisy that the u.s. and europe pressure iran, but not the zionist entity):

It is unclear whether the U.S. assistant secretary of state’s call to Israel to sign on to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty indicates a change in Washington’s policy toward Israel’s nuclear program, or even if the move was anticipated by the White House.

It is clear, however, that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. The U.S. has been protecting Israel for years, creating a diplomatic umbrella and pushing away any attempt, in any international debate, to discuss the nuclear weapons the entire world believes Israel possesses.

in yet another article in ha’aretz you can see some of this concern over a fear of pressure that may be exerted on the zionist entity over its nuclear weapons:

On the practical level, Washington recognizes the unique positions that Israel, India and Pakistan are all in, all of them important American allies. U.S. politics also plays an influential role – Democratic lawmakers tend to emphasize international diplomacy and the importance of nuclear monitoring, while Republicans are broadly less likely to do so.

Israel’s nuclear policy – its infamous “ambiguity” – is based on an unwritten 1969 agreement between then-prime minister Golda Meir and American president Richard Nixon, according to which, experts believe, Israel maintains nuclear ambiguity and does not conduct nuclear tests, and the U.S. refrains from pressuring it to sign the NPT.

But in 2009, the problem is more complex. As far as the Americans will progress in talks with Iran, demands will almost certainly arise for a full denuclearization of the region. In other words: “Dimona for Natanz.”

apparently, one of the changes the zionist entity is afraid of is first and foremost the admission, by the obama administration, that they in fact have nuclear weapons as saed bannoura reported:

An Obama administration official has provoked the anger of the Israeli government by implying that Israel has nuclear weapons.

While the US has never admitted that its ally Israel has nuclear weapons, the last Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted last year to the existence of the arsenal.

Anti-nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu spent eighteen years in Israeli prison for exposing the Israeli nuclear program with photos and testimony.

As a condition for his release he was denied the right to speak to foreigners and reporters.

But the U.S. and Israel have both continued to maintain a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ stance toward Israel’s nuclear arsenal of approximately thirty warheads.

Now, assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller may be breaking that taboo. She gave a speech in New York listing the countries that must adhere to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty – India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea. By including Israel in that list, she broke a thirty year silence by U.S. officials on the existence of an Israeli nuclear arsenal.

mordechai vanunu's photograph a nuclear weapon of the zionist entity

of course, seymour hersh’s important book, the samson option: israel, america and the bomb, (1991) detailed the facts about the zionist entity’s nuclear weapons. and much of what we know about this comes from mordechai vanunu’s work to expose their arsenal after having worked there for many years (and, of course, he was imprisoned by the zionists for this). john steinbach’s historicizes the criminal origin of their nuclear weapons for the center for research on globalization:

The Israeli nuclear program began in the late 1940s under the direction of Ernst David Bergmann, “the father of the Israeli bomb,” who in 1952 established the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. It was France, however, which provided the bulk of early nuclear assistance to Israel culminating in construction of Dimona, a heavy water moderated, natural uranium reactor and plutonium reprocessing factory situated near Bersheeba in the Negev Desert. Israel had been an active participant in the French Nuclear weapons program from its inception, providing critical technical expertise, and the Israeli nuclear program can be seen as an extension of this earlier collaboration. Dimona went on line in 1964 and plutonium reprocessing began shortly thereafter. Despite various Israeli claims that Dimona was “a manganese plant, or a textile factory,” the extreme security measures employed told a far different story. In 1967, Israel shot down one of their own Mirage fighters that approached too close to Dimona and in 1973 shot down a Lybian civilian airliner which strayed off course, killing 104. There is substantial credible speculation that Israel may have exploded at least one, and perhaps several, nuclear devices in the mid 1960s in the Negev near the Israeli-Egyptian border, and that it participated actively in French nuclear tests in Algeria. By the time of the “Yom Kippur War” in 1973, Israel possessed an arsenal of perhaps several dozen deliverable atomic bombs and went on full nuclear alert.

Possessing advanced nuclear technology and “world class” nuclear scientists, Israel was confronted early with a major problem- how to obtain the necessary uranium. Israel’s own uranium source was the phosphate deposits in the Negev, totally inadequate to meet the need of a rapidly expanding program. The short term answer was to mount commando raids in France and Britain to successfully hijack uranium shipments and, in1968, to collaborate with West Germany in diverting 200 tons of yellowcake (uranium oxide). These clandestine acquisitions of uranium for Dimona were subsequently covered up by the various countries involved. There was also an allegation that a U.S. corporation called Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) diverted hundreds of pounds of enriched uranium to Israel from the mid-50s to the mid-60s.

Despite an FBI and CIA investigation, and Congressional hearings, no one was ever prosecuted, although most other investigators believed the diversion had occurred. In the late 1960s, Israel solved the uranium problem by developing close ties with South Africa in a quid pro quo arrangement whereby Israel supplied the technology and expertise for the “Apartheid Bomb,” while South Africa provided the uranium.

helena cobban, writing for ips, addressed the implications of making the zionist entity’s nuclear weapons program transparent:

Now, it looks as if Washington may be preparing to join this movement toward stressing Israeli transparency and accountability. This would take the Obama administration back to the stance adopted by Pres. John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s. Just a few years later, however, in 1969, Pres. Richard Nixon signed off on a policy that Israeli nuclear policy expert Avner Cohen has described as one of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Back in the Cold War, there were many – including key Nixon adviser Henry Kissinger – who argued that colluding with Israel’s nuclear opacity was in the U.S. interest since, if Israel came out openly as a nuclear power, that could spark Soviet arms sales to pro-Moscow allies in the region and raise tensions in the region.

After the Cold War ended, many in the U.S. strategic-affairs community favoured continuing the policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” They argued that Israel acted as an extension of U.S. power in the Middle East, so its capabilities should be supported, or that the U.S. was so powerful globally that it had no need to put pressure on or embarrass its Israeli ally.

Both those arguments were based on the judgment that U.S. interests always coincide with those of Israel. Now, as Obama and his top aides have started to hint, that judgment may be starting to change.

but just because these words sound different, don’t expect a new policy for real. because the u.s. is just as hypocritical as the zionist entity when it comes to its nuclear arsenal. and neither both will continue to build their nuclear weapons programs. both will continue to use them as a threat whether they are secret or public. and both will allow their allies to have nuclear weapons and they will both continue to threaten or bomb countries trying to develop their own as a way to defend themselves from these colonial or imperial powers.

update: jasmin ramsey at pulse media just published a post on this subject, which i strongly recommend!

Nuclear Non-proliferation

Fahad — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:23:02 +0000

Mordechai Vanunu has asked the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo to remove his name from this year’s list of nominees. “[I] cannot be part of a list of laureates that includes Simon Peres. He is the man who was behind all the Israeli atomic policy.”

Like Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan did in Pakistan, he writes, Peres was behind the atomic weapon proliferation to South Africa, including the 1978 nuclear weapon test, and other states.

Vanunu, a former nuclear technician, had revealed to the British press details of the Israeli nuclear weapons program. He had been kidnapped in Italy by Israeli agents in 1988 and spent 18 years in prison, 11 years in solitary confinement. He was released in 2004, but had been arrested since then several times. Between 1988 and 2004, Vanunu had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Price each year.

Vanunu had received an honorary doctorate by the University of Tromsø, which is currently my employer.

First Black Hebrew gets Israeli citizenship

streetknowledge — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:54:15 +0000
via Ynetnews Forty years after arriving in Israel as self-identified descendants of Tribe of Judah,

Israeli Professor - 'We Could Destroy All European Capitals'

Boulderdash — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:25:45 +0000

By Nadim Ladki
2-6-3

(IAP News) — An Israeli professor and military historian hinted that Israel could avenge the holocaust by annihilating millions of Germans and other Europeans.

Speaking during an interview which was published in Jerusalem Friday, Professor Martin Van Crevel said Israel had the capability of hitting most European capitals with nuclear weapons.

“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.”

Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, pointed out that “collective deportation” was Israel’s only meaningful strategy towards the Palestinian people.

More here

Video - Israeli Terror WMD Facilities

Boulderdash — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:55:38 +0000

Which country in the Middle East has weapons of mass destruction?

Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?

Which country in the Middle East has no inspections of its weapons facilities?

Which country in the Middle East is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?

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Dricka uran - (o)medvetet?

Ex-kärnreaktor anställd säger gjorts att dricka uran

Ex-nuclear reactor employee: We were forced to drink uranium

Globalist Think Tank Trots Out Iran Attack Scenario

The Day Pakistan and Israel Came Close to War

Israel's Dimona Nuclear Weapons Factory

on anti-semitism

don't ask, don't tell: aka the zionist entity's nuclear arsenal

Nuclear Non-proliferation

First Black Hebrew gets Israeli citizenship

Israeli Professor - 'We Could Destroy All European Capitals'

Video - Israeli Terror WMD Facilities

Dimona
Negev Nuclear Research Center
Kirya le-Mechkar Garinii (KAMAG)