NWO Mega-Monkey Bono

This multi-multi-millionaire swans around the globe, hobnobbing with fellow illuminati communitarians [Da Silva, the Judeo-Masonic Popes, Bush, Obama, Livni, Peres, Netanyahoo, Kings and Queens, Gates, Blair ...], demanding that the unitiated, the goyim, the profane [lit. those outside of The Temple], be taxed to death in support of the latest Judeo-Masonic scam du jour.

Bono has been dubbed, “the face of fusion philanthropy,” for his success enlisting powerful Masonic allies from a diverse spectrum of leaders in government, religious institutions, “philanthropic” organizations, popular media, and the business world, as well as for spearheading new organizational networks that bind One World pseudo-humanitarian relief with geopolitical activism and capitalocommunist corporate commercial enterprise.

• During a March 2002 visit to the White House, after President Bush unveiled a $5 billion aid package, he accompanied the President for a speech on the White House lawn where he stated, “This is an important first step.”

Rabbi Schneier, man-god-prophet Bono and Zippy Tzipi Livni at a memorial service for House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos, gangster, Holohoaxer, co-architect of the Gulf War (the Kuwaiti ambassador’s daughter’s incubator scam), the Wars Against the Serbs, the Iraq War, 9/11, the Afghanistan War.

• In 2002, Bono took US Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill on a four-country tour of Africa.
• In 2005, Bono spoke on CBC Radio, demanding that his former comrade Prime Minister Martin do more to tax Canadians for foreigners. After failing to sufficiently bleed Canadians, Martin was subsequently removed from office.

• Bono was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, in 2005, and in 2006 for his “philanthropy” [with Other People's Money].
• In 2004, he was awarded the Pablo Neruda International Presidential Medal of Honour from the Government of Chile.
• Time Magazine named Bono one of the “100 Most Influential People” in its May 2004 special issue, and again in the 2006 Time 100 special issue. In 2005, Time named Bono a Person of the Year along with Bill and Melinda Gates.
• In 2005, Bono received the Portuguese Order of Liberty for his allegedly humanitarian work.
• In 2006, Bono was among the first three recipients of the TED Prize, which grants each winner “a wish to change the world”; and yet we still have poverty and war… Perhaps he wished for more groupies.

• Bono, due to his genius understanding of global economics, attends the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos.

• In 2007, Bono was named an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

• Bono received the Judeo-Masonic NAACP Image Award’s Chairman’s Award in 2007.

Bono with his middle eye aimed at Queen Rania.

• Bono praised President Bush, The Great Liberator, at the 54th Annual National Prayer Breakfast, held at the Hilton Washington Hotel on 2 February 2006, in a speech laden with Old Testament references.

• This Dub Magister demanded “a tithe” of the United States’ national budget.
• Bono “harmonized” his pseudo-Christian views with other “faiths” by noting that Christian, Jewish, and Muslim writings all call for the same thing.
• Bono praised Bro. Bush for sending so much of American tax-payers vig to foreigners, but said there was much of the Great Work still to be done as part of their god’s ongoing purposes.

• Bono was a special guest editor of the July 2007 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. The issue was named “The Africa Issue: Politics & Power” and featured an assortment of 20 different covers, with photographs by the infamous Annie Leibovitz of a number of prominent Masonic celebrities, political leaders, and “philanthropists”.
• In an article in Bloomberg Markets in March 2007, journalists Richard Tomlinson and Fergal O’Brien noted that Bono used his band’s 2006 Vertigo world tour to promote his ONE Campaign while at the same time “U2 was racking up $389 million in gross ticket receipts, making Vertigo the second-most lucrative tour of all time, according to Billboard magazine. . . . Revenue from the Vertigo tour is funneled through companies that are mostly registered in Ireland and structured to minimize taxes.” Tomlinsen and O’Brien are not believers.

• In November 2007, Bono’s various charity campaigns were targeted by Jobs Selasie, the head of African Aid Action. Selasie claimed that these charities had increased corruption and dependency in Africa because they failed to work with African entrepreneurs and grassroots organizations, and as a result, Africa has become more dependent on international handouts.

• Bono responded to his non-Masonic critics in Times Online on February 19, 2006, calling them “cranks carping from the sidelines. … They’re the party who will always be in opposition.” [True... True...]

• In November 2007, Bono was honoured by NBC Nightly News as someone “making a difference” in the world, like Stalin or Hitler. Bono and anchor-puppet Brian Williams had traveled to Africa in May 2007.

• On December 11, 2008, Bono was given the annual Man of Peace prize, awarded by several Masonic Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Paris, France.

• Product Red (the colour of Judeo-Masonic revolution) is another of Bono’s money-grubbing scams. Product Red is a brand that is licensed to partner companies, such as American Express, Apple, Converse, Motorola, Microsoft, Dell, The Gap, and Giorgio Armani, who then raise their prices and increase sales to trendy morons, then kick a cut from their increased profits back to the Global Fund.

• Bono promotes his cult of COEXISTence. In his crappy band’s concerts, Bono points to his third eye and proclaims,

“Jesus, Jew, Mohammad, it’s True

“Jesus, Jew, Mohammad, it’s True

“All Sons of Abraham … O Father Abraham, look what you’ve done

“Sunday, Bloody Sunday: We’re so sick of it!”

• Bono was born in the gray Dublin suburb of Glasnevin. His allegedly Anglican mother and allegedly RC father struck a deal to raise their first child according to the unorthodox customs of Henry and Elizabeth [the bizarre New Age cult of Eaglais na hÉireann], and their second Child (St Sir Bono) in the unorthodox Kirk of the Borgias [the bizarre New Age cult of Eaglais Chaitliceach Rómhánach].
• According to an exclusive in the Israeli daily Ma’ariv (lifted from a Chabad website), the U2 star has claimed that he is of the tribe. Bono had a Manhatten encounter with a Lubavitcher, who of course cannot tell a lie (but may have popped some of that ecstasy they push …). Bono apparently claimed that his mother was Jewish and he agreed to don kippah and tefillin and recited the Shema before a large crowd. Bono is then said to have requested to keep the kippah for his forthcoming gig in Israel.

כוכב הרוק הבינלאומי גילה את יהדותו בדוכן חב”ד

(יום רביעי, ז’ תשרי תשס”ח)

Col.org.il

בלעדי: פול דייויד היוסון, הידוע בכינויו בונו, המשמש כסולן להקת רוק האירית U2 לה מליוני מעריצים – גילה שהוא יהודי בדוכן תפילין של חב”ד במנהטן ■ “במהלך ה’מבצע תפילין’, ניגש אלינו אדם שלצווארו צלב גדול, ואיחל לנו חג-שמח”, סיפר הבחור הישראלי שאייש את הדוכן בשיחה עם כתב COL. “התחלתי לדבר איתו והוא סיפר שהוא ‘חצי יהודי’, מכיוון שאימא שלו יהודיה” ■ הוא הסכים להניח תפילין ולומר “שמע ישראל” ■ לבינתיים, הרחוב כולו נחסם לתנועה ומאות מעריצים תיעדו את ה”כוכב” מניח תפילין במצלמות ובמכשירים סלולריים לסיפור המלא

מאת חיים ברון, כתב COL בניו-יורק

אלפי בחורי-הישיבות מישראל שהגיעו לחצרות-קודשנו לרגל חודש-החגים יוצאים מידי יום שישי וערבי חג ל’מבצע תפילין’ ברחבי העיר ניו-יורק. אחד הבחורים, שניאור.מ המתגורר בכפר-חב”ד, יצא ל’מבצע תפילין’ באחד מהרחובות הסואנים במנהטן.

“במהלך ה’מבצע תפילין’, ניגש אלינו אדם שלצווארו צלב גדול, ואיחל לנו חג-שמח”, סיפר הבחור לכתב COL. “התחלתי לדבר איתו והוא סיפר שהוא ‘חצי יהודי’, מכיוון שאימא שלו יהודיה”. כידוע, על-פי ההלכה היהודית, אדם שאימו יהודיה – נחשב יהודי לכל דבר ועניין.

והבחור ממשיך לספר: “אמרתי לו שהוא נחשב ליהודי והלם היה ניכר על פניו. נתתי לו את תמונתו של הרבי וסיפרתי לו בקצרה על הרבי ועל-כך שאנחנו נמצאים כאן בשליחות שלו. עוד אמרתי, כי הרבי רצה שכל יהודי יניח תפילין. בתום הדברים, הסכים האיש להפשיל את שרוולו ולהניח תפילין”.

באותם רגעים, לכאורה די שגרתיים, החלו מאות אנשים להתגודד סביב הדוכן ולצלם את האיש עם מצלמות ומכשירים סלולריים.

“כל הרחוב היה חסום ולא הבנתי על-מה המהומה”, סיפר הבחור ל-COL. בסיום הנחת התפילין, האיש גילה עוד קצת התעניינות בנושא הדת ואף ביקש לקחת את הכיפה. “יש לי הופעה בישראל בקרוב”, אמר.

רק לאחר שהאיש הלך, ניגש הבחור לאחד האנשים מתוך המאות שגדשו את האיזור, ושאל אותו על מה המהומה. אז, התברר, כי מדובר בפול דייויד היוסון, הידוע בכינויו בונו והוא משמש כסולן להקת רוק האירית U2 – להקה ענקית לה מליוני מעריצים.

יש לציין, כי לפני שנתיים נבחר האיש לאיש השנה על-ידי המגזין הפופולרי “טיים” היוצא-לאור בארצות-הברית.

Il Consigliere per la Sicurezza Nazionale James Jones ha dichiarato ieri che “l’Iran deve ora portare a termine i suoi impegni, [perchè] nessuna opzione è esclusa“. Ancora: “Verificheremo se l’engagement riesce a produrre i risultati concreti di cui abbiamo bisogno, e saremo preparati [a ogni opzione] se così non fosse”.

Questa mattina la leader israeliana moderata Tzipi Livni, in visita a Mosca,  ha dichiarato che “l’Iran si sta gingillando con il mondo. L’accordo non risolve la questione principale: lo stop completo dell’arricchimento dell’uranio. C’è un chiaro consenso internazionale che il nucleare iraniano sia inaccettabile [...] L’accordo attuale fornisce una soluzione parziale, perchè non impedisce all’Iran di arricchire uranio durante i negoziati. Ovviamente non è solo un problema israeliano ma anche degli stati arabi e musulmani che non accetterebbero un Iran nucleare”.

Le parole della Livni vanno lette alla luce di quello che sta accandendo a Washington. Sembra che l’amministrazione Obama stia preparando una strategia di lungo periodo per il contenimento di un Iran nucleare e per impedire ai suoi leader di utilizzare le armi atomiche. Questa nuova strategia comporterebbe un nuovo scudo difensivo per l’Europa e legami più forti con i paesi del Golfo. Naturalmente una simile mossa potrebbe convincere Gerusalemme che l’Occidente si sia ormai rassegnato a convivere con un Iran nucleare, spingendola a lanciare i raid contro i siti sospetti.

Il ministro del petrolio kuwaitiano, lo sceicco Ahmed Al Abdullah Al Sabah, ha dichiarato che l’OPEC non aumenterà, per ora, i livelli di produzione, e ha aggiunto che gli attuali prezzi del greggio (oltre 79 dollari) sono “molto buoni” e che l’OPEC convocherà una riunione straordinaria nel caso il greggio toccasse i 100 dollari al barile.

Per sapere cosa ha scatenato l’attuale crisi economica e per comprendere le possibili evoluzioni, sia economiche che militari, si legga il saggio “PETROLIO SHOCK La crisi energetica dalle guerre di Bush alla polveriera iraniana” di Gabriele Catania, con la collaborazione di Enrico Labriola, edito da Castelvecchi.

The Goldstone Report is operating without the stupid UN Security Council endorsement. First Haaretz reports that the report will be discussed in the UN General Assembly, which will probably be quite a show. Then The National reports that European lawyers from several countries are working hard, since after Gaza actually, to collect Israeli military names for indictment in European courts. Then The Guardian reports that Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni could face war crimes arrest if they visit the UK.

From The Guardian:

The development of universal jurisdiction has been boosted by the Goldstone report, which urged Israel to conduct an independent inquiry into alleged war crimes. Failing that, other governments were advised to try suspects using universal jurisdiction. Another option was for the UN security council to refer allegations to the international criminal court. Israel refused to co-operate with the report, which also accused Hamas of war crimes.

The keyword: Universal Jurisdiction. It’s really difficult for the Europeans to make massive exceptions for the Israelis after so many of them used Universal Jurisdiction to indict many war criminals. Amnesty International reports:

Since the end of the Second World War, more than 15 countries have exercised universal jurisdiction in investigations or prosecutions of persons suspected of crimes under international law, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Senegal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and others, such as Mexico, have extradited persons to countries for prosecution based on universal jurisdiction.

El Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas, Ban ki Moon, llamó al Presidente Palestino Mahmud Abbas por teléfono para expresar su apoyo a la iniciativa de deliberar en la sede de Ginebra sobre el informe Goldstone, que investigó alegados crímenes de guerra israelíes en Gaza.
Dos semanas después de solicitar el aplazo de las deliberaciones en torno al informe, Abbas se rindió a las presiones políticas internas y llamó a los estados árabes en la sede de la Naciones Unidas en Ginebra a hacer lo posible por el éxito de las mismas en la Comisión por los Derechos Humanos.
El Presidente Palestino llamó a la aprobación del informe Goldstone, para que séa posible presentar cargos contra militares y políticos israelíes en las cortes internacionales.
En un discurso que pronunció al inagurarse las sesiones de invierno de la Kneset, el Parlmento en Jerusalén, el Primer Ministro Benyamin Netanyahu dijo que se aunarán esfuerzos para rechazar las consecuencias del reporte Goldstone. “El Reporte desproporcionado que escribió ésa comisión desproporcionada pone en cuestión el derecho básico de Israel a su autodefensa. No podremos aceptar una situación en la cual Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak y Tzipi Livni, que enviaron a los soldados de Israel a defender a nuestras ciudades y a nuestros ciudadanos, séan convocados al banquillo de los acusados en La Haya”, dijo Netanyahu.
Por su parte Mahmud Abbas atacó en su discurso también a Hamas, que dijo, esquiva la firma de un acuerdo de pacificación palestino, con Fatah.
Estados Unidos dijo a Egipto que los esfuerzos por lograr una pacificación interna palestina, entre Fatah y Hamas, afectan a las posibilidades de reanudar el diálogo de paz entre israelíes y palestinos.

Zuerst hat es geheißen, die Türkei habe das mit Israel geplante Militärmanöver “Anatolian Eagle” “bis auf Weiteres” verschoben. Die Beziehungen zwischen Israel und der Türkei, Israels bestem Freund unter den islamisch geprägten Staaten, haben in letzter Zeit erheblich gelitten. Dies hat zu tun mit der Art und Weise des “Umgangs” Israels mit den Palästinensern. Besonders in Erinnerung: Gaza – remember? Einige Raketen werden aus Gaza auf Sderot geschossen. Was folgt, nennt die israelische Armee Operation “Gegossenes Blei”, in deren Verlauf 1400 in überwiegendem Maße wehrlose Bewohner des Gaza-Streifens ermordet werden, u.a. unter Einsatz von white phosphorus. Nicht dass die im Gazastreifen herrschende Hamas gänzlich von Schuld freizusprechen wäre – die getöteten Israelis in und um Sderot sind ebenfalls Mordopfer. Aber all das aufzuzählen, hat für Richter Goldstone bekanntlich dazu geführt, dass die weltweite Israel-Fan-Bewegung einen neuen Lieblings-Hitler gefunden hatte.

Heute berichtet Ha’aretz, dass sich der türkische Ministerpräsident Erdogan zu der Thematik zu Wort gemeldet hat:

“People just watched from the comfort of their seats as phosphorus bombs rained on innocent children in Gaza,” The Turkish agency Sabah quoted Erdogan as saying. “In international platforms, efforts ensued to blame Islam for Islamic terror.”

“… When phosphorus bombs were rained on innocent children in Gaza, the whole world, all of humanity, watched from their comfortable chairs and their safe havens,” the Turkish prime minister said.

Wahre Worte, zumal die Reaktion von israelischer Seite mal wieder mehr als lachhaft ist: Die ehemalige Außenministerin Livni ordnet das Blutbad von Gaza in den Krieg des Westens gegen den Terror, nicht gegen die Palästinenser, ein und ermuntert die türkische Regierung, sich mal wieder einzukriegen und in den Kreis der Gemäßigten zurückzukehren.

In a message to the Turkish people, Livni urged Turkey to join the moderate elements in the region in the war on terror. The key issue facing the region today, said Livni, was the threat of extremism – not a bilateral crisis between Israel and Turkey.

Da hat die gute Tzipi nicht unrecht. Nur: Wer sind die Extremisten? Hamas steht hier nicht allein.  Extremisten sind doch all jene, die kein Problem damit haben, Tausende von Menschen umzubringen und dies im Einklang zu sehen mit einem höheren Gut – sei es irgendein Gott, sei es um den Weltfrieden willen, sei es im Dienste der Aufklärung, sei es, um die Demokratie zu verteidigen, sei es, um Terroristen zu bekämpfen – sei es, um der Welt zu demonstrieren: Wer auf der Seite der Gemäßigten steht, darf alles. Sogar Massenmorde begehen.

Aber eigentlich wissen wir das alles ja schon. Und so klingen Livnis Invektiven wie die Phrasen und Parolen aus alten Zeiten, als die Gemäßigten dieser Welt noch von einem Extremisten wie George W. Bush angeführt wurden.

I realize I haven’t actually written a ton about Bethlehem, just the other places I go and see, but Bethlehem is my ‘hood, so I have to give it mad props. As I type this I am lying on my bed, its low to the ground. I have a small cell of a room, 3 of the walls are made of what Dave called “Jerusalem stone”. I don’t really know what they are called, but I do know that I like them, for here at least. In Bethlehem I have time to do all of the things that I always wanted to do back home but was too distracted by modern life (except earlier this week, when I found a few bars of internet here in my room and wasted my nights chatting with Charles =) but those seem to have disappeared so all is well. On evenings when I don’t have anything planned I usually come back to

My bus stop

Bethlehem, and wander around the souq picking up some labneh or pita or fruit. Inevitably I will be stopped by someone I have met here, and if I am in the mood I might sit down at their shop and have some tea. I have never been a tea fan, but the lemon mint tea here is amazing (it doesn’t sound it, but it is). I may be a tea convert. In any case I’ll sit and talk for a bit if the night isn’t so hot that I am sweating my brains out.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention that picture every description of every activity in this blog as being punctuated with water-drinking, lots and lots of bottles of water. AND they don’t recycle here, in facts its only just gotten started in Tel Aviv. So I end up throwing out lots of bottles and feeling bad about it. There isn’t much of a choice though, you NEED to drink a lot of water here, even when you don’t want to, or you’ll start feeling crappy soon enough. I sweat constantly, but I have really begun I think to adjust to and even appreciate the value of sweat. When I am trudging through Bethlehem and I hit a cool breeze coming up a narrow side street, that sweat really does its job. It is refreshing even (ok I know now that I am starting to sound weird). So while sitting and talking to a friend here the conversation quickly turns to the Occupation. I don’t know how many conversations here are about Occupation among normal residents, although it’s probably quite a few. But with me, because I am not a normal resident, people really want me to understand their lives. And I try to. For example, Ayaka and I

Bethlehem

from our various conversations have gleaned that at least in Bethlehem there are lots of people with college and even advanced degrees who are either unemployed or underemployed and working in a shop in the souq. That’s a little sad right? I mean the complete lack of opportunity. One of my shopkeeper friend’s has an advanced degree in psychology… and he spends his days bargaining with tourists over carvings of the Virgin Mary. I mean give me a break. I know another woman who went to college to become a teacher. But she can’t find a job as a teacher so instead she lives at home with her parents and volunteers her time with organizations, which is good, but the fact that she can’t practice her chosen career is sad. Obviously the market here is pretty screwed up, and I sincerely hope, although doubt, that Netanyahu was serious about focusing on economic development in the West Bank.

Somehow I have gotten off track once again… oh yes, daily life. So I’ll eventually get home sometime after dark. Have the falafel

walking into Tantur

sandwich that I picked up at the stall on the corner of Manger Square from Said (which means Happy in Arabic). I may run across the street to the Crown Bakery, which is really out of character here in Bethlehem with its French pastries and late hours. But who am I to complain? While eating dinner I’ll sit with Ayaka and watch the international news, but then I retire to my room and do some combination of: reading (I am on my 3rd novel of the summer, and I am almost done with a Qualitative Research Methods book), writing blog entries or in my journal (which I’ll get back to later), editing photos, and crunches and other exercises that can be done on my bed. I do everything on my bed because the floor is so dirty. I try so hard to keep it clean. I used to try to clean the whole apartments floor but since I can’t account for other people’s shoes, I figure I’ll keep my room clean and take my shoes off at the door. Amazingly the floor still gets really dirty. It’s these large white tiles, but when I run a cloth across them you can always see that they are whiter underneath. It’s as if there is a layer of Bethlehem dust over everything. It’s not a particularly offensive dust, it just feels… ancient and gritty. But it is everywhere. So I do my exercises on my bed. That’s right, this is where all the magic happens.

Having this time to myself is a pretty important part of my summer, because the atmosphere here in my room, with the

Omar Mosque, Bethlehem

Jerusalem stone, and the open window through which I hear the Bells of the Church of the Nativity, the Call to Prayer from the Omar Mosque, and the fireworks from so many weddings, is very conducive to thinking. I need to think hard about the experiences that I have been having here, and this past weekend when Dave and Jeff came to visit just how unprepared I was to be able to clarify my thoughts in an appropriate way. I just looked through my blog today, and then my personal journal, and I realized that my journal would probably be way more interesting to read. SO why haven’t I posted these thoughts online? I guess I am afraid of having to defend opinions that I am struggling with even as I write them. I realize that I don’t know everything, anyone who thinks they “get it”, get what is going on in this conflict is wrong. No single individual understand all of the dimensions and layers and subtleties of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. They are far too deep and too complex and quite frankly too painful for many people to open up many of them. So I’d like to be able to share these thoughts with you all, but if I say something that upsets you, please realize that I am struggling with these thoughts too. I think things that upset myself. But

View of Bethlehem from Tantur

sometimes it’s hard to face the truth. That’s why I am here, to face the truth. To try and understand the conflict from an angle that is little-seen, but critically important. My Israeli friends think that I am getting a ‘biased’ view: I am living in Bethlehem yes, but I am working and spending my weekends traveling around Israel. So what would an unbiased view consist of? Spending the summer in Tel Aviv and never going near the Palestinians? Sounds completely unbiased to me. To be quite honest to you, I find it all incredibly painful. I love Israel. I want to live here one day, I have since I was 16. But this summer I have realized that I will never make Aaliyah to Israel. Because in my lifetime there will not be enough of a change in Israeli Governance to remedy all of the wrongs it has done. I do not want my future children to serve in the IDF while the Occupation continues, it is immoral. I do not want to pay taxes that I know are going to support settlements and right religious groups plans to bulldoze the Silwan Valley. No way. And I would never sign a peace of paper that would mean I could not travel here, where I am laying on my bed writing this in Bethlehem, and see all of my Palestinian friends, not to mention all of the Indonesian friends who are not a part of this conflict at all. But I still love Israel even if I don’t like its Government, and when I say something good about Palestinians, that’s all I am saying, it is not also like I am saying something bad about Israelis at the same time. I am recording life as it happens in many instances.

View of Har Homa settlement from Tantur

Since I have lost my earlier topic completely, I might as well continue changing subjects: Israel needs to do some constitutional amending and change the style of its government away from coalitions. They need something more like the U.S. Because what the U.S. government’s 2 party system does is it gives us a tremendous amount of stability. It also means that when the country wants a change they get it. Unlike in Israel where they majority could vote for Livni but the right wing formed a bigger coalition so they control the Government. This also means that the party not in power is secure in its “out of power-ness” and can serve the role of loyal opposition, bringing it to the public’s attention when the party in power does anything extra-legal. In fact the more I think about it the more I feel like Israel desperately needs a better system to handle the kind of problems that it in particular faces.

Check out the opening number from Madonna’s September 1st concert before 50,000 fans in Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park:

Here’s Madonna and Israeli opposition leader and former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni after a night of partying in Tel Aviv:

Amnesty International (AI) released 117-page report on the U.S.-backed ‘Operation Cast Lead’ initiated by Israel on the Gaza Strip — which killed around 1,200 Gazan civilians (including police officers and nearly 300 children) in 22 days — finds evidence of the ‘Israel Occupation Forces’ using Gazan children as human shields and wanton destruction of Gazans’ property.

The report titled, “Israel/Gaza: Operation ‘Cast Lead’: 22 Days of Death and Destruction” [.pdf] comes a day after Human Rights Watch released the report, “Precisely Wrong” [.pdf] detailing 87 civilian deaths as a result of Israel’s drone stikes.

See our archive on the Gaza Massacre here.

Impunity for War Crimes in Gaza and Southern Israel a Recipe for Further Civilian Suffering

2 July 09 | AI

Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty International concluded in a new report published on Thursday. “Operation ‘Cast Lead’: 22 days of death and destruction,” is the first comprehensive report to be published on the conflict, which took place earlier this year.

“Israel’s failure to properly investigate its forces’ conduct in Gaza, including war crimes, and its continuing refusal to cooperate with the U.N. international independent fact-finding mission headed by Richard Goldstone, is evidence of its intention to avoid public scrutiny and accountability,” said Donatella Rovera, who headed a field research mission to Gaza and southern Israel during and after the conflict.

“The international community, led by the U.N. Security Council, must use all its leverage to ensure that Israel cooperates fully with the Goldstone inquiry, which now offers the best means to establish the truth.”

The Amnesty International report documents Israel’s use of battlefield weapons against a civilian population trapped in Gaza, with no means of escape and is based on evidence gathered by Amnesty International delegates, including a military expert, during field research in January and February.

The report shows that Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups fired hundreds of rockets into southern Israel, killing three Israeli civilians, injuring scores and driving thousands from their homes. “Such unlawful attacks constitute war crimes and are unacceptable,” added Donatella Rovera.

The scale and intensity of the attacks on Gaza were unprecedented. Some 300 children and hundreds of other unarmed civilians who took no part in the conflict were among the 1,400 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces.

Most were killed with high-precision weapons, relying on surveillance drones which have exceptionally good optics, allowing those observing to see their targets in detail. Others were killed with imprecise weapons, including artillery shells carrying white phosphorus – not previously used in Gaza – which should never be used in densely populated areas.

Amnesty International found that the victims of the attacks it investigated were not caught in the crossfire during battles between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces, nor were they shielding militants or other military objects. Many were killed when their homes were bombed while they slept. Others were sitting in their yard or hanging the laundry on the roof. Children were struck while playing in their bedrooms or on the roof, or near their homes. Paramedics and ambulances were repeatedly attacked while attempting to rescue the wounded or recover the dead.

“The deaths of so many children and other civilians cannot be dismissed simply as ‘collateral damage’, as argued by Israel,” said Donatella Rovera. “Many questions remain to be answered about these attacks and about the fact that the strikes continued unabated despite the rising civilian death toll.”

More than 3,000 homes were destroyed and some 20,000 damaged in Israeli attacks which reduced entire neighbourhoods of Gaza to rubble and left an already dire economic situation in ruins. Much of the destruction was wanton and could not be justified on grounds of “military necessity”.

The Israeli army has not responded to Amnesty International’s repeated requests over the past five months for information on specific cases detailed in the report and for meetings to discuss the organization’s findings.

“For its part, Hamas has continued to justify the rocket attacks launched daily by its fighters and by other Palestinian armed groups into towns and villages in southern Israel during the 22-day conflict. Though less lethal, these attacks, using unguided rockets which cannot be directed at specific targets, violated international humanitarian law and cannot be justified under any circumstance,” said Donatella Rovera.

In addition to locally made Qassam rockets, Palestinian militants often fired longer-range Grad-type rockets smuggled into Gaza via the tunnels on the Egyptian border, which reached deeper into Israel and placed many more Israeli civilians at risk.

“Five months on, neither side has shown any inclination to change its practices and abide by international humanitarian law, raising the prospect that civilians will again bear the brunt if fighting resumes,” said Donatella Rovera.

Under international law, states have a responsibility to exercise universal jurisdiction and start criminal investigations in national courts, wherever there is sufficient evidence of war crimes or other crimes under international law, to arrest and bring to justice alleged perpetrators.

“Those responsible for war crimes and other serious violations must not be allowed to escape accountability and justice,” said Donatella Rovera.

Among other recommendations, the report calls on states to suspend all transfers of military equipment, assistance and munitions to Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups until there is no longer a substantial risk that such equipment will be used to commit serious violations of international law.

It calls on Israel to commit not to carry out direct, indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks on civilians; or use artillery, mortars and white phosphorus weapons in densely populated areas; and to end its blockade on the Gaza Strip, which is collectively punishing the entire population.

The report urges Hamas to renounce its policy of unlawful rocket attacks against civilian population centres in Israel and to prevent other armed groups from carrying out such attacks.

The Israeli prime minister election is coming soon, Spot the differences in Tzipi Livni images and see the awful truth�  http://9coolgames.com/play/7429_Tzipi_Livni_-_Spot_The_Difference_Game.html

Die Rede is zwar ein bischen länger, aber nichtsdestotrotz spannend, weil sie darin anführt, was aus ihrer Sicht die notwendig und wichtigen Punkte für eine zukünftiges Israel ist.

Das Bekenntnis zu einer zwei Staaten-Lösung ist etwas deutlicher ausgefallen als bei ihrem Nachfolger,  aber  sie wird auch nicht genauer. Angesprochen wird noch die problematischen Konversionen der insbesondere russischen Einwanderer, – und die Frage nach dem jüdischen Charakter des Staates Israel.

El Jefe del equipo de negociadores palestino, Ahmad Qureia llamó a la reanudación de las negociaciones con Israel desde el punto en el que fueron interrumpidas antes de las elecciones en Israel y el triunfo de Benyamin Netanyahu.
Hablando con la prensa en su despacho, Qureia dijo que Netanyahu deberá tener en consideración las negociaciones mantenidas por el anterior gobierno ya que no es posible empezar todo desde cero.
Durante el gobierno de Ehud Olmert, la Ministra de Relaciones Exteriores Tzipi Livni encabezaba las negociaciones por el lado israelí y Qureia por el lado palestino y ambos habían comenzado a tratar los temas más difíciles del conflicto palestino-israelí aunque no habían alcanzado acuerdos públicos.
Después de asumir a su cargo, Benyamín Netanyahu dijo que respetaría los acuerdos anteriores firmados por Israel pero aseguró que sólo aceptará la formación de un estado palestino desmilitarizado y que reconosca a Israel como el estado nacional del pueblo judío.
Los palestinos y también Estados Unidos exigen que Israel congele la construcción en los asentamientos en los territorios palestinos, pero el Ministro Beni Begin, del ala derecha del Likud, dice que no constituyen un obstáculo. “Decían que los asentamientos judíos en la Franja de Gaza eran un obstáculo para la paz y su evacuación debería haber llevado si no un acuerdo de paz, por lo menos a la tranquilidad y no fué así”, aseguró Begin.

‘Obama wants Livni in Netanyahu govt.’
Article: PressTV

Israeli diplomats claim that the Obama White House wants to exert pressure on the Netanyahu government to form a coalition with former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni.

Livni, who chairs the center-left Kadima party, formed the opposition after far-right Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu was tasked with forming a government in Israel.

Amid a deepening rift between Washing and Tel Aviv, Israeli diplomats have accused US president Barack Obama of pressuring Prime Minister Netanyahu to bring in the Kadima to moderate his hawkish cabinet, Israeli paper Ma’ariv reported.

“They are pressuring Livni to retreat from her opposition to joining Netanyahu’s government, so she can enter it and prevent the worsening of relations with the US,” Ma’ariv quoted a diplomatic official as saying.

The Israeli officials, who were not named by the paper, said that the Americans should respect the Israel’s idea of expansion of the Jewish settlements in the Palestinian land.

Livni formed a shadow government last month after refusing to join the largely right-wing cabinet of Netanyahu’s Likud party.

Likud MK — Member of Knesset (the Israeli parliament) — Danny Danon said that the Obama administration should respect the result of the Netanyahu’s election in February.

“The American administration thinks that there were only elections in the US,” Danon said. “Any attempt to intervene in Israeli politics only strengthens Netanyahu, who has the support of the public, especially after this interference.”

Defying the US, Netanyahu has halted Israeli-Palestinian negotiations over setting up an independent Palestinian state and has called previous US-backed agreements into question.

In April, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman sparked controversy by saying that Tel Aviv was not bound by the 2007 US-backed Annapolis deal, under which Israel agreed to the creation of a Palestinian state.

I pray the people of Israel understand that Barack Hussein Obama does NOT speak for most of us – ESPECIALLY on the subject of Israel. He was bred, bought, and groomed to be standing where he is. This has been going on for a long time. There’s no other explanation. This lack of respect and support for Israel runs much deeper than politics and nations. What a lot of people forget is that when Barack Hussein talks about “Muslim” and “Islam” – a lot of misguided fools think he’s talking about a nationality. An ethnicity. When he speaks about Israel and America – he’s actually speaking about nations. So, to the typical liberal/Obama supporter it looks great – what he’s speaking about sounds delightful. “Oh – a world without war!” “We’re NOT at war with Islam!” “We’re promoting PEACE in the middle east!” “All big bad ISRAEL has to do is wave the surrender flag and let Hamas and the Palestinians do whatever they please!” “Don’t stand in the way of a two state solution!” “Peace talks, peace talks, peace talks”. This isn’t a political issue. This isn’t a geographic issue. This isn’t an issue of “nations”. This is an issue of RELIGION. If the people of Israel listen to what Barack Hussein says – they’ll soon cease to exist. That would mean the total take over and annihilation of Israel as we ALL know it and, more importantly the Jewish people. I am so grateful that Netanyahu has a great head on his shoulders – has the support of his people – and isn’t a political kitten. He knows what he’s doing – and I hope he keeps doing it. I hope he holds his head up high and lives life knowing that he hasn’t royally screwed his people. Because Netanyahu is a man that truly loves his country. He loves his people. He is a great leader – and Israel, Don’t let OUR “leaders” ruin YOUR nation, too.

Look. He’s screwing OUR nation HARD. We are in debt up to our eyeballs, we’re constantly creating MORE debt, the government has it’s hands in all sorts of things it has no business messing with, it’s buying out and bankrupting COMPANIES, it’s slowly stripping us of our rights and our freedoms. Our morals and our values. They’re walking all over our allies and kissing up to our enemies. They say we’re not at war with Islam – but something is up. Islam sure as shit is at war with us – and up until November 4th of last year, we were READY. Now? Now it’s not looking so good. Everything here is beginning to crumble – our people have been divided and stuffed into a box and stereotyped. A lot of us are waking up – but I hope enough do before it’s too late.

I don’t know what makes his ego so inflated that he assumes he can “suggest” who should hold government positions in other nations – when the picks for his OWN cabinet have been MORE than questionable. Daschle? Geithner? Good Grief – I can’t even go on. There’s still all the wackos in the senate and… congress. :-| Nancy Pelosi bashing our CIA, Gibbs – who is a lying idiot. Can’t forget everyone’s favourite gaffe-factory Joe the Biden. We’re in ONE hell of a mess over here.

Watch our country. Watch our economy. Watch the value of the dollar. Watch the markets. Watch the bailouts. Watch the lies. Watch. See what they’re doing to US – and take my advice, as a US citizen – do JUST THE OPPOSITE of what Barack Hussein says.

Trust me.

Bismilah al rahmán y rahim

Victoria aplastante del sionismo  de gran coalición en la votación de ayer en el Parlamento que limita nuestra jurisdicción universal. Ríamonos de la sumisión estadounidense a los intereses bélicos israelíes, ríamonos de la criminalización del antisionismo en Francia, ríamonos  de los bombardeos isrelíes en el Norte de Sudán, los vínculos entre Mosad y el narcotráfico en Colombia y la conferencia Durban-II de Ginebra, porque lo nuestro es para echarse a la hoguera.  Cuatro meses después de la destrucción metódica de la vida de mínimos de la población asediada de Gaza, cuando el bloqueo y las ejecuciones de palestinos siguen en pleno rendimiento, Zapatero y su gobierno han hecho el trabajo encomendado. 8 diputados de cuatro partidos -ERC, IU, IC y BNG, que Allah los enaltezca- han tenido el honor de votar en contra de la infamia que ha propuesto el PP y que el PSOE, más allá de su permanente crítica espectacular de la “derecha”, se ha encargado de aprobar con un consenso digno de la coalición de gobierno en Alemania entre socialdemócratas y conservadores. Pero saldrá Leire Pajín a decirnos la poca vergüenza del PP, y saldrá Rajoy a decir que el PSOE no hace nada para luchar contra la crisis, ya saben, la alta política española. Livni lo quiso, Moratinos obedeció, y España legisló. Como en las Mil y Una Noches, cuando los esclavos responden siempre “escucho y obedezco”. Moratinos pasa a así de payaso a embajador bis de Israel en España. Raphael Schulz, el embajador nominal, es una especie de virrey, como los virreyes españoles en épocas lejanas, cuando el sol no se ponía en el Imperio Español.

España, España, España.

Guerra Civil 1936-1939: Fascismo contra República. Hoy la fractura se sella definitivamente entre los hijos, nietos y viznietos de ambos bandos, por fin llegan la Transsición, la Memoria Histórica, la realidad social y la unidad de los españoles. España. Soberana. Humillada ante el sionismo, pero con la cabeza alta de sus toreros, sus cantantes y su cine en Cannes. Podemos poner letra al himno, que cante el sacrificio por la patria, y nuestro orgullo de ser españoles. Que por serlo, creamos un mundo justo y próspero. Somos  por fin novios de la muerte.

Wa Allahu Akbar.

Press TV throws my mentor, libertarian socialist Palestine-Israel scholar Dr. Norman Finkelstein, with a self-proclaimed “realist” (utilitarian Newspeak regurgitator) Timothy Lynch to discuss the U.S. relationship with Israel. The next day, Dr. Finkelstein was on a panel with Phyllis Bennis and Allon Ben Meir on the ‘peace process’.

11-12 May 09 | PTV

Part One – Mr. Lynch Spins (9:09):

Part Two – Dr. Finkelstein Responds (9:37):

Part Three – Dr. Finkelstein Gets the Last Word (1:42):

“The U.S. and the Israel Lobby” – Part One (9:53):

“The U.S. and the Israel Lobby” – Part Two (9:18):

“The U.S. and the Israel Lobby” – Part Three:

[coming soon]

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