Muslim Terrorism - TERRORISTS ARE NOW TWEETING HATE
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Op-Ed
The Pioneer
Friday, May 7, 2010
Shamed and shunned by the world, Hamas has discovered twitter as an
effective platform to propagate jihad and preach its ideology of
hate, writes Jacob Shrybman
When developing this article I really couldn't decide if I was going
to write it in a satirical manner or in a concerned manner. The
concept was just so ridiculous to me, I wasn't sure how to convey it
to the world.
The military wing of the terrorist organisation Hamas, Al Qassam
Brigades -- which murders, pillages, persecutes, fires rockets,
stones, lynches, blows themselves up, etc -- has a Twitter account.
No folks, I am not joking. The days when the world is spooked by an
unmarked video or cassette tape which arrives at Al Jazeera offices
are over. You can simply "Follow" them with your personal Twitter
account.
I was stunned to see the user name @AlqassamBrigade pop up amongst
the average 100 tweets an hour mentioning Gaza. I had been to the
terrorists' website (which has the fun option to choose your
favourite colour scheme for the menus) to see their propagandised use
of images from Operation Cast Lead, and this was their matching
Twitter account.
Sitting at my laptop using our Sderot Media Center Twitter account,
@SderotMedia, most likely only a couple of miles away from the
terrorists managing the Hamas Twitter account, I thought to engage
them in dialogue on one of the base debates in this conflict:
@AlqassamBrigade As you know, you terrorise thousands just over the
border from Gaza here in Sderot. Or do you call it Najd?
Never receiving an answer and following protocol, I filed a complaint
with Twitter and this is the automated response I received: Twitter
provides a communication service. As a policy, we do not mediate
content or intervene in disputes between users. Users are allowed to
post content, including potentially inflammatory content, provided
that they do not violate the Twitter Terms of Service and Rules (name
calling is not a violation.)
Essentially, this gives the terrorist organisation the most popular
worldwide platform to preach whatever propaganda or hate speech they
like because, as you see above, "name calling is not a violation."
The automated Twitter response continues, "If a violent threat is
posted in the future, please let us know, and send the status link."
So, only if Hamas tweets about the imminent launch of a missile
attack will Twitter take action?
In the worldwide blockbuster jaw-dropping movie Bruno, created by
comic mastermind Sasha Baron Cohen, the main character Bruno is
attempting to make peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict and while
hosting a dialogue session he continually misuses the word "Hamas"
for "Hummus;" it exemplifies the great light humour for which Baron
Cohen is famous. The mainstream legitimisation of the terrorist
organisation Hamas is so widespread that, these days, it is almost a
household term and this is how the caricaturist can comically draw
that connection on screen.
However, it is more than a joke when the entire world has turned its
back on Hamas' actions for nearly a decade thereby accepting it into
the public domain. Rocket and suicide attacks on Jewish civilians are
clearly not enough, but why won't the world delegitimise Hamas for
human rights abuses such as "honour killings?" Instead, the United
Nations and Judge Goldstone chose to give Hamas and radical Islam
around the world an over 500-page report to continue their terrorism.
Let's be clear: This is not an issue of freedom of speech as Hamas is
a terrorist organisation even to the UN. I encourage everyone with a
Twitter account to file a complaint against Hamas' account
@AlqassamBrigade to get Hamas out of our households and stop the
tweeting of terror.
- The writer is the Assistant Director of the Sderot Media Center.
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The entire world can now see who the REAL criminals are
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The Wood Royal Commission unleased an extraordinary investigation that
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The Inquisition by award-winning filmmakers Rachel Landers and Dylan
Blowen brings together the major players in the Commission for the
first time in twelve years.
It has been said that since the First Fleet arrived Australians have
been unsure whether they were on the side of the convicts or the
guards. From that moment allegations of corruption, and the Australian
police force have never been far apart. By the 1970s many began to
suspect that the 16,000 member New South Wales police force – the 3rd
largest in the world – was rotten with entrenched corruption.
There was talk of high-level police protecting drug dealers and
trafficking drugs themselves; of police involved in assault, in
verballing, in fabricating evidence... even in murder.
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The Wood Royal Commission unleased an extraordinary investigation that
swept through the NSW Police Force like a tsunami. For many, the
stakes were life or death. Not everyone survived.
The Inquisition by award-winning filmmakers Rachel Landers and Dylan
Blowen brings together the major players in the Commission for the
first time in twelve years.
It has been said that since the First Fleet arrived Australians have
been unsure whether they were on the side of the convicts or the
guards. From that moment allegations of corruption, and the Australian
police force have never been far apart. By the 1970s many began to
suspect that the 16,000 member New South Wales police force – the 3rd
largest in the world – was rotten with entrenched corruption.
There was talk of high-level police protecting drug dealers and
trafficking drugs themselves; of police involved in assault, in
verballing, in fabricating evidence... even in murder.
In 1994 an extraordinary confluence of events allowed a now legendary
team of corruption fighters to take them on. To do so they unleashed
an investigative model so extreme, it seemed to challenge the very
boundaries of justice itself.
Told by the key players themselves: Independent MP John Hatton;
Justice James Wood; Counsels Gary Crooke and John Agius; and
Investigator Nigel Hadgkiss, The Inquisition is the story of the Wood
Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service that became an
international model for battling entrenched corruption.
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If we stand together we can demand they obey the LAW eventually they
will arrest the REAL criminals and REAL terrorists
As long as there remains a few honest Police officers there remains
SOME small hope we can regain pride in our country
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Topaz
Last Saturday George Bush addressed the United Nations General
Assembly, urging all of the member nations to join the United States
in bringing pressure to bear against all countries that sponsor
terrorism or harbor terrorists. He did it in his standard mock-serious
way, barely suppressing a smirk. Everyone applauded, including the
representative of a country that from its founding until the present
day has sponsored terrorism. That country, of course, is Israel.
The prime minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, is a war criminal, a mass
murderer, with the blood of thousands of women and children on his
hands. He is being sought now for trial by the same Hague Tribunal
that succeeded in extraditing former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic for trial on charges of crimes against humanity in Kosovo,
the same Hague Tribunal that already has tried and sentenced soldiers
who raped and murdered in Bosnia and in Rwanda.
In 1982, during Israel's invasion of Lebanon, Ariel Sharon was
Israel's defense minister. After the bloody terror-bombing of civilian
neighborhoods in Beirut that killed thousands of Lebanese and
Palestinian civilians -- terror bombing carried out by Jews flying
military aircraft supplied to Israel by the United States - Sharon
arranged for the evacuation of Palestinian fighters from Lebanon.
Palestinian women, children, and old people were left behind in
refugee camps, with their safety guaranteed by the United States. On
the night of September 16, 1982, Sharon sent murder squads into two
Palestinian refugee camps, Sabra and Chatila, in West Beirut to kill
the unarmed Palestinian civilians in the camps. With Israeli tanks and
troops surrounding the camps to prevent any of the Palestinians from
escaping, Sharon's murder squads shot, knifed, and bludgeoned
Palestinian civilians all that night and the next day and the
following night, while the Israelis around the camps listened
gleefully to the shots and screams coming from inside. Then Sharon
sent in bulldozers to scoop out mass burial pits and cover up the
corpses of more than 2,000 Palestinian women and children.
Many Palestinians remained unburied, however, and Red Cross workers
found whole families in their homes with their throats cut and other
families who had been lined up and machine-gunned, from small children
to elderly grandparents. One infant had been stomped to death by a man
wearing spiked boots.
This was Ariel Sharon's work, but only a part of his work. He is a man
who believes the teaching of the Talmud that only Jews are human
beings, and that all who are not Jews were put on this earth only to
serve the Jews, and that anyone who opposes the Jews deserves to be
killed, and he has acted in accord with this belief all his life.
There are a dozen major atrocities for which he could be tried by the
Hague Tribunal, but the one with which he is charged now is the mass
murder he implemented, as Israel's defense minister, in West Beirut in
September 1982. And the U.S. government, which clamored for Slobodan
Milosevic to be turned over to the Hague Tribunal for trial, pretends
that it knows nothing about Sharon's genocidal crimes against
humanity.
In the 1950s Israel's Mossad, the equivalent of the CIA in the United
States, sent hundreds of letter bombs to German scientists working in
Egypt and Syria, killing a number of them.
In 1967, during Israel's war against Egypt, the Israeli army carried
out a number of mass executions of Egyptian prisoners of war in the
Sinai, forcing them to dig ditches, then lining them up and shooting
them. Dozens of eyewitnesses to these mass executions have reported
what they saw, but the world's politicians and media bosses pretend
not to know.
Also in 1967 Israel attacked the U.S. Navy ship, the U.S.S. Liberty,
attempting to sink it and kill its crew and then blame the sinking on
the Egyptians.
Israeli agents have carried out assassinations and other terrorist
operations around the world. One of the most colorful of these
operations -- and one of the few that received major media coverage -
was the attempt to murder a prominent Muslim cleric in Jordan in 1997.
Two Israeli agents sprayed poison in the ear of Khaled Meshal as they
walked past him on a sidewalk in Amman. Fortunately, Meshal's
bodyguards were able to catch the two Jews as they ran away, and so
the assassination attempt was publicized.
Israel has stolen nuclear materials and nuclear weapons technology
from the United States to build an illegal nuclear arsenal. Israel
also is known to have developed an arsenal of biological and chemical
weapons of mass destruction.
None of these Israeli activities is secret. Those I've mentioned are
just a few of the ones that were found out and publicized. Not
publicized very much, of course. In fact, they all were dropped from
the news pretty quickly. Still, everyone attending Mr. Bush's speech
at the United Nations last Saturday knew about them. And yet, no one
stood up and booed. No one walked out in protest. Bush's speech was
covered by all of the major newspapers and television networks in the
world, but no reporter for any news medium operating in the West
commented on his hypocrisy. No one mentioned Israel's terrorism.
Everyone knew, but everyone played along.
These people weren't lemmings. Lemmings really don't know any better.
Lemmings are essentially moral creatures; in fact they are
compulsively moral. To lemmings it is essential to feel and think and
act the way they believe they are expected to feel and think and act.
That's morality. Most groups of lemmings believe that it is bad to
lie, to deceive, to be hypocritical. If during George Bush's speech at
the United Nations a substantial part of the audience had walked out
in disgust, and at the end the remaining delegates had stood up and
booed him loudly, and if the media commentators then had remarked with
scorn to their television audiences that Bush is a hypocrite who talks
about stopping state-sponsored terrorism while continuing to finance
Israeli terrorism, the lemmings would have booed him too.
But Bush's lies and hypocrisy were ignored by the media and by the
other delegates. Instead of booing, they applauded him. And so the
lemmings applauded him too. It was all an act for the benefit of the
lemmings. Nearly all politics these days, nearly every speech or
public appearance by a politician or a government official, is an act
of showmanship. What is said has relatively little relationship to
what the politician actually is thinking.
Certainly, last Saturday George Bush wasn't really thinking about
waging war on countries that sponsor terrorism or harbor terrorists.
He was thinking first and foremost about the importance of pleasing
the Jewish media with his speech. He may have been keeping his fingers
crossed and hoping that no Arab delegate would jump up during his
speech and shout at him, "What about Israel? You say that we should
wage war on states that sponsor terrorism. Israel engages in
state-sponsored terrorism more than Afghanistan and all the other
countries in the Middle East combined. When will you send your B-52s
to carpet-bomb Tel Aviv and Jerusalem?" And at the end he must have
marveled to himself how smoothly the act went and how easy it is to
deceive the public.
Crookedness of this sort has been going on for a long time. There are
only two things that make this latest crookedness noteworthy. First,
it is being used to justify yet another war that is not in the
interests of the American people. It is being used to justify dropping
cluster bombs on villagers whom we have no good reason to kill. And
second, it is a lot more obviously crooked than usual. Osama bin Laden
caught the Bush government and the media by surprise, and they didn't
have time to refine and polish their lies. All they could do was
pretend that they had no idea why he would attack the United States
and then claim that it must be because he hates our freedom. They
didn't have time to put up their usual smokescreen of obfuscation.
They simply launched their denunciations of terrorism and terrorists
and of governments that tolerate terrorism and hoped that no one would
say anything about Israel or Ariel Sharon or Israel's policies of
assassination and torture.
Because the crookedness is more obvious now than usual, more
perceptive people than usual are noticing it and saying something
about it, and that's good. But these perceptive few who are unhappy
enough about the crookedness to speak out have little or no voice in
the mass media, and so the lemmings remain oblivious to the realities
of the situation.
That's the wonderful thing about democracy: you don't have to try to
fool all of the people; all you have to do is fool most of the people
all of the time, and that's pretty easy to do when you control the
mass media. You can just ignore the few who refuse to go along with
the act, and the great majority of the voters will never notice.
So why do I care that the system is crooked? Why should you care? Why
not just pretend not to notice the crookedness and go along with it,
like everyone else? Pretend to be a lemming, but stay alert to
possibilities for profiting from the fact that, unlike the lemmings,
you really are secretly aware of who's who and what's what. That's
what the big shots do. That's what the people do who care only about
themselves and don't give a damn what happens to their country or
their race or the civilization built by their race, as long as they
personally are able to turn a profit from events. That's what George
Bush does. He pretends to care about all sorts of things. He pretends
to be outraged by terrorism, but he shakes Ariel Sharon's hand and
gives him a big hug whenever Sharon shows up in Washington. He
pretends not to be aware of Sharon's record as a mass murderer, a war
criminal, a terrorist, a man who sends out teams of assassins and
orders the Israeli police to torture prisoners.
A lot of people think and behave the way George Bush does. A lot of
people believe that's the only smart way to be. We're living in a
society in which a great many people are completely alienated,
completely disconnected from any sense of responsibility to race or
nation or to anyone but themselves: amoral people, people willing to
do anything they believe is personally advantageous, people for whom
every public expression is simply an act. And because there are so
many people like that, including virtually everyone in the government
and in the media, America is very, very sick.
I'll go further: individuals who think and behave that way are sick.
George Bush is a very sick man. Anyone who consciously and
deliberately betrays his own race or his own nation, anyone who
commits treason, is a defective person, a sick person. And George
Bush, by consciously following a policy he knows is not in the
interests of America but only serves Israel's interests, a policy he
knows is responsible for the September 11 attack against America, a
policy he continues to follow despite that knowledge, is a traitor.
That's George Bush I'm talking about, the President of the United
States. He may look stupid, but he knows what he's doing. George Bush
believes he's a smart guy, a guy who knows which side his bread is
buttered on, a guy who can get away with anything as long as the
Jewish media will back him up. And so far he has been getting away
with it. In a democracy, hypocrisy works; lying works. As long as you
have the mass media on your side you can get away with anything,
because the majority of the voters never will figure it out.
What has been happening in Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul and other northern
cities in Afghanistan this week is a good example. The big act put on
by George Bush and his British counterpart Tony Blair and all of their
media supporters since the campaign to destabilize Afghanistan began
last month -- the big act was that the Taliban is a bunch of
tyrannical fanatics who brutalize women, sponsor terrorism, and do
lots of other bad things, and the Northern Alliance, which was
supplied with weapons and money by the U.S. government while we bombed
the Taliban to smithereens, is a bunch of Sunday school teachers and
Boy Scouts. The United States will deliver Afghanistan into the hands
of the Northern Alliance, and then everything will be rosy and
peaceful and democratic. The people who had been tyrannized by the
Taliban will be free and happy under the Northern Alliance. The
Americans will be the good guys, who have made this wonderful
improvement possible.
Well, of course, it hasn't worked out that way. As soon as the
Northern Alliance took over each city it began rounding up people it
didn't like, people who belonged to the wrong tribe, for example, and
raping and killing them. There have been dozens of mass executions and
mass rapes by the Northern Alliance troops this week. There are a lot
of people they don't like. And the ones who just get raped or shot are
the lucky ones. Eyes are being gouged out, breasts are being cut off,
prisoners are being castrated and impaled and skinned alive or burned
to death. That's the way things are done in the Middle East. When the
British tried to pacify the country in the 19th century, the rule was
never to let yourself be taken alive. If you were wounded and left
behind, you always saved your last cartridge for yourself. Rudyard
Kipling wrote about that:
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
"And the women come out to cut up what remains,
"Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
"An' go to your Gawd like a soldier."
The Russians learned the same lesson, to their sorrow, just a little
over a decade ago. And the military people around George Bush
certainly were aware of the experiences of the British and the
Russians. The Taliban indeed may be a rough and brutal bunch, but no
more rough and brutal than the people paid and armed by the U.S.
government. When the Taliban was in charge at least there was peace
and stability. There were no massacres or gang rapes. The U.S.
government, with its bombing campaign and its mercenary troops in the
Northern Alliance, has succeeded in destabilizing large portions of
Afghanistan, and the rapes and mutilations and mass executions have
started.
But the lemmings won't hear enough about that for it to sink in.
George Bush will continue lying and smirking and pretending that the
Northern Alliance are the good guys, and America is bringing freedom
and democracy and happiness to Afghanistan. What the United States
actually is trying to do is set up a government a little more corrupt
than that of the Taliban: a government that we can control with bribes
and threats and that will not be a danger to Israel. That's the whole
purpose of our war against Afghanistan.
It's the same sort of crookedness that we saw in connection with the
Second World War. The pretext that the British government used for
declaring war against Germany in 1939 was the safeguarding of Poland's
freedom. When the Roosevelt government in the United States finally
was able to use the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as an excuse for
jumping into the war against Germany, the act by the media and the
politicians here was that Americans were being the good guys and would
bomb the Germans to smithereens in order to protect American freedom
and the freedom of Europe. And the people to whom we shipped military
supplies so they could help us were the Soviets under good old Uncle
Joe Stalin, that kind and fatherly fellow who also was being
threatened by the wicked Germans.
Of course, what we did, after carpet-bombing German cities and killing
enough Germans to make them surrender, was turn Poland and the Baltic
states and half the rest of Europe over to communist rule for half a
century. It had never been the intention of either the British
government or the U.S. government to free anybody. We knew what sort
of people the communists were. We knew that they had butchered the
cream of the Polish nation in the Katyn forest and elsewhere - 25,000
Polish military officers and professors and physicians and engineers
and writers - but our government and media people pretended that it
was the Germans who had done it and that we were "liberating" Europe
from the Germans and protecting American freedom, which never was
threatened by the Germans.
It was all an act. The aim was not to safeguard anybody's freedom; it
was to destroy Germany because the Germans had gotten the Jews off
their backs and out of their country. We made war against Germany in
order to make Europe safe for the Jews and for no other reason. We are
making war against Afghanistan now in order to make the Middle East
safe for the Jews, and for no other reason. Everything else is an act
to keep the public fooled. And the public will be fooled: just as they
never figured out what World War Two was all about, they won't figure
out what the war against Afghanistan is all about. They may hear
rumors about the massacres being carried out now by the Northern
Alliance, but the television people won't spell it out for them, won't
show them gory pictures of the piles of corpses, and so the public
won't get it.
So again, why should you care? Why not just go along with the act, the
way the big shots do?
That's a hard question to answer, in this sense: If you're like George
Bush or any of the other big shots who think they're being smart by
going along with the act and collaborating with the Jews against their
own people - if you think that's the smart way to behave - then you
won't understand my answer, no matter how carefully I explain it. If
you're a person who already is totally alienated - if you're an amoral
person who already is completely disconnected from your race and its
traditions and values and you think of yourself solely as an
individual scrambling to get an advantage over other individuals by
any means that will work - you won't understand my answer.
But if you still have some sense of being a part of something larger
and more permanent than yourself -- if you still have a sense of
racial identity, a sense of kinship with a larger family of fellow
Europeans, of fellow White men and women with whom you share
traditions and values and a way of looking at the world - if you value
the civilization your ancestors built over the last 5,000 years, if
you think of it as your civilization - then my answer is superfluous.
You already know the answer. You already understand why you must not
collaborate with creatures who secretly sneer at your values, who are
contemptuous of the traditions and history of your people, who have
been working for thousands of years to corrupt your civilization, and
who are determined to annihilate your race. You already understand why
men who do collaborate with these creatures must not be permitted to
make laws and set policies governing your people. You understand that
instead of being applauded and looked at with respect, they should be
hanged as traitors and as a warning to others who might be tempted
also to betray our people. You already understand that truthfulness
and righteousness are their own reward.
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Topaz
By Stuart Littlewood
31 December 2008
Stuart Littlewood shows how Israel's public relations strategy frames
and defines the situation in Israel's own terms regardless of the
truth and, using advanced propaganda skills and the elaborate Israel
lobby network, it seeks to persuade Western politicians and media to
accept Israel's version of events.
While the murderous assault on Gaza continues, I notice there's a
briefing document on the website of the Israeli Embassy in London
which has a lie in every line. The West's mainstream media repeat
them, and even the most senior TV and radio interviewers don't bother
to challenge them.
The document is a transcript of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's
statement to the Israeli press dated 27 December 2008 - a day that
will live in infamy. It is a perfect example of the falsehoods used to
dupe not only us Westerners but Israel's own people. The statement
shows how the regime's view of itself is constructed on a web of
dishonesty and self-delusion.
For example:
* "Israeli citizens have been under the threat of daily attack from
Gaza for years."
Palestinians have been under harsh Israeli occupation for 60 years.
* "Only this week hundreds of missiles and mortars shells were fired
at Israeli civilian communities."
Only one in 500 Qassam rockets causes a fatality. How many
thousands of Israeli bombs, missiles, rockets, grenades and
tank-shells have been blasted into the crowded city and towns of the
Gaza Strip by Israel's high-tech weaponry??
* "Until now we have shown restraint. But today there is no other
option than a military operation."
The only legitimate option for Israel is to end the occupation
and withdraw behind its 1967 border, as required under international
law and UN resolutions. Israel has been killing Palestinians at the
rate of 8 to 1 since 2000, and children at the rate of nearly 12 to 1
(B'Tselem figures). This is somebody's idea of restraint?
* "We need to protect our citizens from attack through a military
response against the terror infrastructure in Gaza."
Self-defence is not a right exclusive to Israel. Palestinians
have an equal right to protect their citizens from the terror tactics
of Israel.
* "Israel left Gaza in order to create an opportunity for peace."
Israel never left Gaza. It still occupies Gaza's airspace and
coastal waters and controls all entrances and exits.
* "In return, the Hamas terror organization took control of Gaza
and is using its citizens as cover while it deliberately targets
Israeli communities and denies any chance for peace."
Hamas was voted into power as the legitimate government of
Palestine. Israel chose not to accept the people's choice, which
amounted to a denial of their human rights, and immediately set about
obliterating it.
* "We have tried everything to reach calm without using force. We
agreed to a truce through Egypt that was violated by Hamas, which
continued to target Israel, hold Gilad Shalit and build up its arms."
Try talking. The Israelis' ongoing siege and economic blockade,
begun shortly after Hamas was elected early in 2006, was never going
to generate calm. And why is Shalit considered more important than the
9,000 Palestinians abducted and held prisoner by Israel? As soon as a
Hamas government was formed Israeli troops arrested eight Hamas
ministers and 20 other parliamentarians, making the work of government
impossible.
* "Israel continues to act to prevent humanitarian crisis and to
minimize harm to Palestinian civilians."
Every agency operating in Gaza has warned of the deepening
humanitarian crisis and protested about the starvation and suffering,
especially of children many of whom show evidence of stunted growth.
* "The responsibility for harm to civilians lies with Hamas."
Not according to the Fourth Geneva Convention.
* "Hamas is a terrorist organization, supported by Iran, that
does not represent the legitimate national interests of the
Palestinian people but a radical Islamist agenda that seeks to deny
peace for the peoples of this region."
Hamas was the popular choice of Palestinians at the last
election. It is entitled under international law to take up arms
against an illegal occupier and invader. If it is supported by Iran,
so what? Israel receives mega-support from the US. When it comes to
terror, it is Israel's conduct which fits the US definition of
terrorism so perfectly
- see Bush's Executive Order 13224, Section 3.
* "While confronting Hamas, Israel continues to believe in the
two-state solution and remains committed to negotiations with the
legitimate Palestinian Authority in the context of the peace process,
launched at Annapolis."
Israel is busy establishing irreversible facts on the ground
that make a viable Palestinian state impossible. As everyone knows,
the regime has reneged on the peace process and carries on building
illegal settlements and the illegal Wall, and demolishing Palestinian
homes. Months ago Hamas accepted a Palestinian state based on
internationally recognized (pre-1967) borders, in accordance with UN
resolutions, with full sovereignty and its capital in Jerusalem, but
this has been ignored. Hamas also offered a 10-year truce, also
ignored. Earlier, Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation
Organization recognized the State of Israel in the Oslo agreement but
what good did it do? Today's US-backed, Fatah-controlled Palestinian
Authority is not representative of the Palestinian people.
* "Israel expects the support and understanding of the
international community, as it confronts terror, and advances the
interest of all those who wish the forces of peace and co existence to
determine the agenda of this region."
Israel, next to the US, is the biggest purveyor of terror in the
region and only advances its own interests. It may get the support of
Israel lobby stooges in other Western governments but is rapidly
earning the contempt of everybody else.
From a statement dated 22 December 2008:
* "Hamas, backed by Iran, has regularly stated its desire to see
the complete destruction of Israel."
Israel is itself a leading destroyer and currently engaged in
trying to wipe out Hamas and the Gazans. Iran's President Ahmadinajad
quoted the late Ayatollah Khomeini as saying that "this regime
occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time" - fair comment
considering that Jerusalem, with Bethlehem, was designated an
"international city" under the UN Partition Plan. Israeli propaganda
twisted the Iranian's words to read "Israel must be wiped off the
map". Zionist sources and the manifestos of Israeli political parties
have made it clear for a long time that Israel plans to wipe Palestine
off the map, and every act and lie is directed towards that end.
* "Our fight is not with the people of Gaza; it is with the
extremists of Hamas."
Then why does the Israeli navy harass and fire on peaceable
Gazan fishermen who are well within their own territorial waters? Why
does Israel prevent Palestinian students from taking up places at
foreign universities and block hospital spares, medicines, foodstuffs
and foreign medics from entering Gaza? Why has the Israeli navy just
rammed a mercy vessel in international waters taking doctors and
medicines to Gaza? Latest air strikes have hit the Islamic University
and the Ministry of Education. These are direct attacks on Gazan civil
society and its infrastructure.
* "Hamas started this conflict, and it bears responsibility for
any harm to civilians on either side."
The conflict, started by Jewish terrorists, has been going on
for 60 years, decades before Hamas came into being.
* "Israel's only responsibility is to protect Israeli citizens."
As the occupying power Israel has a duty to see that the people
of the occupied territories come to no harm.
* "Just as Israel seeks to defend its civilian population, Hamas
seeks to kill them."
This reads far better the other way round: "Just as Hamas seeks
to defend its civilian population, Israel seeks to kill them."
* "Rocket attacks have continued for years and are now a daily
occurrence. How long does the international community expect Israel
will wait before defending itself against them?"
The rocket attacks will end when Israel ends the occupation and
stops terrorizing its neighbours.
* "In the south of Israel, Israeli citizens live with air raid
sirens sounding every day - sometimes every hour. Their situation is
intolerable."
Not half as intolerable as it is for the Gazans, who live in
constant fear of air raids and re-invasion and are constantly under
surveillance by armed drones which can fire missiles under computer
control from an armchair in Israeli headquarters.
* "For years, the international community has turned a blind eye
to this onslaught. Only when Israel seeks to stop the rockets do they
take notice."
For years the international community has turned a blind eye to
Israel's violations of international law and human rights, which is
why the problem remains unsolved.
* "Hamas is not only the enemy of Israel - it is the enemy of
every Palestinian who believes in peace."
Israelis just can't come to terms with the Palestinians'
democratic choice and are bent on obliterating it.
* "It is Hamas' attacks - not Israel's reactions - that destroy
every opportunity we have for peace."
The world has managed to work out by now that Israel doesn't
want peace until it has stolen all the land and water it needs to
expand its racist state into a "Greater Israel". It is well on the way
to achieving this and won't be thwarted.
* "Palestinian militants targeted by Israel are not just the
enemies of the Israeli people; they are criminals under international
law, and enemies of peace."
Israel is in no position to preach international law.
* "What is collective punishment? 'Collective punishment' is a
city - schools, hospitals, homes - civilians being bombarded every
single day by rockets and mortars."
Collective punishment is keeping a whole population bottled up
under siege and blocking supplies and exports, smashing their
infrastructure, wrecking their economy and starving their children.
Trying to equate Sderot with what's happening in the Gaza Strip is
idiotic.
* "Today's Middle East is divided between extremists and
pragmatists. Hamas, backed by Iran, belongs to the extremists, who
must be defeated for the sake of the future of the Middle East...
Israel's primary goal is peace."
Israel's primary goal is the expansion of Israel by making the
occupation of the West Bank permanent and bringing the Gazans to their
knees.
The core issue in this struggle is the illegality of Israel's brutal
occupation. Israel goes to great lengths to avoid and suppress all
mention of it and play-acts the pathetic victim. As the official
statements (above) show, the strategy is to frame and define the
situation in Israel's own terms regardless of the truth. It uses
advanced propaganda skills, and the elaborate Israel lobby network, to
persuade Western politicians and media to accept Israel's version of
events (and even use Israel's biased language) and not question its
motives.
In political public relations terms it works wonderfully well. The
loony leaders of my own government happily spread the poison and don't
seem interested in halting Israeli aggression and the vaporizing,
dismembering and crushing of Gaza's population. In human PR terms it
is a disaster.
I have been listening to the BBC's senior interviewers these last few
days. None has had the gumption to ask Israeli spokesmen the only
question that matters - the "killer" question on which hangs the key
to peace: WHEN IS ISRAEL GOING TO END ITS OCCUPATION AND RETURN TO THE
PALESTINIANS THEIR LANDS AND FREEDOM?
Stuart Littlewood is author of the book Radio Free Palestine, which
tells the plight of the Palestinians under occupation. For further
information please visit www.radiofreepalestine.co.uk