Thread: Israel savages Gaza - again What the media aren't telling you.

Israel savages Gaza - again
What the media aren't telling you.



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The reality of Gaza.

It's called the "biggest open air
prison in the world."

You hear the news talk about
it every day, but no one talks
about the life of the human
beings there.

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Atrocities upon Atrocities you can not tell who is who and what is going on...these people are bound and determined to kill each other..No matter what...

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Israel Launches Ground Offensive In Gaza

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Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post

As much of the world focuses on the Malaysian flight that was allegedly shot down over Ukraine, Israel is preparing to launch a ground offensive against Palestinians living in Gaza.

Announcing the offensive on Twitter, the Israeli Defense Forces wrote "Our goal is to target Hamas' tunnels that enable terrorists to infiltrate Israel and carry out attacks.”

Although there was a brief ceasefire early Thursday so as to allow “residents to stock up on food and other supplies,” fighting resumed between the Israeli occupiers and Hamas when rockets were fired into Israeli occupied territory.

The Israelis responded by launching two airstrikes in the Gaza strip.

Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, stated that the operation will be open-ended and that “We [Israel] will be striking the infrastructure. We will be striking the operatives in order to safeguard the civilians of the state of Israel especially issues to do with tunneling, that was exemplified earlier today."

The ground offensive comes as no surprise as thousands of Israeli soldiers had begun massing on the border of Gaza in recent days.
Israeli media have already reported the rumblings of Israeli tanks and D9 bulldozers that are now making their way across the border and signaling that the operation has both a military goal as well as a political agenda of ethnic cleansing.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that he has instructed the military to go ahead with the operation after Hamas rejected an Egyptian-brokered peace plan.

"In light of the despicable and relentless aggression by Hamas and the dangerous infiltration into Israel, Israel is obliged to protect its citizens," he said.

Protecting Israeli citizens, of course, is simply another name for the ethnic cleansing and further colonization of land that does not belong to the occupying force known to the world as Israel.

Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria. Turbeville has published over 300 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville's podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/07/...a.html#!bhGTel

The Fog of Hate


NOTHING SUPERSEDES HALTING WARS OF AGGRESSION, and REVENGE - ESPECIALLY IN GAZA!!!!


Here is utube, (thanks Harriet) from Benjamen H. Freedman, "The Zionist Jew Agenda" It is well worth considering.


While in my opinion, these atrocities call for a TOTAL STRIKE, I realize that most unfortunately do no not agree. So at the very least, here is a link to boycott Israeli Products.............how much time we have to affect change and restrict the amount of death is up to us. We also need to boycott nestle, who is buying up WATER RIGHTS!!!

WE OUTNUMBER THEM!!!! CORPORATIONS ONLY RUN WHEN THE WORKERS SHOW UP!!!
WE ARE ALL PRISONER'S OF WAR UNTIL WE ARE NOT........

WHAT IS LIFE FOR???? DEBT??? RITUALS???? OBEDIENCE?????


SELF OWNERSHIP, COOPERATION, NON-AGGRESSION, HONORABLE DEFENSE AND MORAL STEWARDSHIP!!!!


UNITED WE STRIKE, UNITED WE WIN

Karen




Dear friends,

Over 200 people have been killed in the last week, 41 of them are children. The media tells us this is due to a decades old conflict fueled by hate. This hate is a fog that conceals the real obstacle to peace -- war and subjugation are profitable, so certain companies keep them alive. It's time we tell these companies to uphold the law and divest!

I haven't slept in the last 10 days. Friends in Gaza call me throughout the night to tell me who we've lost. My heart is swollen with sadness. Over 200 people have been killed, 41 are kids. I have lived through these cycles of violence my whole life. But at this moment in history there is finally a way to put an end to it, once and for all, and our global community is the key.

The media talks about the current war as part of an unsolvable conflict fueled by hate. But this hate is a fog that conceals the real obstacle to peace -- war and subjugation are profitable, so companies have kept them alive, for decades. That's why the only solid way to peace is to cut the revenues that sustain the violence.

The good news is the companies and investors that make Middle East peace impossible are well known. Governments have been unwilling to stop them. So it's up to us -- normal people everywhere who believe in human dignity and the sanctity of peace, to put an end to their abuses. Click the link below to call on these companies to stop profiting from repression:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/gaza_thi...XJCnbb&v=42559

From conflict diamonds in Western Africa to oil companies in the Middle East, there have always been companies that bankroll war and persecution. In South Africa under apartheid, people like us launched a global movement and proved that when enough people stand up to abusive companies, they withdraw, and freedom becomes attainable.

In Israel and Palestine, Caterpillar and other bulldozers have demolished over 20,000 homes, making 160,000 Palestinians homeless. France's Veolia owns and operates transport for Israeli settlers illegally living on Palestinian lands, sustaining a system of segregation. The Netherlands' pension fund ABP allows its Israeli financial partners to fund illegal colonies in occupied Palestine. These illegal settlements breed fanatics like those who just burnt 16-year old Mohammad alive in Jerusalem. Computer giant Hewlett-Packard supplies sophisticated surveillance to control the movement of Palestinians. British G4S provides extensive security equipment that runs the Israeli occupation. And Barclays invests in military companies that produce the hardware and drones that are right now dropping bombs on kids in Gaza and are at the core of the blockade the UN has called "inhumane". These companies can pull out their investments in an instant, but they won't unless they feel they are publicly toxic. It's up to us to come together, change the equation, and tell them: enough is enough!

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/gaza_thi...XJCnbb&v=42559

To many, particularly in Europe and North America, calling for withdrawing investments from companies that perpetuate human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine is described as biased and controversial. But it's not – it's the most potent non-violent strategy to end the cycle of violence. Today, it's the quickest path to changing the stagnant status quo in a way that will allow all the people in the holy land to live with freedom, dignity and security.

International momentum is building to have these companies end their human rights abuses. EU states have recently issued a potent warning about the risks of investing in this conflict. Yet they continue undaunted because nobody is holding them accountable. That's where we come in. Many of our well known companies, pension funds, banks, and governments financially sustain this violence. We must tell these companies that we don't want any part of this. Experts on both sides have told us that this is the best way forward. If we together get these companies to pull out, we could set off a tipping point that will bring us closer to peace:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/gaza_thi...XJCnbb&v=42559

Our community is guided by a great feeling of love for humanity. The fog of hate has never fooled nor hindered us. That's why we have taken courageous stances to tackle the most intractable challenges of our time. A massive campaign will make those making profits from the bombing of Gaza think twice. But more importantly, it will give my friends hope in a better world, where human solidarity trumps money. With the violence escalating uncontrollably, the time has come to look past the fog of hate and end the true cause of horror for the families on both sides.

With hope and determination,

Fadi Q. with the Avaaz team


MORE INFORMATION:

Under pressure, a strong EU-Israel relationship faces uncertain future
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/ar...certain-future

Israel-Gaza conflict: 80 per cent of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes are civilians, UN report says (The Independent)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...s-9606397.html

Palestinians: Most Gaza dead are children, women, elderly (Haaretz)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...emium-1.604443

UN independent expert calls for boycott of businesses profiting from Israeli settlements (UN)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.as...6#.U7_ynqhMrRI

12 more EU countries warn against trade with Israeli settlements (Haaretz)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...emium-1.603030

Caught on Tape: US Teen Allegedly Beaten by Israeli Police (ABC News)
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/caug...gedly-24449873

Israelis, Palestinians Pro Peace Process, but Not Hopeful (Gallup)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/161456/is...t-hopeful.aspx

Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry (WHO Profits)
http://www.whoprofits.org/

Europeans move against settlements revive Israel boycott fears (FT)
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9b35c...44feabdc0.html



I got this from my email friend Karen this morning and thought I would pass this one on, she does "United We Strike" newsletters....I really believe the Psychopaths of the world just want us all to kill each other, and they are using divisions in everyone and everything to accomplish it, leaving them the spoils for their "NWO" control of us all... There is some interesting information in this email...My opinion of course...

Some how I posted this in the wrong place and I just found it


Obama's Jihad Against Israel as Nation Fights for Survival Against Overwhelming Odds : Freedom Outpost http://ow.ly/z6GDJ




Obama's Jihad Against Israel as Nation Fights for Survival Against Overwhelming Odds - Freedom Outpost
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Barack Obama, of all people, wants to broker a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. Here's the thing. Nobody asked him. His offer is just more not-so-subtle pressure upon the Jewish state. Essentially, Obama wants Israel to stop defending herself. Obama has been on a jihad against Israel ever since he took office. He is deeply, …


Obama's Jihad Against Israel as Nation Fights for Survival Against Overwhelming Odds

Pamela Geller 18 hours ago

Barack Obama, of all people, wants to broker a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel

Here's the thing. Nobody asked him. His offer is just more not-so-subtle pressure upon the Jewish state. Essentially, Obama wants Israel to stop defending herself.
Obama has been on a jihad against Israel ever since he took office. He is deeply, deeply anti-Israel. Summing up Obama's approach to global conflicts, he always sides against freedom and with submission:

Muslim Brotherhood? Check!
Al-Qaida in Syria? Check!
Al-Qaida in Libya? Check!
Muslim Brotherhood in Syria? Check!
Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza (Hamas)? Check!
Jihad regime in Iran? Check!

Israel? Bully, threaten and humiliate the tiny Jewish state.
But the law of unintended consequences will surely kick in (as it has in every one of Obama's catastrophic foreign policy blunders). Israel will rely on her own power. Israel must not look to America now. Israel must no longer subjugate her national self-interest to the capricious whim of America.

The savagery of Hamas in targeting innocent civilians doesn't bother Obama. Nor does the cheering of Palestinian Muslims in Hebron as Hamas rockets fly toward Israeli population centers. Now Hamas has warned airlines not to fly into Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. Will he tell Netanyahu to turn over half of Ben-Gurion Airport, as well as half of Jerusalem, to the jihadis?

Obama's incoherent and disastrous foreign policy has remade the Middle East in the few short years of his reign. A once-stable region has now descended into the mad chaos of Islamic wars and conquest.

The Islamic State is tearing through the Middle East, conquering one city, one town after another. Jihad groups across Africa wage bloody holy war in Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Kenya and beyond. Hamas continues its barrage of rockets against the tiny Jewish state.

Pamela Geller's commitment to freedom from jihad and Shariah shines forth in her books
In the midst of this jihad onslaught, Obama is writing strongly worded op-eds, praising the jihadists while backhandedly scolding Israel. In an op-ed in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Obama wrote: "In President Abbas, Israel has a counterpart committed to a two-state solution and security cooperation with Israel." He offered no such kind words about Netanyahu.

Netanyahu, by contrast, sees the situation clearly. He said Friday: "I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan." He said he doesn't want Judea and Samaria to become another Gaza – another jihad base against Israel.

Finally. Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Israeli concessions, land giveaways, thousands of Gaza rockets, beheadings of civilians like the Fogel family, schoolboy kidnappings and endless war is the reality of the Islamic religious imperative of the jihad against the Jews. Netanyahu knows this; but in the wake of the jihad rocket attacks, Obama urged Israel to show restraint in the face of hundreds of rockets raining down on southern Israel.

In pressing Israel to make concessions to the jihadis, Obama is violating international law. As Caroline Glick explains in her book, "The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East":

Except during periods when they were physically barred from doing so – most recently during the Jordanian an occupation of these areas from 1949 to 1967 – Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria from time immemorial, just as they have lived in the rest of the historic land of Israel for the better part of 4,000 years. Based on this historical connection, in 1922 the League of Nations granted the Jewish people sovereign rights to Judea and Samaria and the rest of Israel.

On May 15, 1948, the day the Jewish state declared independence, Jordan joined Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq in invading Israel with the intent of annihilating it. Jordan ended the war in possession of northern, southern, and eastern Jerusalem as well as today and Samaria. Under international law, this was an illegal war of aggression. All Jews who had been living in the areas that the Jordanians conquered were expelled from their homes hundred for massacred or taken captive in Jordan. The official position of the Israeli government is that Israel has a right to sovereignty over the areas.

The San Remo Conference was attended by Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan – with the United States as a neutral observer. It was held in San Remo, Italy, in April 1920 and resolved to incorporate the Balfour Declaration in Britain's mandate in Palestine. Thus Britain was made responsible "for putting into effect the declaration made on the 8th [sic.] November 1917 by the British Government and adopted by the other Allied Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people; it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

None of this matters to Obama. No ally of America in any part of the word can feel confident or secure with Obama in the White House, unless they are pursuing jihad conquest. Bloodthirsty jihadists are tearing through the Middle East, and Obama urges the good guys not to fight back.
Obama wants the jihadists to win. There can be no other conclusion. Obama is unabashed in his anti-Semitism. Shocking. Creepy. Evil.

The enemedia are no better. Algemeiner reported that BBC is promoting the lie that Israel is targeting civilians in Gaza (and the BBC is not the only one). The BBC has sprung into action to aid the savages in Gaza and put the proper spin on Hamas's genocidal war on their Jewish victims. There is nothing new in this. The enemedia are especially vicious when covering Israel.

The leftist lapdogs of the jihad will sharpen the machetes of their own executioners if it advanced their own vicious anti-Semitism. The BBC is the worst of the worst. Der Stürmer 2014.

The facts are that three Jewish school kids were kidnapped and killed, followed by an onslaught of Hamas rocket attacks on civilian targets. What nation would not defend itself?

This is not just Israel's war. This is the fight in defense of freedom for all people.

Just as it has been since 1948, Israel is fighting for her life against overwhelming odds. Pray for her.

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July 20, 2014

Jew-seeking Missiles, the Secure Border, and Other Nonsense

By Clarice Feldman

I was thinking the world could not be more absurd when I read that a Hamas official announced to Arab Israelis they should not be fearful of their attacks because the missiles were designed to kill Jews only. This development is so outstanding that the Norwegians -- citizens of probably the most anti-Semitic country in Europe -- who decide the winners of the Nobel peace prize undoubtedly secretly voted on the spot to award it to Hamas this year.
I was wrong, though, there must be some virus rapidly spreading across the globe that paralyzes brain cells, creating a world gone mad.
The diversity proponents who have long exaggerated the numbers of gays, lesbians, or bisexuals in our midst had a bad moment this week when the Washington Post reported the results of a U.S. National Health Interview Survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Turns out that 96.6 percent of Americans say they are heterosexual; 1.1 percent declined to answer which means less than three percent of the U.S. population are gay, lesbian, or homosexual. This means, if we follow the proportional argument of diversicrats like those at the University of Wisconsin who argue “for representational equity” on race and ethnicity grounds, that conceding that on sexual grounds as well might mean disaster for a passel of Area studies which are grounded in gay/lesbian and bisexual culture.
As the clever Alex Bensky notes:

On one hand, Clarice, this means there are about as many Jews as there are homosexuals or bisexuals and that they’re a small minority that should not be invoked as a principal in most cases.
On the other hand, the left has made a fetish of “diversity.” OK. Let’s take women’s studies departments. As you know, the great majority of American women oppose third trimester abortion -- I’d assume that the percentage who support eighth month abortion is lower. What percentage of women’s studies faculty members express any doubts at all about abortion on demand? And I’d guess that the percentage of such departments’ faculties who are lesbian is more than two percent.
I may not agree with much of the gay political agenda but if someone sees herself as a lesbian or whatever, fine. As the Victorian actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell said, do what you want but don’t do it in the street and scare the horses.
But if these faculties very much “overrepresent” lesbians and those who favor no restrictions on abortion at all, where is the “diversity?”
I’m just saying this for rhetorical purposes, Clarice. If anything is obvious from the last five and a half years, all the left means by “diversity” is people who look different but think exactly alike. In my younger days I never thought that it would be the left, and especially the academic left, that was the great threat to free speech and free thought. Well, I never thought I’d get used to the designated hitter rule and I have, sort of.

Equally nutty is the Democrat claim that the border is secure, as tens of thousands of illegals storm across it. I’m not making this up. Take a look at this video collection of Democrat politicians from Obama on down claiming that the border is more secure than ever.
Less funny than watching these bald-faced liars who hope to bamboozle voters and Congress into thinking it’s okay to pass new amnesty legislation because the border is snapped shut and there will be no great tsunami of asylum seekers, is the knowledge that a fortune is being shelled out to house and feed and transport these people even as it is certainly falsely claimed by Obama that this is just temporary and many will be turned back. To hide what is going on -- and possibly to cover paybacks to cronies who help the sleight of hand, the leitmotif of this administration -- it has claimed and the media has repeated that the money is going to “faith-based” outfits. Just a little investigating by the Conservative Treehouse reveals that one major recipient, Baptist Child and Family Service (BCFS), which in one month alone received an almost $200 million grant, was not quite as represented:

...we are only half-way through the year and this entity has received over a QUARTER BILLION dollars. OK, now you’re beginning to get the picture.
Taxpayer dollars.
I’m thinking BCFS can afford a few soccer balls, no?
So what in the world can a “faith based charity group” be spending all of that taxpayer money on ?…. and how big is this “charity” if the federal government portion therein is funding it to the tune of THAT MUCH money ?
Well, apparently, other than “Federal Grant Work”, not much.
In 2012 they pulled in $67,325,953.00 and $63,321,669 of taxpayer funds through DHS and HHS grants/contracts. That’s around 94% of their entire operational “charity revenue” from taxpayers.
“Baptist Child and Family Services” eh?
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It is important to remember this information is only for one of the “faith-based organizations” you have heard about recently. There are many others who are in the same operational business model as Baptist Child and Family Services. For the sake of this outline we stopped with what appears to be the newest and the one everyone was inquiring about.
However, given the scope of the expenditures, you might be interested to know that, again according to tax filing records, the United States Catholic Bishops also received $69.5 million in HHS grants for 2012 (LINK). Yes, that’s $69,500,000+ in grants. And yes, that’s about 98% of the total charity revenue for the organization. And yes, that’s for the exact same type of activity.
Federal Charity courtesy of the U.S. Taxpayer. Is it really “charity” when the federal government is using the IRS to collect the “offering”?

Other “religious charities” that have pushed for more generous immigration policies and are getting a substantial amount of their financing through tax revenues include the U.S. Catholic Bishops, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Episcopal Ministries, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Church World Service and World Relief Corp.
Whatever your view on amnesty is, don’t you think it’s a conflict of interest to funnel hundreds of millions of tax dollars to groups that argue for it and then receive even more money to service the new immigrants?
Speaking of amnesty, if you believed the administration and the press, you’d have thought the country was clamoring for more generous immigration policies. On the other hand, the voters beg to differ. The latest Rasmussen poll indicates that 59% of likely voters (the most reliable of samplings) don’t want the border jumpers housed in their states and want Congress to focus on sending them back.
In Israel, young men and women are putting their lives at risk to destroy the Hamas tunnels (built with donations for concrete supplies and tunneling tools) which were constructed to allow for murders and kidnapping of civilians and to hide weapons which were not otherwise being stored in UNWRA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) schools and in hospitals and homes throughout Gaza. As the Israelis take extraordinary, unprecedented in wartime risks to spare civilians, Hamas deliberately puts Palestinians in harm’s way, hoping to create gory propaganda film. They are once again Palywooding it, using pictures of dead and wounded children in Syria and elsewhere to pretend these are Gazan casualties. Any paper that prints these now without thorough vetting is complicit in this continuing anti-Semitic propagandizing. As is the Washington Post for publishing this viciously false cartoon.
And to wrap up the week, we had Obama once again demonstrating that without a written program in front of him, he is a gormless fraud, not the silver-tongued genius people like Michael Beschloss sold him to the voters as.
Faced with the apparently willful shooting down of a commercial airline with about 300 passengers, including 80 children, on the conflict- torn Eastern Ukraine/Russian border, he said “It looks like it may be a terrible tragedy.” Then he told some scripted jokes, had a hamburger eating photo op, and attended a couple of fundraisers.
Obviously even his crack staff considered that inadequate. The next day he denounced the shootdown as an "outrage of unspeakable proportions”. He made it clear, though, that he’d take no action until “a full investigation” of the incident had taken place. Like Thomas Lipscomb, I wonder when that will be, as it seems the black boxes were sent to Russia, the site is being restricted to the Russians and their allies in the rebel forces, the bodies are reportedly being dragged about and looted of jewelry, passports, and money. This doesn’t seem like it will ever be a fertile site for a ”full investigation”, But what do I know? The administration says it’s been doing a lot of investigating but when pressed, claim all they know they learned from press accounts.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/..._nonsense.html

CNN Confirms - Israelis Cheer as Civilians are Murdered in Gaza [video]

19.Jul.2014 | SCG




If this video doesn't make your blood boil, there's something seriously wrong with you.

You know something has gone terribly wrong in culture when you see people cheering as women and children are being blown to bits (see video below).

This scene caught by CNN in Israel isn't unique, but it is the highest profile report of this kind of psychotic behavior that has made it out of the region so far. In our last video exposing what's really going on in Gaza we showed a short clip at the end of another crowd of Israelis who had gathered to watch the bombardment as well.


This also further validates the image that Danish journalist Allan Sørensen tweeted on July 9th which he claimed depicted the same activity.

"Sderot cinema. Israelis bringing chairs 2 hilltop in sderot 2 watch latest from Gaza. Clapping when blasts are heard."

There is lots of talk about the war crimes being committed by the Israeli government, but what we're seeing in Israel now isn't just political. This is the worst kind of cultural depravity. Consider the video below, which shows lynch mobs in Israel out in the streets hunting Arabs.

This is the kind of thing we saw in Nazi Germany.
So far over 300 people have been killed in Israel's latest rampage, most of them civilians, about half of them women and children. The IDF is currently in the middle of a ground invasion of the Gaza strip, but there are reports indication that artillery fire is continuing.
Let's remember what those people were actually cheering for.










Believe it or not these images are tame compared to what I've seen in the past week. And let's not forget the real reason why this mass slaughter is happening in the first place:



http://scgnews.com/cnn-confirms-isra...-in-gaza-video

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Middle East Fighting: This Sums It Up...




Middle East Fighting: This Sums It Up...
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ABC's Gaza Mistake?
No way was this a mistake



Deliberate lying and/or willful ignorance

"It's terrible. Look at the destruction. Look at the those Hamas rockets have done to Israel...It's shocking!"

Oops! Just one big problem.

Those were pictures of Palestinians and their homes - NOT Israelis - that Diane "the Kissinger slut" Sawyer flashed on the screen. (If you don't know that I mean by Diane "the Kissinger slut" Sawyer do some homework.)

Anyway, imagine that.

The US news media is sick beyond comprehension. - See more at: http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/i....vvCCaZmP.dpuf


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Diane Sawyer's epic Gaza lie

Mistake?

No one, not even Diane Sawyer
and the brain dead zombies at
ABC news, are this stupid.

This was a "mistake" they would
have gladly gotten away with if
people had let them get away
with it.

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Media Puppets..So much for truth in broadcasting. I guess no one wants to just report the news anymore..

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Israel's Strategy and America's Mythology

It is sixty six years since the state of Israel was founded propelled by its own internal mythology and by the horrid mythology of antisemitism as well. It has since emerged as an advanced and growing modern state capable of employing most of its neighbors if allowed to.

This item griping about the current malaise of policy forgets that this is a natural outcome of simple exhaustion. That is American exhaustion and Palestinian exhaustion. This recent uproar is all about disarming Hamas and direct Israeli action will strive to do this. That then allows Abbas to re frame the developing relationship and ultimately accept a settlement on behalf of av united Palestine.

As posted before, the problem is now solvable, even by Israeli fiat. It can even be rewarding. Best of all no local power now exists capable of imposing its will on the Palestinians themselves. There are no meaningful Egyptian interests, or Jordanian interests or Syrian interests that matter in the slightest. They cannot even meddle convincingly.

I have proposed in my writings here what can be called the three cities solution. Even that might get an airing.

Israel's Strategy and America's Mythology

by Ira Chernus

Published on Thursday, July 10, 2014 by Common Dreams

Bombs are falling and people are dying in Gaza. It's headline news in America's mass media. As usual, though, we get only today's events, with no historical context to explain what's really going on and why.

The crucial piece of history our mass media ignore is that one basic principle has always guided Israel's foreign policy: Keep the perceived enemies divided; never let them unite.

That's why Israel aided the creation of Hamas in the 1980s. The Israeli government feared the prospect of all Palestinians uniting under the flag of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, dominated by Yassir Arafat's Fatah party. Hamas seemed to offer a counterweight.

The recent reconciliation of Hamas and Fatah raises that specter again. Israeli leaders want to stop it at all costs, to drive a wedge into the uneasy peace between the rival Palestinian parties. Hence the onslaught against Hamas and Gaza.

Though he's in his 90s, the veteran Israeli politician and commentator Uri Avnery can see it all quite clearly. After three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped in the occupied West Bank, "the Netanyahu government immediately saw in the incident an auspicious opportunity. Without the least evidence (as far as we know) it accused Hamas. The next day," he wrote, the Israelis "started an attempt to eradicate Hamas in the West Bank," with massive arrests of Hamas leaders.

"The main aim," Avnery posits, "is to pressure Mahmoud Abbas to abandon the inter-Palestinian reconciliation and to destroy the new experts-only Palestinian government. Abbas resists. He is already widely denounced in Palestine, because of the ongoing close cooperation between his security forces and the Israeli ones, even while the Israeli operation is continuing."

Avnery wrote that before Israel began bombing Gaza, where Hamas rules. Surely he, and Israeli government strategists, knew that the crackdown on Hamas would provoke some ineffectual rocket fire by splinter groups in Gaza, giving Israel an excuse to blame Hamas for those rockets, too, and begin bombing Gaza.

Now that so many Palestinians have died, the pressure on Abbas to "get tough" is all the greater. So is the pressure on Hamas to fight back, to abandon the nonviolent policy that was so basic to the Fatah-Hamas unity government. The more rockets fly out of Gaza, the harder it will be to patch up the Fatah-Hamas split. And the easier it will be for Israel to go on making its disingenuous case: How can we negotiate a peace with "terrorists" who want to destroy us?

The Israeli government must have predicted all this when it first pinned blame on Hamas for the kidnappings, although it could present no evidence to support the charge. Anyone who has followed the conflict for very long could have predicted it. The logic of Israel's strategy, however deadly, is easy enough to see.

So why is that strategy so glaringly absent from U.S. press coverage of the current conflict? Are American journalists in Jerusalem just too ignorant to get it? That's possible, but it doesn't seem likely.
What's more likely is that their perceptions and the perceptions of their editors are in a sort of tunnel vision. They can only see what long-standing American myths allow them to see. Two myths have dominated the history of American perceptions of the Israel-Palestine -- or what's often called, more broadly and misleadingly, the "Israel-Arab" – conflict.
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From the time that the State of Israel was born in 1948 and immediately plunged into war with neighboring nations, the U.S. news media tended to treat it as a "tit for tat" struggle. It's a story that's been familiar to Americans since colonial times: In the Old World, there's just this inexplicable urge for nations to fight each other. "Inexplicable" means we don't have to try to understand the context, nor the motives of each side. They just hate each other and will go on fighting forever.

That's a widespread view, in this country, of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. It's showing up once again in headline after headline that all boil down to "Israel and Hamas Trade Bomb Attacks" -- period, as if nothing more need be said.

In the aftermath of the Six-Day War of 1967 a second myth came to the fore in the U.S., one that saw Israel as a permanent victim of constant hatred and attack from its neighbors. It's familiar to Americans from endless hours of watching television: cowboys against Indians, cops against robbers, and any number of other variants on the "good guys against bad guys" myth -- with no doubt allowed, in this case, that Israel is the good guy. Maybe we should call it the "Israel can do no wrong" myth.

That's also a widespread view showing up now in headlines in this country, even in our most influential newspapers, like: "Rockets Hit Israeli Heartland as Offensive Begins." Though the story speaks of Israel's offensive against Gaza, the cursory reader (and aren't most readers cursory?) who sees only headlines would assume that it's Hamas on the offensive -- "as usual," the mythic voice adds subliminally. After all, that voice says, Hamas is a "terrorist organization," isn't it? Israel's just defending itself, isn't it?

Now these two myths are working together to put blinders on American journalism.

The "tit for tat" myth is probably dominant, for historical reasons. Beginning with Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, when its army stood by knowingly while hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Palestinians were massacred in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps, American journalists began to back away from the "Israel can do no wrong" myth. Over the years, they've increasingly informed us that some blame must be ascribed to Israeli policies.

In U.S. coverage of the current situation, though, even the rare explicit critique of Israel usually reinforces the mythic perspective.

For example, the New York Times' Isabel Kershner briefly mentioned one criticism: "Israeli experts often describe Israel’s periodic campaigns in Gaza in terms of 'mowing the grass,' with the limited goals of curbing rocket fire, destroying as much of the militant groups’ infrastructure as possible and restoring deterrence. Critics say the use of such terminology is dehumanizing to Palestinians and tends to minimize the toll on civilians as well as militants."

But anyone reading Kershner's report, or viewing the Times' web video on "Mowing the Grass," is likely to conclude that, even if the terminology is dehumanizing, the practice makes perfect sense, because the war can be understood only as "tit for tat" or "good guys against bad guys." In such a war, the stronger nation would naturally want to "mow the grass" every so often.

There is no place in American mass media coverage for any other viewpoint -- and certainly not for the aim that so obviously motivates Israel's current attack on Hamas and Gaza: destroying the infant rapprochement between the two Palestinian parties and thus easing the international pressures on Israel to end the occupation of the West Bank and the isolation of Gaza. That just doesn't fit into the prevailing mythic framework.

Of course Israel's strategy is shaped by its own long-standing mythology. I've called it the myth of Israel's insecurity -- the story that says Jews will always be under attack from enemies who want to destroy their state simply out of anti-semitic hatred. Avnery calls it "the ghetto reflex, formed by centuries of persecution, for Jews to stand together against the evil goyim [gentiles]." This myth is now powerful enough among Israeli Jews to drive the political policies of their government.

Every political myth has some elements of fact wrapped up in its imaginary structure. Surely there is anti-semitism among some Palestinians. Surely Hamas is under pressure from other militaristic factions in Gaza and therefore uses its rockets to keep its political power. Surely there is now such a long history of animosity that it's a difficult cycle to break.

But in myth the imaginary overwhelms the factual, dictating that many facts -- often the most crucial facts -- be left out.

So the Israeli government, and the vast majority of Israeli Jews, ignored the obvious fact that whoever kidnapped and presumably killed those three Israeli teenagers did not act on behalf of Hamas, much less the Palestinian people as a whole. On the contrary, the kidnappers no doubt intended to break up the reconciliation of Fatah and Hamas. They were able to understand, as clearly as Avnery, that the Israelis would react with violence and thus undermine the reconciliation. Tragically, as so often, the extremists on both sides became partners in pushing toward a common goal.

More basically, the Israelis have ignored for years the Hamas offer of a long-term truce during which the two sides would negotiate a permanent peace, including a de facto recognition of Israel by Hamas.

Here in the U.S., the Hamas offer was beginning to get some notice a couple of years ago; there was a glimmer of possibility that a new myth, more true to the facts, was in the making.

But now it has disappeared. Hamas is routinely described as "committed to Israel's destruction." That, too, is once again part of the prevailing mythology, making it easier for U.S. media to restrict coverage of the current events to the "tit for tat" and "good guys against bad guys" myths.

The combination of these two myths dictates that Americans must be given the Israeli version of events: The kidnappers become not isolated individual criminals but merely "Palestinians," and the mythic tale of Hamas, or perhaps simply "the Palestinians," launching a deadly attack on an innocent Israel now passes for reality. Meanwhile, the obvious strategic purpose of Israel's response is ignored.

Yet the history of the U.S. mass media's reporting on Israel shows that mythic frameworks can change. Another change, bringing myth closer to reality, is always possible. And if not now, as a famous Jew once said, when?
This article also appeared at History News Network.





http://original.antiwar.com/chernus/...cas-mythology/

July 21, 2014

The Arab-Israeli conflict is not elementary school

By Thomas Lifson

But if it were, it would look something like the video below.



Published on Feb 10, 2013

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