The look says it all. 


President Obama was joined by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (center) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. (Jim Young/Reuters)

Obama has been ordered to attack Iran -- or else Israel will.

And note the order: U.S., Britain, France -- as if they all fell in by rank.

The Palestinians–Following in the Footsteps of the American Revolution

There is something soooooo familiar about all of this. Now, let’s see, we have on one side one of the most wealthy and militarily-powerful nations in the world throwing everything they have against a ragtag group of people fighting to rid their lands of foreign occupation. A military blockade has been imposed upon the native peoples, preventing them from engaging in business they need to sustain themselves. The occupying power, demonstrating its complete disregard for human life and the fact it does not distinguish between civilian and combatants is engaged in deliberately burning down entire towns in achieving its ends.

Naturally, the freedom fighters are called criminals and have no just basis for their grievances. The occupying power, understanding the paramount importance of decapitation, is actively engaged in hunting down the leaders of this movement.

Why, yes, that’s it–It’s the exact same scenario that took place a relatively short while ago between the British and the Americans in what came to be known as the American Revolution. Gripe and moan about it all you want, all you ‘patriotic” Americans who squirm at the fact that our own glorious war for independence is a mirrored reflection of what is taking place in the Middle East as Palestinians fight to rid their home of foreign occupiers, but it is what it is and there is no getting around it.

For those Americans at a disadvantage in terms of knowing the history of their country’s birth, the story goes like this–For a good ten years, since the end of the French and Indian war, the storm had been brewing. It was the time of an overbearing British government looking down its nose condescendingly on its American colonial “subjects”, viewing them as inferior creatures who should feel honored with their inferior role as “hewers of wood and carriers of water” for their better brethren in England.

Naturally, the American colonists did not see it this way. They did not accept the theory that between the two peoples there was one who was better or “chosen”. Nor did they accept the manifestations of this mindset on the part of the British that the Americans were created for the sole purpose of providing these “better” people a life of luxury and comfort.

And so, being people who forged an existence out of the wilds of America, of being accustomed to hardship and taking the bull by the horns when a problem arose, the Americans did what any proud people would do when their rights and freedoms were threatened. They complained and petitioned and did the best they could in getting along with this same overbearing British government that would not consider the grievances of “ungrateful” subjects who didn’t appreciate the benefits of the master/slave relationship…

…and then, when it became all-too-obvious that “Plan A” was a waste of time, that there was to be no consensus and that the master holding the whip would hear nothing of treating the slave better, the Americans resorted to “Plan B”. They burned things down, including government offices that functioned as the machinery of depriving them of their rights. They made life a living hell for the officials working for the King in depriving them of their rights, and they did not do it nicely. Had the term existed at that time, they would have been called ‘terrorists’.

And of course, there was the infamous Boston Tea Party, where Americans struck at the heart of British control in the colonies, meaning the pocketbook, by tossing several hundreds crates of British East India tea into Boston Harbor.

The British for their part closed the harbor and imposed a naval blockade, refusing to allow any goods to come or go until all the tea had been paid for. In the meantime, the Americans, knowing what was to come next, started storing up guns and ammo. They started drilling as soldiers in preparation for what they knew (but hoped was not) to be the inevitable.

And then came the infamous day, when the British marched 800 soldiers, Grenadiers, some of the toughest fighting men the King had against the Americans. Their job was to round up the leaders of this movement, seize the guns, ammo and food and try to bring an end to this troublesome little event.

After killing 8 Americans at Lexington Green, they moved on to Concord, where the commanding officer, one Maj. John Pitcairn, set a chair in the middle of the town, drank tea and watched admiringly as his soldiers went and ransacked every home and set fire to the town.

The smoke from the town burning was seen from miles away. Out in the countryside, men grabbed their muskets, kissed their wives and headed off to do what men are programmed to do.

The British has no idea what they were in store for. They assumed that these inept colonials would pose no trouble to them whatsoever and that this little Intifada on the part of the Americans would be over in short order.

What happened instead is that the Americans, knowing that everything of any meaning to them was in jeopardy, swarmed down upon the arrogant, insolent British like a swarm of hornets. The British were forced to flee back to Boston on a 20 mile march that turned into a massacre. The Americans, having learned the art of unconventional war by virtue of having lived among the Indians, hid behind trees and rock walls, hitting and running. They set up ambushes for the British where there was no escape and little chance of surviving. The British, having seriously miscalculated what men are willing to do when their women and children are threatened, cried like whipped children when they arrived back in Boston, having lost close to 250 men. The Americans, knowing that they had to make every shot count had lost only a handful.

The British, despite having suffered such a loss, would have nothing of the idea of being put down by such an inferior group of rabble. They were, after all, a “better people”, who by their obvious superiority were “chosen” to rule the world.

We all know how the story ends. The British got their asses kicked out of America, something which we Americans and other freedom-loving people celebrate on the 4th of July.

And yet, how quickly we forget the whole story. Rather than side with our brothers and sisters in their struggle for freedom, and particularly those in the Middle East trying to rid their lands of foreign occupiers who murder their innocent women and children, we side with the oppressor. We give him all the guns, ammo, money and support these monsters need to do what the British tried doing to our forefathers over 200 years ago. We cheer the slaughter of the innocents, whether it is in Gaza, the West Bank or wherever, having forgotten how the British slaughtered our own at the Boston Massacre. We swallow the lies handed to us by the oppressor and murderer of innocents as much as the hated “Tories” of colonial America sided with a tyrant hell-bent on making us his servants, and even hiring mercenaries to do it. It is a sad sign of the times when Americans–who by their very nature and stated love of truth, justice and the “American way” should side with such creatures as Israel–a nation that has bankrupted us economically and morally, made us the 2nd most hated nation in the world, completely corrupted our political system and killed Americans on several occasions, including but not limited to her deliberate attack on the USS Liberty in 1967–rather than with those seeking the very same thing men such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Patrick Henry achieved. Indeed, had traitorous, subversive individuals such as Abe Foxman, Daniel Pipes, Normon Podhoretz, Steven Emerson, Rahm Emmanuel, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle and the Jewish groups they work for such as the ADL, AIPAC, JINSA, JDL and others been around during the time of the American Revolution, they would have been spying for King George III on our beloved founding fathers, characterizing them as ‘extremists’ and whatnot and colluding with the British to see our war for freedom extinguished. It merely goes to show how successful the half century program of propaganda and mind control has been on the part of a Jewish controlled mass media in turning the American Revolution and the fruits of that revolution on its ear. By siding with the Jewish state in its oppression of the Palestinians, what Americans are saying in effect is–

“We despise liberty…We despise justice…We repudiate everything our founding fathers fought for and achieved…Long live George III, and may our founding fathers rot in hell for what they did.”

Well, as the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for America, because some day you may get it. Indeed, America will pay for her sins in betraying her past and her principles by siding with the enemy of all that is good and decent, and one day we will look upon the Palestinians and recognize that we lost our freedom because of the fact we denied them theirs…

...Because indeed, what goes around comes around.

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"In Solidarity with Palestinian Freedom Fighters

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As the saying goes, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. So just who are the terrorists and who are the freedom fighters in the Middle East today?

Well, let’s think about that for a minute. Were our American Founding Fathers terrorists or freedom fighters? I guess if you ask the British, they would say that the English colonists in the English colonies of America were traitors and terrorists, rebelling against their own government back home in England. But that’s not exactly the way we Americans look at the Revolutionary War, is it? What exactly is it that we celebrate every 4th of July with our backyard barbecues, parades, and fireworks displays? Well, any American school child will tell you that we are celebrating our freedom from British tyranny, thanks to the brave Minute Men who defeated the evil Red Coats. I guess it all depends on how you look at it.

Then we have the example of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, chronicled in Hollywood’s ubiquitous Holocaust movies, where Jews who had been sealed off and starved in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II in Poland rose up against that injustice. But that uprising was ultimately crushed by the Nazis. Yet their attempt at self-liberation is hailed by official history as one of the bravest and noblest attempts at freedom in the annals of martial history. And certainly we were all taught in school that it was worth the loss of American lives in the “Good War” to defeat the evil Nazis, even though the Nazis would say their movement was an attempt to prevent the Communists from taking over all of Europe. So I guess it all depends on how you look at it.

Fast forward to Palestine 1948. The Palestinians, including Muslims, Christians and (Sephardic) Jews, were all living on the land called Palestine, identified as such on any map or globe produced prior to 1948. And they had been living together in peace for many centuries, as evidenced by the large number of Christian churches, synagogues, and mosques that had coexisted on that sacred territory for centures, in the true spirit of ecumenism. Then after World War II, with the Allied Victory, the European Jews decided to cash in the Balfour Declaration and all hell broke loose in the region. The Irgun terrorists (or freedom fighters, depending on how you look at it), including the father of our next Chief of Staff, Rahm Israel Emmanuel, summarily terrorized the non-Jewish Palestinians off their land, starting with the village of Deir Yassin. The Irgun terrorists (or freedom fighters, depending on how you look at it), slaughtered men, women and children in that small village, beginning what the Israelis call the “War of Independence,” even though their opponents, the rightful owners of the land, were largely unarmed and defenseless civilians. They then went around in pickup trucks with megaphones warning the neighboring villagers that the same fate awaited them if they did not immediately abandon their homes and flee into concentration refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank. And that’s how things have roughly stood for the past 60 years in the land they now call “Israel,” but which some would call “occupied Palestine.” I guess it all depends on how you look at.

To get a visual perspective of how ownership of the land has been stolen changed hands, take a look at the following display:

So as the Zionist-controlled talking heads on television attempt to explain the current situation to their brain dead viewers, please keep in mind that the problem did not start 2 weeks ago, or 6 months ago, or even in 1967. No honest discussion about the Palestinian situation can possibly take place without going back to the village of Deir Yassin in 1948. I don’t want to hear about Hamas or “rockets” or “terrorists” or breaking the supposed “ceasefire” or any these other red herrings. Because none of these events can possibly make sense to the outside observer without going back to 1948.

The bottom line is this: the Palestinians had been living in peace on that land for centuries, tending their orchards, farms, and animals, and minding their own business, until 1948. This is the first fact that needs to be understood before any further discussion can take place. Whatever happened to the Jews during World War II in Europe can not possibly be laid at the feet of the Palestinians, and there is no way around this basic fact. Although they had committed no crimes, the Palestinians have been holed up in cages refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank (of Jerusalem) since 1948, in extremely overcrowded conditions, living in a fraction of what once once their entire country. In addition, their orchards, homes (and children) have routinely been destroyed and bulldozed, their young men imprisoned without charges, and they have been forced to live under Israeli military occupation since 1967. Yet, even after the loss of 80% of their original territory, the Palestinians have agreed to accept a 2-state solution, which would leave them a tiny country divided in two parts (Gaza and the West Bank) in exchange for peace. But the Israelis have no intention of ever agreeing to any 2-state solution because they want all of that land and will not be content until the last Palestinian is either dead or driven out of the region.

The Israelis provoke reactions from the Palestinians by cutting off food and medical supplies, then use this as a pretext to finish what they started in 1948. In no way can this be considered a “war” between Palestinians and Israelis. The people of Gaza are trapped in a refugee camp with the 4th largest military in the world (Israel) now invading the camp to kill as many Palestinians as possible and drive the rest of them out of the Gaza strip entirely. How hypocritical for Israelis to kvetch that the Palestinians want to drive Israelis into the sea, when that is exactly what they are doing to the Palestinians - the rightful owners of the country! People who are largely unarmed and trapped in a concentration refugee camp, who are fighting for their very survival, cannot be considered terrorists by people interested in fairness. Unless you consider that the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were terrorists and the Nazis were the freedom fighters. You can’t have it both ways. If Jews in Warsaw were freedom fighters, then the Palestinians have every right to fight against their oppressors, too. The Palestinians have the right to resist their own genocide. And that’s exactly what they are doing.

All true lovers of freedom and justice must stand in solidarity with the brave Palestinian freedom fighters.

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"Creating an "Arc of Crisis": The Destabilization of the Middle East and Central Asia; The Mumbai Attacks and the “Strategy of Tension”

Introduction

The recent attacks in Mumbai, while largely blamed on Pakistan’s state-sponsored militant groups, represent the latest phase in a far more complex and long-term “strategy of tension” in the region; being employed by the Anglo-American-Israeli Axis to ultimately divide and conquer the Middle East and Central Asia. The aim is destabilization of the region, subversion and acquiescence of the region’s countries, and control of its economies, all in the name of preserving the West’s hegemony over the “Arc of Crisis.”

The attacks in India are not an isolated event, unrelated to growing tensions in the region. They are part of a processof unfolding chaos that threatens to engulf an entire region, stretching from the Horn of Africa to India: the “Arc of Crisis,” as it has been known in the past.  The motives and modus operandi of the attackers must be examined and questioned, and before quickly asserting blame to Pakistan, it is necessary to step back and review:

Who benefits? Who had the means? Who had to motive? In whose interest is it to destabilize the region? Ultimately, the roles of the United States, Israel and Great Britain must be submitted to closer scrutiny....

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"THE ORIGIN OF THE PALESTINE-ISRAEL CONFLICT (Part I)

Jews For Justice in the Middle East / If Americans Knew

As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are irrational “terrorists” who have no point of view worth listening to. Our position, however, is that the Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during the creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes — on both sides — inevitably follow from this original injustice.

This paper outlines the history of Palestine to show how this process occurred and what a moral solution to the region’s problems should consist of. If you care about the people of the Middle East, Jewish and Arab, you owe it to yourself to read this account of the other side of the historical record....

read rest of Part I --HERE--" 

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"THE ORIGIN OF THE PALESTINE-ISRAEL CONFLICT (Part II)

Jews For Justice in the Middle East / If Americans Knew

Zionism and the Holocaust

The U.N. decisions to partition Palestine and then to grant admission to the state of Israel were made, on one level, as an emotional response to the horrors of the Holocaust, Under more normal circumstances, the compelling claims to sovereignty of the Arab majority would have prevailed. This reaction of guilt on the part of the Western allies was understandable, but that doesn’t mean the Palestinians should have to pay for crimes committed by others—a classic example of two wrongs not making a right.

The Holocaust is often used as the final argument in favor of Zionism, but is this connection justified? There are several aspects to consider in answering that question honestly. First, we will examine the historical record of what the Zionist movement actually did to help save European Jewry from the Nazis....

read rest of Part II --HERE--"

"Vanished - How the BBC disappears the news

by William Bowles

This from GazaFriends on the kidnapping of 15 Palestinian fishermen and 3 foreign nationals in international waters by the Israeli navy:

20 November, 2008 — "Darlene Wallach is in a new prison in Ramle, a men's prison, but she's in a section reserved for illegal immigrants.

"She wanted to pass on this information, "We were fishing about 7 miles off the shores of Gaza. The Israeli soldiers came on board the three boats via four Zodiacs. The frogmen came up and over each boat. They used a taser on Vik while he was still on the boat, then tried to push him backwards onto a sharp piece of wood. He jumped into the sea to avoid being hurt more than he already was and was in the water for quite a while.

"Then they came for me and forced me into the Zodiac at the point of a gun. They said, "You are in Israeli territory" even though is was obvious that all three boats were in Palestinian territory. They kidnapped me and Andrew and Vik and all of the Palestinian fishermen."

"Today two women from immigration were there to see Darlene. They were very rude. Until just a few minutes ago, Darlene was refused a change of clothes and a mobile, but, thanks to Lubna and a nice woman at the prison, she now has both.

"The authorities are saying they will refuse to send Darlene to London and want to send her back to the United States. The judge said she would make a decision today so Darlene is waiting to hear the ruling. She still does not have a passport.

"She sounded fine, relieved to finally be able to talk to someone outside Israel. If you know ANY media who would like to interview her, please let me know and I will pass on Darlene's phone number to them. This story is vitally important to get out to the public.""

A couple of days ago I posted an earlier piece from GazaFriends on the kidnapping of 15 Palestinian fishermen and three foreign nationals in international waters by the Israeli navy.  I forwarded the GazaFriends press release (and the one above) to Channel 4 News in the (vain) hope that they’d pick up the story but so far to no avail.

You’ll look in vain to find this story in the corporate/state-run media, but then this is the norm when it comes to the actions of Israel unless it's in response to a Palestinian 'terrorist'.

In an earlier piece I referred to a BBC Website story on the abuse Palestinians are subjected to by the Israeli Occupation Army (IOA) and the skepticism of the BBC reporter concerning the story (see ‘Finding the words to say it’) and the fact that the reporter, Tim Franks, had commented, “…we have no clue as to when or where this video was shot and it is impossible to know just how frequently such incidents occur”, prompted me to look through another excellent source of news on Palestine, ‘VTJP Palestine/Israel NewsLinks’, an almost daily digest of stories.

Here are just a few headlines from the 19 November issue:

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"Caught in Bed with Evil

by Gilad Atzmon • Nov 18th, 2008

 

Crossing points into Gaza have been shut down for almost two weeks, forcing the only power plant there to stop functioning, due to the lack of fuel. Last week, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency ran out of food and stopped rations’ deliveries to 750,000 residents of Gaza.

Though the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is now immanent, Western media refrains from reporting about the emerging disaster. Apparently, there are far more interesting things to write about, much more interesting than millions of Palestinians who are being starved by the Jewish state.

However the press was kind enough to report that British foreign minister David Miliband spent some time in Israel this week. He had been very concerned with issues concerning the Avocado and other ethical grocery matters. He wanted to propose a clearer method of labeling food products that are sourced in the occupied west bank and sold to consumers in Britain. This could as well be an opportunity for Britain and the EU to restrain Israel’s lethal enthusiasm, but Miliband failed short, far too short. At the end of the day, Miliband is what you may call a grocery humanist. His ethical thinking is orientated around nutrition and ethical digestion. This is apparently the most deteriorated and probably the lowest form of left thinking. At least I really want to believe that left cannot go any lower than that....

Guess again.

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I think the MSM is getting ready to begin ignoring the Congo again; today's story is in the BRIEFS section:

How can they ignore THIS?


A Congolese boy held his brother yesterday at the Kibati displaced persons camp outside Goma. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)

Oh, man, the obvious fear of the little boy and the love of his brother, it's breaking me down.... 

"Britain backs bigger UN Congo force

NEW YORK - Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain said yesterday he will support a UN plan to send 3,000 more troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo....  The United Nations has a 17,000-strong peacekeeping force in Congo, its largest in the world. However, officials have said more are needed to stop civilian deaths.

Yeah, WTF is up with that?

Brown arrived in New York ahead of weekend talks in Washington on the global financial crisis. He will meet UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to discuss the escalation in violence in Congo, where civilian deaths have mounted and a cease-fire between government and rebel forces has broken down.

Yeah, except (if you are following my Congo posts) the REBELS called it UNILATERALLY!  Hey, no problem with the obfuscation, MSM.  Let's me know where the bias lies.

"We have the means and the will to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and we will not shirk from our responsibilities," Brown said in a statement.  "Our support for that is subject to the force being properly equipped, enabled and led," Brown said. "They need to be mandated to intervene robustly to protect civilians." 

WTF you been waiting for?

The UN Security Council is likely to review the rules of engagement being used by the peacekeeping force, a spokesman for Brown's office said.  --more--"

Which will slow things down even more, right?  Sometimes one thinks the U.N. doesn't even want to help.

"BBC SHUNNED ME FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE
November 5,2008

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Because the MSM insists on telling lies and promoting an agenda: Global Warming Censored: How the Major Networks Silence the Debate on Climate Change

Just as they fund Al-CIA-Duh and all the other "terror" groups.

"March 14 denies charge of funding Fatah al-Islam; Damascus parades suspects on state television

by Andrew Wander
Daily Star staff
November 08, 2008

BEIRUT: Lebanon's pro-Western political leaders were reeling on Friday after captured members of the Fatah al-Islam Islamist group said they had been funded by the Future Movement during televised "confessions" to a suicide car-bombing carried out in Damascus in September. A suspect identified as Wafa al-Abssi, the daughter of Fatah al-Islam leader Shakr al-Abssi, said on Syrian state television that the group had received money from Saad Hariri's Future Movement, which leads Lebanon's anti-Syrian parliamentary majority....

The suggestion that money from the March 14 coalition, which is heavily backed by the US as well as other Western powers, may have found itself in the hands of an Islamist group triggered emergency consultations between Future officials late on Thursday night, and a crisis meeting of the March 14 general secretariat Friday.....

All the suspects paraded were said to be members of Fatah al-Islam, a militant group that came to prominence when it fought a 15-week battle with the Lebanese Army at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in the summer of 2007.

When Fatah al-Islam thing was starting up in Lebanon, Lebanon's army was shelling the refugee camps, and this odd item was reported:  "The militants began trickling into the camp about 10 months ago... they came in through Lebanese Army positions.... Omar el-Eter, a Lebanese teacher and imam of a mosque: "... They also had money to spend. They only used dollars."

That is when I KNEW it was an USraeli/Saudi operation.

The alleged bomb-plotters said the Damascus blast had been planned to be the first in a wave of attacks in the country, with targets including security posts, British and Italian diplomats and Syria’s central bank....  One of the men appearing on television identified himself as Abdel-Baqi al-Hussein, said to be a senior member of Fatah al-Islam. He indicated that the suicide bomber who had died in the bombing had been a Saudi known as Abu Aysha.... 

Separately, a Lebanon-based militant mentioned in the televised confessions of those involved in the Syria bombing could be the “missing link” between the blast in Damascus and two deadly car-bomb explosions that took place in Tripoli in recent months.  Abed Awad was named by Hussein as an important member of Fatah al-Islam, and a possible successor to Abssi's leadership of the group. Awad is a shadowy figure living in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp. Known by the nom-de-guerre "Prince of Al-Qaeda," he is wanted by Lebanese investigators responsible for rounding up the “Jawhar cell”  -- the militant group behind the deadly campaign of attacks on the Lebanese Armed Forces in Tripoli. 

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Also see:  Mossad Killed Harriri

Lebanon: Fatah Al Islam is the Mossad

The Redirection

Fiery exchange of words and accusations in Arab League between Saudi Arabia and Syria!!

Ever hear of Mr. Aswat or Mr. Khan?

Also see: May Day Memories: British Patsies

May Day Memories: The U.S. Connection

Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5

"Waziristan's last soldier

by Zubeida Malik

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"Israeli PR fails the “decent, honest and truthful” test
Stuart Littlewood

© Carlos LATUFF

Stuart Littlewood shows how Israeli public relations fodder pumped out in London and Tel Aviv fails a crucial PR test. He argues that, if the Palestinians and other Arab were to get their media act together, they could “make mincemeat” of Israeli propaganda.

When Ron Prosor arrived in London last year to take up his post as Israeli ambassador he was eager to step up public relations. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: "I'm not afraid to appear anywhere, and there is no platform ... that I will not utilize for PR work."

We are familiar with the usual Israeli PR mantras:

► having to contend with suicide bombers
► how Arafat turned down former prime minister Ehud Barak's so-called 'generous offer' in 2000
► how the Israeli public has moved to the left in recent years whereas Palestinians have moved to the extreme right
► Israel is a democracy under attack
► Jerusalem is the capital of Israel forever
► Israel is against any negotiations with Hamas because it as a terrorist movement.

This last is all the more preposterous when echoed by the US, Britain and the EU, which have connived to keep Palestine under Israel’s military jackboot for 40 years.

Israel, of course, is an ethnocracy with racist laws, not a democracy as we know it in the West. This week an Israeli human rights organization, Gisha, is appealing against a decision by Israel’s so-called ‘democracy’ banning radio advertisements to highlight the plight of Palestinian students enrolled at foreign universities but prevented by Israel from leaving the Gaza Strip. The director-general of the Broadcast Authority said the subject was “politically and ideologically controversial”.

I wonder if the Ambassador is aware that in the UK PR campaigns are supposed to observe rules set down by the Advertising Standards Authority? In short, all marketing communications must be legal, decent, honest and truthful. The main difficulty for Israeli PR, as others have pointed out, is that Israel is probably the world's worst brand, followed closely by Zionism. Any marketing effort that is remotely decent, honest or truthful would sink both.

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It's the world of fiction, right? The world of double agents, false-flag events and agent provocateurs.

Well, you would think so; however, you would be incorrect. Tonight we will delve briefly into a single operation in Iraq that occurred in September 2005.

But first, a brief historical overview.


Since my specialty is post-WWII, let us begin with Operation Gladio. As told by author Frank Morales:

"A decades-long covert campaign of provocateur-style terrorism and deceit. The ostensible purpose of Gladio, officially launched as a covert NATO program in 1952, was to establish a clandestine network of "stay-behind" teams which would organize armed resistance and sabotage in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. But the network actually took a far more proactive role. Directed by US/NATO intelligence services of the West against their own populations, Operation Gladio led to possibly hundreds of innocent people being killed or maimed in "terrorist" attacks which were then blamed on "leftist subversives" or other political opponents. The most notorious such attack was the 1980 bombing of the train station at Bologna, which left 85 dead. Initially blamed on left-wing radicals, the blast was revealed upon investigation to be the work of an ultra-right network linked to Italy's Gladio team; four Italian neo-fascists were eventually convicted of the crime. The purpose was... twofold: to demonize designated enemies (the "communists") and to frighten the public into supporting ever-increasing powers for the national security state."

Morales later refers to:

"US Army Field Manual 30-31B, titled "Stability Operations Intelligence -- Special Fields," dated March 18, 1970 and signed by Gen. William C. Westmoreland, promoted terrorist attacks (and the planting of false evidence) in public places which were then to be blamed on "communists" and "socialists." It called for the execution of terrorists attacks throughout Western urope, carried out through a network of covert US/NATO armies, in order to convince European governments of "the communist threat".... According to FM 30-31B, "there may be times when Host Country Governments show passivity or indecision in the face of communist subversion and according to the interpretation of the US secret services do not react with sufficient effectiveness. Most such situations come about when the revolutionaries temporarily renounce the use of force and thus hope to gain an advantage, as the leaders of the host country wrongly consider the situation to be secure. US army intelligence must have the same means of launching special operations which will convince Host Country Governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent danger."

Morales also mentions Operation Northwoods, the 1962 US plan to initiate war with Cuba, the Salvador Option currently being employed in Iraq, and the Pentagon's "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group."

"(P2OG) -- would actually carry out secret missions designed to provoke terrorist groups into committing violent acts... The so-called "counter-terrorist" organization... would ostensibly target "terrorist leaders," but... would in fact carry out missions designed to "stimulate reactions" among "terrorist groups," which... would subsequently expose them to "counter-attack..." In other words, the plan is to execute secret military operations (assassinations, sabotage, 'deception') which would intentionally result in terrorist attacks on innocent people, including Americans -- essentially, to "combat terrorism" by causing it!


The first report is an AP report dated September 20, 2005. Written by Abbas Fayadh, the article is titled "Version's of Briton's release conflict."

British tanks busted down the walls of an Iraqi jail in Basra to free two "undercover commandos arrested on charges of shooting two Iraqi policemen... the British said the men were released as a result of negotiations.

Mohammed al-Waili, the governor of Basra Province: "A British force of more than 10 tanks backed by helicopters attacked the central jail and destroyed it."

Aquil Jabbar, a tv cameraman who lives across the street, saw British commandos storm inside and rescue their comrades.

Later -- [It is always later] -- British officials acknowledged that a wall was demolished as British forces tried to 'collect' the two prisoners."

Then in the middle of the piece you get this:

"The trouble began when local authorities reported arresting the two Britons, described as special forces commandos dressed in Arab clothing, for... shooting two Iraqi policemen, one... died."

The same day, New York Times reporter Sabrina Tavernese reports on the same incident in this manner:

"The soldiers were undercover officers dressed as Iraqis."

That's IT!! Therefore, I turn to the web and the foreign press.

Rueters put out a report on Sept. 19, noting among other things that "[the soldiers] were driving a civilian car and were dressed in civilian clothes... the men were wearing traditional Arab headdresses for their undercover mission."

Xinuanet -- a Chinese news site -- adds that the civilian car was "packed with explosives," and that British officials had confirmed that the two [rat fuck bastards] "were performing an official duty."


The next day, the cover-up begins. The Washington Post puts forth a piece that refines the story.

Now the story is that the two rat-fuck SAS men were "handed over to militia elements... the men were not found [in the jail]. They were... discovered in a house elsewhere in the city."

The Times plays it this way. Now the rat-fuck Brits were "apparently disguised in local dress.... the British military accused the Basra police of turning over the soldiers to hostile Shiite militiamen... ultimately, the two... were later rescued from a home... a senior British official refused to say how the troops eventually found the home where the two soldiers were held or who... was ultimately behind their detention.... Reuters reported that video shows the men in a cell, unshaven and looking nervous as police looked over wigs, Arab headdresses, anti-tank missiles, and electronic equipment, all apparently used in their mission."

You may wonder why the Iraqi government sagged and began supporting the British lie.

Ask yourself: What government would ever want its population to know that it is not really in charge?

Had the Iraqi officials held to the truth -- these guys busted out of a jail -- they would lose any claim to legitimate control.

That's why they back the cover story. And how does the Times follow up on these sinister events?

The incident is described as an "embarrassment for Britain... the details of the raid and its origins remain murky. The [lying] Brits say the men were handed over to Shiite militias, while the Iraqi government denies that.

An Iraqi spokesman said: "The arrest and detention of the British officers, who were in Arab dress, was justified because the men had opened fire after being stopped at a checkpoint."

Reuters starts the drift away by mentioning nothing but the Iraqi statement that the men "had never left police custody, and were not handed to militants."

And that's it. The story fades from the mainstream press.

And yet we get terror alerts, pictures of "suicide bomb" victims, and the endless pictures of Muslim jihadis!

I'll bet many of you never even heard of this story. Why would you have?

That leaves the Socialist Worker and Pravda to correct the record.

The SW reports on Sept. 24 that the two SAS men were "armed with explosives and a remote control detonator... and were disguised as members of the Mahdi Army... the men opened fire on the police and passers-by."

But I'd rather Sheik Hassan al-Zarqani (a spokesman for Muqtada al-Sadr) tell the story:

"What our police found in their car was very disturbing -- weapons, explosives, and a remote-control detonator. These are the weapons of terrorists. We believe these soldiers were planning an attack on a market or other civilian targets, thanks to God they were stopped and countless lives were saved. The two men were taken to the police station to answer questions about their activities. That afternoon the British army came in tanks and armored cars demanding the two be released. The police refused as they were considered to be planning terrorist attacks, and as they were disguised as members of the Mahdi Army, the police wanted to know who their target was. Why were these men dressed as Mahdi Army? Why were they carrying explosives and where were they planning to detonate their bomb? Were they planning an outrage so that they could create tensions with other communities? Were they going to kill innocent people to put the blame on al-Qaeda, who do not have any support in our city?"

The questions were never answered. Instead, British troops returned that night.

Author Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey strikes the same vein of questioning in his Sept. 22 opinion piece that asks Tony Blair for an explanation.

He knows that the two British soldiers dressed as Arabs attacked security forces in Basra; that the Brits have admitted they are SAS men; that they murdered an Iraqi cop, and the car was found "packed with explosives and a C4 detonator."

He asks if the two "undercover agents dressed as Sadrists... [were] trying to stir up a war between rival anti-occupation forces to help the beleagured Iraqi security forces stay in control?," or if, "they were planning a massive bomb attack against Shia targets, to blame on the Sunni?"

And then the story disappears, as if removed by a skilled magician!


Less than one month later, Quds Press reported that "A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad.... the people apprehended the Americans as they left their Caprice car near a residential neighborhood... Local people found they looked suspicious so they detained the men before they could get away... they discovered that they were American and called the... police. Five minutes later... a large force of US troops showed up and surrounded the area. They put the two Americans in one of their Humvees and drove away at high speed to the astonishment of the residents."

Did you ever hear of that operation? I thought not!

Given this hidden evidence, I now firmly believe that most "terror attacks" are false-flag black operations. The most obvious example in Iraq is the subsequent bombings of the Golden Mosque at Samarra, with that event viewed as a catalyst for the raging "sectarian violence" we are incessantly told exists.

I simply ask that you consider this testimonial the next time a marketplace or mosque blast in Iraq is pinned on some non-existent "Al-CIA-Duh" suicide bomber," readers.

Also see: Britain's Force Research Unit

"MI5: Iran and Al Qaeda Planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki”; Intelligence report says UK may be target of a huge attack this Summer

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, April 24, 2007  

"Who Are The Real Terrorists In Iraq?

• Clear Evidence British special forces are recruiting, training terrorists to heighten ethnic tensions
• Elite SAS wing with bloody past operates with immunity, provides advanced explosives
• Some attacks being blamed on Iranians

An article in the Sunday Telegraph this weekend pointed towards evidence that an secretive and elite unit of the British army is actively engaged in recruiting and training Iraqi insurgents and terrorists as double agents.

This confirms what many have speculated for a long time, that Britain and the US are deeply involved in bombings and attacks inside Iraq which are subsequently attributed either to Sunni insurgents or shadowy terrorist cells such as "Al Qaeda in Iraq".

The Telegraph article states:

Deep inside the heart of the "Green Zone", the heavily fortified administrative compound in Baghdad, lies one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the war in Iraq. It is a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit that goes by the deliberately meaningless name of the Joint Support Group (JSG), and it has proved to be one of the Coalition's most effective and deadly weapons in the fight against terror.

Its members - servicemen and women of all ranks recruited from all three of the Armed Forces - are trained to turn hardened terrorists into coalition spies using methods developed on the mean streets of Ulster during the Troubles, when the Army managed to infiltrate the IRA at almost every level. Since war broke out in Iraq in 2003, they have been responsible for running dozens of Iraqi double agents.

A look into the history of the secretive JSG or Force Research Unit (FRU), the cover name it operated under in Northern Ireland, reveals the extent to which the British government supports and engages in acts of terrorism in order to further its agenda in occupied territories. Iraq, as it turns out, is unsurprisingly no exception.

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Sort of explains the success of the "surge," doesn't it?

"Derek Summerfield: Apartheid revisited; When is the doctor a doctor? And when is he a citizen?

It's been more than a decade since British psychiatrist Derek Summerfield called for a medical academic boycott of Israel. Growing up in South Africa during apartheid, the child of a Zimbabwean Afrikana mother and British father, he knows all too well what racial discrimination and segregation means. He lived it.

Even before visiting the Palestinian territories towards the end of the first Intifada (1987-1992), where he saw for himself Israel's systematic and institutionalised torture of Palestinians, Summerfield "had always been angry at Israel". "Watching the behaviour of young Israeli soldiers towards an elderly Palestinian man on my first day in Jerusalem at a checkpoint felt very familiar," he says. "I'd seen this in South Africa where I grew up."

Summerfield has spent the last 16 years exposing Israeli war crimes and publishing scathing critiques in Britain's leading medical journals on the complicity of Israeli doctors. Today, the name of this honorary senior lecturer at London's Institute of Psychiatry and teaching associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, stands out in the much talked about British academic boycott of Israeli universities. Because he's a doctor, his approach and activism have been focussed on the medical aspect of the boycott campaign where he has been raising compelling questions on the ethical and moral responsibility of the medical profession. He's public enemy number one for Jewish pressure groups in the UK, and for the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), because he poses the right questions.

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"British Papers Paid Hundreds Of Thousands To Families Of Alleged Liquid Bombers: Why?

Mistakes were made when the so-called "Liquid Bombers" were arrested, and in two instances, British national dailies reported information which turned out to be false. These false reports led to claims of defamation which have cost the publishers hundreds of thousands to settle out of court.

When these stories came out, we didn't know very much about the people involved in the settlements. But now, thanks to the trial of the British suspects, we know a bit more.

What has gone on here with this bad reporting and these out-of-court settlements? You don't suppose the sponsors are paying off the families of the cutouts, do you?

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Which is why you are here reading this blog and post.  :-)

"Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Why the BBC and FOX Can No Longer be Believed

Like a cornered dog, the BBC has lashed out at a growing movement of organized critics of Bush 'conspiracy theories' of 911. How credible is this offensive? BBC reporting of 911 is at the very least 'questionable', at worst, 'dishonest'. I suggest that the BBC is trying to save face, having blown almost every opportunity to report honestly with regard to the events of 911.

The BBC's coverage of Building 7 is the part that contains the whole! It's a sorry 'incredible' mess! Anyone watching the BBC report of the collapse of WTC Building 7 when the building is seen still standing behind the reporter should question BBC motives, sources, ethics, and operations. Where did the BBC get the information that a standing building had collapsed before it could have or did? Why did the BBC report as fact the collapse of a building that would not collapse for another 23 minutes? How did the BBC know?

....  Prior to 9/11, no steel framed building had ever collapsed as a result of fire damage. Building 7 is a threat not only to Bush's absurd cover story which defies the laws of physics, it is a threat to the 'bend over and take it' school of journalism which simply regurgitates official stories and cover its ass with an attribution. The 'news reader' in the above video states as if it were fact that Building 7 collapse because 'it had been weakened' That's utter nonsense repeated as it was fed to him. In fact, Building 7 would not have collapse from the existing fires even if it had not been "intentionally designed to allow large portions of floors to be permanently removed without weakening the structural integrity of the building.

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"America Vanquished
by Bob Finch

....  It is the Jewish elite’s takeover of the American political system and its ability to use America’s military hyper-power for the benefit of the [Jews-Only State] that gives rise to Jewish global domination. However, Jewish world domination is far from complete. For a time Russia was controlled by a Jewish elite with allegiance to the JOS but Putin managed to wrestle back control of his country for the sake of the Russian people although whether he’ll be able to fight off the next Jewish political assault is far from certain. In Britain, the ruling elite is composed of Jews and the landowning aristocracy. The aristocrats own much of the countryside whilst the Jewish elite owns much of the country’s high streets. Whilst the former dominates over domestic issues, the latter dominates in foreign affairs....

By far and away the most important political issue at present is Jewish world domination. What matters is not the second world war brought about by the German master race but the third world war currently being instigated by the Jewish master race. Times have changed. The JOS is now far more powerful militarily than the nazis ever were. The JOS is creating so many millions of victims it is drawing ever closer to the total achieved by the nazis. Jews around the world currently agitating for the third world war are just as much racist supremacists as the nazis who provoked the second world war. Blair and Bush are modern day Chamberlains giving succour to the world’s new nazis – the Jewish master race....

This article does not present the case for Jewish world domination. It suggests the time has long since passed when the idea of Jewish world domination should be deemed to be preposterous or treated as morally abhorrent. There is plenty of evidence pointing in the direction of Jewish world domination. For example: the willingness of American politicians to criticize the president of the United States but their total reluctance to criticize the JOS. Western governments’ acceptance of the JOS as a western, liberal, secular democracy rather than criticizing it for being a racist state. It is more absurd to believe that America is the world’s hyperpower and that the JOS is just an American colony than it is to believe in Jewish world domination. This article seeks to change political priorities from the so-called Jewish holocaust of the past to the Jewish inspired catastrophe of a third world war. The so-called war against terrorism is a racist war initiated by Jewish supremacists designed to boost Jewish world domination....

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Another jury sees through the false-flag frame-ups.

"No verdicts reached in '05 bombing case

LONDON - A British jury said yesterday that it had failed to reach verdicts in the case of three men accused of helping to plan the London subway and bus bombings in 2005 - the worst attack on Britain's capital since World War II. Prosecutors said they would consider whether to seek a retrial and would make a decision within a week. Judge Peter Gross ordered the men to remain in custody pending the decision (AP)."

Also see: Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5

Terror Expert: 7/7 Mastermind was working for British Intelligence, Group was used by Brits in Kosovo in the late 90s

MI5 decided to stop watching two suicide bombers