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Hebron Aid Flotilla To Fight Injustice of Gazan Arabs' Luxury Hotels. Really.
Brazen: The Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund's annual fundraising event is a November dinner cruise dubbed an Aid Flotilla. Suggesting donation levels up to $100,000, its goal is to "raise our voices and take out our checkbooks" to protest "the evil discrimination" against Hebron's Jewish settlers who must live amidst "the incessant construction of the Arabs of Gaza." One weeps. In contrast to these evil fictions, here's what you should know about the "open-air prison" that is Palestinian Hebron.
The Hebron Fund on "the supposed suffering" in Gaza: "While the Arabs build and open luxury hotels and state-of the-art shopping malls, the Jews of Hebron live in impossible conditions... While the Arabs of Gaza are free to build wherever and whatever they like, our children are arrested for planting gardens and installing park benches in violation of the 'building freeze.'"
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Show AllThis is in the same sick spirit as the "We Con the World" video. If you made up a story like this, you would be called anti-Semitic. I wish I could say it defies the imagination, but unfortunately this is the stuff of everyday life in the minds of a majority of Israelis and their supporters. They should hope their G-d is not as vengeful as they believe.
I hope that this is just a joke from Onion.
Doesn't look like it. Google it, and you'll be taken straight to their Israeli web address.
If this is true, then it is not only Israel that has no shame, but it is Jews in America that must own that yoke.
What cave have you been living in, Mookie? American Jews are the financial hub of the international crime wave known as "Israel."
Correction:
A cabal of rich zionists (most of whom are jewish) concentrated in the New York City area are the backbone of AIPAC and other Israeli front groups.
American Zionists are.
Zionism and Judaism are antithetical, one either believes the Torah, or one believes that the State of Israel should exist.
American Jews are some of the best allies the Palestinian People have, unfortunately, most Zionists call themselves Jews, much like most Dominionists call themselves Christian.
As Zionists worship what a Jew would refer to as "mammon", however, they tend to have more of what they worship, thus are more able to buy politicians and media to confuse people into thinking that they are Jewish.
check out www.nkusa.org and www.jewsagainstzionism.org for more info (I am not affiliated with either, I just have learned alot from both)
Take a look at the video of Adeeb Abu Rahma speaking Hebrew to the soldiers who had just tear gassed his village after a pitifully small non-violent protest by Palestinians. The Hebron Fund wants Americans to donate their tax deductible dollars to get the Palestinians to leave or keep silent forever, with your money spent on the gas, bullets, white phosphorous, or whatever weapons Israel chooses.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/10/3-jews-showed-this-video-last-night-at-nyu-challenging-zionism.html
How the hell is a totally political donation tax-deductible?
This one's easy. Because Israel owns and operates the Amerikon Empire. Surely you have noticed.
Maybe he hasn't noticed.
A good way to start noticing is look at that tiny label on a lot of the packaging of the food you eat. It's called a kosher symbol. It's a racket that 98% of the people buying the food who could care less if it's kosher or not have to pay for... for who? Scads of Rabbis on the take who don't even visit food processing to ensure kosher quality. It's a racket. And if the food corporations say no, the kosher nostra media lower the boom. If you don't know who runs our media, you've been away many years. So you get kosher symbols on so much stuff it's unreal. Now we are seeing kosher symbols on non food items. WTF?
We are getting close to the time when it may be necessary to recruit international brigades to free the Palestinians from their barbaric jailers.
I would honestly love to see that.
I'll second this motion.
You may know that the IDF recruits American Jews to help kill Palestinians. Take a look at these Americans and read about them. Note that they have no interest in serving in the US military but serving in the IDF is considered to be a way to get ahead in the US. Presumably our Representatives and Senators who are on the Israel Lobby's payroll know that this is going on.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/in-desperate-search-
for-recruits-israeli-army-targets-foreigners-2004793.html
I would pay money for the opportunity to puke all over their dinner, it makes me sick. This is beyond Chutzpah by lightyears, this is an Orwellian nightmare.
The US/Israeli necrophagist imperialists will stop at nothing - the Nazis of the 21st century.
What next? turn the Palestinians into Soylent Green? Maybe they can serve that at their lovely dinner.
tell me this is from the onion. lie to me if you have to. This is just ...
holy biscuits, it seems to be a real thing. I signed up, asking for the head of a palestinian to be used as a centerpiece on the dinner table and saying that I was bringing a bunch of dead nazi zombies as my dinner guests.
I'm speechless. WTF?
Hasbara of the finest kind! When you have all the money and the media you get to say whatever you want and you will be taken seriously by the majority of American people because they don't take the time to search for the Truth. I am horrified but not surprised by these blatant lies.
Poor little "settlers". Let's be truthful, they have stolen the land of the people of Hebron and other villages and towns in the West Bank and now want the US to take care of them. Of course many "settlers" are from the US so I guess that's appropriate, eh?
can't we just call them "invaders" or at the very least "trespassers"?
Can we not call them colonizers or occupiers? Yes, we can. Of course main stream press prefers the nicer sounding settlers.
I think perhaps illegal immigrants would be a good description. That might get the right wing to behave differently.
http://www.phr.org.il/default.asp?PageID=190&ItemID=875
Nasma Abu Lasheen died on Oct.16, 2010, in a hospital in Gaza. She was two years old. She suffered from leukemia and doctors had arranged for emergency treatment in Israel ten days earlier. B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel tried to get an exit permit but it arrived only two days before her passing, too late for her to travel.
Perhaps next year, this group will actually have a party on a large yacht, and then somehow sail off as fast as possible with the"flotilla" banner flying high!
Just sail right into those international waters, and ...well that would be interesting to see that IDF reception. I wonder if Congress would make a comment about those murdered flotilla Americans?.
Although, perhaps if the yacht thing doesn't work out, they can hold it at the same hotel, but this coming year, they could have hordes pf caterpillars in the street which take off after exiting party goers.
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Wow, I can't believe that this Hebron story is real either. Maybe the Onion can do my suggestions next time.
they are digging their own graves.
Anyone here for ignoring the settlers, for now, and putting pressure on the Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza to embarrass the Netanyahu government with their willingness to join President Obama in striking a final peace deal with Israel? With Palestinian and Hamas backing, Obama will be able to strong-arm the Netanyahu government into agreeing to a final settlement creating an independent Palestinian state. Then, as Israel pulls its settlers out of the areas like Hebron where they will have to leave, we can all rejoice together! If we can get the Palestinian leadership to take a strong stand for a final settlement, with Obama in the Whie House there's nothing that can stand in the way of an independent Palestine.
I don't understand why Israel has to pull the settlers out? Just pull out all the army and shut down internal checkpoints. Let settlers become Palestinian citizens, pay taxes ad obey laws like normal people. Let the settlers negotiate whatever political relationship they want with the Palestinian government without Israeli army intervention, including trading settlement properties for properties outside the settlements if they don't like Palestinian law.
Leave it to the Israelis to try to spin a tragedy into a farce.
Good news!
One Gaza convoy with several million dollars worth of supplies just got through!
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/147632.html
Now that's REAL aid.
My paternal grandfather survived 2 years in Buchenwald. After the war he emigrated to the US, settled in Detroit, and spent his last 29 years working on the line, a shop steward for the UAW. He was a Polish Jew, a Bakunin anarchist, and at 5 foot 2 and 110 lbs. soaking wet he was tough as a sewer rat and mean as a snake.
A few years before he died he sat my 11-year-old ass down and one of the last things he taught me was that there are 3 groups of people you never, ever can trust: capitalists, fascists, and Zionists.
He never lied to me, and he's never been proven wrong.
The site advertises that there will be a "Viennese Table" - isn't it just fitting that they would honor their Hero's Fatherland so?
Didn't you hear? Hitler was a German and Beethoven was an Austrian...
These zionist American pigs with their sick racist hatred and arrogant colonial attitude are the leading edge of Israeli fascism.
Such insanity is contagious and eventually terminal. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." And the Dhammapada assures us that actions follow thoughts as surely as the wheel of a cart follows the ox that pulls it.
Everything we do depends on what we believe the nature of reality to be. If that reality is delusional no atrocity is so extreme that it cannot be justified. It can even, indeed often is, justified retrospectively.
An individual in this state would be called psychotic...
Every Jew cannot believe such things, but then only those in power need be infected. The USA is another case in point.
Since no one bothers with geography or history, I'd like to point out that Hebron is not in Gaza but in the West Bank. There are no Jews left in Gaza; Israel forcibly removed all of them because the Palestinians insisted Gaza be "Jew free." If that happened anywhere else, it would be called ethnic cleansing.