Ditto for Fallujah

So, the world just sits there while cowardly Israel attacks children in their insane hatred for Palestinians? Beyond shameful-in fact I am tempted to call the world's indifference "criminal." Israel needs to answer for these heinous acts-and "self investigation" will not do. There needs to be an independent international inquiry. This needs to be a major push.

Unfortunately, the IDF is apparently being indoctrinated with the idea that it is Jews against the world and that the gentiles must be destroyed. This tends to turn the enemy, any enemy, into a thing, not a human. Hence, there is little or no compassion.

We have seen this attitude in other countries, especially during the thirties and forties of the last century.

Some of us hoped that such things were gone forever, but they just seem to have been transferred. Yesterday's "untermenschen" are now the "Ubermenschen," dealing out death and torture to those they classify as the modern untermenschen.

This seems to be so for both Israel and the US. So sad. So tragic. So unnecessary.

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to relive it." Santyana

Amnesty's call for an investigation by the UN Security Council sounds good but expecting anything positive to come of this is, I think futile. The US, being a permanant member of the Security Council has enormous power and if it refuses to investigate -- which it probably will -- this whole series of criminal tragedys will become a blackhole in history.

FYI, interesting story from across the pond:

Shunned Israeli fruit being sold as Cypriot

By Nathan Morley
(Cyprus Mail - Thursday, March 19, 2009)

ALDI 'apologizes unreservedly for this error to its customers and producers'

A LEADING German supermarket yesterday admitted to effectively misleading European consumers by selling re-labelled Israeli Grapefruit as a product of Cyprus before passing it on to the public.

It has been claimed the decision to pass off the Israeli fruit by the German ALDI chain came after a widespread boycott of Israeli goods in the aftermath of the Israel's invasion into Gaza in December.

Since then, shoppers across Ireland especially, have been turning their backs on Israeli goods such as fruit, vegetables and electronics and it is thought that stockpiles of Israeli produce are rotting at supply depots.

One Irish consumer, in a letter to the Cyprus Mail said: "I for one will be boycotting all products from Cyprus until I can be assured that it is not in fact Israeli produce and I will be advising all others to do likewise. This is something which can do serious damage to citrus farmers in Cyprus."...

More details here:

http://ie.indymedia.org/article/91559

Supermarket chains have also in the past been accused of duping customers with 'West Bank' produce that was grown in colonial settlements:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/06/israelandthepalestinians.supermarkets

or

http://tinyurl.com/6na7wk

The pressure should be directed at the prime supporter of the Israeli government: the USA. We are a Security Council Member; we, if wanted to, could easily pass a resolution denouncing this, shut off military funding, and lead a global embargo of Israeli security technology (since we seem to be the largest market).

I know, AIPAC has much influence over US foreign policy and media coverage, but they are a foreign sponsored PAC who don't speak for the interests of most American Jews, much less most Americans. If this point is raised repeatedly (as well as America failing her commitment to the world in not officially raising the issue), we might be able to defame them and similar apologists, especially if international and domestic pressure piles against the both US and Israeli governments.

OPEC's oil embargo in the 1970s forced us to briefly reevaluate support for Israel. There's nothing to say a similar shift cannot happen again, though I admit this is most unlikely.

Just another genocidal reminder from the goyim-hating Zionists. they've been engeaged in a 60-year program of torture, terror and mayhem against the darker-skinned endigenous people of Palestine. This latest slaughter of innocent women and children is seen more as a 'welcome to our world, President Obama" If we Americans lived there, they'd be murdering us. I say boycott Israel.

While in the little town of occupied Bethlehem, July 2007, I interviewed a few pediatric MD's and the status quo of occupation reaped the maddnes we witnessed in Gaza.

Dr. Rafat-Allawi, of Bethlehem and four General Practice residents spoke to me for the forty-five minutes that was their break time in a 116 hour week that required them to be on call at forty hour stretches in a private hospital and were paid $1, 400.00 a month, twice what physicians are paid in the public government hospitals.

Dr. Yousef: "Three days ago, I had a critical cardiac patient that required transport to Israeli hospital, as we do not have the facilities or specialists here to treat critical cases. I had to apply for a permit; permission to travel with the child in the ambulance to Jerusalem, but was refused as the Israelis claimed I was a security risk; a threat to the state of Israel."

Dr. Amro: "Yes, a threat with his stethoscope! I had a patient that was one week old with severe heart disease and needed to go to Jerusalem for emergency care. The mother, a paramedic and I traveled with the baby in the ambulance. At the checkpoint, the Israeli soldier; a female laughed and told the mother in broken Arabic, 'You cannot pass through until you admit you are a prostitute.' The mother did not understand what she was saying and why the soldiers were laughing and joking as her baby was blue, but she said what the soldier demanded and we finally were let through. I do not know what happened with that baby and this harassment at the checkpoints is not unusual. At the checkpoints it is usual to wait 3-4 hours and because Palestinian ambulances are not allowed through, we must hire Israeli ambulances for transport. They charge 1,800 shekels [ 450.00 USA dollars] and the parents cannot even make that much money in a month of work."

Dr. Allawi: "The other alternative from going to Jerusalem [a few miles away] is to take the children to Jordan for care, but that trip can take two days. Before the intifada, we were able to go to Jerusalem, but not since. Yesterday, I had a child in renal failure and there is no pediatric dialysis available in the West Bank. It took over twelve hours to locate a hospital in Israel to take him, but it was too late and he is dead."

Dr. Amro: "There are no specialists in the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority pays 80 million a year to Jordan and [Israeli] Hadassah hospitals for medical care. They could build hospitals in the West Bank and train specialists here!"

I asked did any of them have any faith in Tony Blair and the Quartet's initiative to build Palestinian infrastructures, especially in the medical field. They all laughed and Dr. Allawi added, "We have a very weak Health Ministry and there is no state authority. In 1994, when the PA started, its aim was that Palestine would assume authority and responsibility for ourselves and the Israelis present a false front."

When I commented that under International Law the occupiers are responsible for the needs and requirements of the occupied, the doctors laughed again, for it is the law of the jungle that rules the Holy Land.

Dr. Amro: "It's a revolving door in the West Bank. We treat these babies as best we can, the parents don't have the money to pay for the medicine and milk and the babies return to the hospital every ten days."

Dr. Al-Qaisi: "We see lots of children with chronic metabolic disorders and there is no money to treat them properly. They should be on special milk for at least six months; we send them home with one bottle and a week's worth of milk costs 230 shekels that the parents do not have, so they eat potatoes and tomatoes and come back here."

The doctors see over one hundred children a day and admit a quarter of them. In the public hospitals in places like Hebron, the physicians will see five-hundred a day and admit a fourth of them also.

Dr. Al-Qaisi: "When we [resident doctors] graduate, we can't find work in the West Bank; you graduate as a GP and you stay that way because there are no facilities to train in specialties."

Dr. Amro: "The US Aid, the Fulbright Society; they all give food, drugs and money, but don't support further education."

Dr. Hafiri: "We need specialists here; this is a major disaster not having any in the West Bank."

Dr. Amro: "The politicians live in a bubble. We live in the third world, and this is a heaven hospital, the government hospitals in the West Bank are hell! If we need blood for a child, we have to get it from Jerusalem and it takes five hours! So, we are supposed to predict six hours ahead, which child will require blood [stat: immediately]."

Dr. Allawi: "There is no plan, no aim to really change this situation. The world leaders are not serious about changing the situation and really building foundations. Some of us get the opportunity to go to the US and get specialized training, but they don't come back here."

Dr. Al-Qaisi pulled out his USA citizenship and told me, "In 2004, I won a green card lottery. The USA grants 55,000 green cards a year and if you pass the security checks and all the other criteria, you can get American citizenship. I went to Toledo, Ohio for a while, but I came back home, because my family is the most important thing to me. I don't care about making a lot of money, I want to be with my family."

Eileen Fleming, Author, Founder WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"

Thank goodness they are a moral army. Imagine what they would be doing it they were a regular goy army!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7960071.stm

Israel army rides out T-shirt row

Israeli officials have described as "tasteless" and inconsistent with army values a popular military past-time of printing violent cartoons on T-shirts.

An investigation in Haaretz daily saya the customised shirts are often ordered when troops finish training courses.

One example shows a pregnant Arab women in the cross-hairs of a sniper's sight with the legend "1 shot 2 kills".

Another design shows a child being similarly targeted with the slogan "the smaller they, are the harder it is".

In both images the people being targeted appear to be carrying weapons. A third T-shirt design shows a dead Palestinian baby and the words "Better use Durex" (condoms).

An army statement said the customised clothing was produced outside military auspices, but it pledged to stamp out the use of such imagery by soldiers.

"The examples presented by the Haaretz reporter are not in accordance with IDF values and are simply tasteless," the military statement said.

"This type of humour is unbecoming and should be condemned."

But it admitted that until now there were no military guidelines governing "acceptable civilian clothing" made by its soldiers.

The Israeli military has faced heavy criticism for causing high levels of civilian casualties during its recent Gaza offensive.

The army frequently says it takes care to avoid civilian casualties and blames Palestinian militants for putting them in harm's way.

Israeli soldier leads away Palestinian suspect in Bethlehem (file picture)
Many Israeli combat troops deal with Palestinians in the occupied territories
A sociologist quoted by Haaretz, Orna Sasson-Levy of Bar-Ilan University, warned the designs could strengthen, stimulate and legitimise aggression towards Palestinians in the occupied territories.

"There is... increasing callousness," she said. "There is a perception that the Palestinian is not a person, a human being entitled to basic rights and therefore anything may be done to him."

The Haaretz investigation discovered numerous T-shirts depicting violence against Palestinians and appearing to celebrate sexual assault.

Other designs appeared to bear witness to officially prohibited practices, such as "confirming the kill" (shooting lifeless enemies' bodies in the head to ensure they are dead), or deliberately harming religious sites and non-combatants.

The shirts are often printed up to mark the end of basic training and other military courses.

The Tel Aviv clothing firm Adiv, which made many of the shirts, did not comment on the Haaretz report.

It prints up about 500 different patterns for military units each month, Haaretz says, mostly jokes about army life and "a handful reflecting particular aggressiveness, violence and vulgarity".

On Monday, Israel's chief of staff defended his troops against a rising tide of criticism.

"I tell you that this is a moral and ideological army," Lt-Gen Gabi Ashkenazi said in a speech to new recruits.

"I have no doubt that exceptional events will be dealt with. We took every measure possible to reduce harm to the innocent [in Gaza]."

The Haaretz report says the T-shirts tend to be worn strictly in private or in barracks because of adverse civilian reactions and are seen by army psychologists as an expression of bonding within a small, tight-knit unit.

Last week several soldiers were quoted anonymously in the media saying troops had killed Palestinians, including women and children, by hastily opening fire under relaxed rules of engagement in Gaza.

alwaysamazed
I am house-sitting with access to a fast computer. I'm not that computer-literate, but everywhere I go on the internet for the last week, I find more evidence, more outrage, more leaks, more cracks in the imprisoning bars of disinformation. It's even been reported that Madoff siphoned those billions to Israel! And Paul Volcker of all people + Scowcroft and Brzezinski have been encouraging Obama to talk to Hamas!
The US is on record as considering joining the ICC. Vanunu is about to be freed. More and more empowered American Jews are denouncing zionist Israel. If the great tide is finally turning to prevent "human inhumanity to human", beginning in the "Holy Land", it is NOW IF we keep up the pressure...it will be a true "electronic intifada"! I am going right now to submit (more articulate) letters to my local newspapers...and call as advised in "Occupation 101". Yes! A "major push" at every level!! Check out the international press! Check out Al Jazeera English! Check out LinkTV (satellite or online!) After 60 years, it might just be happening! Check out WAWA! check out endtheoccupation.org! checkout www.al-nakba-history.com! Codepink! JStreet! jta.org! electronicintifada!++++++

The recent Israeli actions in Gaza are nothing new.
The brutal treatment of the Palestinians started over 100 years ago when the Jewish National Front started buying Palestinian land without divulging that they would never resell it to a Arab. By 1935 there were almost half a million Jews living in Palestine, over 90% of them on Palestinian land. In the late 1930's the Palestinians revolted over this situation and at the end of the fighting 200 British, 400 Jews and 5,000 Palestinians were dead. It has been downhill for the Palestinians ever since as they have never been consulted about the takeover of their land. In the various battles they have always died disproportionately, 100 to 1 in Gaza recently but most Americans call this a fight rather than a slaughter.
Without unilateral American military support for Israel a settlement with the Palestinians would have occurred years ago.
Read the 'Israel' chapter in the book 'Amoral America' free download at www.amoralamerica.info

"Just War" is an oxymoron, a sophistry devised by theologians and philosophers to serve rulers and soldiers. Certainly the modern international laws regarding warfare are designed, under ideal circumstances, to diminish some of the immense suffering engendered by military conflict, but only peace is just.

The US's subservience to the Israeli right wing has precluded peace and radicalized many Palestinians and made these atrocities possible.

How ironic and absurd is it that non-Semitic Asiatic Khazar and Eastern European Slavic converts to Judaism are murdering actual Semitic converts to Islam... (bizarro world anyone?)

And all the while people like Alan Dershowitz and the vile Abe Foxman (both should be arrested for impersonating a Semite) regularly pull out the anti-Semite WMD like a pistol to eliminate anyone who would dare tell a truth.

How high a pile do 431 child corpses make? About two stories. Fill 2-3 dumpsters. And they stand for Joy as one at the Jewish soccer game, the dead babies not yet cold, "The children are all gunned down!" For Joy For Joy! Mazeltov! Oy Vey Dead Goy What a Great Day!!!! South Africa was never in this league. Even Nazis did not celebrate the mass murder of children. Mass Infanticide is Psycopathic enough, but to celebrate it as a people is de facto evidence of "The Jewish Country" being in the grips of Homicidal Madness. Or were those Protestants at that soccer game? Arabicide, zionism's tenet one.

War Crimes? What a Laugh. Every Gazan killed was a murdered POW. Joe.

Can somebody please tell the IDF that the "Protocols of The Elders of Zion" is NOT a training manual.

if hard evidence has been uncovered, the war crimes are not "alleged". At this stage do we really consider "israel"i atrocities to be "alleged"?

is this any different from nazi pan-germanism?... "Rabbi Karov said his son represented an individual who was nurtured by society and who was willing to sacrifice for the nation.
Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior delivered a fiery and overtly political speech, calling for Israeli sovereignty over the whole of the Land of Israel and criticizing what he described as weak-minded IDF strategies in the face of Israel's enemies.
Citing the Torah, Lior noted that "200,000 Israelites and 10,000 Judahites fought Amalek. Why are the Judahites counted separately from the others? Because the Israelite army pitied Amalek. Today this is called being humanitarian."
He added, "Only the tribe of Judah did not pity Amalek, and destroyed it... The sons of Torah are taught not to pity their enemies."
Lior expressed hope that a growing number of IDF strategists coming from the national-religious camp would have an influence on future military campaigns.
"We need ethics from the Torah, not the Christian world, which teaches to turn the other cheek. This hypocrisy is against human nature," Lior said.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat also saluted the soon-to-be soldiers, saying the IDF was an army of "city-dwellers and villagers, secular and religious, left- and right-wing."-from haaretz