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Israel, Europe Crack Down on Palestinian 'Flytilla'
Scores arrested, stranded in day of protest
Over 40 pro-Palestinian activists on their way to the West Bank have been detained upon arrival as they reached Israel's Ben Gurion airport on Sunday as part of an action planned by the Welcome to Palestine Initiative 2012 - a bid to 'challenge Israel's policy of isolating the West Bank'. Hundreds more are expected to reach Tell Aviv throughout the day as the activists persist.
An Israeli undercover policewoman (right) arrests an activist holding a pro-Palestinian slogan at Ben Gurion air port near Tel Aviv on April 15. British airline easyJet has said it had joined other carriers in preventing pro-Palestinian activists from boarding flights to Israel after pressure from the country's government (Agence France-Presse) Many other campaigners from around the world are attempting to reach Tel Aviv today, as authorities attempt a blockade.
An Interior Ministry spokeswoman said Israel had given airlines the names of some 1,200 activists whose entry would be barred. Airlines Lufthansa and Jet2 began refusing activists' passage this week, returning tickets and informing blacklisted activists that they will not be allowed to travel to Israel.
In Brussels' Zaventem airport, around 100 Belgian and French activists were not allowed to board flights to Israel.
Scores of activists also protested at Charles de Gaulle in Paris, where airport sources said 90 passengers were denied passage on Lufthansa and Swiss Air flights for Tel Aviv.
Reports of denied and detained passengers are surfacing from Vienna, Rome, London, Switzerland, and Istanbul were another 50 activists were stranded after Turkish Airlines refused to allow them on board.
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Reuters: Israel moves to thwart pro-Palestinian "fly-in"
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that 41 people had been refused entry at Ben Gurion airport by early afternoon and would be deported. Four Israeli supporters, two holding "Welcome to Palestine" signs, were also arrested as they waited to greet the arrivals.
An Interior Ministry spokeswoman said Israel on Wednesday had given airlines the names of some 1,200 activists whose entry would be barred. Israel made it clear the carriers would have to bear the costs of repatriating any deportees.
Leehee Rothschild, a "Welcome to Palestine" activist, said dozens of campaigners had since been informed by airlines that their tickets to Tel Aviv had been cancelled.
Organizers had said some 1,200 Palestinian supporters throughout Europe had bought plane tickets to Israel, planning to travel on to the occupied West Bank, an hour's drive from Tel Aviv, as part of a campaign called "Welcome to Palestine".
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Agence France-Presse: Israel bans 'flytilla' activists but hundreds left in Europe
Flanked by dozens of anti-riot police, they marched up to the Lufthansa counter to demand an "official written statement" as to why they had not been allowed to fly.
At Istanbul airport, another 50 activists were stranded after Turkish Airlines reportedly refused to allow them on board, Anatolia news agency reported.
In Vienna, Austrian Airlines said five passengers were barred from flights to Tel Aviv, and in Rome, Alitalia turned back seven Italian activists, press reports said.
Air France and two British budget carriers, Jet2.com and easyJet, also barred an unspecified number of passengers, with easyJet confirming it had prevented activists from boarding Israel-bound planes from both London and Switzerland.
Despite the success of its diplomatic campaign to pressure European carriers not to allow activists to board flights for Tel Aviv, Israel deployed hundreds of police at its main international airport with orders to "exercise restraint, but to intercept any troublemakers."
All of Sunday's arrests took place far from the whirring cameras with police detaining 33 French nationals, two Spaniards, two Italians, one Swiss national, one Canadian and one from Portugal as soon as they landed.
Of that number 27 French nationals were refusing to board planes back to France, immigration spokeswoman Sabine Haddad told AFP, saying they would be "transferred to a detention facility."
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Show AllEven in the Torah which they claim as their “deed" of land, God destroyed Israel for disobeying commands like false witness on their neighbors and Thou shall not kill.
As the stories of the Bible repeat, the assassins of Israel will get justice soon.
The agreement was known as The Transfer (Haavara) Agreement and made by Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland and Germany's Zionist Movement and signed by the self appointed head of the German Jewish community, Mr Georg Kareski. Even though the Zionists were considered as a fringe movement of extremists verging on gangsters at the time and had only a participation of just over 2% of German Jews, they could agree to assign large handling commission and pay the SS and certain favored bank's fees to move money and allow "the chosen few" people to emigrate to Palestine.
No, the Palestinians didn't cause the Holocaust, but the Zionists used the German Nazis and especially the SS to make hay and they collaborated for years (1943 to 1949) with the SS and Hitler to support their own version of an ethnic national socialist (Nazi) movement in Palestine.
And while you are at it looking up "Zionist collaborators", look up Feivel Polkes of the Hagannah (the forerunner of the IDF) the Zionist underground military organization in British-run Palestine. Polkes availed his services to gather information for Germany that did not conflict with his own political ends. Among other things, he would vigorously support German foreign policy interests in the Middle East and use his influence to secure sources of oil for the German Reich … “if German foreign currency regulations for Jews emigrating to Palestine would be relaxed”.
Polkes wanted the Nazis to use their powers of persuasion to ensure that German refugees only went to Palestine. The Gestapo were happy to do “everything in those days to promote emigration, particularly to Palestine.” SS files show that in return for information from Polkes on Jewish attempts to kill Hitler, “pressure will be exerted on the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland to oblige Jews who emigrate from Germany to go exclusively to Palestine, and not to other countries.” Not only were the Zionists trying to close the doors of Britain and the USA to Jewish refugees: they were pressing the Nazis not to allow anyone to leave unless it was for Palestine, and passing information to the Gestapo.
'Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fightng'
知彼知己,百戰不殆;不知彼而知己,一勝一負;不知彼,不知己,每戰必殆
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.-- The art of War -- Sun Tzu
For example, it is forbidden in the mainstream media to discuss the Jewish community's contribution to their fractious relation with non-Jewish Europeans. This is discussed by Jewish researchers in "The Causes of Hostility Toward Jews: A Historical Overview" (Chapter 2) at:
http://www.whenvictimsrule.blogspot.com
And while the Nazi Holocaust was a grotesque tragedy that should never again happen to ANYBODY, it is merely a part of a bigger story. Noteably, it was not the main force behind the establishment of a Jewish state. It was, however, used by the Zionist movement to push the state into existence. Jewish writer Amira Hass, Ha'aretz columnist, has said that without the Holocaust there would be no Israel.
http://uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=19985
Leading up to WWII the Zionist movement was pushing the idea that Jews inherently could not be loyal citizens of any country except a Jewish state. This directly supported the same idea espoused by the Nazis. Most Jews in Western Europe strongly opposed this idea. They had been assimilating into their respective countries quite successfully, and felt the Zionists most definitely did not speak for them. A Jewish Englishman (who thought of himself as such), Lord Montague, wrote a famous letter in 1917 strongly objecting to the Balfour Declaration on these grounds.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15584.htm
Most Jews in Western Europe and America agreed with Montague, but big bankers wanted a separate Jewish state, perhaps to be more independent of European governments. As early has 1896, before the First Zionist Congress, Jewish bankers tried to buy Palestine from Turkey in order to create a Jewish state. Zionist leader Theodor Herzl was their emissary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl
Their boots on the ground were extreme fundamentalist Jews from Eastern Europe, who wanted a Jewish state and were willing to be the armed "settlers" needed to take over the land. Jewish Americans were won over to the cause with stories about the plight of Jews in Eastern Europe. Some research on the state of Jews in Eastern Europe is in "A Closer Look at the Jews in Polish and Eastern European History" (Chapter 7) at:
http://www.whenvictimsrule.blogspot.com
Israel's terrible treatment of the Palestinians today is a direct extension of their terrible treatment from the start. This terrorism has been a bedrock tactic in taking the land. It's beginnings are described here, especially in the slaughter at the village of Deir Yasin:
http://www.controversyofzion.info/Controversybook/Controversybook_eng_43...
With the heartlessness of Wall Street bankers, the hard-core Zionists have built a major arms industry, with accompanying mercenary services to unsavory regimes around the world, described in "Israel and Zionism" (Chapter 28) at:
http://www.whenvictimsrule.blogspot.com
All the while they maintain the myth and cover story that they speak for all Jews, while they most definitely do not, as this Nazi Holocaust survivor declares emphatically at Common Dreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/29-2
Gradually, more and more Americans, including Jewish Americans are finding out the truth and reclaiming their humanity.
For my part, I can't imagine anyone other than Israelis wanting to go there. Also, one must understand that all one needs to do is participate in one self-identifying anti-Israel protest and he/she will added to the banned list.
I do not countenance editorial intervention on the part of Common Dreams. I do, however, suggest that the staff of CD disallow access to its columns by anyone such as this who misappropriates another's name, as this one is doing. Alternatively, CD could require the name-user to verify his identity as Mordechai Vanunu. That shouldn't be too much for Mossad or Shin Bet to do for their agent.
This motive doesn't exist in a vacuum; it's intertwined with all of the other reasons Western European nations have become the Amerikan Empire/hegemony's lap dogs and attack dogs, as clovis puts it.
I don't mean "guilt" in the highest or purest sense, i.e. collective good-hearted anguish and remorse at yielding or deferring to the Third Reich's Holocaust-- although such "noble" guilt does exist.
I mean the base guilt arising from consciousness of hypocrisy and complicity in tacitly assenting to, even secretly rooting for, the Reich's psychopathic attempt to take a long tradition of European oppression and xenophobic loathing for Jewish minorities to its logical conclusion.
Over time, in response to changed geopolitical circumstances, this hypocrisy simply converted or mutated into an obsequious regard for the State of Israel-- which, from Europe's point of view, has the happy quality of serving as the ultimate glorified reservation for the troublesome surviving Jewish minorities.
So, in general, nowadays the EC is as happy to do Amerika and Israel's dirty work on their behalf as they were incipiently gratified to see Germany do their dirty work back in the day.
Israel is the worst thief of land and homes and lives. With the US and Britain's guidance.and money. The UN stole the first half of Palestine in 1947 for the benefit of Israel, and has supported the continuing destruction of the nation and its people of Palestine down to barely 5% of its original land.... Shame, shame.
We earnestly solicit your wise counsel in this matter, billyevans.
It seems to me that people who support the murder of innocent children have much larger "hate issues" than those who criticize murderers.
I suspect you also support Barack Obama the Baby Killer, the Mass Murderer of Muslim Children, the Prostitute of the Plutocracy, the Whore of the Wealthy, right?