“You have had to live with the missile threat from Gaza for fourteen years now. But now you face a new threat, the tunnels Hamas have built running here from Gaza. How concerned are you about that?”
Incredibly, that really was a question asked by BBC journalist Stephanie Bell of an Israeli man, just broadcast on BBC1. So far over 600 Palestinian civilians have died compared to two Israeli civilians (one of whom was a Bedouin who as a matter of policy are denied air raid shelters). Yet the BBC continues to pump out the narrative that the “problem” is Hamas attacks on Israel.
There are many other more interesting questions Stephanie Bell might have asked. Here are some:
“Do you ever wonder about the lives of the Arab families who lived here before they were removed by force? Whether any of them are now living in Gaza and under those bombs and shells”
“Do you honestly believe that this land is yours because God said so?”
The BBC had also been reporting as credible Israel’s appalling denials that it massacred those families in the UN school, and completely unsubstantiated claim it was stray Hamas fire that did it. The UN have confirmed that Israel has regularly been hitting UN schools and medical facilities.
Absolutely, Doug. Israel has no intention of ever allowing an autonomous Palestinian state to emerge. There is no peace process. Every Zionist and Western politician knows that. There is only a desire for the Palestinians to acquiesce in their own eradication.
The recent cycle has been: Israeli attack on Gaza, ceasefire, lull, talks about talks, talks, talks breaking down, lull, ongoing oppression, Palestinian frustration, Israeli attack on Gaza. All the while of course they’re stealing more land in the West Bank as they keep a chokehold on their Gaza punchbag. It’s a cycle which suits Israel perfectly; they know no western power or the corporate media is going to challenge that strategy. And it is a strategy.
“an Israeli soldier twisted his ankle in Gaza!!!”
H&S caution against kicking children for that very reason…
http://972mag.com/watch-palestinian-child-kicked-by-border-police-in-hebron/49951/
Data published in a new report from the House of Commons states the value of all British military exports to Israel currently being processed comes to £billions
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmquad/205/20502.htm
Note the huge sale of cryptography equipment (£7.7billion)
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmquad/205/205ii_14.htm
Cunts! The equipment ‘knowledge’ I pray will make that sale to our advantage.
so agree Mark G., and what for? well this interview with the former snoop de snoop Diskin speaks volumnes. Israel seems to want to bulldoze gaza and take it back so they can exploit its offshore gas and dismantel The consentration camp via the ‘Endloesung’ Is Diskin still in the loop? you bet he is.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/interview-with-former-israeli-security-chief-yuval-diskin-a-982094.html
ESLO
25 Jul, 2014 – 6:38 pm
“Such believers in the ends justifying the means whether religious, political or just plain lunatics are the source of most misery in the world’s history.”
True ESLO and the Zionists certainly believe that the end [Greater Israel] justifies the means [ethnic cleansing, mass murder, war crimes, torture, arbitrary arrest, destruction of homes and collective punishment.]
Mark Golding – “Note the huge sale of cryptography equipment (£7.7billion)”
Yeah, it makes you wonder what they’re really selling.
For an Israeli apparatchik, Diskin seems to have quite a sober appreciation of the situation, actually. Pity he can’t get it across to the leadership.
BBC finally got there…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28501905
But the report plays down the size… says 15000. Even the police report (usually conservative) says 45000, so vastly underplayed.
Palestinians file complaint against Israel at ICC
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/26/372795/palestinians-file-complaint-against-israel/
World War I – civilian casualties 40%
World War 2 – civilian casualties 60%
Israeli slaughter in Gaza – civilian casualties 80%
In WW2 they had carpet bombing and death squads. Yet we’re told that the most ethical army in the world with precision munition is causing minimum civilian casualties when its killing a higher proportion of civilians.
Hasbaroids go completely OTT –
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10992936/Israel-condemned-over-European-terror-propaganda-tweets.html
Could be a change brewing, right enough, if guys like Brzezinski are saying this:
http://presstv.com/detail/2014/07/26/372880/fundamental-change-in-us-israel-policy/
The original on CNN should be easy enough to find.
Mike – Politicians often talk more sense after they’ve left office.
There is no change in US Israel policy. The US Senate has just unanimously passed a resolution supporting Israel’s assault on Gaza.
The Israelis are slaughtering hundreds of children and Nobel Peace Prize Obama doesn’t even stay stop.
Even 9/11 didn’t cause a change in US Israel policy. Bills and body bags are the only thing America ever got out of their Israel policy. Its a totally one-sided leech relationship. But they don’t get that yet, or if they do, they don’t change it.
Maybe there really is something in that saying about the goy being thick.
Not just London. Big demonstration in Chicago today. Google seems to have have no news at all on that one…
https://twitter.com/shirienbean/status/493145450380132352/photo/1
Latest on Graham Phillips (from Poland!)
A shocking experience:
http://rt.com/news/175828-phillips-arrest-ukraine-details/
(his whole online ID seems to have been hacked…)
Israeli protest against war today in Tel Aviv (5000):
http://972mag.com/no-more-deaths-israelis-protest-the-gaza-war/94380/
1049 candles for the Palestinians who died! This voice of Israel needs to be seen and heard
Jon Snow, Channel 4 News on Gaza children, today…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACgwr2Nj_GQ&feature=youtu.be
@Je:
Another politician starting to talk sense after he’s left office:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/john-prescott-israels-bombardment-gaza-3918413#.U9QqS47xp3Y.twitter
je, 10:43 pm; for the Financial-Corporate Empire (of which the US government is effectively a servant), Israel serves various vital functions. It’s a beachhead and a base for nuclear weapons. It helps to keep the Middle East, home of sweet crude, destabilised and divided and easier to exploit. It provides some of the excuses for military action and for demonisation of Iran. Gaza serves as a weapons development field testing station.
Imperialism never serves its “own” people and countries. It serves a privileged elite. “There’s good money in death”:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2007/08/theres_good_mon/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICC4Israel
Currently number 1 trending hashtag worlwide. In the top 5 in UK and US regions.
@Squonk: Now number 1 in UK. Who’d have thought it…
Peacewisher, I request that you use “cracked” for breaking computer security rather than “hacked”. Hackers coded the Internet protocols, invented Copyleft licenses like the GPL, and gave us Free (or “open source”) Software. The corporate media use of the term “hacker” has debased it to mean a type of criminal. From Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, a core hacking-culture book:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is
It seems that John Prescott’s intervention is getting a lot of resonance… 496 retweets so far. Sorry, No.2 in UK, after a record hyping twitterfest.
Well, well. The Mail seems to have a bit of a down on Mr.Tony (Quartet Envoy To ROFL) too:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2706941/He-Middle-East-not-UK-Peace-envoy-Tony-Blair-blasted-throwing-surprise-birthday-party-wife-Cheries-60th-6million-mansion-Gaza-death-toll-passes-1-000.html
Woohoo, Cherie, babe. Turn on Sky and let’s all watch the IDF…
This piece is, however, substantially inaccurate. Blair was NOT at home all week. He visited Vietnam on the 23rd/24th, and (although records of his presence are woefully lacking) expected in Guangzhou, China after the celebrations. Though the Mail does confirm that he was there. His aircraft was reported to be nearer home on Saturday.
@Clark: you may be right, but ever since the NotW scandal the mainstream media always uses “hacking”, and this has become an everyday usage, so don’t waste your energy on this. Hacking also means riding a horse around the countryside, of course.
In the current context, if I said Graham Phillips had been cracked, people would assume that his skull had been cracked. Did they crack his password(s) though, or did they get it/them in some other way?
@Ba’al: Not a smart move by the Blairs. Combined circulation of Mail and Mirror close to 3 million.
Peacewisher, 26 Jul, 11:19 pm: yes, the damn corporate media hardly ever report the peace protests within Israel, nor peace protests by Jewish groups – but since when did peace sell news media? Nah, ramp it up, let’s you and them fight (while we sell some shit to the punters). There’s a lot more Israeli and Jewish peace activism than you’ve found there:
“Standing with the Israelis”:
http://tabithatroughton.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/standing-with-the-israelis/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheWorldIsWithPalestine
Also now in the UK top 10 as of posting.
Peacewisher,
They got hold of his laptop. Probably just got the stored passwords off of that.
@Squonk: Yes, you’re probably right.
@Clark: I have absolutely no grudge with any Jewish person… if only Christians (I’m generalising…. some are very, very, sincere) could be as serious about following their spiritual principles as muslims and jews:
http://www.vice.com/read/kleinfeld-israel-demos-zionism-london-2014-138
I haven’t looked into this for awhile, but it seems that the nuts who have taken over the henhouse are the Christian Zionists.