Do not be deceived. The murdered innocents of Gaza are not those who are really suffering. It is the liberal Jews like Hadley Freeman, victims of the new anti-Semitism.
Israel is a state openly founded on racist and theocratic grounds, in which Jews have an absolute right to live in Israel, wherever in the world they were born and their families have been for centuries, and nobody else does. The unfortunate pre-1946 occupants of the land have been mostly driven out into refugee camps, including in Gaza, while religiously motivated settlers continue apace to grab the best Palestinian land and water. The state does this for them precisely and explicity because they are Jewish. Those non-Jews who remained in Israel proper are subject to a whole raft of apartheid style legislation, even governing whom they may marry, and the quantity of this legislation is increasing. 140 Israeli laws specify treatment by race.
Israel is as a state entirely based and run on a racist premise. Its very foundation is racist. But while the Israeli state may steal land specifically for Jews, make provision for Jews, and make life difficult for non-Jews, anybody else who mentions Jews in the context of Israeli behaviour is a vicious racist and anti-Semite. This warped and ludicrous logic is enforced by political orthodoxy and the mainstream media.
It is as though, in opposing apartheid, it was taboo to mention it had been invented for the benefit of white people.
Reading Freeman’s long self-pitying self-centred whinge I was waiting to find out what had actually happened to her to occasion some distress. Had she had a brick through her window? Had she been assaulted in the street? Has somebody hurled racial abuse at her?
Apparently none of the above. It appears that she feels under unfair pressure to denounce the actions of Israel. And- horror of horrors – the Tricycle Theatre has cancelled a Jewish Film Festival in Kilburn because it was financed by the Israeli Embassy. Oh no, the agony! How can a poor girl survive in a North London which is so rife with anti-Semitism! It reminded me forcefully of the very first diplomatic social engagement of my professional career, in 1985 when our Afrikaaner hostess held forth on how she thought people looked down on her in Harrods.
I deplore racism with every part of my being, all racism. Freeman makes what is intended to be a smart observation that the Tricycle’s act “reminds me how very far I am from the States”. It is very plain that she regrets that and believes that the US attitude to Israel is better than the British one.
This then morphs into the meme that the reaction to the Gaza massacre is part of a wave of the “new anti-Semitism”. There have indeed been several deplorable anti-Semitic incidents in Europe in the last few months. But they have killed absolutely nobody in the last two years, while Israel has killed 1,500 people. There have been three terrible examples of racial murders of Jews in the past eight years, and there needs to be continued and unremitting vigilance against all hate crime. The disruption of Hadley’s cinema treats and the daubing of paint on a synagogue are in themselves bad things. But do they really compare to the massive disproportionate force being used to destroy over 1,000 women and children in a month in Gaza, and the context of the entire seventy year programme of ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people?
You are right, Hadley. Just because you are Jewish does not mean you should be under special pressure to condemn Israel’s actions. But if you take it upon yourself to write a long article on the subject, we are entitled to expect you – as a human being – to condemn the massacre. And as in the article you write about nothing but your own angst and the evils of anti-Semitism, and manage not a single word of sympathy or regret for the victims of the terrible massacre in Gaza, we are entitled to form our own opinion.
And my opinion is that you are a wholly self-centred and self-regarding little person with an abject lack of moral perspective, who seems to think the murder of 1500 people is about the impact on your feelings.
Hadley, you are not disgusting because you are Jewish: you are just a disgusting human being.
Mary
9 Aug, 2014 – 10:40 am
“The UN would hold an international conference at which it would seek everyone’s agreement to take over the running of the blockade from the Israelis. The UN version would not be called a “blockade”, it could be referred to as “internationally mandated border controls”, or something similar.
The USA would use its authority as Israel’s main source of financial aid to ensure its cooperation.”
I will sign this Mary but I am deeply sceptical about the future.
The Zionists intend, eventually, to take the Gaza strip for the Jewish settlements. They are not going to give that vision up.
I think where this petition says:
“US involvement in the preparations for and implementation of this UN conference would be crucial, and would greatly improve the image of the US in the world.”
And:
“This handover initiative would greatly improve the image of the UN in the world.”
…says it all really.
And the story from No 10 about NHS medical experts and nurses being sent over is purely to improve the image of the UK in the world (and at home of course).
We have to await the outcome of the conference but there will have to be a complete ceasefire on all sides.
Israel will not like that and Hamas will struggle to rein in disparate groups that have no affiliation to Hamas.
In the meantime and if this plan gets the go-ahead, what will Israel do in the West Bank and East Jerusalem? The answer is they will continue to expand the settlements.
This plan is only a breathing space that will have no effect on the Israel/Palestine conflict in the longer term.
The UN,US,EU (including the UK) are all complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians.
Gaza: Raw Power against the Struggle for Justice
Whatever happened to the US-Quartet Agreement, signed by Israel, ‘to give the Palestinian people freedom to move, to trade, to live ordinary lives’?
August 9th, 2014
Stuart Littlewood
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/08/gaza-raw-power-against-the-struggle-for-justice/
Where is BLiar?
Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
The birds began to sing;
Wasn’t that a dainty dish,
To set before the king?
BLair was in his counting house,
Counting out his money;
Cherie was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.
The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird
And pecked off her nose.
PS Why did the maid get the rough treatment? It should have been the BLiars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_a_Song_of_Sixpence
Your excellent analysis Doug is sadly correct but let’s hope that Israel who have really exposed themselves to a world wide audience this time get reined in and we don’t have another Goldstone situation where they absolve themselves.
The Palestinian Affairs Centre sent this ref Prof Francis Boyle.
BOYLE, (217) 333-7954, fboyle at illinois.edu
Boyle is a professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and author of Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law and The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka. He said today: “The ICC has shown that the hope that many of us had for it was not deserved, it’s been a tool of the pro-Israeli Western powers. Under no circumstances must the Palestinians accede to the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court. ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ a la Frantz Fanon. She will decapitate the entire Palestinian political leadership. The Palestinians will be back to where they were before the founding of the PLO in 1964.”
Instead, Boyle recommends that nations that are signatory to the Genocide Convention invoke it against Israel at the World Court. Numerous world leaders, including the presidents of Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Pakistan and Iran have referred to Israel’s actions as genocidal.
Says Boyle: “An appropriate legal remedy is to apply the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against Israel at the World Court. Palestinians have been victims of genocide by that treaty’s definition. In 1993 I won two World Court Orders on the basis of the 1948 Genocide Convention that were overwhelmingly in favor of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Yugoslavia to cease and desist from committing all acts of genocide against the Bosnians in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention. I won the first emergency order in three weeks.
“In the event the United States were to exercise a veto at the Security Council against the enforcement of this World Court Cease-and-Desist Order against Israel, you can then invoke the General Assembly’s Uniting for Peace Resolution of 1950 in order to have the World Court Order turned over to the United Nations General Assembly for enforcement measures against Israel.”
Boyle was legal advisor to Dr. Haidar Abdul Shaffi, chair of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace negotiations from 1991-1993.
Craig,
the drums of war are distant but only the deaf will not hear them. I wonder whether you and some of the contributors to the blog realize that our children may be the next targets in this murderous orgy, which never seem to end.
I’m sure it’s been said, but I was amazed to see the Gaza march in London as one of the top stories on the BBC.
It’s good to see. A nice surprise.
Neo-con War #6. One of the main players in Ukraine:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/key-man-behind-may-2nd-odessa-ukraine-trade-unions-building-massacre-many-connections-white-house.html
Doug Scorgie “The Zionists intend, eventually, to take the Gaza strip for the Jewish settlements.”
No, what they want is as few Palestinians as possible – which means hiving off Gaza to the UN, Egypt… anyone they can… so long as the demographic of 1.8 million Palestinians is removed from the consideration of the final status of the West Bank and Israel.
Breaking the Gaza/West Bank bond is what they want. The whole latest slaughter has been about that – an attempt to scupper Hamas and Fatah coming together as one unified entity and people.
Good and bad news for what remains of the Donbass people:
Ceasefire?
http://rt.com/news/179212-ukraine-militia-ready-ceasefire/
More NATO weapons ($4.5billion worth) for ethnic cleansing…
http://rt.com/news/179136-nato-plane-arrives-ukraine/
Is the Israel brand becoming toxic to the Zionists->neocons, and isn’t Ukraine closer to huge mineral and energy resources that they may have set their sights on?
@Je:
I honestly think that the Palestinians won’t now be beaten. They have survived for so long, and with time are gaining support from peoples around the world.
The neocons/Zionists won’t think twice about abandoning Israel when the time comes, and Israel urgently needs to reign back their aggression, in their own interest.
@Mike:
This was the billionaire who put a bounty on journalist Graham Phillips’ head. I don’t know how any criteria need to be ticked before someone can accurately be called a fascist, but he doesn’t sound like a very nice man.
Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !
9 Aug, 2014 – 12:56 pm
“…I said that I’ve no knowledge of Knesset rules of procedure and so on, so I’m not in a position to argue with you on what you say here.”
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Well Habbabkuk, why don’t you keep your mouth shut until you do some research?
Staggering courage and empathy with Gaza from a Jewish lady in New York:
https://twitter.com/SJK_ox/status/498147258576433152/photo/1
Passerby
“There is no point in continuing this disparate dialogue based solely on your unintelligent interpretations of an earlier point made by someone else, that is further, reiterated by you over and over again, in an attempt of distract from the main thrust of the issue; the endemic, and systemic racism towards non Jews in Isreal.”
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There is every point in asking you to justify an assertion which, although not from your own pen, you happily posted on here for our attention.
The simple assertion you posted on here was that
“No Arabs can marry or for that matter sleep with any Jews, and those doing so will be punished for rape!”
Even Mr Scorgie has told you that that is wrong.
It is, and you are unable to supply the text of any Israeli law(s) to prove that assertion.
Why do you find it so difficult to own up and admit that you posted tripe?
It’s a small person who can’t admit he got it wrong and you are such a small person.
Yes, Je, Protective Edge started not long after the Hamas/Fatah agreement. That’s not a coincidence.
I thought we might have seen Hezbollah enter the fray by now. I guess they have their hands full with neo-con war #5.
Whoops… it was £4 Million worth of military aid to Ukrainian military. Could not read, wasn’t trying to mislead. 🙂
I found one of my posts on the Guardian after all. Google clearly isn’t good for searching for comments. The Daily Mail moderated in advance – I’ve just looked in vain for my post about how to donate to Gaza in some of the threads I posted to there.
Mike – Hezbollah aren’t interested in provoking Israeli to carry out a repeat of the bombing on Lebanon they did last time. Nasrallah himself said if they had know the extent of that bloodshed they would have acted differently.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/28/syria.israel
More on the Hannibal Directive.
August 6, 2014
Hadar Goldin and the Hannibal Directive
By Ruth Margalit
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/hadar-goldin-hannibal-directive
A sick society with killing at its core.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refusal_to_serve_in_the_IDF
Gilad Atzmon
“The time is ripe for cleansing our cultural and public life of Elie Wiesels and other Jerusalemites who promote dubious non-universal ethics in our midst.”
Matthew 23:27 King James version
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
We have two parallel sectarian authorities co-existing alongside ‘universal ethics’ and they both turn out to be the same thing. We have Zionist False-victim-lies and Political Islam Lies, trying to ride the dragon of Zionism. i.e. Israel’s apartheid and ISIS’s apartheid which refuses to accept the existance of Christians or Yazidis.
In the centuries that followed the prophet Muhammad SAW, wholesale slaughter of non-Muslims occurred across the globe. Those greast and honourable Muslims who waged jihad against the enemies of Islam had first established the full meaning of Islam in their own lives, truthfulness, brotherhood, chastity. Like the gospels parable of the house that had been built on a stone foundation.
Am I the only person who can see the difference between running your lives by deceit, cheating and political manipulation, and trying to ride on the back of your enemy, the Jews and Christians’ war machines? Like the house that was built on sand.
Obama has unleashed Da’ish on Kurdistan with the 100% agreement of its secular and religious leaders. Obama knows the agenda of Da’ish because his orientalists in the Zionist universities have studied the accepted limits of jihad. That is like a person mimicking the act of Muslim or even Jewish prayer without any belief in God. Completely futile play-acting.
BTW Muslim scholars refuse to engage with any parable from the gospels because they are actually obsolete and I only do so on this blog in order to explain a concept of Islam through a concept of Christianity or Judaism, for the benefit of non-Muslim readers. I am not using the gospels as evidence, but as an illustration.
The one and only reason that I as a newcomer to Islam and refugee from UK Christianity do not support Obamas fake jihad is that the Kurdish brothers who told me about the Arab Spring and Caliphate plans ten year before they happened were bullies, liars, cheats, slanderers, abusers, profiteerers, mafiosas, embezzlers, manipulators, spies, double-dealers, racists, malingerers, misogynists, intellectually-dishonest scum.
So I came to the conclusion not to follow them and their USUKIS plan. We are instructed as Muslims to listen and obey those placed over us in religion, but if we find out that they are disobedient themselves to Islam, there is no listening and no obeying. if there had been a grain of sincerity in these brothers the whole Muslim Ummah would have joined with them.
IDF Whistleblower Who Posted ‘Israeli Troops Killed Gaza Civilians in Revenge,’ Now Under Arrest
August 5, 2014
http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/08/idf-whistleblower-who-posted-israeli-troops-killed-gaza-civilians-in-revenge-now-under-arrest/
Off Topic serious concern:
According to this statement by the Air Accident Investigation Board data has been downloaded from MH17 black boxes:
Information from the flight data recorder has already been downloaded, an AAIB spokesman said, adding that data from the two black boxes will be combined.
http://www.newsbomb.gr/global/news/story/476222/mh17-black-boxes-are-in-good-condition–british-experts-say
AAIB have neither confirmed or denied this to my researcher. Further to this a Naval pilot with connections to Farnborough cannot identify the lead investigator from the Chief Inspector of Air Accidents.
Article 12(3) of Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 on the investigation and prevention of accidents and incidents in civil aviation calls for European Member States to ensure that safety investigation authorities, on the one hand, and other authorities likely to be involved in the activities related to the safety investigation, such as the judicial, civil aviation, search and rescue authorities, on the other hand, cooperate with each other through advance arrangements. Those arrangements shall respect the independence of the safety investigation authority and allow the technical investigation to be conducted diligently and efficiently.
I will keep you informed if a response is received from AAIB. Thank-you for considering my indulgence.
“However, the Jews who immigrated to Israel from Europe are not descendants of the ancient Hebrews and are thus not Semites. ”
Myth bandied about by anti-Semites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Jews#Y-DNA_of_Ashkenazi_Jews
Mr Scorgie
“Blah, blah, blah..etc The Palestinians in Gaza ARE Semites.
Confusing isn’t it?”
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No, not really.
Language evolves and the current, accepted meaning of “anti-Semitic” is “anti-Jew(ish).
There are of course a few people who make a point of recalling that Palestinians are Semites but this is merely playing with words as far as any serious discussion of anti-Semitism is concerned. It is not serious.
“Well Glasgow flew the Palestinian flag yesterday, and although I have issues with this Labour run council, I applaud their solidarity with the poor folk of Gaza.”
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I’m sure the Palestinians are heartened beyond measure by that gesture.
While I’m on this, does anyone know if Sheffield’s decision to declare itself an “nuclear-free zone” is still official city policy?
Mr Scorgie
“Oh I forgot Habbabkuk, Zionists don’t provide those things.”
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I think you’re claiming – in a roundabout way – that I’m a Zionist.
What makes you think that, Doug?
Self inflicted prophet you are having one of your seizures/fits/turns again.
It was me who said;
Which was followed by your usual “interrogative” style of “contribution”;
You can pull the wool over the eyes of the goyim cattle can you not?
The case of Sabbar Kashur as already outlined corroborates the case for sleeping and getting charged with rape.
However your instance on the laws, as in line with the Nuremberg laws that you are trying to infer, and then deduce zionistan is not a fascist racist and hell hole.
This overlooks that the “clever tribe” has its informal Nuremberg laws, going back thousands of years (Nazis were the new kids on the block what would they know?) that are enforced strictly through informal channels and passed off as “traditions” as in the case of any other racist entity, under the guise of “miscegenation” is not a healthy or desired life style, and those who transgress the informal and traditional “customs” are made to pay dearly for their transgressions on a daily basis at the hands of the racist Jewish supremacists.
As already outlined in Passerby’s comments (the lengthy ones) about rabbis annulling the marriages of those newly converted to Judaism (these are not considered proper Jews) less said about non Jews.
However if you are still insisting on the formalisation of the Nuremberg laws you are cleverly of course discounting the law passed in 2003.
Fact that you cannot hide is the vile racist nature of the zionism and those Jewish supremacists engaged in such a disgusting creed.
‘I’m sure the Palestinians are heartened beyond measure by that gesture.’
You can bet they are and hearing of the massive demonstration by 150,000 people in London and by others all over the world including the 200,000 in Capetown in the original Apartheid state.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/israelgaza-conflict-thousands-protest-in-london-for-end-to-massacre-and-arms-trade-9659180.html
There is a silly little bit of propaganda about anti Semitism introduced in the piece.
Je: Thanks for answering. But how would that lead to a solution? JM
Mary @ 5.08. Francis Boyle said under no circumstances must the Palestinians accede to the Rome Statute, because the Prosecutor will not open an investigation under Western pressure.Kevin Jon Heller has an interesting take on this at Opinio Juris Please also note the excellent comment[number 5] by ‘Hostage’ “If Palestine simply accepts the Court’s jurisdiction on an ad hoc basis, the OTP’s decision to investigate would be considered proprio motu — and that decision would be subject to review by the Pre-Trial Chamber. (See, in that regard, the Cote d’Ivoire situation.) By contrast, if Palestine ratified the Rome Statute and then filed an ad hoc declaration, the OTP’s decision to investigate would be based on the referral of a State Party — and would not be subject to Pre-Trial Chamber review”.http://opiniojuris.org/2014/08/07/podcast-palestine-icc-additional-thought/