by Stephen Lendman

Three previous articles relate to this one, accessed through the following links:

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/01/baby-doc-in-haiti.html

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/01/duvalier-in-dock.html

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On January 20, Al Jazeera headlined, "Baby Doc wants Haiti presidency," saying:

Despite his 15-year reign of terror and current corruption, embezzlement, money laundering, and perhaps assassination charges, he "retains ambitions of returning to the presidency," according to one of his lawyers, Reynold George saying:

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Franklin Lamb

Beirut

It appears that no acceptable compromise regarding the divergent Lebanese political stances relative to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will be achieved. Support for this hypothesis can be found in the past 24 hours activities of the would-be mediators. The Saudi King Abdullah, ‘lifted our hand’ (i.e. abandoned mediation) cold. The Turk and Qatari envoys split, the Americans fumbled, Jumblatt flipped his choice from anti-US Omar Karami to pro-US Prime Minister (again!) and then flipped back once again and now, who knows? Hezbollah’s main Christian ally, Michel Aoun defamed and cursed (ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri and the American Ambassador respectively), Syria stressed, Iran warned, Egypt remained incoherent, the Arab League waffled and adjourned “pending developments”, Hezbollah prepared, and ex-PM Saad Hariri insisted that he’s going to fight to keep his job after all. His decision late yesterday puts Saad on a collision course with the Hezbollah led March 8 “minority” which, in fact, may now be the “majority”.

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by Stephen Lendman

A previous article addressed Lebanon's turmoil, accessed through the following link:

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/01/turmoil-in-lebanon.html

It discussed Israel's history of terrorizing Lebanon through decades of belligerent interventions as early as 1954, as well as thousands of terrorist acts against a nonviolent state whose misfortune is being Israel's neighbor. It also discussed false accusations against Hezbollah, a legitimate part of Lebanon's government, not a terrorist organization as Israel and America claim.

Targeted Killings, An Israeli Speciality

Not covered was Israel's history of targeted assassinations, way predating its founding during the Mandatory Palestine period when Jewish terror groups targeted Jews, Brits and Arabs. Involved were paramilitary Hagana members, Irgun headed by future prime minister Menachem Begin, and Lehi (also called the Stern Gang) led by another future prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir, rogue killers before entering politics.

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By Katherine Smith, PhD

Exodus, the movie, adapted from the 1958 book by Leon Uris, was inspired by the 1948 book by Ruth Gerber Destination Palestine.[1]

Leon Uris (1924-2003) was a well-respected novelist and the author of several screenplays, but it was not until the 1958 publication of Exodus that he became one of America's most popular writers. Exodus would become one of the most widely published and read novels of the 20th Century.

Exodus was a commissioned novel (to improve Israel’s image) by Edward Gottleib, a man who is considered by many to be the founder of public relations in the United States. The book dealt with a highly controversial event in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the creation of the Modern State of Israel. The film rights were sold before the novel was finished. [2]

Exodus considered historical fiction is really fictional historical propaganda because it shaped the dispositions and beliefs of Americans on the subject of Zionism and Israel for the last 50 years. Uris, an ardent Zionist, would agree that was his purpose.

The novel, loosely based on fact, is as anti-British and anti-Arab as the anti-Semitism the book so loudly decries and was written from an extreme Zionist position.

The “Genesis” of Exodus

Uris painted a general history of European anti-Semitism with an emphasis on the Holocaust to justify what has become known as The Return of the Jews to their “rightful” historical homeland in 1947 and the creation of the Modern State of Israel in 1948.

The Return was the stated purpose of a Jewish political movement that arose in Europe in the late 19^th century known as Zionism.

A “Jewish state” is a violation of the teachings of Orthodox Judaism

The Zionist leaders were well aware of Jewish history and that America's traditional churches in the 19th Century would never allow a Jewish occupation of Jesus' homeland. The Jews, according to the Christian New Testament, persecuted and crucified Jesus Christ.

Therefore a con artist by the name of Cyrus Scofield, and his “Book,” the Scofield Reference Bible from Oxford University Press, were used to change America; its religious orientations, dispositions and beliefs.

Scofield, after being released from prison was introduced to Samuel Untermeyer, the President of the Koren Hayesod, and the Zionist movement in America. Untermeyer, an attorney, was instrumental in the financing of Scofield’s Reference bible. The Zionist-Created Scofield 'Bible'

The Scofield bible has hundreds of easy-to-read footnotes in the margins and at the bottom of the pages that misleadingly weave parts of the Old and New Testaments together as though the same people wrote them at the same time. The most convincing evidence of Zionism influence on Scofield are the notes themselves, below are examples taken from the revised 1967 Edition:

• For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgment.
• God made an unconditional promise of blessings through Abram's seed to the nation of Israel to inherit a specific territory forever.

In fact there is no sin of anti-Semitism in the bible and Abraham did not bequeath a “specific territory” to his descendants.

Scofield's eschatology is antithetical to traditional Christian views. Christian Zionism, Its History, Theology and Politics, Christ Church Vicarage by Stephen Sizer.

It is impossible to overstate the influence of Cyrus Scofield and the Oxford Press on twentieth-century Christian and Jewish sectarian beliefs. With limitless advertising and promotion, the Scofield Bible became the most important instrument for spreading the message of Christian Zionism: that the Modern State of Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy and that the Jews are entitled to Return of to their “rightful” historical homeland, in 1947.

A Synopsis of the Exodus Saga

Following World War II, the Jews, finally liberated from the Nazi concentration camps run by the Germans find themselves in containment camps run by the British.

The world is in shock at what was done to the Jews in the Nazi Germany. But while the world feels guilty for not having stopped Hitler, a former gay prostitute and street cleaner, from taking over the world with H.W. Bush’s father’s money, they aren’t ready to give Palestine to the Jews. [3]

The Zionists, who helped the Nazi devils carry out the final solution, the Entfernung, a nightmare for the Jews, are now pressuring the United Nations to implement the final, final solution (The Return), soon to become a nightmare for the Palestinians. [4]

In 1947, the United Nations is debating a resolution that will give the Palestinian’s land to the Jews.

The Saga of the Exodus allegedly the event that influenced the final vote in the General Assembly of the United Nations. On November 29, 1947, they voted 33-13 in favor of partition (UN resolution 181).

The first part of the movie is about The Return of the Jews to Palestine on a 320-foot American excursion boat, the President Warfield. The Jewish Army of Resistance, the Haganah, purchased the broken down vessel in the United States to move Jews out of Europe on the "underground railroad, to Palestine, on a route they called Aliyah Bet." Secret CIA Documents On Truman & Zionist Terrorism xww.tbrnews.org

The incredible story of Exodus 1947 (using Google maps technology) written by: Tzvi Ben-tzur reveals a number of historical inaccuracies in the book and the movie.

The Journey to the homeland started when 4,554 Holocaust survivors board the President Warfield in Marseille, France, on July 11, 1947 (not Cyprus). They sailed toward what they hoped would be a new home in Palestine. The ship arrived in the port of Haifa the first time, on July 19, 1947.

Shortly before it was to enter the port of Haifa, British Navy vessels rammed the Exodus at sea. During the resulting shipboard riot, in which passengers and crew defended themselves with cans of soup and potatoes, British sailors killed two passengers and an American crew member.

When the Exodus finally docked in Haifa, the Jewish refugees were denied entry by British authorities.

The lone American journalist to board the Exodus, Ruth Gruber, described it as, "a black, shabby, broken steamer . . . The ship looked like a matchbox that had been splintered by a nutcracker. In the torn square hole . . . we could see a muddle of bedding, possessions, plumbing, broken pipes, overflowing toilets, half-naked men, women looking for children."

The refugees were placed on three squalid British transport vessels, HMS Ocean Vigour, HMT Runnymede Park, and HMS Empire Rival - to be taken back to France, not to Cyprus.

After three weeks, because the Jews refused to disembark in France, they were sent to detention camps in Germany -- an act of such symbolic cruelty that it provoked international outrage. [5] The subsequent global condemnation of Britain’s heartlessness, according to historians, was a crucial factor in the final vote at the United Nations to partition Palestine. The Exodus became known as the "Mayflower of the Middle East" and "the ship that launched a nation."

At first glance the omissions seem to be related to the length of the movie because Uris wanted a concise, geographically focused script (the movie runs three and a half hours). However you would expect Uris to highlight the forced return of the refugees to Germany (through France) rather than make up a Cyprus story.

Exodus recently aired on Turner Classic Movies. Watching the classic I realize something isn’t right.

Nurse Katherine "Kitty" Fremont (Eva Marie Saint) is an American volunteer at the Karaolos Internment camp on Cyprus, where thousands of Jews - Holocaust survivors - are being held, as they have no homeland to return to. They sit in anticipation of the day they will be liberated.

The sympathy generated from the Internment (containment) camps worked and on November 29, 1947 the General Assembly liberates the Palestinian’s land and gives it to the Jews.

The Jews in the movie celebrate the emotional, historical and momentous occasion because they can finally disembark from the ship (The Return) and set foot in the homeland. The first time they arrived, July 19, 1947 their ship was rammed and they were forced to return to France, not to Cyprus, on the, HMS Ocean Vigour, HMT Runnymede Park, and HMS Empire Rival.

From the time the celebration of The Return, there is at least ½ hour of drama before Lee J. Cobb (Paul Newman’s father in the movie) is celebrating the final vote at the United Nations that took place November 29, 1947.

One-half hour of drama didn’t seem right, so I went to the world-wide-web to find the month, day and year the British finally allowed the refugees to return to their “rightful” homeland.

The date the Jews finally get off the ship in Haifa (for the second time) is almost impossible to find.

FYI: The Virtual Jewish Library, A Division of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, is the most comprehensive resource for information about all facets of Jewish life: Judaism, Jews in the Diaspora, the history of Anti-Semitism, the rise of Zionism and Zionist thought, biographies of prominent Zionists, The Holocaust, Israel and Jerusalem, Israel's Wars, and Jewish holidays. The Timeline for the History of Judaism and the Cyber encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture at The Virtual Jewish Library covers everything from ancient times, to the Modern State of Israel & the Diaspora includes the first time they arrived in Haifa, July 19, 1947, but does not include the emotional, historical and momentous date when the holocaust survivors arrive the second time and are finally allowed to return to their “rightful” homeland the second time.

[I challenge you to find month, day and year the Jews return to the homeland]
To find the month, day and year the British finally allowed the refugees to return to their “rightful” homeland Google

“What is the date the Jews arrived in Haifa” (1) (Click the number in parenthesis to open the Google results in a new window)

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By Nicola Nasser*

The ongoing Tunisian Intifada (uprising) cannot yet quite be termed a revolution; Tunisians are still revolting, aspiring for bread and freedom. This Intifada will go in history as a revolution if it gets either bread or freedom and as a great revolution if it gets both. Internally, “the one constant in revolutions is the primordial role played by the army,” Jean Tulard, a French historian of revolutions, told Le Monde in an interview, and the Tunisian military seems so far forthcoming. Externally, the United States stands to be a critical contributor to either outcome in Tunisia, both because of its historical close relations with the Tunisian military and because of its regional hegemony and international standing as a world power, but the U.S. seems so far shortcoming.

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By Larry Pinkney

"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief." -Frantz Fanon

"Killing One Person Is MURDER--Killing 100,000 Is FOREIGN POLICY." -Anonymous

The United States of America is, in reality, a one-party corporatist state whose very existence is, more than ever, perpetuated by a conscious deliberate denial of reality, even in the face of the obvious.

This nation's internal and external political, economic, and military policies have nothing whatever to do with "democracy," "justice," or "human rights;" and everything to do with exploitation, hegemony, deceit, and control of the many--by the few. No amount of rationalization can change or ameliorate this fact.

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by Stephen Lendman

On February 29, 2004, US marines abducted him at gunpoint, airlifting him forcibly to the Central Africa Republic. It was one of Haiti's darkest moments, losing its beloved leader, reelected President in 2000 with 92% of the vote. For over six years, he's been exiled in South Africa, wants to return, and on January 19, wrote an open letter, thanking his host country and their people for welcoming him hospitably, saying:

Since forcibly abducted, "the people of Haiti have never stopped calling for my return....Despite the enormous (post-quake) challenges that they face....their determination to make the return happen has increased."

"As far as I am concerned, I am ready....today, tomorrow, at any time. The purpose is very clear: To contribute to serving my Haitian sisters and brothers as a simple citizen in the field of education."

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Mickey Z.

Seed bombs are compressed balls of soil and compost that have been impregnated with wildflower seeds. When jettisoned onto construction sites, abandoned lots, etc. seed bombs become a method of protesting and combating urban sprawl.

The BLU-82B or “Daisy Cutter” bomb has been described as "the largest conventional bomb in existence and is 17 feet long and 5 feet in diameter, about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle but much heavier. It contains 12,600 pounds of GX slurry (ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder, and polystyrene) … the ammonium nitrate in just one Daisy Cutter bomb is about six times the amount used in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City."

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by Stephen Lendman

During Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit, a US - China Joint Statement said:

"The United States stressed that the promotion of human rights and democracy is an important part of its foreign policy. China stressed that there should be no interference in any country's internal affairs."

Washington often chides other nations about their abuses and injustices at home and abroad. In fact, no other nation matches America's disdain for human and civil rights, yet as Washington Post writers John Pomfret and Scott Wilson said in their January 20 article headlined, "Obama hosts Hu Jintao on state visit, presses China on human rights:"

"President Obama used his summit Wednesday with Chinese President Hu Jintao to place human rights front and center in the US relationship with the world's preeminent ascending power."

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LaRouche will be delivering the state of the union at his webcast on Saturday, January 22, 1PM(est)- http://www.larouchepac.com/home

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

I. The Crisis

We are now at the breaking-point, in a present moment when civilization throughout our planet is presently wobbling at the brink of what could probably soon be, the greatest crisis of humanity since Europe's Fourteenth-century plunge into an inflationary new dark age, or probably much worse. The cause of today's crisis of civilization, is centered, at this moment, within the British Isles, but its reach throughout Europe is from Portugal to, and throughout Russia. It is a crisis which has been steered, by the British empire's controlling political influence, once again, via such Wall Street perenniels as the House of Morgan, into our United States.

Fortunately, there are still, very brief moments of opportunity for changing this during the few weeks ahead, but we dare not wait longer. The new, very brief alternatives exist only if we have leaders who have the wisdom and courage to act immediately as I do in presenting the case for the needed rescue, here and now.

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