Rampage in Gaza for a Bump in the Polls
Mike Whitney
Come and see the blood in the streets.
Come and see
The blood in the streets.
Come and see the blood
In the streets!
Poem by Pablo Neruda, "I'm Explaining a Few Things"
Barak Obama has passed his first test with flying colors. He's made himself disappear so Israel can continue its killing spree in Gaza. The last time a president shrunk this small was when Ariel Sharon took his wrecking-ball through Jenin during the second intifada. Bush slipped down a mouse hole so Israel's "Man of Peace" could finish his dirty work unopposed. Now Obama has taken refuge in that same dark hideaway. What a relief it must be for his critics at AIPAC and the far-right think tanks to know that the next Commander in Chief will be every bit as compliant as the last. That's "continuity they can believe in".
Obama has remained serenely detached while American-made F-16's have dumped more than one hundred tons of lethal ordnance on the captive population of Gaza. In fact, the president-elect has spent more time working on his abs at the Semper Fit gym in Honolulu than trying to stop the bloody onslaught which has already resulted in the deaths of over 300 Palestinians, half of who are civilians. -When asked why he hasn't given his opinion on the conflict, Obama spokesman have blandly stated, "There's only one president at a time".
PermalinkThe International Terror Network
Peter Chamberlin
Who are the true “terrorists,” the ones who develop the plan to terrorize the world into submission, or the hitmen who carry-out the grand design?
The world needs to understand the forces of international terror that are laying siege at freedom’s door. They are an insidious force, accustomed to the ways and thoughts of modern man, always in possession of insight that no man or organization of men ought to have. With the clarity of foresight that can only be gained by armies of scientists and statisticians working non-stop for generations, the terror masters stage the events that will cause other events, ad infinitum, until mankind is herded into the cages of his own mind, terrorized from the trauma of witnessing the wholesale culling of the herd.
The point, struggling to be made, is that certain individuals have dedicated their personal fortunes and their very lives to the task of changing the human race and thinning its numbers. For the human race to become a true slave race the desire to rebel must be bred out of the herd, resisters must be eliminated and the size of the herds must be reduced to manageable levels.
America's War on Islam: The 'Fort Dix Five'
Stephen Lendman
With world eyes on Gaza, the horrific carnage on the ground, innocent civilians being slaughtered, Israel's grievous crimes of war and against humanity, and its slow-motion genocide gaining speed, it's easy to forget America's war at home on Islam and its growing number of victims. This article highlights five recent ones - innocent young Muslim men called the "Fort Dix Five."
On December 22, The New York Times headlined: "5 Are Convicted of Conspiring to Attack Fort Dix" in reporting that a federal jury "convicted five men of conspiring to kill American soldiers at (the base) last year, but acquitted them of attempted murder."
Immigration within the camp
Najwa Sheikh Ahmed
Word stands helpless in front of the continuous sufferings of the Gaza people, a continuous journey of migration, but this time the migrations inside the camps of Gaza, and inside the same camp.
I and my kids got very scared from the voice of the airplanes, and the bombings, so we decided to stay few nights with my husband's family, We took the kids, some blankets, and joined the family, the funny thing that when we left the building where our apartment is, I and my kids saw a family that heading towards the building, with their pale faces, and scared lost looks, they were holding their blankets seeking a residence with relatives there, what a caustic situation……
Massacre in Gaza: Israel as we know it
Hassan Al-Haifi
Three Palestinian brothers Sidki, 8, Ahmad, 12, and Mohammed
Absi, 14, (no left-right available) who were killed in an Israeli
missile strike, during their funeral in Rafah refugee camp, southern
Gaza Strip, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008.
In recalling the history of the Zionist state of Israel, embedded in the indigenous territory historically and biblically known as Palestine, one would find that the ongoing massacre in Gaza is no more than one of a series of slaughters and massacres inflicted on the Palestinians and other Arabs by the military wing of the international Zionist movement.
The insistence of putting the responsibility of this reliance on the mass killings of the very people this unholy movement has evicted from their ancestral homeland since time was gauged is enforced by the seemingly hogwashy coverage by the western press of the terrible crimes now being inflicted in Gaza. From Deir Yassin in 1948 to Qana (1996 and 2006) to Gaza, and the many villages in between in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Sinai Peninsula, the so called Israeli Defense Forces and their various death squad manifestations (including so called "deranged" Zionist extremists of the likes of Menahim Begin and the murderer of the Ibrahim Mosque in Hebron) have relied on the flagrant use of organized and legitimized terrorism.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and The New World Order
William Blase
For those who may be confused by the controversies surrounding the "New World Order", a One-World-Government, and American concern over giving the UN more power; those unaware of the issues involved; and those wishing more background, I offer the following.
Originally presented for an Honors Class, "Dilemmas of War and Peace," at New Mexico State University, the paper was ridiculed and characterized by Dr. Yosef Lapid, (an acknowledged and locally quoted "expert" on Terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs) as "paranoid... possibly a symptom of mental illness." You may judge for yourself.
Beirut New Year Update: Once more, the American Embassy expresses concern for its citizens - Israel's' that is
Franklin Lamb, Beirut
With daily demonstrations being held in Beirut and across Lebanon, this item just in from the morning papers here in Beirut:
Beirut, 01 Jan. 0344 "United States Advises its Citizens in Lebanon to Avoid Demonstrations in Support of Gaza"
"The American embassy in Beirut, sent an email to its citizens informing them that several protests had occurred "with little or no warning in Lebanon" and that they should "exercise extreme caution."
Plan of attack
Jim Miles
I can only witness the tragedy of Gaza from the knowledge I have gained from years of historical and foreign affairs reading, from the personal contacts and information that are readily available on the internet, and least significantly from the local evening news programs. That is more than sufficient to provide me with the overall context and the understanding of the language used in order to form a strong idea of what is really happening in Gaza.
Evening news
The language used on the local news cast perhaps reveals more than is intended if one is aware of the context of Gaza history. World governments are described as reacting with “increasing alarm”. Those alarmed governments from the west try to salve their complicity in the Israeli atrocities, while the Arab governments are alarmed not so much in support of the Palestinians or against the atrocities, but because of their own insecurity against their own populations who tend to support the Palestinian people. According to the news report “Israeli politicians expressed sorrow” at the civilian casualties, no more concerned about that reality than their U.S. supporters are about all the deaths they caused in their invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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