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I previously showed an image of a crater. The initial reports stated it was created by an Israeli bomb dropped on Beirut, as part of their ongoing aerial attacks, that incidentally killed the ex Lebanese PM, Rafik Hariri. It turns out it was a deliberate assassination by a bomb on the ground placed there by parties unknown, possibly Syrian.

Here are some results of Israelis bombing of civilians:

Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. … Behind the terrorism [by the Arabs] is a movement, which though primitive is not devoid of idealism and self sacrifice.
~ David Ben Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) Prime Minister of Israel 1948— 1963, Quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan’s Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.

Introduction

We are doomed to co-exist.
~ Henry Kissinger (born: 1923-05-27 age: 86)

• The Jewish god condoned it. Nobody else’s god did.
• It was legal. Yes, Britain and America aided the founding of Israel in order to get rid of their Jewish citizens. But that does not make it right.
• Might makes right. Israelis have got away with the occupation for six decades and have greatly expanded their territory in that time. As a practical matter no one is going to make them give it back. They have the money and the power and the nukes to stay on top with military force.
• Hitler treated Jews with extreme cruelty. They thus have a right to inflict cruelty on others. The world owes them other peoples’s land.
• Some Palestinians have the chutzpah to resist the occupation. That makes them terrorists in Israeli eyes. That makes it legitimate for Israelis to enslave all Palestinians. Israelis feel justified in mass 200 to 1 retaliations because they have a racist and religious belief in the lack of value of Palestinian life.
• Ancient Jews once lived in Palestine. I debunk this claim it greater detail later. This is like claiming you own a house because an ancestor by marriage from the deep past once rented it.

I believe the key problem in Israel is that Jews imagine themselves 100% blameless for the conflict. It is situation similar to apartheid in South Africa. Until that changes, the blood will continue to flow. Until they get over that illusion, they will remain stuck in a heartbreaking situation. I am doing my best to break through that logjam by trying to force Zionists to see themselves through less rose coloured glasses. Israel is suffering from a revenge spiral where each side justifies its ever worsening atrocities by the atrocities of the other side. The atrocities of the Palestinians are well-publicised. I should not need to recount them here. The atrocities of the Zionists are for the most part ignored. That is what I will focus on.

World leaders figured that expelling Jews to a desert in the middle east would be the best way to deal with them. Fuelled by religious righteousness, the Jewish people believed they still had title on the land that is now called Israel, and marched in with guns and took over, stealing the lands from the Palestinians who had lived there for over 1000 years.

I consider this the stupidest political decision of the 20th century. It was bound to lead to never-ending conflict. However, it is too late now to undo.

This Essay Is Deliberately Unbalanced

Here are some of the reasons I took this deliberately unbalanced approach:

• Had I written a perfectly balanced account, it would have done nothing to redress the imbalance.
• My audience are primarily Americans and Jewish Israelis. Very few Palestinians access the web. I must then target my essay to that audience. I don’t need to worry about encouraging still more violence against Jews.
• The Jews are the ones with the money and the power. They are the ones running the show. If anything is going to change, it has to come from the Jewish camp.
• Everyone understands that killing random civilians with shopping mall bombs is wrong, but very few Jews in Israel acknowledge that doing the same thing with helicopters, aircraft, tanks, bulldozers and rifles is equally egregious.
• The Jews are the ones with the nutty religious claim to other people’s land. It is an insane and intensely evil delusion. It must be disparaged in no uncertain terms. Only once it is given up will Jews be able to negotiate rationally over land. My fellow North American seem to share in the folly.
• The balanced approach has repeatedly failed. The Jews really need their noses rubbed in their misdeeds to shake them up a bit and start them thinking rationally. The Jews are so incredibly self-righteous, viewing themselves as 100% victim, with no responsibility for the horrible situation they are in, that they refuse to see the Palestinians have any case at all.
• Alcoholics and others in extreme denial don’t change until they are forced to confront the terrible consequences their actions have on others. Israel, as a nation, needs to confront its past behaviour. They are in collective iron-clad denial today, including even the moderates and those pushing for peace. We see the same sort of denial in their asymmetrical belief that it is perfectly OK for Israel to own hundreds of nuclear weapons and the destroy the nuclear plants of its neighbours, but not the reverse. It is very similar to the American belief in the impossibility of wrongdoing — just because Israelis/Americans perform an act means necessarily it must be justified even when they roundly condemn that same act when others do it.
• I am not trying to promote hatred for Jews. I am trying to expose the intense hatred Jews have for Palestinians and the barbarity it has spawned. (The reciprocal hatred is already widely known.) I do this primarily by quoting famous leaders of Israel. They said these hateful things, not me. I want the truth to surface so this pustule of normally hidden hatred can be lanced. So long as it is denied, nothing can change. Further, I want the delusions and lies used to support this hatred exposed. The lie is Israelis did nothing wrong, and all attacks on them were the work of irrational Palestinian madmen. The delusion is Jews had legal and moral title to Palestine in 1948.
• There was no progress settling the land claims between the aboriginal people of North America and the descendants of the white settlers until white people acknowledged the wrong-doing of their ancestors. It did not come from a balanced approach of trying to portray each side equally at fault for the conflict. It did not come from rehashing the violence of both sides equally. It did not come from creating a myth of historical brotherhood. It came from forcing white people to acknowledge the misdeeds of their ancestors, something they had long denied with the crazy savage stereotype they used to portray the aboriginals, just as modern day Israelis characterise Palestinians as their way of denying Jewish culpability.

In Israel, the Jews kill 20 Palestinians for every Jew the Palestinians kill. Or put another way, the Palestinians kill one Jew for every 20 Palestinians the Jews kill. Who then is defending and who is offending?
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 61)

If you would have cheered the Jews using suicide bombs in desperation against the Nazis, then surely you could understand, though not necessarily condone, the Palestinian use of suicide bombs against Jewish citizens of Israel.

Israel has decided it wants a pure Jewish state, much as the Nazis wanted a pure Aryan state. The government of Israel is using the same tactics as the Nazis namely apartheid, ghettos, restricting movement, confiscating property without compensation, lock downs, expelling and killing. Almost no news of this reaches the west, and suprisingly even the average Israeli citizen hears little. All they hear are reports about the suicide bombers. The west paint the suicide bombers as crazy people usually religious fanatics, rather than as desperate people pressed into a corner with no other option of self defence.

Israel has nationalised some 93% of the country’s lands, by appropriating land without compensation from the four million Palestinian refugees who live in exile and by confiscating the lands of the one million Palestinians who live as citizens.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.
~ Arthur Koestler (born: 1905-09-05 died: 1983-03-03 at age: 77)

Just like Nazis, the Jews have convinced themselves they are justified in their persecution because of their racial superiority and because the Palestinians are a threat to them. Of course now the Palestinians are a threat. Palestinians don’t take kindly to being evicted from their ancestral lands or genocide.

The odd things in the USA claims it wants peace in the middle east, but keeps pouring gasoline on the fire with its bias and lavish funding of the Israeli apartheid. If it wanted, it could cool things down by reducing the flow of weaponry into Israel and treating both sides with scrupulous impartiality.

Israel has militarily occupied the territories it captured in the 1967 war, thumbing its nose at he UN resolution demanding it withdraw. It started the war with a Pearl Harbour-style simultaneous attack on all air bases in Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Most people believe the Israeli propaganda that Egypt attacked first. Israelis keeps the Palestinians in lockdown 1/3 of the time, so that they can’t go to work, buy groceries, or get to a hospital. It has bulldozed their homes and orchards. It has suffocated the economy so that 2/3 of people cannot find work.

Gaza

A pro-violence demonstrator on TV said “the demonstrators who complain about civilians being killed refuse to recognise that Israel has a right to defend it itself and that they are supporting a terrorist organisation.”

That sentence shows this person is seriously deluded about people who want to stop the violence in Gaza.

1. Killing random civilians is not self defence. It is group punishment. Israel is killing people who had nothing to do with attacks on them. This is the very opposite of self defence. It encourages reprisals. They know that. The silly buggers have been doing this for 61 years without success. It also encourages people to join the fight. Gazans will be killed whether they resist or not. The rational thing to do in that case is attempt to kill all Israelis. This is not defence, it is childish, emotionally indulgent revenge.

   The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
   ~ Rita Mae Brown (born: 1944-11-28 age: 65) Sudden Death often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin.

   Persistence is great, but you must persist with something that works.

2. You can decry the murder of children without having any opinion either way on the adults living near them. For example, I would like it if I could smack both sides senseless for their callous disregard for human life.

   Terrorism : killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.
   ~ Caleb Carr (born: 1955-08-02 age: 54), military historian

Dirty Tricks

Quotations

Desire For Peace

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
~ Golda Meir (born: 1898-05-03 died: 1978-12-03 at age: 80) Prime Minister of Israel, 1969—1974, 1973 to Egyptian President Sadat.

This is insane thinking. She was obligated to protect Israeli children, but killing innocent Arab children did utterly nothing to that end; it just creates more justification to kill more Israeli children. Are Iraqis obligated to kill American children just because American soldiers have killed Iraqi children? Are you obligated to kill the family of a serial killer? That is crazy thinking. Killing children is pure emotional vengeance. Nobody made her kill children. She freely chose evil. The killing did nothing at all toward defense.

There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.
~ Ehud Olmert (born: 1945-09-30 age: 64) acting Prime Minister of Israel 2006-

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.
Ehud Barak (born: 1942-02-12 age: 67) Prime Minister of Israel 1999—2001, 2000-08-28, Reported in the Jerusalem Post 2000-08-30.

The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized… Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.
~ Menachem Begin (born: 1913-08-16 died: 1992-03-09 at age: 78) Prime Minister of Israel 1977—1983, the day after the U.N. vote to partition Palestine.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
~ Golda Meir (born: 1898-05-03 died: 1978-12-03 at age: 80) Prime Minister of Israel 1969- 1974, Le Monde, 1971-10-15

God had nothing to do with it, Golda. You used God to legitimise your land theft. Your arrogance is nauseating, expecting non-Jews to bow before your master race crap.

If I was an Arab leader I would never make [peace] with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country.
~ David Ben Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) Prime Minister of Israel 1948— 1963, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99

I would have joined a terrorist organization.
~ Ehud Barak (born: 1942-02-12 age: 67) Prime Minister of Israel 1999—2001, in response to Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Ha’aretz newspaper, when Barak was asked what he would have done if he had been born a Palestinian.

We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.
~ David Ben Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) Prime Minister of Israel 1948— 1963, 1948-05, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?
~ David Ben Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) Prime Minister of Israel 1948— 1963

In strategic terms, the settlements (in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) are of no importance.
~ Ze’ev Binyamin (Benny) Begin (born: 1943-03-01 age: 66) son of the late Menahem Begin and a prominent voice in the Likud party writing in 1991. (Quoted in Findley, Deliberate Deceptions p 159) Paul Findley notes that Begin added that their importance was that “they constitute an obstacle, an insurmountable obstacle to the establishment of an independent Arab State west of the river Jordan.”

Racism

It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that’s the lowest point in the world.
~ Avigdor Lieberman (born: 1958-06-05 age: 51) 2003-07-07

The establishment of such a school is a foul, disgraceful deed. You can’t mix pure and foul. They are a disease, a disaster, a devil. The Arabs are asses, and the question must be asked, why did God did not create them walking on their fours? The answer is that they need to build and wash. They have no place in our school.
~ Rabbi David Bazri speaking about a proposed integrated school in Israel.

[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs.
~ Menachem Begin (born: 1913-08-16 died: 1992-03-09 at age: 78) Prime Minister of Israel 1977—1983, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, Begin and the Beasts New Statesman, 1982-06-25

Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It’s a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.
~ Bishop Desmond Tutu (born: 1931-10-07 age: 78) South African Archbishop

One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.
~ Rabbi Ya’acov Perin in his eulogy at the funeral of mass murderer Dr. Baruch Goldstein (Cited in the New York Times, 1994-02-28)

Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.
~ Ehud Olmert (born: 1945-09-30 age: 64) acting Prime Minister of Israel 2006 — 2006-06-23

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
~ Golda Meir (born: 1898-05-03 died: 1978-12-03 at age: 80) Prime Minister of Israel 1969— 1974, Statement to The Sunday Times, 1969-06-15

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
~ Golda Meir (born: 1898-05-03 died: 1978-12-03 at age: 80) Prime Minister of Israel 1969— 1974, (quoted in Chapter 13 of The Zionist Connection II: What Price Peace by Alfred Lilienthal )

Expulsion of the Arabs

We must expel Arabs and take their places.
~ David Ben Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) Prime Minister of Israel 1948— 1963, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985.

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.
Binyamin Netanyahu (born: 1949-10-21 age: 60) Prime Minister of Israel then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, 1989-11-24.

It must be clear that there is no room for both peoples in this country. If the Arabs leave the country, it will be broad and wide-open for us. If the Arabs stay, the country will remain narrow and miserable. The only solution is Israel without Arabs. There is no room for compromise on this point. The Zionist enterprise so far… has been fine and good in its own time, and could do with “land buying” — but this will not bring about the State of Israel; that must come all at once, in the manner of a Salvation [this is the secret of the Messianic idea]; and there is no way besides transferring the Arabs from here to the neighboring countries, to transfer them all; except maybe for Bethlehem, Nazareth and Old Jerusalem, we must not leave a single village, not a single tribe. And only with such a transfer will the country be able to absorb millions of our brothers, and the Jewish question shall be solved, once and for all.
~ Joseph Weitz (born: 1890 died: 1972 at age: 82) Directory of the Jewish National Land Fund, 1940-12-19, The Question of Palestine by Edward Said.

… we have no solution, that you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wants to can leave — and we will see where this process leads? In five years we may have 200,000 less people — and that is a matter of enormous importance.
~ Moshe Dayan (born: 1915-05-20 died: 1981-10-16 at age: 66) Defense Minister of Israel 1967— 1974, encouraging the transfer of Gaza strip refugees to Jordan (from Noam Chomsky’s Deterring Democracy, 1992, p.434, quoted in Nur Masalha’s A Land Without A People, 1997 p.92).

It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.
~ Yoram Bar Porath Yediot Aahronot, 1972-08-14, responding to public controversy regarding the Israeli evictions of Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, in 1972. (Cited in Nur Masalha’s A land Without A People 1997, p98).

We walked outside, Ben Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, “What is to be done with the Palestinian population?” Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said “Drive them out!”
~ Yitzhak Rabin (born: 1922-03-01 died: 1995-11-04 at age: 73) Prime Minister of Israel 1974— 1977 and 1992— 1995, leaked Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 1979-10-23

There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than over those of a tenant. [I] tend to support the latter view and have an additional argument:…the need to sustain the character of the state which will henceforth be Jewish…with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15 percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as early as 1940 [and] it is entered in my diary.
~ Joseph Weitz (born: 1890 died: 1972 at age: 82) head of the Jewish Agency’s Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis, p.5.

We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country… expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.
~ Theodore Herzl (born: 1860-05-02 died: 1904-07-03 at age: 44) The founder of Zionism, (from Rafael Patai, Ed. The Complete Diaries of Theodore Herzl, Vol I)

In our country there is room only for the Jews. We shall say to the Arabs: Get out! If they don’t agree, if they resist, we shall drive them out by force.
~ Professor Ben-Zion Dinur (born: 1884-01-02 died: 1973-07-08 at age: 89) Israel’s First Minister of Education, 1954, from History of the Haganah

On the eve of yet another round of peace talks with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has invited the leader of the Moledet Party to join his coalition government. The Moledet (Homeland) Party is not just another far-right Zionist grouping. Its founding principle, as stated in its charter, is the call to transfer Arabs out of Eretz Israel: [the land of Israel in Hebrew is Eretz Yisrael] “The sure cure for the demographic ailment is the transfer of the Arabs to Arab countries as an aim of any negotiations and a way to solve the Israeli-Arab conflict over the land of Israel.” By Arabs, the Modelet Party means not only the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza: its members also seek to “cleanse” Israel of its Palestinian Arab citizens. And by “demographic ailment”, the Modelet means not only the presence of Arabs in Israel’s midst, but also the “troubling high birth rate” of the Arab population.
~ Al-Ahram Weekly Online 1998-04-30 — 1998-05-06 Issue No.375

Genocide

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.
~ David Ben Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) Prime Minister of Israel 1948— 1963, writing to his son, 1937

Anything moving in the zone, even a three year old, needs to be killed.
~ The Israeli Captain R. who murdered 13-year old Imam Al-Hamas 2004-11-04.

If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force…
Ehud Barak (born: 1942-02-12 age: 67) Prime Minister of Israel 1999—2001, quoted in Associated Press, 2000-11-16.

(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers… heads smashed against the boulders and walls.
~ Yitzhak Shamir (born: 1915-10-15 age: 94) Prime Minister of Israel 1983— 1982, in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times 1988-04-01

We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.
~ David Ben Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) Prime Minister of Israel 1948— 1963, 1948-05, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

If I’m sorry for anything, it is for not tearing the whole camp down… No one (in the Israeli army) expressed any reservations against doing it… I found joy with every house that came down… I have no mercy… I say if a man has done nothing, don’t touch him. A man who has done something, hang him, as far as I am concerned. Even a pregnant woman — shoot her without mercy, if she has a terrorist behind her. This is the way I thought in Jenin…
~ bulldozer operator at the Palestinian camp at Jenin, reported in Yedioth Ahronoth, 2002-05-31

All those now living in South Lebanon are terrorists who are related in some way to Hizb’allah.
~ Haim Ramon (born: 1950-04-10 age: 59) Israeli Justice Minister, explaining why it was OK for Israel to target children in Lebanon. Hans Frank was the Justice Minister in Hitler’s cabinet.

One of the major problems with Israeli democracy is that it has no constitutional guarantees of human rights. To my knowledge it’s the only functioning democracy without such provision.
~ Asa Kasher (born: 1940-06-06 age: 69) Israeli philosopher

[Three quarters of a million young people who have served in the IDF] know that the task of the army is not only to defend the state in the battlefield against a foreign army, but to demolish the rights of innocent people just because they are Araboushim living in territories that God promised to us.
Yaram Peri in Davar, 1982-12-10. academic specialist on Israeli affairs. Araboushim is Israeli slang that is roughly equivalent to niggers or kikes.

Defending the occupation has done to the American Pro-Israel community, what living as an occupier has done to Israel — muddied both its moral compass and its rational self-interest compass.
~ Daniel Levy Ha’aretz, former adviser to Ehud Barak

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.
~ Ariel Sharon (born: 1928-02-26 age: 81) Prime Minister of Israel 2001—2006, magazine Ouze Merham in 1956. Disputed as to whether this is genuine.

Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to kill as many Arabs as necessary, to deport them, to expel and burn them, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don’t care.
~ Ariel Sharon (born: 1928-02-26 age: 81) Prime Minister of Israel 2001—2006, daily Davar, 1982-12-17.

We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel… Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours … When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do will be to scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle.
~ Rafael Eitan (born: 1929-01-11 died: 2004-11-23 at age: 75) Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot, New York Times 1983-04-14

The very point of Labor’s Zionist program is to have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible!
~ Yitzhak Navon (born: 1921-04-09 age: 88) (“moderate” ex-Israeli president and a leading labor party politician.) Cited on p.179 of Nur Masalha’s A Land without a People who cites Bernard Avishai’s The Tragedy of Zionism 1985 p.340.

I don’t sign orders to destroy the houses of Jews, only of Arabs,
~ Haim Miller deputy mayor of Jerusalem and acting mayor in Olmert’s absence, quoted in Yediot Aharonot, 1998-02-07.

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return
~ David Ben Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) Prime Minister of Israel 1948— 1963, in his diary, 1948-07-18, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar’s Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.

Here lies the saint, Doctor Baruch Kapal Goldstein, blessed be the memory of the righteous and holy man, may the Lord revenge his blood, who devoted his soul for the Jews, Jewish religion and Jewish land. His hands are clean and his heart is clear. He was killed as a martyr of God on the 14th of Adar, Purim, in the year 5754.
~ inscription on the grave (made as a shrine visited by pilgrims), of the mass murderer Baruch Goldstein. An American Physician and an Israeli settler of Hebron, Goldstein shot to death 29 worshippers kneeling in a mosque in 1994 before the crowd overpowered and killed him. As a doctor, he had been court-martialed for refusing to treat anyone who was not a Jew.

Israel should keep the Araboushim [derogatory slang for Arabs] on a short leash, so that they recognise a whip is over their head. As long as not too many people are being visibly killed, then Western humanists will accept it all peacefully, and even ask “What is so terrible?”.
~ Boaz Evron Yediot Ahronot, 1982-12-02, Israeli writer and commentator.

Israel is working on a biological weapon that would harm Arabs but not Jews, according to Israeli military and western intelligence sources… In developing their “ethno-bomb”, Israeli scientists are trying to exploit medical advances by identifying genes carried by some Arabs, then create a genetically modified bacterium or virus. The intention is to use the ability of viruses and certain bacteria to alter the DNA inside their host’s living cells. The scientists are trying to engineer deadly micro-organisms that attack only those bearing the distinctive genes. The programme is based at the biological institute in Nes Tziyona, the main research facility for Israel’s clandestine arsenal of chemical and biological weapons. A scientist there said the task was hugely complicated because both Arabs and Jews are of semitic origin. But he added: “They have, however, succeeded in pinpointing a particular characteristic in the genetic profile of certain Arab communities, particularly the Iraqi people.” The disease could be spread by spraying the organisms into the air or putting them in water supplies. The research mirrors biological studies conducted by South African scientists during the apartheid era and revealed in testimony before the truth commission. The idea of a Jewish state conducting such research has provoked outrage in some quarters because of parallels with the genetic experiments of Dr Josef Mengele, the Nazi scientist at Auschwitz.
~ Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin , The Sunday Times [London, 1998-11-15]

Expansionism, Taking Territory from her Neighbours

In 1946 the world’s nations signed a treaty freezing all the planet’s borders as part of the creation of the United Nations. That makes the Palestinians, who were holding the territory at the time, its legitimate owners today. Since every square inch of earth has been conquered and reconquered scores of times, how far back would you go to determine the legitimate owner? The only practical way out of the problem was to decide that the current owner in 1946 was henceforth the legitimate owner.

It would horrify modern Jews to realise their land claim over Palestine has even less legitimacy that Hitler’s land claim over Poland and the Sudetenland. Back in Hitler’s day, the game was “might makes right”. By the time of Israel’s birth in 1948, it was no longer legitimate to take other people’s lands by force. Britain and America egged the world’s Jews to invade Palestine, not because they supported Zionism, or respected their land claim, but because they hated Jews, and wanted to encourage them to leave Britain and America. I recall as a boy, in 1954, my father’s outrage when the realtor tried to get him to sign an agreement never to sell our newly constructed house to Jews. I think, mainly because of extensive exposure through the entertainment industry, today Jews are familiar and comfortable, but it was not always that way.

This absurd land claim is the original source of all the violence in the region. Israel asserts title over this “promised land” area and the people who have been living there for centuries say nonsense, Jews don’t have legitimate title to even an acre, not even what the UN gave them unconstitutionally in 1947 for the racist motive of driving Jews from America and Europe. Israelis want to drive Arabs from the promised land and Arabs want to drive Jews out of it. Even back the then, U.N. called for a separate Palestinian and Jewish state. The Jews were keen on the idea. The Palestinians quite rightly were mightily pissed at half their territory being stolen from them. The Jews were improperly offered half the country and the greedy buggers took the whole thing. It would be wrong for the world to let them get away with this massive theft even 61 years later. There is no way peace can be achieved if the Jews get everything they want and the Palestinians nothing. The international community should not reward illegal aggression.

Lands originally granted to Israel by the UN.	Israel’s land claim as defined by Theodore Herzl, Zionism’s founder.

We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, … We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can’t allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv’s] Ben Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn’t mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.
~ Ehud Olmert (born: 1945-09-30 age: 64) acting Prime Minister of Israel 2006

We can have peace, but if we continue to hold out, we can obtain more.
~ General Haim Bar-Lev (born: 1924-11-16 died: 1994-05-07 at age: 69) quoted on page 166 of Hegemony Or Survival, where more meant the Sinai.

It’s not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.
~ David Ben Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) Prime Minister of Israel 1948— 1963

Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.
~ Moshe Dayan (born: 1915-05-20 died: 1981-10-16 at age: 66) Defense Minister of Israel 1867—1974, (Jerusalem Post, 1967-08-10)

Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours… Everything we don’t grab will go to them.
~ Ariel Sharon (born: 1928-02-26 age: 81) Prime Minister of Israel 2001—2006, Israeli Foreign Minister at the time, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, 1998-11-15

Settling on Arab Lands

We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.
~ President Jimmy Carter (born: 1924-10-01 age: 85) 39th President of the United States 1980

Without [the settlements] the IDF [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.
~ Moshe Dayan (born: 1915-05-20 died: 1981-10-16 at age: 66) Defense Minister of Israel 1867—1974, (quoted in Aronson, Geoffrey, Settlements and the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Institute for Palestinian Studies)

The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliya [immigration], and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country.
~ Yitzhak Shamir (born: 1915-10-15 age: 94) Prime Minister of Israel 1983— 1982, (Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declares at a Tel Aviv memorial service for former Likud leaders Jerusalem Domestic Radio Service, 1990-11)

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple.
~ Yitzhak Shamir (born: 1915-10-15 age: 94) Prime Minister of Israel 1983— 1982, (Maariv, 1997-02-21)

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
~ Moshe Dayan (born: 1915-05-20 died: 1981-10-16 at age: 66) Defense Minister of Israel 1867—1974, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, 1969-04-04.

Arrogance

Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.
~ Ariel Sharon (born: 1928-02-26 age: 81) Prime Minister of Israel 2001—2006, to a U.S. commission investigating violence in Israel. 2001-03-25 quoted in BBC News Online

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.
~ Ariel Sharon (born: 1928-02-26 age: 81) Prime Minister of Israel 2001—2006, 1984-11-20

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
~ Abba Eban (born: 1915-02-02 died: 2002-11-27 at age: 87) Foreign Minister of Israel, 1966— 1974.

I collected these quotations widely quoted on the Internet. I have not verified the sources.

Blame

• Jews from all over the world invaded Palestine by violence in 1948, and shoved the Palestinians off their land and created the state of Israel.
• During the UN truce, Israel kept fighting and expanded its territory by 1/3.
• Israelis expelled Palestinians by terrifying them with massacres and refusing to let them back in the country.
• Israel kills four Palestinians for every Jew the Palestinians kill. You would think from the news reports the Israelis were 100% innocent victims, rather than the oppressors.
• Israel has instituted an apartheid system. Palestinians receive no education.
• Palestinians are in lockdown about 1 day in 3 where they cannot work or shop or use the streets.
• Israel invaded Syria and Egypt and held onto their lands in the 1967 war. They are still holding onto Gaza.
• Israelis murdered tens of thousands of civilians in Beirut in 1982 The only thing you likely saw of this in the western media was a scene of a mob beating an Israeli helicopter pilot to death who had been strafing the city, and his tearful father decrying the loss of his son to terrorists.
• In 2006-07, Israel border patrols penetrated Lebanon and two of them were captured. Israel used these “kidnappings” as a pretext to invade Lebanon. As of 2006-08-07 they had killed over 900 civilians and levelled the country. Ironically, Israel itself holds over 9000 Lebanese POWs, many of them children. In that same period Hizb’allah, the resistance group formed to oust the Israel, still not completely expelled from the first invasion, used rockets to kill 8 Israeli railway workers, a 52 year old man on a bicycle and 12 reserve soldiers. Israel needs Lebanon’s water and fertile soils. That is the real reason for the invasion.

The Jews in Israel are a minority, but they hog 80% of the water. The Palestinians are among the most water-deprived people on earth. This is so much like apartheid in South Africa where the whites took all the best for themselves and imagined their stolen wealth made them morally superior.

Lebanon

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.
~ David Ben-Gurion (born: 1886-10-16 died: 1973-12-01 at age: 87) Prime Minister of Israel, 1963-03-28

To ensure generations yet unborn would suffer with hideous birth defects, the Israelis also used DU depleted uranium which is contaminating Lebanon for all generations to come. Hizb’allah retaliated with its own terrorism, shooting rockets into Israel that killed 8 railway workers, a mother and her son, and 52-year old man on a bicycle. The main effect of the rockets was to pin northern Israelis in bomb shelters without electricity or air conditioning. Here you see Israeli soldiers planting an Israeli flag on Lebanese soil in triumph.

The Future

Resolution

For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything “chosen” about them.
~ Albert Einstein (born: 1879-03-14 died: 1955-04-18 at age: 76) from a letter to Eric Gutkind, translated from German.

The Palestinians should get their own land, some political autonomy, and at least token financial compensation for the land stolen. Perhaps even more important are the formal apologies. Then you might have a Truth and Reconciliation commission, much like South Africa to expose and apologise for the atrocities committed on both sides.

Consider the phases Canada went through. For the centuries the white people vilified the aboriginals. They never mentioned any evil deeds of the whites. They pretended that North America was empty, waiting for occupation. All attacks by the aboriginals on the whites were described as savage and irrational. “The only good Injun is a dead Injun”. The Jews in Israel are still in this vilifying-the-victim stage. The aboriginals were herded onto reservations and kept in poverty. Aboriginals did not have full citizenship. They were patronised and treated like children. The Jews treat the Palestinians even worse, micromanaging their lives almost like modern day slaves. Over time the full story of the disgusting theft of land came to light and the dirty deeds of Canada’s white invaders, such as deliberately spreading smallpox. That softened modern day Canadians up to making amends. The aboriginals only requested a token compensation for the original crime. Mostly what they wanted was a change in attitude. They wanted respect. Hopefully the same thing will happen to the Jews and Palestinians. Today when I go to a public gathering it is common for some aboriginal to stand up and say something like, “We welcome you all to this traditional Songhees land.” We acknowledge the injustice of our forefathers and the repercussions over time, and that appears to be sufficient. It took Canada 400 years to begin to rectify old wrongs. Surely it should be possible for Israel to accelerate the process.

The alternative is escalating violence so that the Jews gradually leave. There are only 4 million of them. This group of fanatics hold the world nuclear hostage. It will be a Good Thing™ if they are disbanded. It would not be hard to find welcoming homes for them all over the globe. This is already happening gradually. Nobody in their right mind would want to live in a police state like Israel where their kids could be blown up any time they went outside.

Books

	recommend book⇒Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
		paperback	hardcover
	ISBN13:	978-0-393-33030-4	978-0-393-05826-0
	publisher:	W. W. Norton
	published:	2007-01-16
	by:	Michael B. Oren
This is a history book that goes back to the time of Jefferson, and traces American hostility toward Islam and championing of the Zionist cause.
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	recommend book⇒Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
		paperback	hardcover	kindle
	ISBN13:	978-0-7432-8503-2	978-0-7432-8502-5	B000MGAU4S
	publisher:	Simon & Schuster
	published:	2006-11-14
	by:	Jimmy Carter
Former President Jimmy Carter explains what he figures is holding back peace in the middle east. He puts the blame of a minority of Israeli leaders who insist on occupying Palestinian lands, in violation of half a dozen treaties. He points out that ordinary Israeli citizens are not the problem. They want to negotiate a fair settlement. He suggests that Israel bombing 6000 sites in Lebanon for the kidnapping of two soldiers by a rogue group was “excessive”. Most Americans consider his comments extremely left wing, but that is because America as a country is right wing, where nearly all Americans hold views to the right of all people in other countries. Further Americans are extremely biased toward Israel because of the successful lobbying and propaganda efforts of AIPAC.
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	recommend book⇒The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
		paperback	hardcover
	ISBN13:	978-1-85168-555-4	978-1-85168-467-0
	publisher:	Oneworld Publications
	published:	2006-11-01
	by:	Ilan Pappe
Ilan Pappe uses recently declassified archival sources to investigate the fate suffered by the indigenous population of 1940s Palestine at the hands of the Zionist political and military leadership, whose actions led to the mass deportation of over a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, over 400 villages wiped from the map, and hundreds of civilians dead. Pappe argues persuasively, that the continued denial of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 and the consequent dispossession of a million native Palestinians from their homeland represents a gross injustice that requires redress.
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	recommend book⇒Fateful Triangle, Updated Edition : The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians
		paperback	hardcover
	ISBN13:	978-0-89608-601-2	978-0-89608-602-9
	publisher:	South End Press
	published:	1999-10
	by:	Noam Chomsky
This is about both Israel’s misdeeds toward the Palestinanians and the American complicity. This has been going ever since Israel was founded in 1948.
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	recommend book⇒Middle East Illusions : Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood.
		paperback	hardcover
	ISBN13:	978-0-7425-2977-9	978-0-7425-2699-0
	publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
	published:	2004-05-25
	by:	Noam Chomsky
Part 1 is a reprint of Chomsky’s 1974 book, Peace in the Middle East? examining the 1967 war and its results. Part 2 looks at the same themes of Israel, Palestine and the US role, from the perspective of 2002. Part 3 studies the world after 9/11 and the `war on terror'.
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	recommend book⇒Failed States : The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
		paperback	hardcover	kindle
	ISBN13:	978-0-8050-8284-5	978-0-8050-7912-8	B000Q9IU7U
	publisher:	Metropolitan
	published:	2006-04-04
	by:	Noam Chomsky
This book covers the sins of empire of the USA, but it has a section on the sins of the Jews in Israel and the American complicity. It is a sickening tale of abuse of power, hypocrisy and deceit. Also available in audio form on 10 CDs.
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Videos

• Behaviour of Israeli soldiers in Gaza Fairly tame, but it gives you a view of non-extraordinary behaviour of soldiers.
• Israelis torture 9 year old boy with white phosphorus burns: he is hallucinating in pain. His eyes are burned shut. White phosphorus is a banned weapon.
• Noam Chomsky talks about Israel and America’s recalcitrance in accepting the consensus peace solutions in Israel.
• Beit Hanoun Massacre, 2006-11-08. Israelis killed 18 civilians, mostly children, in their sleep in Gaza.
• Peace, Propaganda & The Promised Land. Video explaining the Palestinian side of the conflict, made by Jewish filmmakers. It points out Israelis have killed four times as many Palestinians as the reverse, yet the media portray Israel as the innocent victim of terrorism.
• Video of the Israeli Massacre of Palestinian & Lebanese civilians in 1996-04 at Qana. Israelis killed 106 civilians seeking refuge in a UN compound. Mainly you get to see what it is like for the Palestinians to behold their babies and children with the their heads blown off. It is then easy to understand the rage that lead to suicide bombing. Israelis repeated the massacre on 2006-07-30, killing 37 children and 57 people. See the video  Here are some still photos of the second Qana massacre. Here are some more still photos of the first and second Qana massacre. Robert Fisk reports from Qana on NPR . The bodies were blown to bits, so it was impossible to tell with head went with which body to get an accurate tally of who was killed. The youngest victim was 10 months old, the oldest 95.
• History of the founding of Israel, the massacres of Palestinians at it founding. The Israeli terrorist Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian stonecutters, killing over 100 men and chilren.
• This video shows the quiet desperation of the Lebanese over the way their story has been suppressed in the west, of how Israel attacked them with 1500 missiles, of the massacres.
• Israeli spying on the USA. FOX news four part series. part 1 part 2 Israeli telephone spying on the USA  part 3 Israeli wiretapping on Americans  part 4 Israeli organised crime in the USA surveilling US cop telephone calls 
• The Doomsday Code: the nutty apocalypse religious beliefs believed by 59% of Americans that are driving the USA to create Armageddon (nuclear war) on purpose.

  

  This nutty Rapture cult infects the Bush White House. It is what drives the Christian Right political and financial support of Israel’s takeover of the middle east, and drive to destroy third holiest Muslim Dome of The Rock mosque to rebuild a Jewish temple. Oddly, their motive is that they believe once it is destroyed and a Jewish temple built on the same spot, the world will end. Even if they were correct, they have no business doing that. They could be right. Such an act of vandalism would be such an affront to Islam, the Muslims might unleash a nuclear or biological attack that would escalate to WW III.

• Jenin Jenin by Mohamed Bakri about he 2002-04 about the Jenin Massacre (aka Operation Defensive Shield by the Jews). A documentary made by a Palestinian filmmaker. Israeli soldiers murdered the producuer, Iyad Samoudi, just after the film was shot. It shows the more mundane aspects of apartheid, and the cruelty of the Israelis, not so much the blood and gore. .
• Independent Reporter Robert Fisk explains how you can separate civilian from Hizb’allah casualties in Lebanon.
• Short video of Israelis demolishing Palestinian homes for Jewish only settlements.
• Palestine Our Homeland. This is a very passionate and biased video. It even improperly blames all the Jews in the USA for the crimes of Israel. It opens with long boring text passages before it gets to the meat, some shocking video of Israeli soldiers hacking a Palestinian captive to death. There are many pictures of the battles between Palestinian children and the Israeli soldiers and of Israeli soldiers abusing Palestinians. The point it pounds home is Israelis Jews are oppressing the Palestinians, not the reverse. Don’t be shy. You have seen endless videos, news clips and essays shamelessly biased toward Israel. Don’t be afraid to just peek at one biased toward the Palestinians. .
• Britain and the USA give approval to Israel to continue bombing Lebanon. Why?
• It is important not to blame all Jews for what Israel is doing. For example Jews here in Victoria BC and in New York City demostrated agains the war.
• History of Israel.

Photos

Lebanese child killed by Israelis.	Israeli machine gunners	Lebanese child killed by Israelis.
Lebanese man searches for his family in his house Israeli soldiers bombed.	Female Israeli soldier	Palestinian holds dead child killed by Israeli soldiers.
All Israelis must participate in the Israeli military killing Palestinian civilians. They find various ways to justify their war crimes to themselves.		Palestinian boy at the instant of being shot by an Israeli soldier.
Lebanese child hideous burned by Israeli soldiers.		Palestinian father and child in hospital.
When Israeli bombs fell on Lebanon, the woman pregnant with this child was critically injured. Doctors tried to save the child by emergency C-Section. But shrapnel killed the baby too.		Palestinian comforting his grandson after Israeli attack.

• Checkpoint Photos: a look at how the Israeli apartheid checkpoint system works to control the movements of Palestinians.
• 12 Israelis killed: by Hizb’allah rockets. Still photos.
• Bomb Damage Photos: mostly damage to Lebanese buildings and environmental damage, with some not-that-gruesome photos of victims in hospital. These include an ambulance with a bomb right through the center of the Red Cross on the roof. This gives you a idea of the massive extend of the destruction, and belies the Israeli claim they were trying to take out rocket sites.
• Israeli Attack on Lebanon: gruesome photos.
• Photos of Israeli children painting bombs to kill Lebanese children.
• BBC Photos of Israel’s attack on Lebanon in 2006-07.
• 2006 Attack on Lebanon: photos of Israel’s attack on Lebanese civilians.
• UN Observers attacked: these photos make it clear why there is no possible way the attack on the UN observers was an accident.

Learning More

• Jews For A Just Peace: Jews who want a two state-settlement with both Jews and Palestinians continuing to live in what is now Israel.
• Electronic Intifada: news about the Israeli-Palestine conflict from a Palestinian perspetive. To judge fairly, you must listen to both sides, not decide ahead of time, based on emotions, which side you will only listen to.
• Khiyam Prison where occpupying Israelis kept their captured Lebananse, now bombed to rubble during the second Israeli invasion.
• Noam Chomsky on the Israel-Lebanon conflict.
• The many bubbleshare pictures have all be taken down.
• log of events of the war
• Child killed by banned cluster bomb
• Israelis target ambulances.
• Depleted Uranium: Israel is using depleted uranium against Israel, just as the USA is using against the Iraqis.
• Bogus “kidnappings”: The supposed “kidnappings” of two Israeli soldiers likely occurred on Lebanese soil. (The US press said it happened on Israeli soil; the world neutral press on Lebanese soil.) So it was just a run of the mill capture of POWs illegally invading Lebanon. You could even say it was a routine roundup of illegal aliens. The Israelis are torturing thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners, so why are the Israelis making such a fuss over two POWs who are not even allegedly tortured?
• Zionism quotations
• ThinkExist Zionism quotations
• Check your local library for historian Gwynne Dyer’s video series on the history of war. The tape on Israel explains the conflict from both points of view.
• American foreign aid to Israel
• Rachel Corrie: pictures of Israeli bulldozer operator murdering a non-violent protestor against the theft of Palestinian land.
• AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is a powerful pro-Israel lobby. It bribes and intimidates American politicians. Any politician that does not toe the line finds himself smeared and ruined. Here is a list of the official contributions to various politicians. It is not registered as a foreign nation lobby. In their mission statement they brag they push through over 100 pro-Israel bills a year. Fox named Israeli billionaire Haim Saban as the largest contributor to American politicians donating $13 billion a year. He donates to both Democrats and Republicans. This is supposed to be illegal. AIPAC is so powerful that almost no Americans, even today, are aware that the gas shortage back in the 1970’s was triggered by OPEC’s angry reaction to America helping Israel in its war with Egypt. OPEC withheld oil from the US in protest.

Take Action

1. Convince your friends or relatives living in Israel or Lebanon to leave and come live in Canada or other countries where they will be safe and welcome.
2. If you are a Canadian, write your federal politicians to have Israel declared a terrorist state. By killing Lebanese children with banned weapons (white phosphorus and cluster bombs), Israel easily fits the legal definition. Once that happens, it will be illegal to provide “material support” to Israel. Most importantly, it would become illegal to purchase State of Israel low interest long term bonds. I wrote a computer program for the state of Israel to track such bond sales in Canada. It is common for well-meaning prominent Jews to buy over a million dollars worth and for people to given them to children at heir their bar/bat mitzvah. Israel uses the enormous amount of money the bonds raise for funding its military and apartheid system.

   Of lesser importance, ask your federal politicians to rethink the official “terrorist organisation” status of Hizb’allah. It is a political party that holds seats in the Lebanese parliament. It was originally formed to oust the Israelis who occupied Lebanon for two decades starting in 1982. They primarily fought Israeli soldiers, so are properly a resistance movement not a terrorist organisation. Terrorists are people who target civilians. With that change in status, it will again be legal to speak out in support of Hizb’allah’s cause. The B’nai Brith are intimidating people such as myself with legal prosecution for championing Hizb’allah’s case.

   Write or email your Member of the federal Canadian Parliament or any other Member of Parliament or
   Stephen Harper (I can’t bear to call that homophobic bigot and Bush asskisser the Prime Minister).
   Office of the Prime Minister
   80 Wellington Street
   Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
   K1A 0A2
   Fax: (613) 941-6900
   It is best to hand write your letter. However in a pinch you can email:pm@pm.gc.ca No postage is required to send a letter to any Member of Parliament. Only mail sent to the House of Commons in Ottawa (that is, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6) is eligible. Just write the letters O.H.M.S. where you would normally put a stamp.

3. If you are an American, your goal might be more modest, to corral the power of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Write your federal politicians to get it registered as a foreign lobby. Right now it enjoys all the privileges of a domestic lobby even though it represents the interests of a foreign country. You could always ask that Israel, which is a relatively prosperous country with a billion dollar surplus, not be given fully 1/3 of America’s foreign aid budget, but that the money be given to countries in greater need. Israel squanders that aid on the military and their apartheid system to oppress the Palestinians.

   Write your American federal Senator, Member of the House of Representatives or
   President Barack Obama
   The White House
   1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
   Washington, DC 20500 USA
   It is best to hand write your letter. However in a pinch you can email:president@whitehouse.gov Write your Senator, Member of the House of Representatives or
   President George W. Bush
   The White House
   1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
   Washington, DC 20500 USA
   It is best to hand write your letter. However in a pinch you can email:president@whitehouse.gov

4. Write or email your Member of the UK Parliament
   Gordon Brown
   Office of the Prime Minister
   10 Downing Street
   London, UK SW1A 2AA
   Fax: 020 7925 0918

   No postage is required to send a letter to any Member of Parliament. Only mail sent to the House of Commons is eligible. Just write the letters O.H.M.S. where you would normally put a stamp.

5. Israel has the most skillful lobbyists and fund raisers on the planet. I have worked with them, and I greatly admire their skill, dedication, and meticulous attention to detail. So I suspect politicians will be relatively impervious to calls to do anything Israel does not like. You have to be tough, and tell the politicians if they don’t stop being poodles for Israel, you won’t vote for them. You will try someone else who might have a bit more backbone. You are not asking them to hurt Israel, just treat her and her neighbours even handedly, and work to end the occupation of Lebanon.
6. The boycott. This is the most powerful technique of all. Stop buying Israeli products. These include:
   • Intel computer chips. Let Intel know you are doing this so they can put pressure on Israel.
   • Energizer e² batteries. Let Energizer know you are doing this so they can put pressure on the Israeli government.
   • Tadiran lithium batteries. Let Tadiran know you are doing this so they can put pressure on the Israeli government.
   • Israeli poultry and eggs (in Europe). As a second good reason, they have been infected with bird flu.
7. Every square inch the Israeli Jews live on they stole. There is no way such an injustice ever can be papered over. Even a two state solution will not put out the flames of resentment over Israeli land theft and cruel treatment of the Palestinians. The solution is to repatriate the Jews to safe homes for them all over the world, and return all of Israel to the Palestinians. It is not nearly as drastic as it sounds. There are only 4 million Jews in Israel. The other approach that might work is what was done in South Africa — one man, one vote. Since Palestinians outnumber Jews, Jews could not continue to bully the Palestinians. The reverse might happen, leading to a gradual exodus, which would also be an acceptable long-term solution.

Palestinian “terrorist” confronts Israeli tank with rock.

Summary

Of course the Jews want a homeland, but invading and killing, and setting up an apartheid scheme is not a legitimate way to get one. Historically Muslims and Jews have managed to share territories with minimal conflict. Perhaps studying why people in past succeeeded where we fail might bring forth a solution.

Israel and the USA are the two most odious nations on earth because not only do they ruthlessly oppress others, they lie even to themselves that they are angels. Israel has no legal right to exist. The UN acted unconstitutionally out of racist motives to find a way to effectively expel Jews from Britain and America. Israel like a festering pimple on the planet. I hope eventually the USA will become too weak to support it and it will be disbanded and the Jews will be reintegrated all over the earth. It amazing how much misery such a tiny band of fanatics can inflict. Israel shames the entire Jewish people because Isrealis have behaved like their Nazi oppressors.

Advanced parasites secrete hormones that control the behaviour of the host to cause it to act in ways detrimental to itself, but beneficial to the parasite. For example Dicrocoelium dendriticum, parasites of ants, manipulate the ants to climb to the tip of grass blades and wait there to be eaten by cows, the next host in the chain. Israel is just such a parasite on the USA, that has mastered the lobby mechanism to control its much larger host. The United States is fighting two wars in the middle east where Israel is the main beneficiary. Israel will get almost free oil and water if the USA prevails.

In addition, even though Israel runs a surplus, it gets most of America’s foreign aid. Israel has a way of warping the common sense of America. It is a bit like giving a buck for a coffee to a bum who owns a Rolls Royce. I recall a Sherlock Holmes episode about a very rich man who begged for a living, quoting poetry. That is a great metaphor for Israel’s ability to bend the American political ear.

Some have suggested that Israel is becoming obsolete. It is now safe for Jews to live pretty well anywhere in the western world. They don’t need a special homeland any more. Jews will soon be a minority in Israel and their apartheid system will collapse for the same reason it collapsed in South Africa, probably much more violently. Further Israel is a running sore that won’t heal. The ongoing tensions created on 1948-05-14 by illegally occupying Palestine encourage terrorism and possibly even nuclear war. This is no fun for either Jew or Palestinian. Israel sponges off the USA, absorbing most of its foreign aid. The world is taking too much trouble and risk for the benefit of group of only 4 million Jews. That is only 1/5 the size of New York city. Maybe it is time to gradually wind the experiment down and hand it back to the Palestinians. Jews will be much safer spread all over the planet that all in one basket where a few nukes could kill them all in a few seconds. With sufficient funding, Jews could relocate near each other, and bring the culture of Israel to be enjoyed throughout the world. Given the lineups in all the Jewish restaurants and delis I have been to, Canada will welcome large numbers of emigrées. Come live where you are welcome, not where your neighbours plot to kill you.

It is a capital war crime to aid and abet the invasion or occupation of a foreign country in an aggressive war, (a war in which your side attacks first unprovoked.) That makes every Jew in Israel a capital criminal. It is highly unlikely they will ever be tried, much less executed, but they would be if the same law applied to hang all the Nazi at the end of WW II were applied to the Jews in Israel too. If Jews were aware of that, they might have a tad more humility about their superiority over the Palestinians.

Clearly, helping the Israelis to increase their apartheid system to oppress the Palestinians has not worked. We have had continuous war. It is time to try something else.

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