****UPDATE**** I put this story up on Reddit, and in 2 minutes they took it down. I have erased my account with them and will never visit that censored site again. Fuck Reddit.
(They viciously attacked a 58 year old woman and her husband for tending sheep on their own land. A group of Jewish “settlers”, Israelis that move onto Palestinian land and disrupt or just plain attack the Palestinians until they leave, attacked two elderly Palestinians while they were tending their sheep. The 4 settlers were young men, carrying baseball bats. They broke woman’s jaw and her arm. It was caught on tape and the video is running all over the world. But not here. This is typical behavior for the settlers and the only reason it’s in the NYT is because of the video. It’s also the only reason that these fucking punks who go after elderly women with baseball bats will serve even a day in jail. The cowards wore scarfs on their faces as they beat an woman old enough to be their grandmother, with baseball bats. This is terrorism at it’s finest; using violence to effect social change in the area. Namely, the Palestinians leaving so the Israelis can take over the land. Israel pays the “settlers” a stipend every year to do this. That makes Israel a state sponsor of terrorism. The same Israel that Obama praised as “a beacon of democracy in the region” last month at the AIPAC summit in DC.)
(This is a picture of the woman recovering at home.)
(and this is a still shot taken from the video)
(Two young Israeli children send a message to Palestinian kids. Look closely and you can read “from Israel” on the side of the bomb.)
End the Occupation is a Palestinian Rights organization. I am a proud member for reasons such as this.
West Bank - The conflict between Arabs and Jews over grazing land and water wells in the ancient, arid hills south of Hebron in the West Bank has a distinctly biblical feel, like the flimsy tent encampments and dank caves in which some local Palestinian farming families dwell.
But the primeval feud took on a modern twist this month when Muna Nawajaa, one of the two wives of a Palestinian shepherd from Khirbet Susiya, used a handheld video camera to film what appeared to be masked Jewish settlers viciously beating members of her family with clubs - images that have since been broadcast by news networks all over the world.
Israel carried out a major military exercise earlier this month that American officials say appeared to be a rehearsal for a potential bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
(They couldn’t prove the weapons were coming from Iran… in fact, they had to pack up the press conference because the military investigators said the weapons they had laid out to prove Iran was “killing” U.S. soldiers, didn’t come from Iran. The IAEA report the UN says shows Iran is stalling, actually proves that Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons. The talking point of Iran claiming to want to ‘wipe Israel from the map” is crumbling as bloggers repost the actual quote that proves they said no such thing.
Their story is falling apart… so what do they do? They attack Iran shortly after the AIPAC summit.)
An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks “unavoidable” given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s deputies said Friday.
“If Iran continues with its program for developing nuclear weapons, we will attack it. The sanctions are ineffective,” Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz told the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
“Attacking Iran, in order to stop its nuclear plans, will be unavoidable,” said the former army chief who has also been defense minister.
(A letter written by a loving father seeking justice not retribution. I can add nothing else but my deepest sympathies go out to him and his family for their loss and my sincerest hope that one day we will hold ALL nations accountable for their actions; including our own.)
Honorable General Ehud Barak, you don’t know me personally. I am a seeker of peace, and I struggle with all my strength and ability for the realization of a just peace that will bring calm and prosperity to Palestinians and Israelis together. I have suffered personally from your criminal occupation and I have paid a heavy price. Firstly, I was imprisoned when I was 17 years old and wasted seven years of my life in your barbaric prisons. Secondly, have you perhaps read or heard about what happened to the young girl Abir Aramin? She was a ten-year-old whom your soldiers killed with a rubber bullet from a distance of 15 feet on January 16, 2007 in front of her eleven-year-old sister Areen. Despite this I, the father of Abir - may she rest in peace - believe in the right of the Israeli person, as in the right of all people, to exist and to live in peace and security. So why do you not believe in our right to enjoy these same things, sir?
(That’s right. According to this CNN story, they piled up a bunch of “Messianic propaganda” (ie. Bibles) for no apparent reason, and then when thier backs were turned, 3 “teenagers” lit ‘em up. Those darn teenager pyromaniacs. I wonder how John Hagee will spin this story to his congragation. I wonder if the president of Iran made them do it.)
JERUSALEM (CNN) — Police in Israel are investigating the burning of hundreds of New Testaments in a city near Tel Aviv, an incident that has alarmed advocates of religious freedom.
Investigators plan to review photographs and footage showing “a fairly large” number of New Testaments being torched this month in the city of Or-Yehuda, a police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said Wednesday.
(The “beacon of democracy in the region” is at it again; this time detaining and deporting a Jewish American critic of Israels treatment of the Palestinians. Last month they refused to let Jimmy Carter anywhere near Gaza, and now this. Starting to sound a bit like China, aren’t they?)
Israel deported Jewish-American Professor Norman Finkelstein to the United States on Friday after questioning him at Ben Gurion airport. Finkelstein was denied entry due to “security concerns,” authorities said.
To better understand the situation in the occupied territories, here is a great video produced by a Jewish American activists who travels to the occupied territories to assist Palestinians in their plight.
(When someone uses this talking point, “beacon of democracy in the region” regardless of political affiliations, it turns my stomach. When former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visited Israel a month ago, he was not allowed to visit Gaza. That would be like Bush telling Desmond Tutu that he couldn’t visit New Orleans’ 9th Ward district. If you wish to understand the plight of the Palestinian people and the Arab-Israelis, this article is as good a place as any to get started. No U.S. politician will EVER recieve my vote if they can’t bring themselves to address the criminality of this stunningly obvious apartheid state.)
Africa’s white minority government was finally overthrown in 1993, after decades of black popular and working-class resistance. That year, the black majority democratically elected the African National Congress–previously derided as a “terrorist” organization by apartheid’s imperial supporters, including the U.S.–to lead its government. Freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, having spent 27 years in a South African prison and reviled as an international terrorist, was reinvented in the Western press as an elder statesman.
(”War is Peace. Hate is Love. Slavery is Freedom. 2+2=5.” Bush says “For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.” Iran isn’t attempting to get a nuke. They aren’t bombing the Green Zone. Israel wanted us to go after Iran before we went after Iraq, according to neocon insiders. Iran is a democracy; their President was elected (unlike ours). Iran has a massive army, and will garner regional and international support were we to attack. And in the face of all this, President Bush thinks the way to “peace” is to bomb Iran. He is unstable and MUST be removed from office. Impeach now.)
JERUSALEM - President Bush on Thursday criticized the deadly tactics of extremist groups like al-Qaida, Hezbollah and Hamas and said he looks toward the day when Muslims “recognize the emptiness of the terrorists’ vision and the injustice of their cause.”
In a speech prepared for delivery the Knesset, or parliament, Bush pledged that the United States has an unbreakable bond with Israel.
US President George W Bush has called Iran the “single biggest threat” to peace in the Middle East ahead of a visit to the region centred on celebrations of Israel’s 60th anniversary.
“To me it’s the single biggest threat to peace in the Middle East, the Iranian regime,” because of its nuclear program and its support of groups like the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, Bush told Israel’s Channel 10.
