10.28.2014
For Jews, treason is the name of the game. It is our right. It is our duty. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/10/resistance-duty-too?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=5a52cccd5e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-5a52cccd5e-309259258#sthash.xZxoR7Jr.dpuf
For Jews, treason is the name of the game. It is our right. It is our duty. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/10/resistance-duty-too?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=5a52cccd5e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-5a52cccd5e-309259258#sthash.xZxoR7Jr.dpuf
10.27.2014
***** pic. My dear friends, if you are going on about your normal lives with what is unfolding in the world, you are the problem.
My dear friends, if you are going on about your normal lives with what is unfolding in the world, you are the problem.
10.26.2014
***** pic. By their all out assault on, their contempt for, their hatred of all human decency, global human sentiment, all human law, all human values the Nazis defined themselves as unhuman, an alien threat to all of humanity, and no one would or should criticize another for stating this truth. The Zionists have done the same be they Israeli Zionists or Christian Zionists. Through their behavior the Zionists, day by day, hour by hour, decade by decade, define themselves as unhuman, an alien threat to all life, and if there is to be a human future the Zionist behavior must be attacked as the existential threat to all of creation that it is, infinitely more dangerous than Ebola would ever be.
By their all out assault on, their contempt for,
their hatred of all human decency, global human
sentiment, all human law, all human values the
Nazis defined themselves as unhuman, an alien
threat to all of humanity, and no one would or
should criticize another for stating this truth.
The Zionists have done the same be they Israeli
Zionists or Christian Zionists. Through their
behavior the Zionists, day by day, hour by hour,
decade by decade, define themselves as
unhuman, an alien threat to all life, and if there is
to be a human future the Zionist behavior must
be attacked as the existential threat to all of
creation that it is, infinitely more dangerous than
Ebola would ever be.
their hatred of all human decency, global human
sentiment, all human law, all human values the
Nazis defined themselves as unhuman, an alien
threat to all of humanity, and no one would or
should criticize another for stating this truth.
The Zionists have done the same be they Israeli
Zionists or Christian Zionists. Through their
behavior the Zionists, day by day, hour by hour,
decade by decade, define themselves as
unhuman, an alien threat to all life, and if there is
to be a human future the Zionist behavior must
be attacked as the existential threat to all of
creation that it is, infinitely more dangerous than
Ebola would ever be.
nd. FB friend today: James, do you live in a shelter so that you can maintain the free Palestine vigil in front of the White House? James; We have little hope of making any difference unless we focus and devote our lives entirely. This is human history. I refuse any longer to not devote my life entirely to the global neediest . We revile such behavior, we fear it, we starve it, we certainly don't support it, we certainly don't pay it. So my choice has been to devote my life to humanity and accept material destitution, or to divert some of my time to my own continuance. I refuse to do the latter, which would mean diverting my time from the cause. Applying the skills that earned me hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to make rich people richer, is worth zero to our society when devoted to our neediest brothers and sisters. Less than zero, actually, because we see it as a threat to our system, which it is: the only real threat to our personally profit from our sisters and brothers obscenity of a system that is destroying all of creation. So far I have been kept barely alive by strangers, an ever dwindling small group of friends, cracks in the system, food in dumpsters, and having zero material needs except those of my work, a stool to sit on, appropriate posters, and computer equipment for researching, learning, and advocating online . I have lived on the streets so that I can fight for Palestine, & I expect before long that will be the case again, although as we more and more criminalize homelessness I envision present I'm beginning to eat into my work time. . But yes, surprisingly, right now, I am able to have a cot in a homeless shelter and that is good support for my body for the work. I am typing to you from in front of the White House maintaining the free Palestine vigil. I am here from early morning until mid to late evening every day that the weather does not drive me away.
10.25.2014
***** pic. If you are a human, an attack on human rights anywhere is an attack on your rights and on the rights of everyone hold dear, now and forever. So when you allow the human rights of anyone to be violated, you are now and forever destroying the human rights of everyone you hold dear. Have a nice day.
pic. There is no one on earth, past or present, that I do not love. Yes, my rage at the behavior of almost all of us grows by the minute. And I fail us less and less often by not expressing that rage. My rage knows no bounds at the behavior, and is never, ever, directed at an individual or group of individuals.
10.24.2014
***** nd. "TERRORISM" = Among the greatest weapons yet devised by the rulers, elites, exploiters, Terror States (Israel, US, UK...) to criminalize resistance to oppression, exploitation, deprivation of rights, rape, looting... by the victims.
"TERRORISM" = Among the greatest weapons yet devised by the rulers, elites, exploiters, Terror States (Israel, US, UK...) to criminalize resistance to oppression, exploitation, deprivation of rights, rape, looting... by the victims.
***** TERRORIST ISRAEL EXECUTES AMERICAN TEEN - SHOOTS HIM IN THE HEAD. US GOV, US MEDIA, CONGRESSMAN... SILENT. SILENT. SILENT. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS IN CHARGE... SEE WHO CANNOT BE CRITICIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNITED STATES OF ISRAEL.
TERRORIST ISRAEL EXECUTES AMERICAN TEEN - SHOOTS HIM IN THE HEAD. US GOV, US MEDIA, CONGRESSMAN... SILENT. SILENT. SILENT. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS IN CHARGE... SEE WHO CANNOT BE CRITICIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNITED STATES OF ISRAEL.
article. STRAIGHT OUT OF 'V FOR VENDETTA.' Ben Franklin: ” ”He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither, [and will lose both].” THIS IS DISASTER CAPITALISM, FASCIST CAPITALISM... USHERING IN THE 4TH REICH. HOW F'ING STUPID CAN CITIZENS BE???????? HOW F'ING BLIND???????? " Canada vows tougher laws as citizens worry in face of attacks"
STRAIGHT OUT OF 'V FOR VENDETTA.' Ben Franklin: ” ”He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither, [and will lose both].” THIS IS DISASTER CAPITALISM, FASCIST CAPITALISM... USHERING IN THE 4TH REICH. HOW F'ING STUPID CAN CITIZENS BE???????? HOW F'ING BLIND???????? http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/24/us-canada-attacks-shooting-idUSKCN0IB1PY20141024
article. Clearest statement I've seen yet of the POLICY we can see Terrorist Israel executing every day: "Prof. Hillel Weiss addressed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (using his nickname, Abu Mazen). “Listen, Abu Mazen, you aren’t a people and therefore there’s no genocide,” Weiss wrote. “To annihilate you as a rabble is a mitzvah, and it will ultimately be carried out, even though the Israeli government still doesn’t recognize its own guilt for kindling your fraudulent national recognition, starting from [former Prime Minister Menachem] Begin and ending with [Meretz party leader Zahava] Gal-On, and for everything it has contributed to the deception of the entire world and the flourishing of all the monsters that arose because of its weakness and lack of faith. The faster you admit that you aren’t a people and don’t belong anywhere within the boundaries of the Land of Israel, the better it will be for you – the faster you voluntarily vacate this land.”" http://normanfinkelstein.com/2014/10/20/a-call-to-kill-people-is-un-jewish-and-immoral-but-actually-killing-them-espeically-if-they-live-in-gaza-is-not-just-moral-but-positively-jewish/
Clearest statement I've seen yet of the POLICY we can see Terrorist Israel executing every day: "Prof. Hillel Weiss addressed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (using his nickname, Abu Mazen). “Listen, Abu Mazen, you aren’t a people and therefore there’s no genocide,” Weiss wrote. “To annihilate you as a rabble is a mitzvah, and it will ultimately be carried out, even though the Israeli government still doesn’t recognize its own guilt for kindling your fraudulent national recognition, starting from [former Prime Minister Menachem] Begin and ending with [Meretz party leader Zahava] Gal-On, and for everything it has contributed to the deception of the entire world and the flourishing of all the monsters that arose because of its weakness and lack of faith. The faster you admit that you aren’t a people and don’t belong anywhere within the boundaries of the Land of Israel, the better it will be for you – the faster you voluntarily vacate this land.”" http://normanfinkelstein.com/2014/10/20/a-call-to-kill-people-is-un-jewish-and-immoral-but-actually-killing-them-espeically-if-they-live-in-gaza-is-not-just-moral-but-positively-jewish/
***** nd. FRIENDS: TO UNDERSTAND ME, AND MY 'HARSHNESS,' YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." This is the great Norman Finkelstein's synthesis/understanding of Gandhi's guiding star - Truth Force, Soul Force, Satyagraha. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." It implies that one has devoted their every breath to this task, beginning and ending with paying the price to 'see' the truth... through objective, riggourous, scholarly, no sacred cows devotion to the Truths of any important situation. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." Personally, I have found, with great and unexpected joy these last 12 years of practicing this, that it has cost me EVERYTHING materially, and given me EVERYTHING spiritually, AND, COUNTER-INTUITIVELY, because it has stripped me of all material resources, THAT IT HAS ALIGNED ME WITH THE TRUE, CENTRAL, PHYSICAL POWER OF THE UNIVERSE. My point to you? OUR 2014 REALITIES, THE TRUTHS... ARE END-TIMES HHHAAARRRSSSHHHHH!!!!!!! I WILL hold on to the Truths... I WILL HAVE THE TRUTHS HOLD ON TO ME, POSSESS ME...TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY AS I CAN... EVERY BREATH.. SO I WILL BE CONSTANTLY HARSH, HHHHAAAAARRRRRSSSSHHHHHH. BECAUSE I CARE FOR YOU, never the contrary.
***** FRIENDS: TO UNDERSTAND ME, AND MY 'HARSHNESS,' YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." This is the great Norman Finkelstein's synthesis/understanding of Gandhi's guiding star - Truth Force, Soul Force, Satyagraha. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." It implies that one has devoted their every breath to this task, beginning and ending with paying the price to 'see' the truth... through objective, rigorous, scholarly, no sacred cows devotion to the Truths of any important situation. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." Personally, I have found, with great and unexpected joy these last 12 years of practicing this, that it has cost me EVERYTHING materially, and given me EVERYTHING spiritually, AND, COUNTER-INTUITIVELY, because it has stripped me of all material resources, THAT IT HAS ALIGNED ME WITH THE TRUE, CENTRAL, PHYSICAL POWER OF THE UNIVERSE. My point to you? OUR 2014 REALITIES, THE TRUTHS... ARE END-TIMES HHHAAARRRSSSHHHHH!!!!!!! I WILL hold on to the Truths... I WILL HAVE THE TRUTHS HOLD ON TO ME, POSSESS ME...TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY AS I CAN... EVERY BREATH.. SO I WILL BE CONSTANTLY HARSH, HHHHAAAAARRRRRSSSSHHHHHH. BECAUSE I CARE FOR YOU, never the contrary.
nd. Bugs in the homeless shelter are giving me less and less sleep, every night. This is cutting into my time, my work, in front of the White House. I'm beginning to put the pesticide directly on my skin, and clothes, to see if that can slow them down. Probably not real good for my health, but I can't afford the time away from fighting for my Palestine Family that this is costing.
Bugs in the homeless shelter are giving me less and less sleep, every night. This is cutting into my time, my work, in front of the White House. I'm beginning to put the pesticide directly on my skin, and clothes, to see if that can slow them down. Probably not real good for my health, but I can't afford the time away from fighting for my Palestine Family that this is costing.
10.22.2014
10.21.2014
pic. IN 66 YEARS... HAVE THE ZIONIS TREATED THE PALESTINIANS AS HUMANS? MORE SAVAGELY THAN INSECTS. AS THE NAZIS TREATED JEWS AS VERMIN. BOTH JUBILANTLY VIOLATE EVERY HUMAN RIGHT. WE DIDN’T STOP THE NAZIS IN TIME. ARE YOU GOING TO STOP THE ZIONIS? WHEN????????
IN 66 YEARS... HAVE THE ZIONIS TREATED THE PALESTINIANS AS HUMANS? MORE
SAVAGELY THAN INSECTS.
AS THE NAZIS TREATED JEWS AS VERMIN.
BOTH JUBILANTLY VIOLATE EVERY HUMAN RIGHT.
WE DIDN’T STOP THE NAZIS IN TIME.
ARE YOU GOING TO STOP THE ZIONIS? WHEN????????
***** Page 208, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," Prof. Ilan Pappe. Rape:
Page 208, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," Prof. Ilan Pappe. Rape:
We have three kinds of sources that report on rape, and thus know that severe cases of rape did take place. It remains more difficult to form an idea of how many women and young girls were victimised by Jewish troops in this way. Our first source is the international organisations such as the UN and the Red Cross. They never submitted a collective report, but we do have short and concise accounts of individual cases. Thus, for instance, very soon after Jaffa was taken, a Red Cross official, de Meuron, reported how Jewish soldiers had raped a girl and killed her brother. He remarked in general that as Palestinian men were taken away as prisoners, their women were left at the mercy of the Israelis. Yitzhak Chizik wrote to Kaplan in the letter men¬tioned above: ‘And about the rapes, Sir, you probably have already heard.’ In an earlier letter to Ben-Gurion, Chizik reported how ‘a group of soldiers [had] burst into a house, killed the father, injured the mother and raped the daughter.’
We know of course more about cases in places where outside observers were present, but this does not mean women were not raped else¬where. Another Red Cross report tells of a horrific incident that began on 9 December 1948 when two Jewish soldiers burst into the house of al-Hajj Suleiman Daud, who had been expelled with his family to Shaqara. The soldiers hit his wife and kidnapped his eighteen-year-old daughter. Seventeen days later the father was able to get hold of an Israeli lieutenant, to whom he protested. The rapists appeared to belong to Brigade Seven. It is impossible to know what exactly happened in those seventeen days before the girl was set free; the worst maybe presumed.
The second source is the Israeli archives, which only cover cases in which the rapists were brought to trial. David Ben-Gurion seems to have been informed about each case and entered them into his diary. Every few days he has a sub-section: ‘Rape Cases’. One of these records the incident Chizik had reported to him: ‘a case in Acre where soldiers wanted to rape a girl. They killed the father and wounded the mother, and the officers cov¬ered for them. At least one soldier raped the girl.’
Jaffa seems to have been a hothouse for the cruelty and war crimes of the Israeli troops. One particular battalion, Battalion 3 - commanded by the same person who had been in charge when its soldiers committed massacres in Khisas and Sa‘sa, and cleansed Safad and its environs - was so savage in its behaviour that its soldiers were suspected of being involved in most of the rape cases in the city, and the High Command decided it best to withdraw them from the town. However, other units were no less guilty of molesting women in the first three to four months of the occupation. The worst period
was towards the end of the first truce (July 8) when even Ben-Gurion became so apprehensive about the pattern of behaviour that emerged among the soldiers in the occupied cities, especially the private looting and the rape cases, that he decided not to allow certain army units to enter Nazareth after his troops had taken the town during the ‘ten-day’ war.
Our third source is the oral history we have from both the victimisers and the victims. It is very difficult to get the facts in the former case and almost impossible, of course, in the latter. But their stories have already helped shed light on some of the most appalling and inhuman crimes in the war that Israel waged against the Palestinian people.
The perpetrators can only talk, it seems, shielded by the safe distance of years. This is how a particularly appalling case came to light just recently. On 12 August 1949, a platoon of soldiers in the Negev, based in Kibbutz Nirim not far for Beit Hanun, on the northern edge of today’s Gaza Strip, captured a twelve-year-old Palestinian girl and locked her up for the night in their military base near the kibbutz. For the next few days she became the platoon’s sex slave as the soldiers shaved her head, gang-raped her and in the end murdered her. Ben-Gurion lists this rape too in his diary but it was censored out by his editors. On 29 October 2003, the Israeli newspaper Ha aretz publicised the story based on the testimonies of the rapists: twenty- two soldiers had taken part in the barbaric torture and execution of the girl. When they were then brought to trial, the severest punishment the court handed down was a prison term of two years for the soldier who had done the actual killing.
Oral recollection also exposed cases of rape throughout the occupation of Palestine’s villages: from the village of Tantura in May, through the vil¬lage of Quia in June, and ending with one story after another of abuse and rape in the villages seized during Operation Hiram. Many of the cases were corroborated by UN officials who interviewed a number of women from the villages who were willing to come forward and talk about their experi¬ences. When, many years later, some of these people were interviewed, it was obvious how difficult it still proved for the men and women from the village to talk about names and details in these cases, and the interviewers came away with the impression that they all knew more than they wished or were able to tell.
Eyewitnesses also reported the callous and humiliating way in which women were stripped of all their jewellery, to the very last item. The same
women were then harassed physically by the soldiers, which in Tantura ended in rape. Here is how Najiah Ayyub described it: ‘I saw that the troops who encircled us tried to touch the women but were rejected by them. When they saw that the women would not surrender, they stopped. When we were on the beach, they took two women and tried to undress them, claiming they had to search the bodies.’
Tradition, shame, and trauma are the cultural and psychological barri¬ers that prevent us from gaining the fuller picture of the rape of Palestinian women within the general plunder Jewish troops wreaked with such feroc¬ity in both rural and urban Palestine during 1948 and 1949. Perhaps in the fulness of time someone will be able to complete this chapter of the chroni¬cle of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
We have three kinds of sources that report on rape, and thus know that severe cases of rape did take place. It remains more difficult to form an idea of how many women and young girls were victimised by Jewish troops in this way. Our first source is the international organisations such as the UN and the Red Cross. They never submitted a collective report, but we do have short and concise accounts of individual cases. Thus, for instance, very soon after Jaffa was taken, a Red Cross official, de Meuron, reported how Jewish soldiers had raped a girl and killed her brother. He remarked in general that as Palestinian men were taken away as prisoners, their women were left at the mercy of the Israelis. Yitzhak Chizik wrote to Kaplan in the letter men¬tioned above: ‘And about the rapes, Sir, you probably have already heard.’ In an earlier letter to Ben-Gurion, Chizik reported how ‘a group of soldiers [had] burst into a house, killed the father, injured the mother and raped the daughter.’
We know of course more about cases in places where outside observers were present, but this does not mean women were not raped else¬where. Another Red Cross report tells of a horrific incident that began on 9 December 1948 when two Jewish soldiers burst into the house of al-Hajj Suleiman Daud, who had been expelled with his family to Shaqara. The soldiers hit his wife and kidnapped his eighteen-year-old daughter. Seventeen days later the father was able to get hold of an Israeli lieutenant, to whom he protested. The rapists appeared to belong to Brigade Seven. It is impossible to know what exactly happened in those seventeen days before the girl was set free; the worst maybe presumed.
The second source is the Israeli archives, which only cover cases in which the rapists were brought to trial. David Ben-Gurion seems to have been informed about each case and entered them into his diary. Every few days he has a sub-section: ‘Rape Cases’. One of these records the incident Chizik had reported to him: ‘a case in Acre where soldiers wanted to rape a girl. They killed the father and wounded the mother, and the officers cov¬ered for them. At least one soldier raped the girl.’
Jaffa seems to have been a hothouse for the cruelty and war crimes of the Israeli troops. One particular battalion, Battalion 3 - commanded by the same person who had been in charge when its soldiers committed massacres in Khisas and Sa‘sa, and cleansed Safad and its environs - was so savage in its behaviour that its soldiers were suspected of being involved in most of the rape cases in the city, and the High Command decided it best to withdraw them from the town. However, other units were no less guilty of molesting women in the first three to four months of the occupation. The worst period
was towards the end of the first truce (July 8) when even Ben-Gurion became so apprehensive about the pattern of behaviour that emerged among the soldiers in the occupied cities, especially the private looting and the rape cases, that he decided not to allow certain army units to enter Nazareth after his troops had taken the town during the ‘ten-day’ war.
Our third source is the oral history we have from both the victimisers and the victims. It is very difficult to get the facts in the former case and almost impossible, of course, in the latter. But their stories have already helped shed light on some of the most appalling and inhuman crimes in the war that Israel waged against the Palestinian people.
The perpetrators can only talk, it seems, shielded by the safe distance of years. This is how a particularly appalling case came to light just recently. On 12 August 1949, a platoon of soldiers in the Negev, based in Kibbutz Nirim not far for Beit Hanun, on the northern edge of today’s Gaza Strip, captured a twelve-year-old Palestinian girl and locked her up for the night in their military base near the kibbutz. For the next few days she became the platoon’s sex slave as the soldiers shaved her head, gang-raped her and in the end murdered her. Ben-Gurion lists this rape too in his diary but it was censored out by his editors. On 29 October 2003, the Israeli newspaper Ha aretz publicised the story based on the testimonies of the rapists: twenty- two soldiers had taken part in the barbaric torture and execution of the girl. When they were then brought to trial, the severest punishment the court handed down was a prison term of two years for the soldier who had done the actual killing.
Oral recollection also exposed cases of rape throughout the occupation of Palestine’s villages: from the village of Tantura in May, through the vil¬lage of Quia in June, and ending with one story after another of abuse and rape in the villages seized during Operation Hiram. Many of the cases were corroborated by UN officials who interviewed a number of women from the villages who were willing to come forward and talk about their experi¬ences. When, many years later, some of these people were interviewed, it was obvious how difficult it still proved for the men and women from the village to talk about names and details in these cases, and the interviewers came away with the impression that they all knew more than they wished or were able to tell.
Eyewitnesses also reported the callous and humiliating way in which women were stripped of all their jewellery, to the very last item. The same
women were then harassed physically by the soldiers, which in Tantura ended in rape. Here is how Najiah Ayyub described it: ‘I saw that the troops who encircled us tried to touch the women but were rejected by them. When they saw that the women would not surrender, they stopped. When we were on the beach, they took two women and tried to undress them, claiming they had to search the bodies.’
Tradition, shame, and trauma are the cultural and psychological barri¬ers that prevent us from gaining the fuller picture of the rape of Palestinian women within the general plunder Jewish troops wreaked with such feroc¬ity in both rural and urban Palestine during 1948 and 1949. Perhaps in the fulness of time someone will be able to complete this chapter of the chroni¬cle of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
10.20.2014
10.19.2014
nd. I do not make a living. I have always found the idea morally repugnant . But for the last dozen years or so I have had and lived the courage of that conviction, willing each day for it to take my life . I refuse to have my existence be a form of cancer which is exactly what the notion of quote making a living on quote is. We are here, as is every healthy form of life, to serve the well being of the greater body, regardless of the personal price to our selves. This is what I do. I hate the decades I existed in another way.
I do not make a living. I have always found the idea morally repugnant . But for the last dozen years or so I have had and lived the courage of that conviction, willing each day for it to take my life . I refuse to have my existence be a form of cancer which is exactly what the notion of quote making a living on quote is. We are here, as is every healthy form of life, to serve the well being of the greater body, regardless of the personal price to our selves. This is what I do. I hate the decades I existed in another way.
nd. You may hate me for this. You will have to decide. I will not be silent. I have devoted every breath for a decade now to try and make the world a better place. Whatever time I have left will be spent in exactly the same way. I find some small measure of pleasure in the realization that by our profoundly inhumane permission to our government and fellow human beings to savagely slowly exterminate Palestinians we are bringing that exact same fate to our children and their children in the not too distant future. I love justice and this is justice.
You may hate me for this. You will have to decide. I will not be silent. I have devoted every breath for a decade now to try and make the world a better place. Whatever time I have left will be spent in exactly the same way. I find some small measure of pleasure in the realization that by our profoundly inhumane permission to our government and fellow human beings to savagely slowly exterminate Palestinians we are bringing that exact same fate to our children and their children in the not too distant future. I love justice and this is justice.
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