Humanitarian Issues

[ninathedog]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7pU5aZmYbM

(many thanks to Jewish Voice for Peace!!!)

May 24, 2011 0:01:39 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

May 23, 2011 15:09:34 GMT 4 @dan said:

Just up after another fight with low blood pressure. Ninathedog, as I have said before TRUTH IS TRUTH.

I have deep ties to the State of Israel, her People, and the Group within which Marcia is the Grand Commander has even deeper ties! Yet, TRUTH IS TRUTH! As you are aware we are deeply committed into the struggle of the Libyan people for their freedom.

I have studied, prayed over, and reaffirmed by faith in the real, spiritual, Israel.

Anything, ANTHING, which has to do with Isreal carries with it great sensitivity and great danger. In a recent "room meeting" I introduced an idea into the mix which caused more than a small uproar, one underway I am sure as I write, and an idea above and beyond the issue of the intensely controlled airspace. To shouts of "YOU WOULD NOT DARE!" I suggested...as everyone knows the official colors of our Group, used as early as 1947...that perhaps heavily armed choppers (only in defense of innocents and themselves) arriving in an area of GAZA, bearing humanitarian supplies, should also PROMINENTLY bear another (aside from our patches) "Blue and White symbol" on their sides and noses...ONE, TOO, BASED ON THE TALLIT?

ALL PEOPLES HAVE A RIGHT TO A HOMELAND.

This applies strictures to me and with great pain but purposeful word use...but perhaps such acts would remind certain others of the wrongness Mûsa first saw upon descent from Mt. Sinai? To slams on their desks, by the one delegation, I was forced by TRUTH, LOVE, AND TRUE MEANING, to ask, "Who is truly forever linked, as we are not deprived of the words of Zakariya, if not also they of Palestine, together wth us all, before the Eternal?"

(Unrelated inside message to someone: if able up, I WILL call you tonight.)

Dan

Dan,

As long as people are upset anyway, here is some gasoline for the fire.

I've transcribed the entire book and have finally returned to the project, a few years after beginning it, in order to finish typing out the last very unsettling chapter.

Please forgive all the typographical errors. Maybe I'll go in and correct the typos at some point but until then, I think that it's easy enough to follow along.

This is posted in order to aid people's understanding. I've alluded it to it in the past with unmarked links, but this time I'm making the book blatantly obvious.

With apologies for any hurt this may cause,

Love,
Ninathedog


ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY

By Faris Glubb
© 1979


www.amazon.com/Zionist-Relations-Germany-Faris-Glubb/dp/0911026118


These are links to each corresponding chapter:

ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One — The Early Zionist Attitude to Anti-Semitism
Chapter Two — The Common Ground Between Zionism and Nazism
Chapter Three — The Ha'avara Agreements
Chapter Four — The 1938 Emigration Accords
Chapter Five — The Ghetto Revolts
Chapter Six — Zionist Policy on the Holocaust
Chapter Seven — Kastner and the Hungarian Jews
Chapter Eight — The Concealment of Evidence
Chapter Nine — The Irgun and Nazism
Chapter Ten — Assessment of Zionist Policy towards Nazism

Introduction

Despite the appearance of large numbers of books on Nazi Germany's barbaric treatment of the European Jews, there is widespread public ignorance on one important aspect of this question: the relationship between the Zionist movement and Nazi Germany. The information on this subject is available, but has not yet been gathered together in a single comprehensive study.

(Note: You may also refer to 51 Documents of Zionist Collaboration With The Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner and A Threat From Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism by Yakov M. Rabkin.) This study is intended, at least partially, to remedy this deficiency.

Owing to the delicate nature of this subject, and the Zionist tendency to brand any non-Zionist or anti-Zionist viewpoint as "anti-Semitic", all the material on Zionist-Nazi relations in this study is taken from exclusively Jewish sources. The writers quoted cover a wide spectrum of views, from extreme Zionist to anti-Zionist, with various shades in between. The reader will thus be able to form an accurate and objective opinion on the basis of evidence presented by leading Jewish historians.

—Faris Glubb in his Introduction to ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY

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FAIR USE NOTICE: This blog may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes, to advance understanding of human rights, democracy, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues, etc. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US Copyright Law. This material is distributed without profit. [/quote]

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Boycott Movement Cheers British Prime Minister
Decision To Cut Ties With JNF

Saturday May 28, 2011 01:16
by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News Report post
Ma'an News Agency

The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, stated Friday that he has resigned his position as an Honorary Patron of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), the body which owns 90% of the land in present-day Israel.


Protest of JNF in Jerusalem (image by activestills)

Cameron is the latest of a string of high-profile political figures to abandon the JNF, a trend which has been cheered by the international movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel for what the movement calls apartheid policies by Israel.

In England, all three major political parties have had high-level politicians serving as patrons of the Jewish National Fund, whose stated mission is to ‘develop and settle the land of Israel’. Now, all three have dropped out, indicating a change in attitude toward the Jewish National Fund at the highest levels of British politics.

According to Dick Pitt, a spokesperson for the Stop the JNF Campaign, “Cameron was the only leader of the three major parties remaining as a JNF Patron. This decline in political support for the JNF at the highest levels of the political tree may be a sign of the increasing awareness in official quarters that a robust defense of the activities of the JNF may not be sustainable.”

The news of Cameron’s move has reached Palestinians in refugee camps, people whose land is under the control of the JNF. Salah Ajarma in Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp was “delighted to hear the news that the British Prime Minister has decided to withdraw his support for this sinister organisation involved in ethnic cleansing. My village, Ajjur, was taken by force from my family and given to the JNF who used money from JNF UK to plant the British Park on its ruins. For the Palestinians who were evicted from their villages and have been prevented from returning, Cameron’s withdrawal is another victory on the road to achieving justice and freedom for the Palestinians”.

The JNF considers itself to be a pioneer of the “historic Zionist dream”. The registered charity claims their work, especially in the Negev region of Israel, deals with “the rising demographic challenges faced by Israel”. In recent months the JNF’s activities in the Negev have received extensive international media coverage, linking them to the demolition of Palestinian Bedouin villages and confiscation of the land of the village.

Campaigners report that “even Israeli courts have criticized the JNF as an organization that discriminates against non-Jews and there is mounting evidence of the JNF’s involvement in Israel’s program to change the ethnic composition of areas inside 1948 Israel as well as in Jerusalem and the Occupied Territories. It is not acceptable that such an organization is allowed to operate in the UK, much less to enjoy charity status”.

Michael Kalmanovitz, UK co-ordinator of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, said “Cameron’s patronage of the JNF lent parliamentary credibility to a criminal organisation backed by a highly-equipped occupying army and masquerading as a ‘humanitarian charity’. Now parliamentarians who are ‘Friends of Israel’ must consider how much longer they can defend Israeli apartheid and worse.“

www.imemc.org/article/61326

May 19, 2011 6:18:53 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4GWbO_lBGg

Video: Crashing The JNF Fundraiser to
"Plant a Tree for Palestine"

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 18:51
The Electronic Intifada

On Monday 16 May, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) held a fundraiser at the Lincoln Center in New York City featuring the Broadway play “Scottsboro Boys.” Since the JNF plant trees and forests over ethnically-cleansed Palestinian villages to try and erase traces of their existence we – Existence is Resistance, Artists Against Apartheid, StoptheJNF.org and Max Blumenthal among others – decided to bring trees to give away. Each sapling was labeled with the name of a village that was cleansed in Palestine along with the date (some of which were before 15 May 1948) to “Plant for Palestine.”

Tags:  JNF; Max Blumenthal; StoptheJNF.org; Artists Against Apartheid; Existence is Resistance

(many thanks to The Electronic Intifada)

electronicintifada.net/blog/ali-abunimah/video-crashing-jnf-fundraiser-plant-tree-palestine

cited in video:

The Diaries of Yosef Nachmani Part 1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC2Hx3IpHlM

The Diaries of Yosef Nachmani Part 2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmhthuTBWVU

[ninathedog]

Study Values Settlements At $18.8 Billion

Friday May 27, 2011 11:32
by Kevin Murphy - IMEMC and Agencies Report post
Ma'an News Agency

A new study by formerly Israeli state funded Macro Center for Political Economics has valued Israeli settler homes at $18.8 billion in the West Bank, according to JNet.



The report was released on the back of US President Barrack Obama’s speech in which he called for an Israeli return to 1967 borders.

Israeli PM Arial Sharon compensated settlers whom, under his 2005 disengagement plan from Gaza, were withdrawn from their settlements and their housing dismantled as part of the Israeli withdrawal.

The report gives an idea as to what level of compensation may be involved given a similar disengagement from the West Bank.

The number of settlers and values of the settlement housing is a contentious issue. The pro settler movement often inflates figures to suggest an irreversible Israeli presence in the region. Numbers of settlers have ranged from 300,000 at the lowest end to 600,000 at the highest.

The presence of settlers, according to Palestinian activists, increasingly makes an independent Palestinian state based on 1967 borders untenable.

Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Golan are illegal under international law. The International Criminal Court and the UN have both called for the withdrawal of settlements from the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

www.imemc.org/article/61321

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World Court Is Said to
Rule Against Israeli Barrier

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 9, 2004

www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-World-Court-Israeli-Barrier.html?hp
Filed at 10:00 a.m. ET

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The U.N.'s highest judicial authority decided Israel's planned 425-mile-long barrier in the West Bank violates international law and must be dismantled, according to court documents that were leaked ahead of the announcement.

As it began reading its decision, the International Court of Justice said Friday it has jurisdiction to rule on the legality of the barrier, which Israel is building in response to Palestinian suicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israelis.

The Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz, quoting court documents, reported that by a 14-1 vote the judges found the barrier, along its planned route, "gravely infringes" on the rights of Palestinians and cannot be justified by military needs or national security, and violates international law. The lone dissenter was U.S. judge Thomas Buerghenthal.

After being leaked to reporters, the document began appearing on Internet sites.

"Israel is under an obligation to terminate its breaches of international law; it is under an obligation to cease forthwith the works of construction of the wall being built in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, to dismantle forthwith the structure therein situated," said the document, found on the Internet site www.electronicintefada.net.

The 15-member court's advisory opinions are nonbinding but bear moral, historic and political weight. They can be the basis for U.N. action.

The advisory opinion was sought by the U.N. General Assembly in December at the Palestinians' request. The court heard three days of testimony in February.

The court dismissed Israel's objections that the General Assembly acted irregularly in asking it for an advisory opinion.

It also rebuffed Israel's argument -- supported by the United States and several European countries -- the court should refrain from interfering because the issue was political, not legal, and could disrupt Mideast peace efforts.

"A legal question also has political aspects," said the ruling. "The court accordingly has jurisdiction to give the advisory opinion" requested by the General Assembly.

The Palestinians had said they expect the court to rule in their favor, and officials in Jerusalem said on condition of anonymity they expected a decision critical of Israel.

"We are confident we will have a positive result," Nasser Al-Kidwa, the Palestinian U.N. observer, said Thursday.

Israel, hoping to keep the issue low key, sent no senior officials to The Hague and said it would not comment until after the decision is delivered. The ruling likely will be lengthy and complex.

The barrier is a complex of high concrete walls, razor-wire fences, trenches and watch towers. About one-fourth, or about 100 miles, has been completed, much of it close to the pre-1967 border although some of it dips into the West Bank.

If the court says it has jurisdiction, then rules the barrier illegal, the Palestinians will seek a General Assembly resolution demanding that Israel dismantle the wall, Al-Kidwa said earlier. If the Israelis refuse, the Palestinians will seek Security Council enforcement and risk a U.S. veto.

"An advisory opinion is important in itself. It alone should be enough to make a difference" and force Israel to remove the barrier, Al-Kidwa told reporters.

Israel says the barrier is needed to stop Palestinian suicide bombers, who have killed hundreds of Israelis since late 2000. Israel says there has been a sharp drop in infiltrations from the West Bank since barrier construction began, and adds that there have been almost none from Gaza, which has been surrounded by a fence for years.

But Palestinians say the barrier imposes intolerable hardships on innocent people, separating them from schools, agricultural fields or workplaces. They also say the barrier is nothing but an Israeli land grab that will make it impossible to establish an independent state alongside Israel -- a primary goal of the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan.

Palestinians won some support last week from the Israeli Supreme Court, which ordered the government to reroute a 25-mile section of the barrier near Jerusalem.

The court said Israel must temper security with human rights and ruled that the disputed section "severely violated" the freedom of movement and "severely impaired" people's livelihoods.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accepted the decision and told senior defense and military officials to review the fence's route in problematic areas. Sharon previously denounced the world court hearings as "a campaign of hypocrisy."

The Supreme Court's ruling was unlikely to influence the outcome of the case in The Hague, where deliberations already were concluded, according to diplomats who have been following the case.

Several Israeli survivors and relatives of bombing victims gathered near the Peace Palace to press their argument that the barrier is essential for Israel's security.

"People in Europe don't understand what a terrorist attack means," said Eliad Moreh, 28, who barely survived a bombing at a Hebrew University cafeteria two years ago that killed her friend sitting across the table.

"I'm afraid the court won't take into consideration the fear, anguish and damage Israel is going through as a result of Palestinian terrorism. If you don't understand that, you can't understand what the fence is all about."

On the Net:

International Court of Justice: www.icj-cij.org/

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ninathedog.livejournal.com/124118.html

[ninathedog]

Bil'in 29.05.2011
By [e-mail]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=McfTx4cG4p0
Uploaded by haithmkatib on May 29, 2011
One o'clock after midnight, two Israeli Jeeps Invaded the center of Bil`in village, and the soldiers began
throwing sound bombs randomly causing a panic and inconvenience to the citizens when they are asleep.

(many thanks to Haitham Al K, Tali S, and Hamde A)

Bilin Weekly Demo 20.05.2011
By [e-mail]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfK0p2ty_jI&NR=1
Uploaded by haithmkatib on May 20, 2011
Friday 20/05/2011
Two young men wounded in addition to dozens of cases of choking gas in Bil'in weekly demonstration

Today in the weekly march in Bil'in organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall with the participation of Sa'di Tameezi, the Palestinian ambassador to Vietnam, two young men were injured, and dozens of people suffered from the effects of tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers. Dozens of Palestinians were joined by international and Israeli activists, commemorating the martyrs who fell in the demonstrations held on the anniversary of the Nakba last week. The march began in the center of the village after Friday prayers. In the area above the wall, demonstrators raised the Palestinian flag, as well as banners inscribed with the names of villages destroyed in 1948 and pictures of the imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti. Participants chanted nationalist slogans in favor of the right of return (the return of refugees to the land from which they were expelled).

At the eastern gate of the wall, Israeli soldiers fired a shower of tear gas;; they also sprayed 'stink' water, water treated with a chemical that gives it a foul smell that can't be removed from people's clothes. Among those injured were Ibrahim Bornat, 28, who was hit by a tear gas canister in the abdomen, and 22-year-old Mohammed Suleiman Bornat, who, after severe choking and vomiting caused by tear gas, had to be treated by ambulance crews.

The soldiers also fired tear gas into the olive groves, with the purpose of setting fire to them. Fortunately, the people of Bil'in were able to put out the fire. This demonstration took place the day after Obama's speech on the Middle East. Our response to that speech is: Obama is not the God who will decide our fate, and we are not depending on him. Through the popular struggle we will achieve our goals: freedom, return and the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.


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Bil'in
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the Palestinian village in the West Bank. For the Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 war, see Bil'in, Gaza.

History

At the time of the 1931 census, Bil'in had 39 occupied houses and a population of 166.[2]

After the Six-Day War in 1967, Bil'in was occupied by Israeli forces. Since the signing of the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1995, it has been administered by the Palestinian National Authority. It is adjacent to the Israeli West Bank Wall and the Israeli settlement of Modi'in Illit.

Historically a small, agricultural village, modern Bil'in is now largely a bedroom suburb of nearby Ramallah, headquarters of the Palestinian Authority.[3] Bil'in is considered an ideological stronghold of Fatah, and many employees of the Palestinian Authority reside there.[3]

Court rulings

Bil'in is located 4 kilometers east of the Green Line, near the West Bank Wall. On July 9, 2004, the International Court of Justice declared the wall a violation of international law. A week earlier, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the Israeli government had the right to construct the wall to ensure security, but that sections of it imposed undue hardships on Palestinians and should be re-routed. In 2005, the local council leader of Bilin, Ahmed Issa Abdullah Yassin, hired Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard to represent the village in a petition to the High Court of Justice. On September 4, 2007, the Court ordered the government to change the route of the wall near Bil'in. Chief Justice Dorit Beinish wrote in her ruling: "We were not convinced that it is necessary for security-military reasons to retain the current route that passes on Bilin’s lands." The Israeli Defense Ministry said it would respect the ruling.[4][5]

On September 5, 2007, the Israeli Supreme Court legalized* the Israeli settlement of Mattityahu East, a new neighborhood of Modi'in Illit, built on land that the Palestinians claim belongs to Bil'in, and Israel claims belongs to the state.[6][7][8] Bil'in vowed to continue its resistance and offered support to other villages facing similar problems.[9] The wall separates the village from 60 percent of its farmland.

According to the New Left Review, the settlements around Bil'in are being funded by Israeli businessmen Lev Leviev and Shaya Boymelgreen to promote their political and economic interests.[10][11]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil%27in

*Israeli settlements are illegal under International Law — www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Human_Rights/geneva1.html)

[ninathedog]

Ras-El-Amud_27-5-11

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8GjcqCXib8

Uploaded by yisraelpnm on May 27, 2011

this Friday in Ras El Amud -- May 27, 4:00 PM

The Israeli leadership does not seek peace and is headed towards yet another needless war. Early this week Netanyahu declared that Jerusalem will not be divided and that Israel does not consider the West Bank as an occupied territory. With such statement hanging and with President Obama's withdrawal from the Palestinians' September Campaign, the great concern is that are headed towards a cycle of violence and bloodshed

As part of the struggle against the settlements in East Jerusalem and the
legislative mechanism that allows its existence, it was demonstration
, yesterday (Wednesday, 25/5) in front of the inauguration of the new settlement in Ras El Amud. During the demonstration, two activists who attempted to block the Mayor's entourage got arrested. Another activist who managed to get inside the event disrupted it by calling towards the Knesset Speaker, the Mayor and the Ministers, that their actions are leading Israel towards its next war

[ninathedog]

Happy Memorial Day....

In addition to my own Grandfather and other family members who have sacrificed their lives for the United States of America, I offer tribute to those Americans who were killed when the USS Liberty was attacked by Israel on June 8, 1967:



1. William B. Allenbaugh — Baltimore, Md.
2. Philip McC. Armstrong, Jr.* — Detroit, Mich.
3. Gary R. Blanchard — Wichita, Kan.
4. Allen M. Blue* — Yakima, Wash.
5. Francis Brown — Albany, N.Y.
6. Ronnie J. Campbell* — Sevierville, Tenn.
7. Jerry L. Converse — Puyallup, Wash.
8. Robert B. Eisenberg — St. Paul, Minn.
9. Jerry L. Goss* — North Vernon, Ind.
10. Curtis A. Graves* — Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.
11. Lawrence P. Hayden* — Houston, Texas
12. Warren E. Hersey — Philadelphia, Pa.
13. Alan Higgins* — Weymouth, Mass.
14. Carl L. Hoar — Mount Vernon, Ohio
15. Richard W. Keene, Jr. — Batavia, N.Y.
16. James L. Lenau — Washington, Mo.
17. Raymond E. Linn* — Adamsville, Ohio
18. James M. Lupton* — Shreveport, La.
19. Duane R. Marggraf — Fond du Lac, Wis.
20. David W. Marlborough* — Waterville, Maine
21. Anthony P. Mendle — Waterbury, Conn.
22. Carl C. Nygren* — Williamsport, Pa.
23. James C. Pierce* — Clinton, N.C.
24. Jack L. Raper* — Cedartown, Ga.
25. Edward E. Rehmeyer, III — York, Pa.
26. David Skolak — Gary, Ind.
27. John C. Smith, Jr. — Ithaca, N.Y.
28. Melvin D. Smith — Alamance, N.C.
29. John C. Spicher* — Terentum, Pa.
30. Alexander N. Thompson, Jr. — Philadelphia, Pa.
31. Thomas R. Thornton — Sprinfield, Ohio
32. Philippe C. Tiedtke — Santa Cruz, Calif.
33. Stephen S. Toth — San Diego, Calif.
34. Frederick J. Walton — Niagara Falls, N.Y.

*Buried in Arlington National Cemetery

www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/historical_information/casualties_uss_liberty.html

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WHO SAYS THE LIBERTY ATTACK WAS DELIBERATE?

LINK to list of quotations regarding Israel's deliberate attack on the USS Liberty:
www.ussliberty.org/supporters.htm


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www.viewzone.com/liberty.html

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www.usslibertyveterans.org/

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Dead in the Water —
The Attack on the USS Liberty
part 1 —

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujoc1DYjuPE

part 2 —

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MXQOBiWkBA

part 3 —

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh5IRo1jReU

part 4 —

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuVjF3vDcZc

part 5 —

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-wIIoSe8FM

part 6 —

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jjncUl7_Lk

part 7 —

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq4AOGnfAJ4

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More information about Israel's deadly attack on the USS LIBERTY —
www.google.com/search?q=uss+liberty

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[ninathedog]

May 31st marks the one year anniversary of Israel's fatal attack on
the 2010 International Humanitarian Aid Flotilla to the Gaza Strip.







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Gaza marks anniversary of
Israel attack on Mavi Marmara

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-hqT0PKxE8

(many thanks to Yousef Al-H)

[ninathedog]

Hatem Moussa/AP


Adel Hana/AP



Report of the international fact-finding mission to
investigate violations of international law, including international
humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on
the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance

posted here:[/color]
the-goldenthread.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=43&page=44#14470

[ninathedog]

USS Liberty Veteran Seized by IDF on
Gaza Aid Flotilla

www.youtube.com/watch?v=udfQmSmwsoo

Man survives two Israeli attacks

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZMnl4SN91E

[ninathedog]

Please bear with me in the following post.
It's a lot of information to organize in one place.
More to come.

Balfour's legacy:
Creating Israel from empire's needs

Don Murray
November 2, 2007
cbc.ca

It has long been a land divided, a small patch of Earth where Israelis and Palestinians share little except, as a famous Irish poet said of his own land, "great hatred and little room."

In the beginning, at least at the beginning of the 20th century, it was a backwater, a forgotten corner of empire. The empire was Turkish, the Ottoman Empire. The land was Palestine and there were almost no Jews.

But 90 years ago, on Nov. 2, 1917, something happened that would create a conflict that would run like a tributary of blood through the century.

In London, a letter was written. It was short. Its author was the British foreign secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour. Its recipient was Lord Rothschild, a prominent British Jew.

The content was explosive.


Lord Arthur Balfour, a Scottish parliamentarian was Britain's
prime minister from 1902-1905 and came out of retirement to be
Lloyd George's foreign secretary in 1916. (Getty Images)


Lord Rothschild
(More about the Rothschild family follows this article)

Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917

Dear Lord Rothschild,

I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour

www.zajel.org/article_view.asp?newsID=2752&cat=6

The British government, it said, "view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object."

At that time, Jews were no more than eight per cent of the population of Palestine. Zionists were overjoyed. The small movement launched in its modern form by Theodor Herzl had only taken root 20 years earlier.

Now a great imperial power was backing its goal.

Why then?

Why did Britain make such a promise? The answer, perhaps not surprisingly, was war and empire.

The First World War was grinding its way through millions of men. For the British prime minister of the day, David Lloyd George, the declaration was a desperate throw of the dice to try to keep Russia engaged on the side of Britain.and France.




David Lloyd George, the Welsh nationalist was British prime minister from
1916 to 1922 and was a key figure at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
(Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Russian Revolution had just taken place and the Bolsheviks in power were calling for the country to pull out of the fighting. Even more important, Lloyd George was desperate for the United States to plunge into the conflict with enthusiasm, men, money and machines.

"The British and French were bleeding to death on the Western Front," observes British historian David Cesarani, who specializes in modern Jewish history.

"Lloyd George thought that maybe, if he could swing Jewish opinion in Russia behind the Allies, that might keep Russia in the war. And if he could win over Jewish opinion in America, maybe that would push America into the war on the side of the Allies.

"And what would be the key to winning Jewish opinion? The promise to set up a Jewish national home in Palestine. That was the crucial trigger for the Balfour declaration."

The road from 1919

The Balfour declaration was, as Lloyd George wrote later, a military decision that wildly overestimated the influence of the Jews in both Russia and the U.S. when it came to the war.

But empire still played a role in it going forward. The Ottomans were fighting on the side of the Germans in the First World War. Defeated, these Turkish territories in the Middle East would be ripe for plucking. And the British wanted to box out the French.

Thus the play for Palestine as a homeland for Jews, but to be administered by the British.

At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Britain was duly given a mandate to rule Palestine. The World Zionist Organization came to the conference and presented a map of what it saw as the future Jewish homeland. It looked remarkably like a map of modern Israel that included Gaza and the West Bank.

With the end of the First World War, however, British leaders began to regret their commitment to a Jewish homeland. There were fewer than 60,000 Jews in Palestine, facing more than 500,000 Arabs.

"The British government found that its army was policing a potential Jewish national home with a tiny number of Jews faced by a very large number of angry Arabs," Cesarani says. "This was a nightmare."

Balfour's legacy

The Arabs in Palestine were not even mentioned by name in the Balfour declaration. They were simply referred to as non-Jewish peoples.

After the war, the British colonial secretary saw the commitment to a Jewish homeland as an unnecessary burden on the empire. He tried to appease the Arabs by hiving off a territory from Palestine known today as Jordan and giving it to the Hashemite dynasty. The colonial secretary was Winston Churchill.

But appeasement didn't work. There were periodic explosions of violence: In 1920, 1921 and again in 1929. Then came an Arab uprising, which began in 1935.

Jews, galvanized by the Balfour declaration and, more importantly, by the lash of Hitler from 1933 on, continued to pour in. By the mid 1930s there were almost 400,000 Jews in Palestine, 30 per cent of the population. The Arabs then feared that they would be swamped within a few decades.

At that point, the British did what governments do. They set up another commission, the third since Balfour, under Lord Peel.

In 1937, it concluded there were "irreconcilable national aspirations" and, for the first time, recommended the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab-controlled entities.

In the brief span of 20 years, groping for policies to win a war and consolidate an empire, Britain had outlined the future Middle East — a Jewish homeland in a territory divided.

According to Cesarani, the Peel partition idea "was a very far-sighted proposal."

After a while, he says, "the British government ditched it because it was afraid of a very powerful Arab baccensoredh. The emerging Arab states would not tolerate even a mini-Jewish state in Palestine or the Palestinian territories.

"Of course, in the end partition was what the UN decided and what the Jews agreed to."

In the wake of the Second World War, Britain began to shed its empire. It abandoned its mandate in Palestine in 1948. The Jews immediately proclaimed the state of Israel and fought for and won its survival.

Now another imperial power, based in Washington, oversees the region and its troubles.

It periodically sends out emissaries, including its secretary of state, with gifts and threats. It talks of a yet another conference to find diplomatic solutions. The Israeli and Palestinian leaders meet but resolve nothing.

Yet Balfour, Cesarani says, has left a powerful history.

"It gave the Jews a place in the world. And you could say that, as well as the troublesome legacy of the Balfour declaration, that is a pretty miraculous legacy."

The Jewish homeland is now a state. Partition is now a fact on the ground even if there is not yet a second state for the Palestinians. The legacy of Balfour is both miraculous and bloody and bitter.

www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/murray/20071102.html

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DECEPTION (Israeli Supreme Court- Part 71)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=De-nTt6Xxuo

The Rothschilds Exposed (part 1 of 3)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4IGwuKdUQ

Israel belongs to the Rothschilds

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8kTa9UkpXo
Please note that some material presented here is incorrect.
For example: The West Bank and the Gaza Strip are not in Israel.
Please view with discernment.

Point of interest:


www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jE9o2SSGhE
IDF retired Maj. Gen. Danny Rothschild met with a group of
American CIOs in April 2008, and discussed how primitive rockets
can't be targeted by sophisticated weapon systems.

INTERVIEW with Major General (res.) Danny Rothschild,
Director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy

Sylvain Attal welcomes Major General(res.) Danny Rothschild, the Director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya and Chairman of Annual Herzliya Conference Series on the Balance of Israel’s National Security.

VIDEO—
www.france24.com/en/20100201-major-general-res-danny-rothschild-director-institute-policy-strategy#

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google: Hitler Rothschild —
www.google.com/search?q=hitler+rothschild

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ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY
BY FARIS GLUBB © 1979

Chapter 1
The Early Zionist Attitude to Anti-Semitism

The central tenets of Zionism are that the Jews constitute a "nation" separate from all other nations, and that they must be "ingathered" from the various parts of the world to Palestine, to form their own nations-state there. The European phenomenon known as "anti-Semitism" maintains that the Jews are an unassimilable, alien element in European society, which should be removed from Europe.

The founder of the political Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl, was aware of the philosophical common ground between Zionism and anti-Semitism when he wrote: "The governments of all countries scourged by anti-Semitism will be keenly interested in assisting us to obtaining the sovereignty we want."(1)


Theodor Herzl

Herzl "frequently asserted in all innocence that anti-Semites would be the Jews' best friends and anti-Semitic governments their best allies. But this faith in anti-Semites expressed very eloquently and even touchingly how close his own state of mind was to that of his hostile environment and how intimately he did belong to the 'alien' world...

"Anti-Semitism was an overwhelming force and the Jews would have either to make use of it or be swallowed up by it. In his own words, anti-Semitisim was the 'propelling force' responsible for all Jewish suffering since the destruction of the Temple and it would continue to make the Jews suffer until they learned how to use it for their own advantage. In expert hands this 'propelling force' would prove the most salutary factor in Jewish life, it would be used in the same way that boiling water is used to produce steam power."(2)

Herzl was a man who practised what he preached. The methods he used in his diplomatic efforts to further the Zioinst cause accorded with the principals he proclaimed. This is strongly illustrated by the approaches he made to Czarist Russia, which at the beginning of this century was the power that applied the most fanatical and cruel anti-Jewish polices of massacre, expulsion and discrimination.

Although Herzl never achieved his dream of an audience with the Czar, he did hold talks with the Czarist Interior Minister Wenzel von Plehve, who was responsible for implementing anti-Jewish measures and organised massacres like the Kishinev pogrom, in which 45 Jews were killed.


Wenzel von Plehve

Plehve "was brutal enough to admit that he had no objections to getting rid of as many Jews as possible; in fact, he would become a 'sympathetic' supporter of Zionism. Herzl then proposed that Plehve should write him a letter that he would present before the Zionist Congress, to the effect that the Zionist movement could count on the Russian Governments' 'moral and material assistance'. Plehve's letter became Herzl's most treasured asset. He carried it it around everywhere; he showed it to the Pope. The murderer of his people had shaken hands with him, talked to him politely. Was that not wonderful? "For Plehve, for the Kaiser, for the whole crowd of blackguards and reactionaries who ruled Europe, Herzl had a favourite promise: Zionism would dissolve all revolutionary and socialist elements among the Jews." (3)

In 1903, the founder of the Zionist movement was received in St. Petersburg by another anti-Semitic leader, the Czar's Finance Minister Count Witte, who also favoured the Zionist plan to remove the Jews from Europe. Witte told Herzl: "If it were possible to drown six or seven million Jews in the Black Sea, I would be perfectly happy to do so, but it is not possible, so we must let them live. But we encourage the Jews to emigrate: we kick them out." (4)


Count Sergei Iulevich Witte

The most important foundations laid by Herzl for Zionism's future successes were anti-Semetic circles in Britain. A substantial number of Russian Jewish refugees from Czarist pogroms chose Britain rather than Palestine as their refuge, thus disappointing Zionist hopes. But the Zionists found that a number of extreme right-wing politicians in Britain were only too willing to stir up a vicious campaign aimed at denying these unfortunate refugees the right of asylum.

Herzl gave these right-wingers his blessing and encouragement. In his evidence to the Royal Commission on Alien Immigration, which investigated the question in 1902 and 1903, Herzl called for the stream of migration to be diverted away from Britain. He thus agreed with the racist Arnold White, one of the leading theorists of the campaign to ban Jews from Britain. (5)

Another leader of this campaign with whom Herzl made friendly contact was Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain. In a speech in Limehouse, London, in December 1904, Chamberlain attacked the policy of allowing Jewish immigration to Britain, at the same time endorsing the Zionist idea of a Jewish state and warmly praising Herzl. (6)


Joseph Chamberlain

The most important British anti-Semite of that age, in terms of his eventual services to Zionism, was the fanatical Jew-baiter Lord Arthur Balfour. In a parliamentary debate on the immigration issue, Balfour made a speech in which he put forward a case for anti-Semitism that is all too familiar. He declared: "It would not be to the advantage of the civilisation of the country that there should be an immense body of persons who, by their own action, remained a people apart, and not merely held a religion differing form the vast majority of their fellow-countrymen, but only intermarried among themselves." (7)


Lord Arthur Balfour

Herzl was able to declare with satisfaction that "anti-Semitism has grown and continues to grow, and so do I" (8) But the fruits of his diplomacy did not ripen during his lifetime: A decade after his death, the First World War was to prove a turning-point in the fortunes of Zionism, as the Western allies planned the division of the Ottoman Empire, which was fighting on the side of Germany. Palestine was then under Ottoman control.


Ottoman Empire, 1914


Expansion of the Ottoman Empire


Current map of N. Africa and the Mediterranean region

The Zionists followed a policy of betting on both sides in the first two years of the war. The headquarters of the World Zionist Organisation was then still in Berlin, and its leaders there pursued efforts to form an alliance with Germany. At the same time Chaim Weizmann, then President of the British Zionist Federation, made parallel efforts for an alliance with Britain. Weizmann conducted an astute and energetic campaign, concentrating on canvassing the support of reactionary politicians like Balfour, Lord Robert Cecil and the Prime Minister Lloyd George. Apart from the argument that Zionism was a convenient way of ridding Europe of its Jews, Weizmann also used the imperialist argument that "a Jewish Palestine would be a safeguard to England, in particular in respect to the Suez Canal." (9)


Chaim Weizmann

The Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917 was the outcome of these diplomatic efforts. This first charter for a Zionist "national home" was thus motivated by a combination of imperial ambitions and anti-Semitic prejudices on the part of the right-wing politicians who issued it. It is interesting that the strongest opposition to it within the British government came from its only Jewish member, Sir Edwin Montagu, who clearly recognised the anti-Semitic motivations behind the policy of Balfour and Lloyd George. Montagu wrote: "I assert that there is not a Jewish nation... When the Jews are told that Palestine is their national home, every country will immediately desire to get rid of its Jewish citizens, and you will find a population in Palestine driving out its present inhabitants, taking all the best in the country." (10)


Sir Edwin Montagu

Montagu's predictions were all too accurate. The years following the Balfour Declaration witnessed the rise of virulent anti-Semitism in Europe, culminating in Hitler's holocaust. This in turn was followed by the dispossession of the Palestinian people. As will become apparent, the two events were closely interrelated.

REFERENCES Chapter One:

1. Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State (New York, 1946) p. 92
2. Hannah Arendt, The Jewish State, 50 Years After — Where Have Herzl's Politics Led? (article in Commentary, Vol. I, No. 7, May 1946).
3. Moshe Menuhin, The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time (Institute for Palestine Studies reprint, Beirut, 1969)_ pp 46-47
4. Quoted by Reuben Ainsztein, Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe (London, 1974) p. 151
5. Report of Royal Commission on Alien Immigration, 1902–1903 (Cmnd. 1741 & 1742)
6. Jewish Chronicle, 23 December 1904
7. Hasard, 10 July 1905, Vol. 149, Col. 154–155.
8. Theodor Herzl, Diaries, (Marvin Lowenthal's translation, New York, 1956) p. 7.
9. Chiam Weizmann, Trial and Error (New York, 1949) p. 243.
10. Memorandum on the Anti-Semitism of the Present Government, 23 August 1917.

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May 24, 2011 0:01:39 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

May 23, 2011 15:09:34 GMT 4 @dan said:

Just up after another fight with low blood pressure. Ninathedog, as I have said before TRUTH IS TRUTH.

I have deep ties to the State of Israel, her People, and the Group within which Marcia is the Grand Commander has even deeper ties! Yet, TRUTH IS TRUTH! As you are aware we are deeply committed into the struggle of the Libyan people for their freedom.

I have studied, prayed over, and reaffirmed by faith in the real, spiritual, Israel.

Anything, ANTHING, which has to do with Isreal carries with it great sensitivity and great danger. In a recent "room meeting" I introduced an idea into the mix which caused more than a small uproar, one underway I am sure as I write, and an idea above and beyond the issue of the intensely controlled airspace. To shouts of "YOU WOULD NOT DARE!" I suggested...as everyone knows the official colors of our Group, used as early as 1947...that perhaps heavily armed choppers (only in defense of innocents and themselves) arriving in an area of GAZA, bearing humanitarian supplies, should also PROMINENTLY bear another (aside from our patches) "Blue and White symbol" on their sides and noses...ONE, TOO, BASED ON THE TALLIT?

ALL PEOPLES HAVE A RIGHT TO A HOMELAND.

This applies strictures to me and with great pain but purposeful word use...but perhaps such acts would remind certain others of the wrongness Mûsa first saw upon descent from Mt. Sinai? To slams on their desks, by the one delegation, I was forced by TRUTH, LOVE, AND TRUE MEANING, to ask, "Who is truly forever linked, as we are not deprived of the words of Zakariya, if not also they of Palestine, together wth us all, before the Eternal?"

(Unrelated inside message to someone: if able up, I WILL call you tonight.)

Dan

Dan,

As long as people are upset anyway, here is some gasoline for the fire.

I've transcribed the entire book and have finally returned to the project, a few years after beginning it, in order to finish typing out the last very unsettling chapter.

Please forgive all the typographical errors. Maybe I'll go in and correct the typos at some point but until then, I think that it's easy enough to follow along.

This is posted in order to aid people's understanding. I've alluded it to it in the past with unmarked links, but this time I'm making the book blatantly obvious.

With apologies for any hurt this may cause,

Love,
Ninathedog


ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY

By Faris Glubb
© 1979


www.amazon.com/Zionist-Relations-Germany-Faris-Glubb/dp/0911026118


These are links to each corresponding chapter:

ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One — The Early Zionist Attitude to Anti-Semitism
Chapter Two — The Common Ground Between Zionism and Nazism
Chapter Three — The Ha'avara Agreements
Chapter Four — The 1938 Emigration Accords
Chapter Five — The Ghetto Revolts
Chapter Six — Zionist Policy on the Holocaust
Chapter Seven — Kastner and the Hungarian Jews
Chapter Eight — The Concealment of Evidence
Chapter Nine — The Irgun and Nazism
Chapter Ten — Assessment of Zionist Policy towards Nazism

Introduction

Despite the appearance of large numbers of books on Nazi Germany's barbaric treatment of the European Jews, there is widespread public ignorance on one important aspect of this question: the relationship between the Zionist movement and Nazi Germany. The information on this subject is available, but has not yet been gathered together in a single comprehensive study.

(Note: You may also refer to 51 Documents of Zionist Collaboration With The Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner and A Threat From Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism by Yakov M. Rabkin.) This study is intended, at least partially, to remedy this deficiency.

Owing to the delicate nature of this subject, and the Zionist tendency to brand any non-Zionist or anti-Zionist viewpoint as "anti-Semitic", all the material on Zionist-Nazi relations in this study is taken from exclusively Jewish sources. The writers quoted cover a wide spectrum of views, from extreme Zionist to anti-Zionist, with various shades in between. The reader will thus be able to form an accurate and objective opinion on the basis of evidence presented by leading Jewish historians.

—Faris Glubb in his Introduction to ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY

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FAIR USE NOTICE: This blog may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes, to advance understanding of human rights, democracy, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues, etc. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US Copyright Law. This material is distributed without profit. [/quote]

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edit>> these comments come from a friend and I think they're worth posting:

"Too many ignore (or are ignorant) of British imperialism's relationship to nazi Germany, and to its zionist outcome.

The zionist movement failed, despite the pograms, and despite the Dreyfus Affair. It took the shoa for the zionist dream to become the real nightmare.

London and Wall St. financiers funded Hitler's ascent to power. The intention was to use him to loot Russia of its raw materials (the Dresden bombings were a method of psywar against the USSR).

FDR realized this too late. At the meeting of the Allies, in Yalta, he told Churchill that after the war, the US was going to use its full economic might to destroy the British Empire, and all of cololonialism.

But, the die had already been cast, when FDR replaced Wallace with that little Napoleon, Truman, who not only dropped our only two nukes on Japan, but brought Churchill to the US to launch the "cold war" with his "Iron Curtain" speech, resulting in millions of deaths from perpetual war.

The US Federal Reserve -- which is a CENTRAL, not 'national' bank -- is owned by primarily British financier interests (the Rothchilds comme in a close second).

This is why a fly on the wall overheard a well - known London financier, at a private dinner, tell a Wall St bankster that should the US "dare" to return to Glass-Steagall, the "empire" would view it as an aggression of war, and would be dealt with, accordingly.

A few months later, Congress was in a tie, on whether to stay on the Hill to work out G-S reinstatement, or go home to campaign (on the program of nothingness).

Nancy "Impeachment is off the Table" Pelosi cast the deciding vote, and sent Congress home to throw the midterm elections to the most rabid of the 'baggers.'"

(many thanks to Mary W)[/blockquote]

[ninathedog]

Occupation 101

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWpOqAitZLs

Occupation 101: A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and
historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement

(Many thanks to Tali S)

[ninathedog]

buffer zone 31-5-2011
by mousheera jammal

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7I5dmJ3RLA

Uploaded by maged11maged on May 31, 2011

today in bet-hanon we were close to the point between us and
the occupation ,they started shooting at us , we were scared of them
we know them they never respect the lifes of people, but that gives us
more power to continue fight for our freedom ,our humanity , against
the occupation we will never give up .

(Many thanks to Mary W and Gaza Youth Breaks Out)

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source: bbc.com

[ninathedog]

EGYPT
Revolution Brings
Religious Freedom to Sinai

By Mohammed Omer
IPS News

EL-ARISH, Egypt, Jun 1, 2011 (IPS) - Abu Sumaia’a Al Suoarki is 29 years old and a Muslim, according to the personal identification card issued by the Egyptian government. These days, however, his religious belief is no longer just a detail on his ID card, but is something he openly practices every day.


The Al Qaramani mosque in El-Arish is now accessible to Bedouins.
Credit:Mohammed Omer/IPS.

Al Souarki is now able to go to the mosque for dawn prayers, cite verses from the Quran, join Muslim youth sessions and attend seminars after Maghrib, the fourth prayer of the day. These were things he could not do without being summoned by the Egyptian State Security, before the revolution last February.

"Today, I am breathing religious freedom," said the young Bedouin man. The holy month of Ramadan, beginning in August, will be a new chance for him—and many other young Egyptian Muslims in the Sinai area in eastern Egypt—to practice their religion and socialise without being harassed by security forces.

In Egypt, though all share the same language, culture and heritage, personal ID cards display the citizen's religion, even as the government recognises the Abrahamic faiths: Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

The regime of deposed president Hosni Mubarak oppressed many religious sects and their followers, including Muslim scholars who were prevented from teaching in Sinai.

Among those treated as second-class citizens were members of the Bedouin desert tribe, like Al Souarki. An estimated 1.3 million Bedouins live in Sinai, and experienced discrimination in employment and public services, with their religious freedoms curtailed.

The human rights watchdog group U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, in its 2011 annual report, labelled Egypt a "country of particular concern" for the "systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom."

This violation of religious freedoms apparently focused primarily on Muslims, but covered Christians as well. Last January, this IPS correspondent witnessed a leader of Egypt's Coptic Christian Orthodox Church in the northern city of Mansoura approach State Security for permission to illuminate the church’s roof. Permission was given, although "any further lighting should be announced to the State Security branch office in Mansoura," the Egyptian officer-in-charge said.

Also in Mansoura, Egyptian Professor Ahmad Rasem El-Nafis had been banned from travelling and was arrested three times, he said, because of his belief in the Shiite Muslim doctrine. A majority of Egyptians belong to the Sunni Muslim sect.

In 2009, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, an independent human rights organisation, reported that prosecutors in Samalut, a city on the west bank of the Nile River, investigated a Coptic man for "holding religious rites, with no permit, in his house."

Other cases include the blocking by security forces of two websites belonging to the Salafist sect, which advocates a literal interpretation of the Quran.

But all that changed with the revolution. Last week, the Rafah* Elementary School started a religious and political awareness programme where experts in law, freedoms and Sharia (Islamic law) focus on students’ ability to freely express their views.

At the head of the morning queue to the school was Sheikh Raed Al Attar whose task is to educate students and teachers on the correct concepts of Islam for development and stability. Social science teachers see this as an initial step towards freedom of expression, tapping everyone’s positive energies and views.

Muslim scholars who were previously denied travel permits to Sinai have now been allowed in. For Al Suoarki, this represents "the triumph of the Egyptian revolution" for freedom of religious expression.

On a tour to some of the mosques in the cities of El-Arish and Rafah, in the north of Sinai, Sheikh Abu Khalid Al Tarabin recalled that religious oppression, beatings and torture by the old Mubarak regime were "the reason why a few of the religious youth, under oppression, blew themselves up in desperation."

Now things are different. "Every day, we hear Muslim scholars and clerics preaching the correct concepts of Islam and not radicalism… we are able to hear more voices talking about the sanctity of blood," Al Tarabin said.

He expects this religious freedom in Sinai will open the youth up to a better understanding of their own religion. "Hanging people for 90 days in Lazoghly State Security prison is not the way to go," he said, referring to a friend who was tortured and now suffers permanent damage.

As a Bedouin, Al Tarabin recalled occasions when he was arrested for praying on the last 10 nights of Ramadan, following the 2004 Hilton Taba bombing which killed 34 tourists.

"It seemed to be an arbitrary order to arrest everyone praying in the mosque," he said.

However, Al Suoarki sees the other side of this religious freedom as a challenge. "We have always been represented as those devils who oppress women, forcing them to wear jilbab and niqab (a long garment and face cover), and who beat people for drinking alcohol and smoking," he lamented.

"The time has come," he said with a smile, "to prove those people wrong, as the end of the oppressive regime and the birth of religious freedom will now bring a new type of youth which is ready to integrate with the community and learn the correct Islamic Sharia and Quran, and thus separate Islam from isolated extremism."

For him and other youth, this has been largely missing and unthinkable in the past three decades of the Mubarak regime, or what the youth now call "the old days of oppression." (END)

www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55872

(Many thanks to Mohammed O and wishing him a HAPPY BIRTHDAY as well!)

........

*Note that the border city of Rafah is divided by a wall and is in both Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

[ninathedog]

May 31, 2011 22:04:49 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

Balfour's legacy:
Creating Israel from empire's needs

Don Murray
November 2, 2007
cbc.ca

(edited for length)

These comments come from a friend and I think they're worth posting:

Too many ignore (or are ignorant) of British imperialism's relationship to nazi Germany, and to its zionist outcome.

The zionist movement failed, despite the pograms, and despite the Dreyfus Affair. It took the shoa for the zionist dream to become the real nightmare.

London and Wall St. financiers funded Hitler's ascent to power. The intention was to use him to loot Russia of its raw materials (the Dresden bombings were a method of psywar against the USSR).

FDR realized this too late. At the meeting of the Allies, in Yalta, he told Churchill that after the war, the US was going to use its full economic might to destroy the British Empire, and all of cololonialism.

But, the die had already been cast, when FDR replaced Wallace with that little Napoleon, Truman, who not only dropped our only two nukes on Japan, but brought Churchill to the US to launch the "cold war" with his "Iron Curtain" speech, resulting in millions of deaths from perpetual war.

The US Federal Reserve -- which is a CENTRAL, not 'national' bank -- is owned by primarily British financier interests (the Rothchilds comme in a close second).

This is why a fly on the wall overheard a well - known London financier, at a private dinner, tell a Wall St bankster that should the US "dare" to return to Glass-Steagall, the "empire" would view it as an aggression of war, and would be dealt with, accordingly.

A few months later, Congress was in a tie, on whether to stay on the Hill to work out G-S reinstatement, or go home to campaign (on the program of nothingness).

Nancy "Impeachment is off the Table" Pelosi cast the deciding vote, and sent Congress home to throw the midterm elections to the most rabid of the 'baggers.'"

— Mary W

[ninathedog]

May 31, 2011 22:04:49 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

Please bear with me in the following post.
It's a lot of information to organize in one place.
More to come.

Balfour's legacy:
Creating Israel from empire's needs

Don Murray
November 2, 2007
cbc.ca

It has long been a land divided, a small patch of Earth where Israelis and Palestinians share little except, as a famous Irish poet said of his own land, "great hatred and little room."

In the beginning, at least at the beginning of the 20th century, it was a backwater, a forgotten corner of empire. The empire was Turkish, the Ottoman Empire. The land was Palestine and there were almost no Jews....

>>edited for length...

ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY
BY FARIS GLUBB © 1979

Chapter 1
The Early Zionist Attitude to Anti-Semitism

The central tenets of Zionism are that the Jews constitute a "nation" separate from all other nations, and that they must be "ingathered" from the various parts of the world to Palestine, to form their own nations-state there. The European phenomenon known as "anti-Semitism" maintains that the Jews are an unassimilable, alien element in European society, which should be removed from Europe.

The founder of the political Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl, was aware of the philosophical common ground between Zionism and anti-Semitism when he wrote: "The governments of all countries scourged by anti-Semitism will be keenly interested in assisting us to obtaining the sovereignty we want."(1)


Theodor Herzl

>> edited for length

ZIONIST RELATIONS WITH NAZI GERMANY
BY FARIS GLUBB © 1979

Chapter 2
The Common Ground Between Zionism and Nazism[/size]

Hitler's advent to power in Germany on 30 January 1933 meant that anti-Semitism became the German Government's official policy. This event was accompanied by an intensification of the Jew-baiting policies characteristic of Nazism.

"In January 1933, the Nazi leaders, long considered by thinking persons as a band of ignorant and perverted demagogues, suddenly became the respectable heads of a great government. However, only their status had altered, their character and methods remained unchanged, and the Jews of Germany had to suffer the consequences of the demagogic campaign of hatred which had long been waged against them." (11)

Armed with the full apparatus of government, the Nazis were able to launch an effective reign of terror. A Jewish witness described it thus:

"I had to listen to the shouts of 'Jude Verrecke' of the organised bands of demonstrators marching past my house. Daily there were attacks on people and kidnappings, the most terrible kinds of mistreatment of any number of people of my acquaintance who were known to have Democratic or Socialistic views, or simply because they were Jews... When I left Berlin a few days ago I had the feeling that I was living in a condition of a constant and continuous pogrom worse than those that once took place in Russia because there the pogrom started and ended at a definite time. You will probably have heard by this time of the terrible pogrom in Koenigsberg... The relatives of the Jews who had been attacked and wounded did not dare even to bring the poor victims to the hospitals in Koenigsberg but had to transport them to Berlin and many succumbed to their wounds in the course of the transportation to Berlin." (12)

Organised thuggery was accompanied by administrative measures to segregate the Jews from the rest of German society:

"On April 8, the new Civil Service Law was approved by the Cabinet and promulgated by Dr. Frick, the Reich Minister of the Interior. It barred all non-Aryans (except those who fought at the front or who lost a father or son in the World War) from any position in Federal, State or Municipal Civil Service... (April 12) Matriculated Jews could not be members of the student body. On the same day the Government barred Jewish political editors from its press conferences... On March 20, the official Court Bureau announced the purging throughout Germany of the offices of the prosecuting attorneys and the removal of Jewish judges from the Criminal to the Civil courts. But by March 31, there had been a a change of heart and all Jewish lawyers and judges were removed.


Dr. Wilhelm Frick


Wilhelm Frick stands beside Joseph Goebbels (far right)

"In Prussia on March 31, the Diet petitioned the Minister of Education for dismissal of all Jewish teachers and for limiting Jewish Students — not only in universities but in lower schools to one percent... (In Munich) the Superintendent of Schools went farther to announce that in the next term, no Jewish children would be allowed in Christian schools, nor would Jewish school doctors be allowed to treat Christian children". (13)

The devastating effect of such discrimination was illustrated in this dispatch from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:

"Jewish breadlines in Germany are doubling overnight, the number of the helpless leaping from thirty to eighty thousand in less than a week... Most of these are ruined middle class folk, shopkeepers, white-collar workers and professional people who have been forced to give up their means of livelihood by the anti-Semitic measures." (14)

The viciousness of Nazism was thus established beyond all doubt from the moment it came to power. What was the purpose of such measures? According to one eminent Jewish legal expert, "the inevitable consequence of the campaign of dismissal and exclusion by law, and of violence and outrage under the protections of outlawry of Jews and liberals, was a large exodus of Jews, non-Aryans and liberals from Germany." (15)

How did Zionism react to the cruel Nazi measures? In effect, the Zionist movement also believed that Jews should not be part of Gentile society. this fact explains why the rise of Nazism resulted in greatly increased strength for Zionism among German Jews. It also explains why a convinced Nazi like Adolf Eichmann was able to be on cordial terms with Zionists, and even to describe himself as pro-Zionist, while remaining dedicated to the Nazi ideology.

Eichmann "was by no means alone in taking this 'pro-Zionism' seriously; the German Jews themselves thought it would be sufficient to undo 'assimilation' through a new process of 'dissimilation' and flocked in to the ranks of the Zionist movement. (There are no reliable statistics on this development, but it is estimated that the circulation of the Zionist weekly Die Judische Rundschau increased in the first months of the Hitler regime from approximately 5-7,000 to nearly 40,000, and it is known that the Zionist fund-raising organisations received in 1935-36, from a greatly diminished and impoverished population, three times as much as in 1931-32). This did not necessarily mean that the Jews wished to emigrate to Palestine; it was more a matter of pride: "Wear it with pride, the Yellow Star", the most popular slogan of these years, coined by Robert Weltsch, editor-in-chief of the Judische Rundschau, expressed the general emotional atmosphere.





The Jewish Review (top image). Headline reads
"Wear it with pride, the Yellow Star" (bottom image)


The polemical point of the slogan, formulated as a response to Boycott Day, April 1, 1933 — more than six years before the Nazis actually forced the Jews to wear a badge, a six-pointed yellow star on a white ground — was directed against the 'assimilationists' and all those people who refused to be reconciled to the new 'revolutionary development', those who 'were always behind the times'." (16)



Nashua Telegraph — April 1, 1933


Boycott Day — April 1, 1933


Zionism certainly benefited from the fact that the rise of Hitler led to the crushing of its main rivals for ideological leadership of German Jewry. "It was in those years a fact of everyday life that only Zionists had any chance of negotiating with the German authorities, for the simple reason that their chief Jewish adversary, the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith, to which 95 percent of organised Jews in Germany then belonged, specified in its bylaws that its chief task was the 'fight against anti-Semiitism'; it had suddenly become by definition an organisation 'hostile to the State'... During its first few years, Hitler's rise to power appeared to the Zionists chiefly as 'the decisive defeat of assimilationism'. Hence, the Zionists could, for a time at least, engage in a certain amount of non-criminal co-operation with the Nazi authorities; the Zionists too believed that "dissimilation" combined with the emigration to Palestine of Jewish youngsters and, they hoped, Jewish capitalists, could be a 'mutually fair solution'. At the time, many German officials held this opinion". (17)


1934. First "Youth Aliyah" group of German Jewish
refugee children arrives in Palestine.

This "non-criminal" co-operation between Nazism and Zionism in the early years was in fact to prove the thin end of the edge, destined later to open the door to much wider and more serious co-operation that became less and less "non-criminal" in character as Nazi policy developed. Even before Hitler became Chancellor the common interests between Naziism and Zionism had extended beyond the principle of dissimilation of German programme: the migration of Jews to Palestine. Thus as early as 20 June 1932, "three hundred Nazis marched through the streets of Breslau and terrorised Jewish passersby, shouting 'Let the Jews go to Palestine'." (18)

This policy of encouraging the Jews to emigrate to Palestine received the blessing of Hitler himself. Although earlier, when he wrote Mein Kampf, he had not believed that the Zionists really intended to found a state, once he came to power he revised his opinion of them and took them more seriously.

"It was precisely the Zionists who showed themselves ready to 'free Germany of its Jews'. And since this aim took priority over all the others, Hitler was to accept, with the pragmatism for which he was known, to compromise on his own doctrinal teachings.

"The objectives, it was to be concluded at the Wilhelmstrasse, that this category (of Jews who oppose assimilation and are favourable to a regrouping of their co-religonists in a national home) had set themselves, in whose front rank were the Zionists, are those that deviate least from the goals which German policy is really pursuing with regard to the Jews.

"The only Jews with whom, in the final analysis, various organs of the Third Reich, and particularly the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Economy were to establish real working relations, were in effect the Zionists and the Palestinian Jews." (19)



REFERENCES Chapter Two

11. Oscar Janowsky, People at Bay (London, 1938) pp. 126–127.
12. J. W. Wise, Swastika, the Nazi Terror (New York, 1933) pp. 59–60.
13. Ibid., pp. 104-107.
14. Report dated 25 April 1933, from Innsbruck.
15. Norman Bentwich, The Refugees from Germany (London, 1936) p. 30.
16. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (New York, 1963) pp. 53–54.
17. Ibid., pp. 54–55.
18. Wise, op. cit, p. 45.
19. Eliahu Ben Elissar, La Diplomatie du III Reich et les Juifs (Julliard, place of publication not stated, 1969) pp. 86-87.

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One — The Early Zionist Attitude to Anti-Semitism
Chapter Two — The Common Ground Between Zionism and Nazism
Chapter Three — The Ha'avara Agreements
Chapter Four — The 1938 Emigration Accords
Chapter Five — The Ghetto Revolts
Chapter Six — Zionist Policy on the Holocaust
Chapter Seven — Kastner and the Hungarian Jews
Chapter Eight — The Concealment of Evidence
Chapter Nine — The Irgun and Nazism
Chapter Ten — Assessment of Zionist Policy towards Nazism