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Israeli drones unlawfully killed at least 29 Palestinian civilians during the Gaza conflict six months ago, the rights group Human Rights Watch says.

It cited six attacks in which operators of pilotless aircraft allegedly failed to verify if targets were combatants as required by the laws of war.

In three of the alleged cases, the group said the unmanned aircraft had fired on children playing on rooftops.

Israel said all its actions and arms conformed with international law.

Israel has a fleet of US and domestically manufactured drones but will neither confirm nor deny that they carry weapons.

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Nothing new...

Israel adds West Bank shrines to heritage list

Israel's prime minister has announced a controversial plan to add two major religious sites in the West Bank to the country's national heritage list.

Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem would now be included in the $107m restoration plan.

Israeli media said the two sites had been included on the list only after pressure from nationalist ministers.

The Palestinian Authority warned the decision would "wreck" peace efforts.

Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have been frozen for more than a year, with the PA refusing to participate until Israel halts settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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Rachel is first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 29 when Jacob happens upon her as she is watering her lamb. He had traveled a great distance to find his mother’s brother, Laban. Rebekah had sent him there to be safe from his furious twin brother.

During Jacob's stay he fell in love with Rachel, so much so that he bargained with Laban to work seven years in return for her hand in marriage. The Bible says that he was so in love that it seemed as though only a few days had passed. The day of the wedding finally arrived. The bride was veiled and the night was dark, but in the morning, Jacob woke up to the truth. Leah – Rachel’s older sister – had been substituted for Rachel. The Bible says that “Rachel was lovely in form and beautiful” but that “Leah had weak eyes.” When Jacob awoke after his first night of marriage, and discovered the trick, he was understandably angry. Laban excused the deception by saying that it was tradition that the older sister marry first. He assured Jacob that after his wedding week was finished, he could have Rachel for his wife too – and then work another seven years as payment for her.

After Leah had given birth to four sons, Rachel remained barren. She became jealous of Leah and gave Jacob her maidservant, Bilhah, to be a surrogate mother for her. Bilhah gave birth to two sons: Dan and Naphtali. After Leah conceived again, Rachel was finally blessed with a son, Joseph, who would become Jacob's favorite child.

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"Our existence here doesn't just depend on the might of the military or our economic and technological strength," he added. "It is anchored first and foremost in our national and emotional legacy."

The Tomb of the Patriarchs - which Muslims call the al-Ibrahimi mosque - is where the Bible says Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were buried along with three of their wives.

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According to the Torah, Benjamin's name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.[2] Textual scholars regard these two names as fragments of naming narratives coming from different sources - one being the Jahwist and the other being the Elohist.[3]

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According to classical rabbinical sources, Benjamin was only born after Rachel had fasted for a long time, as a religious devotion with the hope of a new child as a reward. By then Jacob had become over 100 years old.[4]

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The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian folklore whose legend began to spread in Europe in the thirteenth century. The original legend concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion and was then cursed to walk the earth until the Second Coming. The exact nature of the wanderer's indiscretion varies in different versions of the tale, as do aspects of his character; sometimes he is said to be a shoemaker or other tradesman, sometimes he is the doorman at Pontius Pilate's estate.

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Gus: oh, the curse of the drones, bigamy and the horror of fratricide because of different religious beliefs...

Iran has warned that airlines will be banned from flying into its airspace, unless they use the term "Persian Gulf" on their in-flight monitors.

The transport minister has threatened to impound planes that fail to comply.

The nation is most insistent that the stretch of water separating it from its southern neighbours should be known as the Persian Gulf.

To call it the Gulf, annoys the authorities; to call it the Arabian Gulf, infuriates them even more.

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A bit like the CIA hand book calls Myanmar, Burma, deliberatly so to annoy the monkey out of the army junta there...

An Israeli court will soon decide on the demolition order of Khan al-Ahmar - a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank - so that Israeli homes can be built in its place.
 
Regavim, a rightist settler group, is lobbying for the move, which would make about about 100 families homeless.
 
Israeli authorities have already given orders to knock down a school and many shacks in the village.

Add the drones to the other obscene weapons of Zionist aggression and juxtapose them to the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.Protocol VII includes the following…….UNIVERSAL WAR

3. We must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war.

4. The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.

5. We must compel the governments of the GOYIM to take action in the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power" - THE PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS.

6. In a word, to sum up our system of keeping the governments of the goyim in Europe in check, we shall show our strength to one of them by terrorist attempts and to all, if we allow the possibility of a general rising against us, we shall respond with the guns of America or China or Japan. (The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905; Japan; Iraq and Afghanistan - Ed.).

COMMENT:  I must confess that I find it quite easy to just browse through these Protocols to find evidence in the arguable-centuries old documents to have examples being demonstrated by the Zionists in Occupied Palestine.

IMHO it certainly appears that Netanyahu and his Jewish supporters (Zionist tagged or not and where ever they be) are either purposefully or by an amazing set of coincidences, acting out the plans of Zion as the Protocols seem to dictate.

When we understood the plans of Hitler and his Nazi supporters, we did nothing – we still have the opportunity to stop this progressive disease and it can only be done – as the Protocols suggest – by force. 

Survival of the fittest is the simplistic explanation of what they suggest is nature itself and strangely, if that was put into reality now, with all of their weapons of mass destruction, the Zionist Occupation Forces (ZOF) in Palestine should be the first to go. Let’s hope we Goyim don’t let it go that far.

God Bless Australia and may we finally recognize where the real terrorism in this world of ours.  NE OUBLIE.

 

 

War drums 2010 (Aljareera)23/02/2010 06:00:00 AM GMT
  Neither the U.S. nor Israel can tolerate the continuation of Hezbollah in Lebanon, a powerful player independent from their control, which shattered the myth of Israeli military supremacy.

By Sami Moubayed

When the ceasefire went into effect on the Lebanese-Israeli border in 2006, nobody believed — not for a moment — that this was the end of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. After all, none of Israel's objectives were met in 2006: Israel Occupation Forces'(IOF) soldiers were still held captive in Lebanon and far from being annihilated or weakened; Hezbollah emerged from the war stronger than before, even by testimony of the Israel army.

Anybody familiar with the guiding ideology behind the Zionist State understands why 2006 was such a problem for Tel Aviv. The Israelis, simply said, cannot afford to "not win" a war with the Arabs.

Back in 1973, Israeli prime minister Golda Meir was forced to resign — not for losing a war, but simply, for not winning it. Much of that reasoning applied to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, who stepped down in early 2009, having also not won, neither the 2006 war in Lebanon nor the 2008 war in Gaza.

Since then we have been hearing of a Phase II scenario between the two countries, speculated for the summers of 2006-2009. Why summer? One reason is that all of Israel's wars have been in the summer, when the skies are clear and the soil is strong for Israeli army tanks, in 1967, 1982, and 2006.

Only in March 1968 did the Israelis go into a winter battle with the Arabs — the Palestinians at Karameh in Jordan — and back then, bad weather prevented their air force from intervening, and led to a retreat of their ground forces, after a 10-hour battle. Once again, the drums of war are vibrating throughout the region, as tension escalates between Hezbollah and Israel, signalling that a new war will break out in the summer of 2010.

Israeli military drills, the thundering rhetoric of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, the aggressiveness of top officials in the Netanyahu government, and an indifferent Obama administration have all added to snowballing tension in the Middle East.

Neither the U.S. nor Israel can tolerate the continuation of Hezbollah in Lebanon, a powerful player independent from their control, which has effectively shattered the myth of Israeli military supremacy, and lived to tell the story.

COMMENT: At first, I thought as I have been in the past, programmed by the media, that the "live by the sword" attitude of the Zionists - where ever they may be - may succumb to the exact violence that they have exercised for some 60 odd years.  If they may lose - what does the US owe them - and everybody else?

That is how I feel - and I hope that others (on whatever radar) are feeling the same. 

But I cannot come to terms with the Zionist behavior in occupied Palestine where the lessons we should have learned over centuries "to protect the weak", are being abused so openly, and even more by the day, that I wonder where is the conscience of true "democracies" - if they still exist.

What a conspiracy for which only the "information" is responsible.

God Bless Australia and may our Service Personnel be maintained as Gough Whitlam intended - Defence.

NE OUBLIE.

Firstly – we should consider calling a spade a spade and discuss the never-ending crimes against civilization committed by the ZIONIST Occupation Forces (ZOF) in Palestine.

When all of the propaganda - controlled by one side only in this clear abuse of human rights is reasoned – the following is surely the best way for the truly “free world” to view this blatant denial of even the basics of natural justice.

1.      The Palestinians have never given up their right to their land which they have owned for centuries.

2.      The “vote” on whether or not the Zionist Jews could legally take over the land of these people was unanimously opposed by the entire Semite Middle East nations but did not allow one vote to the dispossessed Palestinians. On the false premise that they were NOT a State?  Neither was the Zionists. Please think about that and take a look at the behavior of the US and (not so great) Britain.

3.      The incompetent Hillary Clinton has adopted the Bush administration’ s lead in demanding MORE concessions from the Palestinians who, she implies, have no rights in this matter at all.

4.      Palestine is a nation of peaceful people that have been betrayed by England; the US; the UN; NATO and all nations which are included in Hitler’s Aryan principle.

5.      With thinking; reasoning and logic there is no civilized excuse for the Jewish citizens of Palestine to revolt, firstly against the British and then immediately that the “mandate” had ceased.

So it appears to me that we have a situation where the foreign Jews in Palestine rebelled against the authority of the Palestinian government and, by murder and deception have slowly but insidiously destroyed a nation whose only crime was to be undefended – and peaceful.

“A country is only entitled to the rights that they can defend?”  Is that our civilized attitude?

What about the unholy alliance of the US/Zionists? Is there any nation with the guts to stand up to them – besides Iran?

The meticulous behavior of the Government of Iran to the requirements of the NPT far exceeds that of the Zionist criminals in occupied Palestine.

So we have witnessed the destruction of the society of ancient Iraq; the exploitation of undeclared war with “legal” authority in Afghanistan; the existence of the worst President in the history of the US and with it, the complete denial of their claimed right to “rule the world”.

None of their world is “free”.

What the balance of power needs is for an equal and opposite energy to at least neutralize the US/Zionist Military/Corporate and consider that the protection that Australia may “think we have” because of the US alliance is, in fact, the opposite. We are the terrorists as long as we illegally attack other nations.

Our alliance with the US will eventually be a burden because you can “fool some of the people most of the time and all of the people some of the time but, not all of the people all of the time”.

God Bless Australia and may the independence of the Rudd government continue.

NE OUBLIE.

 

 

Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has criticised an Irish town council's decision to remove a page signed by the Israeli ambassador from its guestbook.

Carrickmacross representatives voted to remove Zion Evrony's signature in protest at Israel's diplomatic record.

Mr Martin said diplomatic representatives should always be treated with respect.

But a local councillor defended the town's decision, saying he hoped it would send a serious message to Israel.

"I think if a government is responsible for a wholesale disregard for international law then local authorities, as well as our own government, have a responsibility to tell them we expect a higher standard," Matt Carthy said.

He added that although Carrickmacross is a welcoming town, "it was important that we took a stand".

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Good one. The start of small things leading to big rivers... See toon at top.

From the NYT

JERUSALEM — Preparations for a strike against Iran’s nuclear program are as evident as ever: the introduction of an attack drone capable of flying hundreds of miles, the frequent open talk of a possible attack, the distribution of new gas masks to the public.

But lately, the real action in Israel on the Iranian issue has been the parade of top American security officials. The chairman of the joint chiefs, the director of the C.I.A. and the national security adviser have all just been here; the vice president arrives on Monday.

“Some have described it as a bear hug,” a senior Israeli official said of the near-daily high-level meetings, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to express himself freely on a charged issue, as did three other top Israeli officials for this article.

“All the visitors to Israel are sending us and the region a message: that Israel is not alone,” said Ilan Mizrahi, a former head of Israel’s National Security Council. “That means that Israel will not pull the trigger without a lot of consideration and consultation.”

The American decision to press Israel to hold its fire stems partly from war game exercises in both countries that have raised complex questions about how effective a strike would be, how Iran would react and when it would be clear that a nuclear line had been crossed in Iran. The officials say this is the time to try to put tougher sanctions against Tehran into place. And Israel is going along.

“No Israeli prime minister wants to make the decision to attack Iran,” commented a former official closely involved in these discussions. “And for Iran to go nuclear on Obama’s watch would be seen as a colossal failure. There is a common interest to make sanctions work.”