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“Sheer Criminal Aggression” Israel’s Attack on Gaza Flotilla Chomsky Says “No Credible Pretext”

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:31:13 +0000

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Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime. The editors of the London Guardian are quite right to say that “If an armed group of Somali pirates had yesterday boarded six vessels on the high seas, killing at least 10 passengers and injuring many more, a NATO taskforce would today be heading for the Somali coast.” It is worth bearing in mind that the crime is nothing new. For decades, Israel has been hijacking boats in international waters between Cyprus and Lebanon, killing or kidnapping passengers, sometimes bringing them to prisons in Israel including secret prison/torture chambers, sometimes holding them as hostages for many years. Israel assumes that it can carry out such crimes with impunity because the US tolerates them and Europe generally follows the US lead. Much the same is true of Israel’s pretext for its latest crime: that the Freedom Flotilla was bringing materials that could be used for bunkers for rockets. Putting aside the absurdity, if Israel were interested in stopping Hamas rockets it knows exactly how to proceed: accept Hamas offers for a cease-fire. In June 2008, Israel and Hamas reached a cease-fire agreement. The Israeli government formally acknowledges that until Israel broke the agreeement on November 4, invading Gaza and killing half a dozen Hamas activists, Hamas did not fire a single rocket. Hamas offered to renew the cease-fire. The Israeli cabinet considered the offer and rejected it, preferring to launch its murderous and destructive Operation Cast Lead on December 27. Evidently, there is no justification for the use of force “in self-defense” unless peaceful means have been exhausted. In this case they were not even tried, although — or perhaps because—there was every reason to suppose that they would succeed. Operation Cast Lead is therefore sheer criminal aggression, with no credible pretext, and the same is true of Israel’s current resort to force. The siege of Gaza itself does not have the slightest credible pretext. It was imposed by the US and Israel in January 2006 to punish Palestinians because they voted “the wrong way” in a free election, and it was sharply intensified in July 2007 when Hamas blocked a US-Israeli attempt to overthrow the elected government in a military coup, installing Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan. The siege is savage and cruel, designed to keep the caged animals barely alive so as to fend off international protest, but hardly more than that. It is the latest stage of long-standing Israeli plans, backed by the US, to separate Gaza from the West Bank. These are only the bare outlines of very ugly policies, in which Egypt is complicit as well.

BTW, the preceding statement was part of a longer interview for an Egyptian weekly which you can read online (see link below) BUT, the Egyptian weekly edited this out, Chomsky’s mention of Egypt’s complicity in Israel’s crimes.
And largely the press in the US really isn’t better than this. Along with the other topics he deals with, Chomsky writes about the press’s poor performance in his latest book Hopes and Prospects. See the link in the video info.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1565847032/ref=nosim/representativ-20
Link to the Egyptian weekly’s Chomsky interview:
http://bit.ly/cN5v41
“One of the world’s major intellectual voices and a leading critic of Israel, Noam Chomsky has sided with the powerless throughout his career, while at the same time reminding the powerful of the inconvenient truths they would rather forget. He spoke to David Tresilian in Paris.”
http://tinyurl.com/hopesandprospects
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It was a Military Plane!

admin — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:27:12 +0000

This has various eyewitness accounts of ‘flight 175,’ the second plane to hit the World Trade Center, 9/11/01. Their accounts contradict the official explanation.

The following link has photographic evidence that flight 175 was not a commercial flight, but something else:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LrwqmSJwhQ

CNN footage of UAL175 with extra appendage, right on national tv:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8CUnWkGr0w

WTC designed for aircraft ‘hit:’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BGSjbm2wmE

Documented report re: FBI foreknowledge of the upcoming 9/11/01 attacks: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/17677751/Terrorists-Activities-Prior-Knowledge-Furnished-to-the-FBI-Six-Months-in-Advance-of-9-11

http://thesenatorhillary.blogspot.com
http://www.freeviamail.com/
http://www.tedgunderson.net

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We are SHOCKED by Israel’s Violence Against Humanitarian Aid Flotilla for Gaza

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:41:10 +0000

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http://www.israeli-occupation.org/2010-06-02/lphr-the-attack-on-the-gaza-freedom-flotilla-and-intl-law/
Peace Activists Attacked
Source of video of Human Rights Council
Geneva, Switzerland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAEVNzGsHvc&feature=PlayList&p=248C71FDEE4D2D4E&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1

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Questions over US policy on Middle East conflict

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:01:07 +0000

Even before the Gaza aid flotilla crisis, both Barack Obama, the US president, and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, had been trying to erase the perception of strained US-Israel relations.

But among some quarters in Washington, questions over unqualified US support for Israel remain.

The US military is starting to show concern over the cost of supporting Israel, at a time when it has thousands of troops in the Arab and Muslim world.

Al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher explains. (June 01, 2010)

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Israel Interrogates Chomsky, Denies Entry into West Bank to Give Talk @ University

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:21:45 +0000

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“The case of Chomsky is a grave indication, among many other indications seen each day, that Israel is losing its grip on reality, he said. No healthy government would have prevented the entry of such an important and respected person, without taking public relations into account it just shows that Israel is going crazy” – Norman Finkelstein
“Addressing the comparison between Israel and South Africa, Chomsky said, Its not exactly like the South African apartheid. In some respects its not as bad, but in some respects its worse.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3890355,00.html
Israel Interrogates Chomsky, Denies Entry into West Bank to Give Talk @ University

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/noam-chomsky-denied-entry-into-israel-and-west-bank-1.290701
“Jewish intellectual Noam Chomsky, one of the prominent speakers against the Israeli policy, was stopped Sunday while trying to enter Israel through the Allenby Bridge, sources in the Birzeit University in Ramallah told Ynet.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3890355,00.html
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/17/chomsky_denied_entry_into_israel/
http://tinyurl.com/ChomskyDeniedEntry

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Riz Khan – The future of US-Israeli relations – 14 May 09 – Part 1

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:28:16 +0000

Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister,is pressing Washington to support stricter sanctions against Iran at a time when the Obama administration is trying to reach out to Tehran. When it comes to Middle East peace, Netanyahu rejects calls for a two-state solution. So what does this mean for relations between the two allies? When Netanyahu meets Barack Obama, the US president, on Monday, will the two agendas clash?

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Trend Pushes Us into Horrors, Omitting International Law is Dangerous

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:38:01 +0000

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Before I make the follow-up video to the 9/11 Tiles for America Memorial video, I have to comment on a trend that pushes us closer to having to build more memorials to future victims of horrors which we have an obligation to prevent. The trend of ignoring the rule of law when discussing potential military actions.

There are enormous advantages and benefits to having a civilized society so we must demand our right to have a civilized society and call out those who ignore constitutional law. Public discourse should reenforce civilized society not constantly work against it.

The rule of law is the foundation of a civilized society. Omitting the illegality of a specific military action you are discussing undermines efforts to keep our society and politicians civilized.

What they are discussing, Israel or the US bombing Iran, would be a war crime. That should be said every time this insanity is discussed.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/20/rubio-israel-iran/
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/21/bolton-krauthammer-iran/
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The Listening Post – Strained US-Israel relations – Pt 1

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:27:12 +0000

This week on the Listening Post – an ill-timed announcement of new settlements in East Jerusalem throws US-Israeli relations into a tailspin and the news coverage follows. And as violence grips central Nigeria, the media picks up on the religious tone of the clashes, but little else.

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Israeli Terrorism Against America

admin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:27:10 +0000

Nothing can show the Zionist control over American media and politics more than the fact that Israel has committed cold-blooded, murderous terrorism and treachery against America without any reprisal. The fact that most Americans are not even aware of Israeli terrorist attacks against us speaks volumes as to the extent of media control that we are under.

This video exposes the only nation in Israel- Arab conflict that has committed terrorism against us. That nation is Israel. In the Lavon Affair terrorist attacks Israel was caught red-handed. In the attack on the USS Liberty was proven to be deliberate terrorism against us by people no less than the U.S. Secretary of State at the time, Dean Rusk, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Thomas Moorer. In the repeated spying against America by Israel, we see no “friend” but an enemy of everyone but their own Zionist agenda. It is illustrated by the Pollard Spy Case which is considered the most damaging spying done to America in our nation’s history. Yet, still our government sends billions of our tax dollars to Israel. — David Duke

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Public Opinion Shifts On U.S. Relationship With Israel

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:23:07 +0000

During the March 17th episode of The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer was surprised when Jack Cafferty reported on viewer attitudes of current Israeli-U.S. diplomatic crisis.

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