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Sep 4th, 2009 by Syd Walker
You just have to feel sorry for the folk who run the Jewish Agency and Israeli Prime Minister’s office.
Tasked with defending the world’s most unpopular nation – a State surrounded by aggrieved and exasperated neighbours, that is despised worldwide for its callous brutality over more than 60 years – they must feel stressed at the best of times.
If they stay in the USA, half of these young people might 'go missing'!
If it was only a matter of hate – something they understand rather well – they’d be laughing!
But life is not that simple. There’s also pesky, insidious thing called love to worry about. Love may be prove to be the most serious existential threat to the millennial fantasies of Zion’s elders. Why, it might undermine the juniors’ respect for protocol!
Love over gold?
Will the mysterious cosmic force of love be the eventual undoing of Jewish Apartheid? Shall admirers of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jesus and Buddha, all share the last laugh?
Too much unrestrained mutual attraction between human beings spells long-term decline for the Zionist project – by denying it a sufficient population base of separatist fanatics.
The hard cases in Tel Aviv know that. And they’re not happy.
During August, I had a poll running on this website in which I invited visitors to vote for the name they thought best suited to the small nation-state in the Middle East commonly known as ‘Israel’ since its inception in 1948.
Here are the results:
I didn’t ‘push’ the poll by actively urging people to vote. That invites the Hasbara crowd to fly-by in a rage, like a swarm of angry wasps. So I just let nature take its course.
Now, I’ll admit to some bias. I consider this website is visited by a selection of the smartest people on earth. My dog (rumoured to have an IQ of 250+) assures me most material here is crafted, like fabulous tropical flowers, to attract the most discriminating pollinators.
Therefore I shall take heed of this poll-of-the-well-informed and follow the popular will. Personally, I voted for ‘Rothchildistan’ – but in hindsight the democratic process has yet again come up trumps.
What acronym should I use for the ‘Jewish Apartheid State in Palestine’? Is it JASP – or JASIP? Should that be put to the vote as well?
Nelson Mandela was released long ago: FREE MARWAN BARGHOUTI!
On a more serious note, the vote that’s really needed to sort this tangle is the vote that’s never allowed to happen: that’s a one-vote, one-value poll of all people associated with the land of Palestine in recent times, whether by birth, direct descent or immigration.
I’ve been buying personal computers for a quarter century – on average once every three to five years. I started out with a MacPlus in he mid-1980s. It had no hard-drive – just one drive for 8oo KB floppy discs – and a small, built-in black and white monitor. It cost around $A3,000 in 1980s dollars.
Intel Chips? Just Say NO!
Each time I’ve been back to the shops, buying has been a joy. On every occasion, performance and capability rose dramatically while prices fell. If the entire economy was like this, we’d all be living in cornucopia.
This time I think I may be able to buy a computer that will be fantastic – for less than $A1,000!
That’s something I could only dream about until now. What will happen in 2013?!
It’s great for me that my personal computers have got so much cheaper over time. But they’re cheaper for everyone else too – and that’s even more exciting! Surely it’s now possible to provide internet access to everyone on earth – everyone who wishes to have it – within the next few years? IT is bringing the people of earth together.
I’m facing some purchasing dilemmas, of course – but that’s the fun of buying! Shall I buy local – or via the net? Purchase a package deal – or put the package together myself? There’s a choice of vendors and brands.
Womens’ liberation in Afghanistan has been a cause célèbre in western countries for some time.
Conveniently absent from the discussion, in most cases, is the rather significant fact that the ascendancy of “Islamic fundamentalism’ in Afghanistan, to the detriment of human rights for women, has been largely the consequence of deliberate western policy over three decades.
Zbigniew Brzezinski: has enjoyed playing chess with other countries
The left-leaning Afghan Government of the late 1970s that initially invited the Soviet Union to assist with military support, actually included significant female participation. The regime in Kabul asked the USSR for help in response to destabilization by Islamic fundamentalists, who were trained and financed by the USA and its proxies. Zbigniew Brzezinski, a US policy-maker responsible for developing this strategy back in the 1970s, gleefully admitted it in an interview 20 years later. He’s proud he played a key role in entrapping the USSR into an unwinnable conflict in Afghanistan.
It’s true that by the time the Taliban consolidated its power in the late 1990s, organisations such as RAWA (the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, which had also opposed Soviet occupation) were deeply engaged in opposing heightened oppression of women under the zealous new Government’s policies. In 2000 and 2001, as invasion hysteria was brewed up by the western mass media, it often quoted RAWA to highlight the backwardness of the Taliban. But anyone imagining that RAWA supports current US/UK/Australian policy in Afghanistan needs to check the facts.
There are Portuguese subtitles on this YouTube version of a recent (American) ABC TV feature about the Rosenblats (watch below). You can also see Good Morning America’s interview with Mr Rosenblat here.
Herman and Roma Rosenblat: it was all true 'in their imagination'
Mr and Mrs Rosenblat are a couple of elderly, romantically-inclined Jewish American fantasists.
Their book Angel at the Fence is an Adam and Eve-style tale of love and apples in a Nazi concentration camp. It held America spellbound for years. But the spell lost some of its charm when it became widely apparent that their story is untrue…
The Rosenblats remain unrepentant. Herman Rosenblat says he’d do it all over again – despite the excruciating embarrassment he’s caused his own son. He claims the book continues to do good and work wonders.
The publisher of a disputed Holocaust memoir has canceled the book, adding the name Herman Rosenblat to an increasingly long list of literary fakers and ending with a heartbreaking crash his story _ embraced by Oprah Winfrey among others _ of meeting his future wife at a concentration camp.
“I wanted to bring happiness to people,” Rosenblat said in a statement issued Saturday through his agent, Andrea Hurst. “I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world.”
In Israeli-South African Relations : On the Mend?, written in 2004, Kristin Nelson discussed some of the historical background to lingering tensions between the South Africa’s Australian National Congress (now in Government, once a hunted organization) and the Israeli regime.
Here’s an extract (emphasis added):
At the height of Apartheid Israel ignored international sanctions against South Africa, citing its own vulnerability to such tactics. It continued to sell roughly (US$) 600 million worth of arms per year to the white minority government before eventually banning further military contracts in 1987.
Nelson Mandela: when he was younger, Israel collaborated with his jailers
Before the early 1990s and the release of Mandela, mutual aid between the two governments evolved out of a natural fraternity: both were technologically advanced, militarily powerful nations that felt surrounded by hostile neighbours. During the 1970s this affiliation extended into the field of nuclear weaponry when Israeli experts helped South African to develop at least six nuclear warheads.
Although the extent of their covert collaboration is not entirely clear, Israel is known to have supplied technical assistance to South Africa in exchange for no less than 300 tons of uranium. Several Israeli nuclear scientists, including Ernst David Bergmann (the “Oppenheimer of Israel”), visited South Africa in 1967, and evidence of increasingly close relations accumulated throughout the 1970s.
Collaboration between South Africa and Israel over nuclear weapons was well-known 20 years ago – and strongly opposed by the world community as a whole.
This week a number of high level envoys visited the land once known as ‘Holy’.
Israel’s Krazy Kippah Klan staged a fiery welcome reception.
Americans who believe Israelis are ‘best friends’ of the USA might like to absorb the message from this crowd. It’s the standard refrain of a spoilt brat or protection racketeer…
“Give us money… but don’t tell us what to do!”
This video was produced by the brave Israeli film-maker Joseph Dana (aka Ibn Ezra).
Mr Dana’s earlier co-production with Max Blumenthal entitled ‘Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem‘ went viral on the Internet a month or so ago, but was soon pulled from both YouTube and Vimeo after pressure from the mainstream Jewish Lobby. At the time of writing it’s no longer available at all (although there is a sequel).
The people that attended the rally think that occupying another people and chanting racist slurs at the first black president of the United States (who was elected by a majority of American Jews who support him) is their expression of freedom and democracy. As a humanist and a pragmatist, it can feel very uneasy and unsafe in this country.
In 2002, International lawyer Francis Boyle (FB) was interviewed by Dennis Bernstein (DB) about the Politics of Human Rights.
Professor Boyle gave an inside perspective on the long-standing and increasingly obvious pro-Israel bias of Amnesty International.
Francis Boyle: brilliant, outspoken and disgusted
The following extract is from CovertAction Quarterly, Number 73, Summer 2002, pp. 9—12, 27. The whole interview is well worth reading (emphasis and links added):
DB-7: Now, is Amnesty International a democratic organization whose leadership is accountable to its members?
FB: Well, I can only speak of AI USA; in theory it’s supposed to be democratic, in theory it’s elected. But what you have is a board that is basically selected by a process of co-optation. That is, it’s basically a small clique of people who have been in power for a good twenty years, or their friends and their buddies that they co-opt through a bogus nominating process to put on there. Now there is a kind of petition process from the grassroots to have other voices on there. That’s how I got on that board – so many members were disgusted with the fact that Amnesty would not do anything on Israel that I was nominated by means of the petition process. It’s not easy to do, you have to get at least a hundred signatures and they’re all very carefully scrutinized and this, that and the other thing. And even then, I and my colleagues were disqualified by the little clique who sits on this board, and then I had to threaten a lawsuit. And as I said, not just threaten a lawsuit, but fly out to New York to file the lawsuit. And only then did my name appear on the ballot and then I was elected.
This morning Australians heard the news that the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing’ in Iraq will soon be down to just one member.
After the last troops from a humbled, bloodied, bankrupted Britain exit the country, only troops from a humbled, bloodied, bankrupted USA will be left.
Greg Sheridan: an Australian Zionist War-Liar, works for News Corp
In just a couple of days the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq will be a coalition no more.
The only troops remaining will be American, and even they’re continuing to reduce their role towards making a complete withdrawal by the end of 2011.
Those of us who opposed this disgraceful episode in murderous imperial barbarity prior to March 2003 were often accused of ‘appeasement’ . It was facile reference to events in Europe in the late 1930s, based on a skewed, simplistic view of the history of that era.
The blatant dishonesty of these 21st Century war liars has gone unpunished.
In Australia, a cavalcade of pundits and ‘experts’ were paraded before us in 2002/3 to stir up popular enthusiasm for war. Most of them remain on our screens and in our newspapers today.
They were never particularly successful in generating real war fervor – but helped persuade most conformist politicians their interests lay in regurgitating the same nonsense and going along with the media-sponsored war.
Andrew Bolt: another Australian Zionist War-Liar, works for News Corp