Genocide: 15 Palestinins killed

A drop by drop killing of a population, including kids and elderly, over years is a genocide. There is no other word. It was a genocide killing millions of Jews, Roms and others, it is a genocide what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people.

But we are so used to dozens of Palestinians killed by Tsaal, that we do no longer notice it. You have full pages of newspapers talking about a car accident killing a family but only a few lines, if any, about the killing of Palestinians.

So, as of today, I will record here tyhe number of Palestinians killed by Israel on a daily basis. Because Tsaal and Netanyahu and the Israeli government are guilty of genocide and must be judged by the International Court of Justice.

This does not mean being a racist, this is simply Justice. Why would Bashar El Assad be worse than Nethanyahu.

                           Nb of Palestinians killed     Of which nb of children killed
10 March 2012 :               15
11 March 2012:                  3                                            1 (12 years old)

Total in ten days :            18

Gingrich is right as usual

So Gingrich, the future US President, is also an historian:

"“Remember, there was no Palestine as a state —(it was) part of the Ottoman Empire. I think we have an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and historically part of the Arab community and they had the chance to go many places,”

he stated to the Jewsih US radio, that had the nerve to broadcast the interview....

As usual, Gingrich is right as are all the US republican candidates, who shine for their ignorance.

Indeed the word Palestine is only as young as 1150BC (2). Not much younger than the name Israel that appeared around 1205 BC (3) What against America ? or Australia ? or Great Britain ? Are they States ?

Gingrich also seems to forget that Israel is an artificial creation of the XXth century that succeeded the protectorate.

Gingrich also seem to forget that also the Jews had many chances to go many places (has he ever heard about the Jewish diaspora ?)

We are not out of ther mess the Americans continue to create in the world. Cameron could be their best president, isolating them from the rest of the civilized world, i.e. from all the world but the UK...

 picture: texemarrs.com

(1) There seems to be an general agreement on the fact that the word Palestine first appeared on the Egyptian Stele of Mernephat. Apart from a revisionist Zionist blog that in a denial state towards the word Palestine, nobody doubts about the fact that Palestine defines the Middle East area were Palestinians and Israelis now live.

(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_name_Palestine

(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel

USA and Palestine

So the Americans want to punish UNESCO because sovreign states, not the Organization, decided that it is time for Palestine to be considered as a State irrespective of what Israel and the Jewish American lobby think.

And once again US internal politics prevail over common sense.

Certainly, the right wing Republicans and the Democrats elected in areas with a strong Jewish constituency will celebrate.  But what do they celebrate ? the increasing loss of credibility of American Foreign Policy and influence ? Because that is the vote at UNESCO. Narrow minded blinded idiots.

In any case the US had left UNESCO once already in the past, and UNESCO survived very well. It will be the same this time, adding insult to injury to the US foreign policy (lead, do not forget, by Hillary Clinton whose Senate election depends upon the NY Jewsih vote).

The decline of the USA continues but they do not want to realize it. And Obama makes another big mistake....

Bin Laden and the roots of the problem

We, old Europeans as Rumsfeld once called us, have always been told that in the USA you have the best, including the best business schools and the best schools of strategy. Now what should one learn there ? One would expect that you learn that when you have a problem, you try to find the roots of the problem and try to resolve the situation in such a way.

Now, we are told that Bin Laden is a problem. But is he the root of the problem or is he a byproduct of the problem. ?

Yesterday Bin Laden issued a statement. Among others he said :

"What […] Israel, the United States' ally, was doing in terms of bombing houses that shelter old people, women and children with US-made aircraft in Palestine were sufficient to prompt the sane among your rulers to distance themselves from this criminal gang.:

Our kinfolk in Palestine have been slain and severely tortured for nearly a century.

If we defend our people in Palestine, the world becomes agitated and allies itself against Muslims, unjustly and falsely, under the pretence of fighting terrorism.

If you were distressed by the deaths of your men and the men of your allies in Tunisia, Karachi, Failaka, Bali and Amman, remember our children who are killed in Palestine and Iraq everyday, remember our deaths in Khowst mosques and remember the premeditated killing of our people in weddings in Afghanistan.

If you were distressed by the killing of your nationals in Moscow, remember ours in Chechnya.

Why should fear, killing, destruction, displacement, orphaning and widowing continue to be our lot, while security, stability and happiness be your lot?
This is unfair. It is time that we get even.* “

All media have spoken about such message. But few reported it correctly and respecting its structure. Even a newspaper I consider serious, Le Monde, published on line incorrect and partial statements.
Now what is the core of the message ? That the war will continue until the Palestinian situation is resolved. Nothing new. And fully justified.

Look at the situation: about 11 million people (the total Jewish population in the USA and Israel °) are holding hostage the entire Western World and more due to their arrogant and violent policies in the Middle East.
And instead of start thinking at resolving seriously the roots of the problem, an advisor of Obama , Mr. David Axelrod, declared “[Bin Laden]is an assassin and we will continue our fight against him and Al Qada to protect the American People”. The only way to protect the American People, is to force Israel to recognize Palestine, to withdraw from the occupied territories and to dismantle all colonies. This is the way. And to keep a few million votes, Obama is going in the wrong direction. But probably, he did not read Bin Laden’s message….



* http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2455845.stm
° http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews

WALLS

Twenty years ago fell the Berlin wall and the iron curtain ended da facto. It was the end of Yalta, a new beginning for Europe, a period of hope and difficulties for many workers of the former Communist Europe.

Not enough is being said however, these days, of the opposition to a unified Germany that came from many western politicians, France and UK in particular, afraid of losing their petty interests and an anachronistic political advantages inherited from the second WW they still try to protect.

The world always had walls: Troy, China, the middle age castles in Europe, the New York virtual “wall” (as the east side 97th street was called, south the white and the wealth, north the coloured and poor),….

Today, when people celebrate the fall of the Berlin wall, we still have walls being built: in Italy, in the North East controlled by Berlusconi’s fascist allies of the Northern League to expel Roms, in the USA to limit the arrival of illegal Mexicans and Latino immigrants, and in Israel.

The last is the main scandal of the recent years, cutting villages, depriving Palestinian peasants from the land they cultivated for centuries, destroying olive trees plantations, the peace symbols, for a so called security of colons who occupy Palestinian land since the end of the second WW.

Gaza is now a big concentration camp, with no freedom of movement for its population, deprived of vital water (as demonstrated recently by Amnesty International), with a wall like the iron curtain or the Berlin wall.

How many people who celebrate today in Berlin, think of the Israeli’s wall ? but all walls fall and this one will fall too. Let us not forget that the Berlin Wall was the last resort for East Germany to try to stay afloat. It is the same for Israel: they cannot win against a people’s war. Nobody ever did, neither the French in Algeria and Indochina, nor the Russians in Afghanistan, nor the Americans in Vietnam. And NATO is not succeeding either in Afghanistan not to talk about Iraq.

The Israelis act like ostriches ignoring the reality: they cannot win over the Palestinians and one day, not too far away, even the Jewish lobby in the US, the main support for the survival of Israel, will fade.

Twenty more years ? possibly less. Let us not forget and let us wait. History continues.

Pictures: commons.wikimedia.org; traveladventures.org

Obama’s betrayal of Palestinians

One year ago, Obama taking power, had stated in no uncertain terms that the sine qua non condition for a successful peace process in the Middle East, was the total freeze of any Israeli colonization in the occupied territories and in Jerusalem.

As reported by Le Monde, on 27 May 2009 Ms Clinton stated “The President has been very clear with Mr. Netanayahou:he wants that colonization be stopped. No a few colonies, no wild colonies, no demographic exception”

However last week, during an official visit to the Middle East, Ms Clinton stated that “the freeze of colonization had never been a condition for the resumption of the peace negotiations”. Now she talks about limitation of colonization as a major step towards peace.

And the Israeli vice foreign minister to say : “we now have the evidence that the USA are our the best friends”

Nothing surprising in the US position if one looks at Ms Clinton: pro-Palestinians as President’s wife, pro Israeli as soon as she decided to run for a senate seat in NY, just to get the Jews votes.

And possibly, this dramatic switch in position of Obama’s administration, is to be seen in light of the elections taking place today: keep the votes of the Jews.

What is dramatic and scandalous is that a handful of Americans Jews keep million of poor Palestinians hostage, support that their land be stolen, close their eyes to the stealing of water by Israel, finance the buying of arms to kill innocent children and women. Of course, they live in the US and it is sufficient for them to blackmail politicians to deny Palestinians their fundamental Human Rights.

Obama is wrong and has been ill advised, he chose the war instead of peace.

Picture: bejata.com

Self defense ? no war crimes

In most civilized countries, thus excluding Russia by definition, the right to self defense is controlled to avoid abuses. After violent events of self defense, courts open investigations to ensure that the reaction was not excessive.
The Israeli leadership, and the opposition, claim that their last Gaza intervention was for self defense.

Let us see some figures:

Between September 2000 and October 2008 there have been 1062 Israeli killed, versus 4897 Palestinians. A ratio of 1 to 4.6. 1

The “crop” of the Gaza war is even more significant 2:

1300 Palestinians killed (of which 410 children and 700 civilians)
13 Israelis killed (most of them by friendly fire)
5300 Palestinians wounded many with handicaps that will accompany them for the rest of their life.
18 Israelis killed by Qassam rockets over the past 8 years
14% of all building in the Gaza strip destroyed
360 million € (470 million dollars) worth of damages in the Gaza strip.

So a ratio of 1 Israeli per 100 Palestinians: better than what the Nazis did as rappresaglia against “terrorist attacks” (read partisans’ war actions) during the Second World War.

The justification of self defense the Israeli leadership gives for the Gaza war is simply unacceptable and groundless. So the cries and statements made in front of the Western TVs by Israeli citizens.

The reason was that Olmert and Livni were looking at ways not to lose too badly the next elections. This is the true reason, the only reason for the Gaza war, too much ignored by the Western Press.

And they are not ashamed: after the war, Livni stated that her conscience is “a posto”. Civilians killed? Children killed? Thousand of Palestinians wounded? This happens in wars, she stated, just collateral effects I am sorry a few weeks ago I thought, and wrote in this blog, that Livni could be a hope for peace and the Middle East future.

These are war crimes, nothing else. And the Jews, outside of Israel, should realize it. Criticizing Israel, its crimes, does not mean being anti Semitic. It just means crying for justice. Israel is not the Jews at large and the Jews at large are not Israel.


1 http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/deaths.html
2 La repubblica , 19 January 2009

Photo: www.24heures.ch

Symbol of Peace ?

We all learned about the Olive tree as sign of Peace. One of the most abused symbol is the dove with an olive branch first described in the Book of Genesis. It seems however that the Israelis have forgotten about it.

The colons and the army cut olive trees, the main resource of many Palestinians, the result of tens of years of efforts to grow them, thus destroying morally and materially the owners lives and history. Israelis incorporate fields of olive trees into their security perimeter, behind the wall (does anybody remember of the iron wall so much criticized by the “free world” ?) forbidding the Palestinian owners to care for and harvest them.

This is their way build peace : to cultivate hatre so that pace will be impossible. So obvious, only they and the US administration do not seem to see it and peace is every day more difficult to achieve.

Picture: Kevin Frayer/AP from msn

Poem to a Gaza child

"In a crime this afternoon
a child is wounded to the death
weep for a cold body
touch a small pale face
hand inside the palm
of a warm hand
heart inside a broken heart
without a fault or a stain
not a crumb of life
is left on the ground
dear little child
a mothers treasure
and a fathers pride
next summer a white rose will bloom on the field
how innocent is the scent"..

Hiyam Noir

Source for poem and picture: http://palestinefreevoice.blogspot.com/2008/02/ israeli-massive-attacks-open-war.html

The end of the United Nations

Never like now has the current set-up of the UN appeared obsolete and unrealistic. The dream of peace is gone; the five permanent members of the Security Council only do damage control. In spite of the highest than ever number of peace-keeping missions and others the conflict spread all over and the real crisis remain unresolved.

How can one trust a peace-keeping Department headed by a representative of a Permanent Member of the Security Council with the right of veto: France (the results of cows’ trade between France and Kofi Annan for him to be elected)?

How can you trust China blocking any resolution on Darfur or Zimbabwe while helping their dictators? Or supporting North Korea and Burma?

How can you trust the USA who lie in front of the world and invade a country on that basis? Or the USA, with the UK and France nodding gently, attacking Iran for its nuclear policy and keeping silent with Israel that has the bomb? Or pretending that Iran sticks to UN resolutions but letting Israel breaching all the resolutions on occupied territories?

How can you trust Russia that invades Georgia and blocks resolutions on Zimbabwe on the excuse that it is an internal matter?

How can you trust France whose President before being elected promised to be inflexible on human rights ad then goes to Beijing?

How can you trust the UK without a foreign policy since years and years, being a simple follower of the USA?

And why would Russia invading Georgia be worse that the USA who fomented coups d’état all over Latin America up to the infamous Condor plan and invaded Iraq?

And how could you trust NATO, i.e. the USA, UK and France with the rest following incapable of winning a war in Afghanistan?

Not to talk about all Africa leaders who readily support the worst dictators afraid of becoming themselves in the future a target for their corrupt policies?

The United Nations is now incapable of maintaining peace blocked by the five Permanent Members of the Security Council pursuing their own national interests against the charter of the UN. If ever there had been any doubt until recently, the problems in Georgia have demonstrated that the system is definitely broken and that the Secretary-General, a weak person chose probably because of his weakness.

The United Nations system is also incapable of dealing with economic crisis, in particular the looming food crisis generated to a large extent, but not only, by protectionist policies in the USA and Europe and by the policies imposed for years and years by the World Bank and the IMF. All what it can do is to send rescuers and food supplies: charity instead of self reliance policies.

Clearly there is no United Nations. I saw how it works, directly, through more than 30 years in the system of which 11 in New York : the main countries making their own interests using almost corruptive policies with the little and poor countries who all have one vote at he General Assembly but few diplomats who cannot follow all what happens and in a sense “sell” their votes or leave junior diplomats pursuing their own interests, in particular in the Fifth Committee, the budgetary and administrative one, in the absence of national policies.

The Security Council set-up does not make any sense any

Longer: this is known since years but of course the five permanent members do not agree on any reform too attached to their obsolete privileges. France and the UK have neither reason nor right any longer to have a permanent seat: Europe should have it and the fifth could go to India or Brazil for example: and the veto rule must be suppressed.

But who will take the risk of destroying the UN? Only a strong Secretary General posing the real problems can do it. Although if it continues like that, the UN system may implode thanks to the blinded policies of the USA, Russia and China who will be taken themselves by surprise. The UN is a political animal, but poor blinded politicians kill it.

Time for a change and it ay come only through a major major world crisis: dark times ahead for the world.

Photo www.britannica.com

Italian journalism

Olympic games opening ceremony: the Palestinian delegation enters the stadium. They have swimmers in the team.

The Rai2 journalists says : “stunning that Palestine with no access to the sea presents swimmers”. He is probably an Israeli agent who considers Gaza already part of Israel.

The Italian TV should send the reporter back to Italy, swimming, passing through the Suez canal and north through Gaza

Photo: www.tlfq.ulaval.ca