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Post by Anwaar on Jun 1, 2006 9:33:20 GMT 4
Your Next Target, Dear Americans
by Anwaar Hussain
Dear Americans,
Attacking other countries is bad, as bad as the orchestrated 9/11 attack on your country was. Please do not allow your country to attack other countries.
That your country does indeed have an inalienable right to attack others once in a while, is a fact one hastens to add. The ‘others’ too should understand this and rather than resent your periodic attacks, they should help you choose the next target.
The scribe, for one, appreciates this. The scribe also recognizes that since America is generally led by human beings who are the very personification of all that is best in the human race, she always attacks others for higher moral compulsions and from principled positions on international issues. Therefore, let us see if a 5-minute in depth online research throws up a likely candidate for the next bout of your leaders’ very benign war seizures.
Here are a few hints for the google search.
There is a country, other than yours and the four other permanent UN members, that has dozens of weapons of mass destruction. What’s more, this particular country refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections, routinely seizes the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in full defiance of U N Security Council resolutions.
This country regularly violates the international borders of other sovereign states with warplanes, artillery and naval gunfire and sends assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies. Its high-ranking military officers, while publicly admitting that they have executed unarmed prisoners of war, refuse to prosecute those soldiers who had acknowledged the gruesome crime.This country created upward of three-quarter of a million refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses. It also refuses to pay compensation to people, out of those unfortunate refugees, whose land, bank accounts and businesses it impounded.
Furthermore, a citizen of this country assassinated a high ranking UN diplomat, and the man who ordered the hit went on to become its Prime Minister. This is a country that is on record for having blown up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacking a U.S. ship in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors.
This is a country that regularly spies on your country. In a not too distant past, one of its spies stole your classified documents and gave some of them to your then enemy number one, the Soviet Union. To add insult to injury, this country at first denied any official connection to that spy, then voted to make him a citizen and has, since then, continuously demanded that the American president grant him a full pardon. As a matter of fact to this very day, none of the materials stolen by that spy has been returned by this country to the United States.
Additionally, even now as these lines are being written, important figures in an arguably most powerful lobby sponsored by this country in Washington, D.C., are under investigation by the FBI for spying against the United States for this country. Other than that, this country regularly allows American murderers belonging to a certain faith to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to extradite them once in their custody.
This country deliberately targeted a U.N. Refugee Camp and killed 103 innocent men, women, and children. As well, this country stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by your vetoes. Just as a reminder, your country has cast 73 vetoes out of the 248 cast by all permanent members of the Security Council. On 38 occasions these vetoes were cast to protect this country from, at times, things as serious as a mild criticism directed against its violation of human rights or the territorial rights of its neighbors.
This is a country that is cited by Amnesty International for demolishing more than 4000 innocent people’s homes as a means of ethnic cleansing and routinely kills young children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored vehicles, bulldozers, or tanks. This is a country that regularly violates the Geneva Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages, and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing entire villages while people are still in their homes.
This is a country that signed the Oslo Accords promising to halt any new illegal settlement constructions, yet went on to build more than 270 new ones in defiance of the same accord. This is a country that has assassinated more than 100 political officials of its opponent in the last about three years while killing hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children.
Couldn’t guess dear Americans? Probably a few ironic hints would make it clearer.
Despite all the aforementioned treacheries against America and being the 16th richest one in the world, this country receives more than one-third of all U.S. aid. In a fifty years period, between 1949 and 1999, America has given to this country of six million people, more foreign aid than it gave to all of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, all of the countries of Latin America, and all of the countries of the Caribbean with a combined total population of more than 1000 million people. Ironically, despite all this, its Prime minister insults the American people in an address to the United States Congress and lectures them like children on why they have no right to reduce foreign aid.
Still not there? Ok, here’s more.
Since 1985, your Congress has voted an annual foreign aid package of $3 billion to this country, nearly two thirds of this in out-and-out grants, and comprising one-third of all US foreign assistance. Just upto the year 2001, the total foreign aid to this country since 1967 adds up to a whopping $143 billion. That amounts to a transfer of about $28,000 for every citizen of this country. If the write-offs and bribes paid to the neighbors of this country in support of your blind allegiance to it is taken into account, the amount, by some estimates, leaps up to a staggering $1.6 trillion. In per capita terms, this amounts to more than $300, 000 for every citizen of this country.
One last hint if you are still not there.
As disclosed by Fox News, this is the only country in the world whose over one hundred citizens and sympathizers were arrested in United States post-9/11 for suspected links to that unfortunate incident.
Eureka!!!! Yes. This country is none other than your most allied ally, Israel.
But please remember attacking other countries is bad, as bad as the orchestrated 9/11 attack on your country was. Please do not allow your country to attack other countries.
Anwaar Hussain
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Post by michelle on Jun 2, 2006 4:54:36 GMT 4
Condemning Zionism is crucial to world peace, and essential to peace in the Muslim and Arab worldby Anisa Abd el Fattah (Tuesday May 16 2006) "If the United States does not undergo substantive foreign policy change, one-day we may find ourselves answering for our crimes against humanity before an international court of law, and in that case, it will be hard for us to explain how and why we felt that it was either moral, or legal to accept the implantation of a foreign entity onto the sovereign land of another people." When we imagine what it has perhaps cost the US to sustain the Palestine/ Israel conflict, the amount imagined is mind-boggling. When we look at Israel today, seeking to ascertain what we got for our money, it is mind blowing, and heart breaking. Perhaps trillions of dollars have made their way from the United States to Israel since 1948 by various routes, and most, if not all of that money has been used to kill Palestinians, to vilify Islam, and to prevent economic, social and political development, while destroying any semblance of modernity that presently exists in the Muslim and Arab world, which is arguably the underlying objective of the Iraq invasion, and also the destruction of Lebanon, and why we are stalking Iran. The United States, whether knowingly or unknowingly has, and is participating in one of the most violent and deadly genocidal campaigns of ethnic cleansing ever carried out against any people other than the Native Americans slaughtered during the Indian wars here in the states, and we have done this through our military aide, and also our acceptance of the Zionist ideal, an evil and racist ideology that not only directly contrasts everything we profess to stand for as a country, but that also violates every relevant divine, human rights, or other law, including our own laws, as well as every norm of decency known to the human species. Our support for Israel has caused the US to be complicit in a crime against humanity from which our nation may never be able to economically, politically, or spiritually recover except through deep and sweeping changes in heart, mind and strategy. If the United States does not undergo substantive foreign policy change, one-day we may find ourselves answering for our crimes against humanity before an international court of law, and in that case, it will be hard for us to explain how and why we felt that it was either moral, or legal to accept the implantation of a foreign entity onto the sovereign land of another people. We will be forced to answer and explain why we armed that entity, allowed it to have nuclear weapons, and why we stood guard over this evil, preventing all international censure, and condemnation as we watched it carry out every technique that it could, hoping to steal even more land, kill out the indigenous people, and to declare itself superior to all other nation/states, including our own country, its number one patron, and our own people, most of who are not Jewish. An even greater crime than our irresponsible use of US treasure and influence to eliminate the Palestinian people, are our attempts to tie their hands to prevent them from mounting a self defense, much in the way hogs were once tied-up to be slaughtered. Having attempted to strip the Palestinians of their human dignity in almost every way imaginable, we have systematically passed laws, and issued presidential decrees, paid for by Israeli backed lobbyists, which deems their struggle for survival, terrorist and criminal, while the crimes of their occupiers are deemed worthy, not only of US military support, but also billions of US taxpayer dollars annually, making our crime of complicity with Israel, also a crime against our own country, and our own people.
Historically, our Congress has consistently and loyally, without any moral regard, compunction, or conscience used US treasure, and also our political, and economic influence to sustain the illegal occupation of Palestine, even to the detriment of our own stated interests. We have become the most hated, and feared nation in the world, simply because in our international affairs, and our “unconditional” support for Israel, we have demonstrated an incompetence, immaturity and callousness that is to be feared, and also hated. What nation of noble, decent and respectable people can advocate, support and advance Zionism as a philosophy, when it is clear, and even Zionists have confessed in so many words, that Zionism is indeed an ideology which seeks to establish norms of thought and behaviors that are racists, immoral and inhumane. A poem written by a member of the Zionist Jabotinsky movement, and a close friend of Ariel Sharon, cited in an article by Israeli author, Israel Shamir (The Cornerstone of Violence, Aug. 2001), perhaps is the best evidence that Zionism is indeed an idea that is incompatible with international norms in thinking about racial and religious supremacism, extremism and intolerance. The poem says,
We the chosen ones are united by hatred to the slave tribes that rose and dethroned our ancestors and rejected our God. Once you know your place in the world, a swine must stay in its sty. You revolted, and forced us to serve you, but now your end is nigh. We are the masters. You are the slaves. This is God’s design. Soon our sun will rise again, and the slaves would not dare to look at it. And then, the Lord of my people will appear in heaven, while we, the dozens of dozen thousand, chosen ones will sit in the great amphitheatre and watch the miserable columns of souls crawling into their paradise. By God’s will we will name it Auschwitz.
We all know that if any one except a Zionist had expressed these ideas, we would consider that person’s comment to be outside the pale of acceptable civil discourse. If anyone had said such things, referring to the Jews as slaves, etc. they would immediately and in the strongest terms be declared anti-Semitic, and we would read about it and hear about those comments if not for months, at least for weeks in the mainstream media. From the presidents of the world, to the UN, statements would be issued condemning, scolding, and perhaps even threatening anyone who would say things, but only if they are directed towards Jews. How can any of us ever forget when the leader of Germany visited the White House, and began her speech saying that the world should unite in condemning Iran, since its leader had asked why Jews had been granted land in Palestine as reparations for European racism. Threats of invasion, war, and other reactions to the statement were reported daily, condemning Iran and its president for asking publicly what is asked secretly by sane and just people everyday, and in every corner of the world. Few, if anyone except those who either read the poem when it appeared in an Israeli newspaper, or read the Shamir article would have ever heard of this poem, or read these remarks, since they were not publicized, the writer was not publicly censured, and his sentiments received no condemnation.
In the most simplest terms, Zionism is simply abhorrent, and it should no longer be sustained with either US tax dollars, or by our moral capitulation and tacit consent for its violent attempts to expand its influence through the illegal occupation and confiscation of land, and usurpation of power, especially here in the US, where it has attached itself to our government like a malignant cancer that is eating away, and destroying our national body, and also our national soul. In our country’s joint efforts with Zionists, to destroy the Palestinians, and Islam, we are destroying ourselves, and our country is declining in international stature, and in other important ways, while Zionism grows stronger, more ugly, and more smug and arrogant in its supremacism, and so too must the international resistance to this last remnant of primitive man’s primal quest for survival through either the destruction or subjugation of all other living things. It was not enough to end slavery, and to rebuke racism in the US, or to dissemble Zionism, manifest as white supremacism in South Africa. Today the world is challenged with the task to once and for all time, eradicate Zionism by drying up the religious and intellectual swamps wherein it breeds, while dismantling its various projects which include the occupations of Palestine and Iraq, its almost daily attacks on Lebanon, and its threats against both Syria and Iran, and its possible attempts to expand into Sudan through Darfur. The writer is the Founder and President of the National Association of Muslim American Women. The author is also head of the International Assoc. for Muslim Women and Children, an accredited NGO with the UN Division on the Rights of the Palestinians. She is a regular contributor to Media Monitors Network (MMN). SOURCE: usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/30426
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Post by michelle on Jun 3, 2006 15:25:57 GMT 4
Edwin Wright: Zionist Jews worked 'to capture the U.S. Government'History; Posted on: 2003-09-28 15:46:13 Edwin M. Wright (pictured) was an intelligence agent and State Department employee in the 1940s and 1950s. Though an internationalist and an advocate of a plan for bringing refugee Jews to America, he saw clearly the danger posed by Zionism to the United States and to the world. His account of Jewish crimes and manipulations makes riveting reading. His personal experiences of Jewish bullying (and even impersonation!) of Presidents and officials, vote-buying, and much more are absolutely amazing and convincing. He's also an excellent writer. Excerpts follow:"The material I gave Professor McKinzie was of a very controversial nature -- one almost taboo in U.S. circles, inasmuch as I accused the Zionists of using political pressures and even deceit in order to get the U.S. involved in a policy of supporting a Zionist theocratic, ethnically exclusive and ambitious Jewish State. I, and my associates in the State Department, felt this was contrary to U.S. interests and we were overruled by President Truman..." "Zionists and Christian Fundamentalists have frequently used the Hebrew Bible as an authority for justifying a Jewish State. As late as summer 1976, Candidate Jimmie Carter stated, 'I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfilment of Biblical prophecy.' "So the Bible-- and belief that it is God's Holy Word and infallible, became a useful tool in Zionist propaganda. I take the point of view that the Bible is a mixture of Hebrew legends and myths and cannot be used as an element in U.S. foreign policy." "The Zionists were very successful in using religion for political purposes. This is prohibited by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which states the Government should recognize no 'religous establishment.' In the case of Zionism and Israel, the U.S. has recognized and supported a religious establishment--viz: the State of Israel which in turn discriminates against all non-Jewish religions." "Zionists, since Truman's decision in 1947-48, have lived in a Fool's Paradise. They assumed their control of the US government, press and public was permanent and based an 'moral' values -- therefore, the US at all times would give Israel total support. Zionists seem to live in a dream world of their own creation and think the rest of the world should accept their dream. They seem quite incapable of facing reality." "Esther got her Gentile King drunk, then wheedled his signet ring and sent out an order to the Jews--so they slew 75,000 innocent Persians (Esther 9:16). The Book of Esther is not history. It is parody. The Ahasuerus of Esther is probably the Seleucid King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (165 B.C.) and Mordechai is probably a symbol for Judas Maccabeus. Esther represents the beautiful dream of a Messianic Jewish State. There is a lesson nevertheless in this immoral and violent story. A political marriage of any political power with Messianic Zionism is certain to produce disaster." "Time is vindicating the point of view of those State Department specialists whom Truman said he could not trust because they were 'anti-Semitic.'" "The third step in Zionism was that they must have large enough a state in order to keep the whole Jewish population there. At that time there were about fourteen million Jews, and now that meant owning a very large territory. It is not brought out in Zionist propaganda in America, but what they claim is all the territory from the Suez Canal clear north to the mountains of Cappadocia, in southern Turkey. [Statement by Herzl. Also see Numbers 34; Genesis 15:18, Joshua 13, II Samuel 8:5-6.} It includes all of Lebanon, much of Syria, Jordan, and Sinai. This is the territory they call 'Eretz Israel,' the land of Israel, which is mentioned in the Bible." "I might mention here that I have found Zionism very deceitful. There is a double meaning in all the words Zionists use, and [Chaim] Weizmann himself said one time, 'Let the British or anyone else talk about Zionism and they can use our terminology, but we know what the meaning of it is. It has one meaning to us, one meaning to the Gentiles.' They've always had this double-entendre in everything that they have done. Whenever they use words you have to try to find out what is the context in which they are using these words." "Domestic issues are not based on intelligence, but on self interest of a smaller group, and I think in this connection I think I should mention specifically two. One was what we called the China Lobby, a very odd and indiscriminate group of people who never were really organized, but had a tremendous influence upon government. They eventually were captured by Senator [Joseph R.] McCarthy. The other were the Zionists, who were more organized. They had been working for a long time to capture the U.S. Government; to use it for purposes of developing a Jewish state. In other words, we had two lobby groups in America who knew little about the area at all, who had certain ideological concepts of society and America. When the people from the fields reported what was unpopular to these groups, they were fired." "...when the election was coming up in 1946 in New York, the group of New York Jews called upon Mr. Truman. [Alan Taylor, op. cit. p.93] Emmanuel Cellar was the head of this committee. Rabbi Steven Wise and several others were in it. They called upon Mr. Truman and said, 'We have just been talking with Mr. [Tom] Thomas Dewey. He is willing to come out and declare for a Jewish state, and we are going to turn our money and urge the Jews to vote for him unless you beat him to it.' Then Emmanuel Cellar pounded upon Mr. Truman's desk and said, 'And if you don't come out for a Jewish state we'll run you out of town.'" "Henry Byroade made a talk in Philadelphia in April 1954. ...In it he made this statement: 'I have some advice for both Arabs and for Jews. Israel should think of itself as a state living in the Middle East and that it must live with its Arab neighbors. The Arabs must cease to think of themselves as wanting to destroy Israel and should come to terms with Israel itself.' ...The next morning Henry Byroade got a call from Nathan Goldman, who was in California. [Nathan Goldman was president of the World Jewish Congress and many years president of the World Zionist Organization...] He used his first name and said, 'Hank, did you make that speech in Philadelphia that was reported in the papers today?' "Byroade said, 'Yes, I made that speech.' "He said, 'We will see to it that you'll never hold another good position.'" "The Zionists are organized in 17 (now 31) different committees and groups in America. They are all inter-related by what's called the Association of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. These are the presidents of the 31 Zionist organizations. All they have to do is to send in a letter to any one of them and these 31 will reproduce it in mimeograph and send it out to all their organizations. As a result of one letter you'll get hundreds of replies coming in attacking me. This is the type of constant fear that a Government official lives under because of the mimeograph machine and the xerox machine." "Mr. Truman himself has the most remarkable of all statements in there, a memo that's quoted, in which he says, 'Something's going on and I don't know what it is. Somebody called up the President of Haiti and he said that it was I. [F.R.U.S., 1947 , Vol. V, p. 1309.] He said, "We want you to vote for the Zionist program." As a result the President of Haiti changed his vote to satisfy what he thought was me. I don't know who this fellow was that called him up.' "In other words, somebody impersonated President Truman and threatened the President of Haiti. There were people who used President Truman's voice and name and he didn't know who they were. The State Department never found out who they were, but this is the way decisions are made in Washington. I think I know who that fellow was. It was Robert Nathan, because I met Robert Nathan frequently at the U.N. I had met him out in the Middle East, and he was the one who was running to the telephone booth and calling up the President of Liberia, calling up Costa Rica, telling them, "Unless you will vote for our program, we will see to it that the American interhighway system is not built through your country." These people assumed that Nathan and Co. were acting for America and nobody had consulted them at all. This kind of thing went on at the U.N. and in Washington and if you want the documentary proof of it, it's in Mr. Truman's statement. "Before I read this statement of Mr. Truman's I'll have to explain what the situation was. There was tremendous pressure upon the governments of other countries to vote for the partition program, which the Zionists had accepted. I was at the U.N. and was Mr. Henderson's assistant and was there when he read some of these memos. I was reporting back to the State Department what was happening at the U.N. "There were a number of Jewish Zionists at the U.N., like Robert Nathan, Bernard Baruch, and various other people, who were calling up the chiefs of other states and saying, "Unless you vote for this partition program, the United States will not build a road in your country; will not help you in aid or will not do something else." They were pretending they had the authority of the President of the United States to determine policy, when they were just one individual operating on their own. They had no authority, no official position, but they were using the importance of the United States as a threat against these countries." "That's an official document. Somebody represented himself as the President of the United States to some foreign countries. This was the kind of threat that the Zionists used to change votes at that last session when finally it was voted by a small majority of two or three." "It's very rare that a country of which no boundaries are known is recognized. There are also other questions: When you recognize a state do you recognize its claims to people outside the state? The Zionists have always claimed that the Jewish nation is wherever a Jew is, anywhere in the world. Every Jew, therefore, is part of this Jewish nation. Golda Meir repeated this when they asked her what the boundaries of Israel are. She said, 'Wherever there's a Jew, there is Israel. It's not a line on a map.'" "'Constantly they kept asking me, "Why does the United States behave this way?" I couldn't explain it to them.' "Nobody can explain it, because you've got to know how they buy congressional and senatorial votes through speeches; how they control the five electoral states, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, etc. You have to understand the weighting of the Jewish vote in America and the contribution to the party systems. By the time we explained that to Arabs they'd say, 'But aren't you corrupt?' The answer is, 'Yes, we're corrupt.'" SOURCE: www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=463 NOTE: You can go to the Truman Library archives for a more complete reading of this at: www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/wright.htm
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Post by michelle on Jun 8, 2006 13:41:22 GMT 4
The Last Tabooby John Pilger June 07, 2006 John Pilger's new book, Freedom Next Time (Bantam Press, 2006; www.johnpilger.com/) has just been published. Containing chapters on Diego Garcia, Palestine, India, South Africa and Afghanistan, it is a devastating indictment of brutal state-corporate power, and a heartening account of how people around the world are challenging that power.The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, an opponent of all kinds of attacks on civilians and a persistent voice for Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, wrote: 'We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy ... Palestinian people are in love with life. If we give them hope - a political solution - they'll stop killing themselves.'57 The following are lines from his poem 'Martyr': I love life On earth, among the pines and the fig trees But I can't reach it, so I took aim With the last thing that belonged to me.For Rami Elhanan, an Israeli graphic designer, the sacrifice by a Palestinian of 'the last thing that belonged to me' caused the death of his fourteen-year-old daughter, Smadar. There is a home videotape of Smadar that is difficult to watch. She is playing the family piano, and throwing her head back and laughing. She has long hair, which she cut two months before she died. 'It was her way of making a statement of her independence,' Rami told me with a smile. 'Her brothers used to tease her because she was such a good student. But she knew what she wanted. She wanted to be a doctor, and she loved to dance.'58 On the afternoon of September 4, 1997, Smadar and her best friend, Sivane, had auditions for admission to a dance school. Smadar had argued that morning with her mother, Nurit, who was anxious about her going to the centre of Jerusalem to buy books she needed for school. 'I was worried about the increase in suicide bombings,' said Nurit. 'But I didn't want to row, so I let her go.' Rami was in his car when he turned on the radio at three o'clock to listen to the news and heard reports of a suicide bombing in Ben Yehuda shopping precinct. Three Palestinians had walked into the crowd and turned themselves into human bombs. There were nearly two hundred injured, and several dead. Within minutes, Rami's mobile phone rang. Nurit was crying. She had received a call from one of their son's friends, who had seen Smadar making her way into the Ben Yehuda mall shortly before the bombs went off. For hours, Rami and Nurit toured hospitals, looking for her. 'Finally,' he said, 'a policeman gently suggested we go to the scene of the bombing, where we were referred to a morgue.'59 Their 'descent into darkness', as Rami describes it, was also the beginning of an inspirational campaign for peace. I have not met anyone like Rami, and the interview I conducted with him in the sunny sitting room of his Jerusalem home moved me deeply. Sometimes, solutions to apparently intractable political problems seem closer at hand when there is a Rami Elhanan engrossed in them, saying the unsayable. 'It's painful to acknowledge, but it really is quite simple,' he said. 'There is no basic moral difference between the soldier at the checkpoint who prevents a woman who is having a baby from going through, causing her to lose the baby, and the man who killed my daughter. And just as my daughter was a victim [of the occupation], so was he.'On the shelf behind him was a photograph of Smadar at the age of five, holding a placard. 'Stop the occupation,' it said. Rami calls her 'a child of peace'. Her parents were both brought up to believe that the establishment of Israel as a Jewish national homeland was an act of self-preservation. Rami's father had survived Auschwitz. His grandparents and six aunts and uncles perished in the Holocaust. Nurit's father, Matti Peled, a general, was a hero of the 1948 war. Rami describes him as 'one of the true pioneers of making peace with the Palestinians'. He was among the first Israelis to visit Yasser Arafat in his exile in Tunisia. Nurit herself has been awarded the European Parliament's peace prize. Rami dates his own 'awareness of the truth we dare not speak' to his time as a young army conscript. The 1967 war had just happened and was not, he says, the 'divine intervention' it was portrayed as in Israel, particularly among the 'settlers' who built their illegal fortresses on newly occupied land. He describes it as 'the beginning of a cancer at the heart of Israel'. Later, as a soldier in the 1973 Yom Kippur war, he said he realised 'I had blood on my hands, too.' Rami and Nurit are among the founders of the Parents' Circle, or Bereaved Families for Peace, which brings together Israeli and Palestinian families who have lost loved ones. They include the families of suicide bombers. They jointly organise educational campaigns and lobby politicians to begin serious negotiations. When I met Rami, they had just placed one thousand coffins outside the United Nations building in New York, each draped in an Israeli or Palestinian flag. 'Our aim', he said, 'is not to forget or forgive the past, but to find some way of living together.' I asked him: 'How do you distinguish the feelings of anger you must have felt as a father at losing your daughter from the feeling of wanting to reach out?''Very simple. I am a human being; I am not an animal. I lost my child, but I didn't lose my head. Thinking and acting from the guts only increases an endless circle of blood. You have to think: our two peoples are here to stay; neither will evaporate. We have to compromise in some way. And you do that by the head, not by the guts.' 'Have you made contact with the parents of the suicide bomber who killed Smadar?''That was tried once; someone wanted to make a film about it, but I wasn't interested. I am not crazy; I don't forget, I don't forgive. Someone who murders little girls is a criminal and should be punished, and to be in personal contact with those who did me wrong, it's not the point. So you see, I sometimes have to fight myself to do what I'm doing. But I'm sure what I'm doing is right. I certainly understand that the suicide bomber was a victim the same as my girl was. Of that, I am sure.' 'Have you made contact with the parents of other suicide bombers?''Yes. Very warm and encouraging contacts.' 'What is the point of that?''The point is to make peace, and not to ask questions. I have blood on my hands, too, as I said. I was a soldier in the Israeli army ... if you are digging into the personal history of each and every one of us, you won't make peace, you'll make more arguments and more blame. Tomorrow, I am going to Hebron to meet bereaved Palestinian families. They are living proof of the willingness of the other side to make peace with us.''Isn't the public mood in Israel quite different?''I have a friend who says that what I am doing is like taking water out of the ocean with a spoon. We [in the Parents' Circle] are very few, it's true, and the world is being led by very stupid people: that's also true. I'm talking about the American President and my own Prime Minister. To take this word "terrorism" and build everything around it, as they do, you only make more misery, more war, more casualties, more suicide bombers, more revenge, more punishment. Where does that go? Nowhere. Our task is to point out the obvious. George Washington was a terrorist, Jomo Kenyatta was a terrorist, Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. Terrorism only has meaning for those who are weak and who have no other choice, and no other means.' 'What has to be done to end this suffering?''We have to start by fighting ignorance. I go to schools and give lectures. I tell the children how the conflict began by asking them to imagine a house with ten rooms where Mohammed and his family are living in peace. Then, one stormy night, there's a knock at the door, and outside stands Moshe and his family. They are sick, beaten, broken. "Excuse me," he says, "but I once used to live in this house." This is the whole Arab-Israeli conflict in a snap; and I tell the kids that the Palestinians gave up seventy-eight per cent of the country which they are sure is theirs, so the Israelis should give up the twenty-two per cent that was left [following the 1967 war].'He shows the schoolchildren maps of the offer Prime Minister Ehud Barak made to Yasser Arafat at Camp David before the 'peace process' broke down. The maps reveal that swathes of the West Bank were held back from the Palestinians and kept for Jewish settlers. 'This was the greatest secret of all,' he said, 'because Barak never allowed any [official] maps to be made. He was proposing something he knew the Palestinians would not, could not, accept.''What kind of reaction do you get: in schools, at public events?''I watch the faces of the kids when I show them the maps and tell them that we had seventy-eight per cent, and the Palestinians had twenty-two per cent, and that's all the Palestinians want now, and I see ignorance lift. You know, in Israel, the bereaved are said to be sacred. People give them respect because they have paid the price. I am due that respect, but of course there are people who don't want to hear what I say.'Every 'Jerusalem Day' - the day the modern State of Israel celebrates its conquest of the city - Rami has stood in the street with a photograph of Smadar and sought to persuade people of his mission for peace. The last Jerusalem Day, he stood in front of crossed Israeli and Palestinian flags, and people told him it was a pity he wasn't blown up, too. 'That is the dimension of the problem,' he said. 'Will you do that this Jerusalem Day?''Yes, and I will be spat and cursed at by some, but I know that's only one part of the human equation; it's the other part we must solve, and I and other parents are making a start.' 'What is the price that a society pays when it runs a military occupation?''It's an unbearable price. The list begins with moral corruption. When we don't let pregnant women through checkpoints, and their babies die, we have reduced ourselves to animals and we are no different from the suicide bombers.''What do you say to Jewish people in other countries, like Britain: people who support Israel because they feel they must?''I say they should be loyal to real Jewish values, and support the peace movement in Israel, not the state at all costs. It's only pressure from outside - from Jews, from governments, from public opinion - that will end this nightmare. While there is this silence, this looking away, this profane abuse of our critics as anti-Jew, we are no different from those who stood aside during the days of the Holocaust. We are not only complicit in a crime, we ensure that we ourselves never know peace, and our surviving children never know peace. I ask you: does that make any sense?' 'But they might say the Jews are in danger of being pushed into the sea by the Arabs, that Israel must stand firm?''Pushed into the sea by whom? We are the most powerful power in the Middle East. We have one of the greatest armies in the world. In this latest operation [Sharon's attack on the West Bank in April 2002], we sent four armoured divisions against some five hundred armed people. It's a laugh. Who will push us into the sea? Who can push us into the sea?... The real issue is played out every day at the checkpoints. The Palestinian boy whose mother is humiliated in the morning will be a suicide bomber in the evening. There is no way that Israelis can sit in their coffee houses and eat and drink while two hundred metres away desperate people are humiliated and Palestinian children are beginning to starve. The suicide bomber is no more than a mosquito. The occupation is the swamp.' The chairman of the Parents' Circle is Yitzhak Frankenthal, whose son Arik, a conscripted soldier, was kidnapped and killed by Hamas. His generosity of spirit was expressed in his address to a peace rally in Jerusalem. 'Let all the self-righteous who speak of ruthless Palestinian murderers take a hard look in the mirror,' he said. [Let them ask themselves] what they would have done had they been the ones living under occupation. I can say for myself that I, Yitzhak Frankenthal, would have undoubtedly become a freedom fighter and I would have killed as many on the other side as I possibly could. It is this depraved hypocrisy that pushes the Palestinians to fight us relentlessly - our double standard that allows us to boast the highest military ethics, while the same military slays innocent children ... As much as I would like to do so, I cannot say the Palestinians are to blame for my son's death. That would be the easy way out [for] it is we who are unwilling to make peace with them. It is we who insist on maintaining our control over them. It is we who feed the cycle of violence ... I regret to say it.60 Israel's dissidents are among the bravest I have met. Apart from the remarkable Mordechai Vanunu, who spent nineteen years in prison, mostly in solitary confinement, and who today lives under effective house arrest, most of those who take on the Israeli state remain in the community, where their punishment is often unrelenting. To many, they have betrayed not only their country but their family and their Jewishness and the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Shopkeepers refuse to serve them; lifelong friends cross the road rather than speak to them. Without warning, they are shouted at and spat upon - like Rami with his flags. At the time of writing, 635 Israeli soldiers have refused to serve in occupied Palestine. Hundreds have been sent to prison. Others have made public declarations that have worried the regime; they include paratroopers, tank officers and members of the Special Forces, Sayeret-Matka. In September 2003, twenty-seven air force pilots, including Brigadier-General Yiftah Spector, a hero of the 1967 war, announced they had refused to carry out 'illegal and immoral' raids 'on civilian population centres'. The majority are young conscripts who must serve three years with the military. Their organisation is 'Courage to Refuse'. I spent an afternoon with one of them, former Sergeant Ishai Rosen-Zvi, an orthodox Jew. We met in a Tel Aviv park, away from unfriendly eyes. I asked him what had made him a 'refusenik'.61 'It took me longer than I wish to think. When I arrived in Gaza with my unit, I could see what we were doing was horrible, but I did my job; I felt uneasy and embarrassed, but I did my job. On leave, at home, I never talked about it; I became a kind of Jekyll and Hyde character. Then I began to realise I was on the wrong side of the checkpoint, the roadblock we had to man day after day. The real story of the occupation is there at the roadblocks. Your job there is nothing, you stand around, and you think that if you could phone home, you would say, "This is boring." Then it dawns on you what this nothingness really is. It is keeping thousands of people in frustration, in humiliation, in hunger, in anger. 'Imagine it. You are standing there and it's five in the morning, and you see their eyes - some of the people could be my grandfather - and you glimpse the humiliation and the hatred. You want to take them aside and say, "Look, I'm a good guy; I've got nothing against you." But of course that has no point. For them, you are the occupation. And +nobody+ gives you their liberty for nothing.' I said, 'The government insists the roadblocks are there to stop the suicide bombers coming.' 'The roadblocks were there thirty-five years before suicide bombing began. They are there to control, always control.''Did Palestinians waiting under your control ever want to debate this with you?''You have all the power; they have no power. You can, at any moment, take their ID, and then they have nothing, because without ID, they can be arrested at any time. So they take no risks; they don't debate; they may even be deferential, but that's not how they are in their hearts.' 'How do other Israelis regard you, people you meet every day, who know you are a refusenik?''Some look on me as an extreme leftist, which is funny, because I am a religious person. For them, the whole question of morality doesn't come into it; they think I am twisted in the head. One of my best friends told me, "OK, it's a stupid war, but it's a war, and we've got to fight it."' 'And your family?''We don't talk about it, or we try not to. My wife is speaking all the time about other things, because it's too hard...' 'So you've done this on your own?''Yes. I am alone on this.' 'What is the price you've paid?''I am no hero, believe me. I am a hurt person; I am hurt when I am in the market and someone I don't know says, "I read in the newspaper what you've done. It's horrible. People like you are ruining our country." That is like a knife attack and I am plunged into a personal battle in my head and heart; how do I say it...?' 'You mean you have to keep explaining it to yourself?''Yes, yes, and not just explain; I have to reassure myself. I have to say, "Ishai, you are +not+ a traitor." It is hard saying this to yourself, on your own.' 'What do you say to those Jewish people abroad who associate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism?''Well, this is a huge bluff. It is the worst kind of propaganda. Jewish people in Britain, all over the world, who play this game of bluff are perpetuating the occupation and all its horrors. They should not contribute to such a device that desecrates the memory of Jewish suffering, and use it to justify the oppression of another people. It is profane.''What would you like to say to your compatriots?''I would like to say they should think hard about patriotism, because criticising our government on this issue is the +only+ patriotic thing we have left.' Source: ZNET tinyurl.com/pfye7
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Post by michelle on Jun 10, 2006 11:07:12 GMT 4
Note from Michelle: Previously, at Fountainhead, I promised to post articles and info concerning the Holocaust. This is the start of a series of articles I will post. Readers are asked to come to their own conclusions and debate if you wish to......MConnecting the Dots Why No Scholarly Holocaust Debate?by Victor Thorn Lampshades made out of human skin: a lie.
Bars of soap formed from the fat of Jewish holocaust victims: a lie.
The chimney at Auschwitz built after WW II.
No Zyklon B (which was actually a delousing agent) used in the internment camps.
Altered and doctored photographs.
The Red Cross and census numbers not even remotely matching the mythical “six million” figure.
Direct Zionist collaboration with the Nazis during WW II (including Adolf Eichmann).
Jewish financing of Hitler and the bloody Bolshevik Revolution.Do you agree or disagree with the above statements?Whatever the case, in some parts of the world (and “polite” society in general) you’re not even allowed to weigh-in on this subject because it is “off limits.” And yes, the above list could continue for pages, but the biggest question right now is: why can’t we discuss these issues? Why, in a country based on freedom of speech and freedom of the press, can’t these topics be laid on the table for serious, intellectual debate? More so, in an alternative media which is supposed to epitomize an open forum for such pursuits, why are authentic scholarly Holocaust investigations so vehemently shunned? In fact, why are so few of the leading figures in our movement not openly (and adamantly) questioning what some individuals say is quite possibly the biggest hoax of all-time? Where are their voices? Furthermore, why aren’t more truth-tellers speaking out against the imprisonment, deportation, detainment, persecution of, and crimes against such investigators as David Irving, Ernst Zundel, Germar Rudolf, Robert Faurrison (who was nearly beaten to death), Arthur Butz, Frank Walus, and dozens of others? These men seek historical accuracy, and whether you agree with their perspective or not, they have a right to research any topic they so desire. In my opinion, it is disgraceful how many of our peers remain silent, despite the barbaric tactics against them. If political correctness or pressures from the “powers-that-be” prevent us from discussing this subject, then what differentiates us from the controlled, corporate mainstream media? Likewise, what other topics will soon be deemed “too controversial” for discussion?Everybody should think about this notion, for it says a lot about the legitimacy and courageousness of our “alternative media.” Source: www.wingtv.net/thorn2006/holocaust.html
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Post by michelle on Jun 12, 2006 16:23:28 GMT 4
The Holocaust: Let's Hear Both SidesBy Mark Weber Everyone has heard that the Nazi regime systematically killed some six million Jews in Europe during World War II, most of them in gas chambers. We’re told this repeatedly on television, in motion pictures, in books, and in newspaper and magazine articles. Holocaust education courses are obligatory in many schools. Holocaust remembrance ceremonies are held annually across the country. Every large American city has at least one Holocaust museum. In Washington, DC, the official US Holocaust Memorial Museum attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Scholars Challenge Holocaust StoryBut not everyone accepts the familiar Holocaust story. Skeptics include Dr. Arthur Butz of Northwestern University, Roger Garaudy and Prof. Robert Faurisson in France, and best-selling British historian David Irving. These “revisionist” writers do not “deny the Holocaust.” They acknowledge the catastrophe suffered by Europe’s Jews during World War II. They do not dispute that large numbers of Jews were cruelly uprooted from their homes, forced into overcrowded ghettos or deported to concentration camps. They acknowledge that many hundreds of thousands of European Jews died or were killed, often under horrendous circumstances. At the same time, revisionist scholars cite impressive but often ignored evidence to support their view that there was no German program to exterminate Europe's Jews, that numerous claims of mass killings in “gas chambers” are false, and that the figure of six million Jewish wartime dead is an exaggeration. Many Holocaust Claims AbandonedSince World War II the Holocaust story has changed quite a lot. Many extermination claims that were once widely accepted have been quietly dropped. For example, it was authoritatively claimed for years that Jews were killed in gas chambers at Dachau, Buchenwald and other concentration camps in Germany proper. That part of the extermination story proved so untenable that it was abandoned many years ago. No serious historian now supports the once supposedly proven story of “extermination camps” in the territory of the pre-1938 German Reich. Even famed “Nazi hunter” Simon Wiesenthal acknowledged that “there were no extermination camps on German soil.” [1] Prominent Holocaust historians now claim that large numbers of Jews were gassed at just six camps in what is now Poland: Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno and Belzec. However, the evidence presented for gassings at these six camps is not qualitatively different than the now-discredited “evidence” for alleged “gassings” at camps in Germany proper. At the great Nuremberg trial of 1945-1946 and during the decades following the end of World War II, Auschwitz (especially Auschwitz-Birkenau) and Majdanek (Lublin) were regarded as the most important “death camps.” The victorious Allied powers charged at Nuremberg that the Germans had killed four million at Auschwitz and another 1.5 million at Majdanek. Today, no serious historian accepts either of these fantastic figures. [2] In addition, striking evidence has become available in recent years that cannot be reconciled with the allegations of mass extermination at these camps. For example, detailed aerial reconnaissance photographs taken of Auschwitz-Birkenau on random days in 1944 -- during the height of the alleged extermination period there -- show no trace of piles of corpses, smoking crematory chimneys or masses of Jews awaiting death, all of which have been alleged and which would have been clearly visible if the extermination claims about the camp had been true. The postwar “confession” of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, which has often been cited as a key piece of evidence for the Holocaust story, is now known to be a false statement that was obtained by torture. [3] Other Absurd Holocaust ClaimsAt one time it was seriously claimed that the Germans manufactured soap from Jewish corpses, [4] and that they systematically exterminated Jews with steam and electricity. US officials charged at Nuremberg that the Germans had killed Jews at Treblinka, not in gas chambers, as is now claimed, but by steaming them to death in “steam chambers.” [5] American newspapers, citing a Soviet eyewitness report from the just-liberated Auschwitz camp, told readers in 1945 that the methodical Germans had killed Jews there using an "electric conveyor belt on which hundreds of persons could be electrocuted simultaneously [and] then moved on into furnaces. They were burned almost instantly, producing fertilizer for nearby cabbage fields." [6] These and many similarly bizarre Holocaust stories have been quietly abandoned over the years. Disease Claimed Many InmatesEveryone is familiar with the horrific photos of dead and dying inmates found in concentration camps such as Bergen-Belsen and Nordhausen when they were liberated by British and American forces in the final weeks of the war in Europe. Many people accept these photos as proof of “the Holocaust.” In fact, these dead and dying inmates were unfortunate victims of disease and malnutrition brought on by the complete collapse of Germany in the final months of the war. Had there in fact been a comprehensive extermination program, far fewer Jews would have been found by Allied forces at the end of the war. [7] In the face of the advancing Soviet forces, large numbers of Jews were evacuated during the final months of the war from eastern camps and ghettos to the remaining camps in western Germany. These camps quickly became terribly overcrowded, which severely hampered efforts to prevent the spread of epidemics. Furthermore, the breakdown of the German transportation system made it impossible to supply adequate food and medicine to the camps. Unreliable TestimonyHolocaust historians rely heavily on so-called “survivor testimony” to support the standard extermination story. But such “evidence” is notoriously unreliable, and very few survivors claim to have witnessed extermination killings. The archives director of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust center has confirmed that most of the 20,000 testimonies of Jewish survivors on file there are “unreliable.” Many survivors, wanting “to be part of history,” apparently let their imaginations run away with them, said director Shmuel Krakowski. [8] Professor Arno Mayer of Princeton University has written: "Sources for the study of the gas chambers are at once rare and unreliable... there is no denying the many contradictions, ambiguities and errors in the existing sources." [9] Captured German DocumentsAt the end of World War II the Allies confiscated a tremendous quantity of German documents dealing with Germany's wartime Jewish policy, which was sometimes referred to as the “final solution.” But not a single document has been found that even refers to an extermination program. To the contrary, the documents show that Germany’s “final solution” policy was one of emigration and deportation, not extermination. One of the most important of these is the confidential German Foreign Office memorandum of August 21, 1942. [10] “The present war gives Germany the opportunity and also the duty of solving the Jewish problem in Europe,” the document notes. The policy “to promote the evacuation of the Jews in closest cooperation with the agencies of the Reichsführer SS [Heinrich Himmler] is still in force.” The memo noted that “the number of Jews deported in this way to the East did not suffice to cover the labor needs there.” The memorandum quotes Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop as saying that “at the end of this war, all Jews would have to leave Europe. This was an unalterable decision of the Führer [Hitler] and also the only way to master this problem, as only a global and comprehensive solution could be applied and individual measures would not help very much.” The memorandum concludes by stating that the “deportations [of Jews to the East] are a further step on the way of the total solution... The deportation to the [Polish] General Government is a temporary measure. The Jews will be moved on further to the occupied [Soviet] eastern territories as soon as the technical conditions for it are given.” Hitler and the 'Final Solution'There is no documentary evidence that Adolf Hitler ever gave an order to exterminate the Jews. Instead, the record shows that the German leader wanted the Jews to leave Europe, by emigration if possible and by deportation if necessary. A confidential document found after the war in the files of the Reich Ministry of Justice records his thinking. In the spring of 1942, State Secretary Schlegelberger noted in a memorandum that Hitler’s Chief of Chancellery, Dr. Hans Lammers, had informed him that “the Führer [Hitler] has repeatedly declared to him [Lammers] that he wants to see the solution of the Jewish problem postponed until after the war is over.” [11] And on July 24, 1942, Hitler emphasized to close colleagues his determination to remove all Jews from Europe after the war: “The Jews are interested in Europe for economic reasons, but Europe must reject them, if only out of self interest, because the Jews are racially tougher. After this war is over, I will rigorously hold to the view...that the Jews will have to leave and emigrate to Madagascar or some other Jewish national state.” [12] Himmler's SS and the CampsJews were an important part of Germany's wartime labor force, and it was in Germany's interest to keep them alive. On Dec. 28, 1942, the head of the SS camp administration office sent a directive to every concentration camp, including Auschwitz, sharply criticizing the high death rate of inmates due to disease, and ordering that “camp physicians must use all means at their disposal to significantly reduce the death rate in the various camps.” Furthermore, it ordered: “The camp doctors must supervise more often than in the past the nutrition of the prisoners and, in cooperation with the administration, submit improvement recommendations to the camp commandants... The camp doctors are to see to it that the working conditions at the various labor places are improved as much as possible.” Finally, the directive stressed that “The Reichsführer SS [Himmler] has ordered that the death rate absolutely must be reduced.” [13] Six MillionThe incessantly repeated claim of six million Jewish wartime dead is an exaggeration. A leading newspaper of neutral Switzerland, the daily Baseler Nachrichten, carefully estimated in June 1946 that no more than 1.5 million European Jews could have perished under German rule during the war. [14] In fact, millions of Jews “survived” German rule during World War II, including many who were interned in Auschwitz and other “extermination” camps. [15] One-Sided 'Holocaustomania'Even though World War II ended more than 60 years ago, there has been no let up in the stream of Holocaust-themed films, “Holocaust remembrance” ceremonies, and Holocaust education courses. Britain’s chief rabbi, Immanuel Jakobovits, aptly described the Holocaust campaign as “an entire industry, with handsome profits for writers, researchers, film-makers, monument builders, museum planners and even politicians.” He added that some rabbis and theologians are “partners in this big business.” [16] For many Jews, the Holocaust is virtually a new religion. Rabbi Michael Goldberg writes of “the Holocaust cult” with “its own tenets of faith, rites and shrines.” [17] In this campaign – which Jewish-American historian Alfred Lilienthal calls “Holocaustomania” -- Jews are portrayed as completely blameless victims, and non-Jews as morally retrograde beings who might quickly turn into murderous Nazis. For many Jews, a key lesson of the Holocaust story is that non-Jews are to some degree always suspect. If a people as cultured and as educated as the Germans could turn on the Jews, so the thinking goes, then surely no non-Jewish nation can ever be completely trusted. Non-Jewish victims are not deemed worthy of the same concern. For example, there are no American memorials, study centers or annual obser vances for the victims of Soviet dictator Stalin, who vastly outnumber Hitler’s victims, or for the tens of millions of victims of Chinese Communist dictator Mao Zedong. Holocaust HatemongeringThe Holocaust story is sometimes used to promote hatred and hostility, particularly against the German people as a whole, eastern Europeans, and the leadership of the Roman Catholic church. The well-known Jewish writer, Elie Wiesel, is a former Auschwitz inmate who served as chairman of the official US Holocaust Memorial Council. He received the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. This dedicated Zionist wrote in his book, Legends of Our Time: “Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -- healthy, virile hate -- for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.” [18] Who Benefits?The Holocaust remembrance campaign is crucially important to the interests of Israel, which owes its existence to massive annual subsidies from American taxpayers. It serves to justify enormous US support for Israel, and to excuse otherwise inexcusable Israeli policies. Paula E. Hyman, a professor of modern Jewish history at Yale University, has observed: “With regard to Israel, the Holocaust may be used to forestall political criticism and suppress debate; it reinforces the sense of Jews as an eternally beleaguered people who can rely for their defense only upon themselves. The invocation of the suffering endured by the Jews under the Nazis often takes the place of rational argument, and is expected to convince doubters of the legitimacy of current Israeli government policy.” [19] Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish scholar who teaches at DePaul University in Chicago, writes in his book, The Holocaust Industry, that “invoking The Holocaust” is “a ploy to delegitimize all criticism of Jews.” He adds: “By conferring total blamelessness on Jews, the Holocaust dogma immunizes Israel and American Jewry from legitimate censure... Organized American Jewry has exploited the Nazi holocaust to deflect criticism of Israel’s and its own morally indefensible policies.” He writes of the brazen “shakedown” of Germany, Switzerland and other countries by Israel and organized Jewry “to extort billions of dollars.” [20] Another reason that the Holocaust story has proven so durable is that the governments of the major powers have a vested interest in maintaining it. The victorious powers of the Second World War -- the United States, Russia and Britain -- have a stake in portraying the defeated Hitler regime as negatively as possible. The more evil and satanic that regime is made to appear, the more easily can the Allied cause – and the means that were used in pursuit of it – be made to seem justified, or even noble.ConclusionIn many countries, skepticism of Holocaust claims is suppressed or even prohibited. In the United States , teachers have been dismissed for expressing heretical views on this issue. In Canada, the United States and France, thugs have brutally attacked Holocaust skeptics. One was even killed for his views. [21] In a few countries, including France and Germany, “Holocaust denial” is a crime. Many individuals have been imprisoned, heavily fined or forced into exile for expressing doubt about aspects of the official Holocaust story. In spite of restrictive “Holocaust denial” laws, public censure, intimidation, relentless “Holocaust remembrance” campaigns, and even physical attacks, an informed skepticism about the standard Holocaust story has been growing steadily around the world.
This is a healthy trend. Every chapter of history, including the World War II treatment of Europe’s Jews, should be open to objective, critical study. Unfettered debate and informed skepticism about history -- even “official” history -- is essential in a free, open, and mature society.Notes1. Books & Bookmen (London), April 1975, p. 5; “Gassings in Germany,” Stars and Stripes (European edition), Jan. 24, 1993, p. 14; “Wiesenthal Re-Confirms: 'No Extermination Camps on German Soil’,” The Journal of Historical Review, May-June 1993, pp. 9-11. ( www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n3p-9_Staff.html ) 2. Allied indictment at Nuremberg Tribunal. International Military Tribunal (IMT) “blue series,” Vol. 1, p. 47; Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (Holmes & Meier [3 vols.], 1985), p. 1219; Peter Steinfels, "Auschwitz Revisionism," The New York Times, Nov. 12, 1989. 3. Rupert Butler, Legions of Death ( England: 1983), pp. 235-237; R. Faurisson, “How the British Obtained the Confessions of Rudolf Höss,” The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1986-87 ( www.ihr.org/jhr/v07/v07p389_Faurisson.html ). 4. Mark Weber, “Jewish Soap," The Journal of Historical Review, Summer 1991, pp. 217-227. ( www.ihr.org/jhr/v11/v11p217_Weber.html ) 5. Nuremberg document PS-3311 (USA-293). International Military Tribunal (IMT) “blue series,” Vol. 32, pp. 153-158; IMT, Vol. 3, pp. 566-568; See also: M. Weber, Treblinka,” The Journal of Historical Review, Summer 1992, pp. 133-158 ( www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p133_Allen.html ) 6. Washington (DC) Daily News, Feb. 2, 1945, pp. 2, 35. (United Press dispatch from Moscow). 7. See: M. Weber, “Bergen-Belsen Camp: The Suppressed Story,” The Journal of Historical Review, May-June 1995, pp. 23-30. ( www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n3p23_Weber.html ) 8. B. Amouyal, “Doubts Over Evidence of Camp Survivors,” The Jerusalem Post (Israel), August 17, 1986, p. 1. 9. Arno J. Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? (Pantheon, 1989), pp. 362-363. 10. Nuremberg document NG-2586-J. Nuremberg Military Tribunal (NMT) “green series,” Vol. 13, pp. 243-249. 11. Nuremberg document PS-4025. Quoted in: D. Irving, Hitler's War (Focal Point, 2002), p. 497. Facsimile between pages 606 and 607. (Also posted at www.fpp.co.uk/Himmler/Schlegelberger/DocItself0342.html ) 12. H. Picker, Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier (Stuttgart: 1976), p. 456. 13. Nuremberg document PS-2171, Annex 2; A. de Cocatrix, Die Zahl der Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Verfolgung (Arolsen: International Tracing Service/ICRC, 1977), pp. 4-5; Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (NC&A) “red series,” Vol. 4, pp. 833-834. 14. Baseler Nachrichten, June 13, 1946, p. 2. 15. See: M. Weber, “Wilhelm Höttl and the Elusive 'Six Million',” The Journal of Historical Review, Sept.-Dec. 2001 ( www.ihr.org/jhr/v20/v20n5p25_Weber.html ) 16. H. Shapiro, “Jakobovits,” The Jerusalem Post (Israel), Nov. 26, 1987, p. 1. 17. M. Goldberg, Why Should Jews Survive? (Oxford Univ. Press, 1995), p. 41. 18. Legends of Our Time (New York: Schocken Books, 1982), Chap. 12, p. 142. 19. P. E. Hyman, “New Debate on the Holocaust,” New York Times Magazine, Sept. 14, 1980, p. 79. 20. Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry (Verso, 2003), pp. 37, 52, 130, 149. 21. See: R. Faurisson, “Jewish Militants: Fifteen Years, and More, of Terrorism in France,” The Journal of Historical Review, March-April 1996, pp. 2-12 ( www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n2p-2_Faurisson.html ); M. Weber, The Zionist Terror Network ( www.ihr.org/books/ztn.html ) June 2006 #2004 About the author Mark Weber studied history at the University of Illinois (Chicago), the University of Munich, Portland State University and Indiana University (M.A., 1977). For five days in March 1988 he testified in a Toronto District Court case as a recognized expert on the “Final Solution” and the Holocaust issue. SOURCE: www.ihr.org/leaflets/bothsides.shtml
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Post by michelle on Jun 14, 2006 13:07:37 GMT 4
A Factual Appraisal by the Red Cross thunderbay.indymedia.org – January 28, 2005 There is one survey of the Jewish question in Europe during World War Two and the conditions of Germany's concentration camps which is almost unique in its honesty and objectivity, the three-volume Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War, Geneva, 1948.
This comprehensive account from an entirely neutral source incorporated and expanded the findings of two previous works: Documents sur l'activité du CICR en faveur des civils détenus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne 1939-1945 (Geneva, 1946), and Inter Arma Caritas: the Work of the ICRC during the Second World War (Geneva, 1947). The team of authors, headed by Frédéric Siordet, explained in the opening pages of the Report that their object, in the tradition of the Red Cross, had been strict political neutrality, and herein lies its great value. The ICRC successfully applied the 1929 Geneva military convention in order to gain access to civilian internees held in Central and Western Europe by the Germany authorities. By contrast, the ICRC was unable to gain any access to the Soviet Union, which had failed to ratify the Convention. The millions of civilian and military internees held in the USSR, whose conditions were known to be by far the worst, were completely cut off from any international contact or supervision. The Red Cross Report is of value in that it first clarifies the legitimate circumstances under which Jews were detained in concentration camps, i.e. as enemy aliens. In describing the two categories of civilian internees, the Report distinguishes the second type as "Civilians deported on administrative grounds (in German, "Schutzhäftlinge"), who were arrested for political or racial motives because their presence was considered a danger to the State or the occupation forces" (Vol. 111, p. 73). These persons, it continues, "were placed on the same footing as persons arrested or imprisoned under common law for security reasons." (P.74). The Report admits that the Germans were at first reluctant to permit supervision by the Red Cross of people detained on grounds relating to security, but by the latter part of 1942, the ICRC obtained important concessions from Germany. They were permitted to distribute food parcels to major concentration camps in Germany from August 1942, and "from February 1943 onwards this concession was extended to all other camps and prisons" (Vol. 111, p. 78). The ICRC soon established contact with camp commandants and launched a food relief programme which continued to function until the last months of 1945, letters of thanks for which came pouring in from Jewish internees. Red Cross Recipients Were JewsThe Report states that "As many as 9,000 parcels were packed daily. From the autumn of 1943 until May 1945, about 1,112,000 parcels with a total weight of 4,500 tons were sent off to the concentration camps" (Vol. III, p. 80). In addition to food, these contained clothing and pharmaceutical supplies. "Parcels were sent to Dachau, Buchenwald, Sangerhausen, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Flossenburg, Landsberg-am-Lech, Flöha, Ravensbrück, Hamburg-Neuengamme, Mauthausen, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, to camps near Vienna and in Central and Southern Germany. The principal recipients were Belgians, Dutch, French, Greeks, Italians, Norwegians, Poles and stateless Jews" (Vol. III, p. 83). In the course of the war, "The Committee was in a position to transfer and distribute in the form of relief supplies over twenty million Swiss francs collected by Jewish welfare organisations throughout the world, in particular by the American Joint Distribution Committee of New York" (Vol. I, p. 644). This latter organisation was permitted by the German Government to maintain offices in Berlin until the American entry into the war. The ICRC complained that obstruction of their vast relief operation for Jewish internees came not from the Germans but from the tight Allied blockade of Europe. Most of their purchases of relief food were made in Rumania, Hungary and Slovakia. The ICRC had special praise for the liberal conditions which prevailed at Theresienstadt up to the time of their last visits there in April 1945. This camp, "where there were about 40,000 Jews deported from various countries was a relatively privileged ghetto" (Vol. III, p. 75). According to the Report, "'The Committee's delegates were able to visit the camp at Theresienstadt (Terezin) which was used exclusively for Jews and was governed by special conditions. From information gathered by the Committee, this camp had been started as an experiment by certain leaders of the Reich ... These men wished to give the Jews the means of setting up a communal life in a town under their own administration and possessing almost complete autonomy. . . two delegates were able to visit the camp on April 6th, 1945. They confirmed the favourable impression gained on the first visit" (Vol. I, p . 642). The ICRC also had praise for the regime of Ion Antonescu of Fascist Rumania where the Committee was able to extend special relief to 183,000 Rumanian Jews until the time of the Soviet occupation. The aid then ceased, and the ICRC complained bitterly that it never succeeded "in sending anything whatsoever to Russia" (Vol. II, p. 62). The same situation applied to many of the German camps after their "liberation" by the Russians. The ICRC received a voluminous flow of mail from Auschwitz until the period of the Soviet occupation, when many of the internees were evacuated westward. But the efforts of the Red Cross to send relief to internees remaining at Auschwitz under Soviet control were futile. However, food parcels continued to be sent to former Auschwitz inmates transferred west to such camps as Buchenwald and Oranienburg. No Evidence Of GenocideOne of the most important aspects of the Red Cross Report is that it clarifies the true cause of those deaths that undoubtedly occurred in the camps toward the end of the war. Says the Report: "In the chaotic condition of Germany after the invasion during the final months of the war, the camps received no food supplies at all and starvation claimed an increasing number of victims. Itself alarmed by this situation, the German Government at last informed the ICRC on February 1st, 1945 ... In March 1945, discussions between the President of the ICRC and General of the S.S. Kaltenbrunner gave even more decisive results. Relief could henceforth be distributed by the ICRC, and one delegate was authorised to stay in each camp ..." (Vol. III, p. 83).
Clearly, the German authorities were at pains to relieve the dire situation as far as they were able. The Red Cross are quite explicit in stating that food supplies ceased at this time due to the Allied bombing of German transportation, and in the interests of interned Jews they had protested on March 15th, 1944 against "the barbarous aerial warfare of the Allies" (Inter Arma Caritas, p. 78). By October 2nd, 1944, the ICRC warned the German Foreign Office of the impending collapse of the German transportation system, declaring that starvation conditions for people throughout Germany were becoming inevitable. In dealing with this comprehensive, three-volume Report, it is important to stress that the delegates of the International Red Cross found no evidence whatever at the camps in Axis occupied Europe of a deliberate policy to exterminate the Jews. In all its 1,600 pages the Report does not even mention such a thing as a gas chamber. It admits that Jews, like many other wartime nationalities, suffered rigours and privations, but its complete silence on the subject of planned extermination is ample refutation of the Six Million legend. Like the Vatican representatives with whom they worked, the Red Cross found itself unable to indulge in the irresponsible charges of genocide which had become the order of the day. So far as the genuine mortality rate is concerned, the Report points out that most of the Jewish doctors from the camps were being used to combat typhus on the eastern front, so that they were unavailable when the typhus epidemics of 1945 broke out in the camps (Vol. I, p. 204 ff) - Incidentally, it is frequently claimed that mass executions were carried out in gas chambers cunningly disguised as shower facilities. Again the Report makes nonsense of this allegation. "Not only the washing places, but installations for baths, showers and laundry were inspected by the delegates. They had often to take action to have fixtures made less primitive, and to get them repaired or enlarged" (Vol. III, p. 594). Not All Were InternedVolume III of the Red Cross Report, Chapter 3 (I. Jewish Civilian Population) deals with the "aid given to the Jewish section of the free population," and this chapter makes it quite plain that by no means all of the European Jews were placed in internment camps, but remained, subject to certain restrictions, as part of the free civilian population. This conflicts directly with the "thoroughness" of the supposed "extermination programme", and with the claim in the forged Höss memoirs that Eichmann was obsessed with seizing "every single Jew he could lay his hands on." In Slovakia, for example, where Eichmann's assistant Dieter Wisliceny was in charge, the Report states that "A large proportion of the Jewish minority had permission to stay in the country, and at certain periods Slovakia was looked upon as a comparative haven of refuge for Jews, especially for those coming from Poland. Those who remained in Slovakia seem to have been in comparative safety until the end of August 1944, when a rising against the German forces took place. While it is true that the law of May 15th, 1942 had brought about the internment of several thousand Jews, these people were held in camps where the conditions of food and lodging were tolerable, and where the internees were allowed to do paid work on terms almost equal to those of the free labour market" (Vol. I, p. 646). Not only did large numbers of the three million or so European Jews avoid internment altogether, but the emigration of Jews continued throughout the war, generally by way of Hungary, Rumania and Turkey. Ironically, post-war Jewish emigration from German-occupied territories was also facilitated by the Reich, as in the case of the Polish Jews who had escaped to France before its occupation. "The Jews from Poland who, whilst in France, had obtained entrance permits to the United States were held to be American citizens by the German occupying authorities, who further agreed to recognize the validity of about three thousand passports issued to Jews by the consulates of South American countries" (Vol. I, p. 645). As future U.S. citizens, these Jews were held at the Vittel camp in southern France for American aliens. The emigration of European Jews from Hungary in particular proceeded during the war unhindered by the German authorities. "Until March 1944," says the. Red Cross Report, "Jews who had the privilege of visas for Palestine were free to leave Hungary" (Vol. I, p. 648). Even after the replacement of the Horthy Government in 1944 (following its attempted armistice with the Soviet Union) with a government more dependent on German authority, the emigration of Jews continued. The Committee secured the pledges of both Britain and the United States "to give support by every means to the emigration of Jews from Hungary," and from the U.S. Government the ICRC received a message stating that "The Government of the United States ... now specifically repeats its assurance that arrangements will be made by it for the care of all Jews who in the present circumstances are allowed to leave" (Vol. I, p . 649). Biedermann agreed that in the nineteen instances that "Did Six Million Really Die?" quoted from the Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War and Inter Arma Caritas (this includes the above material), it did so accurately. A quote from Charles Biedermann (a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Director of the Red Cross' International Tracing Service) under oath at the Zündel Trial (February 9, 10, 11 and 12, 1988). The above is chapter nine from the book "Did Six Million Really Die?" thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/18220.php Source: www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2735**************************************************** - This is of course VERY controversial. I recommend checking also what Wikipedia has on this issue at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust#Holocaust_denial and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust and then this from the ICRC website...ICRC in WW II: the Holocaust - A brief account of events related to the holocaust and to ICRC activities during the Second World War (2-02-2005) SNIP:(...) Apart from the work of Friedrich Born in Hungary and a few sporadic instances elsewhere, the ICRC's efforts to assist Jews and other groups of civilians persecuted during the Second World War were a failure. By taking part in the 1995 ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Cornelio Sommaruga, sought to show that the organization was fully aware of the gravity of the Holocaust and the need to keep the memory of it alive, so as to prevent any repetition of it. He paid tribute to all those who had suffered or lost their lives during the war and publicly regretted the past mistakes and shortcomings of the Red Cross with regard to the victims of the concentration camps. Read It All: www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList418/359CC4EF8A1E5C72C1256B66005B2171
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Post by michelle on Jun 19, 2006 14:43:05 GMT 4
Ahmadinejad: Investigate the HolocaustBy JPOST.COM STAFF Jun. 16, 2006 10:20 | Updated Jun. 16, 2006 14:41 "I think we have sufficiently talked about this matter and these Holocaust events need to be further investigated by independent and impartial parties," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a news conference on Friday following a meeting with China's president. "An event that has influenced so many diplomatic and political equations of the world needs to investigated and researched by impartial and independent groups," he said. THE IRANIAN THREAT JPost.com special: news, opinion, blogs and more Speaking in Shanghai, China, he added that Jews, Christians and Muslims all had the "right to be respected." Ahmadinejad has come in for sharp criticism in Europe for repeatedly casting doubt on the Holocaust and calling for Israel to be destroyed or shifted to Europe. On Monday, German Jews and politicians protested Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's repeated denial of the Holocaust while his country kicked off its World Cup campaign on Sunday, declaring that he would be unwelcome at the tournament. About 1,200 people, according to police estimates, gathered in a downtown Nuremberg square, many waving Israeli flags. In the end of May, during a Spiegel interview, Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying that he doubted the magazine would write 'the truth' about the Nazi genocide against Europe's Jews. 'We want to know whether this crime really happened or not. If so, then those responsible should be punished and not the Palestinians ... If it didn't happen, then the Jews have to go back where they came from,' he was quoted as saying. He also played up the credentials of Western Holocaust deniers such as the British historian David Irving and echoed some of their views. AP contributed to this report. SOURCE: tinyurl.com/gvo9h
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Post by michelle on Jun 21, 2006 15:47:41 GMT 4
The Assassins From character assassination to physical assassination, the Lobby and its agents ruthlessly pursue their agenda by Justin Raimondo June 19, 2006 SNIP:When John J. Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and the heavyweight of the realist school of international affairs, and Stephen M. Walt, former dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, published their now famous essay on "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," the outcry from all the usual suspects was stupendous. After all, the professors had unapologetically said what everyone knows to be true: that U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is geared to Israeli and not American interests. It is a case of altruism sui generis.
If anyone says that – out loud, that is – the price they pay is exorbitant, and clearly Mearsheimer and Walt were and are prepared to pony up. Anyone who crosses "the Lobby," as their paper puts it, risks incurring the wrath of "the Great Silencer." This means, in plain terms, that anyone who criticizes Israel, or, more significantly, notices the Lobby's decisive influence over U.S. policymakers, risks their career, whether it be in politics, the media, or academia. Read the Rest: www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9170
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Post by michelle on Jun 25, 2006 8:56:04 GMT 4
Israel Lobby Watch Former Dutch Ambassador Calls for Sanctions if Israel Refuses to Comply with International LawAdri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 19 June 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some weeks ago I heard Jan Wijenberg, a retired Dutch Ambassador, speak about what the International Community could do to break with its complicity to the ongoing violations of international law and human rights by the Israeli regime. Wijenberg served over a decade as an ambassador for the Dutch government in Jemen, Tanzania and Saudi Arabia. He regularly writes to Dutch ministers and politicians to remind them of the responsibility of the international community, and specifically of the Dutch Government and the European Union, to hold Israel accountable to international law. His views are expressed in this article.Israel is the problemQuite often is spoken about the conflict in the Middle East between the Palestinians and Israel. If we look at the situation more closely we can observe something different. The media in Israel provide a platform for unpunished, insane calls for murdering peoples and a nation. An example is offered by Professor Arnon Sofer talking about Palestinians living in closed-off Gaza, "...those people will become even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam... So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day. If we don't kill we will cease to exist....."1In 2005 Ehud Barak stated on Dutch television2 that - in a secret and illegal retaliatory campaign against the Palestinian hostage takers at the Munich Olympic Winter Games - he personally had murdered thirteen innocent citizens. According to Barak this would teach the world not to fool around with Israel. Barak was and is not prosecuted for premeditated murder and could achieve the position of the country's prime minister. Among the settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories are opportunists and extremely violent Israeli's who aim to occupy East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The Palestinians must be driven out of these territories by all means possible, including murder. The government of Israel supports the settlers in full while they lay there hands on Palestinian property and act out their violence on Palestinians. The annexation of East Jerusalem by Ehud Olmert while he was the mayor of West-Jerusalem can according to the Fourth Geneva Convention be interpreted as a war crime. After the last elections in Israel Ehud Olmert's Kadima party won the vote and he is now the Prime Minister of Israel. Israeli policies are driven by the Zionist ideal of creating a Jewish state, including the Palestinian territories. Israel is aiming systematically at destroying the identity of the Palestinian people. The so called "conflict in the Middle East" between Palestinians and Israel does not exist. Zionist Israel is the problem. Rogue stateIsrael is the world's sole remaining occupying colonial power. It systematically sabotages all international efforts to end the occupation. In its capacity of occupying power Israel violates numerous obligations emanating from Security Council Resolutions and the Geneva Conventions. It also breaches the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The USA applies a doctrine and the US-administration labels selected countries as 'Rogue states'. These countries possess weapons of mass destruction illegally, suppress large populations, torture, keep people in detention on a large scale and commit murder outside their national borders. Israel has adopted as a strategy the execution of land and water grabs, the destruction of Palestinian infrastructure (including in education and health), the carrying out of extraterritorial executions, torture, and collective punishments and keeping thousands of Palestinians imprisoned indefinitely without charge or prosecution. On the basis of the definition by the USA, Israel has ever since its establishment been a monumental Rogue state and a highly active member of the Axis of Evil.Letter to Dutch ministersIn February Wijenberg wrote to the ministers Bot, van Ardenne-van der Hoeven and Nicolaï, ministers of Foreign Affairs, Development Co-operation and State Secretary of European Affairs respectively. He reminded them that according to article 90 of the Dutch Constitution "The government nurtures the development of the international order of law". So many previous Dutch governments violated this article when it concerns the Middle East. With referral to the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice of 9 July 2004 Wijenberg calls upon the Dutch ministers to show the world that they are serious about international law, justice and democracy. A copy of the letter was sent to the prime minister Balkenende and the minister of Justice Donner. In his view the United States and the European Union - including the Netherlands - have for too long condoned Israels disrespect for international law. In its response the ministry of Foreign Affairs replies that the Dutch government is actively engaged in an ongoing dialogue with Israel. Wijenberg questions this policy. ""Since when do we politely ask notorious violaters of international law to stop their daily terrorisation of the Palestinian civilians, with assassinations in broad daylight and theft of property, houses, land and water? Why aren't the harshest peaceful means used to fight this?" Call for sanctionsIn the view of Wijenberg the European Union and the Netherlands have become an instrument of Israels foreign policy by ignoring its own core values values and respect for international law and human rights. Europe can play a key role in achieving lasting peace for Israel and its neighbours. If Israel refuses to show respect for international law, heavy sanctions against Israel should be installed.Adri Nieuwhof is an independent consultant and human rights advocate from the Netherlands.Endnotes[1] The Jerusalem Post, Up Front weekend supplement (21 May 2004) [2] NOVA (15 December 2005) Source:electronicintifada.net/v2/printer4825.shtml
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Post by michelle on Jun 27, 2006 11:37:37 GMT 4
6/27/06: THINKING CHRISTIANS PART1 of 3FOR THINKING CHRISTIANS AND FOR NON-CHRISTIANS WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY. Plainly speaking, Christianity was hijacked by the Zionists to support the formation of Israel. Take your time to read and assimilate the following info. It is important to spread this information, especially to "Christians" who continue to support Bush. They literally, "Know not what they do." You cannot force feed this info to them. However, I do feel that much is coming into the Light now and many of these unaware Christians will have a rude awakening. If you come across an opportunity to inform, be gentle with them; how would you feel if you woke up one day and everything, religion included, that you were told is a TOTAL LIE? Follow along; you have much to read........MichelleTwo English Lords Gifted the Land of the Philistines to a Private Company and Funded a New Religion to Bless the TheftCharles E. Carlson Jun 23, 2006The State of Israel controls every gate into the Gaza Strip. One such gate called Rafah connects the tiny land with the Egyptian Sinai. But to get there you must cross a kilometer wide Israeli zone, and if you’re lucky enough to be allowed passage to Gaza it is with Israel’s permission; your passport shows you have entered Israel, not Palestine. Only yesterday two unnamed swimmers tried to bypass this checkpoint and were shot in the water by the crew of an Israeli Navy ship. www.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=862 But an even more strange right of passage is practiced inside America’s churches. For when you enter what is referred to generically as an evangelical church you are probably about to partake in a Zionist controlled religion as distant from traditional Christianity as is Pharisaism. British Lord Balfour provided a forged deed for the State of Israel to enter Arab land. And at almost the same hour he wrote his famous letter, the new dispensational church movement in America was being hijacked for the specific purpose of blessing world Zionism. Dispensationalism, or evangelicalism, as it is often called, has its roots in and owes its success to British nobles who were, for the most part, above religion and called each other “Lord.” Both Israel and dispensational Christianity received their baptismal blessings from the British Crown. There is no nation of Palestine today, nor was there one in 1917 when it was gifted to the world Zionist movement. It would be more accurate to call the Arab lands “Occupied Philistia,” the historic land of the Philistines. From a religious point of view one could also dub Israel “Phariseeland” recognizing the decline of its spiritualism. But the British chose the name “Palestine” and Lord Balfour referred to it as the “homeland for the Jewish people” when he, represented the Crown of England, he made this strange land deed to English Lord, Lionel Walter Rothschild in a letter, known ever since as the Balfour Declaration. It states: 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 favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors 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 BalfourBarron Rothschild was the most prominent Jew in England, chosen to communicate the good news to the world Zionism organization (the Company) then headed by a Russian Zionist named Chaim Weizmann. There was also no state called Israel at that time, which makes this land grant so unique in history. It might be likened to the US Congress granting California to the Church of England. Congress does not own California; the World Zionist Federation was not a state, but a company. This British gift of someone else’s land was the beginning of the endless wars with Arabs on one side, pitted against Jews, Zionist-Christians, and the US Government on the other side. It is one of the most lopsided miss-matches in the history of genocide, equivalent to a staged Roman slaughter of humans by lions. The question that must be asked is: Why do professing Christians allow themselves to be drawn into an unscriptural shedding of innocent blood, not to mention land theft? American “Christians” provide the margin of victory for Zionism. They alone provided the moral excuse for the slaughter, and in so doing it stands against everything we are taught in Jesus' words about the absolute obligation to protect the “least of our brothers.” The war in the Mideast, as anyone with one eye can see, is an indecent mismatch beyond civilized imagination. It is understandable that Jewish synagogues might support it, but why do Christian Churches stand for brutality against the weak? Answer: Because it is required by their “religion.” We will continue to examine how this was arranged. The Balfour Declaration was not enough to make the State of Israel a political reality in a world dominated by a substantially Biblically aware America. Zionism’s founders stated they needed broad American support else their venture would fail. The USA was the new, great world power, even if most Americans did not yet know it. Most Americans rightly respected Arab culture in the first half of the 20th Century. Mr. Weizmann faced no small public relations trick. Winning Christians to support the tribe that calls itself by the name of those who tormented and killed Jesus Christ required a radical change in Christian doctrine. The new, Zionist-friendly Christianity was hatched from eggs laid by its European predecessors, primarily Edwin Ervin and John Nelson Darby. Its purpose was (unknown to its followers) to make Zionist land theft biblically legal and morally acceptable. To do this Zionists needed a rewritten Bible that would make the State of Israel a necessary precursor to the imminent return of Christ to planet earth. The idea was to make Jesus Christ’s return to earth imminent, and to make Jesus' return to earth dependant upon the Jew’s return to the land of the Philistines first. All world Zionism had to do was write such a bible and sell it to enough Christ followers.The neo-Christian-Zionists would at first simply accept the erroneous notion that the Bible predicted a political state of Israel in Palestine. As time went on those who accepted it would be taught to accept mass deportation and murder of the Arabs to secure the real estate upon which Christ would someday (very soon) set up an early rule called a “Millennial kingdom.” In the dispensational scheme, Zionists were to be allowed the role of custodianship of the land until Jesus decided he needed it, at which time the Israeli Jews would be out of luck, out of land again, and would be slaughtered as well. This unhappy ending for world Judaism did not worry the Zionists because it served their purpose, and they did not believe it anyway. It was perfected in the Scofield Reference Bible, and it is also precisely the message that is sold in tens of millions of pulp fiction, “Left Behind” books written by Tim Lahaye’s enterprises, as well as by a thousand other similar “rapture” and Armageddon authors over the last 90 years. Lord Balfour’s and Lord Rothschild’s role in creating this new, Israel-friendly christian-like cult was spawned and fed through the English Crown’s influence over Oxford University Press, supposedly a part of Oxford University, but a useful political tool for the Crown it seems. In 1908 Oxford was the most prestigious publishing company in England. Just how the Crown went about making decisions for Oxford University Press is beyond this study. Lord Rothschild and his banking friends and family had the financial clout to support and promote the upstart religion and sell it to 70 million Americans. Oxford University Press promoted Scofield’s book to the seminaries and bible colleges of America. Later it was disclosed that Oxford owned the book and still does. Scofieldism is also Rothschildism; both had an incalculable negative influence on traditional Christianity. Dispensationalism is the label provided from Cyrus I. Scofield’s seven “dispensations,” the first being found in the footnotes on page 4 (1967 Edition). The excuse for the conquest of what We Hold These Truths and the Bible calls the “Land of the Philistines” is found in Scofield footnote on page 251 called the “Palestinian Covent”; and in footnotes to the book of Genesis (12:3), wherein the promise of a Christ-child is converted into a shabby future land swindle to justify the theft of the present day Arab lands. This was caused to happen in 1947, some 3000 years after Abram is said to have had his conversation with God about fathering a great tribe. The Scofield Reference Bible is the transparent bible forgery for changing fundamental Christianity into Rothschild’s Zionism. Today it shamefully dominates the bible colleges and seminaries, beginning with the Moody Bible Institute and Dallas Theological Seminary and pulpits of evangelical churches of America. We Hold These Truths has already explained the most necessary details of the heresy verse by verse and line by heretical line. We need not take space here, but will point you to the inventory of papers by this author. Most will be convinced that Cyrus I. Scofield was acting under the influence of World Zionism when he wrote his infamous book (if in fact someone else did not write it for him). Scofield probably did not know he was the first Zionist-Christian to corrupt the work of Christ’s ministries. Followers of Christ should not fear confrontation with religious leaders backed by We Hold These Truths' presentation. It has worked in hundreds of tests; we all but guaranty that pastor have no logical answer your questions. The Litmus test question each leader should be asked is: “Pastor, do you teach that the present day State of Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophesy?” There is only one correct answer; and that is “No.” But our Serial War problem does center on Israel. We Hold These Truths' purpose is to make this confrontation with your church so simple that any layman can do it. Only when we, who claim to follow Christ, learn to confront the errant churches will respect for life be restored within our society. It will rekindle the spark of decency, and it might even please God. CHOOSE
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WAR(Project Strait Gate vigil sign) SELECTED LISTENING AND READING: Wikipedia on “Dispensationalism”www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=114tpqjx93cev?tname=dispensationalism&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc12aVisit Project Strait Gate to learn how you can organize vigils at churches in your area: www.whtt.org/straitgate/index.phpThe Cause of the Conflict, Why Christian Zionists Cannot Demand Peace, Charles E. Carlson, (A self guided audio-visual tour): www.whtt.org/show/Can Christ-Followers save the world from Christians: www.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=709Day 911 - Americans Pay the Price: www.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=188Source: www.whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=861In PARTS 2 & 3 I've included info that I originally posted at Anwaar's article, plus a bit more. It details the formation of Israel and includes Zionist infiltration of American Christianity. Sources are included if you wish to look up more. I've included my complete comment below. And to my Catholic friends out there: If you've ever wondered why the Church forbids you to join the Freemasons, you will find the answer to that below....Michelle
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Post by michelle on Jun 27, 2006 11:40:06 GMT 4
6/27/06: THINKING CHRISTIANS PART 2 of 3Michelle L. Zewe said... Anwaar, after you post this essay under your articles at the Fountainhead Forum, I will begin to post on Ernst Zündel and other related information there. This will be in a couple of days, right? Until then there is a question to ponder upon.
My question is this: If historians and journalists can tweak history or current events through omission or outright lies, why then are Holocaust Revisionists around the world imprisoned for publishing false statements, tales, or news?
If you wonder why Great Britain is such a staunch ally of the United States, you might begin to consider the fact that we never really won our independence; that's just what they tell us in the history books. Why is the United States supporting Israel? Here is some history regarding the creation of Israel; perhaps this is why Holocaust Revisionists are being imprisoned:
The Zionists are presently gathering the Zionist Jews to Israel but excluding true Torah Jews. Zionism -- not to be confused with Judaism -- is a political movement conceived in the secret societies of Judeo-Freemasonry, which is using undiscerning Evangelical Christians to advance their Antichrist agenda. The House of Rothschild paid for the land and State of Israel and is at the helm of the Zionist Movement. 1809 - House of Rothschild is well-established in Freemasonry. "Edmund Rothschild was president of the Jewish Colonization Association, which was a major Zionist group.... The Masonic reference book '10,000 Famous Freemasons,' Vol. 4, p. 74, indicates two other sons of Amschel were Masons, James Meyer Rothschild, and his brother Nathan Meyer Rothschild. James Rothschild in Paris was a 33 degree Scottish Rite Mason, and his brother Nathan in London was a member of the Lodge of Emulation. And Jewish Freemason Katz indicates Solomon Meyer Rothschild, a third member of the five brothers, was initiated into Freemasonry on June 14, 1809. "The Rothschilds became powerful within Freemasonry." 1836 A.D. - Rothschild purchases land in Palestine.“In 1836, [Zevi] Kalischer appealed to Mayer Amschel (...Rothschild) to buy out completely the land of Israel or at least Jerusalem and particularly the Temple area in order to ‘bring about the miraculous redemption from below’. Zevi Kalischer said the salvation promised by the prophets of old could come only gradually and by self-help from the Jews.” [Graham, O.J. THE SIX-POINTED STAR New Puritan Library, 1984] 1837 - Illegitimate birth of Adolf Hitler's father, who was the son of Salomon Mayer Rothschild. There are some people who seriously doubt that Johann Georg Hiedler was the father of Alois. Thyssen and Koehler, for example, claim that Chancellor Dollfuss had ordered the Austrian police to conduct a thorough investigation into the Hitler family. As a result of this investigation a secret document was prepared which proved that Maria Anna Schicklgruber was living in Vienna at the time she conceived. At that time she was employed as a servant in the home of Baron Rothschild. As soon as the family discovered her pregnancy she was sent back to her home in Spital where Alois was born. If it is true that one of the Rothschilds is the real father of Alois Hitler, it would make Adolph a quarter Jew. According to these sources, Adolph Hitler knew of the existence of this document and the incriminating evidence it contained. In order to obtain it he precipitated events in Austria and initiated the assassination of Dollfuss. According to this story, he failed to obtain the document at that time, since Dollfuss had secreted it and, had told Schuschnigg of its whereabouts so that in the event of his death the independence of Austria would remain assured. Several stories of this general character are in circulation. ["A Psychologial Profile of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend," Walter C. Langer, Office of Strategic Services: www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osstitle.htm] "Alois, Hitler's father, was born in 1837 in the period when Salomon Mayer was the only Rothschild who lived at the Vienna mansion. Even his wife did not live there because their marriage was so bad that she stayed in Frankfurt. Their son, Anselm Salomon spent most of his working life in Paris and Frankfurt away from Vienna and his father. "Father Salomon Mayer, living alone at the Vienna mansion where Hitler's grandmother worked, is the prime, most obvious candidate. And Hermann von Goldschmidt, the son of Salomon Mayer's senior clerk, wrote a book, published in 1917, which said of Salomon: '…by the 1840s he had developed a somewhat reckless enthusiasm for young girls..' and 'He had a lecherous passion for very young girls, his adventures with whom had to be hushed up by the police.' "And Hitler's grandmother, a young girl working under the same roof would not have been the subject of Salomon's desire? And this same girl became pregnant while working there? And her grandson becomes the Chancellor of Germany, funded by the Rothschilds, and he started the Second World War which was so vital to the Rothschild-Illuminati agenda? And the Illuminati are obsessed with putting their bloodlines into power on all 'sides' in a conflict? And the Rothschilds are one of their most key bloodlines? And it is all a co-incidence?" 1840 - The Damascus Affair begins Jewish emigration to Palestine.“The year 1840 brought with it problems in Damascus. Father Thomas, a Capuchian of the Catholic faith, disappeared; it was reputed that he had been murdered by Jews for ritual purposes. French and Syrian authorities joined in and many Jewish adults and children were arrested and tortured; some were even killed. Rothschild and Montefiore and Cremieux got together, sought action, and this resulted in Jewish people going to work on Rothschild's projects in Palestine. It is said, in fact, that it was this Damascus affair which helped establish the groundwork for the Alliance Israelite Universelle founded by Rothschild twenty years later.” [Graham, O.J. THE SIX-POINTED STAR New Puritan Library, 1984] 1843 - Founding of B'nai B'rith by Scottish Rite Freemasonry laid groundwork for establishment of a Jewish homeland.“One of the most powerful Jewish Societies in the world is the ‘Independent Order of B’nai B’rith.’ In Hebrew, this literally means ‘Sons of the Covenant,’ being that of circumcision. Founded in New York in 1843, the order was not established in England until 1910, but since then it has succeeded in gaining control over all Jewish organizations. Among its members today are Chaim Weizmann (the Zionist leader). Dr. J. R. Hertz, (Chief Rabbi of England), Mrs. Neville Laski (President of the Jewish Board of Deputies), and Israel Moses Sietff (well known Zionist and communal worker.) “A short history of the B’nai B’rith in England, written by Paul Goodman, a past president, for private circulation among its members, gives a clear insight into the way pressure was put upon governments throughout the world in Jewish interests... B’nai B’rith is Zionist, it laid the foundation of the Jewish home and in the United States it is the power behind the President. “...In political cooperation with the Alliance Israelite Universelle and other national and International Jewish bodies, B’nai B’rith has for many decades been recognized as the representative of American Jewry in the protection of Jewish interests.’ He then went on to say that Russian Jews had been armed by world Jewry for their fight against the Russian Monarchy.” - 1101 "The Independent Order of B’nai B’rith formed in 1843 as a Jewish community sub-project in the restoration of Masonry by the Scottish Rite and the British foreign office. Though most of its lodges were in the North, B’nai B’rith was openly pro-Confederate. Though it claimed to be neutral in the war, many of the Order’s Northern spokesmen were stridently pro-slavery. B’nai B’rith’s post-Civil War leaders were pro-Confederate operatives, including later president Simon Wolf, who had been arrested by the War Department in Washington, D.C. as the lawyer for a Confederate spy ring. "Rabbi Isaac Wise established B’nai B’rith’s center for the 'liberalizing' of Judaism in Cincinnati, Ohio - coinciding with Cincinnati’s other great Scottish Rite scheme, the launching of the Knights of the Golden Circle. Wise was officially neutral in the Civil War. Core leaders of the B’nai B’rith from then on have been Scottish Rite Masons. The political establishment associated with the Order has always had its headquarters in London..." ["The KKK's Scottish Rite Project," Anton Chaitkin: www.impiousdigest.com/lbj/fox.htm]1860 - Formation of Alliance Israelite Universelle to penetrate all religions and unite them under World Jewry.“Fould, the Rothschilds of Paris, London and Vienna, Montefiore, Disraeli, the Goldsmids, were not less Jews than Karl Marx, Moses Hess, Jacoby, Lassalle, Venedy, Riesser. ...And although their respective activities seem to stand so far apart, yet they are all linked, all tending towards the same end. One of the most striking instances is the case of Adolphe Cremieux who ...was connected with all parties and actually helped form the center which united them all, viz. The Alliance Israelite Universelle, which was, in fact, the central Kabal for Universal Jewry. The life of Adolphe Cremieux and the activities of his Jewish contemporaries, belonging to widely divergent social spheres, illustrate forcibly the concerted plan of Judaism to reach its secret Messianic hope of world domination... “Cremieux's Jewish activities are exemplified by the part he took in the Damascus Affair with Moses Montefiore, a Jew from England, when Jewry successfully but unconvincingly silenced the accusation of ritual murder committed upon the Catholic priest, Father Thomas, at Damascus, in 1840. He had a prominent share in the foundation and development of the Alliance Israelite Universelle. “Officially founded in 1860, this international union of disseminated Jewry had, as we know, existed for centuries, but after the Damascus affair, the Jewish leaders knew that they had attained sufficient power to feel enabled to show to the whole world that although the civil rights they enjoyed had been granted them by different countries, the real allegiance of each and every one of them was due to their Jewish nationality...“From 1871 until his death, it can be safely asserted that Crémieux, as President of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and Grand Master of the Scottish Rite, exercised a tremendous influence upon the anti-religious campaign which followed the Franco-Prussian War. In this as in all his lifelong activities, Crémieux was only obeying the teachings of the Talmud and trying to destroy every religion but that contained in Judaism. His favourite theme was that there should be only one cult — and that cult should be Jewish. At a general assembly of the Alliance Israilite Universelle, on May 31, 1864, Crimieux had said: ‘The Alliance is not limited to our cult, it voices its appeal to all cults and wants to penetrate in all the religions as it has penetrated into all countries. Let us endeavour boldly to bring about the union of all cults under one flag of Union and Progress. Such is the slogan of humanity.’(‘Union and Progress’ was the name given to several revolutionary associations and also to several Masonic Lodges.’) “One cult, one flag! Are the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion or the speeches of Machiavelli in Joly’s book anything but a lengthy exposition of the ideas briefly expressed by Crimieux? His activities are one of the clearest examples of Jewish internationalism and Jewish efforts for the realization of the Messianic ideal.” [Mullins, Eustace, THE SECRET HOLOCAUST, Sons of Liberty, 1984] 1862 – Predominance of Zionist Jews in Masonic Leadership and Lodges.“In the year 1862 a Berlin Freemason, who noticed the Jewish predominance in the lodges, wrote in a Munich paper: ‘There exists in Germany a secret sect with Freemasonic forms, which is subject to ‘unknown leaders’. The members of this association are in their great majority ‘Israelites.’… In London, where, as one knows, the revolutionary herd are found around the Grandmaster Palmerston, there exist two Jewish Lodges, which have never seen Christians cross their threshold; there are combined all threads of the revolutionary elements, who nestle in the Christian lodges. ‘In Rome there is a further lodge, ‘which consists completely of Jews’, and where all threads, also of plots instigated in the ‘Christian lodges’ unite; ‘the supreme court of justice and of the revolution.’“From there outwards the other lodges are directed as by secret leaders, so that the greatest part of the Christian revolutionaries are only marionettes, who are set in motion by Jews by means of the secret leaders...“As confirmation of the above I will reproduce a report, which is found in the ‘Revue des Societes Secretes’ (P. 118-119, 1924)1.) The Golden International (International Plutocracy and High Finance, at whose heads are found:a) In America: J.P. Morgan, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and Vanderlipb) In Europe: The firm of Rothschild and others of second rank.2.) The Red International or international association of Social Democratic workers. This comprises:a) The Second International (that of Belgium, Jew Vandervelde).b) The International N.° 21/2, (that of Vienna, Jew Adler)c) The Third International or Communist International (that of Moscow, the Jews Apfelbaum and Radek). This hydra with three heads, which works separately for better effect, has at its disposal the ‘Profintern’ (International bureau of professional associations), which has its seat in Amsterdam and which dictates the Jewish word to the Syndicates which have still not been incorporate into Bolshevism.3.) The Black International or combat organization of Jewry. The Chief roles in it are played by: the world organization of Zionists (London); the Israelite world league, which was founded in Paris by the Jew Cremieux; the Jewish order of the B’nai-Moiche (Sons of Moses) and the Jewish societies ‘Henoloustz,’ ‘Hitakhdoute,’ ‘Tarbout,’ ‘Karen-Haessode’ and a hundred more or less masked organizations, which are dispersed over all the lands of the Old and New world.4.) The Blue International or international Freemasonry. This unites all Freemasons in the world through the ‘United Lodge of Great Britain,’ through the ‘Grand Lodge of France’ and through the Grand Orients of France, Belgium, Italy, Turkey and the remaining lands. (The active middlepoint of this association is, as the readers know, the great ‘Alpina-Lodge.’) 5.) The Jewish Freemasonic Order of ‘B’nai-B’rith,’ which contrary to the principles of the Freemasonic lodges accepts only Jews, and which numbers over the world more than 426 purely Jewish Lodges, serves as links to all the above enumerated Internationals. The leaders of the ‘B’nai-B’rith’ are the Jews Morganthau, former ambassador of the United States; Mack, Zionist; Warburg (Felix) Banker; Elkus; Kraus (Alfred), the first president; Schiff, already dead; who supported the movement for emancipation of the Jews in Russia with financial contributions; Marshall (Louis), Zionist.” [Pinay, Maurice. THE PLOT AGAINST THE CHURCH, LA: St. Anthony Press, 1967] 1865 – Masonic influences concerning Palestine Exploration Fund and plan to rebuild Solomon’s Temple. "In 1865, under the patronage of Queen Victoria, all of the elite institutions of Britain, including the Anglican Church, the Grand Lodge of England, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, etc., gathered to fund a new institution, the Palestine Exploration Fund, dedicated to the 'rediscovery' of the Holy Land. The PEF's first Secretary Treasurer [was] freemason Walter Besant... "The PEF was founded for three purposes: 1) 'With the avowed intention of gradually introducing the Jews, pure and simple, who is eventually to occupy and govern this country...' 2) To survey every inch of the territory on both sides of the Jordan, for British military-strategic purposes... 3) To give the gnostic British gamemasters an open-ended tool to reinterpret the Bible, and thus to manipulate the minds of hundreds of millions of Christians and Jews. As Besant, a raving gnostic and brother-in-law of Theosophy cult leader Annie Besant, put it, 'The principal reason alleged for conducting this inquiry was the illustration of the Bible which might be expected to follow such an investigation.'... Said Besant, 'The work before the Committee of the Fund, as regards Jerusalem, was, therefore, briefly this: We proposed nothing less than the absolute identification of every sacred site.' Special attention should be given to the Temple Mount and the issue of the Temple of Solomon... Thus was founded the vast discipline of 'Biblical Archaeology.' "Through the PEF, the British re-established the tradition of cultural/religious manipulation in the 19th century. Besant was the PEF's secretary from 1868 until 1886, the year when PEF head Sir Charles Warren and he became, respectively, the first Grand Master, and the first Treasurer, of the Quatuor Coronati lodge--which they established, in their own words, as an 'archaeology lodge,' the first ever in the history of freemasonry... "The PEF/Quatuor Coronati cynical manipulation of religion continues both in the plot to rebuild Solomon's Temple per se, and in the broader cultural war against true Christianity, Judaism and Islam, of which that plot is a part. Take, for instance, the widely publicized Holy Blood, Holy Grail series, written by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, and trumpeted by the BBC, among others. The book claims that the British Royal Family and its associated oligarchy is the continuation of a bloodline begun by the marriage of Jesus Christ (who, according to this heresy, was never crucified) to Mary Magdalene, a 'secret bloodline' which allegedly continued throughout the Merovingian Dynasty in Europe and the crusading orders such as the Templars (who derived their name from the headquarters in Solomon's Stables underneath the Temple Mount) and the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, around which are grouped other initiates, such as the Freemasons. The 'inspiration' for such trash is hardly divine: The lead author, Michael Baigent, is a Corresponding Member of the Quatuor Coronati lodge, and Brother Baigent thanks, for his assistance, the Rev. Neville B. Cryer, one of Quatuor Coronati's most prominent members, and the longtime head of the immensely influential British and Foreign Bible Society." ["Who is Sparking A Religious War in the Middle East?--And How To Stop It", Executive Intelligence Review Special Report, December 2000] 1868 – Freemasonry birthed in the Holy Land through agency of Robert Morris, founder of the the Order of the Eastern Star.1874 - Alliance of Jewish and Gentile Freemasonry under B'nai B'rith.1878 – Rev. William Blackstone’s tract promotes Zionism leading to First Niagara Prophecy Conference.The year Jesus is Coming first appeared--1878--also saw the first of a series of prophecy and Bible conferences, eventually known as the Niagara Prophecy Conferences, held around the United States which established this proto-fundamentalist theological tendency. Ministers from a wide spectrum of denominations combined elements of Princeton theology, biblical literalism, and premillennialism with a conservative opposition to higher criticism, modernism, and other liberalizing trends.” [ "in the shadow of 'god's sundial: the construction of american christian zionism and the blackstone memorial," Hilton Obenzinger: www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/5-1/text/obenzinger.html]1881 – Masonic New Age of Michael reportedly begins with Jews' return to Palestine. “To those working within an esoteric tradition, it might have appeared a relatively easy thing to prepare for the new era of Michael which was to begin in 1881.” – 512:376 “The angel Michael was dedicated to the expansion of human consciousness, and freedom. Furthermore, it would be during the New Age of the Sun, which would begin in 1881, that the Jews would return to their homeland.” 1881 – Pogroms of Russian Jews causes their migration to Europe, United States and PalestineBefore 1881, the year of the first wave of European Jews migrating into Palestine, Arabs constituted 95% of the population and owned 98% of the land. The pogroms of 1881 set in motion the massive Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, with about 62,000 Jews, mostly from Russia, arriving in the United States between 1881 and 1884. 1882 – Zionist Jews' cruel treatment of Palestinians.“..a secret order known as B'ne Moshe (Sons of Moses) ... was guided by Ahad Ha'am (one of the people) the founder of Cultural Zionism, whose real name was Asher Ginsberg...“Ginsberg, although a self-defined ‘Cultural Zionist’, broke with the mainstream Political Zionist movement early on. In fact after the first Zionist Congress, he never attended another one. Yet six years before, based on personal observations, he published a series of essays entitled 'The Truth About Palestine’. Ginsberg pointed out that large tracts of untilled but arable land were unavailable, the ruling Ottoman Turks had a negative attitude towards the earlier European Jewish colonists of the first Aliyah of 1882, that Palestine was NOT uninhabited, and that the Arabs of Palestine showed no inclination or interest in leaving their homes. He was also critical of the superior attitude affected by these new colonists toward the indigenous population. He pointedly noted: “‘We think that the Arabs are all savages who live like animals and do not understand what is happening around them. This is, however, a great error’. He was harsh towards the colonists. Although he was perhaps unaware of it, he was comparing the attitude of the Jewish colonists to similar attitudes by the first Pilgrim colonists of North America, and the attitude of 19th century colonials in general for he further stated, based on the conviction that the viability of Jewish colonies depended on the development and maintenance of good relations with the Arabs; he further stated in an almost astonished tone, ‘Yet what do our brethren do in Palestine? Just the very opposite! Serfs they were in the lands of the diaspora and suddenly they find themselves in unrestricted freedom, and this change has awakened in them an inclination to despotism. They treat the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, deprive them of their rights, offend them without cause, and even boast of these deeds; and nobody among us opposes this despicable and dangerous inclination.’” (Selected Essays of Ahad Ha'am translated by Leon Simon. Originally published in 1912 and 1939 by the Jewish Publication Society, republished in 1981 by Atheneum.) 1883 – The Age of Eugenics begins in England leading to plan for the extermination of non-Zionist Jews by Hitler. “For all the voluminously documented crimes of the Nazis, the fact is, leading British circles were the earliest proponents and developers of eugenics, a pseudo-science that these British influentials--including Charles Darwin’s cousin Sir Francis Galton and various sons of Darwin, members of the Huxley family, International Monetary Fund founder John Maynard Keynes, and others--concocted to promote the reduction in numbers, if not the eventual elimination, of categories of people whose existence was undesired by them. Such undesirables were, in the earliest years of the history of the Eugenics Education Society (the name of the group at the time of its founding in 1907), referred to dismissively as ‘the residuum’ and later as ‘the paupers’; in order to study them, the eugenics mob sponsored so-called ‘Pauper Pedigree Projects,’ to reinforce the notion of ‘social class biologically defined.’… It was Sir Francis Galton, the proponent of ‘hereditarianism,’ who declared in 1883 that the ‘Age of Eugenics’ had begun (the name of the Eugenics Society today is the Galton Institute). ["Eugenics: Masters of Genocide," Mark Burdman: www.bosnet.org/archive/bosnet.w3archive/9407/msg00211.html]Continued in PART 3
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THINKING CHRISTIANS PART 3 of 31887-88 – William Blackstone founds Messianic Jewish mission to promote concept of Jewish colonization of Palestine.1889-91 - Formation of Cecil Rhodes' Round Table under financial control of Rothschild Family with purpose of creating international federalism. The League of Nations/U.N. were instrumental in creation of the State of Israel. “The ‘Rhodes secret society’ was a group of imperial federalists, formed in the period after 1889 and using the economic resources of South Africa to extend and perpetuate the British Empire... “During this period of almost sixty years [1889-1940], this society has been called by various names. During the first decade or so it was called ‘the secret society of Cecil Rhodes’ or ‘the dream of Cecil Rhodes.’ In the second and third decades of its existence it was known as Milner's Kindergarten (1901-1910) and as ‘the Round Table Group.’“In each of his seven wills, Rhodes entrusted his bequest to a group of men to carry out his purpose. In the first will…the trustees were Lord Carnarvon and Sidney Shippard. In the second will (1882), the sole trustee was his friend N.E. Pickering. In the third will (1888), Pickering having died, the sole trustee was Lord Rothschild…“The secret society, after so much preliminary talk, took form in 1891, the same year in which Rhodes drew up his fourth will and made Stead as well as Rothschild the trustee of his fortune. It is perfectly clear from the evidence that he expected Rothschild to handles the financial investments associated with the trust, while Stead was to have full charge of the methods by which the funds were used.” [Quigley, Carroll. The Anglo-American Establishment, NY: Books in Focus, 1981] 1890 - Blackstone holds conference on Israel with Jews and Christians; Jews reject restoration to Palestine as unbiblical.“Upon his return, Blackstone organized ‘The Conference on the Past, Present and Future of Israel,’ held in Chicago in 1890. Participants in this conference, said to be the first between Christians and Jews in America, numbered several noted Jews, such as Rabbi Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, who taught Judaism at the University of Chicago and was a major spokesman for the radical wing of the Reform movement, and Dr. Bernhard Felsenthal, one of the founders of Chicago's pre-Herzl Zionist movement. However, the Christian participants in the conference were shocked by their Jewish colleagues. One evangelical journalist observed that a ‘marked feature’ of the conference was ‘the disavowal by the Jewish speakers of any hope of return to Palestine.’ Ideas of Jewish restoration ‘came from Christian lips alone.’ “No Jew interpreted his prophecies to mean the re-gathering of his race into the land of their ancient home. No expectation was expressed of an earthly kingdom, Messianic or other, with Jerusalem as its capital.... ‘We, the modern Jews,’ said Rabbi E.G. Hirsch D.D., ‘do not wish to be restored to Palestine. We have given up the hope in the coming of a political, personal Messiah. We say, ‘The country wherein we live is our Palestine, and the city wherein we dwell is our Jerusalem. We will not go back...to form again a nationality of our own....Let our religious life be clothed in the symbols of the life we see living round about us. Let our synagogues speak the language of the cities in which we dwell. Let our ceremonial be constituted in harmony with the culture by which are surrounded.’” 1891, March 5 – Seven years before Theodore Herzl's First Zionist Congress, William Blackstone petitions Pres. Benjamin Harrison to authorize homeland for the Jews in Palestine. Groundwork laid for Judaized Christianity; Blackstone 'father of Zionism'.1891, March - Cecil Rhodes establishes his 'Circle of Initiates'. "Rhodes made seven wills which established a secret society modelled after the Jesuits and Masons to help bring in a One-World Government centered upon Britain, and the Rhodes Scholarships. The inner group was established in Mar. 1891 and consisted of Rhodes, Stead, Lord Esher (Brett), and 33º Mason Alfred Milner. A secondary circle of 'potential members of the Circle of Initiates' consisted of the Jew Lord Balfour, Sir Harry Johnson, Lord Rothschild, Lord Grey and others." [Springmeier, Fritz, THE TOP 13 ILLUMINATI BLOODLINES, Portland, OR: Fritz Springmeier, 1995: www.plausiblefutures.com/illuminati/bloodlines.html]1897, August 30 - Zionist Jews create First Zionist Congress, later taken over by the Rothschild family.1899 - Zionist Jews set up funding for the Nation of Israel.1903 - Lubavitcher Rabbi Shulem Schneerson rejects Zionism as being in opposition to the Torah (Deut. 30)."In 1903, the Jewish pen of Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Shulem ben Schneersohn wrote: ‘But the Zionists are far more cunning in their evil and they have made nationalism a substitute for Torah and commandments. Mendelstam in his open letter stated that a Jew was not one who fulfilled the commandments but one who is a Zionist... [T]he leader of the Zionists has set up the Nationalism, rebellion against the Lord and denial of Torah and commandments, on the very site of the Temple of the Lord.’" 1908 - Federal Council of Churches founded by John D. Rockefeller.The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in the America was used routinely by the Rockefellers to further their personal interests in church circles. Rockefeller donated to the Federal Council's Department of Church and Economic Life and promoted the concept of an international church. This is how ecumenism got its beginning as Rockefeller became its most important financier of liberal and ecumenical Protestantism. 1909 – C.I. Scofield, a member of the Niagara Prophecy Conference with Blackstone, publishes his Scofield Reference Bible which promotes the teaching that places Israel back in the land of Palestine during the Tribulation Period. 1911 – Otto Warburg became president of Zionist Organization.“Otto Warburg, an international financier and banker and scion of the Warburg family, followed Wolffsohn as president [of the Zionist Organization]. He held the position from 1911 to 1920, during which time ‘Practical work in Palestine’ was emphasized. This practical work meant the purchasing of land and the establishment of Jewish colonies there. “The Great War, later known as WWI, brought a halt to the activities of the ZO, during its length. The head office, which became located in 1911 in Berlin was separated from the Zionists living in the Allied Countries as opposed to those living in the Central Power countries. In 1915 a liaison office was opened in neutral Holland, in Copenhagen, and in 1917 with the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the political center of the ZO was transferred to London, where the London Zionist Conference of 1920 was held, the first gathering of the ZO after the war…“It is also interesting to note that at the same time that Herzl was president of the ZO from 1897 to 1904, he also simultaneously held the position of Chairman of the Zionist General Council, a feat repeated by Otto Warburg during his tenure from 1911-1920.” ["Articles and Speeches by DYR Board Members": www.deiryassin.org/byboard2b.html]1914 – The Rothschilds finance Rockefeller's founding of the Standard Oil Company which was used during World War I to channel funds for creation of the Zionist State of Israel. 1914-17 - World War I prompts speculation about restoration of the Jewish homeland; Balfour Declaration addressed to Lord James Rothschild.1917, February 17 - England becomes center for Zionist activities. England had become the center of Zionist activities, and in February 1917, negotiations with the British Government officially convened. Meetings were between [Baron Edmond Day], Rothschild, Bentwich, Cohen-Gaster, Sacher, Right Honourable Herbert Samuel, Chaim Weizman, Nahum Sokolow, Sir Mark Sukes and M. George Picot. “It was England that gave Zionism the movement to revive a Jewish state, its first political nourishment. It was England that lobbied the League of Nations for a mandate to govern the new colony of Palestine. England that appointed a Jew to oversee the mandate, England that tried to help the Zionists in the face of American indifference, England that condemned Hitler's racism.” [Loftus, John and Mark Aarons. THE SECRET WAR AGAINST THE JEWS: HOW WESTERN ESPIONAGE BETRAYED THE JEWISH PEOPLE, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1994] 1917 - Balfour Declaration drafted by Lord Milner of the Rhodes' Round Table. After 4 centuries of Ottoman rule...the land [of Palestine] was taken in 1917 by Britain, which in the Balfour Declaration of that year pledged to support a Jewish national homeland there, as foreseen by the Zionists. It was a Rothschild who helped create the state of Israel. In 1917, after serving as a member of the British Parliament, Zionist 2nd Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild--the eldest son who inherited Nathan's money and title after his death in 1915--received a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressing approval for the establishment of a homeland for Jews in Palestine. This letter became known as the Balfour Declaration. 1918 - Treaty of Versailles, drafted by Rothschild agents, cripples German economy and prepares the way for Hitler. "When Germany fell, not only did Rothschild agents draft the treaty, prepare the idea of the League of Nations, but Max Rothschild was one of 11 men who took control over Bavaria. Max Rothschild was a Freemason in Lodge No. 11, Munich, Germany. Victor Rothschild, who worked for J.P. Morgan & Co., and was an important part of MI5 (British Intelligence). Victor Rothschild was also a communist and member of the Apostles Club at Cambridge. Lord Rothschild was one of the original members of Rhodes' Round Table group which developed into the CFR. It was the Rothschilds who had financed Cecil Rhodes, beginning in Africa.” – 77:155 "The Treaty of Versailles' nonnegotiable terms demanded the forfeiture of German colonies as well as a number of conquered or traditionally German lands: the dismemberment of the German military machine; the arrest of hundreds of German militarists and leaders as war criminals, including the German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II; the granting of most-favored, nonreciprocal foreign commercial rights in Germany; and a certain amount of interim foreign occupation. The German leadership was to sign a hated statement of total war guilt. Additionally, Germany was to pay war reparations over the next two years of 5 billion gold marks and approximately 15 billion marks' worth in cattle, timber and other barterable items. The Allies allowed no negotiation of Versailles' oppressive terms and refused to lift the economic and material blockade until German leaders accepted what later German generations would call the Diktat. "Two years later, the Allied Reparations Commission levied additional reparations of 132 billion gold marks. Such a monumental sum, payable in cash and goods, would be a garnishment for generations, a commercial enslavement that would hold Germany captive for fifty to a hundred years. Germany's population, and indeed world leaders and historians, would later brand the Versailles Treaty as merciless and intolerable." [Black, Edwin. THE TRANSFER AGREEMENT: THE DRAMATIC STORY OF THE PACT BETWEEN THE THIRD REICH AND JEWISH PALESTINE, NY: MacMillan, 1984: www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/b/black-edwin/chapter-01.html] 1919 - Milner Round Table Group founds and controls British Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) at Paris Peace Conference; also influences the League of Nations and British policies and mandates concerning Palestine and Germany. “...[The Milner Group] founded the British Empire periodical The Round Table in 1910, and this remains the mouthpiece of the Group; it has been the most powerful single influence in All Souls, Balliol, and New Colleges at Oxford for more than a generation; it has controlled The Times for more than fifty years. . .it publicized the idea of and the name 'British Commonwealth of Nations' in the period 1908-1918; it was the chief influence in Lloyd George's war administration in 1917-1919 and dominated the British delegation to the Peace Conference of 1919; it had a great deal to do with the League of Nations and of the system of mandates; it founded the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1919 and still controls it; it was one of the chief influences on British policy toward Ireland, Palestine, and India in the period 1917-1945; it was a very important influence on the policy of appeasement of Germany during the years 1920-40; and it controlled and still controls, to a very considerable extent, the sources and the writing of the history of British and Imperial and foreign policy since the Boer War.” [Quigley, Carroll. The Anglo-American Establishment, NY: Books in Focus, 1981] Rothschild and the Prieuré de Sion call the shots behind the scenes. “The British Round Table group served at the conference as advisers to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. [The real behind- the-scene experts at the Paris conference included M. (Georges) Mandel (real name Jeroboam Rothschild) (France), Phillip Sassoon (1888-1939) (England) and Bernard Baruch (U.S.).] Beer was named head of the Mandate Department of the League of Nations as soon as it was established. Beer was also one of the originators of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and its American branch, The Council on Foreign Relations. Thomas W. Lamont, Isaiah Bowman, George Louis Beer and Whitney H. Shepardson approached Robert Cecil about planning a strategy for future joint ventures. They arranged for a party for fifty at the Hotel Majestic in Paris on May 30. 1919. At Paris the Royal Institute for International Affairs was created after WWI. “The Prieuré de Sion - the Elders of Sion also relates to the Rothschilds who are reported to serve on a Jewish council of Elders of Sion... For instance, Armstrong, the Rothschild Trust, p. 196, 'That is the present objective of Jeroboam Rothschild and his secret Elders of Zion.'” 1922, May - Protocols of the Learned Elders of Sion highly publicized by Henry Ford.1922, July 24 – British Mandate over Palestine established by the League of Nations.1922, September 11 - British Mandate proclaimed in Palestine.1930s - American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith support Hitler."In the 1930s, Cyrus Adler, president of the American Jewish Committee, coordinated with the family’s B’nai B’rith, and the family’s {New York Times}, to crush all U.S. political action against Adolf Hitler in Germany. The B’nai B’rith was the one Jewish organization that Hitler deliberately {left open }and functioning under Nazi rule from 1933 on. In 1939, Britain made a dramatic change in its policy toward Hitler-after teaching Hitler his race theories, after forcefully backing his takeover of Germany, after financing and equipping his armies, Britain now changed publicly to opposing Hitler. Only at that point, in 1939, about a year after Hitler finally closed B’nai B’rith’s Nazi-authorized German operations, B’nai B’rith decided to 'approve' an international boycott against the Nazi regime..." ["The KKK's Scottish Rite Project," Anton Chaitkin: www.impiousdigest.com/lbj/fox.htm]1933 – First National Grand Lodge established in Israel at the time the Jews began to immigrate from Nazi-occupied territories.1933-39 - Zionist Jews began to return to Palestine from Nazi-occupied territories.1939-44 - Britain controlled Jewish refugee policy.1943, Easter – Holocaust victims denied admission to Allied countries, a policy which forced survivors to populate Palestine. “In 1943, the Holocaust was in full operation, but in April in that year in Bermuda, a conference of British and American officials formally decided that nothing should be done about it. They ‘ruled out all plans for mass rescue’. The British Foreign Office and the U.S. State Department were both afraid that the Third Reich would be quite willing, indeed eager, to stop the gas chambers, empty the concentration camps, and let hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Jewish survivors emigrate to freedom in the West. The Foreign Office ‘revealed in confidence’ to the State Department its fear that Hitler might permit a mass exodus. If approaches to Germany to release Jews were ‘pressed too much that is exactly what might happen’. The bigoted reality behind the Secret Report of the Easter 1943 Bermuda Conference was that not a single Allied nation wanted to let the Jews settle in its country… Only after the war was it confirmed that a rescue operation could have been successful… No one campaigned to rescue the Jews because the leaders of the Western nations had deliberately withheld the truth about the Holocaust from their own citizens. After verification by each of the Allied intelligence services, the body counts of murdered Jews were quietly classified as early as September 1941… “Even after 1943, when Allied aircraft in Italy were in bombing range of the gas chambers, John J. McCloy, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, had ordered in writing that no American planes be diverted to the concentration camps.” [ Loftus, John and Mark Aarons. THE SECRET WAR AGAINST THE JEWS: HOW WESTERN ESPIONAGE BETRAYED THE JEWISH PEOPLE, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1994] 1945, June 6 - United Nations created.1948, May 14 - State of Israel created1949, May – Israel admitted to United Nations.1953 – First Grand Lodge of Freemasonry established in the Holy Land.1963-64 – Scottish Rite of Freemasonry established in Israel.1967, June 5-10 - Six-Day War: Israel captured two strategic areas for end-time scenario: Jerusalem and the Golan Heights (Mt. Hermon).1974 - United Nations controls Mount Hermon area in Israel.1974 - Biblical Archaeology Society seeks a site for the Masonically-inspired rebuilding of Solomon's Temple. “HM Queen Elizabeth II's Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF), according to its leaders, today cites the Biblical Archaeology Society as the foremost source updating British Freemason Sir Charles Warren's work on the question of rebuilding Solomon's Temple on Al-Haram Al-Sharif (Noble Mount) in Jerusalem. The Biblical Archeology Society, founded by Ivy Leagues graduate Hershel Shanks in 1974,...has carried out the foremost debate on the site for rebuilding Solomon's Temple based upon the work of British Mason Sir Charles Warren. The Society has produced more than 17 articles in its various publications for Christian Fundamentalist consumption... “PEF cites two authors of note for the Biblical Archaeology Review: Asher Kaufmann, who is a member of the "Correspondence Circle" of the Quator Coronati [Lodge], as well as a protégé of Aldermaston/British Museum scientist T.E. Allibone, who dispatched him to Israel to poke around Al-Haram Al Sharif after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; and Leen Ritmeyer, an agent of Lord Jacob Rothschild. “One of the original leaders of Biblical Archaeology Review was Barbara Ledeen, whose husband is Michael Ledeen; his first book, Universal Fascism, was written in praise of Giuseppe Mazzini's Freemasonic Propaganda Uno (P-1). Later as the P-2 scandal broke, Michael Ledeen was deployed by Sir Henry Kissinger, KCMG, to clean up the evidence of Sir Henry's funding of P-2 and his likely involvement in the assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro...’” [ "Who is Sparking A Religious War in the Middle East?--And How To Stop It", Executive Intelligence Review Special Report, December 2000] 2002 – 70 Masonic Lodges in Israel.2002, October 11 - Christian Support for Israel Rally."CHRISTIAN COALITION OF AMERICA AND JOHN HAGEE MINISTRIES PRESENT: Christian Support for Israel Rally, At the Ellipse (in front of the White House) Friday, October 11, 2002, 2:00 - 4:00pm, It’s time for the Christians of America to proclaim to the world we stand with Israel. It’s time to boldly declare to Israel and the Jewish people… 'You Are Not Alone!' 'For Zions sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet.' ISAIAH 62:1 "Roberta Combs, President of Christian Coalition of America, Joyce Meyer, President of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Pastor John Hagee, President of John Hagee Ministries, Rep. Tom DeLay, Rep. J.C. Watts, Dr. Pat Robertson, Dr. Jerry Falwell, Rev. James Robison, Ron Kenoly" - [ J.H. Magazine, John Hagee Ministries, Summer 2002: www.jhm.org/mag-pdfs/israelmag.pdf]Evangelicals' *anything for Israel* doctrine facilitates Judeo-Masonic takeover of the Holy Land. "In an effort to solidify its relationship with American evangelicals, the government of Israel has launched initiatives that include expense-paid trips to the Holy Land and strategy sessions with the Christian Coalition and other conservative groups. The objectives: to revive Israel's sagging tourism industry and strengthen grass-roots support in the United States. The target audience is the estimated 98 million U.S. evangelicals, but especially a subset of that group, Christian Zionists... But Christian Zionism is about more than private belief. Its 'anything for Israel' theology has the potential to affect U.S. foreign policy in the same way that the Christian right has influenced domestic issues through political pressure."[ "Israel's Evangelical Approach: U.S. Christian Zionists Nurtured as Political, Tourism Force," Mark O'Keefe, Religion News Service, Jan. 26, 2002] "Promise Keepers national spokesman Mark DeMoss is a professional at preparing fanatics for Armageddon warfare. As chief of staff to Jerry Falwell, DeMoss was the administrator of the self-proclaimed 'Christian Embassy' in Jerusalem. The embassy serves as a bridge between End Times Christians, lunatic freemasons, and right-wing Israeli Zionists. This is a pivotal component of the Temple Mount initiative to foment a religious war over the holy sites in Jerusalem, to 'fulfill Scripture.' This covert network is engaged in the most dangerous terrorist provocation, which may yet bring on End Times unless it is handcuffed. At Fort Bliss, Texas, DeMoss's Promise Keepers were engaged to train the nation's highest-ranking non-commissioned officers. Earlier this year, the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy advertised 'training with `Promise Keepers' as a 'spiritual fitness program,' on the Army unit's official Internet web site."["Who is Wagging Your Neighbor's Tongue? Pentecostalism and the Militias," Anton Chaitkin, Executive Intelligence Review: www.larouchepub.com/ahc.htmlGET THE DRIFT HERE, PEOPLE? ACTUALLY, THE START OF ALL THIS GOES BACK FUTHER THAN I HAVE LISTED HERE; IT IS TOO OVERWHELMING TO POST IT ALL, JUST GIVE ME TIME. NOW DO YOU NON-AMERICANS UNDERSTAND WHY THINGS ARE SO CRAZY IN MY COUNTRY? AND BY THE WAY, NOT ONLY BUSH, BUT NEARLY ALL U.S. PRESIDENTS HAVE BLOODLINE LINKS TO THESE VAMPIRES, 'CEPT THE HISTORY BOOKS NEVER TOLD US COMMON FOLKS THAT!....Michelle End of FH postAs a young Roman Catholic I grew up loving Jesus [known now to me as Sananda] and his teachings. His message is so simple, so beautiful: Love one another as I have loved you. That's it in a nutshell: LOVE EVERYONE; WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS. No true follower of his teachings can support what is going on in our world today. "What Would Jesus Do?" what would he say to us? He'd say something like this: "Get off your couch and march, protest, scream, storm Washington, write letters, talk to people, DO SOMETHING to bring about change; nothing is too small." And he'd tell us, "It is up to YOU, my friends, to CHANGE YOUR WORLD." In honor of Jesus/Sananda and the tears I am sure he is shedding, here's a flash video.....Michelle Jesus Loves Me (Flash)by Ava Lowery www.peacetakescourage.com/wwjd.html
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Post by michelle on Jun 30, 2006 13:23:14 GMT 4
Israel is The Mother of Terrorism in The Middle EastBy: Dr. Elias Akleh* June 26, 2006 Israel must renounce its state terrorism, recognize Palestinian rights to exist freely and independently in their own state, must abide by all previous political agreements it struck with the Palestinian Authority (PA), must adopt all UN resolutions, and must obey all international laws.The state of Israel was established by Zionist terror organizations such as Irgun (or Etzel), Hagana, and Stern, who used to plant bombs in crowded Palestinian markets, cafes, shops, and buses. What was called Israeli military intelligence then had carried out a bombing campaign in Egypt in 1954, and had hijacked a Syrian civilian airliner in the same year in order to obtain hostages to trade for captured Zionist spies. Even before the establishment of the Zionist Israeli state, all of its leaders up to the present had committed savage massacres and war crimes against innocent unarmed Palestinian civilians; starting with the massacre of Dir Yasin, Kufr Qasim, Tantura, Sabra and Shatila, Quana, Jenin, and up to the present genocidal financial and economical siege and blockade of the whole Palestinian people. The Geneva Convention defines genocide, among others, as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, including deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”. Israeli prime ministers are the most notorious terrorists. The first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion had established the Israeli state on the total destruction and obliteration of at least 500 Palestinian towns and villages. Menachem Begin, commanded the terrorist organization Irgun, praised the massacre of Dir Yasin calling it a “miracle”. Begin’s Irgun had committed many terrorist attacks against Palestinian and British civilians, that led Ben Gurion to refer to the Irgun as “Jewish Nazis” and compared Begin to Hitler. Yitzhak Shamir masterminded the murder of hundreds of Palestinian and British civilians, and was responsible for the bombing of King David Hotel in Jerusalem. His Lehi terrorist gang was responsible for the assassination of the British minister in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, in Cairo in November 1944, and the assassination of UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte in September 1948. Yitzhak Rabin carried the massacres in Palestinian towns of Lud and Ramleh and ordered his soldiers to break the bones of Palestinian youngsters’ bones during the Intifada. Ehud Barak orchestrated the assassination of three Palestinian leaders in Lebanon in 1970. Ariel Sharon, hailed by Israelis as “king of Israel”, was the most notorious butcher of them all. His whole career was filled with massacres of Palestinian, Egyptian, and Lebanese civilians. All the Israeli Prime Ministers had committed racial and religious cleansing on a very large scale and this cleansing is still going on until today. After the establishment of the Israeli state on the usurped Palestinian land all the Zionist terror organizations had united together in one organization to become the Israeli army. This Israeli army became a terrorist organization for hire. This was clear when Israel joined Britain and France in their war against Egypt in 1956 after Egyptian President Naser had nationalized the Suez Canal. Among the payments Israel received was Dimona nuclear reactor built by France, and heavy water for nuclear material from Britain. Terrorism is embodied in the Israeli army, who had invaded all the neighboring Arab states; Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. The army committed many massacres and war crimes murdering unarmed innocent civilians, demolishing civilian homes, razing agricultural lands, and indiscriminately bombing and destroying whole Arab cities. Within Palestine itself the Israeli soldiers routinely shoot Palestinian civilians at point blank. Israeli soldiers deliberately target Palestinian children. During the Intifada Israeli snipers had murdered many Palestinian children by shooting them in the head and in upper torso. Israeli soldiers had systematically targeted medical ambulances killing the sick, the wounded and even doctors. They routinely raid Palestinian hospitals and kidnap wounded Palestinians from the operating tables. Israeli checkpoints had prevented the sick and pregnant women from traveling to hospitals in the main cities. At least 20 newborn infants had died at the checkpoints during birth during the last three years. Israeli air raids bomb Palestinian neighborhoods murdering civilians the majority of them children. The latest air raid Tuesday 6/20 had claimed three children and seven wounded. Israeli soldiers, snipers, and tower guards made it a game to shoot Palestinian civilians especially children. They shoot at everything that moves. This has become a normative behavior; we just need to look at the number of Palestinian children who had been shot in the head and chest. The incident of an Israeli commander emptying his machine gun in the dead body of 13-year-old girl “Iman Alhems”, who was shot while on her way to school, shows how much Palestinian children had been dehumanized by the Israeli army. Many Palestinian children had been murdered while in streets, in their own houses, playing in front of their homes, and even in their class rooms.Contrary to the Zionist propaganda, Israeli soldiers behave like savage barbarians and common thieves. During their raids on, and while bulldozing, Palestinian homes Israeli soldiers treat Palestinian civilians, including children, with avenging savagery and extreme terror to traumatize the new generation and to instill the feelings of helpless and worthless in their heart. They savagely kick the people out of their homes without giving a chance to collect their belongings. They start smashing furniture, stealing electrical and electronic equipments, steal any money and jewelry they find before demolishing the home while Palestinian families watch with broken hearts. Armed Israeli soldiers had broken into Palestinians banks and loaded all Palestinian money on their military truck and drove away in bright daylight like common thieves. Even Israeli civilians carry this terrorist spirit. Many Israeli colonies had formed what they termed “underground” movements (terrorist organizations) to allegedly protect the colonies from the “dangerous” Palestinian farmers. Members of these “underground” terrorist organizations had committed massacres against Palestinians. The most famous happened on February 1994 when Barukh Goldstein from Kahane terrorist organization gunned down 29 praying Muslims in the Ibrahim Mosque in Hebron. Israelis of “Kiryat Arba” colony, built on confiscated Palestinian land, had erected a memorial shrine for Goldstein calling him “the saint”. The Israeli terrorist “Dennis Ruhan” bombed Al-Aqsa mosque in August 1969 and burnt part of it, while another terrorist “Allan Goodman” sneaked into the same mosque with his machine gun in April 1982 and murdered two praying Palestinians and wounded nine others. “David Bin Shimoul” fired a missile at a Palestinian bus in October 1984 in Jerusalem killing one civilian and wounding ten others. In May 1990 “’Ami Pauper” sprayed with his machine gun Palestinian laborer waiting at a bus stop killing seven and wounding eleven. “Naom Friedman” opened fire at market goers in Hebron in February 1997 murdering two and wounding seven. Israeli armed civilians routinely fire at Palestinians in Hebron, fire-bomb their homes and shops, and harass children and students. “’Idan Zadeh” got on a Palestinian bus in the Arab town of “Shefa-‘Amr” in August 2005 to empty his machine gun murdering four Palestinians and wounding thirty. This hatred and terror is not restricted only in members of Israeli terror organizations, the rest of the Israeli settlers are also participating in a campaign of terror against the neighboring Palestinian villages. Amnesty International had reported that Israeli security forces and settlers are being allowed to perpetrate abuses (and crimes) against Palestinians without any fear of being brought to justice. Under the protection of Israeli soldiers settlers routinely attack Palestinian farmers, rob or burn their crops and cut their trees. They poison their livestock, shoot their animals, and demolish their farm shacks. They dump their sewage water at Palestinian cities in a germ warfare to spread diseases. They release wild animals such as wild bores and wolfs in Palestinian farm land to terrorize farmers and to destroy their crops. None of these criminal settlers was ever brought to justice, while when a Palestinian is merely suspected of standing up against these settlers to protect his life, the lives of his family members, and his land he would be arrested and brought to Israeli courts to be harshly and unjustly sentenced. Israeli citizens are raised, since childhood, in a culture of hatred against every thing Palestinian. Israeli government had adopted a campaign of hatred against Muslims and Arabs. This campaign starts in their elementary schools fostering racism, arrogance and hatred. The Israeli literature is full with demeaning descriptions of Arabs as robbers, traitors, and sex-craving animals. Zionist Israeli religious leaders routinely describe Palestinians as insects and cockroaches to be crushed under the foot. This hatred is manifested in the aggression of settlers and soldiers, who proudly show off their hatred with “born to kill” bandanas on their helmets. Polls had shown that the majority of Israelis and of Zionist Jews around the world are in favor of expulsion of the Palestinians from Palestine to “cleanse” their own promised land from heathens (Muslims and Christians alike). Israeli state terror tactics against Palestinians constitute a premeditative genocide. Since 1948 Zionists had robbed more than half of Palestine and established their own god’s promised state of Israel, and in their 1967 aggression war they occupied the rest of Palestine. Zionist Israelis are the aggressors and the occupiers, who had, and still are, terrorizing defenseless armless Palestinian civilian communities. Palestinians have been living under the brutal terrorizing Israeli occupation for the last 58 years; the longest military occupation in history. Israel is driven by a terrorist, racist, and fake fundamental religious ideology of “god’s chosen people in god’s Promised Land”. Even before establishing the state of Israel all Israeli leaders, without exception, had been calling for the preservation of the pure Jewish blood in a Jewish only state, a twin ideology of the Nazi’s pure superior Arian blood. Although the PLO had recognized the State of Israel in 1992 Oslo Peace Accord and was content to establish Palestinian state on only 22% of historical Palestine, Israel had never recognized Palestinians as a people, but as a minority represented by the PA. Israel had never recognized Palestinians’ rights to live as a free nation in their own independent state, nor recognized the right of expelled Palestinian refugees to return to their own land as mandated by UN Resolution 194. Israel had violated tens of UN resolutions and had broken many international laws. Israel is not really interested in any peaceful agreement with its neighboring Arabs. Contrary to the Israeli claims peace and security are not Israel’s goals. Its only goal is Zionist expansion and conquest of the Arab World to build its “Greatest Israel” from Nile to Euphrates. This is apparent in Israel’s rejection of all peaceful solutions offered by UN resolutions, Palestinian agreements, Arab peaceful initiatives, and many Western intermediary proposals. In contrast Israel had never offered any peace initiative but unilateral redeployments, threatening promises, and more colonial expansions. Israel’s state terrorism has the advantage of being condoned by US & EU governments and ignored and distorted by all mainstream media, while Palestinian self-defense, resistance to Israel’s illegal occupation, and any retaliation to Israeli terror attacks are exaggerated and condemned as “terrorism”. All Israeli crimes, including assassinations, targeting children, razing farm land, robbing Palestinian land to build their own colonies, house demolitions, and indiscriminate air bombing of civilian communities with American made F16 and bombs are described as self-defense and war against terror, while Palestinians are portrayed as cold blooded suicide bomber, baby killers, ruthless terrorists. With all its military might Israel is portrayed as the victims of the rudimentary Palestinian rockets that, so far, had killed nobody. Palestinian victims, the majority of which are children and women, are described as armed terrorists who are determined to wipe Israelis off the face of earth. The big myth about the Zionist Israeli state is that it is a democracy. The truth of the matter is that Israel is a theocratic terroracracy driven by dangerous apocalyptic religious beliefs of “god’s chosen people in god’s promised land”. Its government is influenced by arrogant, racist, and militaristic religious parties, who pose a real threat to international peace and security. Israel is destabilizing the Middle East by its policies of aggression on Arab neighbors and its “cleansing” of indigenous Palestinians in an attempt to “preserve pure Jewishness of Israel” much like the Nazi’s “super Arian blood”. Countries, which support Israel financially, militarily, politically and economically, are harboring international state terror and should be condemned internationally. * Dr. Elias Akleh is an Arab writer from a Palestinian descent, born in the town of Beit-Jala and lives in the US.Source: www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2006/june/june26-0.html
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Post by michelle on Jul 6, 2006 18:25:13 GMT 4
9,000 to 1? Destroy the Gaza Strip by James Brooks July 4, 2006 The ScoreIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert lost no time in exploiting Hamas’ capture of an Israeli soldier to justify Israel’s long-planned re-occupation of the Gaza Strip and mass arrest of the Hamas leadership. In his haste, he has inadvertently achieved a rare thing. He has managed to reduce the absurdity of Israel’s position to a known ratio: 9,000 to 1. Nine thousand captured Palestinians languish in Israel’s notorious “security prisons,” including 380 children and 115 women. Every day Israeli troops and Border Police kidnap, interrogate, torture and imprison Palestinians, often by the dozen. The arrest raids never stop, regardless of summits, truces, or cease-fires. It is estimated that 650,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned by Israel since the current occupation began in 1967. Arrest and incarceration is such a common experience that it has become a virtual rite of passage for Palestinian boys; men go to prison. In the past year we’ve read several reports of pre-teen boys, some as young as 8, approaching Israeli soldiers and asking, even begging, to be arrested. But God forbid that even one of Israel’s tender teen warriors should be captured in battle, as young Gilat Shalit was. That would be going too far. That would justify blowing up key bridges and destroying the electricity source of two-thirds of the Gaza Strip. Columns of invading tanks and scores of US-supplied jet fighters and combat helicopters would be required to hunt for the missing soldier, and attack the Palestinian Interior Ministry. From top to bottom, little Gaza would be subjected to yet another round of fierce shelling from land, air, and sea. All in a day’s hunt. After years of bargaining with Hizbullah “terrorists” over prisoners captured during Israel’s occupation of Lebanon, Israelis know that this hysteria over a single soldier is only a ruse. But that doesn’t stop them from falling for it all over again, and Olmert appears to have public support for his new version of total war on the Gaza Strip, cynically code named “Operation Summer Rain.” The score is 9,000 to 1 and the Israelis are outraged. It should be 9,000 to 0. Accelerating Humanitarian Catastrophe The western world seemed surprised by the scale and severity of Israel’s collective punishment. As if it could join the war on Hamas by destroying Palestine’s economy and not also encourage lawless Israel to destroy Hamas by any means necessary. European and UN diplomats have expressed concern that the economic siege is succeeding too quickly. The fundamentals of social order and sheer survival in the occupied territories are collapsing sooner than anticipated, while the band-aid of humanitarian aid promised by the Quartet remains on the drawing board, largely due to persistent US obstruction. In 2003, international aid agencies compared the economy of the occupied Gaza Strip to countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Malnutrition was endemic, poverty rates were over 50 percent, and unemployment was chronically high. It is far worse today. Prior to this week’s operation, Gaza faced a “humanitarian catastrophe” according to the UN and others. The international economic embargo has compounded the damage already inflicted by Israel’s repeated closures of Gaza’s borders, which have been shut more than they’ve been open this year. Most of an entire harvest has rotted while awaiting shipment. For several months Gaza has been living a hand-to-mouth existence. More than once the Strip has run out of critical staples like flour, sugar, and salt. Now more than 800,000 people have no electricity. The Israeli attack on the central substation’s transformer was precisely devastating -- repairs are expected to take several months. For most, no power means no water. Perhaps Israel disagreed with its European allies. Perhaps it decided the Palestinians weren’t starving fast enough, so thirst, disease, and heat prostration had to be added to “the mix” of tactics to “persuade” the Palestinian people to abandon the government they elected. The citizens of Gaza now have no access to the outside world, very little food and water, no fuel, and little or no electricity, refrigeration, and air conditioning in the middle of a brutally hot summer. The Israeli army is back in force, a third of the bankrupt Palestinian Legislative Council is in Israeli jails, and the unpaid and unsupplied health care system has essentially collapsed. Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz, who is responsible for the day-to-day operations of this expanding nightmare, has assured us that he is a “man who seeks peace... I do not look forward to battle.” When this Moroccan-born labor leader and Peace Now member took the helm of Israel’s Labor Party last year, he was greeted with a blizzard of liberal hosannas hailing a political “earthquake,” the return of Israel’s peace movement, and other wonders. As if Israel’s aspiring politicians hadn’t always climbed to the top on the backs of dead Palestinians. Now the peaceful Mr. Peretz is indictable for war crimes perpetrated in the planning and conduct of Operation Summer Rain. He is on his way. Dangers of the Peace Process In its latest step up the escalator of compound violence, Israel has deployed a new blunt instrument to ensure that “there is no partner for peace.” Now, if it decides it doesn’t like a Palestinian diplomat, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, for example, it can simply imprison him on terrorism charges. And if it doesn’t like the results of a free and fair Palestinian election, it can simply kidnap the elected government. This week, more than 60 Hamas party members of the Palestinian government have been arrested, including the heads of several ministries. One challenge in following and predicting the path of Israel’s foreign policy is that one can never be sure whether the next move will be a diplomatic proposal or an assassination. The murders of Swedish diplomat Count Bernadotte in 1948 and Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin in 2004 (and probably Yasser Arafat, as well) bookend more than five decades of chronically violent diplomatic relations, in which the assassination of difficult leaders has always been an option. It was recently revealed that in 1953, future Prime Minister Menachem Begin directed a failed plot to assassinate West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, simply to stop a reparations agreement the Chancellor was negotiating with the Israeli government. True to form, Israel has now delivered a letter to PA President Mahmoud Abbas in which it threatens to assassinate Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh if Gilat Shalit is not released unharmed. So now it’s a soldier for a prime minister. Any equation can be made, as long as it is wildly disproportionate and morally untenable. The point is always the same: the life of a Palestinian is barely worth consideration in comparison to the life of a Jew. Their value belongs to a different order of magnitude. A number of Israeli rabbis question the very humanity of Palestinians. While attempting to apologize for the recent deaths of 14 Palestinian civilians by Israeli shelling, Mr. Olmert reportedly asserted that “threatened” Israeli lives are “even more important.” How can Israel deliberately destroy the economy and critical infrastructure of a starving people, arrest their government, and threaten to assassinate their leader, while the “international community” does nothing? The US government’s determination to join Israel in destroying the Palestinians is obvious. Perhaps the EU’s obsession with gathering Israel into its future Mediterranean empire has shriveled its moral obligation to the Palestinians down to spare change and servings of Javier Solana’s hypocrisy. Or maybe today’s moral paralysis is the cumulative effect of doing nothing to stop Israel’s crimes for the past fifty-eight years. Perhaps moral cowardice grows with repetition, until war crimes become an ‘understandable and measured response’ and fascism is welcome at the front door. Whatever the causes, the trend seems clear: International law is dying with the Palestinians. James Brooks serves as webmaster for Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel (www.vtjp.org). He can be contacted at: jamiedb@wildblue.net. SOURCE: www.dissidentvoice.org/July06/Brooks04.htm*************************************************** ALSO SEE:Abduction Upsets a PlanPeter Hirschberg SNIP:JERUSALEM, Jun 30 (IPS) - Heckled by hardline parliamentarians, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tried to strike a defiant pose. Despite the spiralling violence in the Gaza Strip, from where Israel withdrew unilaterally last year, he insisted he would press ahead with his plan for a unilateral pullback in the West Bank. He had no regrets, he said, over his strong support for Israel's exit from Gaza, which it had occupied for 38 years.. "I have not backed down or changed my mind about the enormous historical importance of the (Gaza) disengagement plan," he told parliament Tuesday, just hours before Israel launched a ground offensive in the coastal strip. "I am convinced that in the coming years the State of Israel will realign into new borders which will obligate us to redeploy significantly." But the kidnapping this week of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants and the ground invasion of Gaza it has triggered have undercut the plan the Prime Minister placed at the centre of his election campaign and which he has now made his main policy goal. READ THE REST:www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33817*************************************************** Note from Michelle: Below in the newswire release we see what the Zionist World Jewish Congress is drumming up to take our eyes off of Israel's horrendous assault on the Palestinians. I'm beyond words in decribing how this is making me feel. The U.N. issued a very strong statement against Israel's attack, then Condi Rice issued a WARNING to return the Israeli soldier:UN: Gaza Siege Tramples Human Rightswww.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=73735 I'm sorry if I offend the Jewish people out there who lead decent lives and are basically good people, I have nothing against you; but damn, many of you need to wake up to the fact that you are being used, through your membership and support of numerous Jewish organizations, to fuel and hide daily atrocities rained down upon innocent peoples. Wake up for God's sake; the whole world is being affected by this. *************************************************** World Jewish Congress: New Human Rights Council Jeopardizes 'Moral Legitimacy' With One-Sided Condemnation of Israel7/5/2006 4:49:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Shai Franklin of WJC New York, 212-755-5770 NEW YORK, July 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The World Jewish Congress today called on members of the new United Nations Human Rights Council to reject a one-sided resolution that would condemn Israel and dispatch a special fact-finding mission to Gaza, under the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights."It is shameful that, as thousands continue to die in Darfur and millions languish under oppression worldwide, Israel has once again become the decoy of choice for regimes seeking to shield themselves from international scrutiny," said Shai Franklin, WJC Director of International Organizations. "By focusing its first-ever Special Emergency Session on Israel's alleged 'human rights violations' and now preparing to officially declare Israeli actions as meriting its first-ever fact-finding mission, the nascent Human Rights Council stands on the verge of abdicating all moral legitimacy and abandoning any premise of professional effectiveness." Franklin and other WJC officials were joined last month in Geneva by ten members of the WJC Young Professional Diplomatic Corps, young activists drawn from communities around the world at the opening of the Human Rights Council. According to Franklin, "In numerous meetings with diplomats attending the inaugural session of the Human Rights Council, our delegates reiterated the WJC's hope that the new body would improve upon what UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan had called the 'politicization and selectivity' of the now-defunct Human Rights Commission. Even at the opening ceremony of the new Council, the Secretary-General stressed that 'the peoples of the world will be watching to see whether those (human rights) standards are indeed upheld.'" A vote on the resolution is expected for tomorrow, Thursday, July 6. The World Jewish Congress is the international federation of Jewish communities around the world. The WJC serves as the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people to governments and international organizations worldwide.
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