Wednesday, December 25, 2013

We see them as human beings also, and also as victims of the Israeli regime and it's inhumane policies.
But the oppressed people come before the occupiers, just like most people consider first the suffering of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust before the German civilians who suffered in the Allied bombings.
It's not denying the humanity or the suffering of the latter.
Palestine was mentioned already by the Carian-Greek historian Herodotos(484-425 BCE).
United States of America must not exist either, as it was a Colonial invention by the British settlers of the eastern seaboard of the Turtle Island and had no previous existence prior to 1776.
Same goes naturally for Australia, Canada, New Zealand and that later invention of European settlers, Israel.
The first part is pure fantasy. The first written examples of Hebrew, for example, are short texts from the mid-8th century BCE.
Everything you write about Palestinians beyond the anthem is just wrong and I bet you know it. Even "liberal Zionists" Kimmerling and Migdah in their "The Palestinian People" date Palestinian identity (and national struggle) back to 1834.
Palestinian National Congresses were already meeting in the 1910s. Those who established PLO in 1964 included members of Palestinian parties of the 1920-1940s and participants of the 1936-1939 uprising against the British rule.
Palestinian flag was the Palestinian flag already in the 1930s and then it had the Muslim Crescent Moon and the Christian Cross in it, which were later removed to make it religiously neutral.
Israeli occupation claimed that Samer had broken the rules of his probation by visiting another village. Israel claims to have (illegally) annexed this particular village and claims it is part of Jerusalem, but now decided - so that they could get Samer back in jail - that it was actually on the West Bank. Because of this, as a part of the deal to end his hunger strike, Samer was sentenced to 8 months for supposedly breaking the rules of his probation.
Part of the prisoner exchange deal. Israel has imprisoned again dozens of ex- political prisoners released as part of it by using various excuses or none at all in some cases.
Israel accused Samer Issawi of being a member of DFLP - a small leftwing party (enjoys 3-4 percent support among Palestinians in the occupied territories), member of the Abbas' government, and no longer in US "terrorism" list - and having taken part in the second intifada in an armed attack against illegal settlers, in which no one was injured.
In the typical Israeli manner they had sentenced him for decades in jail for this act of opposing the occupation.

Baruch Goldstein, the illegal settler terrorist, murdered Samir's teenage brother and 28 other people in 1994. Goldstein is considered a great hero among large number of Jewish Israelis and his grave is a place of modern day pilgrimage.
Majority on either side is not interested in a lasting peace that majority on the other side would be ready to accept.
Palestinians are ready to give up far more than Israel, but this is still not enough for the majority on the Israeli side, which Israeli elections clearly show.
There simply isn't a majority on the Israeli side which would accept pre-1967 lines with few land swaps, which is basically the minimum for a viable Palestinian state.
In the current negotiations Israel demands that it would be allowed to annex Jordan Valley or at least control it for 25 more years. According to World Bank, Jordan Valley could produce 3.5 billion dollars a year for Palestinian state (currently Israel gets 620 million dollars a year from the illegal agricultural colonies in there), which is twice the whole international yearly aid to Palestinians.
Samer Issawi's hunger strike was a quite genuine hunger strike, otherwise the Israeli occupation would have claimed otherwise loud and clear.
His teenage brother was one of Baruch Goldstein's victims, most members of his family have been imprisoned by Israel, his brother Medhat for 19 years and one brother's home was destroyed by Israel as a "revenge" for his hunger strike.
3 civilians were killed in Gaza. 3 year old Hala Abu Sheikha, a so far unnamed man in Beit Lahiya and 22 year old Salah Abu Latif (the Israeli Bedouin). 6 others wounded, including mother and brother of Hala, the latter seriously.
These follow attacks in recent days against Gaza and Palestinian fishermen on sea by Israel. On 20th Israeli sniper killed civilian Odeh Jehad Hamad 1 kilometer inside Gaza.
Israel has broken the November 2012 truce almost 300 times, but Western media like CNN refuse to report Israel's atttacks on Gaza - and also most killings on West Banks by Israel, which have increased since the peace negotiations began again.
There have been increasing Israeli attacks in recent days, one civilian death, and apparently as a revenge a Popular Resistance Committee's sniper shot dead an Israeli civilian employee of IDF working on the border fence. After that Israel made artillery and bomb attacks, killing unnamed man and 3/4 year old Hala Abu Sheikha and injured badly her brother and mother.6 other Palestinians at least have been wounded, 3 combatants and 1 child among them.
In 1890 the actual population statistics for Palestine were 432 000 Muslims, 57 000 Christians and 43 000 Jews.
(In 1800 the numbers had been 246 000 Muslims, 22 000 Christians and 7000 Jews.)
In 1922 the numbers were 589 000 Muslims, 71 000 Christians and 84 000 Jews.
In 1931 the numbers were 760 000 Muslims, 89 000 Christians and 175 000 Jews.
In 1947 the numbers were 1 181 000 Muslims, 143 000 Christians and 630 000 Jews.
Oh, by the way, according to the Israeli Supreme Court in their recent decision to reject "Israeli" in national identification cards, there's no such people as "Israeli".
In 1890 the actual population statistics for Palestine were 432 000 Muslims, 57 000 Christians and 43 000 Jews.
(In 1800 the numbers had been 246 000 Muslims, 22 000 Christians and 7000 Jews.)
In 1922 the numbers were 589 000 Muslims, 71 000 Christians and 84 000 Jews.
In 1931 the numbers were 760 000 Muslims, 89 000 Christians and 175 000 Jews.
In 1947 the numbers were 1 181 000 Muslims, 143 000 Christians and 630 000 Jews.
Oh, by the way, according to the Israeli Supreme Court in their recent decision to reject "Israeli" in national identification cards, there's no such people as "Israeli".
Judaism is a religion, ethnically Jews are diverse as recent genetic studies show. Palestinians have deep roots in their land. Genetically they are also very close to the original followers of Judaism; Ashkenazi Jews for example are genetically what a child between a Palestinian and a Northern Italian would be.
International law gives occupied people full right to resist militarily and Americans should remember that George Washington and the other Founding Fathers did not lead a non-violent resistance to the British, but fought a long war to gain independence for the United States.

Americans have no right to say to Palestinians that they should not follow the same path which they themselves took in 1776.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Kufr Qaddum weekly demo

Apologists of Israel expect that there should be something equivalent of Hoover dam on the borders of Gaza and as there isn't, they go on claim that the Palestinian claims are just propaganda.

But there are small dams and two major reservoirs, one seasonal, just on the borders of northern Gaza. Normally these are used to stop water from getting to the Gaza side.

The even occasionally lush vegetation on the ethnically cleansed side of the border is one of the symbols of oppression, not a "miracle" of "making the desert bloom" - just a result of denying water from Gaza.

Nabi Saleh 20.12,2013

Experiencing John Muir's Sierra: A Photographer's Story

Friday, December 20, 2013

burning tibet: Last Words of Tsultrim Gyatso

burning tibet: Last Words of Tsultrim Gyatso: (My rough translation of Tsultrim Gyatso's last words. As you can see some parts are hard to read. If anyone comes across a picture in ...

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Observe the death of Saleh Yasin today: A Palestinian security forces member becomes immediately "a suspect" to the US media - Associated Press in this case - after the Zionist Apartheid State's occupation forces have killed him. Victim is immediately made to look guilty. But when a Zionist dies, it's immediately a horrible event to the media in the USA, no matter his status and actions.

#HelpGaza #SaveGaza more than 4000 families evacuated after being flooded.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Like this thread shows, people who "support Israel" tend to be the middlebrow version of people who write love letters to condemned serial killers to prisons.
Saying that shows that you are ignorant what Israel has done - and probably willfully ignorant at that.

51 Israeli laws that treat people differently based on their ethnicity and religion, separate towns build even now for Israeli citizens based on their ethnic-religious identity shows that.

And that's just people with Israeli citizenship. To live under Israeli occupation is much worse for the Palestinians.
It's easy to check whether any action can be morally justified by just changing the sides around. And I doubt that more than a few Americans would be ready to accept regular drone strikes in US no matter how "justified" they would be claimed to be by those doing them.
Hezbollah already builds its own drones. And with Amazon planning to use drones to deliver packages in the US, one wouldn't even have to build own drones, just to hack existing ones.

And speaking of hacking, one CIA drone was forced to land to Iran when it was hacked and I'm not so sure that all the various drones already used in US regularly could not be hacked and used in terror attacks.
Opposition to Apartheid, ethnic cleansing and an occupation which has gone on for 46 years is not "antisemitism".
Claiming that it is hurts efforts to oppose actual antisemitism.
    • Support American Studies Association and its members in their brave stance for human rights and academic freedom in occupied Palestine.
      Just because Israel calls itself "a Jewish state" doesn't mean that it should get a free pass when it comes to human rights violations and war crimes.
Why do you want every other problem solved before Palestinians could be given any justice?
Because you think that when the oppressors identify themselves as Jews, the victims should have neither rights, justice nor publicity.
Palestinian universities are being choked by Israel and Jews are allowed to live in Arab countries, and when it comes to Jewish refugees from them, Israel could ask right of return for them but never has, not even when signing peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan.

Before it fell in an Israeli supported coup, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood government actually asked Egyptian Jews to return to Egypt.
According to "liberal Zionist" historians, Palestine's struggle is 179 years old, but unlike fools like Martin Amis claim, past Jewish suffering doesn't give Zionists right to cause suffering to Palestinians. That's the result of morally bankrupt thinking.
Hendrik Verwoerd, "the Father of South African Apartheid", declared that Israel was an Apartheid state - and meant it as a compliment - and he met his bit of Earthly justice already back in 1966.
Once again supporters of the Apartheid State show that one can't be a racist towards Palestinians without showing racism towards others oppressed peoples.
Truth is "antisemitism", so ban the Truth so that Zionists and their worshipful Christian Zionist hordes can continue to commit and support atrocities.
That's what you demand.
Because Israel commits Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing and has kept up occupation for 46 years. That's the truth.
If you can't handle that, your place is in a nice round room with padded walls, pumped full of drugs, because Truth and Reality are not going to change just because you deny them as they don't fit with how you would want the world to be like.
You supporters of the Apartheid State want Palestinians to play the role of a "Happy Slave Who Loves His Master" and just stay oppressed and humiliated in dwindling bantustans as your version of the Master Race can do whatever crimes it wants without any criticitism towards it at all.

That's not how the real world works.

If Zionists don't want oppressed people "wanting to kill them", they can stop oppressing them. But that's not that they are ready to do and the oppressed people surely are not going to be the "Happy Slaves" of your imagination.

Go and be a house slave for illegal settlers in their illegal settlements' agricultural fields and play a banjo when their children throw rocks at you - oh yes, the Zionists do that every day, but you folks never mention that, do you? - but don't demand it from others.