OCTOBER 6TH, 2016

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT AND PIRACY: A DAY IN BESIEGED GAZA

 

Yesterday Israel's occupation forces attacked besieged Gaza Strip for several hours with artillery and air strikes.

After the attacks had ended, Israel hijacked the Freedom Flotilla ship Zaytouna and it's 13 member all-female crow when they were few hours from the coast of Gaza.

 

ATTACKS AND PIRACY

 

Israel, which attacks the tiny coastal enclave on a daily basis, claimed the attacks to Gaza to be a 'response' after a small rocket launched by a minor Salafist group Ahfad al-Sahaba hit the ethnically cleansed town of Sderot in Palestine 1948.

The 'response' targeted Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades positions, naval police headquarters and agricultural areas, but not Ahfad al-Sahaba. Overall some thirty rockets and shells were fired at least seven different locations. No injuries were reported.

As the attack ended, Zaytouna was stopped with 'warning shots', it's crew captured and the sailing boat taken to the ethnically cleansed port of Ashdod. Some sources in and out of Gaza claimed the attack on Gaza to be partly a diversion to take attention from the act of piracy on international waters.

It ended up being a costly 'response' for the occupier, when one F-16 jet fighter returning from bombing Gaza crashed at the Ramon air base in Negev. Both pilots ejected, apparently at a low altitude, with one of them dying and the other one being injured.

 

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT

 

Just like when Fatah controlled Gaza 2005-2007, the occupier Israel claims that Hamas is 'responsible' all activities of armed factions and uses this as an excuse to attack Hamas' armed wing, public buildings and to terrorize the whole population of Gaza as an act of collective punishment.

Again we repeat the fact that Israel itself attacks Gaza's farmers, shepherds and fishermen on what is basically a daily basis.

In only the twisted 'logic' of the occupier and it's supporters, the idea of it 'responding' to a hole in asphalt about fifty centimeters in length and twenty centimeters in depth while itself committing daily attacks makes 'sense'.

 

SOURCE:

 

Army Bombards Qassam Site In Northern Gaza

http://imemc.org/…/army-bombards-qassam-site-in-northern-g…/

Crew of all-women Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza reportedly detained by Israeli forces

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773433

Israeli air force, army hit targets in Gaza after rocket falls in Sderot

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773421

Israeli Army Bombards Several Areas In The Gaza Strip

http://imemc.org/…/israeli-army-bombards-several-areas-in-…/

Israeli Pilot Killed after Carrying out Gaza Airstrikes

http://imemc.org/…/israeli-pilot-killed-after-carrying-out…/

Israeli pilot killed in fighter jet crash after reportedly carrying out Gaza airstrikes

http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773437

Israel strikes Gaza after alleged attack on Sderot

http://english.pnn.ps/…/israel-strikes-gaza-after-alleged-…/

Israel takes over women’s boat to Gaza

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx…

Israeli warplanes strike different areas of Gaza

http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx…

THE OTHER MICHAEL MANN 1

According to the European Union's ambassador to Israel, Michael Mann, EU's role in occupied Palestine's Gaza Strip is limited to supporting Donald Trump - but even that only if Apartheid Israel's genocidal regime allows.

WE ALL BLEED THE SAME COLOUR

Many leading Western political leaders are essentially claiming that Jewish citizens of their countries can only be safe if Israel's regime can commit genocide & ethnic cleansing and uphold Apartheid and endless military occupation without any opposition, criticism or protest being allowed anywhere.

This is false.

The safety of one group of people can't be bought by supporting the extermination of an another, oppressed group of people - the Palestinians who live under occupation and Apartheid.

WESTERN SAHARA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION 1

In Western Sahara the European Union for decades claimed to support international law & ending occupation via UN-run referendum agreed in 1991 armistice.

Now EU calls for annexation of Western Sahara by occupier Morocco without any say to be given to Saharawis.

EU's plan for Palestine appears the same.

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS

Governments, international organizations & individuals who claim that military occupiers and occupied people should be equally safe always end up choosing the side of the occupiers & preferring the lives of the occupiers over the lives of the occupied. 

This is what the International Committee of the Red Cross has done in occupied Palestine. Especially during the last two years but even before. The lives of Israeli occupiers matter more to the ICRC than the lives of occupied Palestinians.

It has  sided with Israeli occupation during a genocide in which over 1700 healthcare workers have been killed by Israel's occupation forces, all hospitals and healthcare centres in occupied Palestine's Gaza have been targeted in Israeli occupation attacks and most have been destroyed.

ICRC has sided with Israel, demanding unconditional and immediate release of Israeli occupation soldiers held as prisoners of war and Israeli civilian detainees while being very quiet about the death of 112 Palestinian captives held by the Israeli occupation during the current Israeli government.

According to the ICRC, Israel should just treat Palestinian captives a bit better and allow ICRC to visit them and their families to contact them.

ICRC claimed its neutrality demands it can do nothing more for Palestinian captives, while it vocally and ofyen demanded the release of Israeli occupation soldiers and civilian detainees.

The right to freedom, according to the ICRC,  belonged to Israeli occupation soldiers, not to the hundreds of Palestinian children being held as captives by the Israeli occupation. These children, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Israel could keep imprisoned as long as it wishes, even decades.

Just like Israel has held the five Hares Boys captives for twelve years, nine months and two weeks.

THE WESTERN VALUES AT THE END OF 2025

In the 'West', any criticism of the Israeli regime stronger than saying "Netanyahu is a bit naughty" is now 'antisemitism' to the political and media elites.

While over 30 000 Palestinian children murdered by Israel in Gaza in the last two years are nothing to them.

Genocide, ethnic cleansing and Apartheid have been 'normalized', support for human rights and human dignity has been delegitimized.

YOU CAN'T DENY ONE GENOCIDE AND THEN EXPECT THAT THE GENOCIDE YOU CARE ABOUT IS RESPECTED

You can't deny one genocide committed in the name of the ideology and regime you support and then expect that the genocides you care about, against people you identify with, are respected and not denied like you deny the suffering of other people.

Zionists who claim that images of Israel's atrocities against Palestinians are "fake", "made with AI", that dead babies are "dolls" must know that the same claims are being made by their Fascist allies against the also overwhelming evidence for the Holocaust.

Genocide denial can't be contained in one genocide. It's an evil Pandora's Box.

SLOGANS FOR LIBERATION ARE WORSE FOR THE 'WESTERN' ELITES THAN GENOCIDE WITNESSED BY THE ENTIRE WORLD

To the 'Western' elites and media, saying "Free Palestine", "From the River to the Sea", "Globalize the Intifada" and "Intifada are worse than Apartheid Israel's genocidal regime's direct slaughter of at least 120 000 people, including over 30 000 children, during the last two years. 

IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO REGRET THEN

When you choose billionaires throwing Nazi salutes and promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories over protesters calling for end to genocide and Apartheid you can have no regrets when the billionaires move to the next stage of their Neo-Nazi project and come for you.

Source: 

Trump-Feier: Elon Musk irritiert mit Hitlergruß-ähnlicher Geste | BR24

THE BALTIC COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN A DISGRACE

I supported the Baltic countries fervently after 1989 and was overjoyed when they regained their freedom in 1991.

Since then they have either supported or been silent about almost all military occupations and invasions that I've opposed. Countries who I see to be in similar or even worse circumstances than they were until 1991.

Ukraine is the only case I can recall where they align with me. They support Israel in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria, they support Morocco in Western Sahara, they support Indonesia in West Papua, they support United Arab Emirates in Sudan and Yemen like they supported United States in Iraq and took part in the occupation.

I don't remember them having even been vocal about Chechnya and Georgia. Perhaps I remember wrong.

But it seems if there's an occupied, oppressed nation somewhere, the Balts are keen to be the little henchmen of the oppressor. 

Because they claim they are somehow buying protection by helping to oppress others. That they must be on the side of the powerful against weak for their own sake. To support annexation of entire countries by invaders. To feed the mass graves in the hope they are rewarded for their role in the extermination.

I was right in 1991 and the Baltic countries have been wrong since 1991. Every oppressed nation deserves freedom, but when they have regained their freedom., they must help other oppressed nations, not the oppressors.

The Baltic countries have been a disgrace.

Yet they deserve their freedom, but the countries they now help to oppress also deserves  their freedom and the Balts need a moral reckoning for their support for crimes against humanity and their aid to war crimes.

MISLEADING READERS WITHOUT LYING - THE ART OF MANIPULATING 'WESTERN' AUDIENCES

10.10.2016

"Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred."

C. P. Scott(1846-1932), editor and owner of The Guardian, then still The Manchester Guardian

The Guardian's Peter Beaumont wrote an article about today's tragic events in occupied East Jerusalem whose headline alone is a masterpiece in misleading readers without lying outright.

Here we quickly go through the ways Beaumont and The Guardian manipulate their audience to create a misleading view benefiting the Israeli occupation.

TOTALLY FACTUAL AND UTTERLY MISLEADING

The headline of the article is "Two Israelis dead after drive-by shooting at Jerusalem tram stop". It's totally factual - and utterly misleading. Let's count the ways it misleads the readers:

1)Three people died, not two. The dead Palestinian Misbah Abu Sbeih and his death are both erased. This magnifies the death of the two Israelis and dehumanizes Abu Sbeih.

Misbah Abu Sbeih is just mentioned as a "39-year-old resident" at first. The dead Israelis are both named, and that "Levana Malihi, 60" was "a grandmother" is brought out to make her more sympathetic.

That Abu Sbeih, whose name is eventually mentioned much later in the article, was a father with at least three underage sons, is not mentioned so that he wouldn't appear more sympathetic.

The fact that Abu Sbeih's elderly father and underage sons were arrested by Israeli occupation afterwards can't be mentioned either, of course.

2)"Two Israelis". In here the usual 'Western' media trick is used: The "Two Israelis" implies that we are dealing with civilians only here. In reality, one of the two dead Israelis was an armed occupation forces' police member.

We call this the "all dead Israelis are civilians" -tactic, and it softens the audience's view of the dead, as they imagine the dead as civilians, no matter the actual circumstances.

By the time audience (those who actually read the whole article) get to the mention of one of the dead being 'police', the already created impression will not be lodged from its perch in the minds of many readers.

3)Jerusalem: the article's headline here toes occupier Israel's "united Jerusalem" line, considered legitimate by one state in the world - Israel itself.

Occupation is erased, the context for the events made to vanish. In reality, the events described in the article happened near the Green Line and mostly inside East Jerusalem.

In the body of the article itself, occupation continues to be magically absent and is only coyly hinted at: "close to the line dividing mainly Palestinian east Jerusalem from the mostly Jewish western side of the city".

This line is of the Green Line marking the armistice line from 1948, and which according from UN resolution in 1967 to such figures as former US president Ronald Reagan should mark the border of the state of Palestine.

But the readers of The Guardian can't be told this, because The Guardian and it's reporter Beaumont operate inside occupier Israel's "united Jerusalem" bubble.

Why "western side of the city" is "mostly Jewish"? Because it was ethnically cleansed in 1948, of course, but that The Guardian's readers naturally can't be told. The whole historical context for the current situation in Jerusalem is made to disappear along with the whole occupation.

4)Tram stop - here a civilian landmark is used to describe the location where the shooting happened. The shooting did happen partly near a light rail stop, but it started outside Israeli occupation's police headquarters and much of it took place on the roads around the block it's situated in.

Using 'tram stop' instead of 'police headquarters' is meant to underline the civilian nature of the setting of the shooting, and again imply the civilian status of the "two dead Israelis".

Using police headquarters in the headline would create different images for the readers, and work against how The Guardian wants readers to perceive the incident in question.

THE OCCUPIER ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH

A "Western" journalist in Israel and occupied Palestine always believes the occupier, minimizes Palestinian casualties, erases Palestinians of dual nationality and always, always believes that occupier Israel tells the truth.

Writing an article, like in the case of Peter Beaumont for The Guardian, becomes a simple case of copying and pasting what Israel claims. Journalism made easy.

So Beaumont writes: "About 218 Palestinians have been killed during that period. Israel says the vast majority of them were attackers."

Most 'sources made Abu Sbeih the 236th, 237th or 240th Palestinian dead during the current uprising - not counting prisoners dying of medical negligence, of wounded dying from injuries arising earlier or people dying in ambulances on occupation checkpoints while waiting to be allowed through.

Beaumont, using dated figures, raises some twenty people from death to minimize the number of Palestinians killed and thus the impact among his audience. And if someone is troubled, Beaumont assures them that according to Israel "vast majority of them were attackers".

If you can't trust an occupier tell the truth about the people who it killed, then who can you trust?

A journalist could be expected to do some investigations, to look whether the Israeli claim is valid. But Beaumont is above such things as looking critically at an occupier's claims - copy and paste what it claims is good enough for him.

Beaumont has a job to do - and it isn't informing The Guardian's readers as well as possible about what happened, where it happened and why it happened. No, he's in damage control mode for the occupation, painting as pretty picture as possible for Israel.

Counting the Israeli dead, he erases both those of Palestinians of Israeli nationality killed by Israel and the eight Israeli Jews 'mistakenly' killed by Israel's occupation forces' and Israelis as Palestinians.

Lynched Egyptian Haftom Zarhum(29) is a victim of Beaumont's magical journalism tricks along with the eight "mistakenly" killed Israeli Jews. The Guardian's audience, 'naturally', can't read about mobs lynching people because they look like they might be Palestinians - or just because they are dark-skinned.

MAKING THE MOTIVATION INCOMPREHENSIBLE

Misbah Abu Sbeih was imprisoned for a year for 'incitement' on Facebook by Israeli occupation; in Beaumont's hands 'incitement' - which can any kind of negative mention of the occupation - becomes "encouraging violence against Israelis".

Notice the absence of occupation, notice how it's "against Israel", not against an occupier and it's occupation. Context is made to vanish and those "Israelis", implied yet again to be "civilians", reappear.

The anger of a man who lived his whole life under occupation is made incomprehensible for the readers of The Guardian, because putting the readers of The Guardian in the shoes of the Palestinians, giving them even a faint idea of what Abu Sbeih went through and what made him act like he did, is the last thing Peter Beaumont and his employer want.

The Guardian and Beaumont have a job to do - to make everything appear as positive to Israel as possible. Ask not for whose behalf The Guardian and Peter Beaumont fight - it's not journalism and people's right to know - ask only what they get out of it.

SOURCE:

Two Israelis dead after drive-by shooting at Jerusalem tram stop

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/09/drive-by-shooting-at-jerusalem-tram-stop

"PEACE FOR OUR TIME"

If being run as a personal fiefdom by a US president - USA that has made the genocide possible - is good enough for occupied Palestine's Gaza according to UN, then surely Crimea & eastern Ukraine could be run for example as a personal fiefdom of North Korea's Kim Jong-Un.

Sudan's Darfur could in similar manner be made a personal fiefdom of United Arab Emirates' ruler Mohamed bin Zayed, who has made possible the genocide there (with the approval of his US overlords). 

Like Trump, he needs a 'reward', right? This is the world 13 states of the UN Security Council want.

"Peace for our time" etc.

EUROPEAN UNION AND OCCUPIED PALESTINE'S GAZA STRIP

The European Union has done nothing to end the genocide in occupied Palestine's Gaza Strip and yet now, according to the EU, nothing else can be done except to hand Gaza Strip to be a personal plaything for Trump and Blair.

But shouting few times "Slava Ukraini!" will surely wash such unpleasantness from the mind...

THE WEST PLAYS HELPLESS BEFORE AN ONGOING GENOCIDE BY APARTHEID ISRAEL'S REGIME AGAINST OCCUPIED PALESTINIANS

According to the West, including the European Union and all but few of its member states, there's no possible way to end the genocide and famine in Israeli occupied Palestine's Gaza Strip without the Israeli regime's permission.

Israel can only be nicely asked to allow aid in and to agree to a ceasefire, and as long as it refuses, nothing can be done.

Genocide must go on as long as the genocidaires want to continue it.

NETANYAHU IS ISRAEL AND ISRAEL IS NETANYAHU

Netanyahu is Israel and Israel is Netanyahu.

Those who claim otherwise are denying the reality where Netanyahu has made Israel in his image in the last 30 years.

Even if Netanyahu the man would be removed from power, Israel would still be his manifestation.