Defamation

By Adel – PeaceMaker

January 30, 2010

'Defamation' by Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative Quest to answer the questions – What is anti-Semitism today? Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people (including the head of the Anti-Defamation League and its fiercest critic, author Norman Finkelstein) and traveling to places like Auschwitz (alongside Israeli school kids) and Brooklyn, (to explore reports of violence), Shamir discovers the realities of anti-Semitism today. His findings are shocking, enlightening and surprisingly often wryly funny.

Abe Foxman amplifies anti-Semitism by focusing so intently on even the most minor incidents, things which American minorities laugh about and shoot right back to bigots.

The general statement of Yoav is that Israelis concentrate far too much on their past persecutions and are actually trained to be fearful nearly everywhere they go, outside of Israel, which is perhaps the intent of such intense indoctrination regimes as are shown in the film. What is so fascinating is the comparison to these youth’s feelings and fears to Jewish youth in the USA, who seem oblivious to even their Jewishness.

If Israeli’s were to put themselves in Palestinians shoes and apply Abe Foxman's standards of anti-Semitism to the real Semites in Palestine, the list of anti-Semitic infractions would wrap around the planet a thousand times and Foxman would be salivating with vehement anger and threats of holocaust denial by Israeli and Americans.

Israel’s right-wing Zionist government is spending a fortune keeping the Israeli people afraid calling it anti-Semitism and inciting hatred around the world toward the Jewish people even more to prove their ideology.

Is there Anti-Semitism? Yes! Is it mostly self inflicted? I would have to say yes! Is it a control mechanism for the Zionists - absolutely! The trip that the kids took was a very expensive indoctrination exercise to instill hatred, and fear against non-Jewish global society.

Remembering Howard Zinn, the People’s Historian

By Adel – PeaceMaker

January 29, 2010

I am deeply saddened to hear that an American Historian and activist Howard Zinn, passed away on Wednesday, January 27, 2010. It is a big Loss to all of humanity. Rest in peace Mr. Zinn, I will keep seeing history from the point of view of its victims.

The author of a bestseller, A People's History of the United States, which gave a social progressives view of American history, died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, his daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn told the Associated Press.

Zinn wrote more than 20 books and his plays have been produced around the world, but it is for A People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, which the historian is best known. The book provides a view of American history from the arrival of Christopher Columbus – who Zinn charges with genocide – to Bill Clinton's first term.

"My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality," wrote Zinn in the bestselling book. "But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all) – that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth."

Zinn was a shipyard worker at age 18, later joining the air force during the Second World War. His experiences shaped his opposition to war. He received a host of honors, most recently the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian award from New York University for embodying "a vision of peace, persistence in purpose, and inspirational action".

The Zinn Education Project posted on its website. "At 87, he continued to inform and inspire in his presentations across the country, radio interviews, essays, and film-making."

IDF on ‘War-path’ Again

By Adel – PeaceMaker
January 25, 2010

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is on the war-path toward Syria and Lebanon once again, a Hezbollah representative warned Saturday in remarks carried by military radio and the Ynet news website. Hezbollah is part of a new coalition government formed in November by Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri.

"We are heading toward a new confrontation in the north but I don't know when it will happen, just as we did not know when the second Lebanon war would erupt," said Yossi Peled, an Israeli general and politician, and former Aluf of the Northern Command in the IDF.

He was referring to the devastating war Israel fought with Hezbollah in 2006, which killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.

Syria and Hezbollah have gone on high alert anticipating an attack, the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat daily reported. According to the report, Hezbollah has been monitoring with caution the reinforcement of IDF troops along the Lebanese border.

Hezbollah's deputy secretary general, Naeem Kassem, said the group was preparing to retaliate although it had no proof of any such Israeli plans.

Syria has meanwhile begun to call up reserves troops, including nationals residing in Lebanon.

The IDF responded to the report by denying any plans for renewing conflict against Lebanon.

Earthquake or HAARP

By Adel – PeaceMaker

January 24, 2010

An unconfirmed report by the Russian Northern Fleets says the United States Navy test of one of its 'earthquake weapons' which was to be used in a series of deadly earthquakes in Iran to topple the current Islamic system in the country, went 'horribly wrong' and caused the catastrophic quake in Haiti, claiming more than 150,000 lives.

The report also says earlier this month the US carried out a similar test in the Pacific Ocean, which also caused another 6.5 magnitude earthquake in an area near the town of Eureka, California. The quake resulted in no deaths or serious injury, but left many buildings damaged.

Some sources have even linked the US military of employing such devices in Afghanistan to trigger the devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit the country back in March, 2002, and the 7.8 magnitude quake that shook the Chinese city of Sichuan in May 12, 2008 with the program.

The report introduced the possibility that the US Navy may have had "full knowledge" of the damage that the test could cause. It also speculated that knowledge of the possible outcome was why the US military had pre-positioned the deputy commander of US Southern Command, General P. K. Keen, on the island so that he could oversee relief efforts if the need arose.

The tests are believed to be part of the United States' High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), has also been associated with weather anomalies that cause floods, droughts and hurricanes.

Since the late 1970's, the US has 'greatly advanced' the state of its earthquake weapons to the point where it is now utilizing devices that employ a Tesla Electromagnetic Pulse, Plasma and Sonic technology, along with 'shockwave bombs.'

In 1997, US Secretary of Defense William Cohen expressed concern about activities that "can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."

In 1966, J.F. MacDonald, published papers on the use of environmental control technologies for military purposes. The most profound comment he made was, "the key to geophysical warfare is the identification of environmental instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of energy."

The 1970 book, BETWEEN TWO AGES, by Zbigniew Brzezinski stated:

"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised... TECHNIQUES OF WEATHER MODIFICATION COULD BE EMPLOYED TO PRODUCE PROLONGED PERIODS OF DROUGHT OR STORM"

The US military has been and still is still working on weather warfare methods, which it euphemistically calls weather modification. But the US government, however, stick to its position that HAARP is merely a program aimed at analyzing the Earth's ionosphere for the purpose of developing communications and surveillance technology.

We Are All Global Citizens

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in…” (Matthew 25:35)

By Adel – PeaceMaker

January 20, 2010

The pursuit of "illegal aliens" has become a high government priority. The federal prosecutors convicted Walt Staton (A member of the group No Mas Muertes/No More Deaths) on June 4, 2009 of littering. His "littering" consisted of leaving jugs of fresh drinkable water in an area near the Mexican border for entering aliens who might otherwise have died from dehydration.

After Staton left a cache of water bottles in Arizona’s Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge in the hope they would come in handy to any sun-stricken illegal immigrants who might pass that way, the Federal prosecutors went after him and got him convicted of — littering.

The 27-year-old graduate student was sentenced to on year probation and 300 hours of community service, and banned from the Arizona’s Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge in which he had done his evil deeds.

”I’m not going to do any hours or pay any fine,” Staton said. “This is a matter of international human rights.”

“...my actions are better classified as ‘civil initiative.’ When a government fails to respect and protect basic human rights—or, worse, is itself a violator—it is the responsibility of citizens to act in defense of those rights,” Staton wrote.

The logic behind making it a criminal act to give someone a drink of water is deplorable. If “illegal aliens" die from thirst this will make crossing into the U.S. less attractive, and reduce the burden of policing the border.

It is clear what the next step might be: make it a criminal act to give or sell food to anybody who cannot document that they are a citizen or here with official government approval.

Where do we draw the line?

An alternative would be to regard every human being on the planet as a member of the human race and a citizen of the world. Inside the United States no matter what state we were born in, we automatically acquire state citizenship merely by moving there.

There is no reason why this system could not work at the world level.

Does anybody really want to live in a world where it is illegal to give a fellow human being a drink of water?