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UK-Arab Relations -- Everything's Cozy When the Cash Flows Freely
2007-06-10 14:54:00
Let's see what the Brit "Left," so quick to falsely claim that the West favors Israel over the Arabs, will do with this story. British weapons manufacturers sold $85 billion of killing devices to the Wahhabite Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In the process, they paid a $2 billion kickback to Prince Bandar for facilitating the sale. Now, $85 billion is a fairly nice sum, even for a rich, capitalist, imperialist country like the United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Here is an AP piece on the story and here a BBC report. The AP and BBC report disagree on the amount of the sale. The AP has $85 billion, while the BBC has only 40 billion pounds sterling, which is less than $85 billion --but only by five or six billion bucks, depending on the dollar-pound rate of exchange which changes from day to day. What are a few billion bucks between friends??Tony Blair has claimed that the huge weapons sale to the Wahhabite Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was a "strategic interest" o...
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The "Ultra-Left" and the Boycott of Israel -- What Are the Grounds?
2007-06-06 23:21:00
Precisely on the issue of the British university boycott do we need to go more deeply into what "left" means today. If I had time, I could compile a book of quotes from "leftists" about Israel that echo what Judeophobic "rightists" said about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s. Think about Father Coughlin of the 1930s who used to rail against Jewish bankers, etc., although Coughlin himself met with some international bankers who were not Jews [according to a pamphlet on Coughlin written by A B Magil & published by the American CP]. The Nazis too used to portray Jews as capitalist bloodsuckers. They also used to depict Jews as bolshevik subversives.Now, it appears that lurking just below the surface of the UCU boycott resolution is the "trotskyist" Socialist Workers party of the UK. This is a continuation of the Healyite faction, which was identified years ago as receiving Arab funds, although organizational names may have changed. Here is the account of one disillusioned follower of Gerry...
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Arabs in Gaza Want Israel
2007-06-03 15:45:00
The title of this post does not fit the usual mass media and "leftist" propaganda in the West. According to the usual picture put forth by the media/Left/diplomats, the Arabs in Gaza , Judea & Samaria are eager to be rid of Isra el i control or "occupation," to be ruled by Hamas or Fatah --according to taste-- and to establish their own state, a "Palestinian" state, although there was never a "palestinian" nation or state in history. However, Fatah and Hamas both of them supported by Western powers to one extent or other, yet bitter rivals for power and the pecuniary goodies provided by Western and Arab support, have created chaos within Gaza by their internecine combat. This has led many Arabs to feel that they were better off when Israel ruled Gaza and to even wish that Israel might return and rid them of their homegrown tyrants and nemeses.Prof. Richard Landes at the Augean Stables blog, has written up this subject with a goodly number of quotes. A video showing a Gazan Arab utterin...
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The Semi-Official Brits Do It Again -- The British Canard Ought to Be Muzzl
2007-06-01 15:09:00
The surreptitious British campaign to smear Israel has struck again. The BBC, an arm of the British Foreign Office, is putting forth a virtually meaningless document to smear Israel and, as some have said, to shatter another Israeli "myth." Just why the British psywar experts and their Western and Arab comrades in arms are so busy "shattering" Israeli "myths" should be no mystery. It's an expression of hatred and a method of psychological warfare against an enemy. The Entebbe Rescue is one of the great stories of heroism in modern history. Israelis and Jews everywhere rightly took pride in it, albeit it was not 100% successful, since the commander, Yoni Netanyahu, as well as some hostages, died in the raid. Here is the BBC website article which clumsily puts forth a comment by an anonymous source as a serious argument against what Israelis and decent people throughout the world have believed about the Entebbe Rescue. See link here.A UK government file on the crisis, released from t...
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War on Terrorism OR War for Islam?
2007-05-28 17:14:00
Do we need an interpreter with the capability of Rashi, maybe, in order to tell what is really the Bush Administration policy on terrorism? On the one hand, Mr Bush declared a War on Terror. On the other, the Bush Administration, particularly the State Department, helps Arab terrorists against Israel while --in the Balkans-- it is trying to expand the territory of the Muslim-dominated Bosnian entity. After 500 years of conflict between Christians and Muslims in the Balkans, after World War II when Bosnian Muslims formed an SS division under the religious supervision of Haj Amin el-Husseini [al-Husayni], British-appointed mufti of Jerusalem, after the bloody Bosnian war of the 1990s when all three ethnic-religious groups in Bosnia perpetrated atrocities on one another, the State Dept now wants to incorporate the remaining part of Bosnia from which Serbs have not yet been "ethnically cleansed" into the Muslim-dominated Bosnian state. We bear in mind that during WW2, Serbs suffered mas...
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Melanie Phillips Understands that Judea-Samaria Are Not "occupied"
2007-05-24 18:17:00
Melanie Phil lips has written three hard-hitting posts on her blog about the international legal status of Judea-Samaria and of the Land of Israel as a whole. This must be the first time in a long time that any mainstream journalist in the United Kingdom has been able to exercise historical memory going back to the true legal status of the Land of Israel established in 1920. It takes a great deal of honesty and integrity to overcome the legacy of BBC & the Guardian & the Independent's slander of Israel that has been going on for so many years, overcoming the legacy of Christopher Mayhew and Robert Fisk and Tom Paulin and so many other scribblers. Here are her three posts: here & here & here.The fact that the League of Nations recognized the Jewish National Home principle, embodied in the Mandate to the United Kingdom to rule the Land of Israel, has been conveniently forgotten by Israel's enemies, not only among the Arabs but in the West. The mainstream media go along with the i...
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Muslim Leader Reminds Us that London Hosted Islamist Terrorists
2007-05-18 14:34:00
After the July bombings in London , a Muslim leader in Italy remembered that London had hosted terrorists and terrorist leaders who had done their awful work in other cities in other countries. In the mid-1990s, terrorists struck several times in France, including the Paris subway, the Metro. French investigators traced the commanders of these attacks back to Islamic terrorist leaders in London. I believe that it was these French investigators who gave London the nickname Londonistan. Islamist terrorists operating against Israel also had connections in London, and enjoyed a broad tolerance from the British authorities. Khalid Chaouki [= Shawki] published his statement as a letter in Il Riformista [9 July 2005]. His letter describes him as director of the website Musulmaniditalia.com. Here are his words:Another massacre. This time terrorism of an Islamic matrix has struck that capital that had indirectly tolerated, [and] hosted international leaders of Islamist radicalism. London, th...
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G8 Helps "Palestinian Authority" Instead of the Really Poor
2007-05-16 13:18:00
Peace --the last refuge of the scoundrel [circa 2007]Eliyahu m'TsiyonJust about everybody knows that international humanitarianism represents hypocrisy more often than not. The UN, for instance, founded to bring world peace, so its own charter states, more often than not promotes war, promotes oppressors, dictators, barbarians. So-called "non-governmental organizations" [NGOs] in favor of "human rights" or "peace" more often than not serve the partisan purposes of various powers, if not worse.Likewise, the G8, the grouping of the eight major industrialized countries, chirp about peace and human rights and ending poverty and all sorts of goody-goody, sickeningly sweet things at their summit meetings from time to time. But the United Kingdom is active and influential within the G8 framework. And that right there should warn us not to take the G8 platitudes at face value. A G8 summit meeting was taking place in Scotland when the 7 July 2005 mass murder bombings took place in London. ...
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British Consul in Jerusalem in 1864 Confirms the Jewish Majority
2007-05-13 00:04:00
French diplomat Cesar Famin reported a Jewish majority in 1853. His report was repeated by Karl Marx in 1854. Then, Gerardy Santine asserted in 1860 that Jews were "a good half" of the city's population. Next, in 1864, Noel Temple Moore confirmed the Jewish majority in Jerusalem [for Famin, Marx and Santine, search this blog].Moore is cited by Martin Gilbert, a historian who has written both about the history of the Land of Israel and about the life and political career of Winston Churchill. In fact, Gilbert is the authorized biographer of Churchill. No doubt he had easy access to British Foreign Office records.By 1864 the resident Jewish population of Jerusalem constituted a majority of the city's inhabitants, according to the British consul in Jerusalem, Noel Temple Moore, who estimated the total population of the City at 15,000: 8,000 Jews; 4,500 Muslim Arabs, and 2,500 Christians and Christian Arabs [or Arabic-speaking Christians]. All 8,000 Jews lived within the Old City, mos...
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Jews in Jerusalem in 1860s
2007-05-10 14:46:00
Echoing the accounts of mid-19th century Jerusalem by Cesar Famin [paraphrased by Karl Marx] and by Gerardy Santine, the Britisher Andrew Thomson found that Jews were a majority in the city, although the Muslims were the masters.. . . while the Mohammedans are the masters, the Jews form the decided majority, being, it is likely, not far short of 8000. They come in a constant stream from every part of the world, many of them on pilgrimages, by which they hope to acquire a large fund of merit, and then return again to their native country: the greater number that they may die in the city of their fathers, nd obtain the most cherished wish of their heart by being buried on Mount Olivet, and it is remarkable that they cling with a strange preference to that part of the city which is nearest the site of their ancient Temple, as if they still took pleasure in its stones, and its very dust were dear to them.[Andrew Thomson, 1869; quoted by Martin Gilbert, Jerusalem: Illustrated History Atl...
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Is the United Kingdom Israel's Most Dangerous Enemy???
2007-05-07 11:33:00
NOTE UPDATING NEAR THE END OF THIS POSTThis post's headline must sound absurd, bizarre --even insane-- to many readers. But if we study the history of British governmental and semi-official actions regarding Jews and Zionism since 1920, then this conclusion becomes likely, although not everyone would be convinced. The first thing to do is to detach the grand flowery words of politicians and "statesmen" from their actual policy. In the American context, George W talks of a "war on terror." However, in fact, he has often favored terrorist movements and their enablers, including their financiers, such as the Saudi royal family who have in turn favored many American officials and ex-officials involved in US Middle Eastern policy with jobs and money and other gifts. Just lately, George's secretary of state, Miss Condi, has submitted demands that Israel remove checkposts in Judea-Samaria, an action which would facilitate terrorist attacks on Jewish Israeli civilians. Is Rice unaware tha...
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Jimmy Carter Stole [Borrowed??] His Book Title from Arab Nationalist Liar
2007-05-05 22:08:00
Just last November, Jimmy Carter published his notorious anti-Israel tract, Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid [November 14, 2006]. The book is thin on facts and has been widely deprecated for the falsehoods that it contains. It is interesting that Carter took his title from a book published by notorious Arab propagandist and liar, Marwan Bishara. Among other places, Marwan has written several viciously deceitful op eds for the International Herald Tribune, at least one of them using traditional Judeophobic themes, such as Jews as crucifiers.Here are the titles of two of Marwan Bishara's books, which may be different versions of the same book:Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid, Prospects for Resolving the Conflict, published December 7, 2001, in paperback. Since then a slightly different title by Bishara was published on September 13, 2003, Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid: Occupation, Terrorism and the Future, in hardback.Here is a reader review on Amazon by a reader named S Sa...
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Azmi Bishara Stars as a Martyr in the LA Times
2007-05-04 11:39:00
A few weeks ago we wrote in a post that Azmi Bish ara was on his way to becoming a world class martyr, indeed, he is already being portrayed as the victim of a Jewish crucifixion. His lies about his innocence have now been picked up by the Los Angeles Times [see here]. The LAT thereby enlarges its place as a world class Judeophobic, pro-Nazi rag. Bishara was spying for the Hizbullah, which made clearly Nazi-like statements in the past, besides being the prote'ge' of both Syria and Iran, which both make Nazi-like propaganda, while Iran declares its intention to destroy Israel.As a sample of Hizbullah pro-Nazi utterances, back in 1987, when elections took place in France, the results were not to the liking of Hizbullah officials and publications. As the French daily Le Figaro reported, one Lebanese Hizbullah paper blamed the results on the Jewish vote in France. The Hizbullah paper wrote: "The Jewish microbe is everywhere" [Le microbe juif est partout]. This statement equates Jews wi...
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Arab Conquests Finished Off the Ancient East, according to the Louvre
2007-05-01 11:37:00
The famous Louvre Museum in Paris admits that the Arab Conquests, the coming of Islam , represent a discontinuity --a breach, a sharp turning point-- in the history of Oriental civilization. In fact, the Arab Conquests finished off, wrecked, in plain English, the ancient East . Here is how the Department of Oriental Antiquities of the Louvre describes itself in its galleries[first English, then French original].Collections of the Louvre - Department of Oriental Antiquities"The Department of Oriental Antiquities is devoted to the ancient civilizations of the countries of the Near and Middle East, from the birth of villages more than 10,000 years ago until the arrival of Islam. Starting with the IIIrd Millenium, the same written culture, the cuneiform, was spread throughout the ancient East, including Egypt."Collections du Louvre - Antiquités Orientales?Le département des Antiquités orientales est consacré aux civilisations anciennes des Pays du Proche et Moyen-Orient, depuis la naissan...
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More on the Arab Conquest as an Act of Love & Generosity
2007-04-29 11:23:00
Here is another account from Andrew Palmer's West Syrian Chronicles about the kind, loving, and generous Arab conquests of the seventh century.This account is from the year 637 CE:. . . and in January they took the word for their lives, (did) [the sons of] Emesa, and many villages were ruined with killing by [the Arabs of] Muhammad and a great number of people were killed and captives [were taken] from Galilee as far as Beth . . . . . and those Arabs pitched camp beside [Damascus?]. . .[Andrew Palmer, ed. & tr., The Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 1993), p 1]A depressing series of events. But Edward Sa`id doesn't like the way Western travelers, writers, and scholars have depicted the noble Arab. However, this and the previous post on this blog present accounts from Palmer's book that were written by native Middle Eastern folk, by Orientals. I wonder what Sa`id said about this book, or would have said about it had he been aware...
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The Arab Conquest of the Ancient East, the Orient -- Not All Fun & Kisses
2007-04-26 22:55:00
The Islamomania so prevalent today in Western academia, following the lead of the mendacious Edward Sa`id of Columbia University --in particular-- often depicts the spread of Islam and the Arabs as a peaceful process welcomed by the native peoples. According to this rosey-colored view, it was not really a conquest but an excursion of love, no more aggressive than the poetry competitions called the jocs florals [jocs de flors] of the medieval troubadours of Provence in southern France, and of Catalonia.Here is an account of the Arab conquest of the Land of Israel. The account or chronicle, composed in the year 640 CE, was translated from a Christian form of Aramaic, widely spoken in the Levant and Fertile Crescent countries before and after the Arab conquest, but becoming increasingly extinct as its speakers flee from Arab/Muslim brutality in their homelands.On Friday, 4 February, at the ninth hour, there was a battle between the Romans [= Byzantines] and the Arabs of Muhammad in Pal...
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Quislings Strike Again!!! -- Expel the Norwegian Ambassador!!!
2007-04-24 23:28:00
The Norwegian government has no shame. On the day that Hamas shot one hundred qassam rockets and mortars at Israel,Norway called on the United States and the European Union to normalize their economic relations with the Palestinian Authority. (Guysen Israel News) [24 April 2007]La Norvège a appelé les Etats-Unis et l'UE à normaliser leurs relations économiques avec l'Autorité palestinienne. (Guysen.Israël.News) [24 April 2007]This means that Norway wants the EU and USA to give Hamas more money which --judging by experience-- Hamas will use to buy weapons and pay its terrorist gangsters. Now Norway is acting as a pimp for the Hamas. Norway already had "normalized" its diplomatic relations with the Hamas-led government of the "palestinian authority." Norway doesn't mind the Nazi-like jihadist character of Hamas as expressed in its charter. By recognizing the Hamas government, Norway demonstrates bad faith, for Norway was the sponsor of the monstrous Oslo Accords of 1993 that were s...
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Susiya -- Ancient Jewish Town Southeast of Hebron
2007-04-20 23:54:00
SUSIYA, AN ANCIENT JEWISH TOWN SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF HEBRONin the Roman-Byzantine [Talmudic] EraJews continued to live in Judah, the former kingdom of Judah, after defeat of the Bar Kokhba Revolt against the Roman Empire [135 CE]. However, Jerusalem and its surrounding area, renamed the polis of Aelia Capitolina by Rome, became almost entirely empty of Jews --Judenrein-- after the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the war against Rome [according to Roman historian, Dio Cassius]. Eusebios, an early Christian historian who lived in Caesarea, reported an imperial decree forbidding Jews to live anywhere near Jerusalem, which is interpreted to mean anywhere in the Aelia Capitolina polis or colonia. Jews in the Aelia Capitolina zone who had survived the war, moved to the Galilee & Golan, to the Lowlands [Shefelah] around Lod, and to Hebron and the south side of Mount Hebron.The territory of the First Temple times Kingdom of Judah was only part of the Roman Province of Judea, which...
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FORECASTS: Azmi Bishara Will Be Declared a World Martyr -- The EU Will Dema
2007-04-10 16:54:00
In the past few days rumors and reports have been swirling around the name of Azmi Bishara , the ex-Communist, Arab nationalist member of the Knesset, Israel's parliament. He is out of the country and has supposedly been interviewed by al-Jazeera, the Arab nationalist demagoguery channel. He also is supposed to have been offered a job as a commentator on Israeli affairs with al-Jazeera. Israeli Channel 10 reported that he had already submitted a letter of resignation to the Knesset chairwoman, Dalya Itsik. This was denied by his party Balad, that complained that he would announce his resignation after coming back to Israel, and that he was subject to political persecution here. Later, Balad or Balad members denied that he would resign.My prediction is that after sufficient press and media interest has been built up over his future, Bishara will call a press conference, probably in a wealthy Arab country, where he will announce his resignation, claiming that Israel was making life im...
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Who Is James Baker?? -- Part 3
2007-04-08 00:03:00
President Harry Truman essentially defied the policy wish of the State Department, War Department [now called "Defense Dept"], and the CIA when he supported Israel 's rebirth in 1948, albeit only lukewarmly. We have shown this in previous posts. Now, let's resume quotes from Michel Gurfinkiel's article "Report on Baker" [Rapport sur Baker]. After pointing out that Truman supported Israel's reestablishment in the 1947-1948 period, he points out that this friendly, if not warmly supportive, policy did not last.From 1949 to 1961, during the major part of Truman's second term, and during Eisenhower's two terms, America adopted a cold, if not hostile, attitude towards Israel: No economic aid (with the exception of 'charitable' gifts from the Jewish community), no military aid (an embargo forbid even in that period the export of American military equipment to the Jewish state), no diplomatic cooperation (the United States imposed the immediate evacuation of Sinai [on Israel] after ...
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NORWAY, Judeophobes in the Guise of Peace Mongers
2007-04-02 09:56:00
Norway and its hyperactive "peace diplomacy" have done a lot of damage to the world, and to the Jews in particular. The Norwegian-facilitated Oslo Accords with the jihadist, mass murderous PLO in 1993 were supposed to lead to peace. Everyone knows that such was not the case. The PLO, in its new format as the "palestinian authority," continued its policy of mass murdering Jews from an improved strategic situation. That is, instead of operating from outside of the Land of Israel, the PLO terrorists and their Hamas brethren were enabled to operate from within the Land of Israel after the PA was set up in the summer of 1994. It is interesting that Arab terrorism against Israel actually increased after the Labor Party-Meretz-Shas govt took power in the summer of 1992, then accelerating even more after the Oslo Accords were announced in late August 1993.Yet, despite the INCREASE in Arab terrorism against Israel after announcement of the accords, Norway has intensified its help for the ter...
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Norwegian Judeophobia in Cartoons -- Expel the Norwegian Ambassador!! Stop
2007-03-28 14:44:00
The bad faith of Norway's government is blatant and outrageous. Not only does Norway recognize the Hamas government of the "Palestinian Authority" zones, which indeed rejects the Oslo Accords negotiated by Norwegian mediation --indeed rejects any peace with Israel-- but most of the Norwegian press insults Israel and the Jewish people. Here is an acount by Erez Uriely who lives in Norway.ANTI-SEMITISM IN CONTEMPORARY NORWEGIAN CARICATURESErez UrielyJewish mainstream media associate Norway with efforts to bring peace to Israel and the Middle East. Accordingly, we would expect the Norwegian media to propagate tolerance towards Jews. But in reality, the Norwegian media (and its politicians!) imprint in the public mind the ideas that Jews are a negative and arrogant people who care little for others; that they steal and cheat; that they are the source of violence, the cause of wars and therefore a danger to world peace. This anti-Jewish propaganda must be taken seriously, since everybod...
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How the Arabs Treated the Europeans before Israel Was Reborn
2007-03-25 15:17:00
The Judeophobic paranoia of some people in the West gets the better of them from time to time, overcoming their reason, although it is hard to say that it overcomes their knowledge of history which is probably minuscule in any event. We are often told nowadays by politicians in Europe and the USA [Carter, Baker, etc] that the West's problems with Arabs derive from alleged EU or American support for Isra el . But being ignorant as they are about history, and perhaps not caring at all to know the historical truth, knowing mainly whom they don't like and cultivating their own Judeophobia, they do not support their claim with any historical perspective. Indeed, the Barbary pirates of the North African coast regularly attacked Europea n shipping in the Mediterranean, as well as the coasts of Italy, France, and Spain, as well as sailing as far as Cornwall in southwestern England, and Ireland, and even Iceland. They were seeking to capture slaves among the kufar [kaffirs = unbelievers; or h...
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Expel the Norwegian Ambassador!! Stop the Quislings Now!!
2007-03-19 12:10:00
Norway has compounded its original sin of facilitating the lethal Oslo Accords. It has renewed relations with a government in the "Palestinian Authority" zones that does not accept those accords, that does not agree to make peace with Israel, that calls for terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians. The Hamas Charter is clear enough in its anti-Jewish theological hatred. There is little mystery about that. Yet none of this matters to the Quisling Judeophobes ruling Norway now. The socialist government in Norway today is the heir of Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi collaborationist ruler of Norway during World War 2 and the Holocaust. For centuries Jews were not allowed to live in Norway. Then exclusionary laws were changed and a small Jewish community developed there in the 19th century. These few Jews were subject to German Nazi and Norwegian Quisling persecution. Although some Jews were aided by Norwegians in escaping to neutral Sweden, others were sent to the Nazi death camps by both Germ...
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Javier Solana & Pierre Laval, Roughriders of the Desert Sands -- The EU Sti
2007-03-17 21:21:00
Carolyn Glick points out that Javier Solana 's declaration in Damascus in favor of restoring Syrian control of the Golan Heights [see previous post], an ancient part of the Land of Israel -- encourages the Syrian Baathist fascists to make war on Israel. As if they needed all that much encouragement.This is an interesting about-face [or volte face] for the ever hypocritical and sinister European Union . Just several months ago, Solana, the EU's top diplomat, told a group of Knesset members that he rejected Syrian policy. Now he's diplomatically encouraging a Syrian war on Israel, while Syria is known to have recently much reinforced its offensive missile capacity precisely in the Syrian-held sector of the Golan Heights.Knesset member Ofir Pines of the Labor Party, an avowed dove, responded angrily to Solana's bellicose remarks in Damascus. He also placed a resolution on the Knesset's agenda for an urgent discussion of this matter:These remarks do not fit the remarks that Solana ma...
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Pierre Solana & Javier Laval Ride Again!!! -- The EU Nostalgically Harks ba
2007-03-16 00:03:00
Javier Solana confirms once again that he is a spiritual reincarnation of Pierre Laval, if not Laval's biological offspring. He just went to Damascus to fawn and grovel before the Damascus Dictator, young Bashar Assad, who inherited the family estate --sometimes known as Syria-- from Dad. Bashar's dad was Assad Senior, called Hafiz.Javier Laval or Solana's message for the Syrian Supremo was:We [the European Union] intend to make an effort as much as possible so that Syria can get back the areas conquered [occupied] from it in 1967. [Yisraeli, 3-15-2007]Damascus, 14 March (AKI) - The European Union supports Syria in its endeavours to regain the Golan Heights from Israel, the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana has stated. "We would like to work as much as possible to see your country Syria recuperate the territory taken in 1967," Javier Solana told a joint news conference with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem after meeting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday. ...
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More on Britain and the Holocaust
2007-03-08 22:40:09
Some of our previous posts have taken up the problem of Britain and the Holo caust , especially the harmful role of the BBC, an arm of the British foreign office then as now. Here is another little detail about Britain and the Holocaust, which fits into what we have reported about British hostility to Zionism and to Israel becoming a state.To this very day, however, many aspects of British policy towards the Nazi persecution and extermination of the Jews remain shrouded in mystery. For instance, according to a German source, in 1937 Hitler proposed to the British that all the Jews of Germany be sent to Palestine; the British rejected this idea. On this particular point, see Heeresadjutant bei Hitler 1938-1943: Aufzeichnungen des Major Engel, herausgegeben und kommentiert von Hildegard von Kotze, Stuttgart, 1974, pp 65, 95. [in Some Aspects of the Historical Significance of the Holocaust, Jerusalem Quarterly Reprint, the Middle East Institute, Jerusalem [not Washington DC], 1977; {rep...
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Who Is James Baker? -- Part 2
2007-03-05 22:39:02
Funny, isn't it, that so-called "leftists" like edward said and chomsky --and assorted and sundry Communists, Trotskyists, and left-over New Leftists-- have views on Israel and advocate policies on Israel similar to those advocated by Establishment pillars like jimmy carter & Jim Baker ? In the course of the anti-Israel struggle, hired academics --like Walt & Mearsheimer-- falsely claim that Israel has been supported by the US government from the beginning. This is very misleading. In fact, there has been a dispute or struggle over Israel policy within various branches of the US Government since before Israel became a state. The State Department was hostile to Zionism and to Israeli statehood before Israeli independence on 15 May 1948, in tune with its British allies and cothinkers. In fact, neither the British nor the United States governments gave effective aid to the Jews during the Holocaust. The gas chambers and crematoria and the railroad tracks leading to the camps were n...
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More on Whether US & UK Supported Zionism & Israel in the Crucial 1940s --
2007-03-05 22:39:02
One of the big lies in the ongoing campaign to besmirch the glory of the struggle for Israel is to falsely claim that Israel was set up by the United States and Britain. This story is very relevant to the background of James Baker, to which we will return.The UK was in fact openly hostile to an independent Jewish state in the Land of Israel, in fact Britain opposed Jews becoming a majority in the Land of Israel or even a sizable minority. This policy was expressed in the 1939 "White Paper on Palestine," a British policy statement that severely restricted Jewish immigration into Israel during the Holocaust, as well as Jewish land purchases in the country designated as the Jewish National Home in international law. Meanwhile, the British air force did not bomb the gas chambers or the crematoria or the railroad tracks up to the death camps, despite the repeated requests of Jewish leaders. Neither did the United States or the Communist Soviet Union. Communist and "Western imperialist" p...
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The Carter/Baker/Walt-Mearsheimer/Polk Assault on Israel Part I -- Who Is J
2007-03-02 04:35:01
Baker, Carter, and their allies are not new at being Isra el 's enemies. What is new is the coordinated attack against Israel by certain wealthy and powerful Establishment personalities. Carter's receipt of funding from Arab potentates in the Persian Gulf is fairly well known. So are Baker's ties to Arab big money. However, Baker's background was not known to me before reading an article by Michel Gurfinkiel, "Report on Baker" [France-Israel Information, Oct-Nov-Dec 2006]. Gurfinkiel is on the editorial board of the French weekly newsmagazine, Valeurs Actuelles. Full disclosure: I met Gurfinkiel in Paris years ago and held lengthy talks with him].His article is important both for his description of Baker's personal background and for his account of US policy towards Israel over the years. I will add information of my own to my excerpts from Gurfinkiel's article.Baker was a close and trusted advisor of Bush Senior for many years. The Baker-Hamilton Commissionwas mandated by Cong...
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