Israel as Popular as North Korea According to BBC Poll

By Gilad Atzmon

http://www.deliberation.info/

 

BBC POLL: Israel is one of the countries with most negative global influence.

Haaretz reported yesterday that, “Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll.”

It would appear that in spite of the extensive Hasbara campaign and the Jewish lobby buying every morally lax living politician, people of the world increasingly see Israel for what it is.

The broad international survey was an initiative of the BBC World Service. Over 24,000 people from 22 countries took part in the poll, which was conducted from December 2011 to February 2012.

Haaretz confirms that the survey’s findings on global attitudes toward Israel are “worrying indeed.” Last year’s survey already confirmed that attitudes toward Israel were negative, but the situation has become more serious this year: Some 47% of participants in the 2011 survey had negative views of Israel’s influence on the world, but this year the number has gone up to 50%.

If Israel and Zionism were set initially to bring to the world a humanist civilised Jew, this poll results suggest that both Zionism and Israel failed completely. In spite of Israeli Hasbara, Jewish lobbying and the Jewish stronghold over the media, the people of the world, see the Jewish State negatively.

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Final Call to attend The International Movement for One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Conference , Munich, June 30/July 1

 

The Munich Conference

The International Movement for

One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

June 30 - July 1, 2012

This is the final call to attend and register for the Munich Conference to launch the International Movement for One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel which will be held in Munich Germany on June 30 - July 1, 2012. If you did not register, please take the time to do so and to read the information below. Attached you find the following documents:

1.         A copy of the Program, and

2.         A copy of the Draft of the Munich Declaration of the International Movement for One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel for your input.

 

For those of you who already registered we are encouraged by your plan to attend and look forward to your active participation. This conference is designed to maximize cordial discussions among participants. All activists will be accorded equal time and treated equally to foster friendly relations and atmosphere.

  Please do not hesitate to contact us for additional information.

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Tony Blair & George Bush convicted War Criminals

By Lauren Booth

http://www.deliberation.info/

Abu Ghraib leash

Victory in Kuala Lumpur but no cigars in Guantanamo.

Billed as a ‘court of conscience,’ the Kuala Lumpur War crimes tribunal proved to be a gathering of sharp, knowledgeable and equally kind hearted, talents from the legal and human rights world. Over four days, a packed court room in KL, heard testimony from a series witnesses. Men and women from Iraq and the UK who had endured Viet Cong style torture – all supposedly in the name of America’s ‘security.’ The accounts of pulped limbs, sexual degradation, Medieval shackling and psychopathic torments inflicted by the powerful on the innocent and the weak, on more than one occasion, drew gasps of shock, from the court.

And then, at last the moment of truth. The first panel of judges in the world to hear the case against George Bush’s regime found he and seven cohorts unanimously guilty on all counts. Let’s re cap on who was in the dock.

Former US President George W Bush and his co conspirators;

  1. Richard Cheney
  2. Donald H Rumsfeld
  3. Alberto Gonzales, then counsel to president Bush
  4. David Addington, then General Counsel to the VP
  5. William Haynes II, then General counsel to the Sec of Defence
  6. Jay Bybee the Assistant Attorney General
  7. John Choo Yoo, former deputy Assistant Attorney General.
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From AIPAC to Gay-Pack

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ObamaGayPresident

Is Obama gay or not? We don’t know the answer, Newsweek says he is the  ‘first Gay president‘ and brother Nathaniel seems to agree.
But does it matter, Obama didn’t have to be a Jew in order to subscribe to AIPAC pressure, he probably doesn’t have to to be Gay in order to fund his next election campaign by (rich) gays. What is more significant here is the transition of American lobby politics. American politics  is now navigated by some  marginal lobbies that do not necessarily reflect the culture and the spirit of the entire nation.

For long time it was AIPAC, now it is GAY-PACK but who is next?

 


For more information about Zionism and other marginal thoughts:

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics

  The book can be  ordered  on Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

Norman Finkelstein - Political scientist - BBC HARDtalk, May 2012

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon:

According to Norman Finkelstein, American Jews fall out of love with Israel? In this BBC Hardtalk exchange he argues that they are now so unhappy with what Israel is doing that they want to distance them from the country.

But is Finkelstein telling the truth here? I think that he is dead wrong! Diaspora Jews are actually more attached to their tribal identity than ever.   For the time being, Israel is the one and only Jewish secular symbolic identifier (culturally, spiritually and nationally). Even the so-called Jewish ‘anti’ Zionists  identify collectively with Israel by the means of negation. Israel is at the heart of the Jewish collective universe. Most Jews feel strong affinity towards the 'Jewish State'  and just a very few claim to oppose it. 

I would argue that for Jews to move away from Israel or Zionism a new Jerusalem is needed, I don’t see it happening voluntarily.  


 

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics

  The book can be  ordered  on Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

Lauren Booth Reports from Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal

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Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Day 1

When authority entrusted to further truth and justice betrays that trust, two options remain: one is to throw up your hands in despair and resignation; the other is to reclaim that power and to hold authority accountable.

This is the statement of intent from the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War on the first day of its proceedings against former US President George Bush and 11 members of his regime. Over the next five days, the Tribunal will hear from victims of US torture in both Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.

On ‘trial’ in their absence are former U.S. President George W. Bush and his associates. Namely Richard (Dick) Cheney, former U.S. Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld, former Defence Secretary, Alberto Gonzales, then Counsel to President Bush, David Addington, then General Counsel to the Vice-President, William Haynes II, then General Counsel to Secretary of Defense, Jay Bybee, then Assistant Attorney General, and John Choon Yoo, former Deputy Assistant Attorney-General. The charge reads as follows:

The Accused persons had committed the Crime of Torture and War Crimes, in that: The Accused persons had wilfully participated in the formulation of executive orders and directives to exclude the applicability of all international conventions and laws, namely the Convention against Torture 1984, Geneva Convention III 1949, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Charter in relation to the war launched by the U.S. and others in Afghanistan (in 2001) and in Iraq (in March 2003); Additionally, and/or on the basis and in furtherance thereof, the Accused persons authorised, or connived in, the commission of acts of torture and cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment against victims in violation of international law, treaties and conventions including the Convention against Torture 1984 and the Geneva Conventions, including Geneva Convention III 1949.

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King and Cohen, are they funny?

Once again, Sacha  Baron Cohen attempts to give anti Semitism a 'bad name'.

I didn't see the film yet, but the trailers are, as always, very  promising. For some reason Cohen’s films somehow always fall far behind expectations. 

However, this short video is probably more revealing. I think that we better expect another vulgar Judeo centric racist cinematic exercise. But we better keep our mind open.  

 

Omar Barghouti – on “White People”

Omar Barghouti – on “White People”http://www.deliberation.info/omar-barghouti-on-white-people/

Short Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: As it seems Arab and Palestinian activists are not free of mistakes. In this short video Omar Barghouti, leader of the BDS movement, appears  to adhere to  some biological determinist generalisations. I believe that Barghouti didn't think it through and if he did, he better justify his position. I plan to write a paper about the Arab Left and ‘post colonial’ terminology.

Omar Barghouti – on “White People”

 

For some peculiar reason Omar Barghouti, BDS’s leading activist makes some biologically determinist remarks. He for instance declares that he won’t take a lecture from a “white person”. But Barghouti doesn’t stop there, he clearly makes a connection between ‘skin colour’, political stand and violence. It seems as if Barghouti is also aware of himself making a racist statement when he suggests that “the white race is the most violent in history of mankind.”

Barghouti’s embarrassing comment must raise a few questions. Is there a a new emerging conflict between Palestinians and White People or the ‘White race’? Why does Mr. Barghouti chose to employ racist, and biological determinist terminology? Clearly he could express the same idea by referring to Westerners culture, history or even Western expansionism...

to read more - http://www.deliberation.info/

Sarkozy won in Israel

Nicolas Sarkozy lost French presidential election runoff to socialist candidate François Hollande who won 51.9% of votes. In Israel however,  Sarkozy is a real winner. According to Ynet, 92.8% of French Jewish citizens living in Israel voted for Sarkozy. The man with the yarmulka (in the left) won the Jews' hearts but lost his own people.

Sarkozy may want to spend the next 2-3 days reading La Parabole d'Esther. Anatomie du Peuple Élu,  so he understands this discrepancy..

 


 

 

America's unrequited love for Israel Benzion Netanyahu’s Role in Crafting the “Strategic Asset” Myth

By Maidhc Ó Cathail

http://thepassionateattachment.com/

From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Israel and its partisans have stressed the Jewish state’s role as a strategic asset to the United States in the Middle East. A recent Haaretz article, however, provides further evidence that this claim is little more than a self-serving myth.

In the article titled “David Ben-Gurion’s diary invites a rethink of Benzion Netanyahu’s extreme Zionist image,” Israeli historian and journalist Tom Segev reveals that the current Israeli Prime Minister’s late father offered his propaganda services to Ben-Gurion’s government on at least two occasions. Writes Segev:

In 1956, Netanyahu proposed that Ben-Gurion employ him as a public diplomacy (hasbara) functionary, in the guise of a history professor, at one of the universities in America. He sought to work under the auspices of the Prime Minister’s Office, and tailor his activity to its policy.

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