The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Israel has just suffered a historic defeat.

by Norman Finkelstein

Chanting victory slogans and shouting “the resistance has triumphed,”
jubilant residents flooded the streets of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday night
to express their joy over the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal, which came
into effect at 21:00 (1900 GMT), AFP reported.

One only had to watch the international news coverage.

BBC persisted in its typically awful reportage on the Israel-Palestine conflict during Israel’s latest rampage.  

But tonight it had to acknowledge that the people of Gaza were out in the streets celebrating.  

It desperately sought some “balance” by positing that “some people in Israel are probably also celebrating.”  

Fat chance.

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Alan Dershowitz, Devil’s Advocate

By Gilad Atzmon

Ethnic cleansing advocate Alan Dershowitz is not at all happy.  He is devastated by the media and international community's failure to distinguish between the Israeli military and ‘Hamas terrorists’ (this is how he refers to Palestinian freedom fighters). Last week, Haaretz lent its pages to the Talmudic spin-meister – and I was delighted because Dershowitz’ arguments throw new light on the depths of Jewish ideological and political morbidity.

“As Hamas continues to target Israeli civilians in their homes, Israel continues to target terrorist leaders and other legitimate military targets.” It seems that Dershowitz has found the magic formula that distinguishes between the ‘Jew’ and the ‘Goy’ in this conflict. The Jew is always a ‘civilian’ who happens to be a ‘victim’, while the dozens of babies, children and women murdered in the last week by Israel, they must have been ‘terrorist leaders’.

Dershowitz argues that the Hamas policy is “designed to sow terror among the Israeli population.” This is a peculiar argument. Due to its limited means, Hamas is confined to the use of primitive rockets. If Hamas had cruise missiles at its disposal and still used them to target civilians, then  I would be the first to agree with Dershowitz and even support his argument. But the contrary is true: It is the IDF that possesses the most sophisticated weaponry and is capable of targeting military targets with precise, even astonishing accuracy. So, with that in mind, every Palestinian civilian casualty caused by the Jewish state must be counted as an Israeli attempt at massacre and therefore, nothing short of a vile war crime.

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Mohammed Omer - A Report From Gaza Under Siege


Gaza City—Casualties mount as the Israeli military continues to bomb the Gaza Strip. On Sunday Gaza’s health minister, Dr. Mofeed Makhlalati, said the death toll had risen to seventy-five killed and more than 680 injured. So far three Israelis have been killed as result of Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza.


Medical sources at Shifa Hospital say that 90 percent of the casualties are civilian. “We are human. We like life, and we would like to live life like other people,” Dr. Makhlalati said at Shifa on Sunday evening. Behind him, more bodies were being moved into the morgue.

In Gaza City, Israeli fighter jets fired four missiles at a sports stadium. In Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip on the Egyptian border, F-16s and unmanned drones fired nineteen guided missiles at the tunnel complexes, which are used to smuggle everything from petrol and bicycles to food and medicine. The tunnels have been the lifeline of the besieged Strip ever since Israel imposed its blockade in 2006, soon after Hamas won democratic elections in Palestine.

Another missile fell further north, claiming three members of the Fujo family, two of whom are children. Israel’s highly sophisticated missiles have taken out the electrical towers that provide power to Rafah from Egypt. One by one, vital supplies and services to the population are being destroyed. Commercial activity has all but ceased. Gas stations no longer have fuel. Other civilian targets have been bombed, including the office of the prime minister as well as several mosques and the police headquarters.

Sunday morning Israeli fighters targeted the media, bombing two well-known office buildings, Shawwa Hosari and Shorouq, which house most of the international media outlets, including Germany’s ARD, Britain’s Sky News, the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya, the Associated Press, Reuters, NBC, CNN and the Lebanon-based Al Quds TV. Eight journalists were injured; one cameraman lost his leg.
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Palestinian Resistance – The Political, Social and Human Right of Self-​Defense

By Lynda Brayer

Once again the bombs are fall­ing on the Gaza Strip, a stretch of ter­rit­ory excised from Palestine proper as a res­ult of con­tinu­ing illegal and ille­git­im­ate actions by Israel. In fact, Gaza has become a closed ghetto, first cut off from Palestine in viol­a­tion of the par­ti­tion plans and polit­ical pro­grams and then turned into a sealed ghetto, fol­low­ing the demo­cratic elec­tions which brought the Islamic Res­ist­ance Party ­­— Hamas — into power. Cat­egor­ized as a ter­ror­ist organ­iz­a­tion in the United States, with some of its lead­ing sup­port­ers there imprisoned for over twenty years for send­ing human­it­arian aid to Palestini­ans in Gaza, it can come as no sur­prise that the Israeli and West­ern media accuse Hamas for attack­ing Israel with rock­ets, rather than report­ing that Hamas sent off the rock­ets as a response to an Israeli attack!

This method of report­ing is part of con­tin­ued efforts of de-​legitimization of the Palestinian struggle for free­dom from the yoke of Zion­ist gen­o­cidal oppres­sion and viol­ence. Fur­ther­more, the con­dem­na­tions have not been accom­pan­ied by ref­er­ence to the his­tor­ical record: that the Zion­ist war, both cold and hot, against the Palestini­ans has not stopped for even one day since 1948, and that it went into relent­less high gear since 1967 and con­tin­ues unabated. This con­tinu­ous aggres­sion — admin­is­trat­ive and mil­it­ary — is never brought into the West­ern vis­ion or under­stand­ing, although a quick per­usal of the web­sites of the Palestine Cen­ter for Human Rights loc­ated in Gaza City, Mah­som Watch and Betselem provide chilling and detailed inform­a­tion of this con­tinu­ing quo­tidian warfare.

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Sharon the Truth Teller

By Gilad Atzmon

Gilad Sharon, son of Ariel Sharon, wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Israel should “Flatten all of Gaza.”

“There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they’d really call for a ceasefire,” he wrote. “We need to flatten entire neighbourhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too.”

Many Israelis and even some Zionists are ‘outraged’  but the truth must be told – Sharon’s views are fully consistent with Zionism, Israeli thinking and some aspect of Jewish culture.

For example, Sharon’s call is fully consistent with some devastating Old Testament’s passages:

‘You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.’ Leviticus, 26:7–8

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Endorsement of the day - Gauden Sarasol on El Pais

 

http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/la-abadia-de-theleme/2012/11/8/la-identidad-errante-gilad-atzmon-

"A superb and necessary book that demystifies some "undeniable truths" about Jewish identity -
Gauden Sarasola, El Pais


The Wandering Who by Gilad Atzmon  


The following is a google translate, hence far from being reliable.

Israel, a people invented a synecdoche State

Gauden Sarasola
A superb and necessary book demystifies some "undeniable truths" about Jewish identity.

That Forewarned is forearmed, and this is true here twice: on the one hand, the book of Gilad Atzmon (<< >> Identity wandering. Editions and Eastern Mediterranean, 2012) opens with a phrase, due the National Socialist camp survivor Israel Shahak, leaving orientation clearly stated what will come next, << Nazis made me afraid of being Jewish, and the Israelis have made me ashamed to be Jewish >>, focusing further his research in a point-interrogacón that nobody dares to ask: What is a Jew? , And secondly, that the Kid warns tell from the start that this is an important book, do I say important, clearly necessary.

The author is a noted jazz saxophonist devoted to and from the front pages reveals the essential role played in that activity changes his political positions. If your grandfather was a Jewish fanatic, he inherited some of it in his youth, but the contact with reality, and more specifically his military service coincided with the invasion of Lebanon, and the visit of a crowded field in which the Palestinians, made him realize that he was on the wrong side of the Palestinians and originating in those lands, had been fired and kicked dejándoseles not return to them. From the beginning those who were arriving were guided by the idea that more can capador.

One way to be diegetic discourse intertwined with explanatory essay, Gilad Atzmon is showing the steps it was taking in its clarification regarding what happened and going over there explaining the facts and realities that made him change his ideas and become in propagandist of Palestinian rights and decided demystifying Zionist fallacies of taking advantage of an alleged insider identity, even by God himself, will allow all types of theft, expulsions, discrimination making use of the weapons of his glorious army of the only armies of the world that has an ethical code << >> (curious ethics, to the extent that instead of looking at the path Kantian universalizable some values ​​are based on discrimination, denial and annihilation of those involving an obstacle in his triumphal march) to claim the promised land << >> by Yahweh and there << mount the only democracy in the Middle East >>, but the thing is not there but the traitor << >> - that of so is considered, saying it is the classic example of the inferiority of some Jews that leads them to self-mortification, reveals the tentacles that Zionism has spread, by powerful lobbies, to monitor the progress of some of the most governments powerful in the world. The U.S. case is shredded using names of successive governments and their advisers (Wolfowitz, Greenspan, etc.) And the finding of his forays into distant countries to (besides boots seize several) to remove dangers to their partners of Israel, become, since its foundation in the area zealous gendarme.

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Operation Security Roof (satire)*

By Gilad Atzmon

Following the IDF difficulties in defeating Hamas’s ballistic warfare, the Israeli Government is now searching for contractors with some advanced experience in large scale reinforced concrete constructions. The mission ahead is the building of a solid concrete roof over the entire Jewish State.  PM Netanyahu is determined that the only way to defend Israel’s populated area is to cover the Jewish State with a thick layer of iron and cement.

The Israeli Government’s decision to build a concrete roof followed a considerable debate within the cabinet. Defence Minister Ehud Barak insisted that a massive extension of the current Security Wall would be enough to provide the goods. Barak maintained that a substantial increase of the wall to the height of 90,000 ft. would be more than sufficient to stop missiles from entering Israeli territory. He sensibly argued that Israeli youngsters would benefit from seeing the blue sky when they raise their eyes above. Prime Minister Netanyahu couldn’t agree less. Being fully aware of the nature of ballistic warfare, the PM contended that the only way to provide the Jewish State with the ultimate security is to cover it from above with a reinforced concrete shield. Israeli President Shimon Peres, the legendary peace enthusiast, offered a compromise inspired by the idea of a trampoline. Peres suggested that a Security Wall’s 90,000 ft. extension made of an elastic net would do the job. The elder statesman argued that an elastic net will guarantee that every Palestinian missile aimed at Israel would bounce back to the Arab territory once it hits the net. Netanyahu and Barak dismissed Peres’s suggestion. They argued that considering the excessive Israeli usage of artillery and missiles against the Gazans, the Jewish State would suffer far more from the erection of such a ‘bouncy net’. “Israel,” said Barak, “would never survive the extent of its own fierce artillery barrages bouncing back on itself.”

In a press conference following the heated cabinet debate, the Government spokesman Mr Zion Zioni stressed that “following the total success of the Security Wall in stopping Palestinian suicidal terror, ‘Security Roof’ is obviously the natural way to proceed.” Mr Zioni maintained as well that the new Israeli project will turn the Jewish State into a “sealed Jewish Bunker”. “In fact,” Zioni emphasised, “‘Operation Security Roof’ brings the Zionist adventure into its final destination. We are now moving from the ‘Iron Wall’ phase into the ‘Concrete Roof’ future. With a reinforced concrete ceiling from above, a Security Wall in the East and the Mediterranean Sea in the West, the Jewish State will eventually become the safest haven for world Jewry. Herzl’s dream comes true. Long Live Israel!”

Yet, some technical difficulties lay ahead. Probably the most crucial problem has something to do with breathing. Like the rest of the humankind,  most Israeli people consume oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Apparently, the Israeli cabinet Ministers were made aware of this very crucial fact by the Health Minister Dr. Herbal Krechtzen. Netanyahu, being a man of action, responded immediately. Already in the cabinet meeting he authorised the Defence Ministry to explore different solutions to the acute biological problem.

http://youtu.be/sdkOuwntBYQ

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No 1 in Gaza this Week (must watch)

Some send messages in bottles; the Gazans send them in rockets.  The message is simple and clear.

 ‘My lands, my soil, don’t lose your hope on us. We are here surrounded by barbed wire, but time will come soon for us to unite.’

Update: I was notified today that this clip may as well be part of the Israeli Hasbara campaign. I obviously do not posses the time and the energy to investigate it all. However, Israel stole the land, Israelis like humus and Falafel, so they may as well be capable of performing  a proper Palestinian militant debka. I am sure Ali Abu-Regev can improve on that front...

 

Gilad Atzmon on Spanish National, Part 2

Here is the second part of my interview on the Spanish National Radio, the previous interview led to some Israeli Hasbara outrage. Let's see whether they can cope with this one.... We discussed issues to do with ethics, The Spanish Civil War, Jewish interventionist wars and  Neo Conservatism ,  Left barbarism, Enlightenment and 'progressive' genocidal philosophy. I also spoke in support of Iran and its nuclear project.

 I expect Hasbara agents to freak out once  again   

 

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, Jewish political interest and Israeli Barbarism  in the context of Jewish culture.
 Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

 

Israel and its widespread propaganda - an interview

http://www.infopal.it/gilad-atzmon-israel-and-its-widespread-propaganda/

Infopal. Interview with the musician and writer Gilad Atzmon.

(English and Italian version) 

Angela Lano. In your article “Pillar of Biblical Cloud” you wrote that Israel is trying to win the election in January by presenting a “pile of Palestinian corpses”. Do you think that this new military operation against Gaza has a propaganda” reason?

Gilad Atzmon: It certainly is there to serve Netanyahu’s and Barak’s personal political interests. I believe that these two warmongers had, initially, a limited military operation in mind, but now it is escalating, and, as in the case of Lebanon 2006, it is pretty much out of control. Due to some obvious state of detachment, Israelis fail to learn from their past.

AL. Why do the Israeli lawmakers use biblical references for their wars against Gaza?

GA: Because Israel is the Jewish State, and Biblical rage fuels Zionism and Israeli politics with ’spiritual’ meaning.

AL: We know that many of them have a secular background.

GA: Jewish secularism is a funny concept. It is a ‘spiritual-less’, Godless ‘religion’. Secular Jews don’t believe in God but, rather too often, they kill in his name.

AL. The pro-Palestinian discourse is deeply infiltrated by Zionist elements or groups, even within the second and the third Freedom Flotillas. How do you explain such a phenomenon?

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Crucial Update: Netanyahu Says No to Ground Operation

By Gilad Atzmon

Ynet reported a few hours ago that Netanyahu gave private assurances to US President Obama that Israel is not planning a ground operation in Gaza yet.

"According to two American officials who were briefed on the phone conversation between Netanyahu and Obama, the PM said Israel  would not consider a full-scale ground invasion of Gaza unless there was escalation from Hamas or an attack that caused significant casualties."

The verdict is clear, PM Netanyahu tries to avoid his predecessors’ mistakes. But can he? The Israelis want to see blood, they are desperate for a victory, they want to see Gaza and the Hamas wiped out.

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From Stalingrad to Gaza with Love

By Gilad Atzmon

Benjamin Netanyahu, is made of different material than Barak.  Unlike Bark, who is obsessed with the banal implementation of military power, Netanyahu is concerned with  the power of deterrence and he is also intelligent enough to realise that the consequences of a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip may mean the total eradication of such a power. A large scale deployment of infantry is a complicated thing. It would lead to violent clashing with hostile civilians in a heavily populated urban territory, endless cases of inevitable war crimes and crimes against humanity, international condemnation, unavoidable conflict with Israeli allies and so on.  Also, such an escalation will prove, once again how resilient the Palestinian society is, as opposed to the vulnerable Israeli people.  Let me tell you, this is not what Netanyahu had in mind two weeks ago when he decided to slaughter just a few Palestinians in order to win the next Israeli election.

Netanyahu prefers to kill Palestinians from afar, to missile them from Israeli Navy battle ships, drones and F16s. Israel had initially a limited operative plan ahead of Operation Pillar of Cloud.  But, it didn’t take more than a few hours for Israeli generals to realise that they were ambushed by the Hamas. Like Lebanon 2006, Israel was far from being ready for this conflict. It failed to realised that the Hamas has been preparing itself for this battle. Earlier on today, I saw on BBC News, a  Palestinian flag waving on top of a wreckage of house in Gaza that was flattened by Israel during the night. The message was clear: Hamas is ready to make Gaza into Stalingrad.  The Israeli generals realise it, some of them are clever enough to grasp the fate of their soldiers if they decide to move in. They are not prepared to be Netanyahu’s ‘6th Army’

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Caricature Chief Rabbi Sacks Caught off Guard

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By Gilad Atzmon

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks was caught off guard during a Radio 4 interview this morning when he accused Iran of being part of the Gaza conflict.

Appearing on the Today programme broadcast he was asked by presenter Evans Davis for his reaction to the situation in Gaza immediately after delivering the daily peaceful ‘Thought for the Day’.

He initially responded: 'I think it's got to do with Iran, actually.' Rabbi Sacks clearly spoke his mind.

But when the Rabbi was told he was live on air, he quickly changed his spots and  responded by making a plea for peace saying: "A continued prayer for peace is needed, not only in Gaza but the whole region.' 


http://youtu.be/r8mdCWNY-g8

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Tel Aviv is next.

Soon after we learned that the  Israeli Air Force managed to 'dismantle' Hamas' middle range ballistic capability, we  happened to read that Tel Aviv is subject to rockets attack. I guess that by the time Israel is 'ready for peace', it may be on its knees.

The verdict is clear, the Israelis  never learn. I guess that Israel will unleash its wrath tonight. Justice Goldstone, better dust off his judicial hammer. 

To read more

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4306249,00.html

 
Rockets fired at Tel Aviv area for first time since Gulf War

For first time in over 20 years, siren heard in Tel Aviv metropolitan area; two rockets land in open areas shortly thereafter; two hours earlier, rocket lands in Rishon Lezion area; no injuries reported in either attack. Three Kiryat Malachi residents killed in morning rocket attack

Ali Abunimah on Gaza and Lust (Video + comment)

Here is a rare opportunity to watch Ali Abunimah doing what he is good at.

Abunimah is certainly one of the best Palestinian spokespersons, Here he manages to present the correct time line that led to the current escalation in Gaza.  Abunimah better concentrate on exposing Israeli criminality, rather than chasing the enemies of Israel within our ranks.

However, in this short interview Abunimah refers twice to Israel's 'irrational lust for violence' and I am left slightly puzzled.  Just a year ago, the same Abunimah was outraged by my criticism of Jewish and Israeli culture. I would love to learn from  Abunimah what he has in mind when he talks about 'Israel’s lust for violence'.  Isn’t he directly referring here to some sort of collective culture or even biology? Can we grasp the notion of ‘lust’ without a reference to biology or culture? 

Abunimah better spend some time reading The Wandering Who. The book will provide him with a deep insight into ‘Israel’s lust for violence’. It will also provide him with the necessary information regarding the cultural heritage that led toward the emergence of such a genocidal cult.

http://youtu.be/1vUUgCptqpw

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, Jewish political interest and 'Israel's lust for violence' in the context of Biblical Jewish secular interpretations.

 Amazon.com  or Amazon.co.uk

 

 

Israel: Petraeus was unfaithful to us

http://glossynews.com/top-stories/201211141728/israel-petraeus-was-unfaithful-to-us/

 

Israel: Petraeus was unfaithful to us

This reporter has confirmed some of the suspicions that CIA Director David Petraeus’ infidelity went well beyond his dalliance with Paula Broadwell. One well-placed source confirmed that, “My God, if we had to sack everyone in the military and intelligence communities for sleeping around, we would be decimated! Petraeus must have done something much worse.”

RIGHT: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is breaking up with CIA Director David Petraeus due to his infidelity to Israel. (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

Some discrete inquiries led, as usual, to Israel, and a very high placed contact that I cannot reveal but to whom I will refer as B.B. Here is what he had to say:

    Barb Wire: B.B., you admit to some concerns about General Petraeus. Please elaborate.

    B.B.: As you know, Barb, the U.S. and Israel have a relationship that goes well beyond friendship. I’m afraid Gen. Petraeus betrayed that relationship.

    Barb Wire: What happened?

    B.B.: In 2010, he described Israel as a strategic liability for the U.S. because our struggle to liberate as much land as possible from Palestinians and our Arab neighbors is an obstacle to resolving the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the Middle East. He even had the nerve to say it in front of Congress!

“As you know, Barb, the U.S. and Israel have a relationship that goes well beyond friendship. I’m afraid Gen. Petraeus betrayed that relationship.”

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