Friday, May 30, 2008

Les USA et Israel refusent de signer la convention pour interdire les bombes à fragmentation

Une Convention pour interdire les bombes à fragmentation

Après 10 jours de débats serrés, à Dublin, capitale irlandaise, 111 pays se sont mis d'accord sur l'interdiction de la prolifération et de l'usage des bombes à fragmentation; ce qui n'est pas allé sans provoquer la réaction des médias et milieux médiatiques. Certains Etats producteurs et exportateurs des bombes à fragmentation tels que les Etats-Unis et le régime sioniste n'avaient pas participé à la réunion de Dublin et n'ont pas alors, signé l'accord précité. Le consensus de 111 pays contre l'usage et la prolifération des bombes à fragmentation, témoigne de l'unanimité mondiale sur cette affaire. La bombe à fragmentation est une arme non-conventionnelle, qui date de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle a été utilisée par la suite dans d'autres guerres contre le Vietnam, le Cambodge, le Kosovo, l'Afghanistan, l'Irak et le Liban. Quant au Liban, le régime sioniste a largué, durant les 72 dernières heures de la guerre estivale en 2006, plus d'un million de bombes à fragmentation sur les régions du sud du pays. Une bombe à fragmentation explose avant d'atteindre sa cible en libérant des milliers d'éclats qui se propagent à haute vitesse dans des directions aléatoires ou précises en fonction des effets désirés. Des éclats propagés fonctionnent comme une mine et peuvent exploser, même après des années, par un petit contact de tout genre. C'est le cas aussi du Liban qui après 2 ans, connaît chaque jour, des victimes des bombes à fragmentation du régime sioniste. D'après les chiffres et bilans militaires, 34 pays fabriquent à présent, 210 sortes de bombes, air-terre, terre-terre et des bombes à fragmentation tandis qu'au moins 13 pays sont, largement, actifs dans la prolifération et l'exportation de telles bombes dans le monde dont les Etats-Unis. Les victimes des bombes à fragmentation en Irak, en Afghanistan et au Liban, sont les témoins vivant de l'usage par Washington et Tel-Aviv de telles armes prohibées. L'intéressant est qu'en dépit de toutes les interventions américaines, la Grande Bretagne et les autres alliés des Etats-Unis ainsi que les membres de l'OTAN ont adopté et signé la convention portant sur l'interdiction de la prolifération et de l'usage des bombes à fragmentation.


Bannissons les bombes à sous-munitions!

http://www.stopclustermunitions.org

La France: position ambiguë

Vers une interdiction des bombes sous-munitions

Mike Chertoff (Homeland Security) veut s'inspirer des mesures de sécurité des aéroports israéliens

Le directeur (états-unien) de la sécurité de la Patrie (Homeland Security), Michael Chertoff, en plus d'être un talmudiste, veut s'inspirer des mesures de sécurité des aéroports israéliens!


Homeland 'Security' Chief Looks to Adopt Israeli Airport Security Methods

HOMELAND SECURITY TODAY



Bref, si Chertoff a ce qu'il veut, on va tous devoir subir le même genre de fouilles qu'aux aéroports israéliens pour pouvoir entrer aux USA!


Chertoff's North American Union Plan

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L'ancien porte-parole de la Maison blanche Scott McClellan expose les mensonges de Bush

Surveillez bien les révélations de ce McClellan sur les mensonges de Bush relatifs à la guerre en Irak, la fuite de l'identité de l'agent Valerie Plame, etc.

Certains suggèrent que c'est dans le but de nuire à l'élection de McCain. Espérons ce ça fonctionne!


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Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction

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Video: Ron Paul confronts Condie Rice: lies about Iran "eerily" like Iraq's (non-existent) WMDs

McClellan: Bush, Cheney Wanted Me To Say Libby Wasn't Involved In CIA Leak Case

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Le croisé anti-terrorisme Lieberman lié à un groupe pro-terrorisme

Terrorism Fighter Joe Lieberman Tied To Group Inciting Terrorism
By Bruce Wilson
talk2action
May 28 2008

United States Senator Joseph Lieberman has called for banning "terrorist videos" from YouTube but Mr. Lieberman has failed to recognize that he has closely associated and allied himself with a group that has repeatedly and very publicly incited acts, against Israel, which the state of Israel considers acts of terrorism posing a security threat of the highest magnitude. Yesterday Journalist Max Blumenthal, on the Huffington post, elaborated on Lieberman's continuing association with a US organization inciting terrorist acts against Israel. (ALSO SEE: Christian Zionism in 60 Seconds)

At the July 16-18, 2007 Christians United For Israel (CUFI) yearly conference in Washington D.C., Senator Lieberman lavished praise on Christians United For Israel's founder, Texas megachurch evangelist Pastor John Hagee, likening Hagee to Moses, calling Hagee a "man of God", and stating that, like Moses, Hagee was the leader of a 'mighty multitude'.

But on July 18, 2007, at the nonprofit 501(c)(3) group's "A Night To Honor Israel" capstone event of it's three-day conference, CUFI Regional Director Billye Brim suggested that "God has a plan" for the Dome of The Rock, Islam's 3rd holiest site on Earth and the spot from which Muslims believe Moses ascended into Heaven. In the eschatolgical, or "End-Time" belief system held by most Christians United For Israel members, The Dome Of The Rock must be removed or destroyed to make way for the construction of a 3rd Jewish temple.

"Upon that hill, there is a rock," Brim told the audience in attendance at the July 18 "Night To Honor Israel" event, which was attended by former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of The House Tom Delay, other prominent US politicians and both current and former Israeli military and political leaders. "Upon that rock there is a dome," continued Billye Brim--as she addressed, in a stern and portentous tone, the attending crowd of up to 5,000 Christians United For Israel, while journalist Max Blumenthal and videographer Thomas Shoemaker, along with DayStar TV, filmed the event and while I watched and took notes. "God has a plan for that hill," declared Brim, to the cheers of the crowd.

Billye Brim did not directly call, on July 18th that night, for the destruction of The Dome of The Rock, but the message was clear--the Dome had to go--and in an undated audio recording I have discovered, from Billye Brim addressing a moderate sized and nearly orgiastic religious gathering, Brim makes the point more directly, stating that while she was with a group of evangelical Christians who were covertly praying around and on Jerusalem's Temple Mount Brim received a message directly from God which told her "that dome's coming down" and Billye Brim suggested that she knew the very date on which The Dome Of The Rock would be destroyed. "That dome's coming down," exulted Brim to her audience, and then she emitted what could be called nothing other than a triumphant ululation of victory.

Israel's Shin Bet security service is charged with protecting The Dome of the Rock and the nearby Al Akhsa mosque, from attempts by Jewish, American and Islamic extremist groups to damage or destroy the Islamic holy sites, and the State of Israel considers such attempts to pose a top-level security threat to Isrsel, because it is widely assumed that the destruction would touch off a regional, or even a world, war.

In his 2000 book The End of Days: Fundamentalism and The Struggle For The Temple Mount, Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg described the apocalyptic aspirations of the many fringe religious groups aspiring to bring on the Apocalypse and the "end of days" through attacks on the Dome of The Rock and the Al Akhsa mosque. The danger of such attacks is not hypothetical: the last several decades have seen both individual and organized group efforts to attack the Islamic religious sites on and around the Temple Mount, from both Christian and Jewish fundamentalist groups.

But Christians United For Israel, as an organization, is itself implicated in inciting attacks upon the Temple Mount holy sites. In early 2007, a year after the launch of the Christians United For Israel organization, which Pastor John Hagee has claimed can project it's purportedly "pro-Israel" message to millions of American voters via the email lists of numerous prominent evangelists, I publicized the fact that the Christians United For Israel organizational logo, distributed on all CUFI literature and paraphenelia, which also headed all web pages on CUFI's official organizational website, featured a photographic image of Jerusalem's Temple Mount from which the Dome of The Rock had been, literally, as was done by Stalin's agents to official Kremlin photographs of Politburo members who had been assassinated, airbrushed out of the image.

When the story that the Jerusalem Temple Mount image on CUFI's organizational logo had been altered, the Dome of The Rock airbrushed out, an Alexandria, broke nationally via the New York-based Jewish Telegraphic News Service, I wrote about it and was subsequently contacted by an Alexandria, Virginia public relations official representing CUFI who assured me that the image had not been altered in any way and that the absence of the Dome of The Rock was simply due to the perspective from which the original photograph had been taken.

When I demonstrated, via a perspective analysis published on the Talk To Action website, that such a claim was impossible, the same public relations official stated that the CUFI logo image had in fact been airbrushed, with the Dome of The Rock removed, but not by CUFI : the airbrushing had been done by an Israeli photographer. But prior to the JTA news service broadcast of the "CUFI Dome-Wiping" story I searched for the origin of the CUFI Logo airbrushed image, via a Google Image web search. In a seach of up to five hundred images of the Temple Mount and the Dome of The Rock, I was unable to find a single image that had been altered in such a way, so that the Dome of The Rock had been artificially removed.

After I registered for the July 2007 "Christians United For Israel" conference last year, I received CUFI conference materials and brochures in the mail; they still featured the original airbrushed, "wiped" CUFI logo.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Israël : 60 ans d'existence et 65 résolutions de l'ONU bafouées

Les 65 résolutions de l'ONU non respectées par l'État d'Israël
27 mai 2008

1948 - 1967

* Résolution 106 Condamne l’attaque par les forces de l’armée régulière israélienne contre les forces de l’armée régulière égyptienne le 28 février 1955. Cette attaque viole les dispositions relatives au cessez-le-feu de la résolution 54.

* Résolution 111 Attaque d’Israël contre la Syrie le 11 décembre 1955 tuant 56 civils. Cette action constitue une violation délibérée des dispositions de la Convention d’armistice général entre Israël et la Syrie.

* Résolution 127 Violation d’Israël dans la zone située entre les lignes de démarcations aux environs du Palais du gouvernement à Jérusalem.

* Résolution 162 Demande instamment à Israël de se conformer aux résolutions précédentes.

* Résolution 171 Condamne l’attaque israélienne du 16-17 mars 1962 sur la Syrie constituant une violation flagrante de la Charte des Nations Unies et de la Convention d’armistice général syro-israélienne. Invite Israël à s’abstenir scrupuleusement de toute action de cette nature à l’avenir.

* Résolution 228 Censure Israël pour la grave action militaire de grande le 13 novembre 1966 qui a été menée dans la partie méridionale de la zone d’Hébron. Souligne à l’intention d’Israël que les actes de représailles militaires ne peuvent être tolérés.



1967 – 2003 : Guerre de Six jours et Occupation

* Résolution 237 Prie le gouvernement israélien d’assurer la sûreté, le bien-être et la sécurité des habitants des zones où des opérations militaires ont eu lieu et de faciliter le retour des habitants qui se sont enfuis de ces zones depuis le déclenchement des hostilités.

* Résolution 242 Demande le retrait des forces armées israéliennes des territoires occupés lors du récent conflit.

* Résolution 248 Condamne l’attaque massive israélienne sur Karameh en Jordanie.

* Résolution 250 Invite Israël à s’abstenir d’organiser à Jérusalem le défilé militaire prévu pour le 2 mai 1968.

* Résolution 251 Déplore profondément qu’Israël ait procédé au défilé militaire à Jérusalem le 2 mai 1968 au mépris de la décision unanime adoptée par le Conseil le 27 avril 1968.

* Résolution 252 Considère que toutes les mesures et dispositions législatives et administratives prises par Israël, y compris l’expropriation de terres et de biens immobiliers, qui tendent à modifier le statut juridique de Jérusalem sont non valides et ne peuvent modifier ce statut.

* Résolution 256 Condamne les nouvelles attaques militaires lancées par Israël sur la Jordanie en violation flagrante de la Charte des Nations Unies et de la résolution 248.

* Résolution 259 Déplorant le retard intervenu dans l’application de la résolution 237 (1967) en raison des conditions qui continuent d’être posées par Israël pour recevoir un représentant spécial du Secrétaire général.

* Résolution 265 Condamne les attaques aériennes préméditées lancées récemment par Israël contre des villages et des zones habitées en Jordanie.

* Résolution 267 Censure dans les termes les plus énergétiques toutes les mesures prises pour modifier le statut de la ville de Jérusalem par Israël.

* Résolution 271 Condamne et constate que l’acte exécrable de violation et de profanation de la sainte mosquée Al Aqsa souligne l’immédiate nécessité pour Israël de renoncer à agir en violation des résolutions précipitées.

* Résolution 298 Déplore qu’Israël n’ait pas respecté les résolutions précédemment adoptés au sujet des mesures et dispositions prises par Israël en vue de modifier le statut de la ville Jérusalem.

* Résolution 446 Considère que la politique et les pratiques israéliennes consistant à établir des colonies de peuplement dans les territoires palestiniens et autres territoires arabes occupés depuis 1967 n’ont aucune validité en droit et font gravement obstacle à l’instauration d’une paix générale, juste et durable au Moyen-Orient.Demande une fois encore à Israël, en tant que Puissance occupante, de respecter scrupuleusement la Convention de Genève.

* Résolution 452 Demande au Gouvernement et au peuple israéliens de cesser d’urgence d’établir, édifier et planifier des colonies de peuplement dans les territoires arabes occupés depuis 1967, y compris Jérusalem.

* Résolution 465 Demande à tous les États de ne fournir à Israël aucune assistance qui serait utilisée spécifiquement pour les colonies de peuplement des territoires occupés.

* Résolution 468 Demande au Gouvernement israélien de faciliter le retour immédiat des notables palestiniens expulsé, afin qu’ils puissent reprendre les fonctions auxquelles ils ont été élus ou nommés.

* Résolution 469 Déplore et demande de nouveau au Gouvernement israélien, en sa qualité de Puissance occupante, de rapporter les mesures illégales prises par les autorités d’occupation militaire israéliennes en expulsant les maires d’Hébron et d’Halhoul et le juge islamique d’Hébron.

* Résolution 471 Condamne les tentatives d’assassinat dont ont été victimes les maires de Naplouse, Ramallah, et Al Bireh et demande que les auteurs de ces crimes soient immédiatement arrêtés et poursuivis.Demande à nouveau au Gouvernement israélien de respecter et d’appliquer les dispositions de la Convention de Genève relative à la protection des personnes civiles en temps de guerre.

* Résolution 476 Demande instamment à Israël de cesser immédiatement de poursuivre la mise en œuvre de la politique et des mesures affectant le caractère et le statut de la Ville sainte de Jérusalem.

* Résolution 478 Censure dans les termes les plus énergiques l’adoption par Israël de la « loi fondamentale » sur Jérusalem et son refus de se conformer aux résolutions pertinentes du Conseil de sécurité.

* Résolution 484 Déclare qu’il est de nécessité impérieuse que le maire d’Hébron et le maire d’Halhoul soient en mesure de regagner leurs foyers et de reprendre leur charge.

* Résolution 487 1987 : Notant en outre qu’Israël n’a pas adhéré au Traité sur la non-prolifération des armes nucléaires.Condamne énergiquement l’attaque militaire menée par Israël contre les installations nucléaires iraquienne.Demande à Israël de placer d’urgence ses installations nucléaires sous la garantie de l’Agence internationale de l’énergie atomique.

* Résolution 497 Décide que la décision prise par Israël à imposer ses lois, sa juridiction et son administration dans le territoire syrien occupé des hauteurs du Golan est nulle et non avenue et sans effet juridique sur le plan international.

* Résolution 573 1985 : Condamne vigoureusement le bombardement israélien sur le quartier général de l’OLP en Tunisie.

* Résolution 592 1986 : Déplore vivement les actes de l’armée israélienne, qui ayant ouvert le feu, a tué ou blessé des étudiants sans défense de l’université de Bir Zeit.

* Résolution 605 Déplore vivement ces politiques et pratiques d’Israël qui violent les droit de l’homme du peuple palestinien dans les territoires occupés, en particulier le fait que l’armée israélienne a ouvert le feu, tuant ou blessant des civils palestiniens sans défense.

* Résolution 607 1988 : Engage Israël à s’abstenir d’expulser des civils palestiniens des territoires occupés.

* Résolution 608 Déplore profondément qu’Israël ait expulsé des civils palestiniens.Demande à Israël d’assurer le retour immédiat et en toute sécurité dans les territoires palestiniens occupés de ceux qui ont déjà été expulsés.

* Résolution 611 1988 : Condamne avec vigueur l’agression perpétrée le 16 avril 1988 contre la souveraineté et l’intégrité territorial de la Tunisie.

* Résolution 636 1989 : Regrette profondément qu’Israël continue d’expulser des civils palestiniens.

* Résolution 641 1989 : Demande à Israel d’assurer le retour immédiat et en toute sécurité dans les territoires palestiniens occupés des personnes expulsés et de cesser immédiatement d’expulser d’autres civils palestiniens.

* Résolution 672 1990 : Condamne les actes de violence commis par les forces de sécurité israéliennes le 8 octobre dans Al-Haram Al-Charif et dans d’autres lieux saints à Jérusalem et qui a fait plus de vingt morts parmi les Palestiniens et plus de cent cinquante blessés, notamment parmi des civils palestiniens et des personnes innocentes qui s’étaient rendues à la prière.

* Résolution 673 1990 : Déplore le refus du Gouvernement israélien de recevoir la mission du Secrétaire général dans la région.

* Résolution 681 1990 : Déplore la décision prise par Israël de procéder de nouveau à l’expulsion de civils palestiniens des territoires occupés.

* Résolution 694 1991 : Déplore et réaffirme qu’Israël doit s’abstenir d’expulser des civils palestiniens des territoires occupés

* Résolution 726 Condamne fermement Israël, puissance occupante, pour sa décision de procéder de nouveau à des expulsions de civils palestiniens.

* Résolution 799 1992 : condamne fermement les expulsions de centaines de civils palestiniens par Israël au Liban le 17 décembre 1992 des territoires occupés par Israël depuis 1967, y compris Jérusalem.

* Résolution 1052 1996 : Réaffirme son attachement à l’intégrité territoriale, à la souveraineté et à l’indépendance politique du Liban à l’intérieur de ses frontières internationalement reconnues.
* Résolution 1322 2000 : Condamne les actes de violence, particulièrement le recours excessif à la force contre les Palestiniens, qui ont fait des blessés et causé des pertes en vies humaines.

* Résolution 1402 Demande le retrait des troupes israéliennes des villes palestiniennes, y compris Ramallah.

* Résolution 1405 2002 : Demandant la levée des restrictions imposées par Israël et insiste sur le fait qu’il est urgent que les organismes médicaux et humanitaires aient accès à la population civile palestinienne.

* Résolution 1435 2002 : Exige qu’Israël mette fin immédiatement aux mesures qu’il a prises à Ramallah et aux alentours, y compris la destruction des infrastructures civiles et des installations de sécurité palestiniennesExige également le retrait rapide des forces d’occupation israéliennes des villes palestiniennes et le retour aux positions tenues avant septembre 2000.



1968 - 2003 : Invasion du Liban par Israël

* Résolution 262 1968 : Condamne Israël pour son action militaire préméditée en violation de ses obligations aux termes de la Charte et des résolutions relatives au cessez-le-feu.

* Résolution 270 1969 : Condamne l’attaque aérienne préméditée lancée par Israël contre des villages du Liban méridional en violation de ses obligations aux termes de la Charte et des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité.

* Résolution 279 1970 : Exige le retrait immédiat du territoire libanais de toutes les forces armées israéliennes.

* Résolution 280 1970 : Condamne Israël pour son action militaire préméditée en violation de ses obligations aux termes de la Charte et des résolutions relatives au cessez-le-feu.

* Résolution 285 1970 : Exige le retrait complet et immédiat du territoire libanais de toutes les forces armées israéliennes.

* Résolution 313 1972 : Exige qu’Israël renonce immédiatement à tout action militaire terrestre et aérienne contre le Liban, et s’abstienne, et retire immédiatement toutes ses forces militaires du territoire libanais.

* Résolution 316 1972 : Condamne, tout en déplorant profondément tous les actes de violence, les attaques réitérées des forces israéliennes contre le territoire et la population du Liban.

* Résolution 317 1972 : Déplore le fait qu’en dépit de ces efforts il n’ait pas encore été donné effet au ferme désir du Conseil de sécurité de voir tout le personnel militaire et de sécurité syrien et libanais enlevé par les forces armées israéliennes le 21 juin 1972 sur le territoire du Liban libéré dans le plus court délai possible.

* Résolution 332 1973 : Condamne les attaques militaires répétées dirigées par Israël contre le Liban et la violation par Israël de l’intégrité territoriale et de la souveraineté du Liban.

* Résolution 337 Aout 1973 : Condamne le gouvernement israélien pour avoir violé la souveraineté et l’intégrité territoriale du Liban ainsi que pour le détournement et la capture par la force par les forces aériennes israéliennes d’un avion libanais se trouvant dans l’espace aérien libanais.

* Résolution 347 1974 : Condamne la violation par Israël de l’intégrité territorial et de la souveraineté du Liban et demande une fois encore au gouvernement israélien de s’abstenir d’autres actions et menaces militaires contre le Liban.

* Résolution 427 1978 : Demande à Israël d’achever sans plus tarder de se retirer de tout le territoire libanais.

* Résolution 444 1979 : Déplore le manque de coopération, particulièrement de la part d’Israël, aux efforts déployés par la Force intérimaire des Nations-Unis au Liban, y compris l’assistance que prête Israël à des groupes armés irréguliers dans le Sud du Liban.

* Résolution 450 Demande à Israël la fin des attaques sur le Liban.

* Résolution 467 1980 : Condamne et déplore l’intervention militaire d’Israël au Liban.

* Résolution 498 1981 : Demande à Israël de cesser immédiatement son action militaire contre l’intégrité territoriale du Liban et de retirer sans délai ses forces de tout le territoire libanais.

* Résolution 501 1981 : Demande à Israël de cesser immédiatement son action militaire contre l’intégrité territoriale du Liban et de retirer sans délai ses forces de tout le territoire libanais.

* Résolution 509 Exige qu’Israël retire immédiatement et inconditionnellement toutes ses forces militaires jusqu’aux frontières internationalement reconnues du Liban.

* Résolution 515 1982 : Exige que le Gouvernement israélien lève immédiatement le blocus de la ville de Beyrouth de manière à rendre possible l’envoi d’approvisionnements afin de répondre aux besoins urgents de la population civile et à permettre la distribution des secours.

* Résolution 517 1982 : Blâme Israël pour n’avoir pas respecté les résolutions précédentes et exige un cessez-le-feu immédiat et le retrait immédiat des forces israéliennes du Liban.

* Résolution 518 Exige qu’Israël coopère à tous égard à l’effort fait pour assurer le déploiement effectif des observateurs des Nations Unis.

* Résolution 520 Condamne les récentes incursions israéliennes dans Beyrouth, qui constituent une violation des accords de cessez-le-feu et des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité.

* Résolution 587 1986 : Demande à nouveau qu’il soit mis fin, dans le sud du Liban, à toute présence militaire qui n’est pas acceptée par les autorités libanaises.


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Monday, May 26, 2008

Jimmy Carter révèle qu'Israel a 150 armes nucléaires



Carter : « Israël dispose de 150 bombes atomiques »

L'état d'Israël a à sa disposition au moins 150 armes nucléaires, a déclaré Jimmy Carter, l'ancien Président des États-Unis, selon des informations en provenance de Grande-Bretagne.

C'est la première fois qu'un président des USA reconnaît publiquement l'existence de l'arsenal nucléaire israélien.

Carter a fait ce commentaire tout en répondant à une question au festival de littérature de Hay-on-Wye, dans le Pays de Galles, lorsqu'il a été interrogé sur la façon dont tout futur président des Etats-Unis devrait traiter la menace nucléaire iranienne.

« Les Etats-Unis ont plus de 12 000 armes nucléaires, [l'ex] Union Soviétique en a à peu près autant. La Grande-Bretagne et la France en ont plusieurs centaines, et Israël 150 voir plus, » a précisé Carter, selon une transcription de ses propos éditée dans le cadre le festival.

« Nous avons un stock énormes d'armements... Non seulement des armes gigantesques mais aussi des fusées pour lancer ces missiles sur une cible avec une grande précision. »

Carter a ajouté que le gouvernement des Etats-Unis devrait discuter directement avec l'Iran afin de le persuader d'abandonner ses ambitions nucléaires.

Les Etats-Unis et d'autres pays occidentaux ont accusé Téhéran de vouloir s'équiper d'armes nucléaires tandis que l'Iran affirme que son programme nucléaire est uniquement à but pacifique.

La controverse à propos du Hamas

Ses déclarations surviennent après que l'ancien président des États-Unis ait déclenché une polémique en discutant directement le mois dernier avec Khaled Meshaal, le responsable à Damas du mouvement palestinien Hamas.

La réunion a provoqué des critique de la part d'Israël et de l'administration Bush.

Le Hamas est considéré comme une organisation terroriste par les Etas-Unis, Israël et l'Union européenne [rappelons que la résistance à l'occupation nazie en France avait également été qualifiée de « terroriste » par les occupants et leurs valets vichystes - N.d.T], et n'a pas été sollicité pour participer aux discussions sponsorisées par les Etats-Unis entre Israël et les Palestiniens.

Silence israélien

Les experts ont longtemps estimé qu'Israël était la seule puissance nucléaire au Moyen-Orient, toutefois les israéliens ont toujours refusé de confirmer ou de nier l'information.

La plupart des évaluations concernant le nombre d'armes sont basées sur les éléments confiés aux médias par Mordechai Vanunu, un ancien technicien nucléaire israélien, qui a éclaré que l'état juif a en sa possession entre 100 et 200 bombes atomiques.

Vanunu a passé 18 ans dans une prison israélienne pour avoir révélé ces secrets nucléaires avant d'être libéré en 2004.

Certains experts ont estimé que le nombre d'armes nucléaires est de 60 et d'autres de 400.

On ne sait pas sur quels renseignements précis Carter a basé son information.


Sur le même thème :

« Omerta » sur la bombe israélienne
Le nucléaire iranien est une conséquence du nucléaire israélien
Vanunu : l'homme qui en savait trop
L'hypocrisie du nucléaire au Moyen-Orient

27 mai 2008 - Al Jazeera.net - Vous pouvez consulter cet article à :
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exe...
[Traduction : Info-Palestine.net]



Jimmy Carter says Israel had 150 nuclear weapons
Bronwen Maddox
From The Times
May 26, 2008

Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal, former President Jimmy Carter said yesterday, while arguing that the US should talk directly to Iran to persuade it to drop its nuclear ambitions.

His remark, made at the Hay-on-Wye festival which promotes current affairs books and literature, is startling because Israel has never admitted having nuclear weapons, let alone how many, although the world assumes their existence. Nor do US officials deviate in public from that Israeli line. Carter, who has immersed himself since his presidency in Israeli-Palestinian relations, was highly critical of Israeli settlers on the West Bank, and of Israel's refusal to talk to elected officials of the Islamic party Hamas, although he said that Israel's security was his prime concern.

Carter, whose presidency was dominated by the 444-day siege in which Iran held 52 American diplomats hostage, said "my advice to the US would be to start talking to Iran now" to persuade it to drop its nuclear work. But he cited Israel's nuclear arsenal - and those of the US, Russia, China, Britain and France - in arguing that Iran would find it almost impossible to develop, in secret, many weapons and the missiles to deliver them.



Jimmy Carter reportedly acknowledged Israel's nuclear arsenal, JTA
"If Carter did indeed discuss Israel's military nuclear capabilities, it would mark an unprecedented departure from a longstanding "don't ask, don't tell" policy on the issue.

Israel is widely assumed to have amassed nuclear weapons since the 1960s, but neither confirms nor denies the arsenal's existence under an "ambiguity" strategy."


Ex-US president: Israel has 150 nukes, JPost

Carter says Israel has arsenal of 150 nuclear weapons
Former U.S. President also reportedly calls Gaza blockade one of 'greatest rights crimes' on Earth, Haaretz

Carter: Israel has 150 nuclear warheads, presstv

How Carter made Israel an official nuclear power: the "Jewish" state must now sign the NPT

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Netanyahu: Israeli Psycho



Silverstein is a close friend of Benjamin Netanyahu, who (along with Mossad agents) has a habit of being at the crime scene when terror attacks are about to occur, and whose father Benzion was both a disciple of Abba Ahimeir of the Revisionist Maximalism Jewish fascist ideology and was the secretary of Ze’ev Jabotinsky who at one time (1937) was commander of the Irgun, a Jewish terrorist group responsible for atrocities such as the 1946 King David Hotel bombing which killed 91 people and wounded 46. Remember how terrorism had helped Netanyahu’s career prior to 9/11, when he was “unexpectedly” elected Israeli Prime Minister in 1996 after a wave of “suicide bombings” shortly before the elections.





Joining the dots: Netanyahu, Israel's Mussolini
SoTT Editors
19 May 2008



Andrew Lobaczewski studied at close range a deviant category of humans who, when they manage to grab pivotal positions of power, hold a devastating potential for raining death and destruction down on humanity, simply to further their own interests. These individuals are known as psychopaths, and they move skillfully and purposely throughout the higher echelons of the global body politic. And like clockwork, they slot themselves into all the significant seats of power.

One such individual interests us today. It seems that dangerous moves are afoot which threaten the safety of the entire planet, and that he plays a key role.

At present, it is very clear that the global psychopathic manoeuvres gravitate significantly around the state of Israel, which takes its place at the centre of an horrific downward-spiral of violence, blood, despair and devastation almost beyond human imagining, which spews forth across the surrounding areas, and threatens to envelope the entire earth in its darkness.

A significant part of this phenomenon is the astounding ability of denial, to insist that reality is not represented by the evidence, but instead reality must conform to how "I say it is". When a whole society becomes infected with pathological influence then this affliction of denial becomes endemic throughout the general population. But essentially, this is the 'skill' of the psychopath.

Amos Gunsburg clearly describes this:
They make pronouncements without substantiation. To them, these pronouncements represent what reality is ... pronouncement by pronouncement. The present pronouncement may contradict what they said a moment ago. This means nothing to them. They make no attempt to deal with the contradiction.

They demonstrate a total lack of understanding what we mean by a "fact." In their writings and in their speech, they do not use that word.

We humans find this hard to believe. The use of facts is such a basic part of our lives. We base our conclusions and our actions on them. We go on from there to test things and establish more facts. When we debate, we present facts, and show how we derive our observations and our positions from them.

Without facts, all we have is what we call "fantasy."

Since these creatures have a human appearance, we assume they must think like us ... be aware of what we are aware. We think they MUST know what facts are. When they don't address the facts, we say they are playing a game. We think they do know what the facts are, but don't want to admit it.

Not so! They DON'T know what a fact is. When we speak of facts and ask them to address the facts, they look at us with vacant eyes. They don't know what we're talking about.

They study us because their strategy is to pass as human. They hear us use the words - facts, evidence, substantiation. They lack the human capacity to understand what we mean. What they do is ignore our reference to facts, ignore our requests for them to supply facts, and hope we won't notice it's due to their lack of comprehension.

From "Beyond Insanity" - Amos M. Gunsberg
It is a trademark feature of the Bush Neocon administration, as former Wall Street Journal reporter and author Ron Suskind wrote in New York Times Magazine:
"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend - but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"
Nowhere does this mindset have more of a stranglehold, than in Ehud Olmert's Israeli Zionist administration, with its insistent and increasingly hysterical denial of the worsening Palestinian holocaust.

The war of words against Iran has also definitely intensified lately. And there are other things going on at the same time, so perhaps all these things are linked?
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
We see this exact same brutal unblinking denial of reality when we study some of the rhetoric being issued from the mouth of Benjamin Netanyahu:
Drawing a direct analogy between Iran and Nazi Germany, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu asserted Monday that the Iranian nuclear program posed a threat not only to Israel, but to the entire western world. There was "still time," however, to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, he said.

"It's 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs," Netanyahu told delegates to the annual United Jewish Communities General Assembly, repeating the line several times, like a chorus, during his address. "Believe him and stop him," the opposition leader said of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "This is what we must do. Everything else pales before this."
So perhaps we should pay more attention to the skillful adept of the "repeated lies will be accepted as truth" doctrine?

The more one looks, the more one finds that next to Netanyahu, Olmert is nothing but an amateur. Netanyahu has friends in high places - it seems he is high up on the psychopathic power elite hierarchy, with the requesite mindset to match.

If this is so, let's see if we can spot those who butter his bread and sponsored his meteoric rise to the top of the Israeli political and economical scene, while along with economic achievements his professional track record is characterized by an unusually large number of Intelligence ties. Quite exceptional for a 'bright and ambitious young man'.

21 Oct 1949 - Born in Tel-Aviv

1956 - 58, 1963
- 67 - Grows up in the U.S., where his father, the historian Professor Benzion Netanyahu, taught history. Later, mainstream sources will trace Netanyahu's so called 'philosophy' to his father, who was a proponent of the idea 'that the historic bitterness between Arab and Jew made for a seemingly intractable situation'.

A pretty interesting philosophy, especially when Jewish historians and archeologists took an active role in fabricating the myth called the Jewish nation.

1967 - 1972 - Returns to Israel in order to serve in the IDF in the years 1967-72, and reaches the rank of captain in the elite unit, "Sayeret Matkal", the fighting branch of the Israeli Intelligence Services. He participates in a number of missions including the Beirut Airport operation and the rescue of hijacked Sabena Airlines hostages.

One wonders if it wasn't an early rehearsal and stage preparation for Operation Entebbe.

1972 - 1976
- Studies in the U.S. and receives a first degree in Architecture and a second degree in Business Administration at M.I.T, and also studies political science at MIT and Harvard University.

Then he takes a position at the Boston Consulting Group - where his boss is Ira Magaziner, a later aide and policy advisor to President Clinton. Magaziner is best known for leading, along with Hillary Clinton, the failed 'Task Force to Reform Health Care' in the early Clinton administration.

A bit of curious trivia: Magaziner is currently chairman of Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative and and the Clinton Climate Initiative. It looks like he may be one of those who help to maintain a scientific 'dominant paradigm' and conformity built into the system of government grants.

04 July 1976
- His brother Jonathan (Yonni), regarded as something of a war hero having already been awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service in Yom Kippur, is killed in the course of Operation Entebbe. Recently released documents show that it was Shin Bet/Mossad cover operation. Netanyahu's brother was the leader of the assault, and the only Israeli military casualty of the raid.

Was his death a necessary sacrifice in order to inculcate in Israelis psyche Netanyahu's image as a brother of a hero?

1979
- Returns once again to Israel, leaving his blossoming career at prestigious consulting firm behind him; sets up the 'Jonathan Institute for the Study of Terrorism' and organises an international Anti-Terrorism Conference, which is attended by various high profile and powerful figures such as George Bush, George Shultz (U.S. Secretary to the treasury, and professor at the infamous Chicago Graduate School of Business), and Richard Perle (President Reagan's Assistant secretary of Defense). In this way he rapidly becomes established on the global stage, making key connections in politics, economics and the military.

After such apparent success he makes a surprising move and takes a senior position at Rim Industries (Furniture manufacturer) in Jerusalem, as marketing manager.

Another bit of trivia: Shultz, who's considered to be Netanyahu's protégé, is called the father of Bush doctrine, which evidently advocates fabricating evidence and staging false flag operations in order to embark on so called 'preemptive wars'.

Today Shultz is the chairman of the JPMorgan Chase. The same JPMorgan that is a shareholder in the Federal Reserve, and the one who bought Bear Stearns for 2$ a share after it was funded up to $30 billion of Bear Stearns' less liquid assets.

1982
- Rises instantly through the diplomatic ranks to a highly visible position: he is invited by Israel's Washington Ambassador, Moshe Arens, to be his deputy.

It looks as though Arens was directed by the same people in the Reagan administration who attended Netanyahu's conference three years earlier. He was quoted saying:
"People got a good laugh when they heard I phoned a furniture factory to find a deputy. What sold me on Bibi was his organization of the anti-terror conference and the strong impression he made on American leaders who participated."

1984 - 1988
- Rapid political climb continues: he is appointed as Israel's ambassador to the UN, where he becomes a media figure, with regular TV appearances on Ted Koppel's Nightline and Larry King Live.

Less than three months earlier while in New York, he is visited by George Bush and George Shultz, who further invest in his growing publicity and organizes another conference on terrorism in Washington.
The Washington conference, held on June 24-27, 1984, was a mega-event. Some 36 experts on terrorism spoke during the four-day conference, including the self-described universal fascist Michael Ledeen, and many others from the U.S. neo-con stable who would later play an essential role in spreading the intelligence lies that were used for the invasion of Iraq.
Netanyahu continues to expand his circle of friends who later will play a major role in his election to the Prime Minister post.
[Stephen] Friedman, a 50-year-old attorney from Philadelphia, serves as the lawyer for the Likud Party in the United States. He is one of Netanyahu's oldest childhood pals and also part of whole new cast of American Jewish players that might be called the Friends of Bibi, or FOBB.
Like the celebrated inner circle surrounding Bill Clinton, Netanyahu's American friends, a small fraternity of influential and like-minded Jewish lawyers, businessmen, financiers and columnists, have been helping finance his ambitions and carrying Netanyahu's political water ever since he set his sights on the Israeli premiership in the early 1980s. [...]

FOBB can be divided into two distinct categories: his small inner circle of close male pals, some of whom date back to his high school days outside Philadelphia in the 1960s, and the somewhat larger second string of associates who met and bonded with Bibi while he served as Israel's deputy ambassador to Washington and ambassador to the United Nations in the 1980s.[...]

One of those Netanyahu met at this time and brought into his inner circle was Merv Adelson, ex-husband of TV journalist Barbara Walters and former head of Lorimar studios.[...] Adelson became Netanyahu's Hollywood connection.

Another member of Netanyahu's inner circle is Ronald Lauder, a former U.S. ambassador to Austria and wealthy international businessman. [...] Lauder, 50, has hosted a number of gatherings at his Manhattan apartment, where he introduced Netanyahu to State Department officials, members of Congress, wealthy investors and financiers.
1988 - 1993 - After returning from the U.S. and acquiring powerful neocon allies, Netanyahu is elected to the 12th Knesset as Likud member and appointed as Deputy Foreign Minister and later the Prime Minister's spokesman.

His close ties with big-shots of the mainstream media turned out to be worthwhile. During the Gulf War he practically dominates CNN network's airtime.
According to a March 1991 story in the Washingtonian, a Palestine Liberation Organization official phoned CNN's headquarters in Atlanta during the first week of the war. "This Israeli has been on the air for more than half an hour," he fumed, referring to Netanyahu. "CNN is becoming a propagandist for the Israelis."
March 25, 1993 - Netanyahu elected as Likud Party Chairman and the party's candidate for Prime Minister.

1996 - 1999 - Acts as Israel's 9th Prime Minister.

By winning the election, Netanyahu surprised many who thought that pre-election favorite Shimon Peres was going to win. But it seems that his election wasn't exactly based on luck. Apart from being supported and helped behind the scenes by U.S. businessmen, lawyers and Hollywood moguls, there was one additional curious element, a wave of suicide bombing shortly before the election. This fact was considered as a main catalyst in Peres' downfall. As described by the National Review:
Before the assassination, Netanyahu was running neck and neck with Rabin in opinion polls. This despite the fact that Netanyahu had only a fraction of Rabin's enormous experience as a soldier and statesman. Netanyahu and his strategists were confident of victory. But after Rabin's death, Netanyahu at once plunged 20 to 30 points behind Peres. It took the slaughter of dozens of Israelis in a wave of Arab bomb attacks to switch the momentum back to Netanyahu, who had repeatedly warned of such attacks.
This makes an astounding preview of the events of 9/11, in which it also took an unprecedented attack on home soil with numerous casualties, to turn around Bush's failing popularity in the US. We see the telltale signs of the ubiquitous Mossad 'false flag' operation. As always, one has to ask "who benefits?" This opens up a horrific window into the possibilities of the psychopathic mindset: where lives are sacrificed without hesitation, in order to further one's own agenda.

But, like Bush's presidency, Netenyahu's reign as Prime Minister will be marked as a period of record levels of failure and embarrassment. Such was the failed assassination of Hamas leader Khalid Meshal. Considering that Hamas was a creation of Mossad and frequently used in order to maintain the myth of Palestinian bomber, we get a story with an additional manipulation twist.
The attack on Khalid Meshal by five or six Israeli agents disguised as Canadian tourists looked like of a rushed mission mounted without Mossad's usual meticulous preparation, suggesting someone high up ordered an immediate hit.[...]

[W]hat would killing Meshal have accomplished? His murder would certainly have triggered new Hamas bombings.[...] Two days before attempting to kill Meshal, Israel apparently received a message from Hamas offering a 10-year cease fire in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and ending Jewish settlements. Netanyahu claims he only got this exceptionally important message after the botched assassination. His supporters blame Mossad chief Danny Yatom for sitting on the message. Yatom denies it.

This is part of a furious battle of leaks raging between Mossad and Netanyahu's cabinet. Some Netanyahu supporters claim the Mossad hit was a rogue operation never authorized by the prime minister.

Mossad partisans leak back that it was all Netanyahu's harebrained idea - and that he's now trying to make Mossad chief Yatom fall guy for the fiasco. Other critics say a hard-line cabal inside Mossad is determined to thwart any peace with Palestinians - which is likely true.

Meanwhile, the failed plot has ignited a train of strange events. To divert blame from Israel, a former Canadian ambassador to Israel endangered his countrymen's lives by suggesting Canada was involved in the plot.

In another bizarre twist, while publically ordering Arafat to keep arresting Hamas members, Netanyahu freed from prison Hamas founder Sheik Yassin, and 70 other Hamas 'terrorists' in order to get his Mossad assassins back from Jordanian custody.
Apparently top psychopaths don't like amateurs, especially if it is one of their own. The failed assassination triggered harsh response from the White House, expressing dissatisfaction with Netanyahu's performance.
It is being called the worst fiasco in the history of Israel's once-vaunted intelligence service, the Mossad. It raises, once again, serious questions about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's mental fitness. It provoked unprecedented expressions of disgust from the Clinton administration -- "we loathe him," one White House official remarked -- and left experienced observers to wonder what other disastrous pratfalls the Israeli leader has in store for the dying Middle East peace process.
Perhaps that might explain forced resignation of the agency's then chief, Danny Yatom after another bungled operation, this time in Switzerland in 1998. Netanyahu was eager to set the record right.

But this spy fever weirdness was only the tip of the iceberg. There was another curious story uncovered by Biranit Goren and Einat Berkovitch journalists from Ha'ir who tried to dig into Natanyahu's past.

They discovered that in 1987, Netanyahu applied for credit using his American social security number 020364537. There were four requests and each request applied with a different name: Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Nitai, John Jay Sullivan and John Jay Sullivan, Jr.
Binyamin Netanyahu is the name Israel's current prime minister was given at birth and which he now uses. In June 1973, during his studies at MIT, Netanyahu submitted a petition to the Boston court, asking to change his name from Netanyahu to Nitai; "I prefer a shorter name", he wrote on the request form. The petition was approved, thus the second name has an explanation. The last two names, however, remain a mystery. Furthermore, the address attached to these names - somewhere in Malibu, California - does not exist. Who, then, is John Jay Sullivan?

Biranit Goren and Einat Berkovitch from Ha'ir tried to find out. They looked into Netanyahu's credit account. This file is supposed to hold information regarding bank accounts, loans, credit cards and so forth; yet, surprisingly, the file was empty. It is as if Netanyahu never had a debt, had never taken out a loan, and always paid his bills up front and in cash.

Goren and Berkovitch then attempted to examine Netanyahu's social security file, but were denied access. They did, however, find out that Netanyahu's file has a different classification than most. They were denied access not merely due to the 1974 privacy act, but because the file had a "confidential" classification. Goren and Berkovitch have explained that such a classification only applies to five categories of people: those who work for one of three federal agencies - FBI, CIA, IRS - or those who are considered to be terrorists or criminals. Since it is unlikely that Netanyahu fits the latter two categories, or that he worked for the IRS, it appears that he was on the payroll of a security agency - the CIA or FBI.
Obviously, an official explanation and denial were offered without delay, but the bad taste remained, especially when Netanyahu's Intelligence ties were popping up from all directions.

Benjamin Gilman, one of Netanyahu's closest allies in Congress, had close relations with Shabtai Kalmanovitch, 'a charming, tanned Russian-Israeli entrepreneur'. He was an operative for Mossad until 1988 when Mossad discovered that Kalmanovitch wasn't such a valuable asset as they thought. He was arrested in Tel Aviv and charged with being a KGB spy.

And then we have stories like this:
Perhaps the most secret and worrying ties concern what is supposedly a high-tech services company. Yediot Ahronot relates how Netanyahu wooed a local Likud leader. "He was invited by Netanyahu to a meeting in his office at Systematics in Ramat Gan. The head of the company, Oded Levental is a candidate for a financial post in the new government."

Systematics is at the core of serious research by American alternative publications, including the usually reliable Media Bypass. In short, the allegations are that the National Security Agency had handed Systematics stolen software called Promis that opened a trap door to the world's secret banking transactions. About 250 Americans, mostly politicians, had their illegal foreign accounts emptied of over $3.5 billion in the operation. It is claimed that Colin Powell dropped out of the presidential race after his account electronically vanished.

Leading figures in the operation included George Bush, Caspar Weinberger and two Arkansas attorneys, Vince Foster Jr. and Hillary Rodham Clinton on behalf of Clinton financier Jackson Stephens. The research invariably concludes that Foster was murdered because he knew too much about the scam.

A leading investigative writer, Sherman Skolnick, writes:

"Some contend Systematics is an NSA proprietary and spies on banks overseas. Can Systematics rightfully deny spying actually done by buffers or cut-outs between Systematics and NSA? Systematics, through a spokesperson, vigorously denies Foster assisted it in any spying on foreign banks but remains apparently silent on whether Hillary Rodham Clinton assisted Systematics in some nefarious activities."

Is it fair to ask why Systematics provided Netanyahu office space and if this was the sum total of its involvement with him?
The Economic angle: But having his hand in various clandestine operations was only part of his activities. In the position of Prime Minister he begins to implement a controversial free market economy program.

As discussed here he 'transferred the Israeli economy towards free market principles'. And when we refer to 'free market principles' we are talking about the very same Friedman Chicago School of Economics that has been used to systematically rape and pillage the entire planet, as Naomi Klein describes in 'The Shock Doctrine'

One of Netanyahu's immediate actions after taking the post was to introduce an aggressive policy of privatization backed by two economic think-tanks. One of the think tanks is Hoover Institution with George Shultz as one of his high profile conservatives.

By taking the road of mass privatization, Netanyahu mimicked his U.S. and British progenitors - Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

After being defeated by Ehud Barak in the 1999 election for Prime Minister, Netanyahu decided to 'retire' from politics. Perhaps he was requested to retreat into the background for a while in order to make preparations for the next round. He conveniently surfaced again right after 9/11.

12 September 2001 - In the aftermath of 9/11, Netanyahu starts to show his true colors. He can hardly contain his delight. Compare his reaction (as reported by the New York Times):
"It's very good." Then he edited himself: "Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy [for Israel]."
to that of his Palestinian counterpart:
Yasir Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority, looked shaken as he appeared before reporters in Gaza to deplore "this terrible act." "We are completely shocked," Mr. Arafat said. "Completely shocked."
2002 - 2005 - In 2002 appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs and then, in the course of 2003, as Minister of Finance.

07 July 2005 - During the London 7/7 bombings, again Netanyahu appears to be more than just a neutral bystander, though the relevant events were conspicuous only by their absence from the mainstream press. SoTT observed:
Guess where Rudolf Giuliani just happened to be on the morning of July 7th 2005? Rudy was lounging at the Great Eastern hotel just a few yards from Liverpool street station where one of the bombs went off. In the same Great Eastern hotel where Giuliani was staying, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange just happened to be hosting its economic conference. Guess who the keynote speaker was? Israel's then Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

As it turned out, Netanyahu never arrived at the Great Eastern Hotel because, as news reports in the days after July 7th informed us, Netanyahu had in fact received a warning from the Israeli embassy, (by way of the British Metropolitan police) that bombings were to occur and that he should stay in his hotel in Mayfair. Again, the official British government report makes no attempt to address how British police knew at least 6 minutes (probably longer) in advance that the bombings were to occur when, 'officially', British authorities were not even aware that they were dealing with bombs, believing that the explosions were the result of a power surge, until the bus bombing one hour after the first train explosion.
Undoubtedly, one of his friends in high places has tipped him off.

August 2005 - He resigns from Mr Sharon's cabinet in protest at Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

May 2006 - His popularity among the ranks of the pathocracy (rather than the 'average Israeli'), and his affinity with Dick Cheney are clearly visible during AIPAC's annual meeting, as described by Rabbi Bruce Warshal:
Let's zero in on AIPAC. It is controlled by right-wing, rich Jewish neo-conservatives. As one manifestation of the truth of this assertion one merely has to look at its annual meeting this past month. At a time when Vice President Cheney's popularity has dropped below 20 percent, the 4,500 delegates to the AIPAC convention gave him a standing ovation for almost a minute before he even opened his mouth and then proceeded to give him 48 rounds of applause in a 35-minute speech. (As my colleague Leonard Fein pointed out, that's once every 43.7 seconds). Considering that 75 percent of American Jews voted for Kerry, it is obvious that these people are out of the mainstream of Jewish thought.

At the same conference, preceding the recent Israeli elections, these delegates were addressed by Ehud Olmert (Kadima), Amir Peretz (Labor) and Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) by video link from Israel. Olmert and Peretz received polite applause. The AIPAC delegates cheered enthusiastically for Netanyahu, especially when he presented his hard line that was overwhelmingly rejected by the Israeli electorate. Once a great organization, today AIPAC does not even represent the feelings of the average Israeli, let alone the average American Jew.
2005 - 2007 - From the political background, he continues to exert his significant influence for the Zionist cause. He visits London (causing considerable scandal over his funding) on a personal mission to patch up the media image in England during the bombing of Lebanon, In his own words:
"During my trip in August 2006, I worked 20 hours a day giving interviews, lecturing, meeting journalists, editors, political leaders and Jewish leaders to repel Arab propaganda."
And he appears to be very much in control, though at arm's length, within Israel too:
Although Olmert thinks he has out-maneuvered his great rival, in reality he has become Bibi's puppet. Aluf Benn, the leading political correspondent for Ha'aretz, wrote on Oct. 25:
"Olmert has adopted the positions of Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu [who] is steering the government policy from the opposition benches. The hands are the hands of Ehud, but the voice is the voice of Bibi. Now Olmert is carrying out the Netanyahu policy, point by point. The Prime Minister is sending veiled threats to Iran, burying the convergence plan [withdrawal from the Occupied Territories] and allowing accelerated construction in settlements. His social economic policy, too, was copied from Netanyahu...."

Israeli political observers say that Netanyahu is biding his time, while Olmert's own Kadima Party continues to be on the verge of splitting, with half its members likely to return to the Likud. The Labor Party, sitting at the same table with fascist Lieberman, could self-destruct before the year's end, these sources say, and the next government will be led by Bibi, with Lieberman by his side.
Well, he is not only 'biding his time', but is playing out his role within his particular circle of friends, which includes those in the U.S.:
"According to Israeli intelligence sources, since the end of the Lebanon war, Cheney and his neo-con allies have been working to bring into power their real candidate as Israel's Mussolini, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, chairman of the Likud Party and protégé of U.S. synarchist George Shultz."
August 14, 2007 - Reelected as chairman of the Likud.

So we reach recent times, and there are various related and converging threads. Everything points towards a consolidation of psychopathic power, for whatever may follow.

Netanyahu continues to play a significant role in 'foreign relations', which on the surface would be rather surprising, given that he is only the leader of the opposition, but makes perfect sense in light of his pathocratic tendencies and the nature of his 'friends'. Clearly, he has an important part to play in whatever plan is to unfold.

The present - Now we have the recent round of political scandals surrounding both Olmert and Netanyahu. What is interesting that while there was a gag order imposed on revealing any details about Olmert's investigation, the New York Post posted an exclusive with the name of this 'businessman' - Morris Talansky. The indications are that this is weakening Olmert's position, to leave the way clear for Netanyahu to regain power:
"It's the straw that broke the camel's back, considering all the previous investigations," said Eytan Cabel, secretary general of the Labour party said on Friday.[...]

The justice ministry said on Thursday that Olmert was being investigated over suspicions he unlawfully received payments from a foreign businessman during his time as mayor of Jerusalem and as industry minister. [...]

Olmert: "If the attorney general decides to file an indictment against me I shall resign immediately, even though I am not required to do so by law."

When a premier resigns it is up to the president, currently Shimon Peres, to pick a successor who can try to form a government. Failing that, early elections must be held. [...]

Former prime ministers Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu also faced corruption investigations, none of which ever led to indictments.
And we see that Netanyahu is still staying busy reinforcing friendships wherever he can:
"Israel has no better friends in the world than Christian Zionists", Likud opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.

"This is a friendship of the heart, a friendship of common roots, and a friendship of common civilization," Netanyahu told a conference of American Evangelicals in Jerusalem.

The event, which was organized by the San Antonio, Texas-based Christians United for Israel, drew 1,000 Israel supporters led by the conservative evangelical Pastor John Hagee, who has been a stalwart supporter of Israel for the past three decades.

Hagee on Sunday announced donations of $6 million to a number of Israeli causes and declared that Israel must remain in control of all of Jerusalem. [...]

Hagee has united evangelical Christian supporters of Israel in the US under one umbrella organization, dubbed the Christian Aipac, which focuses solely on support for Israel and does not work to convert Jews to Christianity.

Netanyahu's remarks come just days after the head of the left-leaning Reform Movement in the US Rabbi Eric Yoffie said that Israel should not deal with Christian Zionists like Hagee, calling him an "extremist" who rejected territorial compromise with the Palestinians and disparages Catholics.

Hagee has vehemently denied being anti-Catholic and said his remarks have been mischaracterized, and based on statements that were "totally false." The head of the Knesset's increasingly influential Christian Allies Caucus MK Benny Elon (National Union-National Religious Party), who has spearheaded Israel's relations with the evangelical Christian world, called Yoffie's politically based remarks "shameful," and called Hagee a "visionary man of courage" and an "outstanding spiritual leader." [text-cache]
It seems that every leader who comes to Israel, goes to see Netanyahu. It is not a normal thing in politics to have a meeting with the opposition leader every time someone makes a diplomatic visit. So who really calls the shots and runs things behind the curtain?

All the while, the warmongering rhetoric ramps up, with the continued propaganda campaign from both Israel and the U.S. over Iran's non-existent nuclear weapons program (Saddam Hussein's WMD's, anyone?). Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter predicts that some kind of attack on Iran is a "virtual guarantee". The description of Iran as the world's "worst Hitlerite nightmare", does not bode well, when we consider the psychopath's penchant for projecting their own qualities onto their intended victim.

The future?
- It looks that Netanyahu's rise to power will be the final step before the total collapse. Because he is a full blown unashamed psychopath. And just like a true psychopath, he cannot see that his action will lead to his own doom - and to everyone else's doom.
"The following question thus suggests itself: what happens if the network of understandings among psychopaths achieves power in leadership positions with international exposure? This can happen, especially during the later phases of the phenomenon. Goaded by their character, such people thirst for just that even though it would conflict with their own life interest... They do not understand that a catastrophe would ensue. Germs are not aware that they will be burned alive or buried deep in the ground along with the human body whose death they are causing."

from 'Political Ponerology' by Andrew Lobaczewski

Friday, May 16, 2008

Terroriste et président, l'Israélien Menachem Begin: "Nous avons créé la terreur chez les Arabes"

"We Created Terror Among the Arabs": The Deir Yassin Massacre
William James Martin
13 May 2008

On April 9, 1948, members of the underground Jewish terrorist group, the Irgun, or IZL, led by Menachem Begin, who was to become the Israeli prime minister in 1977, entered the peaceful Arab village of Deir Yassin, massacred 250 men, women, children and the elderly, and stuffed many of the bodies down wells. There were also reports of rapes and mutilations. The Irgun was joined by the Jewish terrorist group, the Stern Gang, led by Yitzhak Shamir, who subsequently succeeded Begin as prime minister of Israel in the early '80s, and also by the Haganah, the militia under the control of David Ben Gurian. The Irgun, the Stern Gang and the Haganah later joined to form the Israeli Defense Force. Their tactics have not changed.

The massacre at Deir Yassin was widely publicized by the terrorists and the numerous heaped corpses displayed to the media. In Jaffe, which was at the time 98 percent Arab, as well as in other Arab communities, speaker trucks drove through the streets warning the population to flee and threatening another Deir Yassin. Begin said at the time, "We created terror among the Arabs and all the villages around. In one blow, we changed the strategic situation."

From about 1938 on to the founding of Israel, Begin was the leader of the Irgun. That group regularly assassinated English soldiers in Palestine and frequently hung their booby-trapped bodies in public places. Under Begin, the Irgun blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, killing 97 British civil servants. The Stern Gang, under Shamir, also assassinated the U.N. representative to Palestine, Count Bernadotte, in 1948.

But Deir Yassin was not the only massacre by the Israeli Defense Force. That army, under Moshe Dayan, took the unarmed and undefended village of al-Dawazyma, located in the Hebron hills, massacred 80 to 100 of its residents, and threw their bodies into pits. "The children were killed by breaking their heads with sticks ... The remaining Arabs were then sealed in houses, as the village was systematically razed ..." (Nur Masalha, The Historical Roots of the Palestinian Refugee Question).

We read further. According to Yitzhak Rabin's biography:
We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Alon repeated his question: "What is to be done with the population?" BG waved his hand in a gesture, which said: Drive them out! ... I agreed that it was essential to drive the inhabitants out.
Continuing the narrative, Ben-Gurion University historian Benny Morris writes in "Operation Dani and the Palestinian Exodus from Lydda and Ramle in 1948", Middle East Journal, 40
At 13.30 hours on 12 July [1948]... Lieutenant-Colonel Yitzhak Rabin, operation Dani head Operation, issued the following order: '1. The inhabitants of Lydda must be expelled quickly without attention to age. They should be directed to Beit Nabala,... Implement Immediately.' A similar order was issued at the same time to the Kiryati Brigade concerning the inhabitants of the neighboring town of Ramle, occupied by Kiryati troops that morning... On 12 and 13 July, the Yaftah brigades carried out their orders, expelling the 50-60,000 remaining inhabitants of and refugees camped in and around the two towns....

About noon on 13 July, Operation Dani HQ informed IDF General Staff/Operations: 'Lydda police fort has been captured. [The troops] are busy expelling the inhabitants.... Lydda's inhabitants were forced to walk eastward to the Arab legion lines; many of Ramle's inhabitants were ferried in trucks or buses. Clogging the roads... the tens of thousands of refugees marched, gradually shedding their worldly goods along the way. It was a hot summer day. The Arab chroniclers, such as Sheikh Muhammed Nimr al Khatib, claimed that hundreds of children died in the march, from dehydration and disease. One Israeli witness described the spoor: the refugee column 'to begin with [jettisoned] utensils and furniture and, in the end, bodies of men, women, and children.

There were many other such villages with Arabic names that have almost been expunged from memory--but not quite. These facts have always been known to some historians, however they have been consistently denied by the official Israeli histories, as, indeed, Israel has never taken any responsibility for the exodus of Palestinians from the land of the present state of Israel.
Within the last 10 to 20 years, however, there has been an exponential increase in historical studies of the origins of the state of Israel which have coincided with the release by Israel of many, but not all, of the historical and military archives. Ben-Gurion University historian Benny Morris, as well as others, have systematically mined these documents and found numerous instances of massacres, and, by the way, not one shred of evidence for the frequently repeated official Israeli lie that the Palestinians fled Palestine because the surrounding Arab states told them to.

In fact, according to UN estimates, which some say are conservative, 750,000 Palestinians fled the site of the present Jewish state in 1948. Those refugees and their descendents now number about 4.5 million and constitute the largest and longest standing refugee population in the world. Many live in squalid refugee camps distributed in the surrounding Arab states or in the West Bank or Gaza, many retain the titles to their land, recognized by the British before 1948 or the Ottomans before that , and many retain the keys to their front doors of their former homes in what is now Israel, whether or not those doors still exists.

The '67 War generated a second wave of about 300,000 refugees from the West Bank and Gaza who were either expelled through direct or psychological methods or fled the Israel aerial attacks on the territories which included the extensive use of napalm.

The reader is invited to read the Hagana's Plan D , which has been available in English since the 1960s and was a military strategy of 1948 that entailed the evacuation of the Palestinian population from the areas of a future Jewish state.

Those who invoke the suicide bombings against mostly Israeli civilians to infer the righteousness of the Israeli cause live in a twilight of psychic denial of an otherwise unambiguous historical record: the state of Israel was founded on terrorism and ethnic cleansing.

The suicide bombings inside Israel, the first of which only occurred in 1994, after 25 years of occupation, is only a side show. That is a symptom and long way from the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

There will never be a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until Israel takes responsibility, under U.N. Resolution 194, calling for reparation of the Palestinian refugees, and recognizes the immense suffering it caused at that time. We need also to recognize the US is giving unqualified moral support to a state that is based on racial purity and one that is intrinsically expansionist.

William James Martin is a visiting Instructor of Mathematics at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. He can be reached at: martinw@email.unc.edu


Comment: It is interesting to notice that Israeli historian Benny Morris - quoted in the article above as one of the sources revealing crimes against Palestinians - will not condemn Zionism in spite of his findings. The following fragment of an interview speaks volumes:
When ethnic cleansing is justified

Benny Morris, for decades you have been researching the dark side of Zionism. You are an expert on the atrocities of 1948. In the end, do you in effect justify all this? Are you an advocate of the transfer of 1948?

There is no justification for acts of rape. There is no justification for acts of massacre. Those are war crimes. But in certain conditions, expulsion is not a war crime. I don't think that the expulsions of 1948 were war crimes. You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs. You have to dirty your hands.

We are talking about the killing of thousands of people, the destruction of an entire society.

A society that aims to kill you forces you to destroy it. When the choice is between destroying or being destroyed, it's better to destroy.

There is something chilling about the quiet way in which you say that.

If you expected me to burst into tears, I'm sorry to disappoint you. I will not do that.

So when the commanders of Operation Dani are standing there and observing the long and terrible column of the 50,000 people expelled from Lod walking eastward, you stand there with them? You justify them?

I definitely understand them. I understand their motives. I don't think they felt any pangs of conscience, and in their place I wouldn't have felt pangs of conscience. Without that act, they would not have won the war and the state would not have come into being.

You do not condemn them morally?

No.

They perpetrated ethnic cleansing.

There are circumstances in history that justify ethnic cleansing. I know that this term is completely negative in the discourse of the 21st century, but when the choice is between ethnic cleansing and genocide - the annihilation of your people - I prefer ethnic cleansing.

And that was the situation in 1948?

That was the situation. That is what Zionism faced. A Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of 700,000 Palestinians. Therefore it was necessary to uproot them. There was no choice but to expel that population. It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland and cleanse the border areas and cleanse the main roads. It was necessary to cleanse the villages from which our convoys and our settlements were fired on.

The term "to cleanse" is terrible.

I know it doesn't sound nice but that's the term they used at the time. I adopted it from all the 1948 documents in which I am immersed.

What you are saying is hard to listen to and hard to digest. You sound hard-hearted.

I feel sympathy for the Palestinian people, which truly underwent a hard tragedy. I feel sympathy for the refugees themselves. But if the desire to establish a Jewish state here is legitimate, there was no other choice. It was impossible to leave a large fifth column in the country. From the moment the Yishuv [pre-1948 Jewish community in Palestine] was attacked by the Palestinians and afterward by the Arab states, there was no choice but to expel the Palestinian population. To uproot it in the course of war.

Remember another thing: the Arab people gained a large slice of the planet. Not thanks to its skills or its great virtues, but because it conquered and murdered and forced those it conquered to convert during many generations. But in the end the Arabs have 22 states. The Jewish people did not have even one state. There was no reason in the world why it should not have one state. Therefore, from my point of view, the need to establish this state in this place overcame the injustice that was done to the Palestinians by uprooting them.

And morally speaking, you have no problem with that deed?

That is correct. Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history.

And in our case it effectively justifies a population transfer.

That's what emerges.

And you take that in stride? War crimes? Massacres? The burning fields and the devastated villages of the Nakba?

You have to put things in proportion. These are small war crimes. All told, if we take all the massacres and all the executions of 1948, we come to about 800 who were killed. In comparison to the massacres that were perpetrated in Bosnia, that's peanuts. In comparison to the massacres the Russians perpetrated against the Germans at Stalingrad, that's chicken feed. When you take into account that there was a bloody civil war here and that we lost an entire 1 percent of the population, you find that we behaved very well.
That is Benny Morris. For him, the goal of establishing a "Jewish state" justified any atrocities against the Palestinians.

It seems that for some people learning the facts is not enough to develop real empathy and conscience.