''Superfluous young men''

Harvard and WINEP scholar and notorious zionist Martin Kramer argues here that the solution to radical Islam isn't in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but in treating radicalization at its roots; lowering the birth rate in the palestinian territories and stopping aid to Palestinians. And he does so by basing his argument on a German demographer analysis.



This is clearly a call to justify Israel's systematic killing of young Palestinian men and children...Listen particularly around minute 2 and 45 ''

In the speech Kramer rejected common views that Islamist "radicalization" is caused by US policies such as support for Israel, or propping up despotic dictatorships, and stated that it was inherent in the demography of Muslim societies such as Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. Too many children, he argued, leads to too many "superfluous young men" who then become violent radicals...Due to the Israeli blockade, the vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza are now dependent on UN food aid. Neither the UN, nor any other agencies, provide Palestinians with specifically "pro-natal subsidies." Kramer appeared to be equating any humanitarian assistance at all with inducement for Palestinians to reproduce.

And a call for genocide.

The graph above is based on statistics conducted by the Israeli Institute for counterterrorism on the civilian casualties in Gaza between 2000 and 2003.  It shows that israel targets intently all Palestinian young males especially between 10 and 30 years of age.  The killing is being conducted under our watch, but to Martin Kramer, this is not enough, maybe he wants more radical, rapid, systematic elimination by any means.  In this case he should consult with those who tried to eliminate his own people on the basis of a similar cavalier invented assumption...

Israel's role in the Iraq war revealed by Blair to the Chilcot inquiry

As I recall that discussion, it was less to do with specifics about what we were going to do on Iraq or, indeed, the Middle East, because the Israel issue was a big, big issue at the time. I think, in fact, I remember, actually, there may have been conversations that we had even with Israelis, the two of us, whilst we were there. So that was a major part of all this."

Why I believe that some of the Israeli agents in the recent Dubai assassination had neither fake passports nor fake identities

The important thing in this statement is 'some' and not all. I believe that some of the hit team had actually stolen the passports, and these must be regular Mossad agents, and some (or most) didn't, and these are 'non Mossad' real people recruited for a one time operation...

Mossad has actually used both tactics in the past but the size of the team and importance of the operation in Dubai, as well as the changing technologies of airport and hotel surveillance, suggest that this operation required a special approach in terms of disinformation. Disinformation is actually information that mixes true facts and statements, in little amounts, with false information, in huge amounts.

Blurring the lines between real and fake identities is one of those tactics.

And the people who are screaming that their identities were stolen should be thoroughly investigated because some (most) of them are probably lying...

To support my opinion I invite you to read this.

And this. Dubai hit: another move in the Israel-Iran cold war.

UPDATE 1: Don't you see a contradiction in this ? And of course more disinformation...

Ms. Kite’s sources told her that “the six British citizens whose identities were stolen and used by the killers all had their passports taken away from them briefly during routine checks at the airport,” in Israel. All six of the British nationals whose names and passport numbers were used on fake documents carried by suspects identified by investigators in Dubai currently live in Israel.

UPDATE 2: 15 more suspects holding British passports are identified by Dubai police. They all live in israel of course and they are all screaming that they are innocent and I don't believe all of them. David Miliband, the British foreign secretary is treating the matter lightly...

UPDATE 3: Most reports in the press about the assassination are shrouded in disinformation, and very few carry real information, this one does ...

UPDATE 4: How 'unwitting' were the British Israelis ?

Dubai Police has confirmed a point I mentioned in last week's column; that Israeli citizens must enter and depart Israel on their Israeli passports.

How much your city or state give to Israel's wars

Between 2009-2018, the United States is scheduled to give Israel--the largest recipient of U.S. aid $30 billion in military aid. Through its illegal 42-year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, Israel misuses U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. law, kill and injure Palestinian civilians, destroy Palestinian civilian infrastructure, blockade the Gaza Strip, and build illegal settlements in West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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An Israeli soldier's advice: 'Talk to Hamas'

Hamas is currently Israel's enemy, but peace is made with enemies, not with friends. Hamas is also a powerful, pragmatic and well organised movement, possibly a future partner with whom Israel can "cut a deal". A reluctance to recognise Hamas as the party in charge in Gaza is a strategy that failed and needs to be replaced. A nation that is truly looking for peace cannot afford to ignore its partners.

''Fear, inc.''

It’s remarkable that the sharpest president we’ve had in a while didn’t dare get up in front of the American people after Flight 253 landed and tell everyone to calm down.  He didn’t, in fact, have a single intelligent thing to say about the event.  He certainly didn’t remind Americans that, whatever happened to Flight 253, they stood in far more danger heading out of their driveways behind the wheel or pulling into a bar on the way home for a beer or two.  Instead, the Obama administration essentially abjectly apologized, insisted it would focus yet more effort and money on making America safe from air terrorism, widened a new front in the Global War on Terror in Yemen (speeding extra money and U.S. advisors that way), and when the din from its critics didn’t end, “pushed back,” as Peter Baker of the New York Times wrote, by claiming “that they were handling terror suspects much as the previous administration did.”  It’s striking when a Democratic administration finds safety in the claim that it’s acting like a Republican one, that it’s following the path to the imperial presidency already cleared by George W. Bush.  Fear does that to you, and the fear of terror has been institutionalized at the top as well as the bottom of society.    

9/11 Never Ends

Fear has a way of re-ordering human worlds.  That only a relatively small number of determined fanatics with extraordinarily limited access to American soil keep Fear Inc. afloat should, by now, be obvious.  What the fear machine produces is the dark underside of the charming Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover, “A View of the World from 9th Avenue,” in which Manhattan looms vast as the rest of the planet fades into near nothingness. 

When you see the world “from 9th Avenue,” or from an all-al-Qaeda-all-the-time “news” channel, you see it phantasmagorically.  It’s out of all realistic shape and proportion, which means you naturally make stupid decisions.  You become incapable of sorting out what matters and what doesn’t, what’s primary and what’s secondary.  You become, in short, manipulable...

...So the next time a Flight 253 occurs and the Republicans go postal, the media morphs into its 24/7 national-security-disaster mode, the pundits register red on the terror-news scale, the president defends himself by reaffirming that he is doing just what the Bush administration would have done, the homeland security lobbyists begin calling for yet more funds for yet more machinery, and nothing much happens, remember those drunken drivers, arsonists, and tobacco merchants, even that single dust devil and say: 

Hold onto your underpants, this is not a national emergency.

Avatar Characters as a new medium to empathizing with the oppressed

You can see the rest of the gallery representing the weekly pacifist protests against the Israeli Apartheid barrier near Bil'in.

An empty gesture: 'Obama names US envoy to the Muslim world'

I am very very upset since I read this new item today: 'Obama names US envoy to the Muslim world'.

Obama is unnerving me by proving himself dumber than Bush when it comes to anything Muslim. Can you imagine the following title: 'Obama names US envoy to the Christian world' or 'Obama names US envoy to the Jewish world'.

First: there is o such a thing as a unified Muslim world. Obama must know this since he lived in a Muslim country. Indonesia is so different from Saudi Arabia, as an example...

Second: I see some racist underpinnings to this. Lets put all Muslims under one heading, they are all the same.

Third: Also there is a centralized hierarchy for lets say Christian Catholics, there is still no such a thing as a Christian world...While there is no centralized religious hierarchy in Islam...

Fourth: Obama announces this ridiculous news item while there is an offensive going on in Afghanistan...

Fifth: even though, as one commentator commented on this post, the envoy is to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) which is 58 members body, and not to the 'islamic world' which is a virtual entity that exists only in the mind of Bin Laden and those who are waging a war on terror, it is still an empty gesture since the Confernce is a body of diverse and diverging interests with no real impact on Muslims and Islam, and since Obama still has to address the problems of the middle east and not of Islam and Muslims per se...And this measure from Obama is by any means a diversion meant to hide his inaction on Palestine

Last but not least: Obama is playing in Bin Laden's hands in seeing the Muslim world as one unified entity...

And like everything that has Obama's trademark, this is a nice empty gesture...

US public diplomacy still ineffectual among Arab-Muslim countries participating at the OIC. And that is what is missing from Obama's diplomacy toward Muslims...concerns for the middle east and Arabs...

The center that sponsors the dialogue between the US and the 'Muslim world' is a center that advocates Israel only interests and war on Iran and the Palestinians...

I am not seeing US-Muslim relations set on a better path soon...And by the way look who is cheering.

Lib Dem Jenny Tonge sacked over call for inquiry into organ trafficking by IDF in Haiti

Nick Clegg has sacked his health spokeswoman in the House of Lords after she called for an inquiry into allegations that Israeli soldiers were involved in organ trafficking in Haiti.

Pacifist protesters against the Israeli apartheid wall dress as Avatar Characters

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Israel Stole $2 Billion From Palestinian Workers

Over the past four decades Israel has defrauded Palestinians working inside Israel of more than $2 billion by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to which they were never entitled, Israeli economists have revealed.
A new report, “State Robbery”, to be published later this month, says the “theft” continued even after the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994 and part of the money was supposed to be transferred to a special fund on behalf of the workers.
According to information supplied by Israeli officials, most of the deductions from the workers’ pay were invested in infrastructure projects in the Palestinian territories -- a presumed reference to the massive state subsidies accorded to the settlements.

I am Yusuf and this is my brother

Palestinian theater in London. Listen to the interview with the director.

Blair: Gaza's great betrayer

It's more than a year since Israel launched its immoral attack on Gaza and Palestinians are still living on the verge of a humanitarian disaster. So what has Tony Blair done to further peace in the region? Virtually nothing, argues the historian Avi Shlaim

UN find challenges Israeli version of attack on civilian building in Gaza war

The UN mine action team, which handles ordnance disposal in Gaza, has told the Guardian that the remains of a 500-pound Mk82 aircraft-dropped bomb were found in the ruins of the mill last January. Photographs of the front half of the bomb have been obtained by the Guardian.

This evidence directly contradicts the finding of the Israeli report, which challenged allegations that the building was deliberately targeted and specifically stated there was no evidence of an air strike. Goldstone, however, used the account of the air strike as a sign that Israel's attack on the mill was not mere collateral damage, but precisely targeted and a possible war crime.