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Idiocracy
Do you want to see the map of Palestine, or rather, the mirage… what is left of Palestine?
This is what is left of Palestine, and this is what the peace-negotiation is all about
Beautiful, isn’t it?!
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“Just Keep Looking the Other way”
Yesterday, I asked the question: Will PSC rise to the Challenge?
The answer came as expected, loud and clear
They confirmed their opposition to racism and “antisemitism” but NOT a word of opposition against Jewish supremacy and racism!
Thus, I reaffirm:
SOME don’t want you to look at the elephant in the room, just keep looking the other way; it is much safer, less controversial and much more “effective”
SOME never bothered before and were vehemently opposed to joining PSC as a “matter of principle”, suddenly they all became interested!
They gather their hoards, from up and down the country and flooded the conference to “occupy” PSC by casting their most valuable “omniscient” vote
SOME “know better” you see, they always know what is best for Palestinians, and for every one else. They know how to define words, how to create political systems, and what kind of governments should others in far away countries elect, and of course this has nothing to do with “authoritarianism”, “Stalinism” nor with “cultural supremacy”
Furthermore, while SOME frantically insist to keep PSC “occupied” with endless futile discussions on “anti-Semitism”, “Holocaust denying” and “American Imperialism”, OTHERS, continue to create FACTS on the GROUND, for the advancement of their racist supremacist agenda…… Just have a look at the following:
Chabad Today
Chabad in UK:
Lord Sacks Raises the Roof at Chabad Annual Conference
Chief Rabbi to Address Chabad Shluchim Conference in New York
Chief Rabbi Opens Cambridge Mikvah
Senior Chabad Girls School to Receive State Aid
Chanukah in Trafalgar Square – Mayor to Light Chabad Menorah
Now, WHY should we all be troubled about all this ?
Simply because of the detrimental effect…
…. of such supremacist racist ideology
… on our lives as Palestinians
………. if people don’t wake up and smell the coffee
SOME want you to feel smug with the “victory” you “achieved”, they want you to be filled with a sense of “self-righteousness” , after approving vacuous motions against alleged racism, while they distract you away from opposing or even noticing REAL RACISM creeping in, to your own neighbourhood.
They omit to even mention in their motions their opposition to the most vile form of racism, namely: Jewish Racism and the kind of supremacy as exhibited by settler in Palestine and by Chabad and their avid supporters as they heavily infiltrate the political world of UK, US and others, in Education, Law systems, Policy making, Homeland security, and Internet Control
Meet the Talmudists “Ace” who is censoring the internet
And the orthodox newly-appointed Chief of staff with the power of Shabbat
And the Hasidi who was behind the anti-Sharia laws
And the Talmudist who “thanks to him” we now “enjoy the pleasure” of going through the full-body scanners experience
Also, “thanks to him” USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law
furthermore this devout orthodox and avid Islamophobe “told a Jewish radio show that “Hasham an orthodox Jewish name for ‘God’ gave him his name ‘Schumer‘ which means guardian, so that he can fulfill the very important role in the U.S. Senate as the guardian of Israel.”
This friend of Chabad Senator Joe Lieberman who looks upto the supremacist racist Rebbe Scnheerson as his idol, who also enjoyed a four-term senator as well as being Chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental affairs
Joe Lieberman main “interests” include:
Sorting out Violent Islamist Extremism.
Cyber Security.
Bio-Security and Public Health Preparedness.
Border Security/Immigration.
9/11 Commission, Intelligence Reform, and Improving America’s Security Act of 2007.
Rail, Transit, and Port Security.
Chemical Facility Security.
FEMA Reform. Federal Emergency Management Agency
First Responders.
and much more.
Joe Lieberman has renewed his pressure on Google and Twitter to openly censor the Internet, Lieberman’s desire to crush all dissent against the war machine has manifested in bills like his Enemy Belligerent Act, his Internet kill switch bill, and the recently introduced Enemy Expatriation Act.
Lieberman Remarks on Homeland Security
The Tyrannical Success for Lieberman: passing billto remove citizenship from those who oppose to Zionist rule in US, thanks to him the “Enemy Expatriation Act” Now Law
Former Homeland Security Michael Chertoff argues for whole-body imaging
Fear Pays: Chertoff, Ex-Security Officials Slammed For Cashing In On Government Experience
The said scanning technology can present health risks to passengers by raising radiation exposure.
Former DHS head Michael Chertoff paid to push ‘porno scanners’
White House Chief of Staff at the American Friends of Lubavitch Dinner
“The Chabad annual dinnerin Washington was characterized by unanimous support of both political parties, manifested by the presence of House Democratic Whip, Steny Hoyer, who praised his rival, Republican Whip, Roy Blunt. What everyone agreed upon is that Rabbi Levi Shemtov “is a blessing to all”. Among the participants of the dinner were the Jewish Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, the generous advocate Jay Krupin and Josh Bolten, White House Chief of Staff, who had just arrived from a meal with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his wife.” Source
“Also present were Fred Zeidman, chairman of the Holocaust Museum of the Bush Administration and a close associate of President Bush, Jewish Attorney Steven Pearls a specialist in claims against terror organizations, who stated that payments for his services “come out of the wallets of the bad guys”, Howard Freedman, president of the powerful pro Israel AIPAC organization, Senator and U.S. presidential candidate, Joe Lieberman, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition Matt Brooks and other dignitaries.” Source
“Annual operating costs of Chabad’s empire today approach $1 billion. And that budget doesn’t include construction costs for new buildings, which have been going up at an astonishing rate since Schneerson’s passing: a $10 million synagogue in Bal Harbour, Florida; $25 million for a Chabad complex in San Diego; $20 million for a Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights; plus a $1 million Chabad center in Las Vegas, $2 million for American Friends of Lubavitch headquarters in Washington, D.C., $5 million for a day school in Pittsburgh, and $3 million for a community center in Montreal.” Source
“Chabad building projects around the world have kept pace with those of North America: a $15 million girls’ school outside Paris; a $14 million community center in Buenos Aires; plus soup kitchens in Brazil” Source
“In the former Soviet Union, Chabad has emerged as the mainstream denomination in what is now the world’s third-largest Jewish community” Source
“It has anelegant and fascinating theology, an interpretation of reality based on the kabbalah” Source
For more information about Chabad Lubavitche’s supremacist ideology, and their disturbing influence, and for those who missed it:
“For Those With Eyes That Sees”
Chabadist Ari Fleischer , former spokesman of White House
Rahm Emanuel former chief of Staff in White House
Bush and Chabad
Michael Chertoff, the body-scanner man
Chabad at the Whit House
Joseph Lieberman
Khaled ben Al Khalifah of Qatar
Joseph Lieberman
Chabad conference 2010
Chabad in the IDF
Chabad Dancing during Gazza onslaught
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Will PSC rise to the Challenge?
As the AGM of Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) approaches, the drive to control, fragment, agitate and to steer away PSC from its fundamental core issues is at all times high.
The crusade against PSC was ignited by Zionists from outside the movement beginning in September, following an article published on the Zionist hate-website Harry’s Place (HP), and a letter from the Board of Deputies of British Jews” (BODBJ), accusing PSC and its branches of publishing anti-Semitic articles and linking to Holocaust denial websites, which arguably is a crude lie. However, the crusade was sustained, promoted and amplified by insiders with questionable loyalty, who roam freely within the Palestine solidarity movement.
Following those attacks and demands by BOD of British Jews, certain elements inside the solidarity movement picked up where Zionists stopped. Since then they have initiated a campaign of defamation against Palestinian activists (including myself) and numerous other supporters.
The smear and defamation campaign, ignited by BODBJ and its mouthpiece HP, is destined to divide and curtail the Palestine solidarity movement. It shrouds itself with a veneer of “ethicality” by invoking bogus concerns about “racism”, while the result is the expulsion of anti-racist activists including Palestinians, and the fragmentation of the Palestine solidarity movement at large, its campaigns being debased, its efficiency being crippled.
The paragraph below is only one piece of evidence that some alleged supporters of Palestine have indeed been engaging in gossip and spreading defamation, rumours and lies. It is but one example of the appalling consequences of such behaviour.
“In Liverpool a Palestinian activist, Nahida, who was once the mainstay of the group, changed almost overnight when she married a sinister Dutchman. Jewish conspiracies took over her life and it was with difficulty that the branch reclaimed its website, which had posted links to her anti-Semitic website (‘Spiders Web’).” Tony Greenstein.
In his latest defamation article, Mr. Greenstein extends his attacks to include yet another Palestinian with this defamatory claim:
“In Liverpool the Friends of Palestine website was taken over by a holocaust denier”
Or another example is his use of insulting expletives in lieu of factual arguments:
“At the AGM there is also a not very clever motion from Gill Kaffash …. It is a stupid motion from the stupid.”
The aim of such vicious crusades, of course, is to discredit the research of those who dig deeper, and to control the boundaries of debate by shooting at those who dare to cross the line. As it appears, no one is “allowed” to investigate neither the deeper ideological motives nor the networks enabling Zionists crimes. No Palestinian is “allowed” to express more assertively the true voice of their people and their deeply anchored aspirations of FULL Liberation.
In this example,Tony Greenstein never met and never had contact with the people he is smearing. He uses lies and fabrications about their private life, to execute ad hominem attacks against them, and to propagate libellous accusations of anti Semitism and Holocaust denial against them. Obviously he has been fed with rumours, which as his blog shows, he never fails to transform in unreadable ramblings. .
I would have assumed that in all logic such attacks from external enemies and their internal contributors, would reinforce the cohesion of the movement, by a reflex of protection. What we see instead, is the disturbing reality of utter silence of other members, or even explicit approval of the attacks by the failure to reject them and sanctioning those who engage in such attacks. The occupiers and enemies of Palestine must be happy and indeed grateful, since the damage to the Palestinian solidarity movement in the UK is already substantial. Suffice to look at the nonsensical amendments and motions put forward, the waste of time and effort, and the harmful evictions and alienation of scores of members and potential members.
Such abhorrent behaviour is allowed to continue within the movement with the compliance of decent members who have swallowed the lies and let them pass unchallenged without demanding thorough investigations of such offence, and without firm rejection, chastisement or sanctions against guilty elements who took part in such smear campaign
As they exclude more and more Palestinians through their defamatory campaign, as they rally themselves up and down the country to attend the AGM, and as they strengthen their position within by appointing themselves as political guides and censors of the solidarity movement; Mr. Greenstein and his clique expose their determination to take over PSC and to define its aims.
It is nothing but deliberate Controlled Opposition, when such individuals silence Palestinians and capture the levers of decision as to what is good for Palestinians, and what is not, and what aims to pursue, and what aims need to be smothered. Has the Palestinian voice not been smothered enough already, after a century of Zionism? Does it not appear evident that post-Zionism is preparing itself to do exactly the same? Why would a campaign who claims itself to be in solidarity with Palestinians, betray the noble aim of enabling Palestinians to freely express their Legitimate and Sovereign Rights?
Instead, Mr. Greenstein and co condescendingly declare that PSC members need “more internal education on Zionism“:
He writes: “On Saturday there will be one motion on anti-Semitism and racism on the agenda from the National Executive. A motion from Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi and myself, which called for more internal education on Zionism, has been amended and accepted by the Executive.”
It is disturbing when the likes of Mr. Greenstein, -who sticks the accusatory label “anti-Semite” (i.e. racist) on whomever disagrees with his views, and who introduces to PSC redundant motions to emphatically re-reject Judeophobic racism and to emphasize yet again on “anti-Semitism”, feels vindicated to surreptitiously collaborate with the incitement of racial and religious hatred against Muslims, when for example he spreads blatant lies against the Islamic Resistance Movements Hamas, and even about the Qur’an, thus joining the ranks of Islamophobes when he propagates such hateful unsubstantiated claim:
“the Quoran also have passages that are chauvinist and today, in the context of state policy, would undoubtedly be deemed racist”
Moreover, Mr. Greenstein, the avid “anti-racist”, finds no shame in propagating Islamophobia by attacking the religion of Islam as whole and publicly participating in division, fomenting hatred and incitement against Muslims by arrogantly pretending that:
“Islam has introduced sectarianism into the Palestinian movement and has nothing to offer but further division”
Imagine for a moment someone writing: “Judaism has introduced sectarianism into the Palestinian movement and has nothing to offer but further division”, one can only imagine the outbursts of wrath, fury, outrage and accusation that would follow, by Mr. Greenstein and co.
With the acceptance of such methods; whereby the defamers give themselves the right to DEFINE the meaning of words like racist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, then they allow themselves to ACCUSE, LABEL and DEFAME others with such titles, without any proof or evidence, and without allowing the accused to defend him/her self, they demand the excommunication of those accused and even aim to remove the right of appeal against such accusation, justice becomes a joke!
Regrettably, PSC has exhibited signs of moral fatigue by allowing some of its members to engage in such Zionist-style methods of operation by:
- Meddling in private affairs of members and using slander and defamation as a political tool (as seen from the writing of Tony Greenstein).
- The use of the label “Anti-Semitism” as a political tool. By branding those they disagree with, with charges of racism and anti-Semitism (Racism is unlawful according to British law). Completely dismissing the seriousness and the gravity of such allegation, they (carelessly or malevolently) have accused other activists of committing an unlawful offence.
Furthermore, PSC and some of its branches failed in the following:
- Evading to address the defamation against its members;
- Escaping the responsibility of launching an investigation to uncover the guilty elements;
- Failing to understand the real meaning of racism;
- Failing to identify the REAL racist;
- Failing to sanction/punish guilty members who engaged in such libellous acts;
- Failing to apologise to accused individuals for the harm and damages caused.
It has become increasingly apparent that some clique inside the solidarity movement, under the pretext of “fighting anti-Semitism”, are engaged in hijacking, deforming and sidetracking the solidarity movement from supporting the Palestinian people and their cause of Liberation, and instead pushing PSC into morphing into yet another ADL, “witch-hunting” and “book-burning” organization.
Tragically, the excessive and inappropriate use of the word “anti-Semite”, by the likes of ADL (who have their very own definition of the word), and the same pathetic use that has been adopted by some elements inside the solidarity movement -who just like ADL, claim the exclusive right to define the meaning of words and the boundaries of debate, such excessive use by Zionists and anti-Zionist alike, and As I warned before, they have managed to make the word vacuous, meaningless and even a nuisance.
Those whose primary aim is to fight anti-Semitism are better advised to join more appropriate organizations who deal specifically with anti-Semitism, there are myriad of them around.
Those whose main concern is to educate people about the Holocaust, thus enabling Zionists to continue to use and abuse it, in what Dr Finkelstein correctly calls the “Holocaust industry”, should NOT do so on the back and expense of Palestinian and their solidarity movement.
Those interested in bickering and infighting -which only weakens the solidarity movement, would feel more at home working here or even here far and away from our Movement.
People with such divergent aims should stop imposing their agenda on others, and leave PSC to do what it was created for, SUPPORTING PALESTINIANS IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION.
True Friends of Palestine should not allow themselves to be hoodwinked or sidetracked into adopting other groups’ agendas or doing other organizations’ work.
Diverting PSC from its main aims does not serve the cause of Palestine or the Palestinians.
Henceforth,
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine to put an end to this fiasco;
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine to have the courage to stop slanderers and liars from hijacking the solidarity movement, dragging it down and turning it into a bickering stage of accusations and counter-accusations;
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine to have the dignity and cease to alienate/ expel exiled Palestinians by phoney, uncorroborated and unsolicited claims and defamatory allegations;
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine not to allow itself to be steered away from its original aims of supporting the oppressed Palestinians and to stay focused on the daily slaughter of Palestinians.
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine to remember that Palestinians have NOTHING to do with the Holocaust, yet they have been paying the price for it since before it actually even happened!
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine to remember that they are not an association of historians, and ought not to be distracted by the obsession about an historical event that ended almost seven decades ago, instead of focusing on the ongoing genocide against Palestinians and the destruction of their Biblical Land;
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine to rescue itself from being diverted into nonsensical, useless, fruitless, endless debates, which irremediably lead to unnecessary infighting, thus wasting and crippling the movement;
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine to remember that the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population, and the annexation of their country, has been almost completed while we respond with deference to people whose prime interest is obviously not the restoration of Palestine, or the Rights of Palestinians.
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine not to become an arm of Michael Whine, morphing into a “Holocaust-deniers hunters” instead of trying to stop the ongoing and upcoming genocides of the Middle East;
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine not to allow itself to be misguided and hoodwinked even from comprehending and recognizing of the meaningand manifestation of racism and the real definition of an anti-Semite, Hasn’t the anti-Semitic charge been abused and trivialized enough?
I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine not to become deafened by big-mouthed detractors, or blinded by glittery definitions coiled by deception, so as it fails to identify the REAL RACISTS who are worthy to be rejected and fought against.
Finally, I call upon PSC and all genuine supporters of Palestine to take a firm action against malicious trouble-makers, and to expel those who engage in unsubstantiated defamation of other activists.
Such agitators whose exclusive organizations embrace Zionists as full members, those who come loaded with hidden agendas, neither represent Palestine nor Palestinians
Their agenda includes the preparation and facilitation of a prosperous and secure future for the planners, authors and perpetrators of our NAKBA.
They blather about road maps, about deleting the green-line while coercing the Palestinians to forget their inalienable rights to their Historic Palestine.
They aim to deceive Palestinians and the world to accept the terrorists, colonizers, war-criminals, thieves and murderers who occupied Palestine since 1948, they want to promote them as “civilised” “peaceful”, humane”, “Jewish”, “peace-loving” “Israelis”, who should have the same right to the Land of Palestine as Palestinians do!
It is not up to a Netanyahu, Schneerson, or Lieberman, and sure NOT for a Semoff, a Dropkin or a Greenstein to decide for us about the future of our Homeland; it’s not for them to decide what is good for Palestine and what is not, who is allowed to stay and who is not, or who is to be summoned, charged, prosecuted or punished for their decades of genocide and war crimes and who is not.
True friends of Palestine appreciate that ultimately, only Palestinians are entitled to make such decisions, especially after decades of relentless slow genocide. Palestinians are entitled to use whatever appropriate methods of resistance, legal, intellectual, or otherwise to achieve their long-lost Liberty.
True friends of Palestine realize that it is the fundamental and intrinsic core of the Palestinian National Rights, to define, express and publish concepts such as the unhindered Right to Return, Restitution AND Compensation, Liberation of the occupied Homeland, unrestricted Sovereignty including over Immigration Policies, Prosecution of Criminals, etc. Those who smother these fundamental Rights, contribute to the finalization of the Zionist project, itself representing the total negation of all bases of Law, in particular pertaining to Crimes Against Humanity, Wars of Aggression, War Crimes, and ironically, the negation of the Post-WW2 Nuremberg Principles, especially the sixth principle, which were wisely crafted to precisely avoid such horrors to happen again.
My prime concern has always been the cause of Palestine and the Palestinians’ inalienable Human Right of Self-Determination in their own ancestral Land, which they inhabit and protect since thousands of years, continuously. The voice of Palestinians is barely heard in the West. Therefore, those whose aim is to muffle the voice, block the research, contain the freedom and veil the views of Palestinians cannot be truly friends of Palestine.
Real friends are those who want to keep the solidarity movement on the right track, focused on Palestine and the Liberation of Palestine.
Hereby, as a Palestinian exiled from my home for more than 44 years, I affirm my right and the right of my people to aspire to the Liberation of our Homeland and to pursue the intellectual means that will help to achieve that goal, moreover since this goal is the strict reassertion of Human Rights and International Law.
I affirm my right to continue my investigations into the role of global Jewish Zionist networks through their many facets, institutions and organizations supporting, sustaining and propagating the cause of the Zionist entity.
I affirm my right to continue investigating the supremacist ideology that animates the entire Israeli-settler society and to expose its consequences on Palestinians, and beyond.
I affirm my right to continue my activism, to share the results of my work and to connect with people who want to learn about Palestine, without being defamed, censored or chastised by self-appointed gurus.
I affirm my right to defend my reputation and the reputation of my fellow human beings who are wrongfully accused and defamed, and to stand up to those who cause harm to the cause of Palestine, those who use ad hominem attacks, defamation and slander as a political tool to muffle and excommunicate their opponents.
I affirm my right to continue to expose those elements who try to achieve deleterious political aims by controlling and crippling the Palestinian solidarity movement, through the use of debate framing, information filtering, and eviction of activists who step outside the narrow boundaries set by these elements to keep the opposition constricted and limited in its scope and efficiency.
Finally, I call upon the Solidarity Campaign NOT fall prey to such manipulation conducted by individuals with ulterior motives and compromised loyalty who appointed themselves to be in charge of the flow of information, to control the direction of the Palestinian solidarity and to push it towards the acceptance of “soft” yet final and permanent colonization of Palestine, thus to steer it away from its prime objective; the unconditional support of Palestinians and their quest for Full Liberation.
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Logic of the Absurd
WARNING:
If you read, share or take part in disseminating the QUOTES below, then beware, in our Orwellian World, you might find yourself confronted with logic ad absudum that leads to semi-certain bizarre conclusion:
There, each morning, I saluted a foreign flag, dressed in a uniform reflecting its colors, sang a foreign national anthem, learned a foreign language, learned foreign folk songs and dances, and was taught that Israel was the true homeland.
Emigration to Israel was considered the highest virtue, and, like many other Jewish teens of my generation, I spent two summers working in Israel on a collective farm while I contemplated that possibility.More tacitly and subconsciously, I was taught the superiority of my people to the gentiles who had oppressed us. We were taught to view non-Jews as untrustworthy outsiders, people from whom sudden gusts of hatred might be anticipated, people less sensitive, intelligent, and moral than ourselves. We were also taught that the lesson of our dark history is that we could rely on no one.”
Stephen Steinlight (Former Director of National Affairs for the American Jewish Committee, one of the largest and most powerful Jewish organization in America)
Only we know what’s good for us, and not only for us but for the entire world. There is nothing like Israeli ingenuity, there is nothing similar to Jewish intelligence, the Jewish brain invents new ideas for us like no other brain, because we’re the best, bro”.
The achievement of the individual immediately becomes a communal achievement, the communal achievement immediately becomes more irrefutable proof of Israel’s superiority. “The crystal is ours;” “The secret of our existence;” “National pride;” and the “Israeli brain” screamed the headlines in a tasteless and unfounded display at the news of the individual prize.” Gideon Levy describing the supremacy of the “Israeli” society. ( A Leftist, I doubt that he is a self-hater anti-Semite)
My Jewish Problem, Jewish Superiority and Jewish Elite
“In discussing My Jewish Problem on this blog, that’s a core Jewish value I would point to: Jewish exceptionalism. Belief in that idea underlies so much of Jewish social attitudes and achievement. (Maugham extols it in The Alien Corn; Hemingway throws it in Robert Cohn’s face in The Sun Also Rises). Larry Summers sought to broach the issue of Jewish innate intelligence in his notorious women-and-science speech of January 2005:
“My mother, my father, my grandparents, a family feeling, us-ness, in distinction to the Them.”
“I had some “us-ness” from my family, a lot of it, but bridled at it. “Is it good for the Jews?” question bugged the hell out of me.“
“I see Jewish as this great civilization.that I am part of. That transcends borders, and it’s not Zionist. Zionism is like Shabbetai Tzvi, It’s a big chapter in a long story. Jews will survive this one too. Jews is: a sense of difference, yes, inevitably of elite identity, that’s part of Jewish history and one I struggle with. Jewish is a Story, a myth…”
“Every Jew, men and even women and children, brings about the existence of the entire creation, they becomemasters over the world, and thus every single creation owes them recognition for this good”
“Being that through the Jew all beings were created, he therefore becomes the master over all of them”
“Since G-d and the Jews are one, each Jew becomes a True Being, and thus able to bring about all of creation”
“He (the Jew) therefore has control over all of creation and not only that, but they owe him thanks and are indeed thankful”
The Rebbe Menachem Schneerson Excerpt of Sicha 21 Elul, 5749
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“The subjugation they must accept consists of being on a lower level, scorned and humble. They must never raise their heads against Israel, but must remain subjugated under their rule. They may never be appointed over a Jew in any matter whatsoever“
Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon
“There are two different and distinct entities: the human being, and the Jew who is part of G-d”
“We are a G-dly people, we have G-dly souls. Our place is in Heaven, in fact higher than Heaven because Heaven is also a created place, and we are a part of G-d”
“We are to treat other Jews are Divine beings, because that’s what they are”
“It is this soul that gives the Jews the power to be G-dly in a human world and supernatural in a natural universe.
Rabbi Shlomo Chein
“If it were not for Jews, there would be no conceptofhuman dignity, of meaning and purpose, of the right of every person to education and knowledge, ofsocial justice and of the value ofworld peace”
Rabbi Shlomo Chein, Director of Chabad @ UC S.Cruz in California and editor of askmoses.com
“when the true story of history is finally told, it will be shown to what extent the Jewish People influenced history, helping lead the world to its eventual Messianic climax.”
“The natural inclinationof the Jewish People is to elevate themselves to the level ofmind and leadership, which naturally uplifts the entire world.”
“Israelbeen able to maintain its unique, essential nature and thereby greatly influence the world”
“Every attempt to assimilate among the nations has brought disaster”
“Even after the nations recognize the source oflight emanating from the Jewish People, there will still need to be a separation.”
“A Jews, although he has transgressed, is a Jew.” MeaningfulLife.com
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Rabbi Eliezier Shmetov, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Montevideo, Uruguay
“A Jew is different in that he has a neshomah, an additional level to the life force of other human beings.”
Rabbi Dov Lior
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
Rabbi Manis Friedman
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Rebbe Menachem Schneerson
“Exterminate the Palestinians”
Lubavitch Family Magazine
“Exterminate all Palestinian Males”
Rabbi Yousef Falay
“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail
Rabbi Yaacov Perrin
“Jewish blood is NOT the same as the blood of a (Gentile) goy
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg
“The battlefield is not just in Gaza strip.The battlefield is everywhere where a Jew exists…in North and South, in West and East”
Former Chief Rabbi of “Israel”,
Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Yisrael Meir Lau
“If a Jew need a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life“
Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh
Moroccan Jews are called “primitive” and “backward” by
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X-Prime-Minister of “Israel” Levi Eshkol named them
“human rubbish” and “defective people“
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Goldman described North African Jewry as “catastrophic immigration“
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the “Israeli” army is guilty of one thing:
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“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome Most European capitals are targets for our air force … We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under“
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“Then the people of Israel made this vow to the Lord:
“If you will hand these people over to us, we will completely destroy all their towns” (including the inhabitants of the land)
The Hebrew Bible: Numbers 21:2
The Hebrew Bible also “blessed” “Israel” with a special Mitzvah
a Commandment to exterminate the Amalekitesand the seven Canaanite nations
Not to forget the Milchemet Reshut (לחמת רשות)
“Milchemet reshut is war against other nations to enlarge Eretz Yisrael and increase its prestige.”
The supremacist and genocidalChabad Rebbe Schneerson is praised by NY Times as the “Oracle of Crown Heights“
Furthermore, he getsrewarded with the Gold Medal by the USA congress
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Such is the “elitist” Culture with “great civilization”
which has always been at the “helm of social justice”
They are the “champions of progress and morality”
“Love thy neighbour”, they “teach” us
“That which is hateful to you, don’t do unto others“, “Our Golden Rule”, they say
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From all the above, and according to some self-claimed “anti-racists” campaigners, there is only one
“In Liverpool a Palestinian activist, Nahida, who was once the mainstay of the group, changed almost overnight when she married a sinister Dutchman. Jewish conspiracies took over her life and it was with difficulty that the branch reclaimed its website, which had posted links to her anti-Semitic website (‘Spiders Web’).”–
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My beloved Grand-Daughter
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I met Jesus today
By Nahida the exiled Palestinian
His name was Palestinian
Issa… Jesus he was called
On the altar of “chosen-ness” he was crucified
Time and time and time again
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His face was Palestinian
Olive hue, with a hint of agony
Yet
Years of torture fail to conceal the glow
The purity of his soul peeks through
The sparkle in his eyes invites you to dive in
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His pain was Palestinian
The colour of his words
Grips your guts
And squeeze… squeeze … squeeze
Until you lose consciousness
You fall on your knees
Begging for forgiveness
*****
His faith was Palestinian
“Their sadism too much to bear
In the street I waited for a car
No way out but to kill myself
Twilight hour the fall of night
The call to prayer woken my heart
Healing balsam caressed my soul
Maybe…. In this life… still…there is something worth living for”
*****
His heart was Palestinian
Carved with sorrow
Filled with love
Flames of rage and roars of thunder
Hound his torturer to his grave
*****
His tears were Palestinian
His first crucifixion… he was only fourteen
On the second, he was nineteen
From then on
He was crucified every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year
*****
His dignity was Palestinian
Anguished by his rapists
With his broken back he stood tall
His wounds run deep… his head held high
He saw the rainbow in the horizon
When all gave up he gave them hope
*****
His smile was Palestinian
It has been said:
“To smile when confronted with most severe oppression
Is an act of Resistance
Rooted
In unparalleled beauty” *
The smile of Issa
Was Palestinian
*****
His resilience was Palestinian
“As he punched me in the face
I felt stronger
As he kicked me in the stomach
I felt stronger
As he slashed my arm
I felt stronger”, he said
*****
His hope was Palestinian
Insha’Allah, ya rab, Alhamdulillah
Bouncy words sprinkled around
Buds of trust bloom and grow
His broad grin whiffs you to life
His nightmares close their eyes
His tales of horror lie to slumber
When all lost hope he saw a future
I saw Jesus today
04/01/2012
* Quote by Jonathan Azaziah
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Of Exclusivity, Loyalty and Liberation of Palestine
Jewish-Only Organizations . . . A Closer Look
Due to recent events of alienation and/or expulsion of members of Palestine Solidarity Movement, including Palestinians, it became more and more evident that there are elements in the Solidarity Movement who continue to stir up friction and splits amongst activists, that leads to alienation of many genuine activists and even exiled Palestinians.
Such elements also continue to cause distraction by filtering information to prevent members from understanding the role of the larger Jewish communities world wide in influencing their respective governments to support “Israel”, and to deflect from scrutinizing the role of UK Jewish community and its DEEP TIES with “Israel”.
Moreover, such obfuscations would undoubtedly prevent the public from understanding the impact of racist ideology on the standpoints, attitudes and behaviour of the Jewish-settlers in Occupied Palestine and on Jewish communities who support them world wide, and the implication of such ideology on Palestinians;
This state of affairs should raise alarm to anyone interested in Justice and Peace, that means anyone who works to put an end to decades of Palestinian suffering, and its slow genocide, and to anyone who understands that such high objectives require promoting the Liberation of Palestine.
It is also apparent that many of these destabilizing elements are simultaneously members of OTHER organizations, which membership approval operates through exclusivity, and restricted only to people of Jewish background.
Moreover, it is manifest that many of these Jewish-only organizations declare publicly that their prime motive for their activism is out of concern for the welfare of “Israel” and the “Israeli society”. Worse, some of these organizations do not even conceal that their criticism of “Israel” is done out of “love” and loyalty to this criminal entity. Simply put, they criticise and condemn “Israel” primarily to protect and help it thrive and survive.
This kind of blind allegiance and deep loyalty to “Israel” is of course expected from and omnipresent amongst hyper-Zionists and their circles, but it is quite disturbing to find the same loyalty amongst “supporters of Palestine” of Jewish background. It is also interesting to notice that even hyper-Zionists, through their think tanks, have recently arrived to the same conclusion that their counterparts Jewish anti-Zionists have known for decades; namely open criticism of “Israel” IS the best way to defend it. As we can see for example, in Mick Davis’s article: “Open debate is our best way of defending Israel in the diaspora,” The Jewish Chronicle, 17 June 2010. The article also appears on the website of the Jewish Chronicle under the title “Defending Israel in the diaspora”.
Although, I acknowledge that there are many Jewish individuals who might -on the personal level, feel real and sincere sympathy for the suffering of Palestinians and the injustice against them, it is however, quite obvious that a major motive for the activism of many members of such organizations is the concern for the possible rise of anti-Semitism because of the illegality and the impossible-to-hide criminality of the “Jewish state”, hence, one of their principal aim becomes the prevention of anti-Semitism.
Through my research and extensive work, it became evident that the prime allegiance and the principal concern of many Jewish anti-Zionist organizations is not to Palestine or the Palestinians; their loyalty is to the global Jewish communities, to the welfare and future of “Jewish-Israelis” and to the security and perpetuation of the artificially manufactured colonial society in Palestine.
Factual and thorough scrutiny of these organizations invariably indicates that their primary concern and main focus are the following:
How to best consolidate and reinforce a good, secure and thriving future for the INVENTED *** “nation” of “Israel”, on the Historical Land STOLEN from its ancestral inhabitants, the Palestinians;
How to best exculpate the Jewish communities worldwide from their responsibility of decades of financial, protective, political, moral and even military support of their “beacon of light”, “Israel”;
How to best further the interests of such invented “nation”, after the finalization of their imposed facts on the grounds, and getting rid of the banner of Zionism;
How to best ensure and secure the permanent presence of an invading settler society after grabbing most of the LAND of Palestine by wars of terror and conquest;
How to best pacify and allure Palestinians into accepting foreign violent invaders as rightful co-owners of Palestine and future “partners”;
How to best promote “Israeli” settler society as “liberal peace-loving”, whose main concern would be to live in peace and security, but who just happened to be “unfortunately” plagued with corrupt leadership;
How to best conceal that their garment of humanism and thin veneer of ethics is directed principally at “saving Israelis from themselves” and thereby their own reputation, rather than unconditional and altruistic protection of the dispossessed, terrorised, besieged and occupied Palestinians, and their moral cause of Liberation.
How to best use their own narrative of the Holocaust as a “unique unprecedented” event like-no-other in human memory, the “eternal suffering” of the Jewish people that has “no equal in the history of mankind”, and anti-Semitism as global, “intrinsic” and “incurable” hatred for the Jews, as unquestionable dogmas to justify the need for a “homeland” for the Jewish people, hence to secure the permanent colonization and take over of Palestine.
How best to divert the limited energy of activism into supporting “Israeli peace camp”, “Israeli” organizations, and “Israeli” individuals and treat as angels and heroes those of them who exhibit a minuscule doze of normal human behaviour;
It is glaringly evident that the above listed motives and aims, do not fully hold the Palestinians’ welfare or interest at heart. They are neither intertwined, nor even slightly convergent with Palestinian aims, who are mainly Liberationist.
Courtesy of these groups, one major “success” has been the removal of the word “LIBERATION” from the discourse, only to be replaced with words like “coexistence”, “two people one future”, “mutual recognition” and “peace and security for both sides”.
Such obfuscation of concepts, distortion of aims and meddling of objectives, also stand in stark contradiction with the Nuremberg Principles, especially the sixth principle which happens to have been established in the aftermath of WW2 crimes, and these crimes are still instrumentalized as a main pretext for the occupation of Palestine, in-spite of the fact that Palestinians had no connection whatsoever with WW2 crimes.
Dual-loyalty to two opposed parties, one being the torturer, and the other being his victim, is in practice a myth. Thus it is not surprising that those involved operate in secrecy, in the exclusion of “the others side”.
While non-Jewish candidates are barred from becoming member, by definition membership to Jewish-only organizations is open to ANY person from Jewish background. This makes it piece of cake for Sayanim, Mossad agents, Shin Bet and Zionist sympathisers to effortlessly infiltrate, manipulate and steer such organizations. No wonder then, that so many Jewish-only groups who claim to be “pro-Palestinians” appear to be more interested with aims more in tune with securing the presence of “Israelis” in Palestine, than the restoration of Palestinian sovereignty.
This brings us to the core problem: while those members of Jewish-only organizations have the privilege (and rightly so) to be members and never excluded from pro-Palestinian organization, the opposite is not true. i.e we are faced with an alarming phenomenon whereby, Palestinians and non-Jewish individuals are systematically excluded from participating, having an input, debating, voting, influencing or even being informed about or simply being aware with the inner dynamics and the type and topics of discussions that takes place inside such Jewish-only organizations.
The outcome of such asymmetrical and un-mutual arrangement is what we have seen lately, matters are discussed amongst these exclusive groups, decisions are taken, and then the pro-Palestinian organizations are approached, persuaded, pressured or coerced to adhere to those propositions and motions.
The secrecy and lack of transparency surrounding that type of activities is allowing inside the solidarity movement people who are not necessary or entirely genuine supporters of Palestine, “fair-weather friends“, people who are in essence more interested in the long term “Israeli” interest, than genuine support of Palestine. At best, their claimed care for the suffering of the oppressed society come secondary.
Signing petitions, giving out leaflets, stating words of support, throwing some crumbs to Palestinians, accompanied with patronizing pats on the shoulders, believing that they have done their humanistic “duty” of siding with justice, while simultaneously continuing to aim and work for securing the right of the invading “Israelis” to practice their “self determination” in someone else Homeland, reflects no doubt ethical blindness and almost moral bankruptcy. Imposing on Palestine forced marriage with a rapist monster is an obscenity.
Such ethical inconsistency of crying with the victim while protecting the criminal, is a regrettable case of hypocrisy and self deception.
Throughout the Palestinian movement, recent events reveal that some people on board of our movement deleterious to the Palestinian cause and some probably are disingenuous. Thus, such unhealthy, asymmetrical and exclusionary structures are indeed destabilizing and crippling the efficiency of Palestine Solidarity Movement, an efficiency vital to a Palestinian population under threat of annihilation… these are not trivial matters.
As a matter of principle, we refuse to apply the same exclusionary methods amongst pro Palestinian organization and will never resort to such racist exclusiveness. We cannot continue to claim to be humanist anti-racist while accepting simultaneously, the exclusionary nature applied by such organizations, especially in the light of compromised loyalty, and what we know about the sinister Mossad activities and the ease with which they infiltrate such groups.
It is therefore essential to crack open the shells of exclusion and secrecy, wherein topics of discussions are about “unfavourable” information to filter, which debates to “allow” and where to draw boundaries, which motions to propose and which one to oppose, and where sinister attacks against activists who might not conform to “permissible” line of discourse are cooked.
Under such conditions, it is imperative for the Palestine Solidarity movement to introduce a regulation that will allow room for transparency and reciprocity. Failure to address this issue would cause the continuation and aggravation of the crippling shift that has already befallen the movement.
Whereas, unfounded accusations of racism and anti-Semitism against individuals from Jewish background and against others, are used to benefit the occupier; to silence dissenters and push out freethinkers, only on the say-so of a few members in the movement, who claim the exclusive right to define and identify racism and anti-Semitism;
Whereas, such accusations and character assassination of activists does not in any shape or form advance the cause of Palestine nor alleviate Palestinian suffering, but rather mirrors Zionist methods and plays directly in their hands;
Whereas, this “war of words” can only weaken the Solidarity Movement by causing distraction, wasting of time and energy, and putting in the spotlight, yet again, people of Jewish background, bickering between themselves about their identity, while shifting the focus away from the core issues: PALESTINIANS and the LIBERATION of PALESTINE;
Whereas these very same self-claimed “anti-racists, anti-Zionists” participate in the spreading of Zionists driven racial and religious hatred against Arabs, Muslims and Islam, thereby participating in tearing apart our fragile social fabric whose richness was precisely based on diversity, inclusiveness, egality of chances, irrespective of race or religion,
Whereas, they continue to expose their ignorance as they pose themselves as “experts” on the Middle East, attempting to discredit the Islamic Resistance Movements by painting it to the unknowing Western reader as non-representative of the Arab masses but rather a creation the Zionist Mossad, thus shamelessly distort the reality on the ground and conceal the pulse of the Arab street,
(see quotes at the end of article)
Whereas some Jewish-anti Zionist supporters call for a two state solution with a thriving and secured Israel they love, whereby they actively support the theft of 80% of Palestine;
Whereas some others insist that the only solution should be a one secular state, one person one vote, whereby they establish a precondition that would not only exculpate the occupiers from any responsibility or blame but also grant the occupier lands that does not belong to them, rights that they have not earned and protection that they don’t deserve.
Whereas, many of those Jewish “anti-Zionists” are full members of the Palestinian movements and have the privilege to be part of and to vote in any organization they desire;
Whereas, they continue to exclude Palestinians and other non-Jewish individuals from being part of and voting in their Jewish-only organizations;
Whereas, Zionist methods of false accusations of anti-Semitism / Holocaust denial are used to neutralize and exclude, or push away certain members of the Solidarity Movement, including Palestinian refugees! (a crass mirror of the ethnic cleansing happening in Palestine);
Whereas, Jewish anti-Zionist individuals and groups have the right to vote and have the weight to even tilt the vote, have access to the minutes of meetings and have the privilege of being heard and their opinions respected in the broader solidarity movement;
Whereas, such affiliated Jewish groups, by the very names and nature, do generally restrict their membership to Jews, hence barring non-Jewish persons from participating, or from having the right of access to their meetings as an observer, let alone from a vote within their tightly knit fellowship;
Whereas, the fundamental element of trust about the authenticity of intentions, about motivation, aims, and actions of such groups, has been profoundly shaken;
It appears evident that:
To put an end to this predicament, the exclusionary nature of such organizations must be revoked, and the fair and mutual openness to membership without discrimination against race, culture or religion must be requested.
The Solidarity Movement needs to have a system of disclosure of political affiliation of its prospective members, making it a contractual obligation of disclosure of their membership to any hitherto Jewish-only organization, or to any other organization linked to either the Palestinian cause, or to the occupiers of Palestine aka “Israelis”.
Representatives of the Solidarity Movements must have the mutual right to have access to and to be fairly represented in the insofar exclusive Jewish-only organizations, in equal numbers, and have rights to vote in these organizations.
To avoid any further mistrust, friction, crippling or fragmentation, reciprocity and mutual open membership is the way forward.
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Quotes:
“The subsequent emergence of Islamism holds a false promise. While it poses a challenge to Western domination, it is backward looking and inherently unable to deliver progress” ~~~ Moshe Machover
“the Quoran also have passages that are chauvinist and today, in the context of state policy, would undoubtedly be deemed racist“~~~ Tony Greenstein
“Islam has introduced sectarianism into the Palestinian movement and has nothing to offer but further division“~~~ Tony Greenstein
Addendum:
Like many others, I was recently attacked with the usual slander-words “racist, antisemite” (for writing this article) My mud-slinging antagonists were not mouth-frothing Zionists, but Jewish members from inside the Solidarity movement, whom I used to consider as “friends”, and who know me well and for many years. As soon other friends came to my defence, the accusers -probably feeling a bit awkward, had the brilliant idea to declare that they do not actually accuse me as a person but it’s rather my article which is racist, and is at fault! Therefore, and to their address, I end this article with a note of humour in form of some disclaimers:
- Disclaimer 1: The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of the author, they are the sole responsibility of the article itself.
- Disclaimer 2: Healthy Criticism of some Jewish Organizations is NOT anti-Semitic.
- Disclaimer 3: Political Disagreement is Kosher… Thinking independently is not a Sin… and Striving for Liberation is Halal.
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Invented People
EXCERPT:
“The singular triumph of the Zionist movement is that it invented a state and a people – Israel and the Israelis – from scratch. The first Hebrew-speaking child in 1900 years, Ittamar Ben-Avi,was not born until 1882. His father, the brilliant linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, created a modern language for him to speak by improvising from the language of the Bible.”
MJ Rosenberg @ Information Clearing House
EXCERPT:
“This attempt to justify Zionism through genetics is reminiscent of the procedures of late nineteenth-century anthropologists who very scientifically set out to discover the specific characteristics of Europeans. As of today, no study based on anonymous DNA samples has succeeded in identifying a genetic marker specific to Jews, and it is not likely that any study ever will. It is a bitter irony to see the descendants of Holocaust survivors set out to find a biological Jewish identity: Hitler would certainly have been very pleased! And it is all the more repulsive that this kind of research should be conducted in a state that has waged for years a declared policy of ‘Judaization of the country’ in which even today a Jew is not allowed to marry a non-Jew.”
Shlomo Sand. The Invention of the Jewish People. Verso, 2009.
EXCERPT:
“When we speak of ‘Palestinians’ or of the ‘Arab population [of Palestine]’, we must bear in mind their Canaanite origin. This is important because their legal right to the country stems…from the fact that the Canaanites were first, which gives them priority; their descendants have continued to live there, which gives them continuity; and (except for the 800,000 dispossessed refugees [of 1948 along with the 25,000 expelled just prior to and during Israel’s first invasion of Egypt in 1956 and the additional more than 400,000 driven out during and after the war Israel launched on 5 June 1967]) they are still living there, which gives them present possession. Thus we see that on purely statistical grounds they have a proven legal right to their own land.”
Professor Ilene Beatty, Historian/anthropologist and “Holy Land” specialist:
“Arab and Jew in the Land of Canaan” 1957
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Genocide and International Law
Ali’s tale is that of many Palestinians, a life-long struggle under Israeli occupation; their “crime” is attempting to sell THEIR produce abroad, and having the “chutzpa” to water their crops with water belonging to THEM
More than six decades of this, when will the world stand up and say ENOUGH is ENOUGH
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The Genocide Convention
Article 2 of the United Nations issued Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide states:
“any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such:
1. Killing members of the group; [Israel …guilty]
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; [Israel …guilty]
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; [Israel …guilty]
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [Israel …guilty]
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
Article 4 states:
Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.
The Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed, and undergoing GENOCIDE since over six decades.
Please raise the issues with those around you, and complain to:
UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser/contactform.asp?address=1
The International Criminal Court
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Telephone: +41 22 917 9220
Email: InfoDesk@ohchr.org
The US Department of State
http://contact-us.state.gov/app/ask
Principle VI. states,
“The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under international law:
- (a) Crimes against peace:
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- (i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
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- (ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).
- (b) War crimes:
- Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation of slave labor or for any other purpose of the civilian population of or in occupied territory; murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the Seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
- Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.”
There should be no impunity for war criminals.
The Sanhedrin principles:
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Wars of aggression . . . NO PROBLEM
“A king should not wage other wars before a milchemet mitzvah. What is considered as milchemet mitzvah? The war against the seven nations who occupied Eretz Yisrael, the war against Amalek, and a war fought to assist Israel from an enemy which attacks them.
Afterwards, he may wage a milchemet hareshut, (war of aggression)i.e. a war fought with other nations in order to expand the borders of Israel or magnify its greatness and reputation.”
- Extermination . . . NO PROBLEM
Mishneh Torah, Chapter 1, Halacha 2:
“Amalek’s seed should be annihilated before the construction of the Temple”
THE LAWS OF KINGS AND THEIR WARS
6) The obligation to destroy the seven nations living in the Land of Canaan;
7) The prohibition against allowing any one of them to remain alive;
8) The obligation to destroy the descendents of Amalek;
9) The obligation to remember what Amalek did;
- Subjugation and Enslavement . . . NO PROBLEM
If the enemy accepts the offer of peace and commits itself to the fulfillment of the seven mitzvot that were commanded to Noah’s descendents, none of them should be killed. Rather, they should be subjugatedas ibid.:11 states: ‘They shall be your subjects and serve you.’
If they agree to tribute, but do not accept subjugation or if they accept subjugation, but do not agree to tribute, their offer should not be heeded. They must accept both.
The subjugation they must accept consists of being on a lower level, scorned and humble. They must never raise their heads against Israel, but must remain subjugated under their rule. They may never be appointed over a Jew in any matter whatsoever.
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