June 30, 2006
Gaza is three days away from a deadly humanitarian crisis unless Israel promptly restores fuel and electricity to the densely populated area after its offensive to free an abducted soldier, the United Nations aid chief warned on Thursday.
With the ongoing fixation on carbon dioxide being the cause of “possible global warming,” I think we may be “fiddling while Rome burns.” With all the talk of the dangerous build-up of CO2, nary a word is mentioned of “waste heat,” of which every BTU of energy that we consume becomes “waste heat.” The laws of thermodynamics say this is so, and cannot be rescinded. Eons ago, individual people discovered that fire was a source of power. The idea spread and eventually made modern civilization possible. In the more modern era, engineering as a discipline, already rooted, now flourished. But at some point, an assumption for the sake of convenience was made. This assumption was that the surroundings are an infinite heat sink. Bear in mind that for the purpose of designing, for example internal combustion engines, etc, then this assumption is perfectly valid, for a designer generally focuses only on the design of his or her particular project and not on any larger implication. The problem is that this early assumption, meant only for the purpose of designing various things that used energy, gradually grew into an assertation of fact about the larger world; a completely unquestionable tenant of modern engineering in relationship to the environment of the globe. Maybe it’s time to re-examine that assumption.
Submitted by a reader. - M. R.
The new U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to dedicate time during each future session to a review of alleged human rights abuses by Israel — a move criticized by the United States as misguided and unfair.
A group of armed Palestinians, some connected to the militant wing of Hamas, did penetrate Israel's border security and did kidnap a young soldier, Gilad Shalit. Those who defend the action say that it was in response to Israel's killing 7 members of an innocent Palestinian family. It was wrong to kidnap the soldier -- absolutely wrong, and the G-8 leaders have said that; but they have also condemned Israel's perceived disregard for the safety and value of innocent Palestinian lives.
Since then, Israel has been on a rampage and has permitted emotion and knee-jerk, overzealous responses prevail over measured and sober approaches that might not have only helped get the Israeli soldier freed but made some progress in establishing a climate to talk about the bigger picture of an Israeli-Palestinian solution.
Now Israel is not only blowing up bridges and power plants but has arrested dozens of Hamas ministers and lawmakers. Israel is arresting symbols of the Palestinian government -- and edging this situation to potential full-out war. Condi Rice is urging restraint, but Israel seems out of control.
Many well-known right-wing media figures -- including Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly -- are losing their Internet audiences, according to an analysis of Web site ratings by IPD Group and U.S. Politics Today.
I am less than confident in Alexa's system as I have seen it get hacked in times past. We watch WRH by means of total bandwidth, and it continues a steady increase.
- M. R.
Well, Israel certainly wants war! But that is Israel. Why would the US Congress, which supposedly exists to serve the will of the AMERICAN people, be obeying the will of Israel?
Well, maybe because Israel's lobbying/spying organization, AIPAC, is PAYING THEM TO!
You heard me. Members of AIPAC, the organization suspected of spying for Israel, donate vast sums of money to the members of US Congress. And the US Congress has sold our young men and women in uniform to go off and fight and die in wars Israel has created.
Sunday New York Times Ad: 'America and Israel: A Troubling Alliance'...
Palestinian: Israel aims to topple gov't...
You know, like Hitler did to Poland, Austria, France, and the US did to Afghanistan and Iraq.
- M. R.
Thought Police Enforce Official Conspiracy Theory...
Look for the "unacceptable" books to be burned next. - M. R.
The official told the AP the accused soldiers were from the same platoon as the two slain soldiers. The military has said one and possibly both of the slain soldiers were tortured and beheaded.
So, rather than the beheadings being "insurgents" or "Al Qaeda", maybe it's just Arab justice over the rape and killing of their women.
- M. R.
Jewish groups gratefully absorbed more than half of the homeland security funds last year aimed at protecting nonprofits — and they’re campaigning to make sure the money keeps flowing.
Relinked at reader request.
- M. R.
"But what was even more appalling was the response of American media, which didn't think the kidnapping of a third of the government of a supposedly sovereign state authority was all that significant.
The US media also seems to have forgotten two other events. One is the shelling of the beach at Gaza by Israeli forces, killing innocent non-combatants. The second was the assassination three weeks ago of Jamal Abu Samhadana, who had just been made head of the Gaza police forces.
Both these events were clearly intended to provoke a reaction by the Palestinians, yet the US mainstream media (the same media that told you Saddam had 'nookular' bombs) insists that the kidnapped Israeli soldier was the provocation.
- M. R.
The controversial unclassified 1996 US Defense Investigative Service (DOD/DIS) memo on Israeli Espionage:
NASA takes risk with shuttle launch...
Here is a theory as to why NASA is launching despite the obvious risks and doubts expressed by managers.
What if the payload is partly military, to support what is happening in the Mideast? Spy/communications satellites maybe? Orbital laser designator to guide someone's bombs onto Iran's power station?
Given what happened with Challenger and Colombia, can anyone else think of a reason NASA is pushing so hard for this launch at this time?
- M. R.
The detention of Hamas parliamentarians in the early hours of Thursday morning had been planned several weeks ago and received approval from Mazuz on Wednesday.
The detention of Hamas parliamentarians in the early hours of Thursday morning had been planned several weeks ago and received approval from Mazuz on Wednesday.
The detention of Hamas parliamentarians in the early hours of Thursday morning had been planned several weeks ago and received approval from Mazuz on Wednesday.
The detention of Hamas parliamentarians in the early hours of Thursday morning had been and received approval from Mazuz on Wednesday.
- M. R.
In August 2001, while Bush dawdled on his Texas dude ranch, the entire national security system was, in Tenet's words, "blinking red" in expectation of a major terrorist strike; indeed, Tenet later said that the threat was so imminent that his "hair was on fire."
On Aug. 6, a CIA official brought the infamous "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" memo to Crawford, to read it out personally to the President and make sure he got the warning. Bush sat in silence as the briefer delivered his fell message. Duty done, the agent awaited the president's orders, or the president's guidance, or the president's questions. He got nothing but a curt, snide dismissal: "All right, you've covered your ass now."
The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days. Two years ago the US military invited Mr Mujahid, a former Afghan police commander accused of plotting against the United States, to prove his innocence before a special military tribunal. As was his right, Mr Mujahid called four witnesses from Afghanistan.
Israel last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed.
Why Would bin Laden Praise Zarqawi?...
DENIAL OF AMERICAN & ISRAELI "STATE TERRORISM"...
Submitted by a WRH reader.
- M. R.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Thursday that it would launch a review of an instructor who argues that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks for its own benefit.
"You can't teach students the truth! We're a f***ing university, for chrissakes!"
- M. R.
The co-founder of a Web site that investigators claimed was one of the largest online centers for trafficking in stolen identity information and credit cards was sentenced Thursday to two years and eight months in prison.
Two years for four million dollars in losses?
And what about the billions of dollars Americans have to spend purchasing security systems to deal with these bozos?
Whatever happened to making the punishment fit the crime?
Because think about it. The four million figure is just an estimate. Imagine that this clown has hidden a couple million overseas. He spends two years in "Club Fed", and then retires. Such a deal! - M. R.
That the United States, once touted as the "world's greatest democracy," is now ruled by a presidential dictatorship is a fact beyond any serious dispute. Indeed, except for a bare majority on the Supreme Court -- which will disappear with the retirement or demise of the aging Justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the Court's stinging rejection of Bush's kangaroo military tribunals -- the nation's political establishment seems to have accepted this revolutionary system with remarkable docility, even as its lineaments are further exposed week by week. The Bush Administration no longer bothers to hide the novel theory of government that undergirds its coup, but declares it openly, in court, in Congress, everywhere.
BRITAIN discussed a nuclear strike on China in 1961 to defend Hong Kong, secret Government documents have revealed.
George Bush's operatives have plans to jigger with the upcoming elections. I'm not talking about the November '06 vote in the USA (though they have plans for that, too). I'm talking about the election this Sunday in Mexico for their Presidency.
"We're saying, 'I've lived my life. Let me go to Iraq instead of our grandchildren, so they have a chance to live their lives,'" said Jean Haskell, 74, a grandmother of five from Philadelphia.
You have to respect these women. Understanding the current political climate, they know it is truly possible to spend whatever is left of their lives in a prison cell, and face insurmountable fines. Yet they continue to do what they do, poking and prodding at what is left of America's conscience. - M. R.
"LOST" SOLDIERS: THOSE WHO REPEAT HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO FAKE IT...
"LOST" SOLDIERS: THOSE WHO REPEAT HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO FAKE IT...
Honiok was dressed to look like an insurgent; then killed by lethal injection, given gunshot wounds, and left dead at the scene, so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the station. His corpse was subsequently presented as proof of the attack to the police and press.
Sounds familiar? It happend almost 67 years ago - and NOT in the Middle East...
- M. R.
The United States is a recovering nucleo-holic. It used 60 years ago and has miraculously stayed "sober" ever since. But lately it has been drifting dangerously close to using again. When it does, it will not matter whether it is a strong vodka or a mild cider, a Hiroshima-type bomb or a low-yield nuclear bunker buster. The instant the U.S. uses a nuclear weapon again, 60 years of nonuse go down the drain and we have to start from scratch with abstinence. And it will be that much harder to stay sober the second time around.
An Israeli "war on all fronts" drew a rare warning from Egypt on Thursday that the military escalation jeopardizes a peace treaty with Israel as the Arab League held an emergency session to discuss the crisis. The threat of a regional conflagration rose Wednesday after Israeli warplanes overflew a palace of Syrian President Bashar Assad, whose country is host to several Palestinian militant groups. A defiant Syria on Thursday vowed to defend itself against Israeli attacks.
Scharroo and his colleagues are eager to understand why the Arctic sea level in dropping as “everything indicates the sea level should rise.”
Maybe your prime assumptions are wrong.
- M. R.
Last March, the U.S. Congress passed legislation requiring Justice Department officials to give them reports by certain dates on how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using the USA PATRIOT Act to search homes and secretly seize papers. But when President George W. Bush signed the measure into law, he added a "signing statement." The statement said the president can order Justice Department officials to withhold any information from Congress if he decides it could impair national security or executive branch operations.
ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed.
Of course, Olmert's comment, and the deep-seated racism at the heart of Israeli politics that it seems to expose, can be rationalised with the claim that it is not unreasonable that an Israeli Prime Minister would be more concerned about the lives of Israeli citizens than those of the Palestinian 'enemy'. After all, this is "war", is it not? Well, yes and no. Yes, if your definition of "war" is:
* to dispossess an entire people from large parts of their land
* shepherd them into refugee camps
* exile others and refuse them a right to return
* manipulate international opinion via the mainstream press and demonise the dispossessed people as terrorists when they resist your brutal measures against them
* deprive them of any real means to resist yet when they do manage to strike back, portray them as being a greater source of evil than you
* isolate them from any international aid and begin a process of slowly making their lives into a living hell
* periodically murder them, including many children to an average of 600 per year and then lie about it and ensure that their suffering is played down in the international mainstream press.
One of the justifications given for the attack on Iraq was that Iraq was in defiance of UN Resolutions. In hindsight, it turned out that Iraq was not defying the UN; they had indeed disposed of their banned weapons of mass destruction.
Israel, on the other hand, routinely ignores and defies UN Resolutions, some of which are listed here.
Resolution 106: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for Gaza raid".
Resolution 111: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people".
Resolution 127: " . . . 'recommends' Israel suspends it's 'no-man's zone' in Jerusalem".
Resolution 162: " . . . 'urges' Israel to comply with UN decisions".
Resolution 171: " . . . determines flagrant violations' by Israel in its attack on Syria".
Resolution 228: " . . . 'censures' Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control".
Resolution 237: " . . . 'urges' Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees".
Resolution 248: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan".
Resolution 250: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem".
Resolution 251: " . . . 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250".
Resolution 252: " . . . 'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital".
Resolution 256: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli raids on Jordan as 'flagrant violation".
Resolution 259: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation".
Resolution 262: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for attack on Beirut airport".
Resolution 265: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan".
Resolution 267: " . . . 'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem".
Resolution 270: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon".
Resolution 271: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem".
Resolution 279: " . . . 'demands' withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon".
Resolution 280: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli's attacks against Lebanon".
Resolution 285: " . . . 'demands' immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon".
Resolution 298: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem".
Resolution 313: " . . . 'demands' that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon".
Resolution 316: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon".
Resolution 317: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon".
Resolution 332: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon".
Resolution 337: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty".
Resolution 347: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli attacks on Lebanon".
Resolution 425: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
Resolution 427: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon.
Resolution 444: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces".
Resolution 446: " . . . 'determines' that Israeli settlements are a 'serious
obstruction' to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention".
Resolution 450: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon".
Resolution 452: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories".
Resolution 465: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's settlements and asks all member
states not to assist Israel's settlements program".
Resolution 467: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's military intervention in Lebanon".
Resolution 468: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of
two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return".
Resolution 469: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's failure to observe the
council's order not to deport Palestinians".
Resolution 471: " . . . 'expresses deep concern' at Israel's failure to abide
by the Fourth Geneva Convention".
Resolution 476: " . . . 'reiterates' that Israel's claim to Jerusalem are 'null and void'".
Resolution 478: " . . . 'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its
claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'".
Resolution 484: " . . . 'declares it imperative' that Israel re-admit two deported
Palestinian mayors".
Resolution 487: " . . . 'strongly condemns' Israel for its attack on Iraq's
nuclear facility".
Resolution 497: " . . . 'decides' that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan
Heights is 'null and void' and demands that Israel rescinds its decision forthwith".
Resolution 498: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon".
Resolution 501: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops".
Resolution 509: " . . . 'demands' that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon".
Resolution 515: " . . . 'demands' that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and
allow food supplies to be brought in".
Resolution 517: " . . . 'censures' Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions
and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
Resolution 518: " . . . 'demands' that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon".
Resolution 520: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's attack into West Beirut".
Resolution 573: " . . . 'condemns' Israel 'vigorously' for bombing Tunisia
in attack on PLO headquarters.
Resolution 587: " . . . 'takes note' of previous calls on Israel to withdraw
its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw".
Resolution 592: " . . . 'strongly deplores' the killing of Palestinian students
at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops".
Resolution 605: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's policies and practices
denying the human rights of Palestinians.
Resolution 607: " . . . 'calls' on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly
requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Resolution 608: " . . . 'deeply regrets' that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians".
Resolution 636: " . . . 'deeply regrets' Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians.
Resolution 641: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's continuing deportation of Palestinians.
Resolution 672: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for violence against Palestinians
at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.
Resolution 673: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to cooperate with the United
Nations.
Resolution 681: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's resumption of the deportation of
Palestinians.
Resolution 694: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's deportation of Palestinians and
calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return.
Resolution 726: " . . . 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of Palestinians.
Resolution 799: ". . . 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of 413 Palestinians
and calls for their immediate return. - M. R.
Bin Laden vows to fight on...
Doing pretty good for a dead guy!
On the other hand, waving the dead guy at us again reveals just how desperate the Bush/Neocon cabal is getting to try to manufacture another war. - M. R.
Five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in
Iraq, a U.S. military official said Friday.
The soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused of assaulting in the March incident. Winning the hearts and minds. - M. R.
One of the least noticed success stories of George Bush's years in power has been his administration's ability to focus the world's attention so singularly first on Saddam Hussein 's "nuclear program" – remember that yellowcake brick road? – which had absolutely no basis in reality; then on a meager (though frightening) North Korean nuclear force (of questionable use), and finally on a questionable Iranian nuclear bomb, which, according to the latest National Intelligence Estimate, is perhaps 10 years away and yet somehow has been ever in our midst.
The near-civilization-destroying Israeli nuclear arsenal is hardly ever even noted.
The decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the detainees must be treated according to international standards sent officials scrambling to evaluate options for the approximately 470 detainees at Guantánamo Bay, some of whom have been held for more than four years without trials.
Al-Jazeera television said Public Security Minister Avi Dichter claimed they knew the locations of HAMAS and Islamic Jihad leaders in Syria and will not hesitate to kill them.
Yet, remarkably, with coffers swollen by oil selling at $70 a barrel, Russia will tomorrow lift all currency controls on the rouble and make it fully convertible. Everyone will be able to move roubles freely out of and into the country, foreign and offshore investors will be able to open rouble bank accounts, and restrictions on rouble fixed-income investments will disappear.
The Pentagon reaffirmed the need for the Guantanamo prison even though the US Supreme Court rejected the system of military tribunals put in place to try the prisoners. Camp commander Rear Admiral Harry Harris earlier said such a ruling would not affect the running of the camp and prisoners' lawyers said it may do little to secure their freedom in the short term
US President George Bush expressed amazement when he heard that the south Sudan peace deal was not working 18 months after it was signed. "That is not the information I'm getting," he told the BBC's Khartoum reporter Alfred Taban, who was in Washington to receive an award. If this is an example of how well the President gets 'briefed' by his aides, the world needs to be afraid- very afraid. - M. R.
The official State Department version is that "there was absolutely no friction whatsoever" between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting of foreign ministers in Moscow on Thursday.
But a recording of the ministers' private lunch, made when an audio link into the room was accidentally left on, showed that "Condi" and "Sergei" -- as they called each other -- had several long and testy exchanges over Iraq. The disputes concerned relatively minor wording changes in the five-page statement issued after the meeting, but grew out of basic differences between the two governments over how to proceed on Iraq.
Senators move to reverse effects of Supreme Court decision against Guantanamo commissions...
Two points to consider here. The first is that the Senate cannot pass an unconstitutional law. Second, any laws passed today are irrelevant for all that has happened before. Congress cannot pass a law declaring Bush's prior actions legal. This violates the "Ex Post Facto" provisions of the Constitution.
If Bush acted illegally, he acted illegally. The Senate cannot authorize Bush's actions retroactively.
As for the Senate, the fact that they are moving to make his actions legal, rather than to hold him to account for his crimes, proves that none of these people should be voted for come November. Keep a list.
- M. R.
June 29, 2006
Wikipedia tries to delete What Really Happened a second time...
Despite the previous public response, Wikipedia is once again trying to move the article on What Really Happened towards deletion.
Winston Smith, call your office. - M. R.
Gold futures rose Thursday as crude-oil prices hit a three-weak peak...
Death toll at least 16 for Northeast floods...
And where is President Bush?
Taking Japan's Prime Minister Koizumi to see Graceland on Air Force One.
You paid for the trip. - M. R.
Officials from rain-soaked states in the Northeast said Wednesday the worst is yet to come, as rivers and streams continue to rise dangerously high, and weather experts call for yet more rain in the forecast.
"THIS'LL teach ya to invoke my name for your dumb-ass wars!!" -- God
- M. R.
By inaugurating a war of choice against a nation that had not attacked the United States, and by justifying his actions under a new doctrine of unilateral, preventive war, Bush shattered the U.S. establishment’s policy consensus while alienating America’s closest allies, angering its rivals, and provoking a storm of anti-Americanism in the Muslim world. Now, like a high-stakes blackjack player doubling down, the president is letting the world know that he is ready to do it all over again in Iran.
The bodies keep piling up, the toxic horrors spread. Hasn’t anyone in this place ever heard of depleted uranium? Is the health crisis in Iraq and, indeed, throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, not to mention Kosovo and among returning vets for the last four American wars, somehow irrelevant to "the course" we’re asked to stay?
This stuff kills with equal opportunity. It's not only hitting people who live in the Middle East: it's also poisoning, sickening, and killing our troops. - M. R.
The actions taken by the Israeli government unjustly impose collective punishment on all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and violate international law. ADC is also deeply concerned with the overnight arrests of elected Palestinian Legislative Council Members, and calls for their release.
sraeli air strikes in Gaza City destroyed the Palestinian Interior Ministry on Friday in what marked the first Israeli attack against a government structure since Hamas won parliamentary elections in January. An army spokesman confirmed the army had carried out the strike against the Interior Ministry, saying Hamas officials had used it to plan anti-Israeli attacks. He said he was checking reports of further strikes.
The Bush administration has been unable to muster even half of the 2,500 National Guardsmen it planned to have on the Mexican border by the end of June.
"Yeah, I -- thank you for the question on a, quote, "ruling" that literally came out in the midst of my meeting with the prime minister, and so I haven't had a chance to fully review the findings of the Supreme Court," said Bush.
"The American people need to know that this ruling, as I understand it, won't cause killers to be put out on the street," Bush said. "In other words, there's not a -- as I -- as I was -- a drive-by briefing on the way here, I was told that this was not going to be the case."
When asked about the ruling by another reporter, Bush again said that he hadn't had the time to "fully review" it.
"Well, I haven't had a chance to fully review what the court said," said Bush. "I -- I wish I had; I -- I could have given you a better answer. As I say, we take this -- the findings seriously." Now, who can argue with THAT? - M. R.
Was There Really An Attack On Israeli Soldiers?...
Questions about the story of the "kidnapping". - M. R.
UFO buffs say official denial 'alien to us'...
If CNN is dragging out UFOs and
aliens" then the lights in the sky are some kind of military testing.
- M. R.
Iran's foreign minister on Thursday brushed aside demands from the major industrialized nations to respond by July 5 to an international offer for Tehran to roll back its uranium enrichment program, saying his nation would need until August.
"Demands from major industrialized nations" = Bush wants it.
On July 6th, wither the war starts, or Bush looks like an impotent wimp for having his bluff called (again). - M. R.
Our Lost America - A Collection Of Quotes...
The WRH quotes page is HERE
- M. R.
“They were waiting for a warrant to seize the cameras and the tapes in my house . . . because they said having these cameras was against the law. They’re security cameras,” she said, adding, “They said they could do that. They could seize my apartment.”
Having security cameras is against the law?!?
- M. R.
Unidentified sources at NASA told ABC News Camarda has been feuding with Wayne Hale, the manager of NASA`s space shuttle program, and NASA Administrator Mike Griffin about treatment Camarda`s engineers received when they raised concerns about the upcoming Discovery launch. Some engineers believe more substantial changes need to be made.
'I cannot accept the methods I believe are being used by this Center to select future leaders,' he wrote. 'I have always based my decisions on facts, data and good solid analysis. I cannot be a party to rumor, innuendo, gossip and-or manipulation to make or break someone`s career and-or good name.'
NASA has been in a decline since the immediate post-Apollo period when the scientists were removed from positions of authority and control transferred to the "New NASA" ruled by political appointees and MBAs with little more than PERT charts to guide them through their decisions. This led to the disasters of Challenger and Colombia.
- M. R.
The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA...
This "Final Rule," which may as well be called a "Final Solution" for drug consumers, claims that consumers can no longer sue drug companies for the harm caused by any FDA-approved drug, even if the drug's manufacturer intentionally misled the FDA by hiding or fabricating clinical trial data.
The problem with the American military today is that it doesn't have a giant, robotic airship, two-and-a-half times the size of the Goodyear blimp, that can watch over an entire city at once. Thankfully, the Pentagon's way-out research arm, Darpa, is trying to fix that.
Talk about your basic sitting duck!
- M. R.
IRS closed for a month for flood repairs...
Now THERE is a message from God!
:)
- M. R.
Hundreds of thousands flee Northeast floods...
Provocation.
It's like you would search for a lost stocking and burn half your flat for trying to find it...
A date to remember will be the night of June 20, 2006. That's the night the United States Congress was fooled for the second time.
An Interview with Steven Miles: The torture-endangered Society...
Former Judge Donald D. Thompson, a veteran of 23 years on the bench, is on trial on charges he used a penis pump on himself in the courtroom while sitting in judgment of others.
Israelis arrest dozens of Hamas officials...
Imagine the US invading Canada and arresting the government because the US did not approve of the Canadian voters' choice.
- M. R.
A confrontation is looming because the North Koreans are preparing to test a long range missile, the Taepodong-2, that some say could hit the United States. They have not tested it in eight years, however. And the last time they did, it flew only about 800 miles and failed to go into orbit. Washington is responding to this threat by saying it might shoot the North Korean missile down. The only problem is the U.S. missile defense system is no more potent than the North Korean one.
Israeli forces arrested nearly one-third of the Hamas-led Palestinian Cabinet and 20 lawmakers early Thursday and pressed their incursion into Gaza, responding to the abduction of one of its soldiers.
Here is the real agenda. Even Israel has not claimed that the legally elected government of Palestine was responsible for the capture of an IDF occupier, yet the Palestinian government is being arrested.
- M. R.
In addition, the current adventure exposes the profoundly racist nature of Israel's ruling elite. As far as it is concerned, the Palestinians are not entitled to the right of equal human dignity. Indeed, in its lexicon, such a concept does not even seem to exist.
That is why 10,000 Palestinian prisoners of war in Israeli detention camps, including several hundred women and children, are deemed to be of no value whatsoever, whereas a single Israeli prisoner of war deserves a major onslaught on the most defenceless and densely populated strip of land on the face of the earth.
Regulators allege its BP Products North America subsidy artificially forced up prices by buying up huge propane stocks only to withhold them from the market.
What explains the gullibility of Americans, a gullibility that has mired the U.S. in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and that promises war with Iran, North Korea, and a variety of other targets if neoconservatives continue to have their way? If so many Americans cannot discern that they have acquiesced to conditions from which tyranny can arise, how can they understand that it is statistically impossible for the NSA's mass surveillance of Americans to detect terrorists?
A fractured Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states are free to redraw congressional districts at a time of their choosing, largely blessing Tom DeLay's bitterly contested handiwork in Texas and the gains it gave national Republicans.
A Brazilian woman charged with running a high-end brothel claims her client list included executives with Time Warner Inc. and investment counseling firm Barrett Associates, according to court documents.
The United States will drop its insistence that rich nations withhold funds from the U.N. budget next month unless management reforms are enacted, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Friday. "While the expenditure cap is going to come off this week one way or another, it would not be right to conclude from that that we made substantial progress or any progress at all on management reform," Bolton told reporters.
In the early 1980s, the right-wing Reagan U.S. Government was determined to undermine or overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua.
As part of this campaign, the Central Intelligence Agency produced a small illustrated booklet in both Spanish and English designed to destabilise the Nicaraguan Government and economic system.
It instructed dissaffected individuals on acts of sabotage they could carry out to this end. If such a manual was found in this country, authored by a foreign government, it would be denounced as an a plan for a terror campaign. - M. R.
President Vladimir Putin's top political adviser Wednesday accused the United States of seeking international energy domination under the guise of promoting democracy and insisted that Russia is committed to building its own style of political pluralism without outside interference.
That's going to put more than a little chill on the G-8 meetings coming up in Moscow. - M. R.
Roger G. Stillwell, an employee of the department's Insular Affairs Office, was charged with a single misdemeanor count of making a false filing, according to papers filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court. Federal officials said he is expected to enter a guilty plea at a court appearance set for July 21 before Magistrate Deborah A. Robinson.
That is why I jumped at my grandfather’s invitation to attend the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington D.C., where I could join more than 1,000 students and 4,000 adults in discussing the future of Israel. I returned from the conference, however, feeling manipulated, disturbed and disgusted with a great deal of what I witnessed there.
I relinked this article from Liberty Forum because the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles has removed this article from their website following its linking from sites such as WRH.
The article paints a picture of the AIPAC conference in which attendees are bombarded with the message that Israel is under imminent danger from all fronts.
This raises the possibility of an entire nation suffering group paranoid delusions, which manifest as self-fulfilling prophecies. Imagine an annoying person always following you around, touching you, and demanding, "You don't like me, do you? You don't like me. Right? You don't like me." After a while, one gets tired of trying to prove the opposite, gives up, and shouts in exasperation, "You're right. I don't like you, get away from me!", only to have the annoying one scream, "Ah HA, I was RIGHT! You DON'T like me!"
- M. R.
The United States, Russia and other industrial democracies said Thursday they want Iran to answer "yes" or "no" next week to an international offer to bargain over Tehran's disputed nuclear program and said they are disappointed that the clerical regime has not replied by now.
And so the 'ramp up' begins. - M. R.
A March 22, 2005, sworn statement by the former chief of the Interrogation Control Element at Guantánamo said instructors from SERE also taught their methods to interrogators of the prisoners in Cuba.
Hey, at least they had the most professional training in torture the US could provide! So much for anyone in Washington making the claim that Americans don't torture enemy combattants. - M. R.
Jaunty, frothy, strutting—is he the leader of the free world, or a Chippendale’s dancer?
The White House had hoped that the killing of the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would reverse Bush's slide in popularity. Indeed there was a slight bump upward of several points. But this is a classic epiphenomenon that has already started to wither. From the vantage point of Capitol Hill, Bush's evanescent Zarqawi "recovery" has failed to cast any glow on to Republican prospects. Enforcing party discipline for a purely political Congressional vote last week endorsing Bush's policy, such as it is, in Iraq has barely quelled panic. As Bush briefly nudged up from the low to mid-30s, Republican candidates fell further behind. For Republicans, Bush has become cement shoes.
Link fixed. - M. R.
Using the capture of one of its soldiers as the pretext, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched a brutal assault on the entire population of Gaza in the early morning hours of June 28. U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed the main power station in Gaza and destroyed bridges on the only major roads linking the northern and southern sections of the region. The people of Gaza are now without water and electricity -- and many will die. The use of U.S. planes and other military goods against illegally occupied territories is a violation of both international and U.S. law.
It has been widely believed that E. coli could come only from the guts of warm-blooded animals, and that, if found in the environment, there must have been a recent source of excrement from one of those animals. While not necessarily a threat to human health, E. coli has been used as an indicator of other pathogens in the excrement, such as viruses, that could make people ill.
But Elizabeth Alm, a Central Michigan University microbiologist, says E. coli is growing in Lake Huron sand with no contribution of fecal matter from people, birds or animals No shit! - M. R.
As part of a scandal that's been running nearly two years, Fannie Mae has "misstated earnings" to the tune of $10.8 billion. That's some tune.
So far, the Fannie fiasco has cost Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines and several other top executives their jobs. The stock has dropped from nearly $80 a share to around $50 -- roughly $30 billion in lost value. And the company recently settled with the federal government and agreed to pay $400 million in fines, stemming from allegations the firm fiddled with the books to ensure bigwigs got performance bonuses.
The United States is losing its fight against terrorism and the Iraq war is the biggest reason why, more than eight of 10 American terrorism and national security experts concluded in a poll released yesterday.
The ruling is a major political and legal setback for President Bush, saying he overstepped his authority by ordering military war crimes trials for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Get ready for a lot more "suicides" of detainees who have been tortured, rather than be allowed to tell of what they went through following a release. - M. R.
June 28, 2006
Israeli forces arrested the Palestinian deputy prime minister and dozens of other Hamas officials early Thursday and pressed their incursion into Gaza, responding to the abduction of one of its soldiers.
Funny how they never mention the shelling of the beach at Gaza that kicked off this entire mess.
- M. R.
The report concluded that the three major electronic voting systems in use have significant security and reliability vulnerabilities. But it added that most of these vulnerabilities can be overcome by auditing printed voting records to spot irregularities. And while 26 states require paper records of votes, fewer than half of those require regular audits.
And that's the rub: ALL states should have paper trails for voting machines, and not all do. - M. R.
Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead...
In other words, someone PRETENDING to be a Gaza militant made the phone call. - M. R.
"Nobody understands the logic," Rafik Maliha, the plant's manager, said as firefighters worked to keep down smoke that still rose hours after the attacks. "They want to keep people in the dark so kidnappers don't move? What's the relationship?"
Israel bombs Islamic University in Gaza: witnesses...
Jewish groups gratefully absorbed more than half of the homeland security funds last year aimed at protecting nonprofits — and they’re campaigning to make sure the money keeps flowing.
President Bush appears to be losing support among a key group of voters who had hitherto stood firmly with the president even as his poll numbers among other groups fell dramatically.
You know, the morons.
- M. R.
There are times, however, when I must ignore the urge to restrain myself and let it all hang loose in the open. This is one of those times: I'm sick and fucking tired of defending these assholes.
Israeli jets flew over the country home of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Ladekye, the Israeli military reported. Israeli television reported that al-Assad was at home at the time.
A banner on Syrian television reported that the Syrian air force intercepted the Israeli aircraft and "forced them to separate and leave the area." It called the Israeli airspace breach "an unacceptable, hostile and provocative act." The more I think about it, the more I wonder if Israel isn't
getting ready to bomb Iran, and has decided to go through Syria to get there.
If Israel fakes out the Syrian Air Force to the south, then launches the bombing raid through the north, they can fly the Turkey/Iraq border to get into Iran, leaving Turkey and the US appearing
more or less uninvolved in the attack. If Israel goes through Lebanon, then they have to fly right over the middle of Iraq to get to Iran, and that means the US has to have given them permission.
I think today's overflight was a test to see if they could trick the Syrians into leaving an open corridor for the attack on Iran.
- M. R.
A group of 50 pro-Israel Christian tourists came under attack Wednesday from some 100 residents of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim in Jerusalem.
"But, but, but, Father Priapus over at Our Lady of Perpetual Motion said that only Muslims attack Christians!!!"
:) - M. R.
The Dominican Republic is one of the biggest sex tourism destinations in the world, thanks in part to Internet sites that extol the country as a "single man's paradise."\
Hmmm. Dominican Republic vacation, a bottle of viagra in someone else's name, you don't suppose "Pills" ... Nah, it just COULDN'T be! :)
- M. R.
Anti-aircraft guns opened fire long after the aircrafts left Syrian airspace.
Senior government figures approved the move a few days ago in order to signal to the Syrian President that Israel in not oblivious to his sponsorship of Hamas' Damascus-based leader Khaled Meshal. It is obvious that Israel is trying to goad Syria into some kind of provocation as part of its 'pacification' of Gaza; fortunately, the Syrians aren't biting. And the real truth is, no one knows precisely who has captured Gilad Shalit: but Meshal makes a good scapegoat. - M. R.
London-based watchdog Privacy International demanded a halt to the "completely unacceptable" monitoring of millions of transactions as part of a CIA-U.S. Treasury program.
Voter Action will file a motion for a preliminary injunction today to halt the use of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems in Colorado's November elections. This comes on the heels of a complaint filed by the nonprofit on June 1 against the use of DRE's made by Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Voting Systems, ES&S, and Hart InterCivic in upcoming state elections.
“I don’t know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai for his strength, for his wisdom and for his courage to lead this country first in the defeat of the Taliban and now in rebuilding a democratic and unified Afghanistan,” Ms Rice told reporters at a press conference in the heavily fortified presidential palace.
The 'defeat of the Taliban'? Excuse me, Secretary Rice, did you not get the memo? Apparently, the people of Afghanistan do not think quite as highly of Karzai as does the international community, and many are joining the Taliban to oust this government. The Taliban insurgency, particularly in the south, is at an all-time high since the U.S. lead invasion. - M. R.
World Jewish Congress meets in Berlin on Iran
World Jewish Congress meets in Berlin on Iran
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Wednesday called on the international community to force Iran to forego any nuclear ambitions and the radical Palestinian Hamas movement to renounce violence.
A nuclear-free Middle East cannot happen unless Israel becomes part of the resolution of the issue, yet this part of the equation is never addressed in conferences like these. And whose kids, I wonder, are supposed to die in any kind of 'force' to be applied to Iran? - M. R.
Russia has called for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the killing of its diplomats in Iraq and accused the U.S.-led coalition forces of failing to guarantee the security of foreign embassy personnel in the country.
After four months of bloody gun battles shook the streets of the Somali capital Mogadishu, jihadist militias loyal to a union of Islamic courts preside over a tense calm and a routed alliance of US-backed warlords is on the run. Now that the dust has cleared, however, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is under fire for its clandestine support of secular fighters in a thorny conflict critics say it has failed to grasp, and inadvertently fueled. Worse still, it appears to have chosen the losing side.
And as we all know, desperate times call for desperate measures. If slander and hate don't do the trick, if they are ineffective in cowing Establishment opposition, then the next step is the criminalization of dissent. Thus the not-so-subtle hints from Torturer General Alberto Gonzales about pursuing leakers -- and the leaked-to -- with federal charges. And thus the current trial balloons in the media about charging the NYT with treason. These are serious threats; but just in case they're not enough, we're also getting the increasingly open call for violence against Bush opponents, for the "outraged public" to "take the law into their own hands."
Doctors for Iraq has received reports that an estimated 3,250 families from the city of Ramadi have been forced to flee the city because of the threat of an imminent US/ Iraqi military attack on the city.
By inaugurating a war of choice against a nation that had not attacked the United States, and by justifying his actions under a new doctrine of unilateral, preventive war, Bush shattered the U.S. establishment’s policy consensus while alienating America’s closest allies, angering its rivals, and provoking a storm of anti-Americanism in the Muslim world. Now, like a high-stakes blackjack player doubling down, the president is letting the world know that he is ready to do it all over again in Iran. And if the United States launches the sort of bombing campaign against Iran that is being considered—involving attacks against not just nuclear research facilities but also airfields, command and control centers, and other intelligence and military targets—to say that the consequences would be unpredictable is an understatement. The administration and many of its supporters are apparently ready to take the gamble that after an armed confrontation with Iran, a moderate, pro-American regime might emerge from the wreckage. Great: after all, it won't be the kids of any high-ranking officialdom getting mowed down in Iraq by Iranian retaliation to US strikes. And what are China and Russia going to do in the event of such strikes? - M. R.
The US cannot denounce Iran’s nuclear programme while accepting Israel’s possession of nuclear bombs, the head of the Arab League said yesterday. “This will ultimately bring the Middle East to further instability and there will be an inevitable arms race,” Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa told the US Arab Economic Forum in Houston, Texas. But this would require logic, looking at the long term, and acting even-handedly - attributes this Administration could not find with a flashlight and both hands. - M. R.
U.S. children are poorer and less healthy now than in the 1990s, a child advocacy group says. There were more than 13 million children living in poverty in 2004 -- an increase of 1 million over four years. There was also an increase in the percentage of low birth-weight babies between 2000 and 2003 and an increase in the number of children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment. The Bush Administration's 'other' legacy (outside the complete debacle in the Middle East). - M. R.
The White House and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) are nearing a compromise on legislation that would authorize the National Security Agency (NSA) domestic spying program. The bill, unfortunately, as it currently stands, poses a severe threat to fundamental civil liberties.
It looks like someone should make arrangements for a very public funeral for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in this country. - M. R.
Furious over gas prices? Tell Shell's CEO (Execs begin 50-city tour to assure Americans Big Oil isn't ripping them off)...
It is anyone's guess as to how many 'average Americans' these executives will be willing to meet for their photo-ops. - M. R.
Political scientists John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt sparked a firestorm when they raised questions about the power the Israel lobby wields over U.S. foreign policy. Now, in an exclusive FP Roundtable, they face off with four distinguished experts of the Middle East over whether the influence of the Israel lobby is ordinary or extraordinary.
President Bush pledges to try to phase out Social Security again after the November election....
More than 47,600 production workers at GM and Delphi agreed to retire or quit for pensions or cash, in the largest buyout plan in US industrial history, company officials announced Monday.
"I put the reddish-brown snake in a dark bucket," said Mark Auliya, a reptile expert and a consultant for the group. "When I retrieved it a few minutes later, it was almost entirely white."
The June 27, 2006 Associated Press (AP) article titled “Scientists OK Gore’s Movie for Accuracy” by Seth Borenstein raises some serious questions about AP’s bias and methodology.
AP chose to ignore the scores of scientists who have harshly criticized the science presented in former Vice President Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Israelis DANCED on 911...
A good thread to learn how to spot the government shills paid to shout down those who dare question the official story.
- M. R.
Blink 182 star Tom DeLonge has followed in the footsteps of Charlie Sheen by becoming the latest celebrity to publicly doubt the official version of events behind 9/11 and voice his belief that the attacks were an inside job.
Longshoremen at the Port of Hueneme near Oxnard on Monday discovered a threat against President Bush and Jews written inside a ship that had recently arrived from Guatemala, authorities said.
i.e. the bozos found some graffiti and decided to turn it into a headline.
- M. R.
Two political scientists found that young people who watch Stewart's faux news program, "The Daily Show," develop cynical views about politics and politicians that could lead them to just say no to voting.
The fact that government is corrupt, dictatorial, and the voting system a total sham has absolutely nothing to do with it, of course. It's all Jon's fault. - M. R.
Gonzales highlighted Israel’s extradition of suspected Mafia boss Ze’ev Rosenstein to the United States, The Associated Press reported.
Rosenstein was extradited for alleged involvement in an Ecstasy drug ring. Bit of a reach, Al. - M. R.
Israeli Troops and Armor Surge Into Gaza...
The timetable.
1. Israel shells the beach at Gaza, killing obvious non-combatants.
2. Palestinians (we are told) capture a uniformed IDF soldier in the middle of preparations to invade Rafah.
3. Israel declares the capture a "kidnapping", and starts killing everyone and bombing everything in sight. - M. R.
MOSSAD IN INDONESIA...
The spies who lied us into war are at it again.
Basically the blogger's argument is: Muslim = murderer. Three cheers for religious bigotry, I guess. Alas, I bet a lot of Muslim-hating Christians are making this same "argument" as I write this.
Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at the airport after returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. Customs officials found the Viagra in his luggage, but his name was not on the prescription, said Paul Miller, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
Do they have really good golf courses in the Dominican Republic?
- M. R.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday condemned occupiers of Iraq for having assisted the former Iraqi dictator in launching chemical attacks on Iran during the 8-year Iraqi war imposed on Iran.
June 27, 2006
Wives and family members of soldiers fighting in Iraq have received telephone calls, believed to include death threats, from insurgents, according to military documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph.
Yeah, like the insurgents have the names and phone numbers of family members of serving soldiers, right? The US/UK military have that information, but not the Iraqi insurgents.
This has hoax written all over it.
- M. R.
Tanks and armoured vehicles entered the territory near the southern town of Rafah less than a year after Israel pulled thousands of soldiers and settlers from the territory following 38 years of occupation.
Pastor Allegedly Told Victim God Wanted Them To Have Sex.
News outlets reported last week that a meteorite struck a mountainside in Norway, releasing as much energy as the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Now researchers are reporting the first data from the blast, which shows that the event was much more tame.
Just look at the latest story, about the capture of an Israeli soldier. Palestinian fighters, allegedly linked to Hamas, in a daring raid, attacked a group of Israeli soldiers near the border of Gaza, killing two and capturing one.
This incident came after a period when the Israeli military has been shelling and rocketing Gaza, quite likely killing a whole family of beachgoers (though the Israeli military claims rather improbably that this was the result of a Hamas mine, not of a shell), and a number of other civilians.
Almost universally in the U.S. media, including on National Public Radio, the captured Israeli soldier is being referred to as a hostage and his capture is referred to as a "kidnapping."
Note that Israeli jails are brimming with captured Palestinian fighters, but this is not called kidnapping, nor are they called "hostages," though they often end up getting their freedom in in exchange for the return of captured Israeli soldiers who are referred to as "hostages," not prisoners.
Israeli troops move into Gaza to retrieve kidnapped soldier...
So, Israel plays the same game they have always played. They shell the beach at Gaza, killing innocent people, pretend it didn't happen, then when the Palestinians (so we are told; nobody really knows who carried out this kidnapping) capture an occupying soldier, Israel acts like THIS is the provocation and starts killing everyone and destroying what is left of Gaza.
1. "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and
our enemies not just in ability but in morality,
culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our
neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few
hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong
to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a
different galaxy." Israeli president Moshe Katsav.
The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001
2. "The
Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them
meat, they want more".... Ehud Barak, Prime Minister
of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the
Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000
3. " [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two
legs." Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted
in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New
Statesman, 25 June 1982.
4. "The Palestinians" would be crushed like
grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and
walls." " Isreali Prime Minister (at the time)
in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1,
1988
5. "When we have settled the land, all the Arabs
will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like
drugged cockroaches in a bottle." Raphael Eitan,
Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York
Times, 14 April 1983.
6. "How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody
to return them to." Golda Maier, March 8, 1969.
7. "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they
never existed." Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister
June 15, 1969
8. "The thesis that the danger of genocide was
hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting
for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born
and developed after the war." Israeli General
Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.
9. David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime
Minister): "If I were an Arab leader, I would never
sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have
taken their country. It is true God promised it to us,
but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs.
There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler,
Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one
thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why
would they accept that?" Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in
Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
10. Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : "We must do everything
to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring
his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their
homes. "The old will die and the young will forget."
11. "We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned
to live here as slaves." Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for
the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October
1983.
12. "Every time we do something you tell me America will do
this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear:
Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people,
control America, and the Americans know it." - Israeli Prime
Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported
on Kol Yisrael radio. (Certainly the FBI's cover-up of the Israeli
spy ring/phone tap scandal suggests that Mr. Sharon may not have
been joking.)
13. "We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle
on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or
ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians
come crawling to us on all fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff
of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April
1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.
14. "We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees]
never do return" David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948,
quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall,
1967, p. 157.
15. "We should prepare to go over to the
offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and
Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime
is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall
establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash
the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall
to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said,
Alexandria and Sinai." David Ben-Gurion, May 1948,
to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by
Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
16. "We must use terror, assassination,
intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all
social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab
population." Israel Koenig, "The Koenig
Memorandum"
17. "Jewish villages were built in the place of
Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these
Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography
books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist,
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