This however is insanity: Charles Freeman, one of the few people who have sane policies about the world and in particular US/Israel relations was slandered and attacked by Israeli interest groups headed by a man who is currently awaiting trial for espionage on the US for Israel.
JERUSALEM Here’s some news you may never hear about Israel’s war against Hezbollah: a missile falls into the sea, a strategic military installation is hit, a Cabinet minister plans to visit the front lines.
All these topics are subject to review by Israel’s chief military censor, who has — in her own words — “extraordinary power.” She can silence a broadcaster, block information and put journalists in jail.
“I can, for example, publish an order that no material can be published. I can close a newspaper or shut down a station. I can do almost anything,” Col. Sima Vaknin said Wednesday.
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The Associated Press has agreed, like other organizations, to abide by the rules of the censor, which is a condition for receiving permission to operate as a media organization in Israel.
via AP Reveals Israeli Censorship, Says It Will Abide By Rules
An Israeli censor was upset with the IDF once for revealing ‘classified (read: censored) information’ about the second Lebanon war,
Vaknin-Gil told the Winograd panel that she would have censored much of the information that was revealed by senior IDF officers, and recommended to IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi that future media briefings be broadcast with a delay of several minutes, so that that the release of classified information can be avoided.
via Censor: IDF revealed classified data during Second Lebanon War
This all begs the question, how much information is kept from us, how much information about the brutality of the IDF is kept in the dark? While the IDF may argue that it does what it does for military reasons a video which was censored by the IDF that was leaked shines a different light on the laws true intentions.
I’m not particularly outraged that the Associated Press or other media organizations are abiding by Israeli censorship laws (they have been since at least 2006 when the article was written) or even that Israel has censorship laws. What makes me outraged is the fact Israel is still parroted around as a Democracy by these very same media outlets, a government with unquestioning support by the media is more dangerous and worse to a countries health than no government at all.
British Muslims are stereotypically seen in a foreigner sense, they come into the country and have the utmost confidence in it and quickly develop an attachment to it, even though they are economically disadvantaged and often times shunned by the rest of society they display more love for the country than its lifelong residents.
Most Muslims - 75 per cent - say they also identify with their religion, according to the poll conducted with the interfaith Coexist Foundation.
Muslims also outscored the general public for their belief in courts, honest elections, financial institutions and the media.
Confidence in the military was the only area where British Muslims scored lower than the general public.
Gallup conducted face to face interviews with more than 500 Muslims over 18 in areas where they made up more than 5 per cent of the population.
That was compared with a telephone poll of 1,000 people aged over 15, weighted to reflect the general population.
It revealed that 82 per cent of Muslim say they are loyal to the UK, although only 36 per cent of the general public would consider Muslims loyal to the country.
Typically these stereotypes by the native populace takes a while to die down but it will eventually when Muslims are just a normal everyday site in the country.
More Muslims identify themselves as British than rest of population
The following video taken from Occupation 101 demonstrates the IDF brutally beating up subdued women, teenagers and men, holding their arms out and bashing bricks against them to break their bones.
If Israel wants US help to defuse the Iranian threat, Mr Emanuel was reported to have told Jewish leaders in Washington, then get ready to start evacuating settlements in the West Bank.
Talkback radio blazed with fury across the country the same day, as Israelis protested that no US official had the right to tell them where to live.
Many people are taking this to mean the Obama Administration will actually put some pressure on Israel, that finally the madness of unconditional support for Israel will end. Unfortunately what I see is just a game Emanuel is playing, the same one he played during the Clinton administration when he organized the Rose Garden signing ceremony of what was supposed to end the expansion of Israeli ’settlers’ in the West Bank (history shows the settler population increased),
A defining moment for Emanuel during his White House stint was an event which touched his political sensibilities and his personal ties to Israel: the 1993 Rose Garden signing ceremony after the Oslo accord between Israel and the Palestinians.
Rahm directed the details of the ceremony, down to the choreography of the famous handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat.
“It was an emotional moment for him,” Mintz said. “He’d like nothing more than to participate in another peace agreement signing.”
This is just a game Emanuel is playing, one which Obama knows everything about.
Words mean nothing, if Emanuel is sincere about his claims then he must back it up with actions. Israel has once before defied the US in the Oslo accords and it will again. Obama’s stance towards Israel evokes that of Clinton’s, a desire to change the situation but fear of doing anything beyond action. Rahm seems to have been the key element in fulfilling this objective, a man whose Jewish and willing to take one for AIPAC to create the illusion of action by an administration working to help a foreign state maintain a brutal apartheid regime.
Eucalyptus | 
Israel/Palestine, Middle East, human rights, terrorism, war | 
04 16th, 2009| 
1 Comment »It is amazing that Israeli terrorists and their sympathizers try to justify the unjustifiable, essentially blaming the Palestinians for the Nazis by taking away their land, blaming the Palestinians for not accepting the partition, one in which they would be given 48% of the land, down from the 92% they legitimately owned. Long before the first Arab/Israeli war Israel had already begun its program of ethnic cleansing, doing whatever it could to take away Palestinian land and destroy Palestinian heritage.
The following video, taken from Occupation 101, perfectly demonstrates the brutality with which Israel puts down Palestinians at the first hint of independence, beating with the real intent of breaking bones.
‘Settlers’ walk around in Arab cities such as Hebron carrying rifles for the express purpose of causing trouble, however given they are cowards they still require the IDF protect them. Trained soldiers protect a bunch of armed men from children who have nothing but the rubble from their own homes to use as weapons.
This is both the cowardice and madness of the Israeli terrorists being dealt with here, we are seeing some of the worst people in history. Perhaps the only thing which is more shocking than the vile and wretch of these ‘people’ is the world which supports them.
Either both Hamas and the IDF are terrorist organizations or neither of them are, they both use human shields, target civilians, use collective punishment amongst other things. If people cannot see the similarities of these two organizations then they are using double standards to justify a bigoted worldview.
Hamas uses human shields, so does the IDF.
Hamas denies humanitarian aid to people, so does the IDF.
Hamas holds a hostage (against international law) Israel holds 5200 child prisoners.
Hamas targets civilians, by its own admission so does the IDF.
People often blame the Palestinians for voting for Hamas, however by that logic the Israelis deserve to be murdered, starved, abused and have bombs dropped on them for voting in one of the most racist and perverted governments imaginable, one which has a genocidal child beater as a Foreign Minister.
The sooner we can stop bickering over semantics and realize the simple and obvious truth, that both Hamas and the IDF are terrorist organizations the sooner can we start working towards a peaceful solution to the regions problems. The only difference between the Israeli terrorists and the Palestinian terrorists is foreign ‘aid’, Israel receives more foreign aid therefore Israeli terrorists are capable of much more destruction. The differences end there, and in all fairness it isn’t really that significant a difference anyway. If given the same amount of ‘aid’ as Israel Hamas would most certainly do much more to kill Israeli civilians.
Supporting one terrorist organization over another because of semantic differences will not end well, in the end it may simply lead to replacing one oppressive and racist regime with another.
