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Title: "Never Again" Gone Mad In Israel
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Common Dreams
URL Source: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0712-25.htm
Published: Jul 15, 2006
Author: by Sandy Tolan
Post Date: 2006-07-15 00:18:58 by Horse
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Views: 2121
Comments: 12
In the name of forcing the release of a single soldier, Israel has seized members of a democratically elected government; bombed its interior ministry, the prime minister's offices and a school; threatened another sovereign state (Syria) with a menacing overflight; dropped leaflets from the air, warning of harm to the civilian population if it does not "follow all orders" of the Israel Defense Forces; loosed nocturnal "sound bombs" under orders from the Israeli prime minister to "make sure no one sleeps at night in Gaza"; fired missiles into residential areas, killing children; and demolished a power station that was the sole generator of electricity and running water for hundreds of thousands of Gazans. Besieged Palestinian families, trapped in a locked-down Gaza, are down to one meal a day, eaten in candlelight. Yet their desperate conditions go largely ignored by a world accustomed to extreme Israeli measures in the name of security. "Wake up!" shouted the young Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer from Gaza on San Francisco's "Arab Talk" radio in late June. "The Gaza people are starving. There is a real humanitarian crisis. Our children are born to live. Don't these people have any heart? No feelings at all? The world is silent!" For the Palestinians, Omer's cry speaks to a collective understanding: That the world sees the life of an Arab as infinitely less valuable than an Israeli's; that no amount of suffering by innocent Palestinians is too much to justify the return of a single Jewish soldier. This understanding, and the rage and humiliation it fuels, has been driven home endlessly through decades of shellings, wars and uprisings past. Indeed Omer's plaintive words form a mantra, echoing all the way back to the first war between the Arabs and the Jews. The Arab-Israeli war of 1948, known in Israel as the War of Independence, is called al-Nakba, or the Catastrophe, by Palestinians. During the 1948 conflict, more than 700,000 Palestinians fled the violence or were driven from their homes. In the middle of July, when temperatures exceeded 100 degrees, more than 30,000 Arabs marched into exile, some for more than 20 miles. Many never made it; those who did were certain they would be coming back in a matter of days or weeks. Fifty-eight years later, they remain in exile. Some refugees wear the keys to their homes around their neck; others tell stories of golden fields, or of a lemon tree whose fruit grows larger in the memory with each passing year. Fifty-eight summers after the Nabka, as U.S.-made weapons pound Gaza from Israel, a déjà vu settles on the old men and women of the refugee camps, and in the vast diaspora beyond, reminding them of yet another bitter anniversary. The latest attacks by Israel in Gaza, ostensibly on behalf of a single soldier, recall the comments by extremist Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, in his eulogy for U.S. Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein, who in 1994 massacred 27 Palestinians praying in the Hebron mosque. "One million Arabs," Perrin declared, "are not worth a Jewish fingernail." Israelis, too, are a traumatized people, and their nation's current actions are driven in part by a hard determination, born of the Holocaust, to "never again go like sheep to the slaughter." But if "never again" drives the politics of reprisal, few seem to notice that the reprisals themselves are obscenely out of scale to the provocation: For every crude Qassam rocket falling harmlessly, far from its target, dozens, sometimes hundreds of shells rain down on the Palestinians. For one missing soldier, a million and a half Gazans are made to suffer. In Israel, today, it is "never again" gone mad. The irony is that, contrary to making themselves more safe, the Israelis, just like the Americans in Iraq, are only sowing the seeds of more hatred and rage. Sandy Tolan is author of "The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East" and a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley. He will be reading from his book at 7 p.m. Thursday at University Temple United Methodist Church in Seattle.
Poster Comment: I cannot be the only one who sees Israel as having gone completely insane. I saw this years ago, but I would hope that many more have come to this conclusion based upon their recent behavior.
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#1. To: Horse, Christine, Diana, Zipporah, robin, Zoroaster, BTP Holdings, Arator, Brian S, A K A Stone, Bub, mugwort, bluegrass, Bill D Berger, FormerLurker, Uncle Bill, Dakmar, Flintlock, Neil McIver, tom007, aristeides, Burkeman1, Diana, (#0)
Forming Israel set the 'revenge' stage. Taking more land when the Arabs lost two more wars only excited more revenge and hatred. The "Israelis" are eating from the tree of self-poisoned fruit. They can win, but will walk on blood soaked ground for centuries to come. What few appreciate is that Israel is depending on a "license" to uniquely live free of the Geneva Conventions which were authored by the Jewish experience under the Nazis. In a sentence, they shit in their own mess-kit. As with the USA, the dollar-cost of war can be the deciding factor. Bush can't fund it all. The deciding factor is whether Israel can break the will of all the nations they fight - FORGET IT! The war will continue.
That nation won't last another 20 years. They will be nuked, no doubt about it.
God is always good! They must have borrowed this concept from the BATF/FBI when "sleep deprivation" [psch torture using loudspeakers] was used on innocents including women and little children and infants at Waco by Klinton and his "Butch", Reno.
"Freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in ...into an unbearable hell and a choking life." I agree with your comment. but you know it is amazing how many americans perpetually think Israel is the victim, and we know why they think that, because the information shown and the attitudes displayed in the mainstream media always support that view - that Israel is the victim. the people watch tv and cannot see.
I have cassette recordings of the police and FBI communications at Waco that were taken from the satelite feeds during the WACO standoff. One of these recordings has the sheriff dispatcher "clearly" telling a fed that on the day the Davidians were attacked that "5" BATF/FBI officers had been killed instead of the "4" that MSM told us about. My theory is that the WACO raid was a MOSSAD supervised activity and that the 5th dead Officer was an Israeli. General Wesley Clark (son of a Rabbi) was in charge of the Delta Force troops brought in to kill the Davidians. I also have the conversations between the Fed negotiators and the Davidians on CD. These conversations make your head spin when you see how lucid and absolutely sane the Davidians were. Not only that, but when one considers that many of these people had been wounded during the attack yet remained very civil and straight talking while the feds were constantly looking for a weak link or some way to trick the Davidians into surrender.
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds (smites) you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. Samuel Adams ... and I concur !
My theory is that the WACO raid was a MOSSAD supervised activity and that the 5th dead Officer was an Israeli. General Wesley Clark (son of a Rabbi) was in charge of the Delta Force troops brought in to kill the Davidians. I also have the conversations between the Fed negotiators and the Davidians on CD. These conversations make your head spin when you see how lucid and absolutely sane the Davidians were. Not only that, but when one considers that many of these people had been wounded during the attack yet remained very civil and straight talking while the feds were constantly looking for a weak link or some way to trick the Davidians into surrender. I always knew there was more to it than just some fringe religious group. And to think, all of the idiots who hung around at the gun shop and talked about whatever were decidedly convinced that Koresh was a child molester and the Davidians got what they deserved. What a bunch of brainwashed freaks. This info deserves its own thread. Thanks for posting.
"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can ever fight; and never stop fighting." E.E. Cummings
I smell a Hallibuton contract.
Quit bogarting that peace, Herbert!
It doesn't take a coon dog. They're like an insatiable whore in a really bad porn series. "Hally does Baghdad", "Hally does New Orleans", "Hally does Falluja", "Hally does Beirut", "Hally does Gaza", ... Besieged Palestinian families, trapped in a locked-down Gaza, are down to one meal a day, eaten in candlelight. Yet their desperate conditions go largely ignored by a world accustomed to extreme Israeli measures in the name of security.
um, yeah, lol :)
Quit bogarting that peace, Herbert!
Hally could have a crack at Damascus before much longer. I smell a big escalation and an attack on Syrian air defenses.
"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can ever fight; and never stop fighting." E.E. Cummings
That 72 hours ultimatum, if true, is a very strong hint. Smirk seems content to sit back and watch for now. How soon before they require our help, beyond the hardware and financing?
It's all about "POWER." From the world of PSYOPS, they re-package War Crime agression as "Self-defense" and challenge the world to come to grips with the reality. With Tony & Bush on Israel's side, who can say anything but the authors of the history books - if they are permitted to survive. Really sad times.
#2. To: SKYDRIFTER (#1)
They can win, but will walk on blood soaked ground for centuries to come.
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02] More and more of our imports come from overseas. - George W. Bush
#3. To: Horse (#0)
loosed nocturnal "sound bombs" under orders from the Israeli prime minister to "make sure no one sleeps at night in Gaza";
-OBL
"Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes at the very principles upon which our govt was founded."
- Lincoln
#4. To: Horse (#0)
#5. To: IndieTX (#3)
They must have borrowed this concept from the BATF/FBI when "sleep deprivation" [psch torture using loudspeakers] was used on innocents including women and little children and infants at Waco by Klinton and his "Butch", Reno.
#6. To: noone222 (#5)
I have cassette recordings of the police and FBI communications at Waco that were taken from the satelite feeds during the WACO standoff. One of these recordings has the sheriff dispatcher "clearly" telling a fed that on the day the Davidians were attacked that "5" BATF/FBI officers had been killed instead of the "4" that MSM told us about.
#7. To: SKYDRIFTER (#1)
#8. To: Dakmar (#7)
I smell a Hallibuton contract.
#9. To: robin (#8)
#10. To: robin (#8)
"Hally does Baghdad", "Hally does New Orleans", "Hally does Falluja", "Hally does Beirut", "Hally does Gaza", ...
#11. To: BTP Holdings (#10)
#12. To: Horse, All (#0)
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