“If opposing Israel is anti-semitism then what do you call supporting a state that has been engaged in brutal ethnic cleansing for seven decades. What does that make you?” It’s a question posed by Miko Peled, an Israeli Jew and son of an Israeli general, former Israeli 
soldier and now a leading voice in the struggle for Palestinian freedom. You couldn’t find a more authentic insider.
What else has Peled been saying about Israel?
- “The name of the game: erasing Palestine, getting rid of the people and de-Arabizing the country…”
- As for talk about Israel giving up the West Bank for a Palestinian state: “If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny. It shows a complete misunderstanding of the objective of Zionism and the Zionist state…. By 1993 the Israelis had achieved their mission to make the conquest of the West Bank irreversible.”
- Peled also describes the Israeli army, in which he served, as “one of the best trained and best equipped and best fed terrorist organisations in the world.”
So let’s repeat Peled’s question. What does supporting Israel make you when Israel has been busy ethnically cleansing the native Palestinians for seven decades? What should we call people who defend the indefensible?… who admire the despicable?… who applaud the expulsion at gunpoint of peaceable civilians and the confiscation of their homes and land?
Give them a name, one that will stick.
The claim by Conservative Friends of Israel that 80 percent of the party’s MPs and MEPs are members is alarming and reveals how lacking in integrity we are at the heart of government. It puts us almost on a par with US Congress which is almost totally controlled by the Israel lobby through AIPAC.
Being a Friend of Israel, of course, means embracing the whole rotten kit and caboodle, including the terror and racism on which the state of Israel was built. It means embracing the dispossession and oppression of innocent Palestinians. It means embracing the discriminatory laws against those who remain n their homeland. It means embracing the jackboot thuggery that abducts civilians — including children — and imprisons and tortures them without trial. It means embracing the theft and annexation of Palestinian land and water resources, the imposition of hundreds of military checkpoints, severe restrictions on the movement of people and goods, and maximum interference with Palestinian life at every level.
It means approving the bloodbaths inflicted by Israel on Gaza and feeling comfortable with blowing hundreds of children to smithereens, maiming thousands more, trashing vital infrastructure such as hospitals, schools, power plants and clean water supplies, and causing $6bn of devastation that will take 20 years to rebuild. And, by the way, where is the money coming from?
It means embracing the strangulation of the West Bank’s economy and the vicious ten-year blockade on Gaza. It means embracing the denial of Palestinians’ right to self-determination and return to their homes. It means embracing the religious war that humiliates Muslims and Christians and prevents them from visiting their holy places. It means endorsing a situation in which hard-pressed American and British taxpayers are having to subsidise Israel’s illegal occupation of the Holy Land.
And if, after all that, you are still Israel’s special friend, where is your self-respect?
It is ludicrous that a foreign military power which has no regard for international law and rejects weapons conventions and safeguards can exert such influence on foreign policy in the US and UK. Pandering to Israel has been immensely costly in blood and treasure and stupidly damaging to our reputation.
Everyone outside the Westminster/Washington bubble knows perfectly well that there can be no peace in the Holy Land without justice. In other words no peace until the occupation ends. Everyone knows that international law and countless UN resolutions still wait to be enforced. Everyone knows that Israel won’t comply unless sanctions are imposed. Everyone knows that the siege on Gaza won’t be lifted until warships are sent.
What’s more, everyone now knows that the US is not an honest broker, Israel wants to keep the pot boiling and justice won’t come from more sham ‘negotiations’. Nor will peace. Everyone knows who is the real cause of turmoil in the Middle East. And everyone knows that Her Majesty’s Government’s hand-wringing and empty words serve no purpose except to prolong the daily misery for Palestinians and buy time for Israel to complete its criminal scheme to make the occupation permanent.
Churchgoing British prime minister Theresa May praises Israel for being “a thriving democracy, a beacon of tolerance” when it is obviously neither. It’s an obnoxious ethnocracy. She says our two countries share “common values” when we obviously don’t — although her rotten party probably does.
Given the Israeli regime’s endless crimes against humanity and cruelty to the rightful inhabitants of the Holy Land her remarks are insulting to anyone who lives by Christian values. She even claims that Israel is a country where people of all religions “are free and equal in the eyes of the law” and “Israel guarantees the rights of people of all religions, races and sexualities, and it wants to enable everyone to flourish”. Her ignorance in these matters rivals Trump’s.
And May would do well to call off her efforts to ciminalise the successful BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) campaign. She warns that her government will “have no truck with those who subscribe to it”. But Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights bestows on everyone “the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”. So she boobs even on that.
In an interview with Jonas Alexis, Miko Peled sounds upbeat about BDS. As long as Israel has a blank cheque from the US and the UK and is undefeatable militarily and diplomatically, BDS “is possibly the only positive change one can point to at this time.”
Many of us have urged beefing up BDS, extending its reach and orchestrating its efforts globally. There seems no other way to force the spineless international community to finally impose the sanctions they should have slapped on Israel decades ago.
It has got to the point where I wouldn’t mind seeing individuals among the political élites targeted by BDS if they deserve it. And many of them surely do.
Stuart Littlewood
3 January 2018
After working on jet fighters in the RAF Stuart became an industrial marketing specialist with manufacturing companies and consultancy firms. He also “indulged himself” as a newspaper columnist. In politics, he served as a Cambridgeshire county councilor and member of the Police Authority. Now retired he campaigns on various issues and contributes to several online news & opinion sites. An Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, he has produced two photo-documentary books – Paperturn-view.com.
Also, check out Stuart’s book Radio Free Palestine, with Foreword by Jeff Halper. It tells the plight of the Palestinians under brutal occupation.
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Jim, you posed an honest, and moral question which deserves thought and attention before answering. And yet you have to deal with the agenda driven trolls. It can’t be easy. I am against censorship but I would delete their accounts. This is literally war. You work daily to put your views out for consideration. Something to balance against the FOXs and CNNs. Do you really have to put up with paid trolls? VT is your work place, and as such you have the same rights as an employor. Would a factory owner allow someone to walk floor every day and tell lies? I don’t think so. Get them out of here. Please.
“So why is supporting a racist regime like Israel not only tolerated … .”
Two reason, or excuses come to mind. The first is what Mayor Rothschild said 270 years ago. “I care not who makes the laws, as long as I print the money”. Not verbatim but close. This covers for those without conscience, and the brainwashed.
The second answer I have is more complicated. Our tolerance may stem from inherited guilt. Anyone living in this country has thought about how it was formed. What we did to the American Indian is exactly what Jews are doing to Palestine. Land theft and genocide of the native population. So how do we protest Israel without being hypocrites? If we raise our voice will there be consequences? Will we have to give back land? Will we have to apy enormous restitution for the historical crimes? Crimes which we would duplicate today if given the opportunity. This is a problem. It’s the same reason the Zionists keep the “gas” chambers alive, and bash everyone else with the anti-Semite hammer. If they don’t they will have to return enormous amounts of money, the unprinted kind. They have to admit to lies, and murder. It’s the same with us. We are cowards and unable to apologize. So we remain silent. It’s a perpetual thing.
Having a natural antipathy for hyperbole, I will state categorically: Israel is a criminal enterprise through and through. What does this provable fact make of its supporters?
oh for crying out loud
Jeremiah did call all their women harlots. Does it apply to all of them through time?
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/01/02/trump-threatens-palestinian-authority-funding/
Liar, cheater, bully, con artist, hypocrite Trump talks out of both sides of his big mouth, claiming to support outside agitators in Iran against its legitimate government while ignoring the gross inhuman treatment of Palestinians by the unindicted war criminal Israel who is also a land thief and did 9/11/01 to the U.S.:https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it
Quote:
• “Larry Silverstein – is a Jewish American businessman from New York. Silverstein obtained a 99 year lease on the entire world trade center complex on 24 July, 2001. [3] The towers were in fact close to worthless, being filled with asbestos, [4] yet Silverstein “felt a compelling urge to own them”. Silverstein had breakfast in “Windows on the World” restaurant (located in North Tower 107th Floor) every morning. [5] but broke this routine on the morning of 11 September 2001. Silverstein’s two children, who also worked in the WTC, were also absent from work that day. Larry Silverstein was paid a little over $4.5 Billion in insurance money as a result of the destruction of the WTC complex. [6] Silverstein was on personal friendship terms with Zionist media-magnate Rupert Murdoch, former Israeli president Ariel Sharon, as well as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Silverstein was such good friends with Netanyahu that, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz he would speak with him on the phone every sunday.
FIND A PAL …
The phrase: “Evil Is Real” begs the question: “How Real Is Israel?” Answer: “Real, Real, Gone”
“Some people say
You can make it on your own
Oh you can make it if you try
I know better now
You can’t stand up alone
Oh baby that is why
I’m real, real gone”
Van Morrison – “Enlightenment” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwXK2KlMWj0
I call them Catholics. And for solid reason. The doctrine of Discovery and the Papal bulls paved the way for this type of nation building. They are the pioneers of religious occupation in the modern age. They incorporated the text and sold it as Hebrew history. They simultaneously teach suffering and forgiveness as the road to ‘heaven’. Without this doctrine and established process or precedent, the move by Britain would not have been possible. The architects pretend to not be responsible for how the building looks after it looks bad. The Vatican is the parent, architect and enabler supreme in all of this. And what sends it over the edge, is that they know the book is not theirs, and they practice all the things they tell their followers not to. Our constitution still relies on the doctrine of discovery in the USSC. If the US goes against it, then they invalidate their own claims.
The protestants don’t like to be called Catholic, but they have no other book. The buck stops at the book. If we subtract that one book from our set of data, is Israel our friend ? It is the original con, and the most difficult because it is subtle hypnotic by design. Not intentionally, but because the structure of it was designed from naturally existing patterns, and converted to written form. It is the responsible thing to do to make sure that fraud is not perpetrated upon the townsfolk. Any decent sheriff would agree. Historical correction is not revision. It is responsible.
btw,.. out today. Michael Wolff. omg
We live in an insane world today where up is down, down is up, right is wrong and wrong is right, good is bad and bad is good, …and Israel is above all other countries on the planet and is to be worshiped. The two world liars and psychopaths are Donald J. Trump and his counterpart in England named May a female liar and psychopath like Trump. All this proves the dictum that the longer one tolerates a bully like Israel the worse it gets. The basic problem is Israel has so much money to buy votes and friendship, and failing that, move on to plan B to get their selfish evil selfish goals served. Observe the deafening silence of those in our military from the cowardly four star generals on down. These crooks talk about not carrying out illegal orders but how about all the illegal orders they comply with every day at the bidding of unindicted war criminal Israel? These jerks are nothing but gutless cowards aiding and abetting all the crimes Stuart has so eloquently described above and elsewhere. Only military armed force by all nations against thugs Israel and the U.S. can end this world insanity. The longer one waits the worse it will be to stop, but stop it must. End it must and end it will one way or another and it won’t be pretty to teach lying bullies and thugs a lesson in manners not to steal thy neighbor’s lands. The inmates have clearly taken over the asylum in the world today. Golden Rule:
“Do Unto Others as You Would Have them Do Unto You”
Despite the mountain of evidence that Israel also did 9/11 the fools in America behave like they have no functioning brains:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it
Quote:
• “Larry Silverstein – is a Jewish American businessman from New York. Silverstein obtained a 99 year lease on the entire world trade center complex on 24 July, 2001. [3] The towers were in fact close to worthless, being filled with asbestos, [4] yet Silverstein “felt a compelling urge to own them”. Silverstein had breakfast in “Windows on the World” restaurant (located in North Tower 107th Floor) every morning. [5] but broke this routine on the morning of 11 September 2001. Silverstein’s two children, who also worked in the WTC, were also absent from work that day. Larry Silverstein was paid a little over $4.5 Billion in insurance money as a result of the destruction of the WTC complex. [6] Silverstein was on personal friendship terms with Zionist media-magnate Rupert Murdoch, former Israeli president Ariel Sharon, as well as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Silverstein was such good friends with Netanyahu that, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz he would speak with him on the phone every sunday. [7]
• Video – Where was Larry Silverstein on 9/11?”
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