INTIFADA

“Shaking off” is the literal translation of “intifada.”

US Cutting Gaza Lifeline - By Ann Wright

The Israeli Occupation of America: How Israel Gained Control of American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion - By: Hesham Tillawi

Israel: Women’s Group Tells Livni to Turn Herself In

Goldstone Report

Why The Goldstone Report Matters - By: Richard Falk

Desperate Fanatics: The ADL pounds the Table - By Dr. Alan Sabrosky

How Israel Wages Game Theory Warfare - By: Jeff Gates

AIPAC Sends in the Clowns! - By Franklin Lamb

Zionism’s Jewish Enemy - By: Alan Hart

How the Israel Lobby Took Control of U.S. Foreign Policy - By: Jeff Gates

How Zionist Lobby Stooges in Congress Brought Shame to their Institution - By: Alan Hart

Israel’s Fifth Column: The People in Between - By: Jeff Gates

Can Obama escape the dominating influence of AIPAC and the American Jewish/Zionist Lobby? - By: Debbie Menon

Anti-Zionists: The New Heretics - By: Jeff Gates

We Will Not Go Down - Michael Heart Music Video

Prominent Canadians speak out against Zionism

Baroness Tonge: “Israel stands accused of war crimes witnessed by the whole world”

Eye witness reports from Gaza video free Gaza news

Adam Shapiro speaks about Gaza's suffering from Israel

If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing! Video was censored!

Israeli Confessions – The Founding Fathers and Mother of Israel

Israel killed John Kennedy- JFK??.

Boycotting Israel

Alan Hart's title, with the same words ("...a monster beyond control." in the text, is close, but not adequate. I repeat the plea made numerous times by me over the past six months or so in every venue available to me: Zionist Israel is a PSYCHOTIC monster beyond control and must be recognized and outed as such. A "monster" can be confronted, cornered, and brought under control with some equivalence of countering action. However, a "psychotic monster" -- a monster immersed in psychosis -- must be dealt with in much starker and firmer terms. Sane people and institutions must First, recognize the disease; Second, agree that the disease, unless treated, will only worsen; Third, disallow any of the typical manifestations of psychosis, e.g., manipulation, disproportionate violence, denial, transference; Fourth, confront the psychotic with the diagnosis; Fifth, take measures to assure safety of the target of the psychotic; Sixth, apply therapeutic measures to treat the psychosis, including disarming the psychotic to prevent injury to itself or others, offering counseling, etc.; Seventh, carefully monitor the response of the psychotic to the various therapeutic measures, adjusting as necessary; Eighth, very carefully return the psychotic to society, always mindful that the psychosis must not be allowed to recur; etc.

The above is the itemization of a non-professional, but I hope readers get the concept and its fuller context. Zionist Israel, and Zionism, must be saved from themselves -- not coddled, not enabled, not avoided with shame-faced complicit silence, not accepted based on biblical myths inapplicable to a modern, complex world where to consider oneself to be "chosen" and "not subject to the norms of human law" are in and of themselves fraught with signs of abnormality: No, this psychosis must be confronted and treated resolutely and urgently.

As I consider this psychosis in our midst, Zionist Israel's primary symptoms are shown, and acted out, in periodic outbursts of violence. The underlying psychosis simmers, builds, and breaks out in horrific violence until it is temporarily sated, and the cycle repeats...because the disease is not treated! I could go deeper into recent history, but I became convinced of this diagnosis by the events of 2006 Lebanon and then 2008-9 Gaza. Has anyone not noticed that the signals of the next eruption of this psychosis are before us, and that the intervals seem to be shortening with each eruption? -- I've read, just within the past few days, of leaflets being dropped onto the immiserated populace of Gaza, warning the collective prisoners of the next phase of "security" measures to be applied by Zionist Israel; five or six Fatah members have been murdered in the illegally Occupied West Bank on a pretext and very probably as a diversionary tactic; two (more?) Hamas members have been bombed and murdered in Lebanon (must one speculate as to who is the perpetrator and for what reason[s}?) as a provocation inviting a response in order to constitute "justification," and "defensive" action, in the mind of the psychotic.

We need to get our arms around this "PSYCHOTIC monster beyond control" and enwrap it in a straitjacket. I call upon -- I beg -- Alan Hart and other prominent commentators to bring serious and unrelenting attention to the diagnosis and the absolute necessity of treating the afliction. Time is of the essence -- most critically for the Palestinians, but also for all of us.

Robert H. Stiver

I find these statements made by the Zionist scum to be very offensive yet the average person on the street cannot or refuse to see how this cancer is eating away the rights of every person on this planet

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It is unfortunate that Americans are being used to advance the Zionist agenda. The people of Palestine have my sympathy and are in my prayers and I inform people almost everyday about the atrocities perpetrated against them on a daily basis.

They, the Zionist, control the American Government, the media, and the dumb down public! But their days of control are coming to an end as more and more people are becoming educated on the crimes committed against the world.

Thanks for the information you provide. I will pass this on and save this site as a favorite.

1776blues

*Goldstone called the allegation that the report encourages terror and negates Israel’s right to self-defense “quite untrue and a fallacious attempt to win opposition to what is contained in the report*. I agree with his opinion most of the actions of Israel are directed on self-defence instead of on attacks

ilona

Give me a break.. it's bad enough we are involved in this travesty with supplying israel weapons AND money.. now we are going as far to sell them a bill of goods.. the word impenetrable means basically "no way to penetrate" and as seeing that all metals have a molecular weak point inherent within it's design because of the materials in question (this case being steel which is nothing more then a high level of iron with a ratio of carbon) would mean its a "lie"...

Clay, powdered and or ground magnesium in the right quantities would make short work of the metal itself.. seems to me they are not telling you something, the way they are throwing around the word as having any real value, would mean that the misrepresentation of what "type" of metal used is in order to skew the understanding that "steel alloy" is used (probably laminated steel alloy containing an amount of nickel to raise the temperature level to a higher grade before it reaches melting point) which is a moot point as magnesium mixed with aluminum and a few other ingredients when put into a medium (such as clay) can be a weak form of thermate (or thermite can be used instead are as well)

Guess What I am trying to say here is that this is first of all "A TRAVESTY" that we support such actions and will go as far as to give israel money and supplies in armaments as well as food, then to add this to the list of traitorous actions to the American People, is beyond reproach as those responsible should be tried for treason and for war crimes to another countries people for the sake of israel's desires

James

I fear that the Zionists will succeed in genocide-ing the entire Palestinian population. It IS what they are good at. Murder, mass murder, deception, then even more bloody savage, blood thirsty murder. Sixty years of history shows that plainly. To all but the purposefully ignorant.

josef

A trillion thanks Ms. Ann for posting this article. Indeed, if the young men of Gaza were without imagination the people would have died of starvation or given up to their criminal enemies. Wish there were many Americans like you, yet I do not lose hope: The American people will wake up one day and revolt against the submission of his administrations to the Zionist Lobby and Entity. God bless you

Arab

Thanks, Ann, fellow Code Pinkers, and others who will be supporting the people of Gaza. In America millions will join in soldarity with the Gaza Freedom March on Dec. 31st. Millions are appalled and ashamed at the apparent betrayal by Obama on human decency and human rights. In the eyes of the world, Israel and US policies lack integrity and honor. So what else is new??? We continue to seek Peace & Justice

Patricia Blair

James, I take exception with your comments, “Intel is investing in Israel because we are smart people” etc. Radical Zionism is ruining Judism! How can you be so blind and dumb!?????

Patricia Blair

I submit that it is major and welcome news to learn in today's Guardian that official British Foreign Office policy is to make Supermarkets and others be precise in their labelling of goods i.e West Bank Palestinian goods or Israeli goods.

It would seem that a big push is needed to bring a massive boycott against Israel Who will lead ?

PSC, Jews For Justice, American Groups etc Why not combine resources and push for the boycott together in one massive effort as many did against South African goods in the past? The European Union gives both Palestine and Israel preferential tariffs.

Why include Israel, the only country in the world to consistently ignore international law ? Sports boycott ?

Israel chooses and is allowed to play in the European and Champions Leagues... Why ?

An Israeli plays for Liverpool FC and another manages a Premier League club Daniel Barenboim said a long time ago that Israelis have never looked to the East but always to the West for support and cultural indentification.

I am absorbed at the moment with Shlomo Sand's book The Invention of The Jewish People Read it please I beg. Bitter Fruit Of Palestine has had 538 hits on YouTube excerpts and 56 full views on Vimeo When I lecture I have a mantra If You Only Reach One....

Love to all who reach out to and do something about appalling injustices to Palestinians.

Richard Morris

WOW!!!!

I'm sure glad you did not include Marx and Spencer, and marcus and Neiman, two my favorite retail shopping outlets.

Now I can continue my christmas shopping in good faith, without the question of whether the profits of my shopping are going to kill anymore of my Islamic brethren in Palestine.

As for the Business outlets mentioned, I have never heard of most of them, but I will surely stay away from their stores, murderers. but, Marx and Spencer would have been a loss to my shopping plans.

Earlaiman, relieved....

you stupid idiots

Intel is investing in Israel because we are smart people.

when it comes to apartheid you are full of shit because the entire muslim world is washing their hands off from the Palestinians. rulers in Jordan and Egypt executed thousands of you and Israel is letting you exist as long as you are willing to co exist. which obviously many of you are not. your lives under the rule of Hamas has only become worse, trouble is you are too dumb and hateful to figure it out.

James

I urge you all to watch Avi Shlaim and Shlomo Sands on Verso books site in conversation with Jacqeline Rose

They articulate the argument and tensions inherent in the conflict with wit, honesty and passion

I will order both their new books The invention of Israel and Israel Palestine

I have just read Jeff Goldberg's book Prisoners a searingly honest and courageous attempt to get to grips with hatred, murder and ideological differences Also asamll and moving novella by S Yizhar Khirbet Khizeh

More excerpts forthcoming of Bitter Fruit of Palestine on Youtube

Richard Morris

Any criticism against Israel's bullying of the Palestinians, or any other legitimate inquiry concerning its aggresive behaviors toward its neighbors, is ignored by our local newspaper.

I have written letters expressing my feelings about Israel's policies as well as pointing out that "as our closest ally" I can find no statistical evidence that Israel has supported us with manpower (fighting men and women) in our war with Iraq or Afghanistan.

If Israel decides, on her own, to attack Iraq I wonder whether the US will be asked to furnish young lives to clean up after them (if it doesn't bring on WWIII).

Gene Johnson

Each persons peace is as important as my peace. May all beings in the world experience peace, harmony, laughter, and love. May all beings be fed, be sheltered, be loved, be at peace. Today I can only hold these thoughts, this prayer.

Patricia Blair

Why do other countries not use the General Assembly's "Uniting for Peace" approach to to circumvent the US veto on behalf of Israel in the Security Council and take action in Palestine ?

A total embargo on Israel itself, and then on any countries that trade with Israel. No sacrifice of US troops on behalf of Israel needed just no trade with Israel.

It could work...as these writers suggest...

Want to End the Violence in Gaza? Boycott Israel.

By Naomi Klein

Hit them in their pocket books!

For Boycott to Be Effective, an International Coalition Is Indispensable. By Ramzy Baroud

It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody and merciless occupation of Palestinian lands is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa."

Did you know ? In the USA, it's illegal to boycott Israel. See the following government website: http://www.bis.doc.gov/ complianc...tcompliance.htm

The law prohibits anyone in government from informing you of the ownership and organization of Israeli companies and products. How can you ensure that you are in compliance with this law if the Bureau of Commerce will not send you a list of which companies and products you deal with are Israeli, so that you can make sure you are in compliance?

Government of the people, by the people, and for the people (the Israeli business people).

An equity in Law observation:

I wonder what would happen if you went down to the KLCC and sat in front of the Marx & Spencer Emporium with your little Boycott Israel sign?

-Debbie Menon -

Hi Dad. First of all, good to see you and I'm very glad that you finally finished your book and published. I tell you, you're a man built for research.

You have and share much information, thanks.

May God satisfy your life, dreams and all that your hands find to do in Christ Jesus.

Love you, Minister R. Corder

Dear Bishop Corder

May peace be with you. Congratulation on publishing once again. I am looking forward to digesting your research, especially since it deals with a subject grounded in Biblical Literature and the foundation of Middle East Crisis. God bless and keep you.

NS

The very fact that any of this is being discussed is the ONLY intent behind the Daily Show. They have said, time and time again, if you are getting all of your news and opinions from their show, then you are NOT doing what it takes to be a well informed person.

It is a COMEDY show, and as a loyal follower I agree that Jon’s facts aren’t always straight when he’s interviewing (which is unscripted, I’ve been on the show… he shouldn’t have said Iran is building nukes as there is no evidence for that, but it’s his show and his opinion) but at least he IS giving voice to the people making an effort towards peace and understanding.

There is one thing that the Daily Show is totally against, and that’s an agenda. They see the comedy in this tragic world, and let us feel RELIEF at the ridiculous nature of social human interaction. Get your news from NPR, get your relief from the daily show!

C Mad

I worked for Jon Stewart Leibowitz's management company (the people who managed his career) in Tel Aviv on the Pacific, i.e., Hollywood.

No matter how honest or good a man Stewart is personally, he will always be a yeshiva (Hebrew school) kid, and IMO will always be an Israel-firster. His remarks on Iran have shown as much.

It's a shame because I do think that Stewart is a good man and his writing team should have all the facts but are choosing to distort them. I would venture to guess that a sizable number of them are American Jews too, so are reflexively paranoid.

The biggest shame will be when Israel launches a false flag operation, gets it blamed on Iran, and millions of American kids, including ones who worship Stewart, get drafted.

Jane

Considering that Jon Stewart is a New York Jew he does remarkably well, obviously there are biases and errors but I think he is a decent person who's abhorred by all violence and injustice. Can you imagine how much bull he has been exposed too?

Perhaps he should know better about the USA's involvement in the worlds problems, and probably does, but as pointed out - you won't see any of that on the prime-time, Arms company owned, mass-media.

Gripper

The people that watch Stewart or Olbermann are seriously misguided. These shows are specifically designed to tame your anger. You watch, vent along with the host and then your put your rage back to sleep again. That’s why they’re allowed. The media masters know the value of a show like this to soothe the savage beasts. Skip it! Stewart is laughing at you, not with you!

Vox

perhaps it is time to huddle together in prayer for a just future - where the continuing war on terror and freedom will have even half the chance of success the war on drugs and freedom has had. The 911 incident pretty was solved very early - ties to Al Q and Iran/Iraq and perhaps even Pakistan and N Korea. Those facts are not in question in the media because they have been answered.

Time to put aside the discrepancies and details of something fading into the dust bins of history.

Power to the Correct People

Lokis

You'd have to be stupid to think that the media/elite would put anything on TV that could change the status quo.

Helen Hall

Thank you very much, President Jimmy Carter, for your caring and thoughtful words. Coming as they do from a Nobel Peace Laureate and a noble voice for peace, they do carry weight. I hope President Obama would read this article and take necessary action.

I have been wondering also since the arrival of fall here in New Jersey, and the nights have been getting colder by each passing day, how the destitute and ill-equipped people of Gaza will survive the bitter cold winter of Gaza. I shiver even in my sheltered home, and I wonder how will the Gazans survive in drafty, leaking tents that provide so little shelter? None of the houses bombed by Israel in Gaza has been rebuilt because of Israel’s embargo of building materials. I have not heard Obama talk about Israel’s embargo of even basic materials necessary for survival, and I now wonder whether your judicious words will fall on this new Nobel Peace Laureate’s deaf ears? From what I have observed, it seems to me that Obama’s ears are quite open to Netanyahu’s arrogant words, but they are shut to the cries of the Palestinians’ suffering children.

In an excellent article by a young journalist named Aditya Ganapathiraju, I came across a list of articles barred by Israel from entering Gaza: “Even today, the most basic commodities for life still continue to be barred by the Israeli government. Materials like wood for doors or cement for rebuilding in the aftermath of the destruction left by the last attack remained barred. No electrical appliances, like refrigerators or washing machines, and no parts for cars are allowed. Also restricted are “fabrics, threads, needles, candles, matches, mattresses, sheets, blankets, cutlery, crockery, cups, glasses, musical instruments, books, tea, coffee, sausages, semolina, chocolate, sesame seeds, nuts, milk products in large packages, most baking products, light bulbs, crayons, clothing and shoes. School supplies too, are blocked from entering. More than 100 trucks full of stationary are still awaiting clearance to enter Gaza. All of the 387 government-run and 33 private schools, which serve more than 250,000 students, lack essential supplies. Draconian restrictions on glass, wood, and other building materials, has kept the hundreds of schools damaged during the assault remaining in terrible condition. When an occupying army blocks tea, blankets, crayons, and school stationary from entering the “largest prison on Earth,” severely restricts essentials like fuel and medicine, makes travel in and out all but impossible, and exercises complete control over its borders, airspace, and seas, the pretense of “security” seems dubious at best, and suggests that turning Gazans into beggars and Gaza into a “depoliticized humanitarian catastrophe” is precisely the plan.”

I can not adequately express my sense of frustration, sadness, bewilderment and shock when I think of the profound silence and seeming indifference of the White House to the plight of the Gazans, and especially to the plight of Gaza’s children.

Thank you very much, President Jimmy Carter, for expressing your thoughts.

No matter how honest or good a man Stewart is personally, he will always be a yeshiva (Hebrew school) kid, and IMO will always be an Israel-firster. His remarks on Iran have shown as much.

It's a shame because I do think that Stewart is a good man and his writing team should have all the facts but are choosing to distort them. I would venture to guess that a sizable number of them are American Jews too, so are reflexively paranoid.

The biggest shame will be when Israel launches a false flag operation, gets it blamed on Iran, and millions of American kids, including ones who worship Stewart, get drafted.

Jane

It has long been acknowledged that "Bullshit baffles Brains"... and few of us have ever questioned it because it is so "apparently" so.

But, it is only "apparently" so because of that very fact, that few of us have ever questionsed it!

Let us prove that the old axiom, as useful as it is to explain "why?", is itself composed of 99% pure unadulterated, un-sweetened, all-natural, real, rich and direct from the healthiest of bulls, Bullshit!

Quantity is the key! Bullshit works only when it is lathered on over reason in excessive and order-of-magnitude qy uantities d sufficient to smothr, drown, and gag reason, fact and Truth!

The Zionist machine and its supporters throughout the world, and especially in the US, the ADL, AIPAC, and other parasitical groups, all organized and operating operating under the umbrella of Mossad and Israeli Information agencies, are ORGANIZED and when the red flag is waved the bullshit flows like a majestic river of shit, directly where it is aimed, until it overwhelms the offices and agancies against whom it is directed.

Let us show the world that reason and right can stand upagainst this tsunami of barnyard effluent and survive.

Write, call, email, telegraph, telephone, shout, spread the word, organize your family and friends, get the message to the proper folks as asked above, that "there are more of us who care about what is happening in the world than there are those who are destroying it, and we want to hear more from you in the same vein as we just heard, on the Jon Stewart show... more interviews and opinons of the Baltzer-Barghouti kind!

The power of influence in the public media industry is neither bullshit nor brains, it is BRAWN!

Get with it! All together now.... HEAVE!

Earlaiman

Israel has built a house of cards on a foundation of sand when considering the Washington adage” If you want a friend in politics, you better get a dog.” Their illusion of peace and safety is of course first recognized as the Achilles heel of their hush money strength, so liberally spread about in their political necessities. The $1.9 trillion injection of government money by the U.S. has provided banking monies at zero cost but allow these banks to purchase government securities at 3% to 4% and without the normal risk of the open market. This is a prescription for economic disaster and trembling throughout Israel and the governments they puppeteer, when these dollars are dumped upon the economy after the interests payment cease.

Leaders of the major industrial powers, the G-7 turned oversight of the world economy to a more inclusive group (G-20); herald a shift in the world economic power and political centers. Challenging pre-eminence of international financial fiats of the U.S. funny monies the lobbyists place their confidence in for national security. The Israeli government will realize their arms are too short to box with God; as the world of these oppressors is soon to implode.

Don Corder

Although I am no lawyer or legal scholar, it has long been my understanding that US citizens and private agencies (NGOs) are prohibited from engaging in private or personal diplomatic relations or consultation with foreign governments and agencies. Or, those who do must register as foreign agents.

Is there no enforcement of laws in this case, or is this simply another example, as is dual citizenship, of "special exemptions" from the law?

It's been seventy years since I studied "Civics" in High School, but back then we were taught that US Law, under the US Constitution was equitably applied to all without exemption, distinction or discrimination.

Has anything changed since then? Or was this all part of the nourishing myth of "Freedom, Democracy, and Equality under Law which we were fed to fatten us for the wars we were to be sent off to kill and die in?

Jeff Gates has already pointed out that modern wars are fought with words as well as weapons, and the reckless and indiscriminate use of debasing and insulting epithets to discredit critics of political and ethnic groups which Zionists attempt to lump together under the protection of a "religious" umbrella should not be unexpected.

Any nation or people who would deliberately bomb schools and hospitals, targeting innocent civilians, women and children, are no more than barbarians of the lowest, most beastly and ungodly degree and we should not expect them to be any more careful and cautious with the way they use words, or the comfortable ease with which they seek sanctuary for gangsters and murderers behind the stolen veil of a Religion they have hijacked along the way as just another weapon in their armoury.

Earlaiman

However hard "we" try to highlight, publicise, or draw the attention of the public to the perfidy of the Zionists, progress is painfully slow.

Jeff Gates' book Guilt By Association is still resonating in my mind as is Trita Parsi's The Treacherous Alliance.

Let's put it on paper plainly with reference to the latest paranoia against Iran's nuclear ambitions led by the USA and Israel

One. lsrael has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

Two. Israel has had nuclear weapons for over thirty years which it denies, despite the evidence.

Three. This September Israel refused a request from the IEA to open its nuclear plants to inspection. Should Israel carry out its threats to attack Iran it would be a violation of the the UN charter.

As others have argued it is not Iran's nuclear activities that Israel fears ( read Trita Parsi and Jeff Gates on this subject) but a threat to its own domination of weapons of mass destruction.

Richard Morris>

Friend, I think you are missing the point. The reason that America supports Israel is two-fold

1.) Antisemitism - No leader wants that words used in connection with their name. They know that once it is out there, there is nothing you can do to defend against it.

2.) A very flawed view of Christian Eschatology. For a century, American theologians have insisted that Israel's return as a national figure was a key to Christ returning. Considering the weight of the ADL and the Christian Zionist movement, it is impossible to be elected if you stand against them.

Some of us Christians, however, do try to bring attention to the gross injustice which Israel is bringing upon the Palestinian people.

Joel

Response to Joel:

Friend, the entire term "anti-Semite has taken on a meaning absolutely unrelated to Semites, Semitism, and one's attitude toward them, and has been given new and inappropriate meaning as a term of opprobrium to be applied to any critics of Jews, Judaism, Israel, Zion or Zionism, all of which have very little to do with Semites and Semitism, but if that is the definition which they wish to apply the the terms, and those are the definitions of the terms which the general English speaking public chose to accept, then I think we should all adapt to, accept and be happy with being castigated as "Anti-Semites."'

Frankly, under the new and Jewish, Zionist, Israeli assigned definitions of the term, I am anti-Zionist, and if they choose to interpret that to mean I am anti-Semite then I am also a proud "Anti-Semite" by their definition, although I have no problem with true Semites, or Semitic people and in fact, love and side with them in their battle with Zionism.

If I have accomplished nothing at all in these years of throwing words at Zionists who redefine English to suit their own ends, and damn all else.

I accept the label "anti-Semite" as a badge of honor and recognition of my service in the pursuit of the benefit of mankind.

Debbie Menon - Enemy of Zion and Zionism, and anyone else who abuses and misuses the language to falsely vilify so many people who criticize their crimes against humanity.

- Debbie Menon -

While viewing the tides of opposition to America’s healthcare debate it becomes clear to me that the will of the people does not typically prevail in the corridors of government and industry. Lives of the constituents American politicians were elected to protect and serve are all too often set aside for political expediencies. Clarity for understanding the immoral soul of the U.S. government bidding to abandon rule of law in the face of the Gaza carnage and America’s UN initiative against the Goldstone Report then finds a reasonable framework. A nation hesitant to save the lives of its own people should be expected to justify turning their faces from moral truths and lifting its voice in opposition to Muslim’s becoming congressional aides. Hence, resorting to the call of higher laws and couching in there spirits provides refuge with knowledge, “The guilty shall in no wise escape.” Goldstone Report echoes and reverberates throughout the structures and horns of AIPAC powers and their political cronies.

These have sown horror unimaginable to me as the world now stands in witness. Fear of these perpetrators should not be singled on public relations misgivings but in finding fear of the God they purport serving.

Don Corder

Dear Prof. Falk,

Ever since the 1960's I have been a fan of yours on the Indochinese Wars. I taught comtempory diplomatic history from 1961-to 2001. I'm glad you have spoken up against the Netenyahu government in Israel and the violations of international law by the Israeli government. It is time for the Obama administration to apply financial pressure on Tel Aviv.

Robert Whealey

Many members of the U.S. Congress have sold their votes to AIPAC for Israel. Consequently, the U.S. will subsidize the decimation of the Palestinians and the cruelty of Israel until some one else buys them for Palestine. Words of the U.S. are empty. The deeds of Israel tell all.

Cathy Regan

It is high time that US Government took a step to declare openly that no country in the middle east should be allowed to possess nuclear weapons and the speedy disarmament of its nuclear arsenals and monitored by the Nuclear body IAEA.

This is imperative if we are to see that India,Pakistan,North Korea and then may be Iran can follow suit.

As long as Israel can have them and not be forced by its father the US then how can we be playing fare if they were allowed to possess the weapons.

jalalkhan

Can the arts move enough people emotionally and politically to make a difference ?

At perfomances of my monologue Bitter Fruit of Palestine many members of the audience confess their ignorance of the background and ongoing humiliation of the Palestinian people. Ilan Pappe has written incisively of the ethnic cleansing carried out by Ben Gurion and his cohorts.

Palestinian Walks by Rajah Shehadeh is a moving, beautifully written book that encapsulates the sense of dispossession endured by Palestinians. Hollow Land by Eyal Weizman underlines Shehadeh's and the Palestinian's sense of alienation.

Nahum Goldman. President of the World Jewish Congress wrote " The things that are being done in my name and yours...we will never be able to escape the responsibility and to say we did not know and we did not hear".

Yasser Arafat mourned Goldman's death "Truly a Jew without borders, a staesman of a unique personality

He fought for justice and legitimate rights for all people"

Why do so many people stay silent on the continual stealing of Palestinain land ?

What is Blair doing in his luxurious hotel suite in Jersualem (when he's there)?

Rhetorical questions I know but relevant I think to the burning issues of the Middle East "Who says it's the Middle East ?

It's like democracy... wherever politicians say it is"

Richard Morris

I congratulate you on this article and thank you for exposing Israeli-US relationship, which I think is the biggest hypocricy people have expected from United States of America.

This collaboration in fact can easily be described as a genocide of Arab Moslems in open yet the so-called civilized world whose mouths utter “freedom, liberty and equality” whenever they open.

This a shame on this nation.

Silkworm

This is the Jeff Gates I've come to expect. A great commentary. We -- Americans, especially the Palestinians, the world -- are in big trouble. To me, the two most significant sentences from this tour de force are --

"The greatest threat to world peace is not terrorists. The greatest threat is the U.S.-Israeli relationship."

Amen. Presidents Washington and Jefferson warned us about entangling foreign alliances and passionate attachments to foreign powers. I can't imagine that even they envisioned the depth of danger involved in our disastrous dalliance with Zionist Israel.

Robert H. Stiver

Thank you for Jeff Gates article. It is my impression that Obama with his first selections of personnel for close advisors, he has shown his position. There will unfortunately be no change with Israel.

The voting public are still in shock in America. A lot in denial. Obama and the Democratic Party have deceived them. It would have been no different if Hillary Clinton had been elected. She and Bill sold their souls long ago.

For the most part the American media is trash! Captialism is about exploiting the weaker for profit thus destroying Democracy!

The American people are going to have to turn off the football games, Fox News, CNN, etc. and turn a critical eye to their government, State and Federal. Blogs such as this are important.

Thank you very much.

Patricia Blair

Karin Friedmans' article is incisive in it's analysis. Her assessment of the criminal Zionist-Imperial design is an affirmation & will be supported by an overwhelming majority of the American people, who are suffering under the Zionist occupation of their country.

Feroze Mithiborwala

Zionist Israel is a criminally psychotic rogue "poison in the Middle East" which needs to be brought to heel. Starting by forcing it to comply with international law would be good. Cutting off all public (my tax $s!) and private largesse to it would be a next logical step toward requiring it to recognize its psychosis, face it square on, and seek therapeutic treatment....

The lesson learned for patriotic Americans concerned about core national-security interests? -- abide by Presidents Washington and Jefferson's advice to avoid entangling foreign alliances and passionate attachments to a foreign country.

May the brave, tormented Palestinians survive their endless ordeal.

Robert H. Stiver

Very good, the story of the USS Liberty needs to be spread far and wide. It has been suppressed by the US Gov't for 40 years. I correspond with one of the survivors on a semi-regular basis, and what happened to them is high crime by a complicit gov't. Israel is NOT a friend of the US.

More (Americans) need to be aware of the stranglehold that Israel and the Zionists of AIPAC have on our foreign policy. They are literally sucking the life out of this country and the rest of the world.

Thank you for keeping this story alive. We owe it to the 34 who perished, and the survivors who took care of them, and the wounded.

kstewskis

How appropriate that Israel would use a theory developed and lauded by a schizophrenic. Of course, he had the sense to turn his back on it after a few years of therapy in the "puzzle factory".

It's also fitting that the theory is based on Machiavellian self interest and irrational paranoia despite its pretense of "assuming rationality". Zionists see imagined threats everywhere, even when they're the biggest one in the area (to themselves and others) and have built an entire ideology (and government) on the premise of "looking out for #1. Seems rather self fulfilling.

I just watched "The Trap" in case that wasn't obvious already. Nice article.

the Pair

Though I agree with the concepts behind the article, the idea that Israel or any nation for that fact can use game-theory to promote self-serving events and situations is a little over the top no matter how well rationalized.

Game theory, like any other such theory requires a set of variables, to provide a conclusion within a realm of possibility denoted by a percentage. For example the, most common of such logic examples is the prediction of the weather based on daily weather attributes. Thus if day 5 exhibits the same attributes as the previous 4 days, the weather will be conceivably the same as the previous 4 days.

Though the resulting percentage of probability will be high there is no guarantee that the weather will behave exactly as expected.

The same conditions hold true for game theory calculations by the Israelis. By the time they enter the desired variables and conclude a result, most if not all of the variables could have changed and it would only take a minor alteration to knock the entire process out sync.

Israeli history up until current times is filled with incompetence decision making, poor judgments, and failed endeavors... just like any other country for the simple fact that Israel, like every other country on the face of the planet is comprised of Earth's lowest life form... the Human Being...

Steve Naidamast

Thanks for that comment. The criticism makes the case. As you point out, it is by managing variables that the probabilistic nature of game theory warfare progresses successfully -- in plain sight yet non-transparently and, to date, with legal impunity despite its treasonous nature.

Variables are managed with lengthy pre-staging and sophisticated orchestration. To limit the variables, game theory warfare relies not only on agents but also "assets" and an extensive nationwide corps of sayanim (volunteers) as described in "How Israel Wages War in Plain Sight" (include link).

Israel's corruption of the U.S. political process further limits key variables. In practical effect, the Israel Lobby gradually displaced place-based representative government (where elections are based on districts and states) with a Diaspora-based "dollar democracy" that enabled nationwide pro-Israeli fundraising to focus on key races. See "How the Israel Lobby Influences U.S. Foreign Policy." (include link). With the aid of McCain-Feingold campaign finance "reform," Tel Aviv was able to limit key political variables, further enabling game theory warfare to proceed.

Step-by-step, this "asset-ification" process built support for Israeli operations by a series of compromised Congresses and presidencies—regardless of party. As an informed public grasps the key role that assets play in game theory warfare, the personal criminality liability of those assets will come sharply into focus. For good reason, treason has long been classified as a capital crime.

Jeff

Not a bad try Jeff, but it really looks like another Game Theory to (albeit gradually) whitewash Israel’s heinous behavior.

Israel’s behavior is not “often immoral and unjust”, it is almost always so. Also, it is never rational because their supremacist attitude has been Game Theory’d for millennia by irrational rabbis blowing the synonyms of “chosen’ completely out of sense, proportion and rationality, to the extent that we are now observing a zombie nation running amok.

Marijonas Vilkelis

Iyt is interesting that advanced Game Theory was developed by John Nash and he won the Nobel Prize for it. He assumed rational human behavior…he has since renounced his own theory because humans do not act in a rational manner.

This leads to Nicholas Taleb…who wrote in Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan that all of these models break down eventually. Israel’s models are broken. They are losing the ultimate game as less and less Jews define themselves as Zionists.

Jaffer

Dear Sir

your theory is probably correct.

But I know for a fact that almost all countries have very similar groups who provide the predictions that guide the ruling class

It starts with priests who base their predictions on stars and signs in the beginning followed by military advisors who predict victory based on weapons and scientific strategies and finally by economic analysts based on charts and mathematical equations. We have had this in our tradition more than 2500 years ago and we have books on them.

But finally they all destroy themselves simply because of the natural growth of human spirit to survive.

If Palestinians are suffering today, it is because they are thinking rationally and feel the best way to survive is to accept the Israel torture. Not that they cannot fight against Israel. But survival is ensured by obedience. Some young blood would like to fight and die. So be it.

The black Africans accepted the power of White colonialist and suffered much. But their children gained access to America and millions today are benefiting the fruits of that suffering. The Blacks never build ships to conquer other lands. But they are everywhere in American continent.

Game Theories used by Israel are almost as good as the priest in India who predicts your future based on lines in your hands. As Mr Mathews above have pointed out Israel is not really gaining anything. They are clearly moving towards their inevitable collapse. All the walls they are building will soon (maybe not so soon) will end up another wailing wall.

Great Valluvar said 2500 years ago

“Avoid offering resistance to the strong and never seek enmity with the weak”

Vikin

Just curious, from where does Israel buy its oil?

Helmholtz

You discredit your argument by implying that arabs were spurred on by israeli game theory to blow up the World Trade Centers on 9-11.

There was a far less subtle “game” at play here. They did it DIRECTLY!. Of course they had help from their US opperation-the CIA. It is a proven FACT a hundred times over that 9-11 was an inside job. DUH!

I am sure you are correct in your assessment, but it is far worse than that.

Fred Shute

Sadly, they do not yet know that at the deeper quantum mechanics level, in games based on quantum rules, competition and conflict don't work out in the end, while cooperation leads to mutual accumulation.

To quote Ball, "quantum mechanics can dissolve deadlocks that, according to classical logic, appear insuperable." from www.nature.com/nsu/991021/991021-3.html

Sophia Hughes

The Israelis have the appearance of being good gamers. True, but I'll hold judgment on whether in fact it is true. Looking in the long term, Israel seems to be losing--big time. High risk gaming portends huge losses and Israel is flirting with dissolution.

Matthew

This is a surpassingly good commentary -- as is the whole of Mr. Gates' book "Guilt By Association." I make one observation regarding the above statement "Israeli behavior is often immoral and unjust but that does not mean it is irrational." While agreeing with it, I believe that it must be expanded: "rational" behavior can be found within a system of collective psychosis.

Zionist Israel is mired in a criminal psychosis...and the psychotic is in charge of the (global) asylum. This psychotic manipulates, lies, creates diversions, plots, plans, is endlessly enabled, explodes periodically in psychotic rage -- always in furtherance of its objectives of dominance and hegemony.

Zionism is off the rails of sanity, and the sooner the world recognizes and acts upon its psychosis, the better for the Palestinians and for all of us.

Robert H. Stiver

then the quantum mechanic leads us to one. the one accumulates love. life can go on.

we're only here waiting with you. you see you are also played in your game.<e

Steve

Well, Congress and Senate Openly solicit to sell their votes (israel buys them all), whats new? When the degradation is this deep and open it is a matter of short time till descent into destructo mode.

The world Jew Zionists dominate the world and own America. If Americans do not act when the time becomes ripe to, then you too will be murdered like they did in Russia.

The self same ones Chertoff Grandad was a Rabbi to Stalin. His office the other side of the hall. These jumpin Zionists are worse than the jumpin jaysus type by far. Jump names jump countries, leave destruction in their wake. Since Babylon.

They hate us but need us, we do the labor and they fleece us and tell us lies. I wonder if i will ever see the dawn of recognition on these smug smart asses who deny any kind of planned agenda for the world. And ask me to prove where it is what it is and why it is. I say read Protocols of Zion, it is true. They say those are forged similar to the talmud being mis-translated and forged passages on the ways jews should act and think about non jews. Well, Americans are defending the oppressing jews and nothing is coincidence in American politics today.

Xtimla

Sometimes truth is even more bizarre than fiction....

As with so many other things, Israel has received statutory exemption from many restrictions. Israel (government) bonds bought by US citizens (not just dual US-Israeli citizens) are tax-deductible here just like US (government) bonds.

US citizens (almost exclusively Jews, but not limited to them them by law) can serve in the IDF(as Emanuel did) and not compromise their US citizenship. And since most American Jews (or Jewish converts) who have emigrated to Israel have retained their US citizenship, thus allowing (e.g.) an American Jew who has lived in a West Bank settlement for 20 years to vote in US elections as well as those in Israel), these "clowns" (so appropriate!) can legally argue that they are simply meeting their constituents who happen to be living in Israel, and under the law, that is what they are doing -- just like (a legal technicality) if they visited their constituents at a US Army firebase in Afghanistan or South Korea.

Sometimes truth is even more bizarre than fiction....

AS - From United States

Thanks for posting this most illuminating article. Australia also recently followed suit. Organized, of course, by our Israel Lobby. Gillard arrives in Israel for talks.(re:Age newspaper June 23rd 09 )

Phillip

To: Wilbur and others,

You say "If the Bible is not the LITERAL WORD OF GOD, then the Jewish "right" to palestine is just a MYTH also."

Thank you for the logic...I hope U donot mean that, IF, the Bible is literally true, then Israel is Legitimate ?

Then, You and everyone who believes this are ACTUALLY EXTREMIST, FANATIC AND FASCIST CHRISTIAN TERRORISTS, to use the same definition today by the Main Stream Media, in relation to any Islamic action or opinion.

Israel is a MYTH in all senses, if you are Christian or athiest.

Zakben

anti-GENTILISM is the problem. Until Israel accepts ALL People as Equals there can be no peace.

If the Bible is not the LITERAL WORD OF GOD, then the Jewish “right” to Palestine is just a MYTH also. The President of the United States has just admitted that the Bible is NOT LITERAL.

On 09 Dec 2008 Mr Bush, who leaves office January 20, told ABC television, Asked whether the Bible was literally true, Mr Bush replied: “Probably not. No, I’m not a literalist, but I think you can learn a lot from it.”

The U.N. created Israel from thin air, therefore the U.N. SHOULD dissolve Israel, and/or take control of the entire Palestine, disarm ALL parties, and administer Palestine until the People can peacefully coexist. A State/Nation is a SELF-sufficient body. Israel has lived off WELFARE CHECKS from America since day-one. Therefore Israel is neither a state or a nation. Israel is a “client” a CHARITY recipient, a DEPENDENT.

Wilbur

If you want to see details of some of the 400 trips our quisling Congress has made to Apartheid Israel over the last few years, this site, Legistorm is a good place to look.

www.legistorm.com

When the US Knesset returns to BAU–business as usual–in September, watch the rhetoric about bombing Iran heat up.

Greg Bacon

It is time that the American people send AIPAC's clowns packing. Inspite of what 71 U.S. Senators requested of Obama to "press Arab leaders for "dramatic gestures" on behalf of the Middle East Peace, an aware public knows that it is the Israeli leaders who have hindered Middle East Peace in every possible way.

Voters please start a list of possible treasonous Congressional representatives who are undermining President Obama's call for Israel to stop colonial expansion in Palestine which is essential to peace in the Holy Land.

The list begins with: Rep. Eric Cantor, Virginia, Rep. Steny Hoyer, Maryland, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida. Add the 25 Republican Congresspersons who traveled to Israel as AIPAC's guests. Nothing good for the American people can be the result of this trip and other such trips.

Patricia Blair

I keep repeating this, hoping that my "diagnosis" will catch fire, become common, and lead to a confrontation of this nightmare in which the pitiable Palestinians are at ground zero and the rest of us watch in horrified, transfixed helplessness:

Zionism, with its state-terroristic platform in Zionist Israel, has become a full-on criminally psychotic ideology...and one doesn't treat psychosis by honoring its victim, enabling it via cold cash and murderous military weapons, supporting it politically and diplomatically with kneejerk fealty, etc. This psychosis must be called out, isolated, treated, and if possible rehabilitated.

- Robert Stiver -

Wolf Blitzer, CNN, is one of the reason that I no longer watch CNN. Ted Turner must deeply regret selling a once reputable news media.

Now CNN, FOX, CBS, ABC, and NBC and their various owners use public airways to dispatch untruths that promote fears and ignorance whether about Canadian or British Health Care, Israeli Government Apartheid of the Palestinians, or the now push to make Iran the next victim of the Israeli and US military.

It isn't only Zionist Jews or Christian commentators, but also newspaper columnists such as Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Victor Hanson, Charles Kaulthammer, Victor Hanson and others with their subtle and not so subtle negative suggestions about Iran while ignoring Israeli and US nuclear weapons.

In this game of distruction of the planet, I plea that my fellow citizens wake up and protest.

Patricia Blair

God help us, the Zionist entity has latched onto our country just as totally as the USA, except that in our case the parasite has a much smaller profile.

If AIJAC were as well known to Australians as AIPAC is to Americans they would long since have been kicked out.

Rabbit

Very enlightening and sad.

Lee

We all know that AIPAC is Israel's 'fifth column' suborning the US congress to the point of literal treason.

Eric Cantor could not political exist without AIPAC's support. Eric is an Israeli firster. His baleful remarks in Israel to an Israeli audience invite speculation that Cantor is positioning for AIPAC's 2012 Presidential imprimatur. The man is no less dagerous than is Obama.

Matthew

WOLF BLITZER ?

Not Just Little Man, Big Name.

Oh, my God, how does one counter such a surreptitiously organized slick piece of deceptive tool?

I recall “The First Gulf War” was, basically, brought to us live by “CNN.”

On the ground, we saw the two stars of CNN in action. Peter Arnett in downtown Baghdad, pretty much alone.

Wolf Blitzer chose the opportunistic safety of Tel Aviv where all the "valuable" contacts were located which eventually made him Top Banana over Pete at CNN.

Why ? Simple! The dumb journalist Pete never learned how to dissemble, play the game and lie for them like a “good” embedded (that means sleeping in the same bed with) journalist should. He had this tendency, you see, to see things like they were and write about them that way.

This used to be known, in the much earlier days as journalism; As reporting the news or, telling the truth!

I hope Pete Arnett that small hero made it to that little Island in the South Pacific, while the Blitzers reap the big stakes, paid by the Milo Minderbinders.

What they pay for is what you get!

Israel 1, the World 0!

- Debbie Menon -

Dear Cynthia,

I’m sure all the words will fail to reflect my gratitude to you, may God protect you from the Israelis, I’m a Palestinian living a broad, I can’t even visit Palestine.

I hope one day Palestine will be liberated from the Israeli occupation in order to invite you to Palestine together with all people who voiced or expressed opposition to this unjust occupation.

May God protect you and take care of you .

Noman

The Viva Palestina convoy, led by George Galloway, is about to leave Gaza after having been permitted to enter for a period of 24 hours after waiting 11 days in Cairo for permission to enter Gaza. That in and of itself is a major story when expanded to include the inability of Gazans to exit The Strip--even if only to enter another part of their country, the West Bank or to move about freely in the fictional "Palestinian State."

I say fictional because it continues to dwindle even while peace talks are underway. Fictional, because Palestinian elections deemed by international observers to be free and fair, don't count if the US- and Israel-approved party loses, and the winners get to sit for years in an Israeli jail. Fictional, because they use Israel's currency here, the shekel, and the international roaming on our US cell phones indicates calls are from Israel.

Gaza is beautiful. Gaza is full of life, despite Israel's Operation Cast Lead. And now, I have seen, Gaza has been bombed to smithereens. I think I've mastered my video camera enough to share some images with you. I'll post them on the sites below when I return.

In the meantime, my fellow Americans and citizens of the world, we have a lot to do to put right all the wrong things done in our name. Much love to all of you who helped me, guided me, prayed for me, to make this successful entry into Gaza happen. Viva Palestina!!Free Gaza!!--

Everyone said it couldn't be done, that we were insane, that we would never get into Gaza. But we did, and we got in four more times before Israel began to stop us. But we will go again and again. Never underestimate the power of determined people, especially those people working for justice for the Palestinians.

Greta Berlin,

an American human rights activist

and co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement

Dreams … Aspirations,

Love … Laughter,

Tears … Sorrow,

All in you, yet unrealized,

O Palestine, My Bride …

Your Silwan … screams,

Your Gaza … gagged,

Your Hebron … horrified,

Your Ramallah … wrenching,

All in you, yet in tears,

O Palestine, My Bride …

Your green gardens … brown,

Your flowing rivers … dried,

Your mighty mountains … humbled,

Your dreamy deserts … ruined,

All in you, yet you smile,

O Palestine, My Bride …

O Palestine, My Bride …

You measure yourself not in miles … but in

Checkpoints and Roadblocks,

You name your cities & towns - not by name …

but by Walls, Fences & Barriers,

You visit your Villages and Hamlets … but through

Trenches and over Boulders,

All in you – keep smiling and

All of me - keep dreaming

for your Love & Laughter,

for my Tears & Sorrow,

One Day – O Palestine

You Will Be My Bride

end

Shakeel – You have captured so much emotion in so few words – sign of a great poem! I know it is difficult to keep heart when so much seems heartless, but the beating of your own drum will be heard!!

Glenna Kay Plitt

For Gaza and the Palestinian People

‘Spirit of humanity'

As long as

The people of Palestine

Have no liberty, no freedom

Those of us with a voice to speak

Must speak

As long as

The children of Gaza

Live in fear of Israeli

Bombs and occupation

Those of us with a voice to speak

Must speak

As long as

Six million Palestinian refugees

Are deportees around the world

Those of us with a voice to speak

Must speak

As long as

Millions of god's children

Are hungry, imprisoned, and without hope

Those of us with a voice to speak

Must speak

Because it is in speaking

We find our liberty, our freedom

And no prison bars can take away

Our peace, our love

Which is the true spirit of humanity

*****************

(for Gaza and the Palestinian people)

Mairead maguire - Nobel Peace Laureate (in Ramle - Israeli prison) 3lst june, 2009

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