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Palestinian/Israeli update 11/12\2015.. Tear Gas & Slingshots
Israel unable to stop Palestinian uprising
Tear Gas & Slingshots: IDF, Palestinians clash in Gaza
Israeli forces kill another Palestinian in raid on hospital
Tel Aviv angry at EU for backing labeling products from Israeli settlements
Israel suspends meetings with EU after bloc sets guidelines on labeling settlement goods
Boris Johnson’s Israel trip cut short due to these controversial comments…
Tel Aviv urges Washington to recognize Golan Heights as Israeli territory
What Obama Should Have Told Bibi
By Philip Giraldi
November 11, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Unz Review” – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently making one of his periodic devastating plundering raids on Washington and New York. During his visit he discreetly picked up a bunch of large checks from the Wall Street crowd, benefited from the plaudits dutifully delivered by the media and chattering class and has even met with President Barack Obama, whom he quite openly despises. Netanyahu and Obama carefully concealed their mutual dislike when in front of the cameras but the president also made all the right noises about Israel’s security “needs.” Apparently all the violence occurring in Israel-Palestine is the fault of the Palestinians and Israel always has the right to do whatever it wants to defend itself. Obama will follow up on the meeting by throwing billions of dollars of additional Danegeld at Netanyahu as a token of America’s undying love and fealty to Israel’s interests.
One wonders if Obama had his fingers crossed behind his back to indicate that he was lying to Bibi except for the intention to come up with more money, which is always an easy way out for America’s ruling class. It is generally convenient to pay off blackmailers like Netanyahu in hopes that they will stop whining. The president will in any event have to prepare himself to endure the usual firestorm coming from GOP presidential candidates later this week over his less than enthusiastic support for America’s greatest ally and best friend, which would have been a consequence of the visit no matter how it had turned out…………………….For what it’s worth, this is what I propose Obama should have said to Bibi but didn’t, with a transcript of the conversation also faxed over to Ron Lauder at the World Jewish Congress:
“Nice to have you back Prime Minister, but not really as it’s close to lunchtime, to which, incidentally, you are not invited. Why don’t you stay home? You have been interfering in our politics and denigrating both me personally and my office for far too long. How would you like it if I were to go to Israel and endorse one of your opponents? If you keep up this crap I will revoke your visa and you’ll never visit here again.”
“And by the way, your plan to expel thousands of Arabs from East Jerusalem and to shoot kids throwing stones at your occupying army is not acceptable to us. And then there are new reports of your harvesting organs and other medical transplant material from the bodies of Palestinians that you have killed. There’s a long history of that in your country, but it’s a bit much even by your standards, isn’t it, and it begs the question whether there is anything that you won’t do. Next time a motion comes up in the United Nations condemning your brutality we will support it. Maybe we’ll co-sponsor or even propose it to show that we’re serious.”
“We are running out of money here in Washington and are thinking of cutting benefits to our own people. I note that Israelis have free medical care and university education, which means that we are subsidizing things that we Americans do not have so it hardly seems fair. We have been giving you more than $3 billion in aid every year and also looking the other way when you benefit from tax free charitable contributions that actually are illegal under American law. By executive order, I am stopping the cash flow and asking the IRS to look at your friends over here.”
“And speaking of Israel’s many friends, your good buddy at the State Department Victoria Nuland is now working down in the mail room. And I am asking the Justice Department to register the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as a foreign agent, subject to having its finances and operations monitored by U.S. authorities. Oh, and your spy Jonathan Pollard will be denied parole later this month and will be the guest of a federal prison for the next twenty years.”
“I cannot see where you have done anything for us except complain. As you are now pledging Israel to continue its occupation of Palestinian land and ‘live by the sword’, meaning the killing of Arabs will accelerate, I am suspending all military cooperation with you until you come up with a plan to remove most of your settlers from the West Bank. Come back when you have something to show me. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.”
Well, okay, it was never bloody likely to happen that way, but I can dream, can’t I?
US and Israel: Expediting Anything and Everything
What a disgrace to hear this: US President Barack Obama has praised the usurper regime of Israel for its ongoing crackdown against young Palestinian protesters. Strange enough, he has even said killing juvenile stone throwers is “self-defense”!
What’s not strange is that the “President of Change” in a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington has also talked up massive increases in military aid for Israel. Apparently, Obama thinks the US-supplied white phosphorus bombs, cluster bombs, bunker busters, Iron Dome, and even nuclear weapons are not still enough to stop the Palestinians from taking to the streets to fight for what is theirs: The right to freedom, justice and self-determination. It’s a terrible conclusion which led Netanyahu to term the meeting “one of the best” meetings they’d ever had.
More so, it is also self-evident that the narrative of the so-called long-standing disputes between Netanyahu and Obama was and still is silly and rubbish. Obama has always been and still is ready to endorse anything and everything Israel is doing, including turning the besieged city of Gaza into a pile of rubble and the biggest open prison on earth, or pounding Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen – yes Tel Aviv is one of the key allies of Saudi Arabia in the ongoing war on the poorest nation in the Middle East. Because why not? The usual suspects are all there.
As it stands, a 10-year, $30 billion military aid package signed under the Bush Administration is set to expire soon, and Obama has made clear a new decade-long package is a “top priority,” all while putting in place a package worth “substantially more” than the expiring one. Tel Aviv wants at least $50 billion!
In addition to the new decade-long package, the US and Israel are also negotiating a one-off deal as “reparations” for Israel’s objections to the Iran nuclear deal, a package which itself is expected to be worth several billion dollars. Now who said the nuclear accord was not a win-win deal for all?
Under the circumstances, it is evident that a two-state outcome is no solution at all. Without equal rights, it would mean further discrimination in what would, in effect, continue to be an apartheid-style system. It would also mean further Israeli aggression against Palestinians. After all, who wants to negotiate with a weak party?
The world has had enough of Israel’s US-backed occupation and wars, illegal settlement activities, human rights violations, sea/land/air blockage, refugee crisis, systematic discrimination and genocide, as well as unimaginable suffering and unimaginable war crimes against humanity in the Holy Land.
Now that the political class in Washington has no intention to stop weaponizing the usurper regime, the Palestinian youth should do the next best thing: Arm themselves. After all, as maintained by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, armed resistance by Palestinians is “the only way” to confront Israel.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in undercover raid
Israeli forces disguised as locals killed a Palestinian man on Thursday during a raid at a West Bank hospital, a Palestinian hospital official said. The Israeli military said troops shot a man at the hospital while they were there to arrest a suspect in a stabbing attack.
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/11/palestinianisraeli-update-11122015-tear.html
It is not just the “Palestinians”. Killing ANY muslim is an act of self defense.
Non-Muslim Israelis think everything they do is “self-defense,” because they are insane. They and their accomplices have worked hard to make non-Muslim Americans think so, too.
But if your ethnic group, as a group, legitimizes killing on grounds of ethnicity, you’re authorizing others to kill members of YOUR ethnic group. On the same grounds.
Is that what you want? To be part of a group of dangerous, crazy people?
Israelis have driven MOST Arab Christians out of Palestine, just as their proxies are driving Arab Christians out of Syria, as we speak.
But not all Palestinians are Muslims. And Palestine is the official name of the place. The word doesn’t belong in quotation marks.
British PALESTINE was partitioned, on the recommendation of the UN, DIVIDED into a Jewish state and a Palestinian state. Which Israel has always refused to recognize.
And since Israel refuses to recognize Palestine, Israel does not recognize the UN’s partition. Which is the basis of Israel’s existence. So, Israel has no right to exist and “Israel” should be in quotation marks.