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10.29.2014

***** article. MUST READ. MUST PAVE THE WAY FOR OBAMA ADMIN POST-ELECTION. WE'VE GOT WORK TO DO. "It would also be unsurprising, post-November, to see the Obama administration take a step Netanyahu is loath to see it take: a public, full lay-down of the administration’s vision for a two-state solution, including maps delineating Israel’s borders. These borders, to Netanyahu's horror, would be based on 1967 lines, with significant West Bank settlement blocs attached to Israel in exchange for swapped land elsewhere. Such a lay-down would make explicit to Israel what the U.S. expects of it. Netanyahu, and the even more hawkish ministers around him, seem to have decided that their short-term political futures rest on a platform that can be boiled down to this formula: “The whole world is against us. Only we can protect Israel from what’s coming.” For an Israeli public traumatized by Hamas violence and anti-Semitism, and by fear that the chaos and brutality of the Arab world will one day sweep over them, this formula has its charms. But for Israel’s future as an ally of the United States, this formula is a disaster."

MUST READ.  MUST PAVE THE WAY FOR OBAMA ADMIN POST-ELECTION.  WE'VE GOT WORK TO DO.  "It would also be unsurprising, post-November, to see the Obama administration take a step Netanyahu is loath to see it take: a public, full lay-down of the administration’s vision for a two-state solution, including maps delineating Israel’s borders. These borders, to Netanyahu's horror, would be based on 1967 lines, with significant West Bank settlement blocs attached to Israel in exchange for swapped land elsewhere. Such a lay-down would make explicit to Israel what the U.S. expects of it.  

Netanyahu, and the even more hawkish ministers around him, seem to have decided that their short-term political futures rest on a platform that can be boiled down to this formula: “The whole world is against us. Only we can protect Israel from what’s coming.” For an Israeli public traumatized by Hamas violence and anti-Semitism, and by fear that the chaos and brutality of the Arab world will one day sweep over them, this formula has its charms.

But for Israel’s future as an ally of the United States, this formula is a disaster."

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/the-crisis-in-us-israel-relations-is-officially-here/382031/

nd. BLEST! Not 'blessed,' 'BLEST ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!' Do you see the difference? Do you FEEL the difference? Here's the point I desperately wish to share for you to SEE, and to FEEL... DEEPLY! "Blessed are the peace makers," don't we read that, hear that, as... oh, they are 'good,' the Creator 'loves' them, is pleased with them...??? THAT'S NOT IT! LLLLUUUUCCCCKKKYYYYYY!!!!! LUCKY!!!! FORTUNATE!!!! WHOSE LIFE EXPERIENCE IS, WAS, MORE WONDERFUL THAN THAT OF THE TRUE PEACE MAKERS - JESUS, MALALA, MLK JR, TERESA OF CALCUTTA, JANE GOODALL, ALICE PAUL, GANDHI...???????? WHOSE LIFE EXPERIENCE WAS MORE WONDERFUL????????????? If that is not true, if it is True but you can't or won't see that... I can offer you nothing but being a waste of your time. BEING A PEACE MAKER IS THE MOST BLEST WAY TO LIVE! IT IS THE ONLY BLEST WAY TO LIVE! IT IS WHAT WE WERE BORN TO DO, IN TROUBLED TIMES! "BLEST, BLEST, BLEST... ARE THE PEACE MAKERS!" JOIN THEM!!!! We desperately need you. (Yes, some of them are 'terminated' early. Big deal. They'd all do it again in a heartbeat. Wouldn't you?)

BLEST!  Not 'blessed,' 'BLEST ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!'  Do you see the difference?  Do you FEEL the difference? Here's the point I desperately wish to share for you to SEE, and to FEEL... DEEPLY!  "Blessed are the peace makers," don't we read that, hear that, as... oh, they are 'good,' the Creator 'loves' them, is pleased with them...???  THAT'S NOT IT!  LLLLUUUUCCCCKKKYYYYYY!!!!! LUCKY!!!! FORTUNATE!!!!  WHOSE LIFE EXPERIENCE IS, WAS, MORE WONDERFUL THAN THAT OF THE TRUE PEACE MAKERS - JESUS, MALALA, MLK JR, TERESA OF CALCUTTA, JANE GOODALL, ALICE PAUL, GANDHI...???????? WHOSE LIFE EXPERIENCE WAS MORE WONDERFUL????????????? If that is not true, if it is True but you can't or won't see that... I can offer you nothing but being a waste of your time.  BEING A PEACE MAKER IS THE MOST BLEST WAY TO LIVE!  IT IS THE ONLY BLEST WAY TO LIVE!  IT IS WHAT WE WERE BORN TO DO, IN TROUBLED TIMES!  "BLEST, BLEST, BLEST... ARE THE PEACE MAKERS!"  JOIN THEM!!!!  We desperately need you.  (Yes, some of them are 'terminated' early. Big deal.  They'd all do it again in a heartbeat.  Wouldn't you?)

10.28.2014

cbsnews. Pope Francis delivers discourse on poor, environment. Francis said the poor need land, a roof over their head and work, and said he knew well that "If I talk about this, some will think that the pope is communist." "They don't understand that love for the poor is at the center of the Gospel," he said. "Demanding this isn't unusual, it's the social doctrine of the church."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-delivers-mini-encyclical-on-poor-environment/

article. 469 Israelis petition Spain to recognize a Palestine state

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/469-Israelis-petition-Spain-to-recognize-a-Palestine-state-380110

***** Richard Siegel - "In Palestine." Video. THIS THIS THIS THIS... IS WHAT ART IS FOR.

I'VE BEEN STUDYING THE SCHOLARSHIP ON THIS FOR A LONG TIME. IT IS ALL CAPTURED HERE... IN 10 MINUTES.
Rich Siegel- "In Palestine" from Richard A Siegel on Vimeo.
Audio download available at www.richsiegel.com
20% goes to charities that help Palestinian children

nd. Friends, I'm surprised any of you have stayed in contact with me. Truly. My horror grows by the hour, and my HARSHNESS grows by the hour. PALESTINE IS MY UNEXPECTED LITMUS TEST ON PRACTICALLY EVERYONE, AND EVERYTHING... BECAUSE GENOCIDE, ETHNIC CLEANSING... IS MY LITMUS. PRETTY MUCH ANYONE THAT ISN'T FIGHTING THIS WITH ALL THAT THEY HAVE AND ALL THAT THEY ARE... IS FAST LOSING MY RESPECT... NOT THAT THEY SHOULD CARE.

Friends, I'm surprised any of you have stayed in contact with me. Truly.  My horror grows by the hour, and my HARSHNESS grows by the hour.  PALESTINE IS MY UNEXPECTED LITMUS TEST ON PRACTICALLY EVERYONE, AND EVERYTHING... BECAUSE GENOCIDE, ETHNIC CLEANSING... IS MY LITMUS.  PRETTY MUCH ANYONE THAT ISN'T FIGHTING THIS WITH ALL THAT THEY HAVE AND ALL THAT THEY ARE... IS FAST LOSING MY RESPECT... NOT THAT THEY SHOULD CARE.

***** vid. "ROOTS OF CHRISTIAN ZIONISM: SCOFIELD, ET AL." Despite decades of effort, my ignorance of the important issues in the world continues to border on the criminal. One of you shared this video yesterday... I had NO F'ING IDEA HOW DEEP, DEADLY, DOGMATIC, 'RELIGIOUS,' EXTENSIVE TERRIFYING ... CHR'STIAN ZIONISM / CHR'STIAN FUNDAMENTALISM / DISPENSATIONALISM... IS RELATIVE TO PALESTINE / ISRAEL... AND US'S WAR ON ISLAM. IF IF IF IF... YOU ARE HALF AS IGNORANT AS I... TIME TO BEGIN DIGGING IN. I THINK THIS IS AS GOOD A GATEWAY AS ANY... THIS VID:

"ROOTS OF CHRISTIAN ZIONISM: SCOFIELD, ET AL." Despite decades of effort, my ignorance of the important issues in the world continues to border on the criminal. One of you shared this video yesterday... I had NO F'ING IDEA HOW DEEP, DEADLY, DOGMATIC, 'RELIGIOUS,' EXTENSIVE TERRIFYING ... CHR'STIAN ZIONISM / CHR'STIAN FUNDAMENTALISM / DISPENSATIONALISM... IS RELATIVE TO PALESTINE / ISRAEL... AND US'S WAR ON ISLAM. IF IF IF IF... YOU ARE HALF AS IGNORANT AS I... TIME TO BEGIN DIGGING IN. I THINK THIS IS AS GOOD A GATEWAY AS ANY... THIS VID: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO6VpMYAVms
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nd. I think that the measure of Humanity, Sanity, is the degree of Solidarity with the Global Neediest. I see maybe not one in a million Sane, Human people in the Developed Countries, among the middle and upper economic groups.

I think that the measure of Humanity, Sanity, is the degree of Solidarity with the Global Neediest.  I see maybe not one in a million Sane, Human people in the Developed Countries, among the middle and upper economic groups.

nd. I cannot continue to fight for Palestine, or Human Decency out of Hope, because I am Without Hope. We are lost. We are a species that needs to go extinct, as fast as possible. But I can, and will continue to fight to Free Palestine with my last breath, without hope, because that is what Loving does; that is what Family does, and all are Family to me.

I cannot continue to fight for Palestine, or Human Decency out of Hope, because I am Without Hope.  We are lost.  We are a species that needs to go extinct, as fast as possible.  But I can, and will continue to fight to Free Palestine with my last breath, without hope, because that is what Loving does; that is what Family does, and all are Family to me.

For Jews, treason is the name of the game. It is our right. It is our duty. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/10/resistance-duty-too?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=5a52cccd5e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-5a52cccd5e-309259258#sthash.xZxoR7Jr.dpuf

For Jews, treason is the name of the game. It is our right. It is our duty. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2014/10/resistance-duty-too?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=5a52cccd5e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-5a52cccd5e-309259258#sthash.xZxoR7Jr.dpuf

10.27.2014

Article. Palestinians have the rights and duties to resist.

Article. Stealing Palestinian homes, perfectly legal. Stealing Palestinian land, perfectly legal. Throwing rocks against the criminal occupiers, 20 years in prison for children. God damn Israel. God damn the United States. God and us liberals sitting on the sidelines.

In San Francisco, the home of Liberal Democrats. There are not two parties. There are two parties of the rich. Enough homeless school kids in San Francisco to fill 70 classrooms. Christian nation my ass.

***** Extremely extremely extremely extremely important to watch. Western war on Islam. The Western war on Muslims.

***** pic. My dear friends, if you are going on about your normal lives with what is unfolding in the world, you are the problem.

My dear friends, if you are going on about your normal lives with what is unfolding in the world, you are the problem.

***** Article. Queen Rania of Jordan, Huffington Post: the making of the Gaza hell is practice for your neighborhood unless you stop it.

10.26.2014

***** pic. By their all out assault on, their contempt for, their hatred of all human decency, global human sentiment, all human law, all human values the Nazis defined themselves as unhuman, an alien threat to all of humanity, and no one would or should criticize another for stating this truth. The Zionists have done the same be they Israeli Zionists or Christian Zionists. Through their behavior the Zionists, day by day, hour by hour, decade by decade, define themselves as unhuman, an alien threat to all life, and if there is to be a human future the Zionist behavior must be attacked as the existential threat to all of creation that it is, infinitely more dangerous than Ebola would ever be.

By their all out assault on, their contempt for,
their hatred of all human decency, global human
sentiment, all human law, all human values the
Nazis defined themselves as unhuman, an alien
threat to all of humanity, and no one would or
should criticize another for stating this truth.

The Zionists have done the same be they Israeli
Zionists or Christian Zionists. Through their
behavior the Zionists, day by day, hour by hour,
decade by decade, define themselves as
unhuman, an alien threat to all life, and if there is
to be a human future the Zionist behavior must
be attacked as the existential threat to all of
creation that it is, infinitely more dangerous than
Ebola would ever be.

nd. FB friend today: James, do you live in a shelter so that you can maintain the free Palestine vigil in front of the White House? James; We have little hope of making any difference unless we focus and devote our lives entirely. This is human history. I refuse any longer to not devote my life entirely to the global neediest . We revile such behavior, we fear it, we starve it, we certainly don't support it, we certainly don't pay it. So my choice has been to devote my life to humanity and accept material destitution, or to divert some of my time to my own continuance. I refuse to do the latter, which would mean diverting my time from the cause. Applying the skills that earned me hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to make rich people richer, is worth zero to our society when devoted to our neediest brothers and sisters. Less than zero, actually, because we see it as a threat to our system, which it is: the only real threat to our personally profit from our sisters and brothers obscenity of a system that is destroying all of creation. So far I have been kept barely alive by strangers, an ever dwindling small group of friends, cracks in the system, food in dumpsters, and having zero material needs except those of my work, a stool to sit on, appropriate posters, and computer equipment for researching, learning, and advocating online . I have lived on the streets so that I can fight for Palestine, & I expect before long that will be the case again, although as we more and more criminalize homelessness I envision present I'm beginning to eat into my work time. . But yes, surprisingly, right now, I am able to have a cot in a homeless shelter and that is good support for my body for the work. I am typing to you from in front of the White House maintaining the free Palestine vigil. I am here from early morning until mid to late evening every day that the weather does not drive me away.

10.24.2014

***** nd. "TERRORISM" = Among the greatest weapons yet devised by the rulers, elites, exploiters, Terror States (Israel, US, UK...) to criminalize resistance to oppression, exploitation, deprivation of rights, rape, looting... by the victims.

"TERRORISM"  =  Among the greatest weapons yet devised by the rulers, elites, exploiters, Terror States (Israel, US, UK...) to criminalize resistance to oppression, exploitation, deprivation of rights, rape, looting... by the victims.

***** TERRORIST ISRAEL EXECUTES AMERICAN TEEN - SHOOTS HIM IN THE HEAD. US GOV, US MEDIA, CONGRESSMAN... SILENT. SILENT. SILENT. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS IN CHARGE... SEE WHO CANNOT BE CRITICIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNITED STATES OF ISRAEL.

TERRORIST ISRAEL EXECUTES AMERICAN TEEN - SHOOTS HIM IN THE HEAD.  US GOV, US MEDIA, CONGRESSMAN...  SILENT.  SILENT.  SILENT.   IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO IS IN CHARGE... SEE WHO CANNOT BE CRITICIZED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNITED STATES OF ISRAEL.

article: Brutal savage terrorist Israel ruthlessly violates the truce, attacking, sometimes killing, at least once per day. Showing peace-loving restraint, Palestine, Hamas, does not retaliate.

article. STRAIGHT OUT OF 'V FOR VENDETTA.' Ben Franklin: ” ”He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither, [and will lose both].” THIS IS DISASTER CAPITALISM, FASCIST CAPITALISM... USHERING IN THE 4TH REICH. HOW F'ING STUPID CAN CITIZENS BE???????? HOW F'ING BLIND???????? " Canada vows tougher laws as citizens worry in face of attacks"

STRAIGHT OUT OF 'V FOR VENDETTA.'  Ben Franklin: ” ”He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither, [and will lose both].”  THIS IS DISASTER CAPITALISM, FASCIST CAPITALISM... USHERING IN THE 4TH REICH.  HOW F'ING STUPID CAN CITIZENS BE???????? HOW F'ING BLIND????????   http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/24/us-canada-attacks-shooting-idUSKCN0IB1PY20141024

article. Clearest statement I've seen yet of the POLICY we can see Terrorist Israel executing every day: "Prof. Hillel Weiss addressed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (using his nickname, Abu Mazen). “Listen, Abu Mazen, you aren’t a people and therefore there’s no genocide,” Weiss wrote. “To annihilate you as a rabble is a mitzvah, and it will ultimately be carried out, even though the Israeli government still doesn’t recognize its own guilt for kindling your fraudulent national recognition, starting from [former Prime Minister Menachem] Begin and ending with [Meretz party leader Zahava] Gal-On, and for everything it has contributed to the deception of the entire world and the flourishing of all the monsters that arose because of its weakness and lack of faith. The faster you admit that you aren’t a people and don’t belong anywhere within the boundaries of the Land of Israel, the better it will be for you – the faster you voluntarily vacate this land.”" http://normanfinkelstein.com/2014/10/20/a-call-to-kill-people-is-un-jewish-and-immoral-but-actually-killing-them-espeically-if-they-live-in-gaza-is-not-just-moral-but-positively-jewish/

Clearest statement I've seen yet of the POLICY we can see Terrorist Israel executing every day:  "Prof. Hillel Weiss addressed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (using his nickname, Abu Mazen). “Listen, Abu Mazen, you aren’t a people and therefore there’s no genocide,” Weiss wrote. “To annihilate you as a rabble is a mitzvah, and it will ultimately be carried out, even though the Israeli government still doesn’t recognize its own guilt for kindling your fraudulent national recognition, starting from [former Prime Minister Menachem] Begin and ending with [Meretz party leader Zahava] Gal-On, and for everything it has contributed to the deception of the entire world and the flourishing of all the monsters that arose because of its weakness and lack of faith. The faster you admit that you aren’t a people and don’t belong anywhere within the boundaries of the Land of Israel, the better it will be for you – the faster you voluntarily vacate this land.”"  http://normanfinkelstein.com/2014/10/20/a-call-to-kill-people-is-un-jewish-and-immoral-but-actually-killing-them-espeically-if-they-live-in-gaza-is-not-just-moral-but-positively-jewish/

***** nd. FRIENDS: TO UNDERSTAND ME, AND MY 'HARSHNESS,' YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." This is the great Norman Finkelstein's synthesis/understanding of Gandhi's guiding star - Truth Force, Soul Force, Satyagraha. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." It implies that one has devoted their every breath to this task, beginning and ending with paying the price to 'see' the truth... through objective, riggourous, scholarly, no sacred cows devotion to the Truths of any important situation. "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH." Personally, I have found, with great and unexpected joy these last 12 years of practicing this, that it has cost me EVERYTHING materially, and given me EVERYTHING spiritually, AND, COUNTER-INTUITIVELY, because it has stripped me of all material resources, THAT IT HAS ALIGNED ME WITH THE TRUE, CENTRAL, PHYSICAL POWER OF THE UNIVERSE. My point to you? OUR 2014 REALITIES, THE TRUTHS... ARE END-TIMES HHHAAARRRSSSHHHHH!!!!!!! I WILL hold on to the Truths... I WILL HAVE THE TRUTHS HOLD ON TO ME, POSSESS ME...TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY AS I CAN... EVERY BREATH.. SO I WILL BE CONSTANTLY HARSH, HHHHAAAAARRRRRSSSSHHHHHH. BECAUSE I CARE FOR YOU, never the contrary.

***** FRIENDS: TO UNDERSTAND ME, AND MY 'HARSHNESS,' YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE FOLLOWING.   "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH."  This is the great Norman Finkelstein's synthesis/understanding of Gandhi's guiding star - Truth Force, Soul Force, Satyagraha.  "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH."  It implies that one has devoted their every breath to this task, beginning and ending with paying the price to 'see' the truth... through objective, rigorous, scholarly, no sacred cows devotion to the Truths of any important situation.  "HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH."  Personally, I have found, with great and unexpected joy these last 12 years of practicing this, that it has cost me EVERYTHING materially, and given me EVERYTHING spiritually, AND, COUNTER-INTUITIVELY, because it has stripped me of all material resources, THAT IT HAS ALIGNED ME WITH THE TRUE, CENTRAL, PHYSICAL POWER OF THE UNIVERSE.  My point to you?  OUR 2014 REALITIES, THE TRUTHS... ARE END-TIMES HHHAAARRRSSSHHHHH!!!!!!! I WILL hold on to the Truths... I WILL HAVE THE TRUTHS HOLD ON TO ME, POSSESS ME...TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY AS I CAN... EVERY BREATH.. SO I WILL BE CONSTANTLY HARSH, HHHHAAAAARRRRRSSSSHHHHHH.  BECAUSE I CARE FOR YOU, never the contrary.

nd. Bugs in the homeless shelter are giving me less and less sleep, every night. This is cutting into my time, my work, in front of the White House. I'm beginning to put the pesticide directly on my skin, and clothes, to see if that can slow them down. Probably not real good for my health, but I can't afford the time away from fighting for my Palestine Family that this is costing.

Bugs in the homeless shelter are giving me less and less sleep, every night.  This is cutting into my time, my work, in front of the White House.  I'm beginning to put the pesticide directly on my skin, and clothes, to see if that can slow them down.  Probably not real good for my health, but I can't afford the time away from fighting for my Palestine Family that this is costing. 

10.21.2014

***** pic. Terrorists are the ones that don't need masks.


pic. IN 66 YEARS... HAVE THE ZIONIS TREATED THE PALESTINIANS AS HUMANS? MORE SAVAGELY THAN INSECTS. AS THE NAZIS TREATED JEWS AS VERMIN. BOTH JUBILANTLY VIOLATE EVERY HUMAN RIGHT. WE DIDN’T STOP THE NAZIS IN TIME. ARE YOU GOING TO STOP THE ZIONIS? WHEN????????

IN 66 YEARS...

HAVE THE ZIONIS TREATED THE PALESTINIANS AS HUMANS? MORE
SAVAGELY THAN INSECTS.
 
AS THE NAZIS TREATED JEWS AS VERMIN.

BOTH JUBILANTLY VIOLATE EVERY HUMAN RIGHT.

WE DIDN’T STOP THE NAZIS IN TIME.

ARE YOU GOING TO STOP THE ZIONIS? WHEN????????

***** Page 208, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," Prof. Ilan Pappe. Rape:

Page 208, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," Prof. Ilan Pappe.  Rape:

We have three kinds of sources that report on rape, and thus know that severe cases of rape did take place. It remains more difficult to form an idea of how many women and young girls were victimised by Jewish troops in this way. Our first source is the international organisations such as the UN and the Red Cross. They never submitted a collective report, but we do have short and concise accounts of individual cases. Thus, for instance, very soon after Jaffa was taken, a Red Cross official, de Meuron, reported how Jewish soldiers had raped a girl and killed her brother. He remarked in general that as Palestinian men were taken away as prisoners, their women were left at the mercy of the Israelis. Yitzhak Chizik wrote to Kaplan in the letter men¬tioned above: ‘And about the rapes, Sir, you probably have already heard.’ In an earlier letter to Ben-Gurion, Chizik reported how ‘a group of soldiers [had] burst into a house, killed the father, injured the mother and raped the daughter.’
We know of course more about cases in places where outside observers were present, but this does not mean women were not raped else¬where. Another Red Cross report tells of a horrific incident that began on 9 December 1948 when two Jewish soldiers burst into the house of al-Hajj Suleiman Daud, who had been expelled with his family to Shaqara. The soldiers hit his wife and kidnapped his eighteen-year-old daughter. Seventeen days later the father was able to get hold of an Israeli lieutenant, to whom he protested. The rapists appeared to belong to Brigade Seven. It is impossible to know what exactly happened in those seventeen days before the girl was set free; the worst maybe presumed.
The second source is the Israeli archives, which only cover cases in which the rapists were brought to trial. David Ben-Gurion seems to have been informed about each case and entered them into his diary. Every few days he has a sub-section: ‘Rape Cases’. One of these records the incident Chizik had reported to him: ‘a case in Acre where soldiers wanted to rape a girl. They killed the father and wounded the mother, and the officers cov¬ered for them. At least one soldier raped the girl.’
Jaffa seems to have been a hothouse for the cruelty and war crimes of the Israeli troops. One particular battalion, Battalion 3 - commanded by the same person who had been in charge when its soldiers committed massacres in Khisas and Sa‘sa, and cleansed Safad and its environs - was so savage in its behaviour that its soldiers were suspected of being involved in most of the rape cases in the city, and the High Command decided it best to withdraw them from the town. However, other units were no less guilty of molesting women in the first three to four months of the occupation. The worst period

was towards the end of the first truce (July 8) when even Ben-Gurion became so apprehensive about the pattern of behaviour that emerged among the soldiers in the occupied cities, especially the private looting and the rape cases, that he decided not to allow certain army units to enter Nazareth after his troops had taken the town during the ‘ten-day’ war.
Our third source is the oral history we have from both the victimisers and the victims. It is very difficult to get the facts in the former case and almost impossible, of course, in the latter. But their stories have already helped shed light on some of the most appalling and inhuman crimes in the war that Israel waged against the Palestinian people.
The perpetrators can only talk, it seems, shielded by the safe distance of years. This is how a particularly appalling case came to light just recently. On 12 August 1949, a platoon of soldiers in the Negev, based in Kibbutz Nirim not far for Beit Hanun, on the northern edge of today’s Gaza Strip, captured a twelve-year-old Palestinian girl and locked her up for the night in their military base near the kibbutz. For the next few days she became the platoon’s sex slave as the soldiers shaved her head, gang-raped her and in the end murdered her. Ben-Gurion lists this rape too in his diary but it was censored out by his editors. On 29 October 2003, the Israeli newspaper Ha aretz publicised the story based on the testimonies of the rapists: twenty- two soldiers had taken part in the barbaric torture and execution of the girl. When they were then brought to trial, the severest punishment the court handed down was a prison term of two years for the soldier who had done the actual killing.
Oral recollection also exposed cases of rape throughout the occupation of Palestine’s villages: from the village of Tantura in May, through the vil¬lage of Quia in June, and ending with one story after another of abuse and rape in the villages seized during Operation Hiram. Many of the cases were corroborated by UN officials who interviewed a number of women from the villages who were willing to come forward and talk about their experi¬ences. When, many years later, some of these people were interviewed, it was obvious how difficult it still proved for the men and women from the village to talk about names and details in these cases, and the interviewers came away with the impression that they all knew more than they wished or were able to tell.
Eyewitnesses also reported the callous and humiliating way in which women were stripped of all their jewellery, to the very last item. The same

women were then harassed physically by the soldiers, which in Tantura ended in rape. Here is how Najiah Ayyub described it: ‘I saw that the troops who encircled us tried to touch the women but were rejected by them. When they saw that the women would not surrender, they stopped. When we were on the beach, they took two women and tried to undress them, claiming they had to search the bodies.’
Tradition, shame, and trauma are the cultural and psychological barri¬ers that prevent us from gaining the fuller picture of the rape of Palestinian women within the general plunder Jewish troops wreaked with such feroc¬ity in both rural and urban Palestine during 1948 and 1949. Perhaps in the fulness of time someone will be able to complete this chapter of the chroni¬cle of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

***** MAGNIFICENT: "IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO BE MORAL IN AN IMMORAL SITUATION." Israeli Soldiers Breaking The Silence on the Occupation of Palestine

10.19.2014

nd. I do not make a living. I have always found the idea morally repugnant . But for the last dozen years or so I have had and lived the courage of that conviction, willing each day for it to take my life . I refuse to have my existence be a form of cancer which is exactly what the notion of quote making a living on quote is. We are here, as is every healthy form of life, to serve the well being of the greater body, regardless of the personal price to our selves. This is what I do. I hate the decades I existed in another way.

I do not make a living. I have always found the idea morally repugnant . But for the last dozen years or so I have had and lived the courage of that conviction, willing each day for it to take my life . I refuse to have my existence be a form of cancer which is exactly what the notion of quote making a living on quote is. We are here, as is every healthy form of life, to serve the well being of the greater body, regardless of the personal price to our selves. This is what I do. I hate the decades I existed in another way.

nd. You may hate me for this. You will have to decide. I will not be silent. I have devoted every breath for a decade now to try and make the world a better place. Whatever time I have left will be spent in exactly the same way. I find some small measure of pleasure in the realization that by our profoundly inhumane permission to our government and fellow human beings to savagely slowly exterminate Palestinians we are bringing that exact same fate to our children and their children in the not too distant future. I love justice and this is justice.

You may hate me for this. You will have to decide. I will not be silent. I have devoted every breath for a decade now to try and make the world a better place. Whatever time I have left will be spent in exactly the same way. I find some small measure of pleasure in the realization that by our profoundly inhumane permission to our government and fellow human beings to savagely slowly exterminate Palestinians we are bringing that exact same fate to our children and their children in the not too distant future. I love justice and this is justice.

nd. Why liberals are moral, political, and historical failures: success is 1% inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Out of a criminal selfishness liberals are intent on proving this untrue regardless of how many Palestinians children die in the meantime, regardless of the last seconds expiring where ecological Holocaust can be avoided.

Why liberals are moral, political, and historical failures: success is 1% inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Out of a criminal selfishness liberals are intent on proving this untrue regardless of how many Palestinians children die in the meantime, regardless of the last seconds expiring where ecological Holocaust can be avoided.