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Israel's deputy defense minister, Matan Vilnai, let the cat out of the bag and exposed the Israeli Final Solution to the Gaza problem for all the world to see:
"The more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah because we will use all our might to defend ourselves," Matan Vilnai, Israel's deputy defence minister, told army radio.
Shoah is the Hebrew word normally reserved to refer to the Jewish Holocaust. It is rarely used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi extermination of Jews during the second world war, and many Israelis are loath to countenance its use to describe other events.
My, my, my.
The comparison of zionists to Nazis is complete, and no false cries of "anti-Semitism" can be claimed (unless you want to consider Vilnai an anti-Semite, which I certainly do, where Semite = Arab = Palestinian).
Henceforth, zionist = Nazi, and Nazi = zionist. They are one in the same, cut from the same cloth. No amount of backtracking will suffice. The illusion has been shattered. The zionists have forever branded themselves as Nazis. Like a victim of child abuse who matures into a pedophile, they have assumed the role of their victimizers and have become them.
Heil Olmert! Heil Sharon! Heil Ben Gurion!
HEIL! HEIL! HEIL!!!
Here's the latest genius scheme by the Israelis:
Olmert says "war" on militants in Gaza to continue (Reuters)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday ruled out dialogue with Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza Strip and vowed to press on with the army's "war" against militants firing cross-border rockets into Israel.
Olmert's closest confidant said Israel's strategic goal was to topple the Hamas government in the coastal territory through continued military and economic pressure.
Yeah, great strategy, MacArthur! Let's create a Mogadishu right next door to us. Because that's exactly what Israel needs: an ungoverned, arms-saturated failed state right on its border.
Is anyone paying attention to this? How many more stupid things must Israeli leaders do or say before we cut off aid completely?
On a side note, I get so sick of reading this crap all the time. From the same article:
Olmert appeared to play down prospects of a ceasefire deal with Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in June after routing forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Hamas did not "seize control" from Abbas. Hamas pre-emptively struck at the Fatah forces that were being armed and trained by Israeli and American puppetmasters to stage a coup and seize control from Hamas, which was, and still is, the democratically elected leadership of the Palestinians. I am so god damn tired of shoddy reporting like this, and its not just Reuters: you read it in the AP, in the New York Times (possibly the worst offender), Yahoo! News, and in just about every major news organization that covers world events. I can only assume the so-called "reporters" who write these articles are either cynically lazy at best or paid propagandists at worst as it sometimes seems they just look up the current talking points issued by the Bush administration and incorporate them into their articles by rote. No wonder the public is losing confidence in the press, and even the press itself is none to proud of their own work.
Of course, the real reason for Israel's problems, the OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE, is neglected until the end of the article:
"If the occupation commits itself to stopping all forms of aggression against our people, only then the factions may discuss this issue. But until then, there is no discussion among the factions over a calm," Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said.
What is zionism?
This is zionism:
"After they built showers with a generator, so we would have hot water all the time ... the shower with the 'geyser' was abandoned and people decided that it would be like a detention cell. We brought some guy there and forgot him for three days ... He was handcuffed and had a piece of flannel over his mouth, and he couldn't talk, couldn't move, couldn't do anything. After three days, someone, I don't remember who, happened to go by there and remembered."
This is zionism:
"I went out on my first patrol ... Others on the patrol were just shooting like crazies ... I also started shooting like all the others ... It was ... look, I won't tell you that it wasn't cool, because suddenly for the first time you come and hold the weapon seriously, you're not training in some drill or in some dugout in the dunes, or I don't know what, or you have some commander who is looking over your shoulder in the firing range. Suddenly you are responsible for what you are doing. You take the gun. You shoot. You do what you want."
This is zionism:
"The truth? When there is chaos and like that, I like it. That's when I enjoy it. It's like a drug. If I don't go into Rafah and if there isn't some kind of riot once in some week, I go nuts."
This is zionism:
"The most important thing is that it removes the burden of the law from you. You feel that you are the law. You are the law. You are the one who decides ... As though from the moment you leave the place that is called Eretz Yisrael [the Land of Israel] and go through the Erez checkpoint into the Gaza Strip, you are the law. You are God."
This is zionism:
"A 3-year-old kid, he can't throw, he can't hurt you no matter what he does, but a kid of 19 can. With women I have no problem. With women, one threw a clog at me and I kicked her here [pointing to the crotch], I broke everything there. She can't have children. Next time she won't throw clogs at me. When one of them [a woman] spat at me I gave her the rifle butt in the face. She doesn't have what to spit with anymore."
This is zionism:
"We were in a weapon carrier when this guy, around 25, passed by in the street, and just like that, for no reason, he didn't throw a stone, did nothing - bang, a bullet in the stomach - he shot him in the stomach and the guy is dying on the sidewalk and we keep going, apathetic. No one gave him a second look."
This is zionism:
"They took the Arabs, the commanding officers did, and put them on the bus between the back door and the last seat, put them only between the seats. On their knees. Then they told us: Within two minutes - and this is still just basic training - within two minutes everyone is on the bus. No one steps on the seats ... And everyone started to trample them [the Arabs] and step on them on the run ... It was a really bad winter. Minus 4 degrees [Centigrade] and rain and hail ... They each went out in the middle of the night ... They weren't given time to dress. Some of them had clogs, short-sleeved shirts ... Everyone opened the windows deliberately. People poured water on them from the canteens, so they would freeze from the cold. And the whole way they were bombarded with blows ... and I mean the whole way."
This is zionism:
"After two months in Rafah a [new] commanding officer arrived ... So we do a first patrol with him. It's 6 A.M., Rafah is under curfew, there isn't so much as a dog in the streets. Only a little boy of four playing in the sand. He is building a castle in his yard. He [the officer] suddenly starts running and we all run with him. He was from the combat engineers. We all run with him. He grabbed the boy. Nufar, I am a degenerate if I am not telling you the truth. He broke his hand here at the wrist. Broke his hand at the wrist, broke his leg here. And started to stomp on his stomach, three times, and left. We are all there, jaws dropping, looking at him in shock ... The next day I go out with him on another patrol, and the soldiers are already starting to do the same thing."
What is zionism? Quite simply, it is hate, murder, occupation, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Those who support Israel support zionism. Those who support zionism support hate, murder, occupation, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
* All excerpts from the article, Parallel lives, published in Ha'aretz October 6, 2007.
Documented here is a typical Israeli tactic for avoiding any actual movement towards peace negotiations: Israel's Barak dismisses peace push "fantasies" Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak was quoted as saying on Friday that talk of any peace deal with the Palestinians anytime soon was a "fantasy", in a challenge to U.S.-led efforts to revive negotiations. In private conversations reported by Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, Barak said he would not carry out plans by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to remove roadblocks in the West Bank as a gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Israeli version of the "good cop/bad cop" routine has played out in endless permutations since the Israeli virus first infected the region. Just change the pertinent pronouns ("Ehud Barak", "Ehud Olmert", etc.) and fill in the date. This is the basic formula for Israeli intransigence: one Israeli politician playing off the other, one portraying the earnest Man of PeaceTM, the other the valiant Defender of Israel fending off the Arab hoardes, and then after the press conference they head over to the bar together to toast their collective performance. It's always the same, and it reveals the true intent of the Zionists, which is to eventually take over all of Palestine, before turning its sights beyond. Barak, who as prime minister spearheaded talks with the Palestinians that ended in failure in 2001, was quoted in Yedioth as saying a peace deal would not be possible for at least three to five years. [Emphasis added] Barak said that is how much time would be needed for Israel to develop defenses against rockets, which Palestinian militants regularly fire into southern Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Instead of working towards peace, which would put an end to the rocket attacks, Barak wants to first try military means, which never worked before and, short of relocating Israel to Siberia, will not happen ever. So, how dumb are we? The answer will be revealed in three to five years.
I would like to extend my congratulations to the state of Israel. You've finally achieved your long term goal of destroying Fatah.
(I'm being sincere here.)
P.S. Good luck with Hamas.
No, not Shaha Ali Reza, but this guy:
Suliman Qadia lived in Khan Younis until nine years ago, when after several years as a Shin Bet collaborator he moved to Sderot. Despite his fears for family members left behind in Gaza, he says only harsh IDF action will end rocket attacks: 'Force is the only language they understand, I know what I'm talking about' - YNet News
A Zionist collaborator who sold out his people for a few shekels and a mediocre retirement in the least desirable part of Israel wants the Israeli military to go kill more of his people. That's rich.
"Nothing else will work, we just need to go into Gaza, full force, and pound them, erase them completely, until it's over. That's the only language they understand and believe me I know what I'm talking about. After all, I lived with them."
Yes, indeed, you lived with them. In fact, you are one of them (or at least used to be). And of course you also know that the only language they understand is force since you're an Arab. Or are you?
Attorney Nathan Schreiber said he receives many requests for help from former collaborators who live in Sderot. "Naturally they're very concerned about the situation. They may ethnically be Palestinians but there is Jewish blood in their veins."
Interesting. I was not aware that Palestinian collaborators receive blood tranfusions from Jews once they retired from their treachery.
A thousand Qassams for you, Suliman, one for every day of your hopefully limited time on this Earth. If there is a "God", then this contemptible dreg will eat a Qassam missile for breakfast tomorrow, and the other 999 will continue raining down on other jerks like him.
That is, as long as they act as mercenaries for the IDF:
Meeting senior Western diplomats on Friday, Israel Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said any Gaza force would have to be willing to search for "terrorists" and arms, and play other "executive" roles in order to be acceptable, a Foreign Ministry official said.
A diplomat who attended said he doubted European countries would be willing to sign onto such a mandate. Peacekeepers in conflict zones generally limit their missions to reporting truce violations or expediting humanitarian efforts.
The diplomat said Livni's comments amounted to Israel saying "'No' in a polite way."
I am ready to explode. Yet again we are seeing a play-for-play rehash of the run-up to the Iraq war, replete with misleading and exaggerated news stories (with, surprise, the NY Times being one of the primary channels for the dissemination of disinformation) coming at us in increasing intensity, along with the requisite comparisons of Ahmedinejad to Hitler from the Israeli peanut gallery. Meanwhile, most of the US news media stands by with its thumb up its ass going, "Huh?"
The latest bit of tripe comes by way of this New York Times article.
Let's break it down. First, the premise:
BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 — Investigators say they believe that attackers who used American-style uniforms and weapons to infiltrate a secure compound and kill five American soldiers in Karbala on Jan. 20 may have been trained and financed by Iranian agents, according to American and Iraqi officials knowledgeable about the inquiry.
Then we cut straight to the chase:
The officials said the sophistication of the attack astonished investigators, who doubt that Iraqis could have carried it out on their own — one reason a connection to Iran is being closely examined.
OK, so first of all, why Iran? What about Russia, or Saudi Arabia, or Israel, or Micronesia? Any nation on Earth could have funded or helped plan this operation. It was not nearly as sophisticated as it is made out to be. College football plays are more complex than this operation was. And with the level of infiltration by the Iraqi insurgency into American operations, it's not hard to obtain American military uniforms. Or, sorry, "American-style" uniforms, whatever that means. (Pay attention to the little words; they matter.)
Officials cautioned that no firm conclusions had been drawn and did not reveal any direct evidence of a connection.
Of course not, but you got the meme that Iran is reponsible out there, didn't you? Good reporters. You have done your job well.
A senior Iraqi official said the attackers had carried forged American identity cards and American-style M-4 rifles and had thrown stun grenades of a kind used only by American forces here.
Interesting. American ID cards, American M-4 rifles, American stun grenades. Maybe it's too obvious, but to me this sounds like an American operation. And just who is this "senior Iraqi official"? Is this perhaps the same official who used to be a "former Hill staffer"?
Tying Iran to the deadly attack could be helpful to the Bush administration, which has been engaged in an escalating war of words with Iran.
Helpful? In what way? To promote a push for war, of course, and here's the NY Times doing its patriotic part.
We then are presented with information from "An Iraqi knowledgeable about the investigation". No doubt, a solid source. This from the New York Times. The newspaper of record. All the news that's fit to print.
The suspects have also told investigators that “a religious group in Najaf” was involved in the operation, the Iraqi said, in a clear reference to the Mahdi Army, the militia controlled by the breakaway Shiite cleric, Moktada al-Sadr. If that information holds up, it would dovetail with assertions by several Iraqi officials that Iran is financing and training a small number of splinter groups from the Mahdi Army to carry out special operations and assassinations.
There are several major (and blantantly wrong) assumptions and assertions in this paragraph. First of all, "a religious group in Najaf" could refer to ANY grouping of two or more men in Najaf. To say this is a "clear reference" to the Mahdi Army is outrageous disinformation. Someone should check who is funding these "reporters". Second, the Mahdi Army are Iraqi nationalists and bear no love towards the Iranians. To make this assertion shows a total lack of understanding of this conflict and demonstrates just how shabby the reporting from the New York Times really is. And this is not just one unrepresentative article from the Times. Rather, this is the basic standard of reporting from that overblown news organization and has been for some time. The Times simply cultivates its undeserved stature as "the newspaper of record" by riding the coattails of what it may have been years or even decades ago.
But what has caught the attention of investigators is the way the convoy of S.U.V.’s was able to give the impression that it was American and slip through Iraqi checkpoints unchallenged.
Maybe because it was American?
The unusual nature of the attack has made it a major topic of discussion in the upper echelons of the Iraqi government. It has spawned bizarre theories including the idea that a Western mercenary group was somehow involved.
Oh, yes. More bizarre than the idea that Iran would gleefully hand the US the very casus belli it needs to justify an attack on Iran. (Logic? Who needs logic?)
Tucked at nearly the very end of this poorly woven fairy tale, we read:
Two American officials in Washington confirmed that American military investigators were looking into the possibility of Iranian involvement in the Karbala attack. One of those officials said the working assumption by the investigators was that the operation had been carried out by a splinter group of the Mahdi Army.
There are any number of splinter groups from the Mahdi Army. For the dumb, a "splinter group" is by definition a separate faction from the group of which they used to be part. This is not evidence of Mahdi Army involvement. And even if it was, the Mahdi Army (as referenced above) does not consider itself an ally of Iran.
This whole article stinks like Judith Miller.
When this is all said and done (if it ever is) I want to see the editors and publishers of the New York Times strung up in Times Square for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.
Update 2007-02-01:
New reports coming out indicate the attack may have been planned and executed by "two Iraqi generals". Don't worry, this is only a minor set-back in the overall effort to justify a "pre-emptive" attack on Iran.
In this recent Zogby poll, a majority of Americans feel that Israel was justified in raping Lebanon, thus proving once again that most Americans are dumb.
samir: I mean, what's to be expected? Watching events unfold on CNN and Fox News during the summer's war lead one to believe that Lebanon's problems with Israel started on the very day that the soldiers were kidnapped. Radio program after radio program was bleating about how this war will lead to more stability after the IDF completely obliterates Hizbullah, doing its part in the war on terror. And now that Israel clearly failed in all its stated objective (the usual cynical objective of inflicting as much harm as possible on Arab civilian populations not withstanding) Americans have no clue what the outcome was. They don't see the pictures of the largest - peaceful - anti-government demonstrations in Lebanon's history on CNN or Fox, lead by a Hizbullah that is stronger than ever. Nor do they hear about the daily violations of Lebanon's air-space by Israeli jets, in clear contravention of the agreements they JUST signed. I've said it before, but it bears repeating: apparently, it's no simple task to dislodge from an American psyche the notion that Israeli policy is fundamentally "good" or "good-intentioned", irrespective of reality.
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