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* It is widely
believed that the British Foreign Office conspired to create the
state of Israel. But in a 1948 UN memorandum, the leftist
Nation magazine charged Britain with organizing (and
lying to justify) a campaign of Arab terror against Palestinian
Jews.
Read the Nation memorandum, transcribed in text form, with introduction by
Jared Israel,
in “The British Record on
Partition.” Or read the
PDF,
scanned from the original. Here are three first hand accounts
of what NATO and the UN did
after occupying
Kosovo:
“Nightmare by Design: NATO’s
Takeover of the Kosovo Town of Orahovac”
The reporters demanded:
'Why doesn't the government remove BP from control?' The Great White House
Press Corps Semi-Rebellion
By Jared Israel
This article includes proof that when the
Obama administration said the Oil Pollution Act requires that BP
be put in charge of the disaster recovery, they were lying,
plain and simple. [July 24, 2010]
If you want to know why BP should be allowed
no
role in the response to its disaster, watch the video embedded below.
[July 11, 2010]
Brilliantly
explaining the causes of the horrific 2005 explosion in BP's Texas
City refinery, the first two thirds of this video presents
evidence supporting the conclusion that lethal so-called accidents don't
indicate that BP
managers are deviating from
BP's operating strategy, but that they are loyally carrying it
out. As shown in Congressman Henry Waxman's letter to BP CEO
Hayward, and the Waxman-Stupak hearings (links to both
here), BP maximizes
profits by systematically violating human and environmental
safety. The
video deteriorates in the last third and ends with a sad attempt to
praise BP as having changed. In 2009, one year after it
was produced, BP got the
largest fines of any company ever for not making
good on ending safety violations at Texas City, and for adding
hundreds of new ones.
TENC Editor in Legal Website Debate on Gaza Blockade
[July 4, 2010] For an informative
debate on the blockade go to the Opinio Jurislist, whose
posters are attorneys, law teachers and the legally afflicted.
I took a major part in the discussion, posting first as Jared
Israel, and then when my posts were put on hold, as JI, and
for most of my posts and a very intense debate, as Jed. Doing a word search
you can read my posts under those names: Jared Israel, JI and
especially Jed. After the discussion ended,
for some reason all my 'on hold' posts appeared, so a few ended
up duplicated. One amusing feature of the
discussion: unable to defeat my arguments, my main opponent
started 'shouting' that I had accused him of antisemitism, which
in fact I had not; he was punching himself in the hope that
I would join in, producing an incoherent squabble that would
confuse everyone, thus obscuring his defeat on the issues and
giving that old lawyer's
joke, "We have no case: abuse the opposition," a
new twist: "We have no case, abuse yourself." I
replied to this tactic in two posts, starting
here. -- Jared Israel
File with scan from CIA document on IHH
terrorists who dominated Gaza flotilla taken down; Emperor's
Clothes puts it back up
(CIA document is at the bottom of
this
page.)
[June 6, 2010] The Intelligence and
Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) is a useful source of
information on the IHH, the group that owns the Mavi Marmara and
that ran
the Gaza flotilla operation. One of the ITIC reports has
been taken down; we don't know why, but whatever the reason, the
report is important because it includes a scan from a 1996 CIA
document stating that the IHH had regional offices in Sarajevo,
Bosnia, and in Zagreb, capital of Croatia. Since the IHH claims to be a Muslim
charity, but actually coordinates Muslim extremist terrorists,
and since the Sarajevo so-called 'government' of Izetbegovic was
a font of Muslim extremism, Sarajevo was a logical headquarters
for the IHH in Bosnia. According to the scan from the CIA
document (which again, is at the bottom of this
page), the IHH Sarajevo office
worked closely with the clerical fascist regime in Iran (IR).
The IR played a major role in Yugoslavia, helping to supply and
coordinate the importation of military supplies and mujahedeen
for the Izetbegovic 'government' and advising Izetbegovic, and
cozying up to the Milosevic government in Belgrade, influencing
Milosevic against the Bosnian and Krajina Serbs. And today the
IHH is in the IR orbit, witness the facts that a) Hamas, benefactor of the Gaza
flotilla, is an IR protégé, and b) Turkish Prime Minister
Erdogan, who sponsored the flotilla, is an IR ally. So it made sense for the IHH to have offices in Sarajevo . But
why in Zagreb, which is not part of Bosnia? Possibly the IHH needed those offices because the key coordinator (that is, the key coordinator within Yugoslavia) of the attack on the Bosnian
Serbs and the Bosnian Muslims loyal to Yugoslavia was not, as some argue, the
Izetbegovic government in Sarajevo. Rather, it was the Tudjman
government in Croatia, a cat's paw of the Vatican. A
section of the Muslims in Bosnia joined the attack on the Serbs
and Yugoslavia, but the attack was initiated and in the last
analysis determined by Croatia.
As supported by a TV interview
with Tudjman's foreign minister, in 1994 it was the Vatican that
ordered Croatia to end a period of Croatian-Muslim fighting in
Bosnia, and, uniting with the Islamist-led Muslims, together
crush the Serbs (and Yugoslav-loyal Muslims.) That was in
the beginning of February 1994. A week later, on February 9,
Croatia forced a change in the Bosnian Croat leadership,
following which both groups of Bosnian clerical fascists -- the
Muslim and Catholic varieties -- united, making possible the
1995 Croatian invasions that destroyed the Republic of Serbian
Krajina. This was perhaps the most important event in the
Yugoslav war. The Croats drove out over 250,000 Serbs and about
50,000 Muslims loyal to Yugoslavia who had taken refuge in the
Krajina. This catastrophic defeat, coupled with the spectacle of
Milosevic refusing to defend the Krajina Serbs, convinced the
leaders of Republika Srpska, the Bosnian Serb republic, to
accept the creation of a united Bosnia, under Muslim-Croat
domination, as the West and Milosevic demanded. The statement by the former Croatian foreign minister can be
read here. -- Jared Israel, June 6, 2010
Mavi
Marmara: A World Reichstag Fire
[June 3, 2010; updated July 4, 2010]
by Jared Israel, in consultation with Samantha Criscione
Research by both Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the
Mavi Marmara affair is that from the moment it happened,
virtually all Western media and key political leaders forcefully
put forward and acted on the position taken by this May 31st
headline from the Daily Mail,
the well-known London tabloid:
“Israeli commandos gun down 19
peace activists in raid on Gaza ships with 28 Britons on
board”
-- Daily Mail, 31st May 2010
To 'gun down' is to shoot helpless people dead, without giving them a chance to surrender. So this
headline, and variations of it from Italy to the USA, called
forth the image of gangsters, swarming onto the Mavi Marmara,
guns blazing, shooting to kill.
If the Daily Mail's indictment were true -- for
this is the headline of an indictment, not a news report -- it
would be remarkable that virtually all the media
andmost national leaders knew it was true,
and acted on it immediately after the boarding of the Mavi
Marmara. Why remarkable? First because
this is so different from the speed and intensity with which
they responded to the real horror of the last year in
Iran. The Vatican, which did not
utter a single word of criticism over the thousands of Iranians whom
the IR (the clerical fascist regime in Iran) has beaten, tortured and
murdered since last June, immediately sent condolences to the
families of the Marmara dead. France and the UK, which
said at first little and then nothing about the Iranian blood
bath, issued ultimatums to Israel. Likewise, Denmark, Spain,
Greece. And so on. How could they immediately know
Israel was guilty, and knowing, act with such
hostility towards Israel, and so fast? And given all the
huffing and puffing originating from Turkey's Prime Minister
Erdogan, even if Israel had been guilty, and the Western
establishment miraculously, immediately knew it, why wouldn't
they try to turn down the heat instead of fanning the flames
with statements and actions that might have brought masses of
people into the streets calling for Israel's blood? (As
testimony to ordinary peoples' good sense, all the anti-Israel
demonstrations in Europe fizzled.) However, the reaction of the
Western establishment is all the more remarkable because the
charges are false. Since we
are witnessing a thousand-voiced indictment, dominating the mass
media, with relatively little heard from the other side, before
I consider why Western leaders and the media are
behaving so remarkably, let me present some of the evidence that
the charges against Israel are a frame-up.
========================================== Is the IDF Naval blockade legal? ==========================================
Let us begin with a brief
discussion of the blockade. The claim we have all heard is
that because Israel stopped the flotilla outside territorial
waters, the boarding was illegal. This is not true. Israel maintains a formally announced blockade of Gaza. As
explained
by the legal
department of the IDF, and confirmed in an unusually fair report
by Reuters (archived
here),
in a properly run blockade, the blockading party has the right
to seize boats in international waters, once it is clear that
they intend to violate the blockade. The Gaza blockade, announced January 3, 2009, involves a change in Israel's policy. Whereas
before declaring the blockade, Israel permitted ships carrying
humanitarian aid to dock in Gaza, once the blockade was
announced, Israel was required, under international law
governing blockades, to turn away all vessels, and
was required to do so
effectively. (In other words, as the IDF legal report
states, quoting the international law, "an ineffective blockade would expire.") Equally
important, for a blockade to be legal under international law, the blockading power must
arrange for humanitarian aid to be delivered to the blockaded territory,
subject to various measures to guarantee that
the blockaded power does not abuse this requirement.
Israel has posted evidence that, contrary to the flotilla
organizers' claims, they deliver about 15,000 tons of aid (in
addition to heating oil and fuel) to Gaza every week. That evidence can be read
here
and
here.
(I participated in a marathon debate on the blockade on a legal
website. For links, go here.)
========================================== The Mavi Marmara was owned and controlled by
the IHH, a terrorist
organization ========================================== The reason for the blockade is obvious: Hamas, a terrorist group, controls
Gaza and has waged war on Israel non-stop, lobbing about 9,000 rockets into southern Israel since
Israel removed all citizens and military forces from Gaza in
2005.
All Hamas' weapons (rockets, mortars, etc.) have to be smuggled in. In November
2009, Israel found 500 tons of
weapons from the clerical fascist regime in Iran (the IR) on a ship destined for
Hamas and Hezbollah. So
the blockade is based on realistic concerns, although this
seems not to impress some Western leaders, such as Mr. Cameron
of the UK. Because under international law a blockade
can only legally exist if the blockading country refuses passage
to all ships, the Gaza
flotilla presented Israel with a dilemma. If the IDF permitted
the flotilla to reach Gaza, aside from the secondary concern
that there might be weapons on board, the blockade would be
legally destroyed. But if the IDF stopped the vessels,
Israel would be attacked as a cruel bully. Was this the
intention of the IHH, the Turkish organization that owned three
of the vessels, including the Mavi Marmara, and which was one of
the main organizers of the flotilla? Not according to
Reuters,which claims the IHH is nothing
more than a charity with no grudge against Israel. It just wants
to help people in distress:
"Serkan Nergis, a spokesman for IHH, told Reuters:
'We don't have anything against Israel. Our only aim was to carry
aid to the people of Gaza. But for Israel, regardless of your
religion or your nationality, if you help the people of Gaza you
will be declared a terrorist.' "
But the Israeli government says the IHH is terrorist; and it is not just
the Israeli government. One of the countries whose
government reacted with alleged outrage against Israel (alleged
because outrage can be real or feigned) was
Denmark. The Danish Foreign Minister and head of Denmark's Conservative
People's Party, Lene Espersen, condemned Israel and demanded the Israeli
ambassador meet and explain himself. FM Espersen then failed to show up
at the meeting, instead sending a subordinate. For this the opposition
Socialists accused her of incompetence. However, to paraphrase the great
Lou Costello, maybe Espersen wasn't incompetent; maybe she was hiding.
Could it be that the Foreign Minister was afraid the Israeli ambassador
might show her a copy of a report on Islamic extremist use of charity
front groups, which the Danish Foreign Ministry commissioned in 2005,
when Espersen was Minister of Justice? According to the Danish report:
"Turkish authorities began their own domestic criminal investigation of
IHH as early as December 1997, when sources revealed that leaders of IHH
were purchasing automatic weapons from other regional Islamic militant
groups. IHH’s bureau in Istanbul was thoroughly searched, and its
local officers were arrested. Security forces uncovered an array of
disturbing items, including firearms, explosives, bomb-making
instructions, and a 'jihad flag.' After analyzing seized IHH documents,
Turkish authorities concluded that 'detained members of IHH were going
to fight in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya.' "
-- "The Role of Islamic Charities in International Terrorist Recruitment
and Financing," Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS,
pp.14-15. The PDF file can be accessed
here and is archived
here.
On June 7, the main German public TV station, ARD,
did an investigative
report on the flotilla. Below is a video of that program, with
English subtitles. The group referred to in the video, Die Linke,
is a fairly large German party that pays lip service to some traditional
left wing ideas while supporting Islamic political extremism.
So, the Turkish
component of the flotilla was recruited from Turkish fascist circles,
people who believe not only in political Islam but "the Fuehrer
principle," which puts them in the same camp as the Germanneo-Nazi party, the NPD; and a flotilla participant from
Bundestag faction of Die Linke says the organizer
of the supposedly left-wing component of the flotilla was Pax Christi,
the main Vatican organization dealing with the Middle East. Meanwhile,
the Turkish flotilla supporters sang: "Oh you Jews, the army of Mohammad
is coming."
What a stew. Shades of the 1930s,
rebroadcast as a tragic farce.
========================================== Who attacked whom? ========================================== The video below makes clear that, contrary to most media, the
IDF soldiers
did not
initiate the use of force. They were attacked by a lynch
mob.
As is evident from the video above, the IDF Navy soldiers were
beaten with steel poles, knifed and thrown from deck to deck and
overboard; this particular video does not show that they were
also shot at and attacked with stun grenades and fire bombs.
Only after lethal attack did they defend themselves. In an all-too-rare moment of
UK media sanity, Channel 4 (BBC) broadcast a British military expert's
analysis of some of the IDF footage. Here is a video of
his remarks, which were kept inordinately brief by the
interviewer:
The video
below, consisting of film shot by one of the passengers further documents that lethal weapons were used in the attempted
lynching of the soldiers:
Below is a video of an Israeli
Channel 2 TV news broadcast, using film shot by a passenger on
the Mavi Marmara. It shows an IDF Naval soldier being beaten with
steel clubs, then stabbed. The news broadcaster does a replay
of the knifing, because it happens very quickly and is easy to
miss:
Al Jazeera, which, by the way, is a creationof
the BBC, not Arab states, played a big role in
the anti-Israel media attack, complete with a TV crew
broadcasting from the Mavi Marmara. One Al Jazeera cameraman provided
a bit of unwitting although exquisite comic relief, which was,
rather stupidly, posted on the Al Jazeera web page featuring supposed minute-by-minute live coverage of
the capture of the Mavi Marmara. As far as I know its
significance has
until now gone unappreciated; you saw it first on Emperor's
Clothes.
Please note: all the brackets in
the text are from Al Jazeera. TENC
contributed only the notation, "sic!"
[Excerpt from Al Jazeera page starts here.]
11:45am:
Issam Zaatar, an Al Jazeera cameraman -- one of several Al
Jazeera staff who were on board the flotilla -- spoke with
our Arabic channel earlier this morning about the Israeli
raid. He describes the moments after commandos landed on the
ship:
I was filming, he [an Israeli solider
(sic!)] ran after me
with an electric stick [stun gun]. He could not catch
me. One of his colleagues hit my hand from behind with a
stick [stun gun]. My camera fell down. He ran to crush
the camera with his feet. I told him, don’t break my
camera. If you want the tapes, I will give them to you.
I told him these are media equipment. They had no
limits. They used rubber bullets. They used tear bombs.
It was an unbelievable scene.
[Excerpt from Al Jazeera
page starts here.]
The story about the camera, expounded in
excessive, not to say breathless detail, has all the earmarks of
the melodramatic lie. Surrounded by a violent sea of
attackers, as shown in the IDF video above,
why would two -- not one but two -- of the handful of besieged
soldiers devote their time to getting hold of and destroying
this guy's camera? If their motive were to prevent the
cameraman from filming scenes of carnage, why not use some
carnage on him, rather than this Keystone Cops mock fight, first
trying to knock the camera out of his hands with stun guns, then
jumping up and down on the thing -- and this while a mob was
beating them with steel poles? However, aside from the preposterousness of the camera
battle, there is something worth noting about Mr. Zaatar's account. This poor character, trying hard to do his job (i.e., to
convince people that the IDF behaved viciously), had exhausted his imagination in creating
the epic of the camera, and now had to fall back on the truth: rubber
bullets and tear gas! In other words, as reported on Al
Jazeera,the IDF is accused of being as vicious as -- are
you ready? -- the Toronto police at the G20 demonstrations in June, 2010.
Except for these two differences: 1) as far as I know, small
groups of Toronto police were never ambushed by hundreds of
members of a fanatical lynch mob, armed with knives, steel
poles, guns, chains and stun grenades. And 2) contrary to Mr.
Zaatar, the IDF men didn't use rubber bullets. As noted by the
British military analyst (above) the soldiers
rappelled down onto the deck mainly armed with paintball guns.
========================================== The ultimate proof that the charges against the IDF are lies ========================================== On May 31, the day the flotilla was captured, Al Jazeera,
the flotilla media participant, reported:
[Excerpt from Al Jazeera starts here]
The Israeli military said four soldiers had been wounded and claimed
troops opened fire after "demonstrators onboard attacked the IDF Naval
personnel with live fire and light weaponry including knives and clubs". Free Gaza Movement, the organisers of the flotilla, however, said the
troops opened fire as soon as they stormed the convoy. Our correspondent said that a white surrender flag was raised from the
ship and there was no live fire coming from the passengers.
[Excerpt from Al Jazeera ends here]
OK, so a flat-out disagreement; can we tell who is
lying? Quite easily, actually. Because while telling Westerners
that the IDF massacred helpless peaceniks, the IHH organizers wanted to
tell their supporters on the Turkish fascist right that the flotilla passengers had crushed
the evil Jews. To that end, the IHH gave the Turkish paper
Hurriyet a number of photos. Here is the caption that accompanied
the photos in Hurriyet's English edition:
And here are a few of the pictures:
(You can view all nine pictures
here or
here.) Note the two characters in
the first picture, armed with steel pipes, exactly as the IDF
said they were. Do they look like peace demonstrators or
thugs? Note the two Israeli
soldiers, wounded and being shoved/dragged downstairs. Now really, if the IDF soldiers had
rappelled down with automatic rifles blazing, as Al Jazeera claims, does
anyone believe the
flotilla passengers would have been able to wound and capture
these soldiers? And remember, these pictures were supplied
by the IHH, not the IDF.
========================================== How did the nine Mavi Marmara
passengers die? ========================================== The
soldiers had every right to fire their sidearms -- the only real
weapons they carried -- in self-defense. However, since mob-members were firing at the soldiers; since it
was night time; and since mob-members were surging all around
the soldiers, it is certainly possible that some mob members
were accidentally shot by their own people. And the IHH terrorists may have shot some people
whom they
brought on the voyage for the precise purpose, unbeknownst to the chosen
victims, of murdering them
if their deaths could be blamed on Israel. Lest you think this
is an extreme accusation, consider: the
IHH is a long-established terrorist organization; indeed,
it is a coordinator of terror. (See p. 14 of this
link,
which is archived
here.) Terrorists and those using them
for propaganda purposes routinely treat people as expendable in
pursuit of propaganda gains, including by sending children
and mentally disturbed
adults on suicide missions. Obviously, when such people are sent on suicide missions, even if they believe they are
doing it 'willingly' (perhaps because they have been told they
will have wonderful toys and candy and no school or, if they are
adults, because they have been convinced this is the only way to
amount to something), they are in fact being murdered by the
people who sent them. So why not be more direct and
simply murder a few of the more delusionary followers, then reap
propaganda gains by saying Israel did it? By way of illustrating the
mindset of terrorist leaders, listen to the
discussion on the video below, taken
from a January 15, 2002 Palestinian Authority TV (PATV) interview
with Yasar Arafat. The
interviewer asks Arafat what message he wants to give children:
Notice that Arafat does not say, 'How wonderful if a child
disables an Israeli tank!' Rather, he says to this TV
audience full of Arab parents and children, 'What a wonderful
message for the world if a child, attacking a tank, gets
killed!'
If the IHH killed some of its supporters -- perhaps picking
people from countries where the deaths would yield maximum
propaganda effect -- why would that be more horrifying than, for
example,
Arafat using the TV to recruit children to die for the propaganda effect?
And remember, Arafat was supposedly the moderate terrorist -- some oxymoron, eh?
The IHH is close to Hamas and to the Islamist regime that
controls Iran (IR). Nobody calls them moderate.
Perhaps IHH organizers would not have needed to keep their
murderous intentions secret from all the chosen victims. Perhaps
some would have been happy to be killed for propaganda. Below is a video
featuring film footage that the IDF removed from one of the cameras
collected from passengers arrested on the Mavi Marmara.
Note how calmly this so-called "peace activist" tells
the interviewer, apparently from PressTV, that he hopes that on
this trip he will be lucky enough to be a Shahid, i.e., to die
for Islam:
Below is another
video, this one taken from an Al Jazeera,broadcasting
in Arabic from the Mavi Marmara on May 29, 2010,
two days before the attempted lynching. To better understand this video, you should know that, as
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which translated the broadcast,
explains, the chants heard in the video about "Khaibar"
are important:
"Khaibar is
the name of the last Jewish village defeated by Muhammad's
army in 628. Many Jews were killed in that battle, which
marked the end of Jewish presence in Arabia. There are
Muslims who see that as a precursor to future wars against
Jews. At gatherings and rallies of extremists, this chant is
often heard as a threat to Jews to expect to be defeated and
killed again by Muslims."
-- "Gaza flotilla participants chanted Islamic battle cry
invoking killing of Jews and called for Martyrdom,"
PMW
Two points about the video above:
A) While Al Jazeera broadcast this message in Arabic,
it told English-speaking audiences that the Mavi Marmara
passengers were peace activists. B) Probably some or all the people in the video above,
"enthusiastically" (as the Al Jazeera reporter cheerfully puts
it) screaming for Jewish blood, would later be among those
trying to lynch the Israeli soldiers. And obviously Al
Jazeera reporters and flotilla spokespersons like Greta
Berlin are lying cynically when they depict the people on the
Mavi Marmara as just plain ol' folksy peaceniks:
" 'This is not a confrontation, this is a
massacre. We have no weapons.
We are standing there with
our backpacks and jeans and we have been attacked,
it’s not the other way around. ' "
[My emphasis. -- J.I.]
-- Greta Berlin, interviewed by
France 24
Going back to the video
just before the last one, as you listened to that gentleman
saying that he hoped his luck would improve so he finally might die
for Islam, did it occur to you how difficult it must have been for those IDF
soldiers, rappelling into a crowd of homicidal maniacs, who were armed
with lethal weapons and worshipped death?
And did you consider that the surviving maniacs are now enjoying
the out-of-body experience of being transformed
into suffering heroes of the Western world, so that now they
are not only maniacs; they are maniacs with extravagantly
swelled heads?
By staging this ambush of Navy
soldiers who
thought they were just conducting a routine police
action (hence their main weapons were paintball guns), the IHH wanted to achieve one of two goals: 1)
Either to get Israel to agree, under pressure, not
to block ships bound for Gaza, thus ending
the blockade (the organizers' stated goal). This would allow
Hamas to ship in strategic weapons that are too big and heavy to
be smuggled in via tunnels from Egypt, such as medium-range
missiles from Iran. A bad defeat for Israel, forcing it either to go
into Gaza and destroy Hamas once and for all, or risk the
destruction of population centers. 2) Or, if Israel was not
intimidated by the threat of bad publicity from the all-to-eager
international media, and did board the ships, the IHH planned to a) sacrifice some of
the disturbed lambs they had brought from various countries and
b) attack the soldiers boarding the Mavi Marmara with lethal violence,
pressing the
soldiers to put down
their paintball guns and pull their handguns to defend themselves,
so that whatever deaths
occurred (maybe from the soldiers defending themselves, and
maybe some or all from IHH 'friendly' fire) could be presented to the
very receptive international media and Western leaders as an
unprovoked massacre of peaceniks. You know, people in jeans, carrying
backpacks. This
second scenario, in which Israel enforced the blockade, has
occurred. This was used by Turkish PM Erdogan
(head of the extremist AK Party, whom George W. Bush helped make Prime
Minister of Turkey) to hit the Turkish secular majority (Erdogan
is still prime minister, but he has done increasingly poorly at
the polls) over the head with
the stick of supposed Israeli misdeeds, pressuring the
secular-oriented Turkish military to take the undesired step of
confronting Israel. In general, the current hysterical media campaign against Israel
has the goal of putting pressure on forces
everywhere that oppose Islamism, the Islamic version of clerical
fascism. The idea is to intimidate them into denouncing Israel,
for fear that otherwise they will be isolated. In fact, if they
denounce Israel they would only strengthen
their deadliest enemies.
And it has the specific goal of creating a false
impression of balance between the IR butchers and Israel, thus
putting a fresh coat
of whitewash on the image of clerical fascism,
so tarnished by the IR's brutal repression of the Iranian democracy
struggle. The underlying message
of the current media onslaught is: "See? Both sides are bad, but the Israelis are
so much worse." This is precisely how the Western media
attacked the Krajina and Bosnian Serbs and the Bosnian Muslims
who were loyal to Yugoslavia, from 1992 to 1996. And, by the way,
according to a 1996 CIA report (see scanned excerpt from CIA
document at bottom of
this
page), the IHH had offices in Sarajevo (in Bosnia), an
important headquarters for the attack on Yugoslavia, and Zagreb, capital of Croatia, the main center of that
attack. It is my hypothesis that the
IHH
(see p. 14 of this
document) picked this particular time -- shortly before June
12th, the first anniversary of the start of the great Iranian
rebellion -- in the hope of demoralizing the Iranian rebels and
diverting public attention from the monstrous repression in
Iran. If that is the case, perhaps the IHH reached the
blockade area at the end of May instead of a couple of days
before June 12th due to incompetence.
================================================ Does Israel Fulfill its
Obligation to Deliver Aid? ================================================
IDF unloads material from the flotilla,
loads it onto trucks, and attempts to deliver it in Gaza Before
boarding the Mavi Marmara, the
IDF contacted
it by radio, asking it to dock in Israel
and stating that the IDF would deliver all legitimate aid
material to Gaza, as required under international law governing
naval blockades, and offering, as is not required, to let flotilla personnel
witness the delivery. The
organizers refused. Despite the subsequent attempt
to lynch the IDF soldiers, Israel, as shown in the video above,
unloaded the aid material, loaded it on trucks, and attempted to
deliver it. And then? Then the trucks
were turned back by Hamas.
First the Mavi Marmara refuses to let the IDF deliver the aid by land, even though they only came to
Gaza to help the people, right? And then Hamas rejects
the aid. So now, who did you say was keeping aid out of Gaza?
================================================
How much aid gets into Gaza?
================================================ Regarding aid
delivery, based on
official reports, from May 23-27,
2010, Israel moved an average of 3275
tonsof aid per day into Gaza; this
apart from cooking and diesel fuels. It is all free (for the Gazans) including
food from Israel, which country has plenty of poor citizens who could use that food. In addition, Israel provides most of
Gaza's electricity and cares for Gazans at its top-notch hospitals
(an average of 70 people
per day from May 23-27), and again, it is all free. Gazans may be the most aided people on earth.
However, lest you think Gaza knows how to receive but not to
give, you should know that Gaza sends Israel two things:
missiles and terrorists. Two terrorists infiltrated last
week (they got into a firefight with IDF troops, which they
lost) and Gaza terrorists fired a rocket that exploded in the Western Negev
area. Israel spends huge sums on aid for Gaza even though the Gaza 'government' is
at war
with Israel, firing about 10,000 rockets, plus mortars, into
southern Israel since 2005. (That was the year that the Israeli
government succumbed to U.S. pressure and forced all Jews to
leave Gaza.) Is it unreasonable
that Israel would act to prevent Hamas from smuggling in
weapons, which Hamas attempts to do daily? Weapons which will kill,
maim or traumatize Israeli civilians?
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And now, a word on Cameron & Clegg ================================================ The UK's
Cameron-Clegg
government has been among Israel harshest attackers this past
week.
Would Messrs. Cameron & Clegg pay for an expensive operation to
aid a neighboring territory whose 'government' was lobbing thousands of rockets
plus infiltrating terrorists into southern England? It sounds like a joke,
does it not? But it is exactly what Israel is doing, in
observance of the international law governing blockades. If the UK were being attacked by a terrorist-controlled statelet such as Gaza, would Cameron & Clegg
allow such
a territory to trade freely, knowing that the only thing the terrorists
were interested in trading was strategic weapons from Iran? Not if they cared about the UK's continued existence. Yet Prime Minister Cameron, head
of the UK's Conservative Party, has demanded that Israel "open
up Gaza" -- his exact
words -- indicating that he is not troubled about Israel's
continued existence. I suppose I should not be
amazed. Yet, I am amazed. -- Jared
Israel
Editor, Emperor's Clothes
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Persian Heroes and Western Treachery
By Jared Israel
Edited by Samantha Criscione
Research by Samantha Criscione and Jared Israel
[July 24, 2009] TV interview
with TENC's Jared Israel:
“Dangers of Fascism Today” On May 5, Republic of Srpska TV program
Nekad Bilo (It
Once Was) broadcast an interview with former R.S. Ambassador
to Israel Arie Livne and Jared Israel, TENC editor and member of
the International Commission on Jasenovac. Video with English
transcript of Jared's remarks plus evidence supporting his
charges against the Vatican political apparatus.
[July 2, 2009]
A 1941 New York Times article provides key evidence in a
momentous dispute Did the
Vatican do too little to hurt the Nazis? Or too much to help
them? By Jared Israel Editing and translation by Samantha Criscione A well-informed, Vatican-friendly voice from the past reports a
Vatican policy of subversion to push Yugoslavia into the Nazi
camp and, failing that, break it up and bring the
clerical-Fascist Ustasha to power in a faux-independent
Croatia. [June 11, 2009 -- Revised June 15] Papal Bull: Mr.
Ratzinger Pretends to Oppose AntisemitismResearch and writing by Jared Israel Research, translation and editing by Samantha Criscione
Dear reader - on May 21, at 12:16 Eastern
US time, we added a
new section
to this article, proving the Vatican's
‘the-pope-didn't-know’ claim is a lie.
[May 18, 2009 -- Revised May 21] Proceedings of the 4th
International Conference on Jasenovac
[May 10, 2009] TENC editor Samantha Criscione and I (Jared Israel) have just
left Banja Luka, capitol of Republika Srpska, where we
attended a meeting of the Commission
on Jasenovac (the Croatian death camp), staying for a week
afterwards for useful and enlightening meetings and for TV
interviews. One of the Commission's duties is to organize
conferences on Jasenovac. The proceedings of one of those
conferences (the fourth) includes a paper I wrote replying to
Wiesenthal Center director Efraim Zuroff's harsh criticism of my
stance, that Croatia's attempt to reduce the number of victims
at Jasenovac from 700,000 plus to 70,000 or fewer constitutes
Holocaust denial. Zuroff's criticism of me can be read on
TENC.
My paper begins on p. 95 of the
Proceedings of the 4th
international Conference on Jasenovac. A Nightmare of Human
Potential: Reply to Bill Ayers' N. Y. Times Editorial
By Jared Israel Edited by Samantha Criscione [December 22, 2008] The Weathermen
Redeemed, Part 4: A Weatherman Dream in New York
[December 3, 2008] The Weathermen
Redeemed, Part 3: Obama Forgets the Early '80's (and the
Weathermen) Update, Nov.
28: analysis of media's use of 'former' regarding Weathermen.
Update, Nov.
24: Screenshot
of ABC TV telling viewers that Weatherman "Bill Ayers sets the
record straight";
screenshot
of page where National Public Radio presses people to buy Ayers'
terror-glorifying book.
[November
21, 2008]
(3) Osama Bin Laden’s
involvement in Western attacks on Afghanistan and the
Balkans. Evidence he kept his ties with the CIA.
(4) US/West European links
to Islamic Fundamentalism
(5) Evidence that
“Strategic Racism”is the method of the US/Euro Empire.
(6) What is the US/Euro
Strategy in Central Asia? We argue that it’s not about
oil...
The
Weathermen Redeemed, Part 2: Obama's "I-was-only-8" Lie [November
3, 2008] The Weathermen
Redeemed, Part 1: The Provocateur Exhumed [November
2, 2008] ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear Readers, In the past few days, TENC
was attacked. Someone deleted a great many - perhaps hundreds -
of files from our server, including everything written in
Serbo-Croatian;
much of our material in English on Yugoslavia (the page with our
main collection of
Yugoslavia
articles is back online, but some articles may not yet be
when you read this); all our articles
rebutting the charge of genocide at Srebrenica; much of our material dealing with
the Vatican (the Vatican
page is back up, but not yet all articles); and most
articles on Marko Perkovic Thompson, the clerical-fascist
Croatian rock star. (What a remarkable combination:
"clerical-fascist" and "rock star." Too bad it's true.) We are reloading all pages,
and will answer the attackers by providing new material for
their reading pleasure. --Jared Israel
Emperor's Clothes
[Sept. 1, 2008] An example of what Someone
does not want you to read: Bosnia
Career-Reporter Ed Vulliamy's Lies Exposed
If thou wouldst understand thy enemies, check out what
they delete. Apparently, with the Radovan Karadzic 'case'
facilitating a retrial of the Bosnian Serbs in the kangaroo
court of the media, some people would not like you to know that
the foundation of the case against the Serbs - the famous
ITN photos of a supposed death camp in Trnopolje - is a lie. [September 2, 2008] Former Crime
Intelligence Commander on Fighting Clerical-Fascism
Letter from Kerry Milte, security advisor
to Australian attorney general during 1973 crackdown on Croatian
Ustasha terrorists. [April 21, 2008] Text version for
e-mail and printing
Efraim
Zuroff of Wiesenthal Center's Israel Office Replies to Jared
Israel
[16
January 2007] The
suppressed history of the Holocaust in Croatia
For the first time on the internet, the
full text of Yad Vashem's Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
article "Croatia," which the Vatican and US and German
governments hope you won't read. Also Jared Israel on the
opening of the Croatian government's Holocaust-denying Holocaust
exhibition, with tragic participation of Jewish, Serbian and
Roma representatives; on how the US State Department misuses Washington's Holocaust Museum
to market Holocaust denial;
and with evidence of the Western media suppressing reports of
fascism among Croatia's top officials.
[1
January 2007] [Na srpsko-hrvatskom]
“Ahmadinejad's World”: A Nightmare in Iran
By Matthias Küntzel
Comment by Jared Israel [25
September 2006]
Terror on a
Very Small Planet
Belgrade, Spring 1999 - New York, 11 September 2001.
Photo montage created by Illarion Bykov
Text by Jared Israel
[Text revised 11 September 2006
- Original
post, 2 October 2001]
Nasrallah Delivered
By Jared Israel
Edited by Samantha Criscione
Jenin terrorist leader and PA police chief Zakariya Zubeidi
says Hezbollah's weapons, money and coordination have been
crucial for Palestinian terror...
[Revised 7
September 2006 - Original post, 14
August]
Hezbollah’s Instigation; US Government’s Complicity News
reports and transcripts documenting a) Hezbollah instigation of
murder and b) US doubletalk over Hezbollah’s Lebanese cabinet
posts.
Comments by Jared Israel. [Posted
29 July 2006 -
Updated
4 August]
Bush &
the Media Cover-Up the Jihad Schoolbook Scandal Why has the US been Shipping Muslim extremist
schoolbooks into Afghanistan for over 20 Years? And why is George
W. Bush hiding it?
by Jared Israel
[First posted 9 April 2002 * Re-Posted 1 January 2005]
Are Western leaders right to eulogize
Arafat as a hero of progressive change? To answer, one must understand the
origins and goals of his movement Serbian
Condolences to the Jews for the Life of Arafat by Petar Makara
[22 November 2004]
As Israeli forces fight Hamas and
Arafat’s Fatah in the Gaza Strip, we need to cut through a mountain of
misinformation
What Occupied Territories?
(Refuting Arab League Information Minister Hanan Ashrawi & others)
by Prof. Efraim Karsh
Comment by Jared Israel
[3 October 2004]
‘Lies
the (London) Guardian told me,’ or ‘The Return of Villainy’ by Jared Israel Reporter Ed Vulliamy repeats his 1992 claim that
the Bosnian Serbs were running death camps, re-publishing one of his
“death camp” photos...
EC’s Editor responds
[3 September 2004]
How Ramsey Clark Championed Baltic Nazi
War Criminals
...and he’s still doing it by Jared Israel and Nico Varkevisser
Ramsey Clark is one of the apologists for Fascism associated with the
Milosevic publicity committee. (See article below)
[19 June 2003 * Re-posted 29 August 2004]
The 1947 Yugoslav Embassy report
on Catholic Church crimes in
Ustashe (Nazi) Croatia is available as a
word file for printing.
http://tenc.net/croatia/stepinacfile.doc
You may distribute the report freely using
both this word file and the
Internet version.
August is the 9th anniversary of “The
Trail of Tears.” As the world
watched, a quarter million Serbs were driven from their homeland by
US-led Croat troops. The road in the picture below is called the
‘Highway of
Brotherhood and Unity.’
Serb farmers forced from the Krajina, Yugoslavia,
in August 1995
Click
for larger, clearer image
On 4 August 1995,
the Croatian Army invaded the Krajina section of Yugoslavia. Within a
few days 250,000 Serbian residents were refugees or dead. Croatian death
squads then combed the area, hunting those who could not or would not
leave. Thus ended a five year struggle - from 1990 to 1995 - during
which the Krajina Serbs resisted
domination by secessionist Croatia. Why did they resist? To begin to understand, please
read “The
Case of Archbishop Stepinac,”
the 1947 report issued by the Yugoslav Embassy in Washington DC. Written
to justify the trial of Croatian Catholic Archbishop Stepinac, the
report describes how the Catholic Church formed the backbone of the Nazi
Ustashe state, which tried to destroy the Serbs as a people.
The Case of Archbishop Stepinac
How the Catholic Church helped
create and govern Nazi Croatia during World War II
Published by the Embassy of Yugoslavia, Washington, 1947
Text-only version (no pictures)
[2 August 2004]
