| Author | Message | | Shnozzle | | Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: Hamas' Rantisi Assassinated ... |
| Hamas leader Rantisi killed in IAF strike in Gaza City.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/416382.html
Terrorism on both sides. -- Let the US disengage itself from this insanity. | |  | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 9:10 pm Post subject: Re: Hamas' Rantisi Assassinated ... |
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17/04/2004 21:03
Initial report: Hamas leader Rantisi killed in IAF strike
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, and Agencies
According to initial reports, Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi was killed in an Israeli helicopter missile strike on his car Saturday evening.
Two other people were killed in the strike, witnesses said.
There was no immediate response from the IDF.
Rantisi was the newly-appointed head of the militant group in Gaza, following the assassination of Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in a similar Israeli strike last month.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/416382.html
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Forwarded:
Breaking News From Iranian TV Channel 6
Another crime by the state of Israel which has been in business of committing crime against humanity with full support and blessing of the United States (this is what Bin Laden warned us of via www.investigate911.com/binladensez.htm as Israel's brutal oppression of the Palestinian people- financed by US taxpayer BILLIONS as seen via clicking on the ticker link at the top left of www.wrmea.com - contributed to the motivation for the tragic 9/11 World Trade Center attack and is the heart of our terror problem as former Republican Congressman Paul Findley so accurately conveys in the third edition of his 'They Dare to Speak Out' book).
Abdul Aziz Al-Rantisi the new leader of Hamas was pronounced martyred after being hit by missles. His torn body was covered with blood and surrounded by Palestinians who were calling for revenge. The Palestinians were also vowing to continue his path.This kind of cold blood murder has never stopped any movement which enjoys broad based support of a nation such as Palestinians
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Weekend Edition
April 16 / 18, 2004
Sharon's "Courageous" Plan
Bush Legitimizes Terrorism
By ROBERT FISK
The Independent
So President George Bush tears up the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and that's okay. Israeli settlements for Jews and Jews only on the West Bank. That's okay. Taking land from Palestinians who have owned that land for generations, that's okay. UN Security Council Resolution 242 says that land cannot be acquired by war. Forget it. That's okay.
Does President George Bush actually work for al-Qa'ida? What does this mean? That George Bush cares more about his re-election than he does about the Middle East? Or that George Bush is more frightened of the Israeli lobby than he is of his own electorate. Fear not, it is the latter.
His language, his narrative, his discourse on history, has been such a lie these past three weeks that I wonder why we bother to listen to his boring press conferences. Ariel Sharon, the perpetrator of the Sabra and Shatila massacre (1,700 Palestinian civilians dead) is a "man of peace" - even though the official 1993 Israeli report on the massacre said he was "personally responsible" for it. Now, Mr Bush is praising Mr Sharon's plan to steal yet more Palestinian land as a "historic and courageous act".
Heaven spare us all. Give up the puny illegal Jewish settlements in Gaza and everything's okay: the theft of land by colonial settlers, the denial of any right of return to Israel by those Palestinians who lived there, that's okay. Mr Bush, who claimed he changed the Middle East by invading Iraq, says he is now changing the world by invading Iraq! Okay! Is there no one to cry "Stop! Enough!"?
Two nights ago, this most dangerous man, George Bush, talked about "freedom in Iraq". Not "democracy" in Iraq. No, "democracy" was no longer mentioned. "Democracy" was simply left out of the equation. Now it was just "freedom"--freedom from Saddam rather than freedom to have elections. And what is this "freedom" supposed to involve? One group of American-appointed Iraqis will cede power to another group of American-appointed Iraqis. That will be the "historic handover" of Iraqi "sovereignty". Yes, I can well see why George Bush wants to witness a "handover" of sovereignty. "Our boys" must be out of the firing line--let the Iraqis be the sandbags.
Iraqi history is already being written. In revenge for the brutal killing of four American mercenaries - for that is what they were - US Marines carried out a massacre of hundreds of women and children and guerillas in the Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah. The US military says that the vast majority of the dead were militants. Untrue, say the doctors. But the hundreds of dead, many of whom were indeed civilians, were a shameful reflection on the rabble of American soldiery who conducted these undisciplined attacks on Fallujah. Many Baghdadi Sunnis say that in the "New Iraq"--the Iraqi version, not the Paul Bremer version - Fallujah should be given the status of a new Iraqi capital.
Vast areas of the Palestinian West Bank will now become Israel, courtesy of President Bush. Land which belongs to people other than Israelis must now be stolen by Israelis because it is "unrealistic" to accept otherwise. Is Mr Bush a thief? Is he a criminal? Can he be charged with abetting a criminal act? Can Iraq now claim to Kuwait that it is "unrealistic" that the Ottoman borders can be changed? Palestinian land once included all of what is now Israel. It is not, apparently, "realistic" to change this, even to two per cent?
Is Saddam Hussein to be re-bottled and put back in charge of Iraq on the basis that his 1990 invasion of Kuwait was "realistic"? Or that his invasion of Iran--when we helped him try to destroy Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution--was "realistic" because he initially attacked only the Arabic-speaking (and thus "Iraqi") parts of Iran?
Or, since President Bush now seems to be a history buff, are the Germans to be given back Danzig or the Sudetenland? Or Austria? Or should we perhaps recreate the colonial possessions of the past 100 years? Is it not "realistic" that the French should retake Algeria - or part of Algeria - on the basis that the people all speak French, on the basis that this was once part of the French nation? Or should the British retake Cyprus? Or Aden? Or Egypt? Shouldn't the French be allowed to take back Lebanon and Syria? Why shouldn't the British re-take America and boot out those pesky "terrorists" who oppose the rule of King George's democracy well over 200 years ago?
Because this is what George Bush's lunacy and weakness can lead to. We all have lands that "God" gave us. Didn't Queen Mary die with "Calais" engraved on her heart? Doesn't Spain have a legitimate right to the Netherlands? Or Sweden the right to Norway and Denmark? Every colonial power, including Israel can put forward these preposterous demands.
What Bush has actually done is give way to the crazed world of Christian Zionism. The fundamentalist Christians who support Israel's theft of the West Bank on the grounds that the state of Israel must exist there according to God's law until the second coming, believe that Jesus will return to earth and the Israelis--for this is the Bush "Christian Sundie" belief--will then have to convert to Christianity or die in the battle of Amargeddon.
I kid thee not. This is the Christian fundamentalist belief, which even the Israeli embassy in Washington go along with--without comment, of course--in their weekly Christian Zionist prayer meetings. Every claim by Osama bin Laden, every statement that the United States represents Zionism and supports the theft of Arab lands will now have been proved true to millions of Arabs, even those who had no time for Bin Laden. What better recruiting sergeant could Bin Laden have than George Bush. Doesn't he realise what this means for young American soldiers in Iraq or are Israelis more important than American lives in Mesopotamia?
Everything the US government has done to preserve its name as a "middle-man" in the Middle East has now been thrown away by this gutless, cowardly US President, George W Bush. That it will place his soldiers at greater risk doesn't worry him--anyway, he doesn't do funerals. That it goes against natural justice doesn't worry him. That his statements are against international law is of no consequence.
And still we have to cow-tow to this man. If we are struck by al-Qa'ida it is our fault. And if 90 per cent of the population of Spain point out that they opposed the war, then they are pro-terrorists to complain that 200 of their civilians were killed by al-Qa'ida. First the Spanish complain about the war, then they are made to suffer for it--and then they are condemned as "appeasers" by the Bush regime and its craven journalists when they complain that their husbands and wives and sons did not deserve to die.
If this is to be their fate, excuse me, but I would like to have a Spanish passport so that I can share the Spanish people's "cowardice"! If Mr Sharon is "historic" and "courageous", then the murderers of Hamas and Islamic Jihad will be able to claim the same. Mr Bush legitimised "terrorism" this week--and everyone who loses a limb or a life can thank him for his yellow streak. And, I fear, they can thank Mr Blair for his cowardice too.
http://www.counterpunch.com/fisk04162004.html
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It would take an Iran contra criminal (who is a Zionist extremist racist) to hatch a criminal plot.
Backroom bureaucrat played key role in US deal with Israel
By James Harding in Washington
Published: April 16 2004 20:29 | Last Updated: April 16 2004 20:29
When George W. Bush was in Britain last November, one of the president's aides was quietly dispatched to Rome for a discreet meeting.
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, was in Italy and took the opportunity to relay to Mr Bush his plan for unilateral disengagement from the Palestinians. The official the White House sent was Elliott Abrams.
In shaping the Bush administration's historic and highly controversial decision this week to endorse Mr Sharon's Middle East vision, Mr Abrams, the National Security Council official chiefly responsible for Arab-Israeli relations, has played a central, if largely unseen, role.
This does not overstate his influence. Mr Abrams has worked in a trio on Middle East policy that has included his superior, Stephen Hadley, the deputy national security adviser, and William Burns, the State Department official in charge of Middle East policy.
Israeli and US officials also say that the individuals who forged this week's policy were the protagonists: Mr Sharon and Mr Bush.
Mr Abrams' role, according to a senior administration official, was to "carry out what the president wants". In 10 weeks of consultations before this week's announcement, US officials made three trips to see Mr Sharon and his staff and there were two visits from Israeli delegations to the White House.
Mr Abrams and his colleagms and his colleagues, the official said, were "kept on a short leash. [They] were not dreaming up policy."
The Israeli prime minister was one of the few international figures with whom Mr Bush had a relationship before he became president: Mr Sharon was his guide to Israel in 1998 when he was Texas governor.
"I had the honour of traveling the West Bank with Ariel Sharon by helicopter," Mr Bush told an audience at the Republican Jewish Coalition in 1999. "You can imagine what it was like to be given a history lesson by this great warrior and hero of freedom and democracy."
Mr Sharon also had praise this week for Mr Bush.
"I myself have been fighting terror for many years, and understand the threats and cost from terrorism," he said. "In all these years, I have never met a leader as committed as you are, Mr President, to the struggle for freedom and the need to confront terrorism wherever it exists."
These words, say some Middle East experts, may resonate favourably for Mr Bush among Jewish and conservative Christian voters in an election year. Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel, says: "The president is in a tight spot and Jewish votes matter, particularly in some key states such as Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio."
The White House insists election year politics did not play a part. "The poll data suggest that there is hardly anything that a Republican president can do to move his support among the Jewish community," the senior administration official says.
But to appreciate the internal intellectual argument within the White House for supporting the Sharon plan, diplomats and officials generally agree with a former US official who says: "Elliott was instrumental."
It was Mr Abrams, a senior White House official says, who reasoned that Mr Bush should not be bound by "myths and taboos". It was not helpful for Arab and Palestinian leaders to continue to perpetuate the "myth" that Palestinian refugees would one day return to their homes in Israel.
It was important to create the precedent of withdrawal from the settlements, the official says, rather than making settlements untouchable. And, the official says, it was important to get things moving when there had been no progress since last August.
Mr Abrams, a Reagan official implicated in the Iran-Contra affair, in 1991 admitted withholding information from Congress. He was sentenced to two years' probation and community service.
In the years after he was pardoned by President George H. W. Bush, Mr Abrams wrote a book calling for Jews to return to their faith to stem assimilation. He also helped found the Project for the New American Century, a neo-conservative think-tank that included Dick Cheney, now vice-president, Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary, and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz.
Mr Abrams supported Mr Sharon, a leader, he once wrote, who knows "the road to peace lies through strength instead of weakness". He is seen as one of the most effective operators in modern American government.
"Elliott Abrams is one of the best bureaucratic artists in Washington. He has traditionally taken bureaucratic positions and turned them into strong positions, because he reads the president and knows what he wants," says Jon Alterman, who was on the State Department's policy and planning staff.
"Elliott Abrams is the person who got the Middle East to talk about reform. [The US] cannot micromanage the universe, but you can force items on to the agenda. He has done a masterful job of that."
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420404675
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Excellent Asia Times article on Zionist extremist racist Elliott Abrams:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DL19Ak01.html
The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2002/12/19/the-bush-administration-s-dual-loyalties.php
More on Zionist extremist Elliott Abrams:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/12/10/abrams/index_np.html
ALL FOR ISRAEL:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2004/04/17/all-for-israel.php | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 11:23 pm Post subject: Profile: Dr Abd al-Aziz al-Rantisi |
| Aljazeera
You can find this article at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A8D13FD0-8BFB-4B8E-AE45-8451E0D4ED9A.htm
Profile: Dr Abd al-Aziz al-Rantisi
by
Saturday 17 April 2004 7:04 PM GMT
Al-Rantisi's support for armed resistance cost him his life
A spokesman for Hamas in Gaza, Dr Abd al-Aziz al-Rantisi was one of the most forceful proponents for the right of Palestinians to resist occupation.
He described himself as one of the seven founders of Hamas and was considered by many as second only in importance to the group's crippled spiritual leader, Shaikh Ahmad Yasin.
Yasin was assassinated in a similar missile attack by Israel in March.
A paeditrician by training, Dr al-Rantisi was a popular figure in Gaza and defended any and all means that would force Israeli troops and illegal settlers to leave Palestine.
Background
A committed Islamist, al-Rantisi rose to prominence with Hamas during the first Palestinian intifada in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
He was arrested by Israel several times, spending as much as two and a half years in prison on one occasion.
In late 1992, the doctor was among more than 400 Palestinians deported to Lebanon.
He became a spokesman for the deportees in his camp, Marj al-Zahur.
After his return to Gaza, he proved no more popular with Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority than he had been with the Israeli government.
PA arrest
Palestinian officials arrested him in 1998 after he demanded that a number of senior PA figures resign.
Damascus-based Khalid Mishaal
now most senior Hamas figure
The Palestinian High Court of Justice ordered his release some two months after he was arrested.
He remained a regular critic of the PA, condemning it for its apparent willingness to compromise with Israel as part of the roadmap peace plan.
Al-Rantisi criticised Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas for participating in a conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and US President George Bush in Jordan in June 2003.
Previous escape
In 2003, al-Rantisi survived an Israeli assassination attempt.
Suffering leg, arm and chest wounds, the spokesman escaped a US-made Apache helicopter gunship attack.
The helicopter fired seven missiles on his car, and killed two passers-by - a mother and her five year-old daughter.
His death leaves Khalid Mishaal - Hamas' politburo chief living in exile – as the most senior and best-known representative for the Islamist resistance movement. | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | | | Abbadean | | Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 11:54 pm Post subject: Re: Profile: Dr Abd al-Aziz al-Rantisi |
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| Alpha Terrorist Wanabe wrote: | Aljazeera= More lies from the middle east!
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The choice should be obvious for Palestinians. Renounce terror, govern Gaza, and use that to leverage a more comprehensive solution that approaches the Camp David deal. If things go well, a future Israeli government may be willing to resume negotiations. If not, history could call this moment yet another missed chance by the Palestinians for peace in the area. Then again it is possible that the Palestinians don't want peace. After all, what produces more revenue for some Palestinians, War or peace? Arafat has become one of the riches men in the world. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 12:35 am Post subject: Re: Profile: Dr Abd al-Aziz al-Rantisi |
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| Alpha Terrorist Wanabe wrote: | Aljazeera= More lies from the middle east!
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The choice should be obvious for Palestinians. Renounce terror, govern Gaza, and use that to leverage a more comprehensive solution that approaches the Camp David deal. If things go well, a future Israeli government may be willing to resume negotiations. If not, history could call this moment yet another missed chance by the Palestinians for peace in the area. Then again it is possible that the Palestinians don't want peace. After all, what produces more revenue for some Palestinians, War or peace? Arafat has become one of the riches men in the world. |
More propaganda from the Zionist Jew, Abba-Zion....
http://www.nowarforisrael.com
http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 12:43 am Post subject: Re: Jewish Terrorism in Palestine |
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Subj: Albert Einstein's Letter ( NY TIMES 1948) Warning About Palestine
Date: 4/17/04 5:11:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Hi All-
One of those Research Gems to hang on to.
Going back through my archives, given this week's events with Bush/Sharon and the in-fighting with accusations of "anti-Semitic" I'm seeing applied to anyone objecting to this, I figured it was time to get this out. I don't think most people are aware of this letter to the editor from Albert Einstein and some of the top Jewish figures in America in 1948 pleading with the US and the World about the dangers of Zionism---The pasted together article is below from microfiche, (sorry it's not that pretty) and the actual text below it. I have the original in case you need it e-mailed.
LDL
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Albert Einstein and his collaborators did not mince words in describing the evil that they saw enveloping Jews. They used "Nazi" and "gangster" once each. "Terror" and its variants ("terrorism," "terrorist," "terrorists"), seven times. "Fascist" and its variants ("fascists," "fascism"), eight times. The reporters in the mainstream media today would not dare apply the same names to the perpetrators of Deir Yassin that Albert Einstein applied in 1948?
New Palestine Party
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Visit of Menachen Begin and Aims of
Political Movement Discussed
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES:
Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.
The current visit of Menachen Begin, leader of this party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections, and to cement political ties with conservative Zionist elements in the United States. Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to welcome his visit. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout the world, if correctly informed as to Mr. Begin's political record and perspectives, could add their names and support to the movement he represents.
Before irreparable damage is done by way of financial contributions, public manifestations in Begin's behalf, and the creation in Palestine of the impression that a large segment of America supports Fascist elements in Israel, the American public must be informed as to the record and objectives of Mr. Begin and his movement.
The public avowals of Begin's party are no guide whatever to its actual character. Today they speak of freedom, democracy and anti-imperialism, whereas until recently they openly preached the doctrine of the Fascist state. It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to do in the future.
Attack on Arab Village
A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. This village, off the main roads and surrounded by Jewish lands, had taken no part in the war, and had even fought off Arab bands who wanted to use the village as their base. On April 9 (THE NEW YORK TIMES), terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants — 240 men, women and children — and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem. Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent a telegram of apology to King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan. But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre, publicized it widely, and invited all the foreign correspondents present in the country to view the heaped corpses and the general havoc at Deir Yassin.
The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the character and actions of the Freedom Party.
Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultra-nationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority. Like other Fascist parties they have been used to break strikes, and have themselves pressed for the destruction of free trade unions. In their stead they have proposed corporate unions on the Italian Fascist model.
During the last years of sporadic anti-British violence, the IZL and Stern groups inaugurated a reign of terror in the Palestine Jewish community. Teachers were beaten up for speaking against them, adults were shot for not letting their children join them. By gangster methods, beatings, window-smashing, and wide-spread robberies, the terrorists intimidated the population and exacted a heavy tribute.
The people of the Freedom Party have had no part in the constructive achievements in Palestine. They have reclaimed no land, built no settlements, and only detracted from the Jewish defense activity. Their much-publicized immigration endeavors were minute, and devoted mainly to bringing in Fascist compatriots.
Discrepancies Seen
The discrepancies between the bold claims now being made by Begin and his party, and their record of past performance in Palestine bear the imprint of no ordinary political party. This is the unmistakable stamp of a Fascist party for whom terrorism (against Jews, Arabs, and British alike), and misrepresentation are means, and a "Leader State" is the goal.
In the light of the foregoing considerations, it is imperative that the truth about Mr. Begin and his movement be made known in this country. It is all the more tragic that the top leadership of American Zionism has refused to campaign against Begin's efforts, or even to expose to it[s] own constituents the dangers to Israel from support to Begin.
The undersigned therefore take this means of publicly presenting a few salient facts concerning Begin and his party; and of urging all concerned not to support this latest manifestation of fascism.
ISIDORE ABRAMOWITZ, HANNAH ARENDT, ABRAHAM BRICK, RABBI JESSURUN CARDOZO, ALBERT EINSTEIN, HERMAN EISEN, M.D., HAYIM FINEMAN, M. GALLEN, M.D., H.H. HARRIS, ZELIG S. HARRIS, SIDNEY HOOK, FRED KARUSH, BRURIA KAUFMAN, IRMA L. LINDHEIM, NACHMAN MAJSEL, SEYMOUR MELMAN, MYER D. MENDELSON, M.D., HARRY M. ORLINSKY, SAMUEL PITLICK, FRITZ ROHRLICH, LOUIS P. ROCKER, RUTH SAGER, ITZHAK SANKOWSKY, I.J. SHOENBERG, SAMUEL SHUMAN, M. ZNGER, IRMA WOLPE, STEFAN WOLPE.
New York, Dec. 2, 1948.
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It seems that in 1948, everybody knew about Deir Yassin — which we might infer from the existence of the above New York Times letter, and from the statement that "most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed," and even more from the statement that "the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre, publicized it widely, and invited all the foreign correspondents present in the country to view the heaped corpses and the general havoc at Deir Yassin." From this once-widespread awareness of Deir Yassin, two questions arise:
How did it come to pass that something that was widely known in 1948 was soon erased from public consciousness?
How did it come to pass that after decades of dormancy, the memory of Deir Yassin has been recalled?
You can see from the signatories to the above letter that the perception that Israel is Nazi, Fascist, terrorist, and gangster, is not a perception characteristic of the enemies of Jews, but rather is a perception characteristic of the enemies of the gangsters who have seized control of Jews. In throwing your support behind the Nazis, Fascists, terrorists, and gangsters that today control Israel, the mainstream media places itself in opposition not to anti-Semites but rather in opposition to Isidore Abramowitz, Hannah Arendt, Abraham Brick, Rabbi Jesurun Cardozo, Albert Einstein, and all the other signatories of the above letter.
In any case, if Albert Einstein had been able on 04-Dec-1948 to peer into his crystal ball and see the mainstream media in 2002, he would undoubtedly have wanted to send them a copy of his New York Times letter and to advise them to stop supporting the fascists. Albert Einstein and his collaborators did not mince words in describing the evil that they saw enveloping Jews. They used "nazi" and "gangster" once each. "Terror" and its variants ("terrorism," "terrorist," "terrorists"), seven times. "Fascist" and its variants ("fascists," "fascism"), eight times. The reporters in the mainstream media today would not dare apply the same names to the perpetrators of Deir Yassin that Albert Einstein applied in 1948? | | | | Abbadean | | Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 12:56 am Post subject: Re: Jewish Terrorism in Palestine |
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| Alpha wrote: | | blah,blah,blah,blah? | | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:08 am Post subject: NO MORE WAR FOR ISRAEL |
| http://www.nowarforisrael.com
http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html
Bin Laden's Warning against US Support of Israel:
http://www.investigate911.com/binladensez.htm
Israeli Mossad Spies and their Association with the tragic 9/11 Attack:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.htm
Also, keep an eye on the following URLs:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com
http://www.antiwar.com/justin
Subj: Jewish defections irk Dems
Date: 4/17/04 4:26:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: TOOL
People need to be forced to make a decision. AMERICA OR ISRAEL!!!
Jewish defections irk Dems
By Alexander Bolton - The Hill March 30, 2004
http://www.thehill.com/news/033004/jewish.aspx
Senate Democrats are seeking to counter defections by some major Jewish
donors to the Republicans by stressing their party’s pro-Israel stance.
The lawmakers met privately last Thursday with nearly 80 Jewish
interest groups to make their case.
Although Jews make up slightly more than 2 percent of all Americans,
they have played a wider political role for both demographic and
financial reasons.
Jews are concentrated in such battleground states as Florida and Ohio.
In the era of soft money, an estimated 50 to 70 percent of large
contributions to the Democratic Party and allied political units came from
Jewish donors.
While President Bush won only 19 percent of the Jewish vote in 2000,
Republican candidates garnered 35 percent of the Jewish vote in 2002,
according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The growing allegiance between the GOP and leaders in the Jewish
community is due largely to Bush’s strong support of Israel and refusal to
negotiate with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Republican aides and
Jewish lobbyists say.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee, hasn’t helped his party on that front by recently issuing
statements that were widely interpreted as waffling on the controversial
security fence the Israeli government is building at the edge of the West
Bank.
Meanwhile, Republicans on Capitol Hill, led by Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.)
in the Senate and Deputy Majority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) in the House,
are aggressively courting Jewish interest groups, citing their own and
President Bush’s strong support of Israel’s security policies.
Sen. Jon Corzine (D-N.J.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee (DSCC), surprised members of the Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America during remarks at a luncheon when he
acknowledged there is a perception among many Jews that Democrats are not strong
enough on the issue of Israeli security.
However, he insisted the perception is not true.
“A lot of us were quite struck that he would say that,” said a
high-ranking official with the group.
At another meeting earlier that day with leaders from different Jewish
groups, such Democrats as Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (S.D.),
Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) and Sen. Edward Kennedy (Mass.) were told
that many Jews view the party as a weaker ally of Israel compared to the
GOP.
Members of the audience told the Democratic politicians that “what they
said was different from the impression” many Jews had of Democrats,
said Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, who attended the meeting. “They
agreed they have to do a better job of communicating their position,”
Hoenlein added. “They acknowledged it and said it was the crux of their
frustration.”
One participant said nearly 20 Democratic lawmakers attended at least a
portion of the morning meeting.
Later in the day, the Jewish interest groups met with Republican
senators in a
meeting chaired by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and
Santorum.
“Both sides are clearly jockeying for political advantage,” said a
lobbyist for a prominent Jewish interest group.
The Conference, a coordinating body that represents 52 Jewish
organizations such as the American Jewish Congress and the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee, organized twin meetings.
For their part, the Democratic lawmakers vigorously asserted their
support for Israel, mixing their message with stern criticism of Iran,
Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
They voiced support for the security fence being erected to stymie
Palestinian attacks from the West Bank. Kerry seemed to trip over the issue
a month ago when he told Jewish leaders the fence was a legitimate act
of self defense after telling an Arab American group in October that
the fence was “provocative” and a “barrier to peace.”
Clinton, who is an important liaison to the Jewish community as head of
the Senate Democratic Steering Committee, pleased the groups by saying
that foreign aid to the Palestinian government should be contingent on
its effort to combat anti-Semitic and anti-American propaganda. Her
stance was new to many of the groups, said Hoenlein and Morton Klein,
president of the Zionist Organization of America.
Democrats also hammered on the need for Saudi Arabia to clamp down on
fundamentalist Islamic charities that fund terrorist organizations, on
the need for tougher sanctions against Syria, and the need to halt
Iranian efforts to develop a nuclear weapon.
An official at one Jewish group speculated that Democrats may be
nervous about the defection of high-profile Jewish donors to the Republicans,
noting that Corzine, who confronted the party’s image problem, is
chairman of the DSCC.
Jack Rosen, a frequent past contributor to the Democratic Party, and
president of the liberal-leaning American Jewish Congress, has given
$100,000 to Republicans since Bush took office.
And California businessman Ronald Arnall and wife Dawn, who in the past
have given close to $1.5 million to Democratic candidates and party
committees since 2000, raised $1 million for Bush at a fundraiser last
August. In addition, Dawn Arnall gave $1 million at the end of 2002 to the
Republican National Committee.
“On the GOP side they’ve been very aggressive in courting the
community,” said Nathan Diament, director of public policy at the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations. “The point person on the Senate side is Rick
Santorum. Over the past two or three years they’ve been working the
community and having a lot of meetings.”
Diament said Barbara Ledeen, the director of coalitions for the Senate
Republican Conference, initiated the efforts.
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), who is Jewish, has also been active. He
has traveled around the country “stumping in Jewish venues trying to
convey a sense of why Republicans are more deserving of support,” said
Diament.
On the House side, Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the House, has
led the GOP outreach effort.
“Democrats do not speak with a unified voice on Israel anymore,” said
Cantor. “The Democrats want to re-inject the United States into the
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