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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Sleepless in Gaza and Jerusalem

Here is an announcement [press release] I received today -

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

On March 1st -- this coming Monday-- the premier episode of a 90 part series, "Sleepless in Gaza...and Jerusalem" will be launched on YouTube. It will be a video diary about four young Palestinian women, Muslim and Christian, two living in Gaza and two in Arab Jerusalem/West Bank.

PINA TV Production camera crews will be covering Ashira Ramadan, a broadcast journalist based in Jerusalem; Ashira's friend in Gaza, the documentary film maker Nagham Mohanna; Donna Maria Mattas, a 17 year-old student at the Holy Family school in Gaza who dreams of growing up to be a journalist, and Ala' Khayo Mkari who works with Caritas in Jerusalem.
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The intention of this series is neither rant nor rhetoric. It is rather an opportunity for all of us, who do not live in Gaza, occupied Arab Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, to grasp how these four young Palestinian women live out their daily lives, precisely because their lives are stories we journalists were taught almost dismissively to think of as "human interest" and almost necessarily conflict driven.

How, as human beings, these four Palestinians can also experience moments of personal and community achievement, and the warmth of friends and family life that in real life is possible even in the most difficult circumstances of siege and occupation.

Each episode runs 26 minutes and will be shot in Jerusalem/West Bank and Gaza, edited and uploaded the same day. So you will find a new sequence six days a week at www.youtube.com/SleeplessinGaza. On Friday, we all rest.

A "Sleepless..." trailer should be up on YouTube by the time you receive this letter. We also have just set up "Sleepless in Gaza...and Jerusalem" on Facebook. It's got such a long URL that Facebookers should note-- just type in “Sleepless in Gaza...and Jerusalem” in the Facebook search and you will be home. We don't have our own domain website yet, but our partners PINA TV Productions' website will serve as such for the time being at www.pina.ps.

This is a personal note as much as it is a press release, so it is going out on my email but after today you can reach us at SleeplessinGaza@gmail.com.

Please pass this letter on to your friends on email and to organizations that believe in peace on earth and good will to all, that they too might spread the word.

Regards,

Abdallah Schleifer
for Radiant Circle Productions and PINA

Is Harvard Prof Advocating Palestinian Genocide?

Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births
The Electronic Intifada
22 February 2010

A fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin Kramer, has called for "the West" to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.

Kramer, who is also a fellow at the influential Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), made the call early this month in a speech at Israel's Herzliya conference, a video of which is posted on his blog ("Superfluous young men," 7 February 2010).

In the speech Kramer rejected common views that Islamist "radicalization" is caused by US policies such as support for Israel, or propping up despotic dictatorships, and stated that it was inherent in the demography of Muslim societies such as Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. Too many children, he argued, leads to too many "superfluous young men" who then become violent radicals.

Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian children born in the Gaza Strip should be deliberately curbed, and alleged that this would "happen faster if the West stops providing pro-natal subsidies to Palestinians with refugee status."

Due to the Israeli blockade, the vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza are now dependent on UN food aid. Neither the UN, nor any other agencies, provide Palestinians with specifically "pro-natal subsidies." Kramer appeared to be equating any humanitarian assistance at all with inducement for Palestinians to reproduce.

He added, "Israel's present sanctions on Gaza have a political aim -- undermine the Hamas regime -- but if they also break Gaza's runaway population growth, and there is some evidence that they have, that might begin to crack the culture of martyrdom which demands a constant supply of superfluous young men." This, he claimed, would be treating the issue of Islamic radicalization "at its root."

The 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, created in the wake of the Nazi holocaust, defines genocide to include measures "intended to prevent births within" a specific "national, ethnic, racial or religious group."

The Weatherhead Center at Harvard describes itself as "the largest international research center within Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences." In addition to his positions at Harvard and WINEP, Kramer is "president-designate" of Shalem College in Jerusalem, a far-right Zionist institution that aspires to be the "College of the Jewish People."

Pro-Israel speakers from the United States often participate in the the Herzliya conference, an influential annual gathering of Israel's political and military establishment. This year's conference was also addressed by The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and, in a first for a Palestinian official, by Salam Fayyad, appointed prime minister of the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority.

Kramer's call to prevent Palestinian births reflects a long-standing Israeli and Zionist concern about a so-called "demographic threat" to Israel, as Palestinians are on the verge of outnumbering Israeli Jews within Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories combined.

Such extreme racist views have been aired at the Herzliya conference in the past. In 2003, for example, Dr. Yitzhak Ravid, an Israeli government armaments expert, called on Israel to "implement a stringent policy of family planning in relation to its Muslim population," a reference to the 1.5 million Palestinian citizens of Israel.

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Is Harvard Prof Advocating Palestinian Genocide?

With video of Dr Kramer, aka DR STRANGELOVE, in his own loving Zionist words;

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/harvard-prof-urges-popula_b_472191.html

This has to be seen to be believed.

Dr. Martin Kramer, a fellow at Harvard's National Security Studies Program, has posted a speech he delivered two weeks ago in Israel in which he urged solving the Palestinian refugee problem by population control i.e "stopping pro-natal subsidies to Palestinians with refugee status." In other words, starve the Palestinians so they don't have babies and, he seems to be saying, starving the babies so they don't grow up.

That will help reduce the terrorist threat by preventing Palestinian babies from becoming "superfluous young men." It is, Kramer says, those "superfluous young men" who become radicals.

Aging populations reject radical agenda and the Middle East is no different. Now eventually, this will happen among the Palestinians, too. But it will happen faster if the West stops providing pro-natal subsidies for Palestinians with refugee status. Those subsidies are one reason why in the ten years, from 1997 to 2007, Gaza's population grew by an astonishing 40%. At that rate, Gaza's population will double by 2030 to three million. Israel's present sanctions on Gaza have a political aim, undermine the Hamas regime, but they also break Gaza's runaway population growth and there is some evidence that they have. That may begin to crack the culture of martyrdom, which demands a constant supply of superfluous young men.

Here is Kramer himself touting his idea on his personal blog.

This is right out of Jonathan Swift. Instead of arguing for jobs, economic opportunity, and self-determination to ensure that these baby boys can have productive lives, Kramer argues for preventing them from growing up.

Watch the clip yourself. This guy, Harvard, Washington Institute of Near East Policy, and President of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem seems to be advocating genocide.

Unbelievable.

(Here is Kramer's response to the above piece. It is, if anything, creepier than his original presentation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/harvard-prof-urges-popula_b_472191.html

Friday, February 26, 2010

Who represents Israelis

I have been striving to say this thought for a while, am glad to see some one has said it eloquently.

Wayne Padgette, "As someone who as visited the middle east, I have found friends among both the Arab populations and the Israeli. For the most part, the people themselves are easy to get along with, and the vastest majority of them do not concern themselves with the politics of their "leaders". However, those "leaders" have picked enough fights between each other... See More that it is relatively easy to sway people's opinions toward violence. It would be so wonderful if the average people (of both sides) there could rise up, overthrow their militant leaders, and begin discussing a real peace, the kind of peace the very same peoples enjoyed for many years up until the time that Rome destroyed the previously existing nations."

thank you Wayne.

Mike Ghouse
www.MikeGhouse.net
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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Zionism: A Fairy Tale or a Terrifying Nightmare

Wherever there is injustice, the soicietal balance would be lost and every one stands to lose. The Israeli policies do not represent the sentiments of people and thus peace will be delayed. Mike Ghouse

Zionism: A Fairy Tale That’s Become a Terrifying Nightmare
By Alan Hart

Most Jews of the world (and probably many Gentiles) believe that Zionism is the return of Jews to the land promised to them by God. At the risk of offending some readers of all faiths for saying so, I must confess, and do so cheerfully, that I don’t buy this concept because the Gentile me does not believe in the God of organized, institutional religions. So, I say to myself, no God, no promise to Jews (or anybody else). In my perception of the scheme of things, God is the potential for good inside each and every one of us. God so defined is a prisoner within each of us and our prime task is to liberate this prisoner. But let’s put that to one side.

The Jews who “returned” in answer to Zionism’s call had no biological connection to the ancient Hebrews. They were converts to Judaism long after the end of the Hebrew conquest and short-lived domination of much of Canaan, the name as in the Bible by which Palestine was first known to the world. They therefore had no legitimate claim on the land.

The Jews who did have a legitimate claim, probably not more than about 10,000 at the time of Zionism’s first dishonest mission statement in 1897, were the direct descendants of the Israelites who stayed in place on the land through time. They regarded themselves as Palestinians, and they were fiercely opposed to Zionism’s colonial enterprise because they feared it would make them as well as the incoming alien Jews enemies of the Palestinian Arabs.

Also true is that prior to the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust, most Jews of the world were not at all interested in Zionism’s colonial enterprise and many were opposed to it. The most informed and thoughtful of those who did express their opposition believed that Zionism was morally wrong. They also feared that Zionism’s colonial enterprise would lead to unending conflict. But most of all they feared that Zionism, if it was allowed by the major powers to have its way, would one day provoke anti-Semitism. Which is precisely what is happening today. (Hence the title of my book, ZIONISM: THE REAL ENEMY OF THE JEWS).

In reality it is how the Zionists created their state - a Zionist not a Jewish state - that best defines what Zionism actually is. Israel was created, mainly, by Zionist terrorism and ethnic cleansing - a pre-planned process that saw three-quarters of the indigenous Arab inhabitants of Palestine dispossessed of their homes, their land and their rights.

Zionism asserts that its state was given its birth certificate and thus legitimacy by the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947. That is propaganda nonsense. The truth can be summarized as follows.

In the first place the UN without the consent of the majority of the people of Palestine did not have the right to decide to partition Palestine or assign any part of its territory to a minority of alien immigrants in order for them to establish a state of their own.

By the narrowest of margins, and only after a rigged vote, the UN General Assembly did pass a resolution to partition Palestine and create two states, one Arab, one Jewish, with Jerusalem not part of either. But the General Assembly resolution was only a recommendation - meaning that it could have no effect, would not become policy, unless approved by the Security Council.
The General Assembly’s recommendation never went to the Security Council for consideration because the U.S. knew that, if approved, it could only be implemented by force given the extent of Arab and other Muslim opposition to it; and President Truman was not prepared to use force to partition Palestine.

So the partition plan was vitiated (became invalid) and the question of what the hell to do about Palestine - after Britain had made a mess of it and walked away, effectively surrendering to Zionist terrorism - was taken back to the General Assembly for more discussion. The option favoured and proposed by the U.S. was temporary UN Trusteeship. It was while the General Assembly was debating what do that Israel unilaterally declared itself to be in existence - actually in defiance of the will of the organised international community, including the Truman administration.

The truth of the time was that the Zionist state had no right to exist and, more to the point, could have no right to exist UNLESS … Unless it was recognised and legitimized by those Zionism had dispossessed of their land and their rights. In international law only the Palestinians could give Israel the legitimacy it craved.

What is a Zionist today?

Short answer: One, not necessarily a Jew, who (to quote Balfour) supports the Zionist state of Israel “right or wrong” and who cannot or will not admit that a terrible wrong was done to the Palestinians by Zionism - a wrong that must be acknowledged and then corrected on terms acceptable to the Palestinians if there is ever to be peace and the countdown to catastrophe for all is to be stopped. The Arab word for the catastrophe of the original dispossession of the Palestinians is Nakba. In my view, Zionism’s Nakba denial is as obscene and as evil as denial of the Nazi holocaust.

One thing nobody can deny is the effectiveness of Zionism’s propaganda machine. Zionism’s spin doctors probably learned from the Nazis that the bigger the lies and the more frequently they are told, the more likely it is that they will be believed in the mainly Gentile, Judeo-Christian or Western world; and all the more so when the mainstream media is terrified of offending Zionism either too much or at all.

The biggest of all of Zionism’s propaganda lies is the one which asserts that Israel has lived in constant danger of annihilation, the “driving into the sea” of its Jews. As I document in detail in my book, Israel’s existence has never, ever, been in danger from any combination of Arab force. Not in 1948. Not in 1967. And not even in 1973. Zionism’s assertion to the contrary was the cover which allowed Israel to get away where it mattered most, in North America and Western Europe, with presenting its aggression (often state terrorism) as self-defense, and itself as the victim when actually it was, and is, the oppressor.

The companion propaganda lie is that Israel never had Arab partners for peace.
Zionism has two hallmarks. One is self-righteousness of a most extraordinary kind. In 1986 this self-righteousness was described by Yehoshafat Harkabi, a former Director of Israeli Military Intelligence, as “the biggest real danger” to the Jewish state.

The other hallmark is a shocking and awesome arrogance of military and economic power and the influence the latter buys, most critically in the U.S. Congress where what passes for democracy is for sale to the highest bidders.

On the matter of truth as it relates to the making and sustaining of conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, I hope the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) is right: “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” If that’s true, Zionism not only can be defeated but will be.

Footnote:
This article was written as one in a series with other authors under the title ZIONISM UNMASKED.

Friday, February 5, 2010

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July 2010
Muslim acts of heroism during Holocaust
Obama to placate Israel's right-wing leaders

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Israel's defenders mobilize, threaten

May 2010
Reflections on forgiveness

March 2010
Fatal Embrace by Mark Braverman

February 2010
Sleepless in Gaza and Jerusalem
Is Harvard Prof Advocating Palestinian Genocide?
Who represents Israelis
Zionism: A Fairy Tale or a Terrifying Nightmare

January 2010
Hamas accepts Israel's right to exist
Israel will live - in peace
Israel Lobby
Press Release, Holocaust and Genocides in Dallas
Lesson To Be Learned from Holocaust
The Jerusalem Syndrome
When Does It Become Genocide?
Obama Appointed Self-Hating Anti-Semitism Czar.

December 2009 (1)
The Gaza March

October 2009 (2)
Democrats’ Attacks on Goldstone
Gaza Children to Learn about Holocaust

September 2009 (4)
Israel Is Not for the Jews
Obama, the time has come
Obama caves in to Netanyahu
Solutions for Israel and Palestine

July 2009 (1)
Israel and Saudi Cohorts Now?

June 2009 (10)
Peres leaves for Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan
Israel Won't Freeze Settlements
Time for a Common Vision?
Uri Avnery on Obama Speech
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Pursuing the two-State Solution
Obama's "interference" in Israeli politics
Israel could learn from Sorry Day
Harsh Turn against Israel

May 2009 (3)
Support for Israel Feeds Terrorism
Obama and Netanyahu Meet
Israel and Iran

April 2009 (1)
Bad leadership

March 2009
Moment in History

Feburuary 2009
Israel - 60 Minutes
Myths-or-Facts-001
Holocaust-Genocides
Jerusalem Report
A dialogue on peace
Israel and Palestine

January 2009
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A dialogue for peace
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Gaza Petitions to stop Killing

December 2008
A few evil men, some Jews some Muslims
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November 2008
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August 2008
Where Jews and Arabs get along

June 2008
Exploiting the Muslim- Jewish divide
Is It Pandering to Jews?

May 2008
Bush - An enemy of Israel
Israel at 60; a Land of Hope
Who are the Neocons?

APRIL 2008 (4)
AJ Congress on Carter initiative
Carter: Hamas is willing
Carter Peace initiatives
Palestinians versus Tibetans

MARCH 2008 (3)
Bloodbath in Jerusalem
Kill 100 Turks and Rest
Yes we can, peace to Gaza

FEBRUARY 2008 (1)
A Rabbi speaks the truth!

JANUARY 2008 (2)
Israel's false friends
If Americans Knew Israel

DECEMBER 2007 (1)
Happiness for Sale

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Annapolis - Include Hamas
Annapolis - the Iran factor
Annapolis - Jewish Question
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Annapolis: Jewish support?
Annapolis : Morton Klein
The last refuge:Uri Avnery
Israel : No right to exist?
Annapolis - Turbulent winds
Annapolis: Naomi and Rafi
Gaza: the final solution
Annapolis - Rabbinic support
Cut Israel off
Annapolis peace conference
Punishing Gaza
Jewish youth and Israel
Is Israel a Jewish State
Anti-Israel Stooges
Peace in Israel & Palestine