What happened in Haifa? (Or the second edition to Elder of Ziyon is a Liar)

From the Elder of Ziyon "Either way, the point is that Jews did not actively try to depopulate Palestine of its Arab population and this myth has been kept alive for propaganda and political purposes -" It is useful to look at Haifa as a case study, bc this is an example where Elder himself claims that Arabs were pleaded with to stay. The short list of atrocities in Haifa includes: Indiscriminate and protracted mortarings, sniping, Jeeps brought in playing recorded "horror sounds" and threats to use poison gas and atomic weapons were issued. The Carmeli Brigde was ordered to "kill every adult male" and to attack with firebombs "all objects that can be set alight". While the Zionist civilian leaders, and this is an isolated case, asked Arab civilian leaders to stay, the Arabs preferred to flee, perhaps bc of what was actually happening by the Zionist military leadership. Ben Gurion himself, on the flight of Arabs from haifa, noted "What a sight!". When told that a Zionist official was asking the Arabs to stay, Ben-Gurion responded "Doesnt he have anything better to do?". The Carmeli Brigade shelled the city and Arab crowds that gathered in the city square for an entire day, precipitating their flight from the Haifa port. Indeed, the IDF intelligence report of June 1948 cited these examples in its recommendation for precipitating Arab flight. Thats a summation, but the point is this: is that any wonder that the Arabs fled Haifa?

Interesting Article on Student Loans:

A 2006 study by the department's National Center for Education Statistics followed federal loan borrowers for 10 years, ending in 2003-4, and found that nearly 10 percent defaulted. (The average debt among the two-thirds of 2003-4 college graduates who use loans is about $20,000, according to the College Board.) And with more students borrowing, more students are potentially at risk.

Garrett Mockler filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2004, after months of struggling to make payments on credit cards as well as on $40,000 in student loans. He was working multiple jobs as a teacher, dancer and choreographer in Los Angeles after earning a Master of Fine Arts in 2003.

His lenders wanted more than $400 a month on top of credit card debt, Mockler said. "All my bills started piling up," he said. "It was either pay one bill or pay another or not eat or not have a roof over my head."

He had to scrimp to save $200 for the bankruptcy filing. Then he emerged from bankruptcy and found that all his student loans had stuck with him. While the federal government gave him more forgiving repayment terms on his guaranteed loans, he said, the company that had made him a private, or unguaranteed, loan had no incentive to negotiate a payment plan with him because he had no way to avoid the obligation.

While trying to learn more about student loans and his rights in dealing with lenders, Mockler said he came across StudentLoanJustice.org, Collinge's site.

Back to those Straits of Tiran...

So, again we come back to the 1967 war. The question that begs to be asked is...who really wanted war? Nasser or Israel? Even if we assume that Nasser had defacto closed the Straits (as I showed, they were defacto open to shipping even after he announced their closure), was he willing to compromise? Was Israel? 

After the "closure" of the straits, UNEF'S U.Thant was immediately received expressed approval from Nasser for a new diplomatic initiative, including the appointing of a new UN mediator to avert the crisis, as well as a two week moratorium on any belligerent acts in the Straits. Egypt approved, while Israel categorically rejected. Moreover, Nasser was willing to put the Straits issue up to the World Court, again, Israel rejected.  Indeed, just two days after Israel launched its war on Egypt, Nasser's VP was scheduled to have a meeting at the White House for further diplomatic discussions. As of Egyptian troop concentrations in the Sinia, we need only quote Menachem Begin:

"“The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.”

Wow. 

Matching Russian Brutality...

Could it be? Were the Russian butchers of Grozny matched in savagery by the Israeli armed Georgians? 

""Much of the damage was done by the Georgians, says Human Rights Watch (HRW), a monitoring group. Shortly before midnight on August 7th Mr Saakashvili ordered a bomb barrage using Grad multiple-rocket launchers. This lasted through the night. Even his supporters agree that the use of indiscriminate Grad rockets, which killed civilians, was disproportionate and merciless. Mr Saakashvili said he was restoring “constitutional order”. But then so did Russia when it bombed Grozny in 1994. That Russia provoked Mr Saakashvili consistently is clear, but it is equally clear that Mr Saakashvili allowed himself to be provoked. “He wanted to fight,” says one of his allies.""

Never expect anything better from ZIonist allies. We wont forget the butchery of the phalangists and the SLA in Lebanon. 

What happened along the Syrian-Israeli border?

in the Demilitarized Zones before the 1967 war? This is one of the most vital questions to answer regarding the build up to the Israeli initiated war of 1967. What was happening along the Syrian Israeli border? Who was acting more aggressively, who was acting defensively? Well, according to Odd Bull, the chief of staff of UN forces in the Middle East, "the status quo was all the tie being altered by Israel in her favor." Arab villagers were being evicted, and "all Arab villages dissapeared", and from general Carl von Horn before him,"gradually, beneath the glowering eyes of the Syrians, who held the high ground overlooking the zone, the area had become a network of Israeli canals and irrigation channels edging up against and always encroaching on Arab-owned property." "This deliberate poaching was bitterly resented by the Syrians."  Moshe Dayan himself admitted, 

""Never mind that [when asked that Syrians initiated the war from the Golan Heights]. After all, I know how at least 80 percent of the clashes there started. In my opinion, more than 80 percent, but let's talk about 80 percent. It went this way: We would send a tractor to plough someplace where it wasn't possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance farther, until in the end Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was. I did that, and Laskov and Chara [Zvi Tsur, Rabin's predecessor as chief of staff] did that, Yitzhak did that, but it seems to me that the person who most enjoyed these games was Dado [David Elzar, OC Northern Command, 1964-69].""

Odd Bull continued, 

"I imagine that a number of those evicted settled somewhere in the Golan Heights and that their children have watched the land that had been in their families for hundreds of years being cultivated by Israeli farmers. From time to time they opened fire on these farmers. That, of course, was a violation of the armistice agreement, though I could not help thinking that in similar circumstances Norwegian peasants would almost certainly have acted in the same way"

The truth hurts, but much more so for the ethnically cleansed villagers of the Golan Heights. 

Just a Prediction...

but I see McCain winning the presidential elections. On the Israeli-Palestinian issue, we have two great picks. One party who fanatically supports Israel, and another party that fanatically supports Israel. 

Sorry...

For the lack of posts lately, Ive been particularly busy. I blog at some point today, hopefully. Meanwhile, I urge you to just one case of the brutality of Zionist soldiers at a checkpoint:

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The B’Tselem team immediately contacted 

the IDF Spokesperson’s office and the Civil 

Administration’s Humanitarian Hotline 

demanding that the matter be dealt with 

right away, while the soldiers were still at 

the checkpoint. As they were talking with the 

officials, three army vehicles passed by, but the 

soldiers refused to stop and provide first-aid. 

The B’Tselem team summoned an ambulance, 

which took the man to the hospital. 

About an hour and a half later, B’Tselem was 

told by an official from the Humanitarian 

Hotline that the soldiers claimed that the 

bruised man had tried to steal a gun from 

one of the soldiers. This response, which was 

given based only on the soldiers’ statements, is 

incomprehensible. The fact that the man was 

Some of these testimonies are presented below. 

In one particularly gruesome case, two soldiers 

abused six Palestinians. On 30 December at 

about 6:30 A.M., two students on their way 

to a-Najah University, in Nablus, came to 

the checkpoint. The soldiers told them that it 

was closed. The students, along with another 

student, decided to go around the checkpoint 

and over the hills to get to the university. 

Around 7:00 A.M., as they were making their 

way to Nablus, two soldiers appeared. The 

soldiers aimed their rifles at the students, 

kicked them, and beat them with their hands 

and weapons. Thirty minutes later, they put 

the students in a circle around an olive tree, 

and bound their hands with plastic handcuffs, 

one to the other. The soldiers also bound the 

handcuffs to branches of the tree, so that the 

Palestinians’ hands were suspended in the air. 

Then the soldiers kicked them and went back to 

their position to “ambush” others. 

About ten minutes later, the two soldiers 

stopped three more Palestinians. They kicked 

them in the abdomen and beat them with their 

hands and weapons. Then the soldiers ordered 

the three Palestinians to lie down on their 

stomachs. One of the soldiers held his rifle to 

the back of one of their heads, threatened to 

shoot him, counted to three, and then the other 

soldier fired into the air. 

After abusing them for about a half an hour, 

the soldiers took these three men to the olive 

tree and told them to take off the handcuffs of 

the three Palestinians who were tied to the tree. 

When they were unable to do so, the soldiers 

beat them. The soldiers returned to their 

ambush position, and came back about fifteen 

minutes later, around 9:00. They ordered the 

second group to go back home, and told the 

Palestinians who were tied to the tree to wait 

there until 10:30, even if they found a way to 

free themselves before then. Shortly before 

10:00, the Palestinians managed to cut the 

handcuffs and free themselves. They went back 

to the checkpoint, where the soldiers gave them 

back their ID cards and ordered them to leave. 

Do Thuggish Zionist Soldiers Abuse People? Case Study

This is my mere introduction of the brutality inflicted on Palestinians by thug Zionist soldiers. "Purity of Arms", I think its called. This is a case study at the Sarra Checkpoint, documenting a week of brutality. An excerpt:

"The blond soldier grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back, and the other soldier kicked him in the abdomen. Then they told him to lie down on his stomach, and the dark-haired soldier put his rifle to the back of his head and said that he was going to shoot and kill him. The soldier counted to three, and on three, the blond soldier fired into the air. They did the same thing to me."

Read the full report here.

You Zionist parents should be proud of your children's "service".

Zionist (Il)logic

If anyone doubted the inability of Zionism to defend itself against the documentary and historical record, then doubt no longer. Here, we see Israel defend itself against Human RIghts Watch's extensive documentation showing the mass evidence of Israel's indiscriminate carpeting of South Lebanon with cluster bombs in its reports Flooding South Lebanon.

Here, we see Israel's complete non-response to the charges leveled against. Possible the most hilarious part:

Even following the Hizbullah attack of July 12, Israel sought to avoid an escalation of the conflict. The Israeli government gave Syria and Hizbullah a 72 hour ultimatum to stop Hizbullah’s activity along the Lebanon-Israel border and to release the two kidnapped IDF soldiers, and so avert the conflict.

Has official Israeli propaganda just given up on even TRYING to tell the truth? "Avoid escalation"??!! June 12 and 13th were the first days of the war, and Israel was already bombarding the airport and Lebanese civilian infrastructure. Dozens of Lebanese civilians were killed.

Jeez, what a despicable state. 

Correction: Clearly, it is called the July War for a reason, whereas I misstyped and said the war was in June. Thanks Zionist reader Yerushalemaiy or whatever. 

Non-Zionism Related:

This is a fascinating article on Bayer's Trasylol drug. It was recently pulled from the market:

"Studies have found that Trasylol can increase the risk of kidney damage compared with other drugs," Dr. Gerald Dal Pan, the FDA's director of the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, said during the news conference.

In 2006, he added, the FDA limited the use of Trasylol and strengthened its warnings. Subsequently, he said, studies found that Trasylol increased the risk of in-hospital death among patients undergoing cardiac bypass surgery. In addition, Dal Pan said, two studies this year found that the drug increased the long-term mortality of patients who had undergone bypass surgery.

The suspension follows news last month that a major Canadian trial of the drug was terminated because of an increase in deaths for cardiac surgery patients using it.

The trial was designed to show that Trasylol was better than other drugs in controlling bleeding, Dal Pan said. "That study was halted, because Trasylol appeared to increase the risk for death compared with two other drugs," he said.

John McCain, war criminal

Lets not forget what John McCain was doing when his plane was shot down in North Vietnam. He was bombarding Vietnamese villages. If Americans elect him, what should the world do about it? Siege the States? Maybe...

Russian, Country X's cluster bomb use:

This article on the use of cluster bombs by Russia in Georgia reminded me of another country, which dropped, like, a million cluster bombs on a civilian population. Does anyone remember who or when that was?

My conclusion:

Never put your trust in the masses, ever. They will surely fail you. In particular, see the Arab masses, and the American masses.

Out of Town....

So probably wont blog until Monday. We shall see. Meanwhile, I assure you, serious human rights violations will be occurring in Palestine.

So true...

The Georgia conflict sparked a mocking speech with Cold War rhetoric by Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, over the performance of Israeli-trained Georgian troops. One of the Israeli military advisers there was reserve Brigadier-General Gal Hirsch, who commanded a division in Israel’s inconclusive war with Hezbollah in 2006, and who resigned his commission afterwards.

“Gal Hirsch, who was defeated in Lebanon, went to Georgia and they too lost because of him,” the Shia leader taunted. “Relying on Israeli experts and weapons, Georgia learnt why the Israeli generals failed.

“What happened in Georgia is a message to all those the Americans are seeking to entangle in dangerous adventures.”