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If I converted to Buddhism does that make me Chinese If I converted to Hinduism does that make me Indian When Khazarians Mongol Turks converted to Judaism in 740 BC and stole the true Negro Hebrew identity and turned them into slaves did that make the counterfeit Jews Hebrew Well the Jew World Order seems to think so They crucified Jesus Christ for exposing themThe invention of the Muslim Terrorist is the latest invention by the Jews to spread fear and dismantle governments that are not yet puppets of the Jewsor have decided to stop serving the Jews justifying raping the World and slaughtering billions of innocent genuine semite and gentile families in every country for power and control annually under the illusion of Freedom Democracy War on Terror or anything else that can justify their invasions and mass murders for their 2 horned God Jewish Rabbi claims Islam is Israel’s broomWe control Islam and we’ll use it to destroy the west israel defence forces stole a pregnant donkey from a Palestinian family in Salfit and used her to train their dogs December 27th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ israel defence forces stole a pregnant donkey from a Palestinian family in Salfit and used her to train their dogs israel defence forces stole a pregnant donkey from a Palestinian family in Salfit and used her to train their dogs Jewish Sharia Law December 17th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ Jewish Sharia Law The more I look at Judaism the more I see that Islam is a just a clone of Judaism And we can see why Jews keep bragging why their crime rate is so low — they just don’t report the crime! From a rare New York Times article one only has to substitute “Muslim” for “Jew” “mullah” for “rabbi” and “Sharia” for “Beth Din” to see that Islam and Judaism are closely tied in Sharia law tradition Ultra-Orthodox Jews have long been forbidden to inform on one another without permission from the rabbis who lead them… Members of this close-knit community who refer to themselves as the “haredim” meaning those who fear God reject modern secular culture and keep strict control over what they consider internal affairs For centuries disputes involving children marriage and business have been decided by rabbinical courts called beth dins which do not report their findings to the secular authorities even when they judge someone guilty Taboos codified long ago during times of persecution discourage community members from informing on other Jews violations can result in ostracism — Orthodox Jews Rely More on Sex Abuse Prosecution — by PAUL VITELLO October 13 2009 Is the Judiac institution of Beth Din nothing more than Islamic Sharia Law Jewish Lawyers screw Christian men in secular courts get their own divorce in Jewish courts While American Christian men are being taken to the cleaners by Jewish lawyers Jewish lawyers have their own divorce proceedings done outside the judicial system they work for Their divorce and their child protective services are done in a Rabbinical Court called a beth din Perhaps what is good for Jews would be good for Christians in place of the plague of “no-fault” divorce Marriage Arbitration in one’s Church would prevent many needless broken homes and their resulting broken children Jewish media-Scribes attack without worries And from this same New York Times article one can deduce why Jewish media-Scribes have been able to impute scurrilous accusations against Catholic Church priests without anyone being able to accuse them of hypocrisy as in the Rabbi child molestation abuses which are hidden from public view Again because the serious and heinous crimes by Jews are not being reported to the proper authorities Catholic priests become prey to these killers We are not talking about the Jewish religious crime of working on the Sabbath not being reported — we are talking about the religious and criminal crime of child abuse NOT being REPORTED Now a growing number of haredi Jews in Brooklyn say they do not think they can get justice from the rabbinical courts which in several high-profile cases have exonerated people who were later criminally convicted of child abuse And although some advocates for victims contend that the district attorney has been too accommodating of the rabbinical hierarchy — a charge that Mr Hynes denies — more families are turning to his office for help Prosecutors say that since last year 40 minors have agreed to testify about abuse in court if necessary And Mr Hynes’s office has been asked for advice by prosecutors with jurisdictions that include other large haredi enclaves in the Northeast — Orthodox Jews Rely More on Sex Abuse Prosecution — by PAUL VITELLO October 13 2009 Indeed Survivors for Justice founder Ben Hirsch confirms that there is abuse of children in the Jewish community and keeping it a secret only helps abusers of Jewish children Children in haredi families are no more or less likely to suffer sexual abuse than others according to several recent studies But Ben Hirsch founder of Survivors for Justice a New York group whose members include haredi Jews molested as children in communities nationwide said the clandestine handling of molestation cases had kept leaders from dealing with the problem and made it easier for predators — Orthodox Jews Rely More on Sex Abuse Prosecution — by PAUL VITELLO October 13 2009 This site has said so much in its previous article — Rabbi Rap Sheet — “Religious Sensitivities” For Christian child abusers the abuser loses his job — because he is sitting in prison! Then after serving his time in prison he has the additional punishment of the Megan’s Law “Scarlet Letter” hung around his neck when he has to register as a child molester with the authorities reporting where he lives to one and all Not so with Jewish child molesters — who have “religious sensitivities”! David Zwiebel executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America a group representing many haredi factions offered the moderate view… he added that prosecutors should recognize “religious sensitivities” by seeking alternatives to prison to avoid depriving a family of its breadwinner or by finding appropriate Orthodox homes for children removed from abusive families “The district attorney should be careful not to be seen as making a power grab from rabbinic authority” Mr Zwiebel said — Orthodox Jews Rely More on Sex Abuse Prosecution — by PAUL VITELLO October 13 2009 Does this sound like an invitation for abuse — Yes indeed ! And once again Jewish children suffered for the bad decisions of Jewish authorities Advocates for victims say similar views have informed some of the Brooklyn rabbinical leadership’s worst judgments allowing prominent rabbis who were repeatedly accused of abuse to keep their jobs and reputations In 2000 Rabbi Baruch Lanner a charismatic youth leader and yeshiva principal who was the focus of students’ abuse claims for more than 20 years — and was exonerated by a beth din — became the subject of an exposé in The Jewish Week which found more than 60 accusers The article led to a criminal investigation and a seven-year prison term for Rabbi Lanner Another rabbi Yehuda Kolko a grade school teacher at a Flatbush yeshiva was accused of sexually abusive behavior by parents and former students numerous times over 30 years The complaints were dismissed by rabbinical authorities however until New York magazine wrote about them in 2006 — Orthodox Jews Rely More on Sex Abuse Prosecution — by PAUL VITELLO October 13 2009 Jewish Fatwa Muslim Mullahs are well know to issue Fatwas against anyone who demeans Islam in the slightest degree Simply drawing a picture of Muhammad is a death sentence Now we find that Judaism has fatwas as well In a Jewish Fatwa in order to obtain your death sentence all you have to do is report a credible factual crime of child abuse to the appropriate government officials …one rabbi mentioned frequently on blogs cites ancient doctrine that justifies killing someone who informs on a fellow Jew — Orthodox Jews Rely More on Sex Abuse Prosecution — by PAUL VITELLO October 13 2009 One is left to assume that Jewish “justified killing” can be done by any means available not just by the standard Islamic method of beheading Fear of a Jewish Fatwa Fearing a Jewish Rabbi “Death Wish” Fatwa against him for reporting child abuse here is the troubles which one Jewish father had to go through before he would feel free to report the abuse of his 6-year-old son The father had to get a Jewish “Permission” Fatwa from a Rabbi just to be able to bring justice to his 6-year-old son For committing a “sin” in Judaism can get you killed When his 6-year-old son told him one day that Rabbi Kolko had sexually abused him the father said he resolved to go to the police because he knew that the Brooklyn hierarchy had protected the rabbi in the past But first he made a detour “I booked a flight to Jerusalem” he said “I made an appointment to speak with a very prominent rabbi” who had written sympathetically about abuse victims “He told me it would be OK to report this teacher to the police” the father said “He told me that if I reported him I would not be committing a sin” — Orthodox Jews Rely More on Sex Abuse Prosecution — by PAUL VITELLO October 13 2009 The War On Drugs hoax December 14th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ The War On Drugs hoax The real enemy is at home August 25th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ The real enemy is at home The Satanic Cult that rules the world July 22nd 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ The Satanic Cult that rules the world Why do Children go missing every year October 2nd 2017 Jesus Christ ✝ Why do Children go missing every year Jewish Blood Libels and Child Sacrifices to Satan Moloch The Invention of the word JEW July 16th 2017 Jesus Christ ✝ The Invention of the word JEW The word “Jew” is a relatively modern invention used seemingly indiscriminately and interchangeably by 18th century redactors to describe Israelites Judahites and Judaeans It first appeared in these eighteenth century Bibles and it first appears within these redactions in 2 Kings 16:6 … in an episode that describes a war between Israel and Judah: when Rezin king of Syria and Pekah king of Israel went to war with wicked Ahaz king of Judah The Syrians “drove the Jews from Elath” who were in possession of it and so here is the first time that the inhabitants of the kingdom of Judah are called “Jews” when more properly they should be called Judahites However the point here is this: the very first time the word “Jew” is found in the modern Bible they are at war with Israel Edomites are therefore descended from Edom Esau whose descendants later intermarried with the Turks to produce a Turco-Edomite mixture which later became known as Khazars That is most of today’s Jews are descendants of this interbreeding that produced a race called Khazars who had once governed an empire called Khazaria Furthermore this hybrid race Edomite/Turk/Khazar who created the Khazar kingdom and who between the seventh and ninth centuries AD adopted the religion of Judaism And it is these Khazar Jews who are the ancestors of the vast majority of today’s Jewish people That is Edomite/Turk/Khazars are the ancestors of the modern “Jews” including the Torah-true and Zionist Jews who spuriously claim right to the land of Palestine claiming it it is theirs by biblical demands and ancestral rights Consequently the majority of today’s Jewish people are known as “Jews” not because they are Judahites and descended from Jacob/Israel but because their Edomite/Turk/Khazar ancestors in their Kingdom of Khazaria adopted the religion of Judaism called themselves “Jews” and arrogated the Birthright Promises and Bible Covenants belonging to the Israelites but especially those belonging to the Judahites Thus “Jews” are not Israelites and certainly they are not Judahites Hence modern Jews are not heir to the Bible Covenants nor to the ancient Nation of Israel given by Yahweh to the Israelites and the Judahites and so have no Divine Right or biblical mandate to the modern Land of Palestine Similarly Jesus of Nazareth was not a “Jew” he was a Judahite and Jesus Christ was not “King of the Jews” How the Jews swindle our Taxes and Economies July 3rd 2017 Jesus Christ ✝ How the Jews swindle our Taxes and Economies Jews behind every Terrorist Attack and Fake Muslim Groups June 23rd 2017 Jesus Christ ✝ Jews behind every Terrorist Attack and Fake Muslim Groups ISIS Israeli Secret Intelligence Service June 20th 2017 Jesus Christ ✝ ISIS Israeli Secret Intelligence Service How the Jews mock Jesus Christians and Christmas May 22nd 2017 Jesus Christ ✝ How the Jews mock Jesus Christians and Christmas Confessions of a CIA economic hitman Terrorist May 12th 2017 Jesus Christ ✝ Confessions of a CIA economic hitman Terrorist Are you a real Christian May 11th 2017 Jesus Christ ✝ Are you a real Christian Or are you led by the devil himself Israel The Promised Land of Global Jewish Organized Crime October 28th 2016 Jesus Christ ✝ Jesus was not a Jew December 30th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ JESUS WAS NOT A Jew Benjamin H Freedman Jewish Historian – Researcher – Scholar From “Common Sense” p 2-1-53 and 5-1-59 “Christians have been duped by the unholiest hoax in all history by so-called Jews This is considered their most effective weapon” “This ‘big lie’ technique is brainwashing United States Christians into believing that Jesus Christ was “King of the Jews” in the sense that so-called ‘Jews’ today call themselves ‘Jews’ This reference was first made in English translations of the Old and New Testaments centuries before the so-called Jews highjacked the word ‘Jew’ in the 18th century AD to palm themselves off on the Christian world as having a kinship with Jesus Christ This alleged kinship comes from the myth of their common ancestry with the so-called ‘Jews’ of the Holy Land in the Old Testament history a fiction based on fable” “American Christians little suspect they are being brainwashed twenty-four hours of every day over television and radio by newspapers and magazines by motion pictures and plays by books by political leaders in office and seeking office by religious leaders in their pulpits and outside their churches by leaders in the field of education inside and outside their curricular activities and by all leaders in business professions and finance whose economic security demands that they curry the favor of so-called “Jews” of historic Khazar ancestry Unsuspecting Christians are subjected to this barrage from sources they have little reason to suspect Incontestable facts supply the unchallengeable proof of the historic accuracy that so-called “Jews” throughout the world today of eastern European origin are unquestionably the historic descendants of the Khazars a pagan Turko-Finn ancient Mongoloid nation deep in the heart of Asia according to history who battled their way in bloody wars about the 1st century BC into eastern Europe where they set up their Khazar kingdom For some mysterious reason the history of the Khazar kingdom is conspicuous by its absence from history courses in the schools and colleges “The historic existence of the Khazar kingdom of so-called “Jews” their rise and fall the permanent disappearance of the Khazar kingdom as a nation from the map of Europe and how King Bulan and the Khazar nation in about 740 AD became so-called “Jews” by conversion were concealed from American Christians by censorship imposed by so-called “Jews” of historic Khazar ancestry upon all USA media of mass communications directed by them Then in 1945 this author gave nation-wide publicity to his many years intensive research into the “facts of life” concerning Khazars The disclosures were sensational and very effective but apparently angered so-called “Jews” who have continued to vent their spleen upon this author since then solely for that reason Since 1946 they have conducted a vicious smear campaign against him seeking thus to further conceal these facts for obvious reasons What have they to fear from the truth “In an original 1903 edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia in New York’s Public Library and in the Library of Congress Volume IV pages 1 to 5 inclusive appears a most comprehensive history of the Khazars Also in the New York Public Library are 327 books by the world’s greatest historians and other sources of reference in addition to the Jewish Encyclopedia dealing with Khazar history and written between the 3rd AD and 20th centuries by contemporaries of the Khazars and by modern historians on that subject” Jesus was a ‘Judean’ not a Jew During His lifetime no persons were described as “Jews” anywhere That fact is supported by theology history and science When Jesus was in Judea it was not the “homeland” of the ancestors of those who today style themselves “Jews” Their ancestors never set a foot in Judea They existed at that time in Asia their “homeland” and were known as Khazars In none of the manuscripts of the original Old or New Testament was Jesus described or referred to as a “Jew” The term originated in the late eighteenth century as an abbreviation of the term Judean and refers to a resident of Judea without regard to race or religion just as the term “Texan” signifies a person living in Texas In spite of the powerful propaganda effort of the so-called “Jews” they have been unable to prove in recorded history that there is one record prior to that period of a race religion or nationality referred to as “Jew” The religious sect in Judea in the time of Jesus to which self-styled “Jews” today refer to as “Jews” were known as “Pharisees” “Judaism” today and “Pharisaism” in the time of Jesus are the same Jesus abhorred and denounced “Pharisaism” hence the words “Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites Ye Serpents Ye Generation of Vipers” JESUS WAS NOT A Jew by Jason Collett Many denominational Christians and even church leaders are under the mistaken belief that Jesus was a Jew But nothing could be further from the truth Judea and Galilee were two separate states and political entities as illustrated on the map of Palestine in the time of our Saviour in your Bible Jesus Himself was not a Jew Judean or resident of Judea He was a Galilean or resident of Galilee Matthew 26:69 John 7:41 and a Judahite or descendent of the Tribe of Judah The Judeans of prominence were not of the Tribe of Judah but of Edomites Pilate was being ironic when he wrote the sign “Jesus of Nazareth King of the Judeans” for the Cross John 19:19 That is “the Galilean who was King of the Judeans” as in “Queen Victoria of England Empress of India” Jesus grew up in Nazareth in Galilee His disciples were fishermen from the Sea of Galilee And although He visited Jerusalem he spent most of His life in his home country of Galilee John 7:1 “After this Jesus stayed in Galilee for He could not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him” His followers were constrained “for fear of the Jews” John 7:13 19:38 20:19 Why was this Psalm 83:3 says God’s elect are “hidden” or protected ones and that they are under attack from a coalition of evil groups led by Edom Who was Edom Esau the brother of the patriarch Jacob became the ancestor of the people called Edom or Idumea The Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus XIII ix 1 XV vii 9 instructs us: John Hyrcanus forcibly assimilated the Edomites as a national group and they became “Jews” in about 120BC The Jewish historian Josephus who lived just after the time of Christ wrote “They Edom were hereafter no other than Jews’ The Jewish scholar Cecil Roth in his Concise Jewish Encyclopedia 1980 says on page 154 “John Hyrcanus forcibly converted Edom to Judaism From then on they were part of the Jewish people In the Talmud the name of Edom was applied to Christian Rome and was then used for Christianity in general” Terrible judgements against Edom are made in most of the prophecies of the Old Testament For instance Isaiah 34 63 Jeremiah 49 and the entire book of Obadiah Isaiah 63:1-6 “Who is this coming from Edom in garments stained with crimson It is I the Lord who speak in righteousness and am mighty to save” “Why are your garments red as if you had trodden the winepress” “I have trodden the winepress alone: and of the people there was none to help Me In My anger I trod them down trampled them in My wrath Their blood splattered My garments and all My clothes are stained For the day of vengeance is in My heart and the year of My redeemed has come I will tread down the people in My anger and bring their blood upon the ground” These verses refer to Revelations chapter 19:11-21 when the Word of God destroys His enemies: “And I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse: and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True His eyes were as a flame of fire and on His head were many crowns and He had a Name written that no man knew but Himself And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and His Name is called The Word of God and He trod the winepress of God’s fierce anger” Jehovah of the Old Testament “hated Esau Edom against whom He has indignation forever” Malachi 1:2-4 If Jesus will destroy Edom when He returns then Edom is present today and obviously evil anti-Christian and anti-Semitic The Edomite Antipater became the Procurator of Judea in 47BC Ten years later his son Herod actually became “king of the Jews” initiating the Edomite dynasty which ruled Palestine under Roman authority for over a hundred years The Edomite assimilation opened the way for the virtual takeover along the lines predicted by Ezekiel and stimulus for an influx of population from the arid country of Edom into the more hospitable environment of Judea an influx obviously encouraged for political reasons by the ruling Herodian dynasty Edomites would have been appointed to the most influential positions in order to extend and consolidate Edomite authority over the land and its people Herod became notorious for his massacre of infant boys two years old and undger” a supernaturally inspired attempt on the life of Christ Matthew 2:16 Herod’s son Herod Antipas continuing the work and was responsible for the gruesome murder of John the Baptist Matthew 14:6-12 Christ demonstrated a very real antipathy towards the people called Jews in Bibles published after about 1776 but who would be more accurately described as Judeans or residents of the Edomite-dominated territory of Judea Jesus said to the Jews “You do not believe because you are not of My sheep” John 10:24-27 “I was only sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel” Matthew 15:24 In fact Christ referred to “those Jews or residents of Judea regardless of religion race or color who believed on him” as “of their father the devil” for although they were children of Abraham they were not children of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and heirs of the blessing of Abraham nor did they have the faith of Abraham and were in all probability descendants of Abraham Isaac and Esau John 8: 3144 In contrast Jesus instructed His disciples – who were from Galilee of the Gentiles not Judea Acts 1:11 2:7 – to pray to lti”our father”” who”” is”” in”” heaven”lt”” i””gt And in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 Jesus speaks of “those who say they are Jews and are not but are the synagogue of Satan” The Jews shouted “Crucify Him!” John 19:15 “His blood be on us and on our children” Matthew 27:25 In an appropriate turn about when Jesus returns their blood will stain His own garments The spiritual leaders of the Jews were the Pharisees who not surprisingly were associated with the Edomite Herodians Matthew 22:15-16 Mark 3:6 12:13 Jesus repeatedly condemned the Pharisees as “hypocrites” Matthew 15:7 22:18 23:1315232527-27 He also called them “serpents the offspring of vipers” Matthew 3:7 12:34 23:33 “Jesus spoke to the crowds only in parables” Matthew 13:10-17 Why was this Many nominal churches and Sunday schools teach that Jesus used parables to make His teachings clearer But all four Gospels say the opposite When Jesus was asked why He spoke to them in parables He replied “Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is not given” Matthew 13:10-11 Mark 4:11-12 Luke 8:9-10 John 12:37-44 Brother Branham simply said Jesus spoke in parables to thin down the crowds Jesus told “those Jews who believed in Him You are of your father the devil and lust for what is forbidden He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him as he is a liar and the father of lies” John 8:31-44 This characteristic is confirmed by the dictionary definition of the verb jew But do Jews ever come up with such brazenly audacious lies lies so enormous in scope and implication as to qualify as “chutzpah” so admired by Jews Norman G Finkelstein of the City University of New York says: “The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon Through its deployment one of the world’s most formidable military powers with a horrendous human rights record has cast itself as a ‘victim’ state and the most successful ethnic group in the United States has likewise acquired victim status Considerable benefits accrue to this specious victimhood – in particular immunity to criticism however justified” Finkelstein The Holocaust Industry 2000 published by Verso p 3 In other words Finkelstein exposes the HYPOCRISY Some further quotes: “In an authoritative study Leonard Dinnerstein reported: Sixty thousand Jews walked out of the concentration camps Within a week more than 20000 of them had died” But ‘As it entered into negotiations with Germany just two years ago in 1999 the Holocaust industry demanded compensation for 135000 still living former camp inmates’ On page 83 he notes that ‘The Israeli Prime Minister’s office recently put the number of “living Holocaust survivors” at nearly a million’ Finkelstein exposes the LIES On page 127 he further notes ‘If 135000 former Jewish slave laborers are still alive today some 600000 must have survived the war That’s at least a half-million more than standard estimates If Jews only constituted 20 of the surviving camp population and as the Holocaust industry implies 600000 Jewish inmates survived the war then fully 3 million inmates in total must have survived By the Holocaust industry’s reckoning concentration camp conditions couldn’t have been that harsh at all in fact one must suppose a remarkably high fertility and remarkably low mortality rate If as the Holocaust industry suggests many hundreds of thousands of Jews survived the Final Solution couldn’t have been so efficient after all – exactly what Holocaust deniers argue” pp 127-8 “Both my father and my mother were survivors of the Warsaw ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps One of my father’s lifelong friends was a former inmate with him in Auschwitz a seemingly incorruptible left-wing idealist who on principle refused German compensation after the war Eventually he became a director of the Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem Reluctantly and with genuine disappointment my father finally admitted that even this man had been corrupted by the Holocaust industry tailoring his beliefs for power and profit As the rendering of the Holocaust assumed ever more absurd forms my mother liked to quote with intentional irony Henry Ford: “History is bunk” ibid p 7 “The Holocaust proved to be the perfect weapon for deflecting criticism of Israel” ibid p 30 “Much of the literature on Hitler’s Final Solution is worthless as scholarship Indeed the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud” p 55 “Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry the wonder is that there are so few skeptics” p 68 “Annual Days of Remembrance of the Holocaust are a national event All 50 states sponsor commemorations often in state legislative chambers Seven major Holocaust museums dot the American landscape The centerpiece of this memorialization is the United States Holocaust museum in Washington This museum’s annual budget is 50 million of which 30 million is federally subsidized” p 72 This is in spite of the fact that as he points out on page 32 per capita Jewish income in the US is almost double that of non-Jews “With a reelection campaign looming Jimmy Carter initiated the US Holocaust Museum project to placate Jewish contributors and voters galled by the president’s recognition of the “legitimate rights” of Palestinians’ p 73 Finkelstein exposes the SWINDLE a word formerly most often associated with Jews “The Holocaust” is an ideological representation of the Nazi holocaust Like most ideologies it bears a connection if tenuous with reality The Holocaust is not an arbitrary but rather an internally coherent construct Its central dogmas sustain significant political and class interests” p 3 And: “The Holocaust may yet turn out to be the “greatest robbery in the history of mankind” The Holocaust industry has clearly gone berserk” p 138-9 Is this evaluation fair Have a look at a typical account by one of the seemingly endless number of survivors: Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys: a woman survivor’s true story of Auschwitz Granada/Ziff-Davis 1947 1972 The blurb on the cover of the book quotes the New York Herald-Tribune: “Passionate tormenting” Albert Einstein the promoter of the US construction of the bombs used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki is quoted as offering “You have done a real service by letting the ones who are now silent and most forgotten sic speak” Lengyel says: “After June 1943 the gas chamber was reserved exclusively for Jews and Gypsies Three hundred and sixty corpses every half-hour which was all the time it took to reduce human flesh to ashes made 720 per hour or 17280 corpses per twenty-four hour shift And the ovens with murderous efficiency functioned day and night However one must also reckon the death pits which could destroy another 8000 cadavers a day In round numbers about 24000 corpses were handled each day An admirable production record one that speaks well for German industry” Paperback edition pp 80-81 No trace of any remains of or in ‘death pits’ has been found This implies almost 100000 corpses per four working days or a million in 40 days or six million in 240 days eight months Could this claim be a misprint Kitty Hart in spite of her name a Jewish survivor born in Poland fully confirms these figures: “Working around the clock the four units together could dispose of about 18000 bodies every twenty-four hours while the open pits coped with a further 8000 in the same period” p 118 Return to Auschwitz – paperback edition by Granada 1981 1983 According to the cover blurb “The subject of the award-winning Yorkshire television documentary of the same name” “Both engaging and harrowing an important addition to the growing holocaust literature very little of which conveys so courageously both the daily torment and the will to survive” – Martin Gilbert The Times Martin Gilbert indefatigable Jewish campaigner on behalf of the ‘Holocaust’ and biographer of Winston Churchill adds to the rich flavour and makes his own numerical claims certainly not without chutzpah: In his book Auschwitz and the Allies 1981 he states: “The deliberate attempt to destroy systematically all of Europe’s Jews was unsuspected in the spring and early summer of 1942: the very period during which it was at its most intense and during which hundreds of thousands of Jews were being gassed every day at Belzec Chelmo Sobibor and Treblinka” p 26 If we assume a minimum figure of 200000 per day this amounts to say one million over a five-day working week or 6 million in six weeks and this does not include the truly awe-inspiring claims for Auschwitz put forward by Hart and Lengyel with Gilbert’s blessing A detailed forensic examination of the site of the wartime Treblinka camp using sophisticated electronic ground penetrating radar has found no evidence of mass graves there For six days in October 1999 an Australian team headed by Richard Krege a qualified electronics engineer carried out an examination of the soil at the site of the former Treblinka II camp in Poland where Holocaust historians say more than half a million Jews were put to death in gas chambers and then buried in mass graves According to the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust 1997 for example “a total of 870000 people” were killed and buried at Treblinka between July 1942 and April 1943 Then between April and July 1943 the hundreds of thousands of corpses were allegedly dug up and burned in batches of 2000 or 2500 on large grids made of railway ties Krege’s team used an 80000 Ground Penetrating Radar GPR device which sends out vertical radar signals that are visible on a computer monitor GPR detects any large-scale disturbances in the soil structure to a normal effective depth of four or five meters and sometimes up to ten meters GPR devices are routinely used around the world by geologists archeologists and police In its Treblinka investigation Krege’s team also carried out visual soil inspections and used an auger to take numerous soil core samples The team carefully examined the entire Treblinka II site especially the alleged “mass graves” portion and carried out control examinations of the surrounding area They found no soil disturbance consistent with the burial of hundreds of thousands of bodies or even evidence that the ground had ever been disturbed In addition Krege and his team found no evidence of individual graves bone remains human ashes or wood ashes “From these scans we could clearly identify the largely undisturbed horizontal stratigraphic layering better known as horizons of the soil under the camp site” says the 30-year old Krege who lives in Canberra “We know from scans of grave sites and other sites with known soil disturbances such as quarries when this natural layering is massively disrupted or missing altogether” Because normal geological processes are very slow acting disruption of the soil structure would have been detectable even after 60 years Krege noted While his initial investigation suggests that there were never any mass graves at the Treblinka camp site Krege believes that further work is still called for “Historians say that the bodies were exhumed and cremated toward the end of the Treblinka camp’s use in 1943 but we found no indication that any mass graves ever existed” he says “Personally I don’t think there was a mass extermination camp there at all” Krege prepared a detailed report on his Treblinka investigation He says that he would welcome the formation possibly under United Nations auspices of an international team of neutral qualified specialists to carry out similar investigations at the sites of all the wartime German camps Sources: “‘Vernichtungslager’ Treblinka: archaelogisch betrachtet” by Ing Richard Krege in Vierteljarhreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung June 2000 4 Jg Heft 1 pp 62-64 “‘No Jewish mass grave’ in Poland” The Canberra Times January 24 2000 p 6 “Poland’s Jews ‘not buried at Treblinka’” The Examiner Australia Jan 24 2000 Information provided by Richard Krege M Weber and A Allen “Treblinka” The Journal of Historical Review Summer 1992 pp 133-158 Y Arad “Treblinka” in I Gutman ed Encyclopedia of the Holocaust New York: 1997 pp 1481-1488 lt/i”ourgt Who was the First Jew John Standring We know that Saul was the first king of Israel and that John was the first man called Baptist but who was the first Jew Neither Adam Seth or Noah are called Jew Nor were Abraham Isaac or Jacob Moses was not called a Jew and neither were Saul David or Solomon called Jew In fact you will not find the word Jew in the first eleven books of the Bible The first time Jews are mentioned in the Bible is in II Kings 16:6 and then only in translations revised in the eighteenth century where we find Israel was at war with the Jews and drave the Jews from Elath Isn’t it interesting that we can read over five hundred pages of the Bible before we find a Jew anywhere yet those who call themselves Jew today claim the first five books of the bible and call it their Torah Do you not find it rather strange that those who claim to have written the first five books of the Bible and call themselves Jew can’t find the word Jew written anywhere in the book they call their own bible and claim to have written Jesus Christ tells John in Revelation 2:9 “I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are not but are the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN” We know that God changed the name of Abram to Abraham in Genesis 17:5 and that He changed the name of Jacob to Israel in Genesis 32:28 but nowhere in the Bible do we find where God changed the name of Israel to Jew! There is therefore no authority by which those who say they are Jews can claim to be Israel! By the time of Jesus the word Edom or Edomite had been translated by Greek and Latin into Ioudaios and Iudaeus meaning a Judean or person living in Judea The original King James version of the Bible 1611 translated Idumaean-Judean into Iewes It wasn’t until the revised editions of the King James Bible that the word Jew appeared The word Jew does not mean Israel or Israelite! We must conclude therefore that the first “Jews” were Canaanite-Edomite-Hittite It is certain according to the Bible that Jews are not Israel jesusjewhtm Neopatrimonialism Corruption and the Palestinian Authority: Pathways to Real Reform December 29th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ by Marwa Fatafta for Al Shakaba Palestinian Policy Network Overview Palestinians recently ranked corruption as the second largest problem they face after the economic crisis – higher than the Israeli occupation which ranked third Indeed Palestinians generally view Palestinian Authority PAofficials as a self-serving elitist group disconnected from the Palestinian national struggle and the daily sufferings of the people Such perceptions are fostered by the failure of the Oslo Accords the death of the Palestinian statehood project and the continued fragmentation of political leadership in the context of Israel’s ongoing oppressive occupation and its violations of Palestinians’ fundamental rights Despite this dissatisfaction there has been little change in the last two decades whether at the top leadership level or within the ranks of PA institutions What remains a constant are the “old guards” maintaining a tight grip on power rampant and systemic corruption and the alienation of Palestinians from participation in decisions that impact their lives and future The present reality of the PA in no way resembles the kind of Palestinian government promised since the heady years of the Oslo Accords As Nathan Brown observed “Palestine is in short a model liberal democracy Its most significant flaw is that it does not exist” This discrepancy between envisaged democratic leadership and reality can be explained by the neopatrimonial nature of the Palestinian political system Neopatrimonialism is a hybrid model in which state structures laws and regulations are formally in place but overridden by informal politics and networks of patronage kinship and tribalism Instead of being organized according to merit public function or administrative grades a neopatrimonial regime finds its glue in bonds of loyalty to those at the top of the political hierarchy In an institutional context in which Palestinians have no mechanisms to hold their leaders accountable Palestinian neopatrimonialism has created a situation impervious to serious change in leadership or political system Though the PA after the onset of the Second Intifada began to make attempts at reform Palestinian political structures have remained corrupt and captured by one political faction Fateh The assets and resources of the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO and the PA have been channeled toward serving the interests of the few at the expense of the majority The question of what can be done to remedy this crisis cannot be answered without understanding the nature of Palestinian political corruption and how it has led to the failure to serve the Palestinian people and rendered any attempt at reform useless This policy brief examines Palestinian neopatrimonialism and corruption through a consideration of PA overreach patronage practices and collusion with Israel as well as pressures from the international community It ultimately proposes avenues for genuine reform with the goal of building a truly democratic leadership and a governance system that represents all Palestinian people The PA: Overstepping its Mandate A Weakened Legislature and Judiciary The two main Palestinian political bodies the PLO and the PA in principle should be democratic and representative as set out in the Palestinian Basic Law and the PLO’s constitution However the PLO has not only failed in the mission it carries in its name but has also failed to act as the “sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people” The PLO’s weakness can be seen in the fact that its legislative arm the Palestinian National Council PNC convened in May 2018 after 22 years of inaction The absence during which the Oslo “peace process” proved a total failure demonstrates how the Palestinian leadership impeded the PLO from fulfilling its duty as a representative of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories The PA on the other hand has overstepped its role as an interim government as stipulated in the Oslo Accords and has increasingly become an authoritarian governing force in the West Bank Hamas has followed suit in suppressing political dissent in the Gaza Strip PA President Mahmoud Abbas enjoys almost absolute power as the highest executive authority – an arrangement inherited from former President Yasser Arafat who is often credited for institutionalizing the neopatrimonial regime During his presidency Arafat maintained power via political cooptation and suppression Since the 2007 shutdown of the PA’s legislative arm the Palestinian Legislative Council PLC Abbas has consolidated more power by assuming the roles of both the executive and the legislative branches of government issuing legislation through presidential decrees and often in a process that lacks transparency and proper consultation with the public Among Abbas’s most recent legislative decrees is the Palestinian cybercrime law of 2017 The law despite being amended following a public outcry allows authorities to block websites and conduct surveillance on ordinary social media users Palestinians can be arrested for expressing their opinions and political views online and charged with “cybercrimes” punishable by up to 15 years in prison The executive capture of power also extends to the judiciary In April 2017 Palestinian judges lawyers and prosecutors gathered in Ramallah to protest a draft amendment that would grant the Palestinian president the authority to appoint the head of the High Judicial Council and the head of a committee that oversees judges The amendment would also allow for the early retirement of judges opening the door for the executive to interfere and threaten judges’ independence Under such a provision judges would have to think twice before issuing a ruling that challenges or opposes the executive authority In an example of such forced pressure from the executive former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sami Sarsour signed an undated letter of resignation shortly before he was sworn in The constant failure to reach a reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fateh despite announcing a national unity government in early 2017 also speaks volumes in regard to Fateh’s power monopoly and its marginalization of other Palestinian political actors and their constituencies Power sharing is a prerequisite to the establishment of a solid national unity government and requires fundamental changes to the current political setup Patronage and Loyalty As a result of Fateh’s control of the PA and the PLO the Palestinian administrative and political machines run on dynamics of inclusion vs exclusion and reward vs punishment – fundamentally according to loyalty Appointments of public positions and promotions for example are awarded or withdrawn not on the basis of performance or professional merit but on the level of loyalty to the leadership For instance holders of senior positions in the PA have invariably been appointed Position descriptions are not publicly posted nor are there openly established criteria for determining job scales salaries promotions benefits and bonuses According to the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity-AMAN the salaries and bonuses of the heads of some non-ministerial institutions have been higher than the salary of the president of the PA whose monthly income as stipulated by law stands at 10000 The appointment of freed Palestinian prisoners in the cadres of the civil workforce as compensation for their contribution to the Palestinian liberation movement is another example of the informal nature of PA positions Relatedly in 2017 President Abbas forced 6145 PA employees in Gaza into early retirement to pressure Hamas to cede control of the Strip The number of PA employees in Gaza – both civil and security – is estimated to be around 50000 Despite Hamas seizing control in Gaza their salaries continue to be paid – albeit at a lower rate –to secure their loyalty to the PA At the same time Abbas uses government resources for political exclusion and punishment A particularly abominable instance of this was the cutting of PA payments to Israel for electricity in Gaza reducing the electricity supply to the Strip’s two million inhabitants to four hours a day Covert Dealings The dysfunction of the PLC and the PNC two toothless legislative bodies has resulted in the executive monopolizing and signing secret negotiations and agreements The Oslo Accords are a prime example of how the PLO executive monopolized negotiations with Israel and took decisions in the name of the Palestinian people that proved disastrous In a similar vein the PA’s executive ignored on numerous occasions the PLC’s decisions mandating that the leadership must immediately stop negotiations with Israel in response to its continuous oppression of the Palestinian people and the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank The PA’s clandestine signing of agreements with Israel on matters related to energy electricity water and communications demonstrates how far the leadership will go in ignoring formal processes and consultation with the public These agreements have catastrophic political economic social and environmental implications One electricity-related agreement signed between Israel and the Palestinian private sector in September 2016 settled the PA’s outstanding 550 million debt to the Israel Electric Corporation with the aim of transferring the responsibility of providing electricity in the West Bank to the PA The PA which celebrated the agreement as a national victory and a step toward liberation kept the agreement confidential despite public demands to disclose its terms Palestinian civil society media and electric companies wanted to know: How will the power to distribute electricity be transferred to the PA How will it be regulated What are the implications Every Palestinian citizen as service recipients should have the right to know of such an agreement In the absence of basic transparency Palestinians are denied their right to access information that impacts their daily lives and the basic services delivered to them by their government This also impedes them from exercising any accountability over the PA The Red Sea-Dead Sea agreement signed by the PA Jordan and Israel was also completed in secret Palestinian water and environment experts protested warning that the agreement would cause irreversible environmental damage if implemented as it will destroy what little is left of the Dead Sea’s ecosystem Palestinians also protested the pact because it will entrench Israel’s denial of Palestinians’ rights to water as the agreement undermines Palestinian sovereignty over the West Bank and part of the Jordan River basin The PA represented by the Palestinian Water Authority excluded Palestinian experts from consultation and ignored them when they questioned the motivation behind signing such an agreement that achieves nothing for – and in fact damages – Palestinians This lack of transparency and accountability has translated into the misappropriation misuse and waste of public funds For example Abbas constructed a presidential palace on a 4700 square meter parcel of land with another 4000 square meters for auxiliary buildings including a helipad to host guests and foreign delegations He decided last year to convert the building into a national library to the cost of 175 million While a national library is a noble idea the investment in costly infrastructure by a government who is heavily in debt and dependent on foreign aid is a testament to misplaced priorities International Pressures and Partnerships The PA’s reliance on foreign aid has also undermined the Palestinian political system by making it accountable to international donors rather than the Palestinian people The PA’s reform agenda and anti-corruption efforts have mostly stemmed from US and EU pressure since the outbreak of the Second Intifada when the security situation on the ground deteriorated The intent behind the agenda has been clear: Emphasize security over administrative reform and thus ensure the security of Israel at the expense of the security and basic civil and political freedoms of Palestinians This has been reflected in the prioritization of security in the PA’s budget allocations with that sector taking 28 of the annual budget at the expense of other more vital sectors such as health education and agriculture In his critique of the Oslo aid model – a model based on the neoliberal policy of investing in peace – Alaa Tartir argues that the donor-driven development agenda has worsened the economic and political circumstances for Palestinians For example agriculture – a lost key pillar of the Palestinian economy – received only 1 of the PA’s annual budget between 2001 and 2005 while around 85 went to staff salaries Consequently the agricultural sector’s contribution to GDP shrunk from around 133 in 1994 to 59 in 2011 Palestinians have launched grassroots campaigns and union strikes demanding better education and health services including a massive teacher strike a campaign against medicine shortages led by a coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations a campaign against the electricity cuts in Gaza and a campaign urging the PA to address medical negligence The PA often leaves these public demands unanswered and they are rarely reflected in its fiscal planning and public policies As one member of the National Social Security movement which leads the opposition to the controversial national social security law said “The government is not listening to our concerns” The law which obliges private sector employees to pay 7 of their monthly salary and employers to pay 9 of salaries in exchange for social security coverage has caused a wave of anger among Palestinians who have protested mainly against the high monthly deductions as well as the lack of a guarantee to safeguard their money in the context of political and economic instability In February 2017 the PA adopted a new agenda “National Policy Agenda: Citizen First 2017-2022” that aims to prioritize the Palestinian citizen in the government’s policies promoting accountability and transparency in managing public funds and affairs This is a US- and EU-supported financial and administrative reform that began during the tenure of former Prime Minister Salam Fayyad the agenda states that it is a second phase following the previous one of building state institutions and enhancing their capacity It proclaims that it is now time “to improve our citizens’ quality of life by providing high-quality public services fostering job creation in the private sector and protecting the vulnerable” The PA’s new agenda does not acknowledge that Fayyad’s state-building phase failed to lead to statehood let alone democracy The international donor community hailed Fayyad as the Palestinian good governance messiah as his cabinet led efforts to create a de facto Palestinian state under the Israeli occupation in the context of a major political schism between the two largest Palestinian political factions Fayyad’s reforms did not go beyond technical and administrative parameters to ensure that whatever shakeup the cabinet made did not rock the entire boat The 2003 restructuring of the prime minister position itself under US and EU pressure to loosen Yasser Arafat’s executive grip is another example of how futile these structural reforms are in such a context The prime minister’s role decisions and policies must be in line with Fateh and the president as the prime minister simply implements the president’s decisions and has no political standing of his own When Fayyad filled the position in 2007 and embarked on his reform plan he became the target of senior Fateh officials who continuously pinned the PA’s ailments and the effects of the economic crisis on Fayyad’s policies The international community’s strong financial and political backing of Fayyad also constituted a threat to Abbas who did not defend his premier against the attacks of his party and challenged his authority by overruling some of his decisions The international community also dictates which Palestinian political figures are in power through financial and political support This was the case when the US attempted to overturn Fayyad’s resignation and when it withdrew funds to suffocate unwanted authority even if it was fairly and legitimately elected such as when Hamas won the majority of seats in the 2006 legislative elections Any additional reforms dependent on international approval will not address the legitimacy crisis in leadership nor will they lead to the much-needed rebirth of a united Palestinian national movement that could fulfil the aspirations of the Palestinian people These reforms reinforce the same neopatrimonial dynamics that underlie systemic corruption in the Palestinian Authority by acting as a band aid rather than a solution that tackles corruption from the root Essentially any PA effort to end the occupation and achieve independence – often the stated goal in many of these reform agendas – translates into the PA simply continuing to override the role of the PLO By doing so it continues to marginalize if not ignore altogether the voices of the millions of Palestinians who live in the diaspora and have a direct stake in whatever course of action the PA’s executive takes vis-à-vis the Israeli occupation and the “peace process” Out of the Quagmire If Palestinians are serious about democratic representative and transparent leadership they must end the farce of reform and build a representative and democratic system from the bottom up Palestinians especially the youth living in the occupied territories in Israel and in the diaspora have a significant role to play in mobilizing and initiating national grassroots dialogues to debate and build a common vision for future democratic Palestinian leadership This task requires a massive effort given the existing challenges However the continuation of the status quo offers only a bleak future To ensure that a new model whatever its shape or form does not recycle the same neopatrimonial dynamics three fundamental elements must be considered: 1 Decentralization and separation of powers To break the monopoly of one group or party there must be a healthy political ecosystem of counterbalancing powers The limitations of the PLO as an umbrella body representing all Palestinians invites the question of whether such a central authority infrastructure is capable of representing Palestinians everywhere Any Palestinian governance model must be agile enough to lead and be responsive to the Palestinian polities living in different geographical juridical and administrative jurisdictions in the West Bank Gaza East Jerusalem Israel and the diaspora The experience of the PA thus far suggests that a central authority as it exists cannot fulfill such a role Decentralization of power through empowering grassroots and local community leadership is essential to break the existing power monopoly The leadership and organization during the First Intifada albeit belonging to a different political and social context offers one example of what a collective leadership could look like 2 Vertical and horizontal accountability Corruption and abuse of power thrive when those in power cannot be held to account Any new governance model will be vulnerable to capture of power without the following parallel accountability mechanisms in place: First: A vertical accountability line that enables the Palestinian people to question their leaders and participate in the decision making process This is not limited to local and national elections but can extend to grassroots public committees and hearings shadow councils robust protection of freedom of expression and the media and Palestinian civil society taking an active role in monitoring not only Palestinian government institutions but also the private sector and service providers Second: Horizontal accountability – such as an independent parliament independent audit organizations and so forth – is important to investigate and stop the wrongdoings of public officials While the current system has these institutions formally in place to some extent the neopatrimonialism of the Palestinian political system renders these internal accountability mechanisms useless This is why power sharing decentralization and public scrutiny are important first steps to ensure that no Palestinian authority can abuse its power 3 End impunity To restore the Palestinian public’s trust in leadership the impunity of the corrupt must be eliminated Despite the various attempts and claims of the Palestinian anti-corruption committee to investigate and prosecute corrupt officials Palestinian officials and politicians remain largely immune to any serious consequences for their actions Impunity of the corrupt makes individuals hesitant to report corruption they witness or experience because they see no value in or change resulting from taking such action There are existing hotlines and legal centers available to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to report corruption cases in a safe and confidential manner such as the one operated by the Palestinian anti-corruption organization AMAN However encouraging Palestinians to report corruption must be accompanied by the availability of solid anti-corruption laws and an independent judiciary that can hold the corrupt to account regardless of their political financial or social position To end corruption and ensure accountability in the Palestinian context an institutional and political overhaul rather than limited and fragmented political and legal reforms is necessary The repeated patterns of Fateh’s power monopoly systemic corruption and informal politics in addition to the current political stagnation suggests that it is past time for Palestinians to build new institutions that are more democratic and more representative of their rights and needs Marwa is a Palestinian writer researcher and policy analyst based in Berlin She is currently the MENA Regional Advisor for Transparency International Secretariat Her work focuses on issues of governance corruption accountability and civil society space in the Arab world Marwa was a Fulbright scholar to the US and holds an MA in International Relations from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University She holds a second MA in Development and Governance from University of Duisburg-Essen Opinion/Analysis 12/18/18 TIPH Report Reveals 20-year Crisis in Hebron Source Article from Japan Pledges 175000 for Two West Bank Villages December 29th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ Grant contracts for two Grassroots Human Security Projects GGP were signed on Thursday by the Japanese Ambassador for the Palestinian Affairs Takeshi Okubo and representatives of Beit Dajan and Talfit village councils at the Japanese Representative Office to Palestine in Ramallah City central occupied West Bank for a total amount of USD 174796 The Beit Dajan village council in Nablus in the northern West Bank will use a fund of 88247 to provide 122 students with appropriate educational requirements by constructing 4 classrooms 192 M2 in Beit Dajan secondary school The Talfit village council will also use a fund of 86549 to provide 77 students with appropriate educational conditions by constructing 4 classrooms 180 M2 in Talfit Secondary Girls School Okubo congratulated the Beit Dajan and Talfit village council and wished them success in their project He emphasized Japan’s firm commitment to supporting the Palestinian people from a human security perspective as well as the importance of implementing social and economic development projects needed for Palestinian communities Source Article from Palestinian Students Barred from Reaching Schools in Jenin December 29th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ Israeli forces on Wednesday morning blocked passage through Um El-Rayhan checkpoint near Ya’bad town to the south of Jenin so as to halt the movement of Palestinian citizens and students Local resources reported according to Al Ray that Palestinian students from Um El-Rayhan and Daher El-Abed towns were deprived of reaching their schools due to the checkpoint closure as usual The Director of Education in Jenin condemned in a press release the Israeli military’s procedure and considered it a disturbance as it prevented the students from performing their final examinations Source Article from UPDATE: Israeli Digs Cause Landslides in Silwan December 29th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ Underground excavations executed in recent months by Israeli authorities and settler organizations in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan have caused landslides in the area as it came under heavy rain during the past few days according to Wadi Hilweh Information Center The Center said according to WAFA that a new collapse occurred in a land in the center of Wadi Hilweh quarter in Silwan as a result of ongoing Israeli underground excavations a matter which poses a threat to the lives of the local Palestinian citizens Last Saturday the West Jerusalem Israeli municipality ordered a Palestinian family living in Wadi Hilweh area of Silwan to vacate its house following the collapse of a section of a wall around the house According to the Center the underground digs by Israeli settler organizations in that area without any consideration for the safety of the Palestinian families living there have posed a serious threat to the entire neighborhood Residents of Silwan which is adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem said that instead of doing something to stop the settlers’ digs and work and make living safer for the local residents the West Jerusalem municipality decides that these homes are not safe and orders them evacuated and closed Citizens of Silwan have expressed fear that the ongoing excavations by settlers are intentional and tolerated by the municipality and government as a prelude to evacuate the Palestinians from their homes under the pretext they were not safe to live in to eventually take over their homes and replace them with the settlers Photo: Palestinians in Silwan examine new holes in the landscape next to the City of David December 8 2018 Photo credit: Wadi Hilweh Information Center Updated from 12/14/18 Israeli Excavations Damage Palestinian Village Source Article from Israeli Soldiers Attack The Weekly Nonviolent Procession In Bil’in December 29th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ Israeli soldiers attacked Friday dozens of Palestinian Israeli and international peace activists holding the weekly nonviolent procession against the illegal Annexation Wall and Colonies in Bil’in village west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah The nonviolent protesters marched from the center of the village carrying Palestinian flags and chanting for national unity ongoing resistance against the Israeli occupation until the liberation of Palestine the release of all detainees and the Right of Return of the refugees They stressed on the importance of remaining steadfast and the continuation of popular resistance against the illegal Israeli occupation and its apartheid policies The Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Bil’in said the soldiers fired gas bombs and concussion grenades at the protesters and chased many of them but were unable to detain any of them Source Article from In preparation for Trump’s ‘America First’ Doctrine Japan unleashes 243bn defense spending plan December 29th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ Following the end of World War II the United States military occupied Japan and imposed on the country a unique constitution which on the face of it renounced war for good Article 9 of the Constitution disallows Japan from maintaining a military force and outlaws the use of force in settling international disputes Much in the same way that Japan is party to an international convention which disallows whaling all the while it still continues to take part in the globally banned activity and will now reportedly be rapidly accelerating its whaling activities Japan has never really adhered to the principles of its so-called Peace Constitution For example Japan is one of the world’s largest spenders on national defense with one of the world’s best-equipped militaries known as the Self Defence Forces SDF which are intended to empower the force to defend Japan in the instance of an attack The nation also plays host to the US military and its bases empowering the United States to attack many defenseless nations In fact the population of Okinawa burdened with the task of hosting these military bases despite vehement and endless amounts of protesting reportedly feels guilty for their land’s complicity in the US-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan as Okinawa has played an integral role through the deployment of troops and naval craft The devil you know: Old foes India amp China strengthen ties as America proves too unreliable Now Japan is making no secret about its intentions to become a global military force Last Tuesday Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet approved its midterm defense guidelines and an associated defense plan known as the National Defence Program Guidelines and the Mid-Term Defence Plan The plan will see Japan spend approximately 243 billion on defense over the next five fiscal years until 2024 Unsurprisingly the document is mostly concerned with its regional arch-rival China lamenting Japan’s “strong concern” over an “uncertain regional security” situation caused by China’s military expansion Japan is also concerned by the perceived threat posed by North Korea Last year North Korea famously fired two ballistic missiles over Japan a somewhat provocative move during the volatile Trump-Kim war of words which eventually resulted in a symbolic form of constructive dialogue The media most likely won’t ever put it so bluntly but North Korea’s aim at the time was most likely to demonstrate to the United States that it had the potential to strike its forces stationed in Japan as well as Guam and South Korea While the idea behind the US military being stationed in Japan is to allegedly protect Japan from countries like China and North Korea it arguably puts the Japanese population at greater risk given Washington’s desire to provoke and confront nations like those aforementioned For the first time since World War II Japan is seeking to convert two ships into aircraft carriers in order to confront China as well as the purchase of over 100 F-35s as part of this 243 billion defense plan The plan includes the desire to acquire two aircraft carriers capable of launching fighter jets Concerned by China’s “naval footprint” a Japanese defense official told AFP that Japan has a “very very small SDF footprint” in the area between Okinawa and Taiwan The aircraft carriers and new fighter jets will according to the official “increase operational flexibility” for Japan’s military while China increases its naval prowess into southern waters that are home to disputed territories between the two Asian powers In April of this year Reuters reported that Beijing’s military defense spending far outpaced that of Japan’s by approximately three times as much Evidently it did not take too long for Tokyo to get the memo and decide it was time to boost its spending plans It pays to note that Prime Minister Abe’s grandfather was as one Chinese museum described a “Class-A-war criminal” It is in his grandfather’s image and legacy that Abe has pursued such a redrawing of the Japanese constitution Abe has long advocated the disposal of the peace clause of Japan’s constitution which some scholars would use to technically nullify the existence of the SDF even in its traditional form If he is able to cement the status of the SDF legally Abe will allegedly be one step closer to establishing for Japan a regular standing army Awakening a sleeping lion: The US-China Cold War is upon us Abe has begun efforts to procure a number of offensive weapons including Tomahawk cruise missiles and F-35s Under Abe Japanese troops have also begun training to take part in military expeditions overseas In 2016 Japan deployed its first set of troops overseas since the end of World War II with 350 soldiers venturing into the UN mission in South Sudan These troops weren’t being stationed there to admire the scenery they had explicitly been granted the ability to use force to protect civilians as explained by UN staff According to the Council on Foreign Relations CFR SDF forces have also been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan In April this year Japan’s SDF also activated its first Marine brigade since World War II in order to counter a potential Chinese invasion of Japan’s claimed territories along the edge of the East China Sea While ludicrously underreported this was a heavily controversial move at the time because as Reuters notes “amphibious units can project military force and could critics warn be used to threaten Japan’s neighbors” Reuters also explains that the brigade is the latest segment of a growing marine capability that also includes helicopter carriers amphibious ships Osprey tilt-rotor troop carriers and amphibious assault vehicles Japan has already begun orders for two long-range Aegis Ashore missile interceptors worth approximately 12 billion each to defend its disputed island territories as well as nine E2D early warning detector aircraft valued at 313 billion While China and North Korea are the obvious “usual suspects” with regard to Japan’s proposed defense-spending and defense plan many observers may be surprised to learn that tensions between Japan and another key US ally are quietly heating up beneath the radar On December 20 a 3900-ton class KDX-I destroyer belonging to the South Korean Navy allegedly locked its “separate target illumination radar” on a patrol aircraft belonging to the Japanese Maritime SDF According to Defense News directing the fire control radar at a target is regarded as being only one step away from the actual firing toward the intended target Seoul has denied that the destroyer used the target radar As it transpires South Korea is slowly but surely becoming less and less concerned with the activities of North Korea and is becoming more concerned with its neighboring countries including and especially Japan For a long time the United States has relied on South Korea and Japan to join Washington in a trilateral defense force that is able to provide a buffer against China in the region However much like the rest of the world including Washington’s traditionally most closest allies South Korea is heading toward a future in which it would no longer need to rely on the US military for its wartime operations It would appear from the latest announcement from the Abe government that Japan is not too much further behind either Japan to resume commercial whaling in 2019 defying decades-old intl moratorium Abe’s plans for the militarization of Japan are not necessarily welcomed by the Japanese public with thousands of protesters attending anti-war rallies in Tokyo and other major cities Even recent polls show that the majority of respondents in Japan oppose Abe’s plans to amend the constitution That being said polls also show that the Japanese public does not trust China in the slightest In an attempt to quell the public’s concerns Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that the proposal aims to reinforce air defense systems within “the minimum necessary level of force permissible” under Japan’s peace constitution Japan’s Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya also attempted to win the public onside by explaining that this spending is “indispensable” to protect Japan Protecting Japan and protecting the people of Japan are two completely different things The island of Okinawa has suffered years of abuse under the occupation of the US military and continues to do so to this day Honourable mentions include the storing of Agent Orange on Okinawa still present in Okinawa’s ecosystem even today the deaths of primary school children from fighter jet crashes noise pollution rampant crimes committed by personnel including rape abduction murder – to which there is little to no justice – just to name a few Perhaps protecting Japan is the wrong terminology to use The latest developments may entail that Washington and Tokyo end up slowly going their separate ways and China and Japan may end up on a path to war all the while Tokyo will have to account for the rise of South Korea’s military prowess in the region At the end of the day American-based defense contractors are the only group of people who are genuinely set to benefit immensely in the immediate short-term future not the Japanese public or any other player for that matter Think your friends would be interested Share this story! Source Article from Christmas 2018: Iran and Syria show respect Israel and Saudi Arabia don’t December 29th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ Iran is demonized by Western neocons and we’re meant to see the country as an evil ‘monster‘ regime of foaming-at-the-mouth religious fanatics who hate everyone So it goes against the dominant narrative somewhat that Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted a Christmas message and wished ‘peace and joy to all in 2019’ on Christmas Eve The angels said “Mary God gives you good tidings of a Word from Him whose name is Messiah Jesus son of Mary high honored shall he be in this world and the next near stationed to God QURAN 3:45May the blessings of the birth of Jesus usher peace and joy to all in 2019 — Javad Zarif JZarif December 24 2018 It also goes against the narrative that Zarif back in September wished Jews in Iran and across the world “a very Happy New Year filled with peace and harmony” We’re told repeatedly that the Iranian ‘regime’ is ‘anti-Semitic’ but do ‘anti-Semites’ wish Jews a happy ‘Rosh Hashanah’ If so it’s a rather strange definition The Iranian Foreign Minister also tweeted on December 26 a message of goodwill to Iran’s Zoroastrian community Contrast this consideration to people of different faiths from Tehran with the lack of congratulations on other religious holidays from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia A week before Iran’s Foreign Minister was tweeting positively about Jesus the KSA’s Customs Authority was also on the social media platform confirming that Christmas trees were banned from entering the Kingdom for the festive season In fact despite the large number of Christians from other countries who work in the country including many Britons the holding of any Christmas-related services or commemorations in Saudi Arabia is strictly banned “The Christmas season – often a season where Christians around the world are most visible – is a tense time for Christians in Saudi Arabia who have to celebrate the holiday in secret risking arrest and deportation” said Jeff King President of the International Christian Concern in 2016 Imagine being a Christian and not being able to openly celebrate the birth of Christ It happens in Saudi Arabia yet Western leaders so keen to lecture others about ‘human rights’ and ‘religious freedom’ stay silent preferring to pick on Iran – where Christmas can be openly celebrated Syria is another country ‘monstered’ by the endless war lobby but where against all the odds the Christmas spirit is still maintained Big seasonal celebrations were held this year in Aleppo and Damascus Remember Aleppo It was recaptured by the Syrian Arab Army from Islamist ‘rebels’ two years ago this month and the neocon/’liberal interventionist’ commentariat and most of the political class portrayed it as a most terrible thing Ian Austin MP said that people in Aleppo faced ‘slaughter’ John Woodcock MP called the Morning Star newspaper ‘traitorous scum’ for referring to the recapture of Aleppo by Syrian forces of their own territory as a ‘liberation’ But if you look at the pictures of Christians celebrating Christmas there once again which they were forbidden to do under the western-backed head-chopping ’rebels’ you can see that the ‘L’ word was indeed appropriate This year in Damascus though the festive celebrations were defiled by another act of aggression against Syria from a Western-supported-country one which incidentally Ian Austin and John Woodcock have been Parliamentary ‘Friends’ of On the evening of December 25 loud explosions could be heard seven miles from the center of Damascus Russia’s Defense Ministry said that Israel’s Christmas Day F-16 strikes endangered two civilian flights – as well as injuring three personnel at the logistics compound Whatever your stance is on Middle Eastern affairs – and leaving aside the illegality of the operation whenever it took place – the question is: did Israel really have to bomb Syria on Christmas Day Would Israel’s ’security’ have been lessened if the raid had taken place on December 28 and not the 25th Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did tweet Christmas greetings out to ‘Christian friends’ in Israel and around the world on December 24 but why did his forces attack a country where Christians were celebrating one day later Just imagine the enormous outcry if Russia had carried out air strikes on Ukrainian targets on the evening of 25th December In fact the US magazine Newsweek doing its best to ratchet up East-West tensions still further predicted such an event only last week They published an article on Christmas Eve which began with the words “As people in Western Europe and the United States get comfortable for the holidays the chances increase that Russia will take advantage of the distraction to launch attacks against its neighbor Ukraine experts said” And who are these ’experts’ I hear you ask Well guess what they were all from the Atlantic Council The ‘experts’ surprise surprise were wrong The ‘monster’ Russia did not launch attacks on Ukraine over Christmas But Israel did attack Syria – and there was silence from those who would have screeched very loudly and be calling for RT to be taken off the air immediately if the Kremlin had ordered such a sacrilegious act Islamic State IS formerly ISIS/ISIL were also busy bombing on Christmas Day The genocidal group carried out suicide bomb attacks on Libya’s Foreign Ministry in Tripoli on Tuesday morning killing three and leaving over half-a-dozen injured One doesn’t expect IS to respect Christmas but you would expect Western leaders – of predominantly Christian nations to regard the group as public enemy number one Yet in Syria the US and its allies welcomed the group’s growth precisely because it threatened the secular Christian-protecting government of Bashar al-Assad A declassified US intelligence report from August 2012 predicted the establishment of a “Salafist principality in Eastern Syria” and said that this is “exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want in order to isolate the Syrian regime” Christmas in Aleppo: Syrians celebrate as city recovers from years-long bloodshed VIDEOS Furthermore in a leaked tape recording the former Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that the US allowed IS to expand its territory to threaten Damascus At the same time those fighting IS and other al-Qaeda-linked death squads in Syria namely the Syrian Arab Army Russia Iran and Hezbollah have been ‘monstered’ by the West and its regional allies’ propaganda machines Reflect on this: It wasn’t Syrian Russia Iranian or Hezbollah forces or followers who slaughtered British and other Western holiday-makers on the beach in Tunisia in 2015 – but an IS terrorist who is thought to have trained at a jihadist camp in neighboring Libya and whose government had been forcibly toppled by NATO powers four years earlier Similarly it wasn’t Syrian Russian Iranian or Hezbollah forces or followers who carried out murderous attacks against civilians in Paris Nice Brussels and London or at Christmas markets in Berlin and Strasbourg Respecting Christmas and what it stands for is an important litmus test as it tells us a lot about the actors involved especially if they are not themselves Christians The ‘monstering’ of those who do show the proper ‘Yuletide spirit’ and the turning of a blind eye to those that don’t highlights the spectacular hypocrisy of those in power in the West who profess to support ‘Christian values’ but in fact do everything possible to subvert them If anyone needs an Ebenezer Scrooge-style epiphany this Christmas it’s the ‘monster-slayers’ themselves Follow NeilClark66 Think your friends would be interested Share this story! Source Article from Irony alert: Firm that warned Americans of Russian bots…was running an army of fake Russian bots December 29th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ Ryan Fox and Jonathan Morgan who run the New Knowledge cybersecurity company which claims to “monitor disinformation” online penned a foreboding op-ed in the New York Times on November 6 about “the Russians” and their nefarious efforts to influence American elections At the time it struck me that Fox and Morgan’s reasoning seemed a little far-fetched For example one of the pieces of evidence presented to prove that Russia had targeted American elections was that lots of people had posted links to RT’s content online Hardly a smoking gun worthy of a Times oped Also on rtcom The only ‘Russian bots’ to meddle in US elections belonged to Democrat-linked ‘experts’ Morgan and Fox intrepid cyber sleuths that they are claimed in the article they had detected more “overall activity” from ongoing Russian influence campaigns than social media companies like Facebook and Twitter had yet revealed — or that other researchers had been able to identify The New Knowledge guys even authored a Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russia’s alleged efforts to mess with American democracy They called it a “propaganda war against American citizens” Impressive stuff They must be really good at their job right Racist ‘Russians’ targeted African-Americans in 2016 election ploy reports claim This week however we learned that New Knowledge was running its own disinformation campaign or “propaganda war against Americans” you could say complete with fake Russian bots designed to discredit Republican candidate Roy Moore as a Russia-preferred candidate when he was running for the US senate in Alabama in 2017 The scheme was exposed by the New York Times — the paper that just over a month earlier published that aforementioned oped in which Fox and Morgan pontificated about Russian interference online New Knowledge created a mini-army of fake Russian bots and fake Facebook groups The accounts which had Russian names were made to follow Moore An internal company memo boasted that New Knowledge had “orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet” Moore lost the race by 15 percent To be fair accusations published by the Washington Post that he pursued underage girls back in the 1980s may have had something to do with it as well but that’s a different story Of course New Knowledge and even the New York Times which blew the lid of the operation are trying to spin this as some kind of “small experiment” during which they “imitated Russian tactics” online to see how they worked Just for research of course They have also both claimed that the scheme dubbed ‘Project Birmingham’ had almost no effect on the outcome of the race The money for the so-called research project came from Reid Hoffman the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn who contributed 750000 to American Engagement Technologies AET which then spent 100000 on the New Knowledge experiment After the scheme was exposed Hoffman offered a public apology saying he didn’t know exactly how the money had been used and admitting that the tactics were “highly disturbing” Also on rtcom LinkedIn billionaire ‘sorry’ for funding ‘Russian bot’ disinformation campaign against Roy Moore If people like Fox and Morgan actually cared about so-called Russian meddling or the integrity of American elections they would not have run the deceptive campaign against Moore no matter how undesirable he was as a candidate Their sneaky and deceitful methods are in total contrast to the public profile they have cultivated for themselves as a firm fighting the good fight for the public good But is it really that much of a surprise You would think that a newspaper like the New York Times would have cottoned on to the fact that guys like Fox and Morgan with their histories in the US military and intelligence agencies have clear agendas and are not exactly squeaky clean or the most credible sources of information when it comes to anything to do with Russia But that kind of insight or circumspection might be too much to ask for in the age of Russiagate Capitalize on ‘Russian meddling’ like a pro: Fake it in state elections write report for Senate Facebook removed Morgan’s account on Saturday for “engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior” around the Alabama election Three days after publishing its initial article on the scandal the one in which it played down the effects of New Knowledge’s disinfo campaign the New York Times published a follow-up piece about the Facebook removal in which it admitted that the controversy would be a “stinging embarrassment” for the social media researcher noting that he had been a “leading voice” against supposed Russian disinformation campaigns In Fox and Morgan’s original NYT oped they warned of the ubiquitous “Russia-linked social media accounts” and estimated that “at least hundreds of thousands and perhaps even millions” of US citizens had engaged with them online One must now wonder were they including their own fake Russian bots in that count or were they leaving those ones out It’s nearly two years into the Trump presidency and still we have no solid evidence that the Russian “collusion” theory is anything more than a fantasy concocted by Democrats desperate to provide a more palatable reason for Hillary Clinton’s loss than the fact that she simply ran a bad campaign In fact at this point we actually have more solid and irrefutable evidence of election meddling from the likes of dodgy American and British companies like Cambridge Analytica and New Knowledge than we do of any meddling orchestrated by Russia Like this story Share it with a friend! Source Article from Palestine to apply for full UN membership December 29th 2018 Jesus Christ ✝ Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister Riyad al-Malki this Wednesday announced that Palestine would initiate an application to gain full state membership at the United Nations Palestinians will be pushing the envelope in January as they apply for full membership in the United Nations The body has shown sympathy and support for the Palestinian plight but the US has through its Security Council veto thwarted every effort to do anything constructive for the people from IMEMC Speaking to Voice of Palestine radio station Palestinian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister Riyad al-Malki stated that he would initiate the application to upgrade Palestine’s status from an observer state to a full-member state in the international body during his upcoming visit to New York scheduled for mid January 2019 following President Mahmoud Abbas’ instructions The application would be submitted to the United Nations Security Council WAFA News Agency reported according to the PNN Al-Malki is scheduled to make this visit to assume Palestine’s position as chair of the Group 77 developing countries and China for the year 2019 The planned submission of the application marks the latest Palestinian leadership’s diplomatic steps sparked by US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocate the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem To secure full state membership Palestinians need support from nine out of the UNSC’s 15 member states provided that none of the five permanent member states use the power of veto RELATED READING: The United Nations is anti-injustice not anti-Semitic Israel has never recognized the Palestinian right to self-determination Source Article from « Older Entries |
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Vatican City Dec 25 2018 / 05:34 am CNA/EWTN News- On Christmas Pope Francis prayed for peace and renewed brotherhood in Syria Yemen Venezuela Nicaragua and other parts of the world experiencing conflict “May all of us receive peace and consolation from the birth of the Savior and in the knowledge that we are loved by the one heavenly Father realize anew that we are brothers and sisters and come to live as such” Pope Francis said from the center loggia of St Peter’s Basilica In his “Urbi et Orbi” blessing Pope Francis said his Christmas wish is for brotherhood among people with different ideas that they might have the capability of listening to one another “By his incarnation the Son of God tells us that salvation comes through love acceptance respect for this poor humanity of ours which we all share in a great variety of races languages and cultures” he explained The pope prayed in particular for Israelis and Palestinians to “resume dialogue and undertake a journey of peace” He expressed hope that the truce brokered by the international community in Yemen may bring relief to “people exhausted by war and famine” “Without the fraternity that Jesus Christ has bestowed on us our efforts for a more just world fall short and even our best plans and projects risk being soulless and empty” he said Francis called upon the international community to “work decisively for a political solution” in Syria without “partisan interests” so that Syrian refugees can “return to live in peace in their own country” “May the Child Jesus allow the beloved and beleaguered country of Syria once again to find fraternity after these long years of war” Pope Francis prayed Pointing to the recent rapprochement between North and South Korea Pope Francis prayed that Christmas may “consolidate the bonds of fraternity uniting the Korean peninsula” enabling leaders to reach solutions “capable of ensuring the development and well-being of all” Francis also called for reconciliation and fraternity in Nicaragua Venezuela Ukraine and countries in Africa where refugees are in need of humanitarian assistance The pope asked that God grant religious minorities around the world recognition of their rights particularly the right to religious freedom “A particular thought goes to our brothers and sisters who celebrate the Birth of the Lord in difficult if not hostile situations especially where the Christian community is a minority often vulnerable or not taken into account” he said After the Christmas blessing the great bell of St Peter’s Basilica rang out in celebration of Christ’s birth The campanone bell is only rung on the solemnities of Christmas Easter and the feast of Saints Peter and Paul Pope Francis called on the 50000 people gathered in St Peter’s Square to silently contemplate Christ’s nativity He said “Like the shepherds who first went with haste to the stable let us halt in wonder before the sign that God has given us: ‘A baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger’ In silence let us fall to our knees and worship” |
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