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Jun 6, 2010

Israel "accidentally" distributes Video mocking Flotilla Dead

 



Israel "accidentally" distributes Video mocking Flotilla Dead

(1) Israel "accidentally" distributes Video mocking Flotilla Dead
(2) Cheese, and missiles for the kids: lyrics to "We Con The World"
(3) Haneen Zoabi  cursed and shoved in the Knesset after relating her experience on the Flotilla
(4) US obeisance over Flotilla is price for backing of Zionist financiers & media moguls - James Petras

(1) Israel "accidentally" distributes Video mocking Flotilla Dead

From:   Kristoffer Larsson <kristoffer.larsson@sobernet.nu> Date:       06.06.2010 06:37 AM

The Jerusalem Post Should Fire Caroline Glick for Making a Racist Video

Eileen Read

Posted: June 5, 2010 05:07 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eileen-read/the-jerusalem-post-should_b_601857.html

'We Will Slaughter the Jews,' goes a blatantly racist music video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGG_osOoVg> that has had nearly 700,000 views on YouTube.

Its title is, 'We Con the World,' sung to the tune of 'We are the World.'

However, the video's keffiyah (headscarf) wearing, knife-wielding 'Arabs' and other members of the 'Flotilla Choir' clearly aren't Turks or Gazans. They're Jewish Israelis singing "there's no people dying" about the Gaza humanitarian-aid flotilla, in which nine people were killed last Monday by Israeli commandos, and many others were shot. A 19-year-old American aboard was shot five times at close range <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/04/gaza-flotilla-activists-autopsy-results>.

The lyrics begin:

There comes a time when we need to make a show
For the world and CNN
There's no people dying so the best that we can do
Is create the greatest bluff of all

The press office of the Prime Minister of Israel sent this video around the world. Apparently inadvertently, according to spokesman Mark Regev. Regev notes nonetheless that ""I called my kids in to watch it because I thought it was funny. It's what Israelis feel."

Clearly not all Israelis, since thousands and thousands of them massed in Tel Aviv today to protest the mess their extreme right-wing government is making of their nation's image abroad.

"It was not intended for general release," said a statement from the press office. "The contents of the video in no way represent the official policy of either the Government Press Office or of the State of Israel."

On her blog, the deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick, claims credit for the video. I never take Glick-bylined pieces seriously because they're all the same, since she constantly talks about continuing the occupation of Palestine, trashes Obama (and she is from Chicago!) and is a favorite on the lowest-level of American right-wing tv, like the Laura Ingraham show.

But this is lower than I've ever seen someone go who carries a management title at a journalism organization. I'm ashamed to say that Glick and I are both Columbia alums. Even if she hates people of another race or religion and is allowed by her editors to poke fun at them in a tasteless and blatantly racist way, she should be fired for making fun of the dead.

(2) Cheese, and missiles for the kids: lyrics to "We Con The World"

From:   lenczner <atoyuma@yahoo.com> Date:      07.06.2010 07:43 PM
Subject:        Supreme Arrogance : lyrics to "We Con The World"

Israel "Accidentally" Distributes Video Mocking Flotilla Dead:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/6/5/873135/-Israel-Accidentally-Distributes-Video-Mocking-

...'There comes a time
when we need to make a show
for the world, the web and CNN

There's no people dying
so the best that we can do
is create the greatest bluff of all

We must go on, pretending day by day
that in Gaza there's crisis hunger and plague
coz the billion bucks in aid won't buy their basic needs
like some cheese and missiles for the kids.

We'll make the world abandon reason
we'll make them all believe that the Hamas is Momma Theresa

We are peaceful travelers
with guns and our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV

Ooooh we'll stab them at heart
they are soldiers no one cares
we are small and we took some pictures with doves

As Allah has shown us
for facts there no demand
so we will always gain the upper hand

We'll make the world abandon reason
we'll make them all believe that the Hamas is Momma Theresa

We are peaceful travelers
we're waving our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV

If Islam and terror brighten up your mood
but you worry that it may not look so good

Well don't you realize you just gotta call yourself
an activist for peace and human aid

We'll make the world abandon reason
we'll make them all believe that the Hamas is Momma Theresa

We are peaceful travelers
we're waving our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV

We con the world
yallah, let me hear you!
we con the people
We'll make them all believe the IDF is Jack the Ripper
We are peaceful travelers
we're waving our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV

Itbach el Yahud ! (slaughter the Jews)

We con the world
we con the people
We'll make them all believe the IDF is Jack the Ripper

All together now!
We are peaceful travelers
we're waving our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV

We con the world
yallah, let me hear you!
we con the people
We'll make them all believe the IDF is Jack the Ripper

We are peaceful travelers
we're waving our own knives
the truth will never find its way to your TV

(3) Haneen Zoabi  cursed and shoved in the Knesset after relating her experience on the Flotilla

From:   Dick Eastman <oldickeastman@q.com>  Date:       06.06.2010 05:31 PM

Knesset goes wild over Zoabi

By REBECCA ANNA STOIL

June 2, 2010 Wednesday 20 Sivan 5770 21:38 IST

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177321

Arab and Jewish MKs fight in the aisle until ushers separate them.

The Knesset witnessed a rare eruption of violence on Wednesday when MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) was cursed and shoved after relating her experience as a passenger on the Mavi Marmara.

Knesset members from coalition and opposition parties alike sought to shout down the freshman MK, but the furor reached a climax when Anastasia Michaeli (Israel Beiteinu) charged the podium in an attempt to physically block Zoabi from continuing her speech.

It took a battery of ushers to remove MK Eli Aflalo (Kadima), who was called to order three times but remained standing in an aisle yelling and gesticulating until he was forcibly removed.

During the pandemonium, Arab and Jewish MKs scuffled in the aisles, and ushers were summoned to separate them.

"Go back to Gaza, you traitor!" MK Miri Regev (Likud) yelled in Arabic at Zoabi during the heated debate on the Free Gaza flotilla.

Zoabi was released from police custody early Tuesday morning.

At the podium, Zoabi said she was "astonished by the incitement" and "despised the words" she had heard during the Knesset debate on the Monday morning incident.

She said that she had agreed to participate in the flotilla, as it was a "political, human and moral imperative to oppose the imprisonment of 1.5 million people."

She described the blockade of Gaza as an "illegal, inhuman, illegitimate siege opposed by every politician who has a moral position... only the immoral support the blockade."

She blasted the MKs attacking her, saying, "Who is the criminal? Did I murder anyone?"

At that point, one MK shouted, "Check if she has a knife!" resulting in an uproar.

When Michaeli took the podium and attempted to stand between Zoabi and the microphone, Balad chairman Jamal Zahalka also ran forward to try to defend Zoabi.

A number of other Arab MKs also moved toward the podium, yelling. Michaeli and Zahalka were both expelled from the hearing by Knesset ushers. ... ==

Haneen Zoabi

By Stu Harrison

Saturday, May 23, 2009 - 10:00

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/41739

"We don't live in the territories, we cannot throw stones and we cannot participate in the legitimate resistance against occupation", Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) told Green Left Weekly.

"We participate in the struggle so our own position as citizens. Our unique role is a political resistance and not, for example, an armed resistance."

Zoabi is the first Palestinian woman to be elected to the Knesset, representing a so-called Israeli-Arab party. Israeli-Arab is a term used in Israel to describe the Palestinians that remained after the ethnic cleansing that accompanied Israel's founding.

Zoabi is one of three sitting members from the National Democratic Assembly (BALAD).

She has been speaking in Australia to mark the 61st anniversary of al Nakba — the Palestinian catastrophe caused by the ethnic cleansing that accompanied the founding of Israel in 1948.

BALAD is a nationalist party for Palestinians who still live within Israel. It advocates the reform of Israel away from being a state based on Jewish supremacy, in which the non-Jewish population are second-class citizens, into a democratic state for all.  ...

- Stu Harrison is a writer on Palestine related issues for Australian newspaper Green Left Weekly. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com. (Originally published in Green Left Weekly - http://www.greenleft.org.au.)

(4) US obeisance over Flotilla is price for backing of Zionist financiers & media moguls - James Petras

From:   Israel Shamir <adam@israelshamir.net> Date:     05.06.2010 12:46 AM

Israeli War Crimes: From the U.S. Liberty to the Humanitarian Flotilla

James Petras

Introduction: Israel Crimes on the High Seas

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_60201.shtml

On June 8, 1967, two squadrons of Israeli warplanes bombed, napalmed and machine-gunned the US intelligence-gathering ship, USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 US sailors and wounding another 172. The assault took place on a sunny afternoon, with the US flag and identifying markers clearly visible. The Israelis targeted the antennae to prevent the crew from broadcasting for help and shot up the lifeboats to ensure no survivors. There were, however, survivors who rigged up an antenna and radioed their distress, a call for help that reached Washington D.C. In an unprecedented act of betrayal, President Johnson, in close liaison with powerful American Jewish Zionist political backers, covered up the mass murder on the high seas by issuing orders first to recall Mediterranean-based warplanes from rushing to assist their besieged comrades, then threatening to court-martial the survivors who might expose the deliberate nature of the Israeli assault and finally by repeating the Israeli line that the attack was a matter of mistaken identity, a lie which numerous military leaders later rejected.

Almost to the day, 43 years later, on May 31, 2010, Israeli warships, helicopter gun ships and commandos assaulted a convoy of humanitarian ships carrying ten thousand tons of aid to Gaza in international waters. Prior to the aid mission Turkish authorities had examined the passengers and the ship to ensure no weapons were on board. The Israelis never the less came on board shooting and clubbing the unarmed passengers, killing up to19 and wounding dozens. Despite subsequent Israeli and Zionist claims to the contrary no weapons were found, apart from sticks used by some of the victims attempting to fend off the murderous premeditated assault planned, directed and defended by top Israeli leaders and the entire leadership of the major Zionist organizations in the US and elsewhere. The invading Israeli storm troopers systematically destroyed all cameras, videos and tape recorders that had documented their savage assault, in order to subsequently spread their brazen lies about their being subject to armed resistance.

The World Response

Within hours of Israel's bloody act of piracy, nations, political leaders, human rights organizations and the vast majority of the international community condemned the Israeli state for its violation of international law. Turkey, Spain, Greece, Denmark and Austria summoned their Israeli Ambassadors to protest the deadly assault. The Financial Times, (June 1, 2010) referred to the Israeli assault as a "brazen act of piracy … hurtling into lawlessness" rooted in its "illegal blockage of Gaza". Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Erdogan called the Israeli assault an act of "state terrorism" which would have "serious consequences". Israel's attacks on ships flying Turkish, Greek and Irish flags on the high seas were described by legal experts as an "act of war". The UN Security Council, NATO and the Secretary General of the UN demanded Israel cease its aggression, while tens of thousands of demonstrators marched denouncing Israel's blatant act of state murder and wounding of pacifists, humanitarians and protestors from 60 countries. UN experts demanded that Israeli leaders "must be held criminally responsible". Only the Obama regime refused to condemn the Israeli act of state terror, merely expressing "concern and regret". The Israeli state defended its murderous assault, promised more in the future and insisted on maintaining its blockade of Gaza, even after the US suggested it might be loosened.

The Israeli Defense of Piracy and State Terror

As news of the Israeli massacre slipped out and the international community reacted with horror and anger, the Israeli government "sought to flood the airwaves with their versions of events … more importantly, the authorities ensured that their narrative gained early dominance by largely silencing the hundreds of activists who were on board during the attack" (Financial Times, June 2, 2010, p2.). The Jewish state held all the prisoners alive, wounded and dead incommunicado, seized their mobile phones and prohibited any interviews, barring all journalists. Like most terrorist states, the Jewish state wanted to monopolize the propaganda media. The Israeli propaganda machine via its state sponsored journalists and news media employed several ploys typical of totalitarian regimes.

1.) Israeli storm troopers invading the ship were turned into victims and the humanitarian pacifists were turned into aggressors. "Israeli Soldiers Met by Well-Planned Lynch Mob" (Jerusalem Post, March 31, 2010); "Israeli Soldiers Attacked" (IDF, March 31, 2010).

2.) Israel's act of piracy in international waters was declared legal by a Professor Sabel of the Hebrew University.

3.) The humanitarian organizers were accused of having ties to terrorists according to Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon, though no evidence was presented (Ha'aretz, May 30, 2010). The organizers including the Turkish human rights group accused by Ayalon were cleared by the Turkish intelligence agency, the military and the Erdogan government, a member of NATO and for many years (in the past) a collaborator with the Israeli Mossad. The other 600 plus human rights volunteers, included pacifists, parliamentarians, former diplomats, as well as current members of the Israeli parliament.

4.) While dozens of human rights people were shot, killed and maimed, Israeli propagandists doctored video releases portraying one of the Israeli assailants on the deck, cutting out the preceding sequence of attack (Financial Times, June 2, 2010, p. 2).

5.) The Israeli sea and airborne assailants were described as the victims of a "Brutal Ambush at Sea" (Ynet News, June 1, 2010).

6.) The terrorized human rights workers were accused of being a "lynch mob", attacking the Jewish commandos who were firing automatic rifles wildly across the deck and at cornered victims. The few courageous individuals who fought back to stop the murderous attack were slandered by the Zion-prop, which itself is as monstrous as the crimes they perpetrated.

Once the Israeli propaganda machine started spewing out its gutter lies, the entire leadership of the Zionist Fifth column swung into action … first and foremost in the United States.

The US Zionist Power Configuration: In Defense of the Massacre

Just as the entire leadership of the 51 principle American Jewish organizations defended every Israeli war crime in the past, from the bombing of the US Liberty, to the Occupation of the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza so too did these most honorable apologists repeat verbatim the lies of the Israeli state regarding the assault of the humanitarian flotilla.

The Daily Alert (May 31 – June 2, 2010), the official public propaganda organ of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations, published every scurrilous Israeli state lie, about the Israeli commandos being 'lynched', 'attacked' and the human rights victims being responsible for the death of their comrades … at the hands of Israeli commandos. Not a single deviation, not a single word of criticism. Not even a single mention of even the superficial Israeli critics who faulted the execution, the use of deadly weapons, the assault in international waters, and the public relations fiasco. The vast majority of Israeli Jews and organized Zionists in the US supported the bloody massacre and were opposed by a small minority who has no access to the mass media. Zionist control over the mass media was once again demonstrated by the reporting through "Israel's eyes" (FAIR, June 1, 2010). Essentially the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, CBS, NBC presented the Israeli commandos attacking the humanitarian boat as being … "assaulted and beaten" (Washington Post, June 1, 2010). The New York Times gave credence to the Israeli claim that its act of piracy on the high seas was legal (NY Times, June 1, 2010). For the US mass media the problem is not Israeli state terror, but how to manipulate and disarm the outrage of the international community. To that end the entire Zionist Power configuration has a reliable ally in the Zionized Obama White House and US Congress.

The Obama Response to Israeli State Terror

There is only one basic reason why Israel repeatedly commits crimes against humanity, including the latest assault on the humanitarian flotilla: because it knows that the Zionist Power Configuration, embedded in the US power structure, will ensure government support, in this case the Obama White House.

In the face of the world-wide condemnation of Israel's crime on the high seas, and calls from the international community for legal action, the Obama regime absolutely refused to criticize Israel. A White House spokesman said "The United States deeply regrets the loss of life and injuries sustained and is currently working to understand the circumstances surrounding the tragedy" (AFP May 31, 2010). An act of state terrorism does not evoke "regrets" – it normally provokes condemnation and punishment. The power which caused "loss of life and injuries" has a name – Israel; the persons who suffered death and injuries during the Israeli assault – have a name – humanitarian volunteers. It was not simply a "loss of life" but a well planned premeditated murder which is openly defended by Prime Minister Netanyahu and his entire Cabinet. The "circumstances" of the murders are clear: Israel assaulted an unarmed ship in international waters, opening fire as they boarded the ship. The Obama regime's obscene political cover-up of a deliberate criminal act in violation of international law is evident in his description of a serial homicide as a 'tragedy'. Premeditated state terror has no resemblance to a tragic noble ruler forced by circumstances into a criminal act against their closest allies.

Washington, pressed to participate at a UN Security Council meeting, spent 10 hours eliminating all references to Israel's illegal criminal act, ending in a resolution which merely calls for an "impartial" investigation, with Washington pushing for an Israeli investigatory committee. To the world at large, including the Turkish government, the Obama regime and the US government, by refusing to condemn Israel, are "accomplices to a mass murder".

To understand why the Obama regime brought shame and infamy to itself in the eyes of the world, one need look at the Zionist composition of the Obama White House and, equally important, the direct power and access that the principle Jewish-Zionist organizations have over the US political system. In the week preceding Israel's announced assault on the humanitarian flotilla, (pro-Israel) Jewish leaders met with over a third of US senators to pressure them to pass harsher sanctions on Iran by June. Among the key operatives attending were the Jewish Federation of North America, AIPAC and the rest of the Israeli Fifth Column (Jewish Telegraph Agency, May 26, 2010). The following day a squadron of leaders from the Jewish Federations flew into Washington to meet with top Obama administration officials, to ensure that the White House and Congress did not in any way or form publicly express any criticism of Israel's settlement policy. No doubt the Zionist apologists for Israeli war crimes extended their agenda to include no public criticism of the Israeli assault on the flotilla. Rahm Emmanuel, top US Presidential aide, was in Tel Aviv as a guest of top officials of the Israel Defense Force a few days before the IDF launched the assault, no doubt having filled Rahm in on the details. The Israeli-American aide to Obama no doubt assured the war criminals of Washington's unconditional political and military support for Israel's acts of aggression.

From within the Obama Administration and without, the aggressive pressure from the 51 principle organizations of the American Zionists have guaranteed Israeli war criminals immunity from any War Crimes Tribunal, or even serious political condemnation by the UN Security Council. The Zionized White House's tactic is to deflect attention from immediate consequential condemnation let alone sanctions, hoping that over time, aided by the blanket mass media apology in the US, the mass indignation and protest overseas will gradually wither away. Obama and his Zionist cohort are already in a belly crawl mode with Israel. Part of Rahm's mission to Israel was to hand Netanyahu an invitation to the White House, during the week of the slaughter at sea. The only reason Netanyahu did not come to Washington was because he rushed back to Israel to buttress the Foreign Office's defense of the slaughter in the face of world-wide outrage. But in a phone conversation, Obama promised Netanyahu a prompt new invitation – assuring the Jewish statesman that violating international laws and bloodying dozens of humanitarian activists is of no consequence, especially since it insures continued financial support by Obama's Zionist backers.

Like Lyndon Johnson with the cover-up of the USS Liberty, Obama's apology of Israel's war crimes, is the price for ensuring the backing of billionaire Zionist financiers and media moguls, the tens of thousands of pro-Israel Jews and the 51 President of the Major American Jewish Organizations.

In the face of Washington's complicity with Israeli war crimes, the only road is to intensify the world-wide boycott, disinvestment and sanctions campaign against all Israeli products, cultural activities and professional exchanges. Hopefully, the Islamic led mass protests will find echo in the wider anti-Zionist Christian and Jewish communities – especially, when Israeli apologists for state terror make public appearances. Even more important each and every Israeli involved in the mass assault should be subject to criminal prosecution wherever they visit. Only by making the Israelis understand that they will pay a high price for their serial homicides and violations of international law will reason possibly enter their political narrative. Only by moving beyond symbolic protests, like recalling diplomats, and taking substantive actions, like breaking relations, will the international community isolate the perpetrator of state terrorism. All Americans should send loud and clear to President Obama –NEVER AGAIN. Otherwise, with the Zionist Power Configuration active 7/24, the Obama regime, true to the Zionist agenda, will once again focus attention on attacking Iran. Israel's action today with US complicity is a prelude of the kind of deadly force it has in store for sabotaging the recent Turkey-Brazil-Iran diplomatic agreement.

This is dedicated to the brave Turkish martyrs on the Mavi Marmara, May 31, 2010, and to the 34 murdered American sailors on the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967 – all victims of an unrepentant criminal state - Israel.



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