TONY BLAIR PALING AROUND WITH 9ll SPONSORS AND NOW SPONSORS OF ISIS(L) BEHEADINGS!
TONY BLAIR = THE BUTCHER OF BAGHDAD = Gets Orwellian “Middle East Peace Envoy” “Philanthropist of the Year” by GQ Magazine in September = Charitable work to Save The Children – Commitment “No Child Born to Die”
FACT: TONY BLAIR AND GW BUSH = Dismembered, dispossessed, traumatized Bodies of 500,000+ Children of Iraq and Afghanistan
TONY BLAIR = SALARY = 7.6 million pounds/year = FOR GOOD DEEDS philanthropy
TONY BLAIR = Sanctions and embargo condemned to death an average of 6,000 children a month according to the UN
TONY BLAIR = As Prime Minister (May1997-June 2007) emphatically endorsed the Iraq embargo and the silent monthly infanticide.
TONY BLAIR = 2003 Downing Street FAKE WMDs used by Colin Powell at the UN for the invasion’s justification.
TONY BLAIR = Sanctions and war = 1,500,000 Deaths in Iraq where 50% of the population are children = holocaustal history.
FACT: Madeleine Albright’s admitted (12th May 1996) that “over half a million children had died” in IRAQ.
TONY BLAIR = Between 1997 to the invasion, six years later, a further near half a million children died
TONY BLAIR = “From the beginning of humankind there has been brutality, conflict, intrigue, the destructive obsession with a narrow self-interest.” — Blair’s Freudian slip
TONY BLAIR = Praised USAID as “the magnificent American and British Military” with Save The Children and other NGOs for their work in Africa = Decades long coordination with the CIA in a dark, shocking saga.
TONY BLAIR = Praised the US and UK military which destroyed Iraq = 5 million orphans + A million widows
TONY BLAIR = US + UK Military now in Africa = “… setting up treatment centers, tirelessly providing shelter, hygiene and education.”
TONY BLAIR = UK helped bomb back to a pre-industrial age Afghanistan and in Iraq = Africa beware
TONY BLAIR = Should be answering to a Nuremberg model Tribunal = The Chilcot Inquiry still NOT released it’s findings
FACT: Another Save The Children executive, Chief Financial Officer Sam Aharpe: “worked for nearly 30 years with the UK Government development program” under Tony Blair
FACT: Another Save The Children executive, Fergus Drake, Director of Global Programs since 2009 = “Prior to this … worked for the Office of Tony Blair in Rwanda advising President Kagame …”
TONY BLAIR = FLED HIS POSH PAD IN JERUSALEM As Gaza was decimated again = Defenceless, with no army, navy or air force, resulting in 2,200+ Deaths, including 600+ Children = BLAIR Gave a 2-month EARLY “surprise birthday party” for his wife in one of his seven UK mansions, safely out of the firing line = BLAIR said nothing about saving PALESTINIAN children.
TONY BLAIR = Silent on Gaza’s 1+ MILLION souls living in emergency conditions, 17,200 destroyed homes and 244 damaged schools.
TONY BLAIR = Children saving = Selective
TONY BLAIR + SAVE THE CHILDREN = Guardian reported: “Senior figures at Save the Children US . . . demanded the withdrawal of the criticism and an effective veto on any future statements blaming the (IRAQ BOYCOTT and) invasion for the plight of Iraqi civilians’ suffering malnourishment and shortages of medical supplies.”
Osama bin Laden Assassination = May 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan = Save The Children: “under suspicion from authorities ever since a doctor accused of assisting the CIA in its search for the al-Qaida leader claimed that Save the Children had introduced him to US intelligence officers.”
Osama bin Laden Assassination = Dr Shakil Afridi, currently serving 33 years in prison was: “accused of setting up a bogus hepatitis B vaccination campaign in the Abbottabad area to try to pinpoint Bin Laden’s exact location”, via DNA samples which: “were to be tested by the CIA for genetic matches to Bin Laden.” = Collaboration with a foreign intelligence service is regarded as an act of treason by Pakistan’s security establishment.”
FACT: Save The Children was expelled from Pakistan in September 2012 = See internal mails on the dispute can be read in full.
FACT: Save The Children appointed Samantha Cameron, wife of current UK Prime Minister David Cameron as their “Ambassador” for Syria.
FACT: Samantha Cameron has told stories of “innocent childhoods being smashed to pieces” (ODDLY Save the Children and Cameron are NOT ALLOWED INTO SYRIA) as Britain under Cameron is arming and training the Syrian insurgents.
FACT: Cameron on record with Blair as enthusiasts for another illegal overthrow in Syria with “no regrets” over Iraq.
FACT: UK Fury mounts over Blair’s Award for saving children.
TONY BLAIR’S GENOCIDE = Denis Halliday, former UN Coordinator in Iraq who resigned over the embargo during Blair’s premiership stating that it was “genocide.” = Christmas 1998 Blair stood in front of his Christmas tree outside 10 Downing Street and declared that the UK and US were again (illegally of course) bombing Iraq. = Halliday’s successor, Hans von Sponeck, who was also to resign in disgust.
TONY BLAIR = HONORED by Save The Children = Trumpets the Rights of the Child = Never reflect on the horror Blair has wrought on SO MANY DEAD CHILDREN and in Iraq one in four surviving children now has stunted physical or intellectual development due to malnutrition + 35,000 infant deaths/Year + 25+% of Iraqi children suffer post traumatic stress disorder.
TONY BLAIR = One of the most serious war criminals of our time = Blair was warned repeatedly by FCO legal advisers that invading Iraq constituted the crime of aggression = Nuremberg judges called the “supreme international crime” because it “contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
TONY BLAIR = The “accumulated evil” includes hundreds of thousands of people killed, cities and villages reduced to rubble and the destruction of an entire society.
“Save the Children” = Contributed to whitewashing and rehabilitating one of the most serious war criminals of our time = TONY BLAIR
TONY BLAIR = Is also legally culpable in the deaths of tens of thousands of children killed in Iraq, mainly by coalition air strikes. = Epidemiological study of excess mortality in Iraq from invasion by aerial bombardment was the leading cause of violent death for children in Iraq between 2003 and 2006.
EMBARRASSING LIAR + FIRED + DISGRACED SLPOA SPOKESPERSON CALLS FOR REMOVAL OF NFL PLAYERS’ USA CONSTITUTIONAL FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS
Ex-Cop with History of Lying to Protect Crooked Cops Wants Rams Players Punished for Free Speech by Jay Syrmopoulos DEC 1, 2014 for The Free Thought Project
NFL PLAYERS = “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture = Solidarity with BROWN Family suffering the MURDER OF THEIR UNARMED TEEN
NFL PLAYERS = Stedman Baily + Tavon Austion + Jared Cook + Chris Givens + Kenny Britt enter football field with the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture
FACT: FIRED COP Roorda was terminated for LYING IN POLICE REPORTS.
POLICY BULLY – REMINDS ME OF A BULLY IN 7th GRADE – ONE HARD PUNCH IN THE ARM AND HE IS NEVER SEEN AGAIN
Ex-Cop in St Louis = History of Lying to Protect Crooked Cops = Roorda is a disgraced ex-cop fired for misconduct in 2001 by the Arnold, Missouri police department for misconduct after being warned previously about lying on police reports to cover for fellow officers Reports Raw Story.
Court documents on Roorda: “…try to ‘cover for another police officer by filing a report that contained false statements as to what happened during a suspect’s apprehension and arrest. As a result of this false report, all charges against the defendant were dropped.” The court said Roorda was told, “If it is ever determined again that you have lied in a police report, you will receive a more severe punishment, up to and including termination.” = AND HE WAS!
LYING FIRED EX-COP = Immediately gets time on MSM TV to condemn NFL PLAYERS
SLPOA = St. Louis Police Officers Association (SLPOA) = ANTI-238 YEAR OLD AMERICAN FREEDOMS = CALLS FOR VIOLATION OF FIRST AMENDMENT.
LIARS AT ST.LOUIS POLICE UNION = Jeff Roorda, SLPAO Business Manager = Wrote that NFL players need to be disciplined and make a public apology for following their right of SELF-EXPRESSION.
SLPOA = Released statement labeling NFL players exercising of their First Amendment rights as, “tasteless, offensive and inflammatory.”
SLPOA = SAYS Darren Wilson doesn’t have to apologize for 11+ SHOTS THAT MURDERED A UNARMED TEEN
LIAR, FIRED, AND DISGRACED Roorda = Amazingly Elected to the Missouri House of Representatives = Questions inelrct of Missouri voters = GOAL to make Missouri law on POLICE VIOLENCE less transparent = Introduced amendment to “prevent the public from obtaining ‘any records and documents pertaining to police shootings’ = NAME OF KILLER COP SUPPRESSED EVEN IF OFF-DUTY = FAILED PASSAGE.
LIAR, FIRED, AND DISGRACED Roorda = Attempted to Remove Sunshine laws to REMOVE ALL transparency and accountability for police officers = 100% IMMUNITY.
LIAR, FIRED, AND DISGRACED Roorda = FOUGHT public being served by body and dash cams on officers = “Instead of the cameras being there to protect the officers, they get disciplined for petty stuff constantly”
LIAR, FIRED, AND DISGRACED Roorda = Biggest fundraisers for Darren Wilson, who received over $500,000 in donations.
LIAR, FIRED, AND DISGRACED Roorda = ZERO CONCERN FOR CITIZENS THAT PAY OFFICERS WAGES.
LIAR, FIRED, AND DISGRACED Roorda = Police lackey for ever-expanding police state and who doesn’t want officers held accountable for their actions.
LIAR, FIRED, AND DISGRACED Roorda = Lied in POLICE REPORTS to cover for other cops = Roorda’s disgraceful record of ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS.
SLPOA MUST FIRE THIS LIAR, FIRED, AND DISGRACED Roorda = TO REGAIN ANY CREDIBILITY!
Jay Syrmopoulos = Investigative journalist, researcher, and opponent of authoritarianism reporting for The Free Thought Project!
CHOMSKY UN SPEECH — BLASTS DECADES OF ILLEGAL ACTIONS BY ISRAELIS AND USA INCLUDING MASS MURDER OF PALESTINIANS AND THEIR CHILDREN + ETHNIC CLEANSING + ROBBERY OF PALESTINIAN LANDS
In U.N. Speech, Noam Chomsky Blasts United States for Supporting Israel, Blocking Palestinian State Nov 27, 2014 — Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Also Interview on Democracy Now
OUTLINE OF CHOMSKY POINTS (see Chomsky segments for each point below):
ISRAEL-USA PATTERN OF STALLING A FORMAL INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE:
ISRAEL-PALESTINE SOLUTION HAS BEEN CLEAR FOR 40 YEARS:
1976 SAW INTERNATIONAL RESOLUTION IN UN FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE AND ISRAELI STATE TO EXIST IN PEACE AND SECURITY – ISRAEL REFUSED TO ATTEND AND USA VETOED THE RESOLUTION:
FACT: A USA UN VETO = A DOUBLE VETO = VETO OF UN RESOLUTION + THE SOURCE EVENT IS VETOED FROM HISTORY IN UN RECORDS.
USA BLOCKS ALL PROGRESS BY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND UN AS ISRAEL EXPANDS SETTLEMENTS AND ROBBERY OF PALESTINIAN LANDS:
40 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS ON A PALESTINIAN STATE – BLOCKED BY ISRAELIS AND USA VETOES:
A DECADE OF ISRAELI IMPOSED TERROR AND MURDER ON THE GAZA APARTHEID PRISON:
2005 AGREEMENT WAS TO OPEN UP GAZA BORDERS BUT THAT NEVER HAPPENED:
2005 AGREEMENT TO REMOVE ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS WAS NOT A NOBEL ACT BY ISRAEL — IT WAS TO PREVENT A PALESTINIAN STATE:
ISRAELI EXPERTS WROTE IN 2005 WHEN ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS WERE REMOVED FROM GAZA, “THE RUINED TERRITORY (GAZA) WAS NOT RELEASED FOR A SINGLE DAY FROM ISRAEL’S MILITARY GRIP”:
ISRAEL IGNORES OSLO ACCORDS TO CREATE APARTHEID PRISONS IN GAZA AND WEST BANK USING DIVIDE AND CONQUER:
2005 AGREEMENT TERMINATED BY ISRAEL-USA BASED ON EXCUSE THAT FREE ELECTIONS IN GAZA DEMOCRATICALLY CHOSE HAMAS LEADERSHIP — USA TRIED A FAILED COUP OF HAMAS — ISRAEL INCREASED VIOLENCE AND MURDERS:
ISRAEL-USA MEDIA LIES THAT HAMAS DID A MILITARY COUP IN GAZA = EFFORT ACTUALLY PREVENTED AN ISRAELI-USA COUP OVER HAMAS:
2008 ISRAELIS USE OVERWHELMING VIOLENCE ANS MASS MURDER OF 78 PALESTINIANS IN CAST LEAD:
USA TIMED CAST LEAD MURDERS TO END JUST BEFORE OBAMA TOOK OFFICE ANS SAID “LET’S FORGET THE PAST, LETS LOOK FORWARD”:
2008 HAMAS CAREFULLY OBSERVES CEASEFIRE CONDITIONS FOR YEARS AND ISRAEL HAS NO EASY EXCUSE FOR MORE MASS MURDERS:
2014 ISRAELI MASS MURDERS AND OVERWHELMING VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION BEGINS AGAIN AFTER HAMAS AND PLO AGREE TO A UNITY GOVERNMENT AGAINST ISRAELI DESIRES TO KEEP THE DIVIDED SO ISRAEL HAS AN EXCUSE TO NOT NEGOTIATE PEACE AND A SEPARATE PALESTINIAN STATE – ISRAEL DOES MAJOR ASSULTS IN WEST BANK AND IN GAZA:
2014 ISRAELI-USA PATTERN CONTINUES OF “MOWING THE LAWN” MASS MURDERS OF THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS AND COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF PALESTINIAN QUALITY OF LIFE AND ROBBERY OF PALESTINIAN LANDS EVERY COUPLE YEARS — CONTINUES:
ISRAELIS CRIMINALS — CONTINUE FAR MORE ILLEGAL ROBBERY OF PALESTINIAN LANDS BY EXPENDING JERUSALEM TO 5 TIMES ITS SIZE AND ROB ALL HABITABLE LANDS LEAVING NOTHING FOR PALESTINIANS.
ISRAELIS DISPLACE PALESTINIANS WHO LIVED ON THEIR LANDS FOREVER – ISRAELI SETTLERS CUT OR BURN THEIR ORCHARDS AND GROVES AND FIELDS — REDUCING 300,000 ARABS TO JUST 60,000 NOW IMPRISONED BY ISRAELIS:
ISRAELI-USA COLONIAL SOLUTION IS CONTINUED CYCLE OF MURDER AND DESTRUCTION OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN PALESTINE TO DRIVE OUT AS MANY PALESTINIANS AS POSSIBLE BY MAKING THEIR LIVES UNBEARABLE TO CREATE A DOMINATE JEWISH STATE — TAKING SHAPE OVER 60+ YEARS NOW WITH FULL USA FINANCIAL AND UN VETO SUPPORT:
U.N. General Assembly event by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
ISRAEL-USA PATTERN OF STALLING A FORMAL INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE:
“The pattern that was set in January 1976 continues to the present. Israel rejects a settlement of these terms and for many years has been devoting extensive resources to ensuring it will not be implemented with the unremitting and decisive support of the United States — military, economic, diplomatic and ideological.” — Chomsky
ISRAEL-PALESTINE SOLUTION HAS BEEN CLEAR FOR 40 YEARS:
“Many of the world’s problems are so intractable that it’s hard to think of ways even to take steps towards mitigating them. The Israel-Palestine conflict is not one of these. On the contrary, the general outlines of a diplomatic solution have been clear for at least 40 years. Not the end of the road—nothing ever is—but a significant step forward. And the obstacles to a resolution are also quite clear.” — Chomsky
1976 SAW INTERNATIONAL RESOLUTION IN UN FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE AND ISRAELI STATE TO EXIST IN PEACE AND SECURITY – ISRAEL REFUSED TO ATTEND AND USA VETOED THE RESOLUTION:
1976: “The basic outlines were presented here in a resolution brought to the U.N. Security Council in January 1976. It called for a two-state settlement on the internationally recognized border—and now I’m quoting—’with guarantees for the rights of both states to exist in peace and security within secure and recognized borders’…Israel refused to attend the session. The resolution was vetoed by the United States.” — Chomsky
FACT: A USA UN VETO = A DOUBLE VETO = VETO OF UN RESOLUTION + THE SOURCE EVENT IS VETOED FROM HISTORY IN UN RECORDS.
USA BLOCKS ALL PROGRESS BY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND UN AS ISRAEL EXPANDS SETTLEMENTS AND ROBBERY OF PALESTINIAN LANDS:
USA Vetoes of Israeli matters, “That has set the pattern that has continued since. The most recent U.S. veto (Prior to 2014) was in February 2011—that’s President Obama—when his administration vetoed a resolution calling for implementation of official U.S. policy opposition to expansion of settlements. And it’s worth bearing in mind that expansion of settlements is not really the issue; it’s the settlements, unquestionably illegal, along with the infrastructure projects supporting them.” — Chomsky
40 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS ON A PALESTINIAN STATE – BLOCKED BY ISRAELIS AND USA VETOES:
“For a long time, there has been an overwhelming international consensus in support of a settlement along these general lines. The pattern that was set in January 1976 continues to the present. Israel rejects a settlement of these terms and for many years has been devoting extensive resources to ensuring that it will not be implemented, with the unremitting and decisive support of the United States—military, economic, diplomatic and indeed ideological—by establishing how the conflict is viewed and interpreted in the United States and within its broad sphere of influence.” — Chomsky
A DECADE OF ISRAELI IMPOSED TERROR AND MURDER ON THE GAZA APARTHEID PRISON:
“…look at what has happened in Gaza in the past decade…a long history of crimes…there is a definite pattern: A ceasefire is reached; Israel disregards it and continues its steady assault on Gaza, including continued siege, intermittent acts of violence, more settlement and development projects, often violence in the West Bank; Hamas observes the ceasefire, as Israel officially recognize, until some Israeli escalation elicits a Hamas response, which leads to another exercise of “mowing the lawn,” in Israeli parlance, each episode more fierce and destructive than the last.” — Chomsky
2005 AGREEMENT WAS TO OPEN UP GAZA BORDERS BUT THAT NEVER HAPPENED:
2005 Nov – Agreement on Movement and Access — “called for a crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah for the export of goods and the transit of people, continuous operation of crossings between Israel and Gaza for the import and export of goods and the transit of people, reduction of obstacles to movement within the West Bank, bus and truck convoys between the West Bank and Gaza, the building of a seaport in Gaza, the reopening of the airport in Gaza that Israel had recently destroyed. These are essentially the terms of successive ceasefires, including the one just reached a few weeks ago.” — Chomsky
2005 AGREEMENT TO REMOVE ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS WAS NOT A NOBEL ACT BY ISRAEL — IT WAS TO PREVENT A PALESTINIAN STATE:
2005 Nov – Agreement was the moment of Israel’s disengagement from Gaza—”the removal of several thousand Israeli settlers from Gaza. Now, this is depicted as a noble effort to seek peace and development, but the reality is rather different…very quickly…Dov Weissglas, close confidant of then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon…explained to the Israeli press, the goal of the disengagement—I’m quoting him—was ‘the freezing of the peace process,’ so as to ‘prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state’ and to ensure that diplomacy ‘has been removed indefinitely from our agenda.'” — Chomsky
ISRAELI EXPERTS WROTE IN 2005 WHEN ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS WERE REMOVED FROM GAZA, “THE RUINED TERRITORY (GAZA) WAS NOT RELEASED FOR A SINGLE DAY FROM ISRAEL’S MILITARY GRIP”:
Historian Idith Zertal & Akiva Eldar = Israel’s leading specialists on the occupation — “wrote the major book, the standard work on the settlement project, called Lords of the Land, referring to the settlers. What they say about the disengagement (of settlers) is this: They say, ‘the ruined territory was not released for even a single day from Israel’s military grip, or from the price of the occupation that the inhabitants pay every day. After the disengagement, Israel left behind scorched earth, devastated services, and people with neither a present nor a future. The settlements were destroyed in an ungenerous move by an unenlightened occupier, which in fact continues to control the territory and to kill and harass its inhabitants by means of its formidable military might.’ Now, that’s an accurate description from the most respected Israeli source.” — Chomsky
ISRAEL IGNORES OSLO ACCORDS TO CREATE APARTHEID PRISONS IN GAZA AND WEST BANK USING DIVIDE AND CONQUER:
1994: The Oslo Accords “established that Gaza and the West Bank are an indivisible territorial unity, whose integrity cannot be broken up. For 20 years, the United States and Israel have been dedicated to separate Gaza and the West Bank in violation of the accords that they had accepted. And a look at the map explains why. Gaza offers the only access to the outside world of Palestine. If Gaza is separated from the West Bank, whatever autonomy might ultimately be granted in the West Bank would be imprisoned—Israel on one side, a hostile Jordan, ally of Israel, on the other side, and in addition, one of Israel’s slow and steady U.S.-backed policies is to take over the Jordan Valley, about a third of the West Bank, much of the arable land, which would essentially imprison the rest even more tightly, if Gaza is separated from the West Bank. Now, that’s the major geostrategic reason for the Israeli insistence, with U.S. backing, on separating the two in violation of the Oslo agreements and the series of ceasefires that have been reached since November 2005.” — Chomsky
2005 AGREEMENT TERMINATED BY ISRAEL-USA BASED ON EXCUSE THAT FREE ELECTIONS IN GAZA DEMOCRATICALLY CHOSE HAMAS LEADERSHIP — USA TRIED A FAILED COUP OF HAMAS — ISRAEL INCREASED VIOLENCE AND MURDERS:
“Well, the November 2005 agreement lasted for a few weeks. In January 2006, a very important event took place: the first full, free election in the Arab world, carefully monitored, recognized to be free and fair. It had one flaw. It came out the wrong way: Hamas won the Parliament, control of the Parliament. The U.S. and Israel didn’t want that. You may recall, at that period, the slogan on everyone’s lips was “democracy promotion.” The highest U.S. commitment in the world was democracy promotion. Here was a good test. Democracy: Election came out the wrong way; the U.S. instantly decided, along with Israel, to punish the Palestinians for the crime of voting the wrong way; a harsh siege was instituted, other punishments; violence increased; the United States immediately began to organize a military coup to overthrow the unacceptable government. That’s quite familiar practice, I won’t go through the record. The European Union, to its shame and discredit, went along with this. There was an immediate Israeli escalation. That was the end of the November agreement, followed by major Israeli onslaughts.” — Chomsky
ISRAEL-USA MEDIA LIES THAT HAMAS DID A MILITARY COUP IN GAZA = EFFORT ACTUALLY PREVENTED AN ISRAELI-USA COUP OVER HAMAS:
2007 “Hamas committed even a greater crime than winning a fair election: It preempted the planned military coup and took over Gaza. That’s described in the West, in the United States, most of the West, as Hamas’s taking over Gaza by force—which is not false, but something is omitted. The force was preempting a planned military coup to overthrow the elected government. Now, that was a serious crime. It’s bad enough to vote the wrong way in a free election, but to preempt a U.S.-planned military coup is far more serious.” — Chomsky
2008 ISRAELIS USE OVERWHELMING VIOLENCE ANS MASS MURDER OF PALESTINIANS IN CAST LEAD:
2008: “The attack on Gaza increased substantially at that point, major Israeli onslaughts. Finally, in January 2008, another ceasefire was reached. Terms were pretty much the same as those that I quoted. Israel publicly rejected the ceasefire, said that it would not abide by it. Hamas observed the ceasefire, as Israel officially recognized, despite Israel’s refusal to do so. Now, that continued until November 4th, 2008. On November 4th, which was the day of the U.S. election, Israeli forces invaded Gaza, killed half a dozen Hamas militants. That led to Qassam rockets attacking Israel, huge Israeli response, lots of killings—all Palestinians, as usual. By the end of December, couple of weeks later, Hamas offered to renew the ceasefire. The Israeli Cabinet considered it and rejected it. This was a dovish Cabinet, led by Ehud Olmert—rejected it and decided to launch the next major military operation….That was Cast Lead, which was a horrible operation, so much so that it caused a very substantial international reaction, investigations by a United Nations commission, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch. ” — Chomsky
USA TIMED CAST LEAD MURDERS TO END JUST BEFORE OBAMA TOOK OFFICE ANS SAID “LET’S FORGET THE PAST, LETS LOOK FORWARD”:
“In the middle of the assault—the assault, incidentally, was carefully timed to end immediately before President Obama’s inauguration. He had already been elected, but he wasn’t inaugurated yet, so when he was asked to comment on the ongoing atrocities, he responded by saying that he couldn’t do so, the United States has only one president, and he wasn’t president yet. He was talking about lots of other things, but not this. The attack was timed to end immediately before the inauguration, so he therefore could respond to the questions by saying, ‘Well, now is not the time to look at the past, let’s look forward to the future.’ Diplomats know very well that that’s a standard slogan for those who are engaged in serious crime: ‘Let’s forget about the past, let’s look forward to a glorious future.’ Well, that was right in the middle of the assault.” — Chomsky
ISRAELIS “MOW THE LAWN” THAT IS BASICALLY MURDER OF PALESTINIANS TO KEEP A JEWISH MAJORITY:
“The Security Council did pass a resolution—unanimously, U.S. abstaining—calling for an immediate ceasefire with the usual terms. That was January 8th, 2009. It was never observed, and it broke down completely with the next major episode of “mowing the lawn” in November 2012. Now, you can get a good sense of what was going on by looking at the casualty figures for the year 2012. Seventy-nine people were killed, 78 of them Palestinians—the usual story.” — Chomsky
AMY GOODMAN: Chomsky spoke in the hall of the United Nations General Assembly about the aftermath of the November 2012 Israeli assault on Gaza.
HAMAS CAREFULLY OBSERVES CEASEFIRE CONDITIONS FOR YEARS AND ISRAEL HAS NO EASY EXCUSE FOR MORE MASS MURDERS:
2008: “After the November assault, there was a ceasefire reached with the usual terms. I’ll describe what happened next by quoting a leading specialist, Nathan Thrall. He’s a leading Middle East analyst for the International Crisis Group. As he writes, Israel recognized that Hamas was observing the terms of the ceasefire, and ‘therefore saw little incentive’ in doing the same. The military attacks on Gaza increased, along with more stringent restrictions on imports. Exports were blocked. Exit permits were blocked…” — Chomsky
2014 ISRAELI MASS MURDERS AND OVERWHELMING VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION BEGINS AGAIN AFTER HAMAS AND PLO AGREE TO A UNITY GOVERNMENT AGAINST ISRAELI DESIRES TO KEEP THE DIVIDED SO ISRAEL HAS AN EXCUSE TO NOT NEGOTIATE PEACE AND A SEPARATE PALESTINIAN STATE – ISRAEL DOES MAJOR ASSULTS IN WEST BANK AND IN GAZA:
2014: “That continued until April 2014, when Palestinians committed another crime: Gaza-based Hamas and West Bank-based Palestinian Authority signed a unity agreement. Israel was infuriated—infuriated even more when the world mostly supported it. Even the United States gave weak, but actual, support. Several reasons for the Israeli reaction. One is that unity between Gaza and the West Bank, between the two movements, would threaten the long-standing policies of separating the two, for the reasons that I mentioned. Another reason was that a unity government undermines one of the pretexts for Israel’s refusal to participate in negotiations seriously—namely, how can we negotiate with an entity that is internally divided? Well, if they’re unified, that pretext disappears. Israel was infuriated. It launched major assaults on the Palestinians in the West Bank, primarily targeting Hamas. Hundreds of people arrested, mostly Hamas members. Also Gaza, also killings.” — Chomsky
ISRAELIS USED ANOTHER EXCUSE FOR THEIR TERROR ATTACKS – A LONE WOLF MURDER OF THREE ISRAELI SETTLER’S TEENAGERS — ISRAELIS THEN BEGIN MASS MURDERS OF 2,200+ PALESTINIANS WITH 600+ CHILDREN:
“There was a pretext, of course. There always is. The pretext was that three teenagers, Israeli teenagers, in the settlements had been brutally murdered…Israel claimed officially that they thought that they were alive, so therefore launched a long, several weeks’ assault on the West Bank, alleging that they were trying to find them alive…It turns out (ISRAELIS) knew immediately that they had been killed…knew immediately that it was very unlikely that Hamas was involved. The government said they had certain knowledge that Hamas had done it, but their own leading specialists…pointed out right away that the assault…was very likely committed by members of a breakaway clan, the Qawasmeh clan…Anyway, that was a pretext for this assault, killings in Gaza. That finally elicited a Hamas response. Then came Operation Protective Edge, the one which was just completed, and more brutal and destructive even the ones that preceded it.” — Chomsky
2014 ISRAELI-USA PATTERN CONTINUES OF “MOWING THE LAWN” MASS MURDERS OF THOUSANDS OF PALESTINIANS AND COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF PALESTINIAN QUALITY OF LIFE AND ROBBERY OF PALESTINIAN LANDS EVERY COUPLE YEARS — CONTINUES:
“The pattern is very clear. And so far, at least, it appears to be continuing. The latest ceasefire was reached on August 26th. It was followed at once by Israel’s greatest land grab in 30 years, almost a thousand acres in the Gush Etzion area near what’s called Jerusalem, Greater Jerusalem, about five times the size of anything that Jerusalem ever was, taken over by Israel, annexed in violation of Security Council orders. The U.S. State Department informed the Israeli Embassy that Israeli—I’m quoting it now—’Israeli activity in Gush Etzion undermines American efforts to protect Israel at the United Nations,’ and urged that Israel shouldn’t provide ammunition for ‘those at the [United Nations] who would interpret [Israel’s] position as hardening.’ Actually, that warning was given 47 years ago, in September 1967, at the time of Israel’s first colonization, illegal colonization, of Gush Etzion. Israeli historian Gershom Gorenberg recently reminded us of this. Little has changed since, in the last 47 years, apart from the scale of the crimes, which continue, without a break, with constant U.S. support.” — Chomsky
2014 PROSPECTS EITHER TWO-STATES OR ISRAEL IN FULL CHARGE OF APARTHEID ONE STATE BUT ISRAELIS WORRY ABOUT DEMOGRAPHICS – THAT “MOWING THE LAWN” MASS MURDERS KEPT JEWS MAJORITY.
“The picture that’s presented is that there are two alternatives: either the two-state settlement, which represents an overwhelming international consensus, virtually everyone, and if that fails, there will have to be one state—Israel will take over the West Bank, the Palestinians will hand over the keys, as it’s sometimes said. Palestinians often have favored that. They say then they will be able to carry out a civil rights struggle, maybe modeled on the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, fight for civil rights within the whole one state controlled by Israel. Now, Israelis criticize that on the grounds of what is called “the demographic problem,” the fact that there will be too many non-Jews in a Jewish state—in fact, pretty soon a majority. Those are the alternatives that are presented, overwhelmingly, hardly an exception.” — Chomsky
CHOMSKY SOLUTION = INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS BY VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE WORLD (EXCEPT USA AND ISRAEL) IS TWO-STATES USING THE 1976 BORDERS:
ANOTHER “alternative is the international consensus on a two-state settlement, basically the terms of January 1976. By now, it’s virtually everyone—the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic States, includes Iran, Europe, Latin America—informally, at least, about everyone. That’s one option. The other option, the realistic one, is that Israel will continue doing exactly what it is doing right now, before our eyes, visible, with U.S. support, which is also visible. And what’s happening is not a secret. You can open the newspapers and read it.” — Chomsky
ISRAELIS CRIMINALS — CONTINUE FAR MORE ILLEGAL ROBBERY OF PALESTINIAN LANDS BY EXPENDING JERUSALEM TO 5 TIMES ITS SIZE AND ROB ALL HABITABLE LANDS.”
“Israel is taking over what they call Jerusalem, as I mentioned, a huge area, maybe five times the area of historic Jerusalem, Greater Jerusalem, big area in the West Bank, includes many Arab villages being dispossessed, destroyed, bringing settlers in. All of this is doubly illegal. All the settlements are illegal, as determined by the Security Council, advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice. But the Jerusalem settlements are doubly illegal, because they’re also in violation of explicit Security Council orders going back to 1968, with the U.S. actually voting for them at that time, barring any change in the status of Jerusalem. But it continues. That’s Greater Jerusalem. There are then corridors extending to the east. One major corridor extending from Jerusalem almost to Jericho, virtually bisecting the West Bank, includes the Israeli town of Ma’ale Adumim, which was built largely during the Clinton administration, Clinton years, with the obvious purpose of bisecting the West Bank—still a little contested territory, but that’s the goal. There’s another corridor further to the north including the town of Ariel, partially bisecting what remains. Another one further to the north including the town of Kedumim. If you look at the map, these essentially break up the West Bank into pretty much cantons. It looks, from a map, as though a large territory is left, but that’s misleading. Most of that is uninhabitable desert. And that’s separate from what I mentioned before, the slow, steady takeover of the Jordan Valley to the east—again, about a third of the arable land, the country. Israel has no official policy of taking it over, but they’re pursuing the policy in the way that has been carried out now for a hundred years, literally—small steps so nobody notices, or at least people pretend not to notice, establish a military zone.” — Chomsky
ISRAELIS DISPLACE PALESTINIANS WHO LIVED ON THEIR LANDS FOREVER – ISRAELI SETTLERS CUT OR BURN THEIR ORCHARDS AND GROVES AND FIELDS — REDUCING 300,000 ARABS TO JUST 60,000 NOW IMPRISONED BY ISRAELIS:
“The Palestinians who live there have to be displaced because it’s a military zone, no settlement allowed, and pretty soon there’s a military settlement, Nahal settlement, and another, then, sooner or later, it becomes an actual settlement. Meanwhile, dig wells, dispossess the population, set up green zones—a large variety of techniques which have, by now, reduced the Arab population from about 300,000 in 1967 to roughly 60,000 today. As I mentioned, that essentially imprisons what’s left.” — Chomsky
ISRAELI-USA COLONIAL SOLUTION IS CONTINUED CYCLE OF MURDER AND DESTRUCTION OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN PALESTINE TO DRIVE OUT AS MANY PALESTINIANS AS POSSIBLE BY MAKING THEIR LIVES UNBEARABLE TO CREATE A DOMINATE JEWISH STATE — TAKING SHAPE OVER 60+ YEARS NOW WITH FULL USA FINANCIAL AND UN VETO SUPPORT:
“I don’t think Israel has any intention of taking over the Palestinian population concentrations, which are left out of this, these plans. There are analogies often made to South Africa, but they’re quite misleading. South Africa relied on its black population. That was 85 percent of the population. It was its workforce. And they had to sustain them, just like slaveowners have to maintain their capital. They tried to sustain the population. They even tried to gain international support for the bantustans. Israel has no such attitude toward the Palestinians. They don’t want to have anything to do with them. If they leave, that’s fine. If they die, that’s fine. In standard neocolonial pattern, Israel is establishing—permitting the establishment of a center for Palestinian elites in Ramallah, where you have nice restaurants and theaters and so on. Every Third World country under the colonial system had something like that….Now, that’s the picture that’s emerging. It’s taking shape before our eyes. It has so far worked very well. If it continues, Israel will not face a demographic problem. When these regions are integrated slowly into Israel, actually, the proportion of Jews in Greater Israel will increase. There are very few Palestinians there. Those who are there are being dispossessed, kicked out. That’s what’s taking shape before our eyes. I think that’s the realistic alternative to a two-state settlement. And there’s every reason to expect it to continue as long as the United States supports it.” — Chomsky