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Um Ahmad sitting in the room where five of her children died at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Massacres committed by the Christian Phelange who were supported and given aid by Israel, which was protected by US vetoes of UN resolutions condemning them for their part in the Lebanon conflict

Girl screams as parents are shot dead by US troops at checkpoint in Iraq.

Father grieves for his lost children killed by US bombs in Afghanistan

14/04/06 | I've added an excellent article called "NEOCONSERVATISM: Origins, the Role in US Foreign Policy, and the Middle East". It traces the origins of this movement with it's Zionist overtones and how it has it serves it's own interests, primarily big-business and Israel, rather than the interests of the American people. Neo-conservatism is identified as a threat to the genuine interests of Americans, much like the corrupt and disloyal Zionist lobby in the Western countries only serves the interests of Israel and the Jewish people rather than the interests of ordinary Westerners. Indeed, due to the overwhelming similarites between both ideologies, it may be said that Neo-conservatism may just be a proxy for Zionism with a gentile face, primarily to make the neo-con agenda more palatable to a non-Jewish audience. It has been shown conclusively that Neo-conservatism does have a Jewish core (excuse the hyperbolic tone of the website, it does document credibly, the links between Zionists and neocons) with a distinctive, and perplexing, pro-Israel agenda (that is not to say that all Jews are neocons, fanatics or loyal to Israel). It is against the interests of ordinary US citizens. How can you maintain American credibility and security in the world if the US government continues to excuse atrocities committed by Israel, fund Israeli weapons purchases which are used to maintain the occupation of Palestinian land, act as Israels spokeman in the UN and continues to vetoe (from Reuters) UN resolutions demanding that Israel respect Palestinian human rights? Clearly Neo-conservatism, and Zionism are threats to US national security. Another article about Darfur has been added in the articles section raising some serious points about the nature of this conflict and how it has been exagerated by outside powers. Perhaps these powers have a seperatist agenda to impose on Darfur with a view to obtaining the huge mineral resources present in Darfur?

19/03/06 | Added a new section to the "skip to..." section called "Israel Lobby Watch" which is intended to monitor the activities of the Israel lobby in Western nations.

18/02/06 | Added a few interesting links in the "Articles" section and in the "Palestine/Israel" section. I am also trying to improve the font size of my website. If it is too big or too small, please inform me. I am using a 17 inch monitor at 1024x768 resolution, so I cannot tell if other poeple can see my website correctly. Also, please feel free to send me any links or articles (no attachments please) for publication to this site. Or if you want to re-write some of the articles on this website to include more information I may have missed, please do so and send them to me for publication here.

01/08/2005 | Added a new link in the "links" section and "articles section about Hindutva, Hindu extremism which has been formented in India even before Partition, and which has now achieved such a huge following in India that it formed the NDA government of India from 1998-2004. During this time, Muslims and Christians have suffered persecution, discrimination in housing, jobs, the media, and other sections of society. The policies of this government culminatedthe genocide of over 2000 Muslims in India in the state of Gujarat, which according to most human rights groups in India and abroad, was planned in advance by the leader of the state government of Gujarat, Narendra Modi. To this day, no leaders implicated in this massacre have been tried and found guilty, inspite of the voluminous evidence, and no Western nation has pressured India to bring the murderers to justice. More updates will follow regarding the 7/7 bombings in London.

11/07/2005 | Added a new article called "They want to destroy our freedoms". No matter how appalling the recent London bomb attacks were, does anyone really think they can compare to the slaughter of 100,000 innocent Iraqi's. We have Bush and Blair proclaiming that these groups want to destroy Western freedoms, but it is obvious to all but the most ignorant as to why these attacks happen. We are faced with a question, should we lament Western deaths more than the Iraqi deaths? This world is steadily getting more dangerous because of leaders like Bush and Blair, and their foreign policy.

23/05/2005 | More articles have been added to the "Articles" section, including MP George Galloways appearance with the US Senate, documented rapes of Iraqi women by US soldiers, the torture and killing of Afghan detainees in Afghanistan, articles tracing the influence of pro-Israel lobby groups in the US and UK, and an article refuting the red herring arguments of some Western politicians who dismiss the grievances Muslims have against them by dismissing it as "jealousy", hateing freedom" etc. I added a link in the "Palestine" section as well two links in the "Uzbekistan/Central Asia" section. 19/06/2005 | Fixed two links in the "articles" section, "The Causes and Aims of Al-Qaeda" and "The Muslim Weekly and 'anti-American' incitement". If there are more broken and dead links on my site, please feel free to email me the details. Some new links have been added in the "news links" section.

19th May 2004 | Added an article in the "News Links" section about the ongoing war in Iraq. Website needs some updating as well seeing as many developments have taken place since 22nd March 2003. Currently doing some more reading on the current Iraq war in order to update some information on this site. If you would like to contribute an article(s) to this website or anything related to the theme of this website, please email me here (no attachments please, please send as text on email body).

 22nd March 2003 | I have added an article about the US and UK's invasion of Iraq in the articles and Iraq section. 27th February 2003 | Two articles have been added in the articles section, one about US geo-politics and another article highlighting the humanitarian disaster if a new war against Iraq happens from the point of view of a 12-year old. A few links have been added marked with a "new" sign, they are about about Iraq and the consequences of war as well as the effects of sanctions. | 24th December 2002 I have added an article about Europe's emerging disagreements with the US government over it's policies in foreign nations. Added a new link in the Palestine section.  | 8th December 2002. I added a few links and an article about Kashmir called "Pakistan has the legitimate right to Kashmir" in the Kashmir section.

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• NEOCONSERVATISM: Origins, the Role in US Foreign Policy, and the Middle East | This article traces the origins of this movement with it's Zionist overtones and how it has it serves it's own interests, primarily big-business and Israel, rather than the interests of the American people. Neo-conservatism is identified as a threat to the genuine interests of Americans, much like the corrupt and disloyal Zionist lobby in the Western countries only serves the interests of Israel and the Jewish people rather than the interests of ordinary Westerners. Indeed, due to the overwhelming similarites between both ideologies, it may be said that Neo-conservatism may just be a proxy for Zionism with a gentile face, primarily to make the neo-con agenda more palatable to a non-Jewish audience. It has been shown conclusively that Neo-conservatism does have a Jewish core (excuse the hyperbolic tone of the website, it does document credibly, the links between Zionists and neocons) with a distinctive, and perplexing, pro-Israel agenda (that is not to say that all Jews are neocons, fanatics or loyal to Israel). It is against the interests of ordinary US citizens. How can you maintain American credibility and security in the world if the US government continues to excuse atrocities committed by Israel, fund Israeli weapons purchases which are used to maintain the occupation of Palestinian land, act as Israels spokeman in the UN and continues to vetoe (from Reuters) UN resolutions demanding that Israel respect Palestinian human rights? Clearly Neo-conservatism, and Zionism are threats to US national security.

• Darfuri Conflict: Race war or Tribal conflict? | "While there is much finger-pointing taking place, politicians and diplomats worldwide are neglecting pertinent facts: Darfur harbors natural resources many could benefit from. The first among these is oil, a commodity with which many wars are aggravated by. Secondly, there are farmlands and fresh Nile water resources. And last of all, it is rumored that Darfur possesses gold. These things are enough to spin Sudan’s economy into another realm of financial possibilities. Perhaps this is what motivates factionalized Sudanese groups to favor lawlessness and bloodshed over diplomacy and reconciliation. After all, someone will see fit to monopolize resources and control the wealth."

• The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (download 1.6 mb PDF version here) | "The centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy is its intimate relationship with Israel. Though often justified as reflecting shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, the U.S. commitment to Israel is due primarily to the activities of the “Israel Lobby.” This paper describes the various activities that pro-Israel groups have undertaken in order to shift U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction."..."For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state? One might assume that the bond between the two countries was based on shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, but neither explanation can account for the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the US provides. Instead, the thrust of US policy in the region derives almost entirely from domestic politics, and especially the activities of the ‘Israel Lobby’. Other special-interest groups have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert it as far from what the national interest would suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that US interests and those of the other country – in this case, Israel – are essentially identical."..."Washington also provides Israel with consistent diplomatic support. Since 1982, the US has vetoed 32 Security Council resolutions critical of Israel, more than the total number of vetoes cast by all the other Security Council members. It blocks the efforts of Arab states to put Israel’s nuclear arsenal on the IAEA’s agenda. The US comes to the rescue in wartime and takes Israel’s side when negotiating peace. The Nixon administration protected it from the threat of Soviet intervention and resupplied it during the October War. Washington was deeply involved in the negotiations that ended that war, as well as in the lengthy ‘step-by-step’ process that followed, just as it played a key role in the negotiations that preceded and followed the 1993 Oslo Accords. In each case there was occasional friction between US and Israeli officials, but the US consistently supported the Israeli position. One American participant at Camp David in 2000 later said: ‘Far too often, we functioned . . . as Israel’s lawyer.’ Finally, the Bush administration’s ambition to transform the Middle East is at least partly aimed at improving Israel’s strategic situation."

  "Jewish Americans also differ on specific Israeli policies. Many of the key organisations in the Lobby, such as the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organisations, are run by hardliners who generally support the Likud Party’s expansionist policies, including its hostility to the Oslo peace process. The bulk of US Jewry, meanwhile, is more inclined to make concessions to the Palestinians, and a few groups – such as Jewish Voice for Peace – strongly advocate such steps. Despite these differences, moderates and hardliners both favour giving steadfast support to Israel. Not surprisingly, American Jewish leaders often consult Israeli officials, to make sure that their actions advance Israeli goals. As one activist from a major Jewish organisation wrote, ‘it is routine for us to say: “This is our policy on a certain issue, but we must check what the Israelis think.” We as a community do it all the time.’ There is a strong prejudice against criticising Israeli policy, and putting pressure on Israel is considered out of order. Edgar Bronfman Sr, the president of the World Jewish Congress, was accused of ‘perfidy’ when he wrote a letter to President Bush in mid-2003 urging him to persuade Israel to curb construction of its controversial ‘security fence’. His critics said that ‘it would be obscene at any time for the president of the World Jewish Congress to lobby the president of the United States to resist policies being promoted by the government of Israel.’ Similarly, when the president of the Israel Policy Forum, Seymour Reich, advised Condoleezza Rice in November 2005 to ask Israel to reopen a critical border crossing in the Gaza Strip, his action was denounced as ‘irresponsible’: ‘There is,’ his critics said, ‘absolutely no room in the Jewish mainstream for actively canvassing against the security-related policies . . . of Israel.’ Recoiling from these attacks, Reich announced that ‘the word “pressure” is not in my vocabulary when it comes to Israel.’ Jewish Americans have set up an impressive array of organisations to influence American foreign policy, of which AIPAC is the most powerful and best known. In 1997, Fortune magazine asked members of Congress and their staffs to list the most powerful lobbies in Washington. AIPAC was ranked second behind the American Association of Retired People, but ahead of the AFL-CIO and the National Rifle Association. A National Journal study in March 2005 reached a similar conclusion, placing AIPAC in second place (tied with AARP) in the Washington ‘muscle rankings’. The Lobby also includes prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israel’s rebirth is the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda; to do otherwise, they believe, would be contrary to God’s will. Neo-conservative gentiles such as John Bolton; Robert Bartley, the former Wall Street Journal editor; William Bennett, the former secretary of education; Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former UN ambassador; and the influential columnist George Will are also steadfast supporters."..."The Lobby pursues two broad strategies. First, it wields its significant influence in Washington, pressuring both Congress and the executive branch. Whatever an individual lawmaker or policymaker’s own views may be, the Lobby tries to make supporting Israel the ‘smart’ choice. Second, it strives to ensure that public discourse portrays Israel in a positive light, by repeating myths about its founding and by promoting its point of view in policy debates. The goal is to prevent critical comments from getting a fair hearing in the political arena. Controlling the debate is essential to guaranteeing US support, because a candid discussion of US-Israeli relations might lead Americans to favour a different policy. A key pillar of the Lobby’s effectiveness is its influence in Congress, where Israel is virtually immune from criticism. This in itself is remarkable, because Congress rarely shies away from contentious issues. Where Israel is concerned, however, potential critics fall silent. One reason is that some key members are Christian Zionists like Dick Armey, who said in September 2002: ‘My No. 1 priority in foreign policy is to protect Israel.’ One might think that the No. 1 priority for any congressman would be to protect America. There are also Jewish senators and congressmen who work to ensure that US foreign policy supports Israel’s interests. Another source of the Lobby’s power is its use of pro-Israel congressional staffers. As Morris Amitay, a former head of AIPAC, once admitted, ‘there are a lot of guys at the working level up here’ – on Capitol Hill – ‘who happen to be Jewish, who are willing . . . to look at certain issues in terms of their Jewishness . . . These are all guys who are in a position to make the decision in these areas for those senators . . . You can get an awful lot done just at the staff level.’ AIPAC itself, however, forms the core of the Lobby’s influence in Congress. Its success is due to its ability to reward legislators and congressional candidates who support its agenda, and to punish those who challenge it. Money is critical to US elections (as the scandal over the lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s shady dealings reminds us), and AIPAC makes sure that its friends get strong financial support from the many pro-Israel political action committees. Anyone who is seen as hostile to Israel can be sure that AIPAC will direct campaign contributions to his or her political opponents. AIPAC also organises letter-writing campaigns and encourages newspaper editors to endorse pro-Israel candidates. There is no doubt about the efficacy of these tactics. Here is one example: in the 1984 elections, AIPAC helped defeat Senator Charles Percy from Illinois, who, according to a prominent Lobby figure, had ‘displayed insensitivity and even hostility to our concerns’. Thomas Dine, the head of AIPAC at the time, explained what happened: ‘All the Jews in America, from coast to coast, gathered to oust Percy. And the American politicians – those who hold public positions now, and those who aspire – got the message.’AIPAC’s influence on Capitol Hill goes even further. According to Douglas Bloomfield, a former AIPAC staff member, ‘it is common for members of Congress and their staffs to turn to AIPAC first when they need information, before calling the Library of Congress, the Congressional Research Service, committee staff or administration experts.’ More important, he notes that AIPAC is ‘often called on to draft speeches, work on legislation, advise on tactics, perform research, collect co-sponsors and marshal votes’. The bottom line is that AIPAC, a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on Congress, with the result that US policy towards Israel is not debated there, even though that policy has important consequences for the entire world. In other words, one of the three main branches of the government is firmly committed to supporting Israel. As one former Democratic senator, Ernest Hollings, noted on leaving office, ‘you can’t have an Israeli policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here.’ Or as Ariel Sharon once told an American audience, ‘when people ask me how they can help Israel, I tell them: “Help AIPAC.”’  New

• Ban on Marriages, Another Yoke on Rohingya Muslims | "BANGKOK, Dec 6 (IPS) - In Burma's remote west, young men and women are subject to a form of discrimination, considered harsh, even for the military regime in this country. They are banned from getting married. The victims are young adults from the ethnic Muslim-Rohingya community that is concentrated in the hilly Arakan state which shares a border with Bangladesh. Those who dared violate this ban are subject to heavy penalties, according to human rights researchers and Rohingya political leaders and journalists IPS spoke with."  New

• Traces of poison: Israel's Dark History revealed | "Israel, not Iraq, holds that distinction of being the first country in the region to use weapons of mass destruction with genocidal intent. Salman Abu-Sitta digs into a dark history"..."At a time when TV screens are filled with images of perceived weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq among people who are on the verge of starvation, the West turns a blind eye to the first biological terrorist in the Middle East, Israel, where the largest depot of WMD between London and Peking is located. When confronted with the anomaly, the United States ambassador to the UN, John Negroponti, responds with typical cynicism, "Israel did not use these weapons against its people or its neighbours." Assuming that the ambassador is well-informed, this statement is a patent lie. Israel used biological weapons even before it was created on Arab soil in 1948 and ever since. The purpose, according to Ben Gurion, is genocide, and if not complete, the purpose is not to allow the dispossessed Palestinians to return to their homes. POISONING ACRE WATER SUPPLY: In the wake of Haifa's occupation on 23 April 1948 by the Zionists, under the nose of the British Mandate forces commended by General Stockwell, a man still historically discredited for this failure, thousands converged on Acre, a nearby city, which was still Arab under the "protection" of the British forces. Acre was to be the next Zionist target. The Zionists besieged the city from the land side, and started showering the population with a hail of mortar bombs day and night. Famous for its historical walls, Acre could stand the siege for a long time. The city water supply comes from a nearby village, Kabri, about 10kms to the north, through an aqueduct. The Zionists injected typhoid in the aqueduct at some intermediate point which passes through Zionist settlements. (see map) The story can now be told, thanks to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) files which have now become available, 50 years after the event. A series of reports, under the reference G59/1/GC, G3/82, sent by ICRC delegate de Meuron from 6 May to about 19 May 1948 describe the conditions of the city population, struck by a sudden typhoid epidemic, and the efforts to combat it. Of particular importance are the minutes of an emergency conference held at the Lebanese Red Cross Hospital in Acre on 6 May, to deal with the typhoid epidemic. The meeting was attended by: Brigadier Beveridge, Chief of British Medical Services and Colonel Bonnet of the British Army, Dr Maclean of the Medical Services, Mr de Meuron, ICRC delegate in addition to other officials of the city. The minutes stated that there are at least 70 known civilian casualties, others may not be reported. It was determined that the infection is "water borne", not due to crowded or unhygienic conditions as claimed by the Israelis. It was decided that a substitute water supply should now come from artesian wells or from the agricultural station, just north of Acre (see map), not from the aqueduct. Water chlorine solution was applied, inoculation of civil population started, movement of civil population was controlled (lest refugees heading north towards Lebanon will carry the typhoid epidemic with them, as intended by the Zionists)."  New

• Israel's shooting of young girl highlights international hypocrisy, say Palestinians | "As the votes were counted in the Palestinian election and the scale of Hamas's landslide became apparent to the world, Aya al-Astal drifted away from her home and wandered towards the fence along the border between the Gaza strip and Israel. The nine-year-old girl's parents realised she was gone as they watched the election results on television. They do not know precisely what happened, but the Israeli army later said Aya was behaving in a suspicious manner reminiscent of a terrorist - she got too close to the border fence - and so a soldier fired several bullets into the child, hitting her in the neck and blowing open her stomach. Aya was the second child killed by the Israeli army last week. Soldiers near Ramallah shot 13-year-old Munadel Abu Aaalia in the back as he walked along a road reserved for Jewish settlers with two friends. The army said the boys planned to throw rocks at Israeli cars, which the military defines as terrorism. The two killings went unnoticed by the outside world amid the political drama, but they made their impact among Palestinians angered by demands from western leaders for Hamas to recognise Israel and renounce its armed struggle. Some Palestinians see the demands as a rejection of a democratic election and as siding with Israel. Others see hypocrisy. They say Israeli soldiers killed twice as many Palestinians last week alone - both of them children - as the number of Israelis killed by Hamas all last year. "Aya was shot in the neck and stomach. Her stomach was hanging out," said the child's mother, Aisha. "We have no idea why she went there but she was a child. She was so small. She was nine years old. She didn't wear a hijab. It was clear she was just a young girl. This is hatred.""  New

• Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified | A must read article. This article written by Norman Finklestein systematically documents Israeli atrocities committed in Palestine/Israel. Israel has murdered thousands of Palestinians in cold blood, including hundreds of children, it systematically tortures innocent people, it has a policy of collective punishment demolition Palestinians houses, it is unilaterally and illegally confiscating Palestinian land to be used for Jewish colonies. It has to this day refused to allow the Palestinians their Right of Return to their own land and homes from which their were ethnically cleansed from in 1948, simply because they are not Jewish. And yet, Israel has been repeatedly protected by US vetoes at the UN while this has been going on. "Although the subject of many reports by human rights organizations, Israel's real human rights record in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is generally not well known abroad. This is primarily due to the formidable public relations industry of Israel's defenders as well as the effectiveness of their tactics of intimidation, such as labeling critics of Israeli policy anti-Semitic. Yet, it is an incontestable fact that Israel has committed a broad range of human rights violations, many rising to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity..."In addition, Israel has demolished thousands of "illegal" homes that Palestinians built because of Israel's refusal to provide building permits. The motive behind destroying these homes, according to Amnesty, has been to maximize the area available for Jewish settlers: "Palestinians are targeted for no other reason than they are Palestinians." Finally, Israel has destroyed hundred of homes on security pretexts, yet a Human Rights Watch report on Gaza found that "the pattern of destructionstrongly suggests that Israeli forces demolished homes wholesale, regardless of whether they posed a specific threat." Amnesty likewise found that "Israel's extensive destruction of homes and properties throughout the West Bank and Gazais not justified by military necessity," and that "Some of these acts of destruction amount to grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention and are war crimes."..."Although an economic boycott can be justified on moral grounds, the question remains whether diplomacy might be more effectively employed instead. The documentary record in this regard, however, is not encouraging. The basic terms for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict are embodied in U.N. resolution 242 and subsequent U.N. resolutions, which call for a full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza and the establishment of a Palestinian state in these areas in exchange for recognition of Israel's right to live in peace and security with its neighbors. Each year the overwhelming majority of member States of the United Nations vote in favor of this two-state settlement, and each year Israel and the United States (and a few South Pacific islands) oppose it. Similarly, in March 2002 all twenty-two member States of the Arab League proposed this two-state settlement as well as "normal relations with Israel." Israel ignored the proposal. Not only has Israel stubbornly rejected this two-state settlement, but the policies it is currently pursuing will abort any possibility of a viable Palestinian state. While world attention has been riveted by Israel's redeployment from Gaza, Sara Roy of Harvard University observes that the "Gaza Disengagement Plan is, at heart, an instrument for Israel's continued annexation of West Bank land and the physical integration of that land into Israel." In particular Israel has been constructing a wall deep inside the West Bank that will annex the most productive land and water resources as well as East Jerusalem, the center of Palestinian life. It will also effectively sever the West Bank in two. Although Israel initially claimed that it was building the wall to fight terrorism, the consensus among human rights organizations is that it is really a land grab to annex illegal Jewish settlements into Israel. Recently Israel's Justice Minister frankly acknowledged that the wall will serve as "the future border of the state of Israel."..."Recalling the U.N. Charter principle that it is inadmissible to acquire territory by war, the International Court of Justice declared in a landmark 2004 opinion that Israel's settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the wall being built to annex them to Israel were illegal under international law. It called on Israel to cease construction of the wall, dismantle those parts already completed and compensate Palestinians for damages. Crucially, it also stressed the legal responsibilities of the international community:

  all States are under an obligation not to recognize the illegal situation resulting from the construction of the wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem. They are also under an obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by such construction. It is also for all States, while respecting the United Nations Charter and international law, to see to it that any impediment, resulting from the construction of the wall, to the exercise by the Palestinian people of its right to self-determination is brought to an end.

  A subsequent U.N. General Assembly resolution supporting the World Court opinion passed overwhelmingly. However, the Israeli government ignored the Court's opinion, continuing construction at a rapid pace, while Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the wall was legal. Due to the obstructionist tactics of the United States, the United Nations has not been able to effectively confront Israel's illegal practices. Indeed, although it is true that the U.N. keeps Israel to a double standard, it's exactly the reverse of the one Israel's defenders allege: Israel is held not to a higher but lower standard than other member States. A study by Marc Weller of Cambridge University comparing Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory with comparable situations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, East Timor, occupied Kuwait and Iraq, and Rwanda found that Israel has enjoyed "virtual immunity" from enforcement measures such as an arms embargo and economic sanctions typically adopted by the U.N. against member States condemned for identical violations of international law. Due in part to an aggressive campaign accusing Europe of a "new anti-Semitism," the European Union has also failed in its legal obligation to enforce international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Although the claim of a "new anti-Semitism" has no basis in fact (all the evidence points to a lessening of anti-Semitism in Europe), the EU has reacted by appeasing Israel. It has even suppressed publication of one of its own reports, because the authors ­ like the Crisis Group and many others ­ concluded that due to Israeli policies the "prospects for a two-state solution with east Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine are receding."  New

• Israel-Our Dangerous Parasite | "One major difference stands out: the German people funded Hitler's expansionism, whereas it has been the US taxpayers who, to a great extent, have paid for Israel's expansionism. Adolph Hitler never received complimentary press coverage in the US but our President Bush has stated more than once, that Sharon is " a man of peace." The fascist ideology of the Likud Party has kept the Mideast in an uproar for over half a century." In his memoirs of his years in the White House former President Jimmy Carter wrote that there could have been peace between the Arabs and the Israelis had it not been for the bigoted, Nazi-like racial views of Israeli's Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Begin, Carter recalled, believed the Jews were the Master Race, a holy people superior to Egyptians and Arabs. Begin also believed that God wanted the Jews to own the land, so there was absolutely no basis for peace. The Jews lusted after the land and intended to have it." "Holocaust activist, Elie Wiesel, who recently died, claimed the Jews are a superior race. "Everything about us is different ...Jews are ontologically exceptional." (Texe Maars 11-25-2003) (www.rense.com/general45/master.htm )"  New

• Israel continues it's policy of Arab ethnic cleansing and Jewish colonialism | Imagine if any other government had treated other people in such a racist way, their would be an international outcry and an inevitable UN resolution. Yet the self-proclaimed defenders of freedom, democracy and human rights in the West and are completely silent on this matter. How can they expect hate against their countries to disappear if this support of oppressive governments exists? How can they expect Muslims to not hate them? Inevitably this comes down to the insidious influence exerted on the US and other Western governments of pro-Israel parasitical lobbies like AIPAC. They are pressuring the American government to support Israel, against the wishes of real, loyal and decent Americans who then bear the brunt of terrorist attacks because the actions of their government and the influence of the insidious Zionist pro-Israel groups who only have loyalties to Israel (see 1 2 3 4 5 6 7). "Israel has effectively annexed the Jordan Valley - about a third of the occupied West Bank - by barring almost all Palestinians from entering the region, a respected Israeli human rights group said yesterday. The group, B'Tselem, points to a system of permits and checkpoints that has expanded over recent months to keep most Palestinians out of the valley. It says this and other measures that are forcing residents to leave the area appear to be a step towards seizing the land for Israel. "Israel's permit regime in the valley, together with statements of senior officials, give the impression that the motive underlying Israel's policy is not based on military-security needs, but is political: the de facto annexation of the Jordan Valley," said B'Tselem. "This annexation, similar to the de facto annexation of broad tracts of land west of the [West Bank] separation barrier, constitutes a flagrant breach of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination." Last week, Ehud Olmert, the acting prime minister, said Israel intended to keep control of the valley - even after it pulls out of other parts of the West Bank and draws new borders - as a defensive move. "It is impossible to abandon control of the eastern border of Israel," he said. The sparsely populated valley - home to about 53,000 Palestinians and 6,000 Israelis in 21 Jewish settlements - is among the most fertile land in the occupied territories and an important source of produce. It also used to be a main transport route linking various parts of the West Bank. But last year the army, unannounced, started restricting Palestinian access. Only those whose identity documents show they live there are permitted to remain. Several thousand workers in the settlements or in essential areas, such as teaching and healthcare, are given permits to visit during the day. "The closing of the Jordan Valley has caused many Palestinians who live in villages bordering the valley and work in agriculture there to lose their source of livelihood," said B'Tselem. In recent weeks, the army has also restricted the movement of Palestinian produce out of the valley - but not from the settlements - forcing some farmers into debt and threatening their ability to maintain their livelihoods. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied territories sees the result as a valley "increasingly out of bounds for Palestinians living in other parts of the West Bank".  New

• Bethlehem Bloggers: Voices from the Bethlehem Ghetto: The ethnic cleansing continues... | "The first house to be demolished didn’t even have a demolition order on it. The inhabitants, Munther Salim, his wife Siham and their three children, hired a lawyer because so many houses in their village had demolition orders on them. They were assured by their lawyer just two weeks previously that he had received promises from the Israeli authorities that their house would not be touched. Because of their difficult economic situation, they could not afford to build a house on the land which Siham inherited from her father when he died nearly 20 years ago. Despite this, four years ago, with both financial and practical help from the community, a house was built for the family. The family were both full of shock and questions and sat on the remains of their house in tears. ‘We want to live in peace, but there is no peace here, how can we live like this? Where shall I go? To a camp? To spend all of my life in a refugee camp?’ Siham asked me. I admit I was lost for answers. Siham’s young niece asked me, ‘What would happen if I went to Jerusalem and demolished an Israeli house, where Jewish people lived. The whole world would stand behind Israel and call us terrorists, wouldn’t they? Why is it different for us? Who was this house hurting? How does this house harm the security of Israel?’ I’d like everyone reading this to, just for one moment, imagine, genuinely try and imagine what it would feel like if a foreign country’s police force came to your door and told you that they were about to demolish your house, ordered you out of the house, took out all of your things, and half an hour later started the demolition. Then left."  New

• The guilty plea of fabulously wealthy and highly corrupt lobbyist "Jack Abramoff raised the question of whether he would roll over on congressmen involved in illegal fundraising and other crimes with him. Some twenty Republicans on Capitol Hill are said to be in danger. Abramoff's dense network of illicit finances and phony charities might end some political careers in the United States. But the investigation into his activities by the FBI also shed light on the ways in which rightwing American Jews have often been involved in funding what are essentially terrorist activities by armed land thieves in Palestinian territory. Indeed, it was this terror funding of Israeli far right militiamen that tripped Abramoff up, since the FBI discovered that he had misled Indian tribes into giving money to the Jabotinskyites, and then began wondering if he had defrauded the tribes in other ways. (You betcha!) The Indian leaders were furious when they discovered they had been used to oppress another dispossessed indigenous people, the Palestinians, calling it "Outer Limits bizarre" and saying that they would never have willingly given money to such a cause. Newsweek's Mike Issikoff reported last May that Abramoff diverted $140,000 from a charity ostensibly to benefit inner-city youths to militant Israeli colonists who had usurped land in the Palestinian West Bank. Isikoff wrote: "Among the expenditures: purchases of camouflage suits, sniper scopes, night-vision binoculars, a thermal imager and other material described in foundation records as "security" equipment. The FBI, sources tell NEWSWEEK, is now examining these payments as part of a larger investigation to determine if Abramoff defrauded his Indian tribe clients . . . Abramoff, a legendary lobbyist particularly close to DeLay, is also a fierce supporter of Israel—"a super-Zionist," one associate says. That may explain why Abramoff's paramilitary gear ended up in the town of Beitar Illit, a sprawling ultra-Orthodox outpost whose residents have occasionally tangled with their Palestinian neighbors. Yitzhak Pindrus, the settlement's mayor, says that several years ago the town was confronting mounting security problems. "They [the Palestinians] were throwing stones, they were throwing Molotov cocktails," Pindrus says. Abramoff's connection to the town was Schmuel Ben-Zvi, an American emigre who, the lobbyist told associates, was an old friend he knew from Los Angeles. Capital Athletic Foundation public tax records make no mention of Ben-Zvi. But they do show payments to "Kollel Ohel Tiferet" in Israel, a group for which there is no public listing and which the town's mayor said he never heard of...."Isikoff is careful to avoid trouble by depicting the weaponry sent by Abramoff as essentially for self-defense. But the colonists are often aggressive, and anyway would not need to defend themselves if they weren't squatting on other people's land. And, Israel does have an army. Private militias are always an ugly thing, and have been used by Israeli colonists ethnically to cleanse nearby Palestinian villages"...."Illegal outposts, i.e. establishing foreign colonies on stolen land, is a way of terrorizing the indigenous inhabitants, and it requires a local militia to defend the colonists, along with sniper lessons and night-vision binoculars. Now here's the thing. If a Palestinian-American had diverted $140,000 from a Muslim charity to "security equipment" and "sniper lessons" for Palestinians on the West Bank, that individual would be in Gitmo so fast that the sonic boom would rattle your windows. In fact, it seems to me that Sami al-Arian is the mirror image of Abramoff. But here's a prediction. None of the Jewish extremists, some of them violent, who are invading the West Bank and making the lives of the local Palestinians miserable will ever be branded "terrorists" by the US Government, and Abramoff's foray into providing sniper lessons will be quietly buried. Terror isn't terror and aggression is not aggression when it has lobbyists in Congress who can provide luxury vacations and illegal campaign funding.  New
  

• Israeli Apartheid in the Middle East | "After wiping Palestine off the map and expelling over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, confiscating the land they've lived on for generations, Israel still had a considerable Palestinian minority within its borders. Set to realise the dream of creating a state for Jews only, which had obviously failed, Apartheid laws were imposed in order to make the non-Jewish citizens of the Jewish state to leave...Non-Jews are prevented from buying or renting land on more than 80% of the state of Israel within the Green Line (this also applies to land under Israeli control in the occupied territories). 93.7% of the land in Israel is defined as 'Israel lands' [7] and is either owned by the Israeli state, the Development Authority or the Keren Kayemeth Le-Israel (The Jewish National Fund, JNF). This national land is property that was confiscated by the Zionists - except for a few per cent which was bought by the JNF - and the Palestinians nowadays only own about 3.5% of the land in Israel, which is half of the private-owned land....The 'Judaizing' of Jerusalem is another word for ethnically cleansing it, making it as Jewish as possible.[10] A Palestinian born in East Jerusalem who has moved abroad is forbidden to return, while a Jew who has never sat foot in the city can move back and forth as he likes. Can you picture Jews being forbidden to return to Washington DC just because they are Jews? Probably not, and that's good. The question is how Israel gets away with it. And why does almost no newspaper or magazine in Europe and North America ever write about it?...Professor of Political Science at Haifa University and a true supporter of the Palestinians, Ilan Pappe in an interview well summarised the racist laws against the Palestinians in Israel: "For example, the law of the land, which says that 94% of the land in Israel belongs to the Jewish people alone, not to the state of Israel, and therefore 20% of the population - the Arabs - are barred from this land. Although the Arab population in Israel tripled compared to the Jewish population, there has not been one new Arab settlement or village built, while there are hundreds of new Jewish, towns, villages and settlements. So this is discrimination on the basis of ethnicity on land rights. You cannot exist in an agricultural society like the Arab one, if you are not allowed to expand according to your demographic group. That's one law. Then there is the law of citizenship, which says that Palestinians who may have brothers and sisters and relatives all over the Arab world are not allowed to reunite with their families, but Jews all around the world have all the rights to come and become full citizens from the moment they are born. The third one is the law of social welfare, which says that only people who have served in the army are entitled to the full welfare social system. Now, the Arabs are not allowed to serve in the army [with few exceptions, as with the Druze], and therefore they are not allowed full social services. And these are just the formal laws. There are many de facto manifestations of apartheid in the way towards the Arab population in the way that the budget is distributed; in the basic treatment by the authorities; the police; and so on."[12] One question remains: How the hell does Israel get away with all this? Why is Israel, time after time, being called 'the only democracy in the Middle East', while its non-Jewish Arab citizens are forbidden to live on 80% of its land? How come almost no newspaper ever mentions that Jerusalem is being ethnically cleansed?"  New
  

• Aid to Israel is Out of Hand | "American and Israeli diplomats have recently revived discussions over our potential financial support of Israel's August withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Last summer, Israel sought $2 billion, but suspended its request following the Katrina disaster. With popular and congressional attention to New Orleans now dissipating, Israel is again asking American taxpayers for help, although it has scaled back to $1.2 billion in light of popular sentiment and signals from Congress. This amount is supplemental to Israel's share of our regular foreign aid that has run $3 billion to $4 billion annually for decades. Our officials have not publicly responded to the Israel request. When they do, their answer should be a polite but firm "No". It is reason enough to deny Israel's request that its settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are illegal. The U.N. Security Council has held so, as has the International Court of Justice. As part of its non-binding but authoritative judgment on Israel's wall, the International Court of Justice concluded last year that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories violate international law. While the dollars Israel now seeks would fund housing and infrastructure for new communities in Israel for the settlers, paying for these, in effect, compensates Israel for giving back its illegal settlements. Some 94 percent of Americans polled by CNN in July opposed the Israeli request, even before Katrina and heightened public awareness of our own acute domestic needs. Still, there are times when principle must surrender to pragmatism. $1.2 billion would be a bargain were it to yield momentum toward a genuine Israeli-Palestinian peace. Every indication, unfortunately, is to the contrary. Since the decolonization of the Gaza Strip, Israel has only intensified its colonization of the West Bank, including Jerusalem. There, 430,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements built on land seized from Palestinians -- and they are expanding every day. A city holy to three great religions is being transformed into the exclusive capital of one group -- Jews. Meanwhile Palestinian Christian and Muslim families are slowly squeezed out of neighborhoods they have inhabited peacefully for decades if not centuries. A European Union study released last week determined that Israeli policies toward Jerusalem are not motivated by security, but by demographics, violating international law and Israel's obligations under the Roadmap to Peace. Israel touted the Gaza disengagement as a step forward. Yet in October 2004, Dov Weisglass, advisor and close confidant of Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, admitted in an interview in Israel that withdrawal was a way to avoid peace negotiations with Palestinians, consolidate control over the West Bank, and foil the creation of a Palestinian state. No such pronouncements are necessary, however, to the Palestinians. They witness Israel's continuing relentless seizures of Palestinian lands, demolition of Palestinian homes, construction of the separation wall, and expansion of Jewish-only settlements. Palestinian Christians and Muslims are rendered homeless, stripped of their property, and deprived of any semblance at equal rights with their Jewish counterparts."  New

• Might the Arabs Have a Point? | "And is Israel not our fair-haired boy? Though Sharon & Co. have stomped on as many UN resolutions as Saddam Hussein ever did, they have pocketed $100 billion in U.S. aid and are now asking for a $2 billion bonus this year, Katrina notwithstanding. Anyone doubt they will get it? Though per capita income in Israel is probably 20 times that of the Palestinians, Israel gets the lion’s share of economic aid. And though they have flipped off half a dozen presidents to plant half a million settlers in Arab East Jerusalem and the West Bank, have we ever imposed a single sanction on Israel? Has Bush ever raised his voice to Ariel Sharon? And when you listen to the talking heads and read the columns of the neocon press, is it unfair to conclude that, yes, they would like to dump over every regime that defies Bush or Sharon?"  New

• The Truth You Don't Hear About: Situation on the Ground in Palestine | "The Gaza redeployment was spun as the beginning of a peace process; a great retreat by General Ariel Sharon, who was portrayed as a man of peace. Yet the fact remains that Palestine is 27,000 square kilometres, of which the West Bank constitutes only 5,860 square kilometres, and the Gaza Strip, just 360 sq km. This is equal to only 1.3 per cent of the total land of historic Palestine. So even if Sharon really had withdrawn from Gaza, this would amount to just 5.8 per cent of the occupied territories. But the Israelis did not get out of Gaza. A big fuss was created about the great sacrifice Israel was making and how painful it was for settlers to leave. If you steal a piece of land and keep it for 20 years, of course it becomes painful to leave it but it is still something stolen that should be returned to its owners. Prior to the disengagement, a total of 152 settlements existed in the occupied territories: 101 in the West Bank, 30 in East Jerusalem, and 21 in the Gaza Strip. These figures do not include the settlements that Sharon and the Israeli army have created in the West Bank without officially recognising them. With the disengagement, and the evacuation of settlements in Gaza and four small settlements in the Jenin area of the West Bank, 127 settlements have been left in place. The total population of settlers -- illegal under international law, and under the 2004 ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which states that the separation wall and every settlement in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem must be removed -- numbers some 436,000: 190,000 in Jerusalem, and 246,000 in the West Bank. Just 8,475, or two per cent of the total number of illegal settlers in the occupied territories were removed from the Gaza Strip and Jenin area. Yet in the same period, the settlement population in the West Bank has grown by a massive 15,800. So why remove settlers from Gaza if the disengagement was simply an exercise in relocation? Firstly, Israel never really wanted to keep them there. They were a bargaining chip to use when the time came to talk about the future of the occupied territories. But providing security for this relatively small number of settlers through a sustained military presence in the Gaza Strip was proving costly. Secondly, Israel had already exhausted the water resources in Gaza by tapping the flow of underground water east of Gaza -- resulting in the seepage of seawater into Gaza's coastal aquifer -- and through the over-pumping of the existing aquifer by Israeli settlements. As such, Gazans have been left with brackish water resources that cause high rates of kidney failure. The maximum accepted level of chloride in drinking water, as set by World Health Organisation standards, is 250 mg per litre. In most areas of Gaza, the level stands between 1,200 and 2,500 mg per litre."  New

• The 'Trophy Video': Bloodthirsty Contractors Randomly Shoot Iraqi Drivers Dead | This video shows British security personnel randomly shooting Iraqi civilians in cars. This video demonstrates the absolute callous attitude Western authorities have regarding the lives of Muslims and non-Westerners. One would have thought there would have been some sort of checks and measures against such murderous behaviour by Westerners but it seems that the lives of Muslims are not worth bothering about. Surely the Iraqi people will not forget these atrocities and will some day return the favour upon the West?

• Report: Iraqis losing out on oil fortune | "Up to $113 billion in Iraqi oil revenues are going to multinational oil companies under long-term contracts, and not to the Iraqi people, says a social and environmental group. In a report, the group known as Platform said that oil multinationals would be paid between 74 billion pounds ($43 billion) and 194 billion pounds, with rates of return of between 42% and 162% under proposed production-sharing agreements, or PSAs. "The form of contracts being promoted is the most expensive and undemocratic option available," said Platform researcher Greg Muttitt on Tuesday. "Iraq's oil should be for the benefit of the Iraqi people, not foreign oil companies."

• To become an occupier | "No international relationship has been more untouchable in the politics of American foreign policy than the US-Israeli alliance. For decades, the brute power of the pro-Israel “lobby” has had Congress in the palm of its hand, ready to override virtually any presidential initiative not favored by Israel."

• No US-Backed Israeli Government Has Offered Equal Rights to Palestinians | "This is because a prolonged conflict in Palestine will destabilize the Arab world and allow its leaders to continue ignoring urgent issues such as poverty and democracy. The unsolved Palestinian question means that that the age of colonialism is not over and that dealing with poverty or liberty can be described as a luxury. As long as the Palestinian refugees who were expelled by Jewish newcomers in 1948 cannot return home and as long as the military occupation of the territories conquered by Israel in 1967 persists, there will be no lasting solution. No peace proposal to date has offered a fair solution to either the Palestinian refugees or those continuing to live under a brutal military occupation. This perception of Israel as an aggressive relic of a colonialist past is widespread in the Muslim world. And it has ominous implications for the United States. Israel could not have uprooted close to a million Palestinians in 1948 and occupied another two million for the past 38 years without American support. Indeed, American taxpayers foot the bill for a $3 billion annual grant. This financial backing, combined with unremitting diplomatic support, has enabled Israel to sustain the longest occupation of another people in modern times. Here are the horrors inflicted on the Palestinians that are witnessed by people across the Arab and Muslim world: widespread home demolitions, the confiscation of private property for the construction of Jewish-only settlements and Jewish-only roads and the expulsion of Palestinian Christian and Muslim people. And their wrath is not always limited to protesting Israel, the occupier and expeller. They sometimes also challenge --with condemnable terror --the United States, whom they see as the superpower behind the oppressor. The US does not need to be embroiled in a tense relationship with a fifth of the world population."

• Palestinian Newborns Die in Israeli Checkpoint Delays: UN | "GENEVA, September 23, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) - Israeli security measures and consequent delays at checkpoints are responsible for the death of Palestinian newborns and mothers in labor, the UN said in a new report released Thursday, September 22. Since 2000, there have been more than 70 cases of women in labor who were delayed at checkpoints, resulting in "unattended and risky roadside births, causing maternal as well as newborn deaths," read the report, prepared for the UN General Assembly by the Geneva-based UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Reuters reported."

• Palestinians terrorised by Israeli sonic booms | "Israel is deploying a terrifying new tactic against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip by letting loose deafening "sound bombs" that cause widespread fear, induce miscarriages and traumatise children. The removal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip opened the way for the military to use air force jets to create dozens of sonic booms by breaking the sound barrier at low altitude, sending shockwaves across the territory, often at night. Palestinians liken the sound to an earthquake or huge bomb. They describe the effect as being hit by a wall of air that is painful on the ears, sometimes causing nosebleeds and "leaving you shaking inside". The Palestinian health ministry says the sonic booms have led to miscarriages and heart problems. The United Nations has demanded an end to the tactic, saying it causes panic attacks in children. The shockwaves have also damaged buildings by cracking walls and smashing thousands of windows." The Israeli treatment of non-Jews, especially Palestinians Arabs, has been atrocious. It has been going on for over 50 years, yet why do we not see the US take action over this when it claims to fight for freedom and democracy?

• High treason in Washington | "With several thousand well-connected members and a staff of close to 200, AIPAC is one of the US's most powerful lobbying groups and wields great influence on Capitol Hill. It has lobbied and raised billions of dollars in aid for Israel, while marshalling support to defeat legislative initiatives relating to Israel it does not like. Some of the most important officials in US government, including President Bush and House Speaker Tom Delay, have attended AIPAC's annual conference. AIPAC, moreover, has strong ties to the Christian Right, as well as to such prominent neo con figures as Douglas Feith, Richard Perle and Micheal Ledeen, who promote an aggressive U.S. foreign policy and unflinching support for Israel."..."Despite the can of worms opened up in Iraq by a neo con strategy based on lies, distortions and deceptions, the cabal seemed determined to push on with their agenda for the Islamic world. The driving force behind the strategy is the protection of Israel at whatever cost to US interests."...The FBI is reportedly continuing its probe of whether U.S. officials with treason in their heart have passed on sensitive intelligence about Iran and its nuclear programme to Israel. Also significant, was the US Justice Department investigation of AIPAC that threatens to force AIPAC to register as a foreign agent. Getting AIPAC to register would be appropriate and timely. Something needs to be done to ensure the un-American organisation can't continue to undermine US foreign policy with impunity. Uncle Sam does not need to plunge ahead with another foolhardy adventure." Americans have to ask themselves, who benefits from the Iraq war? Why do Zionist-Jewish neo-cons feature so prominently in the cabal of neo-cons who were the architects of the Iraq war? Where do their loyalties lie, the US or Israel? The truth is that these Zionist parasites are using the US, it's wealth and military power in the interests of Israel and the Jewish people. They do not have loyalties to the USA, they are instead trying to create a dichotomy between Muslims and the West in order to benefit Israel. How will ordinary American patriots rid themselves of this problem?

• So what do Zionists say about Arabs? | "MPACUK comment: You will read a lot in the next few days and weeks in the British press about how Iran should be "wiped off the map" by the west for President Ahmadinejad comments. Now two wrongs don't make a right but there is massive hypocrisy in the indignation shown by the world toward Iran. Please read below what leaders of Israel have said in the past about Palestinians and Arabs. There is also an interview below with Ariel Sharon, the current Israeli leader which vividly shows the difference between Judaism and Zionism. Not surprisingly you won't find Bush, Blair, The Times, Telegraph or any British Newspaper printing this stuff! Now why would that be?"

• Racist Israeli law denies Arab terror victims compensation | "Families of Israeli Arabs shot dead on a bus in Galilee are not considered terrorism victims because their killer was Jewish, the defence ministry says. Under Israeli law, only attacks by "enemies of Israel" are considered terrorism, the ministry said. The ruling means families of the four victims will not be entitled to the lifelong monthly payments given to Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks."

• How to be a good victim | "At last Mr Elie Wiesel has spoken of the "dispossessed" in Palestine. It is appropriate that he should do so; that is what the world has long come to expect of him. A holocaust survivor and Peace Laureate, Mr Wiesel has dedicated his life to preventing another holocaust, acting on the conviction that "to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all." And so Mr Wiesel speaks of the grief of dispossession in words that convey his deep empathy for the victims. In a NYT column of August 21, he writes about the "heart-rending" images of dispossession. "Some of them are unbearable. Angry men, crying women. Children led away on foot." The victims are "obliged to uproot themselves, to take their holy and precious belongings, their memories and their prayers, their dreams and their dead, to go off in search of a bed to sleep in, a table to eat on, a new home, a future among strangers."..."The "dispossessed" people in his column are not Palestinians: they are the illegal Jewish settlers in Gaza. Instead of commiserating with the Palestinians, Mr Wiesel is engaging in a new game of blaming the victims -- and calling attention to a new form of Jewish victimisation. Implicitly, this is his message: "There never was any ethnic cleansing of Palestinians -- in 1948, 1967, or later. All this is a lie, an anti-Semitic slur. But look at what is real. It's happening right before your eyes: the ethnic cleansing of Jews in Palestine. You can see it everywhere, on Fox, CNN, CBS, the Washington Post, and the NYT.""

• On “Not in the Name of Islam” campaign | "While I applaud the national “Not in the Name of Islam” campaign condemning terrorism, it is a sad commentary about America. Neither Christians nor Jews feel compelled to take out newspaper ads declaring their faith’s innocence whenever acts of violence and extremism are carried out by individuals or groups who share their religion. And that’s simply because we are enlightened enough as a nation to know that you can’t condemn Christianity just because a few Christians committed the Oklahoma City bombing terrorism."

• The plight of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar/Burma | The Rohingya people are being persecuted by the Buddhist military regime in Burma. Thousands are still languising in refugee camps in Bangladesh owing to Burma's refusal to repatriate them. Hundreds of Rohingya villages and mosques have been destroyed while thousands have been killed and raped by Buddhist extremists. But where are the so-called defenders of humanity who invade Iraq on humanitarian grounds yet they let people suffer in Burma and Palestine, or Chechnya and Kashmir? Where is the demand for Buddhists to come out and dissassociate themselves from these atrocities being committed in their name? Why do Muslims only have to apologise?

• Myanmar/BurmaForced Relocations, displacement and abuse of Muslims in Rakhine (Arakan) State and other areas (May 2004) | "In 2001 certain townships in the Arakan State had become "Muslim-free zones", where Muslims were not permitted to live, mosques were destroyed, and lands confiscated"..."Governmental policy to move and concentrate the Rohingya population in the northern part of the districts of Maungdaw and Buthidaung"..."Construction of model villages for Buddhist settlers and new military camps forces Muslim Rohingya to move to less fertile lands"..."During 2003, violence between Muslim communities and Buddhist Rakhine increased, resulting in the displacement of thousands of Rohingya"

EXPOSED: Witch Hunt As Journalists Harass Inayat's Family! | This is in reference to a media witch-hunt against mainstream Muslims being orchestrated currently in the UK by sections of the media who espouse Islamaphobic, as well as pro-Israel views. The lastest attack comes in the form of an atrocious smearing of the mainstream Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) attempting it to portray it as "extremist" organisation (read response in pdf format here). Following on from this, harrasment from well known xenophobic right-wing British newspapers such as the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph appear to center on an individual in that organisation, Inayat Bunglawala, who is being invited by the British government to help in a government initiative to help combat terrorism. These racist elements appear to want to deny mainstream Muslims the chance to integrate into UK society, by trying to discredit mainstream Muslims as "extremist", in an attempt to creat a dichotomy between Muslims and non-Muslims. We see such attempts in America where neo-cons and Jewish extremists such as Daniel Pipes are collaborating in an anti-Muslim agenda. "It just gets dirtier, and more sinister. A racist clique is targeting anyone be it a lone individual leader or personality who stands up for the Muslims. If people doubted the pro Israeli lobby hated us before 7/7 they must be deaf dumb and blind not to notice the constant attacks by their friends on Muslims since the attack. When a massive smear campaign by the Pro Israeli Panorama Team failed to destroy the credibility of the MCB, they focused their attack on an individual worker within it. A week long campaign demanded Inayat not be given the top job in the Government initiative to stop terrorism. Sections of the press decided they too would do Israel’s bidding and launch an all out attack against him. Newspaper after newspaper (note all of the papers attacking him have been pro Israeli) demanded he not be given the top job, the Government to their credit stood firm and have refused to buckle under this pressure. For once we applaud the Home Office. Late last night we learnt how dirty it was getting as the witch hunt against Muslim leaders took a new twist. Reporters claiming to be from the Mail on Sunday started knocking on doors up and down the country, asking friends and relatives of Inayat Bunglawala to dig up dirt on him. This type of harassment is shocking and a clear sign at the levels of intimidation Muslim leaders who stand up for Muslims are now facing. The family friends and relatives of Inayat, scared and shocked at reporters at the door so late at night refused to have any part in it. But why were they even there? Inside sources have alluded to us that The Jewish Board of Deputies were directly involved in asking the Government to refuse Inayat the postion. If this is true it would be a direct link between Jewish groups who are acting on behalf of a foreign power and harming Muslims interests in the UK."

• Disengaging America From The Israel Lobby | "They are using American tax money to pay the IDF to force the non-Jewish Palestinian rightful owners to vacate the property, after which they bulldoze the olive trees and build suburban-style condos for American and European Jews with lumber supplied by Home D