A truly outstanding video by Shadi Nassar that shows clips of Tzipi Livni and others, during the Israeli wanton destruction of Gaza known as "Operation Cast Lead". Her words contradict the actions of her government and army.

Christian Zionists are a very strange reality. Fundamentalists whose greatest desire is to see the destruction of the universe so that the Lord can sort out the good (them) from the bad (everyone who is not them), their influence is often underestimated and their mania is certainly not taken with the degree of attention it merits due to the dangerous implications it entails.

CUFI claims membership soaring above 50 million members. FIFTY MILLION people who believe that the purpose of their faith is to bring the world to the most rapid closure possible. The sooner the better, and tomorrow won't be a day too soon.

We've written about CUFI here:  http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/02/14/religious-political-cults-and-israel/  and here:  http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2007/12/christians-united-for-israel-summit-and.html.

But, as they say, seeing is believing, and Max lets us see a bit of what goes on at the CUFI convention… before they make him leave, that is…  "Rapture Ready" is a MUST SEE VIDEO! Max is the man!

On 27 December 2009, after a year and a half of total siege, the brutal war on Gaza was launched. It was carnage, a disgrace to humanity and civilization, and indictment of the free world. One year later, the siege continues, the disgrace has not been lifted, and the Palestinian people still endure, resist and live. The Zionists either don't understand that, or don't want to. Delusion is a characteristic of mass murders and racist criminals.

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU5Wi2jhnW0

and this video is an excerpt of playwright Mirna Sakhleh's "7 Palestinian Children", inspired by Caryl Churchill's "7 Jewish Children".

Source: neverbeforecampaign

The Founding Fathers, and Mother, of Israel

By Earlaiman

Only by their actions have they spelled out more clearly their deliberate and premeditated intent, which provides more than adequate self-incrimination for condemnation and conviction as perpetrators of War Crimes, Genocide, and other Crimes Against Humanity.

When will enough be enough? When the last Palestinian is dead? When they go on, and go after the rest of the Arab Middle East? When they continue on, and come after you?

Hear it from their own mouths! See it on your own TV and read about it in your own press today… if you happen to live outside of the USA.

They have already bought, bribed or blackmailed, captured, or enslaved North American, the US and Canadian, Australian and New Zealand politics and public opinion. Do not wait for them to solidify their position of dominating influence in your countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Central and South America.

Resist! Support the resistance in Palestine. Get the word out! The enemy is approaching your gates!

They are inside your gates!

Fight them today in Palestine and you will not have to fight them tomorrow in your own Congresses, Parliaments, Assemblies, on your streets and in your own homes.

And, you will not ever have to send your own children off to fight their wars, to kill and be killed by their chosen and designated "enemies"

Listen to the barking dogs! They bite!

David Ben Gurion
Prime Minister of Israel
1949 – 1954,
1955 – 1963

"We must expel Arabs and take their places."

– David Ben Gurion, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985.

"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."

– David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

"There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"

– Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122.

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."

– David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99.

"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."

–David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.

"If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel."

– David Ben-Gurion 1938 (Quoted on pp 855-56 in Shabtai Teveth's Ben-Gurion in a slightly different translation).

"…we should remove all Arabs and take their place."

–David Ben-Gurion, First Israeli Prime Minister.

"If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with zisrael … that is natural: we have taken their country."

–David Ben-Gurion, Father of Israel

"I don't see anything immoral in it."

–David Ben-Gurion, First Israeli Prime Minister

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Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel
1969 – 1974

"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist."

– Golda Meir, statement to The Sunday Times, 15 June, 1969.

"How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to."

– Golda Meir, March 8, 1969.

"Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."

– Golda Meir, 1961, in a speech to the Knesset, reported in Ner, October 1961

"This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy."

–Golda Meir, Le Monde, 15 October 1971

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Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister of Israel
1974 – 1977,
1992 – 1995

"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!"

– Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

"[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat."

–Yitzhak Rabin (a "Prince of Peace" by Clinton's standards), explaining his method of ethnically cleansing the occupied land without stirring a world outcry. (Quoted in David Shipler in the New York Times, 04/04/1983 citing Meir Cohen's remarks to the Knesset's foreign affairs and defense committee on March 16.)

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Menachem Begin
Prime Minister of Israel
1977 – 1983

"[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs."

– Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the 'Beasts,"' New Statesman, June 25, 1982.

"The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized …. Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever."

–Menachem Begin, the day after the U.N. vote to partition Palestine.

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Yizhak Shamir
Prime Minister of Israel
1983 – 1984,
1986 – 1992

"The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliya (=Jewish immigration), and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country."

– Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declares at a Tel Aviv memorial service for former Likud leaders, November 1990. Jerusalem Domestic Radio Service.

"The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple."

– Yitzhak Shamir, Maariv, 02/21/1997.

"(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against the boulders and walls."

– Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) Yitzhak Shamir in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988

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Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel
1996 – 1999

"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."

–Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.

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Ehud Barak
Prime Minister of Israel
1999 – 2001

"The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more"….

– Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time – August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000

"If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force…."

– Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, quoted in Associated Press, November 16, 2000.

"I would have joined a terrorist organization."

– Ehud Barak's response to Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Ha'aretz newspaper, when Barak was asked what he would have done if he had been born a Palestinian.

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Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister of Israel
2001 – 2006

"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."

– Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don't grab will go to them."

– Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998.

"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."

– Israeli Prime Minis ter Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online

"No one has the right to put the State of Israel on trial."

–Arial Sharon, Former Israeli Prime Minister

"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours."

–Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister

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"There is a country which happens to be called Palestine … a country without people."

–Chaim Weismann, Israel's first President

"We've come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it."

–Moshe Sharatt, Second Israeli Prime Minister

"…There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."

–Moshe Dayan, Former Israeli Defense/Foreign Minister

"There is no more Palestine. Finished…."

–Moshe Dayan, former Israeli Defense/foreign Minister

Sources:
Video : www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk
Quotes: monabaker.com

* Adam Shapiro is an American co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHa-CzNCF3c

She also eloquently speaks about the people in Gaza, how they are trying to make a living for their families as the Israeli Occupation Forces shoot to kill the farmers and fishermen, long after Operation Cast Lead was supposedly over.

Listen to her speech, see the images from the people who were there recording Israel's use of white phosophorus bombs and other deadly weapons that Israel literally threw at a civilian populations. Families have been torn apart, 29 members of one family murdered in their home as they held a white flag of surrender.

As Ewas says, "Israel's objective is to rid Palestine of Palestinians: drip by drip, body by body, person by person, village by village."

She as well as over a dozen other speakers are available to speak to your groups.

You can contact: http://www.freegaza.org/join-in/speaker-bureau and ask for someone to come and talk about the voyages of Free Gaza movement, the work in Gaza and witnessing the attempt by Israel to destroy a civilian population aided by American money and American weapons.

In solidarity & struggle,
FREE GAZA MOVEMENT
http://www.FreeGaza.org

http://rodcoxandgaza.blogspot.com/search/label/children%27s%20pictures%20from%20Gaza

This beautiful short film was produced in the series sponsored by the EU commission on Human Rights.

A must watch clip.

Press TV's weekly programme Remember the Children of Palestine allows one of those rare opportunities to see brief reports about the daily life of Palestinians from a human framework. Each week, it features films and guests who talk about issues such as education, health, the family and holidays, as well as featuring music videos and guest speakers who address issues such as activism and relief work.

This week I had the honour to be invited to add a contribution about the language that activists are dealing with when they are struggling to get the message through. It's a very complicated topic, and one that PTT dedicates a lot of energy to addressing (the intervention is at 26'00"). But enjoy the entire show, there is a lot of interesting material!

Thanks to Iqbal, Nada, Lauren and the other ladies and gentlemen who made it a positive experience.

see www.presstv.ir

NOT certain the embedding is quite right, you can see it also on Press TV's site (until I work out the technical problems!)
http://www.presstv.ir/programs/detail.aspx?sectionid=3510533&id=105084#

Videos produced by Iqbal Tamimi and Morris Herman of Palestinian Mothers Network.

Just to show that people can (and should) get these issues having to do with public money and policy in the discussion at the decisional level, we have the video of the short talk given at the Ann Arbor (Michigan) City Council Meeting. It should serve as an example of ways to act and influence people who pull the strings of the money purse.

Power to the People right on! (thanks to the Dearborn activists who are tigers!!)