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Baroness Deech, Parliament, United Kingdom, 29 January 2015
30 Friday Jan 2015
Category Archives: Israel
Link – i24 Video – Interview – Mosab Hassan Yousef
09 Friday Jan 2015
Posted 11/30/2014.
On YouTube, it is an i24 video.
On BackChannels — if this post works — it has a context an adventure in political psychology and the interplay between personality — “malignant narcissism” — and controlled information space (language, linguistics, propaganda, gaslighting, political theater, manipulation, etc.) and political power that drives despotism, fascism, sadism.
Our global Internet with English as lingua franca has become the largest “mirror, mirror on the wall” in political history, and it reflects through and back to a political elite, from pundits worldwide to leaders worldwide. Its reach is limited, of course, by language barriers and Internet filtering. That leaves the despotic putting on a show for still captive constituents, but they know the barriers remain nonetheless permeable. Bilingual national speakers, extended diaspora — including Palestinian diaspora — encounter these pages and videos as much and as well as anyone else.
There is always a “next new world”, and we’re heading for it even while some turn back and revel in a long ago darkness; for others, the dawn spreads out before them and everyone.
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Link – On Political Manipulation – How the Palestinians, Among Others, are Played
08 Thursday Jan 2015
“In an unseen control room, to the producers’ signal, as I responded with words like ‘coexistence’, ‘integration’ or ‘pluralism’, a technician pulled the trigger and rolled the stock ‘Israel as a terrorist state’ footage; detonating my truthful and universal message. I had been reduced to an instrument of rank media opportunism.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/australia-features/9411652/a-muslims-ambush-weekend-sunrise-bares-its-anti-israel-bias/ – 1/8 (10)/2015.
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I’ve been appearing a lot on Iran’s Press TV Show the Debate. Anyone who watches the show can see it’s not really a true debate, but a propaganda show put on by the Velat-y-Faqih regime in Iran.
http://kaplanwatch.blogspot.com/2014/06/im-back-will-try-to-post-more-often.html – 6/17/2014.
“Disingenuous speech” is just a fancy way of saying “dishonest talk” or, let’s get right down to it: “lying” — and as far as BackChannels is concerned, lies are told either to hide something (often the liar’s own thieving from his marks) or to get something (through deceit).
Test the thought on the oligarchs of post-KGB Soviet Russia now FSB-controlled neo-feudal Russia; or Ayatollah Khamenei and his brother (by the grace of the Setad conglomerate); on Victor Orban’s developing “regime” in Hungary; on the guy with the “White Palace” in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
There’s more to the politics played, I will grant you, but the destruction of integrity before a malignant narcissism and controlling (and frequently sadistic) will would seem a common denominator.
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Persia – A Gentle Reminder
12 Friday Dec 2014
Posted in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Iran, Israel, Politics
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Path: Facebook Group “Iran-Loves-Israel” (34,000+ members) –> YouTube Account
Alternative on Facebook: “Israel-Loves-Iran” (approaching 125,000 members).
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Link – Meotti on Southern Israel
10 Wednesday Dec 2014
In the south, the Israelis measure the distance from Gaza in time, not meters. It is the time you need to find a shelter when the siren sounds. Overlooking Gaza is the town of Sderot, which in the minds of the Israelis is synonymous with poverty and danger. Sderot has, in fact, the highest number per capita in the world of shelters: 200. On this small city, the Muslims from Gaza fired 8,600 rockets. So far the Israeli government has invested $ 120 million in Sderot to provide the shelters.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16123 – 12/10/2014.
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Link – Gaza and Ramallah – Alone
01 Monday Dec 2014
Posted in Gaza, Gaza Suzerain, Islamic Small Wars, Israel
The Palestinians know very well that if and when they have a state of their own, they will never be able to rely on their Arab brethren.
The Arab countries have a long record of turning their backs on the Palestinians, not only with regard to financial aid promises, but even when it comes to basic needs such as medical treatment.
But what will happen after the creation of a Palestinian state? Palestinians say they do not have high expectations that the Arab countries will help them build their state.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4917/palestinian-state-instability – 12/1/2014.
Israel | Hamas – Three Passages
21 Friday Nov 2014
Posted in Gaza, Gaza Suzerain, Israel, Middle East, Philology
As long as Israel acknowledges that the Palestinian Arabs’ national claims to statehood in Judea-Samaria are authentic and legitimate, Israel can never be secure externally, or internally.
For complying with those claims will make the country indefensible over time against threats that emanate beyond the Green Line, and ensure that the embers of incipient domestic revolt within it will continue to glow menacingly, capable of bursting into flames at any moment in response to legitimate actions taken to deal with those threats.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Into-the-Fray-The-Arabs-war-against-the-Jews-and-what-must-be-done-382451 – 11/21/2014.
On Monday, we awoke to news that four worshipping Jews, one of them a British national, were murdered by Palestinian terrorists as they prayed in their Jerusalem synagogue. Hamas praised this atrocity, as it praises every terror attack in which the victim is an Israeli Jew. There should be absolutely no doubt: Hamas’s recent statements celebrating terror attacks are entirely consistent with its charter, which calls for the murder of Jews.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/20/hamas-charter-israeli-civilians-dying-ahmed-yousef – 11/21/2014
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.
http://fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/880818a.htm – Preamble
Motivation?
Murder and theft.
Piracy.
Khaled Mashaal has accrued wealth estimated above $2.5 billion in this business.
Ismail Haniyeh similarly now enjoys a reputation as a billionaire.
Gaza’s residents and those settled around Ramallah should understand this criminality pursued in their name diminishes their name.
Given political intimidation under the rules promoted by political mafia, have any choice?
Perhaps “any” have choice every morning, every minute, every day, and every day becomes more clear, more informed, more truthful.
Do books get in to the Arab enclaves within Israel?
Conversation?
Blog posts?
I don’t know.
However, unless our communicating systems are closed or deeply filtered, they are open and free – and free of manipulation. Curiosity may face a wilderness in information, but all the parts and particles of authentic stories — not the manipulations calculated with libels, obfuscations, omissions associated with lies that either pander or threaten — about themselves are there for looking. Fear should not direct the eyes or conscience.
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Evil Emperors – Information Space – Knives
18 Tuesday Nov 2014
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The two assailants, Uday and Ghassan Abu Jamal, in their 20s, were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Four Dead in Jerusalem Synagogue Terror Attack, Victims Named (VIDEO)
What are the ghosts of skyjackers doing back on the front pages of the world’s news?
Along that axis I call “Putin-Assad-Khamenei” (or, possibly more accurately, Khamenei-Putin, given the way wise guys get power over one another), the post-Soviet still pan-Arab socialist whizbang PFLP believes it has a cause worth killing for, and while we can’t see the Big Money that helps move the mouths that incite the crime, one may suspect it’s there: plainly, “Jew hate” cloaks the piratical among leaders, Russia, for the time being excepted although Putin may be working an “anti- anti-Semitism” look-good card as players around the “vertical of power” continue to accrue corrupt treasure for burial or cleaning safely in the rule-of-law west.
For the regime hated by Persians in Tehran, today’s murderous act fits with its promise of the destruction of the “Zionist Entity”, which has been the best cover (by deflection of attention) for thieving on behalf of Ayatollah Khamenei.
It may be broad connecting today’s attack (on the pious before God) with Moscow and Tehran and, by way of suggestion, perhaps others profiting from the promotion of chaos and conflict in the world, but nonetheless — and with mention of the PFLP — today’s act stinks of an old grave dug open and left to foul the air.
Assorted Reference
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jerusalem-synagogue-attack-claimed-by-popular-front-liberation-palestine-1475373 – 11/18/2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/suspected-terror-attack-in-jerusalem-synagogue/#ixzz3JQZutwQd – 11/18/2014
http://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/centers/havighurst/cultural-academic-resources/putins-russia/
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/iran/#article/part1
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Yossi Dagan, the head of media relations for the Samaria Regional Council, filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Government Press Office (GPO) against a CNN reporter for equating the terrorists involved in the Har Nof massacre with the victims.
According to Dagan, American CNN reporter Ben Wedeman was responsible for the headline describing the massacre under the headline, “Israeli police shot dead two Palestinian civilians” – when, in fact, the shooters were Palestinian terrorists who killed four Jews and wounded eight others as they prayed the morning service before being killed in a gun battle with police.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187600#.VGtu0TTF98F – 11/18/2014
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http://honestreporting.com/idns-11182014-four-killed/ – 11/18/2014.
http://honestreporting.com/cnn-gaffe-deadly-attack-on-jerusalem-mosque/ – 11/18/2014.
“We are proud of our sons who act fearlessly in the face of terrorist attacks,” Tarif said. “This is a black day for Israeli society and the State of Israel, when its citizens are murdered just for being Jewish.
“The Druze community condemns with revulsion the act of terrorism in which a Palestinian terrorist massacred and slaughtered innocent civilians. Such a situation, in which the country’s citizens are murdered on a daily basis, cannot continue,” Tarif said, and praised Israel’s security forces.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/18/family-of-israeli-policeman-who-killed-terrorist-praying-for-his-safety-video/ – 11/18/2014.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/18/as-abbas-uses-synagogue-atrocity-to-condemn-israeli-incitement-fatah-officials-celebrate/ – 11/18/2014.
Mosques in the neighborhood of the terrorists who attacked a synagogue this morning announced three days of mourning – for the murderers.
This is being reported by the Shehab news agency.
This happens at the same time that Arabs are celebrating the murders with candy.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-big-palestinian-question-do-they.html#.VGuqzjTF98E – 11/18/2014.
One of the most shocking aspects of the murderous attack on a Jerusalem synagogue this morning by men with guns and axes is not the attack itself—we’ve seen, from time to time, this sort of sectarian barbarism take place in places like Jerusalem, and Hebron. The most shocking aspect is the wholesale endorsement of this slaughter by Hamas, a group that, during this summer’s war in Gaza, half-succeeded in convincing the world that it wasn’t what it actually is: a group with actual genocidal intentions.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/hamas-shows-its-true-face/382873/ – 11/18/2014.
The first is that Jews can be forgiven for thinking that the world sees them as sacrificial pawns. Today’s victims are of course not the first deaths in the Palestinians’ latest not-quite-intifada. And they were not the first Americans killed either. And they were not the first victims of Abbas’s incitement or his directive to take action against Jews in Jerusalem. The sad fact is that the world regards a certain amount of Jewish blood as the cost of doing business–not worth getting all worked up about.
The word for that is “expendable.” And that’s what the families of victims and those who survived previous attacks understand all too well: their loved ones were expendable to the international community and, most painfully, to the government of the United States of America. A line has now been crossed, apparently, and the Jews under attack are no longer considered expendable. But it’s unfortunate that the line was there to begin with.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/11/18/kerry-calls-out-palestinian-incitement-will-anything-change/ – 11/18/2014.
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