Reposting Honest Reporting's GREAT article (on target as always) about how Israel is being set up as the fall guy... AGAIN. I have followed up with a piece from my favorite blogger, Kathy Krajco - read, compare and know the enemy.
And YES, the MSM and Islam ARE OUR ENEMIES
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Israel's opponents laying the groundwork for blame if peace process fails.
Less than a week after the Annapolis conference and even before serious peace talks officially begin on Dec. 12, Michael Shaik, the public advocate for Australians for Palestine, and Antony Loewenstein, co-founder the Independent Australian Jewish Voices, provide a distorted commentary on why the peace process appears doomed to failure.
Writing in the Australian newspaper, The Age, Shaik and Loewenstein ignore the Palestinian Authority’s weakness and inability to implement their agreements, particularly in the area of security, as a factor in the peace talks. In fact, they write, the Palestinians have already demonstrated a commitment to Israel’s security and done everything Israel demands.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, had agreed to all of Israel's preconditions for negotiations by dissolving the Palestinian government of national unity, closing down more than 100 Hamas affiliated charities and sending Palestinian security forces into Nablus to liquidate the resistance cells that have held out against the Israeli army for the last seven years.
Actually, Israel’s only real demands were a crackdown on Palestinian terror groups and recognition that Israel is a Jewish state. Abbas has done neither. Almost immediately after returning from Annapolis, he began repeating his stance that the Palestinians will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The PA has also begun asserting control over some of their cities, but Palestinian security chiefs have made it clear that the real objectives are an end to the anarchy sweeping the Palestinian areas, not Israel’s security. In other words, the security crackdown is meant to prevent Hamas from violently taking control of the West Bank as it did in the Gaza Strip.
Throughout the piece, Shaik and Loewenstein accuse Israel of numerous offenses against the Palestinians, including the problems facing the Gaza Strip.
Factories throughout the Gaza Strip have been forced to close due to Israel's five month blockade, giving rise to an unemployment rate of 50%. According to the Israeli NGO Physicians for Human Rights, hospitals in Gaza are being forced to operate without essential medicines, medical equipment, electricity and even such basics as toilet paper and cleaning materials.
However, they fail to mention that Israel withdrew entirely from the Gaza Strip in 2005, paving the way for the Palestinians to prove they are capable of living side-by-side with Israel in peace. Instead, the Palestinians continue to fire rockets and mortars into Israel from the vacated territory, leading to heightened Israeli security. Shaik and Lowenstein also ignore Israel’s concern for the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where all the essentials continue to enter the territory despite claims of a "blockade."
By ignoring the Palestinian contribution to the current state of hostility with Israel, Shaik and Loewenstein present a distorted picture. Naturally, their view leaves little hope for success in the peace process. And if it does, indeed, collapse, the finger of blame is already pointing directly at Israel.
Send your comments to The Age - letters@theage.com.au
Philadelphia Inquirer cartoonist Tony Auth brings back the tired, old "cycle of violence" chestnut for the post-Annapolis era. But there is no cycle of violence in the Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians. Every conflict has causes, as Charles Krauthammer wrote last year:
What is so remarkable about the current wave of violence in Gaza is that the event at the origin of the "cycle" is not at all historical, but very contemporary. The event is not buried in the mists of history. It occurred less than one year ago. Before the eyes of the whole world, Israel left Gaza. Every Jew, every soldier, every military installation, every remnant of Israeli occupation was uprooted and taken away.Send your comments to the Philadelphia Inquirer - inquirer.letters@phillynews.com
How do the Palestinians respond?...On the very day of Israel's final pullout, the Palestinians began firing rockets out of Gaza into Israeli towns on the other side of the border.
HonestReporting. com
TEACHING CHILDREN TO BLAME THE VICTIM
by Kathy Krajco
Via Biased BBC's Coverage of the Children's BBC Newsround 911 Guide:
Why did they do it?
Could it be because they are hate filled mass murdering psychos? Could it be because they need The Great Scapegoat to blame for every problem they have and all their inadequacies and the fact that they don't make or do or build anything there and all their social problems and all their political problems and all their economic problems? Could it be because they are deranged fanatics who have nothing better to do than listen to hate-mongering sermons and like to think that God wants them to murder people by the thousand for just being the wrong kind? Could it be because they're bad?
No! We mustn't blame the poor little dears for what they do!!!
The victim is the one who is bad. The victim is the one to blame.
For, boys will be boys. They are not not responsible for what they do. No, the ones they do it to are responsible for whatever they do.
So, you mustn't be guilty of their rage!
Infallibility, bestowed by the BBC.
Just like Hitler. The Jews were to blame for what he did to them, you know. Just like all abusers. The bully beats up the littler kid because the little guy MADE him mad, right? The batterer beats his wife because she MADE him do it. Right? The rapist raped a child because she asked for it, right? The unfair advantage isn't always one of size. But in any case, the bully can strike without fear of getting hit back. And ALWAYS we're handed the same bullshit.
Childhood, bestowed on bullies of any age by the brain-dead bystanders.
Because it's only CHILDREN you know who are not repsonsible for their own conduct. Narcissists and other terrorists never have to grow up.
It is shameful for the BBC that this garbage was allowed to fester for nearly five years on the CBBC Newsround site, polluting and shaping the minds of young people who don't know any better.No, not shameful, shameless.
Am I the only one who sees on a massive scale what happens to the victims of narcissists on an individual scale? I don't think so. It's always the same old story, an ancient story. Because the human race never learns.
UPDATE: Though it's beside the point, I should point out that OBL (Osama bin Laden) had said nothing about the Palestinians before 9/11. (He seemed to despise them.) He was mad that the US had stationed troops in Saudi Arabia, at the Saudis' request, to protect it from an angry Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The Biased BBC article also mentions the legs the BBC gave conspiracy theories, despite OBL's celebratory video rejoicing over the 9/11 attacks and admitting that he is responsible for them.
Teaching Children to Blame the Victim
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