The latest carbon tax figure put out is now $1.100 per person/family?
Nearly twice as much as the previous $600 quote
Just remember when you vote next year 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
New Smoking Law
A new smoking law comes into effect new yrs day 2010 Sat 1 1 10
It will be illegal to smoke in cars that contain children
If caught there is a $200 fine
Smoking is said to cause numerous chest and lung complaints
Whether by active smoking or passive smoke inhalation beyond ones control etc
With just a few hours exposure to cigarette smoke etc
Children in a parents or adults car dont have any choice but to inhale
I can remember using public transport when smoking was allowed
People puffing away and coughing, polluting fresh air etc
And listening to the terrible smokers cough
I dont suppose one can sue after 60 yrs or so
It will be illegal to smoke in cars that contain children
If caught there is a $200 fine
Smoking is said to cause numerous chest and lung complaints
Whether by active smoking or passive smoke inhalation beyond ones control etc
With just a few hours exposure to cigarette smoke etc
Children in a parents or adults car dont have any choice but to inhale
I can remember using public transport when smoking was allowed
People puffing away and coughing, polluting fresh air etc
And listening to the terrible smokers cough
I dont suppose one can sue after 60 yrs or so
Good Bye To Work Choices
Work Choices legislation is replaced with Fed Labour Govt new Industrial Labour laws
on New Years Day 2010 Sat 1 1 10
Lets hope its a better deal for everyone
Especialy the ordinary worker, who does not get thousands or millions dollars in bonuses and fringe benefits each year
lets hope it slows up the drift of wealth to the rich
And provides more for the needy
on New Years Day 2010 Sat 1 1 10
Lets hope its a better deal for everyone
Especialy the ordinary worker, who does not get thousands or millions dollars in bonuses and fringe benefits each year
lets hope it slows up the drift of wealth to the rich
And provides more for the needy
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
More On Victor Rothschild Spy Scandal Assumption
I did a recent Google search for Rothschild spy
And was surprised to find a whole page of referances
Many people had this thought before me, years ago
See THE FITH MAN by ROLAND PERRY .PAN BOOKS.1994. London
There is much documented evidence in this book, which i am getting via Ebay or Amazon
Victor Rothschild moved in top circles of UK society, and apparently was interorgated 11 times(quote)
Maybe Anthony Hunt (who was sent to Germany to confiscate evidence, for the Royal Family)and others knew the answer and kept quiet
If the assumption is correct,several innocent men were deliberately blamed
And many British and Foreign agents lost their lives,serving the Crown,needlesly
While the suspect was right under Peter Wrights nose(his friend Victor)
And maybe Peter Wright finaly came to the same conclusion and kept quiet
Or could not do anything about it
And was surprised to find a whole page of referances
Many people had this thought before me, years ago
See THE FITH MAN by ROLAND PERRY .PAN BOOKS.1994. London
There is much documented evidence in this book, which i am getting via Ebay or Amazon
Victor Rothschild moved in top circles of UK society, and apparently was interorgated 11 times(quote)
Maybe Anthony Hunt (who was sent to Germany to confiscate evidence, for the Royal Family)and others knew the answer and kept quiet
If the assumption is correct,several innocent men were deliberately blamed
And many British and Foreign agents lost their lives,serving the Crown,needlesly
While the suspect was right under Peter Wrights nose(his friend Victor)
And maybe Peter Wright finaly came to the same conclusion and kept quiet
Or could not do anything about it
West Australia Fire Disaster Continues
News (ABC RADIO)reports say the bush fire disaster continues in West Australia
With Toodjay being one of the worst hit towns
Electric power poles are thought to have started the fire
Seems the white ants have been busy
Unless a pole was knocked down
The electric company is said to be behind in pole maintainance
Will the electric company have to pay compensation
Or is it an act of God etc escape clause
I think South Australia has steel power poles to avoid white ant damage
With Toodjay being one of the worst hit towns
Electric power poles are thought to have started the fire
Seems the white ants have been busy
Unless a pole was knocked down
The electric company is said to be behind in pole maintainance
Will the electric company have to pay compensation
Or is it an act of God etc escape clause
I think South Australia has steel power poles to avoid white ant damage
Mobile Phones and Women-Survey
Quoting ABC Radio quoting from a recent survey on mobile phones and women
"a recent survey has found that women would rather lose their men(boyfriend-husband etc) than lose their mobile phone"
"womens most valued person is their mother"
So where does that leave men
Should there be a similar survey for men
Has the mobile phone become for women what the gear stick has for men
"a recent survey has found that women would rather lose their men(boyfriend-husband etc) than lose their mobile phone"
"womens most valued person is their mother"
So where does that leave men
Should there be a similar survey for men
Has the mobile phone become for women what the gear stick has for men
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Power Combinations For 2010
Its said
1.Arabs control world oil supply--not so much as they used to
2.Jewish financiers control world money supply
3.USA is still No 1 world power--but is broke-how long will it last
4.Moslem-Muslim religion is on increase
5.Christian religion is on decrease
6. Israel continues to expand
The present combination is 2+3
A new emerging combination is 3+6+4
What are your combinations?
addena 30 12 09
7.Chinese expansion and developement
8.African industialiseation
9.India-China-Kashmir conflict
10.India-Parkhistan conflict
11.Illegal Drugs
12.decline of Russia
13.Decline of Arab states as oil depletes
1.Arabs control world oil supply--not so much as they used to
2.Jewish financiers control world money supply
3.USA is still No 1 world power--but is broke-how long will it last
4.Moslem-Muslim religion is on increase
5.Christian religion is on decrease
6. Israel continues to expand
The present combination is 2+3
A new emerging combination is 3+6+4
What are your combinations?
addena 30 12 09
7.Chinese expansion and developement
8.African industialiseation
9.India-China-Kashmir conflict
10.India-Parkhistan conflict
11.Illegal Drugs
12.decline of Russia
13.Decline of Arab states as oil depletes
Bad Fire Situation In West Australia
ABC Radio daily reports of bad fire situation in West Australia
Toodjay/Northam Kalgoorlie south to Albany
Some areas immediately north of Perth have lost homes to fires
In tropical north WA its the WET season
What a contrast in one state
Tune into ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA for news updates
Toodjay/Northam Kalgoorlie south to Albany
Some areas immediately north of Perth have lost homes to fires
In tropical north WA its the WET season
What a contrast in one state
Tune into ABC RADIO AUSTRALIA for news updates
Monday, December 28, 2009
Allies In World Terrorist Alert--Answer--Stop Supporting Zionist Israel
News reports say allies are on a high terrorist alert
Ans= stop supporting Zionist Israel
Ans= stop supporting Zionist Israel
How To Make The World Safer In 2010
Much of terrorism today is caused by Arab and others reaction to Zionist Israels action in Israel and Palestine and other countries
Countries supporting Zionist Israel should withdraw their support and bring Zionist Israel into line
This would not be easy
As many Zionist Jews and their supporters have got themselves into position of power and influence in many countries
For instance its said 50% of USA FEd Admin is zionist jewish
Its about time ordinary (non zionist jews)Americans woke up to the fact their country is run by a foreign power
Let Zionist Israel fight its own wars
Stop USA soldiers(and others)being patsies for Zionist Israel
Till then the world will continue to be at war
Of coursethere are many other wars going on as well for other causes
Save the lives of good soldiers
Countries supporting Zionist Israel should withdraw their support and bring Zionist Israel into line
This would not be easy
As many Zionist Jews and their supporters have got themselves into position of power and influence in many countries
For instance its said 50% of USA FEd Admin is zionist jewish
Its about time ordinary (non zionist jews)Americans woke up to the fact their country is run by a foreign power
Let Zionist Israel fight its own wars
Stop USA soldiers(and others)being patsies for Zionist Israel
Till then the world will continue to be at war
Of coursethere are many other wars going on as well for other causes
Save the lives of good soldiers
Zionist Jews Torture Neturei Karta Jews In Israel
News reports that Zionist Jews in Israel continue to torture and harass Neturei Karta Jews in Israel and elsewhere
Forcing them to seek refuge in other countries
The world will be surprised and pleased to find anti Israeli Zionist Jews exist
And need help to make their presence known to the world
Forcing them to seek refuge in other countries
The world will be surprised and pleased to find anti Israeli Zionist Jews exist
And need help to make their presence known to the world
Netuei Karta International
WHAT IS THE NETUREI KARTA?
Neturei Karta opposed the establishment of and retain all opposition to the existence of the so-called "State of Israel"!
Neturei-Karta is the Aramaic term for "Guardians of the City. The name Neturei-Karta originates from an incident in which R. Yehudah Ha-Nassi (Rabbi Judah the Prince) sent R. Hiyya and R. Ashi on a pastoral tour of inspection. In one town they asked to see the "guardians of the city" and the city guard was paraded before them. They said that these were not the guardians of the city but its destroyers, which prompted the citizens to ask who, then, could be considered the guardians. The rabbis answered, "The scribes and the scholars," referring them to Tehillim (Psalms) Chap. 127. (Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Hagiga. 76c).
The name was given to a group of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem who refused (and still refuse) to recognize the existence or authority of the so-called "State of Israel" and made (and still make) a point of publicly demonstrating their position, the position of the Torah and authentic unadulterated Judaism.
The group was founded in Jerusalem, Palestine in 1938, splitting off from Agudas Yisroel. Agudas Yisroel was established in 1912 for the purpose of fighting Zionism. Gradually lured by money and honor they sold out to the "Golden-Calf" (see Exodus, XXXII) of Zionism. Those who wanted to maintain their faith and continue the struggle against Zionism, dissociated themselves from Agudas Yisroel and associated parties.
Over the years, a number of Neturei Karta activists and followers settled outside of Palestine. Some of the reasons that these individuals abandoned the country in which they and their families had lived for many generations (having lived there many years prior to the establishment of the illegitimate so-called "State of Israel") include; ideological refusal to live under the illegitimate heretical "Israeli" regime, them being exiled by the Zionist government for their insistence of remaining independent of the illegitimate heretical regime or them being unable to live a normal family life due to them and their families being persistently harassed, repeatedly incarcerated and many times even physically tortured by the Zionist police and agents. This dispersion resulted in the emergence of various Neturei Karta establishments on the broader international scene. These establishments include synagogues, educational institutions, publishing houses and organizations. The establishments in New York include three synagogues in Brooklyn (Boro Park and Williamsburg), three upstate, and organizations include the Friends of Jerusalem in NY, NY.
Neturei Karta is not - as is often alleged - a small sect or an extremist group of "ultra-orthodox" Jews. The Neturei Karta have added nothing to nor have they taken anything away from the written and oral law of the Torah as it is expressed in the Halacha and the Shulchan Aruch. The Neturei Karta are fighting the changes and inroads made by political Zionism during the past one-hundred odd years. Guided by the rabbis of our time and under the inspiring leadership of the late Reb Amram Blau, the Neturei Karta refuse to recognize the right of anyone to establish a "Jewish" state during the present period of exile.
There are those who wish to play down the Neturei Karta and its' Torah-true beliefs. This has been attempted many a time by stating that the Neturei Karta is a minority group and that compared to other Jewish groups the Neturei Karta aren't even noticeable in terms of number.
The name Neturei Karta is a name usually given to those people who regularly pray in the Neturei Karta synagogues (Torah Ve'Yirah Jerusalem, Torah U'Tefillah London, Torah U'Tefillah NY, Beis Yehudi Upstate NY, etc.), study in or send their children to educational institutions run by Neturei Karta, or actively participate in activities, assemblies or demonstrations called by the Neturei Karta. Although it is true that the number of families which could be classified as Neturei Karta members or activists per-se is relatively small (several thousand), the number of Orthodox Jews who believe in the anti-Zionist ideology which Neturei Karta is known for, number in the hundreds of thousands.
Neturei Karta oppose the so-called "State of Israel" not because it operates secularly, but because the entire concept of a sovereign Jewish state is contrary to Jewish Law.
All the great rabbis who in accordance with Jewish Law opposed Zionism at its inception did not do so merely due to consideration of the secular lifestyles of the then Zionist leaders or even for their opposition to Torah heritage and rejection of its values and practices, but due to the fact that the entire concept of a Jewish state is in direct conflict with a number of Judaism's fundamentals.
Condemnation of and segregation from anything connected to or affiliated with the so-called modern day "State of Israel" is based on the Talmud, the key fundamental doctrine of the Oral Tradition handed down by G-d to Moses on Mt. Sinai. The Talmud in Tractate Kesubos (p. 111a), teaches that Jews shall not use human force to bring about the establishment of a Jewish state before the coming of the universally accepted Moshiach (Messiah from the House of David). Furthermore it states that we are forbidden to rebel against the nations and that we should remain loyal citizens and we shall not attempt to leave the exile which G-d sent us into, ahead of time.
Jews are not allowed to dominate, kill, harm or demean another people and are not allowed to have anything to do with the Zionist enterprise, their political meddling and their wars.
Neturei Karta forbid any participation with the so-called "State of Israel" or any of its subsidiaries. Neturei Karta followers do not participate in "Israeli" elections nor do they accept any aid from "Bituach Le'Umi" (Social Security), and the educational institutions of the Neturei Karta reject any form of financial support from the so-called "Va'ad HaYeshivos" (equiv. to Department of Education).
The Zionist state employs a set of chief rabbis and uses religious parties to ornament their state with a clerical image. They study the Torah with commentaries altered to clothe the words with nationalistic nuances. Our rabbis have countless times proclaimed that it matters little which individuals or parties govern in the Zionist state because the very establishment and existence of the state itself is to be condemned and to be deplored.
The true Jews remain faithful to Jewish belief and are not contaminated with Zionism.
The true Jews are against dispossessing the Arabs of their land and homes. According to the Torah, the land should be returned to them.
Neturei Karta deplore the systematic uprooting of ancient Jewish communities by the Zionists, the shedding of Jewish and non-Jewish blood for the sake of Zionist sovereignty and the Neturei Karta favor a peaceful transition from the present Zionist rule to a non-Zionist entity.
According to Judaic Law the Torah has the last word. There is no such thing as a majority of Jews who happen to be Jewish by birth who can alter Torah Law in any way. In fact even the greatest rabbi or as Maimonides writes, "even the greatest prophet" [referring actually to an authentic prophet], has no right to distort or amend even one letter of the Torah.
Rabbi Blau stated shortly before his death that the acceptance by the United Nations of the Zionist state as a member state constituted a grave injustice to the Jewish people. Neturei Karta hope that this great error will be corrected at the earliest opportunity. The Neturei Karta regret that the Zionist state has usurped the holy name of Israel and that the Zionists so often pretend to speak in the name of the Jewish people and assume the right to act on our behalf. Only those rabbis who have not been affected or influenced by the poison of Zionism, can be considered the spiritual leaders of today's Jewry.
The world must know that the Zionists have illegitimately seized the name Israel and have no right to speak in the name of the Jewish people!
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Neturei Karta opposed the establishment of and retain all opposition to the existence of the so-called "State of Israel"!
Neturei-Karta is the Aramaic term for "Guardians of the City. The name Neturei-Karta originates from an incident in which R. Yehudah Ha-Nassi (Rabbi Judah the Prince) sent R. Hiyya and R. Ashi on a pastoral tour of inspection. In one town they asked to see the "guardians of the city" and the city guard was paraded before them. They said that these were not the guardians of the city but its destroyers, which prompted the citizens to ask who, then, could be considered the guardians. The rabbis answered, "The scribes and the scholars," referring them to Tehillim (Psalms) Chap. 127. (Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Hagiga. 76c).
The name was given to a group of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem who refused (and still refuse) to recognize the existence or authority of the so-called "State of Israel" and made (and still make) a point of publicly demonstrating their position, the position of the Torah and authentic unadulterated Judaism.
The group was founded in Jerusalem, Palestine in 1938, splitting off from Agudas Yisroel. Agudas Yisroel was established in 1912 for the purpose of fighting Zionism. Gradually lured by money and honor they sold out to the "Golden-Calf" (see Exodus, XXXII) of Zionism. Those who wanted to maintain their faith and continue the struggle against Zionism, dissociated themselves from Agudas Yisroel and associated parties.
Over the years, a number of Neturei Karta activists and followers settled outside of Palestine. Some of the reasons that these individuals abandoned the country in which they and their families had lived for many generations (having lived there many years prior to the establishment of the illegitimate so-called "State of Israel") include; ideological refusal to live under the illegitimate heretical "Israeli" regime, them being exiled by the Zionist government for their insistence of remaining independent of the illegitimate heretical regime or them being unable to live a normal family life due to them and their families being persistently harassed, repeatedly incarcerated and many times even physically tortured by the Zionist police and agents. This dispersion resulted in the emergence of various Neturei Karta establishments on the broader international scene. These establishments include synagogues, educational institutions, publishing houses and organizations. The establishments in New York include three synagogues in Brooklyn (Boro Park and Williamsburg), three upstate, and organizations include the Friends of Jerusalem in NY, NY.
Neturei Karta is not - as is often alleged - a small sect or an extremist group of "ultra-orthodox" Jews. The Neturei Karta have added nothing to nor have they taken anything away from the written and oral law of the Torah as it is expressed in the Halacha and the Shulchan Aruch. The Neturei Karta are fighting the changes and inroads made by political Zionism during the past one-hundred odd years. Guided by the rabbis of our time and under the inspiring leadership of the late Reb Amram Blau, the Neturei Karta refuse to recognize the right of anyone to establish a "Jewish" state during the present period of exile.
There are those who wish to play down the Neturei Karta and its' Torah-true beliefs. This has been attempted many a time by stating that the Neturei Karta is a minority group and that compared to other Jewish groups the Neturei Karta aren't even noticeable in terms of number.
The name Neturei Karta is a name usually given to those people who regularly pray in the Neturei Karta synagogues (Torah Ve'Yirah Jerusalem, Torah U'Tefillah London, Torah U'Tefillah NY, Beis Yehudi Upstate NY, etc.), study in or send their children to educational institutions run by Neturei Karta, or actively participate in activities, assemblies or demonstrations called by the Neturei Karta. Although it is true that the number of families which could be classified as Neturei Karta members or activists per-se is relatively small (several thousand), the number of Orthodox Jews who believe in the anti-Zionist ideology which Neturei Karta is known for, number in the hundreds of thousands.
Neturei Karta oppose the so-called "State of Israel" not because it operates secularly, but because the entire concept of a sovereign Jewish state is contrary to Jewish Law.
All the great rabbis who in accordance with Jewish Law opposed Zionism at its inception did not do so merely due to consideration of the secular lifestyles of the then Zionist leaders or even for their opposition to Torah heritage and rejection of its values and practices, but due to the fact that the entire concept of a Jewish state is in direct conflict with a number of Judaism's fundamentals.
Condemnation of and segregation from anything connected to or affiliated with the so-called modern day "State of Israel" is based on the Talmud, the key fundamental doctrine of the Oral Tradition handed down by G-d to Moses on Mt. Sinai. The Talmud in Tractate Kesubos (p. 111a), teaches that Jews shall not use human force to bring about the establishment of a Jewish state before the coming of the universally accepted Moshiach (Messiah from the House of David). Furthermore it states that we are forbidden to rebel against the nations and that we should remain loyal citizens and we shall not attempt to leave the exile which G-d sent us into, ahead of time.
Jews are not allowed to dominate, kill, harm or demean another people and are not allowed to have anything to do with the Zionist enterprise, their political meddling and their wars.
Neturei Karta forbid any participation with the so-called "State of Israel" or any of its subsidiaries. Neturei Karta followers do not participate in "Israeli" elections nor do they accept any aid from "Bituach Le'Umi" (Social Security), and the educational institutions of the Neturei Karta reject any form of financial support from the so-called "Va'ad HaYeshivos" (equiv. to Department of Education).
The Zionist state employs a set of chief rabbis and uses religious parties to ornament their state with a clerical image. They study the Torah with commentaries altered to clothe the words with nationalistic nuances. Our rabbis have countless times proclaimed that it matters little which individuals or parties govern in the Zionist state because the very establishment and existence of the state itself is to be condemned and to be deplored.
The true Jews remain faithful to Jewish belief and are not contaminated with Zionism.
The true Jews are against dispossessing the Arabs of their land and homes. According to the Torah, the land should be returned to them.
Neturei Karta deplore the systematic uprooting of ancient Jewish communities by the Zionists, the shedding of Jewish and non-Jewish blood for the sake of Zionist sovereignty and the Neturei Karta favor a peaceful transition from the present Zionist rule to a non-Zionist entity.
According to Judaic Law the Torah has the last word. There is no such thing as a majority of Jews who happen to be Jewish by birth who can alter Torah Law in any way. In fact even the greatest rabbi or as Maimonides writes, "even the greatest prophet" [referring actually to an authentic prophet], has no right to distort or amend even one letter of the Torah.
Rabbi Blau stated shortly before his death that the acceptance by the United Nations of the Zionist state as a member state constituted a grave injustice to the Jewish people. Neturei Karta hope that this great error will be corrected at the earliest opportunity. The Neturei Karta regret that the Zionist state has usurped the holy name of Israel and that the Zionists so often pretend to speak in the name of the Jewish people and assume the right to act on our behalf. Only those rabbis who have not been affected or influenced by the poison of Zionism, can be considered the spiritual leaders of today's Jewry.
The world must know that the Zionists have illegitimately seized the name Israel and have no right to speak in the name of the Jewish people!
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West Australia Fire Alert
Radio today reports West Australia is on severe fire alert
Mostly south from Kalgoorlie,Geraldtown,way down south of Perth
To the more wooded areas down to Albany
West Australia is very strict on fire breaks-not so Queensland
Mostly south from Kalgoorlie,Geraldtown,way down south of Perth
To the more wooded areas down to Albany
West Australia is very strict on fire breaks-not so Queensland
Zionist-Always Be Trouble On earth
There will always be trouble on earth as long as Zionist exist
Since time immemorial there has been continuous inbreeding of a leadership or ruling class. Which was a normal practice in most civilisations
Which seems to have produced a tenacious determined tribe now emerging into a nation
One could say a super race
Which Hitler tried to produce but failed
Why say a super race?
They are immensely educated and intelligent and adaptable and creative etc.
And hold positions of power and influence in many countries
And are said to control most of the worlds finance
Sadly the ordinary Jewish person is controlled by a ruling class, just as in most other countries.
In most countries the ruling classes die out via intermarriage
When and if Zionist eventualy control earth,there will still be trouble
As Zionist factions fight amongst themselves for dominance
This is natural selection and survival of the fittest, in the extreme
Also the developement of the the human brain,and its many unknown quantities
Which appears to have no limitations in evolution
Since time immemorial there has been continuous inbreeding of a leadership or ruling class. Which was a normal practice in most civilisations
Which seems to have produced a tenacious determined tribe now emerging into a nation
One could say a super race
Which Hitler tried to produce but failed
Why say a super race?
They are immensely educated and intelligent and adaptable and creative etc.
And hold positions of power and influence in many countries
And are said to control most of the worlds finance
Sadly the ordinary Jewish person is controlled by a ruling class, just as in most other countries.
In most countries the ruling classes die out via intermarriage
When and if Zionist eventualy control earth,there will still be trouble
As Zionist factions fight amongst themselves for dominance
This is natural selection and survival of the fittest, in the extreme
Also the developement of the the human brain,and its many unknown quantities
Which appears to have no limitations in evolution
Israel Today-The Action Speaks For Itself
REDS – Die Roten > Middle East > Israel/Palestine > Hidden History
Ralph Schoenman
The Hidden History of Zionism
Preface
The Uprising
Acknowledgements | 1. Four Myths
With anger, hatred, and sheer ferocity, thousands of youngsters hurled rocks at their Israeli occupiers, undaunted by the gunfire that greeted them. This was more than civil unrest. ...It was the beginning of a civil rebellion. [l]
This is how Jerusalem Post correspondent Hirsh Goodman described the uprising of Palestinian youth in the West Bank and Gaza in mid-December 1987.
Goodman’s remarks were written the day before the December 21, 1987, general strike which engulfed every Palestinian community under Israeli rule. The strike was described by the Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, as “writing on our wall even more serious than the bloody riots of the last two weeks.” [2]
On that day, – wrote John Kifner in The New York Times, – the vast army of Arab laborers who wait on tables, pick vegetables, haul garbage, lay brick and perform virtually all Israel’s menial work, stayed home. [3]
The Israeli response to the uprising was brutal. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered the use of tanks, armored vehicles and automatic rifles against an unarmed population.
The San Francisco Examiner cited Rabin as openly advocating assassination. “They can shoot to hit leaders of disorder,” Rabin said in defense of the army’s practice of using marksmen with high-powered .22-caliber rifles to shoot indiscriminately at Palestinian youth. [4]
Rabin ordered house-to-house searches, first for young men and later for anyone of whom an example might be made. By December 27, over 2,500 Palestinians were seized, many of them as young as twelve; by the end of January the number reached 4,000 and was rising. [5] The “militants ”were marked for deportation. Israeli high-security jails and detention centers were overflowing. Mass trials of Palestinians were underway.
The act of brutality which most inflamed the Palestinian population was the army seizure of the wounded from hospital beds. This practice, standard procedure throughout the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, made Shifa Hospital in Gaza a center of resistance. Great crowds amassed to defend the wounded, whom, they rightfully feared, would never be seen again.
The youngsters in Gaza and the West Bank where riots erupted, – wrote Jerusalem Post correspondent Hirsh Goodman – have not received any terrorist training, nor are they members of a terrorist organization. Rather they are members of that Palestinian generation that grew up knowing nothing but occupation. [6]
A mother of a Palestinian man shot three times in the head by Israeli soldiers was asked if she would let her remaining sons join the demonstrations. “ As long as I am alive, ”she responded, “I am going to teach the young people to fight ... I don’t care whatever happens, as long as we get our land.” [7]
Rashad Shawa’a, deposed Mayor of Gaza, expressed the same sentiment:
The youth have lost hope that Israel will ever give them their rights. They feel the Arab countries are unable to accomplish anything. They feel that the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) has failed to achieve a thing. [8]
Los Angeles Times correspondent Dan Fisher’s account is even more significant:
This new-found sense of unity has been one of the most striking changes to foreign observers and non-Gaza Palestinians ... It is a phenomenon that extends to previous divisions between young and old and between those who work in Israel and those who do not. [9]
Force, Might, Beatings
As the uprising intensified, the Israeli cabinet and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin implemented “collective punishment, ”a tactic characteristic of the Nazi occupation of France, Denmark and Yugoslavia. Food, water and medicine were prevented from reaching Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (U.N.R.W.A.) personnel reported that children seeking powdered milk at U.N. depots were shot at and beaten with sticks.
The Casbah, where over half of the 125,000 inhabitants of Nablus live, has been sealed off by concrete barricades and iron gates. Qabatiya and the nearby refugee camp at Jenin were placed under siege. At the time of writing, the siege, which has cut off all food, water, fuel and electricity, has lasted fifty-five days.
A Jerusalem Post analyst explained the policies of Rabin:
The first priority is to use force, might, beatings. [This] is considered more effective than detention ... [because] he may then resume stoning soldiers. But if troops break his hand, he won’t be able to throw stones. [10]
By the next day, the news media were reporting the most bestial beatings by soldiers throughout the West Bank and Gaza. The account by John Kifner was compelling:
NABLUS, Israeli Occupied West Bank, January 22: Both hands encased in plaster casts, Imad Omar Abu Rub explained from his bed in the Rafidiya Hospital what happened when the Israeli Army came to the Palestinian village of Qabatiya.
“They entered the house like animals, shouting,” the 22-year old student at Bir Zeit University said. “They took us from the house, kicking us in the head, beating us, all the soldiers with their rifle butts.”
Then he was taken to the construction site of an unfinished house where, he said, the soldiers put an empty bucket over his head. Several of the soldiers held him down, he said, gripping his arms to force his hands against a rock. Two others, he said, beat his hands with lengths of two-by-fours, breaking the bones.
The injuries are the product of a new officially declared policy of the Israeli Army and the police to beat up Palestinians in hopes of ending the wave of protests in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip that began in early December. At least thirty-eight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire in the protests.
In the bed next to Mr. Abu Rub’s, Hassan Arif Kemal, a 17-year old high school student from Qabatiya, told a nearly identical story. [11]
Labor and Likud leaders responded with one voice to world-wide outcry over these practices. President Chaim Herzog declared: “The alternative facing us today ... is between suppressing these riots or allowing them to develop into a new Teheran or Beirut.” [12]
John Kifner reported in The New York Times:
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin continued to defend the policy, with both men saying publicly that the purpose of the beatings was to instill fear of the Israeli army in Palestinians.
Shamir stated that events had “shattered the barrier of fear ... Our task is to recreate that barrier and once again put the fear of death into the Arabs of the areas”
He concluded that the uprising would never have taken place “had the troops used firearms from the very first moment.” [13]
Palestinian Resistance Grows
The rebellion of the Palestinian people of the West Bank and Gaza has engulfed every village, town and refugee camp. Children as young as eight and old people in their seventies and eighties defy the Israeli army daily. Entire village populations, waving makeshift Palestinian flags of bedsheets and cloth, mass defiantly, singing and chanting and hurling stones at soldiers firing automatic weapons.
The Great Uprising – the “Intifadeh” �� has become a symbol of Palestinian nationhood as the brutal repression that once filled the people with despair now fuels their determination and will, which encompasses the readiness to die.
The Israeli reprisals have been barbarous. The repression has been unleashed with particular savagery against the refugee camps and the old quarters of the cities inhabited by the impoverished.
By April 1988 over 150 Palestinians had died. The Israeli government had admitted to the arrest of 2,000 people, bringing the acknowledged total to 4,000. The real figure was far higher.
Sources in the West Bank and Gaza established that the number detained by the weekend of March 27 had exceeded 13,000. Bassam Shaka’a, deposed Mayor of Nablus, placed the total held solely in a hastily constructed barbed-wire encampment at Dhariyah at 10,000.
In the Balata camp outside Nablus, and in the Casbah – the old quarter – l,000 people were arrested in a period of 48 hours. The discovery of people in ditches in the fields – shot in the back or with their heads caved in – has been reported from villages throughout the West Bank and Gaza.
Bassam Shaka’a described the rampage of the Israeli armed units:
No matter which house one calls, the anguished accounts of family members wounded or arrested pour forth. Convoys of buses cruise the streets of Nablus followed by vans of the Mossad, Israel’s secret police. Army units go from house to house pulling youths from their beds at 3 a.m. As the buses fill, the soldiers beat the youths viciously around the head, shins, groin and back. Shrieks fill the air.
As the army makes its rounds kidnapping the young from their homes, people gather at their windows and on the roofs of houses shouting in unison, “Falistin Arabia, Thawra Hatta al Nas’r, Allah Akbar” [Arab Palestine, Revolution Until Victory, God is Great]. [13a]
Bassam Shaka’a described the attempts by the Israeli army to spread panic and terror in Nablus and outlying villages:
Fleets of helicopters fly over Nablus at night dropping a dense, green toxic gas over the city. The smell pervades every house. Armed units fire canisters of the substance into houses at random. Doctors at Ittihad Hospital reported several deaths and severe lung injuries from this as-yet unidentified asphyxiating chemical, totally distinct from tear gas.
Among the victims were the grandmother of the Da’as family and the 100-year-old father of noted Nablus attorney Mohammad Irshaid. Soldiers had entered the house at 2 a.m., smashing furniture and firing a canister of the dreaded green gas while preventing the family from leaving.
Two of the children, ages 9 and 11, were taken by the soldiers in their night clothes, frog-marched in the streets and beaten as they were forced by the jeering soldiers to clear debris.
Simultaneously, the Israeli army targeted the hospitals. Army trucks rammed ambulances and blocked them from reaching the homes of those overcome by the gas. Soldiers entered the Ittihad Hospital in Nablus numerous times, arresting the wounded and those waiting to give blood to family members. Even the operating theater was invaded while surgeons were operating on patients.
Doctors were beaten and equipment smashed. Family members were prevented from entering the hospital and the cars of doctors and nurses were destroyed by soldiers.
Meanwhile, all of Nablus was paralyzed by a total strike. All the streets in every quarter of the city were without open shops or business activity. As gas permeated the city, cries and chants filled the night.
Gas canisters recovered by Bassam Shaka’a, Yousef al-Masri [chief of Ittihad Hospital] and American author Alfred Lilienthal bear the markings “560 cs. Federal Lab. Saltsburg, Pa. USA MK2 1988.” Biochemists are studying their properties as casualties mount.
John Kifner reported on April 4 that “Hundreds of refugees were treated in United Nations clinics for gas inhalation.” On April 15, Kifner wrote, “...gas has been thrown inside homes, clinics and schools where the effects are particularly severe.” [13b]
His report was the first, after four months of the use of such chemical weapons, to acknowledge the fact:
Agency doctors have seen symptoms not normally connected with tear gas, and U.N.R.W.A. is seeking information on the contents of the gas ... to provide antidote ... especially for the most vulnerable groups ... pregnant women, the very young and elderly.
Kifner later reported, “Warnings on the canisters say the contents can be lethal.” Throughout the West Bank and Gaza, cases of miscarriages, vaginal bleeding and asphyxiation were occurring after the use of the gas.
A Glimpse of the Savagery
One of the most vicious incidents occurred in the town of Qalqiya. Soldiers entered the house of workers and poured gasoline over them, setting them alight. Six workers were covered in flames. Four of the victims managed to rush out of the building and rolled on the ground, ripping off their clothes. Two were severely burned and are in critical condition.
On February 20, two youths were arrested in Khan Yunis, beaten savagely and taken to the beach where they were buried alive under the sand. After the soldiers left, villagers managed to dig them out.
Reports in the establishment press give a glimpse of the scale of Israeli brutality. A soldier’s account reported in the Israeli newspaper Hadashot was cited in Newsweek:
We got orders to knock on every door, enter and take out all the males. The younger ones we lined up with their faces against the wall, and soldiers beat them with billy-clubs. This was no private initiative. These were the orders from our company commander. [13c]
The accounts make clear that Israeli protestations about excesses of individual soldiers are transparently false. Newsweek revealed:
Armed with 30-inch wooden clubs and urged by their prime minister to “put the fear back into the Arabs”, Israeli soldiers have methodically beaten up Palestinians since early January, deliberately breaking bones and beating prisoners into unconsciousness. Casualties included not only young men ... but also women. Most of the injured shunned hospitals for fear of arrest.
The avoidance of hospitals by the injured has prevented accurate reporting of the vast scale of the savage beatings and of the deaths of those who endured them. But an indication was provided in the reports of the medical team inspecting the wounded in the hospitals in early February 1988. Dr. Jennifer Leaning, a faculty member of Harvard Medical School and a trauma specialist, reported her findings: “There is a systematic pattern of limb injury that is clearly organized to cause fractures ... a consistent pattern of bonebreaks across the back of the hand and in the middle of the forearm that ... come from holding the hand or arm in place and applying a strong blow to the bone.” [13d]
Dr. Leaning and the team of Physicians for Human Rights traveled throughout the West Bank and Gaza. They concluded, “It is a pattern that is controlled. A systematic pattern over a wide geographical area. It is as if they have been instructed.”
Dr. Leaning’s account of the new patients brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza is compelling:
They looked like they had been mauled. What is impressive is the number of fractures per patient. These patients look as if they had been put through a washing-machine wringer. They would have had to hold them down and just keep beating them.
Repeated instances of young males shot deliberately through the testicles were reported in Shifa Hospital in Gaza and Makassad Hospital in East Jerusalem. Soldiers poured boiling water over a 2-year-old infant, rendering her catatonic.
“Quelling the Protests”
New York Times correspondent John Kifner called the systematic roundups “part of a series of tough new measures, including economic sanctions and collective punishment, that the Israeli army and other officials are imposing in hopes of quelling the protests, which have grown into an increasingly organized Palestinian mass movement in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.” [13e]
The army’s new orders allow detention without any specific charge or trials, even in military courts. Moreover, according to the March 23 New York Times, “the new procedures do away with judicial review of the administrative detention sentences and allow local commanders to order the arrests.”
Immediately after the order, people were seized overnight in more than a dozen refugee districts, villages and towns in the West Bank and Gaza.
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced that Israeli civilians have the same authority as soldiers to shoot. He added that soldiers need not fire warning shots before shooting Palestinians. [13f] Newsweek was more explicit: “The decree meant Israeli soldiers could shoot to kill Palestinian youths ... Yitzhak Rabin [was] effectively deputizing settlers.” [13g] The decision, according to Newsweek, would “open the floodgates of the 60,000 settlers’ pent-up frustration [sic].” It was not long before an attack occurred. On April 6, settlers engaging in a clear provocation shot in cold blood a Palestinian working in his field outside the village of Beita. Attention, however, focused on the death of Tirza Porat, a 15-year-old settler girl among the group. The settlers reported Tirza Porat had been stoned to death by the Palestinian villagers, but an army autopsy report revealed she had been shot in the head by the Kahane follower acting as her nominal guard. [Rabbi Meir Kahane is the founder of the Jewish Defense League.]
Despite the autopsy report, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir used the occasion to vow that Palestinians “would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.” [13h]
In Beita village, the scene of the incident, thirty houses were blown up. The number of houses destroyed was confirmed by Hamdi Faraj, a noted Palestinian journalist.
Forms of Self-Government Emerge
The recent Palestinian uprising has done more to challenge Israeli control than had been achieved in twenty years. The entire infrastructure of Israeli rule has unraveled. Spies are asking forgiveness, confessing their deeds and exposing the apparatus of control. Police are resigning.
The Village Leagues, Israeli organizations of collaborators, have collapsed. The Los Angeles Times reports that challenges by the “Unified National Leadership of the Uprising” have led to resignations by municipal, village, and town councils.
Before the uprising, 20,000 Palestinians worked under Israeli army and police control, providing services to the West Bank and Gaza. They were teachers, clerks and administrators. Most have resigned.
Increasingly, forms of self-government are emerging in the West Bank and Gaza. The Israelis close the schools; the resistance organizes classes. The Israelis order shops to open; the resistance keeps them closed. The Israelis close the shops; the resistance opens them.
The West Bank and Gaza are trapped in what Newsweek calls a “colonial setup”. Newsweek cites Israeli demographer Meron Benvenisti, the former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, as follows: “The Occupied Territories became a source of cheap labor and a captive market for Israeli goods.” [13i]
Israel’s trade surplus with the West Bank and Gaza, Benvenisti reveals, is $500 million a year. The government takes a further $80 million a year in taxes above what it provides in meager social services. The territories import $780 million a year of Israeli goods at high prices.
But the uprising has changed everything. Newsweek states:
The Palestinians have some economic weapons of their own. Thousands of Arab workers had long since walked away from jobs at Israeli farms, factories and construction sites. Palestinian shoppers cut back their purchases of Israeli goods. Arab merchants and self-employed professionals struck a more direct blow at the occupation; they refused to pay Israeli income and commercial taxes.
Thus, as Newsweek acknowledges, the economic sword cut in two directions. Israel’s construction industry, which drew 42% of its workforce from the Occupied Territories “has been hobbled by Arab walkouts”. Hotels in Jerusalem report a sharp drop in spring bookings.
Israeli Economic Minister Gad Yaacobi estimated that the first three months of “rioting” cost Israel’s economy “at least $300 million ” – 10% of U.S. aid for a full year.
“Liberated Zones”
No respite can be expected for Israel. The villages in the West Bank and Gaza have responded defiantly to Israel’s barbaric onslaught, declaring themselves “liberated zones”, barricading their streets, and flying the Palestinian flag.
Newsweek reports: “Their protests are adroitly coordinated through leaflets issued by the shadowy Unified National Command of the Uprising. Their leaflets are the law of the land.” [13j]
Despite the massive repression, Palestinian spirits have never been higher. This spirit is perhaps the factor of greatest concern to the Israeli state. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told Israeli television:
The people who are throwing stones, the inciters, the leaders, they are today in a situation of euphoria, of great enthusiasm. They think that they are the victors.
Middle East editor of the Jerusalem Post Yehudi Litani reported that “[Israeli] security forces estimate the army has now detained the majority of those now pulling the strings of the uprising” – and yet the uprising continues, the leaflets continue to appear, and a mood approaching panic is settling in among Israeli leaders.
On March 30, Land Day – the day Palestinians inside pre-1967 Israel protest the confiscation of their land – a general strike of Palestinians inside the pre-1967 borders was called. This action renewed a general strike in support of the uprising which was first held on December 21, 1987.
The Unified National Leadership of the Uprising in the Occupied Territories called for “huge demonstrations against the army and settlers” to coincide with the general strike.
For the first time since 1948, Palestinians throughout Lebanon – joined by Lebanese in Sidon, Beirut and other cities – also staged their own demonstrations and general strike in solidarity with the uprising. The uprising has galvanized not only the Israeli Arabs, but the Palestinians in the Diaspora. The participation of the Palestinians of Lebanon and of thousands of Lebanese themselves was felt throughout the Arab world.
This new phase of the Palestinian revolution was not lost on the Israeli authorities. In an attempt to counter coordination between the Palestinians inside the “Green Line” [pre-1967 borders] and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, the Israelis completely “sealed off’ the West Bank and Gaza.
“Since Intifadeh [Uprising] is taking place both in the West Bank and in Israel,” [emphasis added] a senior military source said, “we decided to separate the two and to prevent large-scale public disorder.” [13k]
“We want to signal very clearly that we are not going to hesitate to use whatever measures are necessary,” Defense Minister Rabin said.
Ariel Sharon, former Defense Minister and current Trade Minister, announced that the uprising “would lead inevitably to war with the Arab states and the necessary expulsion of the Arabs from the West Bank, Gaza and the Galilee.” [13l]
But the Palestinians, entering their 40th year of occupation since the founding of the Israeli state, have not been deterred. The “revolutionary war” of the Palestinian people is recruiting the hearts and minds of youth in every Arab country and in capitals across the world.
This spirit was fully captured in a letter written by members of the Palestinian underground resistance in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to a rally in Paris, France, on March 3, 1988, organized by an ad-hoc committee of supporters of Palestinian human rights. Their letter states in part:
Dear friends,
We send you this letter from inside our beloved land – Our land of honor, of dignity, courage and defiance – from our Palestine, from Jerusalem, the sacred city.
We send you this letter in the name of our people, a patient people who are today standing tall and are waging a struggle unparalleled in our entire history.
We want you to know that the Palestinian people have not been defeated. They are alive. They are struggling. They are saying that they will not accept humiliation and submission.
The confidence of our people in the legitimacy of their struggle is immense. And our people know that their victory is certain – whatever the sacrifices, whatever the price that must be paid.
Today, our people are suffering. They are shedding their blood to win their freedom, dignity, and honor; their right to determine their own destiny; their right to live in their homeland and to build a free, democratic, and sovereign state in all of Palestine.
To all free men and women, to all our comrades, we say the following:
The Palestinian people have been the victims for many decades of an international plot – of vicious attacks – aimed at exiling them and chasing them from the lands upon which they have lived for centuries.
We have been expelled from our lands – lands which have now been settled by foreigners in accordance with the aims of colonialism and imperialism. This settlement has been imposed by the laws of oppression promoted by the Western nations and the Eastern totalitarian regimes. These oppressive laws are also those of international Zionism.
We have been subject to terror, assassination and torture. Today, we are deprived of even our most elementary and legitimate rights. “They have wanted to make of us an exiled people, destined permanently to refugee camps. They have wanted to destroy us physically and eliminate us.
Through the wars of 1948 and 1967, they carried out the occupation of all of Palestine. But they forgot that by occupying all of Palestine they also unified the entire Palestinian people in their struggle against oppression.
That is what is happening today as the children, the elderly, the women and the youth have risen up as one single person, without arms, to face the military machine of Zionism and imperialism – to face the violence of the guns, the clubs, the kidnappings, and the assassinations.
Our weapons come from our homeland. They are the stones with which our people have built up a wall to defend their combatants and the Revolution.
Dear friends: You should know what is going on in our homeland. Two weeks ago, the forces of occupation buried eight young Palestinians alive after having beaten them savagely and broken their limbs. Four of them were saved by the people; the other four were never found.
Three days ago, Israeli military forces dropped three live Palestinian youths from a helicopter flying at a high altitude. One of the youths was only 13 years old.
This is what they are currently doing to our people.
Dear friends: We want you to know that we reject all so-called solutions and peace projects that some people would like to impose on us through international conferences. We want you to know that we are committed to continuing our revolution until the total liberation of all of Palestine, until the establishment of a democratic and free state in which all free men and women, from wherever they may be, are welcome to live so long as they accept to live with us as equals on our land of Palestine.
We are no longer on our knees. We are standing tall. We will not yield. We feel that it is legitimate for us to demand aid and assistance from people throughout the world who are struggling for the freedom of all oppressed peoples.
We ask of you not only that you speak out in support of our struggle in your speeches and protests but that you demand that your governments take a clear position in opposition to the repressive and criminal methods of Zionism. We ask for your moral and material support for our Palestinian people, who are struggling to obtain their final victory.
The Palestinian people have risen, their yearnings for emancipation stirring the pauperized masses in every country of the Arab East. Reduced to a condition of penury by corrupt, country-selling regimes, the Egyptian, Jordanian and Saudi people have begun to respond to the extraordinary example set for them by the Palestinian people.
Perhaps more significantly, a detailed report by Robert S. Greenberger in The Wall Street Journal describes the profound effect of the Intifadeh on the Jewish masses themselves, notably the Arab Jews, or Sephardim.
Now nearly 70% of the Jewish population of Israel, their sentiments are shifting. In contrast to rabid Likud [Israel’s ruling party] figures such as Reuvin Rivlin, who declaimed ominously, “I believe God is Jewish. I believe the demographic problem will be solved,” the Sephardic Jews are responding differently:
The riots shattered the myth perpetuated by Likud founder Menachem Begin and his successor Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir ... The Sephardim are demanding social services and want to bridge the gap between ideology and practical solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict ... They care more about jobs, housing and education than keeping faith with a territorially inviolate Israel. [13m]
Henoch Smith, a U.S. pollster, reflecting on the new “challenge” from the Sephardim, notes: “This year, for the first time, they will account for 51% of voters.”
As the letter from the underground attests, the Palestinian people, self-activated and increasingly confident of the power of mass struggle, are demanding “aid and assistance from people throughout the world who are struggling for the freedom of all oppressed peoples.”
This message is beginning to reach Israeli Jews. The day is dawning when they too will seek a future free of a Zionist state which has combined subjugation of the Palestinian people with the exploitation of the Jewish poor.
This book seeks to uncover the hidden history of Zionism, a movement rooted in the ideology of racist oppression of Jews and colonial subjects alike. It has been written in anticipation of that day when the dedication and fervor of the Palestinian people, so long persecuted and oppressed, will speak to the Jews, recalling to them their own painful history, with a program for a Palestine in which victims, past and present, will create together the Intifadeh of the future and overthrow a state predicated upon oppression, torture, expulsion, expansion and unending war.
Ralph Schoenman,
Santa Barbara, Calif.
April 19, 1988
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Notes
1. Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1987.
2. Ibid.
3. John Kifner, New York Times, December 22, 1987.
4. San Francisco Examiner, December 23, 1987.
5. First hand account to the author from Dheisheh camp.
6. Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1987.
7. John Kifner, New York Times, December 21, 1987.
8. Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1987.
9. Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1987.
10. New York Times, January 21, 1988.
11. John Kifner, New York Times, January 23, 1988.
12. John Kifner, New York Times, January 27, 1988.
13. Ibid.
13a. Bassam Shaka’a: Telephone conversations with the author from February 5, 1988, through March 13, 1988.
13b. John Kifner, New York Times, April 4 and April 15, 1988.
13c. Newsweek, “A Soldier’s Account”, February 8, 1988.
13d. New York Times, February 14, 1988.
13e. John Kifner, New York Times, February 21, 1988.
13f. Los Angeles Times, March 23, 1988.
13g. Newsweek, April 4, 1988.
13h. New York Times, April 1, 1988.
13i. Newsweek, March 28, 1988.
13j. Ibid.
13k. Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1988.
13l. New York Times, April 1, 1988.
13m. The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 1988.
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Last updated on 4.8.2001
Ralph Schoenman
The Hidden History of Zionism
Preface
The Uprising
Acknowledgements | 1. Four Myths
With anger, hatred, and sheer ferocity, thousands of youngsters hurled rocks at their Israeli occupiers, undaunted by the gunfire that greeted them. This was more than civil unrest. ...It was the beginning of a civil rebellion. [l]
This is how Jerusalem Post correspondent Hirsh Goodman described the uprising of Palestinian youth in the West Bank and Gaza in mid-December 1987.
Goodman’s remarks were written the day before the December 21, 1987, general strike which engulfed every Palestinian community under Israeli rule. The strike was described by the Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, as “writing on our wall even more serious than the bloody riots of the last two weeks.” [2]
On that day, – wrote John Kifner in The New York Times, – the vast army of Arab laborers who wait on tables, pick vegetables, haul garbage, lay brick and perform virtually all Israel’s menial work, stayed home. [3]
The Israeli response to the uprising was brutal. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered the use of tanks, armored vehicles and automatic rifles against an unarmed population.
The San Francisco Examiner cited Rabin as openly advocating assassination. “They can shoot to hit leaders of disorder,” Rabin said in defense of the army’s practice of using marksmen with high-powered .22-caliber rifles to shoot indiscriminately at Palestinian youth. [4]
Rabin ordered house-to-house searches, first for young men and later for anyone of whom an example might be made. By December 27, over 2,500 Palestinians were seized, many of them as young as twelve; by the end of January the number reached 4,000 and was rising. [5] The “militants ”were marked for deportation. Israeli high-security jails and detention centers were overflowing. Mass trials of Palestinians were underway.
The act of brutality which most inflamed the Palestinian population was the army seizure of the wounded from hospital beds. This practice, standard procedure throughout the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, made Shifa Hospital in Gaza a center of resistance. Great crowds amassed to defend the wounded, whom, they rightfully feared, would never be seen again.
The youngsters in Gaza and the West Bank where riots erupted, – wrote Jerusalem Post correspondent Hirsh Goodman – have not received any terrorist training, nor are they members of a terrorist organization. Rather they are members of that Palestinian generation that grew up knowing nothing but occupation. [6]
A mother of a Palestinian man shot three times in the head by Israeli soldiers was asked if she would let her remaining sons join the demonstrations. “ As long as I am alive, ”she responded, “I am going to teach the young people to fight ... I don’t care whatever happens, as long as we get our land.” [7]
Rashad Shawa’a, deposed Mayor of Gaza, expressed the same sentiment:
The youth have lost hope that Israel will ever give them their rights. They feel the Arab countries are unable to accomplish anything. They feel that the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) has failed to achieve a thing. [8]
Los Angeles Times correspondent Dan Fisher’s account is even more significant:
This new-found sense of unity has been one of the most striking changes to foreign observers and non-Gaza Palestinians ... It is a phenomenon that extends to previous divisions between young and old and between those who work in Israel and those who do not. [9]
Force, Might, Beatings
As the uprising intensified, the Israeli cabinet and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin implemented “collective punishment, ”a tactic characteristic of the Nazi occupation of France, Denmark and Yugoslavia. Food, water and medicine were prevented from reaching Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (U.N.R.W.A.) personnel reported that children seeking powdered milk at U.N. depots were shot at and beaten with sticks.
The Casbah, where over half of the 125,000 inhabitants of Nablus live, has been sealed off by concrete barricades and iron gates. Qabatiya and the nearby refugee camp at Jenin were placed under siege. At the time of writing, the siege, which has cut off all food, water, fuel and electricity, has lasted fifty-five days.
A Jerusalem Post analyst explained the policies of Rabin:
The first priority is to use force, might, beatings. [This] is considered more effective than detention ... [because] he may then resume stoning soldiers. But if troops break his hand, he won’t be able to throw stones. [10]
By the next day, the news media were reporting the most bestial beatings by soldiers throughout the West Bank and Gaza. The account by John Kifner was compelling:
NABLUS, Israeli Occupied West Bank, January 22: Both hands encased in plaster casts, Imad Omar Abu Rub explained from his bed in the Rafidiya Hospital what happened when the Israeli Army came to the Palestinian village of Qabatiya.
“They entered the house like animals, shouting,” the 22-year old student at Bir Zeit University said. “They took us from the house, kicking us in the head, beating us, all the soldiers with their rifle butts.”
Then he was taken to the construction site of an unfinished house where, he said, the soldiers put an empty bucket over his head. Several of the soldiers held him down, he said, gripping his arms to force his hands against a rock. Two others, he said, beat his hands with lengths of two-by-fours, breaking the bones.
The injuries are the product of a new officially declared policy of the Israeli Army and the police to beat up Palestinians in hopes of ending the wave of protests in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip that began in early December. At least thirty-eight Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire in the protests.
In the bed next to Mr. Abu Rub’s, Hassan Arif Kemal, a 17-year old high school student from Qabatiya, told a nearly identical story. [11]
Labor and Likud leaders responded with one voice to world-wide outcry over these practices. President Chaim Herzog declared: “The alternative facing us today ... is between suppressing these riots or allowing them to develop into a new Teheran or Beirut.” [12]
John Kifner reported in The New York Times:
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin continued to defend the policy, with both men saying publicly that the purpose of the beatings was to instill fear of the Israeli army in Palestinians.
Shamir stated that events had “shattered the barrier of fear ... Our task is to recreate that barrier and once again put the fear of death into the Arabs of the areas”
He concluded that the uprising would never have taken place “had the troops used firearms from the very first moment.” [13]
Palestinian Resistance Grows
The rebellion of the Palestinian people of the West Bank and Gaza has engulfed every village, town and refugee camp. Children as young as eight and old people in their seventies and eighties defy the Israeli army daily. Entire village populations, waving makeshift Palestinian flags of bedsheets and cloth, mass defiantly, singing and chanting and hurling stones at soldiers firing automatic weapons.
The Great Uprising – the “Intifadeh” �� has become a symbol of Palestinian nationhood as the brutal repression that once filled the people with despair now fuels their determination and will, which encompasses the readiness to die.
The Israeli reprisals have been barbarous. The repression has been unleashed with particular savagery against the refugee camps and the old quarters of the cities inhabited by the impoverished.
By April 1988 over 150 Palestinians had died. The Israeli government had admitted to the arrest of 2,000 people, bringing the acknowledged total to 4,000. The real figure was far higher.
Sources in the West Bank and Gaza established that the number detained by the weekend of March 27 had exceeded 13,000. Bassam Shaka’a, deposed Mayor of Nablus, placed the total held solely in a hastily constructed barbed-wire encampment at Dhariyah at 10,000.
In the Balata camp outside Nablus, and in the Casbah – the old quarter – l,000 people were arrested in a period of 48 hours. The discovery of people in ditches in the fields – shot in the back or with their heads caved in – has been reported from villages throughout the West Bank and Gaza.
Bassam Shaka’a described the rampage of the Israeli armed units:
No matter which house one calls, the anguished accounts of family members wounded or arrested pour forth. Convoys of buses cruise the streets of Nablus followed by vans of the Mossad, Israel’s secret police. Army units go from house to house pulling youths from their beds at 3 a.m. As the buses fill, the soldiers beat the youths viciously around the head, shins, groin and back. Shrieks fill the air.
As the army makes its rounds kidnapping the young from their homes, people gather at their windows and on the roofs of houses shouting in unison, “Falistin Arabia, Thawra Hatta al Nas’r, Allah Akbar” [Arab Palestine, Revolution Until Victory, God is Great]. [13a]
Bassam Shaka’a described the attempts by the Israeli army to spread panic and terror in Nablus and outlying villages:
Fleets of helicopters fly over Nablus at night dropping a dense, green toxic gas over the city. The smell pervades every house. Armed units fire canisters of the substance into houses at random. Doctors at Ittihad Hospital reported several deaths and severe lung injuries from this as-yet unidentified asphyxiating chemical, totally distinct from tear gas.
Among the victims were the grandmother of the Da’as family and the 100-year-old father of noted Nablus attorney Mohammad Irshaid. Soldiers had entered the house at 2 a.m., smashing furniture and firing a canister of the dreaded green gas while preventing the family from leaving.
Two of the children, ages 9 and 11, were taken by the soldiers in their night clothes, frog-marched in the streets and beaten as they were forced by the jeering soldiers to clear debris.
Simultaneously, the Israeli army targeted the hospitals. Army trucks rammed ambulances and blocked them from reaching the homes of those overcome by the gas. Soldiers entered the Ittihad Hospital in Nablus numerous times, arresting the wounded and those waiting to give blood to family members. Even the operating theater was invaded while surgeons were operating on patients.
Doctors were beaten and equipment smashed. Family members were prevented from entering the hospital and the cars of doctors and nurses were destroyed by soldiers.
Meanwhile, all of Nablus was paralyzed by a total strike. All the streets in every quarter of the city were without open shops or business activity. As gas permeated the city, cries and chants filled the night.
Gas canisters recovered by Bassam Shaka’a, Yousef al-Masri [chief of Ittihad Hospital] and American author Alfred Lilienthal bear the markings “560 cs. Federal Lab. Saltsburg, Pa. USA MK2 1988.” Biochemists are studying their properties as casualties mount.
John Kifner reported on April 4 that “Hundreds of refugees were treated in United Nations clinics for gas inhalation.” On April 15, Kifner wrote, “...gas has been thrown inside homes, clinics and schools where the effects are particularly severe.” [13b]
His report was the first, after four months of the use of such chemical weapons, to acknowledge the fact:
Agency doctors have seen symptoms not normally connected with tear gas, and U.N.R.W.A. is seeking information on the contents of the gas ... to provide antidote ... especially for the most vulnerable groups ... pregnant women, the very young and elderly.
Kifner later reported, “Warnings on the canisters say the contents can be lethal.” Throughout the West Bank and Gaza, cases of miscarriages, vaginal bleeding and asphyxiation were occurring after the use of the gas.
A Glimpse of the Savagery
One of the most vicious incidents occurred in the town of Qalqiya. Soldiers entered the house of workers and poured gasoline over them, setting them alight. Six workers were covered in flames. Four of the victims managed to rush out of the building and rolled on the ground, ripping off their clothes. Two were severely burned and are in critical condition.
On February 20, two youths were arrested in Khan Yunis, beaten savagely and taken to the beach where they were buried alive under the sand. After the soldiers left, villagers managed to dig them out.
Reports in the establishment press give a glimpse of the scale of Israeli brutality. A soldier’s account reported in the Israeli newspaper Hadashot was cited in Newsweek:
We got orders to knock on every door, enter and take out all the males. The younger ones we lined up with their faces against the wall, and soldiers beat them with billy-clubs. This was no private initiative. These were the orders from our company commander. [13c]
The accounts make clear that Israeli protestations about excesses of individual soldiers are transparently false. Newsweek revealed:
Armed with 30-inch wooden clubs and urged by their prime minister to “put the fear back into the Arabs”, Israeli soldiers have methodically beaten up Palestinians since early January, deliberately breaking bones and beating prisoners into unconsciousness. Casualties included not only young men ... but also women. Most of the injured shunned hospitals for fear of arrest.
The avoidance of hospitals by the injured has prevented accurate reporting of the vast scale of the savage beatings and of the deaths of those who endured them. But an indication was provided in the reports of the medical team inspecting the wounded in the hospitals in early February 1988. Dr. Jennifer Leaning, a faculty member of Harvard Medical School and a trauma specialist, reported her findings: “There is a systematic pattern of limb injury that is clearly organized to cause fractures ... a consistent pattern of bonebreaks across the back of the hand and in the middle of the forearm that ... come from holding the hand or arm in place and applying a strong blow to the bone.” [13d]
Dr. Leaning and the team of Physicians for Human Rights traveled throughout the West Bank and Gaza. They concluded, “It is a pattern that is controlled. A systematic pattern over a wide geographical area. It is as if they have been instructed.”
Dr. Leaning’s account of the new patients brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza is compelling:
They looked like they had been mauled. What is impressive is the number of fractures per patient. These patients look as if they had been put through a washing-machine wringer. They would have had to hold them down and just keep beating them.
Repeated instances of young males shot deliberately through the testicles were reported in Shifa Hospital in Gaza and Makassad Hospital in East Jerusalem. Soldiers poured boiling water over a 2-year-old infant, rendering her catatonic.
“Quelling the Protests”
New York Times correspondent John Kifner called the systematic roundups “part of a series of tough new measures, including economic sanctions and collective punishment, that the Israeli army and other officials are imposing in hopes of quelling the protests, which have grown into an increasingly organized Palestinian mass movement in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.” [13e]
The army’s new orders allow detention without any specific charge or trials, even in military courts. Moreover, according to the March 23 New York Times, “the new procedures do away with judicial review of the administrative detention sentences and allow local commanders to order the arrests.”
Immediately after the order, people were seized overnight in more than a dozen refugee districts, villages and towns in the West Bank and Gaza.
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced that Israeli civilians have the same authority as soldiers to shoot. He added that soldiers need not fire warning shots before shooting Palestinians. [13f] Newsweek was more explicit: “The decree meant Israeli soldiers could shoot to kill Palestinian youths ... Yitzhak Rabin [was] effectively deputizing settlers.” [13g] The decision, according to Newsweek, would “open the floodgates of the 60,000 settlers’ pent-up frustration [sic].” It was not long before an attack occurred. On April 6, settlers engaging in a clear provocation shot in cold blood a Palestinian working in his field outside the village of Beita. Attention, however, focused on the death of Tirza Porat, a 15-year-old settler girl among the group. The settlers reported Tirza Porat had been stoned to death by the Palestinian villagers, but an army autopsy report revealed she had been shot in the head by the Kahane follower acting as her nominal guard. [Rabbi Meir Kahane is the founder of the Jewish Defense League.]
Despite the autopsy report, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir used the occasion to vow that Palestinians “would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.” [13h]
In Beita village, the scene of the incident, thirty houses were blown up. The number of houses destroyed was confirmed by Hamdi Faraj, a noted Palestinian journalist.
Forms of Self-Government Emerge
The recent Palestinian uprising has done more to challenge Israeli control than had been achieved in twenty years. The entire infrastructure of Israeli rule has unraveled. Spies are asking forgiveness, confessing their deeds and exposing the apparatus of control. Police are resigning.
The Village Leagues, Israeli organizations of collaborators, have collapsed. The Los Angeles Times reports that challenges by the “Unified National Leadership of the Uprising” have led to resignations by municipal, village, and town councils.
Before the uprising, 20,000 Palestinians worked under Israeli army and police control, providing services to the West Bank and Gaza. They were teachers, clerks and administrators. Most have resigned.
Increasingly, forms of self-government are emerging in the West Bank and Gaza. The Israelis close the schools; the resistance organizes classes. The Israelis order shops to open; the resistance keeps them closed. The Israelis close the shops; the resistance opens them.
The West Bank and Gaza are trapped in what Newsweek calls a “colonial setup”. Newsweek cites Israeli demographer Meron Benvenisti, the former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, as follows: “The Occupied Territories became a source of cheap labor and a captive market for Israeli goods.” [13i]
Israel’s trade surplus with the West Bank and Gaza, Benvenisti reveals, is $500 million a year. The government takes a further $80 million a year in taxes above what it provides in meager social services. The territories import $780 million a year of Israeli goods at high prices.
But the uprising has changed everything. Newsweek states:
The Palestinians have some economic weapons of their own. Thousands of Arab workers had long since walked away from jobs at Israeli farms, factories and construction sites. Palestinian shoppers cut back their purchases of Israeli goods. Arab merchants and self-employed professionals struck a more direct blow at the occupation; they refused to pay Israeli income and commercial taxes.
Thus, as Newsweek acknowledges, the economic sword cut in two directions. Israel’s construction industry, which drew 42% of its workforce from the Occupied Territories “has been hobbled by Arab walkouts”. Hotels in Jerusalem report a sharp drop in spring bookings.
Israeli Economic Minister Gad Yaacobi estimated that the first three months of “rioting” cost Israel’s economy “at least $300 million ” – 10% of U.S. aid for a full year.
“Liberated Zones”
No respite can be expected for Israel. The villages in the West Bank and Gaza have responded defiantly to Israel’s barbaric onslaught, declaring themselves “liberated zones”, barricading their streets, and flying the Palestinian flag.
Newsweek reports: “Their protests are adroitly coordinated through leaflets issued by the shadowy Unified National Command of the Uprising. Their leaflets are the law of the land.” [13j]
Despite the massive repression, Palestinian spirits have never been higher. This spirit is perhaps the factor of greatest concern to the Israeli state. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told Israeli television:
The people who are throwing stones, the inciters, the leaders, they are today in a situation of euphoria, of great enthusiasm. They think that they are the victors.
Middle East editor of the Jerusalem Post Yehudi Litani reported that “[Israeli] security forces estimate the army has now detained the majority of those now pulling the strings of the uprising” – and yet the uprising continues, the leaflets continue to appear, and a mood approaching panic is settling in among Israeli leaders.
On March 30, Land Day – the day Palestinians inside pre-1967 Israel protest the confiscation of their land – a general strike of Palestinians inside the pre-1967 borders was called. This action renewed a general strike in support of the uprising which was first held on December 21, 1987.
The Unified National Leadership of the Uprising in the Occupied Territories called for “huge demonstrations against the army and settlers” to coincide with the general strike.
For the first time since 1948, Palestinians throughout Lebanon – joined by Lebanese in Sidon, Beirut and other cities – also staged their own demonstrations and general strike in solidarity with the uprising. The uprising has galvanized not only the Israeli Arabs, but the Palestinians in the Diaspora. The participation of the Palestinians of Lebanon and of thousands of Lebanese themselves was felt throughout the Arab world.
This new phase of the Palestinian revolution was not lost on the Israeli authorities. In an attempt to counter coordination between the Palestinians inside the “Green Line” [pre-1967 borders] and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, the Israelis completely “sealed off’ the West Bank and Gaza.
“Since Intifadeh [Uprising] is taking place both in the West Bank and in Israel,” [emphasis added] a senior military source said, “we decided to separate the two and to prevent large-scale public disorder.” [13k]
“We want to signal very clearly that we are not going to hesitate to use whatever measures are necessary,” Defense Minister Rabin said.
Ariel Sharon, former Defense Minister and current Trade Minister, announced that the uprising “would lead inevitably to war with the Arab states and the necessary expulsion of the Arabs from the West Bank, Gaza and the Galilee.” [13l]
But the Palestinians, entering their 40th year of occupation since the founding of the Israeli state, have not been deterred. The “revolutionary war” of the Palestinian people is recruiting the hearts and minds of youth in every Arab country and in capitals across the world.
This spirit was fully captured in a letter written by members of the Palestinian underground resistance in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to a rally in Paris, France, on March 3, 1988, organized by an ad-hoc committee of supporters of Palestinian human rights. Their letter states in part:
Dear friends,
We send you this letter from inside our beloved land – Our land of honor, of dignity, courage and defiance – from our Palestine, from Jerusalem, the sacred city.
We send you this letter in the name of our people, a patient people who are today standing tall and are waging a struggle unparalleled in our entire history.
We want you to know that the Palestinian people have not been defeated. They are alive. They are struggling. They are saying that they will not accept humiliation and submission.
The confidence of our people in the legitimacy of their struggle is immense. And our people know that their victory is certain – whatever the sacrifices, whatever the price that must be paid.
Today, our people are suffering. They are shedding their blood to win their freedom, dignity, and honor; their right to determine their own destiny; their right to live in their homeland and to build a free, democratic, and sovereign state in all of Palestine.
To all free men and women, to all our comrades, we say the following:
The Palestinian people have been the victims for many decades of an international plot – of vicious attacks – aimed at exiling them and chasing them from the lands upon which they have lived for centuries.
We have been expelled from our lands – lands which have now been settled by foreigners in accordance with the aims of colonialism and imperialism. This settlement has been imposed by the laws of oppression promoted by the Western nations and the Eastern totalitarian regimes. These oppressive laws are also those of international Zionism.
We have been subject to terror, assassination and torture. Today, we are deprived of even our most elementary and legitimate rights. “They have wanted to make of us an exiled people, destined permanently to refugee camps. They have wanted to destroy us physically and eliminate us.
Through the wars of 1948 and 1967, they carried out the occupation of all of Palestine. But they forgot that by occupying all of Palestine they also unified the entire Palestinian people in their struggle against oppression.
That is what is happening today as the children, the elderly, the women and the youth have risen up as one single person, without arms, to face the military machine of Zionism and imperialism – to face the violence of the guns, the clubs, the kidnappings, and the assassinations.
Our weapons come from our homeland. They are the stones with which our people have built up a wall to defend their combatants and the Revolution.
Dear friends: You should know what is going on in our homeland. Two weeks ago, the forces of occupation buried eight young Palestinians alive after having beaten them savagely and broken their limbs. Four of them were saved by the people; the other four were never found.
Three days ago, Israeli military forces dropped three live Palestinian youths from a helicopter flying at a high altitude. One of the youths was only 13 years old.
This is what they are currently doing to our people.
Dear friends: We want you to know that we reject all so-called solutions and peace projects that some people would like to impose on us through international conferences. We want you to know that we are committed to continuing our revolution until the total liberation of all of Palestine, until the establishment of a democratic and free state in which all free men and women, from wherever they may be, are welcome to live so long as they accept to live with us as equals on our land of Palestine.
We are no longer on our knees. We are standing tall. We will not yield. We feel that it is legitimate for us to demand aid and assistance from people throughout the world who are struggling for the freedom of all oppressed peoples.
We ask of you not only that you speak out in support of our struggle in your speeches and protests but that you demand that your governments take a clear position in opposition to the repressive and criminal methods of Zionism. We ask for your moral and material support for our Palestinian people, who are struggling to obtain their final victory.
The Palestinian people have risen, their yearnings for emancipation stirring the pauperized masses in every country of the Arab East. Reduced to a condition of penury by corrupt, country-selling regimes, the Egyptian, Jordanian and Saudi people have begun to respond to the extraordinary example set for them by the Palestinian people.
Perhaps more significantly, a detailed report by Robert S. Greenberger in The Wall Street Journal describes the profound effect of the Intifadeh on the Jewish masses themselves, notably the Arab Jews, or Sephardim.
Now nearly 70% of the Jewish population of Israel, their sentiments are shifting. In contrast to rabid Likud [Israel’s ruling party] figures such as Reuvin Rivlin, who declaimed ominously, “I believe God is Jewish. I believe the demographic problem will be solved,” the Sephardic Jews are responding differently:
The riots shattered the myth perpetuated by Likud founder Menachem Begin and his successor Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir ... The Sephardim are demanding social services and want to bridge the gap between ideology and practical solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict ... They care more about jobs, housing and education than keeping faith with a territorially inviolate Israel. [13m]
Henoch Smith, a U.S. pollster, reflecting on the new “challenge” from the Sephardim, notes: “This year, for the first time, they will account for 51% of voters.”
As the letter from the underground attests, the Palestinian people, self-activated and increasingly confident of the power of mass struggle, are demanding “aid and assistance from people throughout the world who are struggling for the freedom of all oppressed peoples.”
This message is beginning to reach Israeli Jews. The day is dawning when they too will seek a future free of a Zionist state which has combined subjugation of the Palestinian people with the exploitation of the Jewish poor.
This book seeks to uncover the hidden history of Zionism, a movement rooted in the ideology of racist oppression of Jews and colonial subjects alike. It has been written in anticipation of that day when the dedication and fervor of the Palestinian people, so long persecuted and oppressed, will speak to the Jews, recalling to them their own painful history, with a program for a Palestine in which victims, past and present, will create together the Intifadeh of the future and overthrow a state predicated upon oppression, torture, expulsion, expansion and unending war.
Ralph Schoenman,
Santa Barbara, Calif.
April 19, 1988
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Notes
1. Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1987.
2. Ibid.
3. John Kifner, New York Times, December 22, 1987.
4. San Francisco Examiner, December 23, 1987.
5. First hand account to the author from Dheisheh camp.
6. Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1987.
7. John Kifner, New York Times, December 21, 1987.
8. Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1987.
9. Dan Fisher, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 1987.
10. New York Times, January 21, 1988.
11. John Kifner, New York Times, January 23, 1988.
12. John Kifner, New York Times, January 27, 1988.
13. Ibid.
13a. Bassam Shaka’a: Telephone conversations with the author from February 5, 1988, through March 13, 1988.
13b. John Kifner, New York Times, April 4 and April 15, 1988.
13c. Newsweek, “A Soldier’s Account”, February 8, 1988.
13d. New York Times, February 14, 1988.
13e. John Kifner, New York Times, February 21, 1988.
13f. Los Angeles Times, March 23, 1988.
13g. Newsweek, April 4, 1988.
13h. New York Times, April 1, 1988.
13i. Newsweek, March 28, 1988.
13j. Ibid.
13k. Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1988.
13l. New York Times, April 1, 1988.
13m. The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 1988.
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Last updated on 4.8.2001
No International Spy Uproar In Aussie Lately
There has not been a spy uproar in Australia lately
No doubt spying is going on.
But the spies are behaving correctly and not getting caught
A spy scandal would upset the present govt.
Especially in an election year
It is going to be an interesting year 2010 to see what the Fed Opposition can
expose to discredit the present govt
They will be doing a lot of research!
One can only speculate!
No doubt spying is going on.
But the spies are behaving correctly and not getting caught
A spy scandal would upset the present govt.
Especially in an election year
It is going to be an interesting year 2010 to see what the Fed Opposition can
expose to discredit the present govt
They will be doing a lot of research!
One can only speculate!
Two Aussie Political Issues For 2010
One is the death of the climate/carbon tax debate and a possible double dissolution or joint sitting of fed parliment
A second issue is the Green Energy debate
Will Australia go nuclear to reduce pollution?
Especially if the FED Opposition win the next election in 2010
Those following the stock market will have seen a quiet but steady interest in uranium and rare earth stock.Which has not yet received much publicity at the moment
But are set to BOOM if conditions turn right
A second issue is the Green Energy debate
Will Australia go nuclear to reduce pollution?
Especially if the FED Opposition win the next election in 2010
Those following the stock market will have seen a quiet but steady interest in uranium and rare earth stock.Which has not yet received much publicity at the moment
But are set to BOOM if conditions turn right
Politics Quiet In Australia Over Christmas Hollidays + Probably The New Yr 2010
Politics has been quiet over the Christmas holliday period
Its said there are 12 days of Christmas going into the New Yr 2010
The main feature seems to be the death fatalities on the roads in vehicle accidents
The latest report was a crash involving a petrol tanker and 3 cars
Radio also announced a bomb threat on a USA airliner (plane)
With increased security now in place
Drink driving offences occur and people still drive when drunk
Kill or murder people and get just a few yrs in jail
Maybe the death penalty should apply to drink drivers/murderers and drug dealers
The only problem is innocent people get framed and legally murdered by those who provide false evidence
No doubt politicians are resting getting ready for the next sitting of goverment in 2010
A Federal election year
Its said there are 12 days of Christmas going into the New Yr 2010
The main feature seems to be the death fatalities on the roads in vehicle accidents
The latest report was a crash involving a petrol tanker and 3 cars
Radio also announced a bomb threat on a USA airliner (plane)
With increased security now in place
Drink driving offences occur and people still drive when drunk
Kill or murder people and get just a few yrs in jail
Maybe the death penalty should apply to drink drivers/murderers and drug dealers
The only problem is innocent people get framed and legally murdered by those who provide false evidence
No doubt politicians are resting getting ready for the next sitting of goverment in 2010
A Federal election year
Nature Gone Unstable
Nature has gone unstable in this part of the world
I have before mentioned the drought, just with brief intervals of rain
Which soon evapourate and disappear
Leaving plants shrivelled up and dying
Then i mentioned 2 dust storm which burnt the leaves off plants
No one says why!
Then there was no rain till just before Christmas
Several inches still leaving the ground cracked and dry
Other areas have had more rain and floods too
I have mentioned we have had about 2 springs this year, or period where plants put out new growth
I have a grapefruit tree which had flowers set normally into fruit
And i worried if heat would cause plant to drop the fruit
But no,they are still there,from about the size of 1 or 2, fifty cent pieces
A long way to grow before becoming ripe
Today i was surprised to see the grapefruit tree coming into flower the second time
Still with small unripened fruit from the first flowering
This will amount to about the 3rd spring this year and of new growth
I have before mentioned the drought, just with brief intervals of rain
Which soon evapourate and disappear
Leaving plants shrivelled up and dying
Then i mentioned 2 dust storm which burnt the leaves off plants
No one says why!
Then there was no rain till just before Christmas
Several inches still leaving the ground cracked and dry
Other areas have had more rain and floods too
I have mentioned we have had about 2 springs this year, or period where plants put out new growth
I have a grapefruit tree which had flowers set normally into fruit
And i worried if heat would cause plant to drop the fruit
But no,they are still there,from about the size of 1 or 2, fifty cent pieces
A long way to grow before becoming ripe
Today i was surprised to see the grapefruit tree coming into flower the second time
Still with small unripened fruit from the first flowering
This will amount to about the 3rd spring this year and of new growth
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Ozone Disappears
Heard the word OZONE lately
It was the rage at one time
Just like climate change
Which will soon change to water rights
And climate change will be forgotten as a failed taxation raiser
Next will be a water tax
After that is anyones guese
It was the rage at one time
Just like climate change
Which will soon change to water rights
And climate change will be forgotten as a failed taxation raiser
Next will be a water tax
After that is anyones guese
ABC Radio Honours Jessie Street
ABC Radio recently honored Jessie Street with a programe about her lifes work
Its about time Jessie Streets Life and Work was recongised and publicised
If you dont know who Jessie Street was--find out
Its about time Jessie Streets Life and Work was recongised and publicised
If you dont know who Jessie Street was--find out
Well Informed ABC Conversation Is Misinformed
A recent conversation on ABC Radio promoted the fact that oil supplies are running out and there will be a shortage etc
It is correct to say there is no oil shortage and there are new oil discoveries most months
People should read the independent newsletters of the minerals and energy sectors to get the real information
One wonders why the ABC allows the incorrect comments/information to be broadcast,especialy as most programmes are pre recorded before broadcast
It is correct to say there is no oil shortage and there are new oil discoveries most months
People should read the independent newsletters of the minerals and energy sectors to get the real information
One wonders why the ABC allows the incorrect comments/information to be broadcast,especialy as most programmes are pre recorded before broadcast
Qld Electric Price Rise-Electric Union Tells Anna Bligh Think Again !
Rumours are that the electric union has told Anna Bligh to think again about increasing electric prices 14% in 2010 in Qld
Or Else!
You may not get union support in the next Qld state election
One wonders why any union supports the Qld Labour Govt after its pledge to sell State assets
The truth is John Howard beat shit out of the union leadership(what leadership)
And they never recovered or elected right wing administrations
AND GUESE WHAT
ANNA BLIGH has announced a rethink on 2010 electric price rises
Good on you electric union if its true
Lets see MORE unions follow your lead!
Or Else!
You may not get union support in the next Qld state election
One wonders why any union supports the Qld Labour Govt after its pledge to sell State assets
The truth is John Howard beat shit out of the union leadership(what leadership)
And they never recovered or elected right wing administrations
AND GUESE WHAT
ANNA BLIGH has announced a rethink on 2010 electric price rises
Good on you electric union if its true
Lets see MORE unions follow your lead!
Friday, December 25, 2009
2010 Is Australia Federal Election Year
2010 is said to be Fed Election Yr for Australia
Will Labour continue to do well-except for whales and carbon tax
And retain goverment!
Will the new fed Opposition win back office?
If it manages to get organised in time
Its got nothing to loose
The previous Fed opposition leader just as well joined the Labour party
Will Labour continue to do well-except for whales and carbon tax
And retain goverment!
Will the new fed Opposition win back office?
If it manages to get organised in time
Its got nothing to loose
The previous Fed opposition leader just as well joined the Labour party
Rain Comes To Qld And NSW For Christmas
Welcome rain came to Qld and NSW just before Christmas
Grass will need cutting in a few days
Half dead plants are re-viving
There was no run off
Ground will take lots more rain before this happens
Except where heavy downfalls occured
Grass will need cutting in a few days
Half dead plants are re-viving
There was no run off
Ground will take lots more rain before this happens
Except where heavy downfalls occured
Will Money Leave Coal And Iron In 2010 And Go Green?
Will money leave coal and iron and go green in 2010?
A trickle of money is leaving now
And will increase as the Green and Alternative market gets stronger
Just like people selling up and moving inland
Away from the sunami risk seaside buildings
And increasing insurance rates for coastal properties
A trickle of money is leaving now
And will increase as the Green and Alternative market gets stronger
Just like people selling up and moving inland
Away from the sunami risk seaside buildings
And increasing insurance rates for coastal properties
Compassionate Fed Labour Again--2000 New Homes For Needy
Fed Labour govt has announced a 2000 homes programe for the needy in Australia
Money is better spent this way than on a useless carbon tax , tax raising scheme
Money is better spent this way than on a useless carbon tax , tax raising scheme
Japan-Australia Whaleing Conflict-Warning
This next 12 months will see 1000 whales killed in Australian waters
But so far Australia jhas not prevented this happenning
Green activists and conservationists and animal welfare groups are getting tired of no action
It will not be long before some 2nd hand gunship or submarine will be obtained from arms dealers
And Japanese whaleing ships sunk
Forcing japan and Australia to resolve the issue
But so far Australia jhas not prevented this happenning
Green activists and conservationists and animal welfare groups are getting tired of no action
It will not be long before some 2nd hand gunship or submarine will be obtained from arms dealers
And Japanese whaleing ships sunk
Forcing japan and Australia to resolve the issue
Heard On Radio
What happens when people get tired?
Ans =
1.ladies put their feet up
2.gentlemen put their heads down
Ans =
1.ladies put their feet up
2.gentlemen put their heads down
KevinPm Christmas Greeting
KevinPm website sent out Christmas greetings this year to those logged in
Shows the PM is still in control of the country and is still very considerate and thoughtfull for the ordinary Australian
And has not been entirely corrupted by those in power he has to deal with
The climate change venture failed--wonder who sold it to him?
Lets hope 2010 will be a better year
Shows the PM is still in control of the country and is still very considerate and thoughtfull for the ordinary Australian
And has not been entirely corrupted by those in power he has to deal with
The climate change venture failed--wonder who sold it to him?
Lets hope 2010 will be a better year
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Aussie Update
Since i last blogged there has been some changes in the Australian political scene
push came to shove and Malcolm Turnbull was deposed as Coalition leader
Tony Abbot replaced him and Coalition support now increases
Copenhaargen failed as i hoped--biggest con trick tax revenue raiser going
The australian economy continues to surge ahead in planning and decision making--wait for the results.I thought there was a rush on to get in before any Copenhaargen decision affected minerals and coal and iron etc
Christmas is nearly here as is the New Year 2010
Japan continues to kill whales for food pretending its scientific research
Japanese are very slow learners it seems
Kevin Rudd should send a warship and protect the whales and Australia's territory--else resign--after two years of doing nothing
Why not sink one or two whale ships-- in return for sinking the Australian hospital ship in the last war
Japan might be intelligent enough to understand that kind of language
push came to shove and Malcolm Turnbull was deposed as Coalition leader
Tony Abbot replaced him and Coalition support now increases
Copenhaargen failed as i hoped--biggest con trick tax revenue raiser going
The australian economy continues to surge ahead in planning and decision making--wait for the results.I thought there was a rush on to get in before any Copenhaargen decision affected minerals and coal and iron etc
Christmas is nearly here as is the New Year 2010
Japan continues to kill whales for food pretending its scientific research
Japanese are very slow learners it seems
Kevin Rudd should send a warship and protect the whales and Australia's territory--else resign--after two years of doing nothing
Why not sink one or two whale ships-- in return for sinking the Australian hospital ship in the last war
Japan might be intelligent enough to understand that kind of language
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Wait for An Attack At Copenhaargen
With all those supporters there of climate change taxes there
It must be a temptation for people of differing views to stage some sort of protest or attack
Maybe Copenhaargen should switch their endeavours to preserving whales
Which is something positive
Pollution control-Carbon Tax etc wont stop climate change
But may improve the environment
It must be a temptation for people of differing views to stage some sort of protest or attack
Maybe Copenhaargen should switch their endeavours to preserving whales
Which is something positive
Pollution control-Carbon Tax etc wont stop climate change
But may improve the environment
Climate affects plants And Birds
Lack of rain seems to be affecting plant growth
Initialy plants made normal spring growth and flowering
Then came the new drought or continuation of the old one
Then came 2 dust storms
Grass/clover/tree leaves got burnt and dropped off
Havent seen the likes before
No one seems to comment
Plants have gone back into hibernation mode
When now summer is here-growth should be lush and green
Wishfull thinking
Initialy plants made normal spring growth and flowering
Then came the new drought or continuation of the old one
Then came 2 dust storms
Grass/clover/tree leaves got burnt and dropped off
Havent seen the likes before
No one seems to comment
Plants have gone back into hibernation mode
When now summer is here-growth should be lush and green
Wishfull thinking
Fed And State Labour Scared Of Early Election
Yes' Fed and State Labour are afraid of an early election
You dont hear anything about a double dissolution ot joint sitting or caretaker govt
Just Labour going the full term
Meanwhile Liberal support goes up as voters see they are in for tax increases
Liberal new leadership is scrambling to get their house in order to face the next Fed election
Meanwhile voters are curious to see what the policies are of the new Liberal Leader
Who has already given some indication of policies
Which seem initialy to be middle of the road and socialy compassionate
You dont hear anything about a double dissolution ot joint sitting or caretaker govt
Just Labour going the full term
Meanwhile Liberal support goes up as voters see they are in for tax increases
Liberal new leadership is scrambling to get their house in order to face the next Fed election
Meanwhile voters are curious to see what the policies are of the new Liberal Leader
Who has already given some indication of policies
Which seem initialy to be middle of the road and socialy compassionate
Liberal Fight Back Is On-In Australia
Yes the Liberal fight back is on
So says ABC Radio Today
Public support up from 20's to the 30's
Lets hope when they get back in
They wont be as extreme as John Howard
And spoil things
After a good moderate start
So says ABC Radio Today
Public support up from 20's to the 30's
Lets hope when they get back in
They wont be as extreme as John Howard
And spoil things
After a good moderate start
Why Alcohol Still Kills
people arrive about 3pm and start drinking-drugs till 9pm
they dont talk-they shout at each other
discuss demerit points and fines
i can drive says a slurred speaking male
who is taken home by a "taxi"
they can be heard all over the neighbourhood
till about 9pm-when they depart
arguing who is going to drive
why they wait till 9pm to leave i am not sure
speeding off down the road
foot flat on the floor
letting school children drive the family cars on public roads
under age- uninsured -unlicenced-dont help either
no wonder police have touble with citizens
they dont talk-they shout at each other
discuss demerit points and fines
i can drive says a slurred speaking male
who is taken home by a "taxi"
they can be heard all over the neighbourhood
till about 9pm-when they depart
arguing who is going to drive
why they wait till 9pm to leave i am not sure
speeding off down the road
foot flat on the floor
letting school children drive the family cars on public roads
under age- uninsured -unlicenced-dont help either
no wonder police have touble with citizens
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Sivananda Hospital Rishikesh India-Would You like To Help?
We all end up in hospital sometime, or at the doctors-if we are lucky
Many people in many countries never get there
And if they do, sometimes little help can be given
This hospital and home never turns people away, of any class
Provides free services by volunteer and paid staff
Funded by donations from kind people
For many people,its the last peacefull resting place before death
The free hospital-home was founded by H.H.Swami Sivananda Saraswati, who himself was a Doctor,and is a Indian Registered Charity
Contact:
The Divine Life Society
PO Shivanandanagar-249192.Distt Tehri-garhwal. Rishikesh.Uttaranchal. India
Ph 0135-2434780
Website http://www.sivanandaonline.org
email managerspl@hotmail.com
Please contact above Before sending any donation or goods etc,for correct address and procedures
Many people in many countries never get there
And if they do, sometimes little help can be given
This hospital and home never turns people away, of any class
Provides free services by volunteer and paid staff
Funded by donations from kind people
For many people,its the last peacefull resting place before death
The free hospital-home was founded by H.H.Swami Sivananda Saraswati, who himself was a Doctor,and is a Indian Registered Charity
Contact:
The Divine Life Society
PO Shivanandanagar-249192.Distt Tehri-garhwal. Rishikesh.Uttaranchal. India
Ph 0135-2434780
Website http://www.sivanandaonline.org
email managerspl@hotmail.com
Please contact above Before sending any donation or goods etc,for correct address and procedures
Christmas Greetings Everyone 2009
Teddybear sends Christmas Greetings 2009 and a Happy New Year 2010 to everyone
With best wishes for good health and happiness, and a peacefull year
Young or old, rich or poor,family or single,Christian or not
Christs message via the 10 commandments go out to all people
Also the message of the Yama's and Niyama's of Yoga
With best wishes for good health and happiness, and a peacefull year
Young or old, rich or poor,family or single,Christian or not
Christs message via the 10 commandments go out to all people
Also the message of the Yama's and Niyama's of Yoga
Princess Diana-New Idea interview
INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD TOMLINSON
New Idea
Exclusive
Excerpts
An explosive interview with secret agent Richard Tomlinson that reveals the inside on how the Princess was set up.
After months of cloak-and-dagger spying, arrests and claims of dirty tricks against him, former British spy Richard Tomlinson has lifted the lid on the sinister world of M16 - the super secret agency he once worked for and which he now accuses of hounding and plotting to kill princess Diana.
Regarded as Britain's No. 1 enemy by royalists, Richard believes that only by going public with what he knows is he safe from becoming MI6's next victim.
In an exclusive interview with New Idea in his Geneva hideaway he details, for the first time, what he secretly told French judge Herve Stephan, the man heading the inquest into Diana's death.
The results of Judge Stephan's investigation into the Paris car crash, which killed the Princess, her lover Dodi Fayed and Ritz security boss Henri Paul a year ago, are not expected to be released for some months.
Richard claims that Diana was spied on for 15 years until the night she died - and that one of the Paris paparazzi tailing her was, in reality, an MI6 agent. He tells a shocking tale of a spy organisation that hounded the Princess every day of her public life.
He says: "We were given a standing instruction to keep her in our sights. Even in the early days when she thought she could drive herself to visit friends, she was being followed everywhere - and not just by one car.
"As she turned out of her gates, up to three cars would move in behind her. The first would then head off to let the second take up the tail. When it peeled off, the third would take over."
At her favourite London restaurant, San Lorenzo, every word the Princess uttered was recorded. Richard says: "No one, including the owner, knew the place was wired - and that the couple at the next table were listening to her every word... I don't think she had a private phone call in years. We had films and tapes of everything she was doing and everyone she was seeing..."
Richard also told the inquiry that MI6 renegades, fanatically loyal to the Crown, viewed Diana as a 'loose cannon' - and would stop at nothing to eliminate her threat to eclipse the House of Windsor.
His knowledge of MI6's Diana operation made him a dangerous, high-risk threat to the organization after Diana's crash. Richard was picked up by police just three weeks after her death. He was handcuffed and interrogated.
"I knew that Diana's death had MI6's dirty fingerprints all over it," he says. "I was determined to speak out and MI6 was just as determined to silence me..."
He also told the French inquiry:
*Ritz security boss Henri Paul, who drove the death car, was an MI6 informer paid to spy on Diana and Dodi.
* The Diana crash was chillingly similar to a previous MI6 plot. That plot was to assassinate the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in Geneva using a powerful laser strobe light - similar to that described by witnesses to the Paris crash - to blind the driver.
Richard claims MI6 dirty tricks experts have also perfected transmitters to knock out a car's electronics while it is on the move - even causing the airbags to inflate, blinding the driver.
"I was shown a document proposing an assassination of President Milosevic of Serbia because of his involvement with weapons shipments to Bosnia. The plan was to use a strobe light to blind his driver as he went into a road tunnel in Geneva. When I heard witnesses in Paris talk about a bright flash before Diana's car crash, it made sense.
"A tunnel is a perfect place for an assassination, with fewer witnesses. The Paris tunnel is also ideal because there are no crash rails along the central pillars, so it's a death trap. I also know that one of the paparazzi that night was working for MI6, too. He'd have been on a fast motorbike...
"They'd also have at their disposal sophisticated radio transmitters that would knock out the electronics of the limo at the press of a button, causing the airbags to inflate.
"Imagine - the driver flying into the tunnel at 90mph (145kph), picking up speed as he dips down, inches from those central concrete pillars. Suddenly, the car dies as the electronics fail. A blinding flash of light is shot into his eyes. Then, the airbag blows up in his face. Instant disaster..."
His claims about MI6 involvement in Diana's death will shock the world.
"There's an arrogant faction inside MI6, part of the Eton/Oxford/Guards clique, who see themselves literally as defenders of the realm - and for them, that means the royals.
"When Di broke up with Charles, she immediately became the enemy. When she started a romance with Dodi Fayed, that raised an even more terrifying spectre.
"What if she'd married him and turned Muslim? What if they'd had children? The thought of Prince William, the future King of England, with a brown-skinned Muslim half-brother or sister was the worst possible scenario for them. In their eyes, Diana would single-handedly destroy the fabric of the nation they were pledged to defend.
"Backed by the Al Fayed millions, she could have set up a glittering rival court which would have made Buckingham Palace pale by comparison. She would have become the people's Queen, so she had to go.
"The thinking would go like this: after Diana's death the spotlight would turn back to the Palace, as it has; Prince Charles' popularity rating would start to climb as he wins back public sympathy, and it has done. And, importantly, Prince William will be firmly under Palace control. Mission accomplished. No Di, no rival court. Monarchy secure."
New Idea
Exclusive
Excerpts
An explosive interview with secret agent Richard Tomlinson that reveals the inside on how the Princess was set up.
After months of cloak-and-dagger spying, arrests and claims of dirty tricks against him, former British spy Richard Tomlinson has lifted the lid on the sinister world of M16 - the super secret agency he once worked for and which he now accuses of hounding and plotting to kill princess Diana.
Regarded as Britain's No. 1 enemy by royalists, Richard believes that only by going public with what he knows is he safe from becoming MI6's next victim.
In an exclusive interview with New Idea in his Geneva hideaway he details, for the first time, what he secretly told French judge Herve Stephan, the man heading the inquest into Diana's death.
The results of Judge Stephan's investigation into the Paris car crash, which killed the Princess, her lover Dodi Fayed and Ritz security boss Henri Paul a year ago, are not expected to be released for some months.
Richard claims that Diana was spied on for 15 years until the night she died - and that one of the Paris paparazzi tailing her was, in reality, an MI6 agent. He tells a shocking tale of a spy organisation that hounded the Princess every day of her public life.
He says: "We were given a standing instruction to keep her in our sights. Even in the early days when she thought she could drive herself to visit friends, she was being followed everywhere - and not just by one car.
"As she turned out of her gates, up to three cars would move in behind her. The first would then head off to let the second take up the tail. When it peeled off, the third would take over."
At her favourite London restaurant, San Lorenzo, every word the Princess uttered was recorded. Richard says: "No one, including the owner, knew the place was wired - and that the couple at the next table were listening to her every word... I don't think she had a private phone call in years. We had films and tapes of everything she was doing and everyone she was seeing..."
Richard also told the inquiry that MI6 renegades, fanatically loyal to the Crown, viewed Diana as a 'loose cannon' - and would stop at nothing to eliminate her threat to eclipse the House of Windsor.
His knowledge of MI6's Diana operation made him a dangerous, high-risk threat to the organization after Diana's crash. Richard was picked up by police just three weeks after her death. He was handcuffed and interrogated.
"I knew that Diana's death had MI6's dirty fingerprints all over it," he says. "I was determined to speak out and MI6 was just as determined to silence me..."
He also told the French inquiry:
*Ritz security boss Henri Paul, who drove the death car, was an MI6 informer paid to spy on Diana and Dodi.
* The Diana crash was chillingly similar to a previous MI6 plot. That plot was to assassinate the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in Geneva using a powerful laser strobe light - similar to that described by witnesses to the Paris crash - to blind the driver.
Richard claims MI6 dirty tricks experts have also perfected transmitters to knock out a car's electronics while it is on the move - even causing the airbags to inflate, blinding the driver.
"I was shown a document proposing an assassination of President Milosevic of Serbia because of his involvement with weapons shipments to Bosnia. The plan was to use a strobe light to blind his driver as he went into a road tunnel in Geneva. When I heard witnesses in Paris talk about a bright flash before Diana's car crash, it made sense.
"A tunnel is a perfect place for an assassination, with fewer witnesses. The Paris tunnel is also ideal because there are no crash rails along the central pillars, so it's a death trap. I also know that one of the paparazzi that night was working for MI6, too. He'd have been on a fast motorbike...
"They'd also have at their disposal sophisticated radio transmitters that would knock out the electronics of the limo at the press of a button, causing the airbags to inflate.
"Imagine - the driver flying into the tunnel at 90mph (145kph), picking up speed as he dips down, inches from those central concrete pillars. Suddenly, the car dies as the electronics fail. A blinding flash of light is shot into his eyes. Then, the airbag blows up in his face. Instant disaster..."
His claims about MI6 involvement in Diana's death will shock the world.
"There's an arrogant faction inside MI6, part of the Eton/Oxford/Guards clique, who see themselves literally as defenders of the realm - and for them, that means the royals.
"When Di broke up with Charles, she immediately became the enemy. When she started a romance with Dodi Fayed, that raised an even more terrifying spectre.
"What if she'd married him and turned Muslim? What if they'd had children? The thought of Prince William, the future King of England, with a brown-skinned Muslim half-brother or sister was the worst possible scenario for them. In their eyes, Diana would single-handedly destroy the fabric of the nation they were pledged to defend.
"Backed by the Al Fayed millions, she could have set up a glittering rival court which would have made Buckingham Palace pale by comparison. She would have become the people's Queen, so she had to go.
"The thinking would go like this: after Diana's death the spotlight would turn back to the Palace, as it has; Prince Charles' popularity rating would start to climb as he wins back public sympathy, and it has done. And, importantly, Prince William will be firmly under Palace control. Mission accomplished. No Di, no rival court. Monarchy secure."
UK Spy IN From The Cold-UK Sunday Times
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Home News Politics MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times May 31, 2009
MI6 tempts rebel ex-spy back home
Tomlinson has spent much of his recent time in France
David Leppard Recommend? (5) THE renegade former MI6 spy Richard Tomlinson has finally come in from the cold.
After more than a decade in exile, where he lived in fear of arrest and extradition to face trial in the UK, Tomlinson has at last buried the hatchet with Sir John Scarlett, chief of MI6.
The deal between the head of Britain’s overseas spies and the whistleblower who claimed MI6 had a secret “licence to kill” follows a decision to send a mediator to negotiate with Tomlinson in Spain.
As a result, MI6 has agreed to let him return to Britain, unfreeze royalties from his book and drop the threat of charges. It has also apologised for its unfair treatment of him.
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There’s no hiding place as spy HQ plans to see all
In return, the former spy who was sentenced to a year’s jail for breaking the Official Secrets Act in 1997, has agreed not to speak to the media or make further damaging disclosures about the shadowy work of his former employer.
Tomlinson, 46, who was born in New Zealand, joined MI6 in 1991. He served in the Soviet operations department at the end of the cold war before being posted to Sarejevo during the break-up of Yugoslavia.
He also worked as an undercover officer against Iran and investigated Tehran’s trade in weapons of mass destruction.
The deal, brokered several months ago, marks the end of a bitter battle which began in 1995 when he was sacked without explanation. Malcolm Rifkind, then foreign secretary, ruled that his case could not be heard at an industrial tribunal.
Tomlinson was stung by the apparent in justice . He approached The Sunday Times, which published a series of articles about MI6 dirty tricks.
In 1997, he became the first MI6 agent to be prosecuted for secrets offences since the Soviet spy George Blake in 1961. He admitted breaking the Official Secrets Act after he sent a synopsis of his proposed book on MI6 to a publisher in Australia.
He served five months of a 12-month sentence and then fled to France in breach of his sentencing conditions.
Later he tried to help Mohamed al-Fayed, the Harrods tycoon, with his privately funded investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Fayed’s son Dodi in a Paris car crash in 1997.
Tomlinson claimed that MI6 plotted to kill Slobodan Milosevic, the late president of Serbia, by staging a car crash using a powerful strobe light to blind the driver.
He suggested Diana and Dodi may have been killed by MI6 in the same way, although that claim was dismissed at their inquest.
Last week, Tomlinson was unavailable for comment. His father, David, declined to discuss the matter. Friends of the former spy say, however, that he has already been back to Britain. “He was determined not to give in to them . . . He’ll probably feel at a bit of a loss now,” said one.
Home News Politics MY PROFILE SHOP JOBS PROPERTY CLASSIFIEDS From The Sunday Times May 31, 2009
MI6 tempts rebel ex-spy back home
Tomlinson has spent much of his recent time in France
David Leppard Recommend? (5) THE renegade former MI6 spy Richard Tomlinson has finally come in from the cold.
After more than a decade in exile, where he lived in fear of arrest and extradition to face trial in the UK, Tomlinson has at last buried the hatchet with Sir John Scarlett, chief of MI6.
The deal between the head of Britain’s overseas spies and the whistleblower who claimed MI6 had a secret “licence to kill” follows a decision to send a mediator to negotiate with Tomlinson in Spain.
As a result, MI6 has agreed to let him return to Britain, unfreeze royalties from his book and drop the threat of charges. It has also apologised for its unfair treatment of him.
Related Links
Terror chief tipped to head MI6
There’s no hiding place as spy HQ plans to see all
In return, the former spy who was sentenced to a year’s jail for breaking the Official Secrets Act in 1997, has agreed not to speak to the media or make further damaging disclosures about the shadowy work of his former employer.
Tomlinson, 46, who was born in New Zealand, joined MI6 in 1991. He served in the Soviet operations department at the end of the cold war before being posted to Sarejevo during the break-up of Yugoslavia.
He also worked as an undercover officer against Iran and investigated Tehran’s trade in weapons of mass destruction.
The deal, brokered several months ago, marks the end of a bitter battle which began in 1995 when he was sacked without explanation. Malcolm Rifkind, then foreign secretary, ruled that his case could not be heard at an industrial tribunal.
Tomlinson was stung by the apparent in justice . He approached The Sunday Times, which published a series of articles about MI6 dirty tricks.
In 1997, he became the first MI6 agent to be prosecuted for secrets offences since the Soviet spy George Blake in 1961. He admitted breaking the Official Secrets Act after he sent a synopsis of his proposed book on MI6 to a publisher in Australia.
He served five months of a 12-month sentence and then fled to France in breach of his sentencing conditions.
Later he tried to help Mohamed al-Fayed, the Harrods tycoon, with his privately funded investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales and Fayed’s son Dodi in a Paris car crash in 1997.
Tomlinson claimed that MI6 plotted to kill Slobodan Milosevic, the late president of Serbia, by staging a car crash using a powerful strobe light to blind the driver.
He suggested Diana and Dodi may have been killed by MI6 in the same way, although that claim was dismissed at their inquest.
Last week, Tomlinson was unavailable for comment. His father, David, declined to discuss the matter. Friends of the former spy say, however, that he has already been back to Britain. “He was determined not to give in to them . . . He’ll probably feel at a bit of a loss now,” said one.
USA To Send Thirty Thousand More Troops
USA is to send 30.000 more troops to Afghanistan
My grandfather was out there fighting many yrs ago and never won
Its said its one of the areas of war the British were unsuccessfull in
And most other countries as well since and before
So how can the present armies win
Maybe learn a lesson from Sri Lanka-how they won their war
My grandfather was out there fighting many yrs ago and never won
Its said its one of the areas of war the British were unsuccessfull in
And most other countries as well since and before
So how can the present armies win
Maybe learn a lesson from Sri Lanka-how they won their war
Malcolm Still Unrepentant
Malcolm Turnbull is still unrepentant in support of the lost carbon tax legislation
And will be a sore in Liberal Coalition till he departs politics
Just like the TITANIC
And will be a sore in Liberal Coalition till he departs politics
Just like the TITANIC
Rwanda-New Commonwealth Member
Reports say Rwanda has become the latest member of The Commonwealth
Lets hope that life in that unhappy country will be better and happier for the event
One can only wish them good luck
Lets hope that life in that unhappy country will be better and happier for the event
One can only wish them good luck
New South Wales Pemier Ejected _Replaced By Female Premier
NSW Premier has been replaced by a female Labour Premier
Labour has dumped one and installed another
What the previous Premier did was dump some one with friends
Who got together and got rid of him
All in 7 days
Labour has dumped one and installed another
What the previous Premier did was dump some one with friends
Who got together and got rid of him
All in 7 days
Rainfall In Qld
In this part Queensland there has been recently about one and a quarter inches
Enogh to stop Citrus trees dying
It is a good start to Summer rain
We need lots more
Its evapourating already
Enogh to stop Citrus trees dying
It is a good start to Summer rain
We need lots more
Its evapourating already
Friday, December 4, 2009
The Liberal-Coalition Christmas Present To All Australians
The liberal-Coalition Christmas present To All Australians is:
1.No carbon tax
2.No $600 tax on families-households
3. No GST of two and half percent
4.No $2.50tax per head of cattle
5.An alternative leadership and policies compared to Labour
1.No carbon tax
2.No $600 tax on families-households
3. No GST of two and half percent
4.No $2.50tax per head of cattle
5.An alternative leadership and policies compared to Labour
Christian Christmas Appeal For Christmas-Gospel For Asia
From The Stable
Gifts of Compassion
Gifts of Outreach
Gifts for Missionaries
Chickens $11
EGGcellent Protein. Each of these eggs are packed with nutrients. Imagine a little, malnourished child becoming smarter and stronger every day as he gobbles up his delicious eggs! And when his family’s chickens reproduce, they can sell the chicks for additional income. You can bless a South Asian family with chickens.
$ Add To Cart
Goats $60
“Getting these goats” won’t annoy anyone; in fact, they’ll make a family in Asia rejoice! Goats are hardy and can live in almost any climate. And a pair of goats produces at least two offspring each year and generates plenty of milk to drink and sell. Your gift of goats—given in the name of Jesus—is a good way to bring joy into a poor family’s world. Goats are $60 each or $120 for a pair!
$ Add To Cart
Rabbits $11
The Gift that Keeps on Giving…Quickly. A pair of Christmas bunnies will help provide a steady, nutritious diet of lean meat for a growing family. A mommy rabbit can produce several litters a year, each with up to 12 bunnies. So raising rabbits is a wonderful way for a poor family to provide food for their children and generate income as well.
$ Add To Cart
Water Buffalo $460
Four-Legged Tractor. A Christmas gift of a water buffalo to a poor family in South Asia will offer provisions for years to come! Water buffalo can live up to 29 years, providing transportation, pulling a plow for harvest or producing nutrient-rich milk. They can also reproduce every other year. give this Christmas gift that will not be forgotten.
$ Add To Cart
Pigs $55
Bring Home the Bacon. A pig can live up to 15 years—that’s a Christmas present that will last a long time! And a pair of pigs provides a litter with up to nine piglets every year! That’s a lot of bacon (and ham and sausage) that can be used for food and income. You can give a pair of pigs for just $55.
$ Add To Cart
Lambs $65
Fleece as White as Snow. One lamb can produce up to 30 pounds of wool per year—each pound making up to 10 miles of yarn! Rich in nutrients, sheep’s milk is delicious to drink and perfect for making cheese. And every year, a pair of sheep can also reproduce lambs that can be sold at market. They’re also a great source of lean meat.
$ Add To Cart
Cows $375
Want to help someone this Christmas 2009
And dont know who?
Here is an opportunity for you to help someone in need
Via Gospel for Asia
200,000 Glasses of Milk. Cows provide milk filled with calcium, Vitamin D and protein to help kids develop strong minds, bones and muscles. And the milk can be used for more than just a drink . . . it can make yogurt, cheese and butter, too! Cows also produce calves that can be sold for additional income.
$ Add To Cart
Christmas Catalog Home From The Stable Gifts of Compassion Gifts of Outreach Gifts for Missionaries Contact
Download Christmas Catalog Order Christmas Catalog Share the Christmas Video
©2009 Gospel for Asia - "Reaching the most unreached" - 1-800-WIN-ASIA (800-946-2742)
Gifts of Compassion
Gifts of Outreach
Gifts for Missionaries
Chickens $11
EGGcellent Protein. Each of these eggs are packed with nutrients. Imagine a little, malnourished child becoming smarter and stronger every day as he gobbles up his delicious eggs! And when his family’s chickens reproduce, they can sell the chicks for additional income. You can bless a South Asian family with chickens.
$ Add To Cart
Goats $60
“Getting these goats” won’t annoy anyone; in fact, they’ll make a family in Asia rejoice! Goats are hardy and can live in almost any climate. And a pair of goats produces at least two offspring each year and generates plenty of milk to drink and sell. Your gift of goats—given in the name of Jesus—is a good way to bring joy into a poor family’s world. Goats are $60 each or $120 for a pair!
$ Add To Cart
Rabbits $11
The Gift that Keeps on Giving…Quickly. A pair of Christmas bunnies will help provide a steady, nutritious diet of lean meat for a growing family. A mommy rabbit can produce several litters a year, each with up to 12 bunnies. So raising rabbits is a wonderful way for a poor family to provide food for their children and generate income as well.
$ Add To Cart
Water Buffalo $460
Four-Legged Tractor. A Christmas gift of a water buffalo to a poor family in South Asia will offer provisions for years to come! Water buffalo can live up to 29 years, providing transportation, pulling a plow for harvest or producing nutrient-rich milk. They can also reproduce every other year. give this Christmas gift that will not be forgotten.
$ Add To Cart
Pigs $55
Bring Home the Bacon. A pig can live up to 15 years—that’s a Christmas present that will last a long time! And a pair of pigs provides a litter with up to nine piglets every year! That’s a lot of bacon (and ham and sausage) that can be used for food and income. You can give a pair of pigs for just $55.
$ Add To Cart
Lambs $65
Fleece as White as Snow. One lamb can produce up to 30 pounds of wool per year—each pound making up to 10 miles of yarn! Rich in nutrients, sheep’s milk is delicious to drink and perfect for making cheese. And every year, a pair of sheep can also reproduce lambs that can be sold at market. They’re also a great source of lean meat.
$ Add To Cart
Cows $375
Want to help someone this Christmas 2009
And dont know who?
Here is an opportunity for you to help someone in need
Via Gospel for Asia
200,000 Glasses of Milk. Cows provide milk filled with calcium, Vitamin D and protein to help kids develop strong minds, bones and muscles. And the milk can be used for more than just a drink . . . it can make yogurt, cheese and butter, too! Cows also produce calves that can be sold for additional income.
$ Add To Cart
Christmas Catalog Home From The Stable Gifts of Compassion Gifts of Outreach Gifts for Missionaries Contact
Download Christmas Catalog Order Christmas Catalog Share the Christmas Video
©2009 Gospel for Asia - "Reaching the most unreached" - 1-800-WIN-ASIA (800-946-2742)
Intel Camera Said Turn Text Into Speach
News reports that an Intel camera can turn text into speach
So that the blind can hear text
This will be a help to the blind
So that the blind can hear text
This will be a help to the blind
Union Carbide Still Kills In India After Twenty Five Yrs
News reports Union Carbide In india still kills after 25 yrs
There are many deaths from disease and deformities
The factory site has not been cleaned up to safety standards
The water and water table is still polluted above safety level
Union carbide shareholders and the Indian Govt-hang your heads in SHAME
There are many deaths from disease and deformities
The factory site has not been cleaned up to safety standards
The water and water table is still polluted above safety level
Union carbide shareholders and the Indian Govt-hang your heads in SHAME
Jewish Deputy Prime Minister Visits Australia-NOT WELCOME_GO HOME
Its reported the Jewish deputy prime minister visited Australia recently and recieved a warm welcom the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
Many people in Australia say you are not welcome, and go home
Your treatment of Palestinians is BAD
Did Israel do 9/11?
Will Israeli finance indirectly finance the lost CARBON TAX !
Many people in Australia say you are not welcome, and go home
Your treatment of Palestinians is BAD
Did Israel do 9/11?
Will Israeli finance indirectly finance the lost CARBON TAX !
ABC News Quote-Text to Go Arabic-Argentine Bastardiseation
ABC Radio news reports that online text may go ARABIC as well
Customers will be able to choose between Latinised and Arabic online language
This may help the 75% of world not yet online
Argentinia is reported to be investigating bastardiseation in the Argentine Army during the Falklands war-including murder of its soldiers by their officers etc
Where currently oil is being drilled for
Its a faint hope that the culprits will recieve what they gave out
Customers will be able to choose between Latinised and Arabic online language
This may help the 75% of world not yet online
Argentinia is reported to be investigating bastardiseation in the Argentine Army during the Falklands war-including murder of its soldiers by their officers etc
Where currently oil is being drilled for
Its a faint hope that the culprits will recieve what they gave out
Goodbye Anna Bligh-Push Will Come To Shove
Its true Anna Bligh the Qld Premier has apologised over the Traveston Dam travesty
Only after it was killed by the Fed Govt
She pushed it all the way-against locals opposition
And eventually lost
But has not the courage to resign from office
State Labour is not happy over a much publicised policy failure
And an alternative leader is being sought
My view is that for Anna Bligh ,push will come to shove-just as it did for Malcolm Turnbull
Only after it was killed by the Fed Govt
She pushed it all the way-against locals opposition
And eventually lost
But has not the courage to resign from office
State Labour is not happy over a much publicised policy failure
And an alternative leader is being sought
My view is that for Anna Bligh ,push will come to shove-just as it did for Malcolm Turnbull
Goodbye Malcolm Goodbye Kevin-Its Possible
I doubt if Kevin Rudd understood the effect of a carbon tax
Else he was taking a calculated risk
To me it seems totally out of character for a person who has done so much good for Australia since coming to office
Under his leadership Australia has
come out of recession
come out of recession successfully
increased the aged pension
increased many social security payment needs
provided funds for solar hot water and electric
many other benefits to the country
WHY GO AND BUGGER IT UP WITH A USELESS CARBON TAX
AND GET VOTED OUT IN THE NEXT FED ELECTION
ONE WONDERS WHO HIS ADVISORS AND PR, ARE?
There is only one thing to do-is to apologise to Australians for making a mistake
Else he was taking a calculated risk
To me it seems totally out of character for a person who has done so much good for Australia since coming to office
Under his leadership Australia has
come out of recession
come out of recession successfully
increased the aged pension
increased many social security payment needs
provided funds for solar hot water and electric
many other benefits to the country
WHY GO AND BUGGER IT UP WITH A USELESS CARBON TAX
AND GET VOTED OUT IN THE NEXT FED ELECTION
ONE WONDERS WHO HIS ADVISORS AND PR, ARE?
There is only one thing to do-is to apologise to Australians for making a mistake
Goodbye Malcolm Finale
Malcolm Turnball has gone,push came to shove as i thought possible
The new leader is Tony Abbot,said to be a right wing Roman Cathlic
Can we have a pro and anti Roman Cathlic movement in the Fed Opposition, like there was in the Fed Labour party yrs ago!
Malcolms problem was he was bought out by labours Kevin Rudd, and should have joined the Labour party
With mining/agriculture etc granted exemption from a proposed carbon tax,who but the ordinary tax payer was left to pay any new tax
So the proposed carbon tax was useless and ineffective
Where i live there is smoke pollution from agricultural land more than 90% of the yr,and it dont do astmatics etc any good.We are told to stay in doors,even if you got an outside life to live
No one understood the carbon tax-except the international financiers poised to make huge profits
London cleaned up the River Thames so fish returned to the river
London got rid of the chemical pea soup fog
All done with no carbon tax
No carbon tax will stop climate change
But it would help clean up the polluted environment
The polluters would pass the tax on to ordinary people
Two and half per cent GST
$600 per family per yr
$2.50 on every head of cattle
According to ABC news there are scientist who are trying to feed/breed burpless sheep.Besides trying to measure gas expulsion from most animals
Its about time the scientists put their talents to better use and stop waisting taxpayers money
Or be locked up where they can do no harm
The tragedy is they convinced the Fed Govt and Fed opposition to make their ideas govt policy
Till Tony Abbot came along
Well labour is scared of a double dissolution sitting of parliment and a double dissolution election
Cause the opposition can win-after explaining the unneccessary carbon tax etc on the cost of living
Whats more Tony Abbot has given labour a challenge
The new leader is Tony Abbot,said to be a right wing Roman Cathlic
Can we have a pro and anti Roman Cathlic movement in the Fed Opposition, like there was in the Fed Labour party yrs ago!
Malcolms problem was he was bought out by labours Kevin Rudd, and should have joined the Labour party
With mining/agriculture etc granted exemption from a proposed carbon tax,who but the ordinary tax payer was left to pay any new tax
So the proposed carbon tax was useless and ineffective
Where i live there is smoke pollution from agricultural land more than 90% of the yr,and it dont do astmatics etc any good.We are told to stay in doors,even if you got an outside life to live
No one understood the carbon tax-except the international financiers poised to make huge profits
London cleaned up the River Thames so fish returned to the river
London got rid of the chemical pea soup fog
All done with no carbon tax
No carbon tax will stop climate change
But it would help clean up the polluted environment
The polluters would pass the tax on to ordinary people
Two and half per cent GST
$600 per family per yr
$2.50 on every head of cattle
According to ABC news there are scientist who are trying to feed/breed burpless sheep.Besides trying to measure gas expulsion from most animals
Its about time the scientists put their talents to better use and stop waisting taxpayers money
Or be locked up where they can do no harm
The tragedy is they convinced the Fed Govt and Fed opposition to make their ideas govt policy
Till Tony Abbot came along
Well labour is scared of a double dissolution sitting of parliment and a double dissolution election
Cause the opposition can win-after explaining the unneccessary carbon tax etc on the cost of living
Whats more Tony Abbot has given labour a challenge
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