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9 June 2010
Archive for the ‘Warfare and Conflict’ tag
Headshot – Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla – Part 1
Ken O’Keefe: ‘We, the defenders of the Mavi Marmara, are the modern example of Gandhi’s essence’
PULSE
6 June 2010
Ken O’Keefe, former US Marine, Gulf War veteran, and now survivor of the Mavi Marmara massacre, has issued a remarkable and searing statement from Istanbul. “While in Israeli custody I, along with everyone else, was subjected to endless abuse and flagrant acts of disrespect. Women and elderly were physically and mentally assaulted. Access to food and water and toilets was denied. Dogs were used against us, we ourselves were treated like dogs. We were exposed to direct sun in stress positions while hand cuffed to the point of losing circulation of blood in our hands. We were lied to incessantly, in fact I am awed at the routineness and comfort in their ability to lie, it is remarkable really. We were abused in just about every way imaginable and I myself was beaten and choked to the point of blacking out… and I was beaten again while in my cell.
In all this what I saw more than anything else were cowards… and yet I also see my brothers. Because no matter how vile and wrong the Israeli agents and government are, they are still my brothers and sisters and for now I only have pity for them. Because they are relinquishing the most precious thing a human being has, their humanity.“
O’Keefe was a human shield in Iraq who formally renounced his US citizenship in protest in 2001; he now has Irish as well as Palestinian citizenship. On the morning of the attack, as he describes it, he was “directly involved in the disarming of two Israeli Commandos. This was a forcible, non-negotiable, separation of weapons from commandos who had already murdered two brothers that I had seen that day.” Subsequently brutalised by the Israeli military, he is defiant: “I challenge any critic of merit, publicly, to debate me on a large stage over our actions that day. I would especially love to debate with any Israeli leader who accuses us of wrongdoing, it would be my tremendous pleasure to face off with you. All I saw in Israel was cowards with guns, so I am ripe to see you in a new context“.
In another context — one that does not involve Israel — O’Keefe’s valor would likely be recognized and rewarded by the country whose military he served and whose citizenship he has relinquished. Yet he will be a hero to millions around the world.
Read O’Keefe’s statement in full below.
Dr. Alan Sabrosky: Israel Says No, The US Agrees: Time For The World To Get Serious
Alan Sabrosky
Veterans Today
3 June 2010

So the predictable dynamics are unfolding. Anywhere the US does not have a veto, Israel is being condemned for its latest atrocities and for its illegal blockade on Gaza. Israel as usual has its puppets in the US Congress and the US mainstream media coming to its defense. And Israel has rejected demands from the UN, plus all of the major powers (except, of course, the US) to lift the blockade and stand aside.
But this crisis does not seem to be going away. An awful lot of people are still mad, and more are becoming enraged as the days pass. Fraudulent videos from Israel may be treated as fact in the US media, but as far as I can tell, nowhere else. Israel still depends on the US to stop anything tangible from happening to it. The US government still depends on its weight to make that happen.
Memorial Day and the Freedom flotilla massacre
Jerry Mazza
4 June 2010
JamesFetzerNews — 04 June 2010 — An independent journalist who resides in New York, Jerry Mazza has been incensed by the arrogance of the Israeli assault on the humanitarian flotilla bringing food, clothing, medical supplies and construction materials to the besieged people of Gaza. Israel conducted a midnight raid on unarmed civilians aboard a ship that was flying the Turkish flag, which is an act of piracy or of war under international maritime law. The Israelis insist that they were acting in “self-defense” when they shot and killed ten civilians and wounded scores of others.
We were out of town Memorial Day weekend, visiting with my in-laws in their senior living residence in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It sits under a huge Mid Western sky that shone blue as an American eye. The sun reflected on the boundless spread of land that will soon bear its corn and bounty from the rich black earth of rural farms.
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I Am Israel: Exposing The True Face of Zionist Occupation!
Whenever Mossad & Israel are mentioned in 911 truth blogs, immediate and dogged attacks are made to squelch the conversation that Israel–not Muslims–did 911 along with treasonous gentiles and dual nationals within the US.
A concerted effort is being made to elevate Israel’s image in the world as the world witnesses Israel’s ruthless and inhumane treatment of Palestinians. What matters, it seems, is not the truth, but the image. Narratives replace the truth to attempt to control image and do “damage control”.
JEWS and ZIONISTS in mass media and Hollywood have conspired in the cover-up of 9/11, the demonization of muslims, and spinning the crimes of Israel against Palestinians and anyone who would come to their aid. Some Jews call the previous sentence “hate speech” or “anti-Semitic”. Consider what these leaders in the diaspora say about Jews and the media/Hollywood:
1: “DO JEWS CONTROL THE MEDIA: YOU BET THEY DO—AND WHAT OF IT” BY BEN STEIN IN E!-AN ON LINE INTERNET MAGAZINE. 1997.
2: “JEWS RUN HOLLYWOOD: SO WHAT?” BY MICHAEL MEDVED IN MOMENT MAGAZINE, AUGUST 1996.
Without the complicity of the Jew-controlled media and Hollywood, the truth of 9/11 would have surfaced in the public discourse.
Making certain what people see is “balanced, and Zionist in nature”. “Truth” is defined solely from the Zionist perspective.
Former BBC Reporter Alan Hart Reveals ‘Mossad’ Involved in 9/11 on Alex Jones
TheAlexJonesChannel — 28 May 2010 — Alex Jones talks with respected Middle East expert and former BBC presenter Alan Hart. Mr. Hart has broken his silence on 9/11and has revealed that the world’s most prominent civil engineering company told him directly that the collapse of the twin towers was a controlled demolition.
http://www.alanhart.net
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/

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