Showing posts with label Democracy. Show all posts
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Israeli Election; Fake Democracy



Netanyahu

By Dr. Elias Akleh
A lot had been written about last week’s Israeli election. Unfortunately, most of these writings lack real substance and discuss only results, political parties, personality profiles, anticipated future coalition partners, and unrealistic delusional predicted effects on peace process and on the Palestinians. All these writings gave the illusion that Israel is democratic rather than extreme racist theocratic colonial state.
To be democratic a country must have a constitution that regulates the government. Since its illegitimate inception Israel had never established a constitution as demanded by the UN in 1948 as a condition for inclusion in the international organization. Israel’s governmental system is guided and shaped by Judaism; an extremist racist theology based on the ideology of Jews, only, as god’s chosen people in god’s promised land where all goyims (non-Jews) are their slaving donkeys, whose sole purpose of life is to serve the Jews who will live as masters, as the Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef boasted. Yosef’s claims did not come from his own personal racism, but from the Jewish Talmud and the distorted Moses’ commandments from god permitting the taking of slaves from other nations (Leviticus 15: 44-46). This reminds me of the racist Nazi ideology of the pure super Arian race, the superiority of the whites over indigenous Indians in the Americas; dubbed as the “New Promised Land” and the superiority of American whites over black African slaves.
With Judaism as the constitution, extremist Judaic Rabbis, like Yosef, control to a great deal Israel’s internal and foreign policies, and manipulate the Israeli social ideologies and civil structures through the control of educational, judicial, and political systems. Israeli schools, especially the religious schools, indoctrinate Jewish children with Yosef’s racist ideologies.
This Israeli theocracy is very racist and color discriminative even amongst Jews themselves. Lately Israelis had mass demonstrations against black immigrants from Africa, many of them happen to be Ethiopian Jews. Israeli demonstrator threatened to murder these black immigrants and to burn their homes, many of whose apartments were firebombed in Jerusalem. Extremist Israelis had also attacked Jewish families who rented for, hired for work, and schooled these immigrants. As much as 40 municipal Rabbis signed a petition demanding the punishment of Jews, who rent homes to gentile immigrants as reported by Jerusalem Post. Ethiopian, Yemeni, and other African black Jews are imported to Israel to be settled in the desert areas so they can work and improve the land, and for their children to serve in the Israeli army. They are not welcomed in the main Israeli cities and are discriminated against.
Instead of punishing perpetrators, who firebombed immigrants’ homes, Netanyahu pledged to eliminate the immigrants’ danger that threatens the Jewish character of the state of Israel. Ili Yishai, an Israeli interior minister and leader of the Shas political party stated: “The Muslim and Christian immigrants think the country does not belong to us, the white man.” It seems that he is ignorant of Israel’s history. Israel was established by Jewish illegal immigrants to Palestine since 1882.
To preserve their “Jewish Characteristic” Israel had legislated the toughest anti-emigrant laws in the world in violation of the Refugee Convention. Israel urges other countries to open their borders for immigrants in a first step to ethnic cleanse Palestinians out of Occupied Palestine, and does not permit hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to go back to their place of birth.
The analyses of some Israeli parties in regard to their political inclinations and of the different political views of their leaders is mere nonsense aiming at misguiding the readers and hiding the real issue that Israeli election, similar to the American election, is well planned and controlled by power elites to generate specific outcome. General public is brainwashed and misinformed through huge programs of propaganda. The masses are continuously subjected to misinformation and lies throughout their daily lives and even in their own homes through all media outlets; TV, radios, and newspapers. Huge posters hung on walls instill political messages in the minds of passersby. Political speeches provide empty promises and do not reflect realities. Real issues are never discussed and the voters are left in the dark misguided, confused and uninformed of important specifics.
The squabble of forming political coalitions is more a rivalry and personal greed for power positions. Let us remember that many Israeli leaders had been accused and investigated for bribery, mismanagement, embezzlements, and shady deals with foreign investors. None were sentenced since sentencing one would open the door to sentence everybody else and none would be able to steal again. Besides such a sentence would tarnish Israel’s international reputation.
Benyamin Netanyahu was the subject of many scandals involving his marriage and corruption charges at the end of his first prime ministry in 1997. He was accused of political corruption and influence-peddling. While still a Prime Minister, Netanyahu appointed an attorney general who ruled that there was insufficient evidence for trial. In 1999 Netanyahu was again accused of corruption for $100,000 of free services from a government contractor, but the same attorney general, again, did not prosecute claiming difficulties with evidence. Despite that, Ariel Sharon, as Prime Minister in 2003, gave Netanyahu the position of Finance Minister. Sharon, himself, was also accused of corruption, bribery, and embezzlement. As Finance Minister, Netanyahu subjected Israeli economy to control of foreign investors and foreign banks. Yet he was re-elected as president in 2009 and again in 2013. Such corrupt embezzlers would not get to office again in any other country but only in a country governed by thieves and war criminals like Israel where every other leader is similarly corrupt.
Fear plays a huge role in determining human behavior. Few months before every Israeli election Israeli leaders perpetrate war crimes against Palestinians (December 2008 and November 2012 as examples) raising the fear of Palestinian rockets, Palestinian alleged terrorist attacks, and lately threat of annihilation by alleged Iranian nuclear bomb. Constantly reminding of the Holocaust and the pledged of “never again” (to Jews but to every other nation) every Israeli leader presents herself/himself as the defender of Israeli citizens and assuring security and peace while aiming for more wars with the neighboring countries.
Some wrote about the election in terms of moving to the right or to the left, to religious extremism or to moderate secularism, towards liberalism or even towards centralism. The sad fact is that there is no difference between the political programs of one Israeli party and another. They all follow the same policies seeking the Zionist Dream of building greater Israel. They all supported the 2006 aggression war against Lebanon, the 2008/09 and the 2012 aggression wars against besieged Gaza Strip. They all encourage expansion of illegal colonies (settlements) and support, arm and protect extremist religiously-driven colonists. They are all against the Two-States solution even on only 18% of Palestine proper. They all agreed on erecting the separation wall to protect the Jewish character of the Israeli Jewish population. They all believe in the supremacy of what they believe to be the Jewish race. They all want to annex most of the West Bank to Israel, even by force, and to restrict Palestinians in small Bantustans. They all have disdain to all international and humanitarian laws since they contradict the racist Judaic laws and are willing to violate them all because they believe they are entitled to do what they want since their god had lifted them above all other nations. They all support the ethnic cleansing and the genocide of Palestinians to purge their alleged promised land from the heathen Christian as well as Moslem Palestinians.
Some politicians, as well as some analysts, fool themselves, or may be are fooling others, that the Two-States Solution will have a better chance with the new Israeli government, and that peace negotiations will resume again. They are trying to give the Palestinians a false hope that negotiations will resume and would lead to a Palestinian State, while in the same time the Israeli government is annexing more Palestinian land and constructing more colonies that block any possibility for a Palestinian State. The Two-States Solution was a stillborn idea since the beginning of its inception.
Yet some naïve wishful-thinking writers hope that the newly formed Israeli government might show more flexibility in peace negotiations with the Palestinians. They claim that the newly formed “Yesh Atid” (There Is a Future) party, which secured nineteen seats in the next Knesset making it the second largest party in Israel, could play an important role in the formation of the next governing coalition. The party’s leader, Yair Lapid, a media celebrity, is mistakenly viewed as a centrist, who might ameliorate the new government’s approach towards Palestinians. In fact Lapid is as Zionist as Netanyahu. Lapid chose the illegal colony of Ariel to unveil his foreign policy platform. He declared that “Israel must at last get rid of the Palestinians and put a fence between us,” Lapid supports the construction of more colonies and he chose to launch his political campaign from Ariel because “there is no map on which Ariel isn’t a part of the state of Israel” he claimed.
Israeli elections had always been only about who will be more brutal against the Palestinians, who will build more colonies, who will violate more international laws, and who will attack Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip with more brutal weapons. Murdering Palestinians had always been an election propaganda campaign for Israeli politicians. Palestinians are usually attacked by the Israeli forces before every Israeli election. The wars on Gaza in 2008 and 2012 are just the latest examples.
Wars in the Middle Eastern region are the main driving force for the Israeli governments. In his election victory speech Netanyahu expressed his obsession with Iran by hinting strongly at possible military action to stop Iran from developing its atomic bomb. He stated that preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons would be the main challenge for a new government. A challenge that started with moving Iron Dome missile batteries north closer to Syrian borders under the allegation of concerns over Syrian chemical weapons according to Monday’s Jerusalem Post. Syria has a defense pact with Iran, who considers any attack on Syria is an attack on Iran.

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A Global Crime Spree — What’s NATO Ever Done?


AGlobal Crime Spree — What’s NATO Ever Done?


by JOHN LaFORGE
(Source: Counterpunch)
Wondering why anyone would confront NATO’s summit in Chicago this month? A look at some of its more well-known crimes might spark some indignation.
Desecration of corpses, indiscriminate attacks, bombing of allied troops, torture of prisoners and unaccountable drone war are a few of NATO’s outrages in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere. On March 20, 2012 Pakistani lawmakers demanded an end to all NATO/CIA drone strikes against their territory. As reported in The New York Times, Pakistan’s foreign secretary Jalil Jilani said April 26, 2012, “We consider drones illegal, counter-productive and accordingly, unacceptable.” On May 31 last year, Afghan President Hamid Karzai gave what he called his “last” warning against NATO’s bombing of Afghani homes, saying “If they continue their attacks on our houses … history shows what Afghans do with trespassers and with occupiers.”
While bombing Libya last March, NATO refused to aid a group of 72 migrants adrift in the Mediterranean. Only nine people on board survived. The refusal was condemned as criminal by the Council of Europe, a human rights watchdog.
NATO jets bombed and rocketed a Pakistani military base for two hours Nov. 26, 2011—the Salala Incident— killing 26 Pakistani soldiers and wounding dozens more. NATO refuses to apologize, so the Pakistani regime has kept military supply routes into Afghanistan closed since November.
The British medical journal Lancet reported that the US-led unprovoked 2003 bombing, invasion and military take-over of Iraq—which NATO officially joined in 2004 in a ‘training’ capacity—had resulted in over 665,000 civilian deaths by 2006, and 200,000 in the UN-authorized, 1991 Desert Storm massacre led primarily by the US with several NATO allies.
On April 12, 1999, NATO attacked the railway bridge over the Grdelica Gorge and Juzna Morava River with two laser-guided bombs. At the time, a five-car civilian passenger train was crossing the bridge and was hit by both bombs. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accused NATO of violating binding laws that require distinction, discrimination and proportionality.
NATO rocketed the central studio of Radio Televisija Srbije (TRS) in Belgrade, the state-owned broadcasting corporation, on April 23, 1999 during the Kosovo war. Sixteen civilian employees of RTS were killed and 16 wounded when NATO destroyed the building. Amnesty Int’l reported that the building could not be considered military, that NATO had violated the prohibition on attacking civilian objects and had therefore committed a war crime.
Headlines chronicle NATO’s crime spree
“U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers.” Los Angeles Times, April 18, 2012
“Drones At Issue…: Raids Disrupt Militants, but Civilian Deaths Stir Outrage.” New York Times, March 18, 2012
“G.I. Kills 16 Afghans, Including 9 Children In Attacks on Homes.” New York Times, March 12, 2012
“NATO Admits Airstrike Killed 8 Young Afghans, but Contends They Were Armed.” New York Times, Feb. 16, 2012
“Informer Misled NATO in Airstrike That Killed 8 Civilians, Afghans Say.” (Seven shepherd boys under 14.) New York Times, Feb. 10, 2012
“Video [of U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters] Inflames a Delicate Moment for U.S. in Afghanistan.” New York Times, Jan. 12, 2012
“Commission alleges U.S. detainee abuse.” Minneapolis StarTribune, Jan. 8, 2012
“Six Children Are Killed by NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan.” New York Times, Nov. 25, 2011
“American Soldier Is Convicted of Killing Afghan Civilians for Sport.” New York Times, Nov. 11, 2011
“Pakistan: U.S. Drone Strike Kills Brother of a Taliban Commander.” New York Times, Oct. 28, 2011
“Afghanistan officials ‘systematically tortured’ detainees, UN report says.” Guardian, & BBC Oct. 10; Washington Post, Oct. 11, 2011
“G.I. Killed Afghan Journalist, NATO Says.” New York Times, Sept. 9, 2011
“Cable Implicates Americans in Deaths of Iraqi Civilians.” New York Times, Sept. 2, 2011
“Civilians Die in a Raid by Americans and Iraqis.” New York Times, Aug. 7, 2011
“NATO Strikes Libyan State TV Transmitters.” New York Times, July 31, 2011
“NATO admits raid probably killed nine in Tripoli.” St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 20, 2011
“U.S. Expands Its Drone War to Take On Somali Militants.” New York Times, July 2, 2011
“NATO airstrike blamed in 14 civilian deaths.” St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 30, 2011
“Libya Effort Is Called Violation of War Act.” New York Times, May 26, 2011
“Raid on Wrong House Kills Afghan Girl, 12.” New York Times, May 12, 2011
“Yemen: 2 Killed in Missile Strike.” Associated Press, May 5, 2011
“NATO Accused of Going Too Far With Libya Strikes.” New York Times, May 2, 2011
“Disposal of Bin Laden’s remains violated Islamic principles, clerics say.” Associated Press, May 2, 2011
“Photos of atrocities seen as threat to Afghan relations.” St. Paul Pioneer Press, March 22, 2011
“Missiles Kill 26 in Pakistan” (“most of them civilians”) New York Times, March 18, 2011
“Afgans Say NATO Troops Killed 8 Civilians in Raid.” New York Times, Aug. 24, 2010
“A dozen or more” Afghan civilians were killed during a nighttime raid August 5, 2010 in eastern Afghanistan, NATO’s officers said. Chicago Tribune, Aug. 6, 2010
“Afghans Say Attack Killed 52 Civilians; NATO Differs.” New York Times, July 27, 2010
In June 2008, NATO bombers attacked a Pakistani paramilitary force called the Frontier Corps killing 11 of its soldiers. New York Times, Nov. 27, 2011
“Afghans Die in Bombing, As Toll Rises for Civilians.” New York Times, May 3, 2010
John LaForge works for Nukewatch, a nuclear watchdog and anti-war group in Wisconsin and edits its Quarterly.
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SELECTIVE DEMOCRACY?



On its way to passing a law that would remove Arabic’s status as Israel’s second official language, the Knesset is simply acknowledging the second-class status of Arabs in Israel.
By Mya Guarnieri
The Israeli Knesset is on a roll. First, it passes the anti-boycott bill. Now, it’s considering changing thestatus of Arabic from the state’s second official language into the language of the state’s second class citizens.
I’ll say now what I felt about the anti-boycott law: the Knesset should pass the legislation so the world will understand what it’s really dealing with.
Arabic might have been the second official language all these years but few Jewish Israelis speak it. NGOs have had to wage legal battles to get Arabic on the street signs funded and posted by the state. For example, when Adalah filed a petition in 1998 regarding the use of Arabic on national road signs, over 80% of those signs “were posted solely in Hebrew and English; Arabic appeared, if at all, only on signs posted near Arab localities.”
How many times has an Arabic speaker with weak Hebrew gone into a government office and not been able to get the help they need? How many times have they been faced with forms that come in Hebrew only?
And how have those who speak the second official language of the state fared in Israeli courts? I might add that I sat in on a Supreme Court hearing in January and watched a Palestinian man struggle to articulate himself to the judges in Hebrew, not in the second official language, his mother tongue, Arabic. There was no translator present.
This legislation would formalize the sentiment that has surfaced in a Yafo (Jaffa) school, where a principal has forbidden Palestinian citizens of Israel from speaking Arabic amongst each other.
The law, as disturbing as it is, is a step towards honesty. Perhaps it will also serve as a wake-up call to those who, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, are still holding on to the belief that a Jewish and democratic state is possible.


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ISRAELI 'DEMOCRACY' UNMASKED

Desert Peace

It is as if Israel has pushed the Fast-Forward button in the process of digging the grave for its own occupation and apartheid policies.
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Dropping the last mask of democracy
New Israeli legislation banning the support of boycott movements goes even further in limiting Palestinian rights.
By Omar Barghouti*

Students attend boycott rally at the University of Ber Zeit, north of Ramallah [EPA]

"You should definitely postpone your book launch in Jerusalem," warned a close friend who felt that the planned event for launching my recently published book on the Palestinian-led movement for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel might be too risky in light of the recently passed Israeli law that effectively bans support for the thriving boycott movement. At the packed bookshop-cafe in occupied East Jerusalem last Thursday, however, the engaged and Italian-coffee scented atmosphere was almost jubilant, as if declaring a collective defiance of Israel's latest draconian measure.

Much controversy has arisen since the Israeli parliament passed legislation that would effectively criminalise support for any boycott against Israel or its institutions, under threat of heavy penalties and worse, without the need to prove "guilt". Dozens of Israeli civil society organisations and leading legal scholars, including many opposing the boycott, have resolutely opposed this exceptionally authoritarian law on diverse grounds, ranging from the most principled to the downright pragmatic.

Palestinian perspective

Missing in most of the debate is the Palestinian perspective, which is undoubtedly most relevant given that this law was entirely motivated by the spectacular growth in recent years of the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, which was launched in 2005 and is led by the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society parties, unions, and NGOs: the Boycott National Committee (BNC).

While expressing alarm at this latest repressive attempt by Israel to crush Palestinian peaceful resistance and support for it among conscientious Israelis, a BNC statement conveyed confidence that this law will bolster the spread of BDS even faster among liberal communities the world over. Hind Awwad, coordinator with the BNC, reacted: "This new legislation, which violates international law, is testament to the success of the rapidly growing global BDS movement and a realisation within political elites inside Israel that the state is becoming a world pariah in the way that South Africa once was."

Eilat Maoz, coordinator of the Coalition of Women for Peace, a leading Israeli feminist alliance that endorses BDS, was quoted in Maariv (Hebrew) saying: "An illegitimate government passes an illegitimate law to protect an illegitimate occupation, while complaining about de-legitimisation. We will continue boycotting, protesting, demonstrating and resisting the occupation - and we call on everyone else to do so."

The Palestinian BDS leadership stood by its Israeli partnerssaying: "We stand in solidarity with all principled Israeli citizens and organisations who are the primary target of this law, and who may be fined and even imprisoned for exercising their fundamental right to speak out and act non-violently in order to bring their state into compliance with international law."

International condemnation

Amnesty International condemned the new Israeli bill, saying it "will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression". Members of the European Parliament raised similar concerns, while the EU itself, typically submissive to Israeli-US interests, expressed alarm at the law's implications on basic rights. Even a New York Times editorial slammed it as undemocratic. All this will further aggravate Israel’s already low standing in international public opinion.

It is as if Israel has pushed the Fast-Forward button in the process of digging the grave for its own occupation and apartheid policies.

By passing this exceptionally draconian law that blatantly stifles free speech, Israel seems ready to sacrifice one of its very last masks of "democracy" for the sake of crushing, with an iron fist, the BDS movement. This provides further, irrefutable evidence of the level of panic in the Israeli establishment of the dramatic expansion of the movement with its simple yet compelling slogan, Freedom, Justice, Equality. It also proves, once again, the futility of all the other unsavoury weapons in Israel’s massive arsenal of intimidation, smears, threats and bullying in combating BDS, which, as a non-violent, morally consistent movement, has dragged Israel into a "battlefield" where even its daunting nuclear weapons are deemed ineffective.

Israeli justification

The Israeli establishment's attempt to justify its repressive new law under the rubric of countering a movement bent on "delegitimising" it and calling into question its very existence has failed to convince any significant portion of world public opinion. Most observers cannot but ask, why wasn't the anti-apartheid boycott in South Africa considered a threat to the existence of the state? Also, did ending segregation in the southern states of the US delegitimise whites or end their existence? In fact, the only things that justice and equality delegitimise are injustice and inequality.

Similarly, BDS aims to "delegitimise" Israel's occupation and colonial policies and structures. And it seems many in international civil society are gradually moving in the direction of supporting the movement and bringing closer Israel's South Africa moment.

As to those who may say that this law will corrupt Israel's democracy, one can only wonder whether a state that has dozens of laws discriminating against its "non-Jewish" citizens solely based on their religious/ethnic identity can be called a democracy. Can a state involved in occupation, forced displacement, siege and denial of basic rights of refugees be regarded as a democracy? The prominent Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, callsIsrael a "herrenvolk democracy", one only for the masters.

Finally, Israel's claim that BDS is somehow against Jews is best refuted by Avraham Burg, former chairman of the Jewish Agency and for many years speaker of the Israeli Knesset, where the latest legislation only underlines the pivotal role it has consistently played in maintaining Israeli colonial oppression.

Burg says:

"Israel sweeps all the criticism against it, both justified and unjustified, under the same anti-Semitic rug. It is actually we who are repeatedly mixing up proper criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. The reason is to avoid at any price having to confront the situation and make tough existential decisions: the occupation, the injustices, the discrimination, the persecution of the non-Jewish minority in our midst. …There is no other country in the Western world from which the international community has been willing to put up with acts of state violence for five decades, other than Israel. ... And there is no other colonialist left in the world, other than 'the only democracy in the Middle East.' The world is still putting up with all this, but not for much longer - it will soon be over."

If Palestinian activists learned anything from the South African struggle it is that the darkest moment is that that precedes dawn. In an ironic way, this new Israeli law may be a harbinger for that darkest moment, with no masks or pretence, and then we see the light of freedom and justice.

*Omar Barghouti is a human rights activist, founding member of the Palestinian-led, global boycott movement against Israel, and author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS): The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights.

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All Palestinians World Wide Should Be Able To Vote


Benefits of Voter Registration of All Palestinians


PNN | Palestine News Network
Hugo van Randwyck – PNN – Voter registration of all Palestinians – West Bank, Gaza, refugees, diaspora – will help with unity, Unity Elections, help the world ‘see and hear’ the refugees/diaspora, help politicians in other countries peak out and relook at policies.
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Palestinian Elections – 2010
How would voter registration work? Firstly, the internationally recognised process of Out of Country Voting (OCV) could be used. Every Palestinian wherever they live could have a voter registration card showing their Palestinian town/village of origin and also their current address – this would apply to children and grandchildren of refugees as well. The Palestine Central Elections Commission (Palestine CEC), www.elections.ps in Ramallah has a first class international reputation, and can do the training for overseas registration and voting process.
The second part is voting. Palestinians could voter for people to represent their town/village of origin. For example, Jaffa, Acre, Haifa and others.
How could this help the Palestinians and people around the world supporting peace? The action of having a unified voter registration list of all voters, is in itself a unifying process. For the first time, all Palestinians will be able to express their voting voice, and also have an opportunity to speak in referendums. Also people around the world will be able to see that in 1948, as well as people being expelled from the Holy Land, ‘voters’ were expelled, and have been prevented from voting.
The process of voter registration around the globe as well as around the Holy Land, will provide TV news media with continuous news. For example: ‘Good evening, here is the news, latest Palestinian voter registration figures today show, that there are 200,000 voters for Jaffa, 175,000 for Haifa, 65,000 for Nazareth, 75,000 for Bethlehem, 225,000 for Acre etc. The estimated Palestinian eligible voters registered so far is 35%, with the Lebanon refugees camps complete, and in Jordan….’. This can also be graphically/pictorially shown, maybe similar to US elections which show state by state results. This will allow overseas political parties to decide if they support voter registration, and also other organisations and groups.
Having got a voter registration roll, then a question could be, do people vote for the PNC, Palestine National Congress, or the PA, Palestine Authority, or even both? Also for how long? 4 years, or is better for 1 or 2 years, since maybe not everyone will be registered to vote first time i.e. it may be 85% to 90% – which gives a chance for elections, with a follow up election, with even more people registered. The benefits of having earlier than later elections, could be better.
By having all Palestinians vote in Unity Elections, they can walk into polling stations, and put their voting paper into a ballot box, which has their electoral district of origin, e.g. Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, etc. clearly marked/labelled and visible for TV cameras. So the world TV media can show people around the world, what has been happening. For those people who live in countries where the media has been biased, and they see this for the first time, people could see a new picture, and start to ask new questions.
For the first time, all Palestinians will have voted for one representative body, to speak on their behalf and negotiate and talk with overseas parties – in a unified way. Since there are people who like facts and figures, the facts of voter registration and votes counted, will be there for everyone to see. Voter registration and Unity Elections are pro-democracy initiatives that people can support.
The first 1996 elections were organised in 10 weeks for 1 million voters, in the West Bank and Gaza – voter registration and voting. With a highly experienced team from the Palestine CEC, it could be possible to register refugees in the Lebanon and Jordan, in similar time, and also many people around the world. UNRWA records have information on refugees and towns/villages of origin. There could be another 2 million additional voters.
It’s time for all Palestinians to have a vote, having elected representatives who can speak for them and listen to them, letting the world ‘see and hear’ them, seeing the peaceful side of Palestinians, and making it easier for overseas people to relook at their policies.
Hugo van Randwyck has travelled to Israel/Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and the Lebanon, including Sabra Shatilla, on holidays. He realised that the media in the West does not show the full story, and that the public do not ‘see and hear’ the Palestinian refugees/diaspora. He has skills in implementation consulting and realised that the Palestinians have all the skills for running Unity Elections.
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Is Karen Mock making a mockery of Canadian Values & Democracy

Karen Mock, federal candidate for Thornhill; International Woman’s Day Statement.
As we are in the midst of a federal election it is timely to shed some light on one of its contenders. It was ironic to read various equality comments by federal candidate Karen Mock in her recent International Woman’s Day Statement March 8, 2011. I have known Karen for almost 20 years. She certainly does not epitomize a “women’s candidate”.
Despite her reference in the statement to “equal access”, in my opinion she unfortunately serves as the stereotypical gatekeeper to keep anyone who is a Canadian Palestinian or anyone who is sympathetic with Palestinian human rights out of public discourse and out of government policy development. Karen’s statement was published under the guise of a tribute to International Women’s Day. I cannot speak on behalf of other women but in my experience Karen does not support other women in their struggles to gain equality and access, at least not Palestinian Canadian women or Canadian women sympathetic to Palestinian human rights.
In the lead up to the World Conference Against Racism, Discrimination and Xenophobia (WCAR) I spoke at one of the national preparatory conferences about the issue of Palestinian human rights to a panel Karen was sitting on. At the time, Karen was in charge of travel grants for delegates to participate in the WCAR in Durban, South Africa. I had been approved for a travel grant. After speaking at the WCAR preparatory conference my travel grant was cancelled.
On the 10th anniversary of our 1991 employment equity legislation, the federal government commissioned a cross-Canada consultation on the effectiveness of the legislation. A private consulting firm was hired and I was invited to be part of the team. However, two members of the team told me that Karen had vetoed my participation. So much for her statement supporting “pathways to decent work for women”.
In 2001 an Israeli sniper killed my 13 year old cousin in Bethlehem. Although Nidah was only 13 years old, she was already a leader among Palestinian youth  and we suspect that is why she was targeted by the IDF. Karen phoned me to give her condolences but added insult to injury by referring to the West where Nidah was from  as “disputed territory” rather than what we all know is legally occupied territory.
Karen frequently refers to herself as “a dynamic speaker” but she can be seen as quite aggressive in obtaining these speaking engagements. In 1996 I hosted a Community Dialogue on Organized White Supremacist Activity. Karen called me and asked why I had not invited her to speak. I said our speakers list was full and we already had a keynote speaker, Warren Kinsella whose views I knew she embraced. She asked me why I didn’t have any Jews helping to organize the conference. I replied that actually we did. However, she didn’t recognize the name of the person and thought I should involve her. She also stated that she required $1,000 for speaking.  Our conference was not funded and everyone involved including myself and the speakers were unpaid volunteers, and the auditorium in Welland was donated.
On another occasion a Halton/Peel anti-racism organizer invited me to be the keynote speaker at a conference training police officers regarding organized white supremacist activity in the community, among youth and on the Internet. In addition to agreeing to speak, I also helped organize the conference, traveling some distance from Niagara for committee meetings. Close to the conference date Karen’s name appeared on the conference agenda. After the conference, the organizer apologized to me that she was only able to pay me a third of what she had originally offered because she had to pay Karen $1,000 for speaking. As a fulltime volunteer for many years it was not often that I was paid for my expertise or time.
Karen often associates herself with Black Canadian women, Muslims, Arabs and interfaith and human rights organizations. However, many of us feel the association is for appearances sake only to make Karen appear more suitable for government funded positions and grants. Despite these associations she is also a staunch supporter of Israel and a friend of institutions such as Haifa University which is extremely discriminatory towards local Palestinians and their human rights.
Her aggressive self promotion was again seen when a position opened on the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. Karen had been the executive director for 12 years of the league for Jewish human rights of B’nai Brith. When the CRRF was looking for its second executive director Karen desired to fill that position. The CRRF hiring committee considered potential executive directors, and a member of the hiring committee told me in conversation that they had chosen someone other than Karen, but that apparently Karen had appealed to MP Hedy Fry who appealed directly to the Prime Minister’s Office to appoint Karen instead, which the PMO’s office did despite the hiring committee’s recommendation.
Is this someone Canadians and particularly women want to represent them in the federal government?
Susan Howard-Azzeh 



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America's so called support of democratic change in the Middle east stops at "the gates of Palestine

The American Government cannot even give freedom and so called democracy to Americans never mind take time away from  thinking for themselves to care what is happening to people in the middle east...it's bullshit! The American Government high ranking officials like high ranking officials from any Government on the planet care only for themselves and what keeps them getting elected and keeping money flowing in their pockets.


If the American Government cared for even one percent of Democracy Hamas the freely elected Government for Palestine would not be where they are. The people of Gaza would not be living the way they are. There would not be that blasted Apartheid Wall and Israel would not not have their Government high jacked and under occupation.


Get off the fence Obama, you are not fooling any one with American policy. American has the longest history of supporting dictatorships that keep people in their place while American Government interest is met and the corporate whores of the planet fill their pockets along with the dictators while the majority of citizens are lucky to see just another day.


Why are Palestinians not worthy of this so called democracy you want people in Egypt to have Obama? That's the question? Why do you not support the rule of international law? In a so called democracy when there is a vote, it is common that, when there is a vote the position with the most votes win. This is never the case when it comes to Palestine is it Mr President? Or are you a dictator as well?


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Terrorism or Democracy ??


http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/A/ALE/alexander-great-mosaic.jpg
Alexander of Macedonia  ,
the son of the first and son of the greatest democracy ,
once terrorised and robbed the whole world !!

Let us , for the sake of the argument
gather all the freedom-fighters ,
all liberation-movements
all mujaheddin and all insurgents worldwide ,
and especially in the Middle East.....
we shall call them : Coalition of  TERRORISM

on the other hand ,  we shall gather ,
the USA , the UK , France , Israel
and the NATO , too......
and we shall call them : Coalition of  DEMOCRACY


Having done so , and having given them those names,
we shall please count :
1- How many innocent civilians were killed by each ??
2- How many countries were invaded by each ??
3- How many tons of bombs were dropped by each  ??
4- How many weddings were bombed by each ??
5- Who has occupied whom ??
6- Who is holding more prisoners illegally (or even legally)
7- How many Pirates are in Somalia
    and how many Pirates are outside Gaza ??
8- who assasinated Rafiq el Harriri and then blamed Syria ??
    who hanged Saddam Hussein and replaced him by sectarian-maffias ??
etc.....etc......etc......

After having done this statistical-mathematical-
comparison ,
you shall agree with me that :
Democracy should rather be called Terrorism !!
(at least for the time being, and until better time comes....)

Raja Chemayel
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This is A Jewish State that is the only Democratic Place in the Middle West According To Western Nations

A few days ago another car with settlers deliberately ran over 2 more Palestinian children in the town of Silwan, in occupied Jerusalem. The driver of the car and his friends of course fled. In any civilized country this is called ‘hit and run’ and drivers are jailed for committing such a crime. In Israel however, this is normal practice.

Palestinian children and adults are commonly run over by settlers and the gruesome crime is hardly ever reported in US Zionist controlled media. Not only do Israeli drivers deliberately choose to run over their victims, but they also get away with their crime without any accountability. Palestinian citizens and children are killed every single day by Israelis but their stories are deliberately ignored . After all, maintaining Israel’s image of a “poor but civilized democratic” state is a crucial Western mission and a most sacred task for the complicit imbedded mainstream media which we all know is owned by Jews.
This Israeli settler deliberately ran over the Palestinian man, then again in reverse and a third time moving forward.
While Israel never stops repeating how committed it is to “peace” , ”democracy” and to the “moral values” of the civilized world, the truth is that Israel is a detestable entity and Israelis are a despicable bunch of liars and criminals ever since they set foot in Palestine. Don’t we all remember “The land without a people for a people without a land” or “the Palestinians voluntarily fled”!?
In this past month the majority of Israeli criminal acts against Palestinians has hardly been covered by Western media.. and when covered, it was described as “retribution for the killing of 4 Israeli Israelis”.  What Jewish-controlled media failed however to mention is that those 4 “innocent” Israelis were far from being innocent.  They were armed illegal settlers driving through legally acknowledged Palestinian territory in order to reach the illegal settlements in which they live and which were built in defiance of International Law, of signed agreements and UN resolutions.  These four Israelis were not “normal average peaceful citizens”, they were illegal settlers who like all Jewish settlers Palestinian territory,  seek only to steal more Palestinian land, annex it  and kill or transfer the legitimate Palestinian owners out of it.  Those Jewish settlers were anything but “poor innocent Israelis.”  They are terrorists.




While Israel is a “state” which came into existence because of an illegal and brutal occupation, Israeli officials and media don’t stop reminding the world of what ‘wonderful’ and of course ‘poor’ persecuted Jews they are when the reality is that they are an occupation force and it is the Palestinians who are persecuted wherever they go.  Israelis also don’t hesitate to tell the world that Palestine is theirs because God gave it to them!  It is extremely astonishing that the developed world doesn’t even bother to note that the Old Testament with all due respect is a theological document and not a historic or anthropological document.  Since when were ‘holy’ books in the scientific world used as Historical sources??  The day it becomes a requirement for History students to study ‘holy’ books in order to get their History degree, the “tribes of Israel” who weren’t even Jewish.. might think of making a claim to territory which isn’t theirs.  Besides, if holy books are going to be used as historical sources, than Egypt should ask the Jews to return the gold they stole from the pharaoh and it must be worth fortunes now!
Israelis are an obnoxious lot.  They are racists, liars, thieves and arrogant hypocrites who are very detested around the world.  In a European poll a few years ago, European citizens identified Israel as the most dangerous country in the world.  Were it not for Jewish control of media, Israelis would have had to deal with the wrath of the international community a long ago.

Even Rabbi's are Armed!
Today, the extremist Israeli government passed a law requiring Arab Christians and Muslim citizens who are actually the real owners of Palestinian land “to pledge loyalty to the state of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.”
"Jewish and democratic"!  My foot!
"There is no other Jewish state in the world” said prime minister Netanyahu. “The combination of these two lofty values expresses the foundation of our national life and anyone who would like to join us needs to recognize this.”
Values?!  Okay Mr. Netanyahu, let’s just remember that the Zionist entity called “Israel” is no more than occupied stolen Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese land without internationally and legally recognized borders and thus still without a constitution.  
Let’s remember Israel’s “lofty values” and the very foundations on which the apartheid “Jewish and democratic state” was built and on which it still depends for its very illegal existence. 
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The innocent Israelis "civilians" who are protected by the IOF

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Israel’s Democracy:Flourishing or Floundering?

Time and time again the Middle Eastern community is bullied with the monotonous idiom which contends that “Israel is the only flourishing democracy in the Middle East”. Not only does Israel tout this designation with pride, but a slew of well known American politicians seem to say nothing less than the same: Barney Frank, US Congressman (D-MA), as quoted by Tom Lantos (D-CA) in a speech titled “Democracy Reaffirmed in Israel” stated before the House of Representatives that -

“Israel has maintained a commitment to a flourishing, vigorous democracy, governed by leaders chosen in elections as free as those held anywhere in the world, a midst untrammeled — often raucous — free-speech.”

I would only assume that this would be a seemingly bold statement to make but highly doubt any rational individual would have the audacity to make the same type of acclamation after recent events – ones which involve three equally important nouns: Israel,Sweden & Human Organs.

According to Freelance journalist Donald Bostrom,who published the article in question about Israel in the Swedish daily Aftonbladet, an international war crimes investigation awaits Israel over its soldiers’ harvest of organs from dead Palestinians.
The article,They plunder the organs of our sons, is being heavily criticized by Israeli media as well as officials who accused Donald Bostrom, of being an “Anti-Semite.”
Bostrom, on the other hand, says he has based the story on testimony from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and he has denied accusations that he was motivated by Anti-Semitism.
[Side-note: Palestinians are Semites themselves for anyone who is still unaware or believes they can feign ignorance any longer - so no, Bostrom was not being "Anti-Semitic"]

In the article Bostrom mentions an incident in which a Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers for hurling stones at their vehicle in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Palestinian was shot in his chest, stomach and both legs – He was then moved to an unknown location while being in critical condition and approximately five days later, his body was returned to his family with a visible scar from his neck to stomach.

An autopsy report revealed that some of his organs were removed.

Bostrom believes a “shortage of organs for transplant in Israel is the real cause behind the violent crime and mentions a 1992 government campaign to recruit new donors [because] at the same time that this organ campaign was going on, young Palestinian men were disappearing and being delivered back to their villages five days later at night, dead and cut open,”

The story is damning for Israel,so damning in fact that Israel has delayed press credentials for Swedes from Aftonbladet. A cameraman and reporter from the Newspaper were told Sunday,when they applied for press accreditation,that the process could take up to 90 days and that the newspaper’s decision to run the organ harvesting article last week will be taken into consideration when the request is considered.

“We have no duty to supply them with press cards immediately; we have 90 days to decide about their status,” said Danny Seaman, the head of Israel’s press office.

Meanwhile [in an eerily movie-esque roundabout], Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Swedish government to condemn the article but Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt refused to condemn it, saying the country has a “free press” which is an integral part of his country’s democracy.

No matter how sickening and devastating the story is in terms of the Palestinians who suffer from the daily scourge of Israeli apartheid I cannot help but smile as the illegal state begins to slowly sink into it’s own fecal matter.
The state of Israel,one so keen on advertising their rare democratic existence,has done nothing but shun key components of an autonomous society. In Israel freedom of speech,freedom of the press,freedom of assembly etc are notions left unheard of by the subjugated majoritym – The Palestinians.

Israeli democracy is nothing more than a by-product of Apartheid South Africa’s ‘democracy’,one which gave libertarian freedom to the White population and neglected the Blacks. Just as in the case of South Africa,the Zionist democracy in Israel is designed to empower the Jews,hence the title of Israel as being The Jewish State of Israel.

The facade of democracy being held over Israel,like a glowing angelic crown,will soon self-destruct for this is the conclusion to all propaganda in Western media – In the end we all know that truth fears no investigation.

“I fear the newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers”
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The Activists on the Streets of Teheran and in the Occupied Territories



Ibn Ezra (a.k.a. Joseph Dana) has an excellent post comparing his activism in the Occupied Territories with that of the Iranian activists in Tehran. Read it here. Both activists are fighting injustice and oppression. Both are fighting their government for the sake of their country. The similarities between the two cases should be stressed.

Live Ammunition Against Civilian Protestors. When Israel shot and killed Palestinian Israeli protestors in October 2000, who in the world cared? When it shoots and kills Palestinians protesting the theft of their lands, who cares? But when the Iranian government does it, everybody is up in arms. Only the human rights agencies condemn both.

News blackouts. When Israel launched its campaign of death and destruction against Gaza, it imposed a news blackout on Gaza. No foreign journalists, and few Israeli journalists could get news out, and the latter was subject (as always) to military censorship. But that didn't stop the Gazans from using Facebook and Twitter and texting (though Israel often tried to jam the cell phones) to get the news out. The Iranians learned their lesson well from the Gazans, but because they are better off, they can send alerts more effectively.

Disregarding Elections. Although technically there is a difference here –It is said that the Iranian government inflated and distorted the Iranian election results; the Israeli government reacted strongly to the Palestinian elections results, throwing elected officials into jail because they were elected – the effect is the same: trampling on the will of the people.

For all their similarities, though, the Iranian protestors are in a much better situation than their Palestinian counterparts. They, at least, are citizens of the state whose government controls their lives. The West Bank and Gaza Palestinians, by contrast, have been stateless for over forty years. Every day, every minute of their lives they are oppressed by Israel – simply because they are held stateless, and they are governed by a foreign power. And, of course, Israel sees itself and sells itself to others as a democracy.

Would that the world appreciate the Israeli activists like the Iranian activists. And treat the Israeli government like the Iranian government.

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Israel calls itself a Democracy?

Many parallels can be drawn between South Africa and Israel . one such parallel is the requirement for all residents over the age of 16 in the Apartheid State of Israel to indicate whether holders are Jewish or not by adding the persons Hebrew date of birth. Chris McGreal of the Guardian put it so well when he said that these cards are in effect determining where they ["Israeli citizens"] are permitted to live, access to some government welfare programs, and how they are likely to be treated by civil servants and policemen.

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The Illusion of Democracy & The Great Zionist Rip-Off

Christopher Bollyn

DEMOCRACY IS AN ILLUSION


During the massive and sometimes violent demonstrations that marked the G-20 summit in London last week, I noticed a sign that aptly described the fundamental problem facing the West. "Democracy is an Illusion," the sign said. That simple slogan underlines the real problem facing Americans and others who find themselves living in nations that claim to be democratic, and may have once been, but which now clearly serve only the interests of powerful special interest groups while ignoring the will of the people.Having observed many elections and written about the fraudulence of the electronic voting systems in the United States since 2000, I completely agree with the slogan "Democracy is an Illusion." This is, after all, the fundamental deception at the heart of the crisis facing the United States and other western democratic societies. If, on the other hand, we had authentic democratic elections in the United States, with paper ballots openly counted in the polling place, we would not have to suffer such criminal regimes acting against the will of the people.

I have written extensively about this problem since the fall of 2000 when, as a candidate to be an election judge in Cook County, I was introduced to the electronic voting machines that steal our elections. I then wrote an article entitled "The Death of Democracy" that explained how elections in Chicago are rigged through the use of the electronic voting machines used in every voting station and precinct.

With Barack Obama, Americans now have a president and administration from Chicago, the city where I have yet to see a proper election in which the voters are allowed to witness the counting of their votes. Obama was actually elected to the U.S. Senate in one of the most corrupt and rigged elections that I have ever seen. The Republican candidate running against Obama, Jack Ryan, was forced to pull out of the race in June 2004 after the exposure of his involvement in a sex scandal. Ryan's withdrawal left Obama as the only candidate. Two months later, Alan Keyes, who wasn't even from Illinois, stepped in as a visiting candidate from Maryland and ran as a weak fill-in candidate for the former Goldman Sachs employee, Jack Ryan. It came as no surprise that Obama won easily with 70 percent of the uncounted vote, while Keyes received some 27 percent. That is, after all, how it was planned.

"CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN"

As I listened to National Public Radio's coverage of the election results the next day, I was amazed to hear the NPR talking heads go on about Obama as a presidential candidate. What had Obama done, apart from winning a rigged election in which he had been virtually unopposed, that made him presidential? It was very clear from listening to NPR's effusive praise for Obama that he had already been chosen to be a presidential candidate by the people who control NPR, the media, and elections.

As we now know, Obama had been supported and cultivated since 1992 by Bettylu Saltzman, the daughter of Philip Klutznick, Chicago's leading Zionist, to be the first "black" president of the United States. The fact that Obama is no more black than white and has nothing in common with the blacks of the segregated South, was played down during the campaign. Chicago is a segregated city but Obama is not really from Chicago at all. He is the offspring of a mixed-race marriage, a mulatto who was raised by his white grandparents in Hawaii after being abandoned by his Kenyan father. More than anything, however, Obama is a puppet of his Zionist handlers, people like David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel. This sad state of affairs was painfully evident when Obama, who is used to reading from a script, was asked impromptu questions during his trip to Europe.

Obama was elected on a simple one-word platform: change. The slogan of the Obama campaign was "Change we can believe in." After 8 dismal and disastrous years of war and terror with George W. Bush, "change" was the most obvious choice to define the Obama campaign. After Obama's first trip to Europe, however, it is now quite clear that there will be no significant change in U.S. policy under Obama, unless he follows through on his comment in Strasbourg about the need to improve passenger trains in the United States and starts a serious program with substantial funding to improve the woefully neglected rail infrastructure. Otherwise, everything looks pretty much the same as it did under George W. Bush.

During his first European trip as president, Obama was pushing Bush's disastrous "War on Terror" telling Europeans that they should be afraid of Al Qaida and commit more troops to support the failed mission in Afghanistan. In Prague, Obama promised that the missile defense network, supposedly meant to protect the West from Iran, would go ahead. And throughout the trip he often mentioned Iran, the country to which he had sent a most unusual video broadcast before he left.

In his message to Iran, complete with Farsi subtitles and timed to coincide with the celebration of the Persian New Year, Obama praised the "true greatness of the Iranian people and civilization" and said that the United States wanted to engage Iran and reverse decades of animosity. Ralph R. Reiland wrote about Obama's video appeal and the Iranian reaction in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on March 30, 2009. Reiland wrote:

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the overture the next morning. "They chant the slogan of change but no change is seen in practice," said Khamenei, sounding not unlike some of Obama's disillusioned supporters in the United States.

"If you are right that change has come, where is that change? What is the sign of that change? Make it clear for us what has changed," Khamenei said.

Bush-basher Michael Moore might well say the same words. What's changed since the days of Bush and Cheney when it was charged that too big a piece of the pie was being grabbed by those who already have too much?

Obama told Joe the Plumber (Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher) that he wanted to "spread the wealth around." True to his word, Obama has done the spreading in record time and in unprecedented amounts.

The only problem for guys like Moore is that the trillions have been flowing for the past two months in exactly the opposite direction of the "change" that Obama promised in his big stadium speeches during the campaign.

No one chanting "Yes we can" was pushing for a change that would stick America's middle-class taxpayers with additional trillions of new debt in order to fill up the coffers of some of the biggest and richest swindlers on Wall Street.

Where's the change, in short, between Bush's TARP-1 and Obama's TARP-2?

Khamenei, similarly, pointed to the lack of change in responding to Obama's video: "Have you released Iranian assets? Have you lifted oppressive sanctions? Have you given up mudslinging and making accusations against the great Iranian nation and its officials? Have you given up your unconditional support for the Zionist regime? Even the language remains unchanged."

It was not only Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Ralph R. Reiland who were speaking out about the false promises and massive deception coming from the Obama White House. Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist, wrote an excellent piece, entitled "Obama's Ersatz Capitalism," which was published in the New York Times on April 2 as President Obama met with the world's leaders at the G-20 summit in London.

The Stiglitz piece is very important because it explains the mechanics of the Obama bail-out plan in a way that the average person can understand. Americans taxpayers have already seen more than $180 billion stolen from the national treasury and given to Maurice Greenberg's extremely corrupt company, A.I.G., without any understanding of why A.I.G. should receive such immense sums of public funding in the first place. Even people like Eliot Spitzer are reluctant to mention Greenberg's name in connection with the obscene A.I.G. bail-out. Greenberg is a man that is at the heart of the false-flag terror of 9-11, the War on Terror, and the Great Zionist Rip-Off. Spitzer has paid for taking a stand against Greenberg.

Rather than focus on this incredibly huge transfer of wealth from the American people to private bankers, members of Congress and the controlled media made a big issue out of the bonuses given to A.I.G. managers, who received some $165 million. That's like complaining about giving a $1 dollar tip to the lowly waiter after paying $1,000 to a restaurant for a make-believe meal you never ate.

BANKS WIN - TAXPAYERS LOSE

Most of the $180 billion paid to A.I.G. was actually paid out to private banks, like Goldman Sachs, and others. This is because A.I.G. had insured the "overly complex instruments like collateralized debt obligations," which were at the heart of the economic meltdown. Giving the money to A.I.G. was a way to give huge amounts of taxpayer money to the bankers without making it too terribly obvious.

The people who protested against the bankers of London were those who had not been deceived by the sleight-of-hand trickery in which $180 billion of hard-earned taxpayer money was given to failed bankers who will simply turn around and lend it out – at interest – to the very people who bailed out the banks. The urgent need for real reform and the creation of a real national bank to control money and credit could not be any more obvious.

As Stiglitz wrote:

The Obama administration’s $500 billion or more proposal to deal with America’s ailing banks has been described by some in the financial markets as a win-win-win proposal. Actually, it is a win-win-lose proposal: the banks win, investors win — and taxpayers lose.

What the Obama administration is doing is far worse than nationalization: it is ersatz capitalism, the privatizing of gains and the socializing of losses. It is a “partnership” in which one partner robs the other. And such partnerships — with the private sector in control — have perverse incentives, worse even than the ones that got us into the mess.


Sources:

Bollyn, Christopher, "The Israeli Who Will Run the Obama White House," November 6, 2008

Stiglitz, Joseph E., "Obama’s Ersatz Capitalism," March 31, 2009

Bollyn Research Proved to be Without Error

A European publisher, who is interested in publishing my book about 9-11, commissioned a professional editor to check the facts in my chapter, "The Architecture of Terror: Mapping the Israeli Network Behind 9-11." Last winter, the British fact-checker initially wrote me emails saying that he would send me questions, which I said would be fine. But his questions never came. In response to his last email, I said that I was very glad that he was doing the fact-checking because I thought it would be a great thing to show that I was not making this stuff up. That was the last time I heard from the fact-checker.

Recently, the publisher sent me the results of the fact-checking and praised me for having passed with flying colors. The fact-checker had investigated some 95 points in the chapter and had not found a single error in fact. For those who are interested in the details you can read the point-by-point analysis below.

I am publishing this analysis to show two things:

1. That my work has a very high degree of accuracy and verifiabilty. I don't write anything that I have not found to be true and verifiable. That my most contentious chapter went through a rigorous fact-checker's mill without losing a single sentence could stand as proof.

2. This is the kind of fact-checking that is an essential part of the process of preparing my book for publication. Having written hundreds of articles about 9-11 since September 2001, I have to go through each and every one to make sure that every fact is verifiable and correct. I will probably have to use footnotes for the book. Every claim and statement must be based on a reputable source.

Because my thesis is bound to spark some controversy, I am doing my utmost to check and validate every fact and claim presented in the text. When the publisher sent me the results he said that I should be proud. I honestly did not quite understand what that meant; that I should be proud that I had not lied? Of course all the statements in my articles are true - they wouldn't be there if they weren't. Only after going through my response to the fact-checker did I understand what he meant: My facts were unassailable.

The following is the fact-checker's analysis of my chapter and my responses to his questions. I try to set off his questions and comments from my responses, which are preceded by BOLLYN RESPONDS:

The Fact-Checker Begins:

Point 1.

Ariel Sharon's statement: "I want to tell you something very clear. Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America and the Americans know it."
-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, October 2001
ALLEGEDLY ON KOL YISRAEL RADIO, OCTOBER 3RD 2001, THOUGH CAN FIND NO REPORT OF THIS IN A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER.

BOLLYN RESPONDS: This statement was reported to have been broadcast on the Hebrew-language Kol Yisrael radio in Israel. It then made its way into print. The best source I know of is The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, a highly-respected magazine read throughout the world published in Washington D.C. by former U.S. diplomats:

The Sharon quote was published in The Washington Report on November 2001, page 114, under a section entitled "American Educational Trust - Publishers’ Page":

Israel’s Rogue Prime Minister…

We’re not accustomed to hearing a spade called a spade when it comes to Israel—but it’s something we could get used to. Of course, what hasn’t yet made it into the American media is the account on Hebrew-language Israel radio (Kol Yisrael), as relayed Oct. 3 by IAP News, of an “acrimonious argument” between Sharon and his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, at the previous Wednesday’s weekly cabinet meeting. According to the report, Peres warned Sharon against refusing to heed continued American requests for a cease-fire, saying Sharon’s rejections would endanger Israeli interests and…

“Turn the U.S. Against Us.”

Lashing back at Peres, a furious Sharon then reportedly shouted, “Every time we do something you tell me Americans will do this and do that. I want to tell you something very clear: don’t worry about American pressure on Israel, [because] we, the Jewish people, control America, and…

The Americans Know It.”

Well, you learn something new every day. Who would have thought that Ariel Sharon might be a closet anti-Semite? Doesn’t he know we don’t talk that way in this country? Apparently Peres and the other cabinet ministers do, though, for they were quick to warn Sharon against making such a statement in public, because “it would cause us…

“A Public Relations Disaster.”

Source: http://www.wrmea.com/archives/november01/0111114.html

Point 4.

Netanyahu – ‘It’s very good. Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.'
YES: Bennet, James, 'Spilled Blood is Seen as Bond That Draws 2 Nations Closer',
New York Times, September 12, 2001,

"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq."
Benjamin Netanyahu, as quoted in Ma'ariv, April 16, 2008
SOURCE, PLEASE

BOLLYN RESPONDS: This was reported in Ha'aretz on April 16, 2008. Ma'ariv is a Hebrew-language paper in Israel:

Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
By Haaretz Service and Reuters
Last update - 00:00 16/04/2008

The Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv on Wednesday reported that Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu told an audience at Bar Ilan university that the September 11, 2001 terror attacks had been beneficial for Israel.

"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events "swung American public opinion in our favor."

Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.

Source: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975574.html

Point 10.

Asst. Attorney General Michael Chertoff ‘devoted Zionist’, also ‘2 dedicated Zionists-cum-federal judges’, Alvin K.Hellerstein and Michael B. Mukasey have overseen virtually all the litigation.

AS I'VE STATED BELOW, ENCYCLOPEDIAS LIST AT LEAST 4 VARIETIES OF ZIONIST, FROM LIBERAL THROUGH TO NATIONALIST. AT NO POINT DOES CB DRAW ANY DISTINCTION - SO I CONCLUDE THIS IS ROUGHLY ON THE LEVEL OF EMOTIVE BLANKET LABELLING, RATHER LIKE EQUATING THE WORD 'MUSLIM' WITH 'FUNDAMENTALIST' OR 'TERRORIST'. PLEASE SEE NOTE BELOW.

BOLLYN RESPONDS: Zionism is the political movement to establish and maintain an independent Jewish state; a racially oriented state (or ghetto fortress) in which non-Jews are discriminated against and do not receive the same rights or privileges as Jews. Supporters of this Jewish apartheid-like state are Zionists, by definition. The three individuals named above, i.e. Chertoff, Hellerstein, and Mukasey, are all known members of Zionist organizations and have family members from or in Israel. A devoted or dedicated Zionist is a person who is personally invested in the state of Israel as these men are. To equate describing a person as "a devoted Zionist" with the "emotive blanket labelling" of calling a person a Muslim terrorist is not accurate. If a person is an active, contributing, and long-time Zionist, as these three men are, it is not at all unfair to call them 'devoted' or 'dedicated' Zionists. I would not make such statements without showing the background of the people being described.

Point 11.

Michael Goff, P-Tech and Guardium
LINK TAKES ME TO MARSHA GOFF, AND ONLY MENTIONS GUARDIUM
– ‘Young Zionist lawyer from Worcester, Massachusetts’. Father and Grandfather members of B’nai B’rith –
SOURCE?

BOLLYN RESPONDS: Here is the information that I found on Michael Goff's website in April 2005:

Here is what Michael Goff's website says about his work there:

Michael was marketing manager at Ptech, Inc., a leading provider of business process modeling, design and development software. In this capacity, Michael managed various marketing programs and activities including public relations, direct mail, Web development, collateral, trade shows and seminars. Additionally, Michael worked closely with the Ptech sales organization to perform competitive analysis as well as manage lead tracking and fulfillment activities.

When Michael first joined Ptech, he shared responsibilities between marketing and information systems for the company. As information systems manager, Michael handled design, deployment and management of its Windows and Macintosh, data, and voice networks. As part of this effort, Michael developed Lotus Notes-based systems for sales and marketing lead tracking and IS service and support requests. Michael also performed employee training and handled all procurement for software, systems and peripherals.

See: http://www.goffpr.com/about.asp

Shortly after I published this information the Goff's changed their website to remove Michael's name and work history with Ptech.

Source: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=68484

BOLLYN RESPONDS: I found that Goff's father and grandfather were highest-level freemasons and members of B'nai B'rith in their obituaries:

Michael S. Goff's father is Allan S. Goff who passed away in 1995:

Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA) - September 22, 1995
Deceased Name: ALLAN S. GOFF, 51
PAXTON - Allan S. Goff, 51, of 32 Crowningshield Drive, formerly of Worcester, a certified public accountant and longtime businessman, died yesterday at home after a brief struggle with cancer.
He leaves his wife of 30 years, Nancy (Gore) Goff; two sons, Michael S. Goff of Holliston and Douglas A. Goff of New Orleans; a daughter, Allison L. Goff of Manchester, N.H.; and a brother, Jacob Goff in California. He was born in Worcester, son of Samuel and Dorothy (Shevitz) Goff. He graduated from Worcester Academy in 1961 and Bentley College in 1965.
Mr. Goff was a certified public accountant. He was a co-managing partner of Goff, Carlin & Cagan, founded by his father in 1928. He was a member of Temple Emanuel, and was vice president of finance and a board director of the temple. He was a member of Commonweath Lodge of B'nai B'rith, Level Lodge of Masons and was a 32nd-degree Mason. He was a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants. He was former chairman of the certified public accountants' division of United Way of Central Massachusetts.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Sunday in Temple Emanuel, 280 May St. Burial will be in B'nai B'rith Cemetery. A memorial observance will be held through Tuesday evening at the residence. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Temple Emanuel, 280 May St., Worcester, 01602. Perlman Funeral Home, 1026 Main St., is directing arrangements.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA)
Date: September 22, 1995
Copyright (c) 1995 Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp.

And his Grandfather Samuel Goff:

PAXTON - Samuel Goff, 92, of 32 Crowningshield Drive died yesterday in his home after a long illness.

His wife, Dorothy (Shevitz) Goff, died in 1977. He leaves two sons, Allan S. Goff of Paxton, with whom he made his home, and Jacob I. Goff of Hemet, Calif.; a sister, Lillian Rappaport of Worcester; five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He was born in Russia, son of Simon and Dora (Miller) Goff, and lived in Worcester 65 years before moving to Paxton 15 years ago.

Mr. Goff graduated from Classical High School in Worcester and from Bentley College in 1923.

He was a certified public accountant, and was a senior partner of Goff, Carlin and Cagan until 1989 when he became the firm's senior consultant. He founded Samuel Goff and Co. in 1923, and was one of the oldest practicing certified public accountants in Massachusetts.

Mr. Goff was a founder and a member of Temple Emanuel, a member of Worcester Lodge 600, B'nai Brith, and the American Institute and Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of Level Lodge of Masons.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow in Temple Emanuel, 280 Main St., Worcester, with Rabbi James L. Simon and Cantor Sheri Blum officiating. Burial will be in B'nai Brith Cemetery, Worcester. Memorial week will be observed through Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allan F. Goff, 32 Crowningshield Drive. Memorial donations may be made to Thrombosis Reseach/Cardiology, University of Massachusetts Hospital, 55 Lake Ave., North, Worcester 01655. Perlman Funeral Home, 1026 Main St., Worcester, is directing arrangements.

Copyright (c) 1992 Worcester Telegram & Gazette Corp.

Question:

PTECH - ‘Allegedly Arab owned and Saudi financed’.
CERTAINLY THE CHAIRMAN AND CEO IS ONE OUSSAMA ZIADE, AND THE VP AND CHIEF SCIENTIST IS MR. IBRAHIM HUSSEIN.

Goff also working for Guardium, ‘run by Israeli intelligence officers’.
TO LOOK AT CURRENT LEADERSHIP, INCORRECT. TO LOOK AT FUNDING, VERITAS http://www.veritasvc.com/team.asp HAS I.I. LINKS, HOWEVER, GUARDIUM HAS FIVE SEPARATE INVESTORS. AMONG OTHER INVESTORS, STAGE ONE SEEMS TO HAVE NOTHING MORE THAN A LIEUTENANT COLONEL IN THE RESERVES OF THE IDF, AND THE CEDAR FUND HAS NOTHING MORE THAN A LEADER WHO ONCE SERVED IN THE ISRAELI NAVY.
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BOLLYN RESPONDS: The role of Israeli military intelligence in the creation of Guardium is dealt with in detail in other chapters of the book. To understand Guardium's connection to the Israeli military one need only look at the people who founded the company, e.g. Gil Zaphrir, a.k.a. Zafrir, an Israeli colonel in charge of research and development for the Israeli air force.

Point 12.

PTECH enterprise software, ‘has spy, surveillance, and intervention capabilities, according to those who know about it.’
CB FOR SOURCE.

BOLLYN RESPONDS: Here is a good source for this comment from Indira Singh:

It was possible that there was an alternate command and control system… could you technically use P-Tech software to do the surveillance and intervention? Well, gosh, yes, that’s exactly what I was planning on using it for in one of the largest banks in the world. It’s not a problem. So if someone wants to make it their thesis, I’ve no problem with that, however, I can’t say for sure that was going on because I don’t have direct firsthand knowledge of that, no one has told me and offered me proof of that.

Source: Our World In Balance, The Story of Indira Singh, April 27, 2005

Question:
GUARDIUM ‘a company that is a branch of the research and development department for the Israeli airforce.’
ON VIRYANET WEBSITE, IT IS RATHER REFERRED TO AS A 'PRIVATELY HELD COMPANY THAT DEVELOPS AND DELIVERS INNOVATIVE DATABASE SECURITY SOLUTIONS' SEE: http://www.viryanet.com/company/management/. AFTER 1/2 HOUR'S TRAWLING, I CAN NOTHING TO SUPPORT THIS. ONE TO CHECK WITH CB?

BOLLYN RESPONDS: Guardium was spun-off in America from Log-On in Israel. Log-On was founded by the head programmers from Israeli navy, army, and air force, namely, Major Gil Migdan, Joseph Segev, Danny Zeitouny, and Col. Gil Zaphrir (see P. 13 below). With these people behind the company it is fair to call it a branch of R&D for Israeli airforce.

Point 13.

One of the founders Amit Yoran, who became manager of computer network security for the Pentagon.’
I HAVE SEEN, FROM GUARDIUM WEBSITE, THAT HE JOINED THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN 2005, BUT CANNOT SEE HIM LISTED AS A FOUNDER. Another article would seem to confirm this: (http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/software-services-applications-software-makers/5037865-1.html)

Also a spin-off of LOG-ON SOFTWARE, Israeli military intelligence company based in Ranat Gan, Israel.’ Certainly has strong links to Israeli Military, (SEE: http://www.log-on.com/Company/Management/tabid/53/Default.aspx, though presents itself - plausibly - as a general software company. (SEE: http://www.log-on.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx)

Founders of LOG-ON:

Major Gil Migdan and Joseph Segev, former head programmer and telecommunications officer of Israeli navy. Also Vice-President Danny Zeitouny, head of logistics programming for Israeli military.
CORRECT: WWW.LOG-ON.COM

Another director, Gil Zaphrir (Zafrir), Israeli colonel in charge of research and development for Israeli air force.
CORRECT: http://www.veritasvc.com/team.asp#gill

Amit Yoram – appointed by GWB as cyber-chief
THIS IS CORRECT
responsible for coordinating nation’s activities on cyber security.
THIS IS CORRECT. THOUGH WAS HE A FOUNDER OF LOG-ON?

Before, responsible for managing security infrastructure in 40 countries.
SEEMS CORRECT, SEE: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyberwar/interviews/yoran.html

Before working in private sector, Network Security manager at department of defence, maintaining operation at Pentagon’s network. Designed security architecture for Pentagon. Also, Director of Vulnerability Assessment and assistance program for U.S. department of Defence Computer Emergency Response Team. CORRECT (SEE-http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17603406

At the time Goff was at P-TECH, Yoran was network Security Manager at Department of Defence designing computer security for the Pentagon.
SEE: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mgoff, for evidence he worked there. However, I am unable to ascertain the year.

FOR A LUCID ARTICLE ON POSSIBLE DANGERS RE. ISRAELI SOFTWARE SPYING, SEE http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2002/tc20021217_3779.htm

Point 14.

INDIRA SINGH, 9/11 Citizens’ Commision

‘If anyone was in a position to know… that there was a window of opportunity or to insert software or to change anything… it would have been Ptech along with MITRE’.
FOR INDIRA SINGH'S DOUBTS RE. PTECH, SEE: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8228336760154277932
THOUGH HER DOUBTS DO NOT SEEM TO PERTAIN TO MOSSAD INVOLVEMENT, BUT AL QAEDA, AND A SUBSEQUENT COVER-UP. AND YES, THIS ABOVE QUOTE IS ON THE ABOVE LINK.

Point 15.

Some of the key Israeli-run companies linked to Guardium are Amdocs, ViryaNet, Nice Systems, and CreoScitex.
TO QUERY WITH CB - IN WHAT WAY LINKED?

BOLLYN RESPONDS: These companies are all linked by sharing personnel. That is to say that ViryaNet personnel went to Guardium, Log-On people went to Guardium, Veritas people went to Guardium, Amdocs people went to ViryaNet and Nice Systems, etc. This is the revolving door of the Israeli military elite among their companies in the United States. The number of players is small so you see the same names pop up time and time again. The companies are all funded by the same Mossad funding arms. This is a subject I have written extensively about in other articles. These connections will become clear when reading the material from beginning to end.

Question:
Like Guardium, these companies are all run by senior officers of Israeli military intelligence.
CANNOT FIND INFO ON AMDOCS, HOWEVER, VIRYANET HAS ON ITS BOARD AVIE ORADIA (ISRAEL SECURITY AUTHORITY) AND NATI PERRY (ISRAELI AIRFORCE 1984-1997)
LINK: http://www.viryanet.com/company/board-of-directors
WHILE THE LEADERSHIP INCLUDES AVIRAN HINENZON (AT ONE POINT WORKED FOR ISRAELI MINISTRY OF DEFENCE - link, http://www.viryanet.com/company/management/
Nice systems is dealt with above) CREOSCITEX EMPLOYED, TILL 3/2001, SHLOMO SHAMIR,

Nice Systems headed from April 2001 (PRESIDENT FROM 2005, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER FROM 2001) by Brigadier General Shlomo Shamir...

Point 16.

‘who built and led the planning division in the IDF headquarters and served as Israel’s military attache to Germany’.CORRECT - SEE: WWW.NICE.COM

Israeli employees of Nice Systems and Amdocs caught trying to infiltrate DEA TO CHECK WITH CB - I COULD ONLY FIND THIS MENTIONED ON A PRIVATE WEBSITE.

BOLLYN RESPONDS: This is material taken from the leaked D.E.A. document about the Israeli spy rings composed of fake art students. This material has not been published in the mainstream press but is a significant part of investigation of the Israeli "art student" ring of 2000-2001. It has not been found to be false.

Point 17.

Amit Yoran chief executive of Riptech, and managed to hack into utilities’ power networks, in Europe.
NOT SURE ABOUT EUROPE, BUT HIS 'ETHICAL HACKING' ACTIVITIES MENTIONED IN L.A. TIMES
SEE: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-6910441.html

RIPTECH ‘founded by Elad and Amit Yoran, two Israeli West Point graduates who claim years of security experience..’ Washington Times, December 11th, 2000.
THIS SEEMS CORRECT
SEE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/washtech/yoran3.htm

‘Amit Yoran reportedly helped design the Pentagon’s security architecture.’
THIS TOO SEEMS CORRECT, REPORTED http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2003/0,4814,84988,00.html

Point 18.

ELAD YORAN
CHECK – when did he start working for Riptech, 2001 or 1999? I can only find info. that Riptech was founded in 1998, and that EY's involvement started in March 2001.

Before becoming a director of Guardium, for example, Col. Gill Zafrir was "actively managing the funds of Veritas," which funded Guardium. Prior to joining Veritas in 1999, Col. Zaphrir "headed the research and development department of the Israel Air Force."
THIS SEEMS CORRECT:
SEE: http://www.veritasvc.com/team.asp#gill

Nice Systems, US subsidiary of Israeli company with same name, headed by Brig. Gen. Shlomo Shamir from April 2001.
CORRECT:
SEE: http://www.nice.com/about/management/shlomo_shamir.php

That Brig. Gen. Shamir ‘built and led the planning division in the IDF headquarters, and served as Israel’s military attache to Germany until 1994, when he began working at Scitex American Corp, which he headed from 1997, and which became Creoscitex America inc.’
CORRECT
SEE: http://people.forbes.com/profile/shlomo-shamir/57661

Avinoam Naor Aharonovich, one of the founders of Amdocs, President and CEO of Amdocs. Management from 1995-2002.
CORRECT
SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdocs

Elad Yoran held similar dual positions at Broadview International and Riptech.
I HAVE A RECORD OF HIS HAVING WORKED AT BROADVIEW 'PRIOR TO RIPTECH', BUT NOTHING MORE
http://www.fundingpost.com/venturefund/venture-fund-profile.asp?fund=220

Feb. 2001 – was Amit Yoran chief executive at Riptech?
YES SEE: http://www.symantec.com/press/2002/n020717b.html

Was Riptech founded by Elad and Amit Yoran? YES.
Was Elad vice president with Broadview prior to joining Riptech? YES http://www.fundingpost.com/venturefund/venture-fund-profile.asp?fund=220

Also important – Zaphrir ‘headed the research and development department of the Israel Air Force. Then from 1999, ‘actively managing the funds of Veritas’ (BUSINESS WEEK), and now a director of Guardium. Gil Zafrir (spelling Zaphrir)'actively managing funds of Veritas, and now a director of Guardium.
I have him down as a partner at Veritas, and a board member at Guardium
SEE: http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Zafrir_Gill_1106652167.aspx

MORE ON ELAD YORAN – founder of similar funding company called SECURITY GROWTH PARTNERS (SGP) YES

Point 19.

‘Mr.Y also advises govt. and infrastructure organisations on security and business risk matters.’
YES - http://www.securitygrowth.com/leadership.asp

'ILAN YURAN IS ANOTHER ISRAELI SPELLING OF THE SAME NAME'
ON THE CONTRARY, THE HEBREW NAME WEBSITE SAYS THAT ILAN IS ANOTHER SPELLING OF ELAN - ELAD SEEMS TO HAVE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT MEANING. Given this, what is CB's point here?

BOLLYN RESPONDS: The fact-checker has misread what I wrote here. I am mentioning Ilan Juran, not Yuran. The matter is not about the first name but the surname. This is the paragraph in question:

The list of Elad Yoran's advisors and partners at SGP is very interesting. It includes his brother Amit Yoran, of course, and previously included another Israeli named Ilan Juran, which is another spelling of the same Israeli name.

Ilan Juran works at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York. Juran is director of the US-Israel Civil Infrastructure Security Program, an initiative of the Urban Utility Center, which he is "executive director" of. Juran's program is "designed to foster collaboration, as well as knowledge and technology sharing, between the U.S. and Israel governments and critical infrastructure organizations."

Question: IY director of the US-Israel Civil Infrastructure security program ‘designed to foster collaboration, as well as knowledge and technology sharing, between the U.S. and Israel governments and critical infrastructure organisations.’
CERTAINLY HEAD OF ITS PARENT ORGANISATION - listed as ED of Urban Utility Center SEE: http://uuc1.poly.edu/members.cfm
said on one Islamic website to be parent company of the programme.

Another adviser at SGP, a co-founder of Riptech, Tim Belcher
CORRECT, RE. RIPTECH. SEE: http://www.netwitness.com/company/managementteam.aspx
and SGP http://www.securitygrowth.com/advisors.asp

Mr. Belcher has also conducted security assessments of some of the nation’s most critical infrastructure components, including the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Control Network. He has also worked with government organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Space and Naval Warfare Command.
CORRECT - SEE: http://www.securitygrowth.com/advisors.asp

JEREMY KROLL

Managing director of Marsh Kroll
Yes, from 2005-2007. Before that 2000-2002 director of operations and eventually general manager of Kroll's fast growing information security group. 2002-2005, head of marketing and sales for Kroll - http://www.kroll.com/services/ifai/professionals/jeremykroll/
and also on the board at SGP.
CORRECT - SEE: http://www.securitygrowth.com/advisors.asp

Point 20.

Marsh Kroll, a division of Marsh and McLennan Co.
SINCE 2004
SEE: http://www.mmc.com/news/pressReleases_196.php

KROLL SECURITY AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

Kroll Associates was responsible for "revamping security at the World Trade Center after the 1993 terrorist bombing," Douglas Frantz of the New York Times reported in 1994.
CORRECT - SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Hauer

This is a crucial point because those who controlled security at the WTC are prime suspects in the demolition of the twin towers.

I THOUGHT THE PRIME SUSPECT REMAINED AL QAEDA, AND THAT KROLL ARE ONLY SUSPECTS AMONG - TO USE WIKIPEDIA'S UNFLATTERING PHRASE - 'CONSPIRACY THEORISTS', and the 'demolition' of the twin towers remains a hotly contested theory. Several times in this article, CB in fact seems to refer to ideas which are - openly - highly debatable, controversial, inconclusive and unproven, and then to refer to them as though they are established facts. Whether this is self-deceptive or actively misleading is open to question.

It was directly into the computer room of Marsh (Kroll) USA in the North Tower that the first plane struck, or was guided, on 9-11.
I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO VERIFY THIS, THOUGH AS FAR AS I CAN SEE, MARSH KROLL WERE CERTAINLY ON FLOORS 93-100 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tenants_in_One_World_Trade_Center
AND THE PLANE, REPUTEDLY, HIT THE 99TH FLOOR.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1340614/Worker-watched-brother's-office-as-plane-struck.html

ALSO, SEE: 9/11 Commission report - AAF 11 cut through floors 93-99. Marsh Kroll, floors 93-100.

Point 21.

Testimony from Larry Silverstein and physical evidence indicate WTC 7 was demolished with explosives and Thermite.
THE WORD 'TESTIMONY' HERE IS MISLEADING, MAKING THIS SOUND FAR MORE SUBSTANTIAL THAN IT IS. WHAT IS PRESUMABLY REFERS TO IS SILVERSTEIN'S COMMENT ON PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING THAT HE GAVE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE FIRE BRIGADE TO 'PULL IT' WHEN HE SAW THAT WTC7 WAS UNSAVABLE.

THE PROBLEMS WITH THIS ARE OBVIOUS. FIRSTLY, THIS HAS SINCE BEEN ESTABLISHED AS A FIRE BRIGADE TERM MEANING 'TO PULL THE FIRE BRIGADE OUT', AND IS REINFORCED BY BLANCHARD'S (SEE NEXT POINT FOR WEBSITE) POINT BELOW THAT HE HAS NEVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION 'PULL IT' IN DEMOLITION WORK. QUITE APART FROM THIS, ARE WE EXPECTED TO BELIEVE THAT SILVERSTEIN, WHO CB AND OTHERS BELIEVE WERE INVOLVED IN WHATEVER PLOT TOOK PLACE, WOULD MAKE SUCH A SCANDALOUS ADMISSION ON PBS? OR IS IT MORE LIKELY THAT HE ADMITTED HE SIMPLY GAVE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE FIREMEN NOT TO CONTINUE WITH WHAT SEEMED A FRUITLESS OPERATION? I THINK WE CAN AGREE ON WHAT IS MORE LIKELY. THE FACT THAT THIS HAS BEEN SKATED OVER BY CB IS, I THINK, RATHER WORRYING, AND A SIGNIFICANT FLAW IN THE ARTICLE, PARTICULARLY AS THIS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THEORY BECOMES 'EVIDENTLY' IN THE NEXT LINE. FOR A REFUTATION OF THE DEMOLITION CLAIMS, SEE:
http://www.jod911.com/WTC%20COLLAPSE%20STUDY%20BBlanchard%208-8-06.pdf

Getting control of WTC security something Israeli intelligence had ‘actively sought’ since 1987.
AGAIN, THIS IS OPEN TO QUESTION - CERTAINLY ISRAELI FIRMS HAVE. BUT IS THIS THE SAME THING?

Isser Harrel – Shin Bet (?) 1948-1952 and Mossad 1947-1963. Positions?
Head of Mossad 1952, head of Shin Bet 1948 - 1952.

9/11 ‘a plan that was first articulated by Isser Harel in 1979’.
THIS MAKES IT SOUND AS THOUGH HE WAS ARTICULATING HIS OWN PLAN, PLEASE SEE BELOW.

‘Both Haganah and Irgun involved in the terror bombings of the King David Hotel’.
Irgun, yes. Haganah, yes.
SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haganah

Harel was ‘evidently involved’.
CERTAINLY HAREL WAS A MEMBER OF HAGANAH http://www.shabak.gov.il/English/History/heads/Pages/IsserHarel.aspx
BUT IS THERE ANY 'EVIDENT' INVOLVEMENT IN THIS? AGAIN, ONE HAS TO WATCH OUT FOR THAT WORD 'EVIDENTLY' - I'M AFRAID, REPEATEDLY A MISLEADING ONE IN THIS ARTICLE.

Point 22.

Prediction to Michael D.Evans, ‘an American Zionist missionary’. ‘a hard line Zionist Jew who poses as a Christian’.
ONE TO CHECK UP WITH CB. I CAN FIND NO EVIDENCE THAT MICHAEL D.EVANS IS A HARD LINE ZIONIST JEW (AND THE SURNAME 'EVANS' WOULD HARDLY SUGGEST IT). IS HE NOT RATHER A CHRISTIAN EVANGELIST WHO RATHER RABIDLY SUPPORTS THE STATE OF ISRAEL - AS INDEED DO MANY NON-JEWISH AMERICANS?

BOLLYN RESPONDS: Here I am assuming that the reader has read the previous chapter about "America The Target." The fact-checker says that he "can find no evidence that Michael D Evans is a hard line Zionist Jew" but his source is the same as mine – it is the Evans interview from www.beliefnet.com

In an earlier chapter of the book I discuss Evan's Jewish roots. The fact that he supported and worked with people like Menachem Begin show his Zionist credentials:

Michael D. Evans certainly does not represent Christians or Christianity. He is a Zionist wolf in disguise. Evans' only mission is to deceive Christians into supporting the most extreme and militant Zionist agenda.

In a 2004 interview, Evans claims that his "mother's grandfather was burned to death in his synagogue in Minsk, Russia." He also says that he was subjected to anti-Semitic abuse by Catholics growing up in Massachusetts.

Evans was asked: Do you think your mission now has to do with the fact that you are Jewish?

"One-hundred percent," was Evans' response.

Source: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=114012

The original source on Evans is from page 3 of the same source that Ashenden found:
"Is America in Bible Prophecy?" (An interview with Michael D. Evans)
http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/End-Times/Is-America-In-Bible-Prophecy.aspx?p=3

My mother's grandfather was burned to death in his synagogue in Minsk Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church members boarded it up and burned the whole congregation alive and wrote "Christ-killers" on the walls as they burned it to death. Her aunts and uncles were burned to death in Auschwitz and called "Christ-killers" during that period of time. My mother survived and moved to America, but as a child, I pushed her grocery cart to the grocery store. Catholics and others would drive by in their cars and throw rocks at me and my mother, calling her a "kike" a "Jew witch," a "Christ-killer."

This was in the 1950s in Massachusetts. I was beat up for being a Jew. I was told as a little child, "You murdered Christ." I heard that over and over, by Christians who were anti-Semites.

My father would go get drunk every Friday night at the Twilight Café, and he'd come home and beat up my mother and accuse her of being a whore. She'd wear sunglasses a lot because she'd have black eyes. And then he'd go to church Sunday and sing "Amazing Grace." And haul us to church. And beat us with extension chords if we didn't have devotions. Now six of my brothers and sisters will not enter a church because of this. My mother hardened her heart to the Gospel of Jesus Christ because of this.

Question:
Harel ‘Phallic symbol’
– why shouldn’t Harel have gleaned this as an Arab plan from intelligence? If Michael D.Evans if really a 'hard line' Zionist, why would he have revealed such a compromising detail from the founder of Israeli intelligence in an easily accessed interview? If indeed, as David Duke's website has put it, 'Mossad prides itself on "infiltrating every sizable militant Palestinian and Arab organization on earth"' it is surely more likely that Harel simply knew his stuff re.the Arabs, and had heard whisperings. To skip from such a tenuous hypothesis to the word 'evidently' in next line again seems either self-deceiving, or an attempt to railroad the reader. The Michael D.Evans piece can be found at http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/End-Times/Is-America-In-Bible-Prophecy.aspx

‘a team of senior Israeli intelligence agents, men who had worked directly under Isser Harel for decades, obtained the security contract from Port Authority of New York, who owned and operated the World Trade Center.’
THIS WOULD SEEM CORRECT: SEE WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE ONLINE AT http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1316378.html

HOWEVER, AND THIS IS KEY: Edward J. O'Sullivan also said that the Port Authority had solicited Israeli firms for advice on the Port Authority's security, 'because of that country's expertise in dealing with security problems'. SEE: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1316378.html

In other words: IS THERE SOMETHING SINISTER ABOUT THE MOSSAD INVOLVEMENT IN THE PA'S SECURITY, OR WERE THESE JUST EX-AGENTS EXPLOITING, IN THE BEST WAY THEY COULD, WHAT THEY HAD BEEN TRAINED TO DO BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE? AND WHO WENT TO WHOM?

‘was evidently planned decades in advance’.
AGAIN, 'EVIDENTLY', WHEN 'CONCEIVABLY' IS THE MORE ACCURATE WORD.

Port authorities also managed operations at the airports.
CORRECT: http://www.panynj.gov/

Prior to complex being leased to Larry Silverstein in late July 2001.
ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA, YES. BUT ACCORDING TO NYTIMES, THE DATE WAS APRIL 27TH (SEE:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E3DA1339F934A15757C0A9679C8B63

BOLLYN RESPONDS: It is a well-documented fact that Silverstein signed the lease, and closed the deal on the World Trade Center, on July 24, 2001. It was reported in the New York Post on July 25, 2001 in an article entitled "Signed, Sealed and Delivered" and in Newsday on the same day under the headline "World Trade Center $3.2 B lease signed." The haggling over the lease with other bidders had gone on a long time and then, after the Vornado realty company left the negotiations, it took until July 24 to close the deal.

Point 23.

Contract with Attwell security cancelled after the PA learned that Attwell was headed by Avraham Shalom Ben Dor. ‘aka Avraham Shalom or Bendor’.
THIS IS CORRECT: SEE WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE ONLINE AT http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1316378.html

Point 24.

Edward J. O'Sullivan, director of the office of special plans at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, simply said that the contract with Atwell Security of Tel Aviv had been terminated because "we are no longer satisfied with the agreement," the Washington Post reported in April 1987.
(DITTO)

O’Sullivan told him PA’s legal office had told him not to comment. However, O’S said he acted after reporter enquired about contract, and Bendor acknowledged he was also Avraham Shalom.
(CORRECT: SEE SAME WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE).

The executives running the Port Authority in 1987 and the mayor and his first deputy,
All Zionist Jews (?????) KOCH HIMSELF HAS TAKEN ISSUE WITH THIS LABEL, DESCRIBING THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE ORIGINAL ZIONISTS AND THE MODIFIED ZIONISTS (OR SUPPORTERS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL) - HIS DEFINITION HERE SEEMS FAIRLY LUCID AND RESTRAINED.
http://www.nypress.com/19/35/news&columns/opinion.cfm
IT SEEMS ONCE AGAIN THAT IN THIS ARTICLE 'ZIONIST' IS BEING USED IMPRECISELY, AND WITHOUT DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN DIFFERING TYPES OF ZIONISM (RELIGIOUS, NATIONALIST AND LIBERAL, TO NAME BUT THREE KINDS).

Point 25.

…certainly must have been aware of the PA decision to hire a company run by a senior Mossad agent to provide security for the airports, ports, commuter trains, and World Trade Center under its authority. The people who made the decision to give the security contract to Avraham Bendor's Atwell Security of Tel Aviv certainly must have known that Zvi Malkin was a senior Mossad agent; they had negotiated with him, after all.
IT WOULD SEEM INDEED THAT ZVI MALKIN DID OPERATE AS REPRESENTATIVE FOR ATWELL.
SEE WASHINGTON POST http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1316378.html

Executive director of PA in 1985
(YES)

Stephen Berger. Berger, who is Jewish, is a membor of the board of NY’s citizens budget commission with fellow Zionist Jews Larry Silversterstein and Felix Rohatyn.
CORRECT THAT THEY SERVE ON THE BOARD -
http://cityfile.com/lists/citizens-budget-commission-board
ZIONISTS?

BOLLYN RESPONDS: Larry Silverstein was national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) which is the main fundraiser for Israel in the United States. Felix Rohatyn has played similar roles in his support of Israel.

SB therefore executive director of PA when Atwell, a ‘Mossad company’, received the security contract.
SB WAS ED AT PA FROM 1985-1990 http://www.nyhealthcarecommission.org/members/bios/berger.htm
SO YES.

Point 26.

‘It is hard to imagine that Brezenoff, whose Yiddish-speaking grandparents immigrated to the US from Russia and Austria, was unaware of the deal to give the security contract to Atwell security of Tel Aviv.’
I THINK WE CAN BOTH AGREE, THIS SENTENCE DOES NOT ADD UP.

BOLLYN RESPONDS: Here is the sentence in the context of the article:

Stanley Brezenoff, who later became executive director of the PA in 1990, was Deputy Mayor for Operations and First Deputy Mayor under Mayor Edward Irving Koch (1978-89) at the time the Port Authority's security contract was being negotiated with a senior Mossad agent. Brezenoff was "the second most powerful official in the Koch adminstration and was the government's chief operating officer, often serving as acting Mayor in Mr. Koch's absence," according to the New York Times.

Brezenoff directed the day-to-day operations of city agencies, including police, fire, and transportation. It is hard to imagine that Brezenoff, whose Yiddish-speaking grandparents had immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s from Russia and Austria, was unaware of the deal to give the PA security contract to Atwell Security of Tel Aviv. Malkin was, after all, a legendary figure among the Zionist Jews of New York.

The point is that in 1987, when the old Mossadniks got the security contract for the Port Authority, Brezenoff was deputy mayor of New York. In this position, he must have been aware of the contract with Atwell security and the fact that it was a Mossad-linked company.

Point 27.

The Washington Post revealed the serious nature of the crimes Malkin, Shalom, and Eitan were involved in when it reported in 1986 that Rafi Eitan, posing as a chemist, had travelled, in 1968, to the Pennsylvania nuclear processing plant that secretly diverted several hundred kilograms of weapons-grade uranium to Israel. A declassified FBI document shows that another Israeli, "Abraham Bendor, department of electronics," accompanied Eitan on that trip.
EITAN CORRECT, Israel's Secret War p. 419.

Malkin and the same Avraham Bendor were later named as the senior Israeli intelligence agents who obtained the security contract for the World Trade Center in 1987, only to lose the contract when Bendor's criminal past was discovered.
YES, INDEED.

Rafi Eitan, Zvi Malkin, and Avraham Ben-Dor were working together on super-secret Israeli missions from 1960 through 1987,
WHAT ARE THESE?
when they obtained the security contract with the Port Authority, the owner of the World Trade Center.

BOLLYN RESPONDS: Well, super-secret missions like kidnapping Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and obtaining weapons-grade uranium illegally from the U.S. for Israel's illegal nuclear weapons arsenal. Is this not made clear in the context?

Point 29.

1993 Maurice Greenberg (through China, close to Eisenberg, owner of Atwell security), becomes partner of Kroll, so linked with Shalom.
CERTAINLY CEO OF AIG, OF WHICH KROLL WAS CHAIRMAN, AND WHICH BOUGHT A LARGE SHARE OF KROLL.

Jules Kroll knew Kenneth Bialkin and Larry Silverstein through Citizens' Budget Commission.
SEEMS LIKELY: SEE BUSINESS WEEK http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/relationship.asp?personId=8159649&capId=39033945&previousCapId=91031&previousTitle=News%20Corp
though it is worth stressing that the acquaintance need not have been very intimate - the same sight lists approximately 140 people serving on the Citizens' Budget Commission.

Point 30.

Maurice Greenberg and Jules Kroll connected to key players of 911. Became partners in 1993, same year Kroll chosen for PA.
CANNOT ASCERTAIN IF THEY BECAME PARTNERS IN THIS YEAR, THOUGH THE DATE IS CORRECT FOR AWARDING OF PA CONTRACT. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401EEDC1738F932A3575AC0A962958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3

Greenberg's son Jeffrey W. became CEO of MMC in 1999 (MMC being parent company of Marsh Kroll).
YES - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_/ai_57621872

Lewis Bremer, US proconsul, joined Marsh Kroll's crisis group after 911.
YES - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_/ai_79049235

Point 31.

Kroll revamped security at WTC and airports.
YES: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401EEDC1738F932A3575AC0A962958260

Also hired by Kuwait in October 1990 to find hidden wealth of Saddam.
CORRECT, SECOND PART. http://www.kroll.com/about/history/notable/

2003 - Kroll receives contracts to provide protection in Iraq.
CERTAINLY CORRECT THAT SECURITY FIRM HAS BEEN WORKING IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, http://www.kroll.com/news/releases/index.aspx?id=16667

BUT HAVEN'T YET ESTABLISHED IF THE DATE IS CORRECT.

Kroll's son, Jeremy M.Kroll, MD at Marsh Kroll, and has been GM at Kroll's information security group. Responsible for business and strategic development, business intelligence, investigations, forensic accounting, and security services, http://www.nycp.org/pressReleases/2005/pr_101705_Rockefeller%2005-06.htmleg

ALSO ON BOARD AT CHALLENGE FUND:

1) Israel's national security adviser. APPARENTLY DAVID IVRY AGAIN.
2) former head of Shin Bet. JACOB PERRY
3) former Directors General of Ministries of Foreign affairs and defence. DAVID IVRY
4) Former commanders of Israel air force. DAVID IVRY
5) Son of Yitzhak Shamir. (in the past YES, 1995-97 http://duns100.dundb.co.il/2007/managers/56.asp

FUND uses its money to fund Israeli companies like Viryanet.
CORRECT: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_/ai_69401094

Point 32.

Funds managed by the 'Challenge Partners' - all Israelis, of course,
CORRECT: http://www.challenge.co.il/pages/team.asp

…headed JOSEPH CIECHANOVER (IMPORTANT: among other things, Director General of Israel's ministry for foreign affairs, head of Israel's defence mission to the US, and General Counsel to Israel ministries of Defence and Agriculture.)
CORRECT

Point 33.

Another partner - Major General Ilan Biran, Chairman of the Board of Rafael Armament Development Authority, former DG of Israeli Ministry of Defence. SECOND PART TRUE, CHECK FIRST PART, yes, first part true as well. http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3306325

On 'advisory board' with Jeremy Kroll.

David Ivry - Commander of Israel Air Force (1977-1982), DG of Ministry of Defence (1986-96), Israel's chief rep. to the US-Israel strategic dialogue, Ambassador to the US 2000-2002.
CORRECT: http://www.challenge.co.il

Point 34.

Ivry also directed the IAF's criminal destruction of the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq. Ivry clearly has a history of directing criminal actions using aircraft. IT WOULD APPEAR HE DID DIRECT THIS: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ivry.html

Also, Israel's Secret Wars p.335 (Ian Black and Benny Morris, Hamish Hamilton1991) WHETHER HE HAS A 'HISTORY' OF SUCH THINGS IS DEBATABLE.

BOLLYN RESPONDS: Ivry was commander of the IAF when they bombed Iraq's reactor, which was a crime. Ivry was also commander of the squadron that attacked the USS Liberty. Being involved in two major war crimes using airplanes in 15 years seems to warrant having a 'history' of such things.

Here is the context:

From October 1977 to the end of 1982 [i.e. during the period of the most egregious criminal aerial assaults on Lebanon], Ivry commanded the Israel Air Force (IAF). Ivry also directed the IAF's criminal destruction of the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq. Ivry clearly has a history of directing criminal actions using aircraft.

In 1962, David Ivry became the commander of the first Israeli squadron of the French Dassault Mirage fighter jet. During the six-day war of 1967, Ivry served as a Mirage pilot and the commander of the Myst?re squadron. Ivry was either personally involved in the criminal Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty with Mirage fighters or commanded those who were. Thirty-four American servicemen lost their lives in the Israeli attack. In any case, Ivry has clearly been involved in numerous war crimes and has shown very little regard for American lives.

'either personally involved in the criminal Israeli attack on the USS liberty with Mirage fighters or commanded those who were.'
YES, BUT THIS WAS ADMITTED TO BE AN ERROR, AND THOUGH THERE IS MURK SURROUNDING THE INCIDENT, THE EVIDENCE - AND COMMON SENSE - POINTS TOWARDS THIS BEING EFFECTIVELY A 'FRIENDLY FIRE' BLUNDER ATTACK ON AN ALLY. THIS IS IMPORTANT, AS THE ARTICLE REVOLVES AROUND AN ISRAELI WILLINGNESS TO COMMIT ATROCITIES AGAINST A PUTATIVE ALLY.

BOLLYN RESPONDS: The Israeli claim that it had mistakenly bombed the USS Liberty has been thoroughly exposed as a lie. This has been proven from A to Z. The Israelis jammed U.S. radio frequencies and even reported to base that the ship was American – but still went ahead and attacked it – as ordered -- to sink it. Of course Israel said it was a mistake. What do you expect? Do you think the Israelis would ever admit that they had bombed the USS Liberty on purpose?

Question: Jacob Perry - head of Shin Bet
CORRECT http://www.challenge.co.il

Challenge Fund has also been managed by Yair Shamir,
YES, 1995-97
http://duns100.dundb.co.il/2007/managers/56.asp

- son of Yitzhak - Zionist terrorist involved in numerous assassinations.
THIS 2ND STATEMENT SEEMS TO BE THE CASE - SHAMIR MEMBER OF STERN GANG AND LEHI. Also, Israel's Secret Wars, p. 96, BUT THIS OF COURSE IS THE FATHER, AND NOT THE SON.

Yair - 'attained rank of Colonel in AF, and served as head of electronics department, highest position etc...'
CORRECT. SEE: http://www.shalem.org.il/about/?did=54&aid=8f252f38cccb74674cdfef50a7a604ca

Point 35.

These are the kind of high-level Israeli intelligence agents that work with Jeremy Kroll on the "advisory board" of the Challenge Fund. Kroll brings a degree in fine arts (French and Italian) from Georgetown and his executive position with Kroll to the table. Who do you think makes the decisions in this group?
AGAIN, OPEN TO QUESTION. ALTHOUGH THE LEADERSHIP HAS, AMONG OTHERS, ILAN BIRAN, THE BOARD CURRENTLY HAS 10 MEMBERS, ONLY TWO OF WHICH, IVRY AND PERRY, SEEM TO HAVE A BACKGROUND IN THE IDF.

Is Henry Kissinger Setting Obama's Foreign Policy?

Americans who voted for the change promised by Barack Obama would probably have been disturbed to see Henry Kissinger, an 85-year-old "warhorse" from the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War era meeting with the leaders of Russia during an "informal" summit on March 19-20. Kissinger's recent meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was actually his third meeting, at least, since Medvedev was elected and his second since Obama was elected. So who's running U.S. foreign policy?

One might ask, "This is change?" Isn't Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in charge of U.S. foreign policy? What position does Henry Kissinger have in the Obama administration and why is he meeting with the Russian leadership before Clinton and Obama? Who does Henry Kissinger serve and why is he crafting U.S. foreign policy?

The best answer to these questions came directly from Obama's National Security Adviser, Jim Jones, when he spoke in Munich's Hotel Bayerischer Hof on February 8, 2009:

Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.

Jim Jones, Obama's National Security Adviser, admitted that he takes his daily orders from Dr. Henry Kissinger. He was not joking. His speech can be read on the White House website.

This is how the Chicago Tribune and its sister paper the Los Angeles Times explained Kissinger's recent visit to Moscow:

To "reset" relations with Russia, an old diplomatic warhorse is back on the path. Henry Kissinger, the architect of Cold War detente with the Soviet Union, met informally with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to try to smooth over a new generation of animosities between the countries.

And:

The octogenarian Republican is an improbable emissary to push the diplomatic line of a young Democratic president. But here he was in Moscow on Friday [March 20]: Henry Kissinger, the architect of Cold War detente with the Soviet Union, meeting informally with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to try to smooth over a new generation of animosities between the two countries.

Interfax, the Russian news service, reported that the purpose of Kissinger's visit was to help organize a meeting between Obama and Medvedev and arrange Obama's visit to Moscow. The White House denied that Kissinger had been sent by President Barack Obama. "They're private citizens and not there at the behest of the White House," said an administration official, discussing the contacts on condition of anonymity. "But they did inform the White House beforehand."

Wait a minute. If the White House did not send Kissinger, but Kissinger is organizing a meeting between Presidents Obama and Medvedev, who is really running the White House and why is Kissinger discussing U.S. foreign policy with the leaders of Russia? This visit by Kissinger to Moscow is the clearest signal to that the Obama White House is controlled by Kissinger and his fellow Elders of Zion. Why else has the news of this visit been suppressed in the mainstream media.

Obama, it should be remembered, refused to comment on Israel's criminal assault on Gaza in January because he did not think it was proper, as president-elect, to voice his opinion while George W. Bush was still president. Obama said that he would "have plenty to say" about Gaza after January 20, yet he has not said anything meaningful about the situation and kept his envoy from even visiting the devastated Gaza Strip. Well, Mr. Obama, how proper is it for Henry Kissinger to speak for the United States government to the Russian leaders?

Kissinger, it should be noted, is very close to Maurice "Hank" Greenberg the former head of A.I.G., the corrupt insurance company which has funneled a large part of the incredible amount of $180 billion received from the U.S. government to private banks such as Goldman Sachs. Kissinger became chairman of A.I.G.'s International Advisory Board in 1987. Greenberg's name, like Kissinger's, is kept out of the media discussion of A.I.G., which is like talking about the development of Ford Motor Company without mentioning Henry Ford. Why is Kissinger's role in crafting U.S. policy and in the criminally corrupt A.I.G. not discussed in the U.S. media as he discusses U.S. foreign policy with Russia's leaders?
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