Netanyahu Speech to US Congress

It isn’t this arrogant criminal’s speech that is shocking the World. We all recognize his brand of violent sectarianism and aggressive racism. The shock comes from seeing the US lawmakers, elected by a free nation where every adult has a vote, applauding this criminal’s open declarations of every aggressive stance he claimed and standing ovation after standing ovation for his deplorable lack of humanity towards his fellow countrymen in Palestine.

Professor of Journalism, Peter Beinart, watched this disgraceful behaviour with Fadi Quran, a young Palestinian who is helping to coordinate Palestinian youth organization in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria; all united around one goal: to create a Palestinian Tahrir Square. They organized the unity march that helped pressure Fatah and Hamas to reconcile. Ten days ago, they organized the Nakba Day protests in which refugees marched on Israel’s borders resulting in a number of deaths. The protestors unarmed while the Israeli army fired live bullets.
Quran and his associates have been studying the Civil Rights movement and Gandhi’s struggle against the British and the movement that peacefully brought down Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia. No one wants a second intifada, he insisted. “It hurt us much more than the Israelis.” Events in Egypt and Tunisia made Quran and his colleagues realize that nonviolence was possible on a much larger scale.
Beinhart claims that “anyone who has spent any time around Congress knows that many of the people who applauded Netanyahu—the Jewish Democrats in particular—don’t actually support his policies. Privately, many consider settlement expansion a catastrophe and the occupation a disgrace.” The excuse he offers for this extraordinary behaviour is that “they don’t want to create headaches for themselves”. “Could they say what they really believe and get reelected? Probably—after all, incumbents are very hard to beat. But who needs the hassle?”
I would suggest the people of Palestine who have suffered for decades do!
“What we want to do next,” Fadi added, “is freedom rides, like in the South. We’ll board settler-only buses and make them arrest us or beat us up.” He mentioned that many American Jews had participated in the civil rights movement. “So how will American Jews react if we do this,” he asked? “Do you think we’ll get any support, given your history?”
Professor Beinhart has little faith in the hearts and minds of his nation. I think stranger things have happened, who would have believed the fall of Mubarak et al when we were enjoying our Christmas dinners this year? It is a time of change and it has been too long coming.
Article adapted from Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, who is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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On Monday night, May 23, five brave activists disrupted Netanyahu's speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Gala and were also met with assaults. The young women who had spoken out were subjected not only to assault, but to sexual groping by male AIPAC attendees. But these activists felt compelled to speak out against Netanyahu's claim that returning to the 1967 borders would be "indefensible," when it is Israeli policies that are really indefensible: starving Gaza, occupying and stealing land, bulldozing homes, silencing dissent. The same day, at a press conference at the National Press Club about military aid to Israel and the dangerous role of the Israel Lobby, activist Allison Weir had her phone slugged out of her hand by an angry Zionist This sounds eerily similar to the alleged democracy in Israel where Palestinians and Israelis are routinely assaulted, arrested and jailed for speaking out against the Israeli occupation.

For the Palestinian people who live under Israel's 44-year-old military occupation, violence dominates everyday life. Zinad Samouni of Gaza is a living testament to this oppressive reality. She lost 48 family members during Israel's December 2008 bombardment of Gaza, and hers became yet another tragic story in a long history of home demolitions, land confiscation, and systematic violation of the Palestinians' basic human rights. After the massacre of the Samouni family, Israeli soldiers left behind racist graffiti such as "ARabs need 2 die'' and "1 is DOWN 999,999 TO GO."
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John Hill aka Muad’dib, creator of 7/7 Ripple Effect Not Guilty

A further blow has been dished out to the British Government attempts to get away with the 7/7 false flag terrorist event in London. I am really pleased to report that a jury has found Maud’dib aka John Hill not guilty of trying to pervert the course of justice.

The government has been besieged by truth seekers since the many different and conflicting reports came out. The final official story was released as a ‘narrative’ compiled by ‘a senior civil servant’ (so far unnamed) because Tony Blair claimed that an official enquiry would be a ‘ludicrous diversion’: An opinion that is not shared by the families of the victims or, indeed, by the great majority of thinking people in Britain.

John Hill, under the alias Muad’Dib, looked into the events in great depth and produced the film ‘ 7/7 Ripple Effect’ which is freely available on You tube. In the movie he discusses many of the anomalies found between the official report and the evidence.

Already reeling from internet criticism of their stance, the government had to suffer defeat by jury when three suspects, charged with being complicit in the bombing, were found not guilty. This led to increasing cries for a full enquiry from many sources.

In an effort to quieten these voices, an inquiry into the culpability of MI5 and the emergency departments for the deaths was held in 2011. It was not devised to look into the official narrative and the culpability of the four alleged bombers was taken as proven.

John Hill objected most strongly to this assertion and felt justice could not be served under these circumstances. Guilt had not been proven to the satisfaction of many people and an enquiry based on the assertion that it had been would be a lie.

In an attempt to show this, John Hill aka Muad’dib sent copies of his DVD quite openly to the head of the jury and to the presiding judge c/o the court.

He was extradited from Ireland earlier this year in a very dubious judgement by the Irish Supreme Court.  He has been kept in jail for over 150 days for this non-crime that has to be of concern to every citizen who values their freedom.

Yesterday he was free at last. Thank goodness for trial by jury.

Scottish Elections 2011

Congratulations SNP on a great election result. Congratulations for being the most enthusiastic and hard working people out there for the past two months. Congratulations also for all the honesty, intelligence and determination shown in the work done by those previously elected in national and council elections because the trust shown in this party is utterly down to their hard work over the years.

This is an amazing event in Scotland and none of the detractors can ever deny that. Their hope was always that the SNP would fall into all the power traps of the other parties and the electorate would abandon them soon enough. In the strong hands of Alex Salmond the opposite has happened. In spite of the most severe economic crisis, the people of Scotland have overwhelmingly shown that they have trust in allowing the SNP to carry the country through this time.

Typically Alex started right off with a speech that brought the other parties into the political arena rather than shutting them out of the proceedings. This willingness to talk and include in a positive way is the number one reason for the switch in the electorate. People have been telling the other parties for years that they were sick and tired of the political backstabbing and rhetoric. Only the SNP have shown themselves to actually be mature enough to deserve to be in government. If the rest of the UK parties behaved as responsible adults, the results could well have been quite different.

The main policies outlined in Alex’s speech are those designed to give more real power to our devolved Scottish Parliament. The arguments rage over the effects that the changes will mean to the Scottish taxpayer. There will obviously be costs involved in the implementation of a new system. From my own point of view, Scotland becoming autonomous has to be worth it. We have long seen all our precious money being sucked into the Westminster purse. I have always said I would never give my wage packet to my neighbour and ask them to dish out my cash and give me what she thinks I need to live on. It will be a source of pride for our nation to have our power back at last.

With special reference to our construction industry, Alex acknowledges Labour’s support in asking for the power to raise the extra cash Scotland needs to get her economy moving again. The current restrictions mean that our ‘overlords’ still hold the purse strings even though we, as a nation, have emphatically rejected their management of our economy.

Currently, Scottish Ministers have no powers to raise extra resources by borrowing or sanctioning borrowing. ‘Borrowing sanctioned by Scottish Ministers is included within the Scottish Administration's Assigned Budget and must be offset by reductions in other spending.’

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/Finance/spfm/borrowingetc

An even greater fight lies ahead in regaining the control of our land and sea resources from the Crown Estate Commission. The support of the Lib Dems in this is welcomed. It is time for us to ensure we have the benefit of our vast renewable wealth of offshore resources after the long years of the theft of our oil and gas reserves.

A report by Highlands and Islands Enterprise and six local authorities in the region said: “There are relatively few public benefits in Scotland from the way these Scottish resources are managed at present, most notably the Crown Estate Commission’s management of Scotland’s territorial seabed and continental shelf rights and approximately half of Scotland’s foreshore.

“The very limited accountability in Scotland over the management of these Scottish resources has also become worse since devolution.”

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/scotland-takes-step-closer-to-controlling-her-seas-1.1077591

All parties are convinced that we need to devolve corporation tax to keep our industries competitive. I doubt that Westminster can hold that back from us for very long now.

The SNP all want the very best for Scotland but they will have to become as good as our Scottish tennis hero, Andy Murray, at deflecting the media and political parties’ ridiculous focus on independence and the referendum back to the important issues that we are currently working on.

As far as independence goes, I think we have a long hard journey ahead before we can prove to the Scottish people that she is ready for that move.

‘Yes’, I want independence for Scotland with every fibre of my being and ‘Yes’ I am utterly delighted to see the trust Scotland has put in the party that stands for independence. But, personally, I think we have still to prove to a great number of people that we have all the resources we need to go it alone.

We also have to bring the Central Belt on board with that dream. So far they have just started to show a bit of faith in the possibility.

If our elected members can navigate the troubled waters ahead and take us into the next election with pride and confidence in their achievements, I would say we will be a long way towards getting the dream result. Until then, we have to find a way to make clear to the media and the troublemaker’s that their focus on that question is boring, bullying and that the people of Scotland see right through their tactics.