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Fearing 9-11 Protests Netanyahu Cancels U.S. Visit
Fearing 9-11 Protests Netanyahu Cancels U.S. VisitUpdated - April 9, 2010 But when it comes to acts of wickedness against men, and sacrilege against the gods, no expiation is possible. So the offenders pay the penalty, not necessarily imposed by the courts, but they are chased and hounded by the Furies, not with burning firebrands as in the plays, but with the torment of their conscience and the agony of their guilt. FEARING 9-11 PROTESTS NETANYAHU CANCELS U.S. TRIP Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has abruptly cancelled his trip to Washington, planned for next Monday and Tuesday to attend a conference on the spread of nuclear weapons. The Jerusalem Post writes that Netanyahu had suddenly cancelled his visit fearing Israel would be singled out over its own nuclear facilities. I don't think that is the real reason. I have reason to believe that my calls for Americans to protest Israel's involvement in 9-11 played a role in his decision to stay away. The fact that the Arab and Muslim states are calling for action to be taken on Israel's illegal nuclear arsenal is certainly not unexpected nor is it news to anyone (least of all the Israelis) whereas my call for 9-11 activists to protest his visit and bring public and media attention to Israel's role in the atrocity is certainly a new factor. Netanyahu does not want to face public protests raising questions about the Israeli false-flag terror of 9-11. "I'm not concerned that anyone would think that Israel is a terrorist regime," Netanyahu told the Associated Press on April 7. Most of the world, however, sees Netanyahu's Israel as exactly that - a terrorist regime running a terrorist state. Millions of Americans now know that Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, and their terrorist cronies in Israeli intelligence were behind 9-11.
The Jerusalem Post reports on April 9 that Netanyahu had said he would attend the conference to underline the dangers of terrorists acquiring nuclear weapons, but suddenly called off the trip less than two days after he announced he would take part. Israel's Army Radio reported that US sources informed Israel that a group of participating Arab countries led by Turkey and Egypt plan to use the summit to demand that Israel sign the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) and allow its alleged nuclear capabilities to be placed under international inspection. But there is certainly nothing new about this. It is to be expected at any conference in which nuclear weapons are discussed. In Washington, National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer confirmed that Israel had informed the US that Netanyahu would be staying home, sending his deputy, Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor, instead. Note: Israel's prime minister was scheduled to travel to the United States next Sunday or Monday with his accomplices in Israel's illegal nuclear weapons industry. I have made several calls for Americans to protest against these criminal terrorists loudly and point out Netanyahu's and Israel's involvement in 9-11 and call for his arrest. One day after I called for public protests on R.J. Hender's radio show on RBN, Hender was visited by two FBI agents at his home in Utah. The FBI is clearly out-of-line and acting illegally - like the Gestapo or the KGB - by harassing American patriots. The FBI has been spying on Americans, like me, for years. This outlaw agency is a clear danger to the republic. What was Ehud Olmert doing in New York City on 9-11 and why has this visit been kept secret? There are many more questions that I will put together to bring attention to Israel's central role in 9-11. From: "PM to take part in US nuke summit" by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2010 Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he will return to the US on Monday [April 12], to take part in President Barack Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit, just three weeks after he met with Obama in a meeting widely characterized as extremely difficult. * * * * * SOME DAY AMERICANS WILL AWAKEN to the heavy strategic price their own nation pays for indulging Israeli excesses. Israel may be successful in securing all of Jerusalem within its own borders. But it runs the historic risk of making itself, by a ghastly irony, a pariah state.
HOW CAN NETANYAHU AFFORD TO DEFY OBAMA AND INTERNATIONAL LAW? It is said that one can judge a man by the company he keeps. This is sage advice. It is true that one can judge a person's nature by the kind of people he associates with. This is also how one can identify and understand the connections between the members of the Zionist criminal network behind the terrorism of 9-11 and the massive financial scams of the past few years. As I pointed out when the Bernard Madoff scam surfaced, a small circle of people are involved in both 9-11 and the theft of some $50 billion by Madoff and company. One might wonder how Benjamin Netanyahu can afford to offend and insult the Obama administration so openly? The hubris of Netanyahu comes from his conceit - and the fact that he and his cronies have tucked away billions of stolen dollars, the missing billions from the Madoff scam, for example. THE SILVERSTEIN CONNECTION Benjamin Netanyahu and his former commander, Ehud Barak, are both very close friends and business associates with Larry Silverstein. Silverstein was a business partner on his Israeli tax-free zone project with Larry Tisch of CBS and the late Sy Syms Merns (the former Seymour Merinsky), who passed away in November 2009. Sy Syms, a member of the board of the Israeli Discount Bank of New York, was a close business partner of Bernard Madoff. This is the small circle of Zionist masterminds behind 9-11 and the Madoff rip-off.
See: "Is the Prosecutor Protecting Madoff's Fellow Conspirators?" March 17, 2009 As I wrote about the toothless prosecution of Madoff in May 2009: [Lev] Dassin, the scion of a family of Russian Zionists, is also handling the Madoff and Art Nadel cases. In the Madoff case, Dassin did not file the most obvious charge of conspiracy. He obviously accepted Madoff's statement that he had stolen the $50 billion all by himself and had no accomplices. According to Dassin's complaint against Madoff, his closest business partners, Sy Syms and Jacob Ezra Merkin, who funneled billions of dollars to his investment fund, were completely clueless and out of the loop. They just invested billions of dollars into a black hole. Is that believable? The conspicuous fact that Madoff's partners are the directors and owners of "private" Israeli banks (privatized under then finance minister Bibi Netanyahu) and have branches in Switzerland that are allowed to make use of Swiss secrecy laws is of no interest to Lev Dassin. Golly Lev, so where did the $50 billion go? When the massive Madoff rip-off emerged, I pointed out Madoff's close business connections to Ezra Merkin and Sy Syms Merns [born Seymour Merinsky in Brooklyn, 1926], who was a director of the Israel Discount Bank, an institution well-known for money laundering: The latest massive financial scandal is the giant $50 billion pyramid or ‘Ponzi’ scheme run by a New York Zionist Jew, Bernard Lawrence Madoff. Madoff was chairman of the Syms business school at Yeshiva University with his partner, Sy Merns, a.k.a. Sy Syms, who has been a director at Israel Discount Bank (IDB) since 1991. The IDB bank is well known for its money laundering business. Syms and the Israel discount bank On January 31, 2006, a controlling interest in the Bank was acquired by an investor group led by Matthew Bronfman and Rubin Schron. The deal gave Bronfman ownership of IDB's wholly owned subsidiary, the Israel Discount Bank of New York. Bronfman is a younger brother of Edgar Bronfman Jr., chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group Corp.
See: "Who is Bernie Madoff, the man behind the $50 billion fraud?" by Christopher Bollyn, December 12, 2008 Here a few key extracts from "Up in Smoke": Shortly after the events of September 11, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Larry Silverstein, a Jewish real estate magnate in New York, the owner of the World Trade Center's 110-story Twin Towers and a close friend, to ask how he was. Since then they have spoken a few more times. Two former prime ministers - Benjamin Netanyahu, who this week called Silverstein a "friend," and Ehud Barak, whom Silverstein in the past offered a job as his representative in Israel - also called soon after the disaster... Silverstein is also a member of the joint American-Israeli commission for housing and community development, which was established by former president Bill Clinton. In the early 1990s, he was involved in projects to build housing for new immigrants. The Israeli political world got to know Silverstein when he tried to create a free-trade zone in the country. He became friendly with Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon... Silverstein conceived the idea of creating the free-trade zone in 1989. He met with Shimon Peres, who was then the finance minister, and with his deputy, Yossi Beilin, and tried to convince them that the project was an urgent necessity. The idea was that he would be given land in the Negev and would establish tax-free industries there. The Negev would benefit by getting new jobs, and Silverstein would benefit by raking in plenty of money. Peres and Beilin objected: Free-trade zones of the kind envisaged were usually created in the Third World and had the reputation of being slave markets. The local workers earn starvation wages, while the entrepreneurs enjoy full tax exemption and make high profits. Silverstein did not give up. The economic difficulties he encountered in New York forced him to look for an additional source of revenues. In September 1992, he met in New York with the new finance minister in the Rabin government, Avraham Shochat, and again raised the idea of the free-trade zone, claiming it would create 20,000 new jobs and make the Negev flourish. With Silverstein were his partners in the investment group, Larry Tisch, the owner of CBS, and Sy Sims, a major New York discount retailer... Close ties with Netanyahu The ascension to power of Benjamin Netanyahu opened a new chapter in the saga. Silverstein is left-leaning in his political views - he supports the Democratic Party - but after despairing of Rabin and Peres, he believed that Netanyahu, whom he called a hero of the free market, would push the project forward. The two have been on friendly terms since Netanyahu's stint as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. For years they kept in close touch. Every Sunday afternoon, New York time, Netanyahu would call Silverstein. It made no difference what the subject was or where Netanyahu was, he would always call, Silverstein told an Israeli acquaintance. Their ties continued after Netanyahu became prime minister. They met several times and Netanyahu promised to give the project his support... However, Sharon's initiative was stopped dead in its tracks by the elections of May 1999. Still, the change of government did not look ominous to Silverstein - on the contrary. He was friends with the new prime minister, Ehud Barak, too. In 1995, when Barak left the army, Silverstein offered him the job of acting as his representative in Israel, hoping that the former chief of staff, with his ramified connections, would be able to push the project through. Barak turned down the offer, but continued to stay in touch with Silverstein. They met at various social events and Barak introduced him to some of the members of his family. Silverstein had another close contact in Barak's bureau in the person of Isaac Herzog, who handled Silverstein's legal affairs along with Yaakov Ne'eman. "I didn't touch the subject during my period as cabinet secretary," Herzog says. None of this stopped Barak, after his election as prime minister, from trying to help Silverstein advance the project. "They came to Barak," says Shochat, who was then the finance minister again. "Barak examined the subject with all kinds of confidants and also talked to me about it. I told him that I was vehemently against it." Barak drew on the help of Yaakov Terner, the mayor of Be'er Sheva, the "capital of the Negev," who was an ardent supporter of the free-trade zone. WHO IS BIBI NETANYAHU? Joe Lockhart, spokesman for President Bill Clinton, described Benjamin Netanyahu as "one of the most obnoxious individuals you're going to come into - just a liar and a cheat. He could open his mouth and you could have no confidence that anything that came out of it was the truth." When Netanyahu addressed the AIPAC conference in Washington, D.C. on March 22, besides the usual Zionist lies about Jerusalem and Iran, he told a lie that exposes the fundamental deception of his worldview: We should be judged by one standard and allegations made against the State of Israel must be grounded in facts. One allegation that is not grounded in fact is the attempt to describe the Jews as foreign colonialists in their own homeland. This is one of the great lies of modern times. In my office, I have a signet ring that was loaned to me by Israel’s Department of Antiquities This ring was found next to the Western wall, but it dates back 2,800 years ago, two hundred years after King David declared Jerusalem as our people’s capital. This ring is a seal of a Jewish official, and his name is inscribed on it in Hebrew. The name is: Netanyahu. Netanyahu Ben-Yoash. That’s my last name. My first name, Benjamin, dates back 1,000 years earlier to Benjamin, the son of Jacob. One of Benjamin’s brothers was named Shimon, which also happens to be the first name of my good friend, Shimon Peres, the President of Israel. Nearly 4,000 years ago, Benjamin, Shimon and their ten brothers roamed the hills of Judea. Benjamin Netanyahu's name, however, is not really Netanyahu and never was. There is, in fact, no real connection between the Jew who owned the ring and the obnoxious Israeli prime minister, and he knows it very well but that doesn't stop him from lying to the AIPAC crowd. His father was born in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland, with the name Benzion Mileikowsky. Like many Zionist immigrants from Poland and Russia, the Mileikowsky family changed the name when they came to Palestine in the 1920s. Shimon Peres is the same. Peres was born Szymon Perski in Wiszniewo, Poland, on August 2, 1923. The Mileikowskys and Perskis of Poland are, indeed, "foreign colonialists" and have no historical or religious right to the land of Palestine.
NETANYAHU - "A LIAR AND A CHEAT"
As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in 2009, the Obama administration knows very well that Netanyahu is "a liar and a cheat": Presumably, former president Bill Clinton did not conceal his opinion of Bibi from his wife. If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has forgotten Bibi's tricks then Dennis Ross, who was the coordinator of the peace process in the Clinton administration and is an advisor to Obama, can refer her to his book "The Missing Peace." There he quotes president Clinton's reaction to Bibi's retreat from a commitment. "At times he was tough," writes Ross, "yelling at Bibi when he retracted an earlier pledge on Palestinian prisoners. 'This is just chicken shit. I'm not going to put up with this kind of bullshit.'" Aaron David Miller, who was Ross' deputy, also documented the days of Bibi and Bill. In his book "The Much Too Promised Land," Miller relates that during their first meeting in the summer of 1996, Bibi lectured the president about the Arab-Israeli issue, prompting Clinton to expostulate when it was over, "Who the fuck does he think he is? Who's the fucking superpower here?" Most definite of all is Joe Lockhart, who was the White House spokesman at the time. In a recorded interview to Clayton Swisher, author of the book "The Truth About Camp David," he described Netanyahu as "one of the most obnoxious individuals you're going to come into - just a liar and a cheat. He could open his mouth and you could have no confidence that anything that came out of it was the truth." Source: "Perfect English or not, Netanyahu shares no common language with Obama" by Akiva Eldar, Haaretz, February 11, 2009
The Obama administration and the international community have finally confronted Israel's illegal settlements, its Wall of Apartheid, and the racism inherent in Zionism. The dispute over illegal Israeli settlements on occupied land puts the Obama administration (and the U.N. and international community) into a political face off with the extreme right-wing regime led by the prime minister from the Likud, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu. Who will prevail? The U.S. government and the American people need to stand firm against the racism and dangerous fanaticism of Zionists like Netanyahu. How can any American support a state like Israel that is built on a basis of racial and religious segregation? If apartheid was wrong in South Africa, how can it be acceptable in Palestine? In Israel and the occupied territories only Jews have full rights as citizens. Israeli law discriminates against all non-Jews solely on the basis of race. Only a racist could support the de facto apartheid system created by Zionism. Why does the U.S. support the Jewish racism of Israel? Why are U.S. taxpayer dollars being used to build illegal settlements and Israel's hideously ugly wall of separation? It is high time for the American people to boycott Israeli racism and demand that U.S. foreign policy reflect fundamental American principles and values. It should be clear to all that the so-called "Two State Solution" to the problem in Palestine is no solution. The only viable solution, and the only solution the United States should promote, is a non-racist democratic state in the whole of Palestine in which Christians, Muslims, and Jews are all allowed to live as equals under the law. International law, a number of U.N. resolutions, and common sense tell us that the Palestinian refugees must be allowed to return to their homes, villages, and land that were stolen from them by Zionist terrorism. The Zionists were allowed to settle in Palestine with the specific agreement that the rights and interests of the native Palestinian population would not be compromised in any way. The racist laws and policies of the Zionist state must be dismantled. It's that simple. To think that any peaceful compromise can be reached with fanatical Zionism, a racist ideology based on religion, is foolish and dangerous. The idea of a one-state solution is gaining popularity among Palestinians. Dr. Jamil Rabah, Director of the Ramallah-based polling group Near East Consulting, said the growing Palestinian support for a bi-national state was not a result of the potential threat it posed to Israeli Jews.  Hagi Ben Artzi, Benjamin Netanyahu's brother-in-law and a devoted follower of the aptly named rabbi Kook, told the Israeli press that President Barack Obama is an anti-Semite. “Unfortunately, there is an anti-Semitic president in America,” he said. “As a politician who ran for president, he had to hide it, but from time to time, it bursts out from inside. It’s creating a difficult situation for Israel, but we won’t even consider giving up on our deep interests.” Ben Artzi is a religious zealot who believes in "the redemption of Greater Israel." He was an advocate of the extremely racist policies of the late Meir Kahane. To understand the dangerous fanaticism of the Netanyahu-Ben Artzi clan, I recommend "Ben Artzi's last stand" by Vered Levy-Barzilai in Haaretz of April 28, 2004 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=421243 THE ZIONIST CRIME OF APARTHEID The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime." There is no question that Zionism is a racist ideology and Israel is a state that is guilty of the crime of apartheid. Zionism, in fact, cannot exist without apartheid.  The Israeli Wall of Apartheid at Kalandia checkpoint on March 16 - How can Americans support such a blatantly racist regime in Israel? Why is Jewish racism tolerated? "ALL SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY IS ILLEGAL" - U.N. CHIEF BAN KI-MOON During his recent trip to Israel, Vice President Joe Biden and the Obama administration were insulted and embarrassed by the Israeli government's announcement on March 10 that it had approved construction of an additional 1,600 homes in the illegal Israeli settlement named Ramat Shlomo. The so-called Quartet of Middle East peace mediators, made up of representatives from the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia, urged Israel to freeze all settlement activity after talks in Moscow on March 19. The Quartet issued a formal statement read by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, which said: "The Quartet urges the government of Israel to freeze all settlement activities… and to refrain from demolitions and evictions. It condemns the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units in east Jerusalem." The following day, Saturday March 20, Ban rejected Israel's distinction between East Jerusalem and the West Bank, noting that both are occupied lands. Israeli settlement building anywhere on occupied land is illegal and must be stopped, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said after viewing some of the illegal Israeli settlements and the Wall of Apartheid near Jerusalem. "The world has condemned Israel's settlement plans in east Jerusalem," Ban told a news conference after his brief tour. "Let us be clear. All settlement activity is illegal anywhere in occupied territory and must be stopped." Benjamin Netanyahu, however, continues to pretend that there is no legal difference between building on occupied land and construction in Israel. "Construction in Jerusalem is like construction in Tel Aviv and we have clarified that for the American government," Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on March 21. Netanyahu is scheduled to leave for Washington Sunday night with Defense Minister Ehud Barak to attend the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington. Opposition leader Tzipi Livni and Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau will also attend the convention. Netanyahu, Barak, Livni, and the others should all be arrested on arrival in the United States for war crimes and crimes of terror, such as 9-11. These are the senior Israelis responsible for the false-flag terror atrocity that brought us the fraudulent "War on Terror", which is really a war of terror.  An ultra-orthodox Jew from France shopping for a house in Ramat Shlomo Ramat Shlomo is an orthodox Jewish settlement that has been built on illegally-occupied Palestinian land in what is called East Jerusalem. It is built right next to the Palestinian refugee camp called Shufat, which is surrounded by the Israeli Wall of Apartheid. To understand why the Israelis made such a provocative and insulting announcement during Biden's visit it is essential to understand that the two ministers involved in the decision are both rabbis from the ultra-orthodox Shas party, which is the political party of religious zealots that enabled the extreme right-wing Benjamin Netanyahu to form a coalition government in 2009. The minister who made the announcement that was clearly meant to embarrass the Obama administration is Eli Yishai, Israel's Minister of Internal Affairs and chairman of the ultra-orthodox Shas party. The Interior Minister position is often demanded by Shas in such coalition governments as it allows them to control the building of settlements like Ramat Shlomo. It also lets them decide religion and state issues such as marriage and immigration laws. The Shas party has a very strong base of support among orthodox Jews in New York City. The son of Alvin K. Hellerstein, the orthodox Jewish judge who oversees all 9-11 litigation, for example, lives on an illegal Israeli settlement like Ramat Shlomo. Michael Chertoff, the Israeli national who oversaw the non-investigation of 9-11 is another orthodox Jew who comes from a family of Zionist Talmud-thumping rabbis. Orthodox Jews are inclined to be extremely racial in their thinking due to the doctrine of Jewish supremacism they are raised in. This is the real wall that blocks any peaceful settlement of the Israeli conflict with the native Palestinians, who live as second-class citizens on their own land under Zionist occupation.  Rabbi Eli Yishai is Israel's Interior Minister The minister of housing and construction is Ariel Atias, the number two man in the party.  Ariel Atias, Minister of Housing and Construction, actively promotes a policy of racial and religious apartheid.  The Shas party has a history of criminal activity. Aryeh Deri, the former interior minister and chairman of Shas, was sentenced to three years in jail in 1999 for a range of corruption charges and bribery. Here he is seen after his release from prison in July 2002. ISRAEL'S APARTHEID POLICY Israeli Housing Minister Atias openly advocates segregation in Israel in order to create an apartheid state. Israeli construction policies under Minister Atias are designed to separate Jews from non-Jews, and religious Jews from secular Jews. On July 2, 2009, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported that at a conference of the Israel Bar Association focused on reforming Israel's Land Administration, Atias had called for the segregation of Israel's Arab population from Jewish Israelis, saying that achieving this separation or apartheid state was "a national duty." Atias, as minister of housing and construction, explained his policy that Israeli land should be marketed to each sector separately, in order to create segregation, not just between Jews and Arabs but also between other sectors, such as ultra-Orthodox and secular Jews. "There is a severe housing crisis among the young ultra-Orthodox couples, and in the general population. I, as an ultra-Orthodox Jew, don't think that religious Jews should have to live in the same neighborhood as secular couples, so as to avoid unnecessary friction. And since some 5,000 to 6,000 religious couples get married every year, a problem arises because they require a certain kind of community life that goes along with their lifestyle." UNDERCOVER HIT SQUADS On March 16, Palestinians from the nearby refugee camp of Shufat protested the illegal plan to build more Israeli homes on their land. News photos from the Israeli military/police response to the protest show how Israel uses undercover police that look and dress like Palestinians. This is important to understand because Israel often uses agents that look and act like Arabs. The Israelis probably used agents like these to create the cut-out for the "hijackers" of the false flag terrorism of 9-11. I find the Israeli use of undercover police in this protest very interesting because this three man team operated in a very similar way to how the three-man squad of military trained undercover cops assaulted me at my home in August 2006. (In my case, however, the cop with the gun would have had his handgun aimed at me on the ground. It would have been Darin Felgenhauer who, as the lethal officer, was prepared to shoot me in case the TASERing made me go berserk.)  Here the undercover cops are operating with protection of uniformed police. How is one to know that these men without uniforms are actually police? This is what I had to deal with when a three-man undercover tactical squad invaded my property in Hoffman Estates, threatened my family, and refused to identify themselves. I was very soon in the same position as the brave Palestinian in these photos.  With a young Palestinian in custody, the Israeli undercover cops give their victim the same kind of treatment I got from an undercover tactical squad in Hoffman Estates. The cop on top of the victim's head would have been Timothy Stoy, who knelt directly on my right temple for more than two minutes while the second cop (Michael Barber) applied the drive stun TASER shock of 50,000 volts to my lower back. The one with the gun would be the lethal officer, Darin Felgenhauer, prepared to deliver the fatal shot.  The Israeli undercover cops act just like the three-man tactical unit who assaulted me in Hoffman Estates on my property in front of my wife and 8-year-old daughter. After assaulting me, breaking my right arm, and TASERing me while I was pinned down in handcuffs - the undercover cops, who never identified themselves as police, charged me with assaulting them and resisting arrest. With a Zionist prosecutor, judge, and clerk calling the shots, I was found guilty on both charges and faced a year in Cook County Jail at sentencing. In my case, two of the three undercover cops (Stoy and Felgenhauer) apparently do not even have police uniforms. (See "Evidence of a Police Conspiracy to Injure Bollyn") THE HEART OF THE CONFLICT Dr. Nigel Parsons, a Middle East specialist and senior lecturer in politics, explained why the Israeli plan is so strongly rejected by Palestinians: "This cuts right to the heart of the conflict. This is the essence of the problem - the state of Israel lending institutional support to housing for Jewish settlers while in the same location some of the world's most vulnerable people struggle in overcrowded conditions awaiting an end to the occupation and recognition of their rights… "Restrictions on movement, unemployment, over-crowding, and separation from the West Bank have generated difficult conditions. However, offers of relocation have been refused by camp residents for fear of undermining the Palestinian right of return, a matter for final status negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation. "In lieu of a final status agreement, Shu'fat captures Palestine in microcosm: an isolated, disempowered indigenous population and an overcrowded refugee camp confront advancing Israeli settlement."  The Shufat refugee camp is inside Israel's apartheid wall on land coveted by Jewish settlers.  Ramat Shlomo and Shufat are on a very large piece of occupied Palestinian land that has been illegally confiscated by the construction of the Israeli Wall of Apartheid. The green line is the legal border; the red and dotted line is the outline of the Wall. Following Biden's visit to Israel, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, a Zionist Jew, wrote an editorial titled "Driving Drunk in Jerusalem" in which he said that the vice president had missed a chance to send a powerful public signal: He should have snapped his notebook shut, gotten right back on Air Force Two, flown home and left the following scribbled note behind: “Message from America to the Israeli government: Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. And right now, you’re driving drunk. You think you can embarrass your only true ally in the world, to satisfy some domestic political need, with no consequences? You have lost total contact with reality. I couldn't agree more. The U.S. government has to end all support for the criminal and terrorist regime headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. These are, after all, the people who carried out 9-11.  Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu - What is there to laugh about? Sources: “Palestinians increasingly back one-state” by Benjamin Joffe-Walt/The Media Line, March 22, 2010, Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=171559 "Driving Drunk in Jerusalem" by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, March 13, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/opinion/14friedman.html "Housing Minister: Spread of Arab population must be stopped" by Guy Lieberman, Haaretz, July 2, 2009 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097411.html Israeli Colonisation Of East Jerusalem Cuts To Heart Of Conflict, March 15, 2010 http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/israeli-colonisation-east-jerusalem-cuts-heart-conflict/5/41743 "Big four tell Israel: Don't build in east Jerusalem" by Amy Teibel, The Scotsman, March 20, 2010 http://news.scotsman.com/world/Big-four-tell-Israel-Don39t.6167742.jp |
