Ja, je weet niet wat je ziet als je op Mondoweiss leest dat het meer dan achterlijke ‘verdrag’, gesloten tussen Israël en de VS, genoemd ‘Deal of the Century’, niet genoeg is voor Israël, dit gestolen land schendt zelfs dit eenzijdige verdrag door een nederzetting toe te staan op gebied dat volgens het ‘verdrag’ aan de Palestijnen moet toekomen……
Daarover gesproken, Palestijnen: hoe kan je van een verdrag spreken als één van de twee partijen (waar het in feit om gaat) niet mee mag doen aan de besprekingen die tot dit verdrag hebben geleid?? Het is dan ook een verdrag van de 2 terreurstaten VS en Israël die eigenlijk maar 1 ding willen: alle Palestijnen het land uitschoppen….. Het voorliggende ‘verdrag’ zal bij uitvoering zorgen voor nog meer ellende onder de Palestijnen en gegarandeerd dat een fiks aantal van hen zal vluchten, want dat is de laatste mogelijkheid als je het leven onmogelijk wordt gemaakt……. Je kan dit Israëlische beleid, het leven van Palestijnen onmogelijk maken, een beleid dat overigens al bestaat vanaf 1948, niet anders noemen dan een langzame etnische zuivering……
De brutaliteit van de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël kent dan ook geen grenzen meer, zelfs dit wurgverdrag is niet genoeg voor de massamoordenaars die Israël besturen….. Ongelofelijk dat alle westerse landen het laten afweten als het om het verdrukte Palestijnse volk gaat, daarbij vergeleken is Assad, die in de reguliere westerse media als bloedig dictator bekend staat, nog maar een beginneling…… (overigens moet ik daaraan toevoegen dat Assad ten onrechte wordt afgeschilderd als bloedig dictator, klik voor meer berichten over Assad en Syrië op één van deze labels, direct onder dit bericht)
Believe it or not, Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ wasn’t one-sided enough for Israel
On March 2, Israel will have its third parliamentary election in less than a year. The reason Israelis will go to the poll for a third time in a year is because Israel’s peculiar brand of “democracy” really is nothing of the sort. Why? Because the votes of Palestinian citizens of Israel simply don’t count
As I’ve written here several times before, in almost any other functioning democracy, parties in the same predicament as Likud and Blue & White would be courting the Joint List with amazing offers in order to form a government. But in Israel the party that got the third largest number of votes in the last election is shunned because to caucus with it is seen as an affront to “Jewish democracy.” Yet it’s worse, not only will the main parties not
cooperate with the Joint List but senior members of Blue & White (the so-called more centrist party*) openly brag about how killing Palestinians is virtuous.Funny how you don’t hear about this in the New York Times’ coverage of the elections.
Remember the “peace plan” Trump unveiled a few weeks ago? Well, as absurdly one-sided it was, it seems it wasn’t even one-sided enough for Israel. In fact, Israel has announced plans for a new settlement on land that was togo to a Palestinian Bantustan.I wonder if this signals Israeli rejection of Trump’s plan of the century?
If you have any inclination to vote for Michael Bloomberg then you should read this, next time someone tells you that Gaza isn’t occupied by Israel you should ask them to explain this, and be sure not to miss this thoughtfulessay by Phil.
Thanks for reading,
Scott Roth,
Publisher Mondoweis
================================= Voor het hele artikel op Mondoweiss, geschreven door Jonathan Cook, klik op deze link.
* Blue and White wordt ook op Wikipedia afgeschilderd als een partij van het midden…….
Robert Bridge schreef een artikel op SCF (door mij overgenomen van Information Clearing House) waarin hij de draak steekt met de mediaorgaan Bloomberg en de Democraten in de VS. Boven de kop meende Bridge te moeten zeggen dat het om satire gaat, daar hij anders wel eens serieus zou kunnen worden genomen en inderdaad sinds de presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 lijkt heel de VS wel knettergek……. (hoewel, sinds 2016, of moeten we niet veel verder terug?)
Bloomberg berichtte dat er onderzoek wordt gedaan of Rusland bezig is met het besmeuren van Joe Biden vanwege zijn rol en die van zijn zoon, in een witwas schandaal met de firma Burisma waarvoor zijn zoon werkte en gezien de staat van de economie in Oekraïne het meer dan waanzinnige bedrag van 50.000 dollar per maand verdiende……*
Alsof Biden en zijn zoon niet mans genoeg zijn geweest in het besmeuren van de eigen naam, Joe Biden gaf NB toe dat hij Oekraïne onder druk had gezet met de mededeling dat VS wapenhulp wel eens zou kunnen worden teruggedraaid als het de openbaar aanklager die onderzoek deed naar de witwaspraktijken van Hunter Biden niet ontslagen zou worden, (nogmaals:) Hunter Biden die voor een achterlijk hoog salaris werkte voor Burisma…… Anders gezegd: het strafrechtelijk onderzoek naar Hunter Biden (dat volkomen terecht werd ingesteld) moest worden stopgezet daar Oekraïne anders wapenhulp van de VS kon vergeten…..
Uiteraard heeft Joe Biden nooit openlijk toegegeven dat de openbaar aanklager moest worden ontslagen daar hij onderzoek deed naar zijn zoon, nee de openbaar aanklager zou niet geschikt zijn geweest om corruptie te onderzoeken…….
Bridge heeft een hoogst humoristisch stuk geschreven over deze zaak, waarin hij de Democraten die nu al denken dat ze de verkiezingen in november zullen verliezen, volkomen belachelijk maakt…. De impeachment procedure die de Democraten hebben ingesteld tegen Trump kost hen vrijwel zeker het presidentschap en als in 2016 wil men daar anderen de schuld van geven, zoals destijds is Rusland nu al de klos…….*
De hele Russiagate zaak is een flop geworden en toch houden de Democraten en de reguliere VS media aan de kant van de Democraten (inclusief zo ongeveer de hele reguliere westerse pers buiten de VS) Rusland schuldig aan het verlies van oorlogsmisdadiger Clinton….. Rusland zou met het ‘waanzinnige budget’ van 100.000 dollar de verkiezingen in 2016 hebben gemanipuleerd ten gunste van Trump, waar dit bedrag volkomen in het niet valt vergeleken met de honderden miljoenen die werden uitgegeven aan die verkiezingen……..
Veel plezier met het volgende artikel:
Satire
Americans Beware! Russia Can Hack Your Brain, Make You Believe Joe Biden Unfit for Oval Office
By Robert Bridge
January 16, 2020 “Information Clearing House” – I suppose it is necessary, considering the bleak and humorless times we live in, to immediately start by acknowledging that the headline is meant as satire, what Webster defines as a form of “ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.”
In other words, nyet, the Kremlin does not have a hotline to the American brain that can trigger card-carrying Democrats to enter a catatonic trance on Election Day and vote against Joe Biden, or any of the other flawless Democratic gems for that matter. By this time, especially following the release of the Mueller Report, you would think that conspiracy theories involving Russia and American democracy would have subsided; instead they’ve only escalated as the U.S. enters the hot end of the 2020 presidential election campaign. Courtesy of Bloomberg:
“U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials are assessing whether Russia is trying to undermine Joe Biden in its ongoing disinformation efforts with the former vice president still the front-runner in the race to challenge President Donald Trump, according to two officials familiar with the matter…
Part of the inquiry is to determine whether Russia is trying to weaken Biden by promoting controversy over his past involvement in U.S. policy toward Ukraine while his son worked for an energy company there.”
So how exactly does Russia, in a scene straight out of A Clockwork Orange, tap into the frontal lobe section of the U.S. electorate and cause them to lose all confidence in their political favorites?
“A signature trait of Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘is his ability to convince people of outright falsehoods,’ William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), said in a statement. ‘In America, [the Russians are] using social media and many other tools to inflame social divisions, promote conspiracy theories and sow distrust in our democracy and elections.’”
Yes, somehow those dastardly Russians have outsmarted the brightest and best-paid political strategists in Washington, D.C. by brandishing what amounts to some really persuasive memes over social media, and for just rubles on the dollar. The techies at Wired went so far as to call this epic assault on the fragile American cranium, “meme warfare to divide America.” By way of evidence, it cited a very creative meme that screamed, “F*CK THE ELECTIONS,” which was intended, as the ironclad argument goes, to cause a number of impressionable Americans to throw up their hands in a fit of collective exasperation and say, ‘Ok, that’s it. I’m staying at home on Election Day.’
Yes, it’s really that easy! Imagine all the money the Russians and their radical new political technologies could have saved guys like casino tycoon, Sheldon Adelson, who showered the Trump campaign with $100 million dollars.
Many of those divisive Russian messages wormed their way onto Facebook, purportedly, where God only knows how many voter brains’ turned to maggots and mush just staring at them. Yet one individual who actually recalls seeing one or two of these dangerous memes was Rob Goldman, former Vice President for Advertising on Facebook, who revealed via Twitter, another infected social media platform, some interesting information:
“Most of the coverage of Russian meddling involves their attempt to effect the outcome of the 2016 U.S. election. I have seen all of the Russian ads and I can say very definitively that swaying the election was *NOT* the main goal.”
Clearly, Goldman seems to have been under the sway of some folk Russian brainwashing technique, probably passed down from the time of Rasputin. In any case, Donald Trump himself took great satisfaction from that particular revelation, retweeting it to his millions of minions.
Very excited to see the Mueller indictment today. We shared Russian ads with Congress, Mueller and the American people to help the public understand how the Russians abused our system. Still, there are keys facts about the Russian actions that are still not well understood.
Incidentally, it may or may not be relevant, but Goldman retired from Facebook in October 2019 after seven years with the company.
Russia, the gift that keeps on giving
Not only have the Democrats been able to use the Russia bogeyman as their excuse for losing the White House in 2016, they are able to summon this distant nuclear power whenever they wish to curb internet freedoms, which is pretty much every day now.
Now, fun-loving memes are under attack and may soon go the way of the DoDo bird (“A small office of Russian trolls could derail 241 years of U.S. political history with a handful of dank memes and an advertising budget that would barely buy you a billboard in Brooklyn,” screamed insanely The Guardian). At the same time, the freedom of speech is getting destroyed by vapid accusations of ‘hate speech,’ which, unless used to incite violence, is a totally meaningless term used to eliminate any conversation that is undesirable to the elite.
Meanwhile, only the mainstream media these days are permitted to dabble in ‘conspiracy theories’ even as their own false narratives have contributed to the pulverization of entire nations, as was the case in Iraq, for example, which sustained a full-blown U.S. military invasion in 2003 following debunked claims that Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction. That was the mother of all conspiracy theories that was pushed unchallenged by the mainstream media.
So back to Joe Biden.
Do intelligent Americans really need help from Russia to prove that just maybe the former Vice President is mentally and physically unfit to stand for the White House? Probably not. From whispering sweet nothings into the ears of any female within groping distance, to sucking on his wife’s fingertips at a political rally, something just doesn’t seem altogether right upstairs with Joe Biden. So what is the real story for dragging Russia, once again, into the internal swamp pit known as Washington, D.C.?
The Bloomberg article provides a big hint: “This time around, the narrative about Biden and Ukraine is … well-publicized and being advanced by Trump, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and the president’s Republican allies in Congress.”
And that “narrative” has everything to do with not only the Democrats’ frozen impeachment proceedings against the U.S. leader, which promises to have major connections to Ukraine, Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and quite possibly dozens of other top Democrats. In other words, the Democrats understand that pushing ahead with impeachment could be their ultimate downfall.
Although few Americans seem to remember that back in May of 2019, Trump granted U.S. Attorney General William Barr “full and complete authority” to investigate exactly how claims that Trump was ‘conspiring with the Kremlin’ in the 2016 presidential election had originated, the Democrats certainly have not.
Their bogus ‘Russian collusion’ claim provided the rationale for a four-year-long ‘witch hunt’ that began when the Democrats, relying on the flimsy findings contained in the so-called ‘Steele dossier, managed to get approval from the FISA court to spy on the Trump campaign. Now, some top-ranking Democrats – never imagining Hillary Clinton would actually lose in 2016 – are understandably nervous as to what Barr and his assistant, federal attorney John Durham will divulge to the public in the coming months.
With so much riding on the line in 2020, is anyone surprised that Bloomberg, the news affiliate owned and operated by Democratic contender Michael Bloomberg, is now reporting “U.S. officials are warning that Russia’s election interference in 2020 could be more brazen than in the 2016 presidential race or the 2018 midterm election.”
In other words, the racist ploy used by Democrats to explain their monumental defeat in 2016 did not end with the Mueller Report. The conspiracy theory, promulgated by a media that is in effect just another branch of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), is being primed to explain not only possible criminal charges aimed at top Democrats in the coming months, but how Democrats, like Michael Bloomberg, failed once again to beat the seemingly unstoppable incumbent, Donald Trump.
======================================== * Uit het Clinton verkiezingsteam werden in 2016 mails gelekt waaruit bleek dat Hillary Clinton op een misdadige manier de voorverkiezingen won van Bernie Sanders. Om een rookgordijn over deze zaak te trekken stelde men doodleuk dat de Russen de computers van het verkiezingsteam hadden gehackt en daarna de mails hebben gelekt naar de westerse (massa-) media…. Ofwel Clinton werd niet vervolgd, niet door justitie, niet door de DNC en zelfs een groot deel van de media hielden verder de mond over deze zaak, nee Rusland werd als dader afgeschilderd en zoals eerder gezegd, later zelfs verantwoordelijk gesteld voor het verlies van Clinton in de presidentsverkiezingen van 2016….. Daardoor hebben we nu censuur op het internet en hebben de westerse geheime diensten verregaande bevoegdheden gekregen (oneindig veel meer dan een echte democratie aankan…), inclusief enorme budgetten, zelfs de vrijheid van meningsuiting stelt sindsdien nog maar weinig voor….. Seth Rich, een lid van Clintons team lekte de mails, daar hij kwaad was over het smerige spel van Clinton, hij werd later dood gevonden op straat, vermoord in een roofoverval aldus de politie, terwijl hij zijn zichtbare sieraden nog steeds droeg toen men hem vond, er werd zelfs geen dollar uit zijn portemonnee gestolen…….
Het IMF leent de totaal onverantwoordelijke regering van Argentinië het voor dit land fenomenaal grote bedrag van 50 miljard dollar.
Alsof het geld gratis is zo laat de Argentijnse regering weten blij te zijn met deze meer dan waanzinnige deal…….
Eerder gaf de Argentijnse regering een obligatielening uit waar deze voor 100 jaar een vaste winst garandeert………
De grote onderlaag zal weer keihard worden gepakt met deze lening, zoals dit eerder deze eeuw (zie het tweede hieronder opgenomen artikel uit 2004 met de titel ‘IMF admits mistakes in Argentina crisis‘) en in de 90 er jaren al eens het geval was. Argentinië zal zich met deze deal moeten onderwerpen aan het IMF en haar keiharde neoliberale eisen tot hervormingen…….
Begin deze eeuw versterkte een grote lening van het IMF de crisis in Argentinië en ook nu is de verwachting dat dit zal gebeuren…….
Argentinië verwordt met deze IMF lening tot het Zuid-Amerikaanse Griekenland, waar de welgestelden, zoals die in Griekenland al lang hun kapitaal hebben veiliggesteld in het buitenland (2 vliegen in 1 klap >> ten eerste het geld is veilig voor eventuele faillissementen van banken (of grote belastingverhogingen op vermogen), ten tweede: de ontduiking van belastingen op enorme schaal…… (waar familie Zorreguieta, je weet wel de familie van pampakoningin Maxima, ook tot de welgestelden behoort……)
De arme bevolking van Griekenland, intussen het grootste deel van de bevolking weet wat dit betekent, zoals de ouderen die daar praktisch geen pensioen meer ontvangen (waar ze zelf voor spaarden), of wat dacht je van kankerpatiënten die de benodigde medicamenten zoals pijnstillers niet meer kunnen betalen……..
De Griekse schuld is zo hoog dat de (lage) rentebetalingen al niet zijn te voldoen, laat staan dat het land tot aflossen van de enorme schuld zal komen, hetzelfde lot wacht Argentinië…….
Lees nogmaals hoe ijskoud, inhumaan neoliberaal beleid tot grote ellende zal leiden onder de grote maatschappelijke onderlaag van Argentinië en de crisis daar alleen zal verdiepen…… Bovendien regeert president en regeringsleider Mauricio Macri van de Propuesta Republicana, kortweg PRO, over zijn eigen graf en dat van nakomende regeringen, immers Argentinië heeft met deze lening een groot deel van de zeggenschap in eigen land vrijwillig overgedragen aan het IMF……..
Daarmee is het zeker dat Argentinië zich met hart en ziel heeft verbonden aan het ijskoude, inhumane neoliberalisme, waar zelfs een socialistische regering niets tegen kan ondernemen…… Zie de Griekse situatie waar Tsipras een zogenaamde socialist zijn land uit handen heeft gegeven aan de Europese Commissie, het IMF en de ECB, de Europese Centrale Bank……. Staatseigendommen zijn voor 99 jaar uit handen gegeven aan een EU orgaan, het Europees Stabiliteitsmechanisme (ESM) dat naar goeddunken staatseigendommen kan verkopen voor een appel en een ei…….
Argentina Just Made IMF History With Biggest Bailout Loan Ever
(ZHE) — Just a few weeks after Argentina became ground zero for the coming Emerging Market crisis, when its currency suddenly collapsed at the end of April amid soaring inflation, exploding capital outflows and a central bank that was far behind the curve (as in “13% of rate hikes in a week” behind)…
… the IMF has officially bailed out the country – again – this time with a $50 billion, 36-month stand-by loan, and coming in about $10 billion more than rumored earlier in the week, it was the largest ever bailout loan in IMF history, meant to help restore investor confidence in a nation that, between its soaring external debt and current account deficit, prompted JPMorgan to suggest that along with Turkey, Argentina is in effect, doomed.
As the JPM chart below shows, the country’s total budget deficit, which includes interest payments on debt, was 6.5% of GDP last year, much of reflecting a debt binge of about $100 billion over the last two and a half years. The primary fiscal deficit in 2017 was 3.9%.
The loan will have a minimum interest rate of 1.96% rising as high as 4.96%.
“We are convinced that we’re on the right path, that we’ve avoided a crisis,” Finance Minister Nicolás Dujovne said at a press conference in Buenos Aires. “This is aimed at building a normal economy.”
Dujovne said that about $15 billion from the credit line would be immediately available to Argentina after the package is approved by the IMF’s board, which is expected on June 20. The rest would be dispersed as needed as Argentina meets its targets.
Shortly after the news the loan was finalized, Dujovne made some additional, more bizarre comments, saying that “the amount we received is 11 times Argentina’s quota, which reflects the international community´s support of Argentina,” almost as if he was proud at just how insolvent his country “suddenly” become. He was certainly delighted that, in his view, Argentina is now “too big to fail”, and received not only this loan as a result…
“It’s very good news that the integration with the world allows us to receive this support.”
… but also hinted that the international community would also foot the bill for all other upcoming Argentinian bailouts. And if the country’s history is any indication, there will be plenty more, as well as the occasional military coup for good measure.
According to Bloomberg, Argentina will see 30% of the funds a day or two after the Fund’s June 20 board meeting, and in typical IMF-bailout fashion, a form of austerity will be imposed on what was once Latin America’s richest nation: as part of the agreement, the country will now target a fiscal deficit of 1.3% of GDP in 2019 and 2.7% this year, with a fiscal balance targeted for 2020 (good luck). And since the previous targets of 2.2% and 3.2%, were almost as laughable, this latest IMFian austerity package not only has zero chance of ever being achieved, but if Greece is any indication, it will make the Argentina crisis far worse. The government has also set a new inflation target of 17% in 2019 – It’s considered low – declining to 13% in 2020 and 9% in 2021.
And the biggest joke, as part of the program, Argentina will agree to accelerate the pace at which it reduces the government deficit. The nation spends more than it collects in revenue and imports more than it exports, creating fiscal and current-account shortfalls that leave Argentina vulnerable to fluctuations in its currency. But, thanks to the even more idiotic policies of central banks, Argentina managed to sell a 100 year bond last year, demonstrating just how stupid some managers of “other people’s money” really are.
“This is a plan owned and designed by the Argentine government, one aimed at strengthening the economy for the benefit of all Argentines,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde says in the statement which can be found on the IMF’s website.
To take effect, the deal reached between the IMF’s staff and Argentine authorities still requires the approval of the IMF’s executive board.
Oh, and thank you American taxpayers: the IMF’s largest shareholder, the U.S., said in a statement Thursday from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that it supported the program, according to the WSJ.
“The size of the package should provide relief, but implementing the program entails significant challenges and will require skillful political leadership,” said Martin Castellano, the head of Latin America research at the Institute of International Finance (IFF).
Argentina was bailed out by the IMF for the second time in 2 decades after three rate hikes pushed borrowing costs above 40% but failed to halt a plunge in the currency. The peso fell 25% against the dollar this year to trade at 24.9850 on Thursday, while capital outflows soared.
Central Bank President, Federico Sturzenegger, said the bank will continue to intervene in currency markets in times of “disruptive movement” although the central bank will not target inflation this year, he said. Meanwhile, the government has agreed to send a bill that gives the central bank more autonomy, and as a result it wil no longer transfer funds to the Treasury.
“We’re convinced that we’re on the right track, that we managed to avoid a crisis, gather support for the program we already had and that has been in place since Dec. 2015, which looks to build a normal economy, reduce poverty and protect the vulnerable,” Dujovne said, echoing what Greece said after its first bailout 8 years… and its second… and its third.
Gerry Rice, an IMF spokesman, speaking Thursday before the details of the bailout were announced, told reporters that the IMF is “not seeing negative spillovers to other countries at this point.”
Well, he may want to take a look at Brazil.
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As for what happened the last time the IMF bailed out Argentina in the early 2000, the following 2004 article from the Telegraph tells you all you need to know why when a nation is desperately in need of deleveraging, giving it another $50 billion in debt is generally a bad idea.
IMF admits mistakes in Argentina crisis
By Edmund Conway12:01AM BST 30 Jul 2004
The International Monetary Fund yesterday admitted that its mistakes helped plunge Argentina deeper into the red during the currency crisis that crippled the country’s economy three years ago.
In a report published yesterday by its independent evaluation office, the IMF said it ought to have prevented the Argentine government from following poor economic policies.
“IMF surveillance failed to highlight the growing vulnerabilities in the authorities’ choice of policies and the IMF erred by supporting inadequate policies too long,” it said.
The financial meltdown that reached a climax in 2001, causing the country to default on $132 billion of foreign debt, was worsened by the government’s vain attempts to maintain the Argentine peso’s peg against the dollar. The IMF ploughed money into the country to help it sustain the peg, pledging an extra $22 billion as late as the end of 2000.
“In retrospect, the resources used in an attempt to preserve the peg could have been better used to mitigate some of the inevitable costs of exit,” the report said.
Although it became clear to some IMF staff that the country’s currency plan was flawed in the 1990s, they did not report their doubts to their board for fear of triggering a speculative attack on the peso. The executive board, for its part, ignored staff complaints that Argentina was not reforming its economy satisfactorily.
Both the IMF and the US touted the country as Latin America’s economic success story but the fund maintained its support despite the fact that Argentina missed its fiscal targets every year since 1994. Analysts have also claimed that the IMF’s demands that Argentina raise taxes in 2002 worsened the crisis. The conclusions will come as a blow to the institution, whose role has come under increased scrutiny in recent years.
Yesterday the Argentine finance minister, Roberto Lavagna, argued that the country should not be pressed too hard for repayments of its current three-year $13 billion loan. He said the IMF was now insisting it reformed its economy “in a way absent throughout the 90s” and “under a schedule that is oblivious to the political realities of the country”.
Good luck, and some advice to Argentina: this time try to prevent Elliott Management from buying up your debt at distressed prices.
Ongelofelijk hoe de reguliere westerse media hebben gereageerd op de slachting die het terroristische Israëlische leger aanrichtte onder ongewapende Palestijnse demonstranten op de dag dat de VS ambassade in Jeruzalem werd geopend. Bij dat geweld werden 61 mensen vermoord en viel er een enorm aantal (ook zwaar) gewonden…… Als je niet beter wist zou je warempel denken dat Israël het slachtoffer was van Palestijnse terreur, terwijl er aan Israëlische kant slechts 1 lichtgewonde soldaat was ‘te betreuren…..’
De media in de VS gingen wel het meest ver met hun smerige pro-Israël propaganda, nogmaals NB naar aanleiding van een ware slachting onder ongewapende Palestijnen en dat zijn toch echt ook mensen en niet een soort van plaagdieren, zoals Israël ze meer en meer ziet…….
Sinds 30 maart jl., toen de Palestijnen begonnen met de Great Return March zijn er meer dan 100 ongewapende mensen door Israël vermoord, waaronder: -11 kinderen, 2 journalisten en 4 mensen met een handicap….. (ja ja, ‘echte helden’ die Israëlische militaire scherpschutters….)
Nee in de ogen van de reguliere media in de VS zijn de Palestijnen barbaren die de ‘heldhaftige’ soldaten van Israël aanvallen. In een andere mediaorgaan, dat van Bloomberg werd zelfs gemeld dat de afscheiding tussen Israël en de Gazastrook het slachtoffer werd van Palestijnse agressie…. (je gelooft je ogen niet!)
Echter ook in de reguliere media in de rest van het westen, wijst men naar Hamas en de Palestijnen als de schuldigen voor deze slachting, alsof het één groot vakantieoord is in de Gazastrook, i.p.v. een openluchtgevangenis waar het de bewoners aan van alles ontbreekt, in de eerste plaats veiligheid tegen Israëlische terreur…… Een situatie die zo wanhopig is dat men toch gaat demonstreren ook al belooft Israël te zullen schieten op iedereen die een stap zet dichterbij dan 300 meter tot de afscheiding tussen de Gazastrook en Israël…… Ofwel: Israël schiet ongewapende demonstranten neer op het grondgebied van de Gazastrook, een enorme oorlogsmisdaad en een misdaad tegen de menselijkheid….
Lees het volgende artikel van Gregory Shupak, overgenomen van Anti-Media (de video’s in het artikel werken niet, de wel werkende video’s vind je onder het artikel):
How American Media Blames the Victims of Israel’s Gaza Massacre
(FAIR) — Israelmassacred 60 Palestinians on Monday, including seven children, bringing to 101 the total number of Palestinians Israel has killed since Palestinians began the Great March on March 30. In that period, Israel has killed11 Palestinian children, two journalists, one person on crutches and three persons with disabilities.
Monday’s casualties included 1,861 wounded, bringing total injuries inflicted by Israel to 6,938 people, including 3,615 with live fire. Israel is using bullets designed to expand inside the body, causing maximum, often permanent damage: “The injuries sustained by patients will leave most with serious, long-term physical disabilities,” says Médecins Sans Frontières (Ha’aretz, 4/22/18).
On the 70th anniversary of Israel’s so-called “declaration of independence,” the United States opened its new embassy in Jerusalem—a city Israel claims as its own, despite what international law says on the matter—and Palestinians undertook unarmed protests in reaction to the move and as part of the Great Return March. Although to this point, the only Israeli casualty during the entire cycle of demonstrations has been one “lightly wounded” soldier, considerable space in coverage of the massacres is devoted to blaming Palestinians for their own slaughter.
NBC (5/14/18) mentions “what Palestinians refer to as their ‘right of return’”; actually, it’s what international law calls it, based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‘ proclamation that “everyone has the right…to return to his country.”*
Two of the first three paragraphs in an NBC report (5/14/18) provided Israel’s rationalizations for its killing spree. The second sentence in the article says that the Israeli military accused Hamas of “leading a terrorist operation under the cover of masses of people,” adding that “firebombs and explosive devices” as well as rocks were being thrown towards the barrier.
A Washington Post (WaPo) narticle (5/14/18) devoted two of its first four sentences to telling readers that Palestinians are responsible for being murdered by Israel. Palestinian “organizers urged demonstrators to burst through the fence, telling them Israeli soldiers were fleeing their positions, even as they were reinforcing them,” read one sentence. “At the barrier, young men threw stones and tried to launch kites carrying flames in hopes of burning crops on the other side,” stated the next one, as though stones and burning kites released by a besieged people is violence remotely equivalent to subjecting people to a military siege and mowing them down.
The New York Times (5/14/18) said that “a mass attempt by Palestinians to cross the border fence separating Israel from Gaza turned violent, as Israeli soldiers responded with rifle fire,” painting Israel’s rampage as a reaction to a Palestinian provocation. Like FAIR (2/21/18) has previously said of the word “retaliation,” “response” functions as a justification of Israeli butchery: To characterize Israeli violence as a “response” is to wrongly imply that Palestinian actions warranted Israel unleashing its firing squads.
A Yahoo headline (5/14/18) described “Violent Protests in Gaza Ahead of US Embassy Inauguration in Jerusalem,” a flatly incorrect description in that it attributes the violence to Palestinian demonstrators rather than to Israel. The BBC (5/15/18) did the same with a segment called “Gaza Braced for Further Violent Protests.”
In Bloomberg‘s account (5/14/18), the fence seemed to be the real victim.
One Bloomberg article (5/14/18) by Saud Abu Ramadan and Amy Teibel had the same problem, referring to “a protest marred by violence,” while another one (5/14/18) attributed only to Ramadan is headlined “Hamas Targets Fence as Gaza Bloodshed Clouds Embassy Move,” as though the fence were Monday’s most tragic casualty. Ascribing this phantom violence to Palestinians provides Israel an alibi: Many readers will likely conclude that Israel’s lethal violence is reasonable if it is cast as a way of coping with “violent protests.”
The second paragraph of the Bloomberg article solely written by Ramadan says that
Gaza protesters, egged on by loudspeakers and transported in buses, streamed to the border, where some threw rocks, burned tires, and flew kites and balloons outfitted with firebombs into Israeli territory.
This author—like the rest in the “Palestinians were asking for it” chorus—failed to note that Israel’s fence runs deep into Palestinian territory and creates a 300-meter “buffer zone” between Palestinians and Israeli forces, which makes it highly unlikely that the kites and balloons of the colonized will have an effect on their drone-operating, rifle-wielding colonizers, let alone on people further afield in Israeli-held territory.
The New York Times editorial board (5/14/18) wrote as though Palestinians are barbarians against whom Israel has no choice but to unleash terror:
Led too long by men who were corrupt or violent or both, the Palestinians have failed and failed again to make their own best efforts toward peace. Even now, Gazans are undermining their own cause by resorting to violence, rather than keeping their protests strictly peaceful.
The board claimed that “Israel has every right to defend its borders, including the boundary with Gaza,” incorrectly suggesting that Palestinians were aggressors rather than on the receiving end of 100 years of settler-colonialism.
Moreover, like the Times and Bloomberg articles discussed above, the editorial attempts to legitimize Israel’s deadly violence by saying that it is defending a border that Palestinians are attempting to breach, but there is no border between Gaza and Israel. There is, as Maureen Murphy of Electronic Intifada(4/6/18) pointed out, “an armistice line between an occupying power and the population living under its military rule” that Palestinians are trying to cross in order to exercise their right to return to their land.
The Washington Post (5/15/18) condemned the “cruel, cynical tactic” of trying to exercise the internationally guaranteed right of return.**
A Washington Post editorial (5/15/18) called the Palestinians hunted by Israel “nominal civilians.” Apart from being a logical impossibility (one either is or isn’t a civilian), the phrase illuminates how too much of media think about Palestinians: They are inherently threatening, intrinsically killable, always suspect, never innocent, permanently guilty of existing.
A Business Insider piece (5/14/18) by columnist Daniella Greenbaum described “Palestinian protesters who ramped up their activities along the Gaza strip and, as a result, were targeted by the Israeli army with increasing intensity.” Greenbaum’s use of the phrase “as a result” implies that it was inevitable and perhaps just that Palestinians’ “ramped up activities” led to Israel mowing down a population it occupies, 70 percent of whom are refugees Israel refuses to allow to return to their homes.
Greenbaum then climbs into the intellectual and moral gutter, claiming that
absent from the commentary that children have unfortunately been among the injured and dead are questions about how they ended up at the border. On that question, it is important to recognize and acknowledge the extent to which Palestinians have glorified violence and martyrdom — and the extent to which the terrorist organization Hamas has organized the “protests.”
In her view, dozens of Palestinians died because they are primitive savages who take pleasure in sacrificing their own children, not because Israel maintains the right to gun down refugees in the name of maintaining an ethnostate.
In a rare instance of a resident of Gaza allowed to participate directly in the media conversation, Fadi Abu Shammalah wrote an op-ed for the New York Times (4/27/18) that offered an explanation of why Palestinians are putting their lives on the line to march. Life for the people of Gaza, including for his three young sons, has been “one tragedy after another: waves of mass displacement, life in squalid refugee camps, a captured economy, restricted access to fishing waters, a strangling siege and three wars in the past nine years. ” Recalling the concern for his safety expressed by his seven-year-old child, Shammalah concludes:
If Ali asks me why I’m returning to the Great Return March despite the danger, I will tell him this: I love my life. But more than that, I love you, Karam and Adam. If risking my life means you and your brothers will have a chance to thrive, to have a future with dignity, to live in peace with all your neighbors, in your free country, then this is a risk I must take.
Palestinians have a right to liberate themselves that extends to the right to the use of armed struggle, yet as Shammalah wrote, the Great Return March signifies a “nearly unanimous acceptance of peaceful methods to call for our rights and insist on our humanity.” Nevertheless, based on media coverage, readers could be forgiven for concluding that it was Palestinians, not Israel, who carried out what Doctors Without Borders called “unacceptable and inhuman” violence.
en: ‘Israël gebruikt nieuw chemisch wapen tegen Palestijnse demonstranten in de Gazastrook‘ (Wel aandacht voor ‘Syrische gifgasaanval’ in Douma, maar als Israël daadwerkelijk dit wapen inzet, blijft het doodstil….Israël, samen met Egypte, de twee landen die nog steeds chemische wapens ontwikkelen, produceren, opslaan en…. exporteren!! Wellicht leveren deze landen ook aan de terreurgroepen, ofwel de ‘gematigde rebellen’ in Syrië, die met instemming van het westen over voorraden gifgas beschikken…… Zowel Israël als Egypte staan achter de psychopathische terreurgroepen in Syrië, groepen die in het westen, zoals gezegd, ‘gematigde rebellen’ worden genoemd…..)
