Zionisten houden pogrom in Oost-Jeruzalem

IfNotNow, een groep jonge Joden uit de VS heeft het roepen om arabieren te doden en te verbranden en Jeruzalem uit te gooien, aangeduid als een pogrom tegen Palestijnen……. Eén en ander gebeurde vorige week donderdag in Oost-Jeruzalem door honderden leden van de fascistische Lehava organisatie….. Dit alles onder het toeziende oog van de Israëlische politie en grenswachten…… (die niets ondernamen tegen de enorme en beangstigende agressie, zelfs niet toen huizen van Palestijnen werden aangevallen en men duidelijk een kind kon horen huilen….) Ook Ben Reiff, een journalist van Haaretz, noemde dit een pogrom en gisteren noemde hetzelfde mediaorgaan de deelnemers aan de pogrom neofascisten…….*

Fijn dat de Nederlandse media, inclusief de zogenaamde onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde NOS, over deze schandelijke fascistische gebeurtenis ‘zoveel hebben bericht’ (niet dus….), terwijl we wel mogen betalen voor de zionistische verslaggevers die de NOS gebruikt, zoals Ties Brock en al voor een veel langere tijd Ankie Rechess……. Toevallig berichtte de NOS vanmorgen wel over het weghalen van hekken bij de Damascuspoort voor de Palestijnen zodat ze gebruik kunnen maken van de plek waar men elkaar ontmoet tijdens de ramadan…… Hiervoor schreef fascist Rechess het artikel op de NOS site, waar ze stelde dat de Israëlische politie dit deed om de de gemoederen tot bedaren te brengen (de hekken staan daar al vanaf het begin van de ramadan…), gemoederen die onder de Palestijnse jongeren hoog opliepen door die belemmering…… Ze zei verder zelfs dat de ellende zoals die hierboven is beschreven de aanleiding was voor extreemrechtse Joden om zich te roeren, met geen woord vertelde ze dat het hier om niets anders ging dan een walgelijke pogrom om de Palestijnen (‘arabieren’) te verdrijven uit Oost-Jeruzalem….**

In een eerder uiterst kort artikel van Rechess spreekt ze over treffen tussen Palestijnen en de leden van Lehava, waar de politie wilde ingrijpen maar machteloos stond, aldus Rechess…… Terwijl de politie niets ondernam toen de honderden leden van Lehava een pogrom hielden in Oost-Jeruzalem en daar huizen aanvielen, wat niet werd gemeld door Rechess, nee in feite stelt ze dat Palestijnse jongeren die uiteindelijk ter verdediging de straten optrokken, van meet af aan vochten met de leden van Lehava……

Trouwens Rechess bericht meestal zo dat elke onderdrukkende maatregel die de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël neemt een reactie is op geweld van Palestijnen, alsof het hier om gelijkwaardige staten gaat en de Palestijnen goed worden behandeld door Israël, walgelijk!! Israël is verantwoordelijk voor ernom lijden onder het verdrukte Palestijnse volk en het aantal Israëlische slachtoffers kan niet in de schaduw staan van het enorme aantal door Israël vermoordde Palestijnen (inclusief kinderen, vrouwen, bejaarden, invaliden, journalisten en medisch personeel) en dat sinds de illegale stichting van de staat Israël (die gefundeerd is op het bloed Palestijnen….)  

Het volgende artikel komt van Mondoweiss en werd geschreven door Philip Weiss:

As mob of Jewish supremacists unleash ‘pogrom’
against Palestinians in Jerusalem– AIPAC crows about 331 Congress
members standing by Israel

Jewish
supremacists saying that “Arabs must burn march” toward the Damascus
Gate last night in Jerusalem. Screenshot from Haaretz video. April 22,
2021.

There are horrifying images from Jerusalem last night of a mob of
racist Jews chanting that the city belongs to them and Arabs should
burn. The young American Jewish group “IfNotNow” labeled the mob a
“pogrom,” in another assertion of moral leadership over community elders
who ignore the violence.

“Hundreds of Jewish supremacists march in Jerusalem’ tonight, chanting ‘death to Arabs’” reports Noa Landau of Haaretz. Some of the supremacists attacked Palestinian homes. Writer Ben Reiff also calls it a pogrom:

Tonight hundreds of Israeli youths
are marching through Arab areas of Jerusalem chanting “death to Arabs”
and “the people demand Arabs on fire”, and are now attacking the homes
of Arabs in the Old City. Call this what it is: a pogrom.

The mob was asserting a Jewish claim to Jerusalem and was aimed at
Palestinians who were emerging from the Old City at sundown in Ramadan.

Here’s Jerusalem Post report

Israeli media reported, hundreds of
Jewish youth from the far-right extremist Lehava organization arrived
at the [Damascus] gate from Zion Square along Jaffa Street, yelling
“Death to Arabs,” and “Revenge.” They held up signs that read “Death to
terrorists,” according to N12….

“We’ve come here tonight,”
Ben-Zion Gopstein, head of Lehava, said, “to clarify to anyone who
thinks otherwise: Jerusalem is ours!”

All That’s Left Collective posted a photo of the mob at what appears to be the municipal square near the Green Line, not far from Damascus Gate:

Jewish fascist protesters aiming
to displace Palestinians from their homes and yelling, “Death to Arabs”
are allowed to gather but Palestinians enjoying iftar are targeted with
stun grenades.

All That’s Left Collective photo of Jewish supremacist demonstrators approaching East Jerusalem 

Noga Tarnapolsky’s video of the mob in West Jerusalem en route to the Damascus Gate:

Noga Tarnopolsky

@NTarnopolsky

Hundreds of mostly orthodox Jewish youth marching through downtown Jerusalem towards Damascus Gate, amid chants of “Death of Arabs!”

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More video of the Death to Arab chants.

Jacob Magid of Times of Israel reports:

“The people demand that Arabs
burn” being chanted right now by roughly 200 far-right activists
marching toward Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem to clash with
Palestinians

Noa Landau picked up a video of an attack on a home: “Jewish supremacists are attacking a (Arab) home in Jerusalem. You can hear children crying. This is horrific.”

IfNotNow, the young U.S. Jewish group which is anti-occupation, was swift to issue a very strong statement
last night decrying a “pogrom” and linking it to official
implementation of the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians. It also cited
the success of the neofascist party Religious Zionism in last month’s
election, winning six seats and becoming a kingmaker.

 

Page 1 of IfNotNow statement on “pogrom” of Jewish supremacists in Jerusalem, April 22, 2021.

Meantime, the lead Israel lobby group AIPAC is crowing about the fact that
331 Congresspeople signed a letter saying that U.S. military aid to
Israel must not be restricted. A blank check to human rights atrocities,
with 3/4 of the Congress signing off, including many progressives.

331 members of Congress,
Democrats and Republicans, stand united. Full funding of American
security assistance to Israel is a vital investment in our national
security interests.

The US Embassy has issued a statement today decrying all acts of violence in Jerusalem and calling for cooler heads to prevail. No mention of the racist mob.

The American Jewish Committee issued a both sides statement.
“All violent rioters must be apprehended.” Though it did also say:
“Jewish extremists who engage in hate-fueled violence do not represent
the Jewish community in Israel or beyond.”

Russell Khater responds:
“You created this. You enabled this. You block any efforts to rein it
in. You pretend it is fringe when it is mainstream and that the
political parties supporting pogrom aren’t part of the coalition
government for damage control of Israel’s image.”

J Street condemned the Jewish mob, featuring that video of the attack on the Palestinian home.

This is the terror happening in Jerusalem right now. It must stop.

J Street also wrote
of the mob: “This is utterly disgusting and shows that the far-right is
only becoming more brazen. Every Israeli leader should speak out
against these horrifying anti-Arab marches in Jerusalem.”

“JewishWorker” baits the American Jewish Committee
(AJC) about the rise of the Religious Zionism party: “Just curious… Where’s
your statement condemning the welcoming of Kahanists into the Knesset
and Netanyahu’s coalition?”

Noa Landau translates a disturbing video apparently shot by a Palestinian journalist of a young Jewish woman in Jerusalem:

The “polite” Jewish supremacist:
“I don’t tell them (Arabs) may your village burn down (a popular racist
chant), I say you will leave the village – and then we will live there”.
Follow the events in Jerusalem

Yumna Patel offers historical context:

the Israeli mobs chanting “Death
to Arabs” are taking place in the middle of a city where Palestinians
have been & continue to be systematically expelled from their homes
and replaced by Israeli settlers, who have the full backing &
protection of the state

Thanks to Scott Roth.
“I know too many American Jews who will see this and defend it. This
chapter of Jewish history is as dark as the Holocaust. Only the sides
are different.”

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Hier nog een paar Twitterberichten over de Israelische terreur tegen het verdrukte Palestijnse volk:

Sarah Wilkinson

@swilkinsonbc

Sickening UN neutrality means protecting israeli criminals at all costs & doing nothing about the suffering of the indigenous people of Palestine

UN ‘neutrality’ means protecting Israel at all costs while ignoring Palestinian suffering

Israeli settlers have increased their harassment of Palestinian worshippers during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The Israeli extremists usually carry out their attacks with the full protection…

middleeastmonitor.com

 

Sarah Wilkinson

@swilkinsonbc

Israeli “police” chase and arrest a young Palestinian man, violently assault several others & seize all the Palestinian flags in Bab al-Amud


Israeli police storm Bab al-Amud, assault Jerusalemite youths

A large number of Israeli police forces on Sunday night stormed Bab al-Amud area in the Old City of Jerusalem and embarked on dispersing and assaulting Palestinian citizens who gathered there.

english.palinfo.com

12:44 PM · Apr 26, 2021Twitter for iPad

 

Op het Twitteraccount van Sarah Wilkinson kan je dagelijk één of meerdere Twitterberichten vinden over Israëlische terreur. 

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*  Zie: ‘Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Are Its Latest Neo-fascist Thugs‘ (een opiniestruk van Gideon Levy)

** Zie: ‘Israël moet stoppen met het illegaal etnisch zuiveren van Palestijnen uit het bezette Oost-Jeruzalem‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

Zie ook: ‘Racistisch-fascistische aanvallen op Palestijnen in Israëlisch-Palestijnse stad Kafr Qasim

Israël gaat wat betreft apartheid nog een heel stuk verder dan destijds het witte minderheidsbewind in Zuid-Afrika

Palestijnen hebben het recht en de plicht om in verzet te komen tegen de Israëlische terreur‘  (een bericht uit 2017 n.a.v. een artikel geschreven door Gideon Levy) (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Coronavirus: Hamas durft geen langere lockdown door te voeren dan een 2 dagen durende, terwijl het aantal echt zieke mensen gigantisch is

Israël onthoudt Gazastrook van humanitaire hulp en brandstof voor generatoren‘ (brandstof o.a. belangrijk voor de generatoren van medische posten en ziekenhuizen)

Israeli shelling of Gaza amid virus lockdown brings new depths of misery‘ 

Gaza suffocates as Israel escalates its aggression on the enclave

Palestijnse Autoriteit West Bank slaat solidariteitsprotest met Palestijnen Gazastrook gewelddadig neer…….

Ankie
Rechess (NOS) en de Israëlische ‘acties’ op de ‘Tempelberg’: de
Palestijnen wilden de boel opjutten en dat is gelukt…….

Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Struggle‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

The al-Aqsa Metal Detectors Aren’t A Security Measure‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

Palestinians and Israelis Killed, Hundreds Wounded as Violence Engulfs West Bank

Giro d’Italia neemt Jeruzalem als vertrekpunt, een reden voor veel ‘lol’ op Radio1……

Hier nog een artikel over Rechess, deze van het blog van Stan van Houcke: ‘Ankie Rechess. Zioniste als NOS-Verslaggeefster

Verkiezingen in de VS worden weer gemanipuleerd door de Israëlische premier Netanyahu

Het meest ongelofelijke aan de flop
Russiagate was wel dat men echte manipulatie van de
presidentsverkiezingen in de VS buiten schot hield. Zo manipuleerde
de zwaar corrupte Palestijnenslachter Netanyahu de
presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 door een smerig praatje in het
congres, waarbij hij waarschuwde zeker niet op Sanders te stemmen,
zonder dat daar ook maar een woord aan vuil werd gemaakt door de
reguliere media die wel moord en brand schreeuwden over Russiagate
(en dat was en is een wel heel doorzichtige en belachelijke
leugen….)….. Dit nog buiten alle andere manipulaties van die
verkiezingen bijvoorbeeld door diezelfde reguliere media, de
plutocraten en de grote bedrijven…..

Nu
blijkt dat Netanyahu al weer bezig is met de manipulatie van de
presidentsverkiezingen in 2020 en weer demoniseert hij (de Joodse)
presidentskandidaat Bernie Sanders, waar deze al een paar jaar lang
in de reguliere VS media is afgemaakt als socialist, communist en
agent van Moskou…… Dit keer is de reden voor Netanyahu de
terechte kritiek van Sanders op AIPAC, het American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, een VS lobbyorganisatie voor de (nu officieel
fascistische (nu officieel) en apartheidsstaat Israël.

Al zou
Moskou een miljoen dollar in de presidentsverkiezingen steken, dan
nog zou dit geen effect hebben, immers met de werkelijke geldstromen
kan zo’n bedrag het verschil niet maken, laat staan de 100.000 dollar
die Rusland in 2016 zou hebben uitgegeven aan reclames op Facebook
(‘voor borsjt en wodka..’)…..

De
scherpslijpers van 2016 zijn zo zot dat ze stellen dat Moskou Trump
nog 4 jaar als president van de VS zou willen hebben, terwijl
diezelfde Trump o.a. meermaals sancties heeft getroffen tegen Rusland
en Trump bijna het jaarrond militaire oefeningen laat houden langs de
Russische grens (zou je moeten proberen langs de VS grens…)…. Dan
is er nog het verbieden door Trump van de verdere aanleg van
gaspijpleiding Nord Stream 2 (NS2), tussen Rusland en Duitsland en
waar hij de bedrijven die daaraan meewerken heeft gewaarschuwd zich
terug te trekken uit dat project….. Het laatste daar Trump het
zwaar gesubsidieerde schaliegas wil slijten aan de EU, verder heeft
Trump Rusland meermaals geschoffeerd i.z. Syrië…. En dat zijn nog
maar een paar bewijzen dat Rusland Trump kan missen als een boer met
kiespijn…..

De
geheime diensten in de VS hebben onlangs alweer gesteld dat Rusland
bezig is met het manipuleren van de voorverkiezingen en de
uiteindelijke presidentsverkiezingen a.s. november. Uiteraard doen ze
dit, daar ze op zeker nog meer budget en bevoegdheden zullen krijgen
om deze ‘manipulatie’ tegen te gaan……

Het
volgende artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op Mondoweiss
en werd door mij overgenomen van Information
Clearing House
:

 

Where’s
the outrage over Netanyahu trying to interfere in the US election?

By
Michael Arria

Speaking via satellite feed from Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, March 26, 2019. KEVIN LAMARQUE/ REUTERS

March
04, 2020 “
Information
Clearing House

 
For the last four years, there’s been a national debate regarding
the scope of Russian interference in the 2016 election. The issue
might end up dominating discourse in 2020 as well. Last month,
intelligence officials warned House members that Russia is allegedly
meddling
in an effort to get Trump reelected.

Concerns about Putin’s
impact on U.S. elections has generated countless articles and
wall-to-wall cable news coverage. It also fueled an impeachment
investigation. However, blatant election interference from other
countries is certainly not treated in the same way.

This contradiction was
on display over the weekend, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu addressed AIPAC’s annual policy conference via video
feed. Netanyahu repeatedly referenced Democratic frontrunner Bernie
Sanders, who skipped the conference and claimed that the lobbying
group promotes bigotry. At the most recent Democratic debate, Sanders
called Netanyahu a “reactionary racist.”

We were all
reminded a few days ago that there are forces who seek to break our
alliance,” said Netanyahu, “Last year, those who came to AIPAC
were accused of dual loyalty. This year, AIPAC was accused of
providing a platform for bigotry. These libelous charges are
outrageous.”

Netanyahu wasn’t the
only Israeli official to attack Sanders at the conference. Israel’s
ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said,
“We don’t want Sanders at AIPAC. We don’t want him in Israel.
Anyone who calls our prime minister a ‘racist’ is either a liar,
an ignorant fool or both.”

Responding to Danon’s
comments on
Face
the Nation, 
Sanders
said he was calling for a more evenhanded foreign policy. “I am not
anti-Israel…but what we need in this country is a foreign policy
that not only protects Israel but deals with the suffering of the
Palestinian people as well,” said Sanders.


Face The Nation



@FaceTheNation

.@BernieSanders addresses confrontation with @AIPAC: “I’m Jewish and I’m very proud of my Jewish heritage…I am not anti-Israel…but what we need in this country is a foreign policy that not only protects Israel but deals with the suffering of the Palestinian people as well.”

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This certainly isn’t
the first time that Netanyahu has intervened in United States
politics. In 2015, the Prime Minister infamously visited Washington
so that he could argue against former president Barack Obama’s Iran
Deal in congress. Obama was never consulted about the visit and the
administration called it a “departure
from protocol.”

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Arria is the U.S. correspondent for Mondoweiss. –
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Zie ook:

Verkiezingen VS: stem niet op Sanders en zie af van revolutionaire plannen en ideeën‘ (een humoristisch artikel van Caitlin Johnstone)

Super Tuesday: Democraten willen demente kandidaat Biden i.p.v. het echte alternatief voor Trump: Bernie Sanders‘ 

CIA: alle kandidaten, behalve Pete Buttigieg, zijn Russische agenten….. ha! ha! ha! ha!‘ 

Bernie Sanders (Democratisch presidentskandidaat): socialisme, communisme en de VS‘ 

Joe Biden mede verantwoordelijk voor de oorlog tegen Irak in 2003 en verdere demonisering van Rusland 

Robert Epstein: Google en Facebook corrumperen de politiek en manipuleren de presidentsverkiezingen

Joe
Biden met dubbel verlies: hij dreigde met een rechtszaak om zo de
resultaten van de voorverkiezingen in Iowa tegen te houden van
publicatie
‘ 

Democratische
voorverkiezingen presidentschap Iowa: de soap is begonnen, nu is het
nog wachten op de beschuldiging van ‘Russische inmenging’

Facebook staat valse informatie toe tijdens de (voor-) verkiezingen van het presidentschap in de VS

Max Boot, promotor van de illegale oorlog tegen Irak is pissig dat Bernie Sanders kritiek levert op die oorlog‘ 

VS burgers zijn gewaarschuwd: Rusland kan hun hersenen hacken en laten geloven dat Joe Biden niet geschikt is als president

Hillary Clinton: Bernie Sanders is a ‘Russian Asset’

Nieuwe Russische hack samenzweringstheorie t.a.v. Joe Biden ‘schokt’ VS Democraten

VS presidentschap wordt gekocht met 100 dollar per uitgebrachte stem

Hillary Clinton manipuleert democratische voorverkiezingen

Michael Bloombergs deelname aan de verkiezingen laten nog eens zien hoe ondemocratisch de VS presidentsverkiezingen zijn

Media en politiek bepalen waar wel en niet over gesproken wordt >> over manipulatie en desinformatie gesproken

Niet Rusland maar Trump beïnvloedt nu al de verkiezingen in Groot-Brittannië

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grilt Zuckerberg over misleidende advertenties op Facebook: liegen in verkiezingstijd is toegestaan

Tulsi Gabbard (Democratische presidentskandidaat) en de gestoken verkiezingen

Ollongren (D66 minister) manipuleerde bevolking met beschuldiging Russische manipulatie door desinformatie en nepnieuws‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht naar meer berichten over Ollongren en haar leugens)

WaPo waarschuwt voor Russische digitale controle over de hersenen van VS burgers

Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela

In een
vergadering over de politiek ten aanzien van Venezuela heeft
Democratisch congreslid* Ilhan Omar het oorlogsmonster Abrams het vel
over de oren getrokken. Abrams is de oorlogsmisdadiger die is
aangesteld door de Trump administratie om de VS acties tegen de democratisch gekozen president van Venezuela te coördineren als speciaal gezant voor de VS…… 

Abrams is bekend van zijn bloedig acties tegen voormalige regeringen in Latijns-Amerika en het in stand houden van dictaturen die de VS welgevallig waren, zo is de schoft mede
verantwoordelijk voor een genocide in Guatemala en voorts in diverse Latijns-Amerikaanse landen: moord, verkrachtingen, martelingen en
ontvoeringen………

Lees en
zie (video) hoe Omar Abrams op een geweldige manier te kakken zet en
zie de smerige reacties van schoften die achter Abrams staan. Abrams
zou nu een mensenrechtenactivist zijn, althans als je het geteisem
moet geloven, dat dit gelul van een dronken aardbei is, blijkt wel
uit het feit dat de Trump administratie deze smerige schoft heeft
aangesteld om de coup in Venezuela in de juiste VS banen te leiden…….. 

Moet je nagaan, het voorgaande nadat de VS de laatste 10
jaar het volk van Venezuela steeds dieper in de ellende heeft
gestort met een smerige economische oorlog……..

Overigens
was Omar onlangs al in opspraak over haar uitlatingen t.a.v. AIPAC**

Het
volgende artikel werd geschreven door Caitlin Johnstone en werd
eerder geplaatst op haar website, door mij overgenomen
van Anti-Media:

Congresswoman
Ilhan Omar Smacks Down Elliott Abrams in Front of Everybody

February
13, 2019 at 7:35 pm

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — Days
after being smashed with a 
vicious
establishment smear campaign
 to
paint her as an antisemite for accurately criticizing AIPAC,
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is already back on the horse
aggressively disrupting the 
establishment
narrative matrix
 that
our rulers have worked so hard to construct for us.

Elliott
Abrams is a monster. The 
atrocities
that he has facilitated
,
covered up and whitewashed in 
PanamaEl
Salvador
GazaGuatemalaNicaragua and Iraq are
utterly unforgivable, and the fact that he has been 
appointed
as special envoy to Venezuela
 by
the Trump administration completely invalidates the US government’s
Venezuela narrative all by itself. Even without the 
blatant
lies
,
the 
known
oil agendas
,
the 
CIA
ops
,
the 
mounting
evidence
 of
US arms smuggling to right-wing militias, and America’s extensive
history of utterly disastrous regime change interventionism, the fact
that this administration would appoint such a ghoulish individual to
spearhead its Venezuela interventionism 
alone is
enough to show you that the US government has nothing but malevolent
intentions for that nation.

So
it was nice to see someone in that government calling him what he is
right to his face in front of everybody.

At
a House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) hearing on US Venezuela policy,
Abrams 
was
presented
 with
the only line of questioning that is appropriate for such a beast by
the very congresswoman the Democrats threw to the wolves just two
days ago. Someone had to do it, and they left it to Ilhan Omar.

In
1991, you pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information
from Congress regarding your involvement in the Iran-Contra affair,
for which you were later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush,”
Omar accurately stated. “I fail to understand why members of this
committee, or the American people should find any testimony that you
give today to be truthful.”

If
I could respond to that-” Abrams began.

That
wasn’t a question,” Omar responded, cutting him off.

It
was an attack! It was an attack!” Abrams exclaimed, visibly upset.

I
reserve the right to my time,” said Omar.

It
is not right that members of this Committee can attack a witness who
is not permitted to reply,” Abrams said, talking over Omar.

That
was not a question; thank you for your participation,” Omar
continued. “On February 8th, 1982, you testified before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee about US foreign policy in El Salvador.
In that hearing, you dismissed as communist propaganda a report about
the massacre of El Mozote of which more than 800 civilians, including
children as young as two years old, were brutally murdered by
U.S.-trained troops. During that massacre, some of those troops
bragged about raping 12 year-old girls before they killed them. You
later said that the U.S. policy in El Salvador was a ‘fabulous
achievement.’ Yes or no, do you still think so?”

From
the day that President Duarte was elected in a free election, to this
day, El Salvador has been a democracy,” Abrams said angrily.
“That’s a fabulous achievement.”

Yes
or no, do you think that massacre was a fabulous achievement that
happened under our watch?” Omar asked.

That
is a ridiculous question and I will not respond to it,” Abrams
replied. “I’m sorry Mr. Chairman, I am not going to respond to
that kind of personal attack which is not a question.”

I
will take that as a yes,” Omar said. “Yes or no, would you
support an armed faction within Venezuela that engages in war crimes,
crimes against humanity, or genocide if you believe they were serving
US interests as you did in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua?”

I’m
not going to respond to that question,” Abrams again answered. “I’m
sorry, I don’t think this entire line of questioning is meant to be
real questions, and so I will not reply.”

Whether
under your watch a genocide will take place, and you will look the
other way because American interests were being upheld is a fair
question,” Omar said. “Because the American people want to know
that any time we engage a country that we think about what our
actions could be and how we believe our values are being furthered.
That is my question: Will you make sure that human rights are not
violated and that we uphold international and human rights?”

I
suppose there is a question in there, and the answer is that the
entire thrust of American policy in Venezuela is to support the
Venezuelan people’s effort to restore democracy to their country,”
Abrams responded. “That’s our policy.”

I
don’t think anybody disputes that,” Omar said. “The question I
had for you is that does the interests of the United States include
protecting human rights and include protecting people against
genocide?”

That
is 
always the
position of the United States,” Abrams lied.

Thank
you,” concluded Omar. “I yield back the rest of my time.”

The Discourse Lover@Trillburne

It should be emphasized that the atrocities in Guatemala have been legally recognized as a genocide. This is tantamount to Holocaust denial.

Max Boot

@MaxBoot

Disgraceful ad hominem attacks by @IlhanMN on my @CFR_org colleague Elliott Abrams. She doesn’t seem to realize he is a leading advocate of human rights and democracy–not a promoter of genocide! More evidence of the loony left I caution Democrats about: https://wapo.st/2DBb8x3  https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1095777138328961024 

There
is no legitimate reason for Elliott Abrams to ever find himself
before a group of people who are ostensibly concerned with
accountability and responsibility without being asked such questions.
But that didn’t stop all the world’s worst people from crawling
out of the woodwork to his defense.

Disgraceful
ad hominem attacks by @IlhanMN on my @CFR_org colleague Elliott
Abrams,” 
tweeted Iraq-raping
neocon Max Boot. “She doesn’t seem to realize he is a leading
advocate of human rights and democracy — not a promoter of
genocide! More evidence of the loony left I caution Democrats about.”

I
worked for Elliott Abrams as a civil servant,” 
tweeted Kelly
Magsamen, Vice President of National Security for
the 
plutocrat-backed
liberal think tank 
Center
for American Progress (CAP). “He is a fierce advocate for human rights
and democracy. Yes, he made serious professional mistakes and was
held accountable. I’m a liberal but I’m also fair. We all have a
lot of work to do together in Venezuela. We share goals.”

I
am not greatly sympathetic to Rep. Omar (surprise
surprise),” 
tweeted National
Review
 senior
editor and former George W Bush speech writer Jay Nordlinger. “But
really, someone ought to have given her a clue who Elliott Abrams is.
The guy has been championing freedom and human rights his entire life
(and taking unholy sh** for it from the illiberal Left and Right).”

Conservative
pundit Michael Knowles tossed his two cents into the campaign to
purge the concept of antisemitism of any meaning by 
tweeting,
“One wonders why @IlhanMN seems to harbor such particular contempt
for Elliott¹ Abrams² (¹ from the Hebrew ‘Elijah,’ meaning ‘My
God is Yahweh’ ² the father of the Jewish people).”

Michael Knowles

@michaeljknowles

One wonders why @IlhanMN seems to harbor such particular contempt for Elliott¹ Abrams².

¹ from the Hebrew “Elijah,” meaning “My God is Yahweh”

² the father of the Jewish people


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This
is the bipartisan establishment orthodoxy that is guiding your
foreign policy, America. One which claims Elliott Abrams is a saint,
which claims criticism of US warmongering is antisemitic, and which
throws a bold Somali-American woman under the bus for speaking the
truth after years of paying lip service to the need to get more women
of color elected to the leadership of the Democratic Party. This
whole Abrams incident happened, by the way, at the same time Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 
deleted
a tweet
 in
which he accidentally acknowledged the agenda to start a war with
Iran, but you probably won’t see Omar commenting on this because
she knows she’ll be smeared as an antisemite for it.

US
warmongering is the most aggressively protected part of the
establishment narrative matrix, because US warmongering is the glue
that holds the unipolar empire together. Without it, our rulers
cannot rule, so you’ll see imperial lackeys fiercely attacking
anyone who draws attention to America’s bloodbaths around the
world, even if they are good servants of the empire in other areas.

The
difficulty for our rulers, though, is that warmongering is a very
difficult thing to paint a pretty picture of, especially with our
newfound ability to quickly share ideas and information around the
globe. I mean, look at Elliott Abrams. Seriously, just 
watch
him talk
.
That demonic grimace is the prettiest face they could find to put on
their Venezuela agenda. I find that very encouraging.

The
reason they work so hard to manufacture our consent for warmongering
agendas is because they 
need that
consent. They wouldn’t propagandize us so aggressively if they
didn’t need us all trusting them and believing their stories, so
the best way to fight establishment warmongering is to circulate
disbelief in their stories. Whenever you see someone like Ilhan Omar
drawing attention to the gaping plot holes in agendas like regime
change interventionism in Venezuela, go ahead and help draw attention
to it.

Things
are only shitty because a few extremely powerful people do very
shitty things. The only reason powerful people get away with doing
very shitty things is because the majority allows them to. The
majority only allows them to because they’ve been propagandized to.
The weakest link in this chain is the propaganda. Attack there.

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Opinion
by 
Caitlin
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Ter verduidelijking: Ilhan Omar, heeft sinds 2017 een zetel in het lagerhuis van Minnesota voor de Minnesota Demcratic-Farmer-Labor Party (toegevoegd op 10 maart 2019)



** Zie: ‘AIPAC, een pro-Israël lobbygroep, koopt leden van het VS congres om met 4 miljoen dollar per jaar

Zie ook:

Venezuela: 15 doden door sabotage elektriciteitsnet

Venezuela: het VS volk wordt weer een oorlog in gelogen, zoals eerder in Irak, Libië en Syrië

Venezuela: bijt de VS in haar eigen staart?’

Jill Stein (US Green Party): de VS maakt zich druk over armoede in Venezuela terwijl de armen thuis kunnen doodvallen….

Venezuela: humanitaire hulp stunt van de VS ingegeven om de kruistocht tegen Maduro een versnelling te geven

Venezuela: Abrams vindt een meerderheid in de VN Veiligheidsraad genoeg voor een gedwongen regeringswisseling



Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten

Trump en Bolton bedreigen openlijk de familie van Venezolaanse militairen

Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA ‘Black Site’ centra

Venezuela >> de media willen het socialisme definitief de nek omdraaien

BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (bericht van dit blog)

Joel Voordewind (CU 2de Kamer) bakt de ‘Venezolaanse vluchtelingencrisis’ op Curaçao wel erg bruin en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) schiet een Venezolaanse bok

Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia

Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er ‘iets anders’ uit

Guaidó is een ordinaire couppleger van de VS, e.e.a. gaat volledig in tegen de Venezolaanse constitutie

Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt

Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank

VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen

Pompeo: US Military Obligated to “Take Down” the Iranians in Venezuela

(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onder doet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)

Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela

Mike Pence (vicepresident VS) gaf Guaidó, de door de VS gewenste leider, groen licht voor de coup in Venezuela

VS coup tegen Maduro in volle gang……..

Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Pompeo Speech on Venezuela

Venezuela’s Military Chief, Foreign Allies Back Maduro

Als de VS stopt met spelen van ‘politieagent’ en het vernielen van de wereld, zullen de slechte krachten winnen……

VS weer op oorlogspad in Latijns-Amerika: Venezuela het volgende slachtoffer…….

Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie

Vast Majority of Democrats Remain Silent or Support Coup in Venezuela

Trump wilde naast de economische oorlogsvoering tegen Venezuela dat land daadwerkelijk militair aanvallen……

Venezolaanse regionale verkiezingen gehekeld door westen, terwijl internationale waarnemers deze als eerlijk beoordeelden……….

Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare

Venezuela: de anti-propaganda van John Oliver (en het grootste deel westerse massamedia) feilloos doorgeprikt

Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………

Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)

Rex Tillerson waarschuwt Venezuela voor een coup en beschuldigt China van imperialisme…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Edwin Koopman (VPRO Bureau Buitenland) over Venezolaanse verkiezingen met anti-Maduro propaganda bij de ‘onafhankelijke NOS…..

EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………

Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..

VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………

Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote

10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela

Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly

What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………

Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………

Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media

Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!

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Meer berichten met Omar:

Ilhan Omar: Obama zette kinderen in een kooi en kwam weg met moord

Madeline Albright ‘gegrild’ over illegale interventies en sancties van de VS

AIPAC, een pro-Israël lobbygroep, koopt leden van het VS congres om met 4 miljoen dollar per jaar

AIPAC, een pro-Israël lobbygroep, koopt leden van het VS congres om met 4 miljoen dollar per jaar

Ilhan
Omar en Rashida Tlaib* zijn de eerste vrouwelijke moslim leden van het VS congres en deze 2 timmeren nogal aan de weg. Zo heeft Omar een berg
stront over zich heen gekregen voor het openbaren van het feit dat
AIPAC, een pro-Israëlische lobbygroep, ieder jaar weer congresleden omkoopt met 4 miljoen dollar voor politici die ‘de
goede zaak’ dienen, ofwel die zonder enige kritiek pal staan voor de
fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël en alle enorme oorlogsmisdaden (om niet te zeggen misdaden tegen de menselijkheid) die dit gestolen land begaat tegen de Palestijnen…..

Het
gaat overigens niet alleen om het pal staan voor Israël, maar ook
elke kritiek die op deze terreurstaat wordt geuit afdoen als
antisemitisme, behoort tot de taak van deze omgekochte congresleden en dat heeft Omar gemerkt zoals je
al kon lezen. Het feit dat Omar kritiek durft te hebben op AIPAC is
al reden genoeg om haar als antisemiet weg te zetten……

De
schrijver van dit artikel is Alexander Rubinstein en werd eerder
gepubliceerd op MintPress News, door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media.
Verbaas je zoals ik over de hysterische manier waarop men in de VS
elke komma kritiek op Israël afdoet als antisemitisch, datzelfde geldt overigens voor alle westerse landen, neem de kritiek op Jeremy Corbyn, Labour en oppositieleider in GB….** 

Laten
we hopen dat Omar en Tlaib zich uiteindelijk niet de mond laten
snoeren, de invloed van Israël op de politiek in de VS is ongeëvenaard en zelfs al zou het Russiagate sprookje waar zijn (wat
het niet is), zou die beïnvloeding niet in de schaduw kunnen staan
van de enorme invloed die Israël heeft op de politiek in de VS……
Zo sprak de zwaar corrupte oorlogsmisdadiger Netanyahu in 2015 het VS congres toe, waar hij de richting wilde bepalen van de politiek die de leden zouden moeten volgen inzake
Iran, dit daar hij het niet eens was met Obama…) Daarmee schoffeerde deze Palestijnenslachter niet alleen
Obama, maar schopte hij zelfs tegen het kleine beetje democratie dat nog over is in de VS…..

Ilhan
Omar is Right: AIPAC Influences Congress With $4 Million Every Year

February
11, 2019 at 10:04 pm

Written
by 
Alexander
Rubinstein

(MPN— What
unites Republicans and Democrats, a former Jewish terrorist, the
Republican leader in the House of Representatives, Nikki Haley,
Chelsea Clinton and Liz Cheney? A Muslim lady with a mouth and some
opinions, apparently. Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has been the
subject of bipartisan bullying that has reached a fever pitch since
the lawmaker explicitly called out the number one Israeli lobby group
in the U.S. — the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

Earlier
this year, Omar made heads explode in the halls of power after she
denounced the U.S.-backed coup attempt in Venezuela. Now, even
the leader of her own party in her own chamber of Congress – House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi – is joining a chorus of detractors accusing
Omar of anti-Semitism for correctly characterizing the business of
lobbying.

While
this is not the first time that Omar has come under fire for
criticizing Israel, the current saga began on Sunday when journalist
Glenn Greenwald tweeted an article by the Israeli daily
newspaper Haaretz that trumpeted calls from House
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to “take action” against
Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). McCarthy did not specify which
statements he opposed, but called the situation “equal” or worse
than that of Rep. Steve King (R-IA) who was removed from his
committee assignments by his party after he questioned when “white
supremacy” had become “offensive.”

Tlaib
and Omar are the first two Muslim women in Congress, while Tlaib is
the first Palestinian-American. Both have supported the Boycott
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a nonviolent campaign to
economically pressure Israel into compliance with international and
humanitarian law.

Glenn Greenwald


@ggreenwald

Replying to @ggreenwald

Equating @IlhanMN & @RashidaTlaib‘s criticism of Israel to Steve King’s long defense of white supremacy is obscene (McCarthy said it’s worse). In the US, we’re allowed to criticize our own government: certainly foreign governments. The GOP House Leader’s priorities are warped.

Glenn Greenwald


@ggreenwald

Sorry, but you’re not going to turn the two first Muslim women to serve in the US Congress into overnight Jew-haters because of their criticisms of Israel. What’s actually anti-Semitic is conflating the Government of Israel with Jews, so those of you doing that should stop.


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1:48 AM – Feb 11, 2019

MintPress
News
 has
previously covered 
dubious
accusations
 of
anti-Semitism against Tlaib after she took a stand against a
free-speech-crushing bill favored by — you guessed it — the
Israel lobby. Meanwhile, other lawmakers are 
attempting
to block
 Tlaib’s
planned delegation to the illegally occupied West Bank.

In
response to the attack from the Republican House leader, ACLU Human
Rights Director Jamil Dakwar 
quipped that
Congressman McCarthy may “want to revive McCarthyism.”

McCarthy
himself received $33,000 from NorPAC, “an AIPAC affiliate, in the
last election cycle,” 
reportedthe
online publication 
Jewish
Worker
.
Meanwhile, McCarthy himself has been accused of spreading
anti-Semitic tropes, warning that three Jewish, liberal mega-donors,
including George Soros, were trying to “buy” the midterm
elections, which were to take place the following day. 
That
tweet
 has
since been deleted.

Kevin McCarthy


@GOPLeader

One of my greatest honors is leading new members on a bipartisan trip to Israel to showcase the shared values and unbreakable bond between our countries.

Kevin McCarthy


@GOPLeader

Anti-Semitic tropes have no place in the halls of Congress. It is dangerous for Democrat leadership to stay silent on this reckless language.


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Kevin McCarthy


@GOPLeader

Replying to @GOPLeader

Anti-Semitic tropes have no place in the halls of Congress. It is dangerous for Democrat leadership to stay silent on this reckless language.

District Sentinel@TheDCSentinel

Weird you would tie trips to Israel with antisemitism. Equating Zionism to Judaism is antisemitic. Almost like you are a disingenuous weasel


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About
the Benjamins

Upon
seeing the report, Omar did not pull any punches. In an apparent pun
on a slang term for $100 bills and the prime minister of Israel’s
first name, she tweeted that “it’s all about the Benjamins baby,”
which is a quote from a 1990’s Puff Daddy song.

Then,
an opinion editor at the Jewish magazine The Forward,
Batya Ungar-Sargon, reposted the tweet, telling her followers that
she’d “love to know who Ilhan Omar thinks is paying American
politicians to be pro-Israel, though I think I can guess.”

Mnar A. Muhawesh ⌛@MnarMuh

In 2018 spent ~ $4 Million lobbying our elected officials to support Israel, including quashing Americans first amend right to support BDS.@IlhanMN pointing out how Congress is bought to represent a foreign government over Americans isn’t antisemitic it’s stating facts.


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9:41 PM – Feb 11, 2019

Omar
clapped back with just six characters, tweeting “AIPAC!” — the
acronym for the largest and most powerful pro-Israel lobby group in
the United States. In fact, AIPAC spends more than 
$3.5
million every year
 to
influence Congress to be more favorable towards Israel.

Eli Valley


@elivalley

This is a disgusting. By the same token one can say “The Forward has won the approval of the KKK.”


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7:07 PM – Feb 11, 2019

Ungar-Sargon
then attempted to speak on behalf of all American Jews, responding to
Omar that she should “learn how to talk about Jews in a
non-anti-Semitic way.” Anti-Zionist American Jews promptly 
shut
her down
 in
replies.

Sam@halaljew

I know she’s still a Democrat and you should never put too much faith in anyone who’s a member of the Democratic Party, but I like Ilhan Omar. She’s had the balls to stand against the Washington consensus on Israel and on regime change in Venezuela. I’m glad she’s in the House.


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But
some powerful people with Twitter accounts took exception the the
congresswoman’s identification of a pro-Israel lobby group as an
entity that “is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel.”
One is left to wonder what causes AIPAC doles out the contents of its
propaganda war-chest for if not to influence lawmakers on Israel. The
takeaway from this line of analysis is that money has no influence in
politics, which is patently absurd.

Yet
AIPAC’s own 
mission
statement
 claims
“AIPAC urges all members of Congress to support Israel through
foreign aid, government partnerships, joint anti-terrorism efforts.”

Eli Clifton

@EliClifton

Kudos to @IlhanMN for calling out the role of the GOP’s donors in influencing US foreign policy.

The GOP’s biggest donors, the Adelsons, are hawkishly pro-Israel and advocate using nukes on Iran!

The GOP’s biggest fundraiser, Norm Coleman, is a paid lobbyist for Saudi Arabia!


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Here,
those that charge Omar with anti-Semitism reveal their own. By
leveling charges of bigotry against critics of the Israel lobby,
Israel’s defenders equate Jewishness with allegiance to Israel, or
Zionism. In keeping with this estimation, Jews that do not condone
the apartheid project underway in Palestine are branded
“self-hating.”

Rania Khalek

@RaniaKhalek

Here is Chelsea Clinton accusing Ilhan Omar of anti-semitism for critiquing AIPAC. You hear that? Being anti-AIPAC is now anti-semitism.

Chelsea Clinton

@ChelseaClinton

Replying to @bungarsargon @ReaganBattalion

Co-signed as an American. We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism.


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Despite
Rep. Omar’s statement about AIPAC being self-evident, the remark
riled the likes of former Trump Administration Ambassador to the UN
and pro- Israel 
Nikki
Haley
,
who once said, “When I come to AIPAC, I am with friends.”
Haley’s 
pro-Israel
track record
 at
the international body prompted an Israeli cartoonist to 
satirize her
departure with an image of a United Nations handyman telling Haley,
who is packing her bags, that she forgot her “second flag” — an
Israeli one. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin even called Haley a
“true ambassador” for Israel.

Nikki Haley

@NikkiHaley

To see this at the UN was a fight every day. This CANNOT be tolerated in our own Congress by anyone of either party. In a time of increased anti semitism, we all must be held to account. No excuses. ❤️
🇺🇸

Ilhan Omar

@IlhanMN

AIPAC! https://twitter.com/bungarsargon/status/1094756291803791360 


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A
major Washington pile-on

Lawmakers
who pounced on Omar include: 
Sen.
Kevin Cramer
 (R-ND), Rep.
Doug Collins
 (R-GA), Sen.
Ted Cruz
 (R-TX), Rep.
Max Rose
 (D-NY), Rep.
Brad Schneider
 (D-IL), Rep.
Sean Maloney
 (D-NY), Rep.
Donna Shalala
 (D-FL), Rep.
Anthony Brindisi
 (D-NY), Rep.
Tom Suozzi
 (D-NY), Sen.
Krysten Sinema
 (D-AZ), Rep.
Lois Frankel
 (D-FL), Rep.
Eric Swalwell
 (D-CA), Sen.
Tom Cotton
 (R-AR), Rep.
Alcee Hastings
 (D-FL), Sen.
Martha McSally
 (R-AZ), Rep.
Liz Cheney
 (R-WY),
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA), who are
trying to shore up support for 
a
letter
 to
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) hailing Israel as a “proud and
stable democracy with robust protections for minorities” and
calling for “swift action” to address the “recent rhetoric.”

Pelosi
responded hours later with a 
joint
statement
 with
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Majority Whip James Clyburn
(D-SC), Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), and
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) “condemning anti-Semitic comments made
over Twitter by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.”

Also
included in the D.C. dogpiling were the 
Republican
Jewish Coalition
, the
American Jewish Committee
 (which
painted AIPAC as a “Jewish” organization), and Dov Hikind, whom
journalist Dan Cohen 
pointed
out
 is
a former member of the Jewish Defense League 
terrorist
organization
.
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea also “co-signed”
Ungar-Sargon’s smears of Omar’s rhetoric as “anti-Semitic.”

Judah Fishmonger@praisegodbarbon

In all seriousness though I am a young Jew who has never more represented on this issue than seeing @IlhanMN be brave enough to call out AIPAC and the Israel Lobby in its efforts to cement anti-Palestinian racism as a litmus test for Congress. She speaks for me, they don’t.


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Chelsea
Clinton assured several on Twitter that she would “reach out to
Omar.” When Omar agreed, saying “we must call out smears from the
GOP and their allies,” Clinton agreed. That was until Ashley
Goldberg stepped in, tweeting that Clinton “outright said there is
a problem with antisemitism [sic] on both sides and Ilhan Omar
clearly said she only cares about what she can do to depict it as
only a problem with the GOP.”

Max Blumenthal

@MaxBlumenthal

Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have earned over $3.5 million in paid speeches to pro-Israeli apartheid groups. At a $1000 a plate dinner, Bill Clinton said he would “grab a rifle and get in the trench and fight and die” for Israel. https://www.alternet.org/2016/02/clintons-earned-over-35-million-paid-addresses-pro-israel-organizations/amp/ 

Chelsea Clinton

@ChelseaClinton

Replying to @bungarsargon @ReaganBattalion

Co-signed as an American. We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism.


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But
the conversation took a turn, culminating in Clinton’s 
vowing to
“google people” before engaging with them from then on out, after
journalist Hannah Gais 
pointed
out
 that
Goldberg was photographed at a white supremacist conference in 2016
hosted by Richard Spencer. Goldberg, an anti-communist Jewish media
personality, also 
used
to date
 Neo-Nazi
leader Matthew Heimbach, the founder of the now-defunct
Traditionalist Workers Party.

Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין

@MairavZ

Yes but Omar did not talk about Jews, she talked about money and it’s influence on American policy on Israel. What does it say about her accusers that any mention of money and power=Jews?

Michelle Goldberg

@michelleinbklyn

FYI, it’s possible to believe both that AIPAC has a pernicious effect on American politics and that Ilhan Omar’s tweet invoked clear anti-Semitic stereotypes about how Jews buy influence.

AIPAC’s
non-influence in Congress”

Not
everyone bought it hook-line-and-sinker, however. Khaled Elgindy, a
senior fellow at the neoconservative Brookings
Institution, 
tweeted that
he was “in the market for a bridge,” and asked 
The
Forward 
editor
Ungar-Sargon to “please enlighten us on AIPAC’s non-influence in
Congress.”

A
spokesperson for Omar 
told Politico in
response to the firestorm caused by the representative’s

tweets
that the remarks “speak for themselves.”

Rafillionaire


@RafiLetzter

Replying to @RafiLetzter

She has consistently handled it with grace, even in the face of overt racism from GOP congressmen (which has somehow never been a scandal). What she gets in return is “serious reporters” parroting the smears.

Rafillionaire


@RafiLetzter

Things that are vastly more antisemitic than Ilhan Omar’s tweets:

– The belief that AIPAC represents American Jews

– The belief that Israel represents American Jews

– The median American Christian Zionist’s views on Jews

– The president

– All 7 of the Harry Potter Novels


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But
a cursory examination of the legacy AIPAC has left since it opened
shop the DC speak even greater volumes. The lobby group is not
itself run by Israel, allowing it to avoid registration under the
Foreign Agents Registration Act, a law that forces foreign lobby
groups to be more transparent. That’s because I.L. Kenen, the
founder of AIPAC, created a “legal loophole by which AIPAC is
defined not as a lobby for a foreign state but for Americans who
support that state. It’s a critical distinction that makes AIPAC’s
dominance over U.S. Middle East policy possible,” according to
former AIPAC employee M.J. Rosenberg.

AIPAC
continues its practice of using loopholes to further its agenda
today. A recent 
documentaryproduced
by 
Al
Jazeera
 but
censored by Qatar, which funds the outlet, showed how one fundraiser
for a congressional candidate, organized by an unofficial “AIPAC
group,” circumvented laws on maximum individual political
contributions by pooling donors’ grants together and doling out the
official donations evenly among participants.

And
the organization’s sway over Congress is difficult to dispute.
Promotional literature for the annual AIPAC policy conference in
Washington has touted the idea that it would be “attended by more
members of Congress than almost any other event.” Steve Rosen, a
former AIPAC executive, would tell people that he “could take out a
napkin at any Senate hangout and get signatures of support for one
issue or another from scores of senators,” according to Connie
Bruck in 
The
New Yorker
.

As
AIPAC’s former policy director, Rosen and “Iran specialist” at
AIPAC Keith Weissman met with Larry Franklin, a top Pentagon analyst
working on Iran, prior to Franklin leaking a draft presidential
directive “that proposed a tougher policy on Iran, which included
consideration of covert action towards regime change,” according
to 
Democracy
Now
.
That document made its way into AIPAC’s hands, which passed it on
to Israeli officials.

Former
AIPAC President David Steiner was even forced to resign after audio
was leaked of him bragging about how he was negotiating with Bill
Clinton’s presidential campaign to appoint people to key posts in
his administration. Steiner ultimately recanted and apologized to
both AIPAC and Bill Clinton.

By Alexander
Rubinstein
 / Creative
Commons
 / MintPress
News
 / Report
a typo

====================================

Nogmaals: dan te bedenken dat men Rusland op valse gronden beschuldigt van inmenging in de VS politiek….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

*  Ilhan Omar, heeft sinds 2017 een zetel in het lagerhuis van Minnesota voor de Minnesota Demcratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Rashida Tlaib is van de Democratische Partij voor wie zij de vertegenwoordiger is van het 13de (congressionele) district van Michigan. (toevoeging ter verduidelijking gemaakt op 10 maart 2019) 

** Zie o.a.:

Esther Voet (hoofdredacteur Nieuw Israëlietisch Weekblad) over ‘antisemitisme’‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

JeremyCorbyn is definitely a ‘dangerous hero’. Nice one Mail.

Ignorethe
mainstream media, Jeremy Corbyn just played a winning move
.

The Mail on Sunday en Sky News schieten levensgrote antisemitische bok bij het belasteren van Corbyn‘ (voor meer valse anti-Corbyn propaganda, klik op het label met zijn naam, direct onder dit bericht)

Meer berichten met Omar:

Fox News veroordeelt eigen presentator voor belachelijke uitlatingen aangaande Ilhan Omar

Ilhan Omar: Obama zette kinderen in een kooi en kwam weg met moord

Madeline Albright ‘gegrild’ over illegale interventies en sancties van de VS

Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela

De film over de pro-Israëlische lobby in de VS, die Israël verboden wil zien………

THE
ELECTRONIC INTIFADA (EI) heeft de 4 delen van ‘The Lobby – USA’ op
haar site gezet. In de film is te zien hoe sterk de Israël lobby is in de VS en hoe ongelofelijk smerig dit geteisem handelt. Middels lastercampagnes, spionage en intimidatie van burgers die zich voor Palestijnse rechten uitspreken
en die Israël vanwege haar ongebreidelde terreur bekritiseren, probeert men hen de mond te snoeren door hen af te schilderen als antisemieten……. 

Ofwel op grond van kritiek op de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, wil men critici  afschilderen als antisemieten, lullig genoeg lukt dit in de meeste gevallen, al is het met behulp van de westerse reguliere media en het grootste deel van de westerse politici…… Let wel: dat hele label ‘antisemitisch’ is vooral belachelijk als men dit Palestijnen en andere arabieren aanwrijft, daar ook zij semieten zijn!!

Een ‘mooi
voorbeeld’ van een lastercampagne is die tegen Jeremy Corbyn de Labour leider, hij wordt al anderhalf jaar lang
voor antisemiet uitgemaakt, met hulp van o.a. ‘onafhankelijk
zendgemachtigde’ BBC, dit ondanks de band die Corbyn heeft met Joden die kritisch zijn op Israël, zoals de band met onze inmiddels overleden Hajo Meijer, NB een Holocaust overlever, die werkte voor Een Ander Joods Geluid……. In de Britse dagbladen is eveneens amper of geen weerwoord te vinden, Corbyn moet en zal de volgende verkiezingen
verliezen, daar zetten zich zelfs collega’s van Corbyn voor in,
verraders als opperschoft Tony Blair………

Ook in ons land zijn pro-Israëlische zionisten fanatiek bezig tegen mensen die kritiek hebben op het moorddadige beleid van Israël, o.a. Stan van Houcke is sinds kort het doelwit van zionisten ofwel fascisten als Leon de Winter…….

Voor het artikel van Durden heb
ik zelf de video’s overgenomen van YouTube (die van het originele artikel kan ik niet overnemen), ik geef ze i.t.t. tot het artikel op Zero Hedge wel alle 4 weer,
plus nog een video, met de titel: ‘Evidence
the Israel Lobby Control the US Government’. Mensen lees en
verwonder je hoe machtig de pro-Israël lobby in feite is, verwondering ook hoe men dergelijke haatcampagnes kan voeren en het gore lef heeft mensen die opkomen voor de rechten van Palestijnen, als antisemitisch weg te zetten…… 

Lees,
zie en geeft het door, tijd dat de ogen van de wereldbevolking
opengaan en dat Israël wordt aangepakt voor de vreselijke terreur die
het in haar illegaal gestichte staat en op de West Bank en de
Gazastrook uitoefent, inclusief een enorm aantal massamoorden, niet alleen vlak
voor en na de illegale stichting van Israël, maar tot op de dag van vandaag…

Israëlische
leiders als Netanyahu en Lieberman hadden in Scheveningen al jaren hun levenslange gevangenisstraf moeten uitzitten, en dat beste
bezoeker, heeft totaal niets met antisemitisme te maken, maar alles
met gerechtigheid voor de gepleegde oorlogsmisdaden als massamoord en bijvoorbeeld het opsluiten en martelen van Palestijnse mensen en zelfs
hun kinderen……. 

Voorts zouden deze leiders terecht moeten staan voor zaken als het onthouden van water aan de Palestijnen, dit door vernieling van de bronnen (in de Gazastrook) en afdammingen in de Jordaan, t.b.v. de illegale Israëlische nederzettingen op de West Bank, waar Israël zich overigens totaal illegaal als bezettingsmacht bevindt, zoals nazi-Duitsland zich illegaal in ons land ophield van mei 1940 tot mei 1945

De 4 docu-films in het artikel hieronder werden door Al Jazeera gemaakt, echter deze mochten niet worden uitgezonden van Qatar, dit onder druk van Israël, Saoedi-Arabië en de VS……. De feiten in de documentaire werden o.a. verkregen door infiltratie >> een journalist gaf zich uit als een pro-Israëlische vrijwilliger in Washington.

Over censuur gesproken: ook Facebook doet mee aan pro-Israëlische lobby en het platform heeft al honderden accounts van Palestijnen verwijderd…….

En je weet het: als men een documentaire wil verbieden wil men zaken verborgen houden, ofwel Israël geeft in feite toe dat het een barbaars, inhumaan beleid voert t.a.v. de Palestijnen……. Dit alles (met nog een herhaling: het kan niet genoeg gezegd worden) in een illegaal gestichte staat op het grondgebied van die Palestijnen, dat te boek zou moeten staan als Palestina en niet als Israël!

Watch
the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see

The
Electronic Intifada
 2
November 2018

Update: On
6 November, The Electronic Intifada published the final two episodes
of
 The
Lobby – USA. 
You
can 
watch
episodes three and four here
.

The
Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of 
The
Lobby – USA
,
a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s
covert influence campaign in the United States.

We
are releasing the leaked film simultaneously with
France’s 
Orient XXI and
Lebanon’s 
Al-Akhbar,
which have respectively subtitled the episodes in 
French and Arabic.

The
film was made by Al Jazeera during 2016 and was completed in
October 2017.

But
it was 
censored after
Qatar, the gas-rich Gulf emirate that funds Al Jazeera, came under
intense 
Israel
lobby pressure
 not
to air the film.

Although
Al Jazeera’s director-general claimed last month that there were
outstanding legal issues with the film, his assertions have
been 
flatly
contradicted by his own journalists
.

In
March, The Electronic Intifada was the 
first
to report
 on
any of the film’s specific content. We 
followed
this in August
 by
publishing the first extract of the film, and 
shortly
after
 Max
Blumenthal at the 
Grayzone
Project
released others.

Since
then, The Electronic Intifada has released 
three
other extracts
,
and several other journalists have watched the entire film and
written about it – including 
Alain
Gresh
 and Antony
Loewenstein
.

Now
The Electronic Intifada can reveal for the first time that it has
obtained all four parts of the film.

You
can watch the first two parts in the video embeds above and below. (deel 3 en 4 onder dit artikel van EI)

To
get unprecedented access to the Israel lobby’s inner workings,
undercover reporter “Tony” posed as a pro-Israel volunteer
in Washington.

The
resulting film exposes the efforts of Israel and its lobbyists to spy
on, smear and intimidate US citizens who support
Palestinian human rights, especially BDS – the boycott,
divestment and sanctions movement.

It
shows that Israel’s semi-covert 
black-ops government
agency, the 
Ministry
of Strategic Affairs
,
is operating this effort in collusion with an extensive network
of US-based organizations.

These
include the 
Israel
on Campus Coalition
The
Israel Project
 and
the 
Foundation
for Defense of Democracies
.

Censored
by Qatar

The
film was suppressed after the government of Qatar came under intense
pressure not to release it – ironically from the very same lobby
whose influence and antics the film exposes.

Clayton
Swisher, Al Jazeera’s head of investigations, 
revealed in
an article for 
The
Forward
 in
March that Al Jazeera had sent more than 70 letters to individuals
and organizations who appear in or are discussed in the film,
providing them with an opportunity to respond.

Only
three did so. Instead, pro-Israel groups have endeavored to suppress
the film that exposes the lobby’s activities.

In
April, Al Jazeera’s management was 
forced
to deny a claim
 by
the hard-right Zionist Organization of America that the film had been
canceled altogether.

In
June, The Electronic Intifada 
learned
that a high level source
 in
Doha had said the film’s indefinite delay was due to “national
security” concerns of the Qatari government.

Covert action

As revealed
in a clip published by The Electronic Intifada earlier this week
,
the film shows Julia

Reifkind
– then an Israeli embassy employee – describing her typical work
day as “mainly gathering intel, reporting back to Israel … to
report back to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of
Strategic Affairs.”

She
discusses the Israeli government “giving our support” to front
groups “in that behind-the-scenes way.”

Reifkind
also admits to using fake Facebook profiles to infiltrate the circles
of Palestine solidarity activists on campus.

The
film also reveals that US-based groups coordinate their efforts
directly with the Israeli government, particularly its 
Ministry
of Strategic Affairs
.

Run
by a former military intelligence officer, the ministry is in charge
of 
Israel’s
global campaign of covert sabotage
 targeting
the BDS movement.

The
film shows footage of the very same ex-military intelligence
officer, 
Sima
Vaknin-Gil
,
claiming to have mapped Palestinian rights activism “globally. Not
just the United States, not just campuses, but campuses and
intersectionality and labor unions and churches.”

She
promises to use this data for “offense activity” against
Palestine activists.

Jacob
Baime, executive director of the Israel on Campus Coalition, claims
in the undercover footage that his organization uses “corporate
level, enterprise-grade social media intelligence software” to
gather lists of Palestine-related student events on campus,
“generally within about 30 seconds or less” of them being
posted online.

Baime
also admits on hidden camera that his group “coordinates” with
the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs.

Baime
states that his researchers “issue early warning alerts to our
partners” – including Israeli ministries.

Baime’s
colleague Ian Hersh admits in the film to adding Israel’s “Ministry
of Strategic Affairs to our operations and intelligence brief.”

Psychological warfare”


Baime
describes how his group has used anonymous websites to
target activists.

With
the anti-Israel people, what’s most effective, what we’ve found
at least in the last year, is you do the opposition research, put up
some anonymous website, and then put up targeted Facebook ads,”
Baime explains in 
part
three of the film
.

Canary
Mission is a good example,” he states. “It’s
psychological warfare.”

The
film names, for the first time, 
convicted
tax evader
 Adam
Milstein
 as
the multimillionaire funder and mastermind of Canary Mission – an
anonymous smear site targeting student activists.

The
Electronic Intifada 
revealed
this in a clip in August
.

Eric
Gallagher, then fundraising director for The Israel Project, is seen
in the undercover footage admitting that “Adam Milstein, he’s the
guy who funds” Canary Mission.

Milstein
also funds The Israel Project, Gallagher states.

Gallagher
says that when he was working for 
AIPAC,
Washington’s most powerful Israel lobby group, “I was literally
emailing back and forth with [Adam Milstein] while he was in jail.”

Despite
not replying to Al Jazeera’s request for comment,
Milstein 
denied that
he and his family foundation “are funders of Canary Mission” on
the same day The Electronic Intifada published the clip.

Since
then, Josh Nathan-Kazis of 
The
Forward
 has identified
several other groups
 in
the US who fund Canary Mission.

Suppressed film

In
March, The Electronic Intifada 
published the
first details of what is in the film.

We
reported that it showed Sima Vaknin-Gil claiming to have leading
neoconservative think tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies
working for her ministry.

The
undercover footage shows Vaknin-Gil claiming that “We have FDD.
We have others working on” projects including “data gathering,
information analysis, working on activist organizations, money trail.
This is something that only a country, with its resources, can do
the best.”

As
noted in part one of the documentary, the existence of the film and
the identity of the undercover reporter became known after footage he
had shot for it was used in Al Jazeera’s 
The
Lobby
 –
about Israel’s covert influence campaign in the UK –
aired in early 2017.

Since
then, Israel lobbyists have heavily pressured Qatar to prevent
the US film from airing.

Foreign agent”


Clayton
Swisher, Al Jazeera’s head of investigations, 
first
confirmed in October 2017 
that
the network had run an undercover reporter in the US Israel
lobby at the same time as in the UK.

Swisher
promised the film would be released “very soon,” but it never
came out.

Multiple
Israel lobby sources 
told Israel’s Haaretz newspaper
in February that they had received assurances from Qatari leaders
late last year that the documentary would not be aired.

Qatar denied
this
,
but the paper stood by its story.

Swisher’s
op-ed in 
The
Forward
 was
his first public comment on the matter since he had announced
the documentary.

In
it, he refutes Israel lobby allegations about the film and expresses
frustration that Al Jazeera had not aired it, apparently due to
outside pressure.

Several
pro-Israel lawmakers in Washington have 
piled
on more pressure by pushing
 the

Department
of Justice to force Al Jazeera to register as a “foreign agent”
under a counterespionage law dating from the 1930s.

The
Israel lobby goes to Doha

While
the film was delayed, a 
wave
of prominent pro-Israel figures
 visited
Qatar at the invitation of its ruler, Emir 
Tamim
bin Hamad Al Thani
.

They
have included some of the most right-wing and extreme figures among
Israel’s defenders in the US, 
such
as
 Harvard
law professor Alan Dershowitz and Morton Klein, the head of the
Zionist Organization of America.

Swisher
wrote in 
The
Forward
 that
he ran into Dershowitz at a Doha restaurant during one of these
visits, and invited the professor to a private viewing of the film.

I
have no problem with any of the secret filming,” Swisher says
Dershowitz told him afterwards.

And
I can even see this being broadcast on PBS” –
the US public broadcaster.

Yet
it appears that Israel lobby efforts to quash the film were
successful – until now.

Tags: The
Lobby–USA
 Al
Jazeera
 Orient
XXI
 Al-Akhbar
(Lebanon)
 Qatar Israel
Lobby
 Max
Blumenthal
 The
Grayzone Project
 Alain
Gresh
 Antony
Loewenstein
 BDS Zionist
Organization of America
 Julia
Reifkind
 Ministry
of Strategic Affairs
 Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
 Sima
Vaknin-Gil
Jacob
Baime
 Ian
Hersh
 Adam
Milstein
 Canary
Mission
 The
Israel Project
 Israel
on Campus Coalition
 Foundation
for Defense of Democracies
 Eric
Gallagher
 AIPAC Josh
Nathan-Kazis
 The
Forward
 Clayton
Swisher
 Haaretz Tamim
bin Hamad Al Thani
 Alan
Dershowitz
 Morton
Klein

Deel 3 en 4 van The Lobby – USA

Hier de video Evidence the Israel Lobby Control the US Government’:

Zie ook:

Kritiek op Israël wordt door een leger van Israëlische trollen bevochten

Israël misbruikt de aanslag op de synagoge in Pittsburgh voor demonisering van steun aan de Palestijnen…….

Google Maps veegt Palestijns gebied van de kaart

Israël zet snelle reactiemacht op poten tegen anti-Israëlische kritiek

Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….

Britse justitie gaat ‘hate crimes’ van Labour onderzoeken

Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen

Arabieren en Afghanen zijn bepaald niet bedroefd om de dood van McCain……

In
een opiniestuk van
As’ad
AbuKhalil in Consortium News (door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media),
beschrijft hij hoe anders arabieren en een volk als de Afghanen
kijken naar de dood van oorlogsmisdadiger, oorlogshitser en
grootlobbyist van het militair-industrieel complex McCain.

In
een voorbeeld geeft hij aan hoe verschillend alleen al een uitspraak
van McCain wordt geïnterpreteerd door westerlingen of arabieren. Een
vrouw in een zaal waar hij vanwege z’n presidentscampagne van 2008
sprak, kreeg van McCain als reactie op haar uitlating dat Obama een
arabier is, dat Obama geen arabier is, hij is een nette familieman.
Westerse media jubelden ‘t uit, wat een fantastische man die McCain,
immers hij zou als republikein Obama hebben verdedigd…… 


Deze ontkenning van McCain zal iemand die goed geïnformeerd is over WOII, doen denken
aan ontkenningen in en na de oorlog, de ontkenning dat iemand geen fanatieke nazi
kan/kon zijn, daar hij een ‘nette familieman’ was…… Zoals men na de oorlog maar al te
vaak ontdekte van fanatieke psychopathische nazi’s die in concentratiekampen
tekeergingen, zoals kampcommandanten, die thuis de brave huisvader uithingen…. 


Hoe een arabier over deze uitspraak zal oordelen is wel
duidelijk, hij of zij ziet in de uitspraak van McCain een bevooroordeelde
westerse klootzak, die stelt dat een arabier geen nette persoon kan
zijn……..

Uiteraard
zien arabieren McCain zoals hij was, een smerige oorlogsmisdadiger
door wie tienduizenden mensen om het leven zijn gekomen, zo stond de
schoft ook achter de illegale oorlog tegen Irak (intussen meer dan 1,5 miljoen doden…), sterker nog, daar
was hij al meteen na 9/11 voorstander van, zoals hij ook voorstander
was van de illegale oorlog tegen Syrië (al vanaf 2006 voorbereid door
de VS, natuurlijk met hulp van McCain….), verder was hij voor een oorlog
tegen Iran….. 


Waarbij dit alles nog opgeteld moet worden, dat hij terreurstaat Israël
zwaar steunde en alle bloedvergieten door die fascistische
apartheidsstaat niet eens bekritiseerde, neem het grote aantal
moorden begaan door Israëlische scherpschutters, die sinds maart dit
jaar aan de grens met de Gazastrook een groot aantal ongewapende, vreedzaam
demonstrerende Palestijnen hebben doodgeschoten*, terwijl ze zich NB op
‘Palestijns grondgebied’ bevonden…… Daarbij vermoordden deze
psychopaten zelfs kinderen, invaliden, duidelijk herkenbare
journalisten en als zodanig herkenbare medisch hulpverleners…… McCain was veel eerder zelfs tegen de onderhandelingen van Israël met Yasser Arafat (PLO)……..

Lees
het uitstekende stuk van AbuKhalil voor veel meer duidelijkheid (zo vertelt hij dat de directeur van Human Rights Watch een lovend stuk over McCain schreef….), voorts zie de berichten over McCain onder de links, die weer onderaan in dit bericht terug zijn te vinden:

Being
on the deadly end of his policies, many Arabs view John McCain in a
very different way than the U.S. mass media has presented him.

The
destruction of Mosul. (Wikimedia Commons)

(CN Op-ed) — It
is not unusual that Arabs and Americans look at the same event from
divergent lenses. Take, for instance, a scene from John McCain’s
2008 presidential campaign when he told  a woman in the audience
who had called Obama an Arab: “No, Ma`am. He is not an Arab. He’s
a decent family man.”

That
brief exchange has been tweeted and retweeted thousands of time in
the last few days following McCain’s death. It has been promoted by
people in mainstream media (and think tanks and academia) as evidence
of the civility, “classiness”, and lack of prejudice of McCain. 
Yet, Arabs saw something entirely different in that exchange. 
They saw bigotry from McCain, who was denying that Obama was Arab
in the same way one denies that someone is a Nazi.  He
clearly implied that an Arab can’t be a decent family man.  In
fact, Gen. Colin Powell was the only U.S. politician who pointed this
out at the time.  But a new image of McCain is being formulated
before our eyes.

For
Arabs in the Middle East and in the U.S., the view of McCain does not
conform to the hagiography of U.S. media.  People in the region
remember well that McCain supported every U.S. and Israeli war,
invasion, or attack against any Arab target. They remember that he
was a major proponent of invading Iraq and argued for the expansion
of U.S. wars into Iran, Libya and Syria in the wake of Sep. 11.

While
the Washington director of Human Rights Watch was writing tributes to
McCain
,
Arabs were remembering him as a champion of Middle East dictators
(except those on bad terms with the U.S. and Israel.) It was not a
coincidence that both the official Saudi regime lobby in DC and AIPAC
promptly released emotional eulogies for McCain. The
English-language, 
Arab
Times
 (a
mouthpiece of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman) dedicated a
special issue to him.

McCain
never wavered in his conformity with AIPAC’s agenda.  He never
had disagreements with the Israeli government except in outbidding
them in his hostility to Palestinian rights and the usefulness of
negotiations with Arabs.

Yet in
the context of Washington politics, McCain was not regarded as the
anti-Arab/anti-Muslim that he was, perhaps because there were Arabs
and Muslims that he approved of. He championed, for instance, Iraqi
opposition figure Ahmad Chalabi (a key fabricator in the buildup to
the U.S. invasion of Iraq) and the Afghan Muhajedeen. He was very
close to Arab despots and approved arms sales to their repressive
armies and intelligence apparatuses. He spoke of democracy but in the
way that invading and colonizing states glorify “freedom” to
justify conquest.

McCain
was a champion of Syrian rebels and pictures of him with Jihadi
extremists (in Libya and in Syria) were circulated by Arabs on social
media in the last week. while the Washington press corps and Human
Rights Watch were paying tribute him as “a defender of democracy.”

Schooled
by Scoop

McCain
was 
mentored on
the Middle East, according to his biographies, by Henry “Scoop”
Jackson, who for years was the dean of ardent Zionists in the U.S.
Congress. Those were in the days when a few members—mostly
Republicans—dared to challenge AIPAC. McCain’s first trip to
Israel was a member of a delegation led by Jackson when McCain was
the Navy’s liaison to the Senate.  Typically, like all
U.S. politicians who visit Israel, McCain became convinced by 
the view from Israeli military helicopters of the vulnerability of
“little Israel” and that Israel needed to continue to occupy,
invade, attack and assassinate.

Self-propelled
howitzers of the Gaddafi forces, destroyed by French Rafale airplanes
at the west-southern outskirts of Benghazi, Libya, in March 2011 in
another war backed by McCain. (Wikimedia Commons)

In
Congress, McCain managed to become associated with AIPAC’s agenda
more than his colleagues. He always argued for more support for
Israel. And when Israel and the U.S. both accepted negotiations with
Yasser Arafat, he remained skeptical, raising doubts about the
intentions of the Palestinians.

After
his election to Congress, McCain quickly set himself up as an expert
on defense and foreign policy. His first foreign policy posture in
Congress was in 1983, when he opposed U.S. intervention in Lebanon,
but not on humanitarian grounds. Instead he basically argued that far
more force was needed against Syria and its allies in Lebanon. This
became a pattern for the Vietnam veteran: that more force is always
needed wherever U.S. troops are deployed. Some attribute the “surge”
to him, as if the surge really salvaged American fortunes in Iraq.

In
an 
article written
during his 2008 presidential campaign, 
The
New York Times
 talked
about the McCain Doctrine and referred to his reaction to Sep. 11,
when he argued for war on Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan.  For
McCain, war was the only recourse for dealing with foes of the U.S.
and Israel. And war was not effective for McCain without massive
force and heavy troop deployments.

The
Senator and the 
Ikhwan

McCain
was a champion of the Muslim Brotherhood (
Jam’iyat
al-Ikhwan
 al-Muslimin),
even if that put him at odds with Gulf rulers who he also supported.
 This position may seem uncharacteristic given his longstanding
fealty to AIPAC and its agenda, and his general unfriendliness to
Arabs and Muslims. But McCain may have undertaken this role at the
behest of AIPAC.

Homs,
Syria

In
the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, McCain negotiated with leaders
of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. 
It was after a series of visits from leaders of those movements to
Washington that they basically reversed their traditional position on
Israel. Leaders of 
An-Nahda rescinded
their plan to criminalize normalization with Israel, while leaders of
the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood pledged commitment to the
Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. 

Similarly,
the stance of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood abandoned any hostility
toward Israel and even toward its occupation of the Golan heights. 
McCain’s confidence in the ability of the 
Ikhwan to
deliver the interests of Israel and U.S., led him to oppose Sisi’s
coup as he trusted that Mohammed Morsi would be able to guard U.S.
interests and the interests of the Egyptian-Israeli
military-intelligence alliance.

McCain
became, in this manner, an unabashed champion of what is called in
the West (and in the Gulf regimes’ media) the “Syrian
revolution”.  He also trusted the Islamists in the
“revolution” and hoped that Israeli interests would be served by
a change of regime that would be aligned with the U.S. and Israel. The risk of promoting Jihadi Islamist rebels was, for McCain and the
Israeli lobby, worth the effort.  For that, McCain’s death was
mourned by leaders of the “liberal” exile opposition and by
Jihadis of the Syrian rebels, including Huthaifah `Azzam, the son of
`Abdullah `Azzam (the mentor of Usamah bin Laden). (Huthaifah `Azzam
later deleted his post after I drew attention to it).

The
career of McCain intersected with the rise of AIPAC on Capitol Hill. 
He also benefited from the Reagan and Bush Doctrines, both of which
relied on the use of massive force against the enemies of U.S. and
Israel.

The
assessment of McCain can’t hope to achieve a measure of balance
given the adulation by mainstream media for a man whose political
sins were always instantly forgotten.  His reference to
Vietnamese by a pejorative term was seen as an example of his frank
talk—not of his prejudice. His involvement with Charles Keating was
seen as an example of a minor error and not of the corruption of an
influential senator.  His endorsement of war, the Israeli
occupation, and his embrace of tyrants (especially in the Gulf and
North Africa) have not been perceived as inconsistent with the
media’s image of a champion of human rights.

In
the end, John McCain was a major face of American empire, just as
were two people who attended his funeral–Obama and Bush –and one
who did not, Trump.

By
As’ad AbuKhalil / Republished with permission / 
Consortium
News
 / Report
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* Het totale aantal doden sinds maart dit jaar, Palestijnse mensen die door ‘heldhaftige scherpschutters werden vermoord) lag op 13 augustus jl. op 168 waaronder 23 kinderen….. Het aantal gewonden (van licht- tot zwaargewond) lag op meer dan 20.000….. (waarbij 68 Palestijnen een amputatie moesten ondergaan…)

Zie
ook:

McCain terminaal ziek: vier als het zover is zijn dood luidruchtig, niets om je voor te schamen

McCain oorlogsmisdadiger >> massaal ten onrechte geëerd na z’n dood

John McCaine: politieke helden zijn op den duur meestal teleurstellend

Begrafenis McCain: onbeschaamde verering van een massamoordenaar en oorlogshitser

VS ontvangt moorddadige Saoedische psychopaat MBS met alle eer……

De
Saoedische kroonprins Mohammed bin Salman, ofwel MBS, is op
bezoek in de VS en wordt daar met alle eer ontvangen door een groot
aantal vips en organisaties……

Onder
de vips bevinden zich figuren als de Clintons, beiden
oorlogsmisdadiger, Oprah Winfrey, VN secretaris-generaal Guterrez,
Henry Kissinger (als de presidenten Clinton, Obama en Trump en hun voorgangers, een oorlogsmisdadiger die als Obama de Nobelprijs
voor ‘de Vrede’ ontving…), Rupert Murdoch (eigenaar groot aantal
nepnieuws organen, ofwel reguliere mediaorganen), psychopaat Pompeo
e.a. (zoals je begrijpt zijn ook de voornoemde oorlogsmisdadigers zonder meer als psychopaten aan te merken)

Voorts
werd MBS ontvangen door zionistisch joodse organisaties, waaronder
organisaties die geld steken in de illegale Israëlische
nederzettingen op de West Bank, wat nog eens onderstreept hoe goed de
banden zijn tussen de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël en de
reli-fascistische dictatuur Saoedi-Arabië…….

Wat
dat laatste betreft: hoe is het mogelijk dat terreurgroepen als IS
zich niet keren tegen het Saoedische bewind……. Blijkbaar is het
geld dat men van het moorddadige Saoedische bewind ontvangt een stuk
belangrijker dan de ‘waarden en idealen’ waar deze terreurgroepen voor
zeggen te staan en al helemaal veel belangrijker dan het verdrukte Palestijnse volk……..

Overigens
zegt de ontvangst van moordenaar, verkrachter en martelbeul MBS veel
over de VS, een ‘land’ waarvan de opvolgende regeringen keer op keer
durven te zeggen dat ze opkomen voor vrijheid (inclusief de vrijheid van
meningsuiting) en democratie……. Waar de VS het gore lef heeft andere dictators en zelfs democratieën de les te lezen, desnoods met geweld en voor dat laatste is niet veel nodig zoals de (recente) geschiedenis laat zien (althans als deze landen anti-VS zijn)……. Alsof men in de VS niet weet dat
S-A het overgrote deel van de terreurgroepen in het Midden-Oosten
steunt……. Oh ja, dom van mij, de VS heeft dit zelfs ook meermaals
gedaan en doet dit nog steeds…..

America
Gives Murderous Saudi Crown Prince the Red Carpet Treatment

March
30, 2018 at 4:20 pm

Written
by 
Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA)  Saudi
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) recently met with leaders of a
number of right-wing Jewish organizations, including the notorious
pro-Israel lobby AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee),
according to a
 leaked
copy
 of
his itinerary obtained by 
Haaretz.

Aside
from AIPAC, MBS also met with a number of other groups that
have
 donated millions
to illegal settlement building. These groups are also responsible for
launching efforts to quash the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS) movement and include the likes of the Anti-Defamation League
(ADL) and the Jewish Federation of North America (JFNA), as well
leaders from the Conference of Presidents, B’nai B’rith, and the
American Jewish Committee (AJC).

If
ever proof was needed that Saudi Arabia has completely abandoned the
Palestinian people in favor of its longstanding commitment to focus
its resources on its regional power struggle against Iran, this is
it. AIPAC is one of the
 primary
backers of legislation
 in
the U.S. that seeks to target and
 stifle BDS,
allegedly spending millions in the process.

Between
2012 and 2015, JFNA
 reportedly gave
almost $6 million to advance illegal Israeli settlements, allegedly
also aiding Jewish families suspected or convicted of violence
against Palestinian people.

This
latest development is part of an
 overall
pattern
 of
a
 continued
strengthening of ties
 between
Israel and Saudi Arabia (even though Saudi Arabia technically doesn’t
recognize Israel as a state). What we should worry about, however, is
the likelihood that Saudi Arabia will be expecting something from
Israel in return for MBS’ newfound partnership with Israel, and it
shouldn’t be too hard to venture a guess as to what that something
is.

As Middle
East Eye
 explained previously:

Saudi
Arabia will only be able to destabilize Lebanon if it works with
Israel, the only country with the military capabilities to threaten
Lebanon’s fragile peace. Will Mohammed bin Salman go as far as
striking a deal with Israel in which he offers full normalisation in
return for Israel destroying Hezbollah and Iran in Lebanon?”

As
the Saudi-Israel alliance solidifies, expect things to heat up in
both Syria and Lebanon. The most direct way of countering Iran’s
expanding influence without going to war with Iran on Iranian soil is
through these latter two countries, and
 Saudi
Arabia
 has
had its sights set on both of them for a long time now — as has
Israel.

On
another note, MBS is also reportedly set to meet with Oprah Winfrey
and has already met with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Senator Chuck
Schumer, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, alleged war
criminal Henry Kissinger, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
the 
New
York Times’ 
Thomas
Friedman, Rupert Murdoch, CIA director Mike Pompeo (who is next in
line for the position of secretary of state), Vice President Mike
Pence, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and Jared Kushner, who MBS
allegedly 
bragged about
having “in his pocket.”

He
is also set to meet renowned business leaders such as Bill Gates,
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Apple’s Tim Cook, and the CEOs of
Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, Uber, the Walt Disney Company and Lockheed
Martin (no 
surprises
on that last one
).

Creative
Commons
 / Anti-Media / Report
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Zie ook: ‘Jeremy Corbin wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….