Can you spot the difference?
Friends, according to Al Jazeera today, the Jewish State of Israel has fully prepared for the arrival of the Aid Convoy. Al Jazeera reports:
“In accordance with the directions of the Israeli government, the Israel Defence Forces and the Israeli Navy are preparing to prevent the flotilla from reaching the Gaza shore,” a military source said on Thursday. “Israelis on board would be arrested, Palestinians would be questioned by the Israeli secret service, and foreign nationals would be sent back to their countries.”
The Israeli army also took journalists on a tour of a detention centre being prepared at Ashdod port for holding the aid activists. Sounds very draconian, doesn’t it?
Those on the Aid Convoy say:
“If the Israelis try to stop us, this will be a huge diplomatic and political crises for them. We have 50 states participating in this and are sending a very clear message to Israel – the international community is not accepting the siege on Gaza.”
Activists traveling in the convoy included European parliamentarians, former US diplomats and Nobel peace laureates. Organizers of the aid fleet said that they will ignore Israeli threats and head straight for Gaza’s shores.
Now I don’t know about you but Israel’s reaction to what is an Aid Convoy seems rather extreme, like something the Nazis might have done, something that Hitler would have been proud of. Then many things the Israelis have done during the last sixty years are direct copies of Nazi tactics: collective punishment, genocide, carpet bombing, land stealing, etc.
Suddenly the thought entered my head: Perhaps Hitler wasn’t killed in a bunker in Berlin. Perhaps he’s secretly running Israel and Netanyahu is just a talking head. After all, the Aid Convoy is not threatening to invade Israel and occupy it. They are trying to get aid to the Gazans who, for nearly three years, Israel has put under an illegal siege.
Friends, call me old-fashioned but the Hitler thought won’t leave my mind (even though he was born in 1889 and would now be 121 years old). Then they say only the good die young.
Humor aside, I fear for those on the Aid Convoy!
P.S. Thanks to Al Jazzera.
This is so huge, this is 800 shoe hurlers.
I fear for them too, but my admiration for them is overwhelming, I’m so thankful for their courage and moral human dignity.
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Whatever happens I too admire thier courage and fully support thier efforts. How is it that a people who (reportedly) suffered so much during WW2 could treat other human beings with such callus and discremination, and impose such suffering. Commen sense says otherwise. I have to agree with David, these are Hitler tactics.
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Kate Bates, 800 shoe hurlers is right. And the strange thing is that Israel has no legal right to control the sea off Gaza. None!
76-water, when you compare the actions of the Nazis and compare them with actions of the Israelis, the differences are minute!
I just had a comment from some Jewish sympathiser saying that the flotilla should be sunk. I sank the comment, consigned it to the trash can where it belongs.
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Oh man, I almost feel aprehensive, but good idea I don’t know how well a coment like that would have set with your regular posters. I may have wanted to attack such a post. I’ve seen such on other blogs and it’s real disapointing. It just does not set well with me that people could be so uncaring about those they do not know, especialy when doing a service. The Isrealis there today, many were not around when Isreal was born. They may not even understand thier own bigetry; it’s what they may have been taught. Still, human rights are human rights.
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David G Reply:
May 28th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
76-water, Israelis in particular and Jews in general ignore most criticism. It’s only when you really stand them up, confront them, show them what they are that they take any notice.
In a Court of Law, it would be easy to show that Israelis have adopted many of the Nazis tactics. So far, they’ve stopped short of gas ovens but…well, the Israeli experiment is still playing out. Who would know how far they would go?
If they nuke Iran, that could make the WW2 Holocaust look like a Sunday School picnic.
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After having perused the “Hidden History of Zionism” one may better be able to grasp the coolness and cynism being behind the ideology of Zionism.
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chapter02
Vladimir Jabotinsky [[a “Revisionist Zionist”[represented today by Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir.]] wrote in 1923 “The Iron Wall”
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“There can be no discussion of voluntary reconciliation between us and the Arabs, not now, and not in the foreseeable future. All well-meaning people, with the exception of those blind from birth, understood long ago the complete impossibility of arriving at a voluntary agreement with the Arabs of Palestine for the transformation of Palestine from an Arab country to a country with a Jewish majority…….. Try to find even one example when the colonization of a country took place with the agreement of the native population!!! . Such an event has never occurred.”
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“The natives will always struggle obstinately against the colonists ”
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from chapter04, said by BEN GURION (1937)
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“” After we become a strong force as the result of the creation of the state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine. The state will only be a stage in the realization of Zionism and its task is to prepare the ground for our expansion. The state will have to preserve order – not by preaching but with machine guns. “”"
Read more ———–
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/
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I saw an interview that Munthadar Al Zaidi gave recently and was surprised to learn that his act was not impulsive but he had carefully thought it out, even to leaving a will.
I can’t get the thought out of my head that if only a dozen people in that room had stood up then that it would have resulted in a standing ovation that could not have been spun into a lone, disgruntled reporter ‘going crazy’.
That was an iconic moment in history for me.
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John, Ben Gurion’s statement is being carried out to the letter. The people who allowed the Zionists to get a foothold in Palestine were short-sighted fools!
Kate, it was iconic for me too. If ‘the people’ only realized the power they had if they joined together. If only!
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I watched the Israeli “admiral” (made me think of “Field Marshall” Idi Amin) on another site
rabbit on about professional soldiers when he was talking about the thugs in the Israeli army.
I have great admiration for the people on the flotilla, but fear what will happen when these
balaclava clad thugs board the ships. It was reported they will be wearing balaclavas to avoid identification. Fair dinkum, these people think they are SAS.
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David G Reply:
May 29th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
John, what else would you expect from a people whose minds are concentrated on aping a primitive society that lived thousands of years ago, but also has nuclear weapons.
I’m amazed that America isn’t involved in helping its little imperialist mate to stop the flotilla. Of course they could well be lurking behind the scene.
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You all might already be aware, but I just heard that the isreals are using thier prominate news sites to discredit the Floatilla as aiding terrorists and the IDF as saving the day. What links these mongrels will go to to sway public oppinion. Oh, and the Isreali airforce attacted Gaza again today 5-29-10, I figure just to punish these imprisoned people before the SHTF. Cheers!
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David G Reply:
May 29th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
76-water, Israelis will do absolutely anything to ensure their brutal, racist little society survives and grows. This will certainly include using nukes.
They just keep telling themselves: “God wants us to get rid of the Palestinians. He wants us to create a Greater Israel. He want us to kill our enemies. We are His Chosen Children.”
Religion can be a force for evil!
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Actually, Hitler tried, unsuccessfully, to save Germans from the Jews. Truth out!
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The comparison with Nazi Germany has I’m sure been recognised by many. It’s just unfortunate that world leaders lose sight of history. When the state of Israel was sanctioned by the UN in 1948 ( pushed through by the US lobbyists), in response to the holocaust, the partitioned map was completely different. Not only should Gaza be freed, but the rest given back as well. Israel has no right to it. The terrorist activities of the Irgun (the world’s first terrorists-long before any Palestinian rockets were fired)) also seem to be long forgotten.
The atrocities that occurred 70 years ago, do not justify turning Gaza into a concentration camp. The Israeli’s should simply get over their victim mentality.
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