Hamas will Extend Gaza Cabinet Portfolio - Attend Meetings in Cairo

Hamas officials in Cairo

Hiyam Noir

December 29 2009 5: 47 PM

EGYPT- According to official sources in Gaza, the Palestinian PM, Ismail Hanieh is planning to appoint some new cabinet members to the Gaza based Palestinian administration.The complement of minister posts are needed. The intention is to ease the workload of and support the Gaza administration in providing subsistence of and maintain good service to the Palestinian public.

The last addition to Haniyeh’s cabinet was that of Interior Minister Fathi Hammad, Hammad replaced Said Siyam, who was killed in an Israeli attack.In the last days of the Israelis wantom war on Gaza, that killed over 1.400 and wounded over 5.000 Palestinians.After the assassination, rumors in Gaza said that Siyam was targeted and murdered that day, in a treacherous, covert action of retaliation, carried out by a group of people in order to settle a grudge.

Said Siyam was targeted while he was walking to his brother’s home January 16 2009, the 21th day of the Israelis genocidal assault on Gaza..Over night the Israelis attacked forty targets across Gaza.Said Siyam died along with his brother Iad, his son, and General Salah Abu Shrakh, head of the Hamas General Security Service, at the property of Iad Siam's residence in Jabalya.

On Monday, a delegation of prominent Hamas leaders including Mahmoud Zahhar and Khalil Al-Hayya, conveyed in Damascus Syria.The meetings are expected to last until Tuesday evening. One important issue is probably the Israeli response to a suggested mediated prisoners swap talk, according to a source quoted in the Syrian newspaper Al-Watan.

In order to meet the demands of Hamas and other Palestinian factions in the release of 450 political prisoners specifically listed, in addition to 550 political prisoner selected by Israel.The latest bid in the prisoner swap talks, offered by the Israelis, is deportation of about 100 of these special prisoners(resistance fighters) to Gaza and abroad.

The Israel's claim that the release of approximately 100: ( " the prisoners with blood on their hands" ) ie. members of the Palestinian resistance, of the 450, into the West Bank would pose a security risk and has refused their release,that has become an issue.Hamas high profile political prisoners must be included in the prisoner swap deal with Israel. There is a discussion within Hamas whether a deportation option of the 450 would meet the quality of the conditions, or perhaps it might weaken the status of Hamas dealing in this particular sensitive issue.

Hamas delegates are likely to address the issue of the Egyptian border wall, which the Egyptians began digging at the beginning of December. According to the Egyptians, the building of the Iron wall is an effort to block the Palestinians use of smuggling tunnels (for survival), beneath the border between Egypt and Gaza.

Furthermore,the issue of ending the almost four year long siege on Gaza ,is the top priority matter on the agendum, so is the reconciliation with Fatah.Hamas movement are ready to talk unity, but not with any helper and not to any price.According to Hamas second-in-commander,Musa Abu Marzouq: If the Egyptians are not capable of brokering a deal with the Palestinians, Hamas would get coadjutant support elsewhere.

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Hamas Observe in Heartrending Day - The One-Year Memorial of Israels Genocidal War on Gaza.

Casus Belli
Gaza City Sunday December 28 2009
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Dear Hamas movement, may God bless you - one day soon this movement of steadfast, remarkable and great people will be recognized by the world community - and we will all celebrate together - and we will cry of joy.....

December 27 2009

CAIRO - Marking the heartrending day of the one-year-memorial of the Israelis genocidal war on Gaza, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to lift its blockade on Gaza.

The very same day,Ismail Haniyeh condemned the United Nations of complicity in the International Quartet's refusal to participate in a dialogue with Hamas, he urged the world-community, including member states of EU, Russia and United States,to withdraw its membership from the International Quartet.

After the Israelis wanton war - Gaza families are homeless
more than 1.400 were killed including 352 children. Over 5.000 wounded.
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In the same sentence, the Palestinian PM and the leader of Hamas ,Ismail Haniyeh, called in his elegiac speech upon Ban Ki-moon, not to let the Israeli army - "escape punishment, but bring the criminals to justice".

Haniyeh also said: "It is inappropriate for the United Nations to pose a siege on a nation and people that are under occupation."

Haniyeh urged the Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak to stop building its underground metal wall in Rafah, in an address directed to president Mubarak Haniyeh said, that "Hamas doe's not interfere in Egyptian affairs, and Gaza is not a threat to the security of Egypt.

The tunnels were built by our people in Gaza as an exceptional necessity, we are suffocating by a four year long siege. - We urge Egypt to open the Rafah crossing - Egypt's has it's sovereign legal right to act against the building of an underground wall under Rafah, and we believe it is their national and religious responsibility to do so."

Again, Ismail Haniyeh indicated awareness of Hamas proposal of reconciliation with the Fatah movement, as so many times before the Hamas leader asserted that - " there is no other way for the Palestinians but join in national political partnership, therefore we must overcome distrust and animosity."

Ismail Haniyeh concluded his remarks by expressing Hamas gratitude to everyone who during this year of anguish and mourning, have stood up firmly in solidarity and allegiance with Gaza.

He closed his speech, acknowledged his gratitude to the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, for it's admirable virtue and heroism confronting the conspirators with their fortitude, he said that.. "Any new war on Gaza will not be the picnic as (your) collaborators in harmful and illegal purpose have informed you".

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"Accountability For War Crimes is Imperative": An Interview With Cindy Sheehan

"Good-bye America ..you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it."

by Mike Whitney
December 25, 2009

Mike Whitney---President Barack Obama recently visited Dover Air Force Base where he was photographed with the flag-draped coffins of soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why did Obama do this and what was your reaction?

Cindy Sheehan--"I think Obama did this as a publicity stunt and used the dead troops (that he was responsible for killing) as props to show that he "cares" about the troops. This stunt was in the middle of the "discussions" about how many more troops to send to Afghanistan (after he has already sent about 35,000).

It made me sick.

MW---On Thursday, on orders from President Obama, the US military launched cruise missile attacks on Yemen which were followed by raids by the Yemeni Security forces. An estimated 120 people were killed. Obama's actions indicate that he accepts the Bush Doctrine, that he thinks the US has the right to assassinate people without due process on the mere suspicion they may be linked to a terrorist organization. Is Obama right? Does the US need to be more aggressive in the “post 9-11" world?

Cindy Sheehan---And Obama reiterated this doctrine during his Nobel acceptance speech--which some are calling the "Obama Doctrine" now.

No, I do not agree with these extra-legal executions. I do not agree that the CIA can be jury, judge and executioner in Pakistan and indiscriminately kill people with their drones.

I adamantly disagree with the doctrine of "pre-emptive" strikes or invasions and I don't agree that they keep Americans "safer" and, even if they did, innocent people are getting caught in the crossfire and we are creating enemies that we will never be able to kill.

MW---Hugo Chavez has been demonized in the US media as anti-American and a dictator. You've met Chavez and seen first-hand what's going on in Venezuela. What's your take? Is Chavez a dictator or does he believe in democracy? Have his policies been helpful or harmful to the poor and illiterate?

Cindy Sheehan---Well, statistically, illiteracy and poverty rates have improved since Chavez has been president of Venezuela--although, it is still a very poor country.

I think we should always take governments and politicians with a grain of salt, or with high suspicion. But for a politician, I do think that Chavez cares about the people of Venezuela and democracy movements in South America. His actions have proven that and he has been pretty courageous in trying to spread populism and socialism. He has supported other leaders, like Morales of Bolivia, who have been attacked and marginalized by the ruling class.

Is Chavez a dictator? He's as much a dictator as Obama is. Chavez has put constitutional reforms before the public and has survived CIA coup and recall attempts. I am sure there is always hanky-panky in any election, but Jimmy Carter has certified elections.

MW---Here's a poem by an Iraqi blogger named Layla Anwar, which pretty well sums up the anger and anguish felt by many Iraqis:

“Come and see our overflowing morgues and find our little ones for us...
You may find them in this corner or the other, a little hand poking out, pointing out at you...
Come and search for them in the rubble of your “surgical” air raids, you may find a little leg or a little head... pleading for your attention.
Come and see them amassed in the garbage dumps, scavenging morsels of food...

Come and see, come...” (“Flying Kites” Layla Anwar)

How important to you is it that the people who are responsible for the destruction of Iraq and the slaughtering of over 1 million Iraqis be brought to justice?

Cindy Sheehan---In my opinion, accountability for war crimes committed on the people of Iraq/Afghanistan and, now Pakistan, is imperative.

The US has been committing war crimes for at least the last 100 years (off the continent) and none of our leaders have ever been held accountable and that's one of the reasons that the empire is able to keep rolling.

I also believe that the way to the rest of the world's heart is for American leaders to be held accountable.

MW--- The senate just passed the $636 billion Pentagon budget on Friday which extends the controversial US Patriot Act. Obama is expected to sign the bill sometime this week. Why is America trying to trying to "liberate" Iraq and Afghanistan, when it is spying on its people at home?

Cindy Sheehan---First of all, "liberation" was not a goal of the invasions. We, the gullible, were told that we were going into Afghanistan to get Osama and Iraq because Saddam had WMD and a connection to al Qaeda. When those rationales were proven false, we were then told that it was to liberate the people. Now in Afghanistan, we are told we are "protecting the women."

The phony war on terror has been used to steal our liberties in a full-frontal assault since 9-11 and Obama voted to reauthorize the USA PATRIOT ACT when he was a Senator, and voted for the FISA modernization act, which gave broad authority to the government to spy on our electronic communications and gave telecom companies immunity.

I not only see this as passive stealing of our liberties, but the United Police States of America is increasing in physical oppression, also. I'll be interested to see how the Police State will handle my new action: Peace of the Action.

MW---You know a lot of people across the country. What's the mood among Obama supporters? Have they thrown in the towel already or do they still think he'll turn out to be the leader they hoped he would be?

Cindy Sheehan---I lost a lot of friends when B.O. became president and it was a lonely 6 months after he was elected.

I wrote a new book called Myth America (short title) and I started to travel around the country in April doing book events. For the first time since my activism started, people walked out on my presentations because I was telling them that it was the system--not the person who infests the White House. However, by the end of my book tour in August, the crowds were growing and more enthusiastic and less gaga-eyed over Obama.

Then I started touring again in September and the discontent is growing. I am happy about that.

The ones that upset me the most are the so-called leaders of the "progressive" movement like Tom Hayden, CODEPINK and Michael Moore who very enthusiastically endorsed, worked for, voted for, and raised money for Obama, and NOW are beginning to speak out against his carnage, when in fact, Obama has always been very pro-war. Once the horse is out of the barn, it's hard to get him back in. The movement should never have given him a "chance." Things are so much worse in foreign policy almost a year into his regime.

MW---The media has had a tough time dealing with Cindy Sheehan. On the one hand, they've done everything in their power to glorify the wars and the men and women who serve in uniform. On the other hand, they've gone to great lengths to discredit the mother of a soldier who died fighting in America's wars. Why is the media so afraid of Cindy Sheehan?

Cindy Sheehan---Because I tell inconvenient truths. War is not pretty, ever, but unnecessary wars and needless carnage are even worse.

Also, I realized very early on that the problem didn't rest with a particular political party, but it's a systemic problem and the corporate media is part of it.

MW---Here is a very long question. It's a quote from Obama's Nobel acceptance speech in Oslo: "I come here with an acute sense of the cost of armed conflict — filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace, and our effort to replace one with the other. These questions are not new. War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man. At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease — the manner in which tribes and then civilizations sought power and settled their differences.

Over time, as codes of law sought to control violence within groups, so did philosophers, clerics and statesmen seek to regulate the destructive power of war. The concept of a "just war" emerged, suggesting that war is justified only when it meets certain preconditions: if it is waged as a last resort or in self-defense; if the forced used is proportional; and if, whenever possible, civilians are spared from violence.....

For most of history, this concept of just war was rarely observed. The capacity of human beings to think up new ways to kill one another proved inexhaustible, as did our capacity to exempt from mercy those who look different or pray to a different God I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war. What I do know is that meeting these challenges will require the same vision, hard work and persistence of those men and women who acted so boldly decades ago. And it will require us to think in new ways about the notions of just war and the imperatives of a just peace.

We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth that we will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations — acting individually or in concert — will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified." (Obama Nobel acceptance speech)

This is a very disturbing quote. What do you think Obama is trying to say here?

Cindy Sheehan---Like I said in my speech in Oslo, the ruling class is telling us by giving Obama that award, and in his speech that "War is Peace" and the only conceivable way to peace is through war.

What is also disturbing, is the kudos he got from the left-right establishment over that speech. Disturbing, yet predictable.

MW---Last question. This is an excerpt from an article you wrote more than a year ago:

Cindy Sheehan--- "The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives. It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most....

Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it."

Do you feel the same way now as when you wrote that, or do you see any glimmer of hope that the country is beginning to change directions?

I wrote this in May of 2007 when I resigned from the movement--I still believe that the people have to wake up on their own, but we can give them some gentle shakes. I am still sacrificing for the enlightenment and am still trying. It was a short retirement--

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Abbas Militia Involved in Killing three Al- Aqsa Brigades Fighters in Nablus

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Hiyam Noir

December 26 2009 4:42 PM

CAIRO - After the assassinations of Ghassan Abu Sharkh, Raed Abdul-Jabbar Al Sarkaji 38, and Adnan Sbeih 33, all of them members of Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades, in the old city of Nablus in the Westbank after midnight on Saturday, the spokesperson of Hamas movement in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri said in a press statement, that these killings are classified as war crimes because they were committed after the arrest of the men, and in coordination with Mahmoud Abbas Westbank militia.

Ghassan Hamdan, head of the Palestinian Medical Relief, said that the slain residents were executed in cold blood in front of their families after they had been arrested.The coordination of security before carrying out incursions on the Westbank and the kidnapping of Palestinians, is a teamwork between Abbas militia and the Israelis occupation army.

Palestinian medics and eye witnesses said that at dawn on Saturday, an Israeli special commando unit encircled the homes of three members of the armed wing of Fatah, the A-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.The three resistance fighters were previously “pardoned” by Israel, as part of a deal with Fateh leader, Mahmoud Abbas.The armed resistance of Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade is dissolved by Abbas.

The three young men were assassinated in front of their families,they were not armed or showed resistance. Zuhri said that this crime prove the importance to protect the Palestinian resistance in the Westbank, rather than conspire against it. The Israelis incursion into Nablus lasted for several hours. Abbas militia,in full control of Nablus”, did no attempt to intervene or stop the Israeli invasion, local sources have reported.

Hamas spokesperson in central Gaza Yousuf Farahat, said that the assassination of the three resistance fighters of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, took place during the last two days, after that Abbas’s militia intensified its security campaigns in the Westbank, in coordination with the Israelis to revenge the killing of an Israeli settler.

Yousuf Farahat also brought attention to a threat from Abbas Westbank militiaman Adnana Al-Damini. Al- Damini said two days ago, that every Palestinian involved in the killing of the Israeli settler will be punished.

In the Al-Aqsa satellite channel on Friday, Dr. Abdel Sattar Qassem, a professor of political science at the university of Al-Najah in Nablus, said that the presence of occupation without resistance is prohibited by law, and the silence of any occupied people towards an occupying power, is an abnormal situation as well.

Sattar Qassem underscored that the Palestinian resistance should be responsible for developing it's resistance means, to overcome harassment and arrest campaigns carried out against it. He emphasized that the Israeli occupation military must not feel safe in the Westbank,they must suffer punishment for its occupation.

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Then Came the Foreshadowing Silence

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Remember Al-Attatra Village in Gaza

Jan 30, 2009

Hiyam Noir

GAZA - Twenty-eight letters of the Arabic language are no longer sufficient to create a new vocabulary capable of describing the many horrible stories of the Israelis Cast Lead Operation - the massacre in Gaza. The great pain from her grief will last for a long time.

Nor can the creation of even 100 letters in the repertoire of the English language express the deep trauma in Ismail's face, a face in few weeks aged and washed by thousand tears. I am looking into the eyes in a young man's face, just in a few days many years he aged.

I am seeing Ismail in a friends house, he will tell me about the events that culminated in the murder of his 8 year old son, Ibrahim. Ibrahim was assassinated by Israeli soldiers in front of his own father. Ismail told me how helpless he felt, he himself a strong man, a Palestinian resistance fighter became a victim of the Israelis perverted cruelty. Ismail was forced to watch the horror, a seemingly endless wave of extremely savage violence lasting for many hours and days, not being able to protect his family, not able to save the life of his precious son Ibrahim.

Some nine days before the Israeli state terrorists left Gaza, after conducting the most awful war crimes, condemned throughout the world, Israeli ground troops and death squads [snipers] had in an early stage of the invasion closed off the village of Al-Attatra.

In this village the Israelis executed the little boy Ibrahim in cold blood, after the killing, the Zionists manifested the murder. With a sinister expression on their faces they began a ritual dance around the child Ibrahim lying there on the blood soaked floor, the Israelis discharged their weapons and emptied the bullets into Ibrahim's motionless body.

Despite the long siege, the closed borders and continued Israeli attacks from the air, the sea and the land, the young parents, Ismail, Assefa and their small children tried to make the best of their lives around their home. They never left the house in search for a safe shelter. This family of ordinary people woke up every day by the sunrise and as a custom, every morning they brought their children into the garden in front of their house.

How would they know that this silent morning would be the beginning of a very dark day, a day that would change their lives forever. On the horizon there was not the usual sight of a beautiful raising sun. Another bad omen - the birds had left the tree on the courtyard, to escape far away from the approaching evil force, trespassing across the border into northern Palestinian lands of Gaza.

Ibrahim was restless this morning, he longed to leave his room, so he asked his mother Assefa if he could go out and play in the garden, "just for a little while”. He said, "mommy please, let us drink tea and eat our breakfast outside”. With these words to his mother, Ibrahim pursued her to bring the family outside the house to enjoy their first meal of the day together. This poor family did not think that Israeli snipers, positioned on the rooftops and soldiers on the ground, some 50 meters away from the house, would hear their voices or see them there.

Suddenly the silence was broken. Dogs barked ferociously and a severe assault on this family began. A missile hit the house and large parts of the building's structure collapsed. Shrapnel from the missile blasted deep lines and holes into the walls. The sharp, frightening sound of terror was deafening - "the cups fell down, spilled out the tea, then crashed on the beautiful colored tiles below the breakfast table and the bread was covered in blood."

Ibrahim, the child, was hit by an object and suffered in awful pain, he cried out to his father, "dad I am dying, dad I am dying". Ismail remember, he said;"I lifted up Ibrahim's body from the ground and carried him in my arms, searching for his wounds. I saw the blood on my hands pumping out from Ibrahim's abdomen. I uttered a long piercing cry to my wife, 'let’s get out, lets get out of here quickly'.”

While carrying the injured Ibrahim, the family tried to escape outside through the door, not knowing that there were the Israelis waiting for them, positioned in front of the house, aiming heavy machine guns at the family.

Bullets penetrated the body of Assefa. Because of sharp pain she was unable to walk and she was too frenzied to even understand what was going on with her and the family. Another bullet penetrated the back of Ismail, Ibrahim's father. Ibrahim seriously injured fell from his arms to the ground -"With a round of bullets the Israelis silenced the last breath of my child", Ismail said.

Ibrahim's siblings were hiding behind the walls of the house, crying and grabbing,with their little hands tight onto their mother, Assefa. Then came the foreshadowing silence, Ibrahim was dead, his family was still a life, the parents thought that the terror was over and that they now were safe. But the silence was just a warning, more terror was emerging, now voices of Israeli soldiers could be heard and the squeaking sound of tanks were moving closer.

Ismail said that he became terrified. He remained there, with his face down on the floor, injured in his arm and back. He made a quick decision to act as if he was dead. He prayed to God that the Israelis would leave him, when he suddenly heard their steps walking near his son Ibrahim. Hard army boots began to kick the child’s body ... "they turned him around with their boots to make sure the child was dead. The Israelis then dragged Ibrahim's body up the stairs to the second floor of the house."

There,they discharged their weapons and the shooting resumed. More than 50 bullets penetrated his body, loud laughter would be heard, the Israelis lined up around my roughly handled son, Ibrahim. They discharge their weapons again and emptied the bullets into the body of my poor child. I thought the horror would never end, how long did it last, one minute, ten minutes, I cannot recall, I lost my mind."

Before I left, I asked Ismail, “Do you believe you can survive this terrible trauma, will you ever be able to come back to life again? He answered me with a voice marked by bottomless sadness, his eyes dark and full of tears,"I don’t know what my son did to these pigs. He was only a child, we, my wife Assefa and I, spent four days in the cold and darkness. We both were bleeding from our wounds, thanks to the cold weather, we did not bleed to death.

I held Assefa in my arms, together we looked at the body of Ibrahim, our son, and we remembered the happy day when he was born. Our grievance is beyond description, our son was dying there in front of our eyes, drowning in his own blood. During four days we did not move because we believed the Israelis would come back to make sure we were dead, we are witnesses of their crimes. I was thinking that if I had not acted dead they would not leave me there alive, they would have completed the killing. God willing, how I prayed it would go fast."

I said to Ismail, "I can see by looking at the wounds on your body,that you lost a lot of blood, are all your wounds healed a bit now". He answered me - “they left a wounded heart inside me, eternal pain you know that will last forever. During the four days, it was a nightmare, we were suffering in the cold from a trauma, without drinking water and without food. There was no electricity and no water to heat, to wash our self and to clean our wounds.

In the 5th day we heard a vehicle outside and there was this old women in a carriage. I forced my self to pull together all my strenght to call for her. Thanks to Allah, she heard my call for help so her carriage moved closer to us. She called the Palestinian ambulance service from her mobile phone. Because of bulldozed roads and our narrow alleys, after one very long hour of waiting, the ambulance crew arrived.To transfer four survivors of our family to Kamal Edwan hospital.

On the way to the hospital I was thinking of my son and I looked at my poor wife Assefa, and our two small children. They were still unaware of that they had lost their brother Ibrahim - we all will need much time and professional help to heal from this trauma, said Ismail."

All photo captures in the Al-Attatra series attributed to Islam K. Gaza

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Culture, and Psyche

The United States: The Socialization of a War Society, Culture and Psyche

December 11, 2009 — PsySR Blog

Anthony Marsella

The United States of America is a culture of war! No efforts to counter this reality can change this fact. No claims to the contrary can change this reality.The simple and unassailable truth is that the United States of America is a culture of war.

It has been a culture of war for a century or more. Its history, government, political and civic leaders, economy, culture, education systems, media, and, in some instances, religions all contribute to the existence and flourishing of the United States as a culture of war.

And what is unfortunate, is that far too many US citizens who are aware of this cultural reality are proud of it, benefit from it, and sanction it. And what is also unfortunate, is that far too many US citizens who do not understand or accept this culture, encourage and facilitate its existence by their ignorance, passivity, and pre-occupation with the new “opiates” of the people (i.e., sports, entertainment, and creature comforts).

Jus Ad Bellum – Just War

And then, of course, there are those Americans who claim that war is “just” in order to justify their nationalistic fervor and favored positions. Jus Ad Bellum — the argument of a “just war” — is among the most specious and dangerous rationalizations that can be made to justify actions since it also authorizes any nation or group to use war to pursue and justify its actions. Think about it!

When the USA contends its invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are justified it permits others to say they are justified in their actions. And we now know very clearly that there were no WMD in Iraq, and that the justification was based on oil exploitation, regional political dominance, and the delusional grandiosity of a group of “New American Century” zealots crazed by power. Jus Ad Bellum? Please! And so, it can be asked, what constitutes a “just” cause for war for those nations with military and economic might? The answer is that the history of imperialism, colonialism, westernization, and economic hegemony is based on Jus Ad Bellum. American exceptionalism permits exceptionalism for any other nation or group whose avaricious and self-serving aims seek justification. We and a few other nations have an arsenal of thousands of nuclear bombs and weapons. That is okay. It is not okay, however, for others to develop them, and we certainly are not going to destroy ours.

A War Culture

The United States of America has garrisoned the world with more than 750 military bases. We support a score of dictators who oppress their people, we built and sell weapons of war across the world, we fail to punish our citizens who violate international laws, we justify the dismissal and abuse of national and international laws when it serves our purposes, we have engaged in widespread illegal surveillance of our citizens, we have overthrown legal governments, we export a popular culture that is crass, materialistic, self-indulgent, and committed to greed and ignorance, we seek hegemony while preaching collaboration, we permit a widespread gun culture to flourish, we have more than 400 national hate groups, we demonize and vilify groups and nations as evil and dangerous when we in fact may be the world’s most evil and dangerous nation, we make war with impunity using an arsenal of the most lethal and dangerous weapons, most of which are illegal. This coming year, it is estimated that the Department of Defense budget will exceed one trillion dollars. Who are we? Who are we? We are, most certainly a culture of war sustained by century-old myths.

Seven Myths That Sustain War

It is time to call attention to the many myths that the United States culture of war has permitted to flourish across the centuries. These myths have been used to justify what we do regarding war. We come to believe these myths and to act as if they warrant our use of force and exceptionalism:

1. Democracy at Home: The United States of America is not a democracy! It is governed not by the people nor for the people, but by special interest groups whose wealth and power permits them to keep their interests, especially those within the military-industrial-congressional-educational-media complex (Read: Marc Pilisuk & J. Rountree, 2008, Who Benefits from Global Violence and War. Westport, CT: Praeger).

2. Capitalism: The United States of America capitalistic economic system perpetuates extensive wealth inequities and permits the exploitation of people, natural resources, and the sanctity of life. Greed dominates as witnessed in the recent financial collapse in which huge profits were made for a limited few using illegal and immoral venues (Read: Joel Bakan, 2004, The Corporation: The Pathologicial Pursuit of Power and Profit. NY: Free Press).

3. Exporting Democracy and Imperialism: The United States of America likes to claim it wishes to bring democracy to nations across the world, but in fact, the democracy we bring is often the installation of purchased leaders whose secret bank accounts are filled with tainted US dollars. The guise of exporting democracy permits the United States to establish an imperialistic presence and privilege across the world. (Read: Julia Sweig, 2006, Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century. NY: Public Affairs. Read: Chalmers Johnson, 2006, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic. NY: Henry Holt).

4. Diversity: The United States of America presents itself as a model for others to follow with regard to ethnic and racial diversity, but in fact, many of its minorities live in poverty and lack access to medical care, education, jobs, and personal security. Equality is not present because opportunities are denied. Racism is widespread and is often institutionalized. Prejudice against LGBT populations is widespread (Read: Any newspaper, watch any news show, drive through any large city).

5. Corruption: The United States of America is among the most corrupt nations in the world. This is an ironic fact given that it constantly criticizes other nations for corruption. Its government, business, and military ties permit widespread abuses of contracts, favoritism, cronyism, and closed networks of obligation and reciprocity. Much of this corruption occurs within the military-industrial-congressional complex (Read: Janet Wedel, 2009, Shadow Elite. NY: Basic Books)

6. Peace and Imperialism: The United States of America constantly tries to project itself as a nation that seeks peace. But, history reveals that it has engaged in scores of actions across the centuries that serve to prevent peace and actually promote chaos and destruction. Indeed, its trajectory reveals a desire to become an imperialistic global power. It reflexively turns to militarism and sustains a vast military and security system. (Read: William Blum, 2004, Killing Hope. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press. Read: Andrew Bacevich, 2005, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War. NY: Oxford Press).

7. Citizen Rights, Secrecy, and National Security: The United States of America supports the largest and most widespread national security system in the world. It has more than 17 national security agencies with dozens of subgroups. Its national security system targets other nations, foreign nationals, and, unfortunately, its own citizens under a blanket of mass communication surveillance, illegal acts, and assassinations. A widespread private surveillance system of personal data adds to the pool of abuses. (Read: Tim Weiner, 2007, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. NY: Doubleday. Read: Robert O’Harrow, Jr., 2005, No Place to Hide. NY: Simon & Schuster).

The Socialization of a Culture of War

Given the fact that the United States of America is a culture of war which has thrived by nurturing a series of myths about its government, economic, and social system, it can be asked how does the United States do this? My answer to this question is provided in figure below. In this figure, I propose that the United States socializes its citizens by supporting an array of ethoses that shape macrosocial institutions that shape microsocial institutions that shape individual and group psyches in a reciprocal manner, that is to say in a dynamic that informs and supports in both directions.

Both the number and the widespread nature of the cultural ethoses that serve to inform and shape the different levels of institutions (i.e., macro, micro) and the collective and individual psyches are sources of powerful influence. An ethos is a very basic — and often unconscious – value. It can be both explicit and/or implicit. Its fundamental and essential nature means that it readily penetrates a broad spectrum of attitudes, behaviors, and institutions that govern individual and collective actions. An ethos can guide perceptions to such an extent and at such an unconscious or subconscious level of awareness that it is neither questioned nor contended. It is, in the end, a powerful assumption that structures a society’s socialization process.

Without addressing the spectrum of ethoses that I have listed in the figure, I do wish to point out that the ethoses I have listed are dynamic, interactive, and reciprocal. They constitute a complex ecology that is often difficult to understand and certainly difficult to change. Indeed, addressing one ethos in isolation decontextualizes it and thus distorts its origins, nature, and dynamics. But all of this, in the end, is simply to say that in my opinion, the United States of America is a culture of war that is sustained by a history, government and political system, economy, education system, and even a moral institution system that seeks to hide its nature behind a propaganda system and a social relations system that permit it to exist, thrive, and engage in that most tragic of human acts, war.

In a future essay, I will be addressing the more hopeful topic of the United States as a Culture of Peace. I guess that essay can be called Jus Ad Pacem.

Anthony Marsella is a past president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii, and past director of the World Health Organization Psychiatric Research Center in Honolulu. He is known nationally and internationally as a pioneer figure in the study of culture and psychopathology, challenging the ethnocentrism and racial biases of many assumptions, theories, and practices in psychology and psychiatry. He is currently senior book series editor for cultural and international psychology for Springer SBM Publications. Tony can be reached at marsella@hawaii.edu, and he welcomes your comments

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Zionist Dominance in the Obama Presidency

America Needs Pakistan's Help - Again ( 2)

Below is the second installment in a 5-part series for Opinion Maker by Jeff Gates author of Guilt By Association. Be not deceived by Barack Hussein Obama’s middle name or by the fact that he spent several childhood years in Indonesia. His political career is a product of a Westside Chicago Ashkenazi network with roots that trace directly back to organized crime of the 1920s. Top fundraiser Penny Pritzker traces her family lineage to grandfather Abe and great-grandfather Nicholas who served as lawyers for organized crime. She declined a nomination as Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Cabinet, a post typically offered top fundraisers. Her confirmation hearings could have proved a political embarrassment by reminding us of the suspect origins of “our” latest president. Clinton White House counsel Abner Mikva aptly described this high-profile product of the Chicago Outfit as “the first Jewish president.” Plus his Vice President, only a heartbeat from the reins of power, is the reliably obsequious Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden. For his Secretary of State, Obama appointed a presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, whose political career traces to the same source. After serving as First Lady in the presidency of Arkansas native Bill Clinton, she fled to New York to run for the U.S. Senate knowing she could not win an election—any election—in Arkansas where she is widely reviled. By staking out extreme pro-Israeli positions, she joined New York Senator Charles Schumer as, in practical effect, the second Jewish Senator from a key electoral state long dominated by this trans-generational criminal syndicate. The chiefs of staff for Barack and Michele Obama are both Ashkenazim from Chicago, long a center of foreign espionage. That fact was recently reconfirmed by Federal Bureau of Investigation translator Sibel Edmonds when, from FBI wiretaps, she documented the close working relationship between the Israel Lobby and U.S. officials with power over policy making in the Middle East, including Richard Perle, Wolfowitz understudy Douglas Feith and key members of Congress. Earlier this month, a Chicago man whose father was a Pakistani diplomat was charged with involvement in planning “India’s 911.” In practical effect, the murder of 166 people in Mumbai, India’s financial center, accelerated the destabilization of Pakistan by drawing troops out of the western provinces for redeployment along the eastern border with India. See:· What is Israel’s Role in the Destabilization of Pakistan? Why Outside Help Is Required The same syndicate working to destabilize Pakistan is also destabilizing the U.S.—from the inside. That’s why ordinary Americans need the assistance of Pakistanis and others outside the U.S. to restore some semblance of representative government. The confidence with which this game theory aggression progressed in plain sight could be seen in the behavior of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a key Zionist insider. Four days after 9-11 while in a principals’ meeting at Camp David, a presidential retreat outside Washington, he proposed that the U.S. invade Iraq. At that time, the intelligence did not point to Iraqi involvement and Osama bin Laden was thought to be hiding in a remote region of Afghanistan. On that same day, San Diego FBI Special Agent Stephen Butler interrogated Iraqi Munther Ghazal at his home near San Diego to determine if he was funding Mel Rockefeller with whom Ghazal traveled to Baghdad in early 1997. After meeting for several days with Nidhal al-Hamdani, a top nuclear physicist with oversight of Iraq’s mothballed nuclear weapons program, Rockefeller returned to the U.S. with a practical proposal for removing Saddam Hussein without this war and without triggering a violent and destabilizing insurgency. When regional specialists at the U.S. Department of State declined to meet with him, he traveled to Ottawa in April 1997 where he met with Middle East specialists in the Canadian government to ensure a written record would confirm there was an alternative to war in Iraq—six years before the invasion. Instead of debriefing him, FBI agents sought to discredit him. Though FBI agents interviewed Munther Ghazal numerous times, they have yet to meet with Mel Rockefeller. Four packages sent to the Phoenix divisional office of the FBI documenting ongoing treason and criminal stalking were returned, marked “refused.” FBI Special Agent Butler cashed checks and paid rent for the two San Diego-based hijackers who piloted planes into the World Trade Center towers. The same Iman who counseled Major Nidal Hasan (with FBI knowledge) before he was transferred to Fort Hood—where he went on a shooting spree—also counseled the San Diego-based hijackers—likewise with FBI knowledge. As of December 18, 2009, no one from either federal law enforcement or national security had debriefed Mel Rockefeller—eight years after 9-11. Had he been engaged in good faith in early 1997 after his return from Baghdad or in early 2001 after his return from Jakarta, the facts suggest that 9-11 might well have been prevented. Good faith engagement after 9-11 could have prevented the invasion of Iraq. Instead, extraordinary steps were taken to discredit him. When President George H.W. Bush declined to invade Baghdad to remove Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War, Pentagon Under Secretary for Policy Paul Wolfowitz imposed a No-Fly Zone in northern Iraq. By the time that the invasion of March 2003 began, the Israeli Mossad had more than 100 agents deployed for a decade in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Intelligence reports of Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda were also traced to Mosul—reports that proved false. Mosul again emerged in November 2004 as a center of the insurgency that destabilized Iraq. That reaction precluded the speedy exit of coalition forces promised in Congressional testimony by senior war-planner Wolfowitz. In the lead-up to the invasion, Wolfowitz assured policy-makers of a swift and welcome regime-change whose $50 billion cost would be recovered from the proceeds of Iraqi oil. Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz has since projected the total cost will exceed $3,000 billion, all of it borrowed. That total, 60 times the original estimate, includes $700 billion in interest paid on war-related debt. See: A Closer Look at Israel’s Role in Terrorism Ft. Hood: “Death By Political Correctness”? Fort Hood Tragedy: The Real Story of the Terrorist “Mad Doctor Hasan” Next in the series: Game Theory W arfare An author, educator, attorney, merchant banker and adviser to policy-makers worldwide, Jeff Gates served a s counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (1980-87) prior to consulting 35 foreign governments. A Vietnam veteran, he is author of Guilt By Association, The Ownership Solution and Dem ocracy at Risk. See www.criminalstate.com.

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EGYPT Under Pressure to Stop Life - Line Convoy to Gaza !

Is a worldwide boycott of Egypt tourist industry inevitable?If we cant bargain with the Egyptians, we need to force them to understand they must follow the rules and laws in a "modern "and civil society they so much need and want to be a part of.

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Updated December 22 2009 4:22PM

It is BIG B.S - admitting there is nothing that can be done if the convoy of Palestine activists including the drivers in emergency vehicles, will be prevented from entering Gaza. Forget about it, this time around there is a lot of interest focused world wide on Gaza, and the long lines of approaching international aid convoys .

Hiyam Noir
December 21 3009 - 11:17AM

There are no legitimate reasons for Egypt to block the aid convoy of drivers and emergency vehicles to enter Gaza via the Egyptian border.To even assume that the Egyptian authorities would think of such an ill deed against convoys of Human Rights activists - adding more anguish to it's suffering Muslim brothers and sisters and their children in the Gaza community, an in-closed- open-air prison, is a pure absurdity.

Why would the great country of Egypt bow to the pressure of a the tiny, mean Zionist Israel? Israel does not have many friends here on earth today.Israel is condemned worldwide for its wild and violent occupation of Palestine - oppression and crimes of its indigenous people - it's waging of wars throughout the world and causing unrest and disorder in the ME.

The Life-Line aid convoy to Gaza will eventually, without hindrance be granted permission to cross the border to Gaza.If Egypt play a dirty game with the Israelis and bow to US pressure they will expose it's international relationships and priorities to the world.

We are well aware of that previous aid convoys to the war-thorn Gaza have been held up for several days, even weeks, by the Egyptian government, giving in to the pressure from Zionist Israel and its alleys, Zionists in the US government.

Last time, the past summer, drivers of emergency vehicles were subjected to night long attacks, which resulted in hospital treatment of trauma for some.This time local and international media will cover the event, and many international activists will gather in Egypt planning how to continue our travel in safety to Gaza - and remember, we will never bow down to Israel !

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Please start calling Egyptian embassies now:
http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/Egypt/Egypt3.html

Tell them that if they make problems for Gaza Life-Line convoys - we will start a boycott of Egyptian tourist industry.

Viva Palestina

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Israel ADMITS Stealing Palestinian Organs

By Khalid Amayreh, IOL Correspondent December 21 2009

"If such is what they are willing to admit, imagine how much they are concealing," Knesset member Teibi told IOL (Photo). Occupied Al-Quds ( Jerusalem) -- For the first time, Israel has tacitly admitted stealing Palestinian body parts for transplant in Jewish patients, vindicating accusations leveled by Palestinians and rights groups over the past years. "We started to harvest corneas…whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family," pathologist Yehuda Hiss, the former head of the Abu Akbar Center, also known as the L. Greenberg Institute for Forensic Medicine, told Nancy Sheppard-Hughes, now a professor of Anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, in a documentary aired by the Israeli Channel Two. The documentary revealed that in the 1990s, forensic specialists harvested corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives. Israel Steals Body Parts: Palestinians Hiss said his doctors often sought to mask the removal of corneas from bodies. "We’d glue the eyelid shut. We wouldn’t take corneas from families we knew would open the eyelids." Other body parts believed to have been harvested from deceased Palestinians and others included heart arteries, bones and corneal tissues. "The skins were taken from the bodies and transmitted to Hadasah hospital in West Jerusalem on the request of the Israeli army to be transplanted to wounded soldiers and in case of disaster," said Hiss. Hiss revealed that in the early 1990s, military surgeons began removing a thin layer of skin from bodies to treat burn victims, which he said was done without family consent. Hughes reportedly decided to publish the interview, recorded in 2000 as part of her studies at the Israeli forensic institute, after a leading Swedish daily reported in August that Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians to trade in their organs. A Swedish journalist revealed earlier this year that Israeli doctors at the Abu Akbar forensic institute had been harvesting organs from Palestinians killed by the Israeli army. The Aftonbladet report, written by Donald Bostrom, cited an incident of Palestinian organ harvesting by Israel in 1992 during the first Intifada. Incriminating Ahmed Teibi, a member of the Israeli Knesset and head of the Arab nationalist Party, insists that the new evidence incriminates the Israeli army and government. "If such is what they are willing to admit, imagine how much they are concealing," he told IslamOnline.net. Teibi says the revelations amounted to irrefutable evidence proving that Israeli doctors at the Abu Akbar institute harvested appendages and corneas from bodies of slain Palestinians in the 1990s. He says the latest revelations underscored the "inherent racism plaguing the Israeli Jewish society." Teibi was the first to raise questions about the issue of Palestinian organ harvesting by Israeli doctors. In January, 2002, then Israeli Health Minister Nessim Dahan said in response to a question by Teibi that he couldn’t deny or confirm that organs of Palestinian youths and children killed by the Israeli army were taken out for transplants or scientific research. "I couldn’t say for sure that something like that didn’t happen." At that time, Teibi said he had received credible evidence proving that Israeli doctors at the forensic institute of Abu Akbar extracted such vital organs as the heart, kidneys and liver from the bodies of Palestinian youth and children killed by the Israeli army in Gaza and the West Bank. The Israeli military confirmed to the Channel Two documentary that the practice of harvest Palestinian organs took place in the 1990ss. "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer." Palestinians, however, insist that the Israeli army continued to harvest Palestinian organs for transplant or for sale in the black market. Earlier this year, relatives of several Palestinians killed by the Israeli army during Al-Aqsa uprising told IOL that their beloved ones were returned to them shortly after they were killed without their vital organs and with a huge cut from the stomach to the neck stitched up. Source: Islam on Line © Copyright 2006 PalestineFreeVoice - All rights reserved - This site best viewed with FireFox

Jews Planted the Seeds of War in Iraq

Republished December 19 2009

Iraqi Children Martyrs

The Jew/Israeli Plan will Backfire
future will tell who will be the suffering mightily.

Hiyam Noir

December 30 2006

In the time of the drafting, of the working plan built on lies and torts of statements a dreadful harm to the people of the Iraqi nation, Iraq was wide open unprotected to the rape,the destruction and the final brutal murder,the Western news media intentionally played down one important truth. - The manhunt the captivation, the trials and the denouement to the very end,the execution of Saddam Hussein - - the race and the ethnicity, is what the occupation and the war on Iraq and the execution of President Saddam Hussein has been all about :

Genetic Bonds Between the Jews and the Kurds in Iraq

There are many evidence of old genetic bonds between the Jews and Kurds.Jews of Kurdistan are part of the ancient Jewish communities inhabiting the region today known as Kurdistan, roughly covering parts of Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and Syria. Iraqi Jews claim they constituted in the ancient Iraq one of the world's oldest and historically most important, Jewish communities.

It was to Babylon the Jews arrived around 600 BE. The descendants of these Jews claim that Babylon in the grace of their descendants became the most important Jewish community after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem. The claim that Babylonian community lived as the center of Jewish education until the Middle Ages, before the Mongol invasion and the persecutions of the local Muslims significantly reduced its importance.

With the rule of the Ottoman Empire, the life's of Iraqi Jews improved, but though the community they never regained its former importance.The Iraqi Jews played a role in the early days of the Iraqi independence, but the Iraqi Jewish community, numbered at around 150,000 in 1948, left Iraq by in the days of the 1940s (WW2} to settle on Palestine lands. (that became "Israel").

Almost 4 million people live in the northern of Iraq. A DE facto autonomous region, it has been administered by the Kurds since 1991, when Saddam Hussein withdrew his administration and the US-led invasion forces killed 100 of thousands of Iraqis soldiers and civilians - exposed to chemical and biological agents when the US B-52 bombers, launched heavy strikes in and around the port of Basra. Meanwhile the Kurds lost its 1991 uprising, against Saddam Hussein,in the Southern of Iraq and in Kurdistan - when the US at the same time suddenly withdrew their support and allowed Saddam Hussein to fight back - the tip of balance changed in favour of Saddam Hussein.

Most Kurds are Anti-Palestinians

While the media in the West have portrait a pro-Israeli emotion, in this corner of Iraq - the truth has been quite - that most of the Kurds are anti-Palestinians.

When the Kurds watched TV pictures of the Palestinians marching through the streets of the cities and towns of the West Bank and the Gaza strip carrying portraits of their beloved Saddam Hussein (that has supported the Palestinians against the Zionist Israeli/Jew occupant) - most of the Kurds felt anything but sympathy, they expressed disgust and anger for the Palestinian support of Saddam Hussein, a man the Kurds accused of genocide.But the hate to the Palestinians also have other reasons. The Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein use to give aid to Palestinian families and relatives of the Martyrs - Palestinian fighters assassinated by the occupant "Israel ".

The Kurds' antipathy for the Palestinians is instinctively inherited - a case in point came in 1999, when the Jordanian director of UNICEF in the northern Iraq decided to replace Swedish early childhood education specialists with Palestinian educational specialists from the UNRWA. ( with office on the Gaza Strip) - The local Kurdish population protested so loudly - that the UNICEF had to reverse the decision because of the - "psychological trauma" - the Kurds claimed that the presence of Palestinians caused among Kurds whose families had been-here> “subject to Saddam's chemical weapons”.

The Iraqi Kurds' sympathy toward Israel is not simply shaped by their antipathy toward Palestinians. While the Kurds now acknowledge that independence is not an option in their part of Iraq, let alone pan-Kurdish unity with their brethren the Jews in Turkey, Syria or Iran. They view "Israel" as a model of a minority establishing control over its own future.In 1966, the Mullah Mustafa Barzani, visited Israel for consultations with Moshe Dayan.The Kurds hoped for and received some training and equipment,but the flirt with the Israelis did not last.Instead, the Kurds turned to the Shah's Iran, Iran provided with material assistance more directly.

Israeli Aid to The Kurds

In the past,the Israelis has been extensively involved in aiding the Kurds. According to a former general of the Israeli foreign ministry, it is a part of a strategy that sought alliances with other non-Arabic nations in the region - also the Kurds envision of a region that not only accept Israel, but also uphold and spreed the success of the Jewish state's to be implemented in their own corner of the Middle East.They want to get rid of Saddam Hussein so that they can do what the Jews did in Palestine - set off great unrest among the people, in the pretext of the need of "Jews-security."

Iraqi Kurds use to retain some connection with Israel via the airwaves and in the cyberspace. The Kurds use to get the Israeli TV via satellite. Hotels in the north program guest TV to receive Israel's Channel 2.In ministries, universities and cafes, surfed the Israeli website - while newspaper columnists and policy-makers checked out the Tel Av iv University's Dayan Center site for the latest developments in Middle East policy

In Saudi-funded mosques and university's most Kurdish Muslim students genuinely believe that Jews control the United Nations, and that Jews dominate the U.S. government.

While the Kurds have a special inherent kinship for their brethren, the Israelis - and their hate to Saddam Hussein and the Palestinians - made them hope to see and welcome an Israeli flag also over Baghdad - then hang Saddam Hussein - and their hopes finally would leave them the “business”to build their own country - their predictions of the outcome of their conspiracy in the war on Iraq became an disastrous error of collapse - the Jew/Israeli plan will backfire and the future will tell who will be the suffering mightily.

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America Needs Pakistan’s Help -- Again

(First Installment in a 5 Part Series)

By Jeff Gates, Staff Writer/Editor

Ordinary Americans need the assistance of Islamabad now more than at any time in the past six decades. That aid lies not in combating “Islamo fascism” but in countering the influence inside the U.S. of Israeli war-planners known for their expertise at provoking extremism.

To grasp what must be done requires a review of three related developments. First is a policy-making legacy from the era of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Second is a little known account of an Israeli attempt to corrupt policy-making in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population. Third is confirmation that, by its steady growth in influence over the past six decades, Israel is now shaping U.S. policy to advance a Judeo-fascist agenda.

The Bhutto Legacy

Soon after Richard Nixon was elected president in November 1968, Dr. Glenn Olds traveled to Dubrovnik to meet with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The popular Bhutto knew China's Chou En-Lai with whom he had studied in Moscow. Dr. Olds traveled on Nixon's behalf to ask that Bhutto intercede with China.

As a young foreign minister for President Ayub Khan, Bhutto forged stronger Pakistani ties with China after the Sino-Indian war of 1962. That relationship led to a large number of Sino-Pakistan industrial and military projects.

When he signed the Sino-Pakistan Boundary Agreement of March 1963, the father of Benazir Bhutto (then age 10) emerged as one of the most visible Pakistanis on the world stage. By the 1968 meeting in Yugoslavia, the politically ambitious Bhutto had been arrested and released by Ayub, sparking political unrest that led to Ayub's resignation and Bhutto's ascendancy to the presidency in December 1971 and prime minister in 1973.

The Dubrovnik meeting marked America's first step in the normalization of relations with China. Bhutto's assistance also helped hasten the end of the U.S. war in Vietnam. Following the Nixon inaugural in January 1969, Dr. Olds was appointed U.N. Ambassador after he helped recruit more than 1,000 people for Nixon, including Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.

As Executive Dean of the 64-campus State University of New York for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Dr. Olds crafted a memo for the governor urging that he campaign for the presidency in 1968 on a platform promising to end the Vietnam War and normalize relations with China. One key challenge: making contact with Mao Tse-Tung who had never left China. Thus Dr. Olds' strategy proposed Bhutto as the intermediary to Mao through Chou En-Lai.

When Nelson Rockefeller opted not to run in 1968 (at least initially), he urged that Dr. Olds share the strategy with others. When Pepsi Chairman Don Kendall brought the memo to Nixon's attention, the candidate agreed to include the strategy in his campaign and, should he win, asked that Dr. Olds help form an administration. Henry Kissinger received the Nobel peace prize in 1973 for advancing policies that began with that memo for Nelson Rockefeller.

Dr. Olds conveyed to me this account in 2003. Since 1994, he had served as the senior adviser to James M. ("Mel") Rockefeller. An adviser to four presidents (two of each party) and four of the five third-generation Rockefeller brothers, Dr. Olds died in March 2006 after describing his dismay at "the depth of the treason" uncovered by Mel Rockefeller. That treason remains ongoing-a key reason Americans need the assistance of Pakistan.

Guilt By Association marks the first release in the Criminal State series of books. This series documents a deeply imbedded criminality coordinated through the same trans-generational network of Jewish Zionists granted nation-state recognition in 1948 by Harry Truman, a Christian Zionist president.

As these facts become transparent and the perpetrators apparent, Pakistan-as an ally of the U.S.-must play a leadership role in the Muslim community by insisting that the U.S. withdraw its recognition of this extremist enclave as a legitimate nation-state.

Absent that withdrawal, Americans will continue to be endangered by those who believe that U.S. behavior reflects the policies of our government rather than the policies of Zionist extremists imbedded inside our government. See:

• Make the Real Terrorists Accountable
• A Closer Look at Israel's Role in Terrorism'

The Indonesian Connection

Dr. Olds knew about Mel Rockefeller's meetings in Jakarta in mid-March 2001 with Arie Kumaat, Director of Indonesian Intelligence. The defense minister of India had just been toppled by a bribe involving an Israeli defense firm. Malaysian intelligence had just discovered a similar attempt by Tel Aviv to discredit its defense chief-likewise six months prior to 9-11.

Kumaat had uncovered a multi-billion dollar Israeli bribe to the Indonesian parliament to push the U.S. out of the region in favor of China. Kumaat balked at reporting his findings to the U.S. embassy for fear that he was also reporting to Israel. From 1986-1989, the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia was Zionist war-planner Paul Wolfowitz.

Not until the mass murder of 9-11 did Dr. Olds fully grasp how Mel Rockefeller's lengthy experience could prove the common Judeo-fascist source of much of the world's violence. After that murderous provocation, Kumaat agreed to arrange a meeting for Mel Rockefeller with former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid, a respected religious leader for 80 million moderate Muslim men. A follow-on meeting was anticipated with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir who has long opposed the geopolitical manipulations of Jewish extremists.

That Islam-focused strategy for blocking the March 2003 invasion of Iraq was stymied when, in January 2002, Kumaat died of a heart attack-the plausible reason given for his death though an autopsy by his wife detected the drug used to induce a heart attack. An interview of his son, Henrie, confirmed the details.

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We now know that 911-related intelligence was "fixed" around a preset agenda for Greater Israel long sought by Israelis and pro-Israelis with the help of Iraqi liar Ahmad Chalabi, an asset developed over decades by Zionist war-planners Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz.

Pakistan must realize that the same mental and emotional manipulation deployed to induce a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq is now being used to provoke an invasion of Iran. By destabilizing Pakistan and portraying its western provinces as a haven for Al Qaeda, Zionists will make it appear that Islamabad's nuclear arsenal is insecure. That perception heightens the plausibility of an attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran, citing a nuclear risk. See:

• The Nuclear Riddle
• Israel Gets Its Way

That perceived insecurity also strengthens the rationale for an Israeli operation-flying the U.S. flag-to take over the government of Pakistan. What could soon happen to Islamabad directly is what happened to the U.S. over decades indirectly. See:

• How Israel Lobby Controls US
• At What Cost the Israel Lobby?

The Depth of the Duplicity

Pakistan must quickly realize-and candidly acknowledge-that the Obama presidency is even more thoroughly staffed by Zionists than the Bush administration and even the notoriously pro-Israeli Clinton presidency.

In 2003, Dr. Olds shared an insight about Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who claimed an epiphany in 1997 that she was Jewish-after she became our top diplomat. In 1951, while serving as chaplain at the University of Denver, Dr. Olds was dispatched as the university emissary to welcome to Denver the wife and daughter of Soviet Bloc defector Josef Korbel, a former Czech diplomat and then professor of international studies.

Dr. Olds described how the future Mrs. Albright-then a pigtailed teenager with braces-stepped onto the train platform carrying the family menorah. He knew the family well. He dismissed her "epiphany" decades later as "simply not believable."

Josef Korbel emerged as the mentor to Condoleezza Rice when she entered the University of Denver at an impressionable age 15 and he guided her into Russian studies. In September 2000, Albright named the State Department building after Harry Truman, the president best known abroad for overruling his Secretary of State George C. Marshall in 1948 when the former WWII general strenuously objected to our recognition of an extremist enclave as a legitimate state.

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Next in the series: Zionist Dominance in the Obama Presidency

An author, educator, attorney, merchant banker and adviser to policy-makers worldwide, Jeff Gates served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (1980-87) prior to consulting 35 foreign governments. A Vietnam veteran, he is author of Guilt By Association, The Ownership Solution and Democracy at Risk.

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Jeff Gates

Author, educator, attorney, merchant banker and adviser to policy-makers worldwide and U.S. Veteran

Jeff was counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (1980-87) working for Democrat Russell Long, son of Louisiana Governor and U.S. Senator Huey P. Long. Specialist in employee benefits law—pensions, 401(k) plans, stock options, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), et.al. Tax-qualified employee benefit plans accounted for $17 trillion in assets (April 2007) and more than half the funds in the hands of institutional investors. As of 2007, ESOPs were in place in 11,500 firms nationwide, covering 10% of the U.S. workforce and holding $800 billion in assets.

Law practice w/ former Senators Russell Long, Democrat of Louisiana and Paul Laxalt, Republican of Nevada, chairman of Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaigns.

Counsel to Kelso & Company, Manhattan-based merchant bankers, completing $4 billion in transactions in 24-months, including the $3 billion leveraged buyout of American Standard, Inc., with employees and managers gaining a 33% stake in this multinational firm.

Author, Democracy at Risk – Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street (April 2000). Written as a sequel to The Ownership Solution –Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century (1998). Both books cited by presidential candidate Ralph Nader when branding U.S. Greens “the party of the new populism.” Guilt By Association – How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War (2008).

Draftsman, 1986 Presidential Task Force Report on Project Economic Justice: “U.S. Efforts to Encourage Employee Stock Ownership Plans in Central America and the Caribbean.” Author, World Bank Discussion Paper: Employee Stock Ownership Plans: Objectives, Design Options, International Experience; DEMOS Argument Series (U.K.): Revolutionizing Share Ownership - The Stakeowner Economy; Tomorrow’s Capitalism (Pacific Institute), et. al.

Advisory work with 35-plus governments, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Guyana, Haiti, Hungary, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Trinidad, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the U.K. South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung announced August 2000 that the Korean edition of The Ownership Solution was his vacation-reading pick.

Contributor to trade, professional and popular publications worldwide: Financial Times, Japan Times, Financial Executive, M&A Today, Boston Review, Latin Finance, East/West Business Report, Society, Human Resource Management, Los Angeles Times, National Journal, World Times, The Humanist, Peace Review, Business Ethics, America, Tikkun, Whole Earth, Perspectives, Journal of Society of Organizational Learning, Journal of Organizational Change Management, et.al.

University of Virginia (B.A. in Honors Economics); J.D. from University of California, Hastings College of Law. Partner, Washington office of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy. Faculty in the MBA program, Emory University. Vietnam veteran (1LT, U.S. Army). Native of Athens, Georgia.

He is also the author of the new book Guilt by Association: How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War. His previous books include Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street and The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century.

He resides in Tempe Arizona. jeffgates2@gmail.com. Visit his web site, www.criminalstate.com

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