Day: June 26, 2014

Where’s The Justice?

I recall many people saying……”The US do not and will not support state sponsored terrorism”.  Does anyone else remember those words?

What do we call a country that carries out unreasonable search and seizure, or indiscriminate killing of civilians, destruction of homes and business as a retaliatory action, keeps minorities segregated, limits the rights of some citizens and arrest without due course?  What would you call this state?

Is type of nation has a name and the world call this nation…….ISRAEL!

By now all the world has heard about the 3 kidnapped teens in Israel….but the media has been derelict in reporting the violence used by the IDF in their search for the teens.  there have been many arrests without warrant and the deaths of many among which have been teens.

Israel has used the kidnapping as a pretense to carry out further violence and destruction aimed at Palestinians.  the US has warned Israel to limit the violence….which in itself is humorous for if they do not the US will do NOTHING as a penalty.

As a matter fact they,the US, has shown its true colors and loyalties at the UN…….

A statement by the UN Security Council deploring the deaths of innocent Palestinians during Israeli military operations in the West Bank ended up blocked by the United States today because it mentioned Israel by name.

Jordan was said to be pressing the bill to be stronger, saying “deploring” the deaths wasn’t enough, while the United States insisted that the bill could deplore the deaths in general, but not mention that they were caused by Israeli troops, nor indeed mention Israel at all.

UN undersecretary for political affairs Jeffrey Feltman warned the rising death toll in the West Bank was “alarming,” saying Israel needs to show restraint while searching for three kidnapped teens and to “avoid punishing individuals for offences they have not personally committed.”

That’s likely a foreign concept in Israel, where collective punishment of the Arab minority is such a default reaction that top Israeli cabinet ministers are openly calling for the government to shut down all electricity to all Arab towns in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in retaliation for the kidnappings.

The violent military crackdown in the West Bank has come with cooperation from the Palestinian Authority, and is fueling growing protests among Palestinian civilians against the PA forces as well.

Why does the world turn a blind eye to what Israel will do?  It is time for their grace period for wrongs done to them in the past to expire…..it is time for Israel to start acting like a player in the civilized world and not the barbarians they are today.

I mean Israel is even gone so far as to find a way to persecute a teenage rock thrower……..

The government is attempting to make it easier to convict suspects of throwing rocks at passing cars as well as stiffening the sentence for the crime. A draft of a new law that was circulated on Sunday by the Justice Ministry would make it possible to convict and punish the violators even if the state cannot prove they intended to damage cars or injure passengers. In addition, the proposed law would for the first time allow the conviction of those who throw rocks at police cars.

The bill is based on the recommendations of a committee headed by Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit, which examined how to deal with the security situation in East Jerusalem.

Under existing law, the state must prove intent to cause harm, or base its case on other laws in order to convict rock throwers.

The new draft law states that the crime of throwing rocks at cars will be divided into two categories of offenses: The basic degree, for which the punishment is 10 years in prison, will outlaw throwing rocks or other objects at vehicles in motion in a way that could endanger the safety of a person in the vehicle or someone nearby. The more serious offense, for which the punishment will be up to 20 years in prison, would be for those who are convicted of also intending to cause a person serious bodily harm, by throwing rocks or other objects at vehicles.

The proposed law would also introduce a new offense: Throwing a rock or other object at a police vehicle or a police officer with the intention of interfering in the carrying out of his duty. The punishment in such cases would be 5 years in prison.

Today rock throwers are convicted on the basis of other offenses, such as attacking a police officer, intentionally damaging a vehicle, or attempting to commit one of these or various other crimes. Today’s law also sets a maximum of 20 years in prison for throwing rocks at vehicles while they are moving, if the state can prove the defendant acted intentionally to damage the vehicle.

In cases in which rocks were thrown by a group of demonstrators, the courts have often found it difficult to determine whether the stone thrower intended to cause damage to the vehicle that was hit.

Really?  like being shot and killed by the IDF is not enough punishment.

And then there is this Israeli minister of some sort that has the best BS of the day………

“We are well within the boundaries of legitimate action in the eyes of Palestinian public,” said the officer, a high-ranking member of the Central Command.

“The Palestinian public understands that the kidnapping was an aberration and our response was predictable. They know that we are not working against them but rather against Hamas. The Palestinian public understands that a red line has been crossed.”

Yeah but that does not explain all the people that have their homes, property and family member seized and/or destroyed.  That lame ass comment was meant for the western press as a propaganda tool….not a word of truth in anything they say.

What about free dissent?

The number of Palestinian lawmakers detained by Israel has risen to 23, a Palestinian NGO said Wednesday.

“Israel detained two [Palestinian] lawmakers from the West Bank province of Bethlehem early on Wednesday as part of search operations for three missing Jewish teens,” the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said in a statement.

Israel does very little to hold up the title of the “only democracy in the Middle East”……….they resort to strong arm tactics of which they suffered in the past……and they have a wealth of excuses for their actions….but NONE ring true.  Israel is disgusting and the world needs to demand it start behaving like a responsible world entity…..or cut ALL ties and I mean ALL ties with them.

Sorry it is that simple.

Why Senseless Destruction?

Opinion from the desk of the Editor

Before I start I would like to thank my followers….as of today I have 801 official followers.  That number is my important number….some bloggers look for hits to say their blog is a success…..for me it is the number of followers…….why?  I means that every single post goes out to 801 followers and hopefully they read them and appreciate the effort that I try to put into every post.  So thank you my friends….i appreciate your patronage very much.

Now onto the meat of the post…….I recall in those dark days when the extreme fundamentalists of the Taliban came to power….one of their first actions was to dusty a huge statue of Buddha that had been carved into the mountain in Afghanistan……

It was destroyed because that it somehow offended their sensibilities….a totally piece of crap.  they destroyed part of their heritage in Afghanistan for some moronic religious thinking….that is sad…..

And then in Mali, the west African nation that is having a massive outbreak of extreme fundamentalism,  in towns they occupied they have set about destroying the shrines to the Muslim saints of Sufism, a sect of Muslim…..in the 13th century Timbuktu was the center of Muslim learning…..but the Wahhabi, that extreme sect, thought that the shrines were an a front to Allah and must be destroyed…..many were destroyed before they were stopped….

Now in the area of Mosul and the surrounding territory occupied by ISIS….these extremists are at it here too…..

Militant Sunni Islamists who seized swathes of northern Iraq last week have destroyed symbols of Iraq’s heritage in the city of Mosul, including statues of cultural icons and the tomb of a medieval philosopher.

Witnesses said militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had destroyed a statue of Othman al-Mousuli, a 19th Century Iraqi musician and composer, and the statue of Abu Tammam, an Abbasid-era Arab poet.

The tomb of Ibn al-Athir, an Arab philosopher who travelled with the army of warrior sultan Salahuddin in the 12th century was desecrated after ISIL took the city. Witnesses said the domed shrine had been razed and a park around it dug up.

ISIL and other militants, whose strict Salafi interpretation of Islam deems the veneration of tombs to be idolatrous, have destroyed several tombs and mosques inside Syria and now in neighbouring Iraq where they have seized towns and cities.

I am sorry but there is NO logical reason to destroy one’s heritage in the name of religion……..How long will this type of senseless destruction continue?

Destruction for the sake of destruction is NOT an act to preserve one’s religion or beliefs…..it is senseless and moronic and an act of ignorance!

Please Take Our Money

No secret that I think that our foreign aid policies are broken and desperately need an overhaul…….we throw billions at countries to try and influence their thinking….they usually ask us for cash to help with some disaster or to assist in their security…..of course there are other reasons for the need of American cash but those are the biggest…..

I thought I had heard it all when it comes to us and our cash being spread around the globe……but I read a piece that made me disgusted and appalled and a little more cynical……

Another Defense Appropriations bill means another chance for the US Congress to shovel an increased amount of military aid at Israel, with the latest bill out of the House adding $131 million in missile defense funding over last year’s level.

The $131 million wasn’t requested by anyone, and was simply backed on to the funding requested by the Obama Administration, with hawks saying the “missiles regularly fired at Israel from Gaza” justified the increase.

Israel’s military sought to defund the Iron Dome missile system years ago, but has continued to get hundreds of millions annually from the US to pay for it. Since then they have praised it as a dramatic success.

Experts, however, say Israel’s data on the success rate of Iron Dome is not only inflated, but is so inflated as to be essentially impossible given the laws of physics. The real success rate remains a mystery, but if success is measured in how much money the US will throw at them, it’s done quite well for itself.

What is it about Israel that the US feels it must throw money at them….even money they did not ask for at any time?  Sorry, but our debt has been paid in full for the genocide of the past.

I wish that our politicians had a guilty conscience when it comes to the way they treat American citizens.  Is that just too much to ask?

Someone please step forward and explain this to me…..for the life of me I see NO return on that policy…..Israel does as they like and tell us to just live with their actions…….when will we draw a line against these parasites?