Holding Israel Accountable Is Not Anti-Semitic

If you are a "Type A" person who skims through articles just to get the main points, then here are the 3 main points of this article. You can read them and move on:

1. Attacking anybody because of their religious beliefs is wrong. That includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, etc.   Freedom of religion is intertwined with freedom of consciousness, freedom of thought, freedom of assembly, and freedom of expression.   However, countries that commit war crimes, or crimes against humanity, must not be allowed to get away with it by cowering behind a religious shroud, and dismissing legitimate critics as 'antisemitic' or racist.

2. Every government and every army in the world is fair game for political discourse including harsh criticism and verbal expressions of disgust. Israel is no exception. Hate means "to dislike intensely or passionately."  Sure, we all hate seeing Palestinian school kids getting scorched and killed by white phosphorus. But expressing that is no hate crime.

3. Legitimate criticism of Israeli atrocities is frequently dismissed as anti-semitic. This overused "crying wolf" strategy is tragically wrong because it  causes genuine anti-semitism to be taken with a grain of salt. Blurring the line between Jew-hating skinheads and non-violent concerned citizens is a reckless public relations strategy, but Israel can be counted on to use the ad-hominum "anti-semitic" label to deflect legitimate critics who point to verifiable atrocities.

Did you like Operation Cast Lead ?

Over a thousand Palestinian women and children were casualties in Israel's ethnic cleansing incident called Operation Cast Lead. When I saw Israel unleashing white phosphorus bombs on Palestinian schools and population centers I had to ask myself: "Do I support this, or am I against this? Where will I stand?" Everybody with a conscience needs to take a hard look at  Israeli occupation and aggression and ask themselves the same questions.

I know right from wrong, and what I saw during Operation Cast Lead was wrong. Using white phosphorus bombs on population centers and schools? Wrong. Dropping "get out of town" leaflets on 1.5 million people locked in behind the Apartheid Wall with no exit? Wrong and cruel. Blowing up  buildings packed with women and children because there might be a "terrorist" inside. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

The whole thing was wrong before it even started. Israel is a sophisticated military power with nukes, and Gaza is 1.5 million people packed into a sardine can with no military to defend it.  Nothing but the crudest hand-made weapons and obsolete technology. No helicopters, no jets, no air-strike capability, no artillery to repel the invaders, no UN Peacekeepers, nothing.

The situation before Cast Lead was so desperate that food and medicine had to be smuggled in through underground tunnels. Clean drinking water was a luxury.  After cast Lead the siege of Gaza has gotten much worse. The situation went from bleak and inhumane to impossible. On top of everything else Israel has restricted concrete for rebuilding, and emergency medicine convoys. The only good news: The Goldstone Report came in,  the BDS campaign is gaining steam, and people around the world are waking up and starting to speak out.

When you can't attack the message, attack the messenger

Calling someone antisemitic is a "vicious attack" according to Congressman Dr. Ron Paul. The respected former flight surgeon appeared on Larry King Live to debate Yemen and airport security. He never said one word about Jewish people, but he was slammed as being 'antisemitic' by talking-head Ben Stein.

Dingleberries like Ben Stein make themselves look like idiots when they call someone anti-semitic.  Does he lack the brainpower needed to form a more intelligent answer?  Ron Paul had simply raised the point that we need to look at "the motives" of people, like the fact that we are invading and occupying Muslim countries . Dr. Paul had not said one word about Israel, Jews, Judaism, Zionism, Rabbis, Bar Mitzvas, Apartheid Wall, or any topic that remotely would justify Stein's knee-jerk use of the word anti-semitic.

This kind of absurd and reflexive overuse of the word anti-semitic has become far too common, and it is reaching a level that now causes many people to take  all claims of anti-semitism with a grain of salt. You can only "cry wolf" so many times before people ignore you. My advice to people like Ben Stein is this: If you have nothing constructive to say and you are down to playing the 'anti-semitic' card, just shut your pie-hole and let someone else talk.  At least you won't look like an moron, and you won't cause people to yawn and roll their eyes when genuine and legitimate antisemitism is revealed.

Let's hold Israel accountable for their atrocities against Palestinians

My advice to writers and bloggers everywhere is this: Power up your moral compass and start asking the tough questions about Israeli aggression and war-crimes. It's not taboo, and it's morally right. Like all governments, the Israeli government has moral and humanitarian obligations. When Israel acts immorally or commits war-crimes, it should expect heavy handed condemnation from the rest of the world, just like America got when it's renditions, and it's worldwide torture camp network were revealed. If you hate what you see, go ahead and say it. It's OK to hate atrocities.

If you are a writer, don't muzzle yourself  just because someone might call you antisemitic. They will. Just correctly label it as a "viscous attack" like Dr. Ron Paul did. Speaking up for the oppressed is morally right, and exposing the truth is a beautiful thing.

If you need to get up to speed on the issues start by reading a summary of the U.N.'s Goldstone Report.  After you get familiar with the Goldstone Report, read about the Gaza Siege. Study how Israel rounded up and imprisoned Gaza's democratically elected government and thousands of other Palestinians including young children. Ask why Israel refuses U.N. nuclear inspections. Investigate Israel's history of killing unarmed kids and pregnant women. Ask why Israel refuses to define it's borders, and keeps building 'settlements' on top of demolished Palestinian houses.

Proper expressions of hate

With all the talk of hate-crimes these days people are asking themselves "What can I say? Am I supposed to pretend I don't hate anything?"   Hate is a perfectly normal human emotion. Oppressive actions taken by governments and their armies can easily trigger feelings of anger and hatred in normal people.

I hate lots of things about my own Canadian government: Afghan War-crimes, helping NATO destroy Libya, spending healthcare money to build battleships. I boiled-over with hatred of my government when Canada shipped Marc Emery into America's prison-industrial complex just because he mailed some pot seeds. 

I hate America's wars, America's subservience to Israel, America bailing out Wall Street criminals while Main Street families became jobless and homeless. I feel sorry for my many American friends.

Up here in Canada, no matter how screwed up things get, we can usually point south and say "at least it's not as bad as the USA."  That applies to the economy, worker's rights, drug testing policies, health care , and a very long list of issues.

If you hate what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, go ahead and say so. Don't be intimidated by blowhards like Ben Stein.

The Three Tripwires That Trigger WW3

There are three tripwires that will trigger WWIII

Invasion of Iran, Syria, or Pakistan will force the China-Russia S.C.O. Alliance to act in defense of it's vital interests. US/NATO aggression in one of these sovereign nations will trigger events that rapidly escalate into WW3.  China and Russia are military allies under the S.C.O. They were forced to quickly join ranks after the USA and NATO commenced their barbaric military crusade against Muslim countries in 2001.   They routinely perform war-games together.

Iran:  Both China and Russia have put the USA/NATO partners on notice, and warned them not to attack Iran.     The foolish cheerleaders who advocate bombing the peaceful Iranian people, are really cheerleading for WWIII.

The Russians have issued a stern ultimatum: “Should Anything Happen to Iran … This Will Be a Direct Threat to Our National Security”

Syria:  The Russian Fleet recently docked in Syria. They spent a week unloading their high tech weapons like the unstoppable "Sunburn" missile. The SS-N-22 is considered the most lethal anti-ship missile in the world. An aircraft carrier has less than a 10% chance of stopping this 2,000 mph missile, because it performs evasive maneuvers faster than the NATO defenses can lock on to it.  A large cluster of Sunburn missiles will sink any fleet in minutes. 

Pakistan:   China has issued an ultimatum: "Any Attack on Pakistan Would be Construed as an Attack on China”.  As noted earlier, if China is drawn into a war the Russians will join them.

China + Russia = A Superpower:   WW3 will not be over until every nuke is fired.  America, Europe and Israel will be flattened if they foolishly provoke the S.C.O. partners into WW3.  Unfortunately, rational thinking and respect for human life has never been what guides the Pentagon. The chance of a nuclear WW3 happening in 2012-2013 is greater than 60%.

 

 Why will the USA and NATO take military action that leads to WW3 ? 

The USA and Europe are bankrupt.  America became a rich country in the first place because after WW2 it was the only highly developed country that still had it's industrial base fully intact. For 40+ years people all over the world bought items that said "Made in the USA" and Americans lived in unprecedented prosperity. Gradually the world's manufacturing base shifted to Europe and then to SE Asia, Mexico, Brazil, India, Russia and China. At the same time America declined into it's current bankruptcy.

America will never again be the global economic champ. The emerging economic heavyweights are the BRIC nations, with China leading the pack. China will also emerge as the global leader in terms of military capability and technology within 10 years. This reality sends a shiver down the spines of everybody in the Pentagon and NATO. 

The spoiled USA and NATO decision-makers are too insecure and irrational to accept the reality of ranking below China and Russia both economically and militarily, as all the experts are predicting. Accepting the inevitable consequences of military overspending and warmongering, and changing their behavior to improve the lives of Americans and Europeans is not an option on the table of the elite. They got into this mess by military overspending and warmongering, and they foolishly believe that more warmongering will get them out of it. Old habits and old ways of thinking die hard. 

 If you live in a big city it's time to think about moving to an area with a very low population density, and it's time to start practicing self sufficient living. Preferably nowhere near a port or a military base.

Scott Olsen: The Best Is Yet To Come

If you are reading this you probably know who Scott Olsen is, and you were elated when you heard his encouraging message from the hospital and his plans to move forward. Scott wants to "see you in the streets".  Let's be there waiting for him.

Occupy needed a leader or a role model or an icon we can all trust. Someone who speaks the truth in these times when the truth is treason was not enough for a leaderless uprising. In order to become the Icon of Occupy a previously undefined sacrifice was needed. Scott made that sacrifice when he stood in between the thugs with badges and the peacefully-assembled citizens. He took a tear gas canister to the brain in order to protect the basic rights of free assembly and free expression. These two rights form the backbone of a free country, and any country oppressing free speech and free assembly cannot dare to call itself "a free country". Scott knew that. When he is back in the streets thousands of citizens from across the country will proudly stand with him.

The two values that define Scott are 'truth' and 'courage'. Sure, he served The Beast for a few years like many of us did when we were young and easily impressionable, but this is not what defines him. Scott woke up one day and walked away from the Marines. He showed his true colors when he joined the real struggle for liberty back in "The Homeland". 

Is any forum more trolled and spammed out by the Pentagon / Mossad (yes, these words are interchangeable) than The Guardian's forums? The venomous attacks against both Olsen and Occupy in The Guardian's forums clearly demonstrate the powers that be have identified both as targets on their radars and in their cross-hairs. Occupy and Olsen's potential in particular scare the shit out of these taxpayer-funded enemies of freedom. They know he is one person who can unite masses of people with a common sense of purpose.

The cowardly elite already saw Olsen's potential when the Port of Oakland was shut down by a general strike that was organized specifically to protest the police brutality against Olsen. Good job Scott. The Scott Olsen magic is already working.

I'll see you in the streets, Scott, and one more thing. Thank you for putting the wind back in my sails.

Bloggers: Take A Bow

The unfolding "Occupy Revolution" was made possible by the elite's worst nightmare...  ...the internet.

Those filthy greedy 1% who own everything and control all major political parties had the 'news media' totally in their pocket as well. The internet toppled their propaganda apple cart, and they never saw it coming. Even world class bullshit artists, like chain-smoker Obama, are quickly exposed by the internet's unwavering spotlight.

Citizen Journalists and Citizen Investigative Reporters (AKA Bloggers), have re-educated the population with Reality 101 and Advanced Reality 202 as well. The Occupy Generation won't be fooled again. Bullshit-free "Internet News" like W.R.H. is the only news for a growing majority.

Occupy has already set in motion an unstoppable force of Good v. Evil and Truth v. Lies.

Nobody can pretend America is "a free country" anymore. Even the dupes who still cling to the tattered remains of the MSM can see freedom of expression and freedom of assembly being beaten down by the violent thugs with badges.

Bloggers, take a bow. The revolution is on. The 99% will set us free.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr

Canada's new "Dear Leader"

SPECIAL GUEST OPINION TODAY 

Opinion and Prediction   May 8, 2011 


  CANADA'S 38% 'MAJORITY' GOVERNMENT

The Fight Is On. In the next few months Canada's new Prime Minister Stephen Harper will show his true red, white and blue colours. Warmongering, escalating aggression against Muslim's overseas, and a cold-blooded, systematic destruction of Canada's Charter of rights and freedoms. Canadians will die at home and abroad.

The Marijuana Community is on a short list of "soft targets" to be completely smashed in a Canadian version of Domestic Shock and Awe. All designed to show the sheeple that Canada's Dear Leader is "protecting kids and families" or something like that.

The violent crackdown will not be limited to the millions of us who love using marijuana for our own personal reasons. The medical marijuana community will also be demonized and oppressed more than ever. The sick and dying will be forced to support organized crime by purchasing street pot. Many will be pressured to switch over to addictive pharmaceuticals.

The peaceful cannabis community must rise up and be counted. No more closet cases. Come out of the closet and be a vocal opponent of Comrade Harper's Regime and his sadistic War on Marijuana People.

Stop expecting someone else to do it. Do something yourself. Just one little thing. This includes "middle class professionals" like me.  I am 50-something xray manager in BC. 

Get out of your closet and join the resistance. Make a difference. Start with a brief letter to the editor of your local paper about why you enjoy marijuana. Every little bit helps the cause. It's very liberating, believe me. 

There is strength in numbers. Harper wants to divide us and destroy us, but this will backfire and unite marijuana lovers like never before.

Tell your Conservative politician that God created the marijuana seed. Don't let any phony Christians step on your God Given right to enjoy the healing herb. Fuck the Harper Regime and his hate-filled warmonger party. The Conservative scum only got less than 40% of the popular vote anyway. They sure as hell don't represent most of us.

Dicktator Harper and his 38% 'majority' is the greatest threat Canada's Marijuana Community has ever faced. Stand Up and Be Counted. We are the Number One Target, and therefore we must refuse and resist like never before. It will be a tough battle because The Charter, always one of our key tools for justice, will be toast.   

Plant some Seed and Free The Weed

Peace,

written by Norm Smith (formerly Norm Siefken)

- Co-founder of the Marijuana Party of Canada (Parti Marijuana)
- Fmr. BC Marijuana Party (BCMP) candidate (Chilliwack)
- Fmr. BC Green Party Candidate
- Fmr. Western Canada Leader of the Marijuana Party of Canada (Parti Marijuana)
- Fmr. federal candidate for the Marijuana Party of Canada (twice)
- Fmr. Co-owner of THC Seeds
- Fmr. volunteer at  MedBud.com
- Fmr. Mayoral Candidate (Save Chilliwack Citizens Alliance)
- 9 year Health Canada Medical Marijuana Patient, and licensed Medical Marijuana Producer
.- Currently employed as a hospital-based Medical Radiation Dept.Manager
- Medical Marijuana Consultant and Expert Witness
- Classified as 'Disabled Veteran' due to skydiving accident while on active duty.
- Fmr. 'Specialist' with D-2-502 Infantry (Strike Force) 1975-1981
- Fmr. member of the Screaming Eagles Parachute Team (101st Airborne Division)
- Fmr. Team Captain of The Fall Guys Precision Skydiving Team
-  Proud Member of the Vancouver Compassion Club  and Vancouver Green Cross Society

Obama And The Republicrat Agenda: WW3 and Domestic Tyranny

Some American people still cling to the false belief that the Democrats and Republicans are opposing teams with conflicting objectives. This rapidly shrinking minority believes that voting for one team or the other will somehow make a big difference.

They think one team might eventually prevail, and then everything will be OK. In their minds there is a bright light at the end of America's current journey down a dark tunnel.  

On the other hand, most people are waking up. A growing majority knows that the American government, at all levels, has been systematically corrupted and hijacked. They know that the politicians, and the unelected decision makers, are letting dark forces set the agenda. The mandate to serve the public and defend the constitution is trampled as they focus on serving their corporate masters and foreign handlers.

The politicians are mostly on one team best described as the Republicrats, and they bow down to the same psychopathic masters. Republicrats support cutting what little is left of America's tattered social safety-net, while dramatically increasing military spending. They dole out trillions for ever more wars, and covert destabilization of democracies. Republicrats steal from taxpayers to "bail out" the same evil bankers who systematically destroyed the real economy and put millions of people out on the street to beg. Obama and the Republicrats are simultaneously creating the greatest possible economic depression and World War Three.

The majority is waking up and smelling the coffee. It has an unpleasant aroma that reeks of corporate control, foreign influence, bribery, corruption and the stench of politicians and decision makers who have been bought, bribed and blackmailed into submission. The facade of the Democrats v. Republicans illusion has worn thin. 

The entire government and it's endless armies of domestic law enforcers, tax collectors and homeland security forces have become the greatest oppressors of freedom-loving Americans. Even alternative medicine practitioners are now in the crosshairs. Those who prefer natural herbs over corporate pharmaceuticals will soon be getting busted for possession of Echinacea and Saint John's Wort with the intent to distribute, and similar "crimes". The "land of the free" isn't so free anymore. Whether it becomes the "home of the brave" or the home of the compliant sheeple remains to be seen.

The main underlying dynamic that could bring a revolution is that most Americans know the difference between good and evil. They know right from wrong. They know what they are feeling is corporate controlled oppression, not freedom. They are looking at the heavy-handed regime that is supposed to serve them and protect the constitution, and they can see that the whole train has been hijacked and driven right off the tracks. It is getting hard to find Americans who are unaware that something is catastrophically wrong. The escalating efforts to muzzle the internet, and reestablish control of what constitutes news, could be the final wake-up call that stimulates a massive public uprising against the broken and corrupted Republicrat system Americans call a democracy.

The surging popularity of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, in every corner of America,  points to a disillusioned populace desperately looking for an honest politician they can still trust and respect. Unfortunately, Dr. Paul's popular agenda which includes ending all wars and abolishing abolishing both the IRS and the Federal Reserve, will never get a green light from Obama and his Republicrats. Real elected "representatives of the people" are truly few and far between. 

At home, the American regime is relentless in it's war on domestic freedom and liberty. The self-granted power of the government is expanding daily, at the expense of individual liberty and privacy. At the same time the USA is pushing every hemisphere on the planet into a global conflict. 


Future historians will look back and say that both the collapse of America and the beginning of World War Three were well underway in 2011. What year will they say was the year the American people abandoned fear, and stood up to reign in and reclaim their government? 



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Endgame For MossadLeaks , er, um, Wikileaks

Israel's Mossad will execute their patsy Julian Assange

It has now been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Wikileaks is a Mossad (Israeli Secret Service) operation. Julian Assange has been outed. His leaks strongly supported Israel's apartheid regime. In fact he did a truly great job of leaking information, both real and bogus, that supported Israel's desire to invade Iran, and he almost made Israel look like the good guy, despite it's ongoing genocide and illegal siege of Palestine ... almost.

At the same time, the one and only nuclear-armed country that never got smeared or embarrassed by the hundreds of thousands of leaked documents just happened to be the Apartheid State itself. No leaks about ongoing Israeli genocide against the 1.5 million humans in the world's largest open-air prison called Gaza. No leaks about Israeli spies in the Pentagon, and every other place the USA and NATO stash their classified documents. No leaks about Mossad's botched executions.



WAR CRIMES: Israel has a long history of killing defenseless Palestinian women and children.

Canada's National Post(NP) newspaper showed a great example of what happens when a newspaper drinks from Assange's Wikileaks Kool-Aid. The pro-Israel / anti-Palestine / anti-Iran propaganda jumps right off the page. The NP article article almost sounds like it was written in a Mossad boiler-room. It proves my point that Assange did his job extremely well.

The N.P. would have you believe that the peace process is failing because "the Palestinians hope that if only they hold out a little longer, they will be offered even more." Memo to the NP: The Palestinians are starving and wasting away thanks to Israel's sadistic blockade of food, medicine, clean water and basic essentials of life, combined with military aggression and a concentration camp lifestyle. They just want Israel to stop bulldozing their villages to building ever more Israeli "settlements" on what is left of Palestine.


One "settlement" at a time Israel devours on the lands of Palestine

Assange has served his purpose, and like all patsy's he is now due for termination. Julian Assange will disappear, "commit suicide" or have a "heart attack" before the summer gets here. Now he will see the other side of Mossad.

The reason: Assange and Mossad went too far with the whole Wikileaks affair. Every major NATO power and every Western intelligence agency has been compromised by the leaks. Now it is payback time, and Mossad's best damage control strategy is to snuff out Assange and pray that the multinational retaliation coming it's way will be merciful. Maybe the world will think Wikileaks died with Assagne and start forgetting the whole ordeal.

The first nation to go public and spill the beans about Israel being the source of almost every Wikileaks document was Turkey. Turkey had essentially shut down all relations with Israel since the mass murder of Turkish peace activists on the flotilla of ships which were carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Turkish anger over Israel's mass murder on the high seas has gone right off the charts. Turkey has already gone into payback mode, expelling Israeli diplomats and cutting all military and commercial cooperation with the Apartheid State. Turkish intelligence had already connected the dots between Assange, Mossad and Wikileaks and they went public. Other intelligence agencies around the globe were already reaching the same conclusion, and formulating their own payback strategies, but Turkey's blunt disclosure accelerated the get-even game.

Israel is nervous. Now that they have been outed as the major source of Wikileaks the massive scale of their spying and infiltration of Western governments has been laid bare. The mountain of classified documents shows that Israel has penetrated and totally compromised every nation that supports the War Criminal Regime in Tel Aviv. Israel is the greatest threat to national security ever faced by America and NATO.

Assange has gone into hiding. He seems to be doing a long-overdue reality check: The patsy always gets killed in the end.

Goodbye Assange. You and your MossadLeaks, er, um, Wikileaks have overstayed your welcome. Those who swim with the sharks sometimes get bitten.



WAR CRIMES: Israel attacks defenseless schools and UN food warehouses with illegal White Phosphorus Bombs.

Note to Readers: It is perfectly OK to criticize any country including Israel. However, broad based attacks against all Jewish people are misguided. Millions of Jews around the world hate what their Israeli government is doing and they share my disgust for Israel's war crimes and genocide.

The views expressed are the personal opinion of Dr. Goldstein

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