How many American sailors were killed when Israel deliberately fired on the U.S. ship Liberty? How many Americans reacted to Israeli soldiers' cold blooded killing of the young American girl, Rachel Corrie? At least the Brits have the self respect to confront the Israelis when one of their own is deliberately murdered. More than I can say for the government of America, land of the brave.

"Israel is not a democracy, it is an ethnocracy; full rights to Jews, but not Palestinians."-Jeff Halper, American Israeli, Founder and Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions www.icahd.org




The folllowing is Excerpted from "30 Minutes With Vanunu"

“It’s very sad that Hillary Clinton went to the Jewish Wailing Wall and forgot the real crying wall is the Palestinian wall...the apartheid wall... the wall is not for defense, but to keep this conflict permanent...


“The Dimona is 46 years old; reactors last 25 to 30 years. The Dimona has never been inspected and Israel has never signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty but all the Arab states have...Twenty years ago when I worked there they only produced when the air was blowing towards Jordan ten miles away. No one knows what is happening now.

“The Israelis have 200 atomic weapons and they accuse the Palestinians and Muslims of terrorism. The world needs to wake up and see the real terrorism is the occupation and the Palestinians have lived under that terror regime for 40 years.

“Israel is only a democracy if you are a Jew." -

"30 Minutes With Vanunu" and his messages to USA Christians and where Bush can find WMD's in the Middle East, Freely Streaming @

http://www.wearewideawake.org/

I bet even Michael Moore wont go near there. If they have the nerve to kill film-makers on the street in cold blood and do nothing about it, they will do just about anything. Their collective hatred of free speech is... highly illuminating.

"In an investigative report in October 2003, the journalist John Sweeney wrote: "They had walked about 20 metres from the veranda when the first shot rang out. The team froze. For 13 seconds, there is silence broken only by Saira's cry: 'We are British journalists.' Then comes the second shot, which killed James. He was shot in the front of his neck. The bullet was Israeli issue, fired, according to a forensic expert, from less than 200 metres away. Immediately after the shooting, the IDF said that James had been shot in the back during crossfire. It later retracted the assertion about where in his body he was shot, but until today it has maintained that he was shot during crossfire. There was no crossfire on the APTN tape."


Of course there was no crossfire. Of course they didn't shoot first. They didn't shoot at all.

Can anyone doubt this happens all the time? Innocents shot for simple being around?

Israel is willing to murder innocents, then lie about it. If they weren't britts, no one would call them on it. Even when they are britts.. even when the evidence shows that it was unquestionably murder... they still don't want to do anything about it. Israel drops cluster bombs on civilian areas, which is a war crime. Israel goes into Lebanon and kills 500 people. Even by their own numbers half of them were innocents. Israel bombs appartment buildings in urban areas during the middle of the night then claims they thought the building was unoccupied..oh, except for the ONE militant they wanted to kill... and his teenage daughter and wife.

You tell me... who are the terrorists in this conflict again? Who are the cold-blooded murderers? Who doesn't value human life? Oh, yeah... both the Israeli government AND palestinian militants.

Israel is not a Democracy,Israel practices apartheid and gets away with it,it' human rights is only for itself,that is their land and no one elses,if you are against that ,you are a terrorist, they can and do have nuclear power plants but is anyone else in that area allowed to have them"?I am not anti-semetic all peoples of that area are semites,its yet another word pulled out and isolated,read your history,I am not anti the people of Israel I am against all religion,I'M athiest!but this is not the topic,if we expect Israel to do anything about the death of a British newsman,don't hold your breath,but take one of their soldiers prisoner they'll kill innocent men ,women and children .....and America? sits and watches

How about doing some fact-checking? The US and Israel have so many human rights violations that it's ridiculous. The US and Israel rank very, very high on the short list of TERRORIST STATES! Wake up before it's too late. Evolve, please!!!!

Regarding some of the commentary, it’s not just AIPAC and all of the other Jewish lobbying groups; it’s the banks and the media. Am I crazy or are nearly all of the heads of major news and entertainment companies Jews? Factually. Really. -And truly.

Let me contextualize something for you. If I hate the mafia, that does not mean I hate Italians. I regard the Zionists like the mafia: a cabal. Unlike the mafia/Italian comparison, however, I see the bulk of Jews willing to benefit from the scheming of the active zealotry-oriented faction. I mean, who can point out a Jewish figure that has spoken out specifically against their Jewish brethren’s (not a gentile’s) involvement in the Iraq war (say going after Wolfowitz, Lieberman, Feith, Kristol…)? I mean who can tell me? If I can grant you for a moment that Jews don’t completely dominate the media (Zionist zealots or no), can the reader tell me – big picture - why “Israel” is such a constant issue in the news from year to year, from generation to generation? Also: why does “the news” always quote the Israeli army when armed hostilities are reported and not the other side? I heard a commentator on NPR some months ago defending the status quo of reporting on Iraq by saying that you always report both sides. I mean, people of European Christian origination dominate this country demographically and I have never once had a conversation with a non-Jew who supported giving massive military and non-discretionary aid to Israel, this despite all of the coverage. (I am not saying these conversations haven't occurred) I have taken enough statistics to know that the likelihood of the government’s actual Israel policies does not reflect the desires of the majority. No way.

IDF murderers are the product of "classical judaism" which defines all non-Jews as subhumans. This mentality is indistinguishable from that of Nazis and White Supremicists and is shamelessly defended by the Dershowitzs of the world. Cold-blooded premeditated murder of goyem is a sport in Israel according to Christopher Hitchens and Christopher Hedges first-hand reports. This must be an example of our oft touted "shared values" with the Jews of Israel which we are told is the basis for our neverending support and boundless giveaways to that fine state.

It will never end, nor will it's defense by equally guilty reflexive apologists for these murdering pigs.

You will notice that the usual gaggle of apologists for Israel offer no real defense for this murder, but instead are attacking other readers who are aware that this is the norm in Israel, and that our own government will do not a goddamn thing about it because we all know what happens when you imply that Israel may be at fault.

This is always the case here. The Zionists show up (what, does the ADL put out an AlterNet alarm, "Anti-Israel article online now?) and they call names and attempt to deny the obvious, but never really offer and concrete defense of what is being discussed.

Tells ya somethin', don't it?

In this article by self-hating Jew Nurit Peled Elhanan, he discusses the fact that the IDF is never punished for murder, in this case a 9 year old Palestinian girl, Abir Aramin.

Read it here: http://www.counterpunch.org/peled08082007.html

I await the zionist responses blaming the girl for her own death, praising the IDF's "purity of arms," reviling Elhanan and accusing me of being an anti-Semite.

Oh yeah, try to work the Holocaust and Hitler in somewhere, too.

Today just Five mass media conglomerates control the vast majority of electronic and print media. It was Michael Powell, son of Gen. Colin Powell, who as head of the FCC in March 2003 tried to consolidate the electronic and print media as much as possible by eliminating three decade old regulations that restricted how many separate media outlets a single company was allowed to own. After a quarter billion dollar lobbying campaign by major news organizations, Powell deregulated the industry to allow cross ownership permitting for the first time a company to own print and electronic media in the very same media market, that is to conglomerate. Powell also allowed national broadcast networks to buy up local TV and Radio stations that collectively gave a single media firm 45% of the national broadcast market up from only 35% before FCC deregulation in 2003.

The media consolidation campaign wasn't just more market liberalization. It was a deliberate attempt by the Bush administration to effectively create government controlled media for all intents and purposes by consolidating the pro-administration private media to such an extent as to restrict the views that the US public received effectively crushing any independant media sources. This was done in order to get mass media support for all Bush Administration policies most essentially The Iraq War, The War on Terror, Tax Cuts for big business and the rich, and the curtailing of civil liberties through such things as the USA Patriot Act and warrentless wiretaps which can needlessly circumvent the FISA courts.

Kevin Martin, Bush's new FCC appointment to replace Powell, will be leading the charge to conservatize the mass media in order to create a unified government propaganda arm much as in the old Soviet Union. Evidence of the effectiveness of this effort is the fact that years after establishing well known proof to the contrary, significantly more than half of all Americans still believed that Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs, had links to Al-Qaeda, and had a direct connection to the WTC attacks on 9/11.

The top six media corporations together had about $300 billion in revenues in 2005. Today the media is richer and even more consolidated.

Many of the Alternet posters like "American" and others view this as a Jewish issue. They typically use neo-nazi websites like JewWatch and American Free Press to substantiate their claims despite the fact that these sources are notoriously unreliable and have been known to deliberately fabricate many claims. There is heavy Jewish participation in the US media. However, there is also majority participation by non-Jews. In addition, some of the media most heavily associated with Jews like the NYT and CBS have gone out of their way to defy the Bush propaganda machine by printing and broadcasting stories highly critical of the Iraq War, the War on Terror, Corporate Tax Cuts and attempts to curtail civil liberties. Jews such as Amy Goodman and others are also in the forefront of the independant media movement to counter the Bush Administration's efforts to crush freedom of speech through mass media consolidation.

It might also be noted that two of the largest, most pro-Bush and most active in major censorship efforts, FOX NEWS and Clear Channel Communications, are utterly owned, headed and run by non-Jews and have led the efforts to promote the Bush agenda to the American Public more than anyone else.

I would ask people to consider the media question as one of democracy and the threats to it by one of the most anti-democratic US administrations ever in our history and not a questiion of ethnic/religious control which it obviously is not.

First, I'm not Anti Semitic and the words following this sentence is no way racists are out of hatred. The reason I have come to that conclusion is because I have been there and have seen it first hand because My unit and I have had joint exercises with their Air Force in Israel. Anyone who shoots at unarmed civilians (Regardless of their age I might add...Mostly children!) are not soldiers...They are murderers and should be held to that standardization of LAW! NO peoples anywhere are better than the other because of their ethnicity!

It always seems that if anyone critics Israel and points out their crimes the person doing the criticizing gets attacked instead of the facts about the critic! I can't stand our leaders right now but it doesn't mean I hate America our its people! Just the ones robbing us blind and dragging us into unnecessary conflicts!