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The REAL Reason for the Assault In Gaza?
We noted yesterday that many speculate that the timing of the war in Gaza is because it is (1) after the U.S. elections and before the Israeli elections or (2) part of the run-up to a war with Iran.
A third reason is also quite possible.
Asia News reported last month:
The debate on U.N. recognition of Palestine will be held in mid-November. This was announced two days ago by Vuk Jeremic, President of the U.N. General Assembly. “The leaders of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) are going to engage in extensive discussions”, said Jeremic, “coming to a conclusion as to what they want to do some time in November.”
On November 6th – before hostilities escalated in Gaza – Anti War pointed out:
Palestine’s upgrade to UN “non-member observer state” status is virtually a foregone conclusion, with an overwhelming majority of the UN General Assembly expected to vote in favor and only a handful, led by the US and Israel, in opposition.
The question then is what Israel’s reaction will be, and the nation’s cabinet met today to discuss possible “punitive” measures to punish the Palestinians for getting the enhanced level of recognition on the international stage.
Exactly what the move will be remains unclear, and with Israel already not negotiating with the Palestinians and already expanding settlements, the number of options that will actually feel like “punishment” instead of just business as usual is limited.
On November 8th, the Washington Post reported:
The Palestinians took the first step toward raising their status at the United Nations from an observer to a nonmember observer state Thursday by circulating a draft resolution to the 193 U.N. member states and asking for their support.
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There are no vetoes in the General Assembly and the resolution is almost certain to be approved by the world body which is dominated by countries sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. Approval of the resolution would elevate the Palestinians to the same status as the Vatican. The draft resolution states that to date, 132 nations have recognized “the State of Palestine.”
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The upgraded status would add weight to Palestinian claims for a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005.
The Palestinians also hope to use their upgraded status to join additional U.N. bodies, such as the International Criminal Court, where they could attempt to prosecute Israel.
At the same time, they have expressed fear of financial and diplomatic retaliation.
Following last year’s move by the Palestinians to join the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, the United States withheld funds from the organization, which amount to 22 percent of its budget. The U.S. also withheld money to the Palestinians, and the U.S. Congress has threatened similar sanctions if the Palestinians proceed to improve their status at the U.N. again.
Israel also retaliated by accelerating settlement construction and withholding funds from the Palestinian government.
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The draft resolution expresses hope that the Security Council will consider the application for full membership favorably.
It “reaffirms the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to independence in their State of Palestine on the basis of the pre-1967 borders.”
And Reuters noted yesterday:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Friday of launching an assault on the Gaza Strip to undermine his efforts to secure a diplomatic upgrade at the United Nations.
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Abbas [said] he thought the escalating military campaign was aimed at sinking his own diplomatic maneuverings.
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“Everything that is happening is in order to block our endeavors to reach the United Nations,” Abbas told journalists.
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Abbas [is] recognized by the West as the legitimate leader of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip ….
Despite the violence, he said he would push ahead with plans for a vote at the U.N. General Assembly before the end of the month to give the Palestinians the rank of an “observer state” within the world body rather than the present “observer entity”.
The upgrade would enhance Palestinians’ legal rights at a time when peace negotiations with Israel have hit a wall over Israel’s refusal to halt settlement building in territory where the Palestinians want their state.
“We are going to the United Nations to vote on the resolution of our becoming an observer state on the 29th of this month. Nothing will deter us,” Abbas said.
Both Israel and the United States have condemned the planned vote, which Abbas looks set to win, saying it violated the 1993 Oslo accords, which were intended to pave the way to a “final status agreement” within five years.
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wow. i knew who nimrod was (biblical king who commanded his servant to hit him in the head with a hammer when a mosquito flew up his nose into his brain) but the inside poop on the achille lauro is new. thank you very much.
If you liked that, you'll likely love this about the Yom Kippur War:
http://www.israelshamir.net/English/Suez.htm
Those poor fuckers in the Middle East, and in America too, have no idea who they're really fighting for. This is especially true for the Israelis and Egyptians. All pawns in a much bigger game.
Do you know the history of israel? Have you read the Balfour Declaration? What if your neighbor "gave" me your house and I moved in, killed your family, burned your crops and poisoned your water and forced you to live in a rubble filled ditch out back. Would you hate me? That's exactly what the jews have done to the Palestinians.
Balfour is what the name calling, hate filled posters think the ump declared so they are on their way to 1st. To bad they can't find their way home.
If I was living in a rubble filled ditch, I'd think of moving somewhere else a long time ago.
possibly like back onto your land after the interloper was vanquished?
try it with the u.s. as the example (stand up for america. be american).
Funny, funny stuff: Apartheid Israel never had credibility to begin with. The UN midwifed it into existence by trickery and fraud, and the White imperialist mob serves as bodyguard and benefactor with copious welfare checks. It exists chiefly for fat, ignorant, racist Euorpeans to visit on holiday.
It’s time for as much truth telling as we can find. Here’s Chris Hedges on Gaza, not from a politician, not from the MSM, not from DC, but from a man who cares…
“The incursion and bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel. It is not about achieving peace. The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battle field on a largely defenseless civilian population is the final phase in the decades’ long campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians.
“The Assault on Gaza is about creating squalid, lawless and impoverished ghettos. In the West Bank and Gaza, where life for the Palestinians will be barely sustainable. It is about building a series of ringed Palestinian enclaves where the Israeli military will have the ability to instantly shut off movement of food, medicine and goods to perpetuate the misery.
“Privilege and power, especially military power is a dangerous narcotic. Violence destroys those who bear the brunt of its force, but also those who use it to try to become gods. Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and Naval vessels to bomb densely crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks mosques and slums, to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command and control, no army and calls it a war. It is not a war. It is Murder. Images of dead Palestinian children lined up as if asleep on the floor of the mail hospital in Gaza are a metaphor for the future.
Israel will from now on speak to the Palestinians in the language of death. Those who orchestrate such sieges do not grasp the terrible rage of long humiliation indiscriminate violence and abuse. A father or a mother whose child dies to a lack of vaccines or proper medical care does not forget. A boy whose ill grandmother dies while being detained at an Israeli checkpoint does not forget. Families who carry the broken bodies of their children to hospitals do not forget. All who endure humiliation, abuse and the murder of those they love do not forget. This rage becomes a virus within those who eventually stumble out into the daylight. Is it any wonder that 71 percent of children interviewed at a school in Gaza recently said they wanted to be a martyr.
“The refusal by our political leaders from Barrack Obama to all but 5 members of Congress to the major media to speak out in defense of the rule of law and fundamental human rights exposes our cowardice and our hypocrisy. A public debate about the Gaza attack engages in the absurd pretense that it is Israel, not the Palestinians whose security and dignity is being threatened. This blind defense of Israeli brutality toward the Palestinians is a betrayal of the memory of all those killed in other Genocides in other times…”
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/19717391/1381445681/name/ChrisHedges-The+incursion+and+bombardment+of+Gaza+is+not+about+destroying+Hamas.pdf
Hear and see it all on video as, says bunnyswanson on ZH, “Chris Hedges addresses the mass murder of Palestinians by Israel”: Assault on Gaza is Murder, Not War.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7kBN9Me4Cs&feature=youtu.be
The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battle field on a largely defenseless civilian population is the final phase in the decades’ long campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians.
I dont' know why they have to be so slow about it.
or it's part of that jewish moral seriousness sontag was on about.
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are diong the oppressing.” – Malcolm X
Because they're too impotent to really do anything about it. Gaza will be their graveyard, provided they have the guts to even invade.
YouTube - Potty Mouthed 10 Yr Old Palestinian Girl Opens a Can of Kick Ass on Israeli Soldiers
tosses the 'C' word around, these kids today... tsk tsk tsk!
how many times you gonna post this same bloody thing?
No worries, she'll blow up soon enough.
As long as the result is dimunition of the death cultists, it's all good. Since death is their desire, they are happy too. Win-win.
Until they run out of virgins.
The synagogue of Satan requires blood. If they can't goad the silly Christians into killing for them, they'll just have to do it themselves.
The rational for the latest round of Israeli aggression is first and foremost BiBi's bid for electoral success. The fact that it helps disrupt Palestinian efforts in the UN is just a fringe benefit. As for war with Iran, as I have said many times there will be no overt war with Iran, no Israeli air strikes even though Israel is not a rational actor.
This aggression is also aimed at putting pressure on the US, Bibi is playing a high risk game because he doesn't have much to loose now. This will, of course, backfire. The hated Israeli regime is now disenfranchising the entire planet. What little support remains for it amongst the elites in the US and Europe is fading fast and it's looking like a very bad looser, the international pariah, a leper that even its most staunch allies find repellent.
With more Israeli soldiers refusing to fight than ever before and the clear prospect of major disruption to Israeli life now a reality across the entirety of Israel, even the Russian Jews shipped in to occupy Palestine are beginning to understand what it means to live on stolen land.
We are witnessing the death throes of Apartheid Israel.
They should annex Gaza, divide up the Palestinians, move them onto scattered reservations and let them open casinos. Everybody would then be happily busy either making money or gambling with the rent. It is a win win
+1
Yes, as we know Hamas' motto is "By way of deception thou shalt do war..." Oh wait...
hey that's not mossad's motto. it's something like "in many counselors there is safety". they changed just a few years ago ... oh wait.
http://100777.com/node/431
It's amazing that you will make yourself look this stupid, but carry on by all means. According to the fanatasy you are building Hamas IS Mossad.
Come ON--they're SO infiltrated; they might as WELL BE.
Smarten up.
He does have a case though. It's not impossible that those ragheads are not smart enough to make a rocket.
That is what I was thinking. Who else could get rockets into a lockup prison like Palestine . Shoot them at yourself . Miss every target. Generate a reason to invade and take control of
the rocketeers and sites. Push back the border by bullddosing the threatening hovels . Palestine gets smaller Israel gets larger. Rinse and repeat for a few more decades untill Greater Israel extends through Jordan to the Tigris.
Pure genius Doug. That Egyptian border is secure no doubt. Shoot rockets into your own territory? Were the suicide bombers Mossad agents too?
Is it possible that someone other than the Israelis is providing weapons to Palistinians?
I like the way you start with your desired narrative and then contort your way into an explanation of the current festivities. Most impressive. What's next, aliens are actually pulling the strings because the Jooooos are the aliens descendants and so must be protected by their progenitors?
Much more entertaining that way, don't you agree?
The SS, and the Nazi's are not defeated, they are members here.
Never in my 50+ yrs seen more rabid Israel /Jew haters.
Facts are Facts, Israel was given the land for a nation state, Israel has been attacked several times since '48, only to defeat all comers.
Their biggest mistake was giving back ONE FRIGGING INCH, or what the Arabs lost in those wars of aggression..........yet, Israel is always the aggressor, maybe someone needs to read some history books.(not printed by skin heads, and Islamic radicals).
The Palestinians have been denied residence in Jordan, or any other country in the ME.
Just so this shit can continue.
fuck the zionists and fuck nutanyahoo. tell me why i should give a fuck about israel,,,,,,,,,,, If we find out israel was responsible for 911, is say we blow those fuckers off the map.
im convinced the mossad did 911
Are you familiar with the passive voice?
Apartheid Israel "was given the land", you say. By whom?
God didn't give it to them. No--it was the UN, in 1947, who sanctioned the great theft.
Yet here you are, today, saying anyone who isn't a lackey of the UN's racist 1947 decree is a Nazi.
That's pretty good logic.
Invoking Godwin's Law has nothing to do with reason.
but in fairness the nazis in a sense caused israel to occur; indeed some would say the israelis learned from their oppressors too well. (see above for some zionist takes on a final solution to the arab problem)
So you're saying that Israel is like the abused child that grows up to become the abuser, because that is all it has ever known?
I can see there being something to that; but even so it only illustrates why, it doesn't provide any justification whatsoever.
Besides, were the nazis really the reason anyway, or just a horrible but convenient excuse? Long before they even existed some serious thought had been given to the idea of Israel.
http://www.transferagreement.com/
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DosZap
There is true irony in knowing that a group of people here who hate the Jews pitch the ownership of Gold. Isn't that the Jewish stereotype?
Isn't it possible that the anti-Jewish comments being posted here are being written by Israelis posing as Hamas posing as American proctologists posing as Gold dealers posing as Libyan farmers posing as Mormans posing as Toys R Us management posing as Walmartians posing as Quakers posing as Moonies posing as Freudians posing as Jungians posing as Existentialists posing as Objectivists posing as PepBoy mangement posing as Peggy Noonan posing as Billy Graham posing as Edith Hamilton posing as Pi.
When the Shit Truly Hits the Fan, I wonder how many of the Jew-haters will be giving their gold out to their neighbors, even to strangers, having themselves condemned Jews for being selfish and greedy? Because the average (or perhaps below average) anti-Semite has no idea how many SHTF scenerios Jews have survived over thousands of years. They are survivors, something posters here claim to respect and even emulate.
We are looking upon a possible collapse of our economy, built as it has been upon consumer credit and federal deficit spending. I read how much preppers hate the sheeple for not preparing, and how all those left unprepared without the pounds of gold and tons of silver and lead required to survive all deserve to die. Ironic that the goldbug/prepper community has such disdain for Jews, even as they position themselves to be just as hated as the Jew when they emerge on the other side as self-centered, greedy survivors in the eyes of the longsuffering.
When Jesus commands us to not judge lest we be judged, He simply points out that, in as far as we condemn people for actions we ourselves have done or will do in the future, we have condemned ourselves.
zionism is a secular movement.
your hasbara manual is showing.
two thoughts: the jews may have been given israel but not by its owners in 1948
isn't it ironic that the impetus for the formation of israel in 1948 was to give the jews a refuge from danger. do they look safer now? how about in
Wrong on both counts. First, the British had political dominion over Palestine and Trans-jordan after the Ottoman Empire withdrew post WWI. Syria and Lebanon were French mandates. These European powers had the position to determine who gets what land, fair or not. There was never a Palestine that Israel took land from.
Second, Israel was not simply a refuge from danger. It is a state designed fo Jewish self-determination. Historically, Jews depended on the protection of the governments in the nations they resided, which most often led to heartache. The Jews who want to depend on nobody else but themselves for protection reside in Israel, pecefully or not.
Not a peep on Zero Hedge about the Christains all but driven out of Lebanon, which was a much more prosperous nation prior to their civil war 35 years ago. You idiots inserting the talking points of an "apartheid Israel" need to look into Lebanon's fate, and of the Christians therein who had resided therein since Phoenecia and were part of the Christisn community since the beginning, until not just Muslims in general but a specific Muslim sect decided they had the numbers to run the place.
because unlike zionists, the lebanese are capable of actions like this?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lebanese-army-dismantles-r...
"The Jews who want to depend on nobody else but themselves for protection reside in Israel, pecefully or not."
So Israel depends on help from nobody? Yeah and women aren't crazy as shit...
Maxi..., you are only aggitating these useful idiots.
"What's next, aliens are actually pulling the strings because the Jooooos are the aliens descendants . . ."
G-d's Chosen People, eh?
Yup. Chosen to fuck up everything good about humanity. And you wonder why they're so viled around the world...
Troll Magnet
Yep, the y were chosen to FU all of humanity, take away ALL their accomplishments and the worlds technolgies, and mediicine, and culture would be set back a 1000yrs.
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. -- susan sontag
It's actually a toss up between the Jews, Muslims and Americans.
What is it about the "descendents" of Abraham?