The wrath of the pro-israel Lobby!

An American Former Congresswoman’s brave tale. A long read, but a very enlightening one. A perspective on how israel’s minions control the United States. Also, the quote about the Balkanization of muslim states such as Sudan (Pakistanis would do well to remember our situation vis a vis Baluchistan).

Cynthia McKinney, Former US Presidential candidate, blames the pro-Israel Lobby for ruining her political career

Some Quotes,

“People must not be afraid. Please don’t be afraid.”

“It all started with a fax,” she told me. As a candidate for the US Congress, she received a fax from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). “The fax was a pledge stating that as a candidate I would commit my tenure, should I win, to the military superiority of Israel, to Jerusalem as the capital city, to continued aid at the level requested by Israel. There were around five to seven points on this piece of paper and I didn’t sign it.” This was in 1992. Most people, she said, do sign it and that is how politicians get money for their campaign. “I didn’t sign it; I didn’t really understand how Washington DC works, so I didn’t get any money for my campaign. I was able to win but I won with nothing. Then the fact that I didn’t sign the pledge kept coming up over and over and over again. So I knew that this document that I had balled up and thrown away was really very important.”

From the moment that she refused to sign the pro-Israel pledge, claims McKinney, “war was declared on me”. She did not realise the extent to which that was going to resound in her life. “I would get phone calls from people saying they wanted to throw a fundraiser for me and then I’d say fantastic and we’d start planning it and then the question would be asked ‘did you sign the pledge?’” She’d say no and then it was, “well then I can’t do a fundraiser for you.” And that was the way it went. “A lawsuit was filed against the district that elected me. It went all the way up to the Supreme Court.” Later she found out that the Anti-Defamation League, a notoriously pro-Israel group, had been involved in filing the brief: “Clearly, the ADL didn’t forget that I hadn’t signed the pledge.”

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America’s Freedom of Expression

When it comes to hateful and bigoted comments aimed at Muslims & Islam, then the Freedom of Expression clause is brought out. Anything goes. Any spiteful, bigoted, hateful statement can be made. But, if a person dares to call israel’s policies as ‘brutal’, then the facade of Freedom of Expression is shorn.

Journalist fired for criticising Israel on Facebook

An American-Muslim journalist working for a public radio in Baltimore has been dismissed for referring to Israel`s occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territories as “brutal”…

Shameful Sham of ‘UN?’ Gaza Flotilla Report

A 12 min interview of Michael Ratner by Paul Jay.

The debunking of the absolutely incorrect assertion that Gaza Blockade is legal. Human Right Crimes of the worst kind in the form of Collective Punishment. Who were the members of the commission? The answer might just shock you. If you answered neutral technocrats/experts/judges, sorry, you answered incorrectly. Watch the video and learn the identity of the four members of the commission.

The noble US of A!

How noble of the wonderful USA. Truly, yet another shameful display by a country that habitually likes to chide the world about freedoms, justice and what not. But, their actions speak far far louder than any rhetoric. The US is well and fully the slave state of israel which dictates the US foreign policy, economic policy and military provisions.

Congress Threatens Palestinians With Aid Cutoff Over Statehood Bid

The House has overwhelmingly approved a measure opposing the Palestinian effort to seek statehood recognition at the United Nations this fall. The Palestinian Authority is preparing to ask the U.N. General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian state in the Occupied Territories along the 1967 borders. The non-binding House resolution calls for a suspension of U.S. aid to Palestinians if they continue with the statehood bid. It passed by a vote of 400-to-6, following a similar vote in the Senate last month.

The Holocaust Card

Norman Finkelstein replies to the Holocaust Card players in the context of the Palestinian-israeli conflict and tears apart their arguments. Norman’s family was killed in the Holocaust. His mother and father survived the concentration camps and brought him up. Norman rubbishes the use of Holocaust card to stifle any dissent/criticism of israel. Members of the audience try to shout him down, but he goes on to complete his argument eloquently and argues that the use of the Holocaust as a justification for israel’s crimes is despicable. He instead states that the sacrifices in the Holocaust of his parents and many others acts as his inspiration to speak the truth about Palestine.

*Video embedded with splicd so if you hit the play button, it will go straight to the exact segment (i.e. from ~ the 30th min to 34th min)*

Quote of the Day – Gaza Inquiry Panelists Challenge Chair’s Recantation

Gaza Inquiry Panelists Challenge Chair’s Recantation

“We find it necessary to dispel any impression that subsequent developments have rendered any part of the mission’s report unsubstantiated, erroneous or inaccurate. Had we given in to pressures from any quarter to sanitize our conclusions, we would be doing a serious injustice to the hundreds of innocent civilians killed during the Gaza conflict, the thousands injured, and the hundreds of thousands whose lives continue to be deeply affected by the conflict and the blockade.”

—The three co-panelists (Hina Jilani of Pakistan, Desmond Travers of Ireland, and Christine Chinkin of Britain) of the U.N. probe into the 2008-2009 Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip are rejecting the retraction by their chair, Judge Richard Goldstone, of the report’s key finding.

israel kidnaps Palestinian engineer from Ukraine

Israel’s Mossad is accused of kidnapping a Palestinian engineer in Ukraine

The Ukraine-based Al Raed Press said that Mr. Abu Sisi is the head of operations at the only power station in the Gaza Strip and was on a visit to Ukraine when he disappeared during a train journey on 18 February. Mrs. Abu Sisi accused Mossad of kidnapping her husband because she knows that all Palestinians are targeted by the Israelis. She stressed that her husband is a governmental employee in Gaza but is not involved in any political activities and is not a member of any political party or movement.

israel: the epitome of everything illegal. Laws, morals, sanctity of human life — all meaningless to israel. The illegal actions of an illegal and immoral entity. But there is one law which even they can’t ignore or circumvent. The Law of Reckoning on the Day of Judgment.

I Shall Not Hate

Video Duration: 20 minutes
Interview of Palestinian Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish whose 3 daughters and 1 neice were killed by the israelis during the Gaza Genocide. Dr. Izzeldin worked for 20 years in israeli hospitals and worked tirelessly for peace. His martyred daughters were Bisan (20), Mayar (15), Aya (13) while his niece Nur Abuelaish was 17.

Gazan Doctor and Peace Advocate Loses 3 Daughters to Israeli Fire and Asks Why

His book @ Random House & Amazon

The recession is over …

… otherwise why would USA waste almost $50,000 a minute? Especially considering the voter backlash in the midterms where the Democrats and Obama took a battering on the economy/recession? Surely, the US would not waste money if the recession weren’t over. And yet, $3 billion is going to be gifted “out” of America instead of being spent “on” Americans. In order to perpetuate a sham – the sham being giving israel $3 billion for a 90 day freeze on settlements (in West Bank; East Jerusalem not included in freeze) and also being given various US guarantees which include

the sale of 20 F-35 jets worth $3 billion, a pledge to veto Palestinian efforts to gain statehood recognition through the United Nations for at least a year, and assurances that the Obama administration would not press Mr. Netanyahu for a further settlement moratorium.
Israel set to OK 90-day halt to settlements

Mind you this $3 billion is in addition to the yearly billions the US pays to israel, in addition to the arms worth millions and billions put at israel’s disposal under the all encompassing “strategic reserve”, in addition to numerous other payouts.
Robert Fisk sums it up another way,

Robert Fisk: An American bribe that stinks of appeasement
Three billion dollars for three months is one billion dollars a month to stop Israel’s colonisation. That’s half a billion dollars a fortnight. That’s $500m a week. That’s $71,428,571 a day, or $2,976,190 an hour, or $49,603 a minute. And as well as this pot of gold, Washington will continue to veto any resolutions critical of Israel in the UN and prevent “Palestine” from declaring itself a state. It’s worth invading anyone to get that much cash to stage a military withdrawal, let alone the gracious gesture of not building more illegal colonies for only 90 days while furiously continuing illegal construction in Jerusalem at the same time.

israel guilty of ‘summary execution” of flotilla activists: UN

UN Human Rights council has found “clear evidence” of israel’s crimes in the flotilla massacre. Needless to say, israel’s biggest supporter United States of America yet again voted against the report & resolution (Partners in murder!).

UN backs damning report on Israel’s flotilla attack


The inquiry said Israel broke international humanitarian and human rights law in the incident, and found “clear evidence to support prosecutions” for crimes including “willful killing; torture or inhuman treatment; willfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health.”Of the nine fatalities in the incident, the probe said that six were victims of actions “consistent with … summary execution.”

UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis “Executed” US Citizen Furkan Dogan


The report reveals that Dogan, the 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent, was filming with a small video camera on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara when he was shot twice in the head, once in the back and in the left leg and foot and that he was shot in the face at point blank range while lying on the ground.

The report says Dogan had apparently been “lying on the deck in a conscious or semi-conscious, state for some time” before being shot in his face.

The forensic evidence that establishes that fact is “tattooing around the wound in his face,” indicating that the shot was “delivered at point blank range.” The report describes the forensic evidence as showing that “the trajectory of the wound, from bottom to top, together with a vital abrasion to the left shoulder that could be consistent with the bullet exit point, is compatible with the shot being received while he was lying on the ground on his back.”

Based on both “forensic and firearm evidence,” the fact-finding panel concluded that Dogan’s killing and that of five Turkish citizens by the Israeli troops on the Mavi Marmari May 31 “can be characterized as extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions.”

Although the report’s revelations and conclusions about the killing of Dogan and the five other victims were widely reported in the Turkish media last week, not a single story on the report has appeared in US news media.

The administration has made it clear through its inaction and its explicit public posture that it has no intention of pressing the issue of the murder of a US citizen in cold blood by Israeli commandos.

The account, provided by the OHCHR of the events on board the Mavi Marmara on its way to help break the economic siege of Gaza May 31 of this year, refutes the version of events aggressively pushed by the Israeli military and supports the testimony of passengers on board.

Contrary to Israeli claims that one or more Israeli troops were wounded by firearms, the report says no medical evidence of a gunshot wound to an Israeli soldier was found.

The fact-finding mission was chaired by Judge Karl T. Hudson-Phillips, Q.C., retired judge of the International Criminal Court and former attorney general of Trinidad and Tobago, and included Sir Desmond de Silva, Q.C. of the United Kingdom, former chief prosecutor of the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone and Ms. Mary Shanthi Dairiam of Malaysia, founding member of the board of directors of the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific.