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Most Israelis Favor Killing Palestinians
by Stephen Lendman
Propaganda works. Government statements and Israeli media one-sidedly highlight Palestinian “terror” attacks, mindless of reality on the ground.
Most Israelis have no idea or concern about what’s going on inside Palestine - including longstanding occupation harshness, state-sponsored terror against an entire population, a new generation of Palestinian youths demanding freedom, justifiably resisting collective punishment and denial of their fundamental rights.
A new Tel Aviv University/Israel Democracy Institute Guttman Center for Surveys Peace Index poll shows three-fourths of Israelis don’t understand how horrifically Palestinians are persecuted - in contrast to Arabs overwhelmingly fearing it acutely. Jews live normally. Palestinians have no control over their daily lives. Most Jews shockingly agree with the following statement: “(A)ny Palestinian who has perpetrated a terror attack against Jews (true or false) should be killed on the spot, even if he has been apprehended and no longer poses a threat.”
The Uprising Against Assad Was Engineered in Washington
Eric Zuesse
A terrific news report by Jonathan Marshall at Consortium News provides the first-ever presentation in the West of the event that sparked the demonstrations that sparked the Syrian civil war, and of the entire origin of that war.
Unlike so many online ‘news’ reports that are merely authoritarian trash because they don’t link to any of their sources (they rely instead upon dumb readers’ faith or trust in the ‘reporter’ or in the publisher, such as The New York Times or Fox News), this one from Marshall is top-notch: not only does it provide intelligently skeptical readers with instantaneous access to documentation for each one of its key points, but those sources are credible ones. Taken all together, the sources, and Marshall’s presentation of them, constitute a solid historical account of how the war to bring down Syria’s leader, Bashar al-Assad, actually started.
Reckless US/NATO Saber-Rattling
by Stephen Lendman
When lunatics run the asylum, all bets are off. America can’t bear the thought of other rising powers challenging its unipolarity - so much so, it appears willing to risk humanity’s destruction to maintain sole dominance of planet earth, its resources and populations.
Russia, China and the vast majority of other countries support multi-world polarity, nations working cooperatively with each other in peace for the betterment of all.
Washington wants none of it, demands all other countries accept its dominance, obey its diktats, pay homage to the master of the universe - or else. Endless wars of aggression, raping one nation after another shows it means business - maintain independence and you’re next.
Myanmar Elections
by Stephen Lendman
Myanmar is no democracy. Junta power rules, civilians representing it since 2011. Expect no change post-election, most Myanmarians unaware about the absence of democratic ballot choices.
On Sunday, they voted in general elections, touted as the first free ones in 25 years. Ignore the hype and lionization of Aung San Suu Kyi, a Western darling, alone enough to raise red flags.
The so-called pro-democracy icon is a fraud, a US/Soros-funded Western creation, a useful stooge, representing business as usual monied interests - an unworthy, disreputable Nobel Peace Prize winner like Obama and legions of other notorious honorees.
She heads the so-called National League for Democracy (NLD), falsely claiming to support democratic socialism, polar opposite its agenda - contesting for Myanmar’s presidency (she’s constitutionally barred from holding) against ruling Union Solidarity Development Party chairman (current president) Thein Sein, a former military commander.
Israel Murdered 80 Palestinians Since October 1
by Stephen Lendman
Cold-blood murder and extrajudicial assassinations reflect longstanding Israeli policy - classic police state injustice, trashing rule of law principles, terrorizing an entire population, defenseless against the daily onslaught.
Palestinians have no place to hide, trapped throughout the Territories, victimized with no world community support, isolated on their own to suffer, languish in Israel’s gulag, and for some to die, murdered by rogue state viciousness, including 17 young children since October 1 alone.
Soldiers and police have shoot-to-kill orders. Mercy is not an Israeli attribute, or respect for democratic values and core international humanitarian laws. Violence rages daily in Palestine. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) can’t keep up, its operations ongoing round-the-clock, dispatching medical and relief teams wherever needed, often blocked by soldiers from reaching the injured and dying.
Charlie Hebdo Disgracefully Mocks Russian Plane Crash Victims
by Stephen Lendman
The French satirical weekly is outrageously over-the-top, featuring stridently irreverent cartoons, polemics and humor.
It takes pride in mocking religions, notably Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Its predecessor Hara-Kiri publication was banned for ridiculing Charles de Gaulle’s death.
In 1970, its staff shifted to the newly introduced Charlie Hebdo (CB), continuing the same offensive style, notably its repugnant cartoons, taking shots at virtually anyone, including the Virgin Mary. Why readers find this amusing, they’ll have to explain. The publication was largely obscure before 12 staff members were killed and eight others wounded in last January’s attack on its Paris offices.
Israel Wants $5 Billion US Taxpayer Dollars Annually for Its Killing Machine
by Stephen Lendman
Former GHW Bush national security advisor Brent Scrowcroft once said former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon had GW Bush “wrapped around his little finger.”
Sharon once told his foreign minister at the time Shimon Peres: “(D)on’t worry about American pressure. We the Jewish people control America.”
In 1973, then Senate Foreign Relations Committee J. William Fulbright said “(t)he Israelis control the policy in the Congress and the Senate.” Eisenhower’s Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called it “impossible to carry out a (Middle East) foreign policy not approved by the Jews…terrific control (they) have over the news media…”
Israel Terrorizes Hebron Residents
by Stephen Lendman
Hebron is a microcosm of Israel’s war on Palestine, unrestrained state terror, at least 22 of its residents murdered by security forces since October 1 alone.
Longstanding policies protect extremist settlers, the entire Palestinian population terrorized. New restrictions imposed are more draconian than ever - a policy of belligerent apartheid.
Israel’s claim about “continu(ing) to allow as normal a fabric of life as possible for all residents” is baloney - B’Tselem calling it “a far cry from (horrific daily) reality.”
“There has been no ‘normal fabric of life’ in Hebron for many days, and the measures taken in the name of security are draconian and not dictated by reality,” it stressed.
No Matter How Well Russian Media Expose Western Lies
Eric Zuesse
Western ‘news’ media simply refuse to report the lying that’s done by Western ‘news’ media and their governments.
Western media didn’t even report — and more than a decade after the fact, they still are not reporting — that George W. Bush was lying when he 02 that the IAEA had just issued a report saying that Saddam Hussein was six months away from having a nuclear weapon — when he said this even though the IAEA repeatedly denied having ever issued such a report. (And: largely because Western mediastilldon’t report that he hadliedthere, the Gallup Poll, on 20 June 2014, found that former President George W. Bush was continuing to be well-regarded by the American public: he still had an approval rating of 53%, and only 44% of Americans disapproved of him. His approval-rating within his own Republican Party continued to be an astronomically high 88%. His failure to have acted on pre-9/11 intelligence about Al Qaeda, the massive needless bloodshed from foreign invasions, trillions of dollars wasted, millions of needless Iraqi refugees produced, tortures and ‘renditions’ in violation of international law, and the explosion of financial fraud and its resulting economic crash, all failed to cause him to be generally unpopular amongst the American people, whose nation he had actually almost wrecked. Such is the power of a constantly lying press, which claims that all these catastrophes were ‘well-intentioned’ by the ‘democratically’ ‘elected’ President.)
US Supplying ISIS with Aircraft Downing Weapons
by Stephen Lendman
On November 4, the Wall Street Journal headlined “US, Allies to Boost Aid to Syria Rebels” - aka ISIS and other takfiri terrorists, US proxy foot soldiers, imperial death squads, no so-called “moderates” among them.
The Journal stopped short of explaining it, instead saying “(s)hipments of arms (and) supplies are aimed at pressuring Assad while countering Russia (and) Iran.”
Longstanding US plans call for regime change in Syria, eliminating its independent government, replacing it with one Washington and Israel control, raping the country, balkanizing it, and exploiting its people - at the same time, creating endless violence, instability and chaos like what’s happening in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and virtually everywhere America shows up, the greatest menace to peace in world history. According to the Journal, increased weapons shipments to anti-Assad elements aim to “challenge the intervention of Russia and Iran on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, US officials and their counterparts (from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf States) in the region said.
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