Stephen Lendman

Israel is above the law. It's exempt for observing rule of law principles. It's free to rampage extrajudicially. It kills and kills again. It does so with impunity. It justifies lawlessness the old-fashioned way. It lies. It's standard Israeli practice. It calls legitimate self-defense "terrorism." It calls acts of aggression "self-defense." It calls nonviolent Palestinian men, women, children, infants, the elderly and infirm existential threats. Israel's only ones are those it invents.

World leaders able to act responsibly do nothing. They support Israel's worst crimes. Doing so makes them complicit. Washington is worst of all. Both countries partner in crime. America supplies billions of dollars in annual aid, the latest weapons and technology, and unconditional support.

Media scoundrels turn a blind eye to Israel's worst crimes. Occupation harshness is ignored. Besieged Gazans don't matter. NAKBA mass slaughter and displacement never happened. Lawless settlements are OK. Israel is more victim than aggressor. Palestinians choose conflict over peace. They're responsible for their own misery. Daily Israeli security force violence goes unreported. So do settler crimes. Peace process pretense is legitimate. Police state Israel is the region's only democracy. It's an oasis in a sea of despotism.

It's rap sheet includes horrendous crimes of war, against humanity and genocide. It's a malignancy in a troubled region. It's a threat to humanity. Zionism is "a machine for the manufacture of human rights abuses," says Joel Kovel. State-terror is official Israeli policy. So is torture. Numerous other abuses are standard practice.

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Rebel of Oz

One question many people in the pro-Palestinian movement fail to understand is what motivates their Jewish fellow activists. Is it a sense of justice and fairness that's supposedly shared by all human beings? Is it a wish – for whatever reason – to prevent non-Jews from thinking that all Jews condone the appalling treatment of the Palestinians by their Israeli coreligionists? Or are they secretly trying to sabotage the movement, to render it utterly ineffective or at least minimise the damage for the Zionists?

One way to establish which explanation is closest to the truth is by analysing the roots, symptoms, causes and possible remedies of the Palestine conflict and the attitude of Jewish pro-Palestinian activists towards them.

Roots of the Palestine conflict

As anything to do with the Palestine conflict even its roots are contentious. About 100 years ago, European Jews with no ancestral roots in the Middle-Eastern region started settling in Palestine under the false pretense of returning to the ancient homeland of the Jews.

90-95% of modern Jews, the Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi, are the descendants of Mongolian-Turk Khazars who invaded Europe as part of Attila’s horde and their Eastern Gothic rape victims. They converted from their ancestral phallus cult to Judaism 200 years after settling in the region of today’s Southern Russia and Ukraine, a commercially motivated move that allowed them to trade with both their Muslim and Christian neighbours.[1]

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Stephen Lendman

On Friday, Obama addressed sweeping NSA mass surveillance. He defended the worst of police state lawlessness. He [says he] believes privacy invasion intrusiveness should comfort us. He lied claiming it makes us safer. How does destroying civil liberties protect them?

How does violating core Bill of Rights protections do it? How does trashing all rule of law principles? How does turning America into a police state? How do sweeping surveillance practices greater than anything before possible? How does letting NSA operate as a power unto itself? It's an unrestrained lawbreaker. Imagine Obama calling "(t)he folks at the NSA...our neighbors."

Imagine saying "they're our friends and family." Imagine claiming "(o)ur intelligence community follows the law..." Imagine saying NSA officials and staff are "patriots." One lie followed another throughout his address. They constitute a gross abuse of power. So do his lawless policies.

He never once mentioned his responsibility to respect international, constitutional and US statute laws. He never once admitted how egregiously he violates them. He never once explained how his policies are heading America for full-blown tyranny. He never once acknowledged his war on humanity.

He fronts for monied interests that own him. His entire tenure fails the smell test. He lied saying "US intelligence agencies (are) anchored in a system of checks and balances - with oversight from elected leaders, and protections for ordinary citizens." He lied claiming mass surveillance "prevented multiple attacks and saved lives - not just here in the United States, but around the globe."

Fact check: NSA domestic and foreign spying discovered ZERO terrorist threats. It foiled ZERO terrorist attacks. Claiming otherwise is false! Doing so is a bald-faced lie! Obama lied claiming federal courts and congressional oversight curbed "some of the worst excesses that emerged after 9/11..." He lied saying he "maintained a healthy skepticism toward our surveillance programs after (he) became president." He approved the worst of what's ongoing. He wants it continued. He wants it intensified. He wants nothing escaping NSA's spying eye. He wants it able to monitor everyone, everywhere, all the time. He wants America's fake war on terror continued. It's a war on freedom. It reflects the worst of police state lawlessness.

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