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Law Teaching: First, Concerning Murder --Foreword

LAW TEACHING: FIRST, CONCERNING MURDER
                        --FOREWORD--

By Hal Womack 3-dan
http://www.myspace.com/halwomack

Absent another existing authoritative voice on the scene, I propose
shortly to expound the basic doctrine of modern world law concerning
murder, starting with by far the most egregious example thereof, to
wit, aggressive war.

The two articles cited in full below from Alexander Cockburn's
COUNTERPUNCH Website will serve as my texts in hand. HEAR or the
"Hypothetical Ever-Attentive Reader" of my articles over the last 15
years on Usenet newsgroups will be able to anticipate, say, 9/10ths of
the projected new statement.

I am publishing this preface in advance so that the gifted student may
have the chance to anticipate me, thus saving this old man the work of
composition, or at least to suggest any other juicy grapes which at
this time we should pop into our mind's mouth in addition to the
offerings from Uri Avenery and Gideon Levy. I will immediately add to
the list Mao Zedong's essay "On Revolutionary War".

Picture of Akaber Zaid:
http://tinyurl.com/yqd75d

Picture of Iman al-Hams
http://tinyurl.com/dehqxu

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#1.)
http://www.counterpunch.org/

February 2, 2009
Israeli War Crimes
Under the Black Flag

By URI AVNERY

A Spanish judge has instituted a judicial inquiry against seven
Israeli political and military personalities on suspicion of war
crimes and crimes against humanity. The case: the 2002 dropping of a
one ton bomb on the home of Hamas leader Salah Shehade. Apart from the
intended victim, 14 people, most of them children, were killed.

For those who have forgotten: the then commander of the Israeli Air
Force, Dan Halutz, was asked at the time what he feels when he drops a
bomb on a residential building. His unforgettable answer: “A slight
bump to the wing.” When we in Gush Shalom accused him of a war crime,
he demanded that we be put on trial for high treason. He was joined by
the Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, who accused us of wanting to “turn
over Israeli army officers to the enemy”. The Attorney General
notified us officially that he did not intend to open an investigation
against those responsible for the bombing.

I should be happy, therefore, that at long last somebody is ready to
put that action to a judicial test (even if he seems to have been
thwarted by political pressure.) But I am sorry that this has happened
in Spain, not in Israel.

* * *

ISRAELI TV VIEWERS have lately been exposed to a bizarre sight: army
officers appearing with their faces hidden, as usual for criminals
when the court prohibits their identification. Pedophiles, for
example, or attackers of old women.

On the orders of the military censors, this applies to all officers,
from battalion commanders down, who have been involved in the Gaza
war. Since the faces of brigade commanders and above are generally
known, the order does not apply to them.

Immediately after the cease-fire, the Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak,
promoted a special law that would give unlimited backing by the state
to all officers and soldiers who took part in the Gaza war and who
might be accused abroad of war crimes. This seems to confirm the
Hebrew adage: “On the head of the thief, the hat is burning”.

* * *

I DO NOT object to trials abroad. The main thing is that war
criminals, like pirates, should be brought to justice. It is not so
important where they are caught. (This rule was applied by the State
of Israel when it abducted Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and hanged him
in Israel for heinous crimes committed outside the territory of Israel
and, indeed, before the state even existed.)

But as an Israeli patriot, I would prefer suspected Israeli war
criminals to be put on trial in Israel. That is necessary for the
country, for all decent officers and soldiers of the Israeli army, for
the education of future generations of citizens and soldiers.

There is no need to rely on international law alone. There are Israeli
laws against war crimes. Enough to mention the immortal phrase coined
by Justice Binyamin Halevy, serving as a military judge, in the trial
of the border policemen who were responsible for the 1956 massacre in
Kafr Kassem, when dozens of children, women and men were mown down for
violating a curfew which they did not even know about.

The judge announced that even in wartime, there are orders over which
flies “the black flag of illegality”. These are orders which are
“manifestly” illegal – that is to say, orders which every normal
person can tell are illegal, without having to consult a lawyer.

War criminals dishonor the army whose uniform they wear – whether they
are generals or common soldiers. As a combat soldier on the day the
Israeli Defense Army was officially created, I am ashamed of them and
demand that they be cast out and be put on trial in Israel.

My list of suspects includes politicians, soldiers, rabbis and
lawyers.

* * *

THERE IS not the slightest doubt that in the Gaza war, crimes were
committed. The question is to what extent and by whom.

Example: the soldiers call on the residents of a house to leave it. A
woman and her four children come out, waving white handkerchiefs. It
is absolutely clear that they are not armed fighters. A soldier in a
near-by tank stands up, points his rifle and shoots them dead at short
range. According to testimonies that seem to be beyond doubt, this
happened more than once.

Another example: the shelling of the United Nations school full of
refugees, from which there was no shooting – as admitted by the army,
after the original pretexts were disproved.

These are ”simple” cases. But the spectrum of cases is far wider. A
serious judicial investigation has to start right from the top: the
politicians and senior officers who decided on the war and confirmed
its plans must be investigated about their decisions. In Nuremberg it
was laid down that the starting of a war of aggression is a crime.

An objective investigation has to find out whether the decision to
start the war was justified, or if there existed another way of
stopping the launching of rockets against Israeli territory. Without
doubt, no country can or should tolerate the bombing of its towns and
villages from beyond the border. But could this be prevented by
talking with the Gaza authorities? Was our government’s decision to
boycott Hamas, the winner of the democratic Palestinian elections, the
real cause of this war? Did the imposition of the blockade on a
million and a half Gaza Strip inhabitants contribute to the launching
of the Qassams? In brief: were the alternatives considered before it
was decided to start a deadly war?

The war plan included a massive attack on the civilian population of
the Strip. The real aims of a war can be understood less from the
official declarations of its initiators, than from their actions. If
in this war some 1300 men, women and children were killed, the great
majority of whom were not fighters; if about 5000 people were injured,
most of them children; if some 2500 homes were partly or wholly
destroyed; if the infrastructure of life was totally demolished – all
this clearly could not have happened accidentally. It must have been a
part of the war plan.

The things said during the war by politicians and officers make it
clear that the plan had at least two aims, which might be considered
war crimes: (1) To cause widespread killing and destruction, in order
to “fix a price tag”. “to burn into their consciousness”, “to
reinforce deterrence”, and most of all – to get the population to rise
up against Hamas and overthrow their government. Clearly this affects
mainly the civilian population. (2) To avoid casualties to our army at
(literally) any price by destroying any building and killing any human
being in the area into which our troops were about to move, including
destroying homes over the heads of their inhabitants, preventing
medical teams from reaching the victims, killing people
indiscriminately. In certain cases, inhabitants were warned that they
must flee, but this was mainly an alibi-action: there was nowhere to
flee to, and often fire was opened on people trying to escape.

An independent court will have to decide whether such a war-plan is in
accordance with national and international law, or whether it was ab
initio a crime against humanity and a war-crime.

This was a war of a regular army with huge capabilities against a
guerrilla force. In such a war, too, not everything is permissible.
Arguments like “The Hamas terrorists were hiding within the civilian
population” and “They used the population as human shields” may be
effective as propaganda but are irrelevant: that is true for every
guerrilla war. It must be taken into account when a decision to start
such a war is being considered.

In a democratic state, the military takes its orders from the
political establishment. Good. But that does not include “manifestly”
illegal orders, over which the black flag of illegality is waving.
Since the Nuremberg trials, there is no more room for the excuse that
“I was only obeying orders”.

Therefore, the personal responsibility of all involved - from the
Chief of Staff, the Front Commander and the Division Commander right
down to the last soldier - must be examined. From the statements of
soldiers one must deduce that many believed that their job was “to
kill as many Arabs as possible”. Meaning: no distinction between
fighters and non-fighters. That is a completely illegal order, whether
given explicitly or by a wink and a nudge. The soldiers understood
this to be “the spirit of the commander”.

* * *

AMONG THOSE suspected of war crimes, the rabbis have a place of honor.

Those who incite to war crimes and call upon soldiers, directly or
indirectly, to commit war crimes may be guilty of a war crime
themselves.

When one speaks of “rabbis”, one thinks of old men with long white
beards and big hats, who give tongue to venerable wisdom. But the
rabbis who accompanied the troops are a very different species.

In the last decades, the state-financed religious educational system
has churned out “rabbis” who are more like medieval Christian priests
than the Jewish sages of Poland or Morocco. This system indoctrinates
its pupils with a violent tribal cult, totally ethnocentric, which
sees in the whole of world history nothing but an endless story of
Jewish victimhood. This is a religion of a Chosen People, indifferent
to others, a religion without compassion for anyone who is not Jewish,
which glorifies the God-decreed genocide described in the Biblical
book of Joshua.

The products of this education are now the “rabbis” who instruct the
religious youths.  With their encouragement, a systematic effort has
been made to take over the Israeli army from within. Kippa-wearing
officers have replaced the Kibbutzniks, who not so long ago were
dominant in the army. Many of the lower and middle-ranking officers
now belong to this group.

The most outstanding example is the “Chief Army Rabbi”, Colonel
Avichai Ronsky, who has declared that his job is to reinforce the
“fighting spirit” of the soldiers. He is a man of the extreme right,
not far from the spirit of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose party was
outlawed in Israel for its fascist ideology. Under the auspices of the
army rabbinate, religious-fascist brochures of the ultra-right
“rabbis” were distributed to the soldiers.

This material includes political incitement, such as the statement
that the Jewish religion prohibits “giving up even one millimeter of
Eretz Israel”, that the Palestinians, like the Biblical Philistines
(from whom the name Palestine derives), are a foreign people who
invaded the country, and that any compromise (such as indicated in the
official government program) is a mortal sin. The distribution of
political propaganda violates, of course, army law.

The rabbis openly called upon the soldiers to be cruel and merciless
towards the Arabs. To treat them mercifully, they stated, is a
“terrible, awful immorality”. When such material is distributed to
religious soldiers going into war, it is easy to see why things
happened the way they did.

* * *

THE PLANNERS of this war knew that the shadow of war crimes was
hovering over the planned operation. Witness: the Attorney General
(whose official title is “Legal Advisor to the Government”) was a
partner to the planning. This week the Chief Army Attorney, Colonel
Avichai Mandelblut, disclosed that his officers were attached
throughout the war to all the commanders, from the Chief of Staff down
to the Division Commander.

All this together leads to the inescapable conclusion that the legal
advisors bear direct responsibility for the decisions taken and
implemented, from the massacre of the civilian police recruits at
their graduating ceremony to the shelling of the UN installations.
Every attorney who was a partner to the deliberations before an order
was given is responsible for its consequences, unless he can prove
that he objected to it.

The Chief Army Attorney, who is supposed to give the army professional
and objective advice, speaks about “the monstrous enemy” and tries to
justify the actions of the army by saying that it was fighting against
“an unbridled enemy, who declared that he ‘loves death’ and finds
shelter behind the backs of women and children”. Such language is,
perhaps, pardonable in a pep-talk of a war-drunk combat commander,
like the battalion chief who ordered his soldiers to commit suicide
rather than be captured, but totally unacceptable when it comes from
the chief legal officer of the army.

* * *

WE MUST pursue all the legal processes in Israel and call for an
independent investigation and the indictment of suspected
perpetrators. We must demand this even if the chances of it happening
are slim indeed.

If these efforts fail, nobody will be able to object to trials abroad,
either in an international court or in the courts of those nations
that respect human rights and international law.

Until then, the black flag will still be waving.

Uri Avnery is an Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom.
He is a contributor to CounterPunch's book The Politics of Anti-
Semitism.

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#2.)

http://www.counterpunch.org/levy03272006.html

March 27, 2006

The Shooting of Little Akaber

Are We Done Killing Children, Yet?

By GIDEON LEVY

A bullet in the head from a distance of a few meters, fired suddenly
and without warning shots aimed at the wheels, which the Israel
Defense Forces claims there were. This is the way undercover soldiers
from the Border Police killed Akaber Zaid, an eight-and-a-half year-
old, who was on her way to the doctor, according to her uncle, who was
with her and was also wounded.

Little Akaber was going to the doctor and he did indeed see her, but
there was no longer a reason for him to do so. She had been on the way
to have him remove stitches from her chin, but instead arrived dead at
the same doctor's office, with her head smashed and her skull gaping.

Soldiers from the Border Police's undercover unit, known by the Hebrew
acronym Yamas, shot at her uncle's taxi at close range as he was
parking the vehicle next to the doctor's office. All the soldiers'
claims, as presented to the media by the IDF, to the effect that they
had shot at the taxi's wheels in accordance with the "regulations for
arresting a suspect," were nothing but lies, says the girl's uncle,
who was sitting next to her.

The car was sprayed from the right and from behind with bullets, which
entered through its windows. The shots were fired from just a few
meters away, the uncle stresses, in the light of a street lamp.

We saw the taxi this week: All its wheels are intact. However, those
who carried out the "investigations" on behalf of the IDF and the
Border Police did not even bother to examine the vehicle, or to
question the man who had driven it. He was also wounded and is
hospitalized.

We also took testimony from him and could not find a single fact on
the ground that contradicts what he reports: The undercover soldiers
shot at the girl from two directions, from nearby and, the uncle says,
without warning. No soldier with a gun, certainly not an expert
sharpshooter from the Yamas, would aim at close range at wheels and
hit someone in the head instead.

Down the road, hundreds of meters from the shooting, are the remaining
signs of the destruction wreaked by the Border Police. Not one wanted
man was detained, but a five-story apartment block was badly damaged
and there are wrecks of cars that were completely crushed, one after
the other, still standing in the street.

Why did the undercover soldiers shoot at a young girl? How could they
dare claim they aimed at the wheels? Why did they have to shoot at
innocent people in a taxi in the first place? Why did they wreak such
havoc? Why did they crush vehicles that were the last source of income
for their owners? What is the difference between this action on the
soldiers' part and a terrorist attack? And why are these questions not
being asked?

The father did not accompany his daughter to Dr. Samara. He said he
could not bear to see the doctor removing the stitches from her little
chin. Akaber was a second-grade pupil from the village of Al-Yamoun,
northwest of Jenin. In her picture from kindergarten, she can be seen
wearing a square black graduation cap, like those worn by university
graduates and people receiving doctorates. That is the custom in the
Al-Yamoun kindergarten: The children who excel are photographed with
the special hat. That is how she will remain in the collective
consciousness of that town, whose sons once worked in Israel.

Akaber is not the first girl they are burying. How many children were
killed in Al-Yamoun in the past few years? The school principal, who
came to pay his condolences to the family, begins to list them, one by
one, but stops suddenly and asks: "Why should I count them? Are we
finished having our children killed?"

The father enters the mourners' room in the local council building,
his eyes red with crying. Abdel Rahman Zaid, 31, the father of six,
drives a commercial van that travels in the West Bank, when possible.
About three weeks ago, Akaber fell on the stairs in her house and hurt
her chin. Last Friday it was time to remove the stitches.

When Abdel Rahman returned from work, he asked his brother Kamal--a 27-
year-old taxi driver, whom he calls Hamoudi--to go with Akaber to the
doctor's house on the hill, where he has his office. It was Friday
night, the last night of her life. His brother took the girl and she
sat beside him in the passenger seat. The father stresses that the
taxi's windows were transparent; there were no curtains covering them
or hiding the passengers. Any soldier could see the occupants, any
soldier from the Yamas could see that there was a small girl with a
braid sitting there.

The two left for the doctor's and soon reached his street. From his
bed in the government hospital in Jenin, his wounded hand in a
bandage, Kamal relates that after parking, he suddenly noticed some
soldiers to the right of the car. It is a narrow road and they were
standing barely a few meters away. He says they began firing
immediately, from the right and from behind. Only after that did he
hear shouting in Hebrew, which he does not speak. Little Akaber was
already lying on the seat with her head smashed.

Kamal lifted her up in his arms; the soldiers instructed him to leave
her on the road. Thus, they remained on the road--the dead girl and
her wounded uncle.

The Yamas soldiers ordered him to stand, to lift up his shirt and then
to sit back down. They continued to shoot in the air, Kamal says. A
neighbor took the girl to the doctor who was expecting her. From there
she was taken to the hospital in Jenin where her death was confirmed.

The uncle's arm was bandaged on the spot and he was taken by military
Jeep for interrogation. He says the soldiers beat him. There was a dog
in the vehicle, who sniffed him, and a soldier called Raslan who, he
says, hit him in the head when he spoke Arabic. Kamal took three
bullets in the arm and leg. He says seven bullets hit the girl, three
of them in her head.

The yellow Renault taxi tells the story: Its wheels are intact, but
its body is riddled with bullet holes. The back window is shattered,
and there are bullet holes in the back head rest and in its sides.
There are blood stains everywhere, the blood of the dead girl and her
wounded uncle. All this time, they hid her death from her father.
Abdel Rahman had heard the shots--the doctor's office is not far from
their house--but he never thought of his daughter somehow, only of his
brother. He went to the doctor's office and there they told him that
Akaber had been wounded. The doctor injected him with a sedative, and
he says he did not wake up until morning. Only when he awoke and went
home, at about 5 A.M., did his other brother break the bad news. His
wife already knew: She heard the news on an Arabic-language TV
station.

Through his tears, the father wants to tell us something: The girl's
mother, Ikram, was born in Israel. Akaber was also Israeli. She was
born in a Nazareth hospital and has an Israeli birth certificate. She
was buried in the Al-Yamoun cemetery on Saturday morning.

The IDF Spokesman: "On March 17, while a special forces unit of the
Border Police was engaged in arresting wanted men in the village of Al-
Yamoun, northwest of Jenin, the unit surrounded an area in which there
was a suspicion that wanted men were hiding. During the operation, the
force saw a taxi that seemed suspicious approaching the area and began
the procedure of arresting a suspect. When it failed to heed the
soldiers' calls, they opened fire in the direction of the taxi."

Does anyone think the uncle would not have heeded the calls to stop if
indeed the soldiers had called out? The man was taking his little
niece to the doctor. The army announced merely that "the IDF regrets
harming the Palestinian girl and is conducting a comprehensive
examination of the circumstances of the event."

The scene of the destruction: A Palestinian bulldozer removed the
wreckage next to the Zaid family's house on Sunday. A five-story
building, which the soldiers suspected was housing wanted men, has
been partially destroyed. The family members are now covering the huge
holes in it with gray bricks, and its elegant columns are in danger of
collapsing. In the yard below are the other wrecked cars: a yellow
Mercedes taxi, a white Subaru, and another few pieces of metal that
were once cars.

Mohammed Zaid, who owns one of the apartments, emerges from the
debris: "This is the Jewish army--this is the bad Jewish army," shouts
his uncle who is with him. Mohammed recalls that at about seven on
Friday night, he saw another group of soldiers outside his grocery
shop. They demanded that he tell all the residents to leave the
building.

There are five large families--families of a lawyer, a doctor, an
engineer, a teacher--living in the five stories. All the tenants went
out into the street and had to wait there until morning--dozens of
children, women and men--until the soldiers finished their work.

Mohammed says that the women and children acted as a barrier between
the area where people were shooting at the soldiers, from one house,
and the area where the Border Police was returning fire. When the
building had been evacuated, they sent Mohammed to turn the lights on
in all the rooms to see if someone was still there.

An IDF bulldozer was ready to tear the structure down. Mohammed says
he suggested the soldiers accompany him to see that no one was left
inside, but they shut him up, saying, "We know what work we have to
do."

Around midnight, the bulldozer started tearing things down. The house
across the street was also damaged.

Mohammed says he asked an officer: "Does Israeli law permit you to do
this?" The officer said, according to Mohammed: "Go and complain at
the UN."

Mohammed's brother, a dentist, whose clinic was completely destroyed,
tried to tell an officer that he was a doctor "for humans," and the
officer replied: "Shut up."

Mohammed was taken for interrogation at the Salem facility and was
released only on Saturday at noon. He says he told his interrogator:
"On TV, you say you are a democracy." The interrogator replied:
"Democracy is only for the TV."

Mohammed, a teacher, says: "I always tell my pupils that we like
peace. What will I tell them now? That this is what peace looks like?"

We go to the top of the hill where Akaber was killed. A sign points
the way to Dr. Samara's clinic. Someone has placed a row of little
stones on the road where the taxi stood, to mark where the little body
was. The bloodstains have not yet been wiped away.

From an old elections poster, Yasser Arafat's picture looks down on
this makeshift memorial to Akaber.

Gideon Levy writes for Ha'aretz.
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END OF NEW MATERIAL

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My Hot Lynx:

1.) Flying TrapezeAerial Voltige
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPWJc8sLhjo

2.) Capoeira Samba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mf_PTB8juc

3.) Mahalia Jackson sings Gospel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGkXB_unAW4&NR=1

4.) Kali Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOmm1AglUc&NR=1

5.) Get Your Kix With Pele
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QEmnP48PEc

6.) Old Folks' Music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJnoMP1Uyc

7.) Five Minutes With Fernando Botero @ Abu Ghraib
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoleMx-sxqQ

8.) Tahitian Dance -- Corinne
http://tinyurl.com/7mmlg8

9.) Joe Biden, "I am a Zionist."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmD0G2iASk0

10.) Today In Palestine [click on last valid date in rightside
calendar panel]:
http://www.theheadlines.org/08/28-08-08.shtml

11.) Paul Robeson Sings "Old Man River"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRiZiVvdX4g

12.) Martial Law USA?
9.5' video from Global Research
http://tinyurl.com/629yoh

13.) Danca Brasil Samba Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THk5GB3JYG4

14.) 4 IRANIAN NEWS SOURCES:
http://www.tehrantimes.com/
http://www2.irna.ir/en/
http://www.parstimes.com/media/iran/
http://www.presstv.ir/default.aspx

15.) Ladysmith Black Mambazo does "Homeless"
http://tinyurl.com/5oo359

16.) Street Drummer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjyQkrE8Mok&NR=1
--or http://tinyurl.com/6zmp5r

17.) African Choral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSl4w1ilw8s

18.) LONG KISS GOODNIGHT [movie 1996]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/

19.) "Amazing Grace" sung in Cherokee on You Tube:
http://tinyurl.com/6r7snl                OR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvYIjFtPQEk

20.) _Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand
Years_ (1994) by Israel Shahak
http://tinyurl.com/8gaoac

21.) Six Brazilian Chorus Girls
http://tinyurl.com/8wyey8

22.) The late George Carlin sings Ron Paul:
http://tinyurl.com/2lzxdt

23.) The 9/11 Lie (video):
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/333.html

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fiveisraelis.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h3P7POHnJc

24.) "Under the Boardwalk" (1964) by The Drifters.
http://tinyurl.com/6nby9x

25.) "Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding.
http://tinyurl.com/5zk4n4

26.) Kobe Bryant in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXZY4eVLlo

27.) Abir Aramin, age 9, murdered by the Jews*
on Tuesday, January 16, 2007, her picture:
http://tinyurl.com/2l6ogh
An Israeli mother, a Jewess, comments on the story:
http://tinyurl.com/3amvos

* Thus plain speech and accurate English, in the same sense that we
have long been wont truly to say that in the 1930's
the Japanese invaded China; on 22 June 1941, the Germans
invaded Russia (then styled the USSR) and in later decades the
Americans have attacked Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, the
Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Grenada,
Panama, Serbia, Iraq and and Afghanistan (partial list), murdering
more than ten million people in the last twenty years alone.
Because of the long-noted peculiar nature of the distributed
nationality of world Jewry,
the ins & outs of this most grave accusation against them bear
extended discussion so that we, the normal alias "gentile" rainbow
righteous Seven Billion of Earth, may achieve a clear understanding of
the character of the doomed tyranny --sometimes called, among other
names,
"JAT" for Jewish-American T.--   which presently oppresses us. Despite
the opprobrium of the sister term "self-righteous",
'tis of the greatest importance IMHO for those who do stand for
justice to develop a sense of self-awareness and a firm grasp of the
vital distinction between ourselves vs. the imperial criminals,
addicted as they are to waging aggressive war.
Those last two fatal words mean mass murder, torture, industrial-
strength lies aka "mainstream news media" and
robbery on a planetary scale. Each of us should meditate regularly on
individual cases of our choice --for example,
those of Iman al-Hams, Akaber Zaid, Abir Aramin and Rachel Corrie-- in
order to prepare ourselves for the intellectual exercise of
multiplying by the necessary factor of millions
the fate of any one given victim. Such preparation will provide us
with the motive for constructing the essential hierarchy
of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Earth.
Many inspiring examples in history remind us that
yagotta have somebody to beat anybody. We Americans (here to speak of
my own nation) have the duty and the opportunity to learn from the
successes of Presidents Hugo Chavez, Nelson Mandela, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa, Fernando Lugo and Hizbullah
Secretary-General
Hassan Nasrallah, among others.

	Will we learn to save time by using positive grammar to the max? Thus
to transform a Jewish proverb, she who can endure the evil will live
to see glory. Let our watchwords be: Save life! Live and let live.
Friendly competition. Mercy* to all criminals, even the Bushes,
Clintons and Obama meaning, of course, that first we put them at our
mercy.
From dissent and protest to popular accord, from tail-chasing
"activism" to vast vision to sound strategy to bold action to
victory!
{Results 1 - 10 of about 398,000 for German invasion of Russia.}
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28.) http://www.rafahtoday.org/

29.) "What A Wonderful World!" -- Louis Armstrong
http://tinyurl.com/2f2ls7
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30.) Here's the link to what I wrote on the eve of SonnaBush's
(fronting for Aerial Shaboom) invasion of Iraq:
http://tinyurl.com/2xcvdo

(The tag end of the piece was stuck on rather roughly by the HANDSTAND
editor & could profit from a bit of pruning.)

If any reader can find another article from that critical moment which
has better stood the test of time, will she please be so kind as to
tell me about it?
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31.) February 7, 2008
"It's the Real Thing:
Hugo Chávez's Coca"

By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF

http://tinyurl.com/ywjauf
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32.) For Susan Abulhawa's new novel of Palestine, SCAR OF DAVID (2006)
http://tinyurl.com/2n77bo
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33.) http://www.americanfreepress.net/

FINAL JUDGMENT by Michael Collins Piper, first published in 1994 and
now in its 6th edition, lays out the Jewish background to the JFK hit
in >600 fascinating pages (which badly need editing, evenso --attn:
M&W).

(See the AFP site above also for the moving letter of 29 November 2006
from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, directly addressed to
"Noble Americans" --maybe your local jewspaper forgot to pass it along
to you?)

On the AFP site linked above I just now (Tuesday 071211)
found the following Michael More out-take from Sicko about a certain
northern country:
http://tinyurl.com/23zgxu

34.) The leading U.S. academic expert on foreign policy = the author
James Petras, friend of Fidel Castro, of President
Hugo Chavez and of FARC.
http://petras.lahaine.org/
_Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power_ (Paperback)
by James Petras
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35.)
Five Principal Joojingo or "JJ" resources:
1.  http://www.aipac.org/
2. The Bronfmen @ http://www.acbp.net/
3. http://www.jinsa.org/
4. http://www.adl.org/
5. http://www.hasbara.co.il/

Four Righteous Jewish Antidotes:
1. http://www.ostrovskyfineart.com/index.htm
2. http://www.nkusa.org/index.cfm
3. http://www.israelshamir.net/
4. http://tinyurl.com/3c9jm8
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36.) US Alliance Afghan Genocide -
Six Million Excess Deaths?

By Dr Gideon Polya

08 November, 2007 Countercurrents.org

http://tinyurl.com/36ylq2
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37.) All rise,
This clip was the first time I ever saw Marvin Gaye perform. The word
in my mind = "composure".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A
http://www.counterpunch.org/dolby04032007.html

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38.) Kidz Today:
A) Iron Maiden The Trooper By Gauchos
http://tinyurl.com/8mj8nx
B) The Impeach Bush Club Parade
http://tinyurl.com/88lnb9
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39.) A valuable but erratic site:
http://www.counterpunch.org/

40.) Flag of USrael:
http://www.nogw.com/images/inminds.jpg

41.) Jews murder 34 US sailors in 1967 in order
to show Pentagon brass who's running the show
after the ride through Dealey Plaza fours years before:
http://www.ussliberty.org/

42.) World Heroines of the Third Millennium AD:
http://www.aztlan.net/women_martyrs.htm

43.) http://www.jewwatch.com/

44.) http://www.zundelsite.org/

45.) http://margaritaville.com/
[cartoon panel]
http://tinyurl.com/2kyyc9
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46.) "Culture of Life News":
http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/
47.) http://peyote.com/gardening-pictures/peyote.jpg
48.) Hero of the Twentieth Century:
http://tinyurl.com/3dlhhb

49.) http://www.currentissues.tv/

50.) Excellent 1997 documentary showing Billary burning
down American rainbow Protestants in their own Texas home: http://www.waco93.com/

51.) ("Nadine Eats Pizza in Ramallah")
http://www.israelshamir.net/Contributors/Contributor47.htm

52.) The picture of Akaber Zaid
http://tinyurl.com/yqd75d
and the story from the then leading writer HA'ARETZ of her murder by
the Jews:
http://www.counterpunch.org/levy03272006.html

http://vcnv.org/
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=1
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=491
Nadine Fernández Samba-Oriental with Drum Solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPNc1ywgbkU&NR=1
Nadine Fernández does Tribal Fusion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLhabHB52Bg
Bharatanatyam Bharatnatyam Indian dance
http://tinyurl.com/5cl88n
Paris Hilton answers McCain:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
http://www.rense.com/1.imagesD/dbaby4.jpg
http://www.nelsonmandela.org/
http://www.parnasse.com/gaia.jpg
http://www.sf911truth.org/
http://www.documentaryphotographs.com/
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://www.aztlan.net/
http://www.valleyofthewolvesiraq.com/high/main.html
http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/index.php
http://antiwar.com/
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.al-awda.org/
http://www.imemc.org/
http://www.vcnv.org/
http://www.ziopedia.org/content/view/3301/58/
http://www.cnionline.org/
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=
http://www.honestmediatoday.com/index.htm
http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
http://www.thankyoult.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
http://www.deiryassin.org/index1.html
http://www.marwenmedia.com/index.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
http://www.vho.org/   = Germar Rudolph
http://www.malaysiasun.com/
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
http://tinyurl.com/yt4tym ("Let It Be!")
Feline Fine (MHL):
http://tinyurl.com/8xmwlt

http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com/
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,150 for "free your mind, the rest will
follow".
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All sincere comments on this list are welcome; some links will blink
out, necessitating updating, so will you please email me when you find
one such? Last list (partial) review = Sunday 090104.

Protocol: Top posting in follow-ups 'cause that way makes most sense
to me
and placing the reply at the bottom of the thread as it appears on my
Google newsreader. BTW does some friendly expert want to recommend a
better newsreader aka Usenet access tool,
especially for posting, then I'm all ear.
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