Iran Top Backer

 

By: Abeer Ayyoub for Al-Monitor. posted on January 9.

As far as the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, are concerned, 2012 was their golden year. For the first time, it managed to use qualitative weapons that seemingly altered the pace of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 

Often taking a backseat to Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassem Brigades, Islamic Jihad’s fighters have become a key component of Gaza’s defense, proving their improved capabilities in Israel’s latest Pillar of Defense.

 

Abu Ahmad, Al-Quds Brigades spokesperson, referred to the four years between the Israeli assault on Gaza in 2008-2009 and the most recent in November 2012 as the reason behind the progress. Islamic Jihad fighters intensified their training following Israel’s war on Gaza in 2008-2009, including receiving a significant upgrade to its weapons capabilities and logistical support from foreign friends, most notably Iran.

 

“The last assault was such a fruitful experience for us; it was such a practical training that obviously proved we have developed,” he told Al-Monitor.

 

Much of Islamic Jihad’s military improvements can be attributed to support in recent years from Iran and Syria, according to Mukhaymar abu Sa’ada, political analyst and lecturer at Al-Azhar University.

“The armed wing of the Islamic Jihad has been receiving Iranian and Syrian support recently, which allowed it to have a marked precedence on the ground,” he said.

 

Abu Ahmad confirmed that Iran remains Islamic Jihad’s main supporter, but added that there were other minor foreign contributors which he refused to disclose. Iranian support was not a choice for Islamic Jihad, Abu Ahmad stressed, as Tehran was the only foreign state willing to support the Palestinian resistance.

 

“We are not the only Palestinian armed group that receives an Iranian support, but we are the one that admits it the loudest. We feel it’s like an inevitable gratitude,” he told Al-Monitor.

“I wonder why Iranian support for Palestinian armed groups is not acceptable as we are the victims, while the American support for Israel is acceptable despite Israel being the aggressor,” he added.

Islamic Jihad has been receiving Iranian backing since it was founded in the 1970s. The support is not only limited to military aid, Tehran also sponsors families of Islamic Jihad prisoners and injured fighters of the faction.

 

Hamas’ strained ties with the Islamic Republic over the Syrian crisis have not hindered Islamic Jihad’s relationship with Tehran, and thus, Iran’s ability to influence Palestinian affairs in the Gaza Strip.

 

The benefits of its close ties to Iran were revealed in Islamic Jihad’s improved performance in the latest confrontation with Israel.

 

Islamic Jihad was the first to fire long-range rockets at Tel Aviv in the latest round, and in the view of abu Sa’ada, has moved to the top of the military brass out of all the armed groups in Gaza.

 

Details released last week on Al-Quds Brigades website revealed that it lost 31 fighters, fired 933 rockets, killed 3 Israelis and wounded tens more in the latest conflict with Israel.

It also demonstrated its newly improved cyber capabilities, succeeding for the first time to hack the cell phones of more than 5,000 Israeli soldiers, sending threatening text messages in Hebrew in what the armed wing termed the “War of Nerves.”

 

Al-Quds Brigades boast a force of thousands of fighters who work according to different tasks. Fighters do not usually operate together on the field unless there is an Israeli ground invasion, like in the 2008-09 war. During the Pillar of Defense, Islamic Jihad only deployed its rocket unit.

Since the cease-fire was implemented in November, Israel has committed continued violations, including shooting at farmers near the border and arresting fishermen almost on a daily basis. But, like Hamas, Islamic Jihad says it is committed to respecting the cease-fire, and played a major role in Egypt’s mediation efforts.

 

Abu Ahmad said that his faction insisted on having the item of “right of response” included in the cease-fire deal, and warned that his movement will not stand idle should Israeli violations continue.

“There’s an Egyptian committee that’s tracking the cease-fire, Israeli violations and our commitment, but if Israel crosses the red line, we will certainly respond,” he warned.

 

In an ominous sign of the fragility of Hamas’ ability to restrain Palestinian factions, Abu Ahmad stressed that his faction reserves the right to respond to any Israeli attack without consulting Hamas, citing an “agreement that was previously made to respond to any serious Israeli violation.”

 

The two armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad are, for the time being, coordinating to maintain the cease-fire, but their fighters rarely cooperate on the ground when violence flares.

Islamic Jihad sustained some damage to its infrastructure in the latest Israeli attack, but most was unscathed. Improving its military infrastructure and ability to hide its weapon storage facilities from Israel is one of the main objectives for Islamic Jihad following Pillar of Defense.

 

“Every offensive Israel wages on Gaza is usually harder than the previous. This is why we are focusing now to strengthen our infrastructure and to store more weapons,” Abu Ahmad said.

Al-Quds Brigades has also recently began producing its weapons locally due to the increasing challenges of smuggling weapons through the Gaza tunnels that cross into Egypt. It is also much easier to receive financial support to produce the necessary weapons at home, with blueprints supplied.

 

“Our local rockets proved their high level of proficiency, especially in the latest round of the battle,” Abu Ahmad said.

 

While headlines around the world have largely credited Hamas with achieving a new balance with Israel, it cannot be undernoted that the actions of Islamic Jihad have significantly contributed to the new reality on the ground.

 

Abeer Ayyoub graduated form the Islamic University of Gaza with a BA in English literature. She is a former human rights researcher turned journalist whose work has appeared in Al Masry Al-Youm, The Daily Mirror, and Haaretz.

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Imam Salahuddin Abu arafa on Mayadeen: frankness and openness speech about the war on Gaza

الإمام صلاح الدين، على قناة الميادين، خطاب المصارحة والمكاشفة عن الحرب على غزة

 

 

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Crime of the Century

Crime of the Century 

 

HRW Double Standards: Gaza Rockets at Zionist Entity Violate War Laws

Local Editor

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip “violated the laws of war” by firing rockets at populated areas in the Zionist Entity during the eight-day war last month, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

Citing Zionist army figures, HRW said that approximately “1,500 rockets were fired at Israel between November 14 and 21,” of which “at least 800 struck Israel, including 60 that hit populated areas.”
These attacks “killed three Israelis, wounded at least 38, several seriously, and destroyed civilian property,” HRW said, noting that there were also rockets fired from Gaza “that fell short of their intended targets in Israel apparently killed at least two Palestinians”.”Palestinian armed groups made clear in their statem
ents that harming civilians was their aim,” Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

HRW rejected claims by the armed wings of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committee that their targeting of Israeli civilians was a legitimate “reprisal for Israeli attacks that killed civilians in Gaza”.

“There is simply no legal justification for launching rockets at populated areas.”

Last week, HRW said Zionist Entity’s attacks on media facilities and journalists in Gaza also violated the laws of war. But the organization didn’t mention the bombing of the Palestinian civil infrastructure and houses in Gaza.

191 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed during that fighting. Most of the Palestinian fatalities were civilians, although Israel says 30 senior militants were among the dead. Four of the Israelis killed by rocket strikes were civilians, and two were soldiers.

HRW said that under the laws of war, “civilians and civilian structures may not be subject to deliberate attacks or attacks that do not discriminate between civilians and military targets.”

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"The US is concerned about the situation of the Palestinian refugees….. (Inhaaaale) … in Syria"

Via FLC

‘Gaza, time after time .. after time!’

It’s beyond repulsive. Reminder: During the United Nations Security Council debate on Palestinian statehood, the US stood in the way of a vote for Palestinian self-determination, and sided for the 41st times with ‘criminal state’ Israel against Arabs and mostly Palestinians!

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Zionist Entity Indicts Palestinian Man for Tel Aviv Bus Attack

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18-year-old Mohammad Mafarja was indicted Wednesday for planting the bomb on a bus in Tel Aviv, which wounded 29 people at the height of last month’s eight-day conflict between “Israel” and the Gaza Strip, AFP reported.

In a hearing at Tel Aviv Magistrates Court, the Palestinian young man, who lives in Taibe village in the occupied territories, was charged with “aiding the enemy during war, dozens of counts of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit a crime, causing an explosion and wounding dozens of people”.

According to the charge sheet, “Mafarja got on a Tel Aviv bus on November 21 and placed a bomb there which was activated after he got off, with his accomplice Ahmad Moussa using a cell phone to remotely trigger the blast.”

The Tel Aviv district attorney’s office said that “the two had decided to stand by Gaza and avenge the death of (Hamas military commander) Ahmad Jaabari.”

“They therefore decided to aid Hamas and attack innocent Israelis,” he further considered.

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Israel: Gazan are punished for their ties with Iran

 

Posted on December 14, 2012 |

Evelyn Gordon, a US-Israel journalist and fellow at the New York-based Israeli advocacy group, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), published an article on December 12, 2012 admitting that Israel’s recent Operation Pillar of Defense was meant to test its Arab neighbors’ and American reaction to a future Israeli wars with Iran or its allies, Hizballah, Hamas or Syria. Evelyn has lived in Israel since 1987 and writes for daily Ha’aretz and US Commentary magazine.

“Operation Pillar of Defense clearly enhanced Israel’s deterrence against a much more important enemy – Iran. The operation demonstrated two important things, neither of which was self-evident beforehand. One is that even in the post-Arab Spring world, Israel can conduct military operations without igniting its southern front or shattering its peace with Egypt. The other is that for all the disagreements between Netanyahu and President Barack Obama on other issues, America’s traditional support for Israel’s right to defend itself takes precedence. Both of these are crucial to maintaining a credible Israeli military option against Iran“.

Last month, the Chief Rabbi of Britain, Lord Sack, also said on BBC that Israeli attack on Gaza was “to do with Iran“.

As far the Morsi-Hillary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is concerned – Gordon says that 88% of Israeli Jews believe the truce will not last long. Benji Netanyahu while visiting an airbase shortly after the cease-fire took effect, warned pilots they should start preparing for the next war.

Israelis are trying to squeeze some more blood from American taxpayers as result of Israel’s 8-day airstrikes on Gaza. They intend to sell the ‘success story’ of Israel’s Iron Dome for intercepting 80% of Hamas crude rockets. Americans have already contributed $275 million for the development of Iron Dome since 2010. Last moth, Lt. Col. Meyrav Davidovitz, Israeli Missile Defense Organization Liaison Officer was in Washington DC to campaign for another $1 billion American ‘investment’ in the Iron Dome as part of Congress Bill FY-2013 Defense Authorization Act endorsing potential coproduction with Israel.

On December 2, 2012, Lt. Col. Michael Segall wrote at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs that Pillar of Defense, like Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in 2008-9 and the Second Lebanon War in 2006, gave Iran another opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to support Palestinian and Lebanese struggles against Israel.

Professor Jonathan Dobrer (American Jewish University) in Op-Ed at Pasadena Star-News (November 16, 2012) wrote: “This is more profoundly about Iran” and claimed to know that Israel’s “true objective” is to destroy the stock of Iranian Fajr 5 rockets in Gaza.

On Novembe21, Lee Smith wrote in Jewish Tablet magazine that achieved several possitive results during the Operation Pillar of Defense. World silence gave a green light to Israel for future military operations to defend itself from its enemies, it helped Israel to destroy most of Hamas rocket storage, especially Iranian made Fajr 5 and a warning to Hizballah and Iran that Israeli Iron Dome could protect Israelis from their rockets and missiles.

The DEBKAfile which is an Israel Army PR site, claimed on November 28, 2012 that Operation Pillar of Defense was a mini anti-Iran coup hatched by Netanyahu, Obama, Erdogan and Qatari prime minister Sheikh Jassim al Thani to shut-down Iranian arms supply to Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
“Their aim was to abort the military ties Tehran was cultivating with Hamas before the Gaza Strip is grabbed as Iran’s springboard to Cairo,” wrote the website.

So why you think the Western countries support the so-called “Arab Spring”? Gabriel M.
Scheinmann, a visiting Fellow at the JINSA answered the question in July 2012.

“The so-called “Arab Spring” has, paradoxically, made Israel stronger as Israel’s enemies have turned on each other. While Arab capitals burn, Jerusalem has calmly and carefully steeled itself against the possible immediate deleterious effects, building fences along its Egyptian and Jordanian borders and accelerating the deployment of its Iron Dome anti-missile system,” wrote Scheinmann. He then added: “Even as it rightly plans for the changes wrought by the “Arab Spring”, Israel should also recognize that as the Middle East convulses, it is more likely to be left alone. As Alawites battle Arab Sunnis and Kurds in Syria, as Kurds target Turks in Turkey, as the Imazighen fight Arabs in Libya, as the Army contends with Islamists in Egypt, and as Sunnis and Christians confront Shiites in Lebanon, people don’t have the time, energy, or resources to fight the Jews in Israel. The more the region tears itself apart, the more Israel floats to the top, unscathed economically, militarily, or diplomatically. While an Islamist ascent is undesirable, the intervening disorder only makes Israel stronger.“

French academic and author, Thierry Meyssan, has claimed that “Israel is now just a paper tiger” and the entire country is under the range of Hamas and Hizballah rockets. Israeli Iron Dome has failed to intercept technically advanced Iranian made rockets.

“In Tel-Aviv, the intelligence services state that Hezbollah’s capacity for bombing Israel has been multiplied by 400 since the war of 2006. (Yes, that was not a typing error, you read that correctly, “multiplied by four hundred”). In the event of a regional war, the Israeli territory would be devastated in a few months,” wrote Meyssan. See photo, above, of some “brave” Jewish soldiers hiding from Hamas rocket. Read the article here.

As a sign of its slavery to the powerful Jewish lobby groups, Obama administration has announced to supply the Zionist regime with $647 million worth arms to make-up Jewish army’s losses during the 8-day war on Gaza.

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The Chosenites-Stop Everything and Watch This Horrid Expose

Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 12:46AM Gilad Atzmon

By Gilad Atzmon

Update: Youtube deleted the video today but I was just informed that it is now available on Vimeo.
The following video is a hard-hitting attempt to expose the link between Israeli barbarism and Jewish cultural and religious teaching. As we all know our Jewish ‘anti’ Zionists (JVP, IJAN, Mondoweiss etc’) insist that Zionism should be regarded as an anomaly within the wide context of Jewish culture and religion. They are clearly spinning – Israel is the Jewish State, it kills and slaughter in the name of the Jews, its airplanes and tanks are decorated with Jewish symbols, its crimes are, unfortunately, consistent with some bloodthirsty Old Testament and Talmudic verses. As I mention before, some Orthodox Jews interpret those vile verses differently. However, Israel clearly transforms Deuteronomy into a murderous practical reality.

This film points at the deeply non-ethical core that is embedded within cultural, secular and nationalist Jewish discourse. This is a very disturbing film but I believe that it is essential to watch and discuss these matters in an open manner. More than anyone else, Jews should watch these images and self-reflect. Zionism is clearly a problem, but it isn’t ‘the problem’.
 
As I pointed out in my latest book, The Wandering Who, time is ripe for us to address issues to do with Jewish culture and its influence within the West. Time is ripe to speak about Jewishness and Jewish secularism. Time is ripe to expose the matrix of Jewish power and lobbying within politics and media. When you watch this sickening images bear in mind that 80% of the British Tory MPs are members of the Conservative Friends of Israel. Try to ask yourself what is it that they love so much about the Jewish State?

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The Chosenites from Mally Obrian on Vimeo.

p.s. I guess that the editor behind this film is not familiar enough with Jewish dietary laws. There are no kosher pigs and pigs are not slaughtered in Jewish slaughter houses.

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Why they call him ‘Agent’ Cameron

by Stuart Littlewood

Saturday, December 15th, 2012

Britain’s prime minister David Cameron has again shown why he should stand down from British politics.

In a speech to Conservative Friends of Israel at a lunch the other day he said – and not for the first time – things that are deeply disturbing to people who expect him to put British interests first. He again compromised himself and this country with ridiculous pledges of support for a foreign military power whose behaviour is beyond the Pale and an affront to human decency. Here are some of his remarks…

I am a passionate friend of Israel – and that’s the way it’s going to stay.

In that case you shouldn’t be in British politics, Mr Cameron. You have fallen foul of the Seven Principles of Public Life, especially the principle of ‘Integrity’ which says quite simply: “Holders of public office should not place themselves under any financial or other obligation to outside individuals or organisations that might seek to influence them in the performance of their official duties.”

We promised to stand up for Israel and in Government that’s exactly what we’ve done. We said it was ridiculous that Israeli officials felt unable to visit Britain because of the malicious and unfounded use of arrest warrants so we changed the law to end it.

Unfounded? Tzipi Livni, fr example, was responsible for launching the pre-meditated blitzkrieg four years ago which caused the deaths of 1,400 defenceless Gazans (including 320 children and 109 women), horribly maimed thousands more and caused immense devastation to essential infrastructure and services. She showed no remorse. Livni’s office issued a statement saying she was proud of Operation Cast Lead, and speaking later at a conference at Tel Aviv’s Institute for Security Studies, she said: “I would today take the same decisions.”

We said we’d resist calls for boycotts on Israel and yes – we are going to keep on working with Israel, doing business with Israel, trading with Israel.”

Even though Israel is in continual breach of EU-Israel Agreement rules and forcibly prevents its neighbours, the Palestinians, from doing business and trade with the outside world…

To me it is clear what needs to happen… We need the Palestinians to understand there is only one path to statehood, and that is through negotiations with Israel. We made that clear with that UN vote a couple of weeks ago.

Wrong. The correct path to statehood is through implementation of international law and UN resolutions and the approval of the international community. Only when the illegal occupation is ended and the right of self-determination is restored can meaningful talks begin.

We said that Britain could not support a resolution that set back the prospects for peace and that did not commit the Palestinians to return to negotiations without preconditions. Well: they did not provide the assurances that we asked for. So… we did not vote for it.

Pure blackmail. Bullying Palestinians into resuming failed and discredited talks to bargain with the thief for the return of their lands and property when it is still being stolen with impunity, is utterly immoral. There can be no peace under occupation. And nobody ‘negotiates’ with a gun to their head, nor should they be expected to.

And I have made something else clear that needs to be made clear to the Palestinians. Britain will never tolerate the obscenity of a football tournament named after a suicide bomber who killed 20 Israelis in a restaurant. We will not tolerate incitement to terrorism.”

This is about Wafa Idris. It has become a favourite rant and Cameron was banging on about it a couple of months earlier at another top Jewish gathering. According to The Jerusalem Post (September 2011) a Fatah-affiliated youth centre in the Ama’ari refugee camp near Ramallah named a sports event after female suicide bomber Wafa Idris, a 28 year-old paramedic who had been shot several times by Israeli rubber bullets during her work for the Red Crescent. Relatives said she was angry at seeing children shot and killed by the IDF in Ramallah. Idris was the first Palestinian woman to carry out a suicide bombing. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a subsidiary of Abbas’s Fatah (who are Cameron’s friends in Occupied Palestine), claimed responsibility for the bomb attack although her family said she was not known to be an activist with any Palestinian militant group.

Cameron, before opening his mouth, might have asked what led her to do it. Wafa Idris was born in the Ama’ari refugee camp http://www.unrwa.org/etemplate.php?id=105 . Set up by the Red Cross in 1949 it provided tents to refugees from Jaffa, Ramla and Lydda, towns allocated for an Arab state in the UN Partition but subjected to a bloody programme of ethnic cleansing in 1948.

In Lydda the Israelis massacred 426 men, women, and children. 176 of them were slaughtered in the town’s main mosque. See http://www.palestineremembered.com/al-Ramla/al-Lydd/index.html for lurid details. Out of the 19,000 people who called Lydda home, only 1,052 were allowed to stay. The remainder were forced to walk into exile in the scalding July heat leaving a trail of bodies – men, women and children – along the way.

The slaughter in Lydda was led by a certain Moshe Dayan. The event was witnessed by two American newspapermen who reported that “practically everything in their way died. Riddled corpses lay by the roadside.” They saw “the corpses of Arab men, women and even children strewn about in the wake of the ruthlessly brilliant charge”. This appalling war crime didn’t prevent Dayan becoming a great hero in Israel, and later defence minister and foreign minister.

Today Tel Aviv University has a Moshe Dayan Centre named after the war criminal, but I haven’t heard Cameron complain about that. Likewise the Menachem Begin Centre in West Jerusalem is named after the terrorist leader responsible for the bomb attack in 1946 on the British mandate government based in the King David Hotel, killing 91. Has Agent Cameron anything to say about that?

Back to the Ama’ari refugee camp, now run by the UNRWA, where Wafa Idris was obliged to live in squalor as a result of Israel’s criminal land-grab and forcible eviction of her parents from Ramla. At Ama’ari 10,500 people are squeezed into less than 1 square kilometre in dreadful conditions.

However the camp’s football team has won the Paltine football championship several times and qualified to represent Palestine in regional and international competitions.

The Arab media were lavish in their praise for Idris, the “courageous Palestinian girl”, and as a result she became a heroic symbol of Palestinian womanhood in their struggle to throw off the occupation. If it’s OK for Israel to name major institutions after its famous terrorists what right has Cameron to get upset when a Palestinian football team similarly commemorates one of theirs?

 So, in Gaza too, Hamas need to know that they must renounce violence and they will not be allowed to dictate the way forward in the peace process.

Does Cameron have the balls to tell Israel it too must renounce violence? Hamas, in case he has forgotten, is the legitimate democratic authority. He may not like it but he should respect it and work with them, like the good democrat he claims to be.

Last month, when rockets rained down on Israel, we were unequivocal about the right of Israelis to live free from attack by terrorist groups on their border.

When Gaza suffers air strikes on a daily basis, how unequivocal is Cameron about the right of Palestinians to live free from attack by the terrorist state occupying their lands?
I’ve never had to run for cover as the air-raids sound overhead. I’ve never had to give gas masks to my children. I do understand that for the Israeli people, uncertainty isn’t such a great thing. It means instability. Anxiety. Fear.

If he goes to Gaza he can experience fear and anxiety in abundance under Israeli air raids. I vividly remember as a kid being bombed by the Nazis every night in London – and not with garden-shed whizz-bangs. I remember German bombers flying at rooftop height down our street to avoid the anti-aircraft guns. At least they didn’t use white phosphorus like the Israelis.

Cameron’s hyper-partisan, head-over-heels friendship – no, obsession – with Israel is allowed to steer nearly every aspect of Britain’s foreign policy. What drives this? You need look no further than The Jewish Chronicle which in 2006 reported on the backers bankrolling David Cameron‘s bid for power and provided a fascinating insight into how the pro-Israel lobby infiltrates government and destroys the principles of integrity and accountability so vital to public life.

When Cameron became Conservative leader he proclaimed: “The belief I have in Israel is indestructible – and you need to know that if I become Prime Minister, Israel has a friend who will never turn his back on Israel.”

Agent Cameron is very careful not to let the words ‘justice’ and ‘law’ pass his lips in connection with Israel’s illegal occupation of the Holy Land. And he and his foreign secretary, Hague, will put on a wonderful show of hand-wringing, deploring and urging whenever Israel commits atrocities, but they never condemn the racist regime or use any obvious levers like suspension of trade or other sanctions.

On the contrary, they shamelessly find ways of rewarding the Israeli regime’s crimes against humanity, making us complicit with its racist ambitions.

Stuart Littlewood

14 December 2012

Comment:

“Britain’s prime minister David Cameron has again shown why he should stand down from British politics.”

The Problem is not Cameron but the British politics. The zionist entity is the fruit of that politics, a British creation. Ask Galloway. Does the British friends have have the balls to admit that.

“Hamas, in case he has forgotten, is the legitimate democratic authority. He may not like it but he should respect it and work with them, like the good democrat he claims to be.”

Hamas was elected as a resistance movement, and I can assure you, the moment Hamas drop the gun, Cameron would be happy to deal with Hamas, and I can assure you also, at that very moment, Hamas will lose its legitimity.

Richard Falk slams Israel again

Posted on December 10, 2012

Professor Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for the Palestinian Territories has angered the Zionist entity once again. On December 5, 2012, he called the Zionist entity to abide by and fully implement the cease fire agreement that was brokered by US-Egypt to end the recent 8-day Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Strip.

Dr. Falk who describes himself “an American Jew” – had visited the Islamic Republic in January 1979 along with Ramsey Clark and Philip Luce. The three met Ayatullah Mahmoud Taleghani and Ayatullah Shariat Maderi in Tehran. On their way back home, they made a stop in Paris and met Imam Khomeini still living in exile. This Iranian visit became a ‘black mark’ on his ‘Jewishness’ when Falk was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for the Palestinian Territories on March 26, 2008 to a six year term. Since then, Dr. Falk has been called “anti-Israel”, a “self-hating Jew” and “Arab lover” by Israeli leaders and their Zionist cheer-leader in the West. Read here and here and here.

“The human rights expert has just concluded a week-long mission to the region, with the initial purpose assessing the overall impact of Israel’s prolonged occupation and blockade against the Gaza Strip, which is an integral part of Palestine. However, there arose an urgent need to investigate Israel’s seemingly deliberate attacks against civilian targets during recent hostilities,” said Dr. Falk.

The Special Rapporteur called for sustained pressure from the international community, including both Governments and civil society, to secure Israel’s full implementation of the cease fire agreement, noting that without such pressure it is extremely unlikely to hold. “Worldwide support for the recent General Assembly resolution that made Palestine a non-Member observer State should serve as a starting point for more concerted international protection of Palestinian rights,” he said. Read the statement in full, here.

Dr. Falk who is still in the region, is expected to submit his official report to UNHRC in June 2013.

On December 3, Geneva-based Israel-Jewish lobby group, UN Watch, complained that the international body hates Israel as during its meeting last month it passed 21 anti-Israel resolutions as compared to only 4 against the rest of the UN members. The so-called “anti-Israel” resolutions included; Israel’s exploitation of natural resorces in Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights – and all Jewish settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights being illegal.

On November 19, 2012, in an interview with Amy Goodman (Jewish) of Democracy Now!, Dr. Falk said: “It’s incredibly frustrating to represent the United Nations and to realize that it’s incapable of acting in a situation of such extremity from the point of view of the exitential horror that people of Gaza are being subjected to by this unlawful and criminal style of (8-day Israeli) attack“.

Lawrence Davidson Ph.D, an American academic, writer and author wrote in the defense of Richard Falk on December 3, as follows:

“Professor Falk’s experience should serve as a warning to both those who would, on the one hand, make a career out of being a spokesperson for governments or companies, and on the other, those who would dedicate themselves to “speaking truth to power.” Taking on the role of the former is the equivalent of selling your soul to leadership whose sense of right and wrong goes no further than their own local interests. Taking on the role of the latter is to face seemingly endless frustration for, as Noam Chomsky once noted, power already knows the truth and doesn’t care one jot for it.

Yet, for those who would travel down this latter road, Richard Falk is as good a role model as can be found. Having dedicated himself to the role of truth teller he is to be commended for his devotion to justice and sheer durability. He is a hero who, hopefully, will have his praises sung long after Ms Karaen Peretz (Israeli UN envoy) and Ms Susan Rice (American UN envoy) are deservedly forgotten.