Justice Israeli style!

Many people have said many times how they never cease to be amazed by the open racism shown by the Israeli government.

The latest from Tel-Aviv depicts the governments concerns about the growing number of illegal’s crossing the border between Egypt and Israel. Yet this is not a financial concern, nor concerns about illegal entry by persons with less than savoury or criminal backgrounds.

No, this is about the fear of the Israeli government that these lesser mortals might in some way settle and become members of Israeli society and in effect cause a thinning out process of the Israeli blood stock.
However, we are not talking about horses, when we mention bloodstock, No, we are talking of human beings.

One can’t help questioning if the motive has more to do with religious belief, when one takes into consideration that all Jews are openly welcome in Israel and receive in most cases automatic citizenship.

Netanyahu has at the very least, proved beyond a doubt Israel’s commitment or lack thereof, in forming an equal and just Israeli society.
His latest recommendation to the Knesset is to create a large detention center at an estimated cost to the Israeli tax payer of between $300million And $400 million US dollars. This center is really being built in the Negev desert as a consequence of the fact that Israel is obliged under International law to consider all applications for citizenship. Under this law it is forbidden to send nationals either illegally or legally in the country back to their country of origin without considerations of safety etc.

"There is a swelling wave threatening Israeli jobs, a wave of illegal migrants that we must stop because of the harsh implications for Israel's character," Mr Netanyahu said:

Now is he referring to financial implications? And if so could we expect to see a curbing of immigration from other nations including Jews? I somehow don’t think so, therefore one must conclude that the term “Israel’s character” refers to the inclusion of non-Jews.

This claim that all immigrants (non-Jewish) are somehow a direct threat to the State of Israel is most ironic when you take into account the historical fact that all Israelis are in fact mostly European immigrants in the land of Palestine.
The detention Center is claimed to be a humanitarian solution and NOT a prison, merely a place to hold migrants until Israel finds a way to get rid of this problem.

ADD to this the fact that Israeli law recently played a part in giving two IDF soldiers only a 3 month suspended sentence for using a CHILD as a human shield and declared that their action was conduct unbecoming of an IDF member.
You can’t help thinking that ANY life(except an Israeli life) is worthless in the view of the Israeli government.

One would imagine it anything, Israel should be trying to salvage something of its already blackened, if not totally destroyed international reputation. Yet this is not the case, along with other Knesset decisions such as the recent decision to possibly expel the siblings of legally working foreigners. Israel has again openly shown its total abhorrence for all things and peoples who happen not to be Israeli.

New US / Israel Deal Proves Futility of UN Membership

The US have once again shown the total futility of United Nations membership, by assuring Israel that they would assist them in avoiding any legal or (Moral) consequences relating to the murders committed during the War on Gaza, the illegal boarding and further murders on board the flotilla, not to mention the blatant theft of personal belongings that came to light after all the vessels on the flotilla were pirated into an Israeli port.

However in the latest (cover up) deal offered by the US in return for a 90 day moratorium which really means (“Don’t let the media know) does not speak of East Jerusalem at all??.

So what IS on the table? The US has agreed to use its vote (veto) against any United Nations proposal or criticism of Israel, which will (we believe) include the Goldstone Report which Clinton herself, guaranteed Israel would be shelved and America would see to that. Next, the UN report /suggested actions on the Flotilla murders and of course, the War on Gaza where amongst others over 300 children and BABIES were murdered by the hand of Israel and UN humanitarian supply sites were bombed DESPITE coordinates being supplied to the IDF.

What is the point of United Nations membership? What is the point of the United Nations?

Politician after politician and UN member/ Manager /Directors / Investigators have gone to Gaza over the past year or so, time and time again, they took their turn in condemning the actions of Israel both in the past, during the War On Gaza and in the present, YET nothing is EVER done! Simply because the UN has NO POWER without US backing.

This moratorium, like the last will serve no purpose what so ever, except to further enrage the right wing loonies in Israel. So there will be 90 days of no building (wink wink) except for in East Jerusalem, which in actual fact only serves to lessen the chances of a two state solution, with East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.

Panorama: Documentary or Propaganda film ??

Interestingly the word Panorama is defined in the concise Oxford English Dictionary as: “An unbroken view of a surrounding region” or “A complete survey of a subject or sequence of events”.

Now anybody who viewed the Panorama programme titled Death in the Med, would I think agree that the BBC need to change the title of its documentary series to “A blinkered view” or even ”A linear view of .........”.

The self proclaimed expert on the Al-Qaeda network and the so called Islamist threat Jane Corbin, only served to cheapen the art of journalism by presenting what amounted to a propaganda project on behalf of the State of Israel and more notably the IDF.

What seems to have been ignored with great effort, was the fact that Israeli Navy / IDF attacked a civilian vessel IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS, they had NO jurisdiction whatsoever. Secondly, nine people lost their lives, Yet this documentary ignored the loss of life in favour of dedicating their time to the Israeli Military view.

Regarding the Panorama documentary, It was ill conceived, poorly presented and very heavily biased in favour of the State of Israel and the IDF in particular.

Frankly, to give anymore time or space in this blog to this so called documentary will only serve to give it a form of credibility, that it clearly does not deserve.

Israel: A rare breed of democracy

Netanyahu tells Turkel Committee that the attack on the Mavi Marmara was the fault of Hamas and Turkey.

The committee is headed by retired Supreme Court justice, Jacob Turkel, and the alleged purpose was to find out if the so called incident was legal under international law. Despite the fact that this hearing is being held, it has actually very limited powers and in the end will only serve as a way to protect Netanyahu and his government and negate any possibility of an International investigation.

Netanyahu, almost at nausea, repeated that the incident was within the bounds of International law. He then went further by blaming Hamas and telling the hearing that Turkey needs to also take their share of the blame for allowing the vessel to set sail for Gaza in the first place. (And Israel claims to be a democracy).

When it appeared to Netanyahu that the blame might be pointing directly at him, he pointed out that he was not even in the country at the time and had left Defence Minister Ehud Barak in charge of the flotilla takeover operation. He went further by stating that during the ministers' meetings before the Turkish flotilla arrived; the ministers did not discuss taking action, but focused on the media's reaction to it. Despite the fact that several IDF soldiers who stormed the Mavi Marmara, were found to have laminated “picture hit lists” as were shown to international TV viewers live at the time. Netanyahu insisted that there were no pre-agreed plans to storm the vessel at the Ministers meeting.

Later in the day Mark Regev backed Netanyahu, by further stating that all democracies have a similar system of appointing another member of government to look after a situation in their absence.

At this point it was beginning to turn into a he said, she said situation, not unlike what would be seen in any children's playground, however the outcome has enraged a lot of people in Israel, as they feel that Netanyahu was simply dumping this problem on their beloved IDF.

The rest of the hearing was held behind closed doors, because of so called Israeli security concerns.
Anybody who has observed the situation in the Middle East (M.E.) would be able to come to the same conclusion as I will on this whole so called hearing. That conclusion is, the Israeli government are uncomfortable with what happened on the Mavi Marmara and don’t really know how to deal with the fall out, however Israel MUST keep its people in fear of the whole world and totally dependent on the IDF and the right wing government for their collective protection. Even school children are taught to fear and hate others, (as shown in Defamation by Yoav Shamir), thus Mr Netanyahu and his crew can never be seen to be softening on any situation, and especially not on a situation where the Israeli government have hailed their beloved IDF as heroes.
In fact Netanyahu also expressed this in his statement that “the IDF commandos on the Mavi Marmara exhibited "unusual courage" in defending themselves against a clear and present danger to their lives”, you can also bet that the words Self Defence were used time and again in justification.

Netanyahu finished the public debate by declaring the following: Israel is a "rare breed" of democracy in the Middle East, and said "there is no state or army that investigates itself more than Israel and the IDF."

This is likely to be the only true statement you will ever hear from any leader of the state of Israel, the fact that Israel has had to investigate its Army (IDF) so many times in its short history would be a great concern to any civilised society, yet to Netanyahu and his cronies this seems to be a thing of great pride.
The Israeli government is either so out of touch that it really thinks that the greater world believes the outcomes of these Kangaroo court hearings with the IDF, or they have become so bloody minded and arrogant that they don’t care.

To use Netanyahu own words, it is indeed a RARE breed of democracy!

Lebanon & Israel the blue line conflict!

Well it’s finally happened, for a very long time now, Lebanon has been holding her temper and hoping that the UN or someone would do something about Israel’s constant taunting.


Like the old reliable school yard bully, Israel has been doing everything to get a reaction from Lebanon (the school victim). Everything from constant fly overs which almost happen on a daily basis to increased activity on the southern Lebanon border, in or around the disputed blue line areas.


Israel has never fully gotten over the bloody nose that Hezbollah gave them in 2006; in the past 4 years Israel has done everything possible to get a reaction from either the government of Lebanon or directly from Hezbollah. There has been constant claims from Israel that Hezbollah were importing arms from Syria (never proven), that they were planning an attack on Israel with the assistance of Iran (never proven), in fact despite all the untruths which the Israeli propaganda machine has almost become totally synonymous with, not a thing has been proved beyond the word of the well-oiled and totally untrustworthy Israeli ministry.


What was different this time was the fact that it was the Army of Lebanon who reacted first. Ok, the debate as to whether Israel or Lebanon were at fault will go on for a long time, however what we all witnessed was the school yard bully getting a reaction they never expected. Chances are that it was a total mistake, it happens when a border is not totally set in stone, but the point is when Lebanon were almost on a daily basis pleading with the UN to do something about the fly over violations, nothing was done! When Israel (the school bully) was posturing and insulting towards Lebanon openly and in the world’s media, nobody would stand up and say, that’s enough! Just like all victims of bullies, Lebanon took it for as long as she could, yesterday was the last straw.

If the US and the UN are really interested in keeping the peace in the Middle East (M.E.), then they BOTH need to pull the reins hard when Israel steps out of line, If they are NOT then they need not be surprised when something like this happens.

The current situation in the middle East is a little like a piece of clear plastic sheeting, sure, It will bend and you can to a certain extent abuse it, however just like glass it will eventually break.


If the USA is serious about peace in the M.E. then it needs to at least be seen to be fair. Right now most M.E. experts would agree that in trying to play the Policeman or peace maker, America is failing badly because of the so called special relationship. They will openly and vehemently defend Israel, even when they know Israel is wrong, whilst at the same time they expect the rest of the M.E. to follow their rules, adhere to their requests and accept their openly biased criticism.


Would America have stayed silent about the passport situation if it were Iran, Turkey, Lebanon or Syria that had used false European and Australian passports?


Would they have stayed quiet if Iran had attacked the open concentration camp we call Gaza?


We all know the answer is NO!