THE FINAL SOLUTION

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NEWS YOU WILL NOT FIND IN YOUR DAILY PAPERS.
"The Final Solution" has come a step further following a new IDF military order that enables Israel to expel Palestinians from the West Bank who cannot show proper identification. It is the next step in the ethnic cleansing and ultimate annexation of the West Bank. Those not in possession of the by the occupation issued ID cards, will be prosecuted, jailed for seven years or deported to already densely overpopulated GAZA, the largest concentration camp in the world. It is all part of a series of steps to empty the West Bank from Palestinians, so as to create a favourable demographic ratio for the supremacist, apartheid Zionist state. All this is in blatant violation of UN resolutions and international laws (Geneva Conventions), which the US allows the Zionists to get away with.

POLARIZING SUBJECT

50. Contribution from one of our sympathizers
"My impression about The Press (Christchurch Press) and the Israeli Palestinian conflict is that they (The Press) want the issue to cool off in the opinion page: Both sides of supporters went to the NZ Press Council, both sides find that the other party got more published letters than the other. Some including myself, received abusive letters.
It is a very hot and polarizing subject and right now, as I see it, no one gets letters published from either sides unless in an advert.
As for Rodney, I fail to understand the importance of the difference between Alan McRobie's and his own statement; the nuance he sees escapes me or is too insignificant. I communicated with Rodney on line for quite a few months and got totally tired of this very sort of thing.
His advert, almost seems to be his own rather than a group, it is not that obvious in the paper, I missed it; he has fallen into the pathetic stage, and to repeat an expression he uses quite a bit:..."that's a fact"!
Meanwhile, I have a slim hope that Obama's cold shoulder will have an effect on Netanyahu's government and some positive assertiveness is being worked out behind the scenes. We must keep hoping..."
F.F.

LINK TO POST 45.

Editorial comment:
Mr. Rodney Brooks calls himself "Chairman" of an organisation KBRM (Kiwis for Balanced Reporting Middle East; www.kbrm.org.nz). F.F.'s letter is in response to an (rather expensive) advert Mr. Brooks had recently published in The Ch'ch Press, which included his by the paper's editor rejected letter, replying to another letter writer. He filed a complaint to the NZ Press Council, but the complaint was not upheld by the Council.

ANTI US/ISRAEL DEMONSTRATIONS IN IRAQ

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Visit also Post 10 "Iraq after Saddam" and previous Post 48 Gen. Petraeus' warning.

Gen. PETRAEUS' WARNING

48. There appears to be a growing conviction within the Obama administration and more particularly in the Pentagon, that the failure to make tangible progress in resolving the Palestinian/Israel conflict is jeopardizing US interest - and the lives of U.S. servicemen and women - throughout the region, including Iraq and Afghanistan. In an Congressional testimony, a week after Biden's visit to Israel, the Chief of the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), Gen. David Petraeus, noted that the Israel/ Palestinian conflict foments anti-American sentiments, due to a "perceptions of U.S. favouritism for Israel" (understatement). He added that this conflict has "an enormous effect on the strategic context in which we operate" and that credible U.S. efforts on Arab/Israeli issues that provides regional governments and populations a way to achieve a comprehensive settlement of the disputes, would undercut Iran's policy of militant 'resistance', which the Iranian regime and insurgent groups have been free to exploit.

REFUSNIKS

47.There is a growing awareness amongst Israelis themselves that their Zionist government is following a wrong, if not disastrous course and several opposition groups have lately sprung up even within the military. They call themselves the REFUSNIKS. It is a growing relative new movements of soldiers and officers who refuse to serve in the West Bank. Their ideological opposition stems from their belief that "being ruled by another people, is as far from democracy as you can get". Denying the Palestinians their dignity and humanity is one of the great failings of contemporary Judaism and no historical calamity (the Holocaust) can justify it.
Indiscriminate violence against any people should be condemned, and even more so when it is committed by a people as persecuted throughout their history as the Jews. As long as Israel continues to be an aggressor state, we all have the moral duty to speak out.
How could one support a country with an army that frequently engages in war crimes in the occupied territories, collectively punishing its inhabitants, by destroying and stealing their land and houses under the pretext that this is done for "security reasons". How can one defend the thuggish behaviour of settlers illegally grabbing Palestinian land and terrorizing the local inhabitants. As a result many once thriving communities are now deserted. Many boarded-up shop fronts are sprayed with the David Star, a crude way of settlers to claim the property as their own. Their behaviour is reminiscent to the 1930'ties NAZI Germany, when Jews were evicted from their properties, houses and businesses by Hitler's "brown shirts" thugs during the 'Crystal Night' campaigns in German cities. Some of the graffiti in English included: "Die Arab Sand Niggers; Exterminate the Muslims; We will rape all Arab women; Kill the Arabs; White Power:kill niggers; Gas the Arabs and Arabs to the Gas-chambers". It is hard to believe that anyone, let alone the Jews, would emulate NAZI behaviour. Accepting this makes us guilty by association. No civilised human being should endorse or downplay such despicable behaviour.

IRAN AND THE BOMB

46. Applying the same logic as Lorne Kuehn (Press 6/03) with regards the equilibrium nuclear deterrents are supposed to have on keeping the peace, Iran should also have the "bomb" in order to keep the peace in the Middle East and prevent an Israeli attack on the nation. However having said that, have a good look at the map of the region and you will discover that Iran - in the event they would ever acquire the "bomb", which is not sure at all - would never been able to use it against Israel. It would be completely useless to her.

NB. The letter was rejected. Lorne Kuehn is a frequent and so it appears a by the editor favoured contributor to the letter pages of the Ch'ch Press.

Postscript. The most densely populated part of Israel is a narrow strip of less than 20 km in width, the northern part is appr. 50 km wide and only the most southern part, the more sparsely populated Negev desert is appr. 120 km. So it is clear that if Iran wanted to drop a nuclear device on Israel and even if it was capable of delivering it right on target, it would also destroy and/or seriously harm Palestinian populations in the West Bank and Gaza and probably in the entirely region. The Iranian President's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad remarks about "wiping Israel off the map" (or similar distorted quotes) have often been misinterpreted and misquoted in the western news media. What he really meant and has said is (quote): "Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and to-day does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out". He could have added the South African Apartheid regime.

KBRM ADVERTISEMENTS

45. From time to time ads are being published by an organization calling themselves KBRM (Kiwis for Balanced Reporting). It claims to be balanced and telling the truth about the Israel/Palestinian conflict, but at the same time it vehemently denies, downplays, defies and refuse to accept any criticism of Israel's criminal activities perpetrated against a comparative and virtually defenseless population, as reported and condemned by reputable international organisations such as the United Nations, International Red Cross, Human Rights organisations etc. Their very shallow arguments are lacking essential, in-depth historical information or any referrals to international laws such as the Geneva Conventions or the many U.N. Resolutions Israel has consistently flouted over the last sixty plus years (I always refer to in my blog). These are essential in any discussion when trying to come to a valid judgment on events in the Middle East. KBRM is solely devoted in espousing the Zionist cause, disseminating misinformation, lies and distortions and can therefore not be considered a reliable medium on which to base ones opinion. Zionism is an ideology and doctrine which is an anathema incompatible with democratic principles and should not be confused with anti-Semitism. Zionism is a supremacy ideology based on the ethnic cleansing and the domination of a one religion only, apartheid state. It is Zionism that obstructs peaceful solutions to the Middle East conflict and hence needs to be removed in order to make place for a genuinely democratic UNITARY state, with equal rights for both the original indigenous in 1948 expelled inhabitants living in huge refugee camps all over the M.E. (more than five million see Post 42) and the non-indigenous Jewish immigrants that had entered (illegally) Palestine during the two decades before 1948, regardless of race, gender or creed. Only that will ultimately bring an end to more than sixty years of war, oppression, discrimination and injustice to the Palestinian people and will save and transform Israel into a genuinely plural cultural democratic state.