Another stupid Usonian...

Well... "Rachel" was stopped, her cargo taken to Gaza, where Hamas would stop it.
I didn't know Rachel, but I think she killed herself. Or let's say, her stupidity killed herself. You don't sit in front of an armed bulldozer if you want to live.

Here's another stupid young Usonian girl. The picture series is from a video, about 1:05-1:10. It shows young palestinian men throwing stones at a roadblock in Jerusalem. I walked here some 20 years ago... no roadblocks, no stone throwing, no soldiers... Nevertheless, the white puffs are gas the israeli soldiers shoot at the stonethrowers. In the right side we can see a young woman dressed in black, standing and watching, probably her friends. The friends are hard to see, but we can see the woman start running in the middle of the road, disappear behind a block and then emerge dragging another figure. That figure is Emily Henochewicz, a Usonian art student, studying in Jerusalem, and on her free time participating in demonstrations. She is active in International Solidarity Movement. She - or at least her friends - are very active in the internet bashing Israel and telling everyone how horribly violent Israel is, especially towards the "peaceful Palestinians" (e.g. the young men throwing stones in this video). Nevertheless she doesn't have enough understanding to MOVE AWAY FROM THE STONE THROWING BOYS, even though she can see the Israeli military some 100 meters away. The video is filmed from about the point of the soldiers. We see what they saw. I didn't even notice the group of demonstrators in the middle of the road, before the man with the flag started moving towards left, after the stone-throwers.
The "pro-Palestinians" claim she was shot "at face"

"Emily was standing peacefully during a demonstration at Qalandiya checkpoint Monday when Border Police fired a large number of tear gas canisters directly at the heads of Emily and another ISM activist."

Witnesses told media outlets that Palestinian boys were throwing rocks at troops but said Henochowicz was standing aside and not participating in the violence.

large number = 4 - aside = behind the stone-throwers

“They clearly saw us,” said Sören Johanssen, a Swedish ISM volunteer standing with Henochowicz. “They clearly saw that we were internationals and it really looked as though they were trying to hit us. They fired many canisters at us in rapid succession. One landed on either side of Emily, then the third one hit her in the face.”

Yeah... the palestinian young men had wits to run when the soldiers started shooting, the "international volunteers" just stood there staring straight at the people they experienced were shooting at them - AIMING AT THEIR HEADS! I mean... can one get more stupid than this? Is it really worth loosing your eye - you, an artist, loose half your sight - to get a chance to bash Israel? Really? I mean... REALLY???

The stupid article goes on saying: "Israeli occupation forces boarded the Mavi Marmara, one of six ships on the Freedom Flotilla at 5 a.m. this morning, opening fire on the hundreds of unarmed civilians aboard. No-one aboard the ships were carrying weapons of any kind,"
There is video evidence of that they did not open fire on the "hundreds of unarmed civilians aboard", but as self defense, and that obviously metal sticks, knifes and slingshots are considered as "no weapons of any kind". *sigh*

So, another stupid Usonian gets hurt because she isn't thinking and using any self survival instinct. I remember when I came home from Israel... we weren't allowed to go to Eilat, because a French tourist had been killed there. I remember visiting Golan, we were told not to go off road because the land was still filled with landmines from the war... I remember watching the ruins of houses that had been fired at and what it made me feel... and how I threw myself on the ground when I, after having returned, heard a sharp bang... in Stockholm Central Station... And these people don't even have the wits to move away from the way of bulldozers, bullets and gas canisters.

Sigh.

Have a good life, Emily, and I hope you will think it was worth it when you're 60.

People don't think

Israel stopped the aid ships, boarded them and saw them to the harbor in Ashdod. What happened after that to the aid? I seem to be the only one interested. :-Z These so-called pro-Palestinians are only screaming about their own people being harmed as a consequence of their own violent attacks on Israeli soldiers.

"The Israelis roughed up and humiliated all of us — women, men and children," said Kuwaiti lawmaker Walid al-Tabtabai, who was on board one of the ships with other activists from Muslim countries.

Children? CHILDREN???
ARE YOU F-ING OUT OF YOUR MIND!!!
YOU DO NOT TAKE CHILDREN TO A MISSION LIKE THAT!

Social services should remove these children from their parents who are obviously too insane to be trusted to protect these children. Only complete idiots bring children to a war zone!

"The lawmaker claimed there "was not a single weapon with the passengers aboard all the ships."

Oh. So you are not only stupid, you are ignorant as well.
IF there had been no violence involved on board of Mavi Marmara, no-one had been hurt or killed. No-one was hurt or killed on board of the other ships where there were no weapons.
So, yes, I demand an IMPARTIAL investigation of what happened on board of Mavi Marmara, because that will reveal the FACT that the Israelis are tellign the truth of what happened. They were ambushed and violently attacked by these so called "peaceful activists".

Massacre is when you kill people who cannot defend themselves. It is not a massacre when people get killed in a fight. The activists on the ship started the fighting and therefore are responsible for all the deaths. If the investigation doesn't come to this conclusion, it is not impartial. :->

One can discuss whether the naval blockade is legal, but as it is now, there IS a naval blockade and as it is so, Israel has the right to stop and visit any ships trying to break the blockade, and it doesn't matter one bit whether they are on Israeli waters or international waters. It was not an attack, it was not an act of piracy (Come on!), it was not murder, slaughter or massacre.

Considering that during the five first months of 2010, there has been at least 57 rockets and mortars fired from Gaza to Israel, in my mind that counts as armed conflict, and as there is an armed conflict going on, there is legal justification for the Naval blockade.

BTW, it was only on March 18th when one of these attacks happened during the "European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Lady Catherine Ashton" visit on Gaza strip, when the world reacted. THEN it was called "act of terror" and "violence against civilians". All the 56 other "acts of terror" and "violence against civilians" have passed unnoticed and uncondemned, even when people have been killed and damaged in these attacks.

My husband says "it doesn't matter what Israel does, it's condemned anyway, simply because it's Israel. Just drop all the Palestinians in Jordania, Egypt and Lebanon and get it over and done with."
I say "It's not enough. Israel must kill every Palestinian in the world and then give the people responsible - some hundred or thousand Israeli Jews - to the world to be sacrificed so that the rest of Israelis can live their lives in peace. The world has made it very clear. Israel cannot exist in peace as long as there are Palestinians in the world. So in order to be able to exist, Israel must see there are no Palestinians."
I ask again... Is this really what you want? You know what you think of Israel and what it is capable of. Do you really believe it won't do this, when you believe it is capable of all other kinds of atrocities? What would killing some 13.000.000 people be when it would guarantee peace in future to your children and all the Jews of the world? Especially if one doesn't consider these people to be people? You are playing with fire, and it might just end up burning you.

Palestinians don't want to be Israel's neighbors.
They want Israel to be Palestine, a Muslim nation, an Arab nation, in a racially and ideologically clean Middle-East.
Otherwise they would have accepted the partition plan or declared Palestine independent 1948-1967, when they actually held Jerusalem. They didn't do that. Ask yourself why... Unless you are one of the so-called "pro-Palestinians", because then you probably won't think about it, just invent a stupid accusation pushing the reason for that on Israel as well.
One of the stupidest responses one of the so called pro-Palestinians gave me to that question was that "it wasn't needed"... Palestinians are happy to be citizens of a Muslim, Arab nation, like Syria, Jordan or Lebanon.
Oh... I suppose this person hasn't discussed with Palestinians in Jordan and Lebanon... :-> Why would he, he believes they have it just fine there. That their only problem is homesickness, fear for their loved ones who live under the horrrrrrible scourge of Israel and natural upset for the human rights violations.
Idiot.

Israel, Israel...

Yes, I am 100% certain that the "peace-loving pacifist aid workers" had both weapons on board and that they weren't afraid to use violence. Just look at Bilin. That's supposed to be "peaceful demonstrations in Gandhi's spirit", and they throw stones and say that violence, terrorism, suicide bombings and rockets are "the only way" for Palestine. That is what these so-called pacifists are in reality. Nothing to do with pacifism and passive resistance. Gandhi would have cried.
(The stills on left are from a video filmed by these "pacifists" on board on Mavi Marmara. Photographic evidence on that the Israeli soldiers are telling the truth of what happened.)

Also, they care more about trying to make Israel look bad - and see, they succeeded. If the help ever reaches Gaza is totally irrelevant to them.
You see, to ME the most important thing would have been to see that the help reaches Gaza, HOW is totally irrelevant. Israel said that if the aid ships will board Israel, Israel will take the help to Gaza.
I believe them. After all, they have been giving Gaza both this and that all this time. People are just not informed about it, because that would give a positive picture of Israel, and these so-called "pro-Palestinians" don't want that to happen. Israel must be a beast, it may not be just one country among hundreds of others. That would make Israel too human, and these so-called "pro-Palestinians" want you to think that Israel and all Israelis - and all Jews - are some sort of aliens. Subhuman but believing to be better than humans...

But, as said, helping Gazans is not important to these "pacifist" "pro-Palestinians", doing it the way *THEY* want to do it, is important. I am 100% sure of that when Israel asked the ships to stop so that they could board them -which is their legal right - the ships wouldn't stop, and I am also 100% sure of that the people on board resisted violently the boarding. Both justification enough for Israel to shoot. That the ship is SAID to be aid ship and full of diplomatically untouchable people and aid workers, doesn't mean anything. They must stop and allow Israel to board them and go through their cargo.
Why am I so sure? Because of the wounded Israeli soldiers. >:->

That I think Israel's rules are stupid and that they should allow shipments to Gaza is irrelevant. Civil disobedience doesn't apply in international situations. I have no right to go to another country and start disobeying clear rules just to make a point. No-one would do that to any other country but Israel.
I haven't seen any tourists pouring into China to protest against the occupation of Tibet and the mistreatment of Uighurs and other human rights and international law violations China makes itself guilty of every day.
I haven't heard of people getting in the way of heavy machinery and when they get crushed by it, start screaming about bloody murder, anywhere else but in Israel. Climbing in the rubble in the blind spot of the bulldoser operator is a suicide. Rachel Corrie killed herself. That the "eye witnesses" claim the operator could clearly see Rachel is just an assumption. Unless they were in the cockpit of the bulldozer, they cannot say whether he saw her or not. That Rachel presumably saw him doesn't mean he saw her.

"We were horribly surprised. They had been careful not to hurt us. They'd always stopped before."
- "Joseph Smith (Joe Carr)
But then they suddenly decided to kill one woman? And no-one else after that... yeah, sure. Very believable.

I haven't heard of politicians using their vacation to to join in aggressive protests against another country, except when that country is Israel.

India got independent from an occupier much stronger and more aggressive than Israel through PEACEFUL protests, PASSIVE resistance and civil disobedience without the involvement of outside "resistance fighters".
South Africa got rid of apartheid through political means.
What makes people think Israel is worse than the Brits and Afrikaans ever?

The fact that "pro-Palestinian" propaganda is never questioned, investigated and revealed as what it is. As long as people just swallow the hook, sink and bait, the "pro-Palestinians" will continue spinning propaganda, and every effort to try to get a more balanced picture of what is really happening, is being painted black as "NaZionism". Who suffers from this propaganda war is the Palestinians.

Israel's reputation gets worse and worse, but, come on, how much worse can it get? The "pro-Palestinians" have been painting Israel black already for decades. You can't get darker than that. Today no-one would be surprised if Israel would nuke Gaza and West Bank. If Israel mass-poisoned the whole Palestinian population, no-one would be surprised. If Israel would really genocide the Palestinian people, send Mossad to kill all the Palestinians outside Israel-Palestine, no-one would be surprised. And, frankly, I start to think that might be the solution. Then the current Israeli leaders could surrender, be convicted in Hague to be executed for their crimes against humanity, human rights and international laws, and they would leave their descendants an Israel free of the "Palestinian problem". It's starting to look like a reasonable prize to be paid. Just look at Germany today. "It was the previous generation, not us." They solved their "Jew problem", and now the country is relatively Jew-free. Perhaps the Israelis should learn from the history, and see how Germany could survive genocide of Jews, how Turkey could survive genocide of Armenians, how Serbia could survive genocide, and just do it.

Is that really what you want?

Did you know that wearing a scarf is fraternizing with the enemy?

Nancy Pelosi visited Syria some time ago, and while visiting a mosque, she showed some respect to the country's native traditions and covered her hair. Just the way I do when I visit a church, a synagogue, or any other "holy place" where the women are used to cover their hair.

I don't do it to show any obedience to the religion or the people following that religion, I'm Pagan and happily so, and will never be anything else, I do it to show common courtesy to my fellow human beings by following their rules as long as I am in their place.

When in USA, the visitors follow the USonian customs, traditions and laws,
when in Syria, the visitors follow the Syrian customs, traditions and laws.

Nancy Pelosi didn't wear a hijab. Claiming that she did shows an inexcusable ignorance on what is hijab. Her hair is showing and considering that her scarf is of silk, it is rather slippery and can slide off her hair at any moment. They say she was wearing a black abaya. So what? Probably her normal dress wasn't as modest as is expected when visiting a mosque in an Islamic country, and someone found her an abaya. An abaya is a garment that covers your body except for your hands, head and feet. It doesn't MEAN anything. You are not this or that if you wear one, neither are you saying anything with it. It's a piece of clothing, nothing more, nothing less.

Besides, Islam is not the enemy. If you think it is, you are a xenophobic idiot; islamophobe and stupid as all xenophobes are.
Syria and Syria's President have never attacked USA in any way or manner. They MIGHT WANT to, but that is a totally different issue. Making people your enemies, because they MIGHT WANT to do bad things to you, puts you against the whole world. In that position, you shouldn't be wondering why "everyone hates USA". Look at yourself. It's YOU who hate everyone.

Nancy Pelosi showed only that she is not an oaf like so many other USonians, George W Bush included. Her visit to Syria and her show of respect will have POSITIVE consequences as the Syrians and everyone following her visit now know that at least SOME USonians have manners.

Some others woe about fashion designers bending at the will of Muslims, because they show silk scarves in their fashion shows... "Scarves as hijab", they cry...


That too shows a saddening ignorance about hijab, but even more saddeningly THE WESTERN FASHION! The Muslims didn't invent the square printed silk scarf! Already the Romans used scarves - or kerchiefs, as they were at that time. The silk scarves were invented in China and made into fashion item in France in the 18th century. A square scarf has been part of the Western national costumes for more than 500 years.
(history of scarves)
Hermès started producing scarves - worn among others by Queen Elisabeth II, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn - NOT HIJABI STYLE - 1937. The colorful, printed silk scarf is not something Islamic or medieval as some idiots try to claim.

Dolce & Gabbana takes Royal Inspiration
NOT HIJAB inspiration!

Dolce & Gabbana taking inspiration from another royalty, Grace Kelly - or Princess Grace of Monaco.
NOT HIJAB.

Audrey Hepburn wearing a scarf - NOT HIJABI STYLE

Some European girls wearing a "babushka scarf"
- NOT HIJAB!

Modest JEWISH women wear a headscarves as well.
Some women with cancer wear headscarves as well.

Are you going to blame them too
for "submitting to Islam" and "fraternizing with the enemy"?

Is Sweden Antisemitic?

No... not exactly. Sweden is Anti-Israeli. It's only when people cannot or will not see the difference in Israel and Jews, when Anti-Israelism turns into antisemitism. Most Swedes still understand and acknowledge the difference, so they are not antisemites.

Sweden is VERY Anti-Israeli.

We have the tennis matches between Israel and Sweden only a couple of months ago.

We have Sweden refusing to participate in army exercise when Israel is involved, "because Israel is a country at war", but has no problems in exercising with USA.

We have demonstrations demanding balanced news reporting in Israel-Palestine issue disturbed, attacked, harassed - and police puts stop to the legal demonstration, and not the illegal con-demonstrations and harassment.

We have people boycotting Israeli products and demanding the state puts Israel in embargo.

We have artists praising suicide murderers (oh, sure, Dror Feiler is born Israeli and Jewish - AND? Obviously people have not heard of anti-Israeli Jews... :->) in the name of artistic expression, when "Mohammed as a traffic circle dog" is condemned and the artist silenced.
(The Swedish Government, BTW, told also President Ahmadinejad that the Swedish government does not get involved with what the newspapers write, but no-one raised the discussion of Ahmadinejad's motifs and sanity, like they now are doing with Netanyahu and Lieberman...)
Also, for some reason, the antisemitic artists and artists hackling Israel don't get any police protection, like the anti-islamic artists and artists hackling any Arabic countries...)

The press is very Pro-Palestinian. Every Anti-Israeli news is given the first page, any pro-Israeli news or corrections to the lies is given a tiny note somewhere on the page 6, which no-one ever reads. There was one day when a Palestinian terrorist killed a lot of people - the first page of the biggest newspaper in the country was about how hard it is for the Palestinians on West Bank to get to their work in Israel. The terrorist news was a small note inside the newspaper.
Some newspapers, like Aftonbladet, will publish any crap as long as it attacks Israel and praises Palestine, never mind truth and journalistic integrity.
We have dozens of books telling how awful Israel is and how peaceloving and kind people the Palestinians are (yes, it's always "Big Bad Israel" and "innocent Palestinians". Israelis don't exist as individual human beings with their own mind, thoughts, opinions and actions, they are just part of the monolithic inhumane machine called Israel.) and repeating all the Palestinian lies on what happened, where, when and why.

For example, the press was heavily criticized when they published photos of Palestinians celebrating with the rest of the Arab world when "the big, bad USA finally got what it deserved", that is 9/11. "The Palestinians are so hardly treated, it's unfair to publish any news that might cause them more trouble".
Then Hanan Ashrawi gets in the air very upset trying to pull the fairytale of the Palestinians NOT doing that, "they were celebrating because someone - probably an Israeli infilter - gave them cake"... She is saying that 95% of the Arabs dance on the streets because the Untouchable Satan finally got touched, and 5% of them dance on the streets because they got cake... Some mighty cake that is... But the Swedes believed that and so did every other Pro-Palestinian. Of course the Palestinians are not normal human beings, they are all angels and saints that would not joy for other people's misery!

This is how hate is born...

I just saw part of a documentary about Palestinian female suicide bombers.

One young woman was to bomb a hospital, but before she managed to do that, she was burned badly in a gas accident, rushed into the very same hospital she was supposed to bomb, tended there for weeks, rescued and let back into her life. She says she is still prepared to bomb the hospital. It doesn't matter that the hospital saved her life, it's Israeli. The journalist asked her if it would matter if there were children in the hospital, and she said "yes, sure, if they were Palestinian children, but if they were Israeli children, no, it wouldn't matter. They kill Palestinian children".

The world is right now very upset because the Israelis supposedly bombed hospitals in Gaza. What's the difference? This woman is just as "good" as the Israelis who allegedly bombed Palestinian hospitals, no difference. Still these so-called Pro-Palestinians and the poor, innocent, defenseless Palestinians who accuse Israelis of bombing a hospital, praise this woman, her courage and her devotion... they make her a martyr. Well... guess what. Not one person (Israeli or Palestinian) who attacks (or plans to attack) a hospital goes to heaven, what ever who ever promises you.
The Israeli children are just as innocent as the Palestinian children. Sure, the Israeli children wrote greetings to mr. Hasrallah on the rockets at the Lebanese war, but the Palestinian children are taught to chant death to Jews. (Not occupiers, not nazis, not Israelis, Jews.) Not one person killing (planning to kill, ignoring if they kill) children (which ever children) goes to heaven either.
People like this won't get 72 houris to serve them, they get 72 furies to haunt them, dead and alive.

I had to close the tv after 15 minutes of "burn in hell, you bitch, burn in hell, you devil's whore, burn in hell, burn in hell..." I even thought that the Israelis are doing God's work: "May your children burn in front of your eyes, so that they don't carry on your wickedness. May your life be hell, you bitch!" It took me almost half an hour to calm down. I am not involved in any way. How crazy by hatred must the Israelis and Palestinians be? Both sides think that the other side's children are born murderers, evil to the bone, deserving to die... Both sides think that the only good person of the other people is dead person, and killing the other is a good deed... Hatred keeps birthing more hatred, more death, more anger, more revenge, thousand eyes for an eye, thousand teeth for one tooth, thousand lives for one life.

No. No Palestinian children, no Israeli children, children. Don't ask the nationality of the child, the ethnicity, the color of the child's skin, the child's religion. It's a child.

AI managed to surprise me.

Hamas didn't manage to use the situation very well... after trying to use the war against Israel as a smoke screen to get rid of all the political enemies and after stealing the aid transports, Hamas isn't very high up on the human rights organizations' list right now. Now Amnesty International is demanding a weapon embargo against Hamas too...

"The London-based human rights group said it had found evidence that Israel and Hamas had both used weapons supplied from overseas to carry out attacks on civilians, accusing both sides of committing war crimes during the three-week conflict at the start of the year."

Donatella Rovera added: "At the same time, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups fired hundreds of rockets that had been smuggled in or made of components from abroad at civilian areas in Israel.

"Though far less lethal than the weaponry used by Israel, such rocket firing also constitutes a war crime and caused several civilian deaths."

I find it interesting, though, that NOW no so-called Pro-Palestinian mentions that Hamas is actually the democratically elected government of Palestine, and therefore represents the whole Palestinian people... what Hamas does is what Palestine does just as what the GOI does is what Israel does...

Then I found this: "San Jose Peace and Justice Center; Free Gaza Activists Welcomed Home"

So - people are saying that Israelis owe the Gazan civilians reparations... Now, that depends totally on whether Gaza is occupied or not. In reality it hasn't been occupied since 2005. Some people seem to think that as long as Israel occupies ANY Palestinian territory, it occupies EVERY Palestinian territory. To my astonishment this idea is shared by a large chunk of UN. Basically they are saying that Ireland is wholly occupied by UK, as UK is still occupying the Northern Ireland. It is not only Ireland and UK who laugh at this idea, the whole world laughs with them, but for some reason the same logic is not used in the Israel-Palestine situation.
No, Gaza is not occupied and Israel owes no reparations.

They are demanding that President Obama sees that Israel complies to the UN resolution 1860. They aren't demanding that Palestine complies to the same resolution... Sure, there is no state of Palestine that is a full member of UN and therefore there are no resolutions against Palestine... but that's not the truth, really, is it. :-> The resolution 1860 actually includes demands on Palestine and its government - or both governments - and by recalling the resolutions given before PA became involved in UN and to this day didn't need to care for, UN security council made the Palestinians responsible for following these resolutions as well.

So what do these resolutions say?
242 (1967) - 338 (1973) - 1397 (2002) - 1515 (2003) - 1850 (2008) -1860 (2009)

Resolution 1860
"Calls upon Member States to intensify efforts to prevent illicit trafficking in arms and ammunition"
"Condemns all violence and hostilities directed against civilians and all acts of terrorism"

Has Palestine/Gaza/Hamas stopped? No. Last week there were at least five rockets sent from Gaza to Israel.
Why aren't these so-called pro-Palestinians demanding Gaza respects and honors the UN resolutions they are so angry to Israel for not doing?

resolution 1397 demanded "immediate cessation of all acts of violence, including all acts of terror, provocation, incitement and destruction".
It doesn't only speak to Israel, but to ALL STATES AND ACTORS IN THE AREA - including Palestine, Lebanon, Hamas, Hizbullah, and others.

Resolution 1850, among other things, demand that Palestinian government recognizes Israel.

Resolution 242 requires the application of this principle:
"Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and
respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force"
Another resolution Palestine is not complying to...

Resolution 338 "decides that, immediately and concurrently with the cease-fire, negotiations shall start between the parties concerned under appropriate auspices aimed at establishing a just and durable peace in the Middle East"
A government that denies any possibility of negotiations and that considers negotiation with Israel to be a treason is ignoring this UN resolution. Do the so-called Pro-Palestinian mind? Not the least.

The UN security council resolutions recalled also demand the implementation of the Tenet work plan, Mitchell Report recommendations, the Madrid Principles AND the Performance-Based Roadmap. These don't give only Israel obligations and responsibilities...

It is not President Obama's responsibility to see that Israel and Palestine respect the International Laws and UN resolutions. It is the responsibility of the democratically elected governments and leaders of Israel AND Palestine. Actually, what has been demanded of Hamas - which the so-called Pro-Palestinians claim are unreasonable demands - to recognize Israel, to respect the agreements of previous Palestinian governments and to stop the violence - are only requests to comply to the UN resolutions. It shouldn't be unreasonable, unfair nor impossible.