Tag Archives: israel

Business/Economics, International

World War 3: Turkey will challenge Israel’s navy, says Israel will not stop next Gaza aid flotilla!

“Turkish warships, in the first place, are authorized to protect our ships that carry humanitarian aid to Gaza. From now on, we will not let these ships to be attacked by Israel, as what happened with the Freedom Flotilla.”-Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey

Erdogan said that Turkey will boost its naval presence in eastern Mediterranean to challenge Israel’s domination in the sea.

In a reference to Israeli plans to exploit huge gas and oil reserves found beneath the Mediterranean Sea, that are claimed by Lebanon, Erdogan said Turkish forces will also stop Israel from exploiting natural resources in the area.

On July 26 Lebanon issued similar warnings to Israel: “We warn Israel against extending its hands to this area to steal Lebanon’s resources from Lebanese waters.”-Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary General

The Turkish prime minister indicated that Israel’s claim to all the resources of the Mediterranean is what will lead to war: “You know that Israel has begun to declare that it has the right to act in exclusive economic areas in the Mediterranean. You will see that it will not be the owner of this right, because Turkey, as a guarantor of the Turkish republic of north Cyprus, has taken steps in the area, and it will be decisive and holding fast to the right to monitor international waters in the east Mediterranean.”

International, U.S.

United Police States of America: California College Students arrested for protesting Israeli Ambasador’s speech

The Irvine 11 are accused of repeatedly interrupting Israeli ambassador Michael Oren when he spoke on the UCI campus in February 2010.

They are now facing trial for “disturbing a meeting”.

One student at a recent protest pointed out that there’s something wrong with U.S. citizens not being able to exercise their right to expression, while a foreigner is protected: “…a foreign ambassador that’s coming to our home, and talking to us about these issues, and we can’t have a voice at the table, nor can we voice it in a protest?”-Kifah Shah, supporter of Irvine 11

The Irvine 11, students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside, have already been punished by University of California officials, and now face court trial on charges of  “disturbing a meeting”.  Many students say the charges are totally politically motivated.  It proves that students are not allowed to participate in public events.

If convicted the Irvine 11 could face six months in prison.

International

World War 3: Israel builds concrete wall around their Embassy in Egypt

“It is very provoking because it only means one thing and that is the [Egyptian] government is still taking orders from Israel because building Apartheid walls like the ones in Palestine is Israel’s strategy to protect itself but the fact is walls never protect anyone as history shows.”-Dina Fergani, protestor

Israel is surrounding its large embassy compound in Egypt, with a huge concrete wall.  Egyptians are responding by protesting, and painting the wall with anti-Israeli slogans.  One protestor pointed out that the wall actual sits on public property.

The 100 meter (328 feet) long, three meter (9.8 feet) high wall is being built by an Egyptian contractor.

The Facebook page “A call for peeing on the wall before the Israeli Embassy” was created on September 6.  According to the page, the idea was inspired by Egypt’s use of water cannons to breach Israel’s Sinai fortifications during the 1973 war.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: Palestinian officials tell Hillary Clinton, go F yourself! (essentially)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begged Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas, on September 6, to: “…work hard with us to avoid a negative scenario in New York. “

That “negative scenario” is the United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state!

Clinton then sent U.S. envoys to personally beg Abbas to stop the UN vote!

Abbas says it is now clear that the United States is not sincere in its claims of wanting peace for the Palestinians!  (about time he figured that out, Palestinian Hamas has been correct all this time)

Palestinian Liberation Organization Secretary General Yasser Abed Rabbo, said this about U.S. President Barack Obama’s policy towards Palestinians, and Arabs in general: “The subject is not settlements, or Palestinian independence or the rights of the Palestinian people, or halting the criminal violations perpetrated by the [Israeli] settlers against the Palestinian people.  All this is being ignored and the only issue has become the issue of us not going to the United Nations.  This shows not only disdain for the Palestinian position, but also scorn for what is happening in the Arab region.“

 

International

World War 3: Israel close to demolishing the Al Aqsa Mosque, under the cover of ‘archaeological excavations’

In 1967/68 Israel began so called archaeological excavations around the al Aqsa Mosque in al Quds (Jerusalem).  Those archaeological excavations are now dangerously close to the Mosque.  The latest photos show heavy equipment working right next to the wall that surrounds al Aqsa.

For decades Israel has been digging underneath the Mosque, as well as Christian sites.  Israel denies deliberately undermining the foundations of non-Jewish buildings.  However, Israel has denied repeated United Nations requests to voluntarily allow the UN to inspect the archaeological excavations.

In 2004 the Mugrabi entrance to the Al Aqsa Mosque was destroyed.  Israeli officials blame it on a storm.  In 2007 at least 50 people were detained by Israeli troops, after they took pictures of the so called archaeological excavations.

In April 2011, The Al Aqsa Foundation reported that excavations were accelerating.  Local residents were able to sneak into the tunnels and discovered a vast network that seems to undermine the entire Dome of the Rock/Temple Mount area.  Residents also reported that their homes are showing damaged due to the excavations.

September 7, 2011, Grand Mufti of al Quds, Mohammad Hussein, called for immediate action to stop the Israeli ‘excavations’, after a new 600 meter tunnel was found.  The tunnel is being dug directly into the stone foundation of the al Aqsa Mosque!

Lebanon’s Hezbollah is demanding the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Conference and all regional and international institutions to stop the Zionist excavations: “…before what we are warning of takes place, and satanic Zionist procedures succeed in the destruction of this great edifice.”

 

 

Business/Economics, International

Class War: Israelis arrested protesting Israeli government, attack Tel Aviv city hall

September 8, Reuters reporting at least 40 Israelis being arrested after blocking traffic, and breaking into the Tel Aviv city hall.

This after the biggest anti-regime rallies in Israel’s short history, on Saturday.

Anti-regime protests erupted in Israel in mid-July as activists began setting up tents in Tel Aviv to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s economic and social policies.

The protestors are also opposed to Israel’s illegal settlement expansions in the occupied Palestinian territories.

 

Business/Economics, International

Class War: Israeli Doctors & Nurses walk out of hospitals, protest Israeli government

“We want to make a decent living as doctors in Israel….We have a great public health system and you have to invest money and funds and the government is just letting the health system collapse.”-Doctor Shuli Swetitzki,  Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv

She said a lot of doctors sought to leave either Israel or their profession “because it is so hard to get by.”

Israelis have been protesting the high costs of living and social injustice over the recent months. The largest anti government protest by Israelis took place on September 3, when around one million Israelis held protest rallies in at least 50 cities.

 

International

Race & Class War: Israel discriminates against Black Jews, return of Israeli Black Panthers

“Not only have we not progressed, but the country has become an enemy of its people, everywhere citizens are harassed. There are more police, and now it’s not only the lower class who are suffering, but the middle class as well.”-Charlie-Sahlom Biton, former Israeli Member of Parliament and co-founder of Israeli Black Panthers movement

Recently Israeli citizens protested their own government, in record numbers, because of the growing divide between the haves and have nots.  Those affected the worst are Black Jews!

“Forty years have passed since we rose up to protest against the lack of justice. Since then, year after year, I’ve been waiting for the next generation to rise up.”-Charlie-Sahlom Biton

Charlie-Sahlom Biton, a former Israeli MP, says the situation in Israel has only gotten worse.  Black Jews, and Lower Class Jews have always been treated bad by the Israeli government, but now Biton says Middle Class Jews are being targeted as well.

Biton is helping to lead the resurgence of the Israeli Black Panthers, a group originally formed in the early 1970s.

The latest Israeli injustice against Black Jews, is the closing down of the Ner Etzion public school for Ethiopian immigrants.  To make matters worse, many of the private and public schools in the Petah Tikva area are refusing to take in the children of the Black Jews.

The area 6.5 miles east of Tel Aviv is nick named the Ethiopian ghetto.

International

World War 3: Israel detains and humuliates Turkish tourists, Turkey responds in kind

On September 4, Israeli security forces detained a group of Turkish tourists, and made them strip naked: “…they took us into changing rooms. (We) took off our clothes and shoes. (They) searched our bodies with their hands and then with a detector.”-Arif Cinar, Turkish citizen

On September 5, Turkey responded in kind by detaining Israeli tourists: “They were taken to separate rooms to be questioned. Their passports were taken. After about an hour and a half of waiting, they were questioned one by one and after that they got their passports back and then they were free to go.”-Ilana Stein, Israeli Foreign Ministry

The amazing thing is that Israeli officials admit they have been intentionally humiliating Turkish tourist who pass through the Ben Gurion airport, at least for the past year.

Tensions between Israel and Turkey have worsened ever since the 2010 killing of nine Turkish peace activists by Israeli forces.  Turkey is demanding an apology from Israel, as well as a lifting of the Israeli blockade of Gaza.  Of course Israel refuses.