Zionist-jewish Criminal News Round-Up (May 11-14)

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Israel FM: NKorean arms on plane bound for Hamas

Israel's foreign minister claimed Wednesday that North Korean weapons aboard a plane seized in Bangkok in December were bound for Middle Eastern militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said during a visit to Japan that North Korea, Syria and Iran are cooperating as a new "axis of evil" and pose the biggest threat to world security because they are building and spreading weapons of mass destruction.

"We saw this kind of cooperation only two or maybe three months ago with the North Korean plane in Bangkok with huge numbers of different weapons with the intention to smuggle these weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah," Lieberman told reporters in Tokyo.

Acting on a tip from the United States, Thai authorities on Dec. 12 seized an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang when it landed in Bangkok. It was carrying 35 tons of weapons — a violation of U.N. sanctions against North Korea.

Flight documents indicated the plane's cargo — listed as oil drilling equipment — was headed for the Iranian capital Tehran. Iranian officials denied they were importing weapons.

The five-man crew — four from Kazakhstan and one from Belarus — claimed they were ignorant of what they were carrying. The crew was deported in February after prosecutors dropped all charges against them.

Analysts have said that while the aircraft may have been heading for Iran, the weapons could actually have been earmarked for radical Middle Eastern groups like Hamas and Hezbollah which Iran has bankrolled and supplied with weapons in the past.

Thai authorities say the weapons on board included explosives, rocket-propelled grenades and components for surface-to-air missiles.

The U.N. imposed sanctions banning North Korea from exporting any arms after the communist regime conducted a nuclear test and test-fired missiles. Impoverished North Korea is believed to earn hundreds of millions of dollars every year by selling missiles, missile parts and other weapons to countries such as Iran, Syria and Myanmar.

Lieberman, who met with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama during his visit, did not elaborate on his claims that the weapons were destined for Hamas and Hezbollah.
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Israeli settler shot dead Palestinian teenager, police say

A teenage Palestinian boy has been shot dead in the occupied West Bank and Palestinians said he was probably killed by an Israeli settler.

The body of Aysar Yasser al-Zaben, 16, was found before dawn today in a field near al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya, a district of Ramallah. He had been shot in the back and was found lying face down.

Reports said a group of Palestinians were throwing stones at passing cars belonging to Israeli settlers on the main West Bank highway, route 60. Palestinian police said they believed the boy was shot when one settler stopped his car and opened fire on the Palestinians, although some accounts said the dead child was not one of the group of stone throwers. The area is close to the Jewish settlements of Shiloh and Ofra.
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Israel foreign minister sees N. Korea, Iran, Syria in 'axis of evil'

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"The biggest threat for both countries (is) from very radical regimes with nuclear capabilities or the desire to develop nuclear capabilities and missiles," said Lieberman. "This axis of evil that includes North Korea and Syria and Iran is the biggest threat to the entire world."
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But when some reporters brought up Israel's nuclear program, asking whether his country is going to explain it to the international community or whether Israel would consider joining the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Lieberman avoided giving a straight answer, saying he can only respond to facts, not "rumors."  :eh:

Israel nuclear whistleblower to be jailed again

Israel's top court has ordered nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu back to jail for three months after he refused to do community service in west Jerusalem for fear of harassment.

After having already served 18 years behind bars, a Jerusalem court convicted Vanunu and sentenced him to three months in jail or community service for meeting with a foreigner in violation of the terms of his release.

Vanunu asked the supreme court if he could perform the community service in Arab east Jerusalem, saying he feared he would be "harassed by the Israeli population" in the west of the city.

The supreme court rejected the argument, saying suitable work had been found in mainly Jewish west Jerusalem.

"The plaintiff refused and the court had no choice but to sentence him to three months in jail, which he will serve starting May 23," it said in a ruling issued on Tuesday.

Rights group Amnesty International to urge Israel not to re-imprison Vanunu.

"If Mordechai Vanunu is imprisoned again, Amnesty International will declare him to be a prisoner of conscience and call for his immediate and unconditional release," deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa Philip Luther said in a statement.

"The ongoing restrictions placed on Mordechai Vanunu have meant that he has been unable to move to the USA to live with his adopted family, placing a huge strain on his mental and physical health," Luther said.

"They are not parole restrictions since he served his full 18-year term. They arbitrarily limit his rights to freedom of movement, expression and association (and) are therefore in breach of international law."

Vanunu was jailed in 1986 for disclosing the inner workings of Israel's Dimona nuclear plant to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.

Since his release in 2004, he has been detained several times for violating the terms of his release that ban him from travel or contact with foreigners.

Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East, with around 200 nuclear warheads, but has a policy of neither confirming nor denying that.

The Jewish state has refused to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or allow international surveillance of Dimona in the southern Negev desert.

Vanunu became an international cause celebre during his time in prison.

At home, he is still widely reviled for converting to Christianity shortly before he was kidnapped in Italy and jailed after being covertly shipped back to the Jewish state.

Amnesty tells Israel to stop 'harassing' activist
Israeli Persecution of Human Rights Activists
Israel's 'Disappeared'

The Israeli police ask the courts for a gag order about 100 times a year. Not many countries claiming to be democracies 'disappear' their own citizens and deny them due process, notes Nadia Hijab

At first it seemed bizarre. Israel slapped a blanket gag order to prevent media coverage of the May 6 arrest of Ameer Makhoul, a prominent Palestinian citizen of Israel who heads Ittijah, a coalition of 64 major civil society organizations. Yet in no time at all the news had shot round the world, and Facebook pages were up calling for his freedom and for a demonstration in Haifa to demand his release.
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Human Rights Watch: IDF wantonly destroyed homes during Gaza war

Human Rights Watch said Thursday it had evidence of cases from a 2008-09 conflict in which the Israeli army wantonly destroyed civilian property in the Gaza Strip, even if there was no military necessity.

Israel should investigate the alleged cases of destruction during the 2008-2009 Gaza war, and those who committed or ordered them should be prosecuted for war crimes, the international human rights organization said.

The New York-headquartered group criticized Hamas and other Palestinian groups for firing rockets from populated areas, noting that, in such cases, property damage caused by Israeli counterstrikes "may have been lawful 'collateral damage.'"

But in a 116-page report published Thursday, titled "'I lost everything': Israel's Unlawful Destruction of Property in the Gaza conflict," the group described 12 cases in which troops destroyed homes, factories and orchards "without any lawful military purpose."

In those cases, HRW said it found no indication of nearby fighting at the time of the destruction. In all cases, the fighting in the area had stopped and, in most, Israeli bulldozers destroyed the property after Israeli soldiers had dispersed Palestinian militants in the area and consolidated control, said the group.

HRW said it documented the complete destruction of 190 buildings, including 11 factories, 8 warehouses and 170 residential buildings - which it said was roughly 5 per cent of the total property destroyed in Gaza - leaving at least 971 Palestinians homeless.

It also condemned Israel's economic blockade of Gaza as illegal collective punishment, which prevented proper reconstruction. In this, it also held Egypt responsible.
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Israel refuses re-entry to 5 Druze who made condolence call in Syria

Five Druze residents of the Golan Heights have been stuck for more than six weeks in Syria after Israeli authorities denied them permission to cross back into the Golan.

The group includes two women, Hamaa Shaar, 36, and Johara Shakhrur, 56, from the Golan Heights town of Buqata, who were visiting their families in Suwara, Syria following the death of Sha'ar's brother and Shakhur's mother.
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US to fund installation of Israeli rocket defence system

Barack Obama is to ask the US Congress for an extra $200m in military aid to help Israel get a short-range rocket defence system in place.

The system is designed to shoot down mortars and rockets from Gaza or Southern Lebanon with guided missiles.

The system, called Iron Dome, has gone through testing and installation will start later this year.

According to US State Department figures, direct military aid to Israel was $2.55bn in 2009.

This is set to increase to $3.15bn in 2018.

Lebanese arrested for spying for Israel

Man suspected of providing Jewish state with details of location of Lebanese president's house, entry of Iranian ships to Lebanon waters.

Lebanon's  security forces arrested a man 10 days ago suspected of spying for Israel, Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported Friday. The man is suspected of passing reports to Israeli intelligence services detailing the exact location of Lebanese President Michel Suleiman.

According to the newspaper, the man, identified by his initials F.S. only, was also instructed to keep track of Iranian ships entering Lebanese territorial waters as well as a ship belonging to a businessman who maintains links with Hezbollah.
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Israel rejects call to talk with Hamas

Israel's Foreign Ministry rejected a call by the presidents of Russia and Turkey to include Hamas in the peace process.

In a joint news conference Wednesday in Ankara, Russia's Dmitry Medvedev and Turkey's Abdullah Gul said Hamas should not be excluded from the current peace process. Gul said peace could not be achieved without Hamas involvement.

"Nobody should be excluded when these talks are held," Gul said. "Unfortunately the Palestinians are divided in two. They must be united, and to unite them there must be talks with both sides. The Hamas side won elections in Gaza and so cannot be ignored."

Israel's Foreign Ministry in a statement released late Wednesday also condemned Medvedev's meeting that day with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus.

"Israel has always stood behind Russia in its fight against Chechen terrorism and we expect similar treatment in the case of Hamas terrorism against Israel," the statement said.

Could the Middle East become a nuclear-free zone?

Western concerns about Iran's nuclear programme have so far dominated the latest UN conference on the treaty aimed at stopping the spread and stockpiling of nuclear weapons.

But another state is sharing centre stage at the month-long negotiations in New York to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), despite its complete absence from the hall.

"Israel's nuclear arsenal stands like the radioactive elephant in the room," says blogger and journalist Khaled Diab.

Israel Inc's families face backlash

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"There is a lot of emotion right now. The general public asks: How come that 20 families control the economy? Israelis want these families to have less power," says Omer Moav, economics professor at the Royal Holloway, University of London, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Israel must sign NPT, IAEA Chief Says

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has called for international input to pressure Israel into joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano has asked the watchdog's 151 member states to share views on how to implement a resolution demanding that Israel "accede to the" NPT and open its nuclear facilities to inspections.

"It would be helpful to me if Your Excellency could inform me of any views that your government might have with respect to meeting the objectives of the resolution," he wrote in a letter to the foreign ministers of IAEA member states.

However, Israel has objected to the letter. Tel Aviv says that the move is misdirected and the IAEA should instead focus on preventing NPT signatories like Iran from acquiring atomic weapons.

But Israel's accusations are clearly baseless since IAEA inspectors have never found evidence of diversion in Iran's nuclear program.

Amano's letter, which was published on Wednesday, comes seven months after IAEA member states passed a resolution in Vienna criticizing Israel's nuclear program.

The resolution "expresses concern about the Israeli nuclear capabilities," pointing out that they give rise to "concern about the threat posed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons for the security and stability of the Middle East."

Students call College Board anti-Israel

An English Literature Advanced Placement essay prompt featuring a quote from the late Palestinian-American professor Edward Said has caused some Jewish students insist the test was politicized against Israel, the Forward reported Thursday.

The essay prompt did not mention Palestine or Israel, but it did characterize Said as a "Palestinian American literary theorist and cultural critic."

The essay question, about the nature of exile, read: "Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and its native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted."

For Bronx High School of Science senior Ayelet Pearl, identifying the author as Palestinian politicized the test and reinforced what she feels is a widespread worldview that paints Israel as the aggressor against the Palestinians. Pearl said of the quote:

"I was really startled to see that quote because both of the practice questions didn't mention the writers' nationalities. For me including this one clearly had political implications.

"I'm in a public school and most students here have the impression that Israel is the one attacking [the Palestinians].    To put a quote in like this subconsciously reinforces the idea that Israel's the antagonist, the aggressor, the one in the wrong."

Pearl said she froze when she encountered the quote: "I didn't know what to do because I wasn't comfortable answering it." Quoting Said on the AP exam "is very reflective of the widespread use of education and testing as a platform for anti-Israel propaganda," she said.

The College Board, which develops and administers testing for the Advanced Placement exams, said there is nothing wrong with the essay prompt. College Board spokeswoman Jennifer Topiel said:

"We have heard no concerns about this exam question, which contains a quotation about exile and does not contain any political subject matter."

The Forward said no other writers reference on this year's AP English Literature exam referenced their nationality. However, two years ago, an essay prompt referenced Anita Desai as an Indian author.

'Zionism is dumbing down Jews'

Journalist and Mondoweiss blogger Philip Weiss said the Edward Said furor is another example that "Zionism is dumbing down the Jews."

"In order to believe the Zionist narrative about Israel," Weiss wrote Thursday, "you basically have to block out a lot of history and wipe out another people's humanity and experience, simply disavow it." That includes insisting that the inclusion of Said's nationality is tantamount to calling Israel an aggressor state. According to Weiss, Said didn't make Israel an aggressor state - Israel did:

"Ayelet Pearl does not want to believe that Israel was an antagonist, an aggressor. This is fantasy. Ennobling Israel at every turn means never having to come to terms with the unfairness of Said's dispossession– which by the way, was in complete defiance of the 1947 Partition resolution that breathed legitimacy into the Jewish state. It means self-imposed stupidity."

Media Matters Action Network Senior Foreign Policy Fellow MJ Rosenberg heard about the AP exam row, but he was not impressed with Pearl's dismay either. The former AIPAC staffer said in the Huffington Post that the civilizational concern over the AP question is indicative of "the new style of pro-Israel advocacy built on victimhood."

He said AIPAC and the rest of the pro-Israel lobby is trying to garner support for Israel by attempting to convince "the most secure Jewish community in history that they should be afraid, very afraid."

"Israel is the 4th strongest military power in the world. It has 200 nuclear bombs. It has an army of cool, tough, non-weepy soldiers -- many of whom look like Olympic athletes.  :lol:  And you are teaching victimhood."

Whether the College Board has a subconscious bias against authors born east of Europe that prompts them to identify their nationality or the testing authority really has a Palestinian agenda, Rosenberg said this kind of panic is the work of pro-Israel advocacy that wants to turn Jewish kids "into scaredy-cats."

Facebook founder called trusting users dumb f*cks

Zuckerberg was chatting with an unnamed friend, apparently in early 2004. Business Insider, which has a series of quite juicy anecdotes about Facebook's early days, takes the credit for this one.

The exchange apparently ran like this:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks

Almost forgot...  :roll:

Salvadoran diplomat who helped Jews during Holocaust to be named righteous gentile

Jose Arturo Castellanos, who granted citizenship certificates to nearly 40,000 Jews, is the first Salvadoran to be so recognized.
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[MonkeySeeMonkeyDo]

Thanks for putting this together.  :up:

[Ahmed]

Good summaries SIA2, excellent supplement to TFC and TIU shows.  

Is the Righteous Gentile designation also known as The Goy Shmuck award in some circles?

[jai_mann]

Jose Arturo Castellanos has Jewish lips. No doubt they've been interbreeding down there and using it to hide their people who get into positions of power. I wonder if this "gentile" with jewish lips is one of 'em.