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THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS IS ALIVE AND WELL AS "THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY COOPERATION".
ONLY THE NAME HAS CHANGED TO PROTECT THE GUILTY.
SO WHAT?
WHO CARES?
Well, the School of the Americas (SOA) is alive and functional under a new name, still on American soil, and the Department of Defense REFUSES to release the names of those attending the "school", causing some alarm among those who fought so hard for it to be abandoned after human rights violations were discovered all over Latin America because of the techniques taught there, and because some of the most violent political figures of our age were trained there...THAT'S WHY!
THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS WAS INVESTIGATED IN 1997 BY REP. JOSEPH KENNEDY II, AND BLAMED THE PENTAGON FOR FAILURE TO STOP DISTRIBUTING TRAINING MANUALS THAT TAUGHT METHODS OF TORTURE, MURDER, AND EXTORTION TO "BATTLE LEFTIST FORCES" IN THE 1980s MARCH 7, 1997, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-03-07/news/1997066103_1_latin-america-training-materials-training-in-latin
<<.[KENNEDY] accused the Pentagon's inspector general of a "whitewash" and said
that last month's Pentagon report "glosses over the true implications of
U.S. involvement in teaching torture in Latin America." The Kennedy
report was based on an investigation by the congressman's staff.
Kennedy
also renewed his call for the Army to shut down the School of the
Americas, the training facility for Latin American military officers
where the training materials were used until 1991.
Citing the testimony of instructors at the school, the 20-page
Kennedy report offers the most complete public account to date of how
the U.S. military put together and distributed seven intelligence
training materials that violated U.S. laws and Defense Department
policies against the use of torture and the execution of suspected
subversives.
The revival of aggressive and often abusive
intelligence-gathering methods coincided with the coming to power in
1980 of the Reagan administration, which was determined to forcefully
resist the threat of communism in Central America. According to the
Kennedy report, the Carter administration had halted intelligence
training operations because of Latin human rights abuses. "Top priority"
Two
officers, Lt. Col. Victor Tise and Capt. John Zindar, told a Kennedy
staffer that in 1982, they understood "that it was a top priority for
President Reagan to reinstate intelligence training in Latin America
immediately." One CIA manual, obtained by The Sun in January under the Freedom of
Information Act, taught interrogation methods that were strikingly
similar to those used in the early 1980s by Battalion 316, a CIA-trained
Honduran military unit that kidnapped, tortured and murdered suspected
leftists in the 1980s.>>
SOA turned out "students" who were later found guilty of genocide, who were aided by American agencies, as in the CONTRA affair during Ronald Reagan's terms in office. SOA, now known as The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, USA, that provides military training to government personnel of Latin American countries. The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961, during the Kennedy administration, was assigned the specific goal of teaching anti-communist counterinsurgency training, a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War. In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators and, during the 1980s, included torture in its curriculum.
[SEE: Editorial (September 28, 1996). "School of the Dictators". The New York Times. Retrieved August 12, 2012. AND Editorial (October 1, 1996). "Teaching Human Rights Violations". The Washington Post. p. A18. Retrieved August 12, 2012.]
In 2000, during the Bush 2 administration, the institute was renamed to WHINSEC.
This "school" has been under fire since 1992 when it was discovered that it apparently taught "skills" like torture, murder, kidnapping, and "instilling fear" in local populations.
The Department of Defense is currently being sued by a watchdog organization for noncompliance of the Freedom of Information Act, failing to release requested documents. WHEN A U.S. DEPARTMENT WON'T RELEASE RECORDS, NAMES, OR ANY INFORMATION THEN WE MAY ASSUME THAT AGENCY HAS MUCH TO HIDE!
"School of the Americas Watch vs. U.S. Department of Defense
Human rights activists petition court to have DOD release
names of students of infamous U.S. military training school."
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
9:00 AM Court Session with Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton
U.S. Courthouse, Courtroom 3, 1301 Clay Street (at 14th St.)
Oakland, California
<<The U.S. Department of Defense has denied Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests by School of the Americas Watch for the names of WHINSEC students and instructors for the years 2004-2010. For the years 1946-2003 the names had always been released when requested. The names are the basis of the SOA Watch database and the means of citizen oversight of the record of SOA/WHINSEC graduates. (See: http://www.soaw.org/about-the-soawhinsec/soawhinsec-grads) >>
http://www.soaw.org/take-action/legislative/articles/110-critique-of-the-western-hemisphere-institute-for-security-cooperation
<<On September 20, 1996, under intense public pressure, the Pentagon was forced to release training manuals that were used at the School of the Americas for years. These manuals advocated torture, extortion, blackmail and the targeting of civilian populations. A Washington Post article by Dana Priest broke the story.
The release of these manuals proved what the SOA Watch organization, thousands of Latin Americans and numerous human rights organizations had been saying for years: that U.S. taxpayer money had been used for the teaching of torture and repression.
Material from CIA and Army manuals written in the 1950's and 1960's was incorporated into seven Spanish-language training guides. More than a thousand of these manuals were distributed for use in countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru, and at the School of the Americas between 1987 and 1991. An inquiry was triggered in mid-1991 when the US Southern Command evaluated the manuals for use in expanding military support programs in Colombia.
In March 1992, then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney received an investigative report on "Improper Material in Spanish-Language Intelligence Training Manuals." Classified SECRET, the report noted that five of the seven manuals "contained language and statements in violation of legal, regulatory or policy prohibitions" and recommended they be recalled. The memo is stamped: "SECDEF HAS SEEN.">>
Interestingly, contrary to popular belief, Cheney obviously NEVER asked that the manuals be recalled after this: Major Victor Tise, who was responsible for assembling the Latin American manuals at School of the Americas for counterintelligence training in 1982 stated that the manuals had been forwarded to DOD headquarters for clearance "and came back approved but UNCHANGED." (Emphasis in original document)
Tise, who served in 1982 as a counterintelligence instructor at the School of the Americas, has related the history of the "objectionable material" in the manuals and the training courses at SOA. A decade of training between 1966 and 1976 was SUSPENDED after a Congressional panel witnessed the "teaching program" and were shocked and appalled. The Carter administration then HALTED the counterintelligence training courses "for fear training would contribute to Human Rights violations in other countries," Tise said, but the program was RESTORED BY THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION IN 1982.
Tice then obtained training materials from the archives of the Army's "Project X" program which he described as a "training package to provide counterinsurgency techniques learned in Vietnam to Latin American countries."
The course materials Tice put together, including the manuals that became the subject of the investigations, were sent to Defense Department headquarters "for clearance" in 1982 and "came back approved but UNCHANGED." These manuals were used throughout Latin America over at least the next nine years.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 122
<<The
two CIA manuals, "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual-1983" and
"KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation-July 1963," were originally
obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Baltimore Sun in
1997. The KUBARK manual includes a detailed section on "The Coercive
Counterintelligence Interrogation of Resistant Sources," with concrete
assessments on employing "Threats and Fear," "Pain," and "Debility."
After Congress began investigating reports of Central American
atrocities in the mid 1980s, particularly in Honduras, the CIA's "Human
Resource Exploitation" manual was hand edited to alter passages that
appeared to advocate coercion and stress techniques to be used on
prisoners. CIA officials attached a new prologue page on the manual
stating: "The use of force, mental torture, threats, insults or exposure
to inhumane treatment of any kind as an aid to interrogation is
prohibited by law, both international and domestic; it is neither
authorized nor condoned"-making it clear that authorities were
well aware these abusive practices were illegal and immoral, even as
they continued then and now.>>
SO EVERYONE KNEW WHO CLAIMED THEY DIDN'T KNOW, AND THE MANUALS WERE USED FOR ALL THOSE YEARS.
<<U.S. Army intelligence manuals used to train Latin American military officers at an Army school from 1982 to 1991 advocated executions, torture, blackmail and other forms of coercion against insurgents, Pentagon documents released yesterday (09/20/1996) show.
Used in courses at the U.S. Army's School of the Americas, the manual says that to recruit and control informants, counterintelligence agents could use fear, payment of bounties for enemy dead, beatings, false imprisonment, executions and the use of truth serum, according to a secret Defense Department summary of the manuals compiled during a 1992 investigation of the instructional material and also released yesterday.
The Army School of the Americas, long located in Panama, moved in 1984 to Fort Benning, Ga., has trained nearly 60,000 military and police officers from Latin America and the United States since 1946.
Its graduates have included some of the region's most notorious human rights abusers, among them Roberto D'Aubuisson, the leader of El Salvador's right-wing death squads; 19 Salvadoran soldiers linked to the 1989 assassination of six Jesuit priests; Gen. Manuel Noriega, the deposed Panamanian strongman; six Peruvian officers linked to killings of students and a professor; and Col. Julio Roberto Alpirez, a Guatemalan officer implicated in the death of an American innkeeper living in Guatemala and in the death of a leftist guerrilla married to an American lawyer.
When reports of the 1992 investigation surfaced this year during a congressional inquiry into the CIA's activities in Guatemala, spokesmen for the school denied the manuals advocated such extreme methods of operation, which were in violation of Army policy and law at the time they were in use.
The manuals were compiled by Army intelligence officials.
The material was based, in part, on training instructions used in the 1960s by the Army's Foreign Intelligence Assistance Program, entitled "Project X." The 1992 investigation also found the manual was distributed to thousands of military officers from 11 South and Central American countries ...where the U.S. military was heavily involved in counterinsurgency.
One manual, entitled "Handling of Sources," also "discloses classified [informant] methodology that could compromise Army clandestine intelligence modus operandi," the 1992 investigation found. Another manual, entitled "Counterintelligence," contained ?sensitive Army counterintelligence tactics, techniques and procedures."
...the manual entitled, "Handling of Sources" says, "The CI [counterintelligence] agent could cause the" arrest of the employees [informants] parents, imprison the employee or give him a beating" to coerce cooperation.
On several occasions it uses the words "neutralization" or "neutralizing," which was commonly used at the time as a euphemism for execution or destruction, a Pentagon official said.
The manual on "Terrorism and the Urban Guerrilla" says that "another function of the CI agents is recommending CI targets for neutralizing. Some examples of these targets are governmental officials, political leaders, and members of the infrastructure."
Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Mass.), an advocate of closing the school, said in a statement last night that the manuals "show what we have suspected all along, that taxpayers' money has been used for physical abuse." Kennedy said, "The School of the Americas, a Cold War relic, should be shut down." >>
THE UNITED STATES HAS INTERFERED IN LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS, FUNDED COUP ATTEMPTS, BACKED DICTATORS TO REPLACE OTHER DICTATORS FOR OVER 100 YEARS.
The book, Predatory States: Operation Condor And Covert War In Latin America
by J. Patrice McSherry lists other "operations" and "projects" that show the progression of America's torture methods. It especially addresses America's part in the early 1970's in "Operation Condor", a campaign of political repression involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1971=1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America WITH AMERICA'S HELP.
You may read excerpts here: http://tinyurl.com/cujxt3q The Phoenix Program, Operation Condor, the Northwoods Project (Operation Northwoods), The Polk Conspiracy, The Gladio Conspiracy, Project Camelot are but a very few of covert operations undertaken by the U.S. across the globe since before World War II. ONCE UPON A TIME, PEOPLE SAID ALL THESE WERE JUST "CONSPIRACY THEORIES, BUT TODAY, ALL HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO BE FACT.
ALL governments seem to engage in such tactics as murder, torture, coercion, and spying, but some such torture "programs" have gone to extremes... as at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
America's "PROJECT X" for Vietnam may have been a nod toward an older training school, one which the OSS and later CIA trained at in Canada.
"Camp X in Thunder Bay Canada, ANOTHER School of Assassins"
'Camp X' was the unofficial name of a Second World War paramilitary and commando training installation on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada. The area is known today as Intrepid Park, after the code name for Sir William Stephenson of the British Security Coordination.
Camp X was established December 6, 1941 by the chief of British Security Coordination (BSC), Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and a close confidante of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Before the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the war, Camp X opened for the purpose of training Allied agents from the Special Operations Executive, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) intended to be dropped behind enemy lines as saboteurs and spies. However, even before the United States entered the war on December 7, 1941, agents from America's intelligence services expressed an interest in sending personnel for training at the soon to be opened Camp X. Agents from the FBI and the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) secretly attended Camp X. Most notable was Colonel William "Wild Bill" Donovan, war-time head of the OSS, who credited Sir William Stephenson with teaching Americans about foreign intelligence gathering. The CIA even named their recruit training facility "The Farm", a nod to the original farm that existed at the Camp X site.
You may read considerably more about this at : http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/
WHILE AT THAT SITE, PLEASE READ "National Security Archive Briefing Book No. 418
Posted – March 19, 2013" [ http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB418/ ]
The Iraq War Ten Years After.
Declassified Documents Show Failed Intelligence, Policy Ad Hockery, Propaganda-Driven Decision-Making.
<<Washington, DC, March 19, 2013 – The U.S. invasion of Iraq turned out to be a textbook case of flawed assumptions, wrong-headed intelligence, propaganda manipulation, and administrative ad hockery, according to the National Security Archive's briefing book of declassified documents posted today to mark the 10th anniversary of the war.
The Archive's documentary primer includes the famous Downing Street memo ("intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy"), the POLO STEP PowerPoint invasion plans (assuming out of existence any possible insurgency), an FBI interview with Saddam Hussein in captivity (he said he lied about weapons of mass destruction to keep Iran guessing and deterred).
The PUBLIC RELATIONS blitz (READ AS MEDIA PROPAGANDA) won enthusiastic support from many in the right wing and from liberal hawks supporting military intervention on human rights grounds. Perhaps most aggressive was the famous neoconservative Iraq lobby, whose Project for a New American Century had begun campaigning for U.S. direct military action against Iraq in the 1990s.>>
PLEASE NOTE: I AM OF THE OPINION THAT "PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY" CAN BE CONSIDERED MORE TOXIC AND DANGEROUS THAN THE BITE OF A COBRA, MORE SINISTER THAN THE ATOMIC BOMB, MORE EVIL THAN WORDS CAN EXPRESS, AND ARE DETERMINED TO ABSOLUTELY RULE AMERICAN POLICY AND PRESIDENTS. WATCH THIS GROUP CLOSELY!
IF THESE DOCUMENTS, COMBINED WITH RECENTLY UNCOVERED EVIDENCE THAT BUSH2 AND COMRADES MADE PLANS TO INVADE IRAQ EVEN BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED, DON'T CONVINCE YOU WHAT A LIE THE ROAD TO "WAR" IN IRAQ WAS, THERE IS NO HOPE FOR YOU TO EVER ACCEPT TRUTH. THERE IS MORE THAN AMPLE PROOF AS WELL THAT BUSH/CHENEY APPROVED THE TACTICS USED AT ABU GHRAIB AND GUANTANAMO AND THATTHE WHITE HOUSE INCESSANTLY MADE REQUESTS FOR VIDEO TAPES OF THE ACTUAL TORTURE EVENTS FROM BOTH PRISONS.
MANY SOUTH AMERICAN DICTATORS TRAINED AT THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS, MEN WHO WERE WELL-USED BY THE CIA AND OTHER AMERICAN AGENCIES. OPERATION CONDOR, SOUTH AMERICA, THE U.S. TWIN TO OPERATION GLADIO IN EUROPE.
Operation Condor was the name given to a secret union of intelligence
services of SIX US-supported, South American military governments-
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, which operated
during the 1970s into the early 1980s. Under Operation Condor the intelligence agencies were to use their
joint resources to round up thousands of people who were suspected of
involvement with leftist groups and imprison them in camps or secret
detention centers. Many were tortured, interrogated, then executed and
secretly buried, becoming known as the disappeared. Those that escaped
their own dictatorship’s security services were often captured and
tortured in other Condor countries and eventually returned from where
they fled to be executed. Condor agents also located and killed
dissidents in operations outside Latin America, in several European
nations and the USA. “Operation Condor … involved the intelligence agencies…in a joint
effort to eliminate perceived enemies of those regimes throughout the
world.” – Daniel Brandt, Public Information Research, USA. The most active period of this multinational secret police and army
cooperation against leftwing and other opposition was between 1975 to
1978. The overall result of this massive political repression and
terrorist dirty war, was that an estimated 35,000 people were murdered,
many disappearing without a trace. Hundreds of thousands of others were
imprisoned and tortured. By August 1974, the bodies of foreign, especially Bolivian, refugees
began to appear on various Buenos Aires rubbish tips. On September 30, a
bombing in Buenos Aires carried out by a Chilean military unit led by a
CIA agent [Michael Townley] killed Chilean General Carlos Prats, [who
had been the commander-in-chief of the Chilean army, until the coup of
September 1973] who was a leader of the opposition to the dictatorship
of General Pinochet.That same year the most well known action of Condor was carried out in
Washington DC. Orlando Letelier, the minister of defence and foreign
affairs in the elected government of Allende of Chile, had escaped to
the US, and was carrying out a campaign to isolate the Pinochet
dictatorship. On September 21, Letelier and his American aide Ronni
Moffet were killed when a bomb ripped the car they were traveling
in apart. This was a major Condor blunder. Such actions and the scale of
repression made the existence of Condor difficult to continue to hide.
The trail led eventually to Michael Vernon Townley, a US citizen and
former CIA agent, with ties to the fascist Chilean group Patria y
Libertad, who organised the murders. Townley left the US and returned to
Chile after the 1973, CIA-backed coup. With his skills as an
electronics and bugging expert he joined the Chilean secret police,
DINA.
The Chilean regime was forced to extradite him to the US in 1978. In return for informing on his Cuban exile accomplices and naming DINA
commander Colonel Manuel Contreras as the man who ordered the killings,
Townley was given a reduced sentence. Later Townley was given a new
identity by the US government under its Witness Protection Program.
A
number of countries have since expressed an interest in speaking to
Townley, but the US has resisted these overtures. With US agencies unwilling to reject security doctrines that rationalize violations of human rights as a legitimate means to an end
and security in the Americas so important to the US, the USA’s public
espousal of rights and freedoms does not mean democracy and human rights
have priority. It would not take much for another form of Operation Condor to rise
again if the interests of the USA and its allies were challenged.
And so the continental scale covert extermination campaign that was
Condor vanished from Latin America leaving an estimated toll of 35,000
people dead (more than 10,000 of them in Argentina) and leaving their
grieving families still trying to learn what had happened to their
disappeared love ones.>> IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR A NEW TRIAL OPENED IN ARGENTINA TO CONSIDER THE TOTALITY OF CRIMES CARRIED OUT DURING OPERATION CONDOR.
<<Those who organized Operation Condor included the military regimes in
Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Peru and
Ecuador also participated in some of the operation’s crimes. The US
government, and in particular former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,
provided crucial support for the bloody repression carried out under
the mantle of Condor.
One of the documents declassified by Washington over the past decade was
a transcript of a June 1976 discussion in Santiago, Chile between
Kissinger and the foreign minister of the Argentine dictatorship,
Admiral Cesar Augusto Guzzetti.
Another document, declassified in 2010, establishes that Kissinger
intervened in September 1976 to stop the issuance of diplomatic warnings
to the US-backed dictators in Latin America not to organize “a series
of international murders.”
Kissinger’s September 16, 1976 cable to his assistant secretary of
state for Inter-American affairs, Harry Shlaudeman, ordered that “no
further action be taken on this matter.” Five days later, a car bomb
killed Chile’s former foreign minister, Orlando Letelier, a prominent
opponent of the Pinochet dictatorship, and his American colleague, Ronni
Karpen Moffitt, as they were riding past Washington, DC’s Embassy Row.
Kissinger’s order amounted to a green light for Letelier’s killing.>> http://www.globalresearch.ca/operation-condor-campaign-by-us-backed-latin-american-dictators-to-hunt-down-torture-and-murder-tens-of-thousands-of-opponents/5325695 MAY JUSTICE BE SERVED, AND MAY THE FIRST COURSE OF THAT SERVING BE HENRY KISSINGER.
THERE IS BUILDING EVIDENCE, TO ME, THAT THE DOLLAR, PERHAPS ALL FIAT MONEY, HAS SEEN ITS DAY.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF "MONEY" DIES?
THE TREND TOWARD A RETURN TO THE GOLD STANDARD IS OBVIOUS.
WHEN ALAN GREENSPAN SAYS THE DOLLAR IS BASICALLY "PLAY MONEY"...WELL...
THE ABOVE VIDEO IS AN INTERVIEW WITH ALAN GREENSPAN ABOUT THE (HOUSING) BUBBLE BURST.
"AMERICA'S FIAT MONEY, WE NEED A GOLD STANDARD"
Greenspan said,
"We have at this particular stage a fiat money which is essentially money printed by a government and it's usually a central bank which is authorized to do so. Some mechanism has got to be in place that restricts the amount of money which is produced, either a gold standard or a currency board, because unless you do that all of history suggest that inflation will take hold with very deleterious effects on economic activity... There are numbers of us, myself included, who strongly believe that we did very well in the 1870 to 1914 period with an international gold standard."
Greenspan went perhaps a bit further in an interview on 'Meet The Press', 2010 :
"There is no doubt that the federal funds rate can be fixed at what the Fed wants it to be, but wh[at] the government has no control over is long-term interest rates, and long-term interest rates are what make the economy move. And if this budget problem eventually merges to the point where it begins to become very toxic, it will be reflected in rising long-term interest rates, rising mortgage rates, lower housing. At the moment there is no sign of that because THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS BROKE and you can not have inflation if the financial system is NOT working." TRANSLATION: "We will be in DEFLATION until the BROKE financial system becomes unbroke... and THEN we will have HYPERINFLATION."
You may watch the video here: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/dylan-ratigan-show/36233217#36233217
<<If dollar-dumping turns from a trickle into a flood, look out. Exploding prices (aka exorbitant inflation) resulting from the devaluation of the dollar will compound the problems we saw in 2007-2009. Catastrophe will come when everybody realizes that the dollar is an "IOU nothing." That's the downside in the decade(s) ahead, according to Casey Research Chairman Doug Casey [DC] in an interview with The Gold Report[TGR]
"'One thing that's for sure is that although the epicenter of this crisis will be the US, it's going to have truly worldwide effects. The US dollar is the de jure national currency of at least three other countries, and the de facto national currency of about 50 others. The main US export for many years has been paper dollars; in exchange, the nice foreigners send us Mercedes cars, Sony electronics, cocaine, coffee - and about everything you see on Walmart's shelves. It has been a one-way street for several decades, a free ride - but the party's over.
Nobody knows the numbers for sure, but foreign central banks and individuals outside the US own US dollars to the tune of something like $6 or $7 trillion. At some point, foreign dollar holders will start dumping them; they are starting to realize this is like a game of Old Maid, with the dollar being the Old Maid card. I don't know what will set it off, but the markets are already very nervous about it. This nervousness is demonstrated in gold having hit $1,900 an ounce, copper at all-time highs, oil at $100 a barrel. Some countries are already trying to get out of dollars, but it could become a panic if the selling goes from a trickle to a flood. So, yes, it's a time bomb waiting to go off, or maybe a landmine waiting to be stepped on. If a theatre catches fire and one person runs out, soon everybody rushes toward the door and they all get trampled. It's a very serious situation. TGR: The concept of going to a gold standard seems impossible in the sense that there is only so much gold above ground - 6 billion ounces? Maybe $11 trillion worth? But it's only a fraction of the US GDP. Even with gold at $2,000 an ounce, that leaves an immense gap. In that scenario, how do you convert to a gold standard?
DC: In terms of today's dollars, gold should probably be a lot higher than it is. I don't know what the number will be, because a lot of those dollars will disappear in bankruptcies; they will dry up and blow away. It's like a real estate development that was worth $1 billion on somebody's books; when it fails, that's $1 billion destroyed. It's a question of the battle of inflation (with the government creating dollars to prop things up) against deflation (where businesses fail and wipe out dollars). But put it this way: the US government reports it owns about 265 million ounces.Its liabilities to foreigners alone are at least $6 trillion. If they were to be redeemed for a fixed amount, that would require roughly $22,000 PER OUNCE of gold. And that doesn't count dollars in the US itself.
I'm a bargain hunter and a bottom fisher, and bought most of my gold at vastly lower prices. But I think gold is going much higher because most people still barely even know that the stuff exists. As inflation picks up, they are going to want to get rid of these dollars - but what other monetary commodity can they turn to? So, gold is going higher. I'm still accumulating gold.'">> WELL, GOLD WILL NEVER SEE $22,000 AN OUNCE, WILL IT? NOW WHAT?
Gold-Backed Dollar Puts 'Fair Value' at $10,000 an Ounce Bloomberg - If every US dollar in circulation were actually backed by the full faith and credit of incorruptible gold and not by politicians' hollow promises, you would need approximately 10,000 greenbacks to buy one ounce of the yellow metal, a recent report maintains. Dylan Grice, a London-based global strategist at French bank Société Générale, crunched the numbers and says that the $10,000 figure is the actual "fair value" of gold. Significantly, the calculation suggests that in playing catch-up, gold has the potential to quintuple its current spot price. Read full article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-15/gold-backed-dollar-signals-10-000-metal-price-chart-of-the-day.html >>
China Buys Gold to Challenge US Dollar
<<America's diplomats know the world will one day pull the plug on the US dollar's life support system. A recently published, unredacted Wikileaks cable from the US Embassy in Beijing shows that the concern has, in fact, been at the front of their minds. The cable quotes an editorial in a Chinese government-sponsored newspaper claiming Beijing is increasingly buying gold to encourage the rise of monetary alternatives; in effect, as the cable quips, to "kill two birds with one stone" by simultaneously undermining the US dollar's and euro's status as reserve currencies. Read full article: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/09/201199175046520396.html >>
http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/315877-the-manual-of-ideas/37557-can-gold-be-valued-after-all
Dylan Grice of Societe Generale, in 2009, published a research report entitled "Popular Delusions: A Minskian roadmap to the next gold mania."
Here is an excerpt:
<<Central bank hoarding of gold in 1970 ushered in the famous gold bull market. With central banks likely to be net gold purchasers in H2 2009 for the first time since 1988
the same starting gun is ringing out today. The price at which the USD would be fully backed by gold (as it was during the peak of the 70s mania) is $6,300. So there is a case for gold being “cheap.” Moreover, the 70s bull market was facilitated by tight energy markets, overly accommodative central banks and nervousness that policymakers had lost their way. Sound familiar?
Some commentators have mockingly suggested that the Reserve Bank of India's recent decision to buy 200m tonnes of IMF gold signals the top of the market in the way that heavy selling by the UK signaled the bottom in 1999.
This is cute. But I think it's wrong. Like today, central banks weren't buying gold in the late 1960s to prop it up, they were abandoning attempts to prop up the dollar. Gold feels frothy today, but the Indian purchase of IMF gold eerily parallels the French purchases of the late 1960s. And ill policy winds are blowing in its favour. With the precious metals consultancy GFMS estimating that central banks will be net buyers of gold for the first time since 1988, have the Indians just sounded the same starting gun the French did in 1965?>> UNCHANGING FUNDAMENTALS [OF BUYING GOLD] http://www.europacmetals.com/Portals/0/newsletters/october2011.html
<<It's important to understand the fundamental reasons for owning gold, and those reasons have not changed. The US government embarked on a decades-long spending spree of historic proportions. To finance the resulting debt, the Federal Reserve is printing money furiously. Because most every central bank governor appears indoctrinated in the Keynesian economic philosophy, foreign central banks are simultaneously printing euros, yen, francs, yuan, and pounds to "keep up." Of course, this competitive devaluation actually represents countries shooting themselves in the foot.
Don't expect any abrupt changes either. The Fed's philosophy - a resolute faith in central planning and debasement - has been unchanged since Paul Volcker stepped down as Chairman in 1987. Rather than considering any change of direction, the Federal Reserve Board is likely asking itself: "Should we print $50 billion or $500 billion in our next round of stimulus?" "Can the ECB bailout Greece now or do we first need to bail out the ECB?" "Should we call our money-printing 'liquidity assistance' or 'quantitative easing'?"Or perhaps, "Do we have enough ink refills for all those printing presses?"
You may think I'm joking, but this is quite serious. While monetary policy was bad under Greenspan, Ben Bernanke has literally instituted a revolutionary devaluation program for the dollar. And gold is the only way to avoid his guillotine.>>
THIS IS ALL WELL AND GOOD FOR THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD TO EXCHANGE PAPER MONEY FOR PRECIOUS METALS, BUT WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ON EARTH?
WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE THE POOR, THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE EVEN $5.00 TO INVEST IN GOLD, OR THE MIDDLE CLASS WORKERS WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO SUPPORT FAMILIES AND PAY MORTGAGES, WHO HAVE NO SAVINGS TO SPEAK OF?
I CAN'T WRAP MY MIND AROUND WHAT THIS WILL DO WHEN, OR IF, OUR AMERICAN "MONOPOLY MONEY" GOES THE WAY OF THE WIND.
I WISH YOU ALL WELL.
WE ARE TOLD THAT OUR WORLD IS FAR TOO OVERPOPULATED TO BE "SUSTAINABLE", THAT THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN CONTINUE TO FEED SO MANY PEOPLE. HOW COULD WORLD POPULATION BE REDUCED "HUMANELY"?
WHO WOULD DECIDE WHICH PARTS OF THE POPULATION WOULD BE "REDUCED"? NO ONE TO FEW WOULD VOLUNTEER TO BE "REDUCED", WOULD THEY? WOULD YOU?
SO HOW COULD THIS BE DONE WITHOUT ANYONE KNOWING THAT WAS WHAT WAS GOING ON?
WHAT WOULD BE THE MOST COST-EFFECTIVE AND EASIEST WAY TO ACCOMPLISH THIS AND RAISE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF SUSPICION, ALARM, FEAR, PANIC?
SLOWLY POISON THE FOOD SUPPLY?
INFECT THE FOOD WITH COMPOUNDS THAT SUBTLY, BUT SURELY, CAUSE DISEASE, ORGAN FAILURE, DESTROY THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, CAUSE GENETIC DAMAGE, AND BRING ABOUT PREMATURE DEATH? BUT HOW, AND WHO WOULD DO SUCH A THING?
PERHAPS THE COMPANY THAT CREATED AGENT ORANGE, DDT, OTHER KILLERS?
MAYBE IF THEY GOT INTO THE BUSINESS OF FOOD PRODUCTION....
You who do not live in America will likely be completely unaware of a "PLAN" contrived in the mid-1970s to reduce the population of "third-world countries", the poorest nations, some of the nations with the highest populations.
That plan was suggested by a man who is easily recognizable throughout the world, a former SECRETARY OF STATE....DR. HENRY KISSINGER.
In "National Security Memo 200", dated April 24, 1974, and titled "Implications of world wide population growth for U.S. security & overseas interests," this same Dr. Henry Kissinger wrote:
"Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World."
According to a National Security Council (NSC) spokesman at the time, the United States shared the view of former World Bank President Robert McNamara that the "population crisis is a greater threat to U.S. national security interests than nuclear annihilation."
In 1975, Kissinger established a policy-planning group in the U.S. State Department's Office of Population Affairs. The depopulation "GLOBAL 2000" document for President Jimmy Carter was prepared.
There were several measures that Kissinger advocated to deal with this alleged threat, most prominently, birth control and related population-reduction programs. He also warned that "population growth rates are likely to increase appreciably before they begin to decline," even if such measures were adopted.
Another measure was curtailing food supplies to targeted states, in part to force compliance with birth control policies: "There is also some established precedent for taking account of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID [U.S. Agency for International Development] and consultative groups. Since population growth is a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation of scarce PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production. In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion." "Mandatory programs may be needed and we should be considering these possibilities now," the document continued, adding, "Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?"
WHO CONTROLS THE FOOD?
NOT THE AMERICAN FARMER ANY LONGER!
NOT AFTER RECENT LEGISLATION PASSED IN AMERICA THAT AFFECTS ANY NATION THAT DEPENDS ON US FOR FOOD!
SO, WHO CONTROLS THE FOOD?
WOULD A CORPORATION WHO OWNS 80% OF THE WORLD'S SEED SUPPLY?
WOULD A GIANT CORPORATION THAT HAS CREATED CROPS THAT HAVE BEEN SO GENETICALLY MODIFIED AND SO CLEVERLY BIO-ENGINEERED THAT 'NORMAL' TRADITIONAL CROPS CANNOT COMPETE AGAINST THEM, CROPS THAT CAN BE PLANTED NEXT TO ORGANIC CROP FIELDS AND CONTAMINATES THEM WITH LAB-CREATED "SUPER-FOODS" POLLEN?
WOULD A COMPANY THAT BEGAN AS A CHEMICAL COMPANY, A COMPANY THAT
DEVELOPED BIOCHEMICAL WEAPONS FOR THE USA LIKE 'AGENT ORANGE', OR THE
INFAMOUS CHEMICAL THAT CAUSED SO MANY BIRTH DEFECTS IN BOTH ANIMALS AND
HUMANS (DDT), OR PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl, a
persistent organic pollutant that was BANNED by the United States
Congress in 1979 and by the Stockholm Convention in 2001), OR RECOMBITANT BOVINE SOMATOTROPIN (rBST) (which is BANNED on the market in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and all European Union countries)?
WOULD A COMPANY SUCH AS THIS BE SKILLED IN SUBTLE "HUMAN DEPOPULATION" ? HOW WOULD THEY PULL IT OFF?
IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR OWN LIVES, WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW, AN EXTREMELY WELL-DOCUMENTED FILM. THE COMPANY HAS NOT SUED THE FILM-MAKERS, IT HAS NOT ISSUED ANY ACTUAL REBUTTAL THAT I CAN FIND, OTHER THAN ITS USUAL ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS VIDEOS. THIS IS A TOPIC I HAVE RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN ABOUT FOR OVER 30 YEARS. I ASSURE YOU, I OFFER NOTHING BUT THE BEST-DOCUMENTED FACTS ON THIS. I WANT YOU AND YOUR LOVED-ONES TO LIVE!
Before you watch the film, however, please acquaint yourself with the terminology used. A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. Organisms that have been genetically modified include micro-organisms such as bacteria and yeast, insects, plants, fish, and mammals. GMOs are the source of genetically modified foods, and are also widely used in scientific research and to produce goods other than food. The term GMO is very close to the technical legal term, 'living modified organism' defined in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which regulates international trade in living GMOs (specifically, "any living organism that possesses a novel combination of genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology").
This video focuses on which organisms have been genetically engineered, and for what purposes. The section on genetic engineering focuses on the history and methods of genetic engineering, and on applications of genetic engineering and of GMOs.
HUMAN POPULATION CONTROL IS NOT A NEW CONCEPT, BUT IT IS BECOMING AN INCREASINGLY "POPULAR" SUBJECT, WITH MORE AND MORE ADVOCATES EACH YEAR.
MANY WORLD GOVERNMENTS ARE FRANTIC TO FIND A WAY TO LOWER POPULATION LEVELS...."LEGALLY"...OR AT LEAST SUBTLY AND QUIETLY.
As early as 1798, Thomas Malthus stated in his 'Essay on the Principle of Population' that population control needed to be implemented into society. Around the year 1900, Sir Francis Galton said in his publication called "Hereditary Improvement" that, "The unfit could become enemies to the State, if they continue to propagate."
These and others who want to see, even FORCE population reduction are a part of the "EUGENICS MOVEMENT"...EUGENICS is defined as "'The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to
increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.
DOES THAT SOUND HARMLESS TO YOU?
DOES THE TERM ALARM YOU AT ALL?
PERHAPS YOU REMEMBER IT FROM THE NAZI HOLOCAUST?
A "EUGENICS MOVEMENT" was quietly begun in America when Margaret Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic at 46 Amboy St. in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn on October 16, 1916.
This became the 'organization' we know as "PLANNED PARENTHOOD".
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ADMIRE AND ADVOCATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD, READ ON FOR A FEW SENTENCES.
As part of her efforts to promote birth control, Sanger found common
cause with proponents of eugenics, believing that they both sought to
"assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit."
You see, Sanger believed that lighter-skinned races were superior to darker-skinned races. SHE SAID SO OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN HER PROLIFIC WRITINGS AND SPEECHES.YOU MAY READ THEM FOR YOURSELVES ON MANY WEBSITES, BUT HERE ARE 2 LINKS TO START YOU OUT....IN HER OWN WORDS, HER OWN PUBLISHED WRITINGS.
Source:
Birth Control Review, Oct. 1921, 5
, Margaret Sanger MicrofilmS70:913
.
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/search/aboutwed.html
SEE ALSO: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/secure/documents/documents_by_others.html
In her book The Pivot of Civilization, she advocated COERCION to prevent the "undeniably feeble-minded" from procreating.
In 1926, Sanger gave a lecture on birth control to the women's auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, New Jersey.
In "A Plan for Peace", a 1932 essay, she proposed a congressional
department to address population problems, and recommended that
immigration exclude those "whose condition is known to be detrimental to
the stamina of the race," and that sterilization and segregation be
applied to those with incurable, hereditary disabilities.
SANGER'S 'PLANNED PARENTHOOD' TARGETED THE POOR, THE "RACIALLY UNFIT", THOSE WITH LOWER INTELLIGENCE, AND "UNDESIRABLE GENETIC TRAITS".
IN HER OWN WORDS: From her 1920 book, Woman and the New Race, Sanger explicitly
called her work "nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding
out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or those who will become
defectives." As she wrote in The Birth Control Review, "the most urgent
problem today is how to limit and discourage the overfertility of the mentally and
physically defective."
[ For further reading on Sanger's eugenics beliefs, go here: http://www.nrlc.org/news/2004/NRL07/margaret_sanger_and_planned_pare.htm] NOW YOU KNOW...
Paul R. Ehrlich, a US biologist and environmentalist, considered population growth a CANCER.
He published The Population Bomb in 1968, advocating stringent population control policies. His central argument on population is as follows:
<<A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. Treating only the symptoms of cancer may make the victim more comfortable at first, but eventually he dies - often horribly. A similar fate awaits a world with a population explosion if only the symptoms are treated. We must shift our efforts from treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparent brutal and heartless decisions. The pain may be intense. But the disease is so far advanced that only with radical surgery does the patient have a chance to survive. >>
In his concluding chapter, Ehrlich offered a partial solution to the "population problem," "[We need] compulsory birth regulation... [through] the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired family size"
READ THAT AGAIN! "'...THROUGH THE ADDITION OF TEMPORARY STERILANTS TO WATER SUPPLIES OR STAPLE FOOD.'" ISN'T THAT WHAT THE DOCUMENTARY POSTED ABOVE CLEARLY SHOWS? GMO FOODS CAUSE STERILITY IN ANIMALS...WE ARE IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, MY FRIENDS!
The head of the UN Millennium Project (YES, THE U.N. IS DEFINITELY ON BOARD WITH POPULATION REDUCTION!) Jeffrey Sachs is also a heavy proponent of decreasing the effects of overpopulation. In 2007, Jeffrey Sachs gave a number of lectures (2007 Reith Lectures) about population control and overpopulation. In his lectures, called "Bursting at the Seams", he featured an integrated approach that would deal with a number of problems associated with overpopulation and poverty reduction.
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT[A]) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction to cause the gradual voluntary extinction of humankind. VHEMT supports human extinction primarily because, in the group's view, it would prevent environmental degradation. The group states that a decrease in the human population would prevent a significant amount of man-made human suffering.
THERE IS THE BASIS FOR POPULATION CONTROL, FOR "SELECTIVE BREEDING", FOR FILTERING OUT THE "RIFF-RAFF", FOR RIDDING MANKIND OF THE "USELESS EATERS", FOR EXTERMINATING THE "TAKERS" , FOR GETTING RID OF THOSE "HOPELESSLY IMPOVERISHED", THE "LESS INTELLIGENT", THE "LOW-LIFE" OF THE PLANET. DO YOU SEE THE AGENDA? CAN YOU SEE THE CONNECTION NOW BETWEEN GMO FOODS AND POPULATION REDUCTION? NO? READ ON THEN!
By the Institute for Responsible Technology
'The Truth Is Out on Genetically Modified Foods - And It's Not Pretty' http://foodmatters.tv/articles-1/the-truth-is-out-on-genetically-modified-foods-and-its-not-pretty
In May, 2009, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks.” They called for a moratorium on GM foods, long-term independent studies, and labeling. AAEM’s position paper stated, “Several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food,” including infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system. They conclude, “There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. There is causation,” as defined by recognized scientific criteria. “The strength of association and consistency between GM foods and disease is confirmed in several animal studies.”
More and more doctors are already prescribing GM-free diets. Dr. Amy Dean, a Michigan internal medicine specialist, and board member of AAEM says, “I strongly recommend patients eat strictly non-genetically modified foods.” Ohio allergist Dr. John Boyles says “I used to test for soy allergies all the time, but now that soy is genetically engineered, it is so dangerous that I tell people never to eat it.”
Dr. Jennifer Armstrong, President of AAEM, says, “Physicians are probably seeing the effects in their patients, but need to know how to ask the right questions.” World renowned biologist Pushpa M. Bhargava goes one step further. After reviewing more than 600 scientific journals, he concludes that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are a major contributor to the sharply deteriorating health of Americans.
Pregnant women and babies at great risk!
Among the population, biologist David Schubert of the Salk Institute warns that “children are the most likely to be adversely effected by toxins and other dietary problems” related to GM foods. He says without adequate studies, the children become “the experimental animals.”
The experience of actual GM-fed experimental animals is scary. When GM soy was fed to female rats, most of their babies died within three weeks—compared to a 10% death rate among the control group fed natural soy. The GM-fed babies were also smaller, and later had problems getting pregnant.
When male rats were fed GM soy, their testicles actually changed color—from the normal pink to dark blue. Mice fed GM soy had altered young sperm. Even the embryos of GM fed parent mice had significant changes in their DNA. Mice fed GM corn in an Austrian government study had fewer babies, which were also smaller than normal.
Reproductive problems also plague livestock. Investigations in the state of Haryana, India revealed that most buffalo that ate GM cottonseed had complications such as premature deliveries, abortions, infertility, and prolapsed uteruses. Many calves died. In the US, about two dozen farmers reported thousands of pigs became sterile after consuming certain GM corn varieties. Some had false pregnancies; others gave birth to bags of water. Cows and bulls also became infertile when fed the same corn.
In the US population, the incidence of low birth weight babies, infertility, and infant mortality are all escalating.
Food designed to produce toxin
GM corn and cotton are engineered to produce their own built-in pesticide in every cell. When bugs bite the plant, the poison splits open their stomach and kills them. Biotech companies claim that the pesticide, called Bt—produced from soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis—has a history of safe use, since organic farmers and others use Bt bacteria spray for natural insect control. Genetic engineers insert Bt genes into corn and cotton, so the plants do the killing.
The Bt-toxin produced in GM plants, however, is thousands of times more concentrated than natural Bt spray, is designed to be more toxic, has properties of an allergen, and unlike the spray, cannot be washed off the plant.
In India, animals graze on cotton plants after harvest. But when shepherds let sheep graze on Bt cotton plants, thousands died. Post mortems showed severe irritation and black patches in both intestines and liver (as well as enlarged bile ducts). Investigators said preliminary evidence “strongly suggests that the sheep mortality was due to a toxin. . . . most probably Bt-toxin.” In a small follow-up feeding study by the Deccan Development Society, all sheep fed Bt cotton plants died within 30 days; those that grazed on natural cotton plants remained healthy.
In a small village in Andhra Pradesh, India, buffalo grazed on cotton plants for eight years without incident. On January 3rd, 2008, the buffalo grazed on Bt cotton plants for the first time. All 13 were sick the next day; all died within 3 days.
Bt corn was also implicated in the deaths of cows in Germany, and horses, water buffaloes, and chickens in The Philippines.
In lab studies, twice the number of chickens fed Liberty Link corn died; 7 of 20 rats fed a GM tomato developed bleeding stomachs; another 7 of 40 died within two weeks.
Monsanto’s own study showed evidence of poisoning in major organs of rats fed Bt corn, according to top French toxicologist G. E. Seralini.
Worst finding of all—GMOs remain inside of us
The only published human feeding study revealed what may be the most dangerous problem from GM foods. The gene inserted into GM soy transfers into the DNA of bacteria living inside our intestines and continues to function. This means that long after we stop eating GMOs, we may still have potentially harmful GM proteins produced continuously inside of us. Put more plainly, eating a corn chip produced from Bt corn might transform our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories, possibly for the rest of our lives.
When evidence of gene transfer is reported at medical conferences around the US, doctors often respond by citing the huge increase of gastrointestinal problems among their patients over the last decade. GM foods might be colonizing the gut flora of North Americans.
Warnings by government scientists ignored and denied
Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had warned about all these problems even in the early 1990s. According to documents released from a lawsuit, the scientific consensus at the agency was that GM foods were inherently dangerous, and might create hard-to-detect allergies, poisons, gene transfer to gut bacteria, new diseases, and nutritional problems. They urged their superiors to require rigorous long-term tests.
But the White House had ordered the agency to promote biotechnology and the FDA responded by recruiting Michael Taylor, Monsanto’s former attorney, to head up the formation of GMO policy. That policy, which is in effect today, denies knowledge of scientists’ concerns and declares that no safety studies on GMOs are required. It is up to Monsanto and the other biotech companies to determine if their foods are safe. Mr. Taylor later became Monsanto’s vice president.
[PLEASE BE AWARE, Secretary of Defense DONALD RUMSFELD was president of Searle
Pharmaceuticals, a company owned by Monsanto... Rumsfeld is believed to
have earned around US $12 million from the sale of Searle to Monsanto. RUMSFELD PUSHED THROUGH THE FDA's ACCEPTANCE OF ASPARTAME IN AMERICAN FOODS.
[There is a tidy article on this here: http://rense.com/general33/legal.htm]
In 1987, Dr Louis Elsas, Professor of Pediatrics & Genetics at Emory University, testified before Congress; "Aspartame is in fact a well known neurotoxin and teratogen [triggers birth defects] which in some undefined dose will irreversibly produce adverse effects in the developing child or fetal brain. I am particularly angry at this type of advertising that is promoting the sale of a neurotoxin in the childhood age group." [Nov 2, 1987]
Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, declares Aspartame is a toxin like arsenic and cyanide that causes confusion, disorientation, seizures, cancer, pancreatic, uterine, ovarian and brain tumors and leads to Alzheimer's. [Read 'Excitotoxins, the Taste That Kills' [505-474-0303].]
Dangerously few studies, untraceable diseases
AAEM states, “GM foods have not been properly tested” and “pose a serious health risk.” Not a single human clinical trial on GMOs has been published. A 2007 review of published scientific literature on the “potential toxic effects/health risks of GM plants” revealed “that experimental data are very scarce.” The author concludes his review by asking, “Where is the scientific evidence showing that GM plants/food are toxicologically safe, as assumed by the biotechnology companies?”
Famed Canadian geneticist David Suzuki answers, “The experiments simply haven’t been done and we now have become the guinea pigs.” He adds, “Anyone that says, ‘Oh, we know that this is perfectly safe,’ I say is either unbelievably stupid or deliberately lying.”
Dr. Schubert points out, “If there are problems, we will probably never know because the cause will not be traceable and many diseases take a very long time to develop.” If GMOs happen to cause immediate and acute symptoms with a unique signature, perhaps then we might have a chance to trace the cause.
This is precisely what happened during a US epidemic in the late 1980s. The disease was fast acting, deadly, and caused a unique measurable change in the blood—but it still took more than four years to identify that an epidemic was even occurring. By then it had killed about 100 Americans and caused 5,000-10,000 people to fall sick or become permanently disabled. It was caused by a genetically engineered brand of a food supplement called L-tryptophan.
If other GM foods are contributing to the rise of autism, obesity, diabetes, asthma, cancer, heart disease, allergies, reproductive problems, or any other common health problem now plaguing Americans, we may never know. In fact, since animals fed GMOs had such a wide variety of problems, susceptible PEOPLE may react to GM food with multiple symptoms. It is therefore telling that in the first nine years after the large scale introduction of GM crops in 1996, the incidence of people with three or more chronic diseases nearly doubled, from 7% to 13%.
Eating genetically modified food kills cells in your body
September 13, 2011 Corn, soy, canola, and cottonseed oil are the genetically modifed (GM) ingredients often unknowingly eaten by most Americans daily, yet these seemingly innocuous foods are killing cells in your body.
The dangers of eating GM food have been more conjecture than science, until now.
In a study published in the Journal of General Physiology, three Canadian researchers studied the effects of GM ingredients on cell membranes, and found a surprising result.
GM seeds are created to lock insecticide chemicals into the structure of plant cells to make them less attractive to the insects who want to eat them. Companies such as Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngentia make billions of dollars annually selling seeds that contain a bacteria that has had its genes manipulated by scientists. The European Union banned GM food ingredients, yet American government agencies, such as the FDA, have been willing to allow GM corn, soy, canola, and cottonseed oil to enter the human food supply, and have decided that GM ingredients do not need to be labeled or highlighted on food packaging. This leaves consumers unaware of whether they're eating GM ingredients.
The New Research
Science started to cast doubt on these two Pro-GM arguments earlier this year when research showed that proteins from GM food are absorbed by the human intestinal tract, and are even passed from a mother to her child during pregnancy.
In this new study, researchers discovered that a toxin protein (Cry1Aa), created from genetically-manipulating a bacteria used to create GM food seeds, has devastating effects on cell health. After ingestion, the toxin protein perforates cell membranes, causing minerals to leak out, and then kills the cells' energy producing organ, which in humans is called the mitochondria. In their experiment, the researchers constructed an artifical cell membrane, similar to a human cell, and hopefully researchers will try to use actual human cells, if possible, in future research.
What This Means
Scientists have observed GM proteins being carried into the human circulation system after they've been eaten through ingestion of GM food. When you eat GM food, the proteins that were designed to kill insects are transported around your body. The effects of the toxic genetic material causes your cells to leak, run out of energy, and die, whch is not healthy behavior; it is a sign of ill health. Eating GM food is like stabbing yourself (perforating the cell wall), allowing yourself to lose blood (the leakage of minerals), and then do nothing about it so your organs - and you - die (which in your cells' case is the death of the mitochondria). Food is meant to nourish and sustain our life, not shorten it. The role of the immune system in counteracting the effects of these toxin proteins is unknown.
[Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-09/uom-pdm091211.php "Eurekalert: Physicist detects movement of macromolecules engineered into our food"] It's Decision Time
If you eat GM food now, you have to ask yourself these questions:
1~ Do you want to continue to eat toxic proteins and gamble with your health?
2~ Are you prepared to lose the gamble and witness the quality of your health and life deteriorate faster than it needs to because you want to eat GM foods?
3~ Knowing that GM foods contain harmful proteins, are you happy to continue indirectly funding companies who make GM food products and sell GM seeds? What you can do to safeguard yourself and your family:
Look through the GM-Free guide and when you go to the grocery store, look for the brands that are GM-free (remember that "all-natural" means nothing, and can still be GM).
You may need to take the guide with you to identify the brands to purchase.
Buy organic food as much as you can afford. Organic foods are tested annually for the presence of GM contamination; by eating them you are investing in quality and in your health. Would you rather pay more for health insurance premiums and get sicker, or pay more for your food and have a healthier and happiper quality of life?
Throw out the foods containing GM ingredients in your home, and look for GM-free replacements. If you can't find a replacement then it was probably an unhealthy junk food and you can cope without it.
You don't have to write to congress and become an anti-GM person to create change. Non-violent actions you can take include voting with your dollars and buying foods that create health, not death. When sales go down and stay down, companies change their product lines to reflect the healthier products that people are buying.
America, as always, puts corporate profits ahead of the health of its people, and with the collusion of the bought and paid for FDA, mainstream media, and sold-out politicians, allows GMO foods to be sold to its unsuspecting citizens.
The following articles,websites and videos show that this alarming situation is not new. It goes back decades, and the bad guys seem to be winning.
I hope you will share what you learn with everyone you love, every chance you get. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
1~ New evidence of harm from GM food triggers call for immediate ban
Press Notice 25th November 2005
Immediate Release
Source: GM Free Cymru [Wales]
"NEW EVIDENCE OF HARM FROM GM FOOD TRIGGERS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE BAN" UK Government and EC accused of criminal negligence and willful suppression of facts http://www.connectotel.com/gmfood/cy251105.txt
2~ 22 May 2005, The Independent can today reveal details of secret research carried out by Monsanto, the GM food giant, which shows that rats fed the modified corn had smaller kidneys and variations in the composition of their blood.
According to the confidential 1,139-page report, these health problems were absent
from another batch of rodents fed non-GM food as part of the research project. http://www.connectotel.com/gmfood/in220505.txt
<<Once GE plants are released into the environment, they are out of control. If anything goes wrong - they are impossible to recall. GE contamination threatens biodiversity respected as the global heritage of humankind, and one of our world's fundamental keys to survival.>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H9WZGKQeYg&feature=related
BUY HERITAGE SEEDS WHILE YOU CAN, I IMPLORE YOU! THEY WILL NOT BE AROUND AFTER AMERICA SHIFTS TO THE U.N.'s MANDATORY 'CODEX ALIMENTARIUS'! "Monsanto trying to take over world seed supply, nation by nation"
Monday, June 27, 2011 http://www.naturalnews.com/032826_Monsanto_seed_supply.html#ixzz2OiNtPIAv He who controls the seed controls the food supply; and he who controls the food supply controls the world.
There is no question that Monsanto is on a mission to monopolize the conventional seed market. In fact, they are steadfastly working towards the goal of creating a world where 100% of all commercial seeds are genetically modified and patented- basically a world where natural seeds are extinct.
Unfortunately for the global community Monsanto is accomplishing their purpose. They currently own 90% of the world's patents for GMO seed including cotton, soybeans, corn, sugar beets and canola.
Monsanto literally takes farmer seeds, creates genetically engineered copycat versions, and then retains all intellectual property rights.
Dr. Vandana Shiva, Executive Director of the Navdanya Trust, an Indian organization committed to organic biodiversity, states that "the MoU's will in effect, facilitate bio-piracy of Rajasthan's rich biodiversity of draught -resilient crops .... by failing to have any clauses that respect the Biodiversity Act and the Farmers' Rights Act, the MoU's promote bio-piracy and legalize the great seed robbery."
Farmers that sign up for Monsanto's seeds of destruction find themselves hooked. Year after year, no matter what prices are being charged, they are dependent on GMO seeds for new crops because GMO seeds - the bastardized versions they are - don't regenerate. GMO SEEDS DO NOT REGENERATE...THEY MUST BE PURCHASED ANEW EACH PLANTING!
Conventional and organic farmers in both Canada and the U.S., who have the misfortune of having lands that border GMO farms, often end up with trace contamination in their crops, making them (if organic), unsuitable for sale. Monsanto actually uses this situation against farmers and files patent infringement claims that they often win. The result is that farm owners are left with exorbitant legal bills and fines often forcing them to shut down: clearing away Monsanto competition.
How Lies, Dirty Tricks and $45 Million Killed GMO Labeling in California
11/08/2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-simon/prop-37-defeated_b_2087782.html
<<...the opposition has waged a deceptive and ugly campaign, fueled by more than $45 million, mostly from the leading biotech, pesticide, and junk food companies. >>
PEPSI ADDS ABORTED HUMAN FETAL CELLS AS A FLAVOR ENHANCER TO THEIR PRODUCTS! http://www.naturalnews.com/035276_Pepsi_fetal_cells_business_operations.html
The issue began in 2011 when the non-profit group Children of God for Life (CGL) first broke the news about Pepsi's alliance with Senomyx, which led to massive outcry and a worldwide boycott of Pepsi products. At that time, it was revealed that Pepsi had many other options at its disposal to produce flavor chemicals, which is what its competitors do, but had instead chosen to continue using aborted fetal cells -- or as Senomyx deceptively puts it, "isolated human taste receptors".
A few months later, Pepsi' shareholders filed a resolution petitioning the company to "adopt a corporate policy that recognizes human rights and employs ethical standards which do not involve using the remains of aborted human beings in both private and collaborative research and development agreements." But the Obama Administration shut down this 36-page proposal, deciding instead that Pepsi's used of aborted babies to flavor its beverage products is just business as usual, and not a significant concern.
I WANT YOU ALL TO LIVE AND NOT DIE A SLOW, POISONED DEATH. I WANT US ALL TO HAVE FREE CHOICE OF FOODS AND I WANT THOSE FOODS TO BE FREE OF TOXINS. PLEASE, LEARN FROM THESE EXTREMELY WELL-DOCUMENTED FACTS! LEARN, SO YOU AND THOSE YOU LOVE DO NOT UNNECESSARILY PERISH. BE WELL....LIVE!
HAMAS' LATEST THREAT: IF PRESIDENT OBAMA VISITED THE TEMPLE MOUNT ON HIS TRIP TO ISRAEL, THAT IT WOULD BE "A DECLARATION OF WAR" AGAINST THE ISLAMIC WORLD. MUSHIR al-MASRI CALLED FOR A THIRD INTIFADA ( Literally translated to "shaking off", and, in this context means "shaking off" Israel) IF OBAMA VISITS THE MOUNT.
No, this is not false information. It hit the internet, then the MSMs across the world.
This is a confirmed fact, this is what Hamas said, and the furor and the near-riots that followed in Israel is unbelievable....ALL BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OBAMA MIGHT WANT TO GO TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT!
I'LL EXPLAIN WHY THAT COULD SET OFF "INTIFADA" AND "JIHAD" BELOW.
WHO IS THIS GUY?
How dare he threaten the leader of a nation?
<<Hamas: ‘Declaration Of War’ If Obama Visits Temple Mount
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Hamas is warning that if President Obama visits the Temple Mount it would be a “declaration of war” against the Islamic world.
The terror[ist] group made the threat during a protest march at the religious site following riots on Friday.
Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman, called for a third intifada if Obama visits the contested religious site in Jerusalem’s Old City between Israelis and Muslims.
White House officials have said Obama doesn’t plan on visiting the Temple Mount during his trip.
Both Israelis and Muslims have claimed sovereignty over the Temple Mount since Israel liberated the site during the 1967 Six-Day War.
ISRAEL WON, but left the Waqf in charge of the Temple Mount compound.>> HAMAS IS NOT A NATION, BUT IS KNOWN AS A TERRORIST GROUP EVEN AMONG FELLOW ARABS. HAMAS HAS NO LEGAL STATUS WHATSOEVER ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
PEOPLE IN GAZA, MUSLIMS, HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING OPENLY FOR DECADES ABOUT THE STRONG-ARM TACTICS AND ATTACKS ON THEIR OWN PEOPLE BY HAMAS, THE PLO, EVEN FATAH. HAMAS USES CHILDREN AS HUMAN SHIELDS, USES SCHOOL ROOFTOPS TO LAUNCH MISSILES FROM, HAMAS' GOON BRIGADE THAT PATROLS THE STREETS OF GAZA DOING AS IT WISHES, TERRIFYING PEOPLE, KILLING PEOPLE, TORTURING, RAPING, STEALING. THAT IS HAMAS.
AND YET HAMAS SAYS A UNITED STATES PRESIDENT CANNOT VISIT A TOURIST SITE THAT ALMOST ANY FOREIGN VISITOR TO ISRAEL IS (when it's 'convenient' for Waqf) ALLOWED TO VISIT?
I DON'T TAKE EXCEPTION TO THIS AS AN AMERICAN, BUT AS SOMEONE WHO HAS READ AND HEARD THE PLEAS AND COMPLAINTS AND HORROR STORIES OF MANY WHO LIVE UNDER HAMAS!
THERE WAS ONCE A WEBSITE CREATED BY GAZAN YOUTH WHICH TESTIFIED TO THE DAILY FEAR ALL IN GAZA LIVE UNDER WHO DO NOT SUPPORT HAMAS, OR WHO BECOME THEIR TARGETS.
I CAN'T LOCATE THAT WEBSITE AND AM AFRAID FOR WHAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED TO THOSE BRAVE YOUNG PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE PHOTOS AND MESSAGES THEY POSTED, TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HAMAS.
HAMAS, LIKE THE PLO, IS DEDICATED TO MAKING PROBLEMS, NOT SOLVING THEM.
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT MY INTENTION IS NOT TO BELITTLE EVERY MUSLIM ON EARTH, OR TO "RUN-DOWN" THE NATIONS OF ISLAM.
SURELY YOU CAN SEE FROM ALL MY BLOGS THAT I AM AFTER TRUTH, JUST TRUTH, NO MATTER WHOM IT HURTS....ME, YOU, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHOM TRUTH MAY WOUND!
WHEN MY OWN COUNTRY IS GUILTY OF ANYTHING, I SAY SO.
IT DEEPLY PAINS ME TO POINT OUT LIES AND WRONGS DONE BY MY OWN COUNTRY, SO IT PAINS ME TO DO SO NOW, BUT DO IT I MUST!
I AM NOT STUPID, SO I KNOW, AS DO WE ALL, I HOPE, THAT NO ONE GROUP OR RACE OR FAITH IS "ALL BAD" NOR "ALL GOOD", NOT ONE IS 100% BLAMELESS NOR GUILTLESS OF SOME THINGS.
HUMANS ERR. HUMANS MAKE MISTAKES, BAD JUDGEMENTS ...ALL HUMANS. HAVE ISRAELIS DONE THINGS THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE DONE? OF COURSE! HAVE MUSLIMS? YES! HAVE I, HAVE YOU? YES, YES!
SO LET ME BEGIN WITH ONE OF THE SENTENCES AT THE END OF THIS POST:
"WHY MUST 'BROTHER' JUST KEEP FIGHTING AGAINST 'BROTHER' ?"
I BELIEVE THE ANSWER IS "BECAUSE 'SOMEONE' KEEPS BAITING THEM TO THE FIGHT"! SOMEONE WANTS WAR BETWEEN THE OFFSPRING OF ISAAC AND ISHMAEL AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO KEEP THE WAR GOING! IN THIS POST, WHEN I 'SAY' ARAB, JEW, AMERICAN, MUSLIM, JORDANIAN, ETC, I WILL NEVER MEAN ALL OF ANY ONE PEOPLE! NEVER! ALL JEWS, ALL ARABS, ALL MUSLIMS DO NOT THINK NOR REACT AS ONE, NO GROUP IS 100% "IN SYNC". UNDERSTAND THAT. I DON'T EVEN BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE IN THE GROUP 'HAMAS' BELIEVES ALL JEWS SHOULD BE OBLITERATED FROM THE EARTH. NOW, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:
"According to Saudi-based Arab News, an HRW report titled “Abusive System: Criminal Justice in Gaza” alleged that Hamas security services failed to inform relatives of the whereabouts of detainees, and had arrested and abused lawyers. Stork added that “Hamas should stop the kind of abuses that Egyptians and Syrians and others in the region have risked their lives to bring to an end.”
"Relatives mourn Ismael Alzaanin, a Fatah member killed by Hamas"
PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHO HAS AIDED FATAH, AND WHO HAS SUPPORTED HAMAS: The U.S. committed $59 million for training and non-lethal equipment for PNA's Presidential Guard, and Arab allies funded the purchase of further weapons for them as well. Israel, too, allowed light arms to flow to members of the Presidential Guard.
Jordan and Egypt hosted at least two PNA battalions for training.
Beginning in 2004, British intelligence MI6 prepared plans for a wide-ranging crackdown on Hamas, in cooperation with British officials at Whitehall, and these plans were passed to Jibril Rajoub, senior Fatah official in charge of security, according to a cache of Palestine Papers leaked to the press in 2011.
Following the Itamar massacre in March 2011, and another bombing of Jerusalem, 27 U.S. senators sent a letter requesting that the US Secretary of State identify the administration's steps to end Palestinian incitement to violence against Jews and Israel that they said was occurring within the "Palestinian media, mosques and schools, and even by individuals or institutions affiliated with the Palestinian Authority."
The United Nations body UNESCO stopped funding a children's magazine sponsored by the Palestinian Authority that commended Hitler's killing of Jews.
Palestinian Media Watch reported that the Palestinian Authority spent more than $5 million a month paying salaries to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs imprisoned in Israel for terror crimes. They also stated that groups in a summer camp for children sponsored by PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad were named after militants: Dalal Mughrabi, who led the Coastal Road Massacre; Salah Khalaf, head of Black September that carried out the Munich Massacre; and Abu Ali Mustafa, the general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who perpetrated many attacks. Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq, donated $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers. Those suicide bombers perpetrated the bus bombing in 2003 in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood which killed twenty-three people, many of them children.
The Palestinian Arab Party, the largest of the Arab political parties formed in Palestine during the 1930s, sponsored the development of storm troops CONSISTING SOLELY OF CHILDREN.
A British report from the period stated that "the growing youth and scout movements must be regarded as the most probable factors for the disturbance of the peace". As a youngster, Yasir Arafat, OF EGYPTIAN LINEAGE, BOASTED that he had led neighborhood children in marching and drills, beating those who did not obey.
WHERE HAS THIS LED?
On March 16, 2005, an Israeli border guard found a bomb in the school bag of 12-year-old Abdullah Quran at a military checkpoint near Nablus. His life was saved only because a cell phone rigged to detonate the 13-pound bomb failed to set off the explosive at the checkpoint as it had been designed to do.
Eight days later, on 24, March 16-year-old Hussam Abdo was captured wearing an explosive belt, having allegedly been paid by Fatah's Tanzim branch to blow himself up at the same checkpoint.
From September 2000 through 2003, 29 suicide attacks have been carried out by youth UNDER THE AGE OF 18, and, more than 40 youths UNDER THE AGE OF 18 were involved in attempted suicide bombings that were thwarted.
GAZA'S CIVIL WAR
YOU MAY NOT BE AWARE OF THE PALESTINIAN CIVIL WAR/CONFLICT OF BROTHERS (called 'Wakseh' among Palestinians) SO LET US EXPLORE THAT BRIEFLY.
It began in 2006, after Hamas's legislative victories and has continued, politically and sometimes militarily up to this day. The conflict, which erupted between the two main Palestinian parties, Fatah and Hamas, resulted in the split of Palestinian Authority into two political factions, each seeing themselves as the 'TRUE' representatives of the Gazan people: the Fatah-ruled 'Palestinian National Authority' and the 'Hamas Government in Gaza'.
Yasser Arafat left the Palestinian Authority plagued with nepotism and corruption. During
Arafat's rule, the United States, World Bank, European Union, and Arab
governments poured $7 billion into the Palestinian Authority to try and help forge a viable Arab-Israeli peace.
As much as half that sum is reported to have gone missing, unaccounted for, with only a small fraction recovered to date.
And
Arafat's widow, Suha, who fled to Paris in 2000 and has been living
there with their daughter on an entire floor of the palatial Hotel Le
Bristol, a five-star hotel, at approximately $16,000 per night, has proved to be only one of several big-time beneficiaries of those billions in funds.
This has increasingly angered those in Gaza who need those funds for, among other things, FOOD. They want that $7 billion back!
That's one reason why, in 2004–05, after a sharp rise in lawlessness, corruption and crime by those in charge of Gaza (PLO offshoots) , as well as a steep decline in public service delivery, Hamas's got a 2006 electoral victory. Gazans swapped the devil for the deep blue sea.
The period from March to December 2006 was marked by escalating tensions when Fatah commanders
refused to take orders from the government while the Palestinian
Authority initiated a campaign of assassinations and abductions against Hamas.
On
December 15, Abbas called for a Palestinian general election. Hamas
challenged the legality of holding an early election, maintaining its
right to hold the full term of its democratically elected offices. Hamas characterized this as an attempted Fatah coup by Abbas.
According to one Palestinian rights group, more than 600 Palestinians were killed
in fighting from January 2006 to May 2007. A serious escalation in the
violence was marked by the 2006 Rimal neighborhood shootings.
On
December 15, 2006, in-fighting broke out in the West Bank after
Palestinian National Security Forces fired on a Hamas rally in Ramallah.
At least 20 people were wounded.
March and April 2007, more than 90 more people were killed by infighting.
In mid-May 2007, clashes erupted once again in the streets of Gaza. In less than 20 days, more than 50 Gazans were killed by other Gazans.
Throughout
June 7 to 15, 2007, the civil war continued and Hamas took control of
the main north–south road and the coastal road and removed Fatah
officials. At least 118 people were killed and more than 550 wounded during the fighting in the week up to June 15. DID THE WORLD DECRY THIS CIVIL WAR? NO...BECAUSE ARABS WERE KILLING ARABS, AGAIN. THE CRY GOES UP ONLY WHEN AN ARAB IS KILLED BY A JEW, YOU SEE. AND ALMOST NEVER WHEN A JEW IS KILLED BY AN ARAB DO MAJOR MEDIA REPORT THAT.
On
June 14, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced the dissolution
of the current unity government and the declaration of a state of
emergency. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya was dismissed, and Abbas began to rule Gaza and the West Bank by presidential decree.
Hamas
spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri responded by declaring that President Abbas's
decision was "in practical terms ... worthless," asserting that Haniya
"remains the head of the government even if it was dissolved by the
president".
In October of 2007, clashes between Fatah and
Hamas led to the deaths of a 13-year old boy, a woman, 22 other
civilians, and over 100 injured.
On January 1, 2008, at least eight people died in this factional fighting in the Gaza Strip.
On May 31, 2009, six people were killed as Palestinian Authority and Hamas forces clashed in Qalqilya.
Earlier this year (2013), political analyst Hillel Frisch from Bar-Ilan University’s BESA Center, noted that "The
Palestinian Authority is playing a double game...with regards to
battling Hamas, there’s coordination if not cooperation with Israel. But
on the political front, the PA is trying to generate a popular
intifada.”
Palestinian groups involved in politically
motivated violence include Hamas, the Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO), the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah, the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), the Democratic
Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Abu Nidal Organization.
Tactics have included plane hijackings, stone throwing, stabbing,
shootings, and bombings.
[See "The intifada: Palestinian adaptation to
Israeli counterinsurgency tactics" Terrorism and Political Violence 7.2
(1995). Sep 5, 2010]
HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS OF GAZANS KILLED BY THEIR 'BROTHERS', BY THEIR OWN, THOUSANDS IN JUST ONE YEAR! CHILDREN AND WOMEN SENT TO THEIR DEATHS EVERY YEAR AS SUICIDE BOMBERS! AND THAT CONTINUES TODAY!
JORDANIAN-PALESTINIAN CIVIL WAR
There has also been a more-or-less ongoing Jordanian-Palestinian civil war,
various clashes between the fedayeen and the army between the years
1968–1970.
The situation climaxed in September 1970, when several
attempts to assassinate king Hussein failed.
Battles between
Palestinian guerrilla forces and the Jordanian army continued during the
closing months of 1970 and the first six months of 1971. In November
1971, members of the Palestinian Black September group, who took their
name from the civil war, assassinated Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi
al-Tal in Cairo.
In December the group made an unsuccessful attempt to
assassinate the Jordanian ambassador in Britain.
A bitterly fought
10-day civil war known as Black September ensued, drawing
involvement by Syria and Iraq, and sparking troop movements by Israel
and the United States Navy. The number of people killed on all sides were estimated as high as 3,500, other sources claiming it to be as high as 20,000. ALL FROM INFIGHTING!
HOW DOES HAMAS RULE? ASK A GAZAN.
MEMBERS OF HAMAS DRAG BODY OF ACCUSED SPY THROUGH STREETS OF GAZA.
<<It was a sight that shocked the world — the corpse of Ribhi Badawi being dragged through the streets of Gaza City Tuesday by a motorcycle as Hamas gunmen fired into the air.
“They burned (him) and broke his jaw and teeth,” said his widow, Kholoud Badawi. “He was hanged for 45 days by his arms and legs to make him confess. He confessed because of the torture." She offered his diary as proof of his innocence.
As Kholoud and her five young children accepted the condolences of neighbors and friends in their tiny home in the poverty-stricken Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, friends and neighbors said Badawi was a kind, helpful man who made a living as a herbalist.>>
WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT CHANGED? JEWS AND ARABS LIVED SIDE-BY-SIDE FOR HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS OF YEARS AFTER ALL THE ANCIENT WARS WERE FINISHED, WERE SOMETIMES EVEN ALLIES AGAINST GREATER THREATS! EVERYTHING SEEMED SO MUCH MORE PEACEFUL UNTIL ISRAEL WAS GIVEN BACK HER ANCIENT HOMELAND AND SOME WENT INTO A RAGE OVER THAT! WHY? WHY WAIT UNTIL THE 1930s TO DECIDE JEWS HAD TO BE "PUSHED INTO THE SEA"?
WHAT HAPPENED IN NATIONS THAT HAVE NO JEWISH POPULATION AND YET MUSLIMS DIE? WHO GETS BLAMED FOR THE INFIGHTING IN SAUDI ARABIA, IRAQ, IRAN, SYRIA, EGYPT, JORDAN, INDIA, AFRICAN NATIONS, PLACES WHERE MUSLIMS KILL MUSLIMS EVERY SINGLE DAY?
<<Grisly inventory finds the total number of deaths in conflicts
since 1950 numbering about 85,000,000 across the earth. Of that sum, the deaths in the
Arab-Israeli conflict since 1950 include 32,000 deaths due to Arab state
attacks and 19,000 due to Palestinian attacks, or 51,000 in all. Arabs
make up roughly 35,000 of these dead and Jewish Israelis make up 16,000.
These figures mean that TOTAL deaths due to Arab-Israeli fighting since 1950
amount to 0.06 percent of the total number of deaths in all
conflicts in the world in that period. More graphically, 1 out of about 1,700
persons killed in conflicts since 1950 has died due to Arab-Israeli
fighting.
(Adding the 11,000 killed in the Israeli war of independence,
1947-49, 5,000 Arabs dead and 6,000 Israeli Jews, does not
significantly alter these figures.)
In a different perspective, some 11,000,000 Muslims have been
violently killed since 1948, of which 35,000, or 0.3 percent, died
during the sixty (60) years of fighting Israel, or 1 out of every 315
Muslim fatalities.
In contrast, over 90 percent of the 11 million who
perished were killed by fellow Muslims.>>
[SOURCES: Small, M. and Singer, J.D., Resort to Arms: International and Civil Wars
1816-1980, 1982; White, M., “Death Tolls for the Major Wars and
Atrocities of the Twentieth Century,” 2003.]
WHAT IS GOING ON? AND WHY?
WHY ARE MUSLIMS FIGHTING BUDDHISTS, HINDUS, CHRISTIANS, AND OTHER MUSLIMS? WHERE THERE ARE NO JEWS, WHO IS BLAMED? WHY DON'T WE SEE OR READ OF JEWS KILLING THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO KILL MUSLIMS (LIKE PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS/RELIGIOUS MARTYRS DO) OR KILLING OTHER JEWS WITHIN ISRAEL? WHAT IS HAPPENING IN ISLAM?
THE FOLLOWING, THOUGH QUITE LENGTHY, IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU THINK OF HAMAS' OR ISLAM'S CLAIMS AGAINST JEWS, ABOUT THEIR RIGHT TO ANYTHING WITHIN WHAT IS NOW ISRAEL, AND THIS IS MERELY HISTORICAL, WELL-DOCUMENTED FACT.
HAVING BEEN WITHIN SEVERAL ARAB NATIONS, NOT UNDERSTANDING THEIR STANCE ON MANY THINGS, I BEGAN IN 1972 TO LEARN WHAT I COULD THAT MIGHT HELP ME COMPREHEND THE VIOLENCE I WAS WITNESS TO.
I HAVE NOT FINISHED MY STUDY YET, BUT HERE IS PART OF 50 YEARS OF RESEARCH, AND WHAT I GLEANED FROM STUDY OF THE QUR'AN AS WELL.
IF YOU WISH TO REFUSE TO SEE THESE FACTS, YOU MAY STOP READING HERE, FOR MUCH IS HISTORICALLY AND PHOTOGRAPHICALLY DOCUMENTED, INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF EXISTS THIS IS TRUE. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE/KNOW THESE THINGS, STOP HERE.
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING...JUST THE FACTS
Despite 1,300 years of Muslim/Arab rule, Jerusalem was NEVER ONCE the capital of an Arab entity, NO ARAB STATE WAS EVER BEGUN THERE, NO ARAB SIGNIFICANCE WAS ATTACHED TO THE TEMPLE AREA UNTIL MODERN TIME, IT LAY ABANDONED AND IN RUIN UNTIL A LEBANESE CITIZEN TOOK PHOTOS OF IT AND BEGAN A CAMPAIGN TO RESTORE THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN ABOUT 1930 OR SO.
NOR WAS JERUSALEM EVER ONCE MENTIONED IN THE PLO's ORIGINAL 'COVENANT', NOR WERE ANY SUCH CLAIMS TO JERUSALEM MADE UNTIL ISRAEL REGAINED CONTROL OF 'EAST JERUSALEM' AFTER THE 'SIX-DAY WAR' OF 1967.
WILL PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE CONVINCE YOU OF HOW LITTLE THE ARABIC POPULATION THOUGHT OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT BACK TO THE 1860s?
IF IT MIGHT, THEN SEE THESE PHOTOS OF THE RUIN THAT WAS THE TEMPLE MOUNT ALL THROUGH THE 1800s.
THE PITIFUL STATE OF THE MOUNT WAS MENTIONED BY MANY WHO SAW IT WHILE IT WAS UNDER ARAB CONTROL.
NO MUSLIM WORSHIPERS CROWDED AROUND TO WORSHIP THERE.
IT WAS OF SO LITTLE CONSEQUENCE TO THEM THAT THE MOSQUE WAS FALLING DOWN IN RUIN.
WHO CARED? THEY PRAYED FACING MECCA THEN, TOO.
THERE ARE MANY PHOTOS OF ISRAEL THAT SHOW WHAT A DESOLATE PLACE ITS LANDS WERE, THAT IT WAS ALMOST VOID OF ARAB PRESENCE, DESCRIBED AS "ONE OF THE MOST DESOLATE PLACES ON EARTH" BY SUCH AS MARK TWAIN, WHO VISITED THERE IN THE 1870s.
IT LAY BARREN, WITHOUT LIFE, FOR THE ARABS NEVER CARED FOR IT...UNTIL THE JEWS WERE AWARDED A HOMELAND THERE.
PLEASE DON'T THINK THESE PHOTOS WERE TAKEN BY JEWS OR "FRIENDS OF JEWS". THEY WEREN'T, AND I ASSURE YOU THAT MANY AN ARABIC WEBSITE HAS USED THE SAME ONES TO SHOW HOW 'PITIFUL' IS THE PLIGHT OF 'AL AQSA'.
THESE PHOTOS WILL ALSO SHOW YOU TRUTH, AS OPPOSED TO THE LIE OFT TOLD THAT THERE WERE NO JEWS IN THIS LAND UNTIL THE 1940s.
BY TURKISH (OTTOMAN EMPIRE) CENSUS, BY ROMAN CENSUS, BY BRITISH CENSUS, WE KNOW THAT THOUSANDS OF JEWS REMAINED NOT ONLY IN ISRAEL BUT ALSO IN JERUSALEM SINCE IT WAS MADE THE CAPITAL BY KING DAVID.
MORE ON THAT BELOW.
WHY NO ARAB PALESTINIAN STATE IN ISRAEL, EVER? BECAUSE PALESTINIANS NEVER EXISTED AS A RACE OR A CULTURE. THEY WERE IMMIGRANTS FROM MAINLY SYRIA, EGYPT WHO ONLY BEGAN CALLING THEMSELVES 'PALESTINIANS' WHEN THE JEWS BEGAN THEIR RETURN. EVEN ARAFAT ADMITTED THAT!
ARABS CONTROLLED ALL THE LAND FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS, YET NO "ARABIC STATE OF PALESTINE"? WHY? JERUSALEM WAS NEVER DECLARED THE CAPITAL OF ANY ARAB NATION, EVER? WHY?
REMEMBER, ISLAM IS THE YOUNGEST OF THE WORLD RELIGIONS, COMING THOUSANDS OF YEARS AFTER JUDAISM, AND MANY YEARS AFTER CHRISTIANITY.
REMEMBER, TOO, AS JIMMY CARTER PUT IT, "THE BLOOD OF ABRAHAM"...THE FACT THAT ABRAHAM'S ILLEGITIMATE SON BY HIS WIFE'S EGYPTIAN SERVANT WAS THE OLDEST SON, BUT HIS SON BY HIS WIFE, SARAH, WAS HIS HEIR.
THIS HAS BEEN A SORE SPOT IN THE MUSLIM WORLD SINCE ITS FOUNDING. SAME 'FATHER' AS THE JEWS, BUT THE JEWS INHERITED THE LAND,JUST AS THE QUR'AN STATES MANY TIMES. (SEE BELOW) THAT HAS TO GRATE ON THE DESCENDANTS OF ISHMAEL, I SUPPOSE.
After the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in 637 AD/CE, Umayyad Caliphs commissioned the construction of the al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock on the site.
The Dome was completed in 692 A.D./C.E., and rests on the far southern side of the Mount, FACING MECCA.
The Dome of the Rock currently sits in the middle of the Temple Mount, occupying exactly, or close to, the area where the Bible mandates the Holy Temple be rebuilt.
Were the Muslims aware of what they were doing when they placed the Dome there?
Yes, absolutely.
In spite of efforts to make Jerusalem a holy site to all Islam, Jerusalem never replaced the importance of MECCA in the minds or hearts of Muslims, NOR EVEN CAME BEFORE MEDINA.
When the Umayyad dynasty fell in 750 A.D./C.E., Jerusalem also fell into near obscurity for 350 years, until the Crusades.
During those centuries, many Islamic sites in Jerusalem fell into disrepair and in 1016 A.D./C.E. the Dome of the Rock collapsed.
IT COMPLETELY FELL DOWN.
<<In the year 407 A.H. (1016 A.D.), an earthquake caused the Dome to collapse, and it was re-erected, six years later, by the Caliph Hakim.
~ Source: http://www.oocities.org/mutmainaa/mosque/dome_rock.html>> SIX YEARS LATER?
<< In 1099, the Haram area was occupied by the Crusaders and the monuments there turned to different uses.
The Dome of the Rock was turned into a church, with a golden cross placed at the top of the dome, and the Masjid al-Aqsa transformed into a royal residency, renamed Templum Solomon (or the Temple of Solomon).
The Dome of the Rock was renamed Templum Dominai (or the Temple of the Lord), from which the Knights Templar, whose Order was formed there, takes its name.
Qur'anic inscriptions over the dome of the Rock were plastered over, steps were carved into the rock itself and an altar erected on top of it. >>
Jerusalem/Yerushalaim, known by this name for several millennium to all in that area of the world, ITS NAME RECORDED IN THE HISTORY OF MANY NATIONS, is NOT ONCE mentioned by name IN THE QUR'AN.
You may see the word "Quds" mentioned by Islam, referring to their prophet's one DREAM of travel to "a far away place", but "Quds" NEVER meant Jerusalem.
In the Koran, or Qur'an, you will find Quds in there, which the Arabs say NOW is an Islamic name for Jerusalem, but that is simply NOT TRUE.
Quds was never translated as "JERUSALEM". It was a place Mohammed NEVER ONCE visited, but merely mentioned that he DREAMT of, never specifying where that place was precisely, nor naming the place he dreamt of.
"Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram (the Sacred Mosque) to al-Masjid al-Aqsa (the Further Mosque), whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing." ~Quran 17:1
In the DREAM, Mohammed "visited" a place referred to as 'masjid el-aksa', which means "the farthest mosque".
The Arabs claim that this refers to their mosque of that name, located on the Temple Mount.
THE MENTION OF JERUSALEM IS ONLY FOUND AFTER THE FACT, AFTER MUHAMMAD DIED, AND SOME HADITHS ARE UNACCEPTABLE TO SOME MUSLIMS, PREFERRED BY OTHERS. NO, the Al Aksa Mosque was built about a hundred years after Muhammad departed this life! REPEAT: THERE WAS NO DOMED MOSQUE IN JERUSALEM, NO MAIN MOSQUE AT ALL, WHILE MUHAMMAD WAS ALIVE!
In Muhammad's time, Jerusalem was ruled by the Byzantine Christians, and THERE WERE NO MOSQUES AT ALL IN JERUSALEM, NOT ONE, not on the Temple Mount or anywhere else. So obviously, Muhammad couldn't have dreamed about a mosque that DID NOT EXIST IN HIS LIFETIME, ABOUT ANY MOSQUE IN JERUSALEM, BECAUSE THERE WERE NONE! WHY BUILD A MOSQUE ATOP THE RUINS OF ANOTHER FAITH'S SACRED BUILDINGS?
It has always been a Muslim policy, when conquering any area, to take over the holy places of the local people and to turn them into mosques, or raze them and build mosques in their place.
They have done this not only in the Land of Israel, regarding both Jewish and Christian holy places and buildings, but also in India, replacing Hindu holy places, in Afghanistan, replacing Buddhist holy places, and so on, all across the globe.
So, when the Muslims conquered the Land of Israel in the 7th century, they simply looked for the holiest place around, found the BYZANTINE CHURCH that was built upon the ancient Jewish Temple site, and erected there the Al Aqsa mosque, thereby building ATOP both Christian and Jewish holy places at the same time.
It's just Muslim tradition to do so when they conquer.
But Muhammad was dead 100 years before this mosque was even a dream.
Add to this that, geographically, on any map current or ancient, Jerusalem could never be referred to as "the farthest place". Jerusalem is CENTRALLY located.
Within the land of Israel, it is located on the mountain ridge between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. On a larger scale, it is located at the junction point (CENTER) of three continents: Asia, Europe and Africa. We see this shown in ancient maps, such as the Medeba map.
JERUSALEM COULD NOT HAVE BEEN THE "FARTHEST PLACE" MUHAMMAD DREAMED OF!
In Muhammad's time (and even earlier than that), "the farthest place" would never refer to Jerusalem. It could, by a stretch, refer either to a coastal city, such as Jaffa, Acre or Haifa, perhaps, or maybe to the "end" of the Mediterranean Sea, such as Spain, Gibraltar or Morocco.
No, Muslims changed the meaning/translation of Quds when Jews became independent and changed the land back to its original name, Israel.
You may be surprised to know that the words “Bani Israel” (Children of Israel) IS mentioned 40 TIMES in the Qur'an, while the word "Palestinians" or "Palestine" is NEVER mentioned, not even once, in the Qur'an. {Quran- Al-A’raf 7:137 And We made people, who were considered weak (and of no account) [The Children of Israel], inheritors of lands in both east and west, – lands whereon We sent down Our blessings. The fair promise of thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience and constancy.}
{Quran -Ash-Shu’ara 26:59 Thus it was, but We made the Children of Israel inheritors of it [the Land]}.
{Quran Al-Baqara 2:122 O Children of Israel! Call to mind the special favor which I bestowed upon you, and that I preferred you to all mankind}.
It is clear that the Holy Land, ACCORDING TO THE QUR'AN ITSELF, was given as an inheritance to the "Children of ISRAEL". IT MUST BE SO, MUHAMMAD SAID IT, yes?
AS I STATED BEFORE, THE ONLY MENTION OF JERUSALEM BY NAME CAME MUCH LATER IN A HADITH, NOT IN THE QUR'AN.
A HADITH is a saying or an act or tacit approval or disapproval ASCRIBED either validly or invalidly to the prophet of Islam.
In Islamic terminology, the term hadith refers to REPORTS of statements or actions of Muhammad, or of his tacit approval or criticism of something said or done in his presence.
Classical hadith specialist Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani says that the intended meaning of hadith in religious tradition is something ATTRIBUTED to Muhammad but that is NOT found in the Quran.
Hadith are regarded by traditional Islamic schools of jurisprudence as important tools for understanding the Quran and in matters of jurisprudence. Hadith were evaluated and gathered into large collections during the 8th and 9th centuries A.D./C.E.. These works are referred to in matters of Islamic law , BUT, NO TWO GROUPS AGREE ON THESE HADITHS, AND SOME SECTS REJECT SOME HADITHS ALTOGETHER.
The largest denominations of Islam, Sunni, Shia, and Ibadi, rely upon DIFFERENT sets of hadith collections. ISLAM CANNOT AGREE ON HADITHS, EITHER, IT SEEMS.
Clerics and jurists of all denominations classify individual hadith as sahih (authentic), hasan (good) and da'if (weak). However, different traditions within each denomination, and different scholars within each tradition, may differ as to which hadith should be included in which category.
There was no mention of Quds before Muslims invaded Israel/Philistine/Palestine during the period of Muslim conquests (632--732), also referred to as the Islamic conquests or Arab conquests,.
CONQUESTS OF NON-ARAB PEOPLE BEGAN AFTER THE DEATH OF MUHAMMAD .
He merely established a new unified POLITICAL policy in the Arabian Peninsula which, under the subsequent Rashidun (The Rightly Guided Caliphs) and Umayyad Caliphates, saw a century of rapid expansion of Muslim power.
Still, for 1,300 years, various Islamic dynasties (Syrian, Egyptian, and Turkish) continued to govern Jerusalem as part of their overall control of the Land of Israel, disrupted only by the Crusaders.
What is amazing is that over that period, NOT ONE ISLAMIC DYNASTY EVER MADE JERUSALEM ITS CAPITAL CITY.
By the 19th century, Jerusalem had been so NEGLECTED by Islamic rulers that several prominent Western writers who visited Jerusalem were moved to write about it. French writer Gustav Flaubert, for example, found “ruins everywhere” during his visit in 1850 when it was part of the Turkish Empire (1516-1917). Seventeen years later Mark Twain wrote that Jerusalem had “become a pauper village.”
JERUSALEM SIMPLY WAS NOT MAINTAINED BY THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
IT WAS NOT IMPORTANT TO THEM.
In 610, the Sassanid Empire drove the Byzantine Empire out of the Middle East, giving the Jews control of Jerusalem for the first time in centuries.
The Jews in 'Palestine' were allowed to set up a vassal state under the Sassanid Empire called the Sassanid Jewish Commonwealth which lasted for five years. Jewish rabbis ordered the restart of animal sacrifice for the first time since the time of Second Temple and started to reconstruct the Jewish Temple.
Shortly before the Byzantines took the area back five years later in 615, the Persians gave control to the Christian population, who tore down the partially built Jewish Temple edifice and turned it into a garbage dump, which is what it was when the Caliph Omar took the city in the 630s.
Interestingly, severe damage was caused by the 1927 and 1937 earthquakes to the mosque called Al Aqsa, but the mosque was repairs were NOT made until 1938 after the 1927 quake, and 1942 after the 1937.
WHY LEAVE IT IN RUIN ANOTHER 10 YEARS IF IT WAS SO IMPORTANT?
As recently as the mid-20th century, when Arabs last controlled parts of Jerusalem, they exhibited no respect for the 'Holy City' LIKE THEY DO MECCA.
In 1948, when JORDAN took control of the eastern part of Jerusalem, including the Old City, it divided the city for the first time in its 3,000-year history.
Under the 1949 armistice agreement with Israel, Jordan pledged to allow free access to all holy places but failed to honor that commitment.
From 1948 until the Six-Day War in 1967, the part of Jerusalem controlled by the Jordanians again became an isolated and underdeveloped provincial town, and its religious sites the target of religious intolerance.
The Old City was rendered void of Jews.
Jewish sites such as the Mount of Olives were desecrated.
Jordan destroyed more than 50 synagogues, and TRIED to erase all evidence of a Jewish presence.
In addition, all Jews were forced out of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City adjacent to the Western Wall, an area where Jews had lived for generations.
For 19 years, under Jordan, Jews and Christians residing in Israel (and even Israeli Muslims) were barred from their holy places, despite Jordan’s pledge to allow free access.
Jews, for example, were unable to pray at the Western Wall; Christian Arabs living in Israel were denied access to churches and other religious sites in the Old City and nearby Bethlehem, also under Jordanian control.
During Jordan’s reign over eastern Jerusalem, its restrictive laws on CHRISTIAN institutions led to a dramatic decline in the holy city’s Christian population by more than half, from 25,000 to 11,000, a pattern that characterizes Christian Arabs in other Arab countries throughout the Middle East where religious freedom is not honored.
It was only after the Six-Day War that the Jewish Quarter was rebuilt and free access to holy places was reestablished.
It is worth noting that after Jordan annexed the West Bank in the 1950s, it too failed to make Jerusalem, a city that Arabs now claim as ‘the third most holy site of Islam’, its capital.
NO ARABS EVER SAW JERUSALEM AS IMPORTANT...UNTIL THE JEWS GOT A HOMELAND BACK!
Israel reunited Jerusalem as one city in 1967, after Jordan joined the Egyptian and Syrian war offensive and shelled the Jewish part of Jerusalem. Israeli leaders vowed the city would never again be divided.
One of the first acts Israel undertook after reuniting the city was to guarantee and safeguard the rights of all citizens of Jerusalem.
This included not only free access to holy sites (MUSLIMS HAD BEEN CHARGING FEES FOR THOSE WHO WISHED ACCESS TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT AREA) for all faiths but also represented an unprecedented act of religious tolerance.
Israel granted Muslim and Christian religious authorities responsibility for managing their respective holy sites, including Muslim administration of Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount.
Eventually, however, the Waqf, which holds administrative responsibility over the Temple Mount, violated the trust with which it was invested to respect and protect the holiness of the Temple Mount for both Muslims and Jews.
On 1 Adar 5764 [23 February 2004], a report was published in the Jerusalem Arabic newspaper 'El Quds' stating that the roof of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount had been badly damaged by the earthquake which hit Israel and Jerusalem on 19 Shevat 5764 [11 February 2004].
A large bulge also appeared in the southern wall of the Temple Mount and another large bulge and crack on the eastern wall of the Temple Mount.
On Saturday, 22 Shevat 5764 (14 February 2004), another wall on the Temple Mount collapsed in the area of the Western Wall.
The wall was the continuation of the Western Wall and contained the western (Mugrabe) gate leading to the Temple Mount. Stones from the collapsed wall fell in the women's prayer area at the Western Wall while women were praying in the area.
On Tisha b'Av 2001, a long bulge appeared on the southern wall of the Temple Mount after the Temple Mount Faithful Movement brought a cornerstone for the Third Temple to the area. Over the next two years Jordanian engineers and workers tried to fix the bulge but they have still not completed the work.
WHY SUCH A VAST DIFFERENCE IN HOW JEWS AND ARABS SEE JERUSALEM AND THE TEMPLE MOUNT AREA? When Jews pray they face Jerusalem, no matter where they are on earth; in Jerusalem Israelis pray facing the Temple Mount. When Muslims pray, they face Mecca, no matter where they are on earth; in Jerusalem Muslims pray with their backs (their buttocks and the soles of their feet) to the Mosque atop the Temple Mount, and to the city of Jerusalem.
Even at burial, a Muslim's face is turned toward Mecca, not Jerusalem, not 'Palestine'. Consider the number of times ‘ Jerusalem ' is mentioned in the two religions' holy books: The 'Old Testament' which is derived from ancient Hebrew texts, mentions ‘Jerusalem’, BY NAME, 349 times. Zion, another name for ‘Jerusalem,’ is mentioned 108 times. The Qur'an NEVER mentions Jerusalem – not even once.
The one and only mention of Jerusalem in Islam is in hadith form, written after the prophet's death, never written by the prophet himself.
Remember that Islam began in what is now Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad founded Islam in 622 AD/CE, and was born and raised in present-day Saudi Arabia; he NEVER set foot in Jerusalem.
His connection to the city came years after his death when the Dome of the Rock shrine and the al-Aqsa mosque were built in 688 and 691, respectively, their construction spurred by political and religious rivalries, rivalries WITHIN Islam itself, a battle of caliphs, early internal discord. In 638 CE, the Caliph (or claimed successor to Muhammad) Omar and his invading armies captured Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire.
One reason they wanted to erect a holy structure in Jerusalem was to proclaim Islam’s supremacy over Christianity and its most important shrine, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. At that time it may be said that Islam despised Christians more than Jews.
More important than making Christians subservient was the power struggle within Islam itself. The Damascus-based Umayyad Caliphs who controlled Jerusalem wanted to establish an alternative holy site in case their rivals blocked access to Mecca. That was important because the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, was (and remains today) the fifth pillar of the Five Pillars of Islam. As a result, they built what became known as the Dome of the Rock shrine and the adjacent mosque. NOTICE THERE IS NO PILGRIMAGE NECESSARY TO JERUSALEM!
ALSO NOTICE THAT HISTORICALLY, VERY FEW, VERY FEW MUSLIM 'HEADS OF STATE' OR 'Rightly Guided Caliphs', OR 'Grand Imams' HAVE SO MUCH AS VISITED AL AQSA MOSQUE EVEN ONCE IN THEIR LIFETIMES.
THE HIGH OFFICIALS OF ISLAM MAINLY IGNORED JERUSALEM. IT LAY IN A DESOLATE LAND AND ALMOST NO ONE MADE PILGRIMAGE THERE.
To enhance the prestige of the ‘substitute Mecca,’ the Jerusalem mosque was named al-Aqsa. It means ‘the furthest mosque’ in Arabic, but has far broader implications, since it is the same phrase used in a key passage of the Quran called “The Night Journey.” In that passage, Muhammad arrives at what he called ‘al-Aqsa’ on a winged steed accompanied by the Archangel Gabriel; from there, IN THIS DREAM, they ascend into heaven for a divine meeting with Allah, after which Muhammad returns to Mecca.
MUHAMMAD NEVER INSINUATED THIS WAS IN JERUSALEM! HE SAID IT WAS THE "FURTHEST MOSQUE" AND THERE WAS NOT ONE MOSQUE IN ALL JERUSALEM DURING HIS LIFETIME!
Naming the Jerusalem mosque al-Aqsa was an attempt to say the Dome of the Rock was the very spot from which Mohammed ascended to heaven, thus tying Jerusalem to divine revelation in Islamic belief, AND perhaps excusing some from the Hajj? After all, the NEW mosque was supposed to be a "substitute Mecca" as we saw above.
LET'S CONSIDER THIS.... IF MUHAMMAD RECOGNIZED THIS DREAM MOSQUE AS BEING IN JERUSALEM, WHY WOULDN'T MUHAMMAD IMMEDIATELY MOVE HIMSELF AND ALL OF ISLAM TO JERUSALEM IF THAT WAS THE PLACE HE MET GOD? WOULDN'T YOU? HE NEVER MET GOD IN MECCA, DID HE?
NO, NO HE NEVER MET GOD IN MECCA, BUT IN FACT HE FLED FROM MECCA TO MEDINA, FEARING HE WAS ABOUT TO BE ASSASSINATED IN MECCA, RIGHT?
From his base in Medina, WHERE HE WENT AT THE INVITATION OF JEWISH TRIBES, Muhammad and his Muslim followers took to raiding Meccan caravans from Medina.
In 624, they won the battle of Badr and took much treasure.
Now secure in Medina, Muhammad expelled the Banu Qaynuqa, one of the three main Jewish tribes who had asked him to come there, and ordered the assassination of the poetess Asma bint Marwan and then the poet Abu Afak, who had been critical of his rule.
Subsequently, after each major battle, Muhammad destroyed a different one of the Jewish tribes that had welcomed him and his followers to Medina.
After Uhud, Muhammad expelled the Banu Nadir, and following the Battle of the Trench in 627, the Muslims accused the Jews of Banu Qurayza of conspiring with the Meccans. They beheaded the adult male members of the Banu Qurayza, and sold the women and children as slaves. HOWEVER, DURING THESE YEARS, MUHAMMAD TOOK TWO JEWESS WIVES FROM THE TRIBES HE ANNIHILATED...RAYHANA (aka, RIHANA/RIHANNA) AND SAFIYYA.
YES, MUHAMMAD HAD TWO JEWISH 'WIVES' AND AISHA/AYESHA, HIS CHILD BRIDE, WAS HORRIBLY JEALOUS OF THE FIRST ONE! THE SECOND CONTINUED IN HER JEWISH FAITH, WE'RE TOLD.
While the second Jewish wife may have been but a concubine, we can read here and there the story of their 'wedding'.
<<He invited her to be his wife; but she declined and chose to remain (as
indeed, having refused marriage, she had no alternative) his slave or
concubine. She also declined the summons to conversion, and continued in
the Jewish faith, at which the Prophet was much concerned. It is said,
however, that she afterwards embraced Islam. She did not many years
survive her unhappy fate. (Muir, The Life of Mohamet, p. 309).
>>
TO RECAP, WE HAVE LEARNED THAT MUHAMMAD NEVER SAID JERUSALEM WAS THE SITE OF THE MOSQUE IN HIS DREAM.
THAT WAS ADDED AFTER HIS DEATH AND AFTER AL AQSA WAS BUILT, ADDED IN 'HADITHS', IS NOT IN THE QURAN.
THE ARABS/MUSLIMS WHO RULED THE LAND FOR OVER 1300 YEARS NEVER SAW JERUSALEM AS A CAPITAL, NEVER MAINTAINED IT, LEFT THE MOSQUE IN RUIN FOR YEARS, AND THE EARLY ARABIC ORGANIZATIONS WHO WERE AGAINST JEWISH RETURN NEVER MENTIONED WANTING JERUSALEM UNTIL AFTER THE SIX-DAY WAR OF 1967.
JEWS WERE GIVEN A MUCH BIGGER TERRITORY TO FOUND THEIR STATE IN, BUT THAT WAS TAKEN BACK, PARTITIONED AND REPARTITIONED FOR AN "ARAB-PALESTINIAN STATE' WHICH ARABS TOOK AND TURNED INTO JORDAN, AND THAT JORDAN WARRED WITH ARAB PALESTINIANS, SO THEY NEEDED A "NEW" STATE, FROM THE PALTRY 8,000 SQ. MI LEFT TO THE JEWS.
AFTER MANY LOST WARS, FAILED ATTEMPTS TO DRIVE ISRAEL INTO THE SEA, NOW THE 'PALESTINIANS' (whom Jordan does NOT want, nor does Egypt, Lebanon, nor Syria, nor Saudi Arabia, nor....any nation) WANT TO GO BACK TO THE OLD PARTITION AND TAKE WHAT THEY COULD HAVE HAD DECADES AGO WITHOUT WARS.
THE QUR'AN ITSELF RECOGNIZES, BY NAME, ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO THE LAND SHE CONQUERED THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, TO ALL THE LAND, INCLUDING PARTS OF SYRIA, LEBANON AND ALL OF WHAT IS NOW JORDAN.
BY CONQUEST, JUST AS ALL OTHER NATIONS OF EARTH, ISRAEL WON LAND IN WAR, AND IN RECENT WARS. (The Sinai Peninsula, for one example.)
BY CONQUEST, ISRAEL OWNS ALL OF JERUSALEM.
JERUSALEM HAS BEEN THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL FOR AT LEAST 3000 YEARS.
NOW SOME ARE MISTAKEN IN THINKING THAT ISRAEL WAS LOST BECAUSE ALL JEWS WERE TAKEN OUT OF ISRAEL, AND NONE WERE LEFT THERE TO INHABIT THEIR CONQUERED LANDS.
SHOULDN'T ISRAEL FORFEIT HER CONQUESTS BECAUSE SHE WAS "ABSENT" FROM THE LAND?
THAT BRINGS UP THE NEXT QUESTION: WAS THERE A YEAR THAT JEWS WERE NOT PRESENT IN ISRAEL? NO, NOT A ONE!
Even when other nations controlled Jerusalem, Jews maintained a physical presence in the city, as they have for over 3000 years, despite being killed and placed in strict confinement by other cultures.
Before the 1880s, Jews were firmly and continuously settled in Israel, particularly in four cities: Safed, Tiberias, Hebron, and, most importantly, Jerusalem.
Their presence was documented by each nation that ever conquered Jerusalem, they were counted in census after census over time, there are records of lands both bought and sold by them, so it is historically documented that not once, not in over 3000 years, has there NOT been a Jewish presence in Israel.
In 1004 BC/BCE, Jerusalem became the capital of a United Israel.
In 539-537 BCE, following a decree by the Persian King Cyrus who had conquered Babylonia, some Jews returned to Israel.
An estimated 50,000 embarked on their First Return, led by Zerubbabel, a descendant of the House of David. Recorded in Persian/Babylonian history.
Recorded history: In 63 BC, the Romans invaded Israel, led by Pompeii.
They granted the Hasmonean (Jewish) king, Hyrcanus II, limited authority under the Roman governor of Damascus.
The Jews did not accept the Roman rule well, as evidenced by numerous insurrections. The last attempt to restore the former glory of the Hasmonean dynasty was made by Mattathias Antigonus in 40 BC.
His defeat and death three years later at the hands of the Romans brought Hasmonean rule to an end, and the land became a vassal state of the Roman Empire.
According to the first century historian, Flavius Josephus, an estimated one million Jews perished in the 70 AD/CE siege of Jerusalem, with many killed elsewhere in the country and tens of thousands sold into slavery. So, in 70 AD/CE, there were more than 1 MILLION Jews in Israel.
The first official census of the City of Jerusalem in 1844 confirms Jewish religious majority: 7,120 Jews, 5,760 Muslims, and 3,390 Christians.
The first Jewish suburb, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, was built near the Jaffa Gate outside the Old City walls in 1860 by Sir Moses Montefiore. Seven similar neighborhoods were also built outside the walls, e.g., Nahlat Shiva (1869), Mea Shearim (1873-75), and Yemin Moshe (1892), etc. These became the nucleus of the New City of Jerusalem.
The 1913 report of the Palestine Royal Commission [British] quotes an account of the condition of the Coastal Plain along the Mediterranean Sea :
"The road leading from Gaza to the north was only a summer track suitable for transport by camels and carts... no orange groves, orchards or vineyards were to be seen until one reached Yavne village... houses were all of mud. Schools did not exist... The western part, towards the sea was almost a desert... The villages in this area were few and thinly populated."
Yavne was one of the major ancient JEWISH cities in the southern coastal plain.
After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD/CE, Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakkai moved the Sanhedrin to Yavne.
Yavne was a populated JEWISH city for at least 2000 years.
According to the Peel Commission (British, 1937):
"The Arab charge that the Jews have obtained too large a proportion of good land cannot be maintained. Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchased."
Moreover, the price the Jews paid for this barren land was exorbitant. At that time, Jews paid between $1,000 and $1,100 per acre in Palestine, mostly for arid or semi-arid land; in the same year, rich black soil in Iowa was selling for about $110 per acre according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture data. 1935-1944.
In 1916, even before Britain and France had conquered the Ottoman Empire, they set up an Anglo-French commission to submit a plan for the postwar partition of the Ottoman Empire.
The British representative was Sir Mark Sykes and the French representative was Charles Francois Georges-Picot.
The agreement became known as the Tripartite (Sykes-Picot) Agreement of 1916, which effectively drew the borders of the new states of the Middle East.
Their interests were more in favor of the strategic interests of Britain and France, not necessarily the people who would live in this region. Consequently, Kurdistan was apportioned to Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, and to this day, the original inhabitants, the Kurds, are disenfranchised.
Most of the modern Arab states of the Middle East owe their borders to the Sykes-Picot Agreement, as does Israel.
While many believe that Israel is a new state to the region, having only acquired its sovereignty in 1948, it needs to be remembered that the other Middle East states also acquired their independence in this century, e.g., Saudi Arabia (1913), Lebanon (1920), Iraq (1932), Syria (1941), Jordan (1946), and Kuwait (1961).
Therefore, none OF THESE can boast historical claims to this or that border, other than the very ancient and historically verified claims to the lands by the Jews, AS RECOGNIZED BY THE QUR'AN ITSELF. .
Their conquest of the land was well documented in the histories of those whom they conquered. Wars and their outcomes have always been a favorite thing for historians to record through time.
There are perhaps NO American Indian Tribes that cannot tell us the very day they were defeated by American soldiers. They can also tell you what day they were confined on "reservations".
ISRAEL'S STATEHOOD BEGINS
On October 31, 1917, the British War Cabinet accepted the Balfour Declaration, which was issued on November 2, 1917, as government policy. It stated:
"His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
The Balfour Declaration won the approval of the United States and other Western powers.
Emir Faisal, son of the acknowledged leader of the Arabs, Sherif Hussein, met with Dr. Chaim Weizmann and other Zionist leaders during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. They signed an agreement by which the Arabs stated that "mindful of the racial kinship and racial bonds existing between the Arabs and the Jewish people," they declared that "the surest means of working out the consummation of their [Jewish] national aspiration is through the closest possible collaboration of the development of the Arab state AND Palestine." (In 1919, Palestine was considered that portion of the Middle East designated for the Jewish people.)
The agreement between Faisal and Weizmann looked to the fulfillment of the Balfour Declaration and also called for "all necessary measures... to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale, and as quickly as possible to settle Jewish immigrants upon the land through closer settlement and extensive cultivation of the soil."
On March 3rd, one day after Weizmann presented the Zionist case to the Peace Conference, Faisal wrote to Felix Frankfurter, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Zionist leader, declaring: "The Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement ... We will wish the Jews a hearty welcome home ... We are working together for a reformed and revised Near East and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is nationalist and not imperialist. Our movement is nationalist and not imperialist. And there is room in Syria for us both. (Under Turkish rule, Syria included part of Palestine.) Indeed, I think that neither can be a real success without the other."
These hopes were temporarily dashed when the French took over the mandate for Syria, ejecting Faisal from Damascus, where he had been proclaimed King of Syria.
As consolation, the British named Faisal King of Iraq.
And in a further effort to please the Arabs, British Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, cut away 80% of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, some 35,000 sq. miles (90,565 sq. km.) and created a brand new Arab entity, called Transjordan. Churchill installed Faisal's brother, Abdullah, as Emir. (Abdullah is the great-grandfather of the present-day King Abdullah II of Jordan.) Britain administered Transjordan until 1946, when independence was granted, and the name of the area became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The Jewish people reluctantly accepted losing 80% of their promised land mass to the partition because Britain simultaneously took over the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine in 1922, and they really had no one to which they could appeal. It should be emphasized that Arab hopes for a vast empire have since been realized. Today, the Arab League includes 21 separate Arab states spanning an area of more than 5,000,000 square miles (12.9 million sq. km.)
However, there is only one Jewish state consisting of 8,000 square miles (20,715 sq. km.), NOT the original 35,000 square miles.
It is called Israel.
As time went on, the British feared their relations with the Arabs would suffer and sought to protect British oil interests in the Middle East. As World War II loomed on the horizon and oil became a paramount concern, British appeasement to the Arab cause against the Jews of Palestine was obvious. They greatly limited Jewish immigration in the British Mandate.
From 1936-1939, there was an Arab uprising in which 10,000 people were killed. The British showed leniency toward the Arabs in the beginning, which resulted in this disaster - 1,000 British were killed, 500 Jews, and 8,500 Arabs (Let it be noted that most of the Arabs were killed by other Arabs vying for control).
This event put greater fear into the British, who put further limits on Jewish immigration. The climax was the British White Paper in 1939, which ordered that future Jewish immigration be limited to 10,000 per year for five years and to an additional 25,000 refugees from Nazism - 75,000 in all.
Hardly much help while Hitler was killing 6,000,000 Jews during this same period.
As World War II came to an end, revealing the extent of the catastrophe that had befallen the Jewish people in Europe, there were demands everywhere for swift action to rehabilitate and resettle those who had survived the Holocaust through the establishment of a Jewish state.
The British had tired of their role as supervisors of the British Mandate, which had been maintained since World War I.
They were looking for a way out of Palestine, as well as a way to appease both the Arabs and the Jews of this region, so they turned the problem over to the UN early in 1947.
The UN sent an 11-nation Special Commission on Palestine (UNSCOP) to the region to investigate. UNSCOP found two people groups, Arabs and Jews, both claiming all the country.
To satisfy the national aspirations of both peoples, UNSCOP proposed termination of the British Mandate and ANOTHER partition, TAKING AWAY EVEN MORE JEWISH LAND GRANTS, into an Arab state and a Jewish state based on population concentrations. Jerusalem, they said, would be an international zone.
The Jewish state was already in de facto existence in all areas, but, eager for independence, the Jews of Palestine were ready to accept a compromise - the new partition. The Arabs boycotted the UNSCOP plan. World opinion strongly favored the UN resolution, and it was adopted by a vote of 33-13, with 10 abstentions, on Nov. 29, 1947.
Throughout the 1947 UN debate, it was recorded that the Palestine Arab Higher Commission threatened war, while Jewish Agency spokesmen appealed for peace. Jamal Husseini, spokesman for the Arab committee, told the UN on Nov. 24, 1947: "The partition line proposed shall be nothing but a line of fire and blood."
November 29,1947, the UN voted FOR the partition and the Arabs, as promised, began their war to prevent implementation of the UN resolution.
Roads were mined, Jewish settlements isolated, and Jewish convoys were ambushed.
By the end of that week, 105 Jews had been killed.
Later, apartments in Jerusalem were blown up and more than 50 men, women and children were killed.
Thirty-five Hebrew University students were massacred on the road near Jerusalem.
The Jewish Agency was bombed and took heavy casualties.
A convoy was set afire on the road to Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus and 77 Jewish doctors, nurses and scientists died.
In spite of this Arabic war against the Jews, on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was declared to be independent.
The Arabs rejected the UN partition plan of 1947 and didn't accept their portion of land. Instead, five Arab armies (Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon and Iraq) immediately invaded Israel expecting to sweep the Israelis into the sea.
On May 15, 1948, Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, was recorded in Cairo as stating: "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades." ARABS WERE TOLD BY THEIR ARAB LEADERS TO LEAVE ISRAEL AHEAD OF THE "BLOOD BATH" AND MANY DID LEAVE.
Tiny Israel not only won this war, but retained that which was given to her by the UN, and a bit more. Those areas designated for and offered to the Arabs as an Arabic state in Palestine were immediately occupied by OTHER Arab countries: the West Bank (of the Jordan River) by Jordan, and the Gaza Strip by Egypt.
From 1948-1972, over 1,400,000 immigrants came into Israel. All had to be settled, trained, given Hebrew language classes, and many needed health care. All of this cost fell on the shoulders of the Israelis.
Arabs of the region who became refugees, were NOT kicked out of Israel, but had been almost forced to leave AHEAD OF THE ATTACK by the Arab leadershipwho intended to "push the Jews into the sea."
They had not wanted Arabs in harm's way when they began their assault on Israel.
By coincidence, the total number of Arabs who left Israel ahead of the attack equaled the number of Jews who were forced out of the attacking Arab countries ONCE THE WAR WAS BEGUN.
It has been noted by those who watched this scenario unfurl that, "The Jews who fled Arab countries where they had lived for 2,500 years, left assets behind far greater than those the Arabs left in Israel. Jewish property that the Arabs confiscated in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt more than offset Arab claims of compensation from Israel."
After the war, in the negotiations for an Armistice Agreement in 1949, the Arabs, having lost, insisted that Israel THEN accept the 1947 partition lines as borders before they would negotiate. ISRAEL HAD ALREADY ACCEPTED THAT AGREEMENT IN 1948!
Actually, what the Arabs were demanding AFTER DEFEAT, was what they could have had before their invasion without firing a shot! The purpose of this declaration by the Arabs was to appear as the defenders of the UN and its resolutions, and to cast Israel as its violator.
The opposite was true.
That this demand by the defeated Arabs created a novel concept, which the Arabs still use to this day, is blatantly apparent: the doctrine of the limited liability war.
Under this theory, an aggressor may reject a compromise settlement and may gamble on war to win EVERYTHING in the comfortable knowledge that, even if he fails, he may insist on reinstating the ORIGINAL compromise and claim rights under it.
This has been the pattern of the Arabs in each war they have waged against Israel, the SAME thing happened after every DEFEAT they took in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 and is still being used today.
BUT ARABS WERE ALREADY GIVEN A LARGE HOMELAND, REMEMBER? AND SOME WERE HAPPY WITH THAT! TRANSJORDAN WAS TO BE THEIR HOMELAND!
Transjordan's independence, becoming Jordan in 1946, forced an artificial redefinition of "Palestine" to include ONLY that area west of the Jordan River, thus restricting ISRAEL to 20% of the original 'Palestine' they had been awarded.
What the 1947 UN partition did was to FURTHER partition the TINY remaining 20% portion into yet another Arab state and a Jewish state, NOT TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THEY HAD ALREADY GIVEN THE ARABS THE "STATE" OF TRANSJORDAN AS THEIR OWN.
NONE of this, however, changes the FACT, the recorded FACT that Jordan originated from historical JEWISH Palestine, that its land mass was taken away from the Jews! Over 70% of its population were "Palestinian Arabs".
IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW, Jordan's King Abdullah II is Saudi Arabian (father) and British (mother), his great-grandfather, A SAUDI, having been given this territory by the British after WWI.
SO BRITAIN RENEGED ON THE ORIGINAL PLAN FOR ISRAEL, AND WANTING TO INSURE THE SAUDIS SOLD BRITAIN OIL, THEY GAVE AWAY 80% of JEWISH Palestine and called the receiver of this "GIFT" the "Emir of Jordan", under British protection.
In 1949, Jordan, ignoring the UN partition, annexed the West Bank (also known as Judea and Samaria for thousands of years prior), and Palestinian Arabs, under the Jordanian umbrella of British protection, then controlled 82.5% of the Palestine Mandate originally given to the Jews in 1917, while the Jewish State then held a bare 17.5%.
Despite what you may have previously thought, it should be crystal clear that Israel did not usurp all of Palestine, BUT GOT A TINY FRACTION OF WHAT THE "LEAGUE OF NATIONS" HAD INTENDED HER TO HAVE, nor are the Arabs left without a Palestinian state.
All of Jordan is that 'Arab Palestinian State'...all 90,565 sq. km. of it, every inch of which originally was declared to be the JEWISH Palestinian State.
And yet, the current "Peace Process", from Oslo to the Wye River agreements, is STILL seeking to find a nation for the "Palestinians', because Jordan got greedy, was power crazed, took the land designated for ALL Arab Palestinians, land stolen from Israel, and decided it didn't want to make room for the troublemakers who were left inside JEWISH Palestine.
THE ENTIRE WORLD KEEPS SCREAMING FOR A "PALESTINIAN STATE" WHEN ONE ALREADY EXISTS AND HAS SINCE 1932, BUT ONLY TINY ISRAEL, REDUCED TO LESS THAN THE SIZE OF NEW JERSEY, USA, IS EVER EXPECTED TO GIVE UP ANY LAND TO CREATE ANOTHER 'PALESTINIAN STATE", AND ANOTHER, AND ANOTHER!
ARABS HAD 1300 YEARS TO CREATE SUCH A STATE THEMSELVES AND NEVER DID. THEY NEVER DID THINK OF IT UNTIL THEY SAW ISRAEL WITH HER PITIFUL REMAINING 8,000 SQUARE MILES OF LAND.
IF ISRAEL WAS REDUCED TO ONE FOOT OF LAND, MANY IN ISLAM WOULD DEMAND 11 INCHES OF IT AND THEN TRY TO TAKE THE OTHER INCH BY FORCE!
THAT IS THEIR WAY WITH ALL "INFIDELS", IT IS THEIR HISTORY, IT HAS BEEN THE WAY THEY HAVE TREATED ALL NON-MUSLIM NATIONS ON PLANET EARTH, AND THEY WOULD NEVER BE APPEASED BY A SECOND "ARAB PALESTINIAN STATE". THEY WEREN'T CONTENT WITH "TRANSJORDAN" AND THEY WON'T BE CONTENT UNTIL ALL "INFIDELS" ARE ERASED FROM THE EARTH.
ARABS CONTROLLED THE LAND OF ISRAEL FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS AFTER MUCH OF ISRAEL WAS LED AWAY TO CAPTIVITY, AND IN THAT LONG, LONG TIME THEY NEVER PLANTED ORCHARDS, FARMS, THEY NEVER MADE PROGRESS IN THAT BARREN LAND, THEY NEVER POPULATED IT.
ONLY AFTER ISRAEL WAS LOOKING TO BECOMING A MODERN NATION DID SUCH A THOUGHT OCCUR TO ARABS TO EITHER FARM THE LAND, BUILD CITIES THERE, OR CREATE A "STATE" FOR ARABS...
ARABS, NOT 'PALESTINIANS', FOR NO SUCH TRIBE EVER EXISTED BY THAT NAME, NO SUCH LANGUAGE, NO SUCH CULTURE, NOWHERE IN HISTORY, AND HUMAN GENETICS HAS PROVEN THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "PALESTINIAN". THEY ARE SYRIANS, EGYPTIANS, SAUDIS, ETC, EVEN LEBANESE, BUT THEY CANNOT POSSIBLY BE 'PALESTINIANS' BECAUSE SUCH A PEOPLE NEVER EXISTED ANYWHERE ON EARTH BY THAT NAME.
DNA DOES NOT LIE!
IF WE COLLECTED DNA FROM A JEWISH INDIVIDUAL AND COMPARE IT TO DNA FROM, SAY, THE DNA OF A 3000-YEAR-OLD KNOWN JEWISH CORPSE, THE DNA WOULD PROVE TO BE JEWISH IN BOTH INDIVIDUALS. WE COULD SEE THE CLEAR TRAIL FROM ONE TO THE OTHER. JEWS OF 2013 CAN TRACE THEIR ANCESTRY VERY EASILY TO JEWS OF 4,000 YEARS AGO.
IF WE COLLECTED DNA FROM ANY PERSON REFERRING TO HIMSELF AS A 'PALESTINIAN', WE COULD SEARCH FOREVER AND FIND NO MATCH TO ANY CULTURE CALLING ITSELF 'PALESTINIAN' FROM ANY ERA ON EARTH. WE WOULD FIND KINSHIP TO OTHER ARABIC TRIBES AND LANDS, NATIONS OLD AND NEW.... EGYPTIAN, PERSIAN, TURKISH, ASSYRIAN, ETC. THEY SHOULD BE PROUD OF THEIR LINEAGE, PROUD OF THEIR ANCESTORS, PROUD TO BE WHO THEY ARE.
COULD SOME IN GAZA TRACE THEIR ANCESTRY TO ABRAHAM? WOULD THE DNA EVIDENCE BEAR THEM OUT? YES!YES, SOME MAY WELL BE ABLE TO DO SO!
BUT THEN WE COME FULL-CIRCLE BACK TO THE AGE-OLD BLOOD FEUD,DON'T WE? ABRAHAM'S YOUNGER SON BECAME THE HEIR TO ALL, NOT THE OLDER SON WHO WAS CAST OUT WITH HIS MOTHER TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS.
WAS ISAAC, THE YOUNGER SON, TO BLAME FOR HIS FATHER'S ACTIONS?
SHOULD ISHMAEL HAVE TAKEN REVENGE ON ISAAC FOR WHAT HIS FATHER DID?
HE COULD HAVE, BUT HE DID NOT DO SO!
ISHMAEL LIVED, MARRIED AN EGYPTIAN WOMAN, HAD 12 SONS JUST AS JACOB, HIS NEPHEW, DID, AND HIS SONS WENT ON TO BECOME TRIBAL CHIEFTAINS, JUST AS JACOB'S SONS BECAME HEADS OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
WHEN ABRAHAM DIED, WE READ THAT ISHMAEL JOINED HIS BROTHER ISAAC TO BURY THEIR FATHER IN THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH. THE TWO BROTHERS DID NOT TEAR AT ONE ANOTHER, DID NOT SEEK TO TAKE THE LIFE OF THE OTHER. WHY MUST THEIR OFFSPRING DO SO? WHY MUST 'BROTHER' JUST KEEP FIGHTING AGAINST 'BROTHER' NOW? WHY CAN'T THE SONS OF ISHMAEL DO AS ISHMAEL DID AND LIVE IN PEACE WITH THE SONS OF ISAAC?
PEACE CAN ONLY COME WHEN BOTH SIDES WANT PEACE MORE THAN DOMINION OVER THE OTHER, MORE THAN CONTINUING THE AGE-OLD BLOOD FEUD BETWEEN THE REMNANTS OF ISAAC AND ISHMAEL.
ABRAHAM MADE THE CHOICE OF HEIRS, NOT EITHER OF HIS SONS!
NEITHER SIDE, NEITHER MUSLIM NOR JEW, IS INNOCENT OF COMMITTING WRONGS. BOTH SIDES NEED TO FIND A BETTER WAY... FOR THE SAKE OF ALL THE CHILDREN THERE, FOR THE SAKE OF SANITY.
THE WORLD GAVE A HOMELAND TO BOTH, ISRAEL AND ARABS. JORDAN CLAIMED THE ARAB HOMELAND.
WHY WON'T JORDAN ALLOW ALL WHO WANT TO TO COME "HOME" ?
WHY WON'T THE NATIONS OF ISLAM DEMAND FROM JORDAN WHAT THEY DEMAND FROM ISRAEL?
ISRAEL GAVE UP 80% OF HER LAND. SHE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PEACEFULLY KEEP THE 20% SHE HAS LEFT.
