Thanks for the info, nahida, and if you have the/some links where you gleaned the facts from I’m interested. If you haven’t already seen this link you might find it of interest because it is where Zionism originates.

http://iamthewitness.com/doc/RothschildsTimeline-filer /frame.htm

I’m sure someone will come on this site claiming we are both anti-Semitic, a favorite long & overly used tactic of Zionists to deflect attention away from their crimes, and which utilizes the tool of guilt felt by westerners for supposedly letting the Holocaust happen. Hey, how many non-Jewish westerners died trying to put the Nazis in their place?

Following are just a few of the many massacres committed by Jewish-Zionist terrorists, notably by the Zionist Hagana, Irgun and Stern Gang groups.

Don’t expect any Hollywood films highlighting any of these massacres:

1. King David Hotel, July 22, 1946.
2. Sharafat, Feb. 7, 1951.
3. Deir Yassin, April 9-10, 1948.
4. Falameh, April 2, 1951.
5. Naseruddine, April 14, 1948.
6. Quibya, Oct. 14, 1953.
7. Carmel, April 20, 1948.
8. Nahalin, March, 28, 1954.
9. Al-Qabu, May 1, 1948.
10. Gaza, Feb. 28, 1955.
11. Beit Kiras, May 3, 1948.
12. Khan Yunis, May 31, 1955.
13. Beitkhoury, May 5, 1948.
14. Khan Yunis Again, Aug. 31, 1955
15. Az-Zaytoun, May 6, 1948.
16. Tiberia, Dec. 11, 1955.
17. Wadi Araba, May 13, 1950.
18. As-Sabha, Nov. 2, 1955.
19. Gaza Again, April 5, 1956.
20. Houssan, Sept. 25, 1956.
21. Rafa, Aug. 16, 1956.
22. Qalqilyah, Oct. 10, 1956.
23. Ar-Rahwa, Sept. 12, 1956.
24. Kahr Kassem, Oct. 29, 1956.
25. Gharandal, Sept. 13, 1956.
26. Gaza Strip, Nov. 1956.
26. Gaza Strip, Nov. 1956.

Facts about the relationship between Zionism and terrorism
Below are some rarely-mentioned facts about the relationship between Zionism and modern-day terrorism:

1. The first aircraft hijacking was carried out by Israel in 1954 against a Syrian civilian airliner.

2. Grenades in cafes: first used by Zionists against Palestinians in Jerusalem on 17 March 1937.

3. Delayed-action, electrically timed mines in crowded marketplaces: first used by Zionists against Palestinians in Haifa on 6 July 1938.

4.  Blowing up a ship with its civilian passengers still on board: first carried out by Zionists in Haifa on 25 November 1940. The Zionists did not hesitate to blow up their own people in protest at the British policy of restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine. The ship, Patria, was carrying 1,700 Jewish immigrants.

5.  Assassination of government officials: first carried out by the Zionists against the British in Cairo, when on 6 November 1944 Lord Moyne was assassinated by the Stern Gang. Yitzhak Shamir, a member of the Irgun and later leader of the Stern Gang and Israeli prime minister, was behind the plan. (Prime minister Yitzhak Shamir visited UK in 1989. No action was taken against him although he is wanted by British Courts).

6.  Use of hostages as a means of putting pressure on a government: first used by the Zionists against the British in Tel Aviv on 18 June 1946.

7. Blowing up of government offices with their civilian employees and visitors: first carried out by the Zionists against the British in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946. The toll was 91 Britons killed and 46 wounded in the King David Hotel. Menachm Begin, who masterminded and carried out the attack and later became Israeli prime minister, admitted that the massacre was coordinated with and carried out under the instruction of the Haganah Zionist gang.

8. Booby-trapped suitcases: first used by the Zionists against the British Embassy in Rome on 13 October 1946.

9. Booby-trapped cars in civilian areas : first used by the Zionists against the British in Sarafand (east of Jaffa) on 5 December 1946.

10.  Beating of hostages: first used by the Zionists against the British in Tel Aviv, Netanya and Rishon on 29 December 1946.

11. Letter bombs sent to politicians: first used by the Zionists against Britain when 20 letter bombs were sent from Italy to London between 4 and 6 June 1947.

12. Murder of hostages as a reprisal for government actions: first used by the Zionists against the British in the Netanya area on 29 July 1947.

13. Postal parcel bombs: first used by the Zionists against the British in London on 3 September 1947.

14.  The massacre of Qibya: northwest of Jerusalem, was carried out by Unit 101, under the command of Ariel Sharon on Wednesday 14 October 1953. The attack was the bloodiest and most brutal Zionist crimes since the infamous Deir Yassin massacre. Forty-two houses as well as a school and a mosque were dynamited over their inhabitants. Seventy-five women, men and children were killed.

As for an up-to-date ........ The list is endless!

Robert

Thank you for your comment, and I wish you a happy and fulfilled new year & a content and joyful life.

I am sorry for disappearing for such a long time, but I was still commenting on other sites

Absolutely correct, Robert, and here is the reason the world keeps turning a blind eye:

http://www.natvan.com/who-rules-america/wra.pdf

Comment #122614 by Nahida on 12/26/07

Greetings Nahida;

It has been a few months since you last posted on truthdig.

Your poetry & messages convey the agony of the Palestinian people under Israel’s brutal occupation.

This high-tech and plastic world just turns the other way as if all is well with Israel’s IDF brutal policy against the Palestinians.

Keep posting your poetry. The TRUTH needs to be read and heard.

No escape

In my heart dwells the pain of the oppressed
The river of their wounds pours down
In the sea of my sorrow

I am the voice of the voiceless
The howl of little ones as they fade away in agony

My whispers shoot like bullets
In the ears of the wicked
My words explodes
Before his eyes
Muting his lies

He looks away
Pretending not to see
Not to hear
My murmurs pierce his bubble
My tortured shadow follows
No escape

He runs to bed
Covers his head
Sleep might rid him of me

My chopped limps chases his dream
He drowns in my tears
In my blood
Unable to breathe
Unable to cry
No escape

Time passes… then he dies
Only to be greeted with my smile
He’d hoped he’d never see
As he was chained and taken away
To meet his deeds
No escape

.

Isn’t this what Skull & Bones members are required to do on occasion? Kiss the tail of the Devil, or is it stroke the (Isreali) tail that wags the (US) dog?

Shooting Back: The Israeli Human Rights Group B’Tselem Gives Palestinians Video Cameras to Document Life Under Occupation.

B’Tselem has given Palestinian families across the West Bank video cameras to document how they are treated by Israeli soldiers and settlers. Some of the videos depicting abuse by settlers sparked a national debate earlier this year after they were broadcast on Israeli television. We speak with Oren Yakobovich who coordinates B’Tselem’s video department.

A second round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations was stymied Monday after Israel refused to halt its settlement activity. At the U.S. sponsored peace conference in Annapolis last month Israel had agreed to end settlement expansion. But the Israeli Construction Ministry unveiled a proposal Sunday to build 740 new homes on occupied Palestinian land near East Jerusalem.

B’Tselem or the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories is an independent NGO that challenges Israel"s occupation and settlement policy by raising awareness about human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

B’Tselem has given Palestinian families across the West Bank video cameras to document how they are treated by Israeli soldiers and settlers. The project is called “Shooting Back.”

Some of the videos depicting abuse by settlers sparked a national debate earlier this year after they were broadcast on Israeli television.

Oren Yakobovich coordinates BTselem’s video department. He recently traveled to the United States and joined me in the firehouse studio for an interview. I began by asking him to explain his project, “Shooting Back.”

Oren Yakobovich, coordinates BTselem’s video department

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/26/shooting_back_t he_israeli_human_rights

Jeb Bush to arrive in Israel for private visit

“Two weeks before US President George W. Bush is scheduled to arrive on his first visit to Israel as President, his younger brother Jeb Bush is scheduled to arrive Monday for a private visit.

Bush, the former governor of Florida, will be accompanied by his wife and children, and will travel around the country, including visits to Massada, Nazareth and a tour of the northern border with Deputy Chief of General Staff. Maj.-Gen. Dan Harel.

Bush is scheduled to meet Monday with Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik and a number of Knesset members.”
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“The timing here is very interesting.

Either his Israeli hosts are sounding Jeb out for a presidential run in 2012 (as in, how good can you be for Israel?), or letting him know, in no uncertain terms, what the consequences might be for the President if he does not begin an attack on Iran before his term of office expires.”

Oh, we can only hope…

Maybe there will be enough time…

Someone will penetrate the barriers…

Too bad Cheney isn’t with him.  Way too bad…

Most likely the only guarantee…

Even the world knows what would happen if…

Shudder shudder

I hate it when this guy travels.Everywhere he goes and speaks people will know we elected a chimp President.Good thing he picked the area of his greatest triumph.Come to think of it where could he go to visit a triumph.At least when God talks to him now it will not be long distance.I beleive in the Holy Land it is a local call.

Gaza’s Christians Keep Low Profile During Christmas

Gaza’s small Christian community is keeping a low profile during Christmas this year, traumatized by the killing of Rami Ayyad, 32, a prominent Christian activist, after the Hamas takeover. At the Baptist Church on Sunday, just 10 people attended the regular weekly prayer service, down from an average of 70. There was no Christmas tree in sight. The church’s full-time pastor, along with his family, have relocated to the West Bank. “Whole families are leaving, selling their cars, homes and all their properties,” said Rev. Manuel Musallem, head of Gaza’s Roman Catholic church. Israeli security officials said they were permitting 400 Gaza Christians to travel through Israel to Bethlehem for Christmas. (AP/International Herald Tribune)

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/23/africa/ME-GE N-Palestinians-Gaza-Christmas.php

On Middle-East related issues.
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Israel planning 1000 West Bank apartments…. Jerusalem Post: 12-23-2007
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Last week, the people in Rafah, a Palestinian village on the border with Egypt, woke up at 6 o’clock in the morning due to the rumbling and rolling of Zionists’ tanks and armoured vehicles entering the village.
Under the cover of darkness the sleepy inhabitants were given 30-minutes to get out of their homes.
As punctual as they are when it comes to murder defenceless woman and children, sick and old, the so-brave Zionist Army started relentlessly hammering the people of Rafah, destroying over 100 hundred homes, leaving at least 1000 civilians, amongst them many infirm and old in freezing temperature homeless.
The image of these people, standing by helplessly as they watch their walls and roofs cave in under the pressure of the armoured, D-9 and D-10 American made Caterpillar bulldozers--supplied to the Zionist army by the regime in Washington, as demanded by the consolidated Zionist consortium.
This image would make anyone of conscience with sleepless nights, but it makes you sleepless because one cannot stop thinking about the horror Rachel Corrie, the 23 years young American peace activist, crashed under the similar D9s/D10s.
Rachel worked in Rafah. Undoubtedly, she would have known some of the people killed, wounded and made homeless by this latest attack, had she were given the chance to live her young life .
Rachel died in Rafah. She herself fell victim to the crushing blades of the bulldozer, the Zionist driver so intently anxious on destroying a home that he had to destroy human life to do so.
You feel the pain in your heart and soul.
The Rachel’s death, underreported as it was, the normal-gagged policy of the main stream US media and not reporting the continues Palestinians genocide did not come as surprise, just a norm.
The typically unquestioning support of the Zionists’ policy by the existing regime in W/H simply invites the cowardly Zionist Army takes Caterpillar armoured bulldozers, and uses them as WMD to inflict death and destruction on defenceless Palestinian civilians, in violation of every international law as they have been doing more of the same for the last 60 years.
Caterpillar’s own published policy of social responsibility, which states that its “commitment to financial success must also take into account social, economic, political and environmental priorities,” a policy guided by “high ethical standards” that seek to guarantee its “reputation for integrity”, is nothing but stinking all hot air when you are dealing with these psychopathic Zionists puppet-masters of AIPAC whom controlling the very way of life in America.
Sign post in Rafah: Merry Xmas, liar-in-chief.

Is Bush spending his Xmas in Israel, guess he has his Methodist Church there. Can already hear the jingle of the money changing hands, maybe Bush is going to give a Christmas present to Tiny Tim, I mean the Palestinians, this could turn out to be a real live Christmas Carol.  Cannot wait for the ending, well, guess I will have to.

#121859 by Fadel Abdallah

Fadel,

Thanks for the compliments. They cheer me. Yep, I’m over 50 and unmarried. (even if I WANTED to be married, the picking’s are really slim from among the dominant culture)

But, your ‘respond to’ address didn’t come though. Maybe they deleted it, which is probably just as well for you, because there’s no telling WHAT kind of harassment you would have received. (many strange peeps out there – you can probably tell from this forum).

Anyway, try that Private message thing that truthdig has. I can never make it work on my end, (other than to retrieve messages) but you might have better luck.

Happy holidays to all. (or, at least make the best of them if you can).

It seems most outgoing “leaders” take the opportunity to explore their future options at taxpayers’ expense so why should GWB be any different?

Bush & Co. are into BIG OIL up to their armpits so where better to shore up THEIR OWN financial underpinnings than in the home of BIG OIL - the Middle East?

RE:  post by #121908 by Non Credo on 12/22 at 12:07 pm
(827 comments total)

From the article: “Given that he’s even less popular in the Mideast than he is at home...”.

That’s misleading. He’s unpopular in the non-Jewish Mideast. But his policies are very popular in Israel - indeed, they are virtually dictated by Israel.

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Wow, what an impressive country.  You mean that little tiny country of 7 million can dictate to our President?  Head of our country of over 300 million. Most noteworthy. Indeed.

I really think Saudi Arabia does more dictating to him, if one looks at it properly !

Dear Brethren and Sistern

In spite of our dislike for a certain president named Bush, let us go down on our knees this weekend and ask the God of the Jews and the God of the Christians and the God of Islam and the God of Hindu, and the Gods of the godless, and any other gods you can think of, to watch over him and bring him home safely.

Cause the alternative ...
President Richard Cheney
... is just too horrible to comprehend.

Thanks and amen.

Bush’s trip is meaningless. And Arabs and Muslims view it as an empty gesture. He had nearly seven years to work on peace in the Middle East but through criminal neglect ignored the very reason why the Muslim world looks upon the US government with disdain and suspicion. Too little, too late.

Bush and his administration are not particularly liked and not particularly trusted, both internationally and here at home.

A recent survey reflects this in some of its findings:

“Survey shows majority of Americans suspect cover-ups, distrust federal government”

AmericanChronicle.com
December 21, 2007

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle. asp?articleID=46800

#121805 by cyrena on 12/21 at 9:21 pm

Cyrena,

You always shine in whatever you write. Your response to #121791 by Yani is another example of how you write with educated passion and love for the truth and justice. Knowing that you’re of native-American background increases my respect and admiration for you. I am falling in love with you, girl! If you’re unmarried and over fifty, I would love to meet you!

Please respond to: fia45 at verizon dot net

#121791 by Yani on 12/21 at 7:22 pm
(Unregistered commenter)

“I live in Amman. You know where this is? American standing in the strip? I do not believe you. We do not even go to the strip! But come here and I will personally drive you there and film you so people know what I said is true.”

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Hey Yani...Where exactly do you live? Do you work at the Israeli embassy in Amman? Most likely is that you are an Israeli jewish zionist living in Israel, but you are being deceptive here on truthdig.

Why don’t you tell the damn truth if you are capable; your zionist deceptions won’t go too far on truthdig?

wouldn’t it be great if yahweh smote air force one over yerushalayim and pronounced “no fucking hypocritical christians allowed this week”.

#121791 by Yani

• Go give back your land to the Native American Indians you really took from and stop trying to divert attention to Israel when you are the real criminal.
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What a HOOT this is!!! I’d LOVE for them to give US back OUR land Yani. It’s been more than a FEW HUNDRED YEARS, since the EUROS (specifically Britain, Spain and France) did EXACTLY to us Natives, as Israel is doing to the Indigenous Peoples of the Middle East. Ah, THAT would be the ARABS in your case.

So, this just goes to show how stupid and unaware you are. And, I have nothing to prove to you. I also don’t have any reason to go anywhere near Amman. One of my colleagues had a very bad experience there a few years ago. He was there on a study fellowship, and made the very innocent mistake of taking a photograph of a Mosque and a market place. Touristy sort of stuff, just to show the folks at home. Within minutes, some goons had swooped him up, and thrown him in a van of some sort, and off they went. He made the mistake of trying to talk with them – in ARABIC- (somehow thinking it might help) when of course THAT only made it worse. It was a HARROWING experience for him. He was somehow able to wiggle his handcuffed hands into his pocket for a cell phone, and then make contact with someone from the sponsoring University/Program. Eventually they were able to obtain his release. Now, this is a WHITE guy, an American, and his ‘crime’ was taking some tourist photos. (and speaking Arabic of course)
Thanks anyway, I think I’ll pass on your dare. However, I HAVE visited the strip, and I was NOT harassed. I’ve also visited the West Bank, and since I’m obviously a Native AMERICAN, and NOT a Native ARAB, the Israelis didn’t bother me there either. Rather, I got to OBSERVE what the Israelis do to THOSE natives. It’s horrific. (talk about fine-tuning the torture techniques...the IDF has it down pat)

So Yani, go blow your smoke up somebody else’s ass, because I’m not going for it.

Comprende?

Filthy Nazis (and if you don’t like my headline, go somewhere else)

Bethlehem Christmas cancelled: The Wall must fall

December 06, 2007 | SteveLeicesterUK, YouTube.com

I produced this video to go with the soundtrack to Garth Hewitt’s song “They’ve cancelled christmas in Bethlehem (The wall must fall)which can be downloaded from http://www.amostrust.org

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11& ar=1398

Although N I E Report has dampen the intensity of war rhetoric for a while; but it may have not retarded the ability of George W Bush to take any action against Iran. In any case George W Bush does require some fabricated scenario turned into a compelling evidence to formulate a pretext against Iran.

This may be seen as rushing to some rash analysis, but it seems most likely that in order to create a pretext; we may have another 9/11 like event! This time ground zero may not be some twin tower like targets in America but it could be (most probably a self inflicted wound surfacing) some where in Tel-Aviv-Israel.

Bush planned visit to Israel is another opportunity for Neocons to orchestrate an incident where President’s Security is seen compromised; some suicidal blast is made to happen which forms another evidence to bring about a pretext to Attack Iran.

We have seen almost eight years of these failed “diversionary “ tactics by Bush/Cheney & Co. . Every time a serious controversy arises - this time the destruction of CIA interogation tapes - This One Trick Pony of an administration pulls a magic weasel out of it’s hat full of very transparent attempts to dodge responsibility and accountability for the Criminal activity of these naughty little boys and girls in the White House . I wish the Israelis would give the Palestinians a breather and Bulldoze the White House with all of these creeps inside .

Lets hope the Palistinians leave him alone, if he gets killed, Cheney becomes President and we’re all fucked.

I remember years ago I read something about an Islamic holy man predicting Bush assassination, anyone remember that?

The May 15th Prophecy and the Prophet Habakkuk has corectly describe President Bush as followed

“Habakkuk describe with precision and accurate detail of the Bush Administration in chapter 2 verse 5

“A Curse on him that goes on taking that what is not his, IS WEIGHTED DOWN with the property of debtors”
”

for more go to
http://lastdaywatchers.blogspot.com/

Upon a second thought on Bush’s trip to the Mideast, I was inspired with the following thoughts:

May he be checked out at one of Israel’s checkpoints, so he would learn firsthand what it looks like! Or may he be buried alive in the moving sands of the Arabian deserts and end swimming in a field of crude oil he loved so much! Or may he be given few oil fields to rule over as another Skeik-King, enticing him to stay there for good! Whatever happens, alive or dead, but out of this land, this might be the greatest of God’s gift to the American people for the 2008 New Year.

I always thought that Bush fits more in the Mideast than in America, and I hope that his God who speaks to him, as he claims, would inspire him to decide to stay there and die there, so he would be close at hand when the Armageddon he worked so hard to hasten will be upon that land.

Stay there and don’t come back !

IT IS NEVER TOO LATE.  . Bush help those, who, kill themselves.

A TOUR OF THE ISRAELI IDF CHECKPOINTS

“Photographing Israel’s checkpoints is rarely easy. On occasions soldiers have threatened to arrest me, take my camera or aimed their rifles in my direction. All but one of these photos were taken in January 2007 while I was accompanying Machsom Watch, a group of Israeli women who monitor some of the 500-plus checkpoints and roadblocks that criss-cross the West Bank. They know Israeli domestic and military law, and argued with the soldiers who tried to stop me. It is important to remember that the checkpoints (“machsom” in Hebrew) shown here are deep inside Palestinian territory; they do not mark any kind of border with Israel … (continued below)”
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BTW...May be GW Bush can take a tour and see ISRAEL’S GRUESOME & APARTHEID IDF CHECKPOINTS.

What are the chances that GW will have an opportunity to see Israel’s brutal occupation of the Palestinian people? You guessed it...ZERO CHANCE!

Click a photo to enlarge and see a description

http://www.jkcook.net/MachsomIndex.htm

Former US Intelligence official: Israel will attack Iran

Bruce Riedel, a former career CIA official and senior adviser to three US presidents, including Bush, tells Newsweek he came back from trip to Israel in November convinced that Jewish state would attack Iran. ‘Israel is not going to allow its nuclear monopoly to be threatened,’ he says

Yitzhak Benhorin
Published:  12.21.07, 12:01 / Israel News

“I came back from a trip to Israel in November convinced that Israel would attack Iran,” Bruce Riedel, a former career CIA official and senior adviser to three US presidents - including George W. Bush - on Middle East and South Asian issues, told Newsweek Thursday, citing conversations he had with Mossad and Israeli defense officials.

“And that was before the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). This makes it even more likely. Israel is not going to allow its nuclear monopoly to be threatened,” the American magazine quoted Riedel as saying in an article titled, “What will Israel do?”.

Mission to Washington
Israeli delegation dispatched to US to argue that Iran still pursuing bomb / Associated Press
Intelligence experts at end of week-long mission to Washington to counter findings of NIE report claiming Iran no longer developing nuclear weapons
Full Story

Published in early December, the American NIE determined that Iran had shelved its nuclear weapons program in 2003.

According to Newsweek, “a rising tide of opinion in Israel’s intelligence and national-security circles believes that the NIE does signal American retreat-and, more profoundly, renewed Israeli isolation over what is deemed an existential threat out of Tehran.”

‘Israel has gotten away with it’

The magazine quoted Knesset Member Ephraim Sneh, a former deputy defense minister who has “warned for years that Israel would eventually have to confront Iran alone,” as saying that “today we are closer to this situation than we were three weeks ago ... we have to be prepared to forestall this threat on our own.”

David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington told Newsweek that Israel was likely encouraged by the non-reaction to their September air strike on a reported Syrian nuclear facility, “which may have been a test run for Iran, or at least a warning directed at Tehran”.

“Israel has gotten away with it in a sense,” Albright was quoted as saying. He suggested that any Israeli pre-emptive action might not be a “traditional strike” but could involve more “sabotage of equipment”.

Newsweek said Israel also knows that the Arab states are “terrified of an Iranian nuclear power, possibly to the point of looking the other way at another such strike”.

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The magazine said one reason for Bush’s abruptly announced nine-day visit to the Middle East in mid-January was “to deal with the fallout from the NIE, which includes not only the possibility that Israel will act unilaterally but also that Bush’s prized Annapolis peace process will stall.

“The Bush trip is, in part, an implicit concession to US hawks that the NIE went too far in absolving Iran. It is also a conscious effort to reassure both Israel and the Arab states that Washington will stand up to Iran’s increasing intrusiveness and hegemonic tendencies,” Newsweek said in its report.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3485225,00.html

here, here, G. Anderson…

Now i’m getting out of here before this turns into the good Jew/bad Jew routine.

Though i must say that my derision of the Austrian view that America is run by the Jews...which i received a great deal of living there...may have been somewhat misplaced.

Because the American Republic has failed miserably in holding its elected leaders to accountability for years of failures and disasters, I am one who is not surprised that Bush is about to crown his disastrous presidency with a visit to leaders and countries that represent the antithesis of true democracy, enlightenment and human rights. So, besides visiting his beloved militaristic and the longest occupier in modern human history, Israel, he will pay homage and bestow legitimacy upon several hated despotic medieval rulers in Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

I wish to share with the enlightened readers of Truthdig a piece of information that many might not know about one of the latest Bush’s cohorts in international politics, Mahmoud Abbas, the so-called “President of Palestine.” Abbas was the author of some 600-page documents written for the failed Oslo Accords, in which he did not once use the word “occupation”; in which he referred only to the “deployment” of the Israeli army rather than its withdrawal. And of course, he promised to end the so-called “terrorism” against Israel only, keeping for himself the right to terrorize his own people.  It was his ability to use the political America’s and Israel’s lexicon that was among his many accomplishments, endearing him to the political establishment in the U.S. and Israel.

Even in ancient Rome, any citizen could accuse an official of misconduct and instigate a public trial. The common people were the most effective at using this tool of public accountability, because the elites were too prone to shielding each other.

How is it with our U.S. House and Senate? Are they any longer “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” or are they the agents of monied interests?

Who’s he waving to?
The CAMERA ... duh

Mr. Bush Goes To Israel.
You know things are bad when a loser puts the loser capital of the world at the head of his agenda. Maybe he thinks juxtaposed over “someone else’s” chaos he’ll look good.

Or maybe someone made him read Carters biography, or at least a few critical paragraphs and he decided, “I can do that. I can, I can, I can!”

Or maybe his “party” has asked his “people” to get him out of town for a while.

Or maybe Sharon’s reported death was greatly exaggerated and he’s invited the kid over to share some new torture videos just delivered to his [undisclosed secret location] rest home.

Or maybe the military turned down his request for another invite to visit them in the war zone.
That would smart. “Whadaya mean they don’t want me bother’n ‘em?”

Or maybe his glowing self-image has decided to visit the “Holy Land” where all “holy” people like him go at this “holy” time of year.

[Or maybe he’s planned an attack on DC and wants to be somewhere else when it happens. “I di’nt do it!"]

Naw.

Probably God told him it’s time for the rapture and he wants to be sure he’s there ... just in case the bus is real crowded.

Do us all a favor and stay there.

The dummy is waving for another photo op.What else? Do you really think he would go anywhere where it was really dangerous. He is probably sending in his body double while he is on vacation in his Paraquay compound, putting up the finishing touches to it before he runs away from this country after totally trashing it.

He’s running away from the CIA Tapes case.  Nixon used to take a jaunt overseas during the watergate
scandal to divert attention and to try to get away from it.

#121604 by Yani
• Israel gives them free utilities.
Yani, you ARE a joke!! “free utilities’ eh?
• I would like to see you visit the strip and stand on a corner. I bet you would be captured, tortured and murdered in 10 min.
I’ve been a number of times Yani, and while I didn’t just hang around on corners, I was never captured, tortured, or murdered in 10 minutes or 1000 minutes. My biggest fear was of the IDF in their gigantic ass tankers, as they roll through the streets with their huge weapons.

• Its a brutal violent place run by militants!

So, the only question here is, if you think it’s such a brutal and violent place run by militants, why the hell would you, (or any other Israeli) want to be there?

You don’t think there’s a chance the Mr. Bush might go and stand on a corner there, now do you?

Think about the title of the piece, ‘MR. Bush Goes to Israel” juxtaposed to the picture of him waving. I laughed out loud.

I laughed even harder when I read Oliver’s response @#121606 by Oliver

•
Who’s the stupid bastard waving to? Does he even dare show his face in public anymore?
That’s what happens when a bastard is THAT stupid, as in Mr. Bush Goes to Israel. He’s totally oblivious.

Progressive Democrats of America calls for the end to the siege of Gaza.  See what you can do!  Click http://pdamerica.org/articles/news/2007-12-14-18-37-28 -news.php