Solidarity with the children of Gaza

In case you want to help stitch together the children that the Israeli "Defense" Force have so surgically torn apart, you can send money to:

Account details:


Account Name:  Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation
Account No. 1101-024285-111
IBAN: FR76 1797 9000 0100 0242 8511 172

Bank details:

Europe Arab Bank plc
26, Avenue des Champs E’lyse’es
75365 Paris Cedex 08
Tel: 33 1 45 61 60 00
Fax: 33 1 42 89 09 78
Swift: ARABFRPP



I have just sent 200 CHF...

Book: The Ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Professor Ilan Pappé does a wonderful job at explaining in the most minute (and horrific) details the events leading to the foundation of the State of Israel. It was simply a very well prepared, large scale military operation of Land Grabbing and Ethnic Cleansing quite similar in its dynamics to the one perpetrated by the Nazi Einsatzkommandos in Eastern Europe.

Zionist soldiers would reach villages mostly in the night, launch a few grenades, kill some people and expel the others, mostly without meeting any resistance, then loot their houses, grab their land and bulldoze mosks.

To his honor, Pappe never makes the all-too-easy comparison Zionism = Nazism, recognizing that the sole aim of the Zionist was to expel the Palestinians from their homeland, not to exterminate them. Of course they had to do some massive killing, but the target was mostly adult males. Nor they established death factories of the like of Nazi KZ, normally the Palestinian males would be shot on the spot in front of their families, while all the rest of the population was simply driven out in long foot marches to the neighboring countries.

The book also dismounts the Zionist myth of the "Israel besieged by Arabs" and "second Holocaust", showing that the Zionist had always an overwhelming military supremacy, and full support from the British. Jordan was always quite cooperative with them, and the other Arab armies were very limited in size, weaponry and coordination, and they intervened way too late when already 1 million Palestinians had been robbed of their land.

What makes this book even more valuable, is that it was written by a Jew whose family escaped from Nazi prosecution. This blunts the weapons of those ready to call Nazi and Anti-Semitic whoever criticizes Israel policies. Go get it.

Open letter to John Kerry

Dear John Kerry,

we love America - you set us Italians free from Mussolini - and we love Jewish people, who gave birth to geniuses like J.Christ, K.Marx, S.Freud, A.Einstein, N. Chomsky . Top people. Love them.

BUT I think our IDF friends have gone a bit too far in Gaza. Maybe the pictures of dismembered Palestinian children, pregnant women torn apart and medical staff being shot at don't make it on your laptop, but they make waves around the world and they tarnish the compassion that humanity has for the Jews.

You are a great, good man and I think you should get on the front line and set things straight, reestablishing the confidence that humanity has in America and in Judaism.

So this is my offer: I will pay you a first class flight to Tel Aviv, private limousine picking you up from the airport and bringing you to Gaza City, visit to a couple of Gaza hospitals where you will be able to assert the job done by IDF, night in 5 stars hotel in Tel Aviv and flight back to America.

I don't expect you anything in return, no public declarations, no "let's stop Gaza attacks now" decisions..... just watch with you eyes the horror created by the war, see the Palestinian children disemboweled and agonizing, then go back to your family. I am sure you know this horror, back from the time you served in Viet-Nam.

If you accept, just contact me on this blog, I will immediately wire you the funds.

Ciao

Pierluigi

Israel bombing of Gaza: a very lame excuse

A few general meditations about the current destruction Israel is carrying out in a foreign country - in violation of all the possible international conventions.

*) 3 young Israelis are kidnapped by Palestinians on a road leading to a Settlement.
As far as I know all the roads to Settlements are strictly forbidden to Palestinians, apart the very few with a special permit. It should not be difficult to track them down and punish them.
What? 3 Israelis accepting to board a car driven by Palestinians? In an area where almost only Israeli people are driving by? That sound VERY weird.
A later version says that 2 of the kidnappers where Palestinians disguised as Jews. I think only a non-Jew could let himself fool into mistaking a Palestinian for a Traditional Jew, it's like for me to mistake a Norwegian for a Neapolitan... not for a split second... How many people can stay in a car, 5, the 3 kids and the 2 kidnappers.... so...

*) Minutes after the family receives a call from one of the boys, saying "we have been kidnapped".
Of course, nobody these days carries cell phones, how could the kidnappers think of searching the 3 boys for phones

*) in the phone call, 2 voices of the kidnappers are heard with strong Arabic accent, then shooting happens
of course, when the 3 kids boarded the car, the kidnappers were speaking perfect Hebrew without any accent...

*) despite the father reported to the police, they started acting only 3 hours later
Wait, Israel is spending zillions of dollars to bomb Gaza in retaliation, but when they were told they waited 3 hours to take into action? Mmmmmm..... And also, I am almost sure all the area is closely surveilled by satellite... are they searching for satellite images to detect who carried out the kidnapping?

*) The corpses of the 3 young Israelis are found the day after in Palestinian territory
As far as I know it's impossible to cross the border without being fully searched. Smuggling 3 corpses should be next to impossible.

More details are available here

I stop here... it's all really sad. I have full sympathy for Jews, but not for war criminals.

For those who like history, please read the event who brought to KristallNacht,  and tell me how different is what the Nazi did and what Israel is doing - a series of Pogroms against Palestinians.

Book: Jews against the Ghetto

I have just read the excellent book "Anarchists against the Wall"  - it's really a pity that they chose this unpalatable name for an organization which should be first of all a-political, I really believe that the original denomination "Jews against the Ghetto" would have been a lot more marketable....

I think everyone who is interested in Jewish history should read this book - and learn how hard it is to dissent in a country so ideologically, religiously and militarily biased - ok comparison with Nazi Germany is all too easy so let's skip it this time.


Uri Gordon is author of another book "Anarchy alive".