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In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues ...
Thursday 15: In the Negev – Four Israeli crop-spraying aircraft spray a powerful herbicide on Bedouin crop fields of the Araqib tribe. It is the third time the Araqib's crops had been sprayed in the past two years by a government agency, the Israel Lands Authority. About 400 sheep are known to have miscarried as a result of crop spraying.
There are some 70,000 other Beduin living in 45 communities, which Israel refuses to recognise. In 2002 the World Zionist Organisation (WZO) announced plans to start building settlements to bring 350,000 Jewish immigrants to the Galilee and the Negev, the first time the WZO has funded Jewish settlements outside the occupied Palestinian territories in 26 years.
Thursday 15: In the Negev – Four Israeli crop-spraying aircraft spray a powerful herbicide on Bedouin crop fields of the Araqib tribe. It is the third time the Araqib's crops had been sprayed in the past two years by a government agency, the Israel Lands Authority. About 400 sheep are known to have miscarried as a result of crop spraying.
There are some 70,000 other Beduin living in 45 communities, which Israel refuses to recognise. In 2002 the World Zionist Organisation (WZO) announced plans to start building settlements to bring 350,000 Jewish immigrants to the Galilee and the Negev, the first time the WZO has funded Jewish settlements outside the occupied Palestinian territories in 26 years.
| Israel's ethnic-cleansing |
plan is little more than ethnic cleansing," said ABU KAFF, who lives in one of the 45 threatened Bedouin villages, Umbatin. "The government says it cannot build the infrastructure for our communities because they are remote and then replaces them with even more scattered Jewish settlements."
Thursday 29: In Israel – prisoners are exchanged with Hezbollah
Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, ROWAN WILLIAMS, visits YASER ARAFAT and describes Israel's oppressive 'security wall' as a "symbol of despair". (See July 9).
Thursday 29: In Israel – prisoners are exchanged with Hezbollah
Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, ROWAN WILLIAMS, visits YASER ARAFAT and describes Israel's oppressive 'security wall' as a "symbol of despair". (See July 9).
The Israel-Palestine conflict continues ...
AHARON MICHAELY is posted to London with Barlev Associates to assist in, among other, tracking terrorist funding.
AHARON MICHAELY is posted to London with Barlev Associates to assist in, among other, tracking terrorist funding.
In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues ...
Monday 22: In Gaza, Palestine – Hamas' hard-line wheelchair-bound spiritual leader SHEIKH AHMED YASSIN is assassinated by Israeli helicopters at dawn outside a city mosque, triggering violent protests and increasing the risk of direct al Qa'eda involvement. (See April 17).
European foreign ministers issue a statement –
Monday 22: In Gaza, Palestine – Hamas' hard-line wheelchair-bound spiritual leader SHEIKH AHMED YASSIN is assassinated by Israeli helicopters at dawn outside a city mosque, triggering violent protests and increasing the risk of direct al Qa'eda involvement. (See April 17).
European foreign ministers issue a statement –
'Extra judicial killings ...undermine the concept of the rule of law which is a key element in the fight against terrorism.' |
British foreign minister, JACK STRAW, comments –
'It's unacceptable, unjustified and it's very unlikely to achieve its objective.'
Israel's YOSSIN BEILIN (Meretz-Yachad) comments –
'How many Jews have to be killed for this irresponsible act.'
Thursday 25: In New York – The United States vetoes (11 to 1, 3 abstentions) a resolution of the United Nations Security Council condemning the assassination of AHMED YASSIN.
In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues ...
Five MD-500 helicopters were transferred from U.S. Air Force surplus to Israel as part of Washington's military aid, Middle East Newsline reports. From there, Israel's Defence Ministry sold the aircraft to the private firm, Globus Aviation. Officials said the end-user for the MD-500 was to have been either authorities in Mexico or Spain. However, the helicopters have ended up in the hands of Colombian drug dealers.
Friday 2: Israel's prime minister, ARIEL SHARON, threatens to assassinate Palestinian Authority Chairman YASSER ARAFAT.
Saturday 17: The Israeli army kills ABD AL-AZIZ AL-RANTISSI, the co-founder of HAMAS and successor to the asassinated YASSIN. (See March 22).
Five MD-500 helicopters were transferred from U.S. Air Force surplus to Israel as part of Washington's military aid, Middle East Newsline reports. From there, Israel's Defence Ministry sold the aircraft to the private firm, Globus Aviation. Officials said the end-user for the MD-500 was to have been either authorities in Mexico or Spain. However, the helicopters have ended up in the hands of Colombian drug dealers.
Friday 2: Israel's prime minister, ARIEL SHARON, threatens to assassinate Palestinian Authority Chairman YASSER ARAFAT.
Saturday 17: The Israeli army kills ABD AL-AZIZ AL-RANTISSI, the co-founder of HAMAS and successor to the asassinated YASSIN. (See March 22).
| US military aid helicopters sold to drug cartel via Israel. |
Wednesday 21: Israel releases Israeli nuclear technician and whistle-blower MORDECAI VANUNU (Jewish Christian) from prison after 17 years , 5 months and 10 days (more than eleven years of which were spent in solitary confinement, with the light permanently on), for supplying information and photographs to the Sunday Times of London on Israel's nuclear weapons of mass destruction programme at Dimona in the Negev desert, which showed Israel to have the world's sixth largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. (He had been kidnapped, drugged, and returned to Israel for trial by Israel's Mossad secret service).
His release from Ashkelon's Shikma prison is subject to the condition that, within 12 months, he does not leave the country, discuss the circumstances of his arrest, or speak to any foreign agencies or persons, etc. (See 1986).
Zionist protesters outside the prison shout 'death to Vanunu' as his family wait for him.
He accuses the Israeli security services of 'very cruel and barbaric treatment' and says 'I am proud and happy to do what I did', while giving the victory sign to his supporters. He is reported to have taken refuge in a Jerusalem church. (See July 2004).
His release from Ashkelon's Shikma prison is subject to the condition that, within 12 months, he does not leave the country, discuss the circumstances of his arrest, or speak to any foreign agencies or persons, etc. (See 1986).
Zionist protesters outside the prison shout 'death to Vanunu' as his family wait for him.
He accuses the Israeli security services of 'very cruel and barbaric treatment' and says 'I am proud and happy to do what I did', while giving the victory sign to his supporters. He is reported to have taken refuge in a Jerusalem church. (See July 2004).
See: May 7, 2011.
Wednesday 28: JOSCHKA FISCHER, Germany's Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Conference on Anti-Semitism, in Berlin, states that –
'...we condemn anti-Semitism in all its forms as a violation of human dignity, that we will create instruments to record and monitor anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE, so that we are in a position to counter them effectively, and that we make a political pledge to publicly and resolutely tackle all forms of anti-Semitism.' |
In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues...
Tuesday 4: In USA – US Department of Defense employee LAWRENCE FRANKLIN is arrested by the FBI and charged with passing top secret information to two members (Steve J. Rosen and Keith Weissman) of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for use by Israel. (He pleads guilty to several espionage-related charges and is sentenced in January 2006 to nearly 13 years of prison which was later reduced to ten months house arrest. The indictment reveals that other individuals at AIPAC, the Defense Department and the Israeli embassy have been involved. The indictment also alleges that Kenneth Pollack, a National Security Council staffer, provided information to Rosen and Weissman).
Tuesday 4: In USA – US Department of Defense employee LAWRENCE FRANKLIN is arrested by the FBI and charged with passing top secret information to two members (Steve J. Rosen and Keith Weissman) of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for use by Israel. (He pleads guilty to several espionage-related charges and is sentenced in January 2006 to nearly 13 years of prison which was later reduced to ten months house arrest. The indictment reveals that other individuals at AIPAC, the Defense Department and the Israeli embassy have been involved. The indictment also alleges that Kenneth Pollack, a National Security Council staffer, provided information to Rosen and Weissman).
In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues...
In West Jerusalem – The World Zionist Council adopts the follow as its 'Jerusalem Program'. (The Jerusalem Program is the platform of the World Zionist Organisation, the umbrella organization for the Zionist movement).
"Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, brought about the establishment of the State of Israel, and views a Jewish, Zionist, democratic and secure State of Israel to be the expression of the common responsibility of the Jewish people for its continuity and future. The foundations of Zionism are:
In West Jerusalem – The World Zionist Council adopts the follow as its 'Jerusalem Program'. (The Jerusalem Program is the platform of the World Zionist Organisation, the umbrella organization for the Zionist movement).
"Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, brought about the establishment of the State of Israel, and views a Jewish, Zionist, democratic and secure State of Israel to be the expression of the common responsibility of the Jewish people for its continuity and future. The foundations of Zionism are:
| • | The unity of the Jewish people, its bond to its historic homeland Eretz Yisrael, and the centrality of the State of Israel and Jerusalem, its capital, in the life of the nation; |
| • | Aliyah to Israel from all countries and the effective integration of all immigrants into Israeli Society. |
| • | Strengthening Israel as a Jewish, Zionist and democratic state and shaping it as an exemplary society with a unique moral and spiritual character, marked by mutual respect for the multi-faceted Jewish people, rooted in the vision of the prophets, striving for peace and contributing to the betterment of the world. [Previously it read: 'The strengthening of the State of Israel, which is based on the prophetic vision of justice and peace'. June 19, 1968.] |
| • | Ensuring the future and the distinctiveness of the Jewish people by furthering Jewish, Hebrew and Zionist education, fostering spiritual and cultural values and teaching Hebrew as the national language; |
| • | Nurturing mutual Jewish responsibility, defending the rights of Jews as individuals and as a nation, representing the national Zionist interests of the Jewish people, and struggling against all manifestations of anti-Semitism; |
| • | Settling the country [borders undefined] as an expression of practical Zionism." |
Note: The World Zionist Organization, acting as an agent of the Israeli government, has taken private Palestinian land in the West Bank and given it to Jewish settlers, even though the state itself had declared the property off-limits to Jewish settlement.
In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues...
Friday 9: The International Court of Justice rules that the razor wire-tipped 'security wall' being built by Israel is illegal. Namely:
Friday 9: The International Court of Justice rules that the razor wire-tipped 'security wall' being built by Israel is illegal. Namely:
| 1. | The construction of the wall being built by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including in and around East Jerusalem, and its associated regime, are contrary to international law. |
| 2. | Israel is under an obligation to terminate its breaches of international law; it is under an obligation to cease forthwith the works of construction of the wall being build in the OPT, including in and around East Jerusalem, to dismantle forthwith the structure therein situated, and to repeal or render ineffective forthwith all legislative and regulatory acts relating thereto, in accordance with paragraph 151 of this Opinion. |
| 3. | Israel is under an obligation to make reparation for all damages caused by the construction of the wall in the OPT, including in and around East Jerusalem. |
| 4. | All States are under an obligation not to recognize the illegal situation resulting from the construction of the wall and not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by such construction; all States parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of war of 12 August 1949 have in addition the obligation, while respecting the United Nations Charter and international law, to ensure compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law embodied in that Convention. |
| 5. | The United Nations, and especially the General Assembly and the Security Council, should consider what further action is required to bring to an end the illegal situation resulting from the construction of the wall and associated regime, taking due account of the present Advisory Opinion. |
The Wall carves off about 123,000 dunums from Palestinian territory.
(One dunum = 1,000 square meters
= ¼ acre: i.e. c.30,750 Acres,
stolen by Israel)
(One dunum = 1,000 square meters
= ¼ acre: i.e. c.30,750 Acres,
stolen by Israel)
"kee betachbulot ta'ase lecha milchama"
"With clandestine terrorism we will conduct war"
"Ha'Mossad Le'modiein"
"The institute for the collection of Information"
Mossad Agent: Ze'ev Barkan
Wife: Irit
Home: Shoham,
Southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel.
Thursday 15: In Auckland, New zealand – Israeli Mossad agent ZE'EV WILLIAM BARKAN (37) and two Mossad accomplices ELI CARA (50) and URIEL KELMAN (31) are cited in the High Court for passport fraud. His accomplices plead guilty and are sentenced to six months imprisonment, and ZE'EV BARKAN flees via Sydney to North Korea (to advise on the design of a Border Security Wall) traveling on a Canadian passport issued in the name of Kevin Hunter, which had been reported stolen at the Canadian Consulate in the Southern Chinese city of Guangzhou in mid April. (See: January 2010 Dubai assassination using fake foreign passports).
Tuesday 20: New Zealand Prime Minister HELEN CLARKE says the actions of the men and those of the Israeli government have seriously strained relations with New Zealand, and she has imposed a range of diplomatic sanctions on Israel, including delaying approval for the appointment of a new Israeli ambassador.
In secret criticism of her motives, the United States Ambassador to New Zealand CHARLES SWINDELLS shows his interpretive bias in a confidential cable to Washington saying that the NZ Government saw the Mossad "flap" as "an opportunity to bolster its credibility with the Arab community, and by doing so, perhaps help NZ lamb and other products gain greater access to a larger and more lucrative market"; so imputing hypocrisy to the NZ action. (Sourced from Wikileaks).
Tuesday 20: New Zealand Prime Minister HELEN CLARKE says the actions of the men and those of the Israeli government have seriously strained relations with New Zealand, and she has imposed a range of diplomatic sanctions on Israel, including delaying approval for the appointment of a new Israeli ambassador.
In secret criticism of her motives, the United States Ambassador to New Zealand CHARLES SWINDELLS shows his interpretive bias in a confidential cable to Washington saying that the NZ Government saw the Mossad "flap" as "an opportunity to bolster its credibility with the Arab community, and by doing so, perhaps help NZ lamb and other products gain greater access to a larger and more lucrative market"; so imputing hypocrisy to the NZ action. (Sourced from Wikileaks).
Wednesday 21: The United Nations General Assembly votes by an overwhelming majority (150 for, 6 against, 10 abstentions) that Israel must dismantle its 'Security Wall' which annexes Palestinian territory.
The UN decision is immediately rejected by Israel.
The UN decision is immediately rejected by Israel.
Monday 26: The Israel Supreme Court rejects Moroccan-born MORDECAI VANUNU's request to leave Israel. (See April 2004). VANUNU believes that his life is in danger from Zionist extremists.
In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues...
In Gaza – Israeli army mortars have now destroyed the ceiling of Gaza Baptist Church four times in the last two years. The church is near Palestinian Authority property. (Source: Christianity Today).
In Gaza – Israeli army mortars have now destroyed the ceiling of Gaza Baptist Church four times in the last two years. The church is near Palestinian Authority property. (Source: Christianity Today).
Monday 23: In Israel – Physicians for Human Rights-Israel calls upon Minister of Interior Security TSAHI HANEGBI, Minister of Health DANI NAVEH and Israeli Prison Services Commissioner YAAKOV GANOT to retract their statements regarding the prisoners on hunger strike, and to observe medical ethics and international conventions while treating the prisoners’ strike and to seriously regard their demands. The prisoners’ hunger strike is their last option, which follows previous failed attempts by the prisoners to improve their difficult prison conditions and to receive their rights as defined in international law and conventions.
In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues...
Tuesday 5: In New York – The United States vetoes (11 to 1, 3 abstentions) a resolution of the United Nations Security Council calling on Israel to halt all military operations in northern Gaza and withdraw from the area.
Tuesday 5: In New York – The United States vetoes (11 to 1, 3 abstentions) a resolution of the United Nations Security Council calling on Israel to halt all military operations in northern Gaza and withdraw from the area.
Israel Mid-Year 3452
Ahmad shot by Israeli
soldier without reason!
Sunday 17: In Balata, West Bank, Palestine – Without cause, an Israeli soldier fires his rifle from a patrol vehicle into the stomach of pre-pubescent Palestinian boy, AHMAD, passively watching their departure. The unprovoked attempted murder is filmed by an Associated Press (AP) cameraman but his Control Bureau in Israel deletes the footage of the atrocity as not newsworthy. (See Reuters photo left). Fortunately, Reuters' photographer recorded the atrocity even though AP tried to hide the truth.
Thursday 11: YASSER ARAFAT (ياسر عرفات), first president of the Palestinian National Authority (20 January 1996 – 11 November 2004), dies in a Paris hospital at 4:30 this morning age 75. He was reputedly born Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa on Aug. 4, 1929, in Egypt, the fifth of seven children. His death had been hastened from the side-effect of living under Israeli siege for years in his Ramallah compound, in occupied Palestine.
Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews had held vigil in support of YASSER ARAFAT outside the hospital during his illness. (See photo right).
Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews had held vigil in support of YASSER ARAFAT outside the hospital during his illness. (See photo right).
official injustice
In Palestine – The Israel-Palestine conflict continues...
In Scotland, UK – Israeli State prisoner of conscience MORDECAI VANUNU is elected as Rector of Glasgow University in absentia.
In Israel – The Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) reports that the Interior Ministry's rules for assigning citizenship to non-Jewish persons are "shrouded in mist" and that the Ministry has demonstrated –
In Scotland, UK – Israeli State prisoner of conscience MORDECAI VANUNU is elected as Rector of Glasgow University in absentia.
In Israel – The Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) reports that the Interior Ministry's rules for assigning citizenship to non-Jewish persons are "shrouded in mist" and that the Ministry has demonstrated –
"an endemic, systematic and pervasive bias against non-Jews".
Note: Israel's Interior Ministry distinguishes between 'citizenship' and 'nationality' to perpetuate the notion that Nation of Israel and Jewish Nation are identical, so that Israeli citizens are registered in terms of nationality variously as Abkhazi, Arab, Assyrian, Druze, Georgian, Hebrew, Jewish, Russian, Samaritan, etc., nationals.
In New Jersey, US – STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, lawyer, homosexual Jewish rabbinical student (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College) and Zionist, establishes the Garden State Equality organisation to lobby for homosexual rights.
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