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Here's an update to the post about apartheid in Palestine. Found it today and, of course, the experts support my position.

 

Enjoy! Have a great weekend.


Expert likens occupation to apartheid

An independent expert told the U.N. human rights council on Thursday that Israel's treatment of Palestinians is comparable to apartheid.

 

John Dugard, a South African investigator on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said that "anyone who experienced apartheid has a sense of deja vu when visiting the OPT (Occupied Palestinian Territories)."

 

Dugard, a lawyer who campaigned against apartheid in the 1980s, presented his findings on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories to the 47-nation council, which commissioned the report last year.

 

His comments drew an immediate rebuke from Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, who said Dugard had resorted to "inflammatory and inciteful language" which did not contribute to a constructive dialogue on the Middle East question.

 

The report was "utterly one-sided, highly selective, and unreservedly biased," Itzhak Levanon added.

 

The one-year-old council has so far only passed resolutions critical of one country — Israel. Muslim countries have proposed three further resolutions for the current session of the council that condemn the actions of the Jewish state.

 

The 24-page document, which was posted on the council's Web site last month, catalogues a number of accusations against the Jewish state ranging from destruction of Palestinian houses to preferential treatment for Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

 

Dugard's account of Israel's treatment of Palestinians echoes that of former President Carter's most recent book, "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid." The work drew widespread condemnation in Israel and the United States and prompted 14 advisory board members of Carter's foundation to resign.

 

Dugard said that he had previously refrained from using the term apartheid "on account of the sensitivity of the issue."

 

But the uproar over Carter's book "and the serious attempts to impugn his integrity, particularly in the United States, has led me to reconsider this decision," Dugard said.

 

Citing the existence of separate residential areas for Jews and Palestinians in Hebron, as well as separate roads for Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank and Jordan Valley, he said Israel's actions clearly violated international conventions.

 

"Can it seriously be denied that such acts are committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over another racial group," Dugard said.

 

Dugard was appointed in 2001 as an unpaid, independent expert by the now-defunct U.N. Human Rights Commission to investigate only violations by the Israeli side, prompting Israel and the United States to dismiss his reports as one-sided. Israel refused to allow him to conduct a fact-finding mission on its Gaza offensive last summer.

 
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War for America- The first shots...

Part 5 of an unknown number of parts in the continuing saga I am now calling the War for America. I will use this forum to make known to the people how our culture, language, and society are slowly being degraded by the invasion from the South. I hope it will be part of a greater movement for education and action against these invaders.


 So Lou Dobbs has been pressing a story, and rightfully so, about some border patrol agents who are now on their way to federal prison for killing an illegal immigrant out in the desert.

 

Here is another story for you.


 

Border Patrol agent kills man who crossed from Mexico

A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man who threatened him with a softball-sized rock at the border, the agency said Tuesday.

 

The agent fired an M-4 assault rifle at the man, who had escaped from a scuffle with another agent as he tried to run back into Mexico, said Border Patrol spokesman David Kim.

 

The victim, whose name, nationality and immigration status were not released by U.S. authorities, was pronounced dead from one bullet wound at El Centro Regional Medical Center after the incident Monday. Kim said he did not know where the man was struck.

 

Pablo Arnaud Carreno, Mexico's consul in Calexico, said the victim was a Mexican man who was apparently in the U.S. illegally. The Mexican government asked U.S. authorities for a thorough investigation.

"It seems unjust to shoot someone who is unarmed," Arnaud Carreno said Tuesday.

 

The shooting, reported Tuesday in the Imperial Valley Press, occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. in Calexico, about 120 miles east of San Diego.

 

Border Patrol agents saw seven people climb a border fence, run to the All-American Canal and attempt to cross the waterway in rafts, Kim said. The victim was in a raft that turned around back toward Mexico.

Kim said the agent fired after seeing the man's arm cocked back with a rock in his hand.

 

Other people continued to throw rocks at the agents, Kim said. A Molotov cocktail that had failed to explode was later found nearby.

 

The FBI is investigating and the Imperial County coroner's office was performing an autopsy. The Border Patrol declined to identify the agent.

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  So now our border patrol agents who are being attacked by illegals trying to enter the country must disuade them from entering without using force. Lord knows we would not want to violate the rights of those MEXICAN CITIZENS who are ILLEGALLY trying to enter our country.

 

I'm to angry to even comment further. I hope nothing happens to these guys, and that those wrongly accused, convicted, and imprisoned will be freed.

 

Semper Fidelis- Keep the Faith and Fight on!

 

 

 

 
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Part 4 of an unknown number of parts in the continuing saga I am now calling the War for America. I will use this forum to make known to the people how our culture, language, and society are slowly being degraded by the invasion from the South. I hope it will be part of a greater movement for education and action against these invaders.


 I think when you read this article, you'll understand my anger and disappointment. Now I read this Navarrette guy often. I like to have a good laugh or cry every now and again. He is a Latino Reporter for CNN who almost exclusively comments on, *gasp*, Latino issues. I like to get the newest outrages from him.

 

Of course, now that Alberto Gonzales, the first Latino Attorney General has been caught in his web of lies, Navarrette must come to his aide! It couldn't be the domestic wiretapping, or the politically-motivated firings. NO! We must be attacking him for his RACE! what else could it be?

 

There is a new breed of reporter now. The educated Latino reporter who defends those of his own race against all takers no matter what. To them, Navarrette is a hero. One with national play. We need to look out for these types, they would have us giving sanctuary to a group of millions of law breakers. They would have us extending the rights saved for citizens to anyone who occupies our territory, and they would have us open the borders to anyone who'd like to come in. Worse, they make us feel bad for thinking the opposite of the way they do. They criticize us for saving our country and our birthright. And they defend their own, and try to make them above the law.

 

Keep your eyes peeled. The enemy is among us. And keep checking back- I'll keep you posted.


 Commentary: Gonzales being whacked like a piñata

 
By Ruben Navarrette Jr.

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- In the flap over the ousted U.S. attorneys, Alberto Gonzales has been hoisted up as a political piñata.
 

The nation's first Hispanic attorney general is being pressured to resign by -- pick 'em -- Democrats trying to make hay, an elite media that long opposed him, civil libertarians who condemn administration policy on detainees and wiretaps, conservatives who think Gonzales is too liberal, and liberals who think he's too conservative.

 

The list even includes a pair of immigrant-baiting members of Congress -- Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado -- who fell out with Gonzales over the prosecution of two ex-border patrol agents.

 

Leading this lynch mob are white liberals who resent Gonzales because they can't claim the credit for his life's accomplishments and because they can't get him to curtsy.

 

Why should he? Gonzales doesn't owe them a damn thing. Democratic politicians love posing with mariachis as they nibble chips and salsa on Cinco De Mayo. But it was a Republican -- George W. Bush -- who made history by nominating a Hispanic to serve as attorney general.

 

Gonzales' persecutors are blind with rage, or maybe just blind. Surely they see that the push to dump the U.S. attorneys came from White House political adviser Karl Rove.

 

The attorney general does have one person in his corner. President Bush came out swinging Tuesday, insisting that Gonzales has his support and warning Democrats not to go on "a partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public servants."

 

I've interviewed Gonzales twice since he became attorney general. During the last interview, which took place three weeks ago in San Diego -- that is, before the controversy erupted -- I asked about the firings of the U.S. attorneys. He told me what he has told others: It was about performance.

 

"I have an obligation...to ensure that we have the best people we can have in here," he said. "All I will say is that the decisions that were made...were based upon performance, and there are many factors that go into that."

 

An avid baseball fan, Gonzales even pitched an analogy. "What I care about is -- are we trading up? "

As a political columnist, I cover liars for a living. And yet, I'd say Gonzales is pretty much as advertised by his old friend, President Bush: an honorable public servant.

 

He comes across as a straight shooter. What you see is what you get. He is also human, and he makes mistakes.

 

It may be that he made a whopper here in trusting his No. 2 not to hand over the hiring and firing of U.S. attorneys to a political hack like Rove. But then, Gonzales' critics aren't after the truth. They're after him.

Well, if they succeed in running him off without a fair hearing, many Hispanics won't forget the shoddy treatment afforded this grandson of Mexican immigrants. You watch. Democrats will have to intensify their efforts to win Hispanic votes in the 2008 elections. And there's not that much chips and salsa on the planet.

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No Apartheid in Palestinean Territories

HA! Even the suggestion now makes me laugh. Of course its apartheid. Israel doesn't really want a Palestinean state. They don't want to be at peace. They want to be the perennial victims of aggression, when really, it is they who are the aggressors.

 

Finally, the factions in Palestinean Territories have formed a coalition government and agreed to work together and stop the violence. Israel's first reaction- they do not recognize the government. Because this new government, days old, has not honored agreements signed over the last 50 years. They have not stopped the violence (days old remember- and the bloodshed between factions HAS ended). They have no recognized Israel's right to exist (the same Israel that bulldozes their homes, entire towns in fact; kidnaps their citizens, murders men and boys of military age, rapes and murders young girls, women, and old women, indiscriminately kills from helicopters and planes men and boys throwing rocks, destroys and occupies their most holy sites and generally occupies their territory in a fashion that can only be called apartheid- oh and for good measure builds and throws Palestineans in concentration camps- cuz they're allowed to! Remember WWII?)  They have not spoked out against violence and terror (although Abbas, the leader of Fatah has several times called for peace and the end of violence). This is what the Zionist supporters in DC don't want you to know. They want you to see a Muslim face and think terrorist, not civilian. Not a man trying to feed his family and keep them safe. Not a man without a country, thinking of the 5 generations before him without a country and wanting a homeland (not unlike the Jews of Europe and Asia previous to WWII) No, they want you to see an animal- a terrorist- a beast that will use any means to get what he wants. Sounds alot like how the South Africans (read Boers) wanted the world to see the black South Africans. Apratheid, my friends, is a familiar enemy. We need to fight it no matter what form it takes, or whom it takes the form in.

Full story below:


Palestinian rival factions agree to unity government

GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Palestinian parliament members voted overwhelmingly to form a coalition government Saturday, the first forged between the rival Islamic Hamas and secular Fatah factions.

 

The unity government, approved by an 83 to 3 vote, was established after bloody fighting between the two groups killed more than 300 people in the past year.

 

Israel rejected the new government before it was even formed, objecting to remarks by hard-line Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya and to the unity government's refusal to recognize Israel's existence and renounce terror.Watch why Palestinians consider unity 'good tidings' and Israel recoils

 

Almost immediately after the vote, Norway recognized the new government.

 

"Norway welcomes the formation of the Palestinian unity government," said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store. "It is essential that the unity government gains control of the security situation in Gaza and the West Bank, and that the rocket attacks on Israeli areas cease."

 

The Norwegian government will drop all sanctions against the Palestinians, a spokesman for the Norwegian Office of Foreign Affairs told CNN.

 

Haniya said resistance "is a legitimate right for the Palestinian people, a right that has been guaranteed by all international resolutions and conventions. It is the right of our people to defend themselves against the Israeli occupation."

 

Historically, Haniya's Hamas party's use of the term "occupation" does not only refer to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and, previously, Gaza. The group uses the term to characterize Israel's existence, contending that the Jewish state occupies Palestine.

 

Miri Eisin, spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, reiterated Israel's rejection of the Palestinian government on Saturday, citing Haniya's remarks and the Hamas-led government's rejection of three positions sought by Israel -- recognition of the Jewish state, renunciation of terror, and abiding by agreements signed with Israel in the past.

 

"Sadly, this new government not only does not accept the three international principles, but also in the presentation in the last hour today, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya openly and repeatedly called for the right of resistance, which clearly means terror and violence by the Palestinians against Israel," Eisin said.

"Israel will not recognize or deal with this government or its members."

Abbas rejects 'all sorts of violence'

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a member of the Fatah movement who has met with Israeli officials, extended his "hand again for peace and equality" in his remarks to lawmakers.

 

"I would like to address the Israeli people and their government and their parties to say we are ready, we are prepared without any preconditions to go along the road of just peace by means of resuming negotiations between the government of Israel and the [Palestinian] leadership," Abbas said.

 

"We reject all sorts of violence and we look for an agreement, a solution that is based on negotiations," he said.

 

Palestinians hope a unity government will halt weeks of street clashes in Gaza and open the door to renewed international aid.

 

Although both factions agreed on a variety of terms, the new government's refusal to explicitly endorse Israel's right to exist may leave Western countries unwilling to embrace it.

Rice to visit Middle East next week

Next week, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is slated to visit the Middle East to continue efforts for a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians.

 

In addition to traveling to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Rice is expected to meet with moderate Arab states in the region as part of her renewed push for peace.

 

The United States and Israel have shown renewed interest in a past Arab peace plan that gives Israel recognition by Arab states in exchange for a Palestinian state, as a way to boost prospects for a settlement between Israelis and Palestinians.

 

However, Israel is wary of provisions in the deal which would enable Palestinian refugees to return to Israel, which Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has said "are against the concept of the two-state solution."

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  Thoughts? Hate?- I'm sure someone will have that.

 

 

 
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Peace through Strength

So, you may read this headline and think, "Oh, here he goes. More references to 1984 seen through America today." Well, ironically, I didn't need to stretch or make up or apply something to make this scaryness fit.

 

Of course that line sounds familiar to you. But not quite right. The quote from 1984 is:

"War Is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength"

 

So where did I get that particular slogan from?

 

 

Pro-War protesters in DC for the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War... *dundundun*

Fits right into that literary slogan though, eh?


Crowds gather to denounce, support war

 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hundreds of anti-war demonstrators and supporters of the U.S. policy in Iraq shouted at each other Saturday from opposite sides of a street bordering the National Mall as protesters formed a march to the Pentagon to denounce a war entering its fifth year.

 

The anti-war group carried signs saying "U.S. Out of Iraq Now," "Stop Iraq War, No Iran War, Impeach" and "Illegal Combat." The other side carried signs saying "Peace Through Strength," "al Qaeda Appeasers On Parade" and "We Are At War, Liberals Root For the Enemy."

 

Police on horseback and foot separated the demonstrators, who were on opposite sides of Constitution Avenue in view of the Lincoln Memorial. Barriers also kept them apart. (See the results of CNN's latest poll on whether Americans think the war is worth it)

 

Cheryl Davis, 62, a library assistant from Celina, Ohio, endured a nine-hour overnight drive in the wake of a late-winter storm to raise her voice against the conflict that has killed more than 3,200 members of the U.S. armed forces. "I just want peace," she said. "I just have to do my part." She had supported the Vietnam War when her ex-husband fought in it.

 

Protesters met at the starting point of the epic 1967 march on the Pentagon, which began peacefully but turned ugly in clashes between authorities and more radical elements of the crowd. More than 600 were arrested that day. It was there that anti-war activist Abbie Hoffman led the masses in chants, with the fanciful goal of levitating the building.

Veteran says he's conflicted

Saturday's march was the main event in anti-war demonstrations around the country.

Police on horses ensured anti-war protesters and counterdemonstrators stayed apart at the staging area. Several thousand people, many of them service members, rallied in support of the war. They played "The Battle Hymn of the Republic;" the anti-war crowd danced to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition."

Veterans, some from the Rolling Thunder motorcycle group, lined up at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

"I'm not sure I'm in support of the war," said William "Skip" Publicover of Charleston, South Carolina, who was a swift boat gunner in Vietnam and lost two friends whose names are etched on the memorial's wall.

"I learned in Vietnam that it's difficult if not impossible to win the hearts and minds of the people."

Park Police Lt. Scott Fear said more than 200 people were arrested from a crowd of several thousand protesters who marched to the White House on Friday night after a peace service at the Washington National Cathedral. Full story

 

Those arrested were handcuffed, taken away on buses and fined $100 for disobeying a lawful order or crossing a police line. They had demonstrated on the sidewalk in front of the White House, where protesters are required to continue moving.

 

The windows of the White House were dark, as President Bush was away for the weekend at Camp David in Maryland.

 

The church service and weekend protests drew John Pattison, 29, from Portland, Oregon, to his first anti-war rally. He said his opposition to the war had developed over time.

 

"Quite literally on the night that shock and awe commenced, my friend and I toasted the military might of the United States," Pattison said. "We were quite proud and thought we were doing the right thing."

 

He said the way the war had progressed and U.S. foreign policy since then had forced him to question his beliefs.

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Make sure you shout loud enough during those 2 minutes, friends. And remember, We are at war with Eastasia. We have ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia
 
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