Gilad Atzmon's Blog, page 126
September 19, 2012
September 18, 2012
Beloved Jerusalem
http://nahidaexiledpalestinian.wordpress.com
Ten measures of sorrow God gave to the world
Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest
Ten measures of pain God gave to the world
Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest
Ten measures of agony God gave to the world
Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest
Ten measures of heartache God gave to the world
Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest
Ten measures of suffering God gave to the world
Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest
Ten measures of trauma God gave to the world
Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest
Ten measures of patience God gave to the world
Nine to Jerusalem and one to the rest
Gilad Atzmon on THE BEN FELLOWS RADIO SHOW
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Zionism, Jewish Identity politics, Jewish Lobby, AZZ, Israel Palestine and the next World War...
On today's show Gilad Atzmon, author of the best seller - "The Wandering Who" joins Ben in a facinating conversation about Jewish identity. For more information about Gilad visit - www.gilad.co.uk
September 17, 2012
Trailer for '21st Century Wire' - Episode 3: Gilad Atzmon taking on the Israeli Lobby
I didn't see it yet, but it looks promising...
Berlin rejects Israeli pressure over submarine sales to Egypt
German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere dismissed Israeli pressure not to sell two submarines to Egypt, while acknowledging the country was “not as stable” as he would like in an interview published Saturday.
“No country in the world has the right of veto to decisions taken by the German government,” the minister told the Frankfurter Rundschau when asked to comment on the probable sale of two Type 209 attack submarines.
Questioned specifically about Israeli pressure not to go through with the deal, he repeated: “Nobody has the right of veto.”
However he admitted that Egypt “is not as stable as I would like”, while stressing this was a “personal point of view” and had “nothing to do with any possible transaction over submarines.”
German arms sales to foreign countries have to be approved by a federal security commission, whose discussions and decisions are not disclosed.
The Internet site of the weekly Der Spiegel on Tuesday revealed that the commission was due to discuss the proposed sale again even though it gave the green light in November 2011.
The agreement for Germany to supply Egypt with the two conventional diesel-electric submarines manufactured by ThyssenKrupp was first revealed by the commander in chief of the Egyptian Navy Osama al-Gindi two weeks ago in an Egyptian newspaper.
A few days later the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot quoted government sources as saying there had been “a marked deterioration in relations between Israel and Germany” over the deal.
The German government denied to the local media that there had been any such deterioration, while refusing to comment on the proposed sale.
Already in July last year Berlin sparked a row over its sale to 200 Leopard combat tanks to Saudi Arabia. Germany has always insisted that any arms sales to foreign governments are conditional on Israel’s security and respect for human rights.
Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/15/berlin-rejects-israeli-pressure-over-submarine-sales-to-egypt/
A Preventable Massacre
By SETH ANZISKA
ON the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed a right-wing Lebanese militia to enter two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. In the ensuing three-day rampage, the militia, linked to the Maronite Christian Phalange Party, raped, killed and dismembered at least 800 civilians, while Israeli flares illuminated the camps’ narrow and darkened alleyways. Nearly all of the dead were women, children and elderly men.
Thirty years later, the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila camps is remembered as a notorious chapter in modern Middle Eastern history, clouding the tortured relationships among Israel, the United States, Lebanon and the Palestinians. In 1983, an Israeli investigative commission concluded that Israeli leaders were “indirectly responsible” for the killings and that Ariel Sharon, then the defense minister and later prime minister, bore “personal responsibility” for failing to prevent them.
While Israel’s role in the massacre has been closely examined, America’s actions have never been fully understood. This summer, at the Israel State Archives, I found recently declassified documents that chronicle key conversations between American and Israeli officials before and during the 1982 massacre. The verbatim transcripts reveal that the Israelis misled American diplomats about events in Beirut and bullied them into accepting the spurious claim that thousands of “terrorists” were in the camps. Most troubling, when the United States was in a position to exert strong diplomatic pressure on Israel that could have ended the atrocities, it failed to do so. As a result, Phalange militiamen were able to murder Palestinian civilians, whom America had pledged to protect just weeks earlier.
September 15, 2012
No ‘Red Line’ for Israel
By Gilad Atzmon
Israeli news outlets reported today that President Obama rejected an appeal by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to set a specific “red line” to stop any further Iranian uranium enrichment.
According to reports, in an hour-long conversation on Tuesday, Obama deflected Netanyahu’s proposal to make the size of Iran’s stockpile of close-to-bomb-grade uranium the threshold, the crossing of which would trigger a US military strike on the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities.
But it seems that, this time at least, President Obama has decided against launching a world war on behalf of the Jewish State and its powerful lobby.
An extended interview - Zionism and Jewish Identity Politics
The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics, Jewish political interest, and the Jewish Lobby..
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