Gilad Atzmon's Blog, page 85
July 23, 2013
Tzipi and The Guardian
By Gilad Atzmon
The interventionist EU, that together with the USA inflicts terror on every piece of land rich with oil and other minerals decided yesterday that a Lebanese resistance to occupation is terror. It designated the Shia movement as a terror organisation.
How pathetic.
The Guardian, once a respected paper, was brave enough to tackle the issue; but rather than presenting a so-called humanist or intellectual and critical approach, it pretended to present an ‘impartial position’. Yesterday it published a debate between war criminal Tzipi Livni and Sami Ramadani.
One may wonder, why is Tzipi Livni, an Israeli politician, a side in this debate? Israel is not part of the EU. Israel is clearly the element that pushes for the EU to brand the Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Yet, it is far from being clear why The Guardian asked Livini for her opinion in that particular debate? Maybe time is ripe for The Guardian to decide whether it is the guardian of the truth or the guardian of Israel,
Farewell to Helen Thomas
By Gilad Atzmon
Helen Thomas, one of the last truth tellers, died last Saturday. Thomas was the longest serving White House correspondent, she grilled 10 USA presidents in an astonishing career that started in 1943. She was 92.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14
The heroic lady survived 10 American presidents but was cornered by a single Rabbi who videotaped her suggesting that Israelis should "get out of Palestine" and "go home" to Poland, Germany and America. This truthful comment brought down widespread condemnation that ended Thomas’ White House career. The way in which Thomas was treated was just another indication of the power of the Jewish Lobby and the manner in which it interferes with freedom of speech and other elementary freedoms.
I met Thomas last year in Washington DC, she attended an event with Norton Mezvinsky and myself that was organised by The Washington Report. Thomas was very weak but her brightness and humanism were shining.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaAvhG7yf7E&feature=youtu.be
Thomas will be remembered as a brave and unique voice of truth. I can’t wait to meet her in heaven.
July 21, 2013
No Bed for History Revisionists
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The Algemeiner, certainly the most revolting Jewish media outlet around, announced today that the German hotel industry is giving a cold shoulder to David Irving. Consequently the history revisionist is ‘unlikely to find a room in Berlin.’
After plans by Irving to return this September to speak at a $120-a-head dinner were revealed, a campaign by Green Party Bundestag member Volker Beck called on hotels in the German capital not to allow the speaker to book a room. According to the Jewish media outlet, Berlin’s hotel and restaurant association responded positively to the campaign, urging its members not to allow Irving to book a room.
The Berlin hoteliers association told its members “Please don’t give any ‘room’ to right-wing extremist propaganda.”
The left has been using the ‘no platform’ tactics for more than a while. It attempts to block speakers, academics, artists and intellectuals who don’t ‘fit in’ from sharing their thoughts with the public. Evidently this approach has now matured into a new phase – the ‘no bed’ strategy.
July 20, 2013
How Whites Took Over America
Watch this short cartoon and listen to the Hasbara Neocon projection expressed by the British colonial officers. 'Humanism' seems to be a pre-text for genocide. Eventually, the indigenous people are destroyed in the name 'liberal ethics' and even 'anti racism.' It is obviously there to remind us of the Zionist crime in Palestine.
This anti immigration/anti diversity film deserves attention - it contends that 'liberal tolerance' is actually inherently intolerant. This issue is becoming a priority, so it seems.
July 18, 2013
Jewish Snakes and Kosher Sharks
The Jewish Chronicle reported yesterday that an Israeli man was rushed to hospital after a snake bit his penis during a visit to the toilet.
The 35-year-old received medical treatment after feeling “a sharp burning sensation” on his penis last Friday.
The man was sitting on the toilet at his family’s home in Nofit, northern Israel. But then Oy vey, completely out the blue, a small snake came out of the toilet through the pipe and latched onto the end of his penis.
Sources within the Israeli Chief Rabbi office leaked today that the snake was part of a new Talmudic program to counter the apparent influx in numbers of non-circumcised penises in Israel. A unit of kosher snakes has been deployed in the Israeli sewage, they apparently visit toilets and hit the Goyim where it really hurts.
Following the success of the snake unit, the Chief Rabbi, Willy Short, launched an experimental shark program in the Red Sea. A unit of 12 sharks is now undergoing intensive training. Within six month they are due to perform unsolicited in-water circumcisions.
July 17, 2013
Gilad Atzmon & The OHE @ London's Hideaway this Saturday
http://www.hideawaylive.co.uk/gilad-atzmon-saturday-20th-july-2013
Saturday 20th July, Doors 7pm, Show 9pm
Gilad Atzmon - clarinet sax
Yaron Stavi - bass
Eddie Hick - drums
Frank Harrison - piano
Gilad Atzmon - musician, writer, and more
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A formidable improvisational array...a jazz giant steadily drawing himself up to his full height...’ The Guardian.
‘The best musician living in the world today’ Robert Wyatt
"The Band has created perhaps their most enduring ensemble work yet" Andy Robson Jazzwise ****
"Whether he’s blowing up a storm of notes or gently caressing a ballad, there’s a luminous vitality at the heart of Atzmon’s playing that’s irresistible to the ear" Record Collector ****
"vibrant and beautiful" Bruce Lindsay All About Jazz
A hard-hitting but wide-ranging set from an admirably tight and robust band led by one of the most charismatic and focused reedsmen on the planet. Chris Parker LondonJazz
'Atzmon has produced his most mature, and in many ways his most diverse, work to date' Ian Mann Jazzmann *****
'Tensions, surprises, shocks and ambiguities' John Fordham, The Guardian
Atzmon and the excellent pianist Frank Harrison do to the old parsley-sage tune what John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner did to My Favourite Things Irish Time ****
While it is raining (Leonard) Bernstein is waving to a taxi. Mignus who sits on the back seat opens the door for him, he invites Bernstein to come in – This is the musical image of this group. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Conjuring an atmosphere of evocative cinematic suggestion BBC Music Review
Peon to a recent past, when urban spaces belonged to the people who lived in them, and cities had distinct emotional characters Financial Times ****
Freedom Stitchers - need your support
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/freedom-stitchers
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“Give a woman a fish, and you feed her family for a day.
Teach a woman to run her own business, and she feeds her family for a lifetime.”
Announcing the launch of the “Freedom Stitchers” project to create self-sufficiency for marginalized and jobless women in Gaza.
The “Freedom Stitchers” project begins in Gaza, in autumn 2013
to share: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/freedom-stitchers
ABOUT
“Freedom Stitchers” will be a sustainable project run by women in Gaza. This micro-business is based on the idea that Palestinian women possess their own unique artistic and design skills, but they need a process to sell their finished products to the world, (with a little help from their friends at “Freedom Stitchers.”) They have the right to set up businesses, but are prevented in selling their artistry by the illegal blockade on their borders.
We therefore intend to help set up this business for women in Gaza to market not only their exquisite embroidery, but to also enhance their artistic skills by teaching them how to knit, crochet, do silk ribbon embroidery, beadwork, felting, and other types of hand stitching for textile art which can then be sold.
The three of us organizers, Sinead MacLochlainn, Mary Hughes Thompson and Greta Berlin are long-time activists for justice in Palestine. You can read more about us on our bio page and on the website at www.freedomstitchers.org
HOW YOU CAN HELP US
“Freedom Stitchers” will work to set up a trade route to import supplies and then export the finished products made by these women. This idea has worked in other countries, but because Gaza is occupied and blockaded, no one has ever tried to import yarn, needles and material and export the finished goods. “Freedom Stitchers” aims to change this by creating a Trade-not-Aid project. Donating to this project provides the raw materials for the art work, something that is very difficult for the women of Gaza to receive. Your donation will help us set up a micro-business and will enable the project to be video-taped and perhaps even live streamed.
Your donations will help to enable these women to ‘Stitch for Freedom." Payments can be accepted by clicking on the CONTRIBUTE button that Indiegogo has set up for us. For more info or if you want to send us a check instead, contact us at donate@freedomstitchers.org or freedomstitchers@gmail.com
or visit us at www.freedomstitchers.org
July 15, 2013
The Death Merchants of Tel Aviv
By Gilad Atzmon
Haaretz reported today that there are more than 6,800 arms exporters working in Israel.
As of the end of 2012, there were “6,684 individuals dealing with security exports in 1,006 companies and 312 independent businesses. The Israeli Defence Export Controls Agency issued 1,900 marketing permits and 8,716 export permits.”
Apparently some 6,684 Israelis are making a living selling death around the world. They are serving an industry that produces more than 150,000 jobs. However, the most crucial question here is how did the Jewish State become a death factory? Early Zionism promised, indeed, to bring to the world a ‘new Jew’ – a productive, proletarian authentic human being driven by ethics and humanism. But, it didn’t take long for the Jewish State to reveal its real supremacist inclinations and plunderous pragmatism.
By now, Israel isn’t just a regional threat. It actually operates as a military industrial lab. On a daily basis it celebrates its destructive powers on the expense of Israel’s neighbours and the Palestinians, just in order to find new markets for its growing class of death merchants.
