OUTTA THE WAY~Ethnic Cleansing in Progress

Step aside, move along now, nothing to see here, all the Palestinians are gone now, ethnic cleansing complete, all Jews, all the time now. And Israel claims to be a democracy? ROTFLMAO in what universe one wonders.........But you gotta hand it to Israel in the use of "Israeli Double Speak" no need to explain as you'll see it used to it's perfection below:

Mayor for the Israeli-run Jerusalem municipality hopes to make “Jerusalem the greenest city in Israel,” largely at the expenses of Palestinian residents.

Jerusalem municipal Mayor Nir Barkat revealed his “master plan” for the city on Monday, which includes the ominous pledge for the “Development of eastern Jerusalem,” where most of the Palestinian population lives.

Also of concern to Palestinian residents is his intention to create five new metropolitan parks, particularly given the current demolition orders on nearly 100 Palestinian homes in the Silwan neighborhood of the city to make way for the construction of green space.

Equally distressing is the issue of Israeli “Conservation and preservation of historic buildings,” since this often means the judization of Islamic or ancient historic sites.

In his explanation of “Developing Eastern Jerusalem,” Barakat said “An additional 13,550 housing units will be made available for construction for the residents of eastern Jerusalem,” which means the expansion of illegal East Jerusalem Israeli settlements. These settlements will be constructed on the land Palestinians will establish their capital city on under the Road Map and Arab Peace Initiative.

The mayor said he intended to build most of the new housing in the Palestinian A-Tur neighborhood (1,500 units), the Palestinian Beit Hanina- Shuafat neighborhoods (2,500 units), Tel Adesa (2,000 units), Jabel Mukabar (2,500 units), and the eastern Jerusalem city center (750 units). These areas house the highest number of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem.

Barakat outlined his plans for the revitalization of tourism in Jerusalem, saying efforts would be concentrated on the Old City, again an area of high-concentration Palestinian homes.

According to reports, “The plan affixes the borders of the historical city to include the neighborhoods and buildings built until 1948,” which will annex even more Palestinian land. source

NOTE: the Israeli Mayor was asked for comments regarding the worldwide condemnation of the Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem,
THIS is his reply:

Durban a "No Go" for USA-big surprise....not!

Rack up another one for the Jewish Lobby in the USA. Wonder how African Americans feel now about Obama, bet many would like their vote back. Its seems Obama is not concerned with slave issues or Palestinian issues at Durban, having both removed to quell the Zionists, and still the US will not be sending anyone to attend.

The United States asserts that it will boycott the upcoming UN-led anti-racism conference citing the event's anti-Israeli draft document.

"The Obama administration will with regret boycott a UN conference on racism next week over objectionable language in the meeting's final document that could single out Israel for criticism and restrict free speech," the State Department said in a statement on Saturday.

Washington and Tel Aviv had also walked out of the previous conference in Durban, South Africa in protest at its draft declaration among other things.

They slammed the 2001 conference held in Durban, South Africa, for being anti-Semitic because it brought into focus Israel's ill-treatment of the Palestinians and attempted to pass a resolution likening Zionism to racism source

Like I said the other day, Durban=The Chees Shop.

Israel Throwing Hissy Fit

Israel says: "You WILL recognise us,You WILL recognise us,You WILL recognise us,You WILL recognise us,You WILL recognise us,You WILL recognise us,You WILL recognise us,You WILL recognise us,You WILL recognise us,You WILL recognise us,You WILL recognise us, or else we won't negotiate for peace........one word "asshat"

Israel demands recognition

Israel's prime minister has told a visiting US envoy that the Palestinians must recognise Israel as a "Jewish state" before it will discuss establishing an independent Palestinian state.

Benyamin Netanyahu made the remarks as he met George Mitchell, the US special envoy for the Middle East, in Tel Aviv on Thursday.

"Israel expects the Palestinians to first recognise Israel as a Jewish state before talking about two states for two peoples," a senior official in Netanyahu's office quoted the new prime minister as saying.

Earlier, after meeting Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, Mitchell had repeated Washington's support for a Palestinian state.

"I reiterated to the foreign minister that US policy favours, with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a two-state solution which will have a Palestinian state living in peace alongside the Jewish state of Israel," he said.

"We look forward also to efforts to achieving comprehensive peace throughout the region."

Right to return

Jacky Rowland, reporting from Jerusalem, said: "It hasn't taken Benyamin Netanyahu long to show his true colours.

"Before the government was sworn in we heard statements that sought to allay fears that this would be a very right-wing government ... but now we are starting to see him produce hoops for the Palestinians to jump through," she said.

"Basically, asking the Palestinians to recognise Israel as a Jewish state is asking them to waive the right of return for Palestinian refugees."

Palestinians demand the right for the 4.6 million descendants of those who fled in 1948 to return to their lands that are now inside Israel.

"The idea of any Palestinian leader giving up on that claim lightly is really quite unrealistic," Rowland said.

The Palestinian Authority has rejected similar demands in the past, saying it only recognises Israel within the country's borders before the 1967 Middle East war when the Israelis seized the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

One in five people still living in Israel are Arabs.

Abdullah Abdullah, head of the PLO foreign affairs committee, told Al Jazeera that the comments showed Netanyahu was not interested in negotiating.

"He only puts this condition to block, to sabotage, any attempt by the American envoy to move the peace process forward," he said.

Netanyahu has said that he wants any peace talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to focus mainly on security and economic issues.

'Dead end'

Furthermore, Lieberman, an Israeli nationalist, has flatly rejected a restart of the Israeli-Palestinian talks launched by George Bush, the former US president, in Annapolis in 2007.

On Thursday, the Israeli foreign minister, said that "the peace process has reached a dead end" and that "the new government will have to formulate new ideas and approaches," according to a statement from his office.

Israel committed itself to the principle of a Palestinian state under the 2003 international "road map" for peace, which included a series of steps for Israelis and Palestinians to follow, eventually resulting in negotiations over core issues and the creation of a Palestinian state.

Under the Annapolis agreement, the two sides began discussing those final status issues last year.

Mitchell was expected to travel to Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Friday to meet Abbas, who has insisted that the new Israeli cabinet commit itself to a two-state solution before the two sides can resume any talks.

The negotiations were halted during Israel's 22-day assault on the Gaza Strip, which left more than 1,300 Palestinians, mainly women and children, dead

WARNING to Israel~More Axe Attacks Will Come

Well Israel, what do you expect? People will fight back and resist way they can. As long as you live on stolen land, your army defends armed illegal settlers against unarmed Palestinians, you murder Palestinians at will, then you can expect nothing less.

A Palestinian organization calling itself the Army of Palestine Fighters threatened on Friday to strike Israeli interests “anywhere in the world.”

The group said its future attacks would be “in response to the attacks carried out on Palestinians in the West Bank, particularly the Hebron village of Safa, Jerusalem, Gaza, and those inside Israel.”

The group added in a statement that [Israeli Chief of the General Staff Gabi] Ashkinazi’s threat to carry out a new strike on Gaza is evidence of their failure in the face of the steadfastness of the Palestinians.”

The group had previously claimed responsibility for the axe attack on the illegal Israeli settlement of Bat Ayin, which left an Israeli teenager dead and a seven-year-old boy seriously injured source

Rachel Corrie~Gaza Delegation & MORE

Parents of Gaza Activist Rachel Corrie Joins Discussions of "My Name is Rachel Corrie" at Unicorn Theatre

Craig and Cindy Corrie will appear for a discussion after the Friday and Saturday performances to discuss Rachel’s work and their participation in a Gaza aid delegation in March.

The parents of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old American killed by an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer in Gaza six years ago, will visit Kansas City on Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11 to attend the play “My Name is Rachel Corrie” performed on the Unicorn Theatre’s Jerome Stage at 3828 Main Street, Kansas City, Missouri.

Craig and Cindy Corrie will appear for a discussion after the Friday and Saturday performances to discuss Rachel’s work and their participation in a Gaza aid delegation in March. The Corries joined 60 other people on the March delegation to Gaza, including Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Alice Walker. Delegates -- which included members of the Jewish and Muslim communities, as well as doctors, businesspeople, lawyers and college students – met with Palestinian aid groups, Gazan women, and United Nations officials. They also toured the aftermath of the three-week Israeli assault earlier this year and deliver 2,000 gift baskets to Gazan women, purchased through an outpouring of donations through the CODEPINK website to honor Gazan women.

Craig and Cindy Corrie have traveled and spoken extensively responding to interest in their daughter’s story. “We are encouraged that people throughout the U.S. and around the world want to know more. We hope and believe that in sharing Rachel’s story and ours that we continue her work—drawing attention to the plight of the Palestinian people and supporting those Israelis, Palestinians and internationals who are working determinedly to end the illegal Israeli occupation and to bring freedom, justice, and a secure peace to these two peoples,” Cindy Corrie said. For more info and to order tickets go HERE

Tristan Anderson UPDATE

Activists launch fundraiser for injured ISM protester

Pro-Palestinian activists this week launched a fundraising drive to cover hospital costs for an uninsured American protester critically wounded last month by police in the West Bank. Meanwhile his family is preparing to sue the state. Police say the troops followed protocol. Tristan Anderson, 38, was hit in the forehead by a teargas canister fired by a border policeman in the village of Na'alin during a demonstration against Israel's contested security barrier.



Comatose, Anderson has undergone three brain surgeries at Tel Hashomer hospital, including partial removal of his frontal lobe. A brain fluid leak was sealed using a femoral tendon and his right eye suffered extensive damage. It is not clear if he will survive.



The demonstration was organized by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a controversial organization which brings Westerners to "resist Israeli occupation of Palestinian land" by "direct-action methods," as stated in the group's charter.

"Tristan is without medical insurance in the U.S. and will need substantial financial assistance to continue long-term treatment," the movement advertised on a mini-site it built for Anderson. "We ask that supporters around the world donate what they can to help."

The man's parents, Nancy and Michael Anderson, who flew out to Israel from their home in central California, confirmed through their attorney that "there are money issues" but said they weren't behind the fundraising drive. The parents, who refused to be interviewed, have retained Sfard to conduct an independent probe into the incident, in preparation for a legal fight to get Israel to assume responsibility for the injury.

"So far my investigation has produced evidence that look very bad," said Sfard, who collected testimonies in Na'alin last Thursday. "It appears border police took up an elevated position to snipe with canisters at protesters returning from a demonstration."

A Swedish activist who said he saw the shooting told Anglo File that it was unprovoked. "The policeman approached from behind a building when everything was quiet," said the man, an ISM member who identified himself only as John.

A 30-year-old government employee staying on a tourist visa, John added he was 30 meters away from Anderson at the time. The policeman who fired the canister was 60 meters away, he said. "Clearly troops are using canisters as projectiles and not for crowd dispersal," John said. Avi Biton, the spokesperson for the border police's Judea and Samaria district, said the canister discharged accidentally.

"We believe Israel should not only pay for Anderson's medical expenses, but take full responsibility for his shooting," Sasha Solanas from ISM's Media Office said. "Anderson was standing inside the village and the demonstration had dispersed." Solanas also said the shooting "continues a pattern of behavior by the Israeli military of firing teargas canisters directly at protesters in violation of Israeli army orders and international standards."

MUST READ~ What if YOU were a young Palestinian?

All I can say is this op-ed in the Daily Mail by Andrew Alexander is a MUST READ! Although I do not agree with his use of the phrase "terrorist" in the context that he uses it. I believe the state of Israel is a terrorist state, the sad fact that it is a "state" does not make it incapable of being considered as a "terrorist"

Anyhow, the op-ed piece is below:

The easiest thing to do with terrorists is to rage at them. Or to declare, mindlessly, that we must strengthen 'the war on terrorism'. Both are moral self-indulgence and mental idleness.

Suppose that you are a young man living in Gaza, dominated by refugees or their descendants whose original homeland was what is now Israel. You may well have been brought up on stories, sometimes exaggerated, of a home where your forebears lived in security.

With squalid conditions in the refugee camps and little hope of good education or employment, your frustration and rage is easily directed at Israel, the U.S. as its relentless backer and probably us, too, as Washington's poodlelike allies. Or maybe you live in the West Bank, once part of Palestine. Since the 1967 war, Israel has left the West Bank littered with 600 checkpoints which divide even families.

This side of the border you will see ever-growing Israeli settlements. The details of the sheer illegality and subterfuge involved are readily provided by the protesting Jewish organisation Peace Now (peacenow.org).
Our young Palestinian will also remember so painfully Israel's punitive expedition against Gaza supposedly to crush the governing party, Hamas, whose military wing launched sporadic, but not very effective, rockets on Israel. Yet this only begins to touch on the millions in the Middle East with deep grievances.

Significantly, Hamas and Hezbollah had electoral triumphs following Israeli attacks. In Afghanistan, refugees from the Taliban have had to face returning to a land where the seven-year war against the invader has reinvigorated that awful organisation. Throughout the Middle East, tales can be heard of relatives or friends who have fallen victim to the U.S. and its allies, including Israel, over recent decades, often accompanied by grim details about trigger-happy U.S. troops, ideal villains.

Our young man in Gaza or the West Bank grows up dangerously full of frustration and anger. His religion seems a stabilising force in an unstable world.

Those with deep grievances, actual or inherited, number many millions. Just think about the scale of this. There are about 300 million Muslim Arabs (plus Iran). Pakistan, now being drawn into the conflict, adds many more.

If only a tiny fraction takes the Jihadist path, we face a formidable and, alas, growing host. Can we be surprised that Islamic extremists find no difficulty in recruitment?

We are very stupid - as stupid as Chamberlain at Munich - to ignore the scale or nature of the menace.

There will be no curb to terrorism until we stop waging wars on Muslim countries and, even more, until the problem of the Arab-Israeli conflict is ended or at least ameliorated.

Washington holds all the levers. It is the source of huge economic and military aid to Israel. President Clinton nearly achieved a settlement, but was balked at the last moment by the then Palestinian leadership.

At least he tried. Other presidents have declined to pressure Israel into the necessary concessions and Britain's efforts has amounted to little more than pious pleading.

Of course, the Zionist lobby in the U.S. and elsewhere is powerful. In the American case, Jewish Zionism is augmented by various Evangelical Churches that excitedly grasp at the state of Israel as fulfiling Old Testament prophecies.

In the propaganda battle here as in the U.S., Zionists are adept at playing the anti-semitic card, so familiar to fair-minded journalists. The BBC in particular is easily scared.

Developments within Israel are grim. Its crazy system of proportional representation gives every loony some power in coalition governments. Hence we have the notorious extremist Avigdor Lieberman in the post of Foreign Minister.

Israeli organisations such as Peace Now, which once organised a 400,000-strong demonstration against the Lebanon intervention in 1982, face an uphill battle. Yet the chance for peace does not depend on Israeli political manoeuvring.

President Obama has the real, unquestionable power to impose a settlement. How hard he tries affects everybody, particularly us. SOURCE

Israeli Killed in Illegal Settlement

Perhaps this is the only way Palestinians can fight back from being ethnically cleansed by Israel. If Israeli's were not on stolen Palestinian land illegally then they'd not be under attack.

According to reports from the scene, the attacker entered the settlement of Bat Ayin and went on the rampage this morning.

Rescuers told Israel Radio a 13-year-old boy was killed and a seven-year-old boy was badly wounded.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility.

The attack is likely to heighten tensions between the Palestinians and the new hard-line Israeli government.

It occurred about 12 miles from the settlement home of controversial new Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Sporadic attacks occur in the West Bank. In March, two Israeli police officers were killed by Palestinians.

It is not confirmed that this attack was carried out by a Palestinian but Israeli emergency services are describing it as a "Palestinian terrorist attack". (comical this statement)

Israeli settlements are built on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank against international law.

Their existence is one of the main obstacles to peace.

IDF Tear Gas Protesters in West Bank~AGAIN

It is Soooooooo past the time for these land stealing, thieving, illegal, evil, racist, Zionists, to be removed from squatting on other peoples land whilst their Zionist armed to the teeth racist soldiers shoot and murder the rightful owners. I hope I live to see the day they are dragged screaming and kicking off that land, evil racists.

Soldiers tear-gas pacifists in West Bank demo
3 hours ago

HEBRON, West Bank (AFP) — Israeli soldiers used tear gas grenades to break up a demonstration on Saturday by Israeli, Palestinian and foreign pacifists in the occupied flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron.

No casualties were reported, an AFP correspondent said.

About 150 demonstrators were demanding that Palestinians again be allowed to used a road in the old town of Hebron after they were denied access by the Israeli military for security reasons.

Israeli Arab member of parliament Muhammed Barakeh of the Hadash communist party was among the protesters.

About 600 Jewish settlers live under Israeli military protect in in central Hebron, the West Bank city inhabited by 170,000 Palestinians.

Israel Admits Murdering Children

Another nail in Israel’s coffin

Wow, Israel under pressure from the world and running from war crime charges admit what we already know, they targeted and murdered children. The Israeli army murdered children in Gaza. Albiet Israel is only claiming it killed 189 children rather than the huge number of children they really murdered. Still, this admission proves that worldwide public opinion and outrage is taking it’s effect on Isarel. This admission, coupled with the fact that the Israeli Army, in fact, has a policy of killing children aged 12 and recently there was a report of Israel using children as human shields. It seems to me that a charge of war crimes is yet closer.

Israel admits killing 189 children in Gaza campaign

Israel's armed forces admitted on Wednesday that 189 Palestinian children under the age of 15 were killed during the assault on the Gaza Strip.

The first official figures released by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) of the casualties inflicted by the three-week campaign found that a total of 309 Palestinian civilians were killed.

The survey was disclosed as Benjamin Netanyahu, the incoming prime minister, presented himself as a peacemaker and assured Palestinians that his government would be their "partner". One day after enlisting the Labour Party into a broad coalition, embracing Left and Right, Mr Netanyahu focused on his plans to help the Palestinian economy.

"I think that the Palestinians should understand that they have in our government a partner for peace, for security and for rapid economic development of the Palestinian economy," said Mr Netanyahu

(I think the Palestinians know what you are Bibi, a liar and a right wing neo con Zionist not to be trusted, they also understand the kind of “peace” you want, the kind that comes when you exterminate all Palestinians and steal all their land, that is Israel’s version of peace)

But Mr Netanyahu did not go as far as to endorse a two-state solution, which forms the essential foundation for America's plans for a peace settlement. In the past, he has consistently opposed the creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza.

Under the coalition deal with Labour, Mr Netanyahu's Right-wing Likud party will adhere to previous international agreements made by Israel. This formula may leave open a window for a deal on Palestinian statehood.

But Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian negotiator, said that Mr Netanyahu would be judged by results. "Any Israeli government that accepts the two-state solution, negotiates with us on all core issues without exception, and agrees to stop settlement activity will be a partner," he said.

Even as Mr Netanyahu was addressing the conference, however, Israel's Army Radio reported that he had agreed to build more homes inside Jewish settlements on the West Bank inside an area known as E-1, a few miles east of Jerusalem. Construction in this vital region could sever the West Bank in two, making the creation of a viable Palestinian state even more difficult.

The radio station said this was part of a secret agreement with Avigdor Lieberman, the leader of the nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, who is likely to be foreign minister in the new coalition.

The IDF's survey of the casualties in Gaza found that 1,370 Palestinians were killed in the campaign, which began on Dec 27 after years of rocket fire into Israel's southern cities. Of these, some 600 were guerrillas and another 320 were unidentified and designated simply as "unaffiliated".

The IDF defines anyone under the age of 15 as a child and admits that 189 were killed. The Palestinian authorities list anyone under the age of 18 as a child.
Another point of contention is over how to identify the 200 Palestinian policemen who were killed in the first day of the fighting during an Israeli air raid on a graduation ceremony in Gaza City. Israel categorises them as Hamas fighters on the grounds that Hamas governs Gaza and controls the police.