SHHHH, LISTEN...CAN YOU HEAR IT???

When due pressure is put upon a solid immovable object, it ultimately breaks into pieces. Israel is self destructing, it's inability to budge one millimetre is causing it to crack!! There are creaking cracks engulfing Israel. They are running around like the little Dutch boy trying to plug all the holes,throwing hasbara and propaganda at every charge, not having much success because every day another hole appears in the dam, bigger and more outrageous than the last hole. With all the money they have it's still not enough to plug the dam. The worm has turned, the tide is changing, the bloom is off the rose, reality has reached critical mass. Israel is exposed and under the world's microscope. The party is over folks:

link Israel's diplomatic and defense establishments will hold several meetings this week on how to contend with what some officials described as a "barrage" of international investigations into Israel's conduct.

The most disconcerting among them, officials said, is the United Nations committee charged with examining the credibility of Israel's court system in the wake of the Goldstone report on last winter's conflict in Gaza.

Two other international probes are soon set to begin over Israel's May raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla - one appointed by the UN's secretary general and the other by the organization's Human Rights Council.

The inquiry into the Israeli court system was decided on at a March meeting of the UNHRC in Geneva as part of its

continuing effort to monitor Israel's response to the Goldstone report. The panel is charged with examining the efficiency, independence and professionalism of Israel's court system and its adherence to internationally accepted standards. Some Israeli officials have already begun describing it as "a second Goldstone committee."

Over the next few days, Israel is expected to decide whether or not to cooperate with the probe. The foreign and justice ministries are pushing for a policy change that would lead to Israeli recognition of the probe and full cooperation with it. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to decide what Israel's official response should be.

The committee is headed by the German jurist Christian Tomuschat; its other members are Mary McGowan Davis, a former justice of the New York State Supreme Court, and Malaysia's Param Cumaraswamy. The three are tasked with monitoring any legal steps taken by the Israeli or Palestinian authorities to implement the Goldstone report's recommendations.

The committee is set to begin its work in the next few weeks and submit a final report in October.

Israeli officials are concerned because this is the first time UN bodies have investigated Israel's military and civilian legal systems, and a harsh report by the committee could stain the reputation of Israel's legal system all the way to the Supreme Court. A negative report could also lead to various countries around the world ignoring Israeli court rulings or filing indictments against Israeli soldiers and officers.

High-ranking officials said that Netanyahu would meet with key ministers this week on whether to cooperate with the UNHRC investigation. The decision could ultimately be made in the diplomatic-security cabinet.

A decision to cooperate with the committee would represent an about-face in Israel's policy toward the Goldstone report: Until now, Jerusalem has resisted recognizing the legitimacy of either the report or the UNHRC. But officials in the foreign and justice ministries believe Israel must cooperate with the new probe in order to influence its findings.

Moreover, they argue, the new panel's mandate is not one-sidedly anti-Israel, as that of the Goldstone Committee was, nor are its members seen as holding particularly anti-Israel views.

Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said last week that he hopes to create a "review panel" to monitor investigations conducted in both Israel and Turkey over the May flotilla raid. Ban said he hopes the committee will include one representative from each of the two countries. Eight Turkish citizens and one Turkish-American were killed in the incident.

Ban reportedly told Netanyahu the panel could help prevent other international attempts to take legal steps against Israel over the raid and obviate the need for an emergency session of the UN General Assembly or Security Council on the incident. Ban also reportedly described the initiative as "a clear Israeli interest."

Netanyahu is expected to accede to the UN chief's request, but also to insist that the panel not begin its work before the Turkel Committee - the Israeli panel investigating the raid - finishes its report.

The third international committee of inquiry into Israel's conduct was set up by the UNHRC in Geneva to probe the flotilla incident. That panel is charged with determining whether Israel violated international law and committed war crimes in taking over the Gaza-bound vessel.

DUBAI TERRORIST THUGS ~TIME FOR IRELAND TO ACT!

Throw the murdering, identity stealing, terrorists OUT of Ireland

I have been seething in regards to the Evil Rogue State's attempts to involve Ireland, a neutral country with a long history of support for the Palestinian people, much of it due to our shared history of oppression and struggle for freedom. I plan to write a post on this subject very soon, but for now the following article was published in Ireland and finally a decent response is issued, first this appeal:

link THE brother of the Palestinian leader assassinated in Dubai has called on the Irish Government to expel the Israeli ambassador from Ireland

(I agree!!)

The use of at least five fake Irish passports in the killing of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is an embarrassment to Ireland and an attack on its sovereignty, said his brother Fayeq.

(yes it is!!)

Speaking to the Irish Examiner yesterday in his home in Jabalia, Gaza, Fayeq al-Mabhouh said Ireland should lead the way with sanctions against Israel for the murder of his brother.

(100% agree!!)

"I’m asking Ireland first to participate with the investigation about the people who carried out the crime. And to find the real identities [of the assassins] to prove they belong to Israel."

"It [the use of the fake passports] will affect Ireland, it will affect the people and the Government."

(This is why the Irish Government MUST take on the rogue state who has now endangered innocent Irish people in their illegal operations outside of the law!)

"It will embarrass them and it is an attack on their sovereignty of Ireland to use such passports. We are asking Ireland to do something and it’s the time to punish Israel. We want them to condemn the action itself.

(it is a DIRECT attack on our sovereignty, and one that we will never forgive or forget!)

"We know that Ireland is a friend of the Palestinian people and they have the same experiences in their history.

(Yes we do, which is why we love the Palestinian people, and will continue to do what ever we can to help them. And why we will continue to oppose the evil rogue state until they get out of Palestine and make peace)

"Of course we are not asking for military action by Ireland against Israel but diplomatic actions like calling the Irish ambassador back from Israel or sending the Israeli ambassador back to Israel.

(Yes, let's get rid of them and their spies who stole Irish identities to commit crimes)

"We want such diplomatic actions against Israel."

"All evidence shows that Mossad were responsible for the murder. There’s no one else who had any interest in killing Mahmoud except Israel. All the evidence presented by police in Dubai prove that Israel is behind this operation."

Speculation is mounting that Dubai authorities will release proof that Mossad killed the Hamas leader, including credit card bookings made by the assassins and details of their phone calls.

While recognising that Hamas was listed as a terrorist organisation by the EU, he pointed out that like the IRA, the rulers of Gaza were involved in behind the scenes talks on peace. "We [Hamas] are having indirect talks with EU countries."

Fayeq was the last person to speak to his brother by phone, the night before he was murdered in a hotel room on January 20.

"As a family we have the right to know who killed him and have lawyers in different countries working on it and when they catch the killers, we want them to be brought to court."

Then there is this rubbish from the Free State morons:

LINK Fine Gael has called on Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin to brief the Dáil on the details of the case.

The party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Billy Timmins, said: “The Minister for Foreign Affairs must start getting explanations as to how suspects in an assassination overseas were able to use valid Irish passport numbers on fake passports and provide a bona fide Dublin address when checking out of a hotel.”

He added: “The Irish passport has great standing internationally and the minister must do all he can to ensure its status is not debased.

Speaking in the European Parliament, Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa called on the Government to press the EU to put on hold current proposals to upgrade relations with Israel.

Mr De Rossa said: “The stealing of Irish citizens’ identities and the abuse of Irish passports by another state is a gross infringement of Irish sovereignty.

“It is not the normal practice for friendly states to abuse each others sovereignty in this way. One can only assume that Israel either has no regard for international law or holds Ireland and the other EU states affected in contempt,” he added.

This is NOT good enough! Israel stole the valid passports of innocent Irish people, in order to BREAK all international laws to commit murder, credit card fraud and identity theft! And FINALLY a DECENT reply from Sinn Fein:

LINK Derry Sinn Féin Councillor Gerry MacLochlainn has written to the Taoiseach to support an appeal from Mr Fayeg Al-Mahbouh, from Gaza for the Irish Government to act on the perpetrators of the recent murder of his brother, Mr Mohammed Al-Mahbouh, in Dubai.

Mr Al-Mahbouh said in Gaza yesterday:

"…the fraudulent use of Irish passports amounts to an attack on Irish sovereignty and to the Irish people.

"Ireland and Palestine have shared political experiences and I would like to thank the Irish people for your support especially your condemnation of Israel's war last year."

Councillor MacLochlainn in his letter to an Taoiseach said

"I am appealing to you to take up this case with the urgency dictated by its nature and circumstances. The extra-judicial execution of Mr Al-Mahbouh was an act of state terror and as such is as abhorrent as the SAS and RUC shoot-to-kill strategy which caused so much hurt and damage in the North.

"To carry out the killing in a sovereign country, Dubai, is a further contemptuous snub to international law. But not content with this the perpetrators used Irish and other passports to effect their attack. In doing so they assaulted our country, they attacked our neutrality and they placed our citizens in danger.

"If it can be proven that the Israeli government or Mossad carried this out then they have shown a flagrant disregard for our citizens and our country's sovereignty. They have attempted to implicate us in the squalid war against the Palestinian nation.

"As Taoiseach your Government must act. I am asking you to stand up for victims of state terror, defend our sovereignty and impose the severest sanctions on the Israeli state if this latest breach of international law is proven."

Throw the murdering, law breaking, identity stealing thugs out of Ireland NOW!

"QUIET GENOCIDE" CALL IT WHAT IT IS FOLKS

LET’S CALL IT WHAT IT IS~
THE QUIET GENOCIDE

What is happening in Palestine is nothing short of a planned “Quiet Genocide.” Yes, “Genocide” the taboo word, unable to be uttered by the American Government, the British Government or any of the world’s major Western Players or European heavyweights. Whilst the majority of the world’s governments choose to play word games and run interference for Israel’s crimes, I thought it was time to look at just exactly what a “genocide” is, how to create one, how to make it successful, how to win. And, surprisingly enough, the International Law on Genocide was created after World War 2 at the behest of a Jewish Lawyer called Lemkin. Oddly enough, Lemkin’s work on Genocide, his mapping out of what a genocide is comprised of, how it is done, the various aspects of types of genocides, he unwittingly handed the future State of Israel a blueprint if you will, a “How To List” on committing successful genocide. So what was created in the wake of the holocaust, in turn, is now being used by the former victims of genocide to inflict genocide on others. I wonder what Lemkin would think of Israel’s actions today:

wiki Raphael Lemkin (June 24, 1900 – August 28, 1959) was a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent. After World War2 Lemkin also continued his campaign for international laws defining and forbidding genocide

Under international law
In the wake of the Holocaust, Lemkin successfully campaigned for the universal acceptance of international laws defining and forbidding genocide. The CPPCG was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948 and came into effect on 12 January 1951 (Resolution 260 (III)). It contains an internationally-recognized definition of genocide which was incorporated into the national criminal legislation of many countries, and was also adopted by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). The Convention (in article 2) defines genocide:

...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
– Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article II

However, Lemkin wanted even more than he got at the UN. He had a much broader definition in mind, one that covered additional aspects of the various parts of what makes genocide successful. It’s not just about the killing or ethnic cleansing. And most of this we see today in how the Israeli aggressors and occupiers treat the people of Palestine. After all, Lemkin recognised that in order to complete a “Quiet Genocide” without using a full on military assault and wiping out the entire population in “one go” so to speak, a successful “quiet” genocide may take time, it’s a process, there are phases.

Lemkin's broader concerns over genocide, as set out in his "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe", [5] also embraced what may be considered as non-physical, namely, psychological acts of genocide which he personally defined as:

"Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups. Genocide is directed against the national group as an entity, and the actions involved are directed against individuals, not in their individual capacity, but as members of the national group."•

"Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor. This imposition, in turn, may be made upon the oppressed population which is allowed to remain or upon the territory alone, after removal of the population and the colonization by the oppressor's own nationals."

So let’s look at some very recent numbers from B’Tselem that cover ONLY the last 20 years:

linkThe Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have killed 1,500 Palestinians since the start of 2009. Israel killed 7,398 PALESTINIANS including 1,537 CHILDREN and destroyed around 4,300 HOMES in just the last 20 years

And let’s look at another of the criteria of what constitutes a “Genocide” B and C respectively. (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; And compare it with this example below, which falls under B and C above. E.g. people dying due to lack of medical supplies or treatment because of the illegal siege, part of the Genocide:

link According to a July 2009 report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Jerusalem, Gaza doctors and nurses do not have the medical equipment to respond to the health needs of the 1.5 million people living in the Gaza Strip. Medical equipment is often broken, lacking spare parts, or outdated.

The Israeli Defence Ministry says it is not obliged to allow into Gaza anything other than basic humanitarian supplies necessary for survival

So in the above statement we have an actual admission by the Israel Defence Ministry which falls within the confines of the definition of Genocide. By only allowing a mere smattering of food and “Basic” supplies into Gaza, and withholding medical equipment, spare parts, medicine and not allowing the sick to travel outside for treatment, is all part and parcel of “genocide.” More proof:

“The largest number of deaths due to the siege is among cancer patients,” Gaza deputy health minister Hassan Halifa said. “Radiotherapy for cancer patients is not available due to the lack of equipment, and chemotherapy is generally not available due to the lack of drugs.”

Ismail Ahmed, a 66-year-old from Shujayah, also lies in the cancer unit of As-Shifa, with a catheter for urination flowing into a wastebasket.

“We lack necessary equipment for the patients,” Abdullah Farajullah, a nurse at the unit, said.

Suffering from bladder cancer, Ismail requires blood transfusions.
“There are not enough IV [intravenous] bags. The nurses put blood into plastic water bottles to transfer into my IV bag,” Ismail said.

Due to a lack of equipment, he has been on a waiting list for over a month to have a CT (computed tomography) scan, and requires an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) - although Gaza lacks a single working MRI scanner, according to WHO. As-Shifa lacks equipment for basic blood tests. Patients rely on family members to take their blood to certain clinics for testing.

Lastly, here is the “Genocide Checklist” created by Lemkin. Let us see how many Israel has completed: Lemkin also outlined his various observed "techniques" [6] on achieving genocide which ranged from:

• Political =DONE, Israel refuses to recognize the elected government of Palestinians. Prior to this they jailed the Palestinain leader in his own compound, on his own land, in his own country, until he “mysteriously” died.

• Social =DONE society broken down due to occupation, ethnic cleansing and no soveriegnty.

• Cultural [7] [8] =IN PROGRESS removing Palestinains culture and ethnicity from occupied areas of Palestine such as East Jerusalem.

• Economic =IN PROGRESS Israel controls al most all aspects of the Palestinain economy, via controlling FATAH in the West Bank, or via an Illegal Siege in Gaza.

• Biological =IN PROGRESS Israel controls the clean water sources and leaves Gaza with infected filthy water. Israel refuses to allow medical equipment or parts into Gaza.

• Physical: IN PROGRESS Israel murders Palesitnians on a monthly basis, either via the IDF raids into Palestine, also by beatings and arrests, internment, or allowing illegal Zionist land squatters to kill and murder unpunished. It’s all part of the overall plan.

• Endangering Health =IN PROGRESS White phosphorous, DIME missiles in December/January 2009, now refusal to allow treatment to dying and sick Palestinains. House demolitions, house bombings and other acts of de-homing people, forcing them to live outside in the elements, with no protection from extreme temperatures, thus lowering life expectancies of millions.

• Religious IN PROGRESS the fight to take over and destroy the most holy site of Muslims in East Jerusalem, Al Aqsa Mosque. The creation of a “Jewish Only” apartheid state, where all others are lesser people with less rights and equality. No such thing as equality for all.

• Moral=DONE Israel has lost all aspects of morality. The entire population save for a tiny small percentage focus only on expanding the newly created “Zionist Dream” of taking over all the land and subjugating any remaining Palestinians to life under Israeli domination in a sub division of Israel called “Palestine”

• Mass Killing IN PROGRESS see Gaza Genocide for most recent actions or these former atrocities:
During 1948 alone - 5000+ Palestinians killed.

War of Attrition - 2500 Palestinians killed.

Yom Kippur War - 1000 Palestinians killed.

Lebanese Civil War - 75 000 Palestinians killed by Israel + Lebanese people.

2000-2005 - 5 000 Palestinians killed.

Gaza War - 1500 Palestinians killed.

The First Intifida - 3 000 Palestinians killed.

Hebron Massacre 1994 - 60 Palestinians dead in Mosque.

Church of Nativity - 20 Christians killed by Israeli fire, including 2 Priests and 3 Deacons.

Al-Aqsa massacre 2000 - 35 Palestinians killed

Jenin 2002 - 53 Palestinians killed.

1982 invasion : 20,000 casualty and 8,000 in Saabra and Shatila, Deir Yassin, Jeneen massacre is more than 600 ICRC

Of course, blockades had happened in the past causing more deaths, additionally add to this list all the Jerusalemites that died, 3 former Gaza massacres (hundreds more), also Jenin and Nablus (hundreds). The deaths of Palestinian protesters, and Palestinians that died in Israeli jails or custody,(hundreds more) those murdered by illegal settlers over the years (hundreds)and of course you also have those forced to work in tunnels smuggling in food, cattle and other basic needs due to the illegal siege, (hundreds over the years) and let’s not forgot the GREAT many illegal assassinations committed by Israel on Palestinians over the last 30-60 years. Even with all this I'm sure I've left hundreds more deaths out of this list.

So, why is it that 200,000-300,000 dead Palestinians, in a prolonged “Quiet Genocide” by Israel, not constitute outrage? Why is it that Lemkin, a Jew, who worked to help stop future genocides by creating a profile that would make them recognizable to the world, or another Jew, Richard Goldstone who also fought to uphold International Law like Lemkin; why are they ignored by the world’s governments who only listen to those Jews who are currently in the process of committing the “Quiet Genocide?” That is what we should all be asking our Governments AND the United Nations….

http://www.palestineremembered.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict
http://www.btselem.org/English/
http://al-bushra.org/
http://www.pchrgaza.org/
http://ifamericansknew.com/
http://www.isesco.org.ma/english/publications/jenin/P5.php