UH OH, TROUBLE IN PARADISE

America's becoming divided over Israel and much of the population in America are beginning to wake up to the Billions of taxpayer dollars leaving America annually, plus the fact that America's constant support of everything Israel wants, with ZERO regard to how it effects America's best interests is being looked at now by Americans. Finally!

Israel supporters are using all sorts of tactics now, some are taking softer tones and using crazy logic. I was reading this article (part below), it's actually a twisted logic hasbara thing where the writer attempts to outline why America and Americans should keep supporting Israel, and it uses a recent poll which suggests about only 50% of Democrat voters still support Israel, Whereas, surprise, 80% of the Republican teabag lunatic mental midgets support Israel. Now, there's a BIG reason to vote Democrat. The poll is below and if you want to read the loony logic this guy writes you can read that as well, link provided below. But the funniest thing is that some regular American challenged the site to post his comment, which I dutifully included below this snippet, it's pure class:

Two new Gallup polls suggest that while Congress remains in near unanimous agreement, the American public is becoming increasingly divided on its view of Israel. One poll finds that 85 percent of Republicans and 48 percent of Democrats support Israelis more than Palestinians--a 37 percent partisan gap. A separate Gallup poll finds that while Israel’s favorability ratings remain high (67 percent) in the aggregate, when broken down by party 80 percent of Republicans and 53 percent of Democrats hold a favorable view. Each of these polls represents an alarming change from the traditionally bipartisan norm. link here to source

Oh Yeah, now a Fed Up American speaks his mind:

reality
even that lunatic glenn beck says aid to israel must end and that we dont share their values,and that aipac letter that our representatives are forced to sign or face a coordinated media and funding campaign backlash just infuriates americans.we were attacked on 9-11 because we support israeli killing and occupation of palestinians and israel doesnt care and wont stop and american j-ewish interests dont care either. the 94 percent jewish owned media and their coordinated lie of "they hate our freedom" is nothing short of treson on behalf of israel to make sure americans dont question support for israel.thank god for obama. if you dont print this i will understand why their are no comments thus far, its because you wont print what americans feel

SOUNDS LIKE A FED UP AMERICAN TO ME, all I can say is it's about time!!

LOOKOUT...ISRAEL IS ON TO US

If you ever needed any proof that we are getting to them, here it is:

From EI:

A Reut Institute presentation calls on Israel to "attack catalysts" -- global peace and justice activists.

An extraordinary series of articles, reports and presentations by Israel's influential Reut Institute has identified the global movement for justice, equality and peace as an "existential threat" to Israel and called on the Israeli government to direct substantial resources to "attack" and possibly engage in criminal "sabotage" of this movement in what Reut believes are its various international "hubs" in London, Madrid, Toronto, the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

The Reut Institute's analyses hold that Israel's traditional strategic doctrine -- which views threats to the state's existence in primarily military terms, to be met with a military response -- is badly out of date. Rather, what Israel faces today is a combined threat from a "Resistance Network" and a "Delegitimization Network."

The Resistance Network is comprised of political and armed groups such as Hamas and Hizballah who "rel[y] on military means to sabotage every move directed at affecting separation between Israel and the Palestinians or securing a two-state solution" ("The Delegitimization Challenge: Creating a Political Firewall, Reut Institute, 14 February 2010).

Furthermore, the "Resistance Network" allegedly aims to cause Israel's political "implosion" -- a la South Africa, East Germany or the Soviet Union -- rather than bring about military defeat through direct confrontation on the battlefield.

The "Delegitimization Network" -- which Reut Institute president and former Israeli government advisor Gidi Grinstein provocatively claims is in an "unholy alliance" with the Resistance Network -- is made up of the broad, decentralized and informal movement of peace and justice, human rights, and BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) activists all over the world. Its manifestations include protests against Israeli officials visiting universities, Israeli Apartheid Week, faith-based and trade union-based activism, and "lawfare" -- the use of universal jurisdiction to bring legal accountability for alleged Israeli war criminals. The Reut Institute even cited my speech to the student conference on BDS held at Hampshire College last November as a guide to how the "delegitimization" strategy supposedly works ("Eroding Israel's Legitimacy in the International Arena," Reut Institute, 28 January 2010).

The combined "attack" from "resisters" and "delegitimizers," Reut says, "possesses strategic significance, and may develop into a comprehensive existential threat within a few years." It further warns that a "harbinger of such a threat would be the collapse of the two-state solution as an agreed framework for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the coalescence behind a 'one-state solution' as a new alternative framework."

At a basic level, Reut's analysis represents an advance over the most primitive and hitherto dominant layers of Israeli strategic thinking; it reflects an understanding, as I put it in my speech at Hampshire, that "Zionism simply cannot bomb, kidnap, assassinate, expel, demolish, settle and lie its way to legitimacy and acceptance."

But underlying the Reut Institute's analysis is a complete inability to disentangle cause and effect. It seems to assume that the dramatic erosion in Israel's international standing since its wars on Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2009 is a result of the prowess of the "delegitimization network" to which it imputes wholly nefarious, devious and unwholesome goals -- effectively the "destruction of Israel."

It blames "delegitimizers" and "resisters" for frustrating the two-state solution but ignores Israel's relentless and ongoing settlement-building drive -- supported by virtually every state organ -- calculated and intended to make Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank impossible.

It never considers for a moment that the mounting criticism of Israel's actions might be justified, or that the growing ranks of people ready to commit their time and efforts to opposing Israel's actions are motivated by genuine outrage and a desire to see justice, equality and an end to bloodshed. In other words, Israel is delegitimizing itself.

Reut does not recommend to the Israeli cabinet -- which recently held a special session to hear a presentation of the think tank's findings -- that Israel should actually change its behavior toward Palestinians and Lebanese. It misses the point that apartheid South Africa also once faced a global "delegitimization network" but that this has now completely disappeared. South Africa, however, still exists. Once the cause motivating the movement disappeared -- the rank injustice of formal apartheid -- people packed up their signs and their BDS campaigns and went home.

Instead, Reut recommends to the Israeli government an aggressive and possibly criminal counter-offensive. A powerpoint presentation Grinstein made to the recent Herzliya Conference on Israeli national security actually calls on Israel's "intelligence agencies to focus" on the named and unnamed "hubs" of the "delegitimization network" and to engage in "attacking catalysts" of this network. In its "The Delegitimization Challenge: Creating a Political Firewall" document, Reut recommends that "Israel should sabotage network catalysts."

The use of the word "sabotage" is particularly striking and should draw the attention of governments, law enforcement agencies and university officials concerned about the safety and welfare of their students and citizens. The only definition of "sabotage" in United States law deems it to be an act of war on a par with treason, when carried out against the United States. In addition, in common usage, the American Heritage Dictionary defines sabotage as "Treacherous action to defeat or hinder a cause or an endeavor; deliberate subversion." It is difficult to think of a legitimate use of this term in a political or advocacy context.

At the very least, Reut seems to be calling for Israel's spy agencies to engage in covert activity to interfere with the exercise of legal free speech, association and advocacy rights in the United States, Canada and European Union countries, and possibly to cause harm to individuals and organizations. These warnings of Israel's possible intent -- especially in light of its long history of criminal activity on foreign soil -- should not be taken lightly.

The Reut Institute, based in Tel Aviv, raises a significant amount of tax-exempt funds in the United States through a nonprofit arm called American Friends of the Reut Institute (AFRI). According to its public filings, AFRI sent almost $2 million to the Reut Institute in 2006 and 2007.

In addition to a state-sponsored international "sabotage" campaign, Reut also recommends a "soft" policy. This specifically involves better hasbara or state propaganda to greenwash Israel as a high-tech haven for environmental technologies and high culture -- what it terms "Brand Israel."

Other elements include "maintain[ing] thousands of personal relationships with political, cultural, media and security-related elites and influentials" around the world, and "harnessing Jewish and Israeli diaspora communities" even more tightly to its cause. It even emphasizes that Israel should use "international aid" to boost its image (its perfunctory foray into earthquake-devastated Haiti was an example of this tactic).

What ties together all these strategies is that they are aimed at frustrating, delaying and distracting attention from the fundamental issue: that Israel -- despite its claims to be a liberal and democratic state -- is an ultranationalist ethnocracy that relies on the violent suppression of the most fundamental rights of millions of Palestinians, soon to be a demographic majority, to maintain the status quo. There is no "game changer" in Reut's new strategy.

Reut is apparently unaware even of the irony of trying to reform "Brand Israel" as something cuddly, while at the same time publicly recommending that Israel's notorious spies "sabotage" peace groups on foreign soil.

But there are two lessons we must heed: Reut's analysis vindicates the effectiveness of the BDS strategy, and as Israeli elites increasingly fear for the long-term prospects of the Zionist project they are likely to be more ruthless, unscrupulous and desperate than ever.

Ali Abunimah is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse.

PALESTINIANS FIGHT BACK ~ THE RISEN PEOPLE

"Israel is obsessing over the settlement freeze, ignoring a dangerous Palestinian plan to unilaterally declare statehood with EU backing."

This is an interesting turn of events in deed, if they are true. The PNA claim they have been working on a plan to declare independence for a Palestinian state contained within the 1967 borders. This move, if both true and successful, could pose serious consequences for Israel. As of now, Palestine is not a recognized state within the UN, and as such cannot avail itself of all the legal remedies of a recognised state. However, should this new tactic be successful, Israel will be slapped with a new situation that will make it's prior "problems" look like child's play.

The Palestinians have claimed for several years, that if Israel fails to make peace, the PNA will act to declare a unilateral Palestinian state by 2011. Of course Israel will scream foul, pointing to the Oslo agreement, however, Israel will then have to explain its own actions, such as the continued building of settlements, ethnic cleansing and land grabbing, thus altering the borders, another breach of the agreement. Israel is now being confronted with it's most dangerous threat ever. The rising up of the Palestinian people. Israel knows that it can never militarily control or oppress the desire for Palestinian freedom. One only needs to look to Ireland for that answer.

With the word "Irishman" removed and replaced with "Palestinian"“I believe I am but another of those wretched (Palestinians) born of a risen generation with a deeply rooted and unquenchable desire for freedom” ~Bobby Sands, Irish Hungerstriker.

Even back in 2008 Israel was obsessing over this very possibility. It has been a looming threat over the Zionist war criminal occupying entity's heads. And now due to Israel's own genocide in Gaza, the world has turned and there appears to be some support within the UN for this move as is evident in from the "ZioNation" website, where they are having a public meltdown:

Meanwhile, the threat of a unilateral Palestinian state looms large and potent, and eclipses the petty obsession with settlement units. In July, the unfortunately irrepressible Javier Solana offered support of the EU for unconditional acceptance of a Palestinian state as a member of the UN in two years, if negotiations fail. At the end of August, the "moderate" Palestinian Authority announced that it would declare a state in two years, regardless of negotiations. Solana welcomed this provocation as well.

Due to the Palestinians' reservations over establishing a state with temporary borders, as was proposed during the second stage of the road map, this step will probably be defined as "early recognition" of Palestine.

It is understood that this will be accompanied by a public American and European declaration that the permanent border will be based on the border of June 4, 1967. Both sides may agree to alter the border based on territorial exchanges.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to discuss Jerusalem and the Palestinian refugees in the initial negotiation stages will not be allowed to delay the announcement of an independent Palestinian state.

Likewise, Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, and that the Arab world embark on normalizing ties with Israel, will not constitute preconditions to an "early recognition" of Palestine.

Oh the evil Zionist ants are scurrying about in absolute panic mode. As usual and expected, Israel is calling in all it's bribed and owned politicians and UN members, plus adding it's Zionist lawyers to the mix for an all out assault on three fronts, as the Jpost is reporting this today:

According to Daniel Taub, the Foreign Ministry's deputy legal adviser, more than 200 top lawyers from all over the world have written the ICC stating that accepting the PA declaration would violate the ICC statute, which unambiguously refers only to states. He refused to say what steps, if any, Israel had taken to discourage Moreno-Ocampo from accepting the PA declaration.

Israel truly must be thinking to itself: How dare those "Risen Slaves" declare Independence from the slave masters, how dare they break the Oslo accords! Only Israel can break agreements and go un punished! The Palestinians will wait no more, they will move without Israel's approval, consent or permission. They have risen.

“If they aren't able to destroy the desire for freedom, they won't break you. They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the “Palestinian” people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of “Palestine” will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.~Bobby Sands


note: For another good take on this development you can go HERE