more from the files of 'i have more written than the local fishwrap will print' and this is the sort of item that brings charges of hating jews, which i don't do but feel much better when zionists aren't around;

Dov Lior, the chief rabbi of the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, said that the attacks in Paris a few years ago were deserved due to what Europeans “did to our people 70 years ago.” Blaming Israel gets you an immediate 8 month jail sentence in France. Zionism like this is one cause of anti-Semitism.

People are quite good seeing themselves as victims, but have great difficulties accepting their contributions to those crimes. Israeli hasbarats moan about the “casual, brazen acceptance of all Palestinian terrorism”; the poor man’s weapon, terrorism, used by the native inhabitants of Palestine to respond to Israeli aggression using overwhelming force. When considering ‘terrorists’ using the poor mans weapon, a bomb, remember it’s usually in response to the rich mans superior weapons being used on them. Israeli terrorists are called commandos where Palestinian commandos are called terrorists.

Both historically and geographically, Israel’s claimed ancestry is based on many tenuous stories of hearsay; embellished and altered by hundreds of self-styled prophets, scribes, politicians, commentators and ideologues over many hundreds of years to reflect their own religious persuasions and personal views on the world in general. The religious Hebrew tribe of 2000 years ago isn’t in Jerusalem now.

Using Israel’s reasoning about their right to return to their ‘historical’ homeland Arabs would be allowed to re-inhabit Spain/Andalusia, and Native Americans would equally be allowed unlimited return to this land and so on. Armenians would certainly be given part of Turkey.

Speak about what you see in Israel and you’re accused; “obsessive compulsive hater of Israel… classic anti-Semitism.” Terrorism cause great fear but its cause isn’t publicly explored without prejudice. Until about a hundred years ago Arabs rarely left their own desert until France, Britain, Israel and America decided to have their way in the mid-east. The history is long and involved waiting for you to discover, which you won’t in American public schools from grade school on. The Arabs are over here in response to our being over there, repeatedly and aggressively. Israel is a large part of that aggression. Essentially it’s an unprovoked war that we started.

Israeli’s say: “terrorism isn’t moral or justified, and it won’t help their cause.” In this they ignore the history of aggression by Britain, France, America and Israel against the mid-east. Israel’s actions are little different than America’s genocide against its natives. Americans once became incensed about native violent reaction to our invasions. Many modern Americans now realize how criminal their ancestors were. Israel’s haven’t yet made that connection as they treat their natives violently every day, as you can discover should you investigate beyond the lies you see in ‘our free press’.

Have the Jews, in their three thousand year history, during all the times they’ve been run out of countries, and persecuted, ever taken the time and seriously asked themselves, why they were and are so disliked?

Israeli’s complain of age-old anti-Semitic questioning of the Jews loyalty. This ignores the large number of Israeli’s with dual citizenship, the only country with which America allows such a thing to exist. Who does a dual citizen in government represent? When dual citizen Wolfowitz, powerful pentagon advisor, pushed America to invade Iraq, Libya and Syria, who was he representing? Robert Kagan, William Kristol, and Dick Cheney, agitated for America to overthrow any government in the Middle East in the way of Israel’s domination of the region.

Notice how many of our congress are Jewish compared to their percentage of the national population: Notice who they speak for publicly.

We’ve had a great effort by the Empire to secure Israel’s absolute pre-eminence in the Middle East through a whole series of destructive intrusions in the region; The “Arab Spring,” the reverse-revolution in Egypt, smashing and dividing Iraq, Libya, and the artificially-induced civil war in Syria, providing weapons, money and refuge in an effort to destroy a stable and relatively peaceful state. The Paris attacks may have been blowback from all of this and more.

In one recent period Palestinians killed 15 Israelis, and Israeli forces and civilians killed more than 110 Palestinians. More than half of those killed were shot at Palestinian protests.

Palestinians aren’t going away. They’ve demonstrated remarkable endurance, yet almost every Israeli act since its inception, supported by America, has been violent efforts to make them go away. Recently Israeli politicians advocated sending Palestinians to concentration camps and shooting them on sight. Israeli citizens attack Palestinians in their homes and on their farms, destroying crops and wells. Israel regularly destroys Palestinians homes.

Zionists are political, not necessarily Jewish. Jews are racial/religious divisions. I have no ‘qualms’ with Jews. As a Quaker, I was raised not to discriminate based on anything but a persons/nations actions.

An important part of Israel’s population is American, and they carried over to Israel the same short-sightedness, arrogant belligerence which characterizes the Empire, so much so that Israel may legitimately be viewed as a Middle Eastern American state rather than a separate country.

Israel’s lack of genuine independence is reflected in its constant demand for huge subsidies, its need for heavily-biased American diplomacy to protect it in the UN, and on its dependence upon American arm-twisting and bribes in any number of places, Egypt’s generous annual American pension requiring certain behaviors being one of the largest examples.

The line is; Israel gets to use violence and Palestinians don’t. Israel has a “right, even an obligation to defend itself” but you never hear such words about Palestinians. Its; Israel has human rights that must be respected right now without qualification, while Palestinians have aspirations that need to be negotiated. The official view of the Empire is Israelis have the right to defend themselves, which means they can shoot anyone, so long as they pretend the innocent civilian deaths were accidental or the fault of some terrorist using them as a human shield, or they say the victim was a terrorist.

Freedom of speech and thought is like virginity. Either you have it or you don’t. If you’re only free to say what a mythically majority approve, you don’t have free speech, you have permitted speech.

You’re not getting the “news” nightly on your TV; you’re getting as much info about reality as you would from a blind man describing the elephant part he’s holding as being the nature of the critter.