http://news.antiwar.com/2009/03/25/israel-killed-39-in-attack-on-sudan-convoy/

{Answering accusations from a Sudanese minister that the US Air Force had killed 39 people in a January attack in that nation, US officials say that in fact it was the Israeli military that launched the attack on a convoy of trucks northwest of Port Sudan city.
Reportedly, the Israeli planes used a US base in Djibouti to stage the attacks, as part of the agreement between Israel and the outgoing Bush Administration made in mid January. Israeli officials would neither confirm nor deny the attacks.}

{Israel’s current involvement in Darfur is particularly suspicious. During a meeting between Tzipi Livni and several African envoys in Tel Aviv, the Israeli foreign minister said that her government wanted to help find a solution to the crisis in Darfur. One would think that Israel is perhaps the last country in the world that can mediate a crisis in an Arab country, especially one like Sudan that has no ties whatsoever with Israel. The only explanation is that Israel wants to take sides with the Darfur rebels against the Sudanese government.
Reports indicate that the Sudan Liberation Movement has opened an office in Tel Aviv. Israel is also said to be arming the rebels, training them in camps in Israel, sending military experts to rebel zones in Sudan, and disguising Mossad operatives as relief workers.
Abdullah Masar, adviser to the Sudanese president, says Sudan is under massive pressure to normalize its relations with Israel. The Darfur rebellion is being used as leverage to get Sudan to comply with Israel’s demands. The Israelis and Americans now have their eyes trained on the immense wealth of Sudan and Darfur in particular — oil, copper, iron, lead, etc.
A foothold in Darfur would establish Israel in the south Sahara and help it gain a foothold close to the Red Sea. And it’s not just Darfur. Israel is encouraging Sudanese refugees from Sudan’s south and Nubia to reach its borders via Egypt. Nearly 3,000 people have tried that route so far, according to Sudanese official figures. Israel wants Western Sudan to secede, for then the rebels may be persuaded to grant it a military base in their areas — a development that would endanger Egypt, Libya, Sudan and the Red Sea. This scenario is not happening in Sudan alone, but all over Africa’s many turbulent regions.}

ISRAEL is the main supplier of weapon to Darfur where is involved in destabilization of Sudan before the coup of 1989.
http://www.pr-inside.com/israeli-revealed-as-owner-of-south-sudan-bound-weapons-ship-r850322.htm

I have made an error of ordering above. I wrote:

>>>>The SPLA is the de facto backbone of the Sudan Liberation Army, one of the main so-called ‘rebel’ factions involved in Darfur; the SPLA provides military and logistics support to Uganda from the Pentagon—

Correction: … the SPLA recieves its military and logistics from the Pentagon through Uganda…

keith

You certainly know, the drumbeating is not new here. The Bush administration was very interested in imposing a “no fly zone” over Darfur to be backed by aerial strikes, naval Walls (blockade) and starving the Sudan, one of the poorest African countries, by imposing more sanctions. Tony Blair was of course on the scene and was also “ready for action”. Both men were deeply “concerned” about massacres managed for the purpose of ‘divide and rule’.

Susan Rice, under B. Clinton a member of the National Security Council as assistant secretary of state for African Affairs declared in 2006, “History demonstrates that there is one language Khartoum understands: the credible threat or use of force. After swift diplomatic consultations, the United States should press for a UN resolution that issues Sudan an ultimatum: accept unconditional deployment of the UN force within one week or face military consequences.”

As you know, Susan Rice is the representative of Obama at the UN.

Gideon — you cite as “sources” GI-NET and UNAMID.

Before you peddle someone else’s information, as you are, have you ever asked your self who GI-NET actually is? Check it out — look at their boards f directors etc. Look where their funding comes from.

It seems that you think you are enraged or outraged about people being killed in Sudan and so you are beating the drumbeat DO SOMETHING DO SOMETHING STOP GENOCIDE STOP GENOCIDE.

Do you know what Henry David Thoreau said, in circa 1857 (see his LETTERS TO A SPIRITUAL SEEKER)?

DONT READ THE NEWSPAPERS.

Kindly read the article that was provided as a solitary footnote.

Here’s three other very good books I recommend you dont waste any time in reading:
THE WHITENESS OF POWER (Goudge)
RACE AND EPISTEMOLOGIES OF IGNORANCE (Sullivan and Tuana)
THE ROAD TO HELL (Maren)

You asked what else happened in JANUARY? I recommend you read this one:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/ben-affleck-rwanda-and-corporate-sustained-catastrophe/

And if you sincerely care about Africa and African people, then please educate your self about your position vis-a-vis imperialism and white supremacy, and meanwhile I can point you to where to make a direct and immediate impact to help someone. Sending money to CARE or UNICEF and beating the drums of outrage are part of the problem.

Blessings
keith

This article has plainly mentioned the organizations and Imperial/Zionist/UN connections involved in these killings you propagandistically cite. Have you ever cared for human beings outside your Zionist Tribe? You can spare your Zionist crocodile tears on DV.

Nearly 50% of the children under five in this region are
suffering from global acute malnutrition and need emergency feeding.

“In Jan. 2009 Darfur has experienced the most intense fighting seen in the last year”!

Wow, what else happened in the world in January, that Dissident Voice missed this one?

Darfur casualties available count:

*between Jan. and Sep. 2008: 1,200

*between Sep 2003 – Jun 2005: 41,000

*Civilians account for between 65 and 75% of all fatalities.
70% of civilians die in what appear to be one-sided attacks.

Sources: GI-Net and UNAMID

There is nothing to add to the comment of kahar. I will never do you any favor offering you numbers which you will immediately misinterpret. Are you really intersted in the Dissident outcry for humanity? In my opinion you have passed through some PR training and try to bring your Zionist propaganda here. Have you really any sense for the suffering of human beings? You lie, fake, deceive, evade topics and fear facts and reason.

This is a great article.
Keith does a thorough job in exposing the agents, agencies, mass media and the machinations involved in a coordinated take down attempt of a sovereign state. Similar techniques have been used elsewhere, the truth wiped out and history rewritten. Reporters like Keith are indeed a rare species.
(Btw, Keith, I think what Dan’s getting at is that a few of your sentences around the middle of the article would read faster if they were chopped in two, that’s all.)
And, Lloyd, I wouldn’t bother with OEN, their editors are nearly all tempraMENTAL Obamaniacs and fascists and I doubt anything will change that.

Dissident Voice contributors of all shapes and colors, please express your opinions!

I am specifically interested to hear comparison between THIS and the latest crisis in Gaza and Arab – Israeli conflict in general.

Sudan’s President expelled 13 of the largest aid organizations in Darfur, putting at risk:
a) food and drinking water for 1.1 million people ,
b) health care for 1.5 million
c) huge risk of infectious disease for All.

Up to 300,000 people have DIED and 2.7 million driven from their homes in the conflict since 2003, according to the U.N.

I have not accused you of putting anyone down. You write pretty well. A conjunction is the connection of two or more statements with a comma (,) or a semicolon (;).

That may be, but I was not putting anyone down. I simply have no idea what a conjunction is. It may sound stupid, but I’m an imperfect writer.

blessings
keith

A nice comment. Caring about conjunction reflects the nitpicking of the bored Middle Class.

conjunction? what is a conjunction?

lol. honestly, i really have no idea. failed penmanship in 2nd grade — teacher smashed a yardstick over my knuckles and all English related classes became a problem after that.

BUSH BEFORE BASHIR!!!

blessings
keith