“johntea”? TEA? is this cr… er, balderdash what this “tea” business is all about? Speak up, Teapeople:)

An earlier exchange with Sherwood Ross, “The U.S. is Out of Control”, appeared at  http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/2010/02/us-is-out-of-control-interview-with.html and with Yvonne Ridley about Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, aka “Prisoner 650″, http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.com/2009/11/conversation-with-yvonne-ridley-what.html

“Lasting pain exist only in thought and therefore lies in the memory. If now such a sorrow, such painful knowledge or reflection, is so bitter that it becomes altogether unbearable, and the individual is prostrated under it, then, terrified nature seizes upon madness as the last resource of life; the mind so forcefully tortured at once destroys the threat of its memory, fills up the gap with fictions, and thus seeks refuge in madness from the mental suffering that exceeds its strength, just as we cut off a mortified limb and replace it with a wooden one… A faint analogy of this kind of transition from pain to madness is to be found in the way in which all of us often seek, as it were mechanically, to drive away a painful thought that suddenly occurs to us by some loud exclamation or quick movement to turn ourselves from it to distract our minds by force.”

Apparently mainstream media is the insane “force” by which we are supposed to distract ourselves from the unbearable truth. Thank you, Joe Mowrey, for keeping us sane.

Gaza in Plain Language

It is a plain and simple assessment of the horror which was unleashed on the people of Gaza in January, 2009. One year later, as the illegal and immoral siege of Gaza continues, and as the brutal dispossession and oppression of the Palestinian people in the West Bank is accelerated, the true story of the monumental injustice which has been visited on the Palestinian people for the last 60 years must be told again and again until the entire world begins to listen.

I hope you will reserve nine minutes and 41 seconds of your time to watch this video. If it arouses your anger and compassion, please share it with as many people as possible.

As people of conscience, we are obligated to express the truth in order to achieve justice.

Joe Mowrey

PS There is a nice acknowledgement to Kim and his DV olleagues on the info. bar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFK5TNcmEmg

The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2010

We are shocked at suggestions by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister Ivan Lewis and foreign secretary David Miliband that Britain may consider changing its laws to avoid any future attempts to prosecute suspected war criminals, Israeli or otherwise. The UK must not renege on its international treaty obligations, particularly those under the fourth Geneva convention to seek out and prosecute persons suspected of war crimes wherever and whoever they are, whatever their status, rank or influence, against whom good prima facie evidence has been laid. We reject any attempt to undermine the judiciary’s independence and integrity. A judge who finds sufficient evidence of a war crime must have power to order the arrest of a suspect, subject to the usual rights to bail and appeal.

The power to arrest individuals reasonably suspected of war crimes anywhere in the world should they set foot on UK soil is an efficient and necessary resource in the struggle against war crimes, and must not be interfered with (Report, 6 January). Nor should the government succumb to pressure from any foreign power to alter this crucial aspect of the judicial process. We urge the government to state clearly that it will not alter the law on universal jurisdiction and will continue to allow victims of war crimes to seek justice in British courts.

(list of just under 100 signatories)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/16/war-crimes-universal-jurisdiction-israel

Bluff and bluster I would say – partly to soften the emasculation of the Geneva Convention Act 1957 which her Zionist friends in NuLabour have promised if they stay in power.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147923041&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Have a good day.

Thankfully, I’m not someone who is infected by the right wing mainstream media’s “both sides” principal, wherein there are no ethics and there is no possibility of justice, but the weaker party’s subjugation is legitimized by the claim that “both sides” suck. I’m not interested in your Israeli propaganda, either. So oh well; we will continue to build up an international movement that will isolate and force israel to unconditionally follow UN resolutions to get out of east jerusulem, the west bank, and gaza.

I don’t want to disappoint you, but I consider your discourse the usual anti-Israel rethoric without substance (and therefore simply irresponsible and dangerous). I’ve never heard you say a single word about the thousands of rockets Hamas shot against Israeli civilians after Israel pulled out from Gaza in 2005, or – if you like – against the suicide bombings in the Israeli cities after the failed Oslo accords in 2000. Neither you uttered a single word on Hamas Charter that explicitly incites to the destruction of Israel, or against the hate education/propaganda in Palestinian/Arab media and schools.

But I can presume why you didn’t. Because you agree with all this.
You justify and even supports all this by virtue of the belief, which you share with the (radical) Palestinians, that Israel is “evil”, the “evil” in itself. And because Israel is the evil, there are no limits to the fight against it. Everything is allowed, justified, even terror against civilians (the latter is integral part of the invading and oppressing “Zionist entity”), even education to hatred, anti-Israeli AND anti-Semitic. That’s also the reason why in Iran the masses can yell without hesitation in every demonstration, istigated by their president and their leaders: “Marg bar Esraiil” – “Death to Israel”.

But where will this radical (to put it mildly) mindset lead which considers the other side, the enemy, nothing else than “evil”, “cancer”, “microbe” and so on? And do you think that this supposed “evil” will be willing to accept that kind of hatred and violence without (re)acting or defending itself? Will the “evil” Jews agree to be attacked in order to be removed, maybe destroyed, as written in the Hamas charter and repeated by many leaders of Hamas and Iran, its strongest supporter?

In other words: Do you think that this approach can help the Palestinians to achieve peace and prosperity, to achieve these goals? If you really believe that, so I don’t know who is here more deluded. It’s simply worring.

Do the Palestinians want to lift the blockade and normalize their living conditions as well as the relations with their neighbours, Israel and Egypt? They should provide evidence that they are serious about reconciliation and peace: stop the hate education of the youth, release Shalit on just terms (not to get free hundreds of more terrorists), remove those passages in the Charter which explicitly promise the destruction of Israel, stop the terror activities (called low intensity war) which, like a boomerang, affect the own civilian population. And accept the demands of the international community for a peaceful solution of the conflict.

Not willing? Only the “evil” Israel to blame for their “misery”? Then they should face the consequences resulting from the choice to fight against the designated evil enemy.

It’s a shame the Palestinians (their political representatives) and their persistent Israel-bashing supporters – Eldar is among them – keep alive this ugly fable.

(Sorry, I have no other words to express the hard nacked truth).

Bono wish for a Palestinian Gandhi
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/bono-wish-for-a-palestinian-gandhi/