Israel afraid of increasing boycott of its products in Europe

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli businessmen expressed fears that the European campaign to boycott Israeli products could widen after a sharp decline in exports.

The Israeli Maariv newspaper on Sunday published a report on the dangers of growing economic boycott of Israeli products in Europe in which it affirmed that the recent months have seen a rise in the number of European companies which withdrew their investments in Israeli companies for political reasons.

Israeli businessman Daniel Bettini, an owner of glass factory in Ariel settlement, said the boycott campaign caused enormous harm to Israel’s factories which depend on exports to Europe.

The newspaper quoted Avi Ben-Zvi, who also owns a factory of glass in the same settlement, as saying that his factory stopped exporting its products to Europe because of this campaign.
Mayor of Ariel settlement Ron Nachman said that the factories in Israeli settlements sustained a major blow and thus they need the government to intervene to threaten the boycotting European countries that Israel would not participate in the political process in the region if they did not put an end to this campaign.

Maariv also listed examples of the European parties and companies that boycotted Israel economically after pro-Palestinian pressure groups active in Europe urged them to end their business ties with Israeli companies involved in serious human rights violations against Palestinians.

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Israeli Commandos Storm Turkish Ships Bound for Gaza – Photo Essays

Israeli Commandos Storm Turkish Ships Bound for Gaza












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Turkish and International activists, wearing life jackets, gather onboard the Mavi Marmara. The flotilla was meant to bring international attention to Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Stip.



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Worldwide Protests Follow Israeli Terror on Aid Ship

Worldwide Protests Follow Israeli Terror on Aid Ship

Israeli MP’s Terror on Aid Ship: ‘Plan Was to Kill Activists’

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By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth

An Arab member of the Israeli parliament who was on board the international flotilla that was attacked on Monday as it tried to take humanitarian aid to Gaza accused Israel yesterday of intending to kill peace activists as a way to deter future convoys.

Haneen Zoubi said Israeli naval vessels had surrounded the flotilla’s flagship, the Mavi Marmara, and fired on it a few minutes before commandos abseiled from a helicopter directly above them.

Terrified passengers had been forced off the deck when water was sprayed at them. She said she was not aware of any provocation or resistance by the passengers, who were all unarmed.

She added that within minutes of the raid beginning, three bodies had been brought to the main room on the upper deck in which she and most other passengers were confined. Two had gunshot wounds to the head, in what she suggested had been executions.

Two other passengers slowly bled to death in the room after Israeli soldiers ignored messages in Hebrew she had held up at the window calling for medical help to save them. She said she saw seven other passengers seriously wounded.

“Israel had days to plan this military operation,” she told a press conference in Nazareth. “They wanted many deaths to terrorise us and to send a message that no future aid convoys should try to break the siege of Gaza.”

Dr. Hasan Nowarah: “19 Activists Killed Not 9″

Freed Free Gaza Activist, Dr. Hasan Nowarah, Justice for Palestine Center in Glasgow: First Hand Witness Account of Israeli Attack and Raid on Flotilla / Turkish Marmara Ship
An activist caught up in the storming of the Gaza aid flotilla by Israeli soldiers has described the attack after arriving home in Scotland.

Last updated 2 Jun 2010 – 3:15 pm
Glasgow resident Hasan Nowarah was one of at least four Scots with the convoy when it was taken by commandos. Theresa McDermott, from Edinburgh, Hassan Ghani, from Glasgow, and Ali El-Awaisi, from Dundee, were also onboard.

Mr Nowarah, chairman of the Justice for Palestine Centre in Glasgow, was deported from Israel on Tuesday night after the flotilla was intercepted. He flew into London and then made his way home to Glasgow.



He said Israeli ships surrounded the convoy on Saturday night before the attack, playing “cat and mouse games” with the Mavi Marmara ship. He said: “The warships and their zodiacs were approaching us slowly, slowly, but no confrontation. They were communicating with our captains through the radios, warning us to turn back. But we explained to them we are in the international water. We are not attacking Israel, we are humanitarian aid, we are sailing to Gaza.”

Mr Nowarah then saw Israeli soldiers storm the Mavi Marmara ship before they boarded the ship he was on.

Gaza Activists Claim “Brutal” Israeli Raid

(CBS/AP) Activists returning to Europe after Israeli forces raided their aid flotilla said Tuesday that the commandos had beaten passengers and used electric shocks during the assault.

Six Greeks and several others, including a Turkish woman and her 1-year-old baby, were released Tuesday, but Israel has barred access to hundreds of others seized during the raid that killed at least nine people and wounded dozens early Monday.

CBS News correspondent Robert Berger in Jerusalem reports that about 600 activists and aid workers were arrested after the flotilla was escorted to the Israeli port of Ashdod following the raids, which took place in international waters. About two thirds of those aboard the aid ships were Turkish.

Turkey’s prime minister on Tuesday called the raid a “bloody massacre,” and warned that no one should test Turkey’s patience.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Turkish lawmakers “this bloody massacre by Israel on ships that were taking humanitarian aid to Gaza deserves every kind of curse.”

Most of those killed were aboard the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara, and there have been conflicting accounts of what happened during the assault.

Israel said the activists attacked its commandos as they boarded the six ships taking tons of supplies to Gaza, while the flotilla’s organizers said the Israeli forces opened fire first. CBS News correspondent Richard Roth reports that Israel claims the first five ships were boarded without incident, and the battle came on the sixth.

Sukarelawan Gaza Mengaku Disetrum

INILAH.COM, London – Serdadu Israel mengklaim mereka hanya membela diri. Namun saksi mata tak mendukung cerita tersebut dan mengaku disetrum serta dipukuli selama kejadian berlangsung.

Salah satu saksi mata, Norman Paech menuturkan apa yang ia saksikan. Mantan politisi Jerman ini berada di atas Mavi Marmara ketika kejadian. Menurut Paech, waktu kejadian adalah pukul 04.30, Senin (31/5) waktu setempat. “Tak lama setelah kejadian, kami mendengar ledakan dan serdadu dari heli turun ke kapal kami,” paparnya.

Paech berkata semua serdadu mengenakan masker, membawa senjata besar dan sangat brutal. Ia hanya melihat tiga aktivis memberi perlawanan dengan tongkat, itupun hanya untuk mempertahankan diri. “Tak tahu lagi jika di bagian lain kapal ada yang menggunakan senjata,” tuturnya.

Sementara Dmitris Gielalis, aktivis Yunani yang naik kapal lainnya juga mengatakan hal serupa. “Dalam beberapa detik, serdadu sudah memenuhi kapal. Mereka menggunakan peluru plastik, kami dipukuli dan disetrum. Mereka menggunakan semua metode yang bisa kami pikirkan. Tentunya, kami tak bersiap menghadapi situasi perang,” ulasnya.

Tony Blair and the business of covering up war crimes

Tony Blair on a visit to Israel’s wall in Qalqiliya in the occupied West Bank, August 2009. (Khaleel Reash/MaanImages)

Jim Holstun, The Electronic Intifada, 14 October 2009
On 7 October 2009, Tony Blair gave a lecture at a New York university. In responding to an unexpectedly direct student question, he publicly joined, for the first time, the US and Israeli Zionist consensus rejecting the Goldstone report.

On 27 June 2007, Blair left his job as UK prime minister under the cloud of the war on Iraq that he had concocted with former US President George W. Bush. Just hours later, he assumed his new position as the Special Envoy to the Mideast Quartet (EU, Russia, UN, US). He had long been a Zionist and a member of Labor Friends of Israel, and he received heartfelt farewells-and-hellos from Ehud Olmert (“A true friend of the State of Israel”) and Tzipi Livni (“a very-well appreciated figure in Israel”). Palestinians living under Israeli occupation did not find this a very a promising development.

Though Blair spends only a week a month in the Middle East, he has managed to keep busy. He maintains a grueling, globe-trotting schedule of lectures, for which he receives up to $500,000. On top of this, he has been at work on his memoirs, for which he received a $7.3 million advance. Consulting work brought him $3.2 million (including a bonus) from J. P. Morgan Chase and $800,000 from Zurich Financial Services. By October 2008, he had amassed at least $19 million, far outdistancing even the enterprising Bill Clinton. He is thought to be the highest paid public speaker in the world.

Blair’s schedule has caused some concern in the Middle East. His office insists that his “current role in the Middle East takes up the largest proportion of his time,” but in late 2008, a Western diplomat in Jerusalem wondered if “his overstretchedness has produced a tactical blunder,” while a UN official in Jerusalem said, “There is a general sense that he is not around” (“Lectures see Tony Blair earnings jump over #12,” The Times, 29 October 2008). In September 2008, a coalition of Mideast aid groups accused the Quartet of “losing its grip,” adding that its “failings could have serious ramifications for implementing international law around the globe” (“Aid groups: Tony Blair faces imminent failure in Middle East,” The Times, 25 September 2008).

On 27 December 2008, Israel launched the Gaza massacre, which it dubbed “Operation Cast Lead.” Eight days later, when asked about Blair’s reaction, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown explained, “Tony’s on holiday at the moment.” While Blair found time to attend a private opening of the new Armani store in Knightsbridge, he found none to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, thus recalling his silence during the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon (“As Gaza is torn apart by war, where is Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair? He’s been on holiday,” Daily Mail, 5 January 2009). In early January, Blair flew to Israel, but he did not condemn the Israeli assault. In February 2009, while Palestinians in Gaza were still digging themselves out and mourning their dead, he accepted a $1 million prize from Tel Aviv University as the “Laureate for the Present Time Dimension in the field of Leadership” (Press release, 2009 Dan David Prize, 17 February 2009).

On 1 March 2009, he finally made it to Gaza. He conceded “a huge amount of damage” and the deaths of “large numbers of civilians,” but rejected as “not very sensible” any discussion of disproportionality in Israel’s attacks (“Blair shocked at devastation on first Gaza visit as envoy,” The Scotsman, 2 March 2009). Blair did not meet with Hamas leaders, and his visit to Gaza lasted only a few hours, for he had to make a pilgrimage to Sderot, the Gilad Shalit of western Negev settlements (“Middle East envoy Tony Blair in Gaza for first time,” The Independent, 1 March 2009). In June, he visited Gaza a second time and, as proof of his deep humanitarian instincts, went so far as to say that the Palestinians were in a “tough situation” (“Former British PM Blair Visits Gaza Strip,” Voice of America News, 15 June 2009).

Data: Tingkat Buta Huruf di Palestina Terendah di Dunia

Tepi Barat – Infopalestina: Data statistik yang disusun oleh Biro Pusat Statistik Palestina atau PCBS (Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics) menunjukkan tingkat angka buta huruf di wilayah Palestina terendah di dunia, di mana hanya ada 126 ribu buta huruf orang dewasa di wilayah Palestina.

Demikian diumumkan Ola Awad, Penjabat Pelaksana Ketua PCBS, pada peringatan Hari Pemberantasan Buta Huruf Internasional yang jatuh pada hari Selasa (8/9). Dia menyatakan bahwa hal itu sesuai dengan definisi United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), yang mendefinisikan bahwa orang yang buta huruf adalah orang yang tidak dapat membaca dan menulis kalimat sederhana tentang kehidupan sehari-hari.

Dalam kesempatan tersebut Awad memaparkan indikator paling menonjol yang terkait dengan buta huruf di wilayah Palestina. Tingkat buta huruf antara individu-individu yang berusia 15 tahun ke atas 5,9% (2,9% pria dan 9,1% perempuan) pada tahun 2008. Sementara di negara-negara Arab 28,9% pada tahun-tahun 2005 – 2007 menurut data dari UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Jumlah buta aksara di dunia Arab (61) juta pada tahun yang sama. Di antaranya 39 juta perempuan, dengan proporsi buta huruf di kalangan perempuan hingga 38,5% dibandingkan 19,7% di kalangan laki-laki. Dan tingkat buta huruf seluruh dunia di antara individu-individu yang berusia 15 tahun ke atas 16,1%. Dengan jumlah buta aksara di dunia, kira-kira (774) juta orang, di antaranya 496 juta adalah perempuan. Di mana tingkat buta aksara antara laki-laki dewasa di dunia 11,6%, sementara di kalangan perempuan dewasa 20,6% untuk tahun yang sama.

Sebuah Pergeseran Kualitatif

Awad mengatakan telah terjadi pergeseran yang jelas pada tingkat buta aksara dalam dua belas tahun terakhir. Data-data menunjukkan terjadinya penurunan yang signifikan sejak tahun 1997 pada angka buta huruf; di mana angka buta aksara di antara individu yang berusia 15 tahun ke arah 5,9% pada tahun 2008, sementara pada tahun 1997 sebesar 13,9%. Ini berarti bahwa dari setiap 100 orang berusia 15 tahun ke atas terdapat 6 orang yang buta huruf.

Kecenderungan penurunan ini berlaku untuk kedua jenis kelamin; di mana di kalangan laki-laki turun dari 7,8% pada tahun 1997 menjadi 2,9% pada tahun 2008. Sementara di kalangan perempuan turun dari 20,3% menjadi 9,1% untuk periode yang sama. Penurunan tertinggi terjadi di kalangan laki-laki; di mana tingkat penurunan mencapai 62,8%, sementara di kalangan perempuan 55,2%.

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1933 Germany vs. 2009 Israel

“The ‘main surprise’ of the recent Israeli elections Avigdor Lieberman is a man who really has much in common with Adolph Hitler.”

By Khalid Amayreh

Journalist — Occupied Palestine
Editor’s note: The rise of the rightwing in Israel through the recent Knesset elections that was preceded by the bloody war on Gaza — which left more than 1,300 dead most of them are women and children — has aroused a lot of criticism among Palestinians. Khalid Amayreh opines about the rise of Lieberman.

In the early 1930s, many in Germany saw the Nazis as the wave for the future. Thousands of new members joined the Nazi party, giving absolute allegiance to the Fuhrer, Adolph Hitler. In the spring of 1932, with six million unemployed, chaos in Berlin, starvation and ruin as well as the threat of Marxism, and a very uncertain future, the masses turned to Hitler by the millions.

In the German presidential elections, which took place on March 13, 1932, Hitler received over 11 million votes or 30 percent of the total. His opponent, President Hindenburg, received more than 18 million votes or 49 percent.

With Hindenburg failing to get the absolute majority he needed, Hitler seized the opportunity and immediately embarked on a frantic campaign, arousing national feelings and promising something for everyone. In the Third Reich, he said, every German girl would find a husband.

OF killed four Palestinians and wounded five others

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In the Gaza Strip, OF killed three members of the Palestinian resistance in two separate incidents in Khanyounis and Beit Hanoun towns on 5 and 9 February.

On 6 February, a Palestinian fisherman was wounded when OF naval troops opened fire at Palestinian fishing boat in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip.

In the West Bank, on 5 February, OF extra-judicially executed a member of the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad) in Qabatya village, southeast of Jenin. OF raided his family’s house one month ago and threatened to kill him if he did not surrender to them.

On 6 February, a Palestinian civilian was wounded when OF fired at a peaceful demonstration organized by Palestinian civilians in Hebron.

Doktrin Talmud untuk tentara Yahudi

Di bawah ini adalah segelintir ayat-ayat Talmud yang dijadikan doktrin perang tentara Israel. Dalam peperangan, seorang tentara Israel wajib mendaras Talmud dalam kesempatan yang khusus. Terlebih di hari Sabbath (Sabtu).

- “Orang Yahudi diperbolehkan berdusta menipu Ghoyim (non-Yahudi)” (Baba Kamma 113a)
- “Semua anak keturunan Ghoyim sama dengan binatang, ” (Yebamoth 98a)
- “Seorang Ghoyim yang berbaik pada Yahudi pun harus dibunuh, ” (Soferim 15, Kaidah 10)
- “Barangsiapa yang memukul dan menyakiti orang Israel, maka ia berarti telah menghinakan Tuhan, ” (Chullin, 19b)

Doktrin Kitab Talmud

Talmud merupakan kitab suci kelompok Zionis-Yahudi di seluruh dunia. Seluruh tindak-tanduk Zionis-Israel mengacu pada ayat-ayat Talmudisme. Bahkan Texe Marrs, investigator independen Amerika yang telah menelusuri garis darah Dinasti Bush selama enam tahun, menemukan bukti bahwa keluarga besar Bush, termasuk Presiden AS George Walker Bush, merupakan sebuah keluarga yang sangat rajin mendaras dan mempelajari Talmud.

“Dinasti Bush adalah dinasti Yahudi dan mereka menjadikan Talmud sebagai kitab sucinya. Adalah salah besar menyangka mereka sebagai keluarga Kristiani. Mereka menunggangi kekristenan untuk menipu warga Kristen dunia. Padahal, mereka merupakan keluarga Talmudis yang taat, ” demikian Texe Marrs.

Kita tentu sudah banyak mendengar tentang Talmud. Namun belum banyak yang mengetahui apa saja ayat-ayatnya. Berikut kami tampilkan sejumlah ayat-ayat Talmud yang menjadi dasar segala tindakan kaum Zionis terhadap orang-orang non-Yahudi (Ghoyim atau Gentilles), dan darinya Anda akan bisa “memahami” mengapa kaum Zionis selalu saja mau menang sendiri, selalu mengkhianati perjanjian, dan sebagainya. Inilah ayat-ayat suci mereka:

“Hanya orang-orang Yahudi yang manusia, sedangkan orang-orang non Yahudi bukanlah manusia, melainkan binatang.” (Kerithuth 6b hal.78, Jebhammoth 61a)

“Orang-orang non-Yahudi diciptakan sebagai budak untuk melayani orang-orang Yahudi.” (Midrasch Talpioth 225)

“Angka kelahiran orang-orang non-Yahudi harus ditekan sekecil mungkin.” (Zohar II, 4b)