Miko Peled was born in Jersusalem into a famous and influential Israeli Zionist family. His father was a famous General in the Israeli Army, of which Miko also served his time. When Miko’s niece was killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, you may have expected the family to put Palestinians at fault, but surprisingly they blamed the state of Israel, and their violent torturing and persecution for driving people to such sadness that they would take their own lives.
Through his father’s deep knowledge of the Israeli war of terror, together with his own research, Miko Peled ruins the myths surrounding the Israel and Palestine situation, and delivers a truth so damning that many Jews and Israel supporters will not be able to bear it. He reveals facts such as the original expelled Jews are not the ones returning, and they are not their descendants either, covers the double standards regarding the right of return, which doesn’t apply to Palestinians, and dispels the myth that there has been a conflict for ages by producing proof that it was peaceful up until 1947 when Israel launched their illegal attacks.
Miko is just one of the many modern day Jews against Zionism and the state of Israel, and with the information he delivers in this astounding talk, it is not difficult to see why more and more Jews are rejecting Zionism and calling for the dismantling of Israel. It is a true eye-opener for anyone who has for too long been blinded by the fake misinformation given by the mainstream media, and the truths come straight from the heartland where he has spent many years documenting the real story.
Uploaded by http://www.muslimsandtheworld.com
Original clip is located at http://www.muslimsandtheworld.com/an-…
Link to this clip on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXAm-…
-
Catégorie
-
Licence
Licence YouTube standard
Uri Avnery
July 20, 2013
ON MY 70th birthday, I received a gift from Yitzhak Rabin: he signed
the document recognizing the existence of the Palestinian people, after
many decades of denial. He also recognized the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as its representative. I had demanded this, almost alone, for many years.
Three days later, the Oslo agreement was signed on the White House lawn.
This week I received another gift of similar magnitude, obviously in
anticipation of my 90th birthday, which is due in less than two months.
No less an institution than the European Union has declared what
practically amounts to a total boycott of the settlements, 15 years
after Gush Shalom, the peace organization to which I belong, had issued a
call for such a boycott.
The European decision says that no
Israeli institution or corporation which has any direct or indirect
connection with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem or
the Golan Heights will receive any contract, grant, prize or suchlike
from the EU or any member state. To assure compliance, every contract
between Israelis and the EU will contain a paragraph stating that the
settlements are not part of Israel.
A friend of mine sent me a message consisting of one word: Mabrouk (Congratulations, in Arabic).
If all this sounds a bit megalomaniac, please make allowances. I am just happy.
WHEN WE decided to organize our boycott in 1998, we had several interconnected aims in mind.
A boycott is an eminently democratic instrument, a form of non-violent resistance.
Every single individual can decide for himself or herself whether to join the boycott or not.
Also, every individual can decide whether to boycott all the
enterprises on the recommended list, or exclude some. Some of our
supporters refused to boycott the Golan settlements, which they
considered different from the others, some refused to boycott the East
Jerusalemites. A famous artist declared that he was quite unable to live
without the excellent Golan wines.
Many enterprises in the
settlements did not go there for ideological reasons – capitalists are
not generally known for their ideological fervor – but because the
Israeli government gave them (stolen) land for free, as well as all
kinds of grants, exemption from taxes and other incentives. It made
economic sense for a corporation to sell their very high-priced site in
Tel Aviv and get free land in Ariel. A boycott may counterbalance these
gains.
Contrary to getting out into the streets and joining a
demonstration, not buying something in the supermarket is a private
affair. In a demonstration, one may get tear-gassed, water-cannoned or
clubbed. One exposes oneself and may be put on a list somewhere or even
dismissed from a government job.
Everybody can boycott. One
doesn’t need to join an organization, sign a petition, identify oneself.
Yet one has the satisfaction of doing something useful, in accordance
with one’s convictions.
But our main purpose was conceptual.
For decades, successive Israeli governments have striven to eradicate
the Green Line from the map and the minds of the people. The main aim of
the boycott was to reinstitute the real borders of Israel in the public
mind.
We distributed many thousands of copies of the list of settlement enterprises, all on request.
The Israeli government paid us the unique compliment of enacting a
special law that penalizes all calls for a boycott of the settlers’
products. Every person who feels harmed by such a call can demand
unlimited compensation, without having to prove any actual damage. This
could amount to millions of dollars.
We asked the Supreme Court
to strike down this law, but the court has been dragging its feet for
several years already, obviously afraid of passing judgment.
YET WHILE we were doing this, the European Union did the opposite.
It practically helped to finance the settlements – the very settlements it declared illegal.
Actually, the new measures are not new at all. The agreement between
the EU and Israel exempts Israeli products from European customs, as if
Israel were a European country. Israel is already a participant in the
European football league, the Eurovision Song Contest and other events
and organizations. Israeli universities receive huge research grants
from Europe and take part in European scientific projects.
All
these agreements are in principle restricted to Israel proper and do not
apply to the settlements. Yet for decades, the Brussels
super-government had consciously closed both its eyes.
I
know, because I myself traveled to Brussels years ago, to protest
against this practice, explaining to commissioners, officials and
parliamentarians that they are in practice encouraging the settlements
and inducing companies to relocate there. I was given to understand that
they sympathize with our stand but are powerless, because several
European countries, such as Germany and the Netherlands, block all
attempts in the Union to act against apparent Israeli interests.
It seems that this obstacle has now been overcome. So I am happy.
IN ISRAEL, the government received the news with consternation. Just a
few days earlier, they could not have dreamed that this was possible.
In Israel, the European Union is an object of ridicule. Secure in the
knowledge that we have absolute control of US policy, we could treat the
EU with contempt, though it is our major trading partner. A large share
of Israeli exports, including military equipment, goes there.
Government leaders are now sputtering with rage. Not one single
politician has dared to speak in favor of the European decision. Right
and Left are united in condemning it. Binyamin Netanyahu declared that
only Israel would decide where its borders were, and this only in direct
negotiations. Never mind that he has obstructed significant direct
negotiations for years.
Naftali Bennett, the Minister of
Economy, who also happens to be the chief representative of the
settlers, rejected the decision out of hand. Only a few days before,
this political genius (and self-declared “brother” of Ya’ir Lapid) had
announced that there was absolutely no pressure on Israel.
Lapid himself voiced his opinion that the European step was a “miserable decision”.
Bennett now proposes to punish Europe by stopping all EU humanitarian
projects in the West Bank. (Recalling the joke about the Polish nobleman
whose Jew had been beaten up by another nobleman and who threatened:
“If you don’t stop beating my Jew, I shall beat your Jew!”)
But
the most telling argument marshalled by Israeli leaders was that the
European decision was undermining the valiant efforts of John Kerry to
start negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
This is the height of chutzpah. For months now, Netanyahu and his
government has been doing everything possible to prevent the hapless
Kerry from achieving his goal. Now they use his fruitless efforts as a
fig leaf for the settlements.
The Labor Party’s Shelly
Yachimovich, the official “Leader of the Opposition”, contented herself
with repeating the call for negotiations. No hint of criticizing the
settlers, for whom she has publicly declared her sympathy.
AS USUAL in such situations, Israeli public opinion started a search for those to blame. But there is no one around.
Israel has no Foreign Minister, only a deputy, who happens to be one of
the most extreme right-wingers in the Knesset. The last minister,
Avigdor Lieberman, is facing trial for corruption, and the job is being
kept open for him. Netanyahu obviously believes that no judge would dare
to convict the fearful Lieberman, after the Attorney General has
already shrunk back from indicting him on the most severe charges.
With no minister (officially, the Prime Minister is filling the vacuum)
and a demoralized foreign service, there could be no prior warning.
Some people claim that the European decision was actually a pro-Israeli
gesture, since it forestalls a general boycott of Israel, which is
advocated by a growing number of personalities and NGOs around the
world. A boycott of the settlements is the minimum.
In this respect too, the Europeans have also adopted a stance that my friends and I have advocated for years.
Contrary to several Israeli leftists, I believe that a general boycott
of Israel is counter-productive. While our boycott is designed to
isolate the settlers and drive a wedge between them and the bulk of the
Israeli population, a general boycott (called BDS) would drive almost
all Israelis into the arms of the settlers, under the venerable Jewish
slogan “The whole world is against us!” It would strengthen the
argument that the real aim is not to change Israeli policy, but to wipe
out Israel altogether.
True, there are some good reasons for a
general boycott, including the historic example of the boycott of
Apartheid South Africa. But the Israeli situation is quite different.
THE TERM “boycott” was coined in 1888 in a situation not dissimilar
from ours now. It was about foreign domination, land and settlers.
In Ireland, then under British occupation, there was a famine. Charles
Boycott, the agent of an absentee English landlord, evicted local
tenants who were unable to pay the rent. An Irish nationalist leader
called on his countrymen not to attack Boycott physically, but to shun
him. All his neighbors stopped all dealings with him, working for him or
speaking with him. Boycott became the word for ostracizing.
The EU boycott of the settlements and their supporters will have a major
economic impact. No one knows yet how much. But the moral effect is
even more significant.
Even if massive Israeli-American
pressure thwarts or at least postpones the European action, the moral
blow is already devastating.
It tells us: The settlements are
illegal. They are immoral. They inflict a huge injustice on the
Palestinian people. They prevent peace. They endanger the very future of
Israel.
Thank you, Europe!
Powerful Gideon Levy column in yesterday’s Haaretz:
What do dogs remind you of? And what do German shepherds remind you of? And what about armed soldiers who sic German shepherds on people trying to sneak through a border in order to earn a living?
These lines are being written in a hotel room in the capital of the Czech Republic, a country that knows a thing or two about occupation, oppression and struggles for liberation. In this city’s Museum of Communism, which is next door to a casino, one can view a photograph of East German soldiers siccing German shepherds on people trying to sneak into West Germany. The Nazi soldiers were replaced by Communist soldiers; the dogs remained.
A few days before my museum visit I was in the West Bank village of Beit Ula, near Hebron. I met a young man, Mohammed Amla, whose back and neck are scarred along their entire length from the bites of an Israel Defense Forces dog − a German shepherd, of course. Amla, married with two daughters, has worked in Israel for the past 12 years, doing manual labor.
When Amla has money he bribes his Israeli contractor, paying him a small fortune (NIS 2,000 a month) to obtain an Israeli work permit for him. When the family ran out of money because one of the daughters, who is deaf, needed an expensive ear operation, Amla sneaked into Israel. The result: a stay in the hospital with torn skin on his back and neck.
One evening last month masked IDF soldiers lay in wait near an opening in the separation fence. When Amla and two companions approached, before they crossed into Israel, the soldiers set their dogs on the trio. After it seemed that the IDF had stopped siccing dogs on “illegal residents,” the army has resumed the horrific practice of setting dogs on unarmed civilians. After all, the IDF’s storied Oketz canine unit must be kept busy during periods of relative calm.
One cannot ignore the historical connotations; one cannot remain oblivious to the unavoidable associations. Bullets are more deadly but less cruel than setting dogs on human beings. The very thought of Israeli soldiers doing this should have aroused more than a flicker of shock and shame. But it did not, not even when the connotation shrieks to the heavens. We’ll send our soldiers first to the March of the Living in Auschwitz, and then we’ll train them to sic dogs on people. The IDF Spokesman’s Office, which once at least made an effort to protect the reputation of “the most moral army in the world,” has apparently given up on that as well. Its arrogant, apathetic response to the story of that night of the dogs was the ultimate nonresponse: “The matter is being evaluated.”
While we wait for the “evaluation” to end − it never does, usually − we must honestly ask ourselves: Is this what we genuinely want? If an Israeli citizen’s sneaking into the Palestinian Authority were to end in his being set upon by dogs and hospitalized, as sneaking into Israel did for Amla, the entire country − and perhaps the world − would be in an uproar. The full weight of history would be brought to bear against the image of a Palestinian soldier siccing a dog, God save us, on a Jew. The Palestinians, those beasts, set dogs on human beings. But that (too) is of course permitted to the IDF.
For the meantime, Amla is at home recovering from his injuries. He cannot work yet. He says he won’t sneak into Israel again, as thousands of Palestinians looking for work do every night, out of fear of the dog that attacked him. When the dog gripped Amla’s neck in its jaws, he was sure he was about to die. Ostensibly, that’s a great accomplishment for Israel: Amla won’t return to renovate homes illegally. But from my hotel room in Prague − the city where I found the names of my murdered grandmother and grandfather engraved on a stone plaque, the city whose memories of the Nazi and Soviet occupations and of the “Prague Spring” echo in every corner − the thought of Israeli soldiers siccing their dogs on Mohammed Amla takes on an added meaning that is very disturbing and burdensome.
If videos turn out black go straight to the Youtube link on the right side below
………………..
…………………..
See the whole collection of shovrim videos here
In an interview on Sixty Minutes with Bob Simon, Israel’s ambassador to the US Michael Oren made a chilling remark, the significance of which must not be overlooked. The interview was shown at the end of a report by Bob Simon on the situation of Christians in the Holy Land. Apparently when the ambassador heard about the report being made he called the Chairman of CBS and complained that his sources told him the report was going to be a “hatchet job.” At the end of the report Simon said to the Ambassador that he had never had anyone react to a story before it was even aired and before anyone had a chance to view it. The Israeli ambassador seemed taken aback for a second or two, but then he collected himself, and replied: “Well Bob, there’s a first time for everything.”
Israeli influence over America is not new and it has been well documented. From American politics to economic issues, to issues of foreign policy and national security Israel’s influence has shown its marks everywhere. Now, Israel’s influence has infiltrated the “holy of holies” of American democracy, the judicial system. As the ambassador said, “There is a first time for everything.”
The case of the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) in which five Palestinian American Muslims were convicted and sentenced in a US court to decades behind bars based on questionable testimony by two anonymous Israeli intelligence officers, demonstrates the invasive nature of Israeli influence in American courts. There is an abundance of information about this case so we won’t get into too many details here, only to say that HLF, at one time the largest Muslim charity in the US was accused of providing “material support to Hamas.” It is a bewildering accusation to say the least. HLF provided much needed charity to Palestinians by raising modest funds for orphans and widows that had to qualify in order to receive these funds, and contributed to libraries and hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza.
Israeli authorities began a campaign against HLF in 1996. They closed down the HLF office in Jerusalem and arrested the local director, a Palestinian from Jerusalem. He was interrogated by the Israeli police, and the internal security service (Shabak). He was asked repeatedly if the organization has ties to Hamas and if moneys were given particularly to orphans whose fathers were members of Hamas who became Shahids, either through suicide attacks or because they were killed by Israel. He repeatedly claimed that HLF was not affiliated to Hamas, and that all recipients had to go through the same screening process by social workers who determined if they qualified for aid.
He showed that HLF did not in any way favor the orphans of Hamas “Shahids.” Still he was charged, convicted and had spent several years in an Israeli prison.
Israel skillfully manipulated the anti Arab and anti Muslim hysteria that took hold over America post 9/11 to pursue its campaign against HLF in the US. And indeed in 2002 the WSJ quoted Presidnet George Bush, who gladly served Israeli interests in this regard saying:
“The facts are clear,” Mr. Bush declared. “The terrorists benefit from the Holy Land Foundation, and we’re not going to allow it. … Money raised by the Holy Land Foundation is used by Hamas to support schools and indoctrinate children to grow up into suicide bombers [and] to recruit suicide bombers and support their families.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB101476025597651120.html
None of the things Bush said constitute clear facts, nor were they true.
Still, the Holy Land Foundation offices were placed under watch by the FBI, its main officers’ phones were tapped, their meetings recorded and a case was built against them. In 2007 a trial took place ending in an acquittal on most counts but the jury remained hung on a few charges. The judge declared a mistrial and a year later, in 2008, convictions with unprecedented long sentenced were meted out to the defendants. One juror said: “If they had been a Christian or Jewish group, I don’t think [prosecutors] would have brought charges against them.”
The justice department congratulated itself on a job well done in a piece on the FBI website declaring that this was the largest terrorism financing prosecution in US history.
http://www.fbi.gov/dallas/press-releases/2009/dl052709.htm
The Israeli Internal Security Service, the Shabak, posted on its website that one of two Israelis that testified in the HLF trial that brought town a terror financing organization, was an employee of the Shabak and that his testimony played a crucial role in the bringing convictions.
http://www.shabak.gov.il/publications/publications/pages/020609.aspx
In 2009 officers and volunteers of HLF, who became known as the HLF 5 were given unprecedented sentences for “funneling $12 million to Hamas.” $12 million is a laughable amount that only serves to demonstrate the absurdity of the accusations and the modesty of the HLF operations. In a discussion I had in Jerusalem where I described the jail sentences the HLF 5 received I got looks of disbelief. One Muslim leader who was present and was familiar with the HLF and with Hamas finally commented: “HLF was so small, how can anyone think it had any impact on Hamas?” Indeed.
In an affidavit by Israeli attorney Lea Tsemel it was made clear that Israeli security officers regularly lie in court in order to get convictions. In an interview to Israeli press, retired chief interrogator of the Shabak admitted this too. “The security officers know that an Israeli judge will always believe their testimony over that of an Arab.” he said. Now this is true of judges in the US as well. As the ambassador said: “There is a first time for everything.”
After being found guilty in the second trial, Mufid Aabdulkader, Shukri Abu Baker, Ghassan Elashi, Mohammad El Mezaine and Abdulrahman Odeh were immediately sent to Federal prison in Seagoville, Texas (this was November 24, 2008). Judge Jorge A. Solis who presided would not let them stay out until sentencing. He told all defendants they had 5 minutes to say goodbye to their families.
”The judge said we would have to choose 3 people from each family to say goodbye, because there were too many people. I let my three daughters say goodbye, so I did not even get to tell Mufid goodbye. It would not have taken that long if the judge had let us all say goodbye, perhaps 10 minutes.” Diana Abdukader, Mufid’s wife told me.
Sentencing took place on May 27, 2009. The prosecution tried to have the five men moved immediately to CMUs, but the families fought to have them stay at Seagoville where they could be close to their families. They were successful at keeping them there until April 22, 2010, when all but one were moved to the CMUs. Abdulrahman Odeh, went to general population at FCI Victorville in Adelanto, CA. Mufid and Ghassan were sent to Marion CMU, while Mohammad El-Mezzeine and Shukri Abu Baker were sent to the CMU in Terre Haute Indianna.
The following was written by Mufid Abdulkader, describing their transfer to the CMUs. Mufid is one of three defendants with whom I have been in touch for close to a year now via email and phone. All three had given me permission to publish what they had written to me. This is the first of several articles I mean to publish with material written by the HLF defendants.
“Dear brothers & Sisters, our trip to USP Marion started way before Thursday April 24, 2010, the day we were moved from Seagoville to USP Marion in Illinois. The trip went from Seagoville to Texarkana Texas to Oklahoma City to Philadelphia to Ohio to St. Louis, Missouri & finally ended when we were bussed (3 hours trip) from St. Louis to USP Marion in Marion Illinois. It was 6 days of pain, extreme discomfort, racist treatment by guards, we were singled out to be screamed at, it was a show of disrespect and racist behavior on many different levels.
On Wednesday March 31, I was suddenly called by the guard & told to see the Counselor. Once I saw the counselor, he immediately told me that he has received orders to handcuff me & move me to the Special Management Unit (SMU) at Seagoville. He said it was orders from way above (meaning the Warden) & he does not know why, he just followed orders. So one by one, El-Mezain, Shukri, Ghassan & I, were taken and placed in the SMU. The condition at the SMU are terrible. In the SMU you are held for 23 hours in a solitary confinement in a small cell. You are allowed 1 hour outside the cell (called recreation). It means literally to be taken out of your cell in handcuffs & placed in a cage closed from all sides including the top.”
“This only happens only Monday – Friday. On weekends you are kept in your cell for 24 hours. You are handcuffed thru a bean hole in the cell’s door prior to you going out of the cell, whether to go for the 1 hour recreation, see a doctor (very rare) or visit your family or get a hair cut. Getting a hair cut while handcuffed is a very painful experience. If the doctor needs to x-ray anything, you stay handcuffed & it is your responsibility to get in the position to take the x-ray for any part of your body (hand, leg, arm, ..etc) & suffer the pain caused by the handcuffs.”
“When you go see your family it is only thru thick glass windows. Hand cuffs are only taken after you are placed in the 4X5 feet room with thick glass and a phone. After you enter the room they open the bean hole & you extend your handcuffed hands (in extreme pain) to be removed. After the visit is over, again they open the bean hole & handcuff you again before they open the door to take you back to your cell. You cannot touch your family & only talk to them thru the one phone & they take turns to talk to you.”
“After 21 days they moved us to another cell. Then came the day we were expecting: Around 10 AM, 3 guards came & asked us if we want to go to outside recreation (the 1 hour outside) and we said yes. A few minutes later they came & they handcuffed us and and we were thinking that we were going to the outside cages for the one hour recreation & instead they took us to R&D (Receive and Discharge) Dept. This is the department where they receive inmates & ship them out. Now we realized that they were shipping us out of Seagoville & that was it!!! Ghassan & Shukri left their medical eye glasses in their cells & they asked the guards to get them & that is when the guard started screaming at Shukri & Ghassan.”
“They put a big handcuff around each leg with heavy chains and then handcuffed the hands from the front with heavy chains and tied the handcuffs from the legs and the hands together. This was done for all inmates but for us they had a special treatment. They used what is called the black box. The black box is a box that tighten your hands handcuffs & legs chains together make it extremely difficult to move your hands even to touch your face. It was very difficult to move especially when the handcuffs were very tight to start with. After that they walk us very slowly to the bus waiting outside. We walk and El-mezain was barely able to walk because they forced him to walk without his cane. He almost fell down several times. It took around 5 minutes to walk about 20 feet (6 meters) to the bus.”
This was only the beginning. Mufid’s account doesn’t ends here, there are pages and pages of descriptions of the horrors that these five men had to endure on their way to the CMU and at the CMU. And, as long as people on the outside sit quiet instead of crying for justice, they will continue to suffer.
Israel is on a mission to destroy Palestine and its people, and as part of that mission Israel holds thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in its jails. This is not new nor should it come as any surprise to anyone. But the Israeli invasion of US politics, media, national security and foreign policy all started at a point when someone said, “There is a first time for everything.”
Miko Peled
source
[youtube http://youtu.be/PkUqsuogud8?]
Comment Fred Mrozek il y a 4 heures
Thank god that for every psycho turd like Netanyahu, there is a shining mensch like Miko Peled, or Gerald Kaufman, or Dr. Hajo Meyer. You have got to love every man or woman who takes personal risks in order to criticize their own when it is necessary to do so. And in the case of modern Israel, “friends don’t let friends”… become ethnic-cleansing fascists, warmongers or soul-less monsters.”
band annie's Weblog 