“America’s global role, lets see what that includes-support for murderous right-wing paramilitaries/militias/dictators in Central/Latin America (Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Panama); stifling Cuba; removal of democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh (Iran), Salvedor Allende (Chile); support for brutal regimes of Suharto (indonesia), Saddam(yes!), Ceausescu(romania), Pinochet(chile); unblinding support for the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine; worlds biggest arms trader; worlds largest polluter; only country to have used the atom bomb (whatever the reason); slavery; almost successful extermination of the american-indians; this is a sampler….”
(Tooba Murshedkar, Rockville, MD)
BBC
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This blog is as blunt as Tooba Murshedkar´s statement above. U.s.a.´s doctrine (“a code of beliefs”) has always put Us business intrest first and accordinly ajusted it´s rethoric to suite it´s needs. Call it realism merged together with neoliberalism or a single minded, egocentric and rastist policy = the consequence can be seen and are known in all parts of the world. That is, everywhere but in Usa who stick to ridiculous arguments like “they hate us because or freedom lifestyle” or best yet “we are the democracy of the world”.
So what? I don´t care about US:s domestic politics or how fat the average american now nor how rich some US citizen are. It really dosen´t intrest me at all but when US:s domestic realities dictates lives, livliehoods, international institutions, countries sovereignty, nature, palestine aso, then it does concern me. As it should everyone else that have humanist norms and principles & that can divide the good from the bad and bullshit rethoric like “land of the free, home of the brave” or “America is by almost any objective measure the greatest country that has ever been”. since people always comfortable categorized anti-american and anti-israeli facts, realities and tendencies under hate, anti-semintism, communism aso, I will news and blogspot articals/views/reports uncommented. cause the greatest thing of all is that if you just want to see the reality and the resistance, it´s there; the movment against US and ISRAEL. People are starting to see through the lies and the dichtomi of what US and Israel say and the reality of their actions. no PR firm in the world can hide it anymore and this blog is about visualising the reality in US and ISRAEL and the resistance towards it.
There is a straight line of hatred, militarism and “whitness” that goes from US to Israel. Israel was created because of the “white man´s guilt” on the back of palestine´s. Israel is an ethnocratic state with teocratic functions (of wedding, funerals and divorce) and yet people scream delightfully that it´s the only democracy in middle east! Especially since Israel has continounesly destroyed any fabric Lebanon, the other democracy. It´s not a democracy but a weak democracy. The goal of democracy is the west new slogan for implying, categorizing and invading the Other.
Israel have never ratified its borders whom are subjects to expansion. And while the plan have always been clear (to ethnic cleansing the palestines) the methods are a mix of nazi tactic and apartheid structure. “It´s our moral right or historical right to not only be here but to be everywhere”, they claim as they murder, annex, appropirate, build, demolish, slaughter, steal, harras as “the civilized” and “only democracy” slaughter and strangling the Other. The progress is paid in blood with a ratio that also visualizes the real quest. “We always wanted peace…” slogans are not only false but empty rethoric as history reveals that jewish zionist terrorism was the fundation of the nation and their rulling elite. That thurst for blood and “lebensraum” is still paving for shoah of Palestine as there is no love for anyone but jews and Eretz Israel in zionism
Such evil can not and will not succed! I hold every Israeli responsible for the shoah of the palestines with the same logic as Israel and it´s apologists blame the germans for not stoping the holocaust. In Israel, however, everyone is doing military service and are well aware of what is happening and their part of in that process. The colonalist is getting colonialized at its heart and the heart of Israel is rotten.
By now many of you want to scream at me as I reflect the reality. Some might even want to channel that into an email and please do. However, all correspondens will be subject for posting as that also visualizes what is at stake here.
antiisgood [at] gmail.com
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You scare me….
Guido,
it´s ok and human to be scared!
what´s never OK is to react on such a fear that makes u deaf, blind and full of
hate towards the Other. just have a look at how fear runs “little ol’ Israel” (your marking) no matter
the early army budget and the neuclear weapons & other shit they have stored away in a safe place.
*huge*
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Plz READ MY RESPONSE TO GUIDOS COMMENTS HERE!
http://antiisgood.wordpress.com/tag/blogism/dialog-who´s-gonna-help-israel/
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Boy! You do have some courage!
Pakistani!
thanx. I do what I have to do to be able to live in this world. Actually, I do´t do anything else than give a bigger picture. The true fighters for justice and freedom are out there… Unbloged resisting occupation and racism from Israel and USA. That´s courage!
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How sad it must be to live your life.
You paint the portrait of a sad, bitter and faithless exisistance.
You live your life anti-truth.
Hi james,
Well, since I am NOT american it is sad to live in the world of American violence and hate and greed and capitalism… And that´s the sad portrait that I paint and that you don´t like it I sure can understand. Neither do I and that´s why this blog is up and running. Remember thought I only REFLECT it. Regarding the anti-truth, you seem to need to really check yourself. Maybe go to an ideogoly cleansing and anti-apologist treamtment. Plz, take a friend with you and there is a start of a better 2morrow…
Have a great day!
wow… that is deep… you must have put a lot of thought into that… here I am with a project on the west bank that i can’t even fit on the entire board then i am struck with these problems that the other side of the world is facing… wow… that was great!!! =) ( l )
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(_()() Bunny!!! (sorry i don’t have a smiley!!!)
oh sorry my bunny’s head got chopped off!!! oh well…
sorry about the chopping off of the bunny’s head!!!
disregard the last comment!!! my computer is doing something funky!!!
Have a nice day !
You should call it as it is, the American and Israel Governments. There are many citizens of both countries that probably agree with a lot of things you say. Don’t forget the corporations of the world that have their input on all that goes on in the world. And don’t forget about the Annual Bilderberg meetings. There really is a shadow government.
Do you have an email address where you can be contacted?
You’re a freak
Jesus, ofcourse I am a freak for you – as Jesus himself were viewed in his times.
Truth and fighting the mainstream of racisim, militarism and americanism
will not make anyone a profet in these camps of hatred and whiteness ideology.
So you comment is a compliment!
But tell me, how freaky is it to use JESUS as online nickname?
i agree with you, widely, but not completely. be careful: the root of all the evil you write about is identification with imaginary collectives. americans, palestinians, israelis, there is no such thing. just people.
it is mainly fear that motivates people to identify with groups. themselves, but others, too. to be part of something bigger, stronger. to know the enemy.
many powerful people know this, explicitly or instinctively. fear is the best way to trick pople into hating, or even dying for one’s interests.
this is just as true for those fighting american and israeli occupation. no political change can ever be worth the live of a human. this is all illusion and deception. nothing to do with courage. all this results in is keeping up violence, renewing fear.
you should rethink your support for this kind of fight.
If you’re going to try to express concepts and vocabulary clearly beyond your understanding, please at least have the decency to figure out how to spell.
Your whiny one-sided diatribe is neither brave nor profound. You simply parrot the standard line that Israel is the root of all Islamic aggression – you are either too stupid or too deceitful to truly examine the situation with an open mind and instead you resort to easy answers for a complex situation. You claim the Palestinians want peace, but they elected a govt whose charter calls for the murder of all Jews (not Israelis, Jews). On PA TV they present the Israelis as blood sucking monsters and worse. Children as young as 8 are being taught that Jews must be murdered in order for them to become ‘martyrs’ and thus ensure rewards in heaven.
If you had an ounce of courage you would look beyond your narrow preconception of the world and examine whats going on in the Middle East instead of taking the easy route.
Hey James, Do you realixe that your own contry is planning genocide of it’s own people? Look. into Agenda 21 and the CODEX Alamentarius.
All these murders for power and profit..The lies each government tell it’s people.
Global corruptness.
The U.S. has not been a clean upstanding country since before 1900. Maybe not even then.
I’m an American and I truly understand why the peoples of other countries hate us. Look what we have done to them. For oil, for money.
I find you an idiot for stooping so low as to criticize this person’s spelling. Can you spell in his/her language at all?
People in every country are being lied to by their leaders. Taught to hate each other. While the same leaders have dinner and play golf together.
Or are you one of those people who believe 9/11 was “REAL”? Do you really believe your Government? If so, good luck. Go stand in line for a flu shot and watch the arsenic and barium fall from your skies. Drink your flouride and be happy. Watch your evening news and believe the lies they tell you.
But think. Who profits from all of these horrible wars? Do we as Americans profit? LMFAO NO We don’t. Our young men die. And we get a pat on our heads for backing our troops. Woowooo.
Do the peoples of countries we invade and destroy profit? LMFAO NO. Their entire population dies. And what do they get? They get year after year of poverty starvation and grief. Woowoo.
Such a freakin deal for all of us living on this planet.
Who profits? Who sits back in their cushy offices and fancy dinner parties calling the shots and saying who lives and who dies?
Look beyond what your leaders tell you and see the truth.
See the international bankers who want to own every blade of grass on this planet.
BTW – do you even know what ‘ethnic cleansing’ and ‘genocide’ mean? Or do you just like saying things to grab your audience’s attention?
Your scary story you tell yourself is self serving, looking for purpose, lashing out at a perceived bully, and fully without any actually knowledge of what complex society requires and needs to function. Cherry picking one bad event after another that fits your purpose fits nicely into the mosaic of hell you are obviously trying to show everyone. Even if someone like you were to be given the gift of instant relief of all your pain points, you would find another group of bad events to feed upon. If anyone is dripping in hate, I would say it is you. You need it to build up a small and insignificant individual to find purpose. Others like you have taken a sniper rifle to a tower proclaiming that they can do something that matters. Others brutally rape and murder women to feel powerful. Others lop of heads in the name of their gang, be it the Mexican drug cartels or Islamic gangs. Very nice club you are in.
Society is complex; it is fantastically good and fantastically bad, but ultimately human. I, being an American, love every minute of being American. I am gratefully that my ancestors had the courage to rip themselves from the hell that was Europe at that time to look for that better life. Millions are bang against that same door to this day.
Here is a little homework for you; can you spot the self serving comments in my post? Come on, you can do it, I know you can.
Thanx James for your time & your statments,
It´s remarkable how people like you come in same tone and structure.
It´s again the “pro-Israeli-american-right-wing-fuck-all-others-disneyworld” factory.
Which productline could you be the ? The “american-make-arabia-into-a-parking-
lot” with a Paris Hilton styling?
I, ofcourse, do not either know, understand or can handle the real
issue here. And, ofcourse, persons like you, James, can. Just like that.
In perfect gramatic inglish aswel! How sad then that reality do not, ofcourse,
reflect your arguments at all.
Bytheway, I love how you move bwt scales to blur facts and make strange points
along your Ad hominem attacts.
For example, what is the “all islamic aggression”?
We all know what the “israeli aggression” has for theme meolody, look, blood numbers
and apologist rethoric. And we all know the “american CHRISTIAN WHITE CAPITALIST
aggression” looks, works and stinks like.
Who created Hamas?
What is democracy really about?
And why do you find perogatives to tell me how to write my thoughts and opinoins
and at the same time dicate how the palestinians should act inorder to survive
under colonialisation? What is it with you that grant you those rights? That you
are man? That you spell right? That you claim that you understand this complex
issue? That you have the “truth”? That you know?
Positivism is dead, boy! White angry christian men are pathetic, boy. And the tide is turning on
Israel as lies, hatred and human rights violations can´t last in a rational world.
The colonialist is getting colonialised and you are just a little “gatekeeper” of
a ideology that proclaims ethnic cleansing. Not on jews ofcourse, but on others. So
you James is nothing but a repeatition of an old bloody human history.
And it´s therefor not a joke that what you accuse me of you yourself repeat
in your own words. You have no reflections but manifests about Israel. You have
no knowledge of the region, history, culture and how the social fabric works. You
recite some tiresome pro-Israeli slogans.
And the thing with my blog is that I ONLY REFLECT what is going on.
*heheh* And I understand that it must be sooo frustrating to realise that it´s not
what you want to be the reality which is the reality on ground. That´s why Israelis
in their school are filled with propaganda, why israeli palestinians are dicscriminated against (“democracy”), why Israel to this day have no constitutional borders, why 1000ends
of palestininas are tortyred in prisons, why the travelling Israelis are hated along the routes, why there is an ongoing consern with the “jewishness” and the demographic suvivial of the “ethnic charatcter”
Now, James. Take of that “pre-made” mask, go into life with less hatred and more self-distance. Beeing you means NOT that you in any way are better or have the “truth”. You are product of your context as I am of mine. It´s what we add from outside experiances, knowledge, interactions which makes life and our understanding more intresting.
And when it comes to Israel you need to grasp your own position and the Others aswell as read up on history and contemprary situations and not repeat old slogans that are connected with an ideology of racisim.
That´s why I guess you are here.
And hopefully you will understand what the “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” (shoah) functions in Israel on an everday basis. But remember – Knowledge carries responsibility!
fuck off
Mike boy…
Your attitude is hilarious.
And you already seems to be totally “fucked off” in your proZinoistic hateful way so no, I will not fuck off. Look what that did to your brain!
On the contrary, thanx for encouraging me even more!
*hug*
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Whatever, as long as potential terrorists get killed, I’m happy. I don’t care if they have their reasons to hate the US, they are the Others, the non-western countries… they are lesser beings, cannon fodder, they can all die and if the west can get some additional petrol or even just land by invading the inferior countries, so much the better. The west used to colonize and rule, and that allowed it to prosper; now that we try to be in peace we are in crisis: it’s time to colonize again at the expense of those “Others”.
P.S.: When I say inferior I don’t mean they are worse than us for some reason; they simply aren’t us: we must think for ourselves as they do for themselves, so they are expendable if they’re in our way towards power.
Great perspective of life and what a prime product you are of your society.
Well then, let´s say we all apply to your paradigm > let´s start killing americans the greatest STATE TERRORIST in the world!
No the americans are not inferior than the rest of us just fatter, less educated, more commercialised and have an “imaginary lifestyle” that is built on colonalism through terrorism.
Oops!
Still happy?
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typical stereotype. u my man are eneducated. good try though
Ofcourse SAMMY!
Let´s so say in order for you not to loose any sleep…
The tide has already turn. But sleep tight!
The dirty of Israel and USA is now well-known.
As the apologist´s strategy for keeping it away from the light.
It´s scary right, Sammy boy!?
That the “beacon of light” and “best country on the earth” is nothing
more than a racist, hateful killers. Have always been and will always remain
so.
Now, mark us UNEDUCATED while the very comment displayes your fear
and positioning towards the truth. One day soon, this “uneducated” truth
will get you schocking at your average mall visit. But for now Sammy…
…enjoy it!
*hahahah*
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I’ve just realized you’re racist and you hate women. I bet you’d plant a bomb to kill american soldiers if someone gave you money…if you haven’t already. You hate whites, women in porn, nude women, jews, successful businesses. Go drink some Chai. You’re forgetting that Islamic relationships are much more misogynistic than American ones. You also hate Christians. You’re a pathetic excuse for a feminist. I see through your burqa of lies. Quit feeling sorry for yourself. Find something that isn’t based in hate…music, painting, knitting, drawing. If I met you, I wouldn’t wanna hurt your because you’re a woman, it would be a result of your lies, ignorance, and your self-loathing. You don’t have to be a man to be a complete dumbass, and this “woman,” if you can even call her that, is the living proof.
Oh thanx “Funkadelik”
What a confirmation on that what I reflect here “upsets” the pathriarcal “white” christian ideology of colonalisation, zionism, hatred, theft, murder and lies.
With other words, You know that I am right so the last thing you can do is… bark!
Voff!
Voff!
That really gives me a push forward!
And hey, I don´t get scared if I were to meet you. *heheh* I see your types everyday. The great part is that your time is over! With the US hegemony disapperance so will everything that you and yours stand for be treated as it really is – SHIT!
Now, go and pray. Wax those legs. Donate some money to any zionistic organisation. Be the “real” woman and man only you can be. Buy some shit. Drive some miles. Write some hate emails. Support your killing troops in Israel. But make sure to enjoy it while it lasts as evil will always loose…
*kisses*
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pz – would I hurt some american soldiers?! Fuck yeah I would do it for FREE if they invaded my country, stole the resources, tortyred, raped, lied, committed genocide, broke the International law and human rights and occupied my country. That is actually my RIGHT and obligation to resist!
Now, the best “american killer” is America. Your ignorance, fat loving eating shit, uneducation and “prime time” captialism will sort for the recession of your nation and “withdraw” of your “finest” workingclass in uniform. Isn´t that just fucking awesome?!!!
Yiiiihaaa…
Peace will come to Palestine in two ways:
1. Israel changes its policy, along with pressure from the US.
2. Groups such as Hamas are dismantled, so that reasonable, SECULAR groups such as Fatah can actually work for a true Palestinian state.
It cannot come through Hamas rockets or Hezbollah destabilizing Lebanon. Which, BTW, those two groups, along with other groups, are THESE biggest threats to regional stability and peace. They have demonstrated this repeatedly, as they destabilized every area that they have occupied.
Otherwise, it is a bunch of phony words of outrage from the supporters of Muslim terrorists, who are truly evil. And you are just as evil for reveling in their murderous ways.
Many in the US and the West are not happy with expansionist “neocon” foreign policy goals, but that does not mean by any means we are going to support Muslim fascists who delight in murder, while suppressing women and society as a whole. And it really demonstrates your complete inability to look at the situation beyond your thinly veiled hatred of the US, Israel, and the West.
There is more to the world then Death and Submission to God. But the problem is that folks such as yourself do not seem to understand that. And it’s the exact reason why the average thinking person would oppose Islamic fascists.
Two wrongs does not make a right. Suicide bombing buses with average citizens is not justified. It is murder. Pure and simple.
I am further sick of “anti-Americans” and anti-Zionists that never mention a word about the butchery carried about by Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaida, the Taleban, or the host of other terrorist groups that kill, kill, kill. These people know nothing of peace because their aims and ideology are exactly opposite of “peace.” They are hateful killers who love death. Why do we know that? Because they TELL us that, over and over again. “We love death more then you in the West love life.” THAT is what your Muslim killers have in store for the rest of the world if they had their way, which is why there is conflict in the Muslim world.
Muslims killing Muslims; Muslims killing Christians and Hindi; Muslims killing men, women children. Muslims blowing up hundreds of random people all to try their insane, zealous objectives, then delighting in the death and destruction they caused.
Take the Bali bombers, who killed hundreds of people, in a horrible manner, all because these people were Westerners. And then they glorified it and even wrote songs before their death. This has NOTHING to do with military objectives or “resistance,” but sheer butchery.
Again – these are the good guys? That kill with little justification?
It does not matter because DEATH is the philosophy of these murderous thugs that you actively support in your delusion.
The US and Israel have state and foreign policies that can be changed by democratic means, such as the recent election in the US and Obama’s election. BUT, when your belief system is based upon murder and death, that cannot be changed, and this is the exact sort of belief system support by the people – the terrorists – that YOU support.
But Hamas has demonstrated it is unreasonable and cannot be dealt with as a reliable peace partner. They break truces, randomly bomb Israelis, and cannot even manage their own chunk of land. WHY anyone would justify their existence is incredible.
Again, it’s these same Muslim extremists that tell the West, “We love death more then you love life.” What sort of insane philosophy is this? And you are trying to tell us that THESE are the good guys?
Are you crazy? We SEE what these people do – we see their blood lust that they can barely contain.
Why would we want to regress back to the 9th century? What do these people offer to the world? What literature, scientific advancements, increases in knowledge, and other valuable contributions to world society?
They offer nothing because they OPPOSE such knowledge. All they want is warfare, death, and subservience to their radically conservative Muslim ideology.
In short, you support fascists, and the worst sort, which is religious fascists. No wonder, considering that Hitler and the German 30’s era fascism influenced some of the Middle Eastern terrorist groups.
Look what’s happening in western Pakistan, where the Taleban are invading formerly safe areas of that region. They are blowing up schools, murdering female students, cutting off the heads of people, and creating a hell on Earth for supposedly fellow Muslims. They are doing the same thing in Afghanistan, creating the same havoc and terror they had in place before the US invasion.
And yet, the US and Israel are the “evil” forces of the world?
That is why the Middle East will never progress, because people such as yourself SUPPORT the thugs, murderers, and serial killing Muslims that have NO INTEREST IN PEACE.
It is a JOKE to suggest that these previously mentioned groups such as Hamas want peace. They even kill their fellow Palestinians – many Fatah members have been killed by Hamas – and they attack Israel with rockets when they had agreed to a cease-fire, which shows their lack of honor.
Some of your words are puzzling. Such as this, for example:
“Pakistani!
thanx. I do what I have to do to be able to live in this world. Actually, I do´t do anything else than give a bigger picture. The true fighters for justice and freedom are out there… Unbloged resisting occupation and racism from Israel and USA. That´s courage!”
That isn’t courageous – that’s delusional.
The US is one of the most racially progressive and tolerant nations in the world, much more so then most parts of the world where virulent racism still exists. And the US is MUCH more diverse in its tolerance in other areas as well, such as religious tolerance. After all, millions of Muslims live, work, and raise families in the US.
Can you say that for the Muslim world, where you can be killed for even converting to another religion? Can you demonstrate where the US has executed someone for being gay, such as what happens in Iran?
And ” justice and freedom”? HA! Where? For what sort of “justice and freedom”? These words ring hollow, considering the complete lack of “justice” and “freedom” that have NOTHING to do with US or Israeli policy, but it has everything to do with native cultures. The US does not force conservative Muslims to saw off the heads of those who are unfortunate enough to be captured by them.
Where in the Middle East do we see justice? Is it when a girl is raped then punished for having out-of-marriage sex? Is it the freedom when someone is beat for speaking their mind? Is is the same place where a father will kill his daughter for an “honor crime”?
You are MUCH more likely to find justice and freedom in the West, in particular. And that is due to Western Liberal ideals that came out of the Age of Enlightenment, NOT from a religion that does not believe in these ideals. And not only do they not believe in notions such as equality, but they actively condemn it.
In short, these people are barbarians.
So, again, WHERE is these groups of “freedom and justice,” and when do they actually demonstrate these view points? Simply resisting, unto itself, is not heroic. The German Nazis resisted the Allies, but that did not make them the heroes. And neither does resistance make heroes of Palestinian groups that would just as quickly kill you, even if you “support” them.
And if you are a woman, you are even more foolish for supporting these people that would take away your ability to voice your opinion as do all they can to make you into a subservient servant to their matriarchy.
No, the Middle East is NOT the place where you find “freedom and justice,” because of these conservative radicals that are not enlightened enough to even know what these terms mean.
BTW, correction. This was supposed to read, “And if you are a woman, you are even more foolish for supporting these people that would take away your ability to voice your opinion as do all they can to make you into a subservient servant to their PATRIARCHY.”
My apologies for the error.
When every fervent nationalist, religious nutball, and psycopathic government stooge kills each other off, me and the plants and animals of the World will know true peace.
I agree with Baculus -and- Antievil, to a certain extent…
But I have to say the “about” page looks like a bunch of racist, anti-American, one-sided comments. I agree that there are some wrong doing in the middle east, but to blame the US and every single Israeli is ignorant; as if nobody has committed acts of evil but Americans and Israelis. To claim that we torture thousands; as if blind to the fact that the they have done the same. To us they are the opposition; in their eyes, we are the opposition.
This problem we have today, these wars, stem from hate and a lack of understanding of all sides. Everyone here deserves equal blame. To say that I am wrong would prove my point, I come here supporting nobody. I try my hardest to understand with an open, unbiased mind, yet so many fail to try the slightest.
This reminds me of racism in earlier US years, except now it has resulted in extreme violence, a complete disregard for human life and potential for another world war…
It seems that everyone is so caught up in believing that they are right and we are wrong (and vice versa) that a possibility of seeing the big picture is utterly hopeless. That with all the years of experience, all the history books to teach us, all the wisdom around us, we are failing to keep history from repeating itself. And I believe this is an endless cycle, we will continue to slaughter out of hate and misunderstanding, out of differences. It will happen again and again, until the human race is no more. By saying this I understand that some may immediately see me as a doom-sayer, so be it, but to these people, look around you, look hard, tell me that doom is not already present. Tell me, has history taught us anything? Have we learned from the past or present? Our differences fail to be understood, so much that our similarities are out of sight. So much that we may never see that we are all the same, have the same goals and care for the same people.
I understand that messages like this will most likely never reach the eyes of world leaders, presidents, kings, sheikh, governments in whole; those very people who place us individuals, me and you, like pawns, against each other. These are the people whose extreme views cause the death of millions, while a country in whole receives the blame. While there are millions of individuals who are willing to fight, kill, murder, flay, torture and commit suicide for these views because they believe it to be right, they have been taught, over and over again, they have been taught wrong and their families will consistently be blind and deaf to that fact. From the looks of it, by the time they realize this, it will already be too late.
I agree whole-heartedly with what you write. I feel immense anger at US – Israel military imperialism and barbarism! The only word I can think of for what they are doing is EVIL. I also feel an intense frustration with Americans — superficially so nice and friendly, but so darn ignorant, so oblivious to the misery the US causes around the world.
Speaking out on behalf of the victimized Palestinians sets one up to be verbally abused of being a Jew hater and other such ad hominem attacks. I posted Michael Mandel’s article which you have at your website and oh wow, the reaction was quite vitriolic! This innocuous sounding website called Canadian Coalition for Democracies is in fact a pro-Israel front. And when they don’t like your comments, they start to block your messages. They even withdrew my message about Gaza from Starhawk (at http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/israel_palestine/on_gaza12-08.html)
It’s a wonderful message …
My favourite part in Starhawk’s piece is:
To know and see the enemy, you must let them into the story. They must become real to you, nuanced, distinctive as individuals. But when we let the Palestinians into the story, it changes. Oh, how painfully it changes! For there is no way to tell a new story, one that includes both peoples of the land, without starting like this:
“In our yearning for a homeland, in our attempts as a threatened and
traumatized people to find safety and power, we have done a great
wrong to another people, and now we must atone.”
Just try saying it. If you, like me, were raised on that other story, just try this one out. Say it three times. It hurts, yes, but it might also bring a great, liberating sense of relief with it.
And if you’re not Jewish, if you’re American, if you’re white, if you’re German, if you’re a thousand other things, really, if you’re a human being, there’s probably some version of that story that is true for you.
Out of our own great need and fear and pain, we have often done great harm, and we are called to atone. To atone is to be at one-to stop drawing a circle that includes our tribe and excludes the other, and start drawing a larger circle that takes everyone in. [End of quote]
I’m a Canadian and I am so frustrated with my own government which is totally pro-Israel. In fact, the one party, the NDP, that supposedly stands for social justice is trying to be balanced and does not dare to take a stand that might offend Israel. It makes my blood boil!
But I do think that the tide is turning (but at what cost to Palestinians!) , that more people are finally seeing Israel’s criminal behaviour in Gaza. Maybe now they’re open to more information regarding the occupation and what Israel has been doing over the years. I certainly hope so and am doing my best to let people know.
So thank you for your informative website!
All the best,
Arja
Israel was created because of the “white man´s guilt” on the back of palestine´s.
THAT! … is a myth. Israel came into being due to the anti-Semitism of its Gentile sponsors, to wit:
Great Britain -
[...] a state of things could be easily imagined in which it would not be to the advantage of the civilisation of this country that there should be an immense body of persons who, however patriotic, able and industrious, however much they threw themselves into national life, still, by their own action, remained a people apart, and not merely held a religion differing from the vast majority of their fellow-countrymen, but only inter-married among themselves. – James Balfour in 1905
United States –
In the shadow of “god’s sun-dial”
Gene,
Who were these “anti.Semitism gentile sponsors”?
Oh, white european men that also where the same white european men that colonialised the 2/3 of the world.
Well there you go!
It´s not a myth!
On the contrary – anything else is a myth!
: a
Thanks for creating this blog.
Thanks for trying to make the truth more evident.
Thanks for taking the time to engage with these people in the comments.
Thanks for caring about the world.
Thanks for caring about the victims of american/israeli colonialism.
Thanks for all of it.
These other comments are just from people fighting to keep their false reality in place.
They fear you and your words of truth so they try to discredit you, bully you.
But those of us who identify as “human” and feel our humanity appreciate your words. Your effort. Your bravery.
Thank you!
Ohh and thank-you Dawn!
We are not many online but we are many more in IRL!
The forces at play are strong, hardcore and dangerous.
Words are their means of displaying hatred out of which
some ends up here!
Thank-you for believing in humanity, justice and a future for all.
Not only for those with guns and the rhetoric!
/a
@Antievil
A Chara, Don’t let the Israeli terrorists annoy you brother. Keep blogging; keep writing of the Israeli war crimes we all witnessed on our own televisions worldwide.
Keep reminding people that Israel flaunts its terrorism as it behaves outside of International Law and the Geneva Convention. Keep reminding people that during their recent genocide in Gaza, that ONE Israeli soldier died for every TWO HUNDRED Palestinians. Total ratio=1400:6
Keep reminding people of Israel’s illegal use of American supplied weaponry such as DIME Missiles and White Phosphorous on Civilian targets. Keep reminding people that Israel shot and killed entire families waving white flags who were attempting to escape the genocide?
And lastly keep reminding people that Israel does not want peace. Remember 1993? For should any Israeli leader and Palestinian leaders DARE to attempt a REAL peace process, they will end up like the Israel PM, Yitzhak Rabin, and PLO leader, Yasser Arafat who made an agreement and shook hands at the Whitehouse in front of Bill Clinton in 1993. Rabin was murdered by his fellow Zionist Jews and then they imprisoned Arafat in his compound until his very “suspicious” death.
Yes Israel wants Peace, the peace that would come if they managed to murder all Palestinians. Israel is an evil rogue state with the 6th largest stockpile of Nuclear weapons in the world, and it REFUSES to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty like Iran did!
Israel wants peace?
Mi Arse!
Beloved people of Gaza
Treasured people of Palestine
Teachers of courage and dignity
Archetype of humanity
Allow me to kneel down
And wash your feet with my tears
Kiss your blessed hands
And sprinkle your beautiful faces with musk and roses
While we sat pondering like fools
Utterly helpless
Talking much and doing less
Going round and round in circles
Thinking how to help
What to offer you to relief some of your pain
As usual
Full of surprises, you come out to our rescue, to soothe our agony
You present us with the most precious gifts
Lessons in bravery
Steadfastness, patience, perseverance, defiance, resilience
Optimism against all odds
Creativity in the face of utter oblivion
You’ve demonstrated that you are the free ones … we are the captives
You chose resistance over subjugation
You decided not to be enslaved
Not even to superpowers
Would we ever learn from you?
For Palestine…..Not all Americans believe the lies we are told.
A Moment Of Silence
By Emmanuel Ortiz
Before I start this poem,
I’d like to ask you to join me
In a moment of silence
In honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon last September 11th.
I would also like to ask you
To offer up a moment of silence
For all of those who have been harassed, imprisoned,
disappeared, tortured, raped, or killed in retaliation for those strikes
For the victims in both Afghanistan and the U.S.
And if I could just add one more thing…
A full day of silence
For the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have died at the
hands of U.S.-backed Israeli
forces over decades of occupation.
Six months of silence for the million and-a-half Iraqi people,
mostly children, who have died of
malnourishment or starvation as a result of an 11-year U.S.
embargo against the country.
Before I begin this poem,
Two months of silence for the Blacks under Apartheid in South Africa,
Where homeland security made them aliens in their own country.
Nine months of silence for the dead in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Where death rained down and peeled back every layer of
concrete, steel, earth and skin
And the survivors went on as if alive.
A year of silence for the millions of dead in Vietnam – a people,
not a war – for those who
know a thing or two about the scent of burning fuel, their
relatives’ bones buried in it, their babies born of it.
A year of silence for the dead in Cambodia and Laos, victims of
a secret war … ssssshhhhh….
Say nothing
we don’t want them to learn that they are dead.
Two months of silence for the decades of dead in Colombia,
Whose names, like the corpses they once represented,
have piled up and slipped off our tongues.
Before I begin this poem.
An hour of silence for El Salvador …
An afternoon of silence for Nicaragua …
Two days of silence for the Guatemaltecos …
None of whom ever knew a moment of peace in their living years.
45 seconds of silence for the 45 dead at Acteal, Chiapas
25 years of silence for the hundred million Africans who found
their graves far deeper in the ocean than any building could poke into the sky.
There will be no DNA testing or dental records to identify their remains.
And for those who were strung and swung from the heights of
sycamore trees in the south, the north, the east, and the west…
100 years of silence…
For the hundreds of millions of Indigenous peoples from this half of right here,
Whose land and lives were stolen,
In postcard-perfect plots like Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee, Sand Creek,
Fallen Timbers, or the Trail of Tears.
Names now reduced to innocuous magnetic poetry on the
refrigerator of our consciousness …
So you want a moment of silence?
And we are all left speechless
Our tongues snatched from our mouths
Our eyes stapled shut
A moment of silence
And the poets have all been laid to rest
The drums disintegrating into dust.
Before I begin this poem,
You want a moment of silence
You mourn now as if the world will never be the same
And the rest of us hope to hell it won’t be.
Not like it always has
been.
Because this is not a 9/11 poem.
This is a 9/10 poem,
It is a 9/9 poem,
A 9/8 poem,
A 9/7 poem
This is a 1492 poem.
This is a poem about what causes poems like this to be written.
And if this is a 9/11 poem, then:
This is a September 11th poem for Chile, 1971.
This is a September 12th poem for Steven Biko in South Africa, 1977.
This is a September 13th poem for the brothers at Attica Prison, New York,
1971.
This is a September 14th poem for Somalia, 1992.
This is a poem for every date that falls to the ground in ashes
This is a poem for the 110 stories that were never told
The 110 stories that history chose not to write in textbooks
The 110 stories that CNN, BBC, The New York Times, and Newsweek ignored.
This is a poem for interrupting this program.
And still you want a moment of silence for your dead?
We could give you lifetimes of empty:
The unmarked graves
The lost languages
The uprooted trees and histories
The dead stares on the faces of nameless children
Before I start this poem we could be silent forever
Or just long enough to hunger,
For the dust to bury us
And you would still ask us
For more of our silence.
If you want a moment of silence
Then stop the oil pumps
Turn off the engines and the televisions
Sink the cruise ships
Crash the stock markets
Unplug the marquee lights,
Delete the instant messages,
Derail the trains, the light rail transit.
If you want a moment of silence, put a brick through the window of Taco Bell,
And pay the workers for wages lost.
Tear down the liquor stores,
The townhouses, the White Houses, the jailhouses, the
Penthouses and the Playboys.
If you want a moment of silence,
Then take it
On Super Bowl Sunday,
The Fourth of July
During Dayton’s 13 hour sale
Or the next time your white guilt fills the room where my beautiful
people have gathered.
You want a moment of silence
Then take it NOW,
Before this poem begins.
Here, in the echo of my voice,
In the pause between goosesteps of the second hand,
In the space between bodies in embrace,
Here is your silence,
Take it.
But take it all…
Don’t cut in line.
Let your silence begin at the beginning of crime.
But we,
Tonight we will keep right on singing
For our dead.
by EMMANUEL ORTIZ, 11 Sep 2002
Emmanuel Ortiz is a third-generation Chicano/Puerto Rican/Irish-American community organizer and spoken word poet residing in Minneapolis, MN. He is the author of a chapbook of poems, The Word is a Machete, and his poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including two books published in Australia: Open Boat – Barbed Wire Sky (Live Poets’ Press) an anthology of poems to aid refugees and asylum-seekers, and Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively (UNSW Press). His poetry will also appear in the forthcoming FreedomBook, an anthology of writings in support of Puerto Rican political prisoners. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Minnesota Spoken Word Association, and is the coordinator of Guerrilla Wordfare, a Twin Cities-based grassroots project bringing together artists of color to address socio-political issues and raise funds for progressive organizing in communities of color through art as a tool of social change.
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