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Arabs call for boycott of Estee Lauder

 

In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

American Muslims for Jerusalem

208 G Street, NE

Suite 100

Washington, DC 20002

Phone: (202) 548-4200

Fax: (202) 548-4201

E-mail: [email protected]

WWW: http://www.amjerusalem.org

 

 

 

 

 

AMJ holds Press Conference to Announce Estee Lauder Boycott

On Wednesday, February 28, American Muslims for Jerusalem (AMJ) lead a

coalition of advocacy organizations in a press conference calling for a

worldwide boycott of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder. That announcement was

prompted by Estée Lauder International Chairman Ronald Lauder’s

activities in support of Israeli right-wing extremists.

 

Estee Lauders products include: Estee Lauder line of perfume and

make-up, Aramis, Clinique, Aveda, DKNY and Tommy Hilfegere toiletries

products. Estee Lauder also owns several lines of hair and skin care

products and shops such as M.A.C. and Origins.

 

Ronald Lauder is the Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major

American Jewish Organizations and President of the Jewish National Fund

(JNF). JNF is a quasi-government agency whose main function is to

legitimize Israeli’s theft of Palestinian land.

 

In January, Lauder was the key speaker from the US at a rally in

Jerusalem, organized by right wing Israeli politician Natan Sharansky.

The rally was organized to oppose the mere consideration of Jerusalem as

a negotiation item. Lauder addressed 300,000 Israeli extremists at the

gates of Haram Al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary, one of Islam’s three

holiest sites). Some of the protesters tried to break into the holy

site.

 

Khalid Turaani, AMJ’s Executive Director said “this boycott of Estee

Lauder will send a clear message that people of conscience refuse to do

business with corporations supporting Israeli apartheid policies which

violate internationally-recognized human rights”.

 

In 1993, Lauder co-founded a think tank called the Shalem Center with

Yoram Hazony, a former Netanyahu aid. The Israeli Education Ministry has

said the center is “a research institute whose leanings are extreme

right-wing and even fascistic.” Hebrew University professor Yisrael

Bartal describes Hazony as a right-wing extremist. A columnist for the

Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz (9/14/2000) wrote that Hazony is a

sympathizer of the slain radical Jewish leader Meir Kahane, who called

for the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel. The goal of Hazony, wrote

the columnist, is to find new ways of “breathing life into Kahane’s

racist, totalitarian, intolerant ideology.”

 

Ronald Lauder’s Jerusalem-rally speech came at a time when the Israeli

government was waging a campaign of siege and starvation against the

entire Palestinian population. While Mr. Lauder supports some legitimate

charitable causes in the US, he shows his true colors when abroad by

supporting fanatic causes that seek to uproot an entire population from

its native land. Lauder is also opposed to permitting Palestinian

refugees to return to their homes. “For Israel to allow these people to

return would be national suicide,” he said in a statement last

September. In contrast, the UN General Assembly has demanded that Israel

allow the Palestinian refugees to return since 1948. “Lauder’s

opposition to the return of Palestinian refugees in order to maintain

the pure-Jewish identity of Israel is nothing short of apartheid at its

worst” said Turaani.

 

 

 

American Muslims for Jerusalem

208 G Street NE

Suite 100

Washington, DC 20002

Phone: (202) 548-4200

Fax: (202) 548-4201

E-mail: [email protected]

WWW: http://www.amjerusalem.org IMRA

 

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>From Z Net.

RLA

 

“Facts on the ground”

By Sean Gonzalves

 

JERUSALEM — I was humbled by my ignorance. But even the ignorant

quickly

learns that studying maps and learning the lay of the land is central

to

understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 

“If you only look at what is called the ‘peace process,’ from the

political

point of view, you get a certain picture,” Jeff Halper explained in

his

Jerusalem living room.

 

Halper, an American-born Israeli Jew, is a professor of anthropology

at Ben

Gurion University. He’s been part of the Israeli peace movement for

over 25

years and now heads up an organization called the Israeli Committee

Against

(Palestinian) House Demolitions.

 

Without dismissing the good things that have come from the “peace

process”

Halper, with humility and painstaking thoroughness, illustrates that

if you

focus only on the political rhetoric the picture you get of the

conflict is

severely distorted.

 

“Look at the generous offer that Israel made the Palestinians – 95

percent

of the West Bank, dividing Jerusalem” – a typical American (and

Israeli)

reaction to news reports about the “peace process,” Halper said.

 

Then he asked, “How do you explain the Palestinian reaction to that?”

When

the Barak government first started negotiating, they were offering 42

percent of the West Bank and the Palestinian negotiating team

rejected the

proposal. “You see or hear about these advances and think Israel has

come

around and then the Palestinians start shooting. It doesn’t make any

sense

to people,” he continued.

 

What you have to plug into the equation is what’s happening on the

ground.

“Unless you can understand the maps, unless you can understand why 95

percent isn’t a good deal for Palestinians, or what the other five

percent

means, then it’s impossible to evaluate what’s going on. Why are the

Palestinians behaving the way they are? Is Barak really generous?”

 

We left Halper’s house for a three-hour tour of parts of “Metropolitan

Jerusalem,” which I later learned encompasses, not just the city of

Jerusalem, but 40 percent of the West Bank, including large

Palestinian

towns and villages — Ramalla, El Bireh, Beit Sahour, Bethlehem and

Beit

Jalla, to name a few.

 

What one has to understand about Jerusalem is that it is being

transformed

>from a city into a larger region by the Israeli government. This has

three

effects. 1) It divides the northern part of the West Bank from the

southern

part. 2) It isolates Jerusalem’s Palestinian population from fellow

Palestinians and 3) it creates a corridor from Tel Aviv to Amman,

Jordan.

All of this ensures Israeli control over any Palestinian state that

might

emerge from the “peace process.”

 

Then Halper started talking about something called E1 — an Israeli

government plan that annexes Palestinian land to create a contiguous

urban

strip between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh

Adumim. E1

effectively cuts the West Bank in half, which, when and if its

completed,

will prevent the free movement of Palestinians and their goods and

therefore

make a viable Palestinian state impossible.

 

According to the Master Plan approved by former Defense Minister Moshe

Arens, E1 calls for 1,500 exclusively Jewish housing units, an

industrial

park, offices, entertainment and sports centers, 10 hotels, health and

academic facilities and a regional cemetery.

 

Many of the Israeli “settlers” are being used as pawns, Halper said.

The

Israeli government builds these subsidized settlements for poor and

working-poor Israelis as an incentive for them to move into

Palestinian

areas. “I call them economic settlers. They’re not religious settlers

as in

other settlements. If the government built homes for them inside

Israel

proper, they would move.”

 

E1, also known as Plan 420/4 Ma’aleh Adumim, is illegal in

international law

to the extent that it promotes the settlement of an occupying power in

occupied territories. It violates Israeli Supreme Court decisions that

settlements can only be established for security purposes and it

violates

the Interim Agreement of Oslo that obligates Israel to preserve the

status

quo and territorial integrity of the West Bank pending final

negotiations.

 

“E1 creates facts on the ground by unalterably integrating Israeli

settlement and infrastructure on the West Bank into Israel proper,”

Halper

said. “Keep in mind that the settlement population has doubled since

the

Oslo accords were signed.”

 

None of this is to say that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist or

that

fringe Palestinian violence is justified. But if you want to

understand

Palestinian rejection of Barak’s “generous” offer, you must

understand the

“facts on the ground.” Add to this the fact that it’s all being

imposed by

US-supported military might and you’ll understand a small piece of

what it

is that Palestinians are rejecting.

Breeding ground for terrorism

HEBRON — When talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the

various perspectives involved, it doesn’t take long for grown

intelligent

people to start talking like kids about who did what to whom, first.

 

But life in Israel and the Occupied Territories is not some John

Wayne flick

where the forces of heavenly good are up against pure evil. It’s more

like a

Clint Eastwood western, where moral shades of gray are the norm; the

protagonist and antagonist both fighting inner demons, even as they

interact

with one another.

 

Recognize: aside from divine intervention, the state of Israel is

here to

stay, at least for the foreseeable future. In talking with hundreds of

Palestinians from across the West Bank and Gaza, it’s clear to me

that they

too have accepted this reality. Time brings change. After all, 60

percent of

the Palestinian population now living in the West Bank and Gaza is

under the

age of 30.

 

As I walked around the Old City of Jerusalem, and then in visiting the

Wailing Wall, it struck me how wonderful it must feel to be a Jew in

a place

where you can revel in your Jewish-ness with the relative security

that you

won’t be expelled or exterminated en mass for just being Jewish.

 

The flip side is: establishing the secular nation-state of Israel has

brought with it the displacement of hundreds of thousands of

Palestinian

natives. And for Palestinians who didn’t flee, it has meant 52 years

under

military occupation by a vastly superior military force. Think Mike

Tyson in

a fistfight with Elian Gonzales.

 

In the city of Hebron, which is in the West Bank, just down the

street from

where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob are buried, is the office and

home of

the Christian Peacemaker Team – a small group of American and Canadian

Mennonites. Besides offering counseling services to Palestinians, CPT

members patrol the streets engaging in nonviolent interventions

whenever

they see some physical violence about to erupt between

Israeli “settlers” or

soldiers and Palestinian villagers – a routine occurrence, most often

being

committed by the former against the latter.

 

Anita Fast, a CPT staff member, told us it is a common occurrence

for “the

settlers,” many of them toting guns on their hips, to harass and

intimidate

Palestinian villagers by tipping over their vegetable carts in the

market,

throwing rotten vegetables, spitting or yelling racist insults at

them. An

American lawyer we met a few days later just outside Nazareth

commented:

“It’s like Mississippi 1930 over here. apartheid. I had no idea it

was like

this before I came.”

 

Of the 6.3 million Israelis who live in Isreal and the Occupied

Territories,

195,000 of them are “settlers” who live in these

beautiful “settlements”

throughout Occupied Palestine, outside of Israel Proper. But the word

“settlements” brings to mind some old-Western gold rush village.

They’re

nothing like that — except for the guns. Picture one of those

private-gated

communities you see in suburban America surrounded by several thousand

soldiers with guns, tanks, sandbags, US supplied helicopters and other

assorted weaponry.

 

The “settlers,” Anita explained, verbally and physically attack

Palestinians

on a regular basis. It usually goes the settlers’ way, not because

Palestinians are a bunch of Dalai Lamas (although Palestinians are

very

friendly and hospitable people). It has more to do with the presence

of the

Israeli Defense Force posted in strategic military outposts along the

streets and on rooftops everywhere.

 

The IDF completely controls the roads, the air and the sea. So, let’s

say a

“settler” is senselessly killed by a Palestinian gunmen. The typical

IDF

response is: road closures, trapping Palestinians in their village. A

20-hour, stay-in-your-house curfew is also imposed on every

Palestinian in

the village. This after the IDF shells an entire neighborhood

suspected to

be the area from where the gunmen fired. I’m talking tank and

helicopter

attacks for up to six hours — clearly a campaign not to catch the

gunman

but to terrorize people whose only crime is that they happen to live

in the

vicinity and are Palestinian.

 

This is known as “collective punishment,” meted out because of the

desperate

violent act of some hope-lost Palestinian, unrelated to the

Palestinians

being bombed and shot at by IDF forces.

 

Walking up a central street in the old city of Hebron with a

Palestinian

journalist, we passed by two soldiers standing on the sidewalk next

to two

teenage Israeli “settlers.” Smirks on their face, the “settler” kids

gave

the newsman the middle-fingered salute and said some nasty things

about his

father. He said something nasty about their mother.

 

“Do you know them,” I asked. “No, I’ve never seen them before,” he

said,

shrugging it off as if they were just saying hello to one another.

Now I

realize: They were saying hello to each other.

 

A ‘settlers’ peace settlement

EFRATZ — We went to the Efratz settlement to meet with its spokesman,

Efraim Mayer. After having visited the West Bank and Gaza, we wanted

to hear

a Zionist viewpoint of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 

Many “pro-Israeli” Americans (some of whom have angrily emailed me in

recent

weeks) would argue that any talk of Palestinian oppression is mere

propaganda. So it is revealing to note that Efraim — a former IDF

soldier

and now a “hawkish,” conservative, religious, Israeli settler —

confirmed

what we had seen, that, indeed, Palestinians are forced to “live like

dogs”

in the name of Israeli defense.

 

We didn’t get a chance to ask if he thought it a contradiction to

speak in

terms of “defense” while at the same time acknowledging that the

enemy is

being forced to “live like dogs?” Let’s just say he wasn’t exactly

encouraging us to ask probing questions. He wanted to talk, hoping –

knowing – that we would go back and tell our American friends his

truth.

 

“Efratz came from the Bible,” he said. “This is our document to show

all

over the world that we got this land from God.”

 

We were sitting under clear blue skies in what looked like one of

those

picnic areas you see at a nice public park. Kneeling on the ground a

few

picnic tables away was an old Palestinian man, quietly replacing

bricks

under one of the tables.

 

“The Arabs believe this land belongs to them. But in the Bible, we

can find

the Palestinian people as murderers — descendents of Ishmael,”

Efraim said.

 

I’m still having a difficult time trying to distinguish between his

feelings

about Palestinians and the “Christian” American white supremacist who

points

to the biblical “curse of Ham” to justify black oppression.

 

“We have Rabin. We have Barak. This is what we call garbage. They

break the

proud-ness of Israel in the last generation.” These political leaders

have

turned their back on God, Efraim explained. “They think that in

talking to a

murderer you can get peace.”

 

“Israel has only one-way: to start to fight.It (doesn’t make sense)

to sit

and talk with people when you know exactly that after the

discussions, they

are taking you and killing you — your children, your family,

everyone in

the world,” he continued.

 

“I have two sons in the army. I tell my children — we tell our

children in

the schools, starting in kindergarten — to live in the fatherland

you have

to fight.”

 

“We are very satisfied that Clinton isn’t president anymore because we

thought he brought problems here, the same thing with the father

Bush – very

anti-Semitic. We believe that friendship with the United States —

friendship with other lands — must be on the basis that Israel

belongs to

the Jewish Israeli-nation. We are going to break this mindset all

over the

world that Israel can be split up with Palestinians.”

 

Then he compared the formation and defense of the state of Israel as

being

similar to America’s founding and what happened to Native Americans

at the

hands of the European settlers.

 

“Indian people in the United States are not going to ask for a piece

of

land. They are not going to do any intifada to pick up from the United

States pieces of Los Angeles. I’m waiting for the moment when someone

goes

to the government of the United States and says: ‘we are going to

fight for

a piece of land,’ and then starts to take pieces of land in the

capital of

the United States. It will be the last time that this guy opens his

mouth in

the democratic land of the United States.”

 

“Let me explain to you who are the Palestinian people – the people

you are

loving so much. We are talking about murder groups. Terror groups.

Nothing

else..Now if you are with me we are going to go up. If not, we are

going to

fight. Palestinian people are not a nation. Remember what I am

telling you.

They are group of terrorists and guerillas of nothing with nothing –

also in

the eyes of Arab nations.”

 

Efraim told us that 55 percent of Israelis share his views. I hope

he’s

wrong because if you follow the logical extension of Efraim’s

reasoning,

Palestinians are not real people because they have no country and

even Arab

nations reject them. And a people with no land are prone to be

violent,

living, as they do, like dogs.

 

Three obvious options come to mind. 1) Accept all Palestinians,

including

refugees, as equal citizens in a single bi-national democratic

nation. 2)

Set up a sovereign, democratically viable Palestinian state or, 3)

exterminate the enemy. Apparently, Efraim dismisses the first two

options.

(end)

 

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Palestinian dies in Military Intelligence custody in Nablus

 

Source: From LAW

 

March 1, 2001 – In the evening of Tuesday 27 February, 30 year-old Salem

 

Al Akra’a from Kabalan near Nablus died at Al Watani Hospital in Nablus

after being transferred there from the town’s Military Intelligence

Service prison.

 

Al Akra’a’s cousin Ashraf Nofal, 27, stated to LAW that the Military

Intelligence Services had arrested Al Akra’a from a taxi rank east of

Nablus on 6 February 2001. He was held in custody and deprived of all

visits before being admitted to hospital five days ago.

 

In his statement to LAW, Ashraf added that he had seen Al Akra’a’s body

in

the hospital morgue; there were signs of beating on the right side of

his

head as well as sloughs in his wrists and ankles and severe bruising on

his

back.

 

Based on the statement of Ashraf Nofal, LAW Society believes that the

deceased may have been subjected to “Shabeh”- shackling in a contorted

position – and beating by the Military Intelligence Services in Nablus.

 

LAW Society demands the concerned parties in the PNA to form a neutral

inquiry commission to investigate the death of Al Akra’a, make the

findings of the commission public along with the autopsy results, and

bring the perpetrators, if proven that the deceased was tortured, to

justice. LAW further demands that the PNA implement the law preventing

the

detention of civilians by military intelligence.

 

LAW – The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the

 

Environment is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to preserving

human

rights through legal advocacy.

 

LAW is affiliate to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ),

Fédération Internationale des Ligues de Droits de l’Homme (FIDH), World

Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and Member of the Euro-

Mediterranean

Human Rights Network

 

======================================

 

So much for the end of torture.  For all that appears, the victim did

nothing.

 

ISRAEL IS A HORRIBLE COUNTRY.

RLA

 

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Can anyone think the Israelis are anything but monsters?

RLA

 

=========================================

 

Dear Friends,

 

For a third night in a row, Israeli tanks shelled areas of Beit Jala.

Around 9 pm, without any warning, an explosion rocked our area as the

first tank shot with no warning.  For about 25 minutes, shell after

shell hit the town.  The area below St. Nicholas Church repeatedly came

under fire.  At least four more homes have been severly damaged and most

others in the area have sustained at least partial damage.

 

Last night, though, the tragedy was that Osama al Masalmeh, 18 years

old, was killed when his home was hit with a rocket.  Rescue workers

were not able to reach him until around 1 am this morning.  Twenty other

people were wounded in last night’s attack.

 

Family after family are packing their bags today and leaving Beit Jala,

moving away from the firing line.  No home seems safe.  Osama thought

there was no danger as there was a row of houses between his home and

the tanks. But a tank pointing from another direction fired the shell

which took Osama’s life.

 

There can be no justification of this on-going use of heavy artillery

against Palestinian civilian populations. The size of shells has

definitely seemed to increase, as once again people living in Jerusalem

could hear the explosions.

 

With families fleeing to protect their loved ones, I find it hard not to

wonder if this isn’t the plan.  With families gone, the shells can fall,

destoying homes with ‘little’ human loss.  The world certainly doesn’t

seem to be concerned with this senseless destruction.  So, I have to

ask, “will Beit Jala join the list of over 400 Palestinian villages

which have been destroyed over the last 52 years?”   Will we one day

say, ‘If we had only known….”?

 

People will not be able to return, others will try to immigrate as far

as possible from the conflict.  This primarily Christian village will be

emptied of its sons and daughters if something doesn’t change soon.

 

We’re shifting our schedules around to try to get home before night

falls. One never knows – maybe tonight will be the fourth night.

 

Sincerely,

 

S.

 

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Friday, March 2 2001 03:09 7 Adar 5761

 

IDF seals off Jericho with anti-tank trenches

By Arieh O’Sullivan

 

TEL AVIV (March 2) – The IDF has surrounded

Jericho with two-meter deep anti-tank ditches in

an effort to stop Palestinians from leaving and

Israelis from entering.

 

If it works, then the IDF will consider

encircling other cities in the West Bank with

similar trenches, military sources said.

 

The army said that the measure was taken after

a number of shooting incidents in the area and

infiltration into Israel of Palestinian gunmen

from Jericho.

 

“The trenches were dug near the road to

prevent attacks and the IDF will take these

actions according to its operational needs in

order to protect Israeli civilians and soldiers,”

an army statement said.

 

Head of operations in the Central Command,

Lt.-Col. Gil said that the trenches would save

manpower previously needed to patrol around

the city of 30,000. Jericho was chosen as a test

case since it is relatively isolated and

surrounded by open territory which allowed the

easy digging of the trenches, he told the IDF

weekly Bamahane.

 

Gil said that the trenches were aimed at

stopping Palestinian cars from bypassing IDF

checkpoints on the main roads.

 

According to the army, the trenches are not

aimed at preventing people from crossing by

foot, but are mainly a barrier against vehicles,

including possible car bombs.

 

The army also said that the trenches could be

easily filled in at a later, more peaceful time.

 

Residents told AP that the trenches are 1.5

meters wide and amounted to collective

punishment.

 

“They close all the roads,” said Yasser

Affouneh, 18. “They don’t let us go. They only

want to make a big jail.”

 

Independent Media Center

http://www.indymedia.org.il

 

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Israel displays more and more every day Nazi-like behavior.

RLA

 

 

 

 

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And the farmer hauled another load away.  This is quintessential Zionist

rhetoric.

You aggress against someone (generally Palestinians), and when they fight

back you characterize your brutal repression as “daring to respond”!

Only Zionists do this stuff, the Nazis and Communists are gone.

RLA

 

Omri Schwarz wrote:

 

> Roger Alexander <[email protected]> writes:

>

> > Can anyone think the Israelis are anything but monsters?

> > RLA

> >

> > =========================================

> >

> > Dear Friends,

> >

> > For a third night in a row, Israeli tanks shelled areas of Beit Jala.

>

> We dare to respond to snipers.

>

> The Nerve!

> —

> Omri Schwarz —

> Timeless wisdom of biomedical engineering:

> “Noise is principally due to the presence of the

> patient.” — R.F. Farr

 

 

 

 

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This idiot McVay runs a small subsidiary of the Holocaust Industry, known

as Nizkor.

It has no means of making money that I know of, and so depends entirely on

contributions

>from B’nai Brith Canada.  One of their efforts is “exposing” those who

differ with the Holocaust Orthodoxy, which is sought to be made illegal to

argue with, and has so been made illegal

in Germany and France, and I believe in some other countries.  He is a real

piece of work.

I often disagree with Matt Giwer, but I find him rational and intelligent.

This is more than

I can say for McVay, for whom I have developed a fine contempt.

RLA

 

“Kenneth McVay, OBC” wrote:

 

> In article <[email protected]>,

> Matt Giwer  <[email protected]> wrote:

>

> Mr. Giwer is, as far as I can determine, a troller whose only

> interest is in causing fights.  While he can sound superficially

> plausible, he has lied** about what has been said in exchanges (while

> accusing others of lying), refused to document claims, pretended not

> to see posts which contain documented refutation of his claims (even

> when they have been emailed to him), engaged in actual libel*, and

> generally conducted himself with such complete lack of intellectual

> and factual integrity that there seems to be no point in taking

> the time to read and respond.  For detailed and documented

> evidence of this, please refer to

> https://nizkor.org/hweb/people/g/giwer-matt/

>

> If you do not enjoy the luxury of a news filter, simply delete Mr.

> Giwer’s articles unread. With a few moments’ practice, they are easy

> to identify.

>

> Mr. Giwer’s handlers report that he has responded well to training, and

> now reacts in the prescribed manner, changing his userid each time the

> bell is sounded.

>

> Followups to Giwer trolls should be redirected to Mr. Giwer’s special

> newsgroup, alt.bonehead.matt-giwer, where they will be appropriately

> ignored (the group has no users – it’s just a convenient toilet for

> Matt’s vomitus). If your site does not carry alt.bonehead.matt-giwer,

> redirect non-Holocaust articles to alt.politics.white-power,

> an equally vapid dumping ground for Giwerundian babblings.

>

> Crawler bait: [email protected] Matthias Giwer

> Lincoln James <[email protected]> Matthias Giwer

> Kainee <[email protected]> Matt Giwer

> Rabbi Moshe Dreckschreiber

> Rabbi Dr. Gedalia Pashkvilkemacher

>

> —

>

>      “Denial of Science & The Science of Denial”

>           The Techniques of Holocaust Denial

>   https://nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial

 

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I don’t know how to deal with this post except by pointing out that it is

stupid.

Not only that, but the poster shows that he doesn’t give a damn in Hell

for the

people abused by Israel.  Of course, Zionists as a group seem to revel in

other

people’s misery, particularly when they create that misery.

RLA

 

Martin Goldstein wrote:

 

> Roger Alexander wrote:

>

> > jpost

> > Friday, March 2 2001 03:09 7 Adar 5761

> >

> > IDF seals off Jericho with anti-tank trenches

> >             By Arieh O’Sullivan

> >

> >             TEL AVIV (March 2) – The IDF has surrounded

> >             Jericho with two-meter deep anti-tank ditches in

> >             an effort to stop Palestinians from leaving and

> >             Israelis from entering.

> >

> >             If it works, then the IDF will consider

> >             encircling other cities in the West Bank with

> >             similar trenches, military sources said.

> >

> >             The army said that the measure was taken after

> >             a number of shooting incidents in the area and

> >             infiltration into Israel of Palestinian gunmen

> >             from Jericho.

> >

> >             “The trenches were dug near the road to

> >             prevent attacks and the IDF will take these

> >             actions according to its operational needs in

> >             order to protect Israeli civilians and soldiers,”

> >             an army statement said.

> >

> >             Head of operations in the Central Command,

> >             Lt.-Col. Gil said that the trenches would save

> >             manpower previously needed to patrol around

> >             the city of 30,000. Jericho was chosen as a test

> >             case since it is relatively isolated and

> >             surrounded by open territory which allowed the

> >             easy digging of the trenches, he told the IDF

> >             weekly Bamahane.

> >

> >             Gil said that the trenches were aimed at

> >             stopping Palestinian cars from bypassing IDF

> >             checkpoints on the main roads.

> >

> >             According to the army, the trenches are not

> >             aimed at preventing people from crossing by

> >             foot, but are mainly a barrier against vehicles,

> >             including possible car bombs.

> >

> >             The army also said that the trenches could be

> >             easily filled in at a later, more peaceful time.

> >

> >             Residents told AP that the trenches are 1.5

> >             meters wide and amounted to collective

> >             punishment.

> >

> >             “They close all the roads,” said Yasser

> >             Affouneh, 18. “They don’t let us go. They only

> >             want to make a big jail.”

> > ————————————————————-

>

> The trenches are not   meant to keep the “palestinians” out of

> Israel.   They are meant to keep the  Israelis from getting IN to the

> territories  to  kill and drink the blood of arab children !

>

> M.G.

>

> >

> >

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