○ Israelis Celebrating on Graves of 92 Victims of Terror [July 1946]
○ Lavon Affair: One of Israel's more famous False Flags [1954]
○ Lavon Affair: How a false-flag operation led to war and the Israeli bomb
○ Ariel Sharon, Phalange militia and the massacre at Sabra and Shatila refugee camp, South Lebanon [Sept. 1982]
○ Qana Massacre: IDF fired artillery shells at a United Nations compound where 800 Lebanese had sought refuge [April 1996]
○ What the Winograd Report Doesn't Say [July 2006]
○ Famous Author Excoriates Israel translation by Sirocco
○ Israeli air strike at the Lebanese village of Qana killed 28 civilians [July 2006]
○ Operation Cast Lead - Rules of Engagement, A Legal Justification [Dec./Jan 2009]
○ We Share Their Moral Values ... Israel [July 2014]

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Kahan inquiry into IDF role Ariel Sharon and Raful Eitan in Sabra + Shatila killings

For more content on what's happening in Israel and Gaza - Gaza War: Bringing Out the Worst in Israeli Misogyny, Racism.

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But in terms of public opinion, things are changing which will lead to a political change. Europe is turning against Israel and even in the US the tide is turning. Even journalists are being challenged on their pro-Likud propaganda.

If the US ever decides to add strings to that $3 billion or threaten to turn the money and military aid tap off, Likud and their right wing partners are gonna get whiplash.

But even more than that, there are protests in Israel itself. I have long contended that Israel needs external enemies to prevent the tensions within Israeli society boiling over. There are very real problems which are only just about controlled by the national unity an external threat provides. And the wheels are coming off that cart.

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○ Director of Israeli Aerospace Institute Conducts Campaign Disabling My Facebook Account

An Israeli Facebook user named Tal Inbar began a campaign to get my Facebook account removed.  Here is what he published in Hebrew.

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Tikun Olam is one of the few blogs I follow and sometimes contribute my thoughts. Throughout the years, Tikun Olam is harassed on a daily basis by the (paid) group of hasbarists out of the school of Gerald Steinberg. Netanyahu by his military actions may be losing the PR war. From the Office of the Minister President most directives are send, and funding arranged, to fight the PR war across the western world.

○ IDF's New Media - War Propaganda Through Social Media
○ Zuckerberg's Facebook Conduit to Impose Israeli Censorship

Read about the I/P conlict: Mondoweiss: Gaza and Guernica  - Max Blumenthal: The Great Islamophobic Crusade - Juan Cole: Why a 'Cease Fire' Is Not Enough In Gaza - Tikun Olam: Gaza War Bringing Out the Worst in Israeli Misogyny, Racism.

My recent diary - We Share Their Moral Values ... Israel.

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No surprise really as the world is run by the intelligence community, 5 eyes anyone?

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Harper is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. His people got marched there from the east coast in the Trail of Tears. Now this proud native American has prostituted his conscience to Israel, refusing aid to another oppressed people. It is one sad spectacle.

06/04/2014
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - "We are proud that Keith Harper was confirmed by the U.S. Senate. As the first tribal citizen to serve as an ambassador, Keith has broken the barrier for all those who will follow him. As President Obama's choice to serve in this critical role on the UN's Human Rights Council, I know Keith will do so with integrity and compassion for Indigenous people worldwide. His confirmation is especially meaningful for Indian Country, because the United Nation's World Conference on Indigenous Peoples will be later this year and he will have an important role in protecting the rights of Native people. He will be a staunch advocate and champion for all Indigenous people. Additionally, I applaud the president for making it a priority to have tribal citizens serve in positions that affect our people."

Cherokee Nation News Release
For Media Inquiries:
julie-hubbard@cherokee.org

Facebook sharing from Eran Efrati

In recent weeks I was on the border of Gaza and getting reports from soldiers in the Gaza Strip who leak information out to me. I am in the process of publication of two big stories in major U.S. newspapers, but there are some things I can share with you right now: Soldiers in two different units inside Gaza leaked information about the murdering of Palestinians by sniper fire in Shuja'iyya neighborhood as punishment for the death of soldiers in their units.

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New York Times: Palestinian Family Finds Missing Son in YouTube Video of His Shooting

A video report showing the apparently fatal shooting of an unarmed Palestinian civilian, recorded on Sunday in Gaza City by a local activist. International Solidarity Movement Palestine, via YouTube.

Joe Catron, a human rights activist who witnessed the shooting [July 20, 2014] and documented the incident in photographs posted on Flickr, said in a telephone interview from Gaza that, although it seemed certain the young man would die without emergency medical treatment, the rest of the small party with which he was traveling had no choice but to retreat when shelling resumed in the area after the filming had stopped.

An illustration how well state propaganda works. Exactly why U.S. soldiers died in Vietnam, I was a kid but an what older Polish immigrant neighbour sent his only son to Vietnam to fight the commies over there. He gave his life for his father's revenge. In following article, David Siegel from the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles stated: "... to really defend the civilized world against the threat of Islamic terrorism."

Americans from Texas, California killed in Gaza

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Carmeli, 21, a sergeant, was from South Padre Island, Texas, said Maya Kadosh, deputy consul general of Israel to the Southwest. He had moved to Israel four years ago and joined the Israeli army after finishing high school there. He was also part of the Golani Brigade, said Rabbi Asher Hecht of Chabad of the Rio Grande Valley.

"He had great energy, yet had a kind and gentle soul," Hecht said. "We lost a gem."

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Stuart Steinberg, whose family lives in the San Fernando Valley in California, said his son was a sharpshooter for the Golani Brigade. He was living in Beersheba, Israel, and had attended Pierce College and El Camino Real High School in California.

He visited Israel for the first time on a Birthright Israel trip with his younger brother and sister in June 2012, his father said. When he returned, he told his family that he was planning to return and join the Israel Defense Forces.

Cross-posted from my diary - War Crimes by Moral Desolate IDF Soldiers of Golani Brigade.

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