Israelske arabere: Det er racisme ikke at måtte støtte Israels fjender

En absurd historie fra Israel: tidligere i år blev det afsløret, at et arabisk medlem af Knesset (det israelske parlament) ikke bare adskillige gange var rejst til lande, Israel stadig er i krig med (Syrien og Libanon), men også der var blevet hvervet som agent for den libanesiske terrorgruppe Hezbollah, og at han under krigen mellem Israel og terrorgruppen sidste sommer havde rådgivet denne om, hvor den mest effektivt kunne slå israelere ihjel:

In one of the conversations Bishara was asked an unusually direct question by his Hizbullah contact who wanted to know how Israel would respond if it were hit by long range missiles which would reach beyond the city of Haifa. Bishara mumbled and admonished his contact, hinting that the conversation may be monitored, but after a short while his aspirations got the best of him and he told the Hizbullah man that such an action would serve Hizbullah's goals. Several days later rockets began hitting targets south of Haifa.

Bishara also provided his contacts with detailed explanations of optimal targets for their rockets and which towns should be avoided. Hizbullah put a great deal of trust in Bishara's situation assessments and apparently operated according to a lot of the information he provided. In addition to the monetary compensation for this information Hizbullah apparently spared no efforts at making Bishara feel important in an attempt to boost his motivation to help them.

Bishara stak siden, da han fornemmede hvor efterforskningen bar hen, af til udlandet, og er ikke vendt tilbage siden.

For at forhindre sådanne tilfælde i fremtiden førte nationalt sindede israelske Knesset-medlemmer for nylig et lovforslag frem til afstemning, der ville gøre det umuligt for folk, der uden tilladelse besøger fjendtlige stater at blive medlemmer af Knesset. Eller, som en af initiativ-tagerne bag lovforslaget udtrykte det:

"Enough of Arab Knesset members spitting in our faces and us saying it's raining."

Reaktionen fra de arabiske knesset-medlemmer var til at forudse: det er racistisk at forhindre folk der aktivt støtter Israels fjender fra at sidde i landets parlament:

"The Knesset is steeped in racism," said Ahmed Tibi of the United Arab List party.

"Corrupt members of the Knesset want a Knesset without Arabs... If I am invited [to an enemy state] I will go despite the law."

"If we have to choose between loyalty to our people, or serving the Knesset, then good luck to the Knesset," said Muhammad Barakei, who heads the Hadash party.

"All the racists can choke."

Det er raciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisme!

Opdateret:

Man undrer sig egentlig ikke, når man bemærker at araberen fra Israel, der har spioneret for Hezbollah, viser sig at være uddannet i det tidligere kommunistiske diktatur DDR.

Forberedelser til en ny borgerkrig i Libanon

Idag er toårsdagen for mordet på den tidligere Libanesiske premierminister Rafiq Hariri, som en kombination af den syriske efterretningstjeneste, palæstinensiske lejemordere og Hezbollah menes at stå bag. I den forbindelse har støtter af Rafiq Hariris familie og den libanesiske regering tænkt sig at markere dagen med en masse-demonstration mod bagmændene i Syrien. Syrerne og deres libanesiske lakajer har allerede sendt en advarsel i form af to terrorbomber i går, der dræbte 3 og sårede 20 i et kristent område, men mange flygter at det kun er en forsmag på hvad der er i vente. Libaneserne forbereder sig på en borgerkrig:

Just a few yards from a statue of the Virgin, marking the spot where the Lebanese civil war started back in 1975, Elie Harfouch sized up visitors to this Christian neighborhood.

After deciding the strangers weren't a threat, he warned that tensions in Lebanon were as high as they'd ever been and that Wednesday's second anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri could be a bloody one.

"The young people are boiling," said Harfouch, 50. "You can't hold them back."

It's not just the young people. According to diplomatic sources, intelligence analysts and interviews in various neighborhoods, Sunnis, Shiites and Christians in Beirut have begun stockpiling weapons and posting sentries to defend against what they say are possible assaults by rival factions.

Harfouch, a former fighter for the Lebanese Forces, one of the numerous militias that tore Lebanon apart in a 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, said residents of Ain el-Roummani are "absolutely" preparing. Guards are posted in strategic buildings to watch for incoming Shiite mobs, he said, and most people are buying weapons.

"A rifle used to cost $200. Now it costs $1,000," Harfouch said, and shrugged. "You have to defend yourself."

The event that has neighborhoods turning into bunkers is the planned rally on Wednesday by the pro-government coalition known as March 14, named for the date of a huge pro-Hariri, anti-Syrian protest, one month after the slaying of the popular prime minister in 2005.

Wednesday's rally is planned for a city square where the body of Hariri lies, not far from the 2-month-old sprawling tent city and sit-in that the militant Islamic Shiite group Hezbollah and its supporters -- the March 8 coalition, named for a pro-Syrian street rally in 2005 -- have erected in downtown Beirut in a bid to force the U.S.-supported government of Fuad Saniora from power.

The current crisis erupted in November, three months after the devastating Hezbollah-Israel war, when six pro-Syrian ministers resigned from Saniora's Cabinet. That was followed by strikes and the continuing sit-in downtown organized by Hezbollah.

Two days of street battles at the end of January in Beirut and elsewhere between pro- and anti-government forces resulted in the death of nine people and the wounding of at least 300. The violence also took on a sectarian tone as Sunnis, who mainly support the government headed by one of their own, fought the Syrian-backed Shiite protesters.

January's clashes between gangs of young men was fought mainly with sticks and stones. But as the rise in prices for weapons suggests, neighborhoods seem to be preparing for more deadly clashes. ...

And there is little doubt that Hezbollah is by far the best armed and equipped of all the Lebanese factions. However, according to intelligence analysts, major groups comprising the March 14 coalition -- mostly the Lebanese Forces, the Druze-led Progressive Socialist Party and the Future Movement, led by Saad Hariri, son of the slain ex-prime minister -- are busy procuring weapons and training as a precaution against any outbreak in violence. ...

Bhalla said she has received reports that Hariri is buying weapons from Saudi Arabia and Jordan -- mostly automatic rifles, heavy machine guns, ammunition and mortars -- and storing them in West Beirut, a primarily Sunni part of the city.

A high-level member of Hezbollah, who demanded anonymity, said young people in the Sunni neighborhoods are being organized and trained by older men who fought in the Lebanese civil war for the al-Murabitun, then the largest Sunni militia.

Hezbollah also charges that Wissam al-Hassan, Rafik Hariri's former chief of security and now the head of the intelligence division within the Interior Ministry's Internal Security Forces, is distributing gun licenses to Sunni men, allowing them to buy weapons easily from local gun shops. ...

Bhalla said Hezbollah is also readying itself. She said hundreds of Hezbollah fighters from the group's strongholds outside Beirut have moved into the tent city downtown. Sniper teams from Hezbollah, Amal and the allied Syrian Social Nationalist Party have also scouted buildings surrounding downtown to prevent any members of the March 14 movement from provoking them into violence, she said.

On Thursday, the Lebanese army intercepted a truck filled with rockets and small arms in a neighborhood about a five-minute drive from downtown. Hezbollah said the weapons were destined for its fighters in the south and demanded their return under an agreement the Lebanese government made with Hezbollah to support the "right of the resistance" against Israel. ...

Back in Ain el-Roummani, Harfouch scoffed at the notion that Hezbollah's weapons shipment was for use against Israel.

"What does the resistance need with light arms?" he asked sarcastically. "They're for internal fighting. There isn't anyone who isn't arming themselves."

OPDATERING:

For at sætte især de kristnes vilje til konfrontation i perspektiv skal man være klar over, at de siden 2004 har været udsat for en stribe mord udført af Syrisk-støttede islamistiske terrorister. En liste jeg har sammensat ud fra oplysningerne på TheReligionofPeace.com:

13. februar 2007: 3 dræbt og 20 såret da bo busser sprænges i luften i den kristne by Bikfaya.

21. november 2006: 1 dræbt, da en kristen leder bliver skudt af muslimske terrorister støttet af Syrien i Beirut.

22. september 2006: En dræbt da al-Ansar terrorister dræber en Palæstinensisk mand i Ein el Hilweh.

9. maj 2006: Fire dræbt og fire sårede i Rmeileh da radikale muslimer sprænger en bombe mod en gruppe, der efterforsker en kristen mands død

12. december 2005: Fire dræbt og tredive såret i Mkalles af en bilbombe brugt til mordet på en kristen journalist

16. september 2005: En dræbt og toogtyve såret af en bombe i et kristent kvarter i Beirut.

23. juli 2005: Tolv såret af en bilbombe i et kristent kvarter i Beirut.

12. juli 2005: En dræbt og tolv såret i Beirut under mordforsøg med bombe mod en kristen politiker.

21. juni 2005: En dræbt og en såret da en anti-syrisk politisk leder bliver dræbt af en bilbombe i Beirut.

2. juni 2005: En dræbt og en såret i Beirut da en bilbombe tager en journalist der var modstander af den syriske besættelses liv.

7. maj 2005 i Jounieh: To dræbt og otteogtyve såret af en bombe i forretningskvarteret i den kristne by Jounieh.

1. april 2005: Tolv såret af en bombe planted uden for et forretningscenter i den kristne by Broummana.

26. marts 2005: Fem bliver såret af en bombe i en kristen forstad til Beirut.

23. marts 2005: Tre bliver dræbt og tre såret da muslimske terrorister detonerer en bombe på 80 kilogram i et indkøbscenter i den kristne by Jounieh.

19. marts 2005: To bliver dræbt og elleve såret da syrisk-støttede terrorister detonerer en bilbombe i et kristent kvarter i Beirut.

18. februar 2005: To bliver dræbt da islamister detonerer en bombe på en kristent ejet tank-station.

14. februar 2005: Femten bliver såret og et hundrede og tyve såret da en bilbombe dræber den tidligere libanesiske premierminister Rafiq Hariri i Beirut.

1. oktober 2004: En bliver dræbt og fem såret, da pro-syriske terrorister detonerer en bilbombe i et mordforsøg på en politiker i Beirut.

Belejringen af Ain Jebel

Michael Totten er en blogger, der er på rundrejse i Libanon, og derfra skriver hyppige indlæg om hans indtryk, om interviews med høj og lav osv. En lille bid fra torsdagens indlæg, "The Siege og Ain Jebel", en kristen landsby omgivet af Hezbollah-kontrolleret territorium, og om dens oplevelser under krigem mellem Hezbollah og Israel i sommers:

He told me that 18 days after the start of the war a large group of civilians decided it was time to leave Ain Ebel and flee to the north. They were no longer willing to stay while Israel fired back at Hezbollah’s rocket launchers. It was too dangerous, and Hezbollah insisted on staying and endangering those who lived there.

So they fled the area in a convoy of civilian vehicles. It was safer, they figured, to travel in a group than alone.

On their way out of the village, Hezbollah fighters stood on the side of the road and opened fire with machine guns on the fleeing civilians.

I was shocked, and I asked Alan to confirm this. Was it really true? Hezbollah opened fire on Lebanese civilians with machine guns? Alan confirmed this was true.

"Why?" I had an idea, but I wanted a local person to say it.

Because, Alan said, Hezbollah wanted to use the civilians of Ain Ebel as “human shields.” I did not use the phrase “human shields.” These were Alan’s own words.

Fortunately, Hezbollah didn’t kill anybody when they opened fire. One person was shot in the hand, and another was shot in the shoulder. This was enough, though, to do the job. The civilians turned around and went back to the village under Israeli bombardment

Læs det hele.

Endnu et eksempel på mediernes manipulation

Samarbejde mellem Hezbollah og Libanons hær søges skjult, Israel søges tilføjet et imaginært nederlag, og et legitimt mål fratages legitimationen. Lightstalkers via LGF:

After being once more defamed and insulted by Guilad, I have decided to explain once and for all the so called “garbage dump” pictures, shot in the afternoon of July 17th in Kfar Chima, near Beirut.

Around 3:30 pm, I was in the office of Mr. Abisaad, the French press attaché at the French Embassy, when Lebanese TV started to show looped footage of a large metallic object falling from the sky and exploding upon touching the ground, the subsequent fire seemed to be massive. The TV announced it as an Israeli jet being shot down over an army base in Kfar Chima about 4 miles from where I was. I took my car and rushed to the scene. Arriving more or less at the same time were other photographers including Stephanie Sinclair, Mitch and Tanya Habjouka.

This is the picture published by US News,





















and this is my original caption for it:

“Kfar Chima, near Beirut, July 17, 2006 An Israeli Air Force F16 has alledgedly been shot down while bombing a group of Hezbollah owned trucks, at least one of these trucks contained a medium range ground to ground missile launcher.”

This caption clearly says that there is no proof that an Israeli jet had been shot down and that the objective was indeed to destroy a legitimate military target.

A week later TIME published this image shot at the same time as the first:













They choose to caption it this way (I had NO control in this matter), they HAD my original caption:

“The wreckage of a downed Israeli jet that was targeting Hizballah trucks billows smoke behind a Hizballah gunman in Kfar Chima, near Beirut. Jet fuel set the surrounding area ablaze.”

In the meantime, after returning 3 times to the site, and collected more evidence, I had modified my original caption to this:

“Kfar Chima, near Beirut, July 17, 2006 The Israeli Air Force bombed a group of Hezbollah chartered trucks parked on the back of large Lebanese Army barracks , at least one of these trucks contained a medium range ground to ground missile launcher, at least one missile was hit, misfiring high into the sky before falling down and starting a huge fire in the barracks’ parking lot.”...

This is a very important piece of evidence showing probable collusion between Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army, there is little doubt that the Lebanese Army was aware of the presence of at least one missile launcher and at least one large missile on their parking lot. The size of the launcher, destroyed a couple of days later from the ground by an unknown party suggest missiles 10 to 14 meters long.

There were 6 to 8 large articulated trucks parked there, making it a very legitimate target for the Israeli Air Force, quite far away from civilian houses.