La nostalgie de Jérusalem chez les Musulmans. Un bilan par Eliezer Cherki.

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Écoutez cette présentation de Eliezer Cherki, orientaliste et islamologue, présentée dans le cadre du colloque L’avenir de Jérusalem, tenu le 13 mars dernier. Cette allocution, d’une qualité exceptionnelle, présente les raisons profondes expliquant la soudaine fascination que les Musulmans éprouvent pour Jérusalem, alors que le nom de la ville n’est même pas mentionné une seule fois dans le Coran. Cherki retrace l’histoire de l’Islam naissant, de son rapport avec Jérusalem et des transformations qu’il subit lors de la période de Médine. Pour vous donner les grandes lignes, au début de l’Islam, les Musulmans priaient en direction de Jérusalem mais cette coutume a été abandonnée à partir de la période de Médine. Dès ce moment, ils tournent plutôt le dos à Jérusalem. Au fil des siècles, les Musulmans ont montré plus ou moins d’indifférence envers Jérusalem, jusqu’au jour de la création d’Israel en 1948. Depuis cette date, ils ont démontré une passion pour Jérusalem qui ne peut s’expliquer autrement que par les raisons présentées par le professeur Cherki. À voir absolument.

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Ukrainian descendants train their propaganda muscle over the content of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

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Another chapter in the never-ending saga of anti-semitism and nazi cover-up has been deployed recently, as Ukrainian organizations complain about foreign intervention of intellectuals over the content of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. An advocacy group, the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, are accused of distorting historical account of the Holodomor, the genocide perpetrated by Soviet Russia in Ukraine in 1932-33. In a letter signed by a hundred scholars around the globe and published last week, the foreign intellectuals also claim that the UCCLA and the UCC refuse to acknowledge the role played by Ukrainian nationalist movements in the Holocaust. Also, the UCCLA and the UCC are having a different with the Museum on the issue of the place that the Holocaust should occupy in the physical space of the building. They argue that there shouldn’t be a separate room for the Holocaust, or that there should be a room for the Holodomor also, to avoid that such an approach « elevates » the suffering of a particular group to the detriment of other groups.

The first article of the Globe and Mail, that you find below, ends with this sentence: « Others are well known for making unfounded allegations concerning the nature and behaviour of the Ukrainian nationalist movement of the 20th century, assertions serious scholars have dismissed as prejudicial. » If I may try to bring more « foundation » for these accusations, here is an extract from a book authored by John Loftus and titled America’s Nazi Secret, which is the new edition of the original The Belarus Secret. Loftus is a former U.S. government prosecutor for many years. He is also a prolific author acclaimed by the critics. In the early ’80s, he was in charge of the Belarus file for the U.S. Justice Department. His job was to hunt down Belarus Nazis. He had the privilege to read the Top Secret Files and made some astonishing discoveries on a variety of topics, including the Ukrainian File. So, in America Nazi Secret we read, about Mykola Lebed:

« Anti-Nazi resistance leader, indeed. The CIA and Congress were thoroughly suckered in. Lebed had been the head of the SB, the Ukrainian version of the Gestapo. His men murdered tens of thousands of Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian citizens. I know this is true because I found the original files of Mykola Lebed in the Army Intelligence vaults at Suitland, Maryland, and showed them to my two superiors at the Justice Department: Ryan and Sullivan. It will be impossible for them to deny that they were briefed in detail before allowing this killer to enter the United States. » (p. 28)

and now about the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, headed by Stepan Bandera:

« The CIC (the Counter-Intelligence Corps, precision mine: C.H.) had an agent who photographed eleven volumes of Lebed’s secret internal files of OUN/Bandera. These files clearly show how most of its members worked for the Gestapo or SS as policemen, executioners, partisan hunters, and municipal officials. The OUN contribution to the German war effort was significant, including the raising of volunteers for several SS divisions. It was precisely because of its work with the Nazis that Wisner (the head of the Office of Policy Coordination, precision mine: C.H.) wanted to hire the OUN for his Special Forces. The Ukrainian letter succeeded in fooling the immigration officials, however, and OUN/Bandera was subsequently taken off the inimical list. » (p. 194)

Now you understand why these Ukrainian organizations, the UCCLA and the UCC, are not particularly enchanted by this letter published by the foreign scholars. You also have to know that nazi war criminals, including Ukrainians, have been smuggled everywhere around the world, in every country imaginable, and in Canada as well. So it is conceivable that descendants of these Ukrainian who have « immigrated » to Canada, and their families, might feel a little uncomfortable with being reminded of the past too much. Their efforts to mute and discredit these foreign scholars and to present a counter-propaganda explain themselves easily.

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Gaza: un camp de concentration à ciel ouvert ou les pauvres aimeraient bien s’y retrouver

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Regardez ces photos de la Bande de Gaza publiées sur le site web Bivouac-Id. Mon dieu, que c’est épouvantable de vivre dans des conditions pareilles! C’est absolument inhumain de laisser des gens crever de faim ainsi, dans le désespoir. Il faut faire quelque chose… Non mais, qu’est-ce qu’ils sont cons ces islamo-gauchistes et autres gauchistards et traîtres de la bonne conscience bourgeoise. Vraiment, ceux qui prétendent que les Palestiniens de la Bande de Gaza sont opprimés par les Israéliens disent n’importent quoi. On peut le voir sur ces images. Israel ne pratique pas l’apartheid. S’il le faisait, les Palestiniens seraient vraiment pauvres.

The Gaza Strip, the UNRWA and the transnational welfare state

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Today, dear readers, I will present you something that will, I hope, continue to convince you that we must abandon all rhetoric relatively to the supposed « Israel lobby », to rather concentrate on real matters, on reality. The Third Reich has been really skilful and crafty at putting out propaganda and disinformation concerning the Jews and Israel, and we have to remain constantly vigilant. You must have heard that supposedly, the Jews, due to their powerful « lobby » control the media, right? Well, explain to me then why you probably never heard of the information that I will present to you now. Have you ever heard of the UNRWA? Well? The UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. While this organization is supposed to have been created to help Palestinian refugees, it nevertheless dedicated itself in practice to render impossible any attemps by them to assume indepedence, by creating a permanent welfare state in which they have tremendous difficulties getting out. Eight « camps » were established solely for the Gaza Strip in 1949, plus dozens of ghettos where refugees live under the rule of a totalitarian paramilitary state, terrorized by the Hamas. The population of these camps, in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and as well in surrounding countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, has grown from 726,000 in 1950 to 4,8 million in 2010.

Normally, refugees are handled by the UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The mandate of the UNHCR is to resettle or integrate refugees into their homelands or new host countries. The Palestinians are the only group to be under the jurisdiction of a separate UN entity. Why is that? To make a long story short, it appears that the forced submission imposed on the Palestinians by the UNRWA to a welfare state seems to facilitate a permanent state of war with Israel. It looks as if the UNRWA was created to make in sort that the Palestinians could never have a home of their own, to be able to drive them more easily into a permanent state of agression toward Israel. To give a few concrete examples, apparently some Palestinian recruits use UNRWA facilities and equipment as recruitment centers and to serve terrorist organizations. UNRWA’s Siblin Vocational Training Center in Lebanon was used to store weapons and military equipment from 1975-82.

These are just a few facts from the article below. Read it. In the end, it shows how stupid the fantasy of the Israel lobby can be for someone who thinks strait. The United Nations, the western countries, the corporations, the Islamists, the Third Reich and the Arab countries weigh much more in the balance when it comes to what Israel experiences. But, unfortunately, because nobody cares about the Jews, whenever a « genius » can blame the problems of the Near East on them, everybody remains mute. Well, you would better start saying something because anytime Jews are slaughtered, it is all mankind that is under the menace of extermination. If any of the Arab and/or Muslim states that possesses the atomic bomb drops it on Israel, it won’t matter to them to kill just the Jews. They will kill you too, if you are in the way. Don’t let yourself be deceived by the Third Reich. Stand up and fight back! Defend the Jews, your brothers. The Jews symbolize the human race. If you stand by doing nothing, we are all, those of us who believe in humankind and democracy, doomed.

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Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein y la familia Bush: cuando el lucro esta mas poderoso que la virtud

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Descubre la periodista investigadora Lucy Komisar sobre los vinculos entre Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden et la familia Bush. Descubre también la banca BCCI y su implicacíon en el comercio de drogas, de armas y en la financiacíon del terrorismo internacional.

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Lucy Komisar on Naked Short Selling and other Wall Steet gambits

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Here is an interview that Lucy Komisar, an investigative reporter specialized on matters related to financial fraud and tricks, gave to Dave Emory for his show, For The Record. Being not a specialist of the financial sector, I won’t venture too far. But there are certain things that I want to draw your attention to, and these are the few tricks that have been developped recently by the crooks of Wall Street. Here they are: short selling, naked short selling and credit default swap.

Short selling happens when a broker buys shares for a client and wait for a certain period of time before transfering it to the buyer. In other terms, the broker waits for the value of the shares to rise on the market before transfering it, therefore making a direct profit in the exchange, besides his normal commission. To give an example, let’s say a broker buys shares at $10 and then waits three days, the legal period of wait, and transfers them at the new current value, for example $12. He then makes a direct profit of $2 per share, plus the commission. Naked short selling happens when a broker buys shares that don’t exist, through a mecanism of « lending » of shares that the Wall Street crooks have invented. With this scheme, the client buyer is not really the owner of the shares, even if he or she possesses papers of ownership. This scam is exposed when there is a vote of share owners and that a greater number of votes are counted than the actual number of shares that exist for that stock. But evidently, the broker gets paid by the « buyer » the value of this phantom share as if it would be real. And credit default swap happens when debts are bundled in large packages and resold in the form of derivative products. You might have heard of the expression « toxic assets ». Anyway, I remind you that I am not sure to get all the nuances for these abstract notions and financial manoeuvres, that is why I am suggeting you to listen to the interview and read the description that Emory made of it in FTR #650. Also, I have joined an article by Lucy Komisar posted on her website about AIG and their financial gambits and problems.

We are governed by crooks and liars. If it is not evident for you already, I think there is more than enough material for you here to change your mind. Welcome to Brave New World.

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Addendum on the piggy-back coups in the Middle East: the Turking Taffy series

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To wrap things up on the piggy-back coups in the Middle East, I present to you the Turkish Taffy series by Dave Emory. I explored with you these complicated and highly evolved operations in these earlier posts: Karl Rove, Libya, The Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda. Make sure to go back and read the information available to refresh your mind before continuing your study. This is not an easy case. Fascism is on the rise on Earth and we must learn the new tricks that the transnationals have found to deceive us. Don’t be fooled: they are always several steps ahead, or so they believe or so they want.

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The bourgeoisie and the political DisneyLand sleep pill

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Something else that gets on my nerves is the bourgeoisie or the middle-class. Don’t get me wrong. I like the middle-class and I think it must continue to exist. The middle-class is essential to the preservation of democratic life. It is a recurring fact that where democracy doesn’t exist or is deficient, just by coincidence these are countries where the middle-class is almost non-existent. My point is that the middle-class lives in a paradise of ideas, theories and concepts that lead it to become estranged from the reality of the political life of its own country or territory. How is that? Simply because in any society, the rich exploit the poor. The rich know that they exploit the poor and the poor know that they are exploited by the rich. But what happens with the middle-class or the bourgeoisie? Well, because they are not the ones exploiting the poor and that they don’t experience directly the exploitation made by the rich, they tend to deny that this exploitation is even happening, they try to downsize it or they express relativist ideas about it.

By personal experience, I know how difficult it is to explain to someone from the middle-class how the world really works. They have all those theories learned at the university or at their workplace about the various aspects of life. They play with a lot of concepts such as: the Right, the Left, social currents, capitalism, communism, Third-World, etc, and obviously, they absolutely have no clue about what these concepts really refer to. Among other sources of phony DisneyLand theories about the world that they express, I have to mention the academic discipline of Sociology. It is incredible the amount of stupidities that it can produce. Sociologists build these gigantic theories about the world and yet it is obvious that they don’t understand the fundamentals. You see, they build their models of the world as if secret societies, intelligence agencies, blackmail, death threats, smear campaigns, double agents of all kinds, infiltrators, etc, wouldn’t exist. It is incredible the naivety of those people.

And the other problem that is revealing itself when we try to alert the minds of bourgeois about the state of the world, is that they have all those nice jobs with social positions and classes that go with them. Are they ready to put that into jeopardy for some « conspiracy theory » proposed by a friend or a family member? I don’t think so. They say to themselves: « If that were to be true, they would have talked about that on CNN or in the Washington Post ». That’s how it works. They’re willing to accept anything that comes from the corporate media without counter-examination or criticism but ready to reject the same that is not reported in the big media. It seems that their whole view of the world is determined by what they are told in the corporate media.

So the bourgeoisie feeds on these theories and gets carried away on a disneylandesque fantasy that brings it to a state of complete hypnotism, unconsciousness and profond sleep. Am I ready to throw the towel on the bourgeoisie? Not yet. But I am getting tired of it. I would like to see more consciousness on its part. That’s probably what Jesus meant when he said that the Kingdom of God belong to the poor. Remember that there was no middle-class in Israel at the time he lived. Even if there was, it probably wouldn’t have understood how the world works anyway, like the middle-class of today.

The « Israel lobby » or how to masquerade anti-semitism

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I’m going to talk to you about something that is getting on my nerves pretty much since a couple of months. Yeah, that’s right, the so-called « Israel lobby ». At the forefront of propagandists for this alleged lobby are a whole bunch of right-wingers, Islamists, Arabs, bourgeois and people from the middle-class, leftists, so-called progressives and liberals. In other terms, it covers rather the whole spectrum of the political life. Everybody whines about this, except Jews and Israelis, of course. To begin with, it is obvious that everybody in a democracy is entitled to have his or her own opinion on the subject and express it. I don’t have any problem with that. My problem is that all those awareness-raisers that entertain us so generously on the « Israel lobby » don’t bring anything to substantiate their claims. No names, no dates, no files, no amount of money, no representative’s names, etc, nothing. They don’t propose anything to back up what they say. I am somebody very open and I am ready to listen to anyone. If I have the occasion to learn something new, I will take it. I am ready to give a chance to anyone. But the problem is that these individuals show neither proof nor evidence to back the alleged Israel lobby theory that they postulate. So I am forced to conclude that the whole thing is in fact a fabrication, manufactured to express but hide at the same time anti-semitic sentiments. It is as plain as that. Because if there was such proof of an Israel lobby, don’t you think that Israel’s detractors wouldn’t present it to give credibility to their case? They certainly wouldn’t miss such an opportunity. That’s what leads me to believe that it is a complete fabrication to masquerade anti-semitism.

Ray McGovern’s performance during Clinton’s speech on freedom on the Internet: childishness or more smearing?

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I hesitated a lot before covering this story, and then suddenly I decided to go ahead with it. I wasn’t sure exactly what to think, I had certain doubts and questions but now I see more clearly. In fact, what I actually thought on first impression has imposed itself as the valid explanation. I also have to mention that the story was covered as well by people I respect in the progressive sector and because they covered it in a way that I feel is not correct, I feel obligated to retort and set the record strait. I became aware of this story through the Boiling Frogs show and the Peter B. Collins show. As you may know, the websites for these two shows are listed on your right in the category Politics and Policy, and I also took the time to write a description of them in the section Resistance that you can read here. So I was more than perplex about the incident and the coverage they made of it.

First of all, let me set the scene to help you understand the context. Hillary Clinton is giving a speech about freedom of speech on the internet and let me precise as well that he video available on Youtube for this incident could be better. The framing, at the beginning of the scene, doesn’t allow us to see the whole room, with McGovern it it. We only see Clinton and we have to make do with it. This room, as the camera frames back, reveals itself to be of a relatively small dimension, and filled with people who are relax and seemingly willing to listen to a speech. And then we witness McGovern being seized by security guards, and after a few seconds we can hear him shout « So this is America? », and the video ends. I wish we could have a better document on which to base our analysis but all we can do is rely on this one. Continuer la lecture →