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Posted By dissent 4 months, 1 week ago in NewsThe $2 billion promised with much ceremony at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit about six months ago - of it $900 million from the new America under President Barack Obama - is lying in vaults at the international banks. A senior American diplomat explained a few days ago that his country is not transferring the money "because Israel is objecting," and an American law prohibits trading with Hamas. He said this in utter seriousness, as if there were no American commitment to transfer the money, and as if the great America were dependent on Israel. However, the burden of Gaza's suffering is also weighing on Obama's shoulders: Without its rehabilitation, his great promise is hollow.
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
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jordan114 months, 1 week ago
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A senior American diplomat explained a few days ago that his country is not transferring the money "because Israel is objecting," and an American law prohibits trading with Hamas.>>>>
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Then the obvious question is, why did we put $900 million American dollars into an international bank for aid to the Palestinians? Get it the hell out of there, and use it here. No need to give the bank money to play with. They don't need it. And we do. -
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hyperbola4 months, 1 week ago
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This is chicken feed compared to the over $3 TRILLION that the zionists have cost Americans. We would be better off to end our relationship with Israel, ask them to start paying us back, and begin punishing their crimes against humanity. A new crimes deserving of punishment is being committed almost every day - like this one.
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Israel's New Piracy Acts: The“Spirit of Humanity
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/07/02/israel39...
On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the “Spirit of Humanity,” kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction materials, and children’s toys that were on the way to the Mediterranean coast of Gaza. The “Spirit of Humanity,” along with the kidnapped 21 persons, is being towed to Israel as I write.
Gaza has been described as the “world’s largest concentration camp.” It is home to 1.5 million Palestinians who were driven by force of American-supplied Israeli arms out of their homes, off their farms, and out of their villages so that Israel could steal their land and make the Palestinian land available to Israeli settlers.
...As President Obama has called for humanitarian aid to be sent to Gaza, and as the International Red Cross has damned the inhumanity of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the question that immediately comes to mind is why did not the United States send sufficient US Navy escort to see the “Spirit of Humanity” safely through international waters to Gaza? We send ships against Somalian pirates, why not against Israeli ones?
We all know the answer. The US talks a good “human rights” game, but never delivers--especially if the human rights abuser is Israel. After all, Israel owns the US Congress and President Obama. Israel even has an Israeli citizen and former member of the Israeli Defense Forces as the Chief-of-Staff in Obama’s White House. Israel owns millions of American “Christian Zionists” and “rapture evangelicans.” When it comes to Israel, the American government is a puppet state. It does what it is told.
Macho Americans might stand tall, but not when Israel snaps its fingers.-
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hyperbola4 months, 1 week ago
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Meanwhile, California, which has become a failed state, has been denied bailout money from Washington. Israel, which has been a failed state for 60 years, can, unlike the American state of California, always count of Washington to deliver the money and the weapons to keep Israel going.
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The same week that “our” government in Washington told the Governor of California “not one red cent,” President Barak Obama handed over $2.775 billion to Israel.
Online Journal (June 29) reported that the handover to Israel of the unemployed Americans’ tax dollars took place in a “tiny Capitol room” to which members of the press were denied access. I mean, really, who wants the media writing about US taxpayer dollars for Israel’s nuclear weapons while Americans are being kicked out of their homes....
Americans think that they are a superpower, but in fact they are a stupor-power. A puppet state if truth be known.
There is a great deal of evidence, even in Time magazine that Israel is a child abuser. “God’s Chosen People” routinely abuses captured Palestinian children. The Israelis also abuse Palestinian children by shooting them down in the streets.
Don’t take my word for it. The Geneva-based Defense for Children International says, according to Time Magazine, that “the ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian child prisoners appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized, suggesting complicity at all levels of the political and military chain of command.” ....
And the brainwashed American public goes along year after year.
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AnteUp4 months, 1 week ago
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I LOVE Gideon Levy mentioning the MUD HOUSES. Does anyone
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recall the ridicule some of us suffered from Thinker?
We knew NOTHING.......there is NO MUD in Gaza! We speak
on things we know nothing about, so Thinker said.
Okay - So I'm feeling much better knowing I'm in the
company of Gideon Levy - we who know nothing should
stick together- lol!
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