10 "Arabs are a nation of asses ... why didn't God give them four legs" - Rabbi

(1) More from ben-Menashe on Mossad posing as "Palestinian Terrorists"
(2) Egyptian government burns expired Gaza aid
(3) "Arabs are a nation of asses ... why didn't God give them four legs" - Rabbi
(4) "Nigerian" scammers: 9 Israelis suspected of scamming millions from U.S. pensioners
(5) Amnesty says Israel "wantonly" destroyed Gaza
(6) Palestinians suffering amid scarce water supplies
(7) Africa rejects International Criminal Court directive that Sudanese President be arrested
(8) London Bombings part of a world war - former Mossad head

(1) More from ben-Menashe on Mossad posing as "Palestinian Terrorists"

Ari Ben-Menashe, Profits of War: The Sensational Story of the World-Wide Arms Conspiracy, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1992.

 http://mailstar.net/vanunu.html

{p. 123} Radi arranged for his cousin to meet the Syrian intelligence officer, and Hindawi later came away with the clear impression that what he was doing was for the Arab cause. In accordance with his briefing, Hindawi told his 32-year-old girlfriend, Ann-Marie Murphy, a chambermaid at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, that he loved her and wanted to marry her. He was eager to introduce her, his future bride, to his old Palestinian parents who lived in an Arab village in Israel. He told her to go and visit them and receive their blessing. Then, when she arrived back in England, they would get married. Overjoyed, she agreed to go, not realizing that the address he gave her in Israel was bogus.

As far as Hindawi knew, the woman was going to be sacrificed. All he had to do was tell her that he wanted her to take a bag of gifts to his parents. But because he didn't want to risk her being stopped for having too much carry-on luggage, he would arrange for a "friend" who worked at the airport to pass her the bag when she entered the El Al departure lounge. She would pass through the regular Heathrow security checks and then be given the package containing the bomb.

Hindawi had been told that a Palestinian cleaner would pass the deadly package to Ann-Marie. In mid-April 1986, he kissed her goodbye and watched her walk through passport control to what he expected would be her death, along with that of all the other 400-plus passengers on board the El Al jumbo jet.

In the El Al departure lounge, an Israeli security man dressed in casual clothes - the "Palestinian cleaner" - passed the girl the parcel. She took it. But within seconds she was asked to submit to

{p. 124} a search. The security people, who were in on Rafi Eitan's plan, could not afford any accidents. When the bag was opened, plastic explosives were found in a false bottom.

Ann-Marie was rushed off to be interrogated by British security. Sobbing, she told the story of the rat of a boyfriend. Police arrested Hindawi at the London Visitors Hotel, between Notting Hill and Earl's Court, after his brother convinced him to give himself up. He spilled the beans and told them that a Syrian intelligence officer had asked him to carry out the task. But Radi was not implicated. He was under MI-5 protection. As a result, Margaret Thatcher closed down the Syrian Embassy in London. Rafi Eitan had had his way, Hindawi was jailed for 45 years, and Ann-Marie went home to Ireland where she gave birth to a daughter.

These were the kinds of black operations our slush fund was financing.

(2) Egyptian government burns expired Gaza aid (including peanuts - surely they keep?)
From: World View <ummyakoub@yahoo.com> Date: 12.07.2009 08:11 AM

Egyptian authorities forced to burn expired Gaza aid
Date: 10 / 07 / 2009 Time: 13:28

Bethlehem - Ma'an - Egyptian authorities on Friday said they planned to destroy a large amount of accumulated humanitarian aid bound for Palestinians in Gaza.

The aid expired at the Al-Ouja border crossing between Israel and Egypt while authorities awaited Israel's permission to transfer it through, they said.

The type of aid being transferred is regulated for certain crossing points, and the one for the expired shipment of 680 kg of peanuts, agricultural pesticides and medicine, was designated through one of the Israeli crossings into Gaza.

However Israel never allowed the aid to enter its country and it expired. Authorities said they would set it ablaze in the city of Al-Sheikh Zayed to dispose of it.

It was not the first time that Egyptian authorities disposed of humanitarian and medical aid due to prolonged waits at that particular Israel-Egypt crossing, although a prior agreement between the two countries in theory permits aid i nto Israel as long as it is bound for the Kerem Shalom crossing, about 4.5 kilometers from Rafah.

For its part, Egypt allows the transfer of certain types of medical aid into Gaza via the Rafah crossing.

Meanwhile, Egyptian authorities unearthed four smuggling tunnels between Egypt and Gaza in the Salah Al-Deeb area, and about 120 kilometers from the border. Authorities there announced they had not arrested anyone, but planned to destroy the tunnels.

In Al-Arish city, authorities seized a warehouse full of goods set to be smuggled into Gaza, the Egyptians said. Some 300 cell phones, clothes, 550 blankets and a number of large vessels filled with food and electrical appliances were seized. A man allegedly running the warehouse was arrested, but his name was not released.

Israel and Egypt have maintained a near-total blockade of the Strip by land and sea since June 2007, and the quantities and types of goods allowed into Gaza are subject to tight restrictions. According to the UN and aid agencies some items, such as construction materials needed to rebuild from the recent war, are completely banned. Exports are also prohibited, and Gaza's 1.5 million residents are banned from traveling.
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=39137

(3) "Arabs are a nation of asses ... why didn't God give them four legs" - Rabbi

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3230645,00.html

Rabbi Batzri to be probed for incitement

Prosecution orders inquiry into noted kabbalist and his son after they protest Arab-Jewish school serving Beit Safafa and Pat in Jerusalem, saying Arabs are 'evil, cruel, the scum of snakes. This is a war'

Tal Rosner
Published: 03.21.06, 18:09 / Israel News

The state prosecution ordered an investigation into prominent kabbalist Rabbi David Batzri and his son, Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri, for suspected incitement to racism.

According to prosecution lawyer Shai Nitzan, the two used unacceptable means in attempt to convince residents of Jerusalem's Pat neighborhood to protest a local bi-lingual school where Arab and Jewish children study together.

The Arabic-Hebrew school opened nine years ago and until recently enrolled students from first through sixth grade. After a recent initiative to expand the school to serve seventh and eight grades as well, it was decided to construct a new building on the seam line between the Jewish neighborhood Pat and the Arab neighborhood Beit Safafa.

Construction on the school begins next week with a ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone, and its completion is expected in two-and-a-half years.

The project has met some enthusiasm, and recently a philanthropist from England contributed USD 3.5 million towards the school. However, not everyone is thrilled about the program. Leading an initiative against the school, Rabbi Batzri and his son held a conference two-and-a-half months ago where they made racist slurs against Arabs: "Arabs are a misfortune, a problem, Satan," the two said, according to the prosecution.

'Arabs are asses'

At the conference, the elder Batzri told Pat residents: "The establishment of a school like this one is a despicable and impure act. Stand in the way and prevent this. Darkness and light cannot be mixed. The people of Israel are pure and Arabs are a nation of asses. The question must be asked, why didn't God give them four legs, because they are asses."

The son, Yitzhak Batzri, also made objectionable comments. "The Arabs are beasts and asses," he said. "They are inferior, they want to take our daughters. People say we are racist, but – they are the evil ones, the cruel ones, the scum of snakes. This is war."

Rabbi David Batzri, a leading kabbalist, has been known to spout his racist ideologies whenever the occasion arises. On Rosh Hashana he spoke to Ynet and said that a light earthquake which shook Israel portends a good year for Jews and a bad year for non-Jews, while the hot weather foretold that "The king of Egypt will die this year, and there will be hunger and sadness in all eastern nations where they worship false gods."

Earlier last year, Batzri noted that the floods that killed thousands in the United States and left many more homeless were God's punishment for the Americans' support of the disengagement from the Gaza Strip.

(4) "Nigerian" scammers: 9 Israelis suspected of scamming millions from U.S. pensioners

From: Kristoffer Larsson <kristoffer.larsson@sobernet.nu> Date: 13.07.2009 07:38 PM

Last update - 14:08 05/07/2009

9 Israelis suspected of scamming millions from U.S. pensioners

By Yuval Goren, Haaretz Correspondent

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097901.html

The Tel Aviv police fraud squad arrested on Sunday nine Israelis on suspicion of netting millions of dollars from U.S. pensioners in a so-called Nigerian scam.

Police raided an office in the city, which is suspected to have been the nerve center of the dodgy enterprise. The defendants, all in their 20s and 30s, allegedly phoned American pensioners, told them they had won the lottery and asked them for a fee of several thousand dollars for the transfer of the prize money, which in fact never existed.

The investigation has been conducted in conjunction with U.S. law enforcement agencies.

Last week, it was reported that the American agencies had urged Israel Police to step up the extradition procedure of another ten Israelis who were suspected of scamming $2 million in similar means.

Most of the ten defendants in the advance-fee scam, which was unveiled by police last September, are in their early twenties, without a criminal record.

The first hearing in their extradition plea took place last week, after a New York law enforcement official said many of the victims are old and frail, and urged the Israeli police to bring the alleged offenders to imminent justice.

(5) Amnesty says Israel "wantonly" destroyed Gaza

From: IHR News <news@ihr.org> Date:  11.07.2009 03:31 PM

Israel `Wantonly' Destroyed Gaza, Says Amnesty International

Reuters

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5697135/amnesty-says-israel-wantonly-destroyed-gaza/

Reuters July 3, 2009, 4:01 am

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Amnesty International said on Thursday Israel inflicted "wanton destruction" in the Gaza Strip in attacks that often targeted Palestinian civilians during an offensive in December and January in the Hamas-run enclave.

The London-based rights group, in a 117-page report on the 22 days of fighting, also criticized the Islamist movement Hamas for rocket attacks on Israel, which it called "war crimes."

Among other conclusions, Amnesty said it found no evidence to support Israeli claims that Gaza guerrillas deliberately used civilians as "human shields," but it did, however, cite evidence that Israeli troops put children and other civilians in harm's way by forcing them to remain in homes taken over by soldiers.

Amnesty International said some 1,400 Palestinians were killed in Israel's Operation Cast Lead, including 300 children and hundreds of innocent civilians, a figure broadly in line with those from the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza and the independent Palestinian Center for Human Rights.

The Israeli military put the Palestinian death toll at 1,166 of whom 295 were civilians. Thirteen Israelis were killed, including three civilians, during the offensive Israel launched with the declared aim of curtailing cross-border rocket attacks.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that in the Amnesty report, "things presented as facts are untrue and have no connection to reality."

"The report is tendentious and completely ignores the fact that for eight years Hamas carried out terror and crime against the residents of Israel," he said in a statement.

Accusing Israel of "breaching laws of war," Amnesty said: "Much of the destruction was wanton and deliberate, and was carried out in a manner and circumstances which indicated that it could not be justified on grounds of military necessity."

Commenting on Amnesty's allegations, the Israeli military said it operated in accordance with international law. It said the report ignored "efforts made by the Israel Defense Forces to minimize, as much as possible, harm to non-combatants."

"In many cases, the Israel Defense Forces exercised measures of caution, including warning the civilian population before an attack," the military said. "The Israel Defense Forces directed its attack only against military targets."

A Hamas spokesman said the Amnesty report did not place enough emphasis on "crimes committed by Israel."

"This report equates between the aggressor and the victim and ignores international laws that guarantee resistance against occupation," the spokesman said.

U.N. INQUIRY

Israel and Hamas have both rejected accusations of war crimes during the Gaza fighting. Israel has refused to cooperate with a United Nations inquiry that is now gathering evidence, accusing the investigators of prejudice against it.

Amnesty said although rockets fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip rarely cause casualties, their use was "indiscriminate and hence unlawful under international law." The rockets often sow fear and panic.

It also accused Hamas and other armed groups of endangering the lives of the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza by firing rockets and locating military equipment near homes.

The report however dismissed Israeli claims that Hamas had used Palestinian civilians as "human shields."

Amnesty said it found no evidence that "Hamas or other armed groups forced residents to stay in or around buildings used by fighters, or that fighters prevented residents from leaving buildings or areas which had been commandeered by militants."

But the report said in several cases Israeli soldiers used Palestinian civilians, including children, as "human shields, endangering their lives by forcing them to remain in or near houses which they took over and used as military positions."

(Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Richard Meares

(6) Palestinians suffering amid scarce water supplies

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5717215/palestinians-suffering-amid-scarce-water-supplies/

ABC July 10, 2009, 12:39 pm

Australians are no strangers to water restrictions, but if you think you're doing it tough, spare a thought for the Palestinians.

In the West Bank and Gaza, natural, clean water is a rarity and many Palestinians survive on less than 50 litres of water a day.

A World Bank study blames Israel*. It says not only does Israel control the supply and distribution of water, but it's taking more than its share of the resource from the West Bank.

Muhammed Sharia, who lives with his family and two brothers in Bethlehem says he's lucky if the local water supply comes on once a month.

When it does, the family races to fill an underground cistern and storage tanks to keep them going.

"For completely 12 months - a full year - we didn't get even any drop of water from the tap. So we rely totally on buying water from tanks," he said.

It's a fact of life for most Palestinians - there simply isn't enough water to go around. It's common to see houses with 10 to 15 tanks on a single roof.

Natural water supplies are limited to the Jordan River, a mountain aquifer and ground wells.

Much of what little water is there is claimed by Israel.

Nader Khateeb, the Palestinian director of Friends of the Earth, says the situation leads to depression.

"A Palestinian will get about 50 litres per day, compared to something like 300 litres per capita per day in Israel," he said.

"Psychologically, you don't know when you will get water.

"Within your family all the time you are also under pressure. If somebody will open the tap or if he will consume more water, what's going to happen?"

The Israeli Government blames a five-year drought for the water shortage, and says the Palestinians are still getting more than double what they're entitled to under the Oslo peace accords.

Danny Navo, the head of Israel's water division, says much of the water in question is on Israeli land.

"Who says it belongs to them? They want to claim that because they Palestinian Authority territories is above one-third of the mountain aquifer, which is true, but they are using the mountain aquifer as well," he said.

A World Bank report says Palestinians average about one fifth of the water Israelis have access to - even though much of the water is on their land.

It's more than they used to get before the Israeli occupation because infrastructure is more developed.

But Israel controls the supply and distribution of water, as well as the permit system for digging new wells - and many Palestinians miss out.

"Lots of our daily suffering comes because of the settlements and the settlement activities," Mr Khateeb said.

"They get whatever they want. A good example, if we go to the Jordan Valley, one settler there, he's enjoying more water for agriculture than all the Palestinians there, and the Palestinians have been demanding to get permit to dig a well. They never got that."

The shortage of water has far-reaching economic and health impacts. Without wells, farmers can't grow crops and agricultural output plummets.

(7) Africa rejects International Criminal Court directive that Sudanese President be arrested
From: World View <ummyakoub@yahoo.com> Date: 12.07.2009 08:14 AM

Africa Rejects Criminal Court Order on Sudan, Moves Toward Unity

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Tue, 07/07/2009

http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/africa-rejects-criminal-court-order-sudan-moves-toward-unity

The International Criminal Courts narrow preoccupation with crimes by Africans, as opposed to every other people on the planet, has had a unifying effect on the continent. By consensus agreement, the 53 nations of the African Union agreed to ignore the ICC's directive that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir be arrested by member states. Said the AU's commission chairman: "If you don't want to take into account our proposals…we are also going to act unilaterally."

"The International Criminal Court indicts Africans because it thinks it can get away with it."

The heads of state of the African Union (AU) last week denounced the International Criminal Court, agreeing that none of its 53 member-states will honor the court's demand that nations arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he sets foot on their soil. The consensus agreement was reached at the 13th summit meeting of leaders of the African Union, held in Libya under the AU's current president, Moammar Gadhafi.

Gadhafi also spearheaded an agreement to move closer toward the goal of African continental unity by giving the African Union commission more powers to coordinate continent-wide defense, diplomatic and trade policies.

At least on paper, it was not a good week for European and American imperialism in Africa. Libya's Gadhafi said: "I am sure the founding fathers of Africa are smiling in their graves today."

The African Union's rejection of the International Criminal Court's indictment of Sudan's president on charges of crimes against humanity in the Darfur region signals a dramatic break, not only with the court, but with American and European attempts to foment regime change in Africa. Jean Ping, chairman of the AU commission, put it bluntly. Africans, he said, "are showing to the world community that if you don't want to listen to the continent, if you don't want to take into account our proposals…we are also going to act unilaterally."

"Libya's Gadhafi said: 'I am sure the founding fathers of Africa are smiling in their graves today.'"

In fact, it would be more accurate to say that there is no such thing as a 'world community' without the continent of Africa – and there can be no credible legal action taken against Africans without Africa's consent.

The International Criminal Court has shown itself to be a white man's tool. In the last seven years, it has restricted its war crimes and crimes against humanity investigations solely to the African continent. Amnesty International claims that Africa's credibility has been undermined by its refusal to comply with the international court's order. What racist, Eurocentric nonsense! When 53 nations representing a continent of the world's people reject the machinations of the court, it is the court that is revealed to be devoid of all credibility. And that goes for Amnesty International, as well.

Human Rights Watch was even more arrogant, accusing Libya of "bullying" the other heads of state at the African Union summit. Human Rights Watch has a twisted idea of who the real bullies are in this world. Global imperialists get a free pass, while insults and indictments are reserved for Africans. Yet these European- and American-based organizations wonder why they're not welcomed in many countries. As Sudan's foreign minister declared, correctly: "Most Africans believe [the court] has been set up against Africa and the Third World."

The International Criminal Court indicts Africans because it thinks it can get away with it, but ignores European and American culpability in atrocities around the globe, including in Africa. The United States refuses even to join the court, and has always ignored international law as a matter of policy. If the U.S. and Europe are allowed to act unilaterally in their perceived interest, then it's about time the continent of Africa act forcefully and collectively in Africa's own interests.

(8) London Bombings part of a world war - former Mossad head

From: Andrew S. MacGregor <ama18870@bigpond.net.au> Date: 09.07.2009 11:44 AM

Rules of conflict for a world war (JERUSALEM POST)

By EFRAIM HALEVI 07/07/05)

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1120702711778

The multiple, simultaneous explosions that took place yesterday on the London transportation system were the work of perpetrators who had an operational capacity of considerable scope. They have come a long way since the two attacks of the year 1998 against the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam, and the aircraft actions of September 11, 2001.

There was careful planning, intelligence gathering, and a sophisticated choice of timing as well as near-perfect execution. We are faced with a deadly and determined adversary who will stop at nothing and will persevere as long as he exists as a fighting terrorist force.

One historical irony: I doubt whether the planners knew that one of the target areas, that in Russell Square, was within a stone's throw of a building that served as the first headquarters of the World Zionist Organization that preceded the State of Israel.

It was at 77 Great Russell Street that Dr. Chaim Weizmann, a renowned chemist, presided over the effort that culminated in the issuing of the Balfour Declaration, the first international recognition of the right of the Jewish people to a national home in what was then still a part of the Ottoman Empire.

We are in the throes of a world war, raging over the entire globe and characterized by the absence of lines of conflict and an easily identifiable enemy. There are sometimes long pauses between one attack and another, consequently creating the wrong impression that the battle is all over, or at least in the process of being won.

Generally speaking, the populations at large are not involved in the conflict, and by and large play the role of bystanders. But once in a while, these innocents are caught up in the maelstrom and suffer the most cruel and wicked of punishments meted out by those who are not bound by any rules of conduct or any norms of structured society. For a while, too short a while, we are engrossed with the sheer horror of what we see and hear, but, with the passage of time, our memories fade and we return to our daily lives, forgetting that the war is still raging out there and more strikes are sure to follow.

It cannot be said that seven years after this war broke out in east Africa, we can see its conclusion. We are in for the long haul and we must brace ourselves for more that will follow. The 'Great Wars' of the 20th century lasted less than this war has already lasted, and the end is nowhere in sight.

There will be supreme tests of leadership in this unique situation and people will have to trust the wisdom and good judgment of those chosen to govern them. The executives must be empowered to act resolutely and to take every measure necessary to protect the citizens of their country and to carry the combat into whatever territory the perpetrators and their temporal and spiritual leaders are inhabiting.

The rules of combat must be rapidly adjusted to cater to the necessities of this new and unprecedented situation, and international law must be rewritten in such a way as to permit civilization to defend itself. Anything short of this invites disaster and must not be allowed to happen.

The aim of the enemy is not to defeat western civilization but to destroy its sources of power and existence, and to render it a relic of the past. It does not seek a territorial victory or a regime change; it wants to turn western civilization into history and will stop at nothing less than that.

It will show no mercy or compassion and no appreciation for these noble values when practiced by us. This does not mean that we can or should assume the norms of our adversaries, nor that we should act indiscriminately. It does mean that the only way to ensure our safety and security will be to obtain the destruction, the complete destruction, of the enemy.

MUCH HAS been said in recent years about the vital need for international cooperation. There is no doubt that this is essential. Yet no measure of this will suffice and it cannot replace the requirement that each and every country effectively declare itself at war with international Islamist terror and recruit the public to involve itself actively in the battle, under the direction of the legal powers that be.

In the past, governments have been expected to provide security to their citizens. The responsibility is still there, in principle. But in practice, no government today can provide an effective 'suit of protection' for the ordinary citizen. There can be no protection for every bus, every train, every street, every square. In these times the ordinary citizen must be vigilant and must make his personal contribution to the war effort. Private enterprise will have to supplement the national effort in many walks of life.

The measures that I have outlined above will not be easily adopted overnight. When the US entered World War Two, Congress approved the momentous decision by a majority of one vote. Profound cultural changes will have to come about and the democratic way of life will be hard-pressed to produce solutions that will enable the executive branch to perform its duties and, at the same time, to preserve the basic tenets of our democratic way of life. It will not be easy, but it will be essential not to lose sight of every one of these necessities.

This war is already one of the longest in modern times; as things appear now, it is destined to be part of our daily lives for many years to come, until the enemy is eliminated, as it surely will be.

The writer, who heads the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is a former head of the Mossad. (© 1995-2005, The Jerusalem Post 07/07/05)