I’d like to share, especially with American readers, a great moment in the British Parliament on 5 February when the MP for Gorton, Manchester, Sir Gerald Kaufman rose to speak in a debate on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Here is what he said word for word so that you get the full flavour:

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I once led a delegation of 60 parliamentarians from 13 European Parliaments to Gaza. I could no longer do that today because Gaza is practically inaccessible. The Israelis try to lay the responsibility on the Egyptians, but although the Egyptians’ closing of the tunnels has caused great hardship, it is the Israelis who have imposed the blockade and are the occupying power. The culpability of the Israelis was demonstrated in the report to the UN by Richard Goldstone following Operation Cast Lead. After his report, he was harassed by Jewish organisations. At the end of a meeting I had with him in New York, his wife said to me, “It is good to meet another self-hating Jew.”


Again and again, Israel seeks to justify the vile injustices that it imposes on the people of Gaza and the west bank on the grounds of the holocaust. Last week, we commemorated the holocaust; 1.7 million Palestinians in Gaza are being penalised with that as the justification. That is unacceptable.

The statistics are appalling. There is fresh water for a few hours every five days. Fishing boats are not allowed to go out—in any case, what is the point, because the waters are so filthy that no fish they catch can be eaten? The Israelis are victimising the children above all. Half the population of this country is under the voting age. What is being done to those children—the lack of nutrition—is damaging not only their bodies and brains; it will go on for generation after generation.

It is totally unacceptable that the Israelis should behave in such a way, but they do not care. Go to Tel Aviv, as I did not long ago, and watch them sitting complacently outside their pavement cafés. They do not give a damn about their fellow human beings perhaps half an hour away. The right hon. Member for Banbury (Sir Tony Baldry) quoted the Prime Minister as saying that Gaza is a prison camp. It is all very well for him to say that, as he did, in Turkey—he was visiting a Muslim country—but what is he doing about it? Nothing, nothing, nothing!

The time when we could condemn and think that that was enough has long passed. The Israelis do not care about condemnation. They are self-righteous and complacent. We must now take action against them. We must impose sanctions. If the spineless Obama will not do it, we must do it—even unilaterally. We must press the European community for it to be done. These people cannot be persuaded. We cannot appeal to their better nature when they do not have one. It is all very well saying, “Wicked, wicked Hamas.” Hamas is dreadful. I have met people from Hamas, but nothing it has done justifies punishing children, women and the sick as the Israelis are doing now. They must be stopped.

As has been pointed out, there is a time limit for what we are talking about. The idea that things can go on, while we wait for a two-state solution, is gone. Sooner or later, the Palestinians will say, “We are dying anyhow, so let us die for something.” Let us stop that: I do not want a war. I do not want violent action, but the action that the international community takes must be imposed, otherwise hell will break loose. ”

Sir Gerald is one of the very few heroic figures in British politics. His family suffered horribly during the Holocaust. After the Israelis’ Operation Cast Lead against Gaza in 2008/9 in which they slaughtered 1400, mostly civilians including hundreds of children, he told the House of Commons: “My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.”

He doesn’t mince words; he knows the Israeli regime for what it really is. “They’re not simply war criminals, they’re fools”. He calls Israel itself a “pariah state”.

In April 2002, during Israel’s controversial military operation codenamed Defensive Shield, Kaufman said in the Commons: “It is time to remind Sharon that the Star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions are staining the star of David with blood.”

He also compared Hamas in Gaza to the Jewish resistance during World War II. “The spokeswoman for the Israeli army, Major Leibovich, was asked about the Israeli killing of, at that time, 800 Palestinians. The total is now 1,000. She replied instantly that ’500 of them were militants’. That was the reply of a Nazi. I suppose the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been dismissed as militants.”

As for Hamas, he describes them as “a deeply nasty organisation, but it was democratically elected, and it is the only game in town. The boycotting of Hamas, including by our Government, has been a culpable error, from which dreadful consequences have followed.” He pointed out that the Irgun [infamously responsible for the bombing in 1946 of the King David Hotel, HQ of the British Mandate government, murdering 91, and the Deir Yassin massacre in 1948] were terrorists, and that “Israel was born out of Jewish terrorism”.

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There was a really good article in the last weekend herald about the growing boycott movement - which is actually hurting Israel.

For the first time in a long time I'm actually feeling optimistic. It seems there is real change in the air. Its ironic that its Israel's belligerence and deliberate sabotage of the two-state process that is creating this new opportunity for activists to campaign using a South African apartheid frame of reference. Then, as now, sanctions and boycotts were central to causing the collapse of apartheid policies, and eventual emancipation of the mass of people discriminated against on racial grounds.

It could be that the very belligerence and short-sightedness of Israel in trying to crush the independent Palestinian movement, has itself created the best opportunity for true peace and justice for the Palestinian people.

polite_gandalf wrote on Feb 10^th, 2014 at 9:00pm:



gandalf is feeling optimistic.




Moslems will never acknowledge the right of Israel to exist.

Moslems will never acknowledge that 'Palestinians' have already been given a whole nation to themselves, formed for that purpose [as a 'homeland'].




IMAGE....




Quote:

http://www.think-israel.org/puder.bdshypocrisy.html





Come quickly LORD.

Teach your enemies.

polite_gandalf wrote on Feb 11^th, 2014 at 12:24pm:


Oh really!




gandalf,

You know very well, that it is completely unlawful for a moslem to offer peace [that is, to live in a state of permanent peace] with the infidel, and you know that it is completely unlawful for a moslem to offer to live in equality with the infidel.



QUESTION;

Are you really a moslem, gandalf, ...or not ?

As a moslem, are you just lying to me, and misrepresenting ISLAM to me [and to other persons who are not moslems] ?

Or are you a sincere person who is ignorant of ISLAM's obligations upon you [as a moslem] [towards infidels] ?



ANSWER;

I don't believe you gandalf.

I do not believe that you are a sincere person.

Why not ?

Because you yourself declare, that you ARE a moslem.

Dictionary;
Muslim = = a follower of Islam.

You are a moslem, gandalf.

Moslem = = "...is an Arabic word meaning.....[an unbeliever] a person....who hides, denies, or covers the truth."







Quote:

http://www.think-israel.org/winston.hudaibiyatreaty.html





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google




Google;
taqiyya - the muslim doctrine of deceit

Yadda wrote on Feb 11^th, 2014 at 1:58pm:


you sure you got that right?  I have never heard that before.  Even from you

You may be right Gandalf, look at the countries putting pressure on a illegal state called Israel.




(MEMO)  - Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has released a report revealing that the Foreign Ministry has acknowledged its inability to face the growing boycott campaign despite resorting to all political and judicial means, which have been ineffective, especially against private companies. The report explained that the ministry has succeeded in putting pressure on some European governments to take a stance against calls to boycott Israel following the resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians.

“It would be useless to launch an anti-boycott campaign to promote settlement products,” said a ministry official. Israel has been able to curb several boycott initiatives, said the report. Even in unfriendly countries, the boycott has not been made law yet; however it is likely that some politicians will push this “due to the sweeping wave of hostility” towards Israel.

According to Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid, “If the peace talks with the Palestinians fail, Israel would lose exports worth nearly 20 billion shekels”. Furthermore, he added, the EU might also abolish its partnership with Israel, which means an extra loss of 3.5 billion shekels, mainly in the agriculture sector. Lapid noted that major European food chains, especially in Britain and the Scandinavian countries, have banned settlement products.



Yedioth Ahronoth published a list of companies and institutions that implement boycotts against Israel:

Norway: The Government Pension Fund of Norway has sold its shares in Africa Israel Investments, Danya Cebus and Sesa Sterlite.

Germany: The German Railway Company did not bid to build or operate the train service which runs through the occupied Palestinian territories.

Belgium: The Belgian government has cancelled a “Tel Aviv – the White City” exhibition which was scheduled in the capital, Brussels.

Scotland: The Edinburgh International Film Festival returned an award granted by the Israeli Embassy in line with its decision to boycott the state.

Australia: The Maryville municipality in Sydney province imposed a boycott on Israel and all companies engaged in trade with it. Several pro-Palestinian organisations have called for a boycott of oranges produced in Jaffa and Max Brenner chocolate.

Netherlands: The Netherlands’ largest water company, Vitens, has severed ties with Israel’s Mekorot water company. The Dutch Pension Fund has withdrawn all investments from Israeli banks.

South Africa: The South African Foreign Minister announced that the cabinet will boycott Israel and will not visit it. The South African Trade and Commerce Union stopped importing an Israeli-made circumcision device.

Britain:
◦UK major retail chain, the Co-operative, has boycotted all products produced in the settlements in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.
◦Marks & Spencer fashion house has been boycotting settlement products since 2007 .

Ireland:
◦The Irish workers’ trade Union has announced its decision to boycott all Israeli products and services.
◦The Irish teachers’ Union supports imposing an academic boycott on Israel.

Canada:
◦The Canadian postal workers Union boycotts Israel.
◦The Protestant Church in Vancouver launched a campaign to boycott settlement products.

United States:
◦The American Studies Association has recently joined the academic boycott imposed against Israel by many universities and unions.

The American Pension Fund has withdrawn its investments from a company that sell agricultural

building settlements on other people's property is not self defense Baron.

Do you have anything to say on the topic?

Around 70 percent of  all refugees, which amounts to 10,792,095, around the world originated from Muslim countries.
islamic Human Rights Commission figures 2010

U.N.H.C.R.figures 2013 More than half (55%) of all refugees worldwide came from five countries: Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Sudan.

In all of these links we see that muslims are causing the worlds refugee problems, all they do is kill people and blame everybody else.

Palestine: (Jewish Perspective) Quote:


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