Eric Kirk and His Brownshirts Strike Again

[UPDATE :: Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014] -- Israel: A cornered rat

"The rats in Israel have their backs to the wall. They are cornered, and they know it. And as they blindly lash out in useless fury by mass-murdering ever-increasing numbers of helpless women and children, they are simply hastening their own inevitable demise."

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Here is, in the comments below, a clear-cut example of racist, fascist bigotry of the infected deadly propaganda puking Brownshirts spewing their diseased sociopathic insanity on everyone. Just don't say anything negative about their Holy Jew. That will get your throat cut in a heartbeat. What Eric Kirk and Mitch et. al. don't realize is that this situation has gone way too far for any peaceful, "negotiated" resolution. Their rotten corrupt way of thinking and believing has already judged and killed them. They are like the cancer-ridden person that is two weeks from dying and doesn't know it. Talking won't save them and their Brownshirt scum. Nor will it save the Jews.

--Joe

July 31, 2014 at 1:31 pm

Stephen

Gaza UN shelter attack ‘totally unacceptable’ – White House

Mitch: It has always struck me as remarkable that this situation has continued to exist throughout my lifetime. The willingness of so many Jew-hating idiots on the left to view Israel as an aggressor, given the history, is just proof of the depth with which Jew-hating is embedded in the “Christian” west.

Mitch, you and Eric and all our local Zionist yahoos, are moral cretins, all of you blind to fascism when it’s done by Jews. Wake up, You’re the idiot promoter of Zionist racist assholes stealing Palestinian land and genociding its people. The Christians in the Holy Land are the only ones acting with moral sense and they are attacked by your gang of fascist Jewish nazis as well as the Muhammadan nazis. You dare to throw out that passe smear of Christianity when your, our people are the ones behaving like mad dog rabid animals unable to stop killing even when the victims are clearly innocent people. You and Eric are dangers to Humboldt County activism as you lack both intelligence and morality when it comes to sharing information with the community. Please stop promoting religious fascism along with Eric by supporting the censorship of anti-Zionist posts and by promoting Zionist killer ape ideology.

July 31, 2014 at 1:37 pm

Stephen

Folks, we have a real situation in America where a real 5th Column exists serving a foreign fascist nation at America’s financial and moral expense. Please recognize Zionists in our midst who are representing Israel’s interests so that Israel can get away with literal murder of Palestinians in the way of their hideous racist goal of removing all Gentile Palestinians from Palestine to remake it Jewish, i.e. Yiddish Khazarian Kingdom planted in the Middle East and Americans are paying for it’s establishment and its Zionist killer apes at the helm of Israeli government.

July 31, 2014 at 1:45 pm

Eric Kirk

I decided to let a couple of Stephen’s posts through. I’ve blocked all of his previous rants. Hoping it’ll give a few progressives pause to think about their own rhetoric on the issue.

July 31, 2014 at 1:53 pm

Mitch

Yeah, Eric, I once tried that, too. It didn’t work out well.

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To all you hypocrites.

"HENRY SIEGMAN: But a more important point to be made here—and this is why these distinctions are so dishonest—the state of Israel does not recognize a Palestinian state, which is to say there are parties in Netanyahu’s government—very important parties, not marginal parties—including his own, the Likud, that to this day has an official platform that does not recognize the right of Palestinians to have a state anywhere in Palestine. And, of course, you have Naftali Bennett’s party, the HaBayit HaYehudi, which says this openly, that there will never be a state, a Palestinian state, anywhere in Palestine. Why hasn’t our government or anyone said, "Like Hamas, if you have parties like that in your government, you are not a peace partner, and you are a terrorist group, if in fact you use violence to implement your policy, as Hamas does"? So the hypocrisy in the discussion that is taking place publicly is just mind-boggling."

The complete interview on Democracy Now is in two parts, here and here.

The Ebola-like Plague that is America

America is a plague infected country hemorrhaging putrid, dead blood from within and without. When the World realizes that America is the real corporal contagion and how deadly it is to man's survival upon this Earth, America will be totally quarantined into complete isolation. By that time the same disease will have already killed the evil Jews and their Zionist State, Israel. Sadly, however, one of the most prolific contagions that poses the greatest threat is a rotting corpse. Here are the origins of this disease and how this deadly disease manifests itself in American society:

In the Middle East, the Palestinian people find themselves in the grip of a terrorist group that has embarked on a strategy to get its own children killed in order to build sympathy for its cause - a strategy that might actually be working, at least in some quarters. 

Last week, I found a quote of many years ago by Golda Meir, one of Israel's early leaders, which might have been said yesterday. 

"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children," she said. "But we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their children." [Emphasis mine]

These are the words of Bob Schieffer, "CBS' host of Face the Nation as he ended his show's broadcast with a monologue about the 'world gone mad,' in which he quoted Golda Meir and Will Durant." The rest of his "madness" is here. These are the words of the most rotten, despotic, corrupt and sick insane thinking imaginable. Not only is this statement a filthy lie it degrades the Palestinian people beyond any possibility of recognized human value.

Another demonstration of the disease and why Israel is already a rotting corpse:  Child-killing sociopaths of Israel:

Every time Israel embarks on a new round of wholesale slaughter in Gaza, polls show that more than 90% of Israelis support the butchery. 

For Israelis, mass-murdering children is a spectator sport. When the IDF starts dropping cluster bombs, white phosphorous, DIME munitions and other horrendous weapons on Gaza, crowds of Israelis pack the hilltops to barbecue meat, drink alcohol and cheer as they watch Palestinian children being blown to bits.

 The article continues...

This fatal sociopathic disease is further defined by Glenn Greenwald, "Terrorism in the Israeli Attack on Gaza" Glenn says in part:

In American media discourse, when Palestinians overwhelmingly kill soldiers (95% of the Israeli death toll) who are part of an army that is blockading, occupying, invading, and indiscriminately bombing them and killing their children by the hundreds, that is “terrorism”; when Israelis use massive, brutal force against a trapped civilian population, overwhelmingly killing innocent men, women and children (at least 75% of the Palestinian death toll), with clear intentions to kill civilians, that is noble “self-defense.”

And if you need anymore putrid infected blood defining this sickness, just listen to Barack Obama and John Kerry explain why only Israel has the legitimate right to defend itself. But, Obama, Kerry and Netanyahu only represent the people and in a Democratic system, the people are ultimately responsible.

And then there are the sick people. It isn't just the American and Israeli governments that puke out this sociopathic death. In this Washington Post article, Israelis support Netanyahu and Gaza war, despite rising deaths on both sides, "87% of the Jewish Israelis support continuing the Gaza operation. A survey by the Israel Democracy Institute found that 95 percent of Israeli Jews think the operation in Gaza is just..."

And then there is the U.S. support:
U.S. lawmakers falling over themselves to throw full support behind Israel 
"While much of the rest of the world watches the Gaza war in horror and scrambles for a cease-fire, U.S. lawmakers are pressing the Obama administration to take no action that puts pressure on Israel to halt its military operations."

The American people according to CNN: New poll finds American support for Israel slipping in wake of military actions in Gaza

Then there is the local reality demonstrated by the Brownshirt Blogs. Awhile back I wrote about how these blogs and their supporters contribute to the growing fascism and racism affecting everyone locally. A good example is apathy and denial for any personal responsibility expressed in Eric Kirk's, Mideast Crisis Discussion on Thursday Night Talk this Week - For example, he starts out by saying: "It’s kind of hard to discuss the matter dispassionately as body parts are flying all over the Gaza, but we’ll make the effort." And: "Undisputed is the fact that Gazans are being killed by a hundred for every Israeli killed." And concludes with this brilliant zinger: "But I’m not going to get into a discussion of which side is more or less morally culpable."

The de facto reality defines who is "morally culpable," but he's too gutless to confront issues of morality and decency. He can tell you who is the substandard human and effectively frame the issue by inferring who is morally culpable - Oh yeah, and at the same time, he can tell you all about what the Universe thinks. Even so, he does take on the issue, which is more than most. Read what he says in the comment section and you will easily see and understand how he defines himself. He, as usual, is totally ignorant of what the war is all about and why and what people are dying for. Actually, he might get a hint if he ever understood what he and I are about - it's the same issue. Like the Jews, it is a war he already lost and is either too stupid or too sick to know it - yet.

I wonder how Kirk would act if his family was bottled up in his home with nowhere to run for protection because the local political leaders he voted into office "got a grip on him" and he was forced to wait for that retributive drone missile or bomb to blow his wife and children all to hell - "with (their) body parts flying all over" Humboldt County?

Bob Schieffer and Eric Kirk --Therein lies the rot - the deadly sociopathic Ebola-like disease.

[UPDATE]  Spreading the disease - The rot in all it's glorious Brownshirt corruption:

And, as I might add Andrew Stunich, in his own words, a prime example of a sick Ebola infected sociopath, here and here with Eric Kirk. Including now, the other Brownshirt Erasmus.

--Joe

The Biblical Rape of Palestine

[UPDATE Below]

The Jew lie: "The war is with the terrorist Hamas and their tunnels." You do not kill women and children, bomb refuge camps and level whole towns when fighting a military so-called terrorist organization. The Jew war is with all Palestinian people. But, the Jew is not satisfied with simply defeating the Palestinians. The want to humiliate them and prove to the world that the Palestinian man has no manhood - no power to protect his women and children cowering at the feet of the mighty Jew. It is the only way the Jew can justify the legitimate taking Palestinian land for their Jew State. That is why they have repeatedly raped the Palestinian people for 66 years. The question for all Palestinian people this time is will they continue to fight the rape and justify their legitimate right to continue their existence as a people and condemn to death their rapist executioner Jew or capitulate and screw in the hope the Jew will let them live and perhaps get pregnant and survive by a bastard son?

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The difference between a domesticated dog and a wild coyote.

If you listen to the news about the Middle East you would believe Israel is defending itself from some radical terrorist that's attacking them. But, if you look at the pictures you soon realize that the terrorists are the Jews who are attacking and killing innocent women and children. The only way Americans know how to fight. Is it any wonder, then, that the Americans support the Jews?

A few people have the fortitude and courage to speak out on what they know to be true. A good example of this was Yonatan Shapira, a former Israeli captain and Air Force pilot speaking on Democracy Now this morning, Thursday, July 24, 2014. His perspective lends some rather interesting observations. He starts the interview by trying to get Amy Goodman's cameraman to show that in Tel Aviv, City Center, that the Kirya, the headquarter of the army is just few meters from the biggest hospital in Tel Aviv, Ichilov and  is surrounded by civilians, women and children. So, who is hiding behind civilians to prosecute their wars? Do you see the hypocrisy?

He says, in part:

But overall, overall, there is a disease in my country, and the disease is spreading very fast, and it’s called fascism and racism. Fascism and racism is now the biggest threat of the Jewish people in the Middle East. And I can just cry and shout and ask everyone that hear us now to join the BDS movement, to join the boycott, divestment and sanction movement, and to try to put enormous pressure on your leaders, wherever they are, that they, in turn, will help us here stop this massacre, stop this ongoing slaughter of innocent people. I have friends in Gaza now that yesterday called and told us that their house in Shejaiya was leveled. Now the only thing they have is the cellphone, and a family of nine people are hiding in the Shifa Hospital. This is a war crime. This is an ongoing slaughter of innocent people. And that’s the discussion. That’s what we have to talk about, how to stop it. [Read: "Israeli shell hits UN-run school used to shelter hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Gaza, killing 15 and injuring at least 200"]

The festering disease he's talking about, "fascism and racism" originates in America - in that, there is a common purpose, backed up by the radical, conservative religions both Jew and Christian, to justify the massacre and slaughter of innocent people to perpetuate Jew existence. He concluded:

And I think that if I have to give one allegory to this whole thing, and this need of Israel and me, myself, of self-protection—legitimate thing, by the way; I want to be safe, I don’t want anyone to bomb me and to kill me and my baby—I would imagine it as gang rape. And forgive me for using this hard language, but when you have a group of people raping someone, and this person that is being raped starting to scratch, the first thing you want to do in order to stop the scratches is to stop the rape. And what Israel, official Israel, is trying to do is to continue the rape and deal with the scratches. And I say, stop the rape, stop the occupation, stop the apartheid, stop this inhumane ghettoization of Palestinians, and then—then—we can start talking, and we can reach peace agreements and all these beautiful words that now don’t mean anything for us. [Emphasis mine]

I learned when living in coyote country to protect our dog and cat at all times. When a domesticated dog goes after a cat, usually all it takes is for one scratch on the dog's nose and it runs off and leaves the cat alone. So, cats generally survive a belligerent encounter with a dog. Dogs don't like cat scratches. With coyotes, dogs, specially smaller dogs and cat's scratches don't bother them. Why is that? They don't pay any attention to defensive dog bite and cat scratches. When coyotes attack, they go straight for the kill. 

That is exactly what Israel and the Jews are doing with the Palestinian people. If they can't get them to agree to the rape, participate in it or respond to it, then they are going to kill them. To the Jew, the Hamas are nothing more than Palestinian fingernails.

Read: "Israel's security cabinet rejects cease-fire proposal" and "Kerry Pledges to Continue Mideast Cease-Fire Effort Over Weekend -- U.S., U.N. and Egypt Seek Temporary Pause in Fighting"

The voracious bestiality of the abhorrent Jew is more than most people, in good conscience, can stomach. Remember, coyotes do not just kill for food. Once they get a smell and taste of blood they have been observed to kill just for the pure pleasure of the blood letting. And that, I'm afraid, is exactly what's going on with the Jews - they're killing Palestinians because they can, with impunity and for the pleasure of doing so. So if you are not a coyote, it is time to make sure people know that.

Live like a coyote, die like a coyote.

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UPDATE: Sunday, July 28, 2014

The cruel cease-fire charade
 'Only stones remain': Gaza in ruins
Israel Has Chosen to be a "Racist Apartheid State" with U.S. Support

--Joe

Malevolent Insane JEW

[UPDATE Below - The Jews slaughter the Palestinian people as they are ALL Hamas.]

Published in the Times-Standard Newspaper for California North Coast readers:

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The despotism of these insane Jews knows no limits. Blaming the victim for Jew's deliberate murder of women and children in their insane attempt to justify the brutal slaughter of an occupied and oppressed people is the ultimate act of wanton terror. What the Jews are doing to the Palestinian people puts the whole human population on trial - everyone's legitimate existence is on the docket.

The latest atrocity: ‘Shells were chasing them’: Four Palestinian children killed on beach by Israeli rockets 

Another atrocity: State Department Responds to Israel’s Bombing of Children Playing on Gaza Beach by Blaming Hamas - The ultimate perversion, blame the victim.
And another atrocity: (Protecting the Jew media propaganda.) NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
The atrocities grow as the Jews massacre innocent Palestinian people - Yes they are people: Deadly Sunday in Gaza: At least 87 Palestinians & 13 Israeli soldiers killed - AND - ‘Shejaia massacre’ in Gaza prompts urgent UN Security Council meeting
[Source]

--Joe

This Aberration Called JEW

This scum, unfit to use as natural fertilizer, is going into the sea - or burn in fiery hell.

The following is a terrorist's rational for butchering helpless women and children. I'm posting the commentary of Joshua Hantman, senior adviser to Israel’s ambassador to the United States in it's entirety as spoken on Democracy Now. It is his kind of beliefs that enunciates the thinking that condemns and judges the Jew by Universal Law as unfit and illegitimate to live on this Earth. The barbarity spoken here is gut-wrenching sick. The Bible's Peter says regarding such people: "By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men." (2 Peter 3:7 NIV) Hantman and his bloody Jews are living epitome of "ungodly men."

The Jews, call them Zionist, Israelis, whatever you want - to me they are all illegitimate humans unfit to populate this Earth. They are a malignant cancer killing all humanity. Their grand scheme as terrorists was to eradicate the land of Palestine of its local population for themselves; setting themselves up with their own sovereign nation called Israel. With the help of another terrorist nation that was successful in doing the same thing, they managed to take some of the land, but could not justify the butchery required to exterminate the Palestinians, so they waged a 66 year war on the Palestinian people to get them to try to defend themselves - commit acts of aggression in self-defence - that the Jews could use as justification for their genocide. The Jews in 66 years never stopped killing Palestinian people. Nor did they ever stop trying to get the Palestinian people to justify their right to kill them - read Joshua Hantman below.

Democracy Now: 

As Palestinian Deaths Top 100, Who’s to Blame for Escalating Violence? What Can Be Done?

JOSHUA HANTMAN: Well, let’s be clear: Israel is currently under attack. I mean, the professor talked about occupation right now. Let me remind you that Israel actually left the Gaza Strip in 2005. We removed all of our settlements. We removed the IDF forces. We took out 10,000 Jews from their houses as a step for peace, because Israel wants peace and it extended its hand for peace. That was in 2005. Since 2005, over 8,000 rockets, missiles and mortars have been indiscriminately fired at our civilians.

Now, the professor also talked about human rights and about international law. Hamas, the internationally recognized terrorist organization, controls the Gaza Strip. They are hiding behind civilians while firing at our civilians. Let me remind you that just yesterday the Hamas interior minister—the Hamas Interior Ministry, they called for their people, for their civilians, to act as human shields. Their spokesperson also came out and said, "Come and act as human shields," because while we mourn every civilian death on both sides, Hamas celebrates civilian deaths.

I blame Hamas for every civilian death, because while we send text messages and phone calls and even put warning shots in the areas where we’re going to try and take out the terrorist infrastructure and the particular terrorists, Hamas fire from mosques, they fire from next to houses, they fire from schools. They keep their missiles and their rockets in the basements of houses. This is a double war crime. They are firing at our civilians indiscriminately. I mean, they fired yesterday towards Jerusalem, OK. They’re firing at Jerusalem indiscriminately. What would happen if one of these rockets landed in an Arab area in Jerusalem? Or if, God forbid, it hit a holy site of the Muslims? It’s indiscriminate fire. It’s a war crime. I actually spoke to a lawyer yesterday who told me there are five or six war crimes that Hamas is guilty of. You cannot blame occupation because Israel left in 2005. And one more point—

JOSHUA HANTMAN: Ma’am, you know, as an international lawyer, that as soon as you put munitions within a house or fire from within a house or fire from within a schoolyard, that becomes a military target. No country in the world would accept a situation whereby over three-quarters of their population are under direct rocket fire. Ma’am, just imagine—just imagine if the United States had over 200 million of its population under rocket fire from an internationally recognized terrorist organization, which, by the way, I’m sure you are not defending here, because Hamas, they wouldn’t allow a young, liberal, secular woman to express her views like you do, ma’am. They would not allow my gay friends to express their sexuality freely. They would not allow Jews to open synagogues or Christians to open churches. This is an Islamist, fundamentalist organization that you’re sitting here defending. And I also assume, ma’am, that you don’t justify their use of human shields, which they openly talk about. They’re proud about it, ma’am. They don’t hide the fact that they use human shields. I take it you would join me in condemning this.

JOSHUA HANTMAN: Let me actually correct you, because this escalation was started by Hamas. And if you look, what the professor said is completely incorrect. The truce was not held by Hamas. And every single month for the last decade, rockets have been fired into Israel. Even after November 2012, where we had this Operation Pillar of Defense, and we restored the deterrents, you know how many rockets were fired in 2013, the quietest year in a decade? There were still 76 rockets fired at Israel, 76 indiscriminate rockets fired at our kids, fired at our old people, fired at our women. This—

AMY GOODMAN: But could you respond to this issue of the deaths?

JOSHUA HANTMAN: Yes, ma’am. I’m going to get—I’m going to get to it, ma’am.

AMY GOODMAN: You’ve got over a hundred Palestinians who have now been killed.

JOSHUA HANTMAN: I’m going to get—well, first of all, I’ve already said that for Israel, any civilian death is not only a tragedy, but it’s a failure, as well. And we review every single operation and every single strike to see how we can improve. We’ve hit over 800 targets to try and stop these rockets, to try and stop this indiscriminate missile fire against our civilians. Out of those 800 targets, I’ll be honest, the precision—the precision is quite outstanding. And there is no military in the history of the world that has actually used such precision targets. I mean, think about it from a military tactics point of view. We tell our enemies—we tell Hamas where we’re going to hit. We tell them with text messages, with phone calls, with leaflets. We tell them in order to get civilians out of harm’s way. But for them, civilian death is actually—it’s actually a success. This is what they want. And—

JOSHUA HANTMAN: My counterpart—my counterpart would not condemn this use of human shields, which Hamas is proud about. They call it—they call for it on TV. They said it—their spokesperson said it yesterday. Their Interior Ministry put out a press release saying, "Palestinians, come to the roofs. Stay in the homes where we’re firing the rockets from." It’s disgusting. And I would like her to actually condemn it.

NOURA ERAKAT: I absolutely consider it reprehensible. What straight-minded person would actually accept that? That’s not the point. I’ve repeatedly explained that Palestinians are not robots who listen to Hamas. They care about their children and their families. This—

AMY GOODMAN: Noura Erakat, what do you think needs to happen, in this last minute that we have?

NOURA ERAKAT: You know, what really needs to happen is what has needed to happen for over 66 years of the displacement and dispossession of Palestinians, over 47 years of military occupation and continuing colonial expansion, which is the lifting of the siege, the end of the occupation, equality for all in Palestine, without distinction—Palestine and Israel, without distinction to religion, as Israel would have us believe. The entirety of the Israeli state is built on the premise of a demographic equation that needs and necessitates a Jewish majority. That should make us all concerned and raise red flags for us and make us stop before we call it the only democracy the Middle East and continue to fund it another year with $3.1 billion without any accountability.

AMY GOODMAN: What would stop the Israeli assault on Gaza, Joshua Hantman?

JOSHUA HANTMAN: Ma’am, what would stop the Israeli assault on Gaza? A commitment for a long-term ceasefire. No more rocket fire. I’m talking about not the trickling in of more rockets and more missiles, but actually Hamas stopping the rocket fire. Let me remind you, ma’am, that the Palestinian Authority, who, by the way, controls Areas A and B in the West Bank and—

JOSHUA HANTMAN: —used to have control also in the Gaza Strip, they’ve just joined a unity government with Hamas—

AMY GOODMAN: We have to end it here.

JOSHUA HANTMAN: —this terrorist organization that’s been firing rockets at Israel. So we call on them to end this unity for terror and make peace.

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Finally, in the end this terrorist Jew tells the truth - the objective that's motivate their assault on the Palestinians - cause the to sell one another out, betray their unity government. [Source: Pat Bagley]

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Then there is this from Juan Cole:  Stop Saying ‘If X fired Rockets at U.S.’: It’s Racist, & assumes we’re Colonial

Shove Your Anti-Semitism

A must re-print for this day and the Joe Blow Report. I don't always agree with Juan Cole's conclusions, but on this, he's right on the mark - American hypocrisy, a clear symptom of illegitimacy as a nation and it's bastard spawn, Israel.

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Americans need to Answer: When WillPalestinians get their Fourth of July?

By Juan Cole | Jul. 4, 2014 | 

Americans are commemorating the Fourth of July today, the anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence. 

The grievances that the four million inhabitants of British North America had in
1776 were not felt by them to be narrow or specific but rather universal, and so
too was the remedy. They laid against the government of King George III that it
was not serving the interests of its North American subjects. 

Thomas Jefferson wrote,

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” 

All human beings are created equal, the founders of the United States believed. 

That means that Palestinians, as human beings, are also created equal. The text
says “all.” 

Moreover, the Palestinians by virtue of being “men” (i.e. human beings) have
been endowed by God with the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

The Palestinians do not have any of these rights, whether God wants them to or not. They were successively ethnically cleansed from their homeland of Palestine by militant Jewish settlers. (There were no Jews in Palestine to speak of as recently as 1800; Bonaparte found about 3,000 I think; Palestine was inhabited by Muslim and Christian Palestinians and as late as 1939 the British mandatory authorities envisaged a Palestinian state in 1949). Some 750,000 were expelled with no compensation and their land and property usurped in 1948. More tens of thousands were displaced in 1967. Their numbers have grown. Some 20 percent of Israel is remnants of the original Palestinian inhabitants, some 1.6 million persons. They are second class citizens in many ways.

But the some 4 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and Gaza, and the
several hundred thousand living in Lebanese refugee camps, are living lives the
opposite of the ones Jefferson declared natural. They are stateless. In the West
Bank they live under Israeli military rule; there are a few civil institutions, but all
of these can be over-ruled by the whim of the Israeli army. Palestinians do not
control their land, water or air. In Gaza, the Israelis have put them under siege,
including the children and non-combatants in general. They aren’t allowed to
export virtually anything they produce. They have no port or airport (both
bombed by Israel). They suffer from massive unemployment and even
malnutrition. The Israelis have placed the Palestinians of Gaza in a huge open-air
concentration camp. With American and European help. 

In the phrase of Warren Burger, the stateless have no right to have rights. They
do not have the right to life, or liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. They may be
killed with impunity (the Israeli army has killed 9 Palestinians, including children,in its crackdown on the West Bank over the horrific kidnapping and killing
of three Israeli youth. The horrid character of the crime does not authorize Israel to
engage in collective punishment nor Israelis to act as vigilantes and deprive other
people of life or liberty.) 

So the Palestinians do not have a right to life. They have no liberty at all as the US
founding generation conceived it. And they certainly have no right to pursue
happiness. Their lives are constrained and made difficult by deliberate actions of
Israeli officials and officers and armed squatters on their land who torment them. 

The Declaration of Independence insists that people have a right to elect their
government. But Palestinians cannot elect the Israeli government, which actually
rules them (and they cannot elect the Lebanese or Syrian governments either,
where there are significant Palestinian refugee populations). The elections held
after the Oslo process have been undone by deliberate Israeli intransigence.
When Palestinians vote for the Palestine Authority, in any case, they are not
actually getting representation that matters. Unelected forces in Israel still control
their land, air and sea. 

When Palestinians elected a Hamas government in 2006, the Israelis disrupted it
and fomented a PLO coup against it. The Americans in 1776 said of King George,
“He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly
firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.” Palestinian parliamentarians
have been arrested in large numbers by Israeli soldiers on the West Bank. Some
are now again kidnapped. 

The early Americans were angry that King George III took away land at will, which
is something the Israelis routinely do to the Palestinians. They also minded that
he appointed the court judges. The Palestinians have no courts in which to
adjudicate their claims, being forced to litigate in front of unsympathetic Israeli
judges. 

Did the Americans mind that the king was “cutting off our Trade with all parts of
the world?” Israelis are doing that to the Palestinians. Were they angry at him
“for depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury”? The Israelis
arrest and hold people for a very long time without any judicial process. 

The remedy the early Americans applied to these problems, of rising up against
foreign occupying troops, is not available to Palestinians. The Israelis are too
strong, too well armed, and too backed to the hilt by the US Congress, many
members of which have more or less been bribed by pro-Israel donors. Opposing the Israeli occupation is routinely equated in the US to “terrorism,”even though Palestinians are the aggrieved party. But in any case, the Declaration of Independence does not say all men are created equal except those that have some violent people among them. And King George III saw the American revolutionaries as terrorists, too. 

The horrible thing is that US diplomacy and US taxpayers’ money is going
toward keeping the Palestinians stateless and without rights. Americans are
doing to a helpless people exactly the kinds of things they wouldn’t put up with
from King George III for themselves. 

Americans don’t have a responsibility to liberate everyone in the world. But they
do have a responsibility not to help Israel deprive Palestinians of their inalienable
rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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--Joe