Is Your Neighbor a Threat?

If he or she thinks and acts like this, THEY ARE!

Dismissing the charges of Israeli war crimes. Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, said, quote, "Some are shamelessly accusing Israel of genocide and would put us in the dock for war crimes. But the truth is that the Israeli Defense Forces should be given the Nobel Peace Prize ... a Nobel Peace Prize for fighting with unimaginable restraint." -Democracy Now.

This is Israel's "unimaginable restraint":

"Human Rights Watch released a report, earlier this week, accusing Israeli soldiers of shooting and killing fleeing civilians in Gaza. The group based its reports on interviews with seven Palestinians who fled fighting in the village of Khuza’a."

Ron Dermer is a mentally sick, rotten Ebola-infected, degenerate, puking his plague upon everyone. He is how Israel manifests its putrid, rotten disease plagued country in the world - threatening the lives of all humanity. These Ebola infested sociopathic dead souls will see everyone dead for the want of a few more minutes life as a country. Anyone that accepts the thinking or beliefs that justifies what he says as valid, supports, enables and defends what Israel and the Jews did and are doing to the Palestinians, waging war on defenseless women and children, trying to break the Palestinian people's will risks becoming infected, sick in their soul and die. These dead souls are completely rotten corrupt and spread their deadly plague with a vengeance on the world and in your neighborhood and in your soul. They are a direct threat to everyone and if we do not take immediate action to isolate, quarantine and bury these dead people, we all risk becoming contaminated and dying ourselves.

Below are samples of local commentary, samples of the rotten infected disease-ridden puke vomited out ad nauseum, posted on a somewhat popular blog run by a local businessman. His track record is to censor and block anyone that exposes Jew criminal barbarism or dispute the rampant lies and corruption engendered by him and these sick people. The threat posed to this community through this sick, sociopathic, racist, bigoted blog is real and palpable. Wear your Ebola infection protective gear when you read the following examples. The list of comments on this thread (Mideast Crisis Discussion on Thursday Night Talk this Week) are considerable should you wish to follow the context. Comments by the blog author are also considerable and extremely enlightening, not so much about what he says in defense of the plague-ridden Jews, but about himself.

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[UPDATE II] 
A perfect example of the deadly diseased thinking infecting the World:
Not killing Gazans ‘moral mistake’: Netanyahu

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[UPDATE]
Here is something Eric Kirk and his gang of infected sociopaths need to read, and then shut up with their ignorance and scummy filth. Like all thug bullies, I know it won't do "them" any good in the long run - that kind of Ebola mystery serum won't help them live. DIARIES: LIVE FROM PALESTINE - "We will not rest until we liberate our occupied land," Gaza fighter says

July 31, 2014 at 7:30 am

Erasmus

I disagree with part of Mitch’s comment. One can easily imagine the Gazans reacting to Israel’s dismantling of its settlements there several years ago in a manner quite different from what occurred: instead of destroying the greenhouses left behind by the settlers, they could have used them to grow produce; instead of lobbing rockets at Israeli territory, they could have strengthened their own infrastructure; instead of electing Hamas to power, they could have voted for a party that even the European Union considers terrorist; instead of using cement to construct tunnels into Israeli soil, they could have built shelters. I have no difficulty imagine a scenario quite unlike what we are now witnessing.

August 3, 2014 at 3:54 pm

Mitch

I am sorry for calling you a liar, bolithio. I apologize.

I should just step away from the keyboard when the subject of Israel comes up, because it sends me off the deep end.

August 3, 2014 at 3:23 pm

Mitch

Well, bolithio, perhaps my 3:08 answers some of your questions.

But no, I don’t think ending the Gaza occupation will go a long way, or any distance whatsoever, towards preventing violence. Did you read the Hamas charter?

Yes, I got extremely pissed off when you lied about Oz’s question (sic, sic, sic). That is what the left does — it ignores the absolute day-to-day reality Israel faces and wonders, as if there is any wonder to be had, how Israel can be so mean. If that means my blog persona has offended you, well, I hope the offense was worth it to you.

I feel no need to checkmate you or anyone else, but the smugness with which the world refuses to acknowledge this no win situation and that it has NO IDEA WHATSOEVER how it could respond differently than the IDF is a source of personal rage when I dwell on it, which I will shortly stop doing, for my own sake.

This problem is not Israel’s fault and it is not the Palestinians fault. The world created this problem and the world owes the Israelis and the Palestinians safety within the borders the world set. And the world has demonstrated its total unwillingness to admit that, or lift a finger to protect the descendants of the people it “gave” someone else’s country to.

August 4, 2014 at 7:34 am

Anonymous

“Racist collective punishment of a Third World people” — the people being “punished” in Gaza are of the same race as the Israeli Arabs who sit in the Knesset (parliament) of Israel — and of the man who heads Israel’s highest court. “Collective punishment”? From my vantage point, I see Hamas collectively punishing its own people by putting them in harm’s way — by hiding its rockets among schools, mosques, and hospitals. “Suicide by Israel,” one might call it (by analogy with “suicide by cop,” when a self-destructive person forces another party — a cop — to shoot at him, by engaging in unacceptably menacing behavior). —- This is what I read on a different blog today: If Hamas had its way, Gaza would look a lot like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. If Israel had its way, Gaza would look a lot like Santa Monica. — I can’t disagree with that.

August 4, 2014 at 8:56 am

Andrew Stunich

Anon, your 7:34 a.m. comment is absolutely accurate.

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Juan Cole's take on Israel: Israel Still Holding Gaza Civilians Hostage, Doesn’t Get Geneva Conventions - "So Gaza civilians cannot be denied building materials because somebody else fired a flying pipe bomb into the Israeli desert. The noncombatants don’t bear a personal responsibility for those little rockets."
Also, "Israel and the Erosion of International Humanitarian Law" - Unchecked Murder and Mayhem
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--Joe

America's New Reality - An Imaginary Constitution

The article needs to be repeated. Juan Cole writes on his blog October 25, 2013, How the US Government Betrayed the Constitution and invented an Imaginary Fascist One

[Fascism: a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power,forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.] -Dictionary.com

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How the US Government Betrayed the Constitution and invented an Imaginary Fascist One

Posted on 10/24/2013 by Juan Cole

The idea of having a strong Federal government was controversial in the early United States, and one of the ways Federalists reassured Americans that it wouldn’t become tyrannical was to append a Bill of Rights to the Constitution.

That attempt to prevent despotism has failed, because the Federal government and its various agencies have set aside the Bill of Rights as a dead letter, substituted for them a bizarre set of interpretations of law, and either avoid having the courts adjudicate their fascist fantasies or managed to have appointed to the bench unethical or authoritarian judges that will uphold virtually anything they do.

How corrupt our system has become is evident when even the New Yorkeremphasizes that a secret Senate report found that torture in the Bush years was “unnecessary” and “ineffective.” Not that it was “unconstitutional.”

The Eighth Amendment of the US constitution forbids ‘cruel and unusual punishment.’ US courts have found that the Framers’ injunction was intended to be dynamic, and did not only forbid those things thought barbaric in 1789 but those things contemporary Americans would find cruel and unusual. As Cornell Law school put it,

‘in Weems v. United States it was concluded that the framers had not merely intended to bar the reinstitution of procedures and techniques condemned in 1789, but had intended to prevent the authorization of “a coercive cruelty being exercised through other forms of punishment.” The Amendment therefore was of an “expansive and vital character”41 and, in the words of a later Court, “must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.” ‘

If a sheriff in a small town arrested a shoplifter and waterboarded him 54 times, the sheriff would go to jail. Federal officials? Not so much.

Let us just underline the Supreme Court’s diction here in Weems. The Framers had sought, they said, to forestall “a coercive cruelty being exercised through other forms of punishment.”

Coercive cruelty. Coercive cruelty was the hallmark of treatment of Federal detainees in the Bush era. That was what Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo were about. Some prisoners were likely victims of manslaughter by coercive cruelty (it is hard to know when to stop).

Waterboarding is illegal (not to mention setting German shepherds on people to viciously bite them). Professor of Law Wilson R. Huhn writes:

“Three major treaties that the United States has signed and unambiguously ratified prohibit the United States from subjecting prisoners in the War on Terror to this kind of treatment. First, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which the Senate unanimously ratified in 1955, prohibits the parties to the treaty from acts upon prisoners including “violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; . . . outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment.”[18] Second, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the Senate ratified in 1992, states that “[n]o one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”[19] Third, the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment, which the Senate ratified in 1994, provides that “[e]ach State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction,”[20] and that “[e]ach State Party shall undertake to prevent in any territory under its jurisdiction other acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment which do not amount to torture . . . .”

The United States has enacted statutes prohibiting torture and cruel or inhuman treatment. It is these statutes which make waterboarding illegal… The four principal statutes which Congress has adopted to implement the provisions of the foregoing treaties are the Torture Act,… the War Crimes Act…,and the laws entitled “Prohibition on Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of Persons Under Custody or Control of the United States Government”… and “Additional Prohibition on Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.”… The first two statutes are criminal laws while the latter two statutes extend civil rights to any person in the custody of the United States anywhere in the world.

The Torture Act makes it a felony for any person, acting under color of law, to commit an act of torture upon any person within the defendant’s custody or control outside the United States…. Torture is defined as the intentional infliction of “severe physical or mental pain or suffering” upon a person within the defendant’s custody or control… To be “severe,” any mental pain or suffering resulting from torture must be “prolonged.”[29] Under this law, torture is punishable by up to twenty years imprisonment unless the victim dies as a result of the torture, in which case the penalty is death or life in prison.”

But somehow employees of the US military, the CIA and other Federal agencies managed to ignore all that. So yes, unnecessary and ineffective. But also, illegal and unconstitutional and treasonous.

Then of course there is the National Security Agency’s gutting of the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable search and seizure. As long as the unreasonable search and seizure happens on the internet, apparently that is all right. What arrogance, what hypocrisy, what fascism.

An honest appeals court just ruled that the government needs a warrant to put a tracking device on your car and follow you around by GPS. But your cell phone metadata also reveals your movements, and the NSA is scooping that information up, effectively following you around without a warrant, exactly what the court just found unjustified. But the Federal government (yes, the Obama administration) has succeeded in keeping NSA practices out of the courts.

While few Americans care that the NSA was intensively spying on the Mexicans, French and Germans, even on German chancellor Angela Merkel’s private cell phone, they should. The Bill of Rights were once a point of inspiration for human rights activists around the world. Much of what the youth who led the Arab upheavals of 2011 wanted was enshrined in the Bill of Rights. American ideals and rule of law were part of America’s soft power in the world. The European Union is suddenly less cooperative because of our allies’ outrage at being spied on. No one wants to be like creepy peeping toms or vicious torturers, and that is what Americans have become.

Moreover, the NSA foreign spying is racist. Yes, on top of everything else, it involves a racist hierarchy. The US doesn’t intensively spy on Canadians, British and Australians, i.e. on what were called in the 19th century ‘Anglo-Saxons.’ It is only the inferior races that Washington subjects to surveillance.

But all that is crashing and burning as the US government has betrayed those ideals over and over again. We’re being massively spied on by our government, our location, the people we call, the websites we visit, all being monitored constantly. And if the government decides we are terrorism suspects, we could well be tortured. Martin Luther King’s principle of civil disobedience would be categorized as terrorism today, and if he were active in our time, instead of naming a Federal holiday after him, the government would have MLK waterboarded by police dressed up as military commandos.

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-Joe