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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Städtetag in Dornbirn

Wien – Kawther Salam – In einer gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz von Wiens Bürgermeister Michael Häupl und Städtebund-Generalsekretär Thomas Weninger, gehalten heute Dienstag 22. Mai 2012 um 11:30 und in Anwesenheit von Dutzenden von Journalisten und Fotografen, Vertreter von lokalen und internationalen Medien, wurde das Mediengespräch des Bürgermeisters zum Anlass des 62. Städtetags in Dornbirn angekündigt, das zwischen 30.5 und 1.6 in Dornbirn stattfinden wird: “Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger haben zu recht großes Vertrauen in die Leistungen, die durch die Städte tagtäglich erbracht werden. Deshalb ist es wichtig, alles daran zu setzen, diese Leistungen aufrechtzuerhalten – sie tragen zur sozialen Balance und zum Wirtschaftswachstum bei”.

Über Dornbirn (Wikipedia):

Dornbirn ist die bevölkerungsreichste Stadtgemeinde im österreichischen Bundesland Vorarlberg und zugleich Hauptstadt des Bezirks Dornbirn. Die Stadt mit 46.080 Einwohnern (Stand 31. März 2012) ist das wirtschaftliche Zentrum des westlichsten österreichischen Bundeslands und ein wichtiger regionaler Verkehrsknotenpunkt. Darüber hinaus ist Dornbirn die größte Stadt Österreichs ohne eigenes Statut und die zehntgrößte Gemeinde im Bundesgebiet. Der Einfluss Dornbirns in Vorarlberg entwickelte sich erst relativ spät Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts mit dem Aufblühen der Textilindustrie in der Stadt, die sich rasch zur größten Gemeinde zwischen Alpenrhein und Arlberg entwickelte.

Die frühesten Beweise für menschliche Anwesenheit auf heutigem Dornbirner Gemeindegebiet lassen sich in die mittlere Steinzeit (8000 bis 3000 v. Chr.) datieren. Hierzu zählt ein, 1971 unter der Achmühler Brücke gefundener, scheibenförmiger Keulenkopf aus grün-schwarzem Quarzit. Erste Funde auf heute noch bewohntem Stadtgebiet ließen sich der Bronzezeit (3000 bis 1800 v. Chr.) zuordnen. Hinweise auf eine römische Anwesenheit im Dornbirner Stadtgebiet liefern Münzen des 2. Jahrhunderts von der Rosenstraße und eine Fibel aus dem 1. Jahrhundert, gefunden im Flur Köblern. Den ersten Hinweis auf eine Siedlung auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Dornbirn liefert ein alamannisches Skelettgrab mit Sax und Messer als Beigaben aus dem 6. und 7. Jahrhundert. Dies lässt auf eine Ansiedlung im Bereich des heutigen Bezirks Hatlerdorf schließen.

Die vollständigen Pressetext vom Städtebund können Sie hier lesen.

“Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger haben zu recht großes Vertrauen in die Leistungen, die durch die Städte tagtäglich erbracht werden. Deshalb ist es wichtig, alles daran zu setzen, diese Leistungen aufrechtzuerhalten – sie tragen zur sozialen Balance und zum Wirtschaftswachstum bei”, sagte Städtebund-Präsident und Wiens Bürgermeister Michael Häupl heute anlässlich des bevorstehenden 62. Städtetages 2012 vom 30.5. bis 1.6. in Dornbirn.

In einem Mediengespräch präsentierte Städtebund-Generalsekretär Thomas Weninger die Ergebnisse des “Städtebarometer 2012″, der von SORA – Institute for Social Research – unter mehr als 1.000 Befragten aus Städten in ganz Österreich bereits zum 4. Mal erhoben wurden.

Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Zufriedenheit der BewohnerInnen mit der Lebensqualität an ihrem Wohnort sehr hoch ist: Neun von zehn Befragten (89 Prozent) sind der Meinung, dass ihre Heimatstadt bzw. -gemeinde eine hohe Lebensqualität bietet. Die Zufriedenheit mit den kommunalen Dienstleistungen ist ungebrochen: Besonders hoch ist die Zufriedenheit mit der Trinkwasserversorgung (97 Prozent), Müllentsorgung (94 Prozent) und auch den Gesundheitseinrichtungen (90 Prozent). Auch die Zufriedenheit mit dem Stadtbild (88 Prozent) und der Erhaltung und Pflege der Parkanlagen (85 Prozent) ist sehr hoch. Hohe Zustimmung erhalten auch die erstmals abgefragten Themen: Angebot für FußgängerInnen (86 Prozent), Radwegenetz (80 Prozent) und Maßnahmen zur Verkehrsberuhigung (75 Prozent). Die überwiegende Mehrheit der Befragten ist dabei der Meinung, dass kommunale Dienstleistungen nicht an private Anbieter ausgelagert werden sollten.

Erstmals wurden im Städtebarometer 2012 auch die Wanderungsbewegungen innerhalb Österreichs abgefragt: So gibt mehr als die Hälfte an, erst im Laufe ihres Lebens in ihre derzeitige Heimatgemeinde übersiedelt zu sein. Gut die Hälfte (54 Prozent) davon ist von einer kleineren Gemeinde in eine größere gezogen, ein Viertel von einer großen in eine kleinere und ein Fünftel kommt aus dem Ausland. Als Motive für den Zuzug in Städte gibt die überwiegende Mehrheit die Arbeit an, während bei denen, die in kleinere Gemeinden ziehen, familiäre Gründe ausschlaggebend sind. “Der Zuzug in die Städte ist ungebrochen und wird auch in Zukunft eine der größten Herausforderungen für die Kommunen sein”, sagte Weninger dazu. Die “Zukunft Stadtregion” ist daher auch ein zentrales Thema bei den Beratungen am Städtetag in Dornbirn.

62. Österreichischer Städtetag in Dornbirn

Von Mittwoch, 30. Mai bis Freitag, 1. Juni 2012 laden der Österreichische Städtebund und die Stadt Dornbirn zum 62. Österreichischen Städtetag 2012.

Unter dem Motto Stadt: Titel ohne Mittel?!- Kommunale Leistungen: Ja, bitte! Aber wer zahlt’s?” steht der diesjährige Städtetag ganz im Zeichen der Finanzierung der kommunalen Leistungen und auch den Grenzen dieser Leistungserbringung.

Rund 800 TeilnehmerInnen (BürgermeisterInnen, GemeindevertererInnen) aus ganz Österreich und internationale Gäste werden in Dornbirn erwartet und dort drei Tage lang über kommunale Fragestellungen debattieren.

Unmittelbar vor Beginn des Städtetages findet in Dornbirn ein Mediengespräch statt. Bei der feierlichen Eröffnung am 30. Mai (Beginn 15.00 Uhr) wird als Festredner Heiner Flassbeck, Chefvolkswirt von UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), in Genf und vormals Staatssekretär im deutschen Finanzministerium zur aktuellen Wirtschaftssituation in Europa sprechen. Thema: “Wie ist der Euro noch zu retten?”

Am zweiten Tag stehen Arbeitskreise zu vier wichtigen Themen – Grenzen der öffentlichen Leistungserbringung, Kommunale Finanzen, Zukunft Stadtregion, Zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation – mit vielen internationalen ExpertInnen auf dem Programm.

Ein eigenes Pressebüro (Kulturhaus, 1. OG, Zi 5) mit WLAN-Zugang steht während der gesamten Tagungszeit für JournalistInnen und FotografInnen zur Verfügung.

Das Programm im Überblick

30. Mai, 11.00 Uhr: Pressekonferenz mit Städtebund-Präsident Michael Häupl, Wolfgang Rümmele, Bürgermeister von Dornbirn, sowie Markus Linhart, Bürgermeister von Bregenz, Ort: Rathaus, Rathausplatz 2, Zi. 304

30. Mai 15.00 Uhr: Feierliche Eröffnung des Städtetages durch Städtebund-Präsident Michael Häupl, Begrüßungsworte durch Bürgermeister Wolfgang Rümmele, Grußbotschaften von (Reihenfolge der RednerInnen): Bürgermeister Helmut Mödlhammer, Präsident des Österreichischen Gemeindebundes, Christian Meidlinger, Gewerkschaft der Gemeindebediensteten, (Sektionschef Mathias Vogl, BM für Inneres, Landeshauptmann Markus Wallner

  • Videobotschaft: Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer
  • Festreferat: Heiner Flassbeck, Chefvolkswirt von UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) in Genf: “Wie ist der Euro noch zu retten?”

31. Mai 9.00-12.30 Uhr: Vier Arbeitskreise zu aktuellen Fragestellungen

Arbeitskreis 1: Grenzen der öffentlichen Leistung(serbringung) u.a mit Klaus Luger, Vizebürgermeister von Linz, Martin Ruepp, Vizebürgermeister von Dornbirn, Roger W. Sonderegger, Universität St. Gallen. Ort: Kulturhaus – Kleiner Saal im UG, Rathausplatz 1

Arbeitskreis 2: “Kommunale Finanzen: Instrumente zur Stärkung der Gemeindeautonomie – Gemeindeabgaben”, u.a. mit Tina Ehrke-Rabel (Universität Graz, Hans Pitlik (WIFO), Stadtpräsident Thomas Scheitlin (St. Gallen). Ort: Raiffeisenbank Dornbirn – Raiffeisenforum Friedrich Wilhelm, Am Rathauspark

Arbeitskreis 3: Gemeinsam statt einsam – Zukunft Stadtregion u.a. mit: Michel Matthey, Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung ARE (Schweiz), Anton Matzinger, Bundesministerium für Finanzen, Georg Schadt, Bundeskanzleramt, Alexandra Schantl, KDZ – Zentrum für Verwaltungsforschung. Ort: Kulturhaus – Großer Saal, Rathausplatz 1

Arbeitskreis 4: Zivilgesellschaftliche Partizipation – neue Wege des politischen Engagements, u.a. mit Bruno Kaufmann, Stadtrat für Bürgerbeteiligung, Wahlen und Abstimmungen in Falun (Schweden), Elke Löffler, Governance International, Monika Vana, die Grünen Wien. Ort: Rathaus – Sitzungssaal im 1. OG, Rathausplatz 2

Freitag, 1. Juni: Abschlussplenum, Podiumsdiskussion

Nach dem Plenum und dem Bericht des Generalsekretärs (Beginn: 9.00 Uhr) findet eine hochkarätig besetzte Podiumsdiskussion statt. Thema: “Europa, Österreich und die Herausforderungen durch die Schuldenkrise” u.a. mit Staatssekretär Andreas Schieder (BMF), Othmar Karas, Vizepräsident des Europäischen Parlaments, Franz Sinabell, stv. Leiter des WIFO, Alois Strasser, Direcor Standard&Poors, Gruppenleiter Öffentlicher Sektor Ratings Deutschland, Österreich Schweiz, Martin Summer, OeNB.

Das detaillierte Programm finden Sie unter: www.staedtetag.at

Monday, May 21, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Hungarian Bodybuilder Championship Wins Over Austria

Hungarian Peter Molnar wins the first place over his rivals, the Austrian Klaus Drescher from Kärnten and Hungarian Istvan Kis during the final term of the International Championships and European qualifying Championships in bodybuilding and fitness (“Internationale Meisterschaften und EM-Qualifikation in Bodybuilding & Fitness”) that took place yesterday May 19 2012 and ended after competing in the House of Encounter (Haus der Begegnung – Donaustadt) in the 22 district of Vienna.



Mr. Molnar received a golden medal and the Silver Cup of the tournament from Mr. Mustafa Muhammad, vice President ABPF, Austria, Judge WBPF with warm applause by the audience. The jury was comprised of judges representing a number of EU countries. The event was attended by Mrs. Ildiko Buranta, Secretary General WBPT Europe.

Different multi-sports show of women took place during the International and European qualifying Championships in bodybuilding and fitness. Mr. Mustafa Muhammad, vice President ABPF, Austria, Judge WBPF and trainer, was responsible for organizing the event in coordination with different Austrian organizations in the same field of fitness and sports.

From left: Klaus Drescher, Peter Molnar, Istvan Kis

From left: Mrs. Ildiko Buranta, Peter Molnar, Moderator ??? and Mr. Mustafa Muhammad

From left: Mrs. Ildiko Buranta, Peter Molnar, Moderator ???



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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Palestine Will Be Free - Soweto Blues -

The comparison between Apartheid South Africa and Occupied Palestine, while there are some details that differ, is nevertheless emphatically true. The most important thing to remember is the Anglo-Rothschild blood diamond et al Zionist-American foe FELL in South Africa's struggle. Palestine will be free!


Palestine Will Be Free



Soweto Blues-Miriam Makeba.avi

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Al Nakba - 1948 to 2012 - 64th year

Link to Al Nakba site in title. The links shown below are there.

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1998 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nakba (cataclysm). In human terms, that year saw the mass deportation of a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, massacres of civilians, and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages. In commemoration of these capital events in Palestine history, the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center brings you this visual tribute.

See also:

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How the Nakba came about begins with the Jews' Perfidy coupled with the Gentiles' paganism beginning two thousand years ago, this is the Antichrist Dajjal Jew Gentile Zionist Conspiracy.

THE FINAL TRIAL OF CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS TOGETHER – attacked by the Haburah, the Kahal, the Organized Criminal Zionist Conspiracy

In studying the Jewish people, special attention must be given to the Jewish community. This peculiar social order has for twenty centuries impressed its indelible mark on every one of its members in every quarter of the globe; uncrushed by pressure from without, it has administered its affairs according to its own arbitrary laws, often in defiance and to the detriment of the government of the land. The authority of the Jewish leaders, originally derived from the ten commandments delivered to Moses,l had already in the time of Augustus been widely extended2 by a learned but unscrupulous priesthood 3 over an ignorant, superstitious people. In that age, while a struggle was going on between two rival sects, Pharisees4 and Sadducees,5 certain political clubs 6 were formed which concealed under a religious mask the grasping aims of a clique.7

These clubs were not slow to take advantage of their country's misfortunes. A few years later, during the siege of Jerusalem by Vespasian, they won, by the betrayal of the Jewish cause, the favour of the Roman conqueror,8 and were subsequently entrusted by the imperial government with the administration of Palestine.' Moreover, with the sack of Jerusalem, the destruction of the temple, and the death of the patriotic leaders, the common people found themselves utterly dependent, in spiritual as well as civil matters, upon these same self-styled societies of the learned, who alone possessed the secrets of the priesthood and copies of the sacred texts. By interpreting, altering, and augmenting the rules and ritual these texts contained, and by a system of espionage and assassination,10 the new rulers established a strict control over the daily life of their co-religionists. Thus having taken hold of the Jewish people through the medium of the Roman authority, this clique easily placed its laws above the ten commandments, and formed a government whose control over its subjects was absolute.11 This government became henceforth known as the Kahal.12

[By God's irreversible judgment the Jews were condemned and cast out of of the Holy Land forever, two thousand years ago. The first dispersion of the Jews was in 70 A.D. and the second dispersion in 135 A.D. in the time since the prophecy of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ during His time on earth prior to His ascension into heaven. By the connivance of the Jews' Pharisee Rabbinic Academies in Palestine in the first century A.D. the Kahal was given its form to rule over the apostate Jews who had committed the unforgivable sin of Perfidy and Deicide against the true Messiah Jesus Christ during the time of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ on earth.]

The dispersion of the Jews which followed in 135 A.D., instead of destroying the Kahal, served on the contrary to set it on a new and firmer basis, on which it has continued ever since. Wherever Jewish emigrants settled,13 they founded communities apart under the direction of the fraternities, and held to the precepts of the Talmud.(tm) Each community had its representative, its rabbi, its synagogue: it was a miniature Kahal. The different aims of these communities always found themselves intimately related with those of the central body upon which their existence depended.

For if the ruling clique or caste had begun by grinding down its own race," it now saw that, by drafting them into its organization, it could exploit the gentiles on a far grander scale." The number of fraternities was increased by the addition of trade unions, every trade in which the Jews engaged being represented. To strengthen its control and to advance the interests of the Jews as a whole, it developed and perfected that system of espionage which it still maintains.

Freemasonry is the prime one of those “trade unions.” The other prime "trade union" is the abortion mass murder of gentiles genocide machine.

See: Freemasonry and abortion

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam « No Evidence For Israeli Attack Against Iran/ Video

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

No Evidence For Israeli Attack Against Iran/ Video

Defense Minister: No Evidence for Israeli Attack against Iran

Read in German

Vienna – Kawther Salam – Friday – May 11 2012 – Minister Nobert Darabos, the Austrian Defense Minister, said at a press conference held today May 11 2012 at the Ministry of defense, together with the newly appointed director-general of the European Union Military Staff (EUMS), Major-General Wolfgang Wosolsobe: “there is no confirmation that Israel will attack Iran and Austria has no plane of defense in this matter.

The question asked Minister Darabos was:
If Israel attacks Iran, and Iran responds with a nuclear attack against the EU
1) How will the EU military evacuate the European citizens from Iran?
2) What preparations has the EU military taken to protect the civil population in case of a nuclear war with Iran?

Minister Darabos answered (translation):

There is no evidence that Israel will attack Iran, what makes the question moot. Furthermore, this is not an issue of the EU and the question is very hypothetical. I can only support the hope that things will not escalate in this way.

My opinion as Austrian Minister of Defense is that a military attack against Iran would not be sensible. It would be much more correct to take care of resolving this issue by the way of negotiations.

The EU has not taken any precautions which should be made known to the public about this scenario which in my opinion will not come to pass.

The issue of a possible attack of Israel against Iran is being pushed by nonstop propaganda in western media since years, so it was logical to use the opportunity and ask people well connected to defense establishment of the EU. The answer of the minister is reassuring in several ways. Mr. Darabos could have stuck with the propaganda which is being spread by the system media worldwide, and the question was asked to leave ample room for that, but instead he put that propaganda to rest. Based on his answer, it would appear that at least in the EU the defense establishment is being led by responsible people and there is consensus that a war of aggression is not the right way to go forward about issues to be resolved in the diplomatic context.

See video clip below


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Saturday, May 12, 2012

The Justice of God: Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu crowns himself king of Israel | Israeli Occupation Archive


Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu crowns himself king of Israel
9 MAY 2012
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth – 9 May 2012
www.jkcook.net/Articles3/0588.htm
Netanyahu has created a national unity government that more precisely reflects the majority mood: an unalloyed, aggressive and xenophobic rightwing consensus

Jonathan Cook
Israelis barely had time to absorb the news that they were heading into a summer election when Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu yesterday pulled the rug from underneath the charade. Rancourous early electioneering had provided cover for a secret agreement between Netanyahu and the main opposition party, Kadima, to form a new, expanded coalition government.
Rather than facing the electorate in September, Netanyahu and his hardline rightwing government are expected to comfortably see out the remaining 18 months of his term of office. Not only that, but he will now have the backing of more than three-quarters of the 120-seat Israeli parliament, leading one commentator to crown him the “King of Israel”.
The announcement may have taken Israelis by surprise but it fully accorded with the logic of an increasingly dysfunctional Israeli political culture.
Shaul Mofaz, who a few weeks ago ousted Tzipi Livni as head of the centre-right Kadima party, had been vitriolic in denouncing Netanyahu. He called the prime minister a “liar” and went to the trouble of posting on his Facebook page a pledge that he would never make a deal with this “weak, incompetent and deaf government”.
He also boasted in a recent interview that he would topple Netanyahu by leading the revival of mass social protests expected in the summer.
Last year hundreds of thousands took to the streets to demand an end to the rocketing cost of living, much of it caused by business cartels that were empowered by Netanyahu and his Likud party in privatisation programmes years ago.
But the reality was that Mofaz, a hawkish former army chief of staff who is seen as a lacklustre, power-hungry and slippery politician, had no credibility with either the demonstrators or the wider electorate.
Kadima, which has never strayed far from its ideological roots in the Likud, from which it split several years ago, is currently the largest faction in the parliament. But polls suggested Mofaz would lead it to electoral oblivion.
The deal will win him a temporary reprieve, with a seat in the inner circle alongside Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, the long-time defence minister whose own party was expected to vanish if the September election had taken place.
Kadima will get no ministries but Mofaz will have a say in the biggest issues facing Israel: its dealings with Iran and the Palestinians.
This may be good for Mofaz personally but most likely his act of supreme duplicity will finish off Kadima as an independent party. The next year and a half may see him try to return to the Likud fold.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, has created a national unity government that more precisely reflects the majority mood: an unalloyed, aggressive and xenophobic rightwing consensus.
There was little need for Netanyahu to bring Kadima into the coalition. He was racing ahead in the polls, his popularity outstripping that of all the other major party leaders combined. And he had won this scale of support even as senior security officials, including the former heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, questioned his rationality on the issue of whether to attack Iran.
But there are advantages to Netanyahu in postponing an election he was expected to win.
Not least, it gives him time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism. Netanyahu has been behind a series of measures to weaken the media, human rights groups, and the courts. At the moment his government is defying a series of Supreme Court rulings to dismantle several small Jewish settlements on Palestinian land that are illegal even under Israeli law.
An uninterrupted 18 months will allow him to further undermine these rival centres of power. One of the promises he and Mofaz made yesterday was to overhaul the system of government. Netanyahu now has enough MPs to overturn even the most sacrosanct of Israel’s Basic Laws.
In addition, the new coalition will face an all but non-existent parliamentary opposition: a shrivelled centre-left of the Labor and Meretz parties, with only a handful of seats; a few noisy ultra-nationalists who would be more trouble in government than Netanyahu needs; and the Arab parties, who are reviled by Jewish public and politicians alike.
Labor’s new leader, Shelly Yacimovich, was expected to partially revive her party’s fortunes on the back of the social protests and might have been joined in a potentially confrontational opposition by a new centrist party, headed by TV news anchor and heart-throb Yair Lapid. Now both are relegated to the political margins.
Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister and leader of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, whom Netanyahu fears most as a potential challenger, has also been defanged. His current, pivotal role in the coalition will be savagely diminished by the bulky presence of Kadima.
Another bonus for Netayahu is that he is now better situated to see off the potentially dangerous early days of a Barack Obama second term, if the US president is re-elected in November. This is when some observers believed the US president, serially humiliated by Netanyahu over the settlements and the peace process, might seek his revenge.
But should Obama choose a fight on the Palestinian issue, he will be facing a prime minister whose position in Israel is unassailable.
What does all this mean for Iran and the Palestinians?
Regarding the former, several commentators and some of his own ministers have argued that Netanyahu now has a free hand to launch a go-it-alone attack on Iran and destroy what he claims is a nuclear weapons programme that might one day rival Israel’s own secret arsenal.
More likely, the expanded coalition will make little difference to Israeli calculations over Iran, one way or the other. Mofaz, like most of the security establishment, opposes an attack unless it is headed by the US.
But Netanyahu will doubtless exploit his strengthened position to up the rhetoric against Tehran and add to the pressure for intensified action from the US and Europe.
As for the Palestinians, it can mean only more of the same — or worse. Mofaz, who tried to distinguish himself in opposition by proposing a miserly peace plan that would see the Palestinians holed up in a series of enclaves, lacks the political weight to deflect Netanyahu from his even more intransigent approach.
But at least for Netanyahu, the Kadima leader will cut a more presentable figure in Washington than Lieberman as an advocate for Israel’s hard line.
The Israeli prime minister’s claim yesterday that he was about to unveil a “responsible peace process” should be taken no more seriously than his professed commitment, abandoned the same day, to submit himself to the judgment of the Israeli electorate.
The one small sliver of light is that what remains of the Israeli left, so long in hibernation or denial, may finally be stirred into a response by the antics of this ugly ruling cabal.
Last year’s social protests remained, in a great Israeli tradition, studiously “apolitical”, unlike their counterparts, the Occupy movements, in the United States and Europe.
The demonstrators refused to draw any connection between the rapidly polarised economic situation — the gap between Israel’s rich and poor is now as bad as in the US — and either the right’s self-serving neoliberal policies or the occupation that has channelled endless resources to the settlers and the security establishment.
This summer Israel may finally get its own Occupy movement — one prepared to tackle the real occupation.
Jonathan Cook won the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His latest books are Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (Pluto Press) and Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair (Zed Books). His website is www.jkcook.net.
A version of this article originally appeared in The National, published in Abu Dhabi.
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The Antichrist: Rev. Paschal Huchede's view of the Antichrist:


Hammelek l Yisrael
H M L K L Y S R A L
ה מ ל כ ל י ש ר א ל
5+ 40+ 30+ 20+ 30+ 10+ 300+ 200+ 1+ 30 = 666


Hammelek l Yisrael translates as [the false] 'king of Israel' with medial kaph signifying a short reign in keeping with the prophecy of Antichrist in Scripture.


Traditional Catholic Prayers: About the Truth that will set you free.:


Modern day Herod - Nero - Domitian - ad Dajjal candidate for Antichrist -
Binyamin Netanyahu

Wait and see who it is - The Apocalypse, the Book of the Revelation: 13:5 "And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and forty months."

The Justice of God: Traditional Catholic Prayers: False prophecy - terrible damage done and nothing else


There is no doubt that Binyamin Netanyahu is a mass murdering genocidal maniac and Satan worshipper, but as to whether he is the Antichrist, ad Dajjal, remains to be seen.


FALSE PEACE OF ASSISI

False peace of Assisi
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The Apocalypse, the Book of the Revelation: 13.


The Beast of the Sea
Rv:13:
1 ¶ (12-18) And he stood upon the sand of the sea. (13-1) And I saw a beast [1] coming up out the sea, having seven heads and ten horns: and upon his horns, ten diadems: and upon his heads, names of blasphemy. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 11:7!; Dan.: 7:3; Rev.: 12:3; 17:3
2 And the beast which I saw was like to a leopard: and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his own strength and great power. … Scripture reference –
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death’s wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 13:12; 17:8
4 And they adored the dragon which gave power to the beast. And they adored the beast, saying: Who is like to the beast? And who shall be able to fight with him? … Scripture reference – Rev.: 13:12; 17:8
5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and forty months.
6 And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam « Zions Two Minutes of Hatred in Vienna

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Zions Two Minutes of Hatred in Vienna

Today 8 May is the day on which Nazi Germany capitulated to the allied forces in 1945, what put an end to the second world war which cost the lives of 60-70 million Europeans, uncounted casualties and destroyed infrastructure throughout the continent. The memories of that war are still alive among many Europeans, as probably most people here know of members of their family 2-3 generations ago who died, were wounded, interned, expelled or victims of assorted other atrocities.

One small group of such people, about 300 members of conservative student unions („Burschenschaften“) gather every year in Vienna to commemorate and mourn the fallen. They do this in the Heldenplatz (Heroes Place) in the inner city, and this year was no exception. This simple act has attracted them the unrelenting hatred of the representatives of zion and their fellow travelers. These students are labelled nazis, neonazis, holocaust deniers and whatnot for having the temerity to commemorate the fallen of a long since passed war.

This year appears to be special. While in the past these commemorations elicited protests from the usual suspects, it appears that the students had to been dealt a lesson for thinking different from the rulers. The loyalist media started with their vituperations against those horrible deviants some days ago, the government declared these activities to be undesirable, and the great parts of the city were closed off and drowned with nervous riot police apparently scared from the somber-looking „peaceful“ protesters, far-away loudspeakers screeched hysteric harangues against those anti-socials and their commemoration and thoughts which the system deems undesirable. Just as in the book „1984“, the system and its minions allowed themselves their two (long) minutes of pure and unadulterated hatred against people who think different from them.

I had been invited but I did not register for event, so I witnessed what was happening on the „outside“. I was treated to a rabble brimming with hatred flying american, british, communist and israeli flags, shouting slogans and ostentatiously displaying their moral superiority. One of the press photographers who is always present at government press conferences, who I know is a jew and who knows that I am a Palestinian, appeared next to me, spat on the floor before me and then disappeared in the crowd. This was the usual, disgusting display of racism, hatred and petty vindictiveness for no discernible offense which I know from the extremist squatters of the West Bank, those ugly americans and Europeans who use their religion to justify all kind of disgusting and criminal behavior for, after all, they are the „choosen ones“.

As a Palestinian I am automatically labelled a terrorist, a subhuman and other far less polite words. Palestinians who defend their family, possessions, livelihood and homeland are murdered, abducted, tortured, their houses bulldozed or burnt by the zionists and their minions. So, if we are being treated in this way by the zionists for doing what is natural and claiming nothing more than our inalienable rights, then it is very possible, I thought, that those students whom I don’t know and whose politics I don’t know, must also be doing something that is natural to humans, namely honoring their dead and keeping to their traditions. Why does the rabble have the right to fly the israeli flag which symbolizes a 70-year long rampage of genocidal criminality against us Palestinians but these Austrian students are denied the right to keep to their traditions and respect their country in a way of their choosing?

When that „colleague“ came by to insult me by spitting on the floor, things somehow started to make sense, in the same way how George Orwell imbued the activities of the psychopaths in power in his famous novel with sense: people who defend and stand up for their values, their traditions, their families, their country, such people are deemed enemies of the system, heaped with scorn, labeled with the worst possible epithets and slated for destruction. On the contrary, people who tolerate abuse against themselves, their friends, family and country, people who betray their own and their values, people who engage in antisocial, immoral and criminal activity, people who vicariously show themselves as ignorant and hate-filled dolts, such people are praised and elevated to examples to be emulated.


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