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UK poll reveals striking ignorance of Holocaust

LONDON (Reuters) - More than a quarter of young Britons do not know if the Holocaust happened, according to a poll on Friday that sparked alarm among Jewish leaders determined the world should not forget the Nazi genocide.

"This poll reinforces the necessity to observe the motto -- Never Again", said Winston Pickett, spokesman for the umbrella group, the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

The poll, conducted by The Jewish Chronicle to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, showed that 28 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds in Britain do not know if the Holocaust happened.

But teachers were given some comfort by the poll -- just one percent of those surveyed by YouGov pollsters thought the Holocaust was a myth.

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The "New" French Anti-Semitism. - By Don Feder, August 23, 2004

Earlier this month, Jews were attacked at Auschwitz. Their assailants weren’t Arabs, Germans, Poles or members of another group historically associated with anti-Semitism, but Frenchmen – the children of liberty, equality and fraternity.

The incident was part of a growing trend. Despite the protestations of President Jacques Chirac, European anti-Semitism has a French address.

The Jews – students from the U.S., Israel and Poland – were touring the museum at the death camp that’s come to symbolize the horrors of the Holocaust. One of them, Tamar Schuri, had an Israeli flag wrapped around her shoulders.

On spotting the banner, the Frenchmen began swearing at the Jews and shouting anti-Semitic epithets. Maya Ober, a Polish Jew who lost family members at Auschwitz, said one Frenchman, "told us to go back to Israel and that we were stupid and should be ashamed to walk around with an Israeli flag." A Frenchman grabbed Tamar’s arm. Observers said it would have come to blows, if the groups hadn’t been separated.

It’s outrageous that Jews would be accosted for displaying the flag of the Jewish state at a place where 1.5 million Jews were murdered. It’s revealing that their assailants were French.

Within days of the Auschwitz attack, a Jewish cemetery in Lyon was desecrated. Swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans were scrawled on tombstones. In France, even dead Jews can find no peace.

Chirac heroically pledged "The perpetrators of this outrage are being actively pursued." He’s probably assigned the bumbling Inspector Clouseau (of Pink Panther fame) to the case.

Since the autumn of 2000 (the start of the Palestinians’ latest terrorism campaign against Israel) a wave of anti-Semitism has swept France -- Kristallnacht with Camembert.

Jewish cemeteries have been desecrated. Synagogues and day schools have been firebombed. Snipers have shot at buses carrying Jewish students. Rabbis have been attacked. Jews wearing skullcaps have been beaten in the streets.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in France increased from 320 in 2001 to 593 in 2003. In the first six months of this year alone, there were more than 500 hate crimes directed at French Jews. Attacks on Jews now account for over 80 percent of all bias-related offenses committed in France each year.

Rabbi Joseph Sitruk, France’s chief rabbi, has asked Jews not to wear skullcaps in public. ("I ask young Jews to be alert, to avoid walking alone, to avoid wearing yarmulkes in the street or in the subway and consequently becoming targets for potential assailants.") The Simon Wiesenthal Center advises Jewish tourists to "exercise extreme caution" when traveling to the land of Vichy.

In the face of this Perrier pogrom, Ariel Sharon recently urged French Jews to emigrate to Israel. Chirac responded by telling the Israeli prime minister that he wasn’t welcome in France. The old general – who’s won more medals than the entire French army since the dawn of time – is thus deprived of the opportunity to study military strategy in the home of the Maginot Line.

Most of the attacks on Jews are the work of North African Moslems who’ve flooded the country. (Its Moslem population is estimated at six to eight million.) With 600,000 Jews (the third largest Jewish community in the Diaspora), France truly is a happy hunting ground for followers of the religion of peace. Since their homelands are largely Judenrein, it’s a special treat for them to have real, live Jewish targets.

French indifference facilitates these crimes. The Moslems are the beneficiaries of centuries of French anti-Semitism.

The intellectual father of French Revolution, Voltaire, wrote of the Children of Abraham: "They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race." This observation came at a time when European Jews cowered in ghettos.

Anticipating the Holocaust, 19th century French socialist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon had his own solution to the Jewish problem – "either sending back the Jews to Asia or exterminating them."

French anti-Semitism was the original impetus for Zionism. Theodor Herzl, an assimilated Austrian Jew, was so shocked when he encountered Parisian mobs shouting "Death to the Jews" during the Dreyfus Affair, that he was moved to write Der Judenstaat ("The Jewish State), starting a movement which would lead to the establishment of the State of Israel within 50 years.

The father of racist theory, Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), was a Frenchman whose advocacy of Aryan supremacy influenced Hitler.

In all of occupied Europe, the Nazis found no more willing accomplices to the Final Solution than the French. The Vichy government rounded up 61,000 Jews and handed them over to the Nazis – almost all died at places like Auschwitz.

By contrast, the Italian army (allied with Germany) saved Jews in its zone of occupation in Southern France. The commander of these troops said it was "against the honor of the Italian army" to allow the deportation of Jews in territory it controlled. (The honor of the French army is illustrated by the scapegoating of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus.)

The post-war era saw little improvement in the attitude of the French government toward a people it’s never wanted and whose presence it deeply resents.

On November 28, 1967 (shortly after the Six Day War) then-President Charles DeGaulle told a press conference that the Jews are "an elite people, self confident, and domineering." This from the leader of a nation universally celebrated for its humility.

DeGaulle (who hated Americans as well), also charged that the Jewish people were responsible for "provoking ill-will in certain countries at certain times." Presumably, by breathing.

This animus cuts across the political spectrum. Francois Mitterrand, socialist president of France from 1981 to 1995, reportedly shared the sentiments of his predecessor regarding the Jews.

In 2001, Daniel Bernard, France’s ambassador to Britain, was overheard telling guests at a cocktail party that the world’s problems were all the fault of "that shitty little country, Israel." Why, the ambassador wondered aloud, "should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people" (diplomatese for "the Jews."). Ah, that Gallic charm.

For decades, a rabid anti-Zionism has infused French foreign policy. (Recall that France financed the building of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor, destroyed by Israel in 1981.)

In the 1970s, France made a devil’s pact with the PLO. Arafat’s killers would be allowed to operate on la belle pays (and plan attacks on Jews from there) as long as they didn’t engage in terrorism on French soil. The French are adept at looking the other way, while others die.

It took Paris roughly three years of arson, assaults , sniper attacks and desecrations to finally admit that all was not well in its multicultural paradise. Initially, it simply denied reality.

In 2002, Chirac professed to be shocked and saddened that anyone would think there was anti-Semitism in France.

The President of the Republic assured us: "There is no upsurge in anti-Semitism in France … nothing supports these statements" and that "France and all of its authorities remain very vigilant in this domain, and are extremely severe in punishing any of its manifestations, whatever they may be."

Anti-Semites weren’t deceived. In the Spring of 2003, Parisians protesting the US invasion of Iraq chanted, "Vive Chirac. Stop the Jews!"

In 2001, the president of the Representative Council of the Jewish Organizations of France wrote in Le Monde: "The leaders of the country like to play down anti-Semitic acts. They prefer to see these as ordinary violence. We are deluged with statistics designed to show that an attack against a synagogue is an act of violence and not anti-Semitism."

I’m only surprised Chirac didn’t also insist that there was no anti-Semitism in France during the Dreyfus Affair or in World War II. (It’s just a coincidence that all 61,000 of its citizens sent to the gas chambers happened to be Jews.) The French have an expression: "The more things change, the more they remain the same." In reality, there are few matters the French care about less than the fate of Jews – in France or anywhere else.

That the center of European anti-Semitism is also a hotbed of anti-Americanism is no surprise. Like the Jews, Americans are indicted for "arrogance."

America is charged with the unpardonable offense of unilateralism Pity that old warmonger Churchill acted unilaterally after France was overrun in 1940. And, just think, the British prime minister didn’t even have a mandate from the League of Nations.

Like Americans, the Jews are resented for their success – which may be contrasted with the ennui and quiet failure of old Europe.

There is the feeling, almost universal among the French, that if the Jews and Americans were less assertive (i.e., rolled over and played dead), all of the world’s problems would go away.

Those Jews/Israelis, why can’t they just give the Palestinians a state -- and give themselves suicide borders in the process -- the French ask?

Similarly, it is asserted that if America would just leave tyrants (and French trading partners) like Saddam Hussein alone, peace would reign supreme.

If we’d just turn everything over to the international debating society on the East River, instead of exercising our sovereign right of self-defense, France and the rest of nonaligned Europe could go quietly to the grave without having their three-hour lunches disturbed.

French hatred of Americans and Israelis is the rage of the impotent toward those with an intact survival instinct.

Speaking of a survival instinct, or lack thereof, if demographic trends continue, France will be a predominately Moslem nation in less than half a century. (Vive le Prophet?) The birthrate of its native population is 1.4 children per woman, well below replacement level. For French Moslems, it’s double to triple that.

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Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14752

 

 

 As reported by 'Global Broadcasting': Incidences of Anti-Semitism are rising in Canada, as well as the rest of world.

CSIS hooligans in Montreal trying to spark race war in Quebec.

Crude bomb targets Montreal Jewish community centre - Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Montreal police are investigating a small bomb that exploded in front of the Ben

Weider Jewish Community Centre on Tuesday night.

 

The late-night blast blackened the sidewalk in front of the Westbury St. Centre

in Cote-des-Neiges, frightening several employees inside, police said. No

one was injured.

 

Details are still sketchy but investigators said the the bomb was detonated

around 11 p.m.

 

These people can never quite resist leaving their calling card, and note

the time of the blast was 11 in the evening of the 3rd day.... 3x11 is the

"sacred" number of the masonic order. [Read more on this here]

 

Also see:

P2OG, the government plan to foment terror

 

CSIS

 

Police investigate suspicious fires at Jewish cottages in Quebec - June 18/2007

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We hear many people trying to blame "the Jewish people" for the New World Order. Are these

people really "Zionist believers" or merely apostate opportunists. Does anyone really believe

that Hitler or Stalin were Zionists?

 

So what is the goal of the Illuminati power brokers manipulating our democracies into police states, and destroying national identity in exchange for global government and total control? Perhaps the below article will help shed some light on the dark truth of the Illuminati.

 

Makow - Why Do The Illuminati Hate Jews? - Henry Makow, PhD | April 3 2006

"Where the rubber meets the road, the Illuminati have an absolutely satanic hatred for Jews," a contact who did business with a prominent Illuminati family notified me.

"Jew-hatred spiritually energizes them," he continued.

"I read too much out there that falls for the lie that the conspiracy is Jewish at its highest levels. Granted, it appears that way, and a lot of data is hard to argue with, but I have first-hand knowledge of the depth of Jew-hatred among people who are the real thing. These people (at least the ones I knew) are not Zionist Bankers, but totally Gentile."

To all appearances Jews have a disproportionate role in the Illuminati New World Order. How do we account for this apparent contradiction?

Illuminati defector Svali offers a clue. Illuminati Jews have renounced their Jewish beliefs and background. She says the Illuminati hate Israel.

"The Illuminati are racist in the extreme... Yes, there are some very powerful Jewish people in this group. For instance, the Rothschild family literally runs the financial empire in Europe (and indirectly the States), and are a well-known Jewish family...But to rise to power in the Illuminati, a Jewish person would be forced to renounce their faith, and to give their first allegiance to Lucifer and the beliefs of the Illuminati."

Following the research of Rabbi Marvin Antelman, Barry Chamish has exposed the heresies of Sabbatai Zvi and Jacob Frank that created a schism in European Jewry in 17th and 18th century respectively. This was essentially a satanic movement that turned Jewish teaching on its ear. Everything that was forbidden by God was now permitted. Sin and not righteousness was the way to salvation. Sexual depravity (especially wife swapping orgies) was encouraged as a means to destroy the family and the social fabric. They wanted a clean slate on which to redesign society in their image.

A fierce hatred developed between satanic Jews and the rabbis who tried to expel the heretics from the community. This schism was partially reflected in the divide between western Jews who shed their religion for "secular humanism and reason" and eastern Jews who remained Orthodox. Many secular Jews became radicals as they tried to replace their lost religion with belief in a worldly utopia. The Illuminati were able to dupe them with their fraudulent Communist promise. "Change the World" is their deceptive slogan.

The satanic leader Jacob Frank (1726-91) formed an alliance with the Rothschilds, the power behind the Illuminati. They started the Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism, which posed as "liberation from the confines of Jewish inner law and ghetto." They encouraged Jews to assimilate, inter-marry, change their names and even convert to Christianity. They tapped selected followers to advance their satanic agenda by subverting Christian civilization from within.

Sen. John Kerry's background fits this profile perfectly. His grandfather was a Frankest Jew "Kohn" who adopted an Irish name and converted to Catholicism. His father worked for the CIA. His mother was part of the Forbes family, which made its fortune in the drug trade (opium), like many of America's "first families." Kerry himself is a member of the Illuminati Skull and Bones.

(Kerry's background)

During the last election, Wesley Clark discovered he was half-Jewish. Madeleine Albright admitted she was Jewish. Her father Josef Korbel was Condoleezza Rice's mentor at Denver University. Before that he was accused of stealing art treasures from a prominent Czech family when he was a Communist official in the post-war period.

The picture that emerges is a conspiracy of gentiles, part Jews and hidden Jews united by allegiance to a satanic world dictatorship (essentially an outgrowth of British imperialism.) Winston Churchill, who was Jewish and the current Baron Jacob Rothschild, whose mother was not Jewish, fit this description.

There is a surprising list of American Presidents who are suspected of being Jewish or part-Jewish including Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Eisenhower, and Lyndon Johnson.

It is possible that members of the Nazi hierarchy were also part Jewish. Hitler's grandmother left the Rothschild's employment in Vienna when she became pregnant with Hitler's father. In his 1964 book "Before Hitler Came" author Dietrich Bronder, a Jew himself, claims the following personages all had Jewish blood: Hesse, Goering,Strasser, Goebbels, Rosenberg, Frank, Himmler, von Ribbentrop, Heydrich and many more. (Kardel, "Hitler Founder of Israel" p.4)

My own hypothesis is that WWII was contrived by the Illuminati to destroy German nationalism and nation/race concepts in general. (They neglected to tell their Nazi branch about this, of course. This is behind Rudolf Hess' mission and imprisonment. ) The Illuminati also used the war to purge Europe of Jews who weren't allied to them. The Jewish holocaust created a rationale for the State of Israel, which was intended to dominate the Middle East, serve as an excuse for WWIII, and as capital of the future Masonic world government. There is plenty of evidence that the Nazis collaborated with Zionists, and that the Zionists betrayed their Jewish brethren during the war. Sabbatean Jews in the West prevented Jews from escaping from Europe. http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Kerry_Gaza.htm

(See also my "Zionism: Compulsory Suicide for Jews" http://www.savethemales.ca/091202.html  and "Why the Jews Went Quietly" http://www.savethemales.ca/270103.html )

"Zionism is but an incident of a far reaching plan," said leading American Zionist Louis Marshall, counsel for bankers Kuhn Loeb in 1917. "It is merely a convenient peg on which to hang a powerful weapon."

The far-reaching plan is Illuminati world dictatorship. The Illuminati is the highest echelon of Freemasonry, an occult secret society dedicated to Lucifer. The world's central bankers have intermarried with the richest dynastic families of Europe and America to bring about world hegemony. They instigated wars and depressions to degrade and destroy humanity. The American people have been financing their wars since 1914.

They undermine society by attacking its sources of communal resistance: race, religion, nation and family. Jews are a convenient instrument for social dissolution because they don't belong to the majority religion or race. (Homosexuality and lesbian feminism are used to dissolve family.) Jews are easily brainwashed and can be placed in positions of power and influence. They may suffer the consequences if the Illuminati no longer require their services, or if the people realize 9-11 and the War on Terror are a Neo-Con implemented fraud.

(Jews easily brainwashed)

In the meantime, "the Jews" serve as a convenient scapegoat for the Illuminati. It is easy to forget that the majority of Jews are patriotic citizens who would like to assimilate if only their country wasn't being dismantled. They are not part of this world government agenda. (E.g. I am a Canadian. The leading Canadian nationalist is Mel Hurtig, a Jew.)

In addition, it's easy to forget that non-Jewish national elites have betrayed their countries and succumbed to the Illuminati. Look at the membership lists of the Illuminati "Skull and Bones" or elite "Pilgrim Society" to see that the vast majority of adherents are non-Jews. Read "Secret Societies of America's Elite" by Steven Sora for the non-Jewish side of the criminal US Illuminati leadership.

Svali suggests a reason why the Illuminati hate religious Jews: "The Jews historically fought against the occult. See Deuteronomy and the Old Testament for how God through the Jewish people tried to cleanse the land of the occult groups that were operating there, such as those who worshiped Baal, Ashtarte, and other Canaanite and Babylonian gods."

It's time Jews rediscovered this heritage and took up this mandate again.

In conclusion, a satanic heresy has corrupted Judaism. These Satanists are part of the Illuminati and hate Jews possibly because Jews were supposed to represent a moral God, or for the usual racist reasons.

The long-term goal of the Illuminati is to divert mankind from its Divine purpose and subjugate and change it using sophisticated means of mind control (i.e. the mass media, "education," sexual "liberation," migration, diversity etc.)

Humanity is a prisoner in Lucifer's laboratory.

 

Proposal at U.N. to criminalize 'defamation of Islam' - March 11/09
 

Photo from www.physics.ucsd.edu

Palestinian Militants Reportedly Fire

Russian-made Rocket at Israel on

Election Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So what about the latest July, August /06 conflict in Lebanon and the issue of civilian

casualties?

 

Does it make sense that Israel would deliberately target civilians in order to stir up even

more Muslim [or western] anger, or is the truth hidden in the fog of war?

 

Those of us familiar with the goal of the Globalist Illuminati parasites need to remind

ourselves of their global goal: The elimination of Israel and Christian believers, as well as

some 85 percent of the population they call "useless feeders", all of which they plan to

accomplish under a global government of 10 super-states under one leader. This leader

will be introduced to the world as a "peacemaker" but after just a few years his peace will

be broken, and his ego will demand that everyone worship him as a god.

 

The motive for war against the Jewish people is highlighted in the twelfth chapter of the

book of Revelation, as well as the force behind this growing movement of hate.

 

The below story came out two days after the world media gave the account of civilians

killed at a UN "observation post". Will this incident (and probably others) be used as a

means to grant more power to the UN, including issuing more arms to UN forces? Note

that in the Canadian "anti-terrorism" act, the primary focus of protection of the statute is

not Canadian citizens, but UN personnel and government.

 

 

 

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Sunday, July 30, 2006

 

Hezbollah was using UN post as 'shield'

Canadian wrote of militia's presence, 'necessity' of bombing

Joel Kom, with files from Steven Edwards, CanWest News Service

The Ottawa Citizen


Thursday, July 27, 2006

The words of a Canadian United Nations observer written just days before he was killed in an Israeli bombing of a UN post in Lebanon are evidence Hezbollah was using the post as a "shield" to fire rockets into Israel, says a former UN commander in Bosnia.

Those words, written in an e-mail dated just nine days ago, offer a possible explanation as to why the post -- which according to UN officials was clearly marked and known to Israeli forces -- was hit by Israel on Tuesday night, said retired Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie yesterday.

The strike hit the UN observation post in the southern Lebanese village of El Khiam, killing Canadian Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener and three others serving as unarmed UN military observers in the area.

Just last week, Maj. Hess-von Kruedener wrote an e-mail about his experiences after nine months in the area, words Maj.-Gen. MacKenzie said are an obvious allusion to Hezbollah tactics.

"What I can tell you is this," he wrote in an e-mail to CTV dated July 18. "We have on a daily basis had numerous occasions where our position has come under direct or indirect fire from both (Israeli) artillery and aerial bombing.

"The closest artillery has landed within 2 meters (sic) of our position and the closest 1000 lb aerial bomb has landed 100 meters (sic) from our patrol base. This has not been deliberate targeting, but rather due to tactical necessity."

Those words, particularly the last sentence, are not-so-veiled language indicating Israeli strikes were aimed at Hezbollah targets near the post, said Maj.-Gen. MacKenzie.

"What that means is, in plain English, 'We've got Hezbollah fighters running around in our positions, taking our positions here and then using us for shields and then engaging the (Israeli Defence Forces)," he said.

That would mean Hezbollah was purposely setting up near the UN post, he added. It's a tactic Maj.-Gen. MacKenzie, who was the first UN commander in Sarajevo during the Bosnia civil war, said he's seen in past international missions: Aside from UN posts, fighters would set up near hospitals, mosques and orphanages.

A Canadian Forces infantry officer with the Edmonton-based Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and the only Canadian serving as a UN military observer in Lebanon, Maj. Hess-von Kruedener was no stranger to fighting nearby.

The UN post, he wrote in the e-mail, afforded a view of the "Hezbollah static positions in and around our patrol Base."

"It appears that the lion's share of fighting between the IDF and Hezbollah has taken place in our area," he wrote, noting later it was too dangerous to venture out on patrols.

The e-mail appears to contradict the UN's claim there had been no Hezbollah activity in the vicinity of the strike.

The question of Hezbollah's infiltration of the area is significant because UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, speaking Tuesday just hours after the bombing, accused the Israelis of the "apparently deliberate targeting" of the base near Khiam in southern Lebanon.

A senior UN official, asked about the information contained in Maj. Hess-von Kruedener's e-mail concerning Hezbollah presence in the vicinity of the Khiam base, denied the world body had been caught in a contradiction.

"At the time, there had been no Hezbollah activity reported in the area," he said. "So it was quite clear they were not going after other targets; that, for whatever reason, our position was being fired upon.

"Whether or not they thought they were going after something else, we don't know. The fact was, we told them where we were. They knew where we were. The position was clearly marked, and they pounded the hell out of us."

Even if Hezbollah was not firing rockets at the time of the bombing, Maj. Hess-von Kruedener's e-mail indicates they were using a terrorist tactic of purposely drawing out enemy forces near a neutral site, said retired Capt. Peter Forsberg, who did two UN tours between 1993 and 1995 during the Bosnian war.

The UN's limited mandate, meaning that its observers are unarmed and have few options, put the observers in a poor position, he said.

If indeed Israel was attempting to hit Hezbollah fighters in the area, it hasn't yet used the excuse to explain its actions because it wouldn't make it any less guilty in the world's eyes, Capt. Forsberg said.

 

Here are a few pics of the damage done by Hezbollah rockets, filled with ball bearings designed

(in this case) to kill civilians. These pics include damage done to an Israeli hospital.....

Picture (at left) behind Hezbollah supporter tells

the story.... Hezbollah, like many other radical

groups within the massive Arab empire, wish

to remove Israel from the map and drive them

"into the sea"......

 

Soon, one man will appear on the scene and

promise a new era of peace, and will make

peace contracts with many nations.....

 

This peace will only last a few years.

 

 

 

 

 

Fliers admit aborting raids on civilian targets as concern grows over the
reliability of intelligence.

 

Inigo Gilmore at Hatzor Air Base, Israel - Sunday August 6, 2006, The Observer

At least two Israeli fighter pilots have deliberately missed civilian targets in Lebanon as disquiet grows in the military about flawed intelligence, The Observer has learnt. Sources say the pilots were worried that targets had been wrongly identified as Hizbollah facilities.

Voices expressing concern over the armed forces' failures are getting louder. One Israeli cabinet minister said last week: 'We gave the army so much money. Why are we getting these results?' Last week saw Hizbollah's guerrilla force, dismissed by senior Israeli military officials as 'ragtag', inflict further casualties on one of the world's most powerful armies in southern Lebanon. At least 12 elite troops, the equivalent of Britain's SAS, have already been killed, and by yesterday afternoon Israel's military death toll had climbed to 45.

As the bodies pile up, so the Israeli media has begun to turn, accusing the military of lacking the proper equipment, training and intelligence to fight a guerrilla war in Lebanon. Israel's Defence Minister, Amir Peretz, on a tour of the front lines, was confronted by troubled reserve soldiers who told him they lacked proper equipment and training.

Israel's chief of staff, Major-General Dan Halutz, had vowed to wipe out Hizbollah's missile threat within 10 days. These claims are now being mocked as rockets rain down on Israel's north with ever greater intensity, despite an intense and highly destructive air bombardment.

As one well-connected Israeli expert put it: 'If we have such good information in Lebanon, how come we still don't know the hideout of missiles and launchers?... If we don't know the location of their weapons, why should we know which house is a Hizbollah house?'

As international outrage over civilian deaths grows, the spotlight is increasingly turning on Israeli air operations. The Observer has learnt that one senior commander who has been involved in the air attacks in Lebanon has already raised concerns that some of the air force's actions might be considered 'war crimes'.

Yonatan Shapiro, a former Blackhawk helicopter pilot dismissed from reserve duty after signing a 'refusenik' letter in 2004, said he had spoken with Israeli F-16 pilots in recent days and learnt that some had aborted missions because of concerns about the reliability of intelligence information.

According to Shapiro, some pilots justified aborting missions out of 'common sense' and in the context of the Israeli Defence Force's moral code of conduct, which says every effort should be made to avoiding harming civilians.

Shapiro said: 'Some pilots told me they have shot at the side of targets because they're afraid people will be there, and they don't trust any more those who give them the coordinates and targets.'

He added: 'One pilot told me he was asked to hit a house on a hill, which was supposed to be a place from where Hizbollah was launching Katyusha missiles. But he was afraid civilians were in the house, so he shot next to the house ...

'Pilots are always being told they will be judged on results, but if the results are hundreds of  dead civilians while Hizbollah is still able to fire all these rockets, then something is very wrong.'

So far none of the pilots has publicly refused to fly missions but some are wobbling, according to Shapiro. He said: 'Their target could be a house firing a cannon at Israel and it could be a house full of children, so it's a real dilemma; it's not black and white. But ... I'm calling on them to refuse, in order save our country from self-destruction.'

Meron Rappoport, a former editor at the Israeli daily Haaretz and military analyst, criticised the air force's methods for selecting targets: 'The impression is that information is sometimes lacking. One squadron leader admitted the evidence used to determine attacks on cars is sometimes circumstantial - meaning that if people are in an area after Israeli forces warned them to leave, the assumption is that those left behind must be linked to Hizbollah ... This is problematic, as aid agencies have said many people did not leave ... because they could not, or it was unsafe to travel on the roads thanks to Israel's aerial bombardment.'

These revelations raise further serious questions about the airstrike in Qana last Sunday that left dozens dead, which continues to arouse international outrage. From the outset, the Israeli military's version of events has been shrouded in ambiguity, with the army releasing a video it claims shows Katyusha rockets being fired from Qana, even though the video was dated two days earlier, and claiming that more than 150 rockets had been fired from the location.

Some IDF officials have continued to refer vaguely to Katyushas being launched 'near houses' in the village and to non-specific 'terrorist activity' inside the targeted building. In a statement on Thursday, the IDF said it the air force did not know there were civilians in what they believed was an empty building, yet paradoxically blamed Hizbollah for using those killed as 'human shields'.

Human rights groups have attacked the findings as illogical. Amnesty International described the investigation as a 'whitewash', saying Israeli intelligence must have been aware of the civilians'.

One Israeli commander from a different squadron called the Qana bombing a 'mistake' and was unable to explain the apparent contradiction in the IDF's position, although he insisted there would have been no deliberate targeting of civilians. He said he had seen the video of the attack, and admitted: 'Generally they [Hizbollah] are using human shields ... That specific building - I don't know the reason it was chosen as a target.'

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Is the media trying to maximise the outrage by doctoring photos and over-estimating civilian targeting? Look at the below photo and see for yourself if you see evidence of doctoring, as some photo experts have suggested.....

 Experts have suggested that this Reuters photo has been created using photoshop style "cloning" feature.

 

 

 

 

 

Update: Reuters has withdrawn all 920 photographs taken by Lebanese freelancer Adnan Hajj from its database. Reuters confirms that two images by Hajj have been digitally altered, as bloggers pointed out over the weekend.

 

 

 

The following story was "unearthed" about the same time the UN rebuked Israel for

attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon.  The over 800 year old Bible was found opened at

Psalm 83, in which God hears complaints about other nations attempts to wipe out

the name of Israel.

 

Ancient book of psalms unearthed from Irish bog

Last Updated Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:07:48 EDT

Archeologists in Ireland are treating the finding of an ancient book of psalms unearthed from bogland as a miracle.

 

This ancient book of psalms was discovered last week by an exceptionally alert worker in a peat bog. Experts say the vellum pages are very fragile. (Associated Press/National Museum of Ireland)

 

 

 

The book was discovered by a man digging peat from the bog with a backhoe.

"This is really a miracle find," said Pat Wallace, director of the National Museum of Ireland, which has the book stored in refrigeration.

He is one of a team of manuscript experts who spoke about the discovery on Tuesday.

"There's two sets of odds that make this discovery really way out," said Wallace. "First of all, it's unlikely that something this fragile could survive buried in a bog at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spotted before it was destroyed is incalculably more amazing."

The book has about 20 pages and experts believe it was written by monks between 800 and 1000 AD.

Book found open

Painstakingly copied in Latin script, it was found open to a page describing Psalm 83, in which God hears complaints of other nations' attempts to wipe out the name of Israel. 

Wallace described the book's binding and cover as "leather velum, very thick wallet in appearance."   It could take months of study just to identify the safest way to pry open the pages without damaging them, he said.

It may be the first discovery of a medieval manuscript in almost two centuries, according to Bernard Meehan, head of manuscripts at Trinity College in Dublin.

An engineer digging up peat to create commercial potting soil in the Irish midlands spotted the book just beyond the bucket of his bulldozer.

The quick-thinking bog owner covered the book with damp soil, and that prevented it from deteriorating from exposure to the air, Wallace said. Bog has preservative properties for ancient artifacts.

Ireland had many medieval monasteries, and several hand-made texts from that period still survive, including the ornately illustrated Book of Kells, which is on display at Trinity College.

 Associated Press

Psalm 83

1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9 ¶ Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
 

Story aslo found on CNN......

Medieval book of psalms unearthed

First millennium manuscript, open to Psalm 83, found in Irish mud

 

Jew hatred, once a creature of the extreme right, now has been embraced by
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- By Jonathan Kay, National Post March 3/09
 

 

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