Saturday, October 4, 2014

2014-10-03 Naomi Klein on US gov corruption

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2014-10-03 Hannibal protocol, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and the Jewish state

2014-10-03 Hannibal protocol, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and the Jewish state
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Events of the latest round of violence would likely lead an outside observer to conclude that the segment of the Jewish-Israeli public, which was self-characterized in the past as "Religious-National", is today closer to "Nationalist", or even "Totalitarian" in its values and practices, and increasingly divorced from "Jewish". That of course is not the view of those involved, who consider themselves the soldiers of the Lord.
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Gaza, August 2014
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OccupyTLV, Yom Kippur Eve, October 3 - the latest round of violence in Gaza, this summer, continues to reverberate in Gaza, in Israel, and around the world.
In Israel, key part of the legacy of the latest round of violence is the establishment by IDF of the Hannibal protocol in practice. It instructs IDF soldiers to employ any necessary force to prevent the capture of a live IDF soldier by the Palestinians, even if it involves the killing the captive soldier himself. The protocol is not new, but it was employed during the latest round of violence in Gaza twice, the better known case being the killing of Givati Brigade Lieutenant Hadar Goldin on August 1, 2014. [1,2]
While violence in Gaza was in process, Israeli media was oblique on the issue, and according to reports, Israel also tried to impose censorship on the foreign press in this matter. All of that changed over the past couple of weeks:
* In an official interview with Ynet for the Jewish New Year, unnamed Givati Brigade senior commanders say, "our conscience is clear", and "we preferred a dead body" over a captive IDF soldier. [3]
* In response, today Haaretz published an open letter by Uri Misgav to IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, calling upon Gantz to lift the fog of war and clarify the exact nature of the Hannibal protocol. [4]
Both Givati officers - the late Lieutenant Goldin - who was killed in Gaza, and Lieutenant Eytan -who was in charge of executing the Hannibal protocol on Goldin - are observant Jews. And in the aftermath of the case, the visit of Lieutenant Eytan with the family of Lieutenant Goldin was widely published. All involved were described as observant Jews.
No discernible protest has been raised against the Hannibal protocol from the Jewish observant segment of Israeli public, who tends to lean right, altough the Hannibal procedure stands in clear violation of the basics of Jewish Halachic law: The sixth of the Mosaic Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not kill", and the commandment of redeeming captives.
Moreover, numerous Halachic authorities in the State of Israel ruled over recent decades that captives, who were IDF soldiers, should be redeemed, even at the price of releasing Palestinians, who were convicted of terror acts of murder. In contrast, no Halachic ruling has been published in support of the Hannibal protocol. And yet, it appears that observant Jewish IDF soldiers embrace it.
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Jewish observant, Givati Brigade commander Colonel Ofer Winter. [6]
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Givati Brigade and its commander Colonel Ofer Winter came into controversy, relative to Jewish religious issues, even earlier in this summer's round of violence in Gaza.
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July 11, 2014 flyer by Givati brigade commander Colonel Ofer Winter. [5]
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On July 11, 2014, Israeli media published a flyer, which was distributed by Givati Brigade commander Colonel Ofer Winter to his soldiers, prior to the start of the ground operations in Gaza. Winter is an observant Jew. In the flyer, Winter refers to the Palestinians as a"blasphemous enemy", and invokes the Jewish credo: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one," as a battle cry. [5]
The next day, media published news of protest against the flyer from secular Jewish-Israeli quarters, claiming that it turned IDF into a "religious militia". [6] Observant Jewish-Israeli opinion writers found no fault in it...
Overall, the latest round of violence would likely lead an outsider to conclude that the segment of the Jewish-Israeli public, which was self-characterized in the past as "Religious-National", is today closer to "Nationalist", or even "Totalitarian" in its values and practices, and increasingly divorced from "Jewish".
That of course is not the view of those involved, who consider themselves the soldiers of the Lord.
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The late Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz: "Prophet of wrath, harbinger of the future". [7]
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The most significant intellectual figure in Israel in the 20th century was Jewish observant, Hebrew University Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994). With the passage of time, his words, considered provocative at the time, stand loud and clear, particularly on two issues:
* Following the 1967 war, he called for immediate withdrawal of Israel from the territories it captured during the war. The reason: Ongoing control of the Palestinian people by the Jewish people of the State of Israel would invariably lead to total corruption of the State of Israel!
* All along he called for separation of State and Synagogue in Israel. The reason: The ongoing merger of the two would invariably lead to corruption of both State and Synagogue!
The evidence, too long to list here, shows that Leibowitz was right on both.
LINKS:
[1] 2014-07-07 Joseph Zernik: "ISRAEL: The killing of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin and the "Hannibal protocol", OpEdNews.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/ISRAEL-The-killing-of-Lie-by-Joseph-Zernik-Gaza-Invasion_Israel_Israeli-Attacks-In-Gaza-140807-208.html
[2] 2014-07-12 Joseph Zernik: "ISRAEL: The killing of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin in Gaza - a government of crooks!", OpEdNews.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/ISRAEL-The-killing-of-Lie-by-Joseph-Zernik-Gaza-Invasion_Israel-140812-256.html
[3] 2014-09-24 Yoav Zeytun: "Givati commanders regarding the Rafah battle, 'clear consience'", Ynet
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4568410,00.html
[4] 2014-10-03 Uri Misgav: "To IDF chief of staff: Clear the fog over the 'Hannibal Directive'", Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.619030
[5] 2014-07-11 Givati brigade commander to his soldiers: "History chose us". NRG
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/595/401.html
[6] 2014-07-11 Secular Israelis object to the brigade commander letter, who called for fighting in the name of the Lord, Walla
http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/2689/2764078
[7] 2013-03-13 Carlo Senger: "Yeshayahu Leibowitz: Prophet of wrath, harbinger of the future", Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/strenger-than-fiction/yeshayahu-leibowitz-prophet-of-wrath-harbinger-of-the-future.premium-1.509103
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2014-10-03 Wikileaks: Finfisher (Gamma Group) - government surveillance and intrusion software

2014-10-03 Wikileaks: Finfisher (Gamma Group) - government surveillance and intrusion software
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The news item, now posted by former FBI Coleen Rowley is not new. After it was first leaked, it turned out that the German company exported its products to nations under oppressive regimes. Later, the German government claimed to impose restrictions on the export of such products.
With it, one must assume that similar tools are used in most western nations.
Wikileaks press release:
Today, 15 September 2014, WikiLeaks releases previously unseen copies of weaponised German surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around the world to spy on journalists, political dissidents and others.
FinFisher (formerly part of the UK based Gamma Group International until late 2013) is a German company that produces and sells computer intrusion systems, software exploits and remote monitoring systems that are capable of intercepting communications and data from OS X, Windows and Linux computers as well as Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. FinFisher first came to public attention in December 2011 when WikiLeaks published documents detailing their products and business in the first SpyFiles releas
WikiLeaks
Today, 15 September 2014, WikiLeaks releases previously unseen copies of weaponised German surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around the world to spy on journalists, political dissidents and others.
WIKILEAKS.CH

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Cultures of Resistance


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Some words of wisdom from a great graphic artist!
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2014-10-04 ISRAEL and the Internet - effective "Online Content Management"

The evidence shows that Israel engages in effective manipulation of unfavorable content on the internet.
Below are the readership data on my posts in the Liveleak.com site.  I have more than a million views on my channel there. Typically, within hours there are several hundred views on every new post, and eventually thousands.  That changed dramatically in recent days, with posts consistently showing "0" views...
On the Scribd.com site, where I maintain an archive of records, as part of the Human Rights Alert (NGO) documentation of corruption of the justice system in Israel and the US, total reads have exceeded 1,400,000.  But recently the readership data was manipulated and reduced to just over 100,000...
Likewise, Israeli media repeatedly reported that the Israeli office of Administration of the Courts is active in eliminating online data regarding judicial corruption in Israel.
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Joseph Zernik, PhD
Human Rights Alert (NGO)
OccupyTLV
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* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2010 Periodic Review Report regarding Human Rights in the United States, with the note: "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California".
* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2013 Periodic Review Report regarding Human Rights in Israel, with the note: "lack of integrity of the electronic records of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel."

Recent posts and readership data from Liveleak.com
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Friday, October 3, 2014

2014-10-03 Hannibal protocol, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and the Jewish state

Events of the latest round of violence would likely lead an outside observer to conclude that the segment of the Jewish-Israeli public, which was self-characterized in the past as "Religious-National", is today closer to "Nationalist", or even "Totalitarian" in its values and practices, and increasingly divorced from "Jewish".  That of course is not the view of those involved, who consider themselves the soldiers of the Lord.

 תקיפות חיל האוויר אתמול בדרום הרצועה
Gaza, August 2014
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OccupyTLV, Yom Kippur Eve, October 3 - the latest round of violence in Gaza, this summer, continues to reverberate in Gaza, in Israel, and around the world.

In Israel, key part of the legacy of the latest round of violence is the establishment by IDF of the Hannibal protocol in practice. It instructs IDF soldiers to employ any necessary force to prevent the capture of a live IDF soldier by the Palestinians, even if it involves the killing the captive soldier himself. The protocol is not new, but it was employed during the latest round of violence in Gaza twice, the better known case being the killing of Givati Brigade Lieutenant Hadar Goldin on August 1, 2014. [1,2]

While violence in Gaza was in process, Israeli media was oblique on the issue, and according to reports, Israel also tried to impose censorship on the foreign press in this matter.  All of that changed over the past couple of weeks:
  • In an official interview with Ynet for the Jewish New Year, unnamed Givati Brigade senior commanders say, "our conscience is clear", and "we preferred a dead body" over a captive IDF soldier. [3]
  • In response, today Haaretz published an open letter by Uri Misgav to IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, calling upon Gantz to lift the fog of war and clarify the exact nature of the Hannibal protocol. [4] 
Both Givati officers -  the late Lieutenant Goldin - who was killed in Gaza, and Lieutenant Eytan -who was in charge of executing the Hannibal protocol on Goldin - are observant Jews.  And in the aftermath of the case, the visit of  Lieutenant Eytan with the family of  Lieutenant Goldin was widely published. All involved were described as observant Jews.

No discernible protest has been raised against the Hannibal protocol from the Jewish observant segment of Israeli public, who tends to lean right, altough the  Hannibal procedure stands in clear violation of the basics of Jewish Halachic law: The sixth of the Mosaic Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not kill", and the commandment of redeeming captives.

Moreover, numerous Halachic authorities in the State of Israel ruled over recent decades that captives, who were IDF soldiers, should be redeemed, even at the price of releasing Palestinians, who were convicted of terror acts of murder. In contrast, no Halachic ruling has been published in support of the Hannibal protocol. And yet, it appears that observant Jewish IDF soldiers embrace it.

Jewish observant, Givati Brigade commander Colonel Ofer Winter. [6]
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Givati Brigade and its commander Colonel Ofer Winter came into controversy, relative to Jewish religious issues, even earlier in this summer's round of violence in Gaza.

July 11, 2014 flyer by Givati brigade commander Ofer Winter. [5]
______
On July 11, 2014, Israeli media published a flyer,  which was distributed by Givati Brigade commander Colonel Ofer Winter to his soldiers, prior to the start of the ground operations in Gaza. Winter is an observant Jew. In the flyer, Winter refers to the Palestinians as a"blasphemous enemy", and invokes the Jewish credo: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one," as a battle cry. [5]

The next day, media published news of protest against the flyer from secular Jewish-Israeli quarters, claiming that it turned IDF into a "religious militia". [6]  Observant Jewish-Israeli opinion writers found no fault in it...

Overall, the latest round of violence would likely lead an outsider to conclude that the segment of the Jewish-Israeli public, which was self-characterized in the past as "Religious-National", is today closer to "Nationalist", or even "Totalitarian" in its values and practices, and increasingly divorced from "Jewish".  

That of course is not the view of those involved, who consider themselves the soldiers of the Lord.

The late Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz: "Prophet of wrath, harbinger of the future". [7]
_____

The most significant intellectual figure in Israel in the 20th century was Jewish observant,  Hebrew University Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994). With the passage of time, his words, considered provocative at the time, stand loud and clear, particularly on two issues:
  • Following the 1967 war, he called for immediate withdrawal of Israel from the territories it captured during the war.  The reason: Ongoing control of the Palestinian people by the Jewish people of the State of Israel would invariably lead to total corruption of the State of Israel!
  • All along he called for separation of State and Synagogue in Israel.  The reason: The ongoing merger of the two would invariably lead to corruption of both State and Synagogue!
The evidence, too long to list here, shows that Leibowitz was right on both.

LINKS:
[1] 2014-07-07 Joseph Zernik: "ISRAEL: The killing of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin and the "Hannibal protocol", OpEdNews.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/ISRAEL-The-killing-of-Lie-by-Joseph-Zernik-Gaza-Invasion_Israel_Israeli-Attacks-In-Gaza-140807-208.html
[2] 2014-07-12 Joseph Zernik: "ISRAEL: The killing of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin in Gaza - a government of crooks!", OpEdNews.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/ISRAEL-The-killing-of-Lie-by-Joseph-Zernik-Gaza-Invasion_Israel-140812-256.html
[3] 2014-09-24 Yoav Zeytun: "Givati commanders regarding the Rafah battle, 'clear consience'", Ynet
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4568410,00.html
[4] 2014-10-03 Uri Misgav: "To IDF chief of staff: Clear the fog over the 'Hannibal Directive'", Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.619030
[5] 2014-07-11 Givati brigade commander to his soldiers: "History chose us". NRG
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/595/401.html
[6] 2014-07-11 Secular Israelis object to the brigade commander letter, who called for fighting in the name of the Lord, Walla
http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/2689/2764078
[7] 2013-03-13 Carlo Senger: "Yeshayahu Leibowitz: Prophet of wrath, harbinger of the future", Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/strenger-than-fiction/yeshayahu-leibowitz-prophet-of-wrath-harbinger-of-the-future.premium-1.509103
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Thursday, October 2, 2014

2014-10-02 HONG KONG!

2014-10-02 HONG KONG!
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‘Internal affair’: Beijing warns foreign countries not to meddle in Hong Kong
China’s foreign minister made it clear Beijing would not allow other countries to meddle into its ‘internal affairs’, responding in this way to US Secretary of State’s...
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2014-10-02 Cold War 2.0 is here!

2014-10-02 Cold War 2.0 is here!
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US tanks arrive in Baltics, Poland requests greater US military presence
Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz says she wants a greater military presence in Poland in light of events in Ukraine. The comment came as the US announced it...
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