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THE WORLD IS OUTRAGED AT ISRAEL'S BLOCKADE OF GAZA 07 juin 2010, 10:55 |
WASHINGTON
The world is outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in.
The Obama administration dithers.
But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is perfectly legal. Gaza under Hamas is a self-declared enemy of Israel -- a declaration backed up by more than 4,000 rockets fired at Israeli civilian territory.
Yet having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency, Hamas claims victimhood when Israel imposes a blockade to prevent Hamas from arming itself with still more rockets.
In World War II, with full international legality, the United States blockaded Germany and Japan.
And during the October 1962 missile crisis, we blockaded ("quarantined"
Cuba.
Yet Israel is accused of international criminality for doing precisely what John Kennedy did:
Impose a naval blockade to prevent a hostile state from acquiring lethal weaponry.
Oh, but weren't the Gaza-bound ships on a mission of humanitarian relief?
No. Otherwise they would have accepted Israel's offer to bring their supplies to an Israeli port, be inspected for military materiel and have the rest trucked by Israel into Gaza -- as every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza.
Why was the offer refused?
Because, as organizer Greta Berlin admitted, the flotilla was not about humanitarian relief but about breaking the blockade, i.e., ending Israel's inspection regime, which would mean unlimited shipping into Gaza and thus the unlimited arming of Hamas.
Blockade is a fallback
Israel has already twice intercepted weapons-laden ships from Iran destined for Hezbollah and Gaza.
What country would allow that?
But even more important, why did Israel even have to resort to blockade?
Because, blockade is Israel's fallback as the world systematically delegitimizes its traditional ways of defending itself -- forward and active defense.
(1) Forward defense: As a small, densely populated country surrounded by hostile states, Israel had, for its first half-century, adopted forward defense -- fighting wars on enemy territory (such as the Sinai and Golan Heights) rather than its own.
Where possible (Sinai, for example) Israel has traded territory for peace.
But where peace offers were refused, Israel retained the territory as a protective buffer zone.
Thus Israel retained a small strip of southern Lebanon to protect the villages of northern Israel.
And it took many losses in Gaza, rather than expose Israeli border towns to Palestinian terror attacks.
But under overwhelming outside pressure, Israel gave it up. The Israelis were told the occupations were not just illegal but at the root of the anti-Israel insurgencies -- and therefore withdrawal, by removing the cause, would bring peace.
Land for peace. Remember? Well, during the past decade, Israel gave the land -- evacuating South Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005.
What did it get? An intensification of belligerency, heavy militarization of the enemy side, multiple kidnappings, cross-border attacks and, from Gaza, years of unrelenting rocket attack.
Hamas' attacks whitewashed
(2) Active defense: Israel then had to switch to active defense -- military action to disrupt, dismantle and defeat (to borrow President Obama's description of our campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaida) the newly armed terrorist mini-states established in southern Lebanon and Gaza after Israel withdrew.
The result? The Lebanon war of 2006 and Gaza operation of 2008-09.
They were met with yet another avalanche of opprobrium and calumny by the same international community that had demanded the land-for-peace Israeli withdrawals in the first place.
Worse, the U.N. Goldstone report, which essentially criminalized Israel's defensive operation in Gaza while whitewashing the casus belli -- the preceding and unprovoked Hamas rocket war -- effectively delegitimized any active Israeli defense against its self-declared terror enemies.
(3) Passive defense. Without forward or active defense, Israel is left with but the most passive and benign of all defenses -- a blockade to simply prevent enemy rearmament. Yet, as we speak, this too is headed for international delegitimation.
But, if none of these is permissible, what's left? Nothing.
The whole point of this relentless international campaign is to deprive Israel of any legitimate form of self-defense.
The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, 6 million -- that number again -- hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to national suicide.
For which they are relentlessly demonized, ghettoized and constrained from defending themselves, even as the more committed anti-Zionists -- Iranian in particular -- openly prepare a more final solution.
E-mail: letters@charleskrauthammer.com
The world is outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in.
The Obama administration dithers.
But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is perfectly legal. Gaza under Hamas is a self-declared enemy of Israel -- a declaration backed up by more than 4,000 rockets fired at Israeli civilian territory.
Yet having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency, Hamas claims victimhood when Israel imposes a blockade to prevent Hamas from arming itself with still more rockets.
In World War II, with full international legality, the United States blockaded Germany and Japan.
And during the October 1962 missile crisis, we blockaded ("quarantined"
Cuba.
Yet Israel is accused of international criminality for doing precisely what John Kennedy did:
Impose a naval blockade to prevent a hostile state from acquiring lethal weaponry.
Oh, but weren't the Gaza-bound ships on a mission of humanitarian relief?
No. Otherwise they would have accepted Israel's offer to bring their supplies to an Israeli port, be inspected for military materiel and have the rest trucked by Israel into Gaza -- as every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza.
Why was the offer refused?
Because, as organizer Greta Berlin admitted, the flotilla was not about humanitarian relief but about breaking the blockade, i.e., ending Israel's inspection regime, which would mean unlimited shipping into Gaza and thus the unlimited arming of Hamas.
Blockade is a fallback
Israel has already twice intercepted weapons-laden ships from Iran destined for Hezbollah and Gaza.
What country would allow that?
But even more important, why did Israel even have to resort to blockade?
Because, blockade is Israel's fallback as the world systematically delegitimizes its traditional ways of defending itself -- forward and active defense.
(1) Forward defense: As a small, densely populated country surrounded by hostile states, Israel had, for its first half-century, adopted forward defense -- fighting wars on enemy territory (such as the Sinai and Golan Heights) rather than its own.
Where possible (Sinai, for example) Israel has traded territory for peace.
But where peace offers were refused, Israel retained the territory as a protective buffer zone.
Thus Israel retained a small strip of southern Lebanon to protect the villages of northern Israel.
And it took many losses in Gaza, rather than expose Israeli border towns to Palestinian terror attacks.
But under overwhelming outside pressure, Israel gave it up. The Israelis were told the occupations were not just illegal but at the root of the anti-Israel insurgencies -- and therefore withdrawal, by removing the cause, would bring peace.
Land for peace. Remember? Well, during the past decade, Israel gave the land -- evacuating South Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005.
What did it get? An intensification of belligerency, heavy militarization of the enemy side, multiple kidnappings, cross-border attacks and, from Gaza, years of unrelenting rocket attack.
Hamas' attacks whitewashed
(2) Active defense: Israel then had to switch to active defense -- military action to disrupt, dismantle and defeat (to borrow President Obama's description of our campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaida) the newly armed terrorist mini-states established in southern Lebanon and Gaza after Israel withdrew.
The result? The Lebanon war of 2006 and Gaza operation of 2008-09.
They were met with yet another avalanche of opprobrium and calumny by the same international community that had demanded the land-for-peace Israeli withdrawals in the first place.
Worse, the U.N. Goldstone report, which essentially criminalized Israel's defensive operation in Gaza while whitewashing the casus belli -- the preceding and unprovoked Hamas rocket war -- effectively delegitimized any active Israeli defense against its self-declared terror enemies.
(3) Passive defense. Without forward or active defense, Israel is left with but the most passive and benign of all defenses -- a blockade to simply prevent enemy rearmament. Yet, as we speak, this too is headed for international delegitimation.
But, if none of these is permissible, what's left? Nothing.
The whole point of this relentless international campaign is to deprive Israel of any legitimate form of self-defense.
The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, 6 million -- that number again -- hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to national suicide.
For which they are relentlessly demonized, ghettoized and constrained from defending themselves, even as the more committed anti-Zionists -- Iranian in particular -- openly prepare a more final solution.
E-mail: letters@charleskrauthammer.com
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Re: BILINGUES ? POSTS IN ENGLISH 07 juin 2010, 11:36 |
Helen Thomas resigned this morning! 
She resigned from all the newspapers she was polluting. Do you think she'll be going back to Lebanon?
She resigned from all the newspapers she was polluting. Do you think she'll be going back to Lebanon?
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SOME FACTS REALLY INTERESTING ! 08 juin 2010, 00:52 |
SOME ARE WELL KNOWN - OTHER FACTS REALLY INTERESTING
Jewish Trivia (You may or may not know -
Enjoy!)
> The Roosevelts were Jewish Dutch, arriving in NYC in 1682
(Originally named) Claes Rosenvelt before name change to Nicholas Roosevelt)
Sarah Delano, FDR's mother, was descended from Sephardic Jews.
> Joseph Stalin was originally named Joseph David Djugashvili
(translating into "son of a Jew." As well, all 3 of the women he married, were Jewish.
> Dwight Eisenhower's father was a Swedish Jew and was so identified in the West Point Yearbook of 1915.
> INTERESTING JEWISH FACTS
> 1. Lillian Friedman married Cruz Rivera. They named their baby Geraldo Miguel Rivera
(Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish.) Since, according to Jewishlaw, anyone born to a Jewish mother is
Jewish, Geraldo Rivera is Jewish.
As were, among others:
Fiorello Laguardia, Winston Churchill and Cary Grant, as explained below.
> 2. Fiorello Laguardia's mother's name was Jacobson. His father was not
Jewish. Laguardia spoke seven languages -- including Hebrew and Yiddish fluently.
> 3. Winston Churchill's mother's name was Jenny Jerome.
> 4. Cary Grant's mother, Elsie, was Jewish. His father, Elias Leach, was not.
Grant's original name was Archibald Alexander Leach. (Robin Leach is his
first cousin).
> 5. Peter Sellers' mother, Margaret Marks, was Jewish. His father, Bill
Sellers, was Protestant. Peter's real name is Richard Henry Sellers.
> 6.. David Bowie's mother is Jewish, his father is not. One of Bowie's albuM
covers discusses his Jewish ancestry. His real name: David Stenton Haywood Jones.
> 7. Robert DeNiro's mother is Jewish; his father is not.
> 8. Shari Belafonte's mother is Jewish. Her father, Harry, has a Jewish grandfather.
> 9. Olivia Newton John's Jewish grandfather was a Nobel Prize winning physicist.
> 10. Harrison Ford's mother is Russian Jewish, his father is Irish Catholic.
> ALWAYS GOOD TO KNOW AND REMEMBER!
> Fact: The first theater to be used solely for the showing of motion pictures
was built by a Jew (Adolf Zukor).
> Fact: The first full-length sound picture, The Jazz Singer was produced by
the Jewish Samuel L. Goldwyn & Louis B. Mayer (MGM).
> Fact: A Jew (Dr. Abraham Waksman) coined the term antibiotics.
> Fact: A Polish Jew (Casimir Funk) who pioneered a newmailto: JCirni@aol.com field of medical
research gave us a word now common in our language -- vitamins.
> Fact: The first successful operation for appendicitis was performed by a
Jewish surgeon (Dr. Simon Baruch)
> Fact: The doctor (Dr. Abraham Jacobi) hailed as America's father of
pediatrics was a Jew.
> Fact: Until a Jewish doctor (Dr. Siccary) showed differently, Americans
believed the tomato was poisonous.
> Fact: Jewish Levi "Levi's" Strauss (inventor of jeans) is the largest
clothing retailer in the world.
> Fact: In 1909, four Jews were among the 60 multi cultural signers of the
call to the National Action, which resulted in the creation of the
NAACP.
> Fact: A Jew (Emile Berliner) is the man who developed the modern day
phonograph. While Thomas Edison was working out a type of phonograph
that used a cylinder as a record, Berliner invented a machine that would
play a disc. The machine he patented was called the gramophone, and the famous
RCA trademark is a picture of a dog listening to "his master's voice" on
Berliner's device.
The gramophone was superior to Edison 's machine. Inshort, Emile Berliner made
possible the modern record industry. His company was eventually absorbed by the
Victor Talking Machine Company, now known as RCA.
> Fact: Jewish Louis B. Mayer (MGM) created the idea for the Oscar.
> Fact: European Jews are the founding fathers of all the Hollywood Studios.
> Fact: Jews comprise a mere 1/4 of 1% (13 million) of the population (6 billion).
> Fact: 99% of the world is non Jewish.
> Fact: Three of greatest & most influential thinkers dominating the 20th century were Jewish -
Einstein, Freud, and Marx.
> Fact: The most popular selling Christmas song ("White Christmas" was written by a Jew. (Irving Berlin)
> Fact: Of the 660 Nobel prizes from 1901 - 1990, 160 have been won by Jews.
In the end, Jews win more Nobel prizes than any other ethnicity.
They win 40x more than should be expected of them, based upon their small populationnumbers.
> Fact: A Jew (Dr. Jonas Salk) is the creator of the first Polio Vaccine.
> Fact: Jews (Hayam Solomon & Isaac Moses) are responsible for creating thefirst modern banking institutions.
> Fact: Jews also created the first department stores of the 19th centuryTheAltmans, Gimbels, Kaufmanns,
Lazaruses, Magnins, Mays, Strausses becameleaders of major department stores. Julius Rosenwald revolutionized the
way Americans purchased goods by improving Sears Roebuck's mail order merchandising. Hart, Schaffner, Marx,
Kuppenheimer and Levi Strauss becamehousehold names in men's clothing.. (Let's not forget EJ Korvets - Eight
Jewish Korean (war) Veterans).
> Fact: Jewish Marc Chagall (born Segal , Russia ) is one of the great 20thcentury painters.
> Fact: English Jewish financiers such as Isaac Goldsmid, Nathan Rothschild,
David Salomons, and Moses Montefiore, whose fortunes helped Englandbecome an empire.
> Fact: In 1918, Detroit , a Jew (Max Goldberg) opened the "first" commercial parking lot.
> Fact: In 1910, a Jew (Louis Blaustein) and his son opened the "first" gas
station, eventually founding AMOCO OIL. One of the richest oil families in the world.
> Fact: A Jew (Dr. Albert Sabin) developed the first "oral polio vaccine."
> Fact: A Jew (Steven Spielberg) is the most successful filmmaker since the
advent of film.
> Fact: A Jewish poet's (Emma Lazarus) famous poem, "give me your tired.. your poor. your huddled masses,
" appears as the inscription on the Statue OF Liberty
> Fact: Jewish Harry Houdini (Weiss) is the father of Magic/Illusion.
> Fact: Dr. Sigmund Freud (Jew) is the father of psychiatry.
> Fact: Jewish Abraham is the father of the world's 3 major religions:
Judaism, Christianity & Islam (ancestors of the Hebrew & Arabic
peoples).
Jesus (formerly known as "sweet Jewish Jesus" is still worshipped by
billions.
> Fact: Jews are the oldest of any people on earth still around with
their national identity and cultural heritage intact.
> Fact: George & Ira Gershwin & Irving Berlin (Jews) are three of the most
prolific composers of the 20th century.
> Fact: Isadore & Nathan Straus (Jews) - "Abraham & Straus," eventually
became sole owners of Macy's (world's largest department store) in 1896.
> Fact: Dr. Paul "magic bullet" Ehrlich (Jew) - physician, Nobel Prize in
1908 for curing syphilis.
> Fact: Armand Hammer (Jew) - "Arm & Hammer," physician & businessman who
originated the largest trade between U. S. and Russia .....
> Fact: Louis Santanel (Jew) was the financier who provided the funds for
Columbus ' voyage to America ..
> Fact: Sherry Lansing (Jew) of Paramount Pictures, became the first woman
president of a major Hollywood studio.
> Fact: Flo Zigfield (Jew) of "Zigfield Follies," is the creator of
American burlesque.
Jewish Trivia (You may or may not know -
Enjoy!)
> The Roosevelts were Jewish Dutch, arriving in NYC in 1682
(Originally named) Claes Rosenvelt before name change to Nicholas Roosevelt)
Sarah Delano, FDR's mother, was descended from Sephardic Jews.
> Joseph Stalin was originally named Joseph David Djugashvili
(translating into "son of a Jew."
As well, all 3 of the women he married, were Jewish.
> Dwight Eisenhower's father was a Swedish Jew and was so identified in the West Point Yearbook of 1915.
> INTERESTING JEWISH FACTS
> 1. Lillian Friedman married Cruz Rivera. They named their baby Geraldo Miguel Rivera
(Funny, it doesn't sound Jewish.) Since, according to Jewishlaw, anyone born to a Jewish mother is
Jewish, Geraldo Rivera is Jewish.
As were, among others:
Fiorello Laguardia, Winston Churchill and Cary Grant, as explained below.
> 2. Fiorello Laguardia's mother's name was Jacobson. His father was not
Jewish. Laguardia spoke seven languages -- including Hebrew and Yiddish fluently.
> 3. Winston Churchill's mother's name was Jenny Jerome.
> 4. Cary Grant's mother, Elsie, was Jewish. His father, Elias Leach, was not.
Grant's original name was Archibald Alexander Leach. (Robin Leach is his
first cousin).
> 5. Peter Sellers' mother, Margaret Marks, was Jewish. His father, Bill
Sellers, was Protestant. Peter's real name is Richard Henry Sellers.
> 6.. David Bowie's mother is Jewish, his father is not. One of Bowie's albuM
covers discusses his Jewish ancestry. His real name: David Stenton Haywood Jones.
> 7. Robert DeNiro's mother is Jewish; his father is not.
> 8. Shari Belafonte's mother is Jewish. Her father, Harry, has a Jewish grandfather.
> 9. Olivia Newton John's Jewish grandfather was a Nobel Prize winning physicist.
> 10. Harrison Ford's mother is Russian Jewish, his father is Irish Catholic.
> ALWAYS GOOD TO KNOW AND REMEMBER!
> Fact: The first theater to be used solely for the showing of motion pictures
was built by a Jew (Adolf Zukor).
> Fact: The first full-length sound picture, The Jazz Singer was produced by
the Jewish Samuel L. Goldwyn & Louis B. Mayer (MGM).
> Fact: A Jew (Dr. Abraham Waksman) coined the term antibiotics.
> Fact: A Polish Jew (Casimir Funk) who pioneered a newmailto: JCirni@aol.com field of medical
research gave us a word now common in our language -- vitamins.
> Fact: The first successful operation for appendicitis was performed by a
Jewish surgeon (Dr. Simon Baruch)
> Fact: The doctor (Dr. Abraham Jacobi) hailed as America's father of
pediatrics was a Jew.
> Fact: Until a Jewish doctor (Dr. Siccary) showed differently, Americans
believed the tomato was poisonous.
> Fact: Jewish Levi "Levi's" Strauss (inventor of jeans) is the largest
clothing retailer in the world.
> Fact: In 1909, four Jews were among the 60 multi cultural signers of the
call to the National Action, which resulted in the creation of the
NAACP.
> Fact: A Jew (Emile Berliner) is the man who developed the modern day
phonograph. While Thomas Edison was working out a type of phonograph
that used a cylinder as a record, Berliner invented a machine that would
play a disc. The machine he patented was called the gramophone, and the famous
RCA trademark is a picture of a dog listening to "his master's voice" on
Berliner's device.
The gramophone was superior to Edison 's machine. Inshort, Emile Berliner made
possible the modern record industry. His company was eventually absorbed by the
Victor Talking Machine Company, now known as RCA.
> Fact: Jewish Louis B. Mayer (MGM) created the idea for the Oscar.
> Fact: European Jews are the founding fathers of all the Hollywood Studios.
> Fact: Jews comprise a mere 1/4 of 1% (13 million) of the population (6 billion).
> Fact: 99% of the world is non Jewish.
> Fact: Three of greatest & most influential thinkers dominating the 20th century were Jewish -
Einstein, Freud, and Marx.
> Fact: The most popular selling Christmas song ("White Christmas"
was written by a Jew. (Irving Berlin)
> Fact: Of the 660 Nobel prizes from 1901 - 1990, 160 have been won by Jews.
In the end, Jews win more Nobel prizes than any other ethnicity.
They win 40x more than should be expected of them, based upon their small populationnumbers.
> Fact: A Jew (Dr. Jonas Salk) is the creator of the first Polio Vaccine.
> Fact: Jews (Hayam Solomon & Isaac Moses) are responsible for creating thefirst modern banking institutions.
> Fact: Jews also created the first department stores of the 19th centuryTheAltmans, Gimbels, Kaufmanns,
Lazaruses, Magnins, Mays, Strausses becameleaders of major department stores. Julius Rosenwald revolutionized the
way Americans purchased goods by improving Sears Roebuck's mail order merchandising. Hart, Schaffner, Marx,
Kuppenheimer and Levi Strauss becamehousehold names in men's clothing.. (Let's not forget EJ Korvets - Eight
Jewish Korean (war) Veterans).
> Fact: Jewish Marc Chagall (born Segal , Russia ) is one of the great 20thcentury painters.
> Fact: English Jewish financiers such as Isaac Goldsmid, Nathan Rothschild,
David Salomons, and Moses Montefiore, whose fortunes helped Englandbecome an empire.
> Fact: In 1918, Detroit , a Jew (Max Goldberg) opened the "first" commercial parking lot.
> Fact: In 1910, a Jew (Louis Blaustein) and his son opened the "first" gas
station, eventually founding AMOCO OIL. One of the richest oil families in the world.
> Fact: A Jew (Dr. Albert Sabin) developed the first "oral polio vaccine."
> Fact: A Jew (Steven Spielberg) is the most successful filmmaker since the
advent of film.
> Fact: A Jewish poet's (Emma Lazarus) famous poem, "give me your tired.. your poor. your huddled masses,
" appears as the inscription on the Statue OF Liberty
> Fact: Jewish Harry Houdini (Weiss) is the father of Magic/Illusion.
> Fact: Dr. Sigmund Freud (Jew) is the father of psychiatry.
> Fact: Jewish Abraham is the father of the world's 3 major religions:
Judaism, Christianity & Islam (ancestors of the Hebrew & Arabic
peoples).
Jesus (formerly known as "sweet Jewish Jesus"
is still worshipped by
billions.
> Fact: Jews are the oldest of any people on earth still around with
their national identity and cultural heritage intact.
> Fact: George & Ira Gershwin & Irving Berlin (Jews) are three of the most
prolific composers of the 20th century.
> Fact: Isadore & Nathan Straus (Jews) - "Abraham & Straus," eventually
became sole owners of Macy's (world's largest department store) in 1896.
> Fact: Dr. Paul "magic bullet" Ehrlich (Jew) - physician, Nobel Prize in
1908 for curing syphilis.
> Fact: Armand Hammer (Jew) - "Arm & Hammer," physician & businessman who
originated the largest trade between U. S. and Russia .....
> Fact: Louis Santanel (Jew) was the financier who provided the funds for
Columbus ' voyage to America ..
> Fact: Sherry Lansing (Jew) of Paramount Pictures, became the first woman
president of a major Hollywood studio.
> Fact: Flo Zigfield (Jew) of "Zigfield Follies," is the creator of
American burlesque.
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