tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7828180139899412319..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The General's Son Comes Home: Miko Peled: "Gaza reminds us of Zionism's original sin"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23157956671188824422014-08-23T15:37:27.561-07:002014-08-23T15:37:27.561-07:00For those who are interested in truth...
23 Augus...For those who are interested in truth...<br /><br /><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/gazas-911-israel-destroys-high-rise-building-gaza-video" rel="nofollow">23 August 2014: "Gaza's 9-11": Israel destroys high-rise building in Gaza</a><br /><br />That's a lot of explosive tonnage to take out one suspected Hamas operative. Fifty families lived in that building. <br /><br />A "surgical strike" equivalent to smashing an ant colony with a gigantic hammer, in order to take out one ant?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61621133280028527692014-08-23T13:34:50.259-07:002014-08-23T13:34:50.259-07:00The potency of the myth is even greater than the p...The potency of the myth is even greater than the potency of the terrific explosives -- and that's saying something; today a "precision strike" stated as intended to target a Hamas operative in one of 48 apartments in a 14-storey high-rise brought down the whole high-rise.<br /><br />But it's finally the Deceit Wing of the Hasbara Brigades that makes them even more terrifying than the artillery and air divisions. <br /><br />What places Oakland in the class struggle is the fact that the majority remains underclass and continues to struggle. <br /><br />This latter aspect makes Oakland an exception among large American cities.<br /><br />But organization and discipline of the kind the Panthers briefly achieved is certainly not something that can be conjured out of thin air. The past four years of organized resistance to the use of the Port of Oakland in facilitation of Zionist business has created and galvanized this local pocket of peaceful resistance.<br /><br />Like the entire struggle against Israeli apartheid, it has been a struggle of the weak against the strong, marked by one defeat after another for the weak.<br /><br />It's the forlorn pluck of the resisters that's the encouraging thing of course, the sign of life, the spark that indicates the survival of a fire beneath the embers.<br /><br />Very small spark, dim, barely visible in the larger picture.<br /><br />The five days of blocking the unloading of that boat did get a fair amount of notice. Mostly in Israel, where an Israeli Hasbara Brigade troll traveling under the identity of one "Shira Abel" complained publicly, long and loud, that some furniture she had ordered was delayed in arriving.<br /><br />Whether it was the astonishing chutzpah of the plaint, made while thousands are dying and displaced every day in Gaza, or the suspicion that the complainant is a sock puppet in IOF employ, it caused revulsion and fury in some circles.<br /><br />The growing evidence of sock puppet warfare -- yesterday a site called Common Dreams showed that a particular American individual, Harvard grad to boot (Jason Beck I believe was the name), has been delivering anti-Semitic messages on social media comment threads, under some 30+ false identities, evidently to create the impression that those who oppose Israel are all nutjobs.<br /><br />And here we'd thought 'twas tother way round...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53394442106081194472014-08-23T01:21:25.331-07:002014-08-23T01:21:25.331-07:00Great to see the people of Oakland taking action: ...Great to see the people of Oakland taking action: the descendants of Bobby Seale.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47010101755143293552014-08-23T01:20:13.523-07:002014-08-23T01:20:13.523-07:00The potency of myth is something terrible.
The BB...The potency of myth is something terrible.<br /><br />The BBC has fallen for the lie of a possible objectivity on this issue. This is a struggle (I would say a class struggle) and you cannot help but take a position.<br /><br />We haven't watched the link all the way through but it looks sharp as anything.<br /><br />Thank you again, Tom.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60703102438013870732014-08-22T17:12:19.977-07:002014-08-22T17:12:19.977-07:00In case you consider the tragedy of Gaza worth you...In case you consider the tragedy of Gaza worth your attention, you may have wondered about Miko Peled, who he is, and why he is saying what he's saying and doing what he's doing.<br /><br />His work was called to our attention by a Somalian friend six years ago, at the time of the horrible Dec. 2008-Jan. 2009 Israeli offensive against Gaza.<br /><br />(By now you may have a hard time sorting out these brutal offensives. That was the particularly gruesome one that featured the massive use of white phosphorus against the civilian population of Gaza -- a "war crime", if executed by anybody but the Israeli Occupying Forces.) <br /><br />Miko has continued in this necessary and valuable work.<br /><br />His perspective is unique.<br /><br />It's known that Israel employs a large staff of disinformation personnel whose job it is to troll the alternative media sites that attempt to present impartial views of events.<br /><br />You can pretty much determine whether a source is credible and authoritative by the volume of troll personnel deployed to sabotage it.<br /><br />A talk Miko Peled gave two years ago, at the time of Operation Cast Iron (or Brass Balls was it), is perhaps the most salient example of this.<br /><br />Of course it's not just everything that Miko is saying that's the bother -- it's everything about who he is.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXAm-OylQQ" rel="nofollow">Miko Peled speaks out</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com