An Israeli occupied forces' soldier shot and killed 11-year-old Yasser Amjad Moussa Abu naja in Khan Younis, Gaza, on June 29 at 7:15pm local time. Yasser sustained a single gunshot wound to his head. His body wa transferred to the European Gaza Hospital where he was dead on arrival.
The Israeli army is, of course, "investigating".
While Israeli snipers go on Killing Palestinian children in Gaza, prince William visited the country his great-granfather king George gave to the Zionists.
Israel, one of the most technologically advanced military superpowers, is making a colossal fool of itself on the global stage by crying Wolf – ‘We have the right to defend ourselves from – from ?- hold onto your hats, folks, from – Kites, Balloons, Stones, Cameras, a Slap, a Poem.
Seriously? Damn Right. These aren’t just any kites, balloons, stones, cameras, slap, poem. These are terror toys of Palestinian mass defiance and of monster maquisards, mainly teenagers and youth, that strike fear and panic in the mighty Israeli armed forces.
With Israel’s back to the wall, Israeli leaders predictably huddle behind the ‘Terrorist’ Card and the Victim Card that hide Israel’s cowardice and cruelty and justify its atrocities against Palestinian resistance.
On March 30, the disgrace and international censure, induced by Israel’s precision massacre of 60 defenceless, nonviolent participants in Gaza’s Great March of Return, was immediately deflected by the Israeli hasbara machine that churned out a barrage of lies, mindlessly rerun by lackey media and vassal states, asserting ‘clashes’ between Jewish snipers in fear of their lives and members of ‘terror’ groups belying the grass-roots non-violent uprising.
Neither that massacre, nor the daily massacres since, have stopped the brave Great March of Return protests. The demented Israeli might-over-right mindset that has prevailed for 70 plus years simply cannot comprehend, ‘as with a green plant, that what matters most is rootedness; what truly holds up, nourishes and supports all else is underground”* , that Palestinian sumoud i.e. steadfastness has ancient roots to the land. Such rootedness defeated the USA in Korea and Vietnam. It is itself undefeatable.
Kites and Balloons
As the death toll flares (now 131 already), Palestinians flew ingenious kites and balloons that were ablaze with sumoudand petrol-sodden rags. In Israel, the cry babies wailed that, “the psychological damage the fires cause along the border is worse than any actual damage done. The depressing sights of blackened crops places public pressure on the government to do something.”.. and called on snipers to target the kite-flyers, for drones to firebomb protest tents … for airstrikes on Gaza! ‘Criminal environmental terrorism” howled the real estate jackal, JNF, threatening to sue for millions.
Of course, these whining Jewish colonist-farmers and land swindlers, who will receivecompensationfrom the state, have never raised their voices condemning the 51 years of systematic colonial agri-terrorism costing Palestinians billions of dollars in lost livelihoods, trade, commerce ; in the last month alone – Israeli settlers cut down 700 vine trees in Hebron; ‘Agricultural terrorism’: Palestinian crops face destruction by Israeli settlers; Israeli Colonizers Cut Dozens Of Trees Near Bethlehem; Settlers sabotage scores of grape trees east of Ramallah29/May/2018 ; Settlers poison Palestinian-owned sheep east of Nablus29/May/2018; Israel’s settler gangs continue to chop down Palestinian olive trees 10/June/2018; Israeli Military Training Destroying Village Crops; Israeli Colonizers Uproot Agricultural Lands Near Hebron; Settlers torch Palestinian olive fields 22/June/2018; Israeli settlers burn hundreds of olive trees in Nablus.
Inevitably the Victim Card popped up- “They are making us fear something [kites] that is so beautiful, clean and playful, and has connotations of family, community, love and happiness,” a kibbutznik cry baby snivelled, as she drank coffee on stolen Palestinian land seized illegally in 1949, indifferent to the 15,000 of Gaza’s young injured protestors, 15,000!! Many are amputees and most maimed for life.
Notwithstanding, as fires ravaged the Nahal Oz kibbutz’ agriculture, the kites and balloons carried karma wiping the smirks off the faces of its colonists, who had watched and cheered snipers of the Jewish army targeting unarmed protestors.
Stones
Now imagine at future arms fairs and weapons expos, ex-IDF generals representing the major Israeli military firms- Elbit, Rafael, IAI, IMI, tearfully blubbering on the shoulders potential clients how they have been forced into a kite war or coerced to use disproportionate force against their mortal enemy – Palestinian children and youths throwing stones who are dubbed ‘terrorists’ by the Injustice Minister Aylet Shaked.
Palestinian children, even as young as 5, are imprisoned, maimed or executed for throwing stones at the most ‘moral’ army in the Middle East.
Palestinians don’t have an airforce, army or navy, and thus they don’t attend weapons expos. They depend on Mother Palestine to arm them with her flesh of stones against Goliath Israel.
Ironically, the fable of David defeating Goliath with a slingshot and stone is revered by Israeli Jews. They even named an archeological site in Al Quds after the non-existent David, but then all of Israel’s claims to Palestine are fake based on myth.
Israeli Emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, Shlomo Sand affirms there is no archeological evidence that there was an Exodus from Egypt to Zion, nor a shred of evidence that the kingdoms of David and Solomon existed, and furthermore there’s no evidence of a First Temple plus “the Land of Israel of biblical texts did not include Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, or their surrounding areas, but rather only Samaria and a number of adjacent areas—in other words, the land of the northern kingdom of Israel. Because a united kingdom encompassing both ancient Judea and Israel never existed, a unifying Hebrew name for such a territory never emerged.”
Cameras
To protect the myth of the most ‘moral’ army from the exposure of its daily perpetration of genocide, a draft version of a Knesset bill criminalising the filming or photographing Israeli soldiers on genocidal duty has been passed. How dare social and mainstream media humiliate Israel’s military bullies and killers! Humiliation is our segue to –
The Slap
Although Israeli military operators are covered with the maximum advanced protective gear to prevail against the toughest physical challenges, they are unable to withstand a slap, (boo hoo, boo hoo) from a slight,16 year old Palestinian girl. Rather than play down this embarrassment, the Jewish state burst into a hysteria of tears charging the teenage Ahed Tamimi as a ‘danger to public security’ which in turn triggeredhundreds of protests around the world instantly turning Ahed into an icon of Palestinian resistance.
Ahed’s father explains why Ahed slapped the soldier, I think more than 300 times they raided inside my house… They took my electronic devices several times. They broke the windows several times. They shot most of my children several times. My son was arrested two times. My wife was arrested five times. I was arrested nine times. I was tortured and be paralyzed for a period of time. My wife was shot in her leg, two years she couldn’t walk. My home is under a demolition order.
After all of that somebody asked, why Ahed slapped a soldier? She must slap the soldier.
Ahed, labelled a ‘terrorist’ and her ‘terrorist’ mother, Nariman, were sentenced to 8 months imprisonment for the slap and for filming and sharing the slap on social media. By contrast, Israeli military ‘medic,’ Elor Azaria served a 9 month sentence for strolling over to unarmed and wounded Abdel Fatah al-Sharif and cooly extrajudicially executing him point blank.
The majority of the Jewish state’s public had demanded poor little Elor be pardoned for doing his genocidal duty. Such public demand for impunity that thumbs its nose at the rule of law is symptomatic of the psychopathic disfunction of Israeli society which was reinforced last week by the tauntingof Ali Dawabshe’s grandfather, Hussein, by extremist Jews. Ali Dawabshe, 18 months, was burnt to death in his home with his young parents, Saad and Riham, by colonial arsonists. Outside the court the sadistic ghouls chanted, “Where is Ali? Ali’s dead,” “Ali’s on the grill.”
The Poem
According to Israeli politician, Miki Zohar, “The Jewish people and the Jewish race are of the highest human capital that exists.”..“I don’t have to be ashamed about the Jewish people being the Chosen People; the smartest, most special people in the world.” Well, how smart is it to put on trial a Palestinian poet, Dareen Tatour, 36 for writing a poem that condemned Israeli violence and saluted Palestinian resistance? Not smart but stupid because the outcome is the same as the balloons, the cameras, the slap; the state of Israel is a self-made global object of ridicule – a cry-baby, a Metrophobe. Boo hoo, help ! help! A poem is attacking me.
The Victim Card
Israel’s propaganda strategy to protect its cry-babies, the Victim Card, ratifies its stupidity. The Victim card is double sided ; on one side is the exclusive Jewish holocaust and on the other side is the conflation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism.
Throughout the Great March of Return, to deflect from international condemnation of its human rights violations, Israeli and Jewish media, with sleight of hand, have been dealing the Victim Card; conveniently, Poland copped an extended whacking for a ‘new law [that] outlaws publicly and falsely attributing the crimes of Nazi Germany to the Polish nation’, holocaust deniers suddenly crawled out of the woodwork, apparently anti-semitism spiked around the world, holocaust heroes and villains entered the headlines along with tear-jerking paeans to Jewish victimhood such as Please do not read if you are not a Jew, to which Ray Bergmann rationally and rightly responded,
Only one victim, only one victim, oblivious to any other
Only one sufferer, only one sufferer,
oblivious to suffering of any other.
M No responsibility acknowledged, no responsibility acknowledged
for the violence perpetrated by our mob against others.
Hands over eyes, hands over eyes,
totally unaware of the judgement coming.
Only one kid, only one kid, that father bought for two zuzim.
Playing the victim dishonours the Holocaust dead and the ‘terrorist’ card is solely a projection of Israel’s vicious state terrorism against the unconquerable, dare I say, miraculous Palestinian sumoud.
Like the boy crying ‘Wolf’, the tiresome frequency of the Victim and ‘Terrorist’ cards carries the warning about the lethal wages of lies.
NATO
Donald Trump came late for and left early from the Group of Seven summit meeting in Quebec City, Canada. He arrived ready for a fight. He had already started a trade war against Canada and Europe. It was inevitable that that war—over steel to begin with—would percolate to the G7 meeting.
Trump’s tantrum in Canada was not wholly unwarranted. The U.S. for years has asked the European powers to contribute more towards the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), their military alliance. NATO has 28 member states, but the U.S. pays 22 per cent of NATO’s budget. The standard set by the NATO states is for them to spend 2 per cent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on the military. As of now, only five states do so (the U.S., Greece, the United Kingdom, Estonia and Poland). The other large states (France, Germany, Italy and Canada) spend half the agreed standard. No one denies that these other countries are simply not paying their share of NATO expenses. Canada, for example, delegates just 1.02 per cent of its GDP towards its military.
Trump came to Canada determined to link the question of military spending to trade negotiations. Until now, the U.S. has been the anchor of Western military expansion across the globe. The U.S. spends more on its military than any other country in the world. It is relied upon by the Western powers when they want to exert themselves, whether in the South China Sea or in the Caribbean Sea. It is the U.S. that effectively dominates the NATO mission in Afghanistan and it was the U.S. that ran the bulk of the bombing runs against Libya.
Trump said that it was the U.S. that paid “close to the entire cost of NATO” or at least close to the entire cost of military exertions by the West. Trump is not the first to have made this judgment. In February 2008, U.S. President George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defence, Robert Gates spoke of NATO as a “two-tiered alliance”. In NATO, Gates said then, “you have some allies willing to fight and die” and “you have others who are not”. In the NATO war on Yugoslavia (1999), 83 per cent of the bombs were dropped by U.S. warplanes. In Afghanistan, from 2001 onwards, 75 per cent of the troops have been American.
Before she left for Canada, German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to raise Germany’s military spending from 1.19 per cent of the GDP to 1.5 per cent of the GDP. This was an admission that Germany had indeed been a free-rider on the U.S. Even with this rise, German military spending would be below the 2 per cent target that was set by NATO member states at the 2002 Prague summit. It is far below the U.S. rate of spending, at 3.61 per cent of the GDP. At a recent NATO summit, Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo targeted Germany for its low spending. Germany’s new Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, offered a strange defence: Maas argued that Germany had “an extraordinary presence in terms of its perception of its international responsibility”, namely, it spends its money on humanitarian aid. This did not appease the visible anger of Pompeo and the frustration in the White House.
But NATO is an alliance with a problem. The countries defeated in the Second World War—Germany and Japan—have been wary of rearming to a greater level. Germany has held back its military spending for economic reasons and because of anxiety in France. The U.S. took over the defence of Europe so as to circumvent any tension between these key partners. Japan is not a part of NATO, but it is a “major non-NATO ally”, a concept created by NATO to urge close cooperation on military matters. Japan’s Constitution forbids it from building up an offensive military force. Pressure on Japan to increase its spending would require it to rework its Constitution. This is a matter of great political concern not only in Japan but also in both Koreas and in China.
Trump has upended the delicate balance by demanding, rather than urging, an increase in military spending from U.S. allies. In July, Trump had planned to review the spending by European allies at a NATO summit. The drama in Canada is a preview of that meeting. Trump and his team said that at the 2014 NATO summit in Wales, the countries had formally agreed to move their defence spending to 2 per cent of the GDP. Now, after all these years and after a quarter century of military cuts, it is unlikely that the European allies will be near the benchmark. In fact, Spain’s previous conservative government said that it would neither meet the target nor even attempt it. This attitude is what rankles with the U.S.
Trade tariffs
Before the G7 summit in Canada, Trump had placed tariffs on goods produced in Canada, Mexico, Europe and China. Most of the countries of the G7 would have faced some measure of economic difficulty with these tariffs. The economic logic of these tariffs is not as important as their political effect. Trump made a stand. He argued that the policies of U.S. allies hurt U.S. workers. It was on this basis that the U.S. would use its vast consumer power to get a better deal for its workers.
The G7 was set up in 1975 in the French town of Rambouillet. What brought together six major industrial countries was the oil crisis and the emergence of the post-colonial states. In 1973, these states voted as a bloc in the U.N. General Assembly for a New International Economic Order (NIEO). They argued that the trade rules and the finance rules, set largely by the West, had suffocated their attempt to break out of the colonial economic order that emerged out of the Second World War. The NIEO proposed an alternative foundation for economic activity inside and across boundaries. Those post-colonial states with oil reserves used their combined power that same year in a political strike that lifted oil prices. This strike came as a consequence of the Western backing of Israel’s war against the Palestinians. The combination of NIEO and the oil strike rattled the West. Its main powers—France, Italy, Japan, the U.K., the U.S., and West Germany—met to collude against the post-colonial states. That was the reason for the formation of the G6, which, with the addition of Italy, became the G7.
At the inaugural meeting of this alliance, the West German Chancellor said to his colleagues that he was willing to destroy the German textile industry if this meant that the world economic order would be strengthened on behalf of Western-based capitalists in general. The G7 meetings after 1975 operated as a secret platform where the leaders of the West could gather and set policy for the rest of the world. When they were able to collude with a reasonable amount of certainty that their interests would be well served, the G7 made sense for them. For instance, it was in the G7 that the main discussions took place towards setting the agenda for the World Trade Organisation (created in 1994).
Now, with the global economic crisis catapulting beyond its first decade, the utility of the G7 is not so clear even to its member states. Haemorrhaging expectations inside the U.S. pushed Trump to stake his political fortune on economic nationalism rather than G7 globalisation. It is this economic nationalism that fractures the world view of the G7 leaders. No longer will they be able to hold their cosy get-togethers where they decide the fate of humanity. The tariff war set in motion is the first salvo against the bow of G7 unity. The war of words that followed the Canada meeting suggests that it will be hard to hold together the alliance. It is not enough to blame Trump for this, although he has, as the historian Anne Applebaum put it, been the “accelerant” for the demise of this Western-led post-1991 world order.
At the G7 meeting, Trump suggested that Russia be reinvited to join the alliance. After the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Russia was invited to join the G7 (it was renamed the G8) in 1997. It was ejected in 2014 the Ukraine crisis. It is unlikely that Moscow would like to come back to the G7. While that meeting in Canada was falling apart, the Russians and the Chinese gathered with their Asian allies in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) held in Qingdao (China). This meeting had its own tensions. India, for instance, refused to endorse the Chinese-led Belt and Road Initiative. Nonetheless, it was apparent that, at least in Asia, a different kind of globalisation had arrived. It had muscled its way around the G7 and will watch from afar as Canada’s Justin Trudeau and the U.S.’ Donald Trump insult each other from press conference podiums but think so much alike.
PALESTINA
"We’re not terrorists. ”We’re a generation with no hope and no horizon that lives under a suffocating siege, and that’s the message we’re trying to send the world. In Israel, they cry over the fields and forests that burned up. What about us, who are dying every day? “Personally, I’ve gone to the fence several times, and it’s clear it’s a matter of time until I get a bullet in the head or until they amputate my leg because of leg wounds. So I’d rather fly a kite and participate in the protest than die." Young Gazan.
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