Shlomo Sand: When and How Were The Jewish People Invented?

In his book Matai ve'ech humtza ha'am hayehudi (When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?) (sic) What if the Palestinian Arabs who have lived for decades under the heel of the modern Israeli state are in fact descended from the same "children of Israel" described in the Old Testament? And what if most modern Israelis are not descended from the ancient Israelites at all, but are actually a mix of Europeans, North Africans and others who didn't "return" to the scrap of land we now call Israel and establish a new state following the attempt to exterminate them during World War II, but came in and forcefully displaced people whose ancestors had lived there for millennia? What if the entire tale of the Jewish Diaspora - the story recounted at Passover tables by Jews around the world every year, detailing the ancient Jews' exile from Judea, the years spent wandering through the desert, their escape from the Pharaoh's clutches is all wrong? That is the explosive thesis of When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? a book by Tel Aviv University scholar Shlomo Zand (or Sand) that has sent shockwaves across Israeli society when it was published last year. More at http://www.alternet.org/ : Controversial Bestseller, by Joshua Holland, January 28, 2009

Chomsky: No Change Coming With Obama

The first message of the Pakistani government to General David Petraeus, when he took command of the region was that they did not want any more bombings in Pakistan. The first message by Hamid Karzai was the same. But would Obama listen? NOO!!
I believe that both wanted a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops: US and others from their respective countries.

As Pervez Hoodbhoy, a well-known physicist pointed out, these kind of massacres will stimulate terror and reactions. Obama probably missed the physics course, where they taught:
"For every action,
there is an equal, and opposite reaction!

US Intelligence Agencies Protect our World from Nuclear War!

On February 25, 2007, Michael Smith (left), and Sarah Baxter broke a story which saved the world from a nuclear holocaust: Some of America's most senior military commanders - four or five generals and admirals would resign if Bush ordered an attack on Iran, a source close to British intelligence said. The US Intelligence community simply did not believe that Iran had an active nuclear weapons program.

In November 2007, all 16 US intelligence agencies produced a National Intelligence Estimate that declared "with high confidence" that Iran had suspended any such program as of 2003. Dick Chaney's office tried to suppress that report and with George Bush told the chagrined Israeli government he would ignore it.

You and I, and the rest of the world owe these intelligence agencies and the high-ranking officers involved, a debt which we can never repay.

Black Death Kills al-Qaeda Operatives in Algeria

The "Black Death", that horrible plague also known as Bubonic Plague, has killed at least 40 Al-Qaeda operatives training in a forest camp in Algeria. The plague outbreak came to light when security forces found a body by a roadside. Now al-Qaeda chiefs fear the plague has been passed to some of their other cells in Algeria -or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The plague spreads quickly via bites from infected rat fleas, and kills within hours. Symptoms include boils in the groin, neck, and armpits. In Pneumonic Plague, airborne bacteria spread like flu. It can be in the body for more than a week- highly contageous, but not revealing tell-tale symptoms.

One medical expert said: "The leaders fear surviving terrorists will surrender to escape a horrible death - most of the terrorists do not have the basic medical supplies to treat the disease!" Please click on the title for more information.

Olmert Humiliates George W. Bush

In his article on http://www.humanevents.com/ Is Ehud's Poodle Acting Up? Pat Buchanon once again shines the spotlight on the bizarre relationship between tiny Israel and our powerful United States. Actually, our United States, whose military adventures we are forced to support with our taxes, seems to be merely a minor colony of Israel, and we have to take orders from its leader, no matter how absurd. Here is the latest evidence of the bizarre nature of our status: Prime Minister Olmert had interrupted George Bush in the middle of a speech in Philadelphia, and told him to instruct Condi Rice not to vote for a UN resolution Condi herself had written. Bush did as he was told, said Olmert to the Isreali crowd to which he bragged about this absurd comedy of a flea ordering an lephant around a circus bigtop, while much of the world applauded this obscenely comical, yet tragic act.

According to Olmert, Bush was clueless about America's speech before the United Nations: "He said: "Listen. I don't know about it. I'm not familiar with the phrasing." Olmert told him: "The United States could not vote in favor....He immediately called the Secretary of State and told her not to vote in favor."

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi!

Israeli Assault Injures1.5 Million Gazans

Jonothan Cook , a courageous British freelance journalist, and the founder of the Nazareth Press Agency in February 2004, discredits most of the data currently printed about the Israeli war against the people of Gaza: So far, only the more than 4,500 Gazans who have suffered severe burns from exploding Israeli "white phosphorous" shells, shrapnel wounds from artillery rounds, broken and lost limbs from aerial bombardment, bullet wounds, etc. have been counted. Israeli officials like to include such injuries among their own soldiers as light wounds and shock. By that standards, the residents of Gaza have now endured 1.5 million wounds, or is there some doubt about whether the weeks of bombardment of Gaza, one of the most densely populated places on earth, have left the entire population in a deep, and possibly permanent, state of shock? Please click on the headline for Jonathan Cook's web site!

Obama: The Postmodern Coup - The Making of a Manchurian Candidate

According to Webster Griffin Tarpley, an "intelligence expert" and historian who has been studying and exposing covert operations for over thirty years. In 1992, he tried to warn us about our "current" president in his books: "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography" and in 2005 he wrote: "9/11 Synthetic Terror.

The author believes that Obama is a deeply troubled personality, the megalomaniac front man for a postmodern coup by the intelligence agencies, using fake polls, mobs of swarming adolescents, super-rich contributors, and orchestrated media hysteria to short-circuit normal politics and seize power. Obama comes from the orbit of the Ford Foundation, and has never won public office in a contested election. His guru and controller Zbigniew Brzezinski, the deranged revanchist and Russia-hater who dominated the catastrophic Carter presidency 30 years ago. Trilateral Commission co-founder Brzezinski wants a global showdown with Russia and China far more dangerous for the United States than the Bush-Cheney Iraq adventure.

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