The Mexican mass-murderer of mice

It has never seen before here in Baja California, Mexico. But in the southern part there is a plague of mice. Somehow these animals have multiplied in numbers never witnessed before. It is so bad that on warm nights when people are used to sleep outside, this is made impossible because mice crawl all over the innocent sleeper.

Alfredo Gonzales from Rancho Punta Boca del Salado has been thinking about it. And came up with an idea to get rid of the many mice invading his place. He has filled a square bucket with water. He took a thick wire and slid a piece of banana to the centre of it. This wire he mounted in two holes on either side of the bucket. The bucket he placed next to a wall where he knows many mice make nightly walks.

His theory is that the mice smell the banana. They probably see it even with their night vision eyes. They will decide to reach the banana walking like a performer on a tightrope. But, according to Alfredo, they will lose their balance, fall into the water and drown.

In this way he believes he will eliminate the number of mice in his area seriously.

In a next blog we will report how successful Alfredo has been.

In the Bible we find the story of the seven plagues. And we read how the people of Israel suffered. But from what we witness here at the rancho of Alfredo and him experiencing a plague is inventiveness. Creativity, clear thinking, cleverness.

One of the plagues in Egypt were locusts. If we believe the Bible it was terrible. But does this mean there has not been one man like Alfredo in those days? Someone who discovered that a locust is actually an animal full of proteins. That it can be caught with nets, grilled, roasted and served as healthy, rich and delicious food?

We have mail!

Back in the dry river bed of Punta Boca del Salado near the rancho of the Gonzales family in Baja California, Mexico.
Just for two days until the airplane leaves from San José del Cabo for Los Angeles on Saturday.
Time now to reflect and prepare the European tour.

One of the reflections is about a text received from a fervent and loyal blog reader.
That she wrote in response to a blog about the piracy, banditry and killing by the Israelian navy recently when they stopped and confiscated a civilian boat in international waters.

Fervent and loyal blog reader says this:

Hello Michel,
I wanted to share the link attached with you. I was reading about the firing of Helen Thomas from the White House News Correspondence position she has held for years through the Hearst Corporation. Her comments about Israel were to me (like so many others) unbelievably ignorant and arrogant. I am happy she is finally out of the White House. Researching this situation brought to my attention the man, a Rabbi, that filmed her as she answered his questions. The link is a recent article he wrote about the Jewish Homeland and how it came to be. I think the most important part of the article is the fact that the Jews were given 25% of the land that was being disputed and the Arabs would not recognize even that. The Arabs, it seems, given this fact, are responsible for the ongoing fighting, due to their unwillingness to walk away from that 25%. It is also my understanding that Israel ultimately gave up a large portion of that 25% (all the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean) in an attempt to create peace. So they are left with significantly less than 25% of the originally disputed land. It is disheartening and dangerous how these facts have been forgotten and are not spoken of in the media. All non-Jewish human beings should recognize the rights of the Jews to peace and a country to call their own. The Holocaust did not happen only in Germany and Poland - it happened around the world. Even Canada is guilty for turning away a ship full of Jewish refugees during WWII and for permitting ongoing anti-Semitism among our countrymen. To atone for what happened we must recognize and support the Jewish peoples' right to a country of their own.

So, is that true?
That the Arabs are responsible for the ongoing fighting?
That Israel is the good guy and the Arabs the bad guys?
Is it all that simple?

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The link our fervent and loyal blog reader was sending:

http://rabbilive.com/RabbiLIVE/Articles.html




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Israelian banditry and piracy

Israel has carried out a bloody massacre by attacking a civilian ship in international waters and killing at least 9 persons.

It has created a turning point in the relationship between Israel and Turkey: the Turkish ambassador to Israel is withdrawn.

The boarding by Israelian soldiers of the civilian ships sailing in the Mediterranean Sea was an attack on international law, the conscience of humanity and world peace.

This bloody massacre by Israel on ships that were taking humanitarian aid to Gaza deserves every kind of curse.

It is demanded that Israel immediately halts its inhumane blockade of Gaza.

The Israeli raid proved how good they are at killing people.

Israel, in no way, can legitimize this murder.
It cannot wash its hands of this blood.

We will not turn our back on Palestine, Palestinians and Gaza.

Israel: It is damaging your country's image by conducting banditry and piracy.
It is damaging interests of Israel and your peace and safety.
It is the Israeli people who must stop the Israeli government in the first place.

Israel cannot ensure its security by drawing the hatred of the entire world.

Bold statements?
Made by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey yesterday.



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Who creates terrorism?

Not too long ago a South Korean warship was sunk.
An investigation revealed it had been hit by a torpedo.
Presumably fired by a North Korean submarine.

North Korea denies this vehemently.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of the USA though, travels around condemning North Korea and is looking for support of other countries to punish, possibly militarily, North Korea.

Israel attacks, in international waters, a convoy of commercial ships carrying humanitarian aid for 1,5 million Palestinians it forces to live in ultimate misery in the Gaza Strip.
At least 10 people of the peaceful and humanitarian people on board those civilian ships were killed by the Israelian army.
What has the USA Government to say about this barbaric behavior?
Only this: it "deeply regrets the loss of life" and is "working to understand the circumstances surrounding this tragedy".

Now there are massive protests in Turkey because of the Israelian attack that the USA sees as only "a tragedy" and not as a condemnable crime.
Thousands marched in protest in Istanbul, some setting Israeli flags on fire after trying to storm the Israeli consulate.
Israel quickly advised to its citizens to avoid travel to Turkey.
In neighboring Jordan, hundreds demonstrated in the capital Amman to protest the Israeli action and demand that their government breaks diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

What North Korea possibly has done justifies harsh condemnation and sanctions.
What Israel does is only a "tragedy" and is so complicated for the US-Government that circumstances need to be understood.

With this kind of policy, measuring with two different kind of rulers, no wonder there is terrorism in the world.
We must ask ourselves therefore: who is responsible for this terrorism?
Who is creating it?



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The real MSK

Numerous were the contributions that were send in to the latest riddle published on this blog.
The initials of the name of a person had to be found and the good job all did was finding the correct initials.
That was fine.
But next, all brave participants were wrong deciding which person was standing for those initials.
It was believed the initials were the ones of the name of the person responsible for this blog.
But alas.
That was a very wrong solution.
Why was it believed it would be that simple when a first grand prize was available of a mere $ 500?

The correct answer, guessed by not one promising participant, to the question for who the initials MSK were standing for, is Mohammad Sidique Khan.
A man born on October 20, 1974 in Leeds, UK.


He was the oldest of the four suicide bombers responsible for the July 7, 2005 bombings in London, UK.
Together with his comrades he detonated bombs on three London Underground trains and one bus in central London.
Mohammad Sidique Khan and his comrades killed 52 people and themselves.
Over 700 people were injured.

A few months later, on September 1, 2005 a videotape emerged featuring Mohammad Sidique Khan.
The tape was shown on Al Jazeera TV.
In this video Mohammad Sidique Khan says:
"I and thousands like me have forsaken everything for what we believe"
By now we know this is true.
But he also says:
"Your democratically elected governments continually perpetrate atrocities against my people all over the world. Your support makes you directly responsible. We are at war and I am a soldier. Now you too will taste the reality of this situation."
This way of thinking is a sample of many Mohammads.
And the point is that Mohammad Sidique Khan was not wrong in his statement.
If we seriously realize how the Palestinians on the Westbank and the Gaza strip are made to suffer worse than animals, a suffering sanctioned and supported by the USA, many Arab nations like Egypt, and sanctioned by the European Union, we are indeed directly responsible.
How can a person who identifies himself with the situation of the Palestinians not come to opposition?
Remember former President Jimmy Carter who visited the Gaza Strip and the Westbank and published soon after a shocking book describing the horrible situation in which the Palestinians have to live and describing how the Israelian Government and its allies are responsible for this.
This book was one big scream of a protest of a man who truly realized the atrocities perpetrated against the Palestinians.
President Jimmy Carter is a highly educated man who knows how to channel his anger and his indignation into adequate directions.
But a young man of 31 from Leeds in the UK easily sees himself as a soldier.
A warrior.
An ambitious savior.
And comes to believe in methods we may wonder a change and solution shall bring more close.
But one fundamental Mohammad Sidique Khan had right.
Atrocities are committed daily on the Westbank and the Gaza Strip and we are responsible.

Why Osama Bin Laden is still a free man

Most fervent and loyal blog readers will remember a recent posting reporting on a dinner with four American friends.
Who explained why Osama Bin Laden can still live in freedom.

Osama Bin Laden

One of the American friends have now send an e-mail because of the publication of the posting.
She writes:

"I enjoyed reading your piece about our discussion.
I also wanted to add that keeping Osama Bin laden "at large" so to speak, is a way to keep fear in the american people, which is used to justify military " anti terror " intervention.
As long as he is a threat, military force will be supported by the citizens because of the fear he will orchestrate another attack".

This is quite a point the American friend is making.
It is the theory that the American people live in fear for no good reasons simply to control and manipulate them.
For the U.S.-Government and the groups they defend the interests of to obtain the public permission to have a military and aggressive imperialistic policy worldwide.

Without doubt the majority of the American people feel threatened by terrorists, whoever they may be.
A fear instilled by a merciless propaganda.
The truth is that no American living peacefully in the United States has any reason to have fear for terrorism.
For crime and violence from compatriots yes, but from terrorists absolutely not.

However, there is no denying that many people in the world hate the United States.
And that they have in their minds bad intentions.
But this is not caused by the American people.
Responsible are the American politicians.
And the key issue is the Palestinian-Israelian conflict.

Take the World Health Organization.
They published on January 20, 2010 a "Gaza Health Fact Sheet".

Gaza is sealed off and blockaded by Israel trapping hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people who live in most miserable circumstances.
As the World Health Organization explains:

"Recent events have resulted in a
severe deterioration of the already precarious living conditions of the people in Gaza and have further eroded a weakened health system".
And:
"The closure of Gaza since mid-2007 and the last Israeli military strike between 27 December and 18 January 2009 have led to on-going deterioration in the social, economic and environmental determinants of health.
Rising unemployment (41.5 percent of Gaza’s workforce in the first quarter of 2009) and poverty (in May 2008, 70 percent of the families were living on an income of less than one dollar a day per person 3) is likely to have long term adverse effects on the physical and mental health of the population".

Meanwhile, yesterday, US Republican Eric Cantor, House Representative, was saying in the public discussion with Barack Obama:
"We have the best health care system in the world".

Eric Cantor

Denying the fact that Palestinians have to live in absolute misery and this for decades refusing to reign in Israel for its devastating policies.
To the contrary, American politicians defend Israel all the way.
No matter what it does.
Therefore, The United States are accomplices in devastating and ruining and murdering thousands and thousands of Arab people.

How is a person to feel who has brothers and sisters living in Gaza?
And what is that person supposed to do?

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The Gaza Health Fact Sheet of the World Health Organization can be found at:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:s8n1zjLggCgJ:www.emro.who.int/Palestine/reports/advocacy_HR/advocacy/Gaza_health_fact_sheet_20Jan2010.pdf+who+fact+sheet+impact+blockade&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjDLJeVRBNK4zzqhGzRNUr6QxQqrmaZpXfTcrDygy4buYWhyktqIW53XdGUY6y_kLxebMuVeuLEvMTRh8lv6Ma85Wv-_AgzjE7eu9RM_UCApXoFoEttiy26YuteRYTc3W4c20jS&sig=AHIEtbSL8fMg69CSw0iIhY9Rsurol4eljw




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Political solutions

There are several decisions governments worldwide could made that would drastically change the political and social situation in the world.
Unorthodox and rather revolutionary decisions but they have that nature because the current strategies and policies are old fashioned and not working.
In the past we have seen similar situations that revolutionary approaches to how to organize and direct societies suddenly came about.
The French revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolution of 1917.
These days we are in such a mess it is time for a new revolution.
By democratically forcing current governments to change fundamentally their policies or by a real revolution coming from the majority of the population.

Some decisions governments could take that drastically will improve the lives of many people:

1/
In the USA and elsewhere drugs should be legalized in a controlled manner.
Anybody should be able to obtain and use drugs like hard liquor, marijuana, cocaine and heroine.
Users of hard drugs can go to their GP, obtain a permit for a certain amount and buy their quantum in an official shop for prices controlled by the Government.
In this way drugs are de-criminalised.
It will end the illegal drug trade and the drug wars.
Drugs then will become a source of income for the governments.
This money should be spend to assist medically and psychologically the drug addicts.

2/
All foreign troops and fighters must leave Iraq and Afghanistan right away.
The people of Iraq and Afghanistan must be allowed to create the societies they want in a way they prefer.
Even if those societies will not be to our liking or to our economic advantage.
If the Taliban wants to create an orthodox Islamic state in Afghanistan, why should we be opposed when we tolerate it so generously of our friend Saudi Arabia?
Next, we can deal with countries with who we disagree concerning democratic rights and equality between men and women in a civilized way without violence.
By using methods like economic boycott and cultural isolation.
And using institutions like the International Court of Justice.

3/
The US Dollar must end as the worldwide leading standard in the economy.
Because the US Dollar by now is a hollow balloon and in fact completely worthless.
Business can only be allowed in currencies like the Chinese Yuan, the Japanese Yen and the European Euro: currencies that are backed up by sufficient reserves.
This will stop a standard of luxurious living in the USA that is financed by borrowing that makes billions of people elsewhere live in painful poverty.

4/
Annually the USA donates to Israel about 2,5 billions of dollars.
Since the formation of the Hamas led Palestinian Authority government after democratic elections in March 2006, the US administration has suspended its foreign assistance program to the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
What should happen is this:
Half of any financial support to Israel must go to the Palestinians.
Linked to very precise and rigorous conditions.
Any action contrary to international laws and previous agreements are immediately punished by withholding financial assistance.
This new way of financing applies not only to the USA, but to the European Union as well.
It also goes for the financial aid that Iran and Saudi Arabia are giving to the Palestinians.
Half of the money donated to the Palestinians goes to Israel but again, with very precise and rigorous conditions.
Otherwise: nothing and let the Palestinian and Israeli populations then have it fight out with their political leaders.

5/
Islamic fundamentalists must be allowed to come to Europe and the USA and propagate their ideas.
This fundamental and democratic right is exercised by Christian fundamentalists also, is it not?
However, the promoting of certain religions and ideologies is only allowed within the frame work of democracy.
Only in the lawful way as is democratically agreed upon.

6/
Industrial breeding of animals for meat consumption should be banned.




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Treat Israel like Iran

Last Sunday something happened you may have heard about.
It was in Jerusalem early in the morning.

It was 13-year-old Diala who was awoken first, just after 5 a.m. on Sunday morning, by the commotion outside.
She rushed to the window, saw special riot police in black uniforms, and ran to wake her parents.

By the time she did, the Israeli police were already breaking in through doors and windows, forcing the 17-member Hanoun family – three brothers, their wives, and children – to leave the home their relatives acquired a half-century ago.
And they were not the only ones.
In all, 58 Palestinians were evicted in this predominantly Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah.

A few hours later, the evicted Palestinian families stood across the street and watched as the police escorted a few families of Jewish settlers into their homes.

“It's so difficult for us to see them move in people who are not from here, into our house, into the home my husband was born in, while we're on the street," says Mrs. Hanoun, sitting in the shade of a tree about 50 feet from their front door, now blocked off by a line of security barriers and several police vans with flashing lights.

The Hanoun family has for two nights slept on the thin mattresses in the street.
Mrs. Hanoun says they have no other place to go.

The evictions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, from their houses where they have lived for over 50 years so that Jewish settlers can move in, garnered international censure from the European Union, the United Nations (UN) and from Britain, which said it was "appalled" at the move.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last Monday night called the Israeli evictions "deeply regrettable" and "provocative."
Such a move "is not in keeping with Israeli obligations and I urge the government of Israel and municipal officials to refrain from such provocative actions," she said.

The Palestinian families who are now without a home have a lawyer.
Hosni Abu Hussein.
He says: “"This eviction was done in an illegal matter and without due process.
The duty of the authorities as they see it is to cleanse Jerusalem of Arabs."

This is a sentiment that is felt throughout East Jerusalem, where many Palestinian residents are facing either eviction or demolition orders.
Just two weeks ago, Israeli officials approved the construction of settler apartments in another part of Sheikh Jarrah on the Palestinian grounds of the old Shepherd Hotel.

The Obama administration in particular has asked Israel to freeze settlement growth in the West Bank and not to authorize projects that aim to settle Israelis in the heart of Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.
But why would Israel care?

A plethora of international organizations have expressed dismay over the evictions, which came amid attempts to revive the peace process.
These evictions were for example quickly condemned by the United Nations.
"I deplore today's totally unacceptable actions by Israel," the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert H Serry said.
"These actions are contrary to the provisions of the Geneva Conventions related to occupied territory.”
The British consulate in East Jerusalem said:
"These actions are incompatible with the Israeli professed desire for peace.
We urge Israel not to allow the extremists to set the agenda."

What has happened as of last Sunday?
Has there been a meeting of the Security Council to condemn Israel for these illegal evictions?
Has there been one country in the world that has condemned Israel by imposing sanctions?

Like in the past, anything Israel does results in big words but in fact without any consequences.
Israel can do whatever it wants.
Knowing that their supporters worldwide are backing them up no matter what.

The question is how does that make Palestinians feel?
What emotions does that trigger with many of their Arab brothers and sisters?
Is it not understandable they feel left alone?
That they feel victims of injustice?
Isn’t it normal they get angry?
Always Israel being shielded and protected by the West no matter what the Israeli Government does?

Isn’t this generous attitude of the West vis à vis Israel feeding the minds of Palestinians and those who are in solidarity with them?
Making them feel desperate, powerless and ignored?

So, in the end, who is responsible for extremism?
You must reap what you have sown.

Fighting terrorism by having passengers take their shoes off and kill civilians in Afghanistan will never bring an end to it.

Things will fundamentally change though when the West starts treating Israel in the same way as it does Iran.



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1 + 1 = 1

Since 1949

Last week was a talk show on national Dutch television.
The Israelian invasion of Gaza was discussed.
And the high amount of civilian victims that are the result of the Israelian bombing.
Now standing at over 900 Palestinians.

One of the members of the discussion panel was a well-known journalist called Jort Kelder.
Another the former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Hans van den Broek.

Mr. van den Broek gave a well-balanced opinion of the actual situation in Gaza.
And was very critical of the excessive use of violence of the Israelian army.

However, Mr. Kelder defended Israel no matter what.
He even went as far as to say that the civilian victims in Gaza were the result of women and children putting themselves deliberately on the roofs of houses hoping to be killed by the Israelian bombs.
So that it could be claimed later that the Israelian army was killing civilians.

There are people who defend Israel without any hesitation, limits or restrictions.
People who will never criticize the policies of the Israelian Government and the actions of the Israelian Army.
Who will never want to discuss the war crimes committed by the Israelian Government and Israelian Army.
Who will never condemn the policies of Apartheid applied in Israel.

There are three groups of people who have this ultimate favourable attitude towards Israel.

The first group consists of Jewish people.
Wherever they live.
They are in total solidarity with their brothers and sisters in Israel and support them no matter what.

The second group are people who are traumatized by feelings of guilt for what has been happening to the Jewish people in Europe during the Second World War.
They still feel so embarrassed about the massacring of 6 million innocent Jewish persons that they feel unable to be critical towards Israel even today.

The third group are fundamental Christians.
Who believe that the land once owned by the Arab Palestinians, belongs historically to the Jewish people.
These fundamental Christians will do anything to keep Arabs out of what they call the Holy Land.
And therefore support through thick and thin the policies of the Israelian Government and close their eyes for the war crimes and neglecting of international law by the Israelian Army.

These three groups are numerous, powerful and influential.
And vocal too.
Any person being critical about Israel or the existence of that country is immediately attacked.
Easily accused of anti-semitism.

However, these people supporting Israel 100 % are part of the problem that exists as of 1949.
Because of their uncompromising point of view, they are responsible for the escalation, as we have seen going on for years and years.

The fact is that Israel is a country that is artificial.
It was created in 1949 by among others the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
The people that were already living there, for hundreds of years, were forced to leave.
Over 500 villages and towns were destroyed.
Hundreds of thousands of Arab Palestinians were chased from their lands.
Forced into refugee camps elsewhere.
Where they are even today.
Homeless.


Obviously these people want to go back to where they used to live before 1949.
Obviously they want back the land and the houses that were violently taken away from them.

How are those demands addressed?
Not whatsoever.
The Palestinians are supposed to simply stay in their refugee camps and evaporate into oblivion.
Is it therefore surprising that Palestinians become violent?
May we ask who in fact then is responsible for their violence?
Who is instigating it?

History has been teaching us that violence never brings an adequate solution.
Israel has repeatedly performed military invasions like now is happening in Gaza.
Never bringing a solution of the problems one inch closer.

Only an attitude of humanism, that many people in Israel have who therefore oppose the actions of their Government, can bring peace to the region.
And humanism means that Arab Palestinians have the same rights as Israelian people.
Humanism means that Arab Palestinians must not live in refugee camps under miserable and hopeless conditions.
Humanism means that Arab Palestinians must be allowed to return to their own land and obtain their own properties again.

The current unconditional Israel supporters must accept this humanism.
If they do not become more reasonable, open and human to the victims of Israel, they are responsible for the conflict to go on.

We will see now from possible comments to this posting, how many readers of this blog belong to the three groups of no matter what Israel supporters.





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The massacre continues authorized by Bush

In the densely populated city of Gaza lives the 49-year-old professor of Islamic law Nizar Rayan.
He is an active member of Hamas’: the religious and political organization who was voted democratically by the Gaza Palestinians as the ruling party.

Hamas’ wants to end the existence of the State of Israel and from their point of view that is understandable.
Israel took away the land and the houses where the Palestinians used to live.
And chased them away.
To be forced to live in miserable circumstances in refugee camps without any prospect for a better future.
While suffering heavily by economic, cultural and social blockades and boycotts by Israel.



No wonder an intelligent man like Nizar Rayan turns against the Israelian Government and decides to fight them no matter how.
What has he to loose?

In his case: his life and that of his family.
Two days ago an American build Israelian warplane dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on his house.
Killing Nizar Rayan and 18 other people, including his family members.

Nizar Rayan's house after the 2,000 pounds Israelian bomb hit.

And this was only the beginning.
Twelve other Hamas’ leaders had their houses bombed and destroyed killing many more innocent civilian people.



Remember how outraged the world is when a Jewish synagogue is put on fire?
The Israelian Government has not hesitated to bomb and destroy an Islamic Mosque in Gaza.
The American International School there was destroyed as well.



There is no doubt that the Israelian Government and the Israelian Defence Forces are barbarians and war criminals.

But they could never perform their atrocities without the support of the American Government.
By now, over 400 people, including women and children, have been killed by American airplanes and helicopters piloted by Israeli, bombing undefended civilian areas with American rockets, bombs, shells and other explosives.



President Bush was silent while this massacre was going on with the weapons he supplied.


Until yesterday.
After more than 400 Palestinians killed, after enormous destruction and unbelievable suffering of the civilian population at the hands of the Israelian Government and the Israelian Defence Forces, President Bush, a war criminal himself, said:

“The Hamas rocket attacks on Israel are an "act of terror"

The man is mad.
An idiot.
A psychopath.
Hamas fires home made Mickey Mouse rockets into Israel.
Flimsy rockets with a maximum reach of 40 kilometres that usually land in the Israelian fields.
While Israel is responding like if they could be hit by an atomic bomb on Tel Aviv coming from Gaza any moment.



For 8 years President Bush has had the opportunity to create some kind of peace settlement in the Middle East.
Also there he has achieved nothing.



We see history repeat itself.
Several years ago Israel also attacked Lebanon to try to end Hezbollah.
Besides many civilians killed and a lot of destruction, the result was that Hezbollah is stronger than ever.



Now the same failing strategy is applied to Gaza and Hamas’.
With recklessness about Arab civilians only seen in the most ruthless war by the worst war criminals.



We are not to know the results of the Israelian attacks on Gaza.
The Israelian Government, for many months now, does not allow any journalist or photographer to travel into Gaza to report what is going on there.
So they have their hands free to kill and destroy without that the world opinion can turn against it.

All this devastation, destruction, loss of life, misery and suffering could have been prevented by the United States.
Most of the weapons that the Israelian Defence Forces use are bought or have been received as a gift from the United States.

There is a law in the USA controlling the use of the weapons that are exported or donated.
The U.S. Arms Export Control Act.
This is a law that is the expression of a majority of the American people.
Because it is a law that was democratically created and intended for the Government to follow without making exceptions.

This U.S. Arms Export Control Act
clearly states that U.S. origin weapons should not be used for "non-defensive purposes."



Frida Berrigan, a senior research associate with the Arms Trade Resource Centre at the World Policy Institute in New York, is equally outraged at the misuse by Israel of U.S.-supplied weapons.

"In light of U.S. Arms Export Control Act, the United States has an opportunity to stave off further bloodshed and suffering by demanding that its weaponry and military aid not be used in attacks against Gaza and elsewhere, and by challenging Israeli assertions that it is using military force defensively."

But the United States Government has always decided to side with only one of the parties involved in this complicated conflict.
Israel.
Supporting it with billions of Dollars in aid and billions of Dollars of weaponry.
And supporting it no matter what kind of atrocities and war crimes the Israelian Government and its Israelian Defence Forces are committing.
Even if this violates the own US-laws.



This is not the way to come to find a solution for a conflict.
It only results in a majority of the world population hating the United States even more.
Don’t be surprised therefore for retaliation and punishment.
Creating, instigating and supporting violence, results in getting violence in return.



If another Twin Tower-like attack occurs, killing innocent US civilians: do address the US-Government.






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