Israeli Settlements: Illegal, and Fatal to Peace
June 12, 2009 – Although the United States stopped calling the Israeli settlements in the West Bank “illegal” in 1981, they clearly are illegal. The rest of the international community agrees. For reasons which seem self-evident to anyone who travels the West Bank and talks to the residents, the growth of settlements and the actions of settlers are seen by Palestinians and other Arabs as the principal obstacle to peace. What we saw in the Holy Basin, in Ma’ale Adumim, in the E-1 area, and in Hebron, certainly confirms that judgment.
Article 49 (sixth paragraph) of Geneva Convention (IV) states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” Israel has historically made various arguments to evade application of this prohibition to the settlements in the West Bank. Among them are: that although Israel ratified the Convention it did not adopt legislation to enforce it, so no case can be brought; that Israel is not an occupying power, because there is no state to which it can “return” the territory; that Jews should have the right to live anywhere, making arguments against settlers racist; and that, since final status issues include drawing borders, the future of the settlements is a subject of negotiation. These arguments are all fallacious.
Israel claims to have ended its occupation of Gaza, but now concedes that it occupies the West Bank, in spite of the terms of the Oslo Accords purportedly splitting the elements of sovereignty between Israel and the new Palestinian Authority. As to the right of Jews to live where they want, Yoram Dinstein points out that, while individual Israelis can lawfully buy land from Palestinians and build homes on that land, where the state expropriates land, builds settlements that are exclusively for Israeli Jews, provides incentives to get Jews to move into the settlements, and provides infrastructure and security that is exclusively for the Israelis in those settlements, it is beyond argument that Israel has “transfer[red] parts of its own civilian population to the territory it occupies,” in violation of Article 49. [Dinstein, The International Law of Belligerent Occupation (Cambridge U Press 2009) pp 238-248] The other arguments, that Israel has chosen to leave the rights enshrined in Article 49 unenforceable, and that this is an issue for final status negotiations, are obnoxious. The point of Article 49 is to protect the rights of the pre-existing population of an occupied territory to the land on which its society has been established. Such a population is never, and Palestinians are not, in a position to “negotiate” with its jailors for its rights. Such rights have to be the starting point for resolution of issues, not the subject of compromise and division.
What we saw while in the West Bank makes clear how dangerous to peace and hostile to justice the settlements are. In the Holy Basin and nearby areas of East Jerusalem, the heart of historic Palestinian society, Israel is conducting “archeological” digs that somehow all seem to require displacement of Palestinian families. Once the land is confiscated and the families evicted, much of the land is then used for settler homes, recreation facilities and other uses, while the remaining Palestinians are provided no municipal services. The main road east from Jerusalem, historically critical in connecting Palestinians for commerce, education, medical treatment, and family and cultural ties, is now blocked, but new roads for Israelis only have been built. Ma’ale Adumim, a large and opulent colonial city east of Jerusalem, shows what can be done if six times the water Palestinians are allowed to buy from their own aquifer is available to settlers on a subsidized basis. Looking back toward Jerusalem from Ma’ale Adumim, you see a valley with a new, empty highway to a large police station. The police station, which has no population around it to serve, was paid for by settlers. The objective, long opposed by American administrations but clearly still alive, is to build settlements around the new police station, completing the encirclement and strangulation of Arab Jerusalem. If and when that happens, we were told in Egypt, there will be an outbreak of violence that will spread far beyond E-1.
Perhaps the most graphic and sickening demonstration of the power of the settler movement to lead Israel into a moral abyss is Hebron. A handful of violent, aggressive settlers took over a hotel over high holy days and refused to leave. There are now about 400 of them, “protected” by 1500 IDF soldiers, in the old market or Casbah of this Arab city of about 200,000. They have constantly initiated violence and confrontations, throwing rocks, garbage and feces down on Palestinians remaining in the area and requiring the installation of wire mesh nets over the streets. The IDF has issued closure orders on 520 shops, and another 1,000 have closed due to the harassment and security measures. Several streets are no longer accessible to Arabs, including the mayor of Hebron. Any goods or materials brought into the remaining shops have to be carried through a small revolving iron gate, and can be ordered dumped out on the ground. Ear-splitting music in Hebrew is broadcast 24 hours a day. The main mosque, where 27 Muslims at prayer were murdered by a settler, was closed for a year; when it was re-opened, 65% of it was dedicated to use as a synagogue, open freely to Jews, while the remainder was open only under oppressive security measures to local Muslims. The mayor told us that every family has someone in Israeli jails, aggregating some 14,000 Palestinian prisoners.
It is almost beyond belief that Israelis, much less Americans, allow themselves to be associated with an occupation that enables such cruelty. We were told repeatedly that most Israelis do not know, and do not care, what is done in the territories, so long as they feel safe. But it seems obvious that what is being done in their names is not only contrary to law and simple humanity, it is certain to create increasing resentment and animosity among a population that will soon outnumber Israeli Jews. It is hard to imagine a course more likely to deny Israel a secure future.
We were told by a senior American diplomat that the United States is in a “constant philosophical struggle with the Israelis,” because they focus tightly on what seems to them necessary in the short term for security, while we try to get them to focus on strategic issues – what needs to be done today to reach conditions of long-term stability and peace. What the diplomat did not say, but seems obvious, is that by relying on force and ignoring any legal or moral restraints on its use, the Israelis are digging themselves and the United States into a hole from which there is no likelihood of escape. America needs to do more than to engage in “philosophical struggle” with Israel. Just as a friend does not let a friend drive drunk, an ally does not let an ally doom itself and its region to interminable instability, injustice and violence. A simple place to start would be to insist that Israel obey international law and comply with agreements it has already made, freeze all settlement growth, and begin the process of reversing the incentives for Israelis to live in the territories.
Michael Thomas Esq., Author & CNI Citizen Diplomat for CNIOnline.org
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USSR – Illuminati Experiment Was “Social Catastrophe”
by Henry Makow Ph.D.
May 20, 2009 – As we edge toward world government, it pays to recall the Illuminati’s last great social experiment, Soviet Communism, which Juri Lina describes as a “social catastrophe.”
In his book, “Under the Sign of the Scorpion” (2002), the Estonian writer says about 150 million people died as a result of the Bolshevik Revolution, subsidized by the Illuminati (Masonic Jewish) banking cartel.The West pretended to oppose the Bolsheviks but in fact defended them and betrayed the White Russians who were our allies in WWI. The Bolsheviks would have lost except for Western intervention. (322)
An additional 60 million people were murdered under Chinese Communism. These Satanic regimes “gripped the… people by the hair of their heads” (Winston Churchill) and brutally destroyed two advanced civilizations. The Illuminati central bankers still run the world. If “Past is Preface,” are we being set up for similar brutal treatment? Is this the reason why the truth about these “revolutions” is suppressed? Why we are being dumbed, degraded and trivialized?
INSIDE STORY
Juri Lina claims that the USSR was ruled by Jewish gangsters. Soviet “anti-Semitism” was the spin they put on their gang wars. Marxist ideology was a smokescreen. Josef Stalin was a Jew who spoke Yiddish and married Jewish women. He was diagnosed as a “paranoid hysteric” by a doctor he murdered for revealing this. He had an inferiority complex due to being only five foot one inch tall and employed a stand-in for public appearances. He murdered his second wife in 1932 when she accused him of genocide. Like Lenin, another Jew (who died of syphilis) Stalin was also bisexual. (pp. 284-286). These are the freaks the Illumati bankers put in power.
Stalin was under the influence of another Jew, Lazar Kaganovich (and married his sister.) Kaganowich played on Stalin’s paranoia to murder over 20 million Comunist party leaders, functionaries, and army officers, especially those aware of his nefarious deeds. Stalin and Kaganovich were after their rivals’ gold. During the Great Terror of 1934-38, NKVD Officers began wearing a new symbol on their sleeves, a sword and serpent. “This symbolized the struggle of the cabbalistic Jews against their enemies,” Lina writes. “There is no devil according to the Talmud. Satan and God are united in Yahweh.” (301)
At the peak of Stalin and Kaganovich’s terror in 1937-38, executions reached 40,000 a month. Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimated a million executed and another two million died in death camps. Literaturnaya Rossiya estimated total deaths due to murdder, induced starvation and maltreatment at 147 million, five million a year for the period 1918-1938. Lina points out that many killed were women and children who were classed as “enemies of the people.” After all “they cost money” i.e. were “useless eaters” in Communist eyes.
Huge mass graves surround the major cities of the USSR. One containing 100,000 bodies was found in Kuropaty, six miles from Minsk. Every night from 1937 to June 1941, the NKVD lined people up at the grave side, gagged abd blind-folded. To save bullets, the executioners tried to kill two people with one shot. (303)
At the peak of the terror, the NKVD began gassing people to death in lorries. The West considered all this to be normal. Bernard Shaw said nations had the right to eliminate undesirables. The US ambassador to Moscow, Joseph Davies, a Freemason, was especially enthusiatic about the show trials. (304)
The USSR lost an additional 35-45 million people during the Second World War. The historian Nikolai Tolstoi claims that half of these were actually killed by the Bolsheviks and blamed on the Nazis. During campaigns against counter revolutionaires in 1949-1952 another five million people were murdered. (307)
Apart from the Holomodor (1932-32) which killed 15 million Ukrainians, there was another (lesser known) organized famine in the Ukraine in 1946-1947 to put down political resistance. This killed two million. Another million Russians were killed or irradiated in 1954 when the Communists tested an atomic weapon on their own people. (318)
SATANIC GENOCIDE SPONSORED BY THE WEST
The Bolshevik Revolution was totally organized and financed by Illuminati bankers (Schiff, Rockefeller, Warburg etc.) and the German government, which they controlled. (206)
Anthony Sutton found that 95% per cent of Soviet technology came from the US or their allies. He said the Communists couldn’t have lasted “one day” without Western aid. While pretending to be engaged in a “Cold War,” the West actually provided billions in direct military and economic aid to the Soviets. How else have a war? (322)
A quarter million tractors were needed for the “collectivization” of the Kulak farmers land. With financing from Kuhn Loeb, 80 US companies participated in building three huge tractor factories. These were also used for building tanks.
Under the Rapallo Treaty signed in April 1922, German consortiums built numerous airplane, locomotive and munitions factories throughout the USSR. Krupp built tanks and submarines in Leningrad and Rostov. German troops rehearsed Blitzkreig tactics on Russian soil. Clearly the Illuminati elite sponsors both sides of every conflict. Without this industrial activity and economic aid, the USSR would have quickly failed.
The West’s Illuminati politicians and financiers didn’t lose any sleep over the executions or the 15 million sent to the Gulag. (343) Their newspapers suppressed this information. They are as guilty as the NKVD executioners, and it was all done on our dime.
“The Western financial elite wanted to use market economy capitalism as an anvil and Communism as a hammer to rule the world and entirely subdue it,” Lina writes.
Eventually the cost of maintaining the USSR became too heavy, and the new Russia was born, under the Freemasons Yeltzin and Putin.
The same gang of Satanists and mass murderers continue to rule our planet. Our politicians are their conscious or unconscious agents. This doesn’t bode well for the New World Order. A thin patina of law and civilized tradition separate us from the barbarism and chaos experienced in Russia.
We live in a fool’s paradise. The price of not bringing these monsters to justice for crimes like 9-11 is that they continue to inflict their madness on the human race.
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You note that “The point of Article 49 is to protect the rights of the pre-existing population of an occupied territory”.
You surely must be aware that:
a) Jews lived in Judea and Samaria for centuries and were ethnically cleansed from those areas under the British Mandate when successive riots (1920; 1921; 1929; 1936-39) and a full-scale aggressive war (1947-48) was launched by local Arabs. Cities such as Nables, Gaza, Jenin, Hebron and villages such as Kfar Etzion, Revadim, Atarot, Neveh Yaakov and Bet Haaravah as well as the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem were emptied out of their Jewish residents.
b) In other words, basically, the Geneva Convention you quote supports the Jewish claim that Jews belong in Judea and Samaria and Gaza for two reasons.
c) the first is the international community’s decisions in San Remo in 1920 and the Mandate decision of the Supreme Council of the League of Nations in 1922-23 to reconstitute the Jewish national home
d) the second is that in acting against these decisions as well as rejecting the 1947 UN Partition Resolution, the Arabs of the Palestine Mandate surrendered any claims to seek protection under the 1949 Geneva Convention.
e) moreover, i) since 1949 Geneva is between “High Contracting Parties”, and there was no “Palestine” due to the decision of the Arabs not to establish it but to wage war, they have no protection; and ii) no “transfer” of population exists in this case as the residents went by themselves.