A Litany of Likudnik Disasters

A single disaster is tragic enough but a litany of disasters suggests something beyond the tragic. These disasters, to name only the most prominent, include the western backed overthrow of mohammed ghaddafi in libya and the subsequent disintegration of that country, the western backed attempt to overthrow president bashar al-assad of syria, the explosive rise of the islamic state in syria and iraq giving rise to an islamic caliphate, the overthrow of the democratically elected morsi government in egypt by a military coup led by a fanatically anti-moslem brotherhood president, etc. However, it is the latest such disasters that are the focus of this article: the latest attack and invasion of gaza by the jews-only state; the fascist ukrainian junta’s rampant war on what it regards as its own people in eastern ukraine; and the shooting down of the malaysian commercial airliner mh17.

The bbc, which still lays claim to impartiality and objectivity, treated the downing of mh17 as if it were an act of war (initiated by russia against britain’s newly found ally, the ukraine) which thereby required it to adopt a patriotic stance in line with the views of the government of the day. Its 24 hour news service became dominated by the disaster thereby downgrading the invasion of gaza by what benjamin netanyahu calls “the one and only-jewish state” to a three minute segment at the end of its regular half hour news cycle – it had long since ignored the ukrainian junta’s military invasion of eastern ukraine. Prior to the downing of the malaysian aircraft, the aerial bombardment of gaza had resulted in the deaths of nearly two hundred palestinians - the vast majority of them innocent, not involved in any military activities, many of whom were children. The invasion of gaza started the day after the downing of mh17 and the death toll of palestinians started to accelerate. Bbc newsreaders expressed not the slightest glimmer of anger or outrage at the deaths of innocent palestinians but their reaction to the downing of the malaysian airliner was full of moral outrage and indignation combined with utter condemnation of those they believed were responsible i.e russian separatists in eastern ukraine and ultimately president putin of russia.

So, from the bbc’s perspective, the slaughter of over two hundred innocent palestinians warranted no moral condemnation whilst the loss of three hundred people in the airplane crash over eastern ukraine was treated with the utmost moral outrage which quickly morphed into incessant and comprehensive condemnations of president putin. The bbc not merely tried to sustain an unjustifiable contrast in its treatment of these two disasters but sought to use the moral outrage over mh17 to give credence to its downgrading of concern over the invasion of gaza. It jumped straight onto what it deemed to be the moral high ground over the downing of mh17 in order to present itself as a valid and trusted arbiter of global morality thereby justifying its neglect of the massacre in gaza. The more forcefully the bbc condemned the downing of mh17 and putin’s alleged role in the disaster, the more it could present itself as a decent, trustworthy and honourable moral arbiter in order to make its crassly bigoted analysis of the one and only-jewish state’s slaughter of unarmed palestinians seem reasonable and just.

This comparative immorality was however far more prevalent beyond the confines of broadcasting house. Whilst the one and only-jewish state (abbreviated here to the jews-only state or jos) had been bombarding gaza, jewish politicians had been continually speculating about the need for a ground invasion. The downing of the airliner enabled netanyahu to conclude that this was a golden opportunity to launch a ground invasion because he knew the western media could preoccupy itself with his tragedy for the next few days at the very least thereby allowing the apartheid state’s merciless attacks on gaza to continue without arousing the wrath of the international community. The mainstream media around the western world duly complied. In effect, the bbc and the rest of the western mainstream media were in cahoots with the racist state to cover up the slaughter in gaza by hyping up condemnations of russian separatists and president putin for their alleged involvement in the downing of the malaysian airliner.

Western governments, heavily dominated by neocon politicians, also hyped up the mh17 disaster to defuse public opinion about the diabolical jewish massacre of palestinians in gaza which has been like shooting fish in a barrel. American politicians gave their full support to the jewish attack on, and invasion of, gaza and so their primary role was hyping up the mh17 disaster to ensure that public anger over gaza did not reach such a point that it forced them into calling for a premature end of the massacre. The british neocon government demanded further sanctions against russia to stop the sale of dual use products that could be used by russia, and thus they believed russian separatists in eastern ukraine, to halt the ukrainian junta’s slaughter of innocent russian speaking people. It did not however made a single statement about sanctioning the jos to stop it from using its armaments to murder innocent palestinians. For jewish extremists in the racist state, western neocon politicians, and the western mainstream media, the downing of the malaysian airliner must have seemed like a gift from god enabling them to get away with yet another moral outrage against the palestinians in gaza without having to face as much of an adverse reaction as there would have been without the disaster over the ukraine.

Western politicians and the western media have heaped such a torrent of scandalous accusations and outrageous lies against russia and especially president putin whilst remaining silent over the jos’s slaughter of palestinians in gaza that it reveals with crystal clarity the extent to which these politicians, broadcasters and journalists are dominated by likudnik interests. America’s likudnik owned congress and its likudnik dominated media have become a laughing stock around the world for their subservience to the interests of the only-jewish state. They have become likudnik—owned bitches willing to do whatever is necessary to deflect criticism of the theft of palestinian land and the slaughter of palestinian people. Western democracies supposedly resting on the principle of private property allows the jewish state to steal palestinian private property without uttering a word of criticism. The neocons are students of levi-strauss who promoted the idea of state’s propounding big lies in order to unify and control society. Western, especially american, neocons have a history of promoting outlandish big lies against their enemies, the most well known of which is that saddam hussein had wmd’s and was in league with al quaeda. American neocon lies over bashar al-assad’s supposed chemical attack on opponents in damascus nearly brought about a western military attack on syria. The preposterous and extravagant denunciations of putin could lead to a war against russia. It is as if neocons around the western world compete with each other to fabricate the biggest and most outrageous lies in the hope of triggering yet more wars that will enhance likudnik interests around the world.

During the bbc’s late thursday evening (July 17) round up of the following day’s newspapers, a newsreader waved in front of the camera a copy of the sun newspaper’s scandalous and sickening front page headline ‘Putin’s Missile’ as if to suggest the sun had correctly interpreted the cause of this terrible event. (The day after this headline was published, a judge dismissed a case brought by a sun on sunday reporter who had attempted to trap a celebrity into selling cocaine, accusing the reporter of being totally unreliable. But then again isn’t this the case with all of murdoch’s hacks around the world? It is highly unlikely that the sun or any murdoch publication was in the slightest bit embarrassed by this judgment).

The following day, the bbc covered the television conference given by president poroshenko, a ukrainian oligarch, who blamed, with total certainty but without a shred of evidence, russian separatists for the downing of the aircraft calling them terrorists before going on to spread the blame to russia and especially putin. It also covered arsenly yatsenyuk’s television conference when he called russian separatists deemed responsible for the tragedy “bastards” – his intention of course was to inflame global political opinion in the hope of increasing the odds that the international community would be willing to provide the ukraine with financial support and nato military protection. The bbc also presented, without any proof of its authenticity, a supposedly secret recording made by ukrainian secret services of a telephone conversation between ukrainian anti-fascists in which a local fighter told his commanding officer that his unit had shot down the malaysian aircraft. Over a week later, the authenticity of the tape has still not been established even though this should be relatively easy to do by naming those in the conversation. If the ukrainian secret services had got a recording of the admission of guilt they must also have the names of those involved in the conversation.

The bbc refused to present any alternative point of view which might cast any doubt over the certainty of its accusation that putin’s private army in eastern ukraine had deliberately shot down the malaysian passenger aircraft. Although it frequently pointed out that there were no confirmable facts it then proceeded on the basis that its accusations were beyond the need of confirmation.

The bbc’s cover-up of the ukrainian government’s military attacks on the people of eastern ukraine and its downplaying of the massacre of palestinians, means that its pretence to a moral stance over the destruction of mh17 was entirely without legitimacy. If the bbc can’t condemn the jewish state for its military operation against virtually unarmed palestinian people and can’t condemn the ukrainian government for similarly using military force against its own people, then it has no credibility over the mh17 tragedy no matter how much it tried to present itself as an impartial and objective reporter of facts. The bbc is no different from the rest of the likudnik dominated western mainstream media which is basically produced by schmucks for the benefit of schmucks.

It is not known who shot down mh17 and it is not even beyond doubt that it was shot down by a missile launched from the ground. The airliner could have been destroyed by a bomb on board the plane – it seems a little coincidental that two malaysian airliners have been lost over the last couple of months. It could have been shot down by a fighter jet. Despite these doubts, the president of the united states declared on saturday (july 19), presumably after consulting with his intelligence services, that the aircraft had been shot down by a missile “from an area controlled by russian backed ukrainian rebels”. However, after the embarrassing debacle over his allegation that the syrian government was responsible for the chemical weapons attack on damascus because the missiles had allegedly emanated from “an area controlled by the syrian government” then perhaps he should have been more politically circumspect and avoided reminding people of this mistake by using virtually the same phraseology. Since his security forces had got it so wrong about the origin in damascus of the syrian chemical missiles why should anyone invest any confidence in them to get it right in the ukraine? Especially when the military situation on the ground in the ukraine is so fluid. President ronald reagan described the american shooting down of an iranian airliner as an “understandable accident”. “… on July 3, 1988, the USS Vincennes fired a missile that brought down an Iranian civilian airliner in the Persian Gulf, killing 290 people, an act which President Ronald Reagan explained as an “understandable accident”).” (Ray McGovern ‘Facts Needed on Malaysian Plane Shoot-Down’ http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/19-2 July 19, 2014). If russian separatists had downed the malaysian aircraft it would be far more of an accident than when the commander of one of america’s most technologically advanced destroyers, downed the iranian airliner. But the days when americans might feel a little understanding or sympathy for those who had brought about the mh17 disaster because of what their military had done to an iranian airliner are well and truly over. These days americans are exceptionalists (something like secular dispensationalists) who can do no wrong despite the mountain of corpses they have piled up around the middle east over the last twenty five years.

In comparison to the bbc’s utterly odious presentations of the three disasters in the ukraine and gaza, al jazeera choose to keep at the top of its news agenda the jewish military operation against unarmed palestinian civilians in gaza. It rightly believed that the deliberate killing of innocent people in gaza was a far more important news story than the seemingly accidental downing of mh17. Its coverage of the mh17 catastrophe has been far more moderate, sensible and reasonable than that of the bbc’s despite the fact that on most other issues it generally treats putin with a degree of contempt.

By far and away the best media presentation of these three tragedies has come from russian television. Not only has it raised important questions about the downing of the malaysian aircraft, it has highlighted the aggressiveness of the ukrainian government’s military offensive against its own people as a background to the mh17 tragedy. The western public is shocked that a passenger aircraft could have been shot down but this is primarily because it knows so little about the scale of the war the ukrainian government has launched on its own people. The ukrainian military is besieging and then flattening large numbers of villages across the region. It is shelling residential areas in major cities in eastern ukraine. It has killed thousands of innocent people and forced hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to flee from their homes in case they become yet another casualty of such indiscriminate attacks. Is it surprising that such attacks have led to a resistance movement which seeks to get hold of any weapons it can to defend itself even though most of its fighters have no military training? It is absurd to believe that russian anti-fascists are not going to try to continue shooting down ukrainian fighter jets given the carnage that the these jets have unleashed against their own people.

One of the most pertinent questions rt raised is why the ukrainian government allowed commercial airliners to fly over a war zone especially when it knew that over the previous few months helicopters, air transporters, and fighter jets had been shot down by resistance fighters? If anyone could be blamed for the accidental shooting down of mh17 then it has to be the fascist ukrainian government for allowing passenger flights over such a dangerous war zone. It has even been proposed that the plane was diverted from the normal route over eastern ukraine to one that took it even closer to the fighting.

The reason the fascist ukrainian government refused to stop commercial jets flying over the war zone is because for the last few months it has been trying to pretend that there has been no war taking place in eastern ukraine and that the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the ukrainian military’s indiscriminate shelling of their homes was not a humanitarian disaster warranting help from the united nations.

During the last weeks of june, the russian, german and french governments tried to persuade poroshenko’s fascist government to continue a ceasefire in eastern ukraine. But it refused to do so and, at the beginning of july, launched a wholesale military campaign to crush the resistance fighters. Poroshenko launched this latest round of the war without stopping airliners from flying over the war zone. Putin is thus correct in arguing that if the fascist government had not decided to renew its military attacks rather than seeking a peace agreement then this tragedy would never have happened. “On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin deflected questions about who may have fired the missile as he called for an international investigation. But he made a telling point when he noted that the “tragedy would not have happened if military actions had not been renewed in southeast Ukraine.”” (Ray McGovern ‘Facts Needed on Malaysian Plane Shoot-Down’ http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/19-2 July 19, 2014). See also, “Putin is more than correct when he stressed this tragedy would not have happened if Poroshenko had agreed to extend a cease-fire, as Merkel, Hollande and Putin tried to convince him in late June. At a minimum, Kiev is already guilty because they are responsible for safe passage of flights in the airspace they - theoretically - control.” (Pepe Escobar ‘It was Putin's missile!’ http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-190714.html July 18, 2014).

But then again perhaps the shooting down of this aircraft is exactly what the poroshenko government was hoping might happen knowing that this would give the junta a huge publicity coup against the anti-fascists and that this would encourage western countries to offer political and military protection to the ukraine. Just as the anti-fascists sought to provoke putin into invading eastern ukraine so perhaps poroshenko might have hoped that some sort of tragic incident would force the west to come to the country’s rescue. Such a dire accusation cannot be that far off the mark given that this fascist government has so enthusiastically slaughtered its own people and given that the russian government has revealed that a fighter jet was in the vicinity of the mh17 airliner just before it was downed. This has led some to speculate that the jet fighter was using the airliner as a human shield before attacking its targets in novorussiya. At the moment the relatives of the victims of mh17 are mourning their losses but once they start campaigning for justice for their loved ones they are almost certain to initiate litigation against the ukrainian government for such gross irresponsibilities. Perhaps even against the american government which it is pretending that it didn’t know there were any anti-aircraft weapons in eastern ukraine prior to the downing of mh17 whilst also maintaining that they were tracking the flow of armaments from russia to the ukraine.

The ukrainian government’s military offensive against its own people is almost identical to the jos’s military offensive against palestinians in gaza. The ukrainian military is besieging and flattening eastern ukraine in exactly the same way the jos is besieging and flattening gaza. In both cases, the militaries cut off villages, besiege them by destroying all power and water supplies and then shell residential areas indiscriminately whilst claiming they are targeting only militants. They both claim that militants are hiding in residential areas or hospitals or public buildings or ambulances which justifies the military attacks on such places. Basically what both militaries are doing is indiscriminately firing rockets, missiles or shells anywhere they want and then claiming that the buildings or vehicles they have hit or demolished have been used by militants as a hiding place. Such a claim basically allows both militaries to do whatever they want no matter how illegal it might be. Both governments prefer to pursue a lebensraum policy rather than pursue any peace agreement – the only difference being is that whilst russian speaking ukrainians can flee to russia or other parts of the ukraine the palestinians living in the gazan open prison have nowhere to go. But then again is it that surprising that the ukrainian military is acting similarly to the jewish military when its jewish president and prime minister have such close contacts with the jews-only state and espouse the same likudnik propaganda?

The jos continually insists it has a right to defend itself. Western neocons regurgitate the same proposition. However, this proposition is more than just a statement of the obvious. It’s first implication is that the jos can go on the military offensive slaughtering large numbers of innocent people whilst claiming it is only defending itself. Secondly, this proposition implies the jos has the right to use whatever scale of military force it wants against unarmed civilians. Thirdly, the jewish state believes that its right of self defence is a special human right applicable only to jews – it does not apply to palestinians. Palestinians have no right to defend themselves. They just have to suffer whatever the jewish state decides to impose upon them. The bbc for example has never once mentioned that palestinians have a right to defend themselves against overwhelming military force. American politicians, bought and paid for by jewish oligarchs, also believe the jewish state is entitled to this exclusive human right. Any act of self defence by palestinians is instantly denounced as an act of aggression which cannot be tolerated.

The fourth implication of the jews’ exclusive right to defend themselves is that palestinians always initiate conflicts to which the jews are forced to respond. According to this propaganda, hamas continually fires rockets at the jewish state which eventually gets fed up of being attacked forcing it to try and stop such attacks. The racist state is thus portrayed as a poor, innocent victim of psychopathic palestinian aggression. But this propaganda is so much hasbara. After the zionist state’s attack on gaza in november 2012 hamas abided by the ceasefire agreement and did not fire any rockets at the jewish state for 19 months. It resumed firing rockets on july 7. “Thus, a report from an authoritative Israeli source described the provocation for the resumption of rocket fire: Hamas rocket fire began only after Israeli forces had engaged in nearly a month of military operations in violation of the ceasefire agreement and had killed 6 Hamas members in Gaza. The facts show that Israeli forces had to work quite hard to get Hamas to end its cease-fire. The killing of the six Hamas members was not an isolated event. Israeli forces and settlers had gone wild on the West Bank starting on June 12 after the kidnapping of three Israeli teens. Israeli forces had also attacked 60 targets in Gaza during those three weeks of June. Then, on the night of July 7, 2014, the Israeli Air Force had attacked approximately 50 more “terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip, as described in the ITIC report.” James Marc Leas ‘Why Did Bernie Sanders Get Gaza So Wrong?’ http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/24/why-did-bernie-sanders-get-gaza-so-wrong/ July 24, 2014). See also, “The claim that Israel is merely acting in self-defense fails on a number of counts. As I and others have been saying from the beginning, the Netanyahu government willfully and cynically used the murders of three Israelis as an excuse to provoke Hamas with mass arrests and widespread activities that included the deaths of nine Palestinian civilians before this operation started. That removes the self-defense argument from the start.” (Mitchell Plitnick ‘Israel-Palestine: Correcting Some Faulty Ideas on Both Sides’ http://www.lobelog.com/israel-palestine-correcting-some-faulty-ideas/ July 26, 2014).

The likudnik dominated american government also uses this moral exclusivity to its political advantage. Hence it believes the fascist ukrainian government has a right to defend itself against what it labels as terrorists but the supposed terrorists i.e. civilian russian speakers in eastern ukraine have no right to defend themselves against the onslaughts of the ukrainian military. American neocons also claim exclusivity over the ‘right to protect’ principle wherever american citizens are involved and does not allow this principle to be used by any other country seeking to protect its citizens e.g. russia is not allowed to protect its citizens being slaughtered in the ukraine. When putin tries to help his compatriots he is allegedly involved in anschluss.

In case this analysis might lead some to suggest that there is some left wing bias involved here, it is necessary to point out that whilst russia and the anti-fascists in the ukraine cannot be blamed for deliberately shooting down a commercial airliner and that putin is acting as a global peacemaker in helping anti fascists resist the fascist ukrainian government’s military slaughter in eastern ukraine, there is one major way in which putin deserves condemnation. He is helping president sisi to consolidate his grip over egypt and to continue with his odious policy of besieging the palestinians in gaza. Sisi’s hatred of hamas is leading him to inflict collective punishment on palestinians in gaza and he’d probably have joined in the shelling of gaza if his country wasn’t economically bankrupt – perhaps using russian armaments supplied to him by putin. Putin’s desire to establish a political and military foothold in egypt has led him to abandon the palestinians. The palestinians have never been so alone as they are today. Around the world they have virtually no friends. Only turkey and, ironically, a few shia governments in the middle east are willing to defend them politically. Not even that rampaging group of drugged out religious nutcases isis protest about what the jewish state is inflicting on their co-religionists. The saudis have finally given up trying to pretend they care anything about the palestinians. Ever since the jewish lobby in america offered to protect the saudis from any political recriminations over their role in 9/11, the saudis have become bitches to their jewish masters and their sole political role has been to prevent arabs around the world from understanding the degree of their capitulation. The saudis have financed isis and sisi (truly a mirror image of each other) so perhaps the palestinians are better off without the stench of saudi state fundamentalists, the world’s greatest sponsor of state terrorism. Is it any wonder that the world’s two greatest terrorist states have teamed up together to destroy hamas in gaza. “The attack on Gaza comes by Saudi Royal Appointment. This royal warrant is nothing less than an open secret in Israel, and both former and serving defense officials are relaxed when they talk about it. Former Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz surprised the presenter on Channel 10 by saying Israel had to specify a role for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the demilitarization of Hamas. Asked what he meant by that, he added that Saudi and Emirati funds should be used to rebuild Gaza after Hamas had been defanged.” (Attack on Gaza by Saudi Royal Appointment’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-hearst/attack-on-gaza-by-saudi-r_b_5603735.html July 20, 2014).

The invasion of gaza is part of an incremental lebensraum policy to remove all palestinians from palestine. Just as the jos continually steals palestinian land in the west bank so it is pushing the gazan border closer and closer to the sea. Gaza is surrounded by a fence which nominally marks the border with the jewish state but over the years the jos has created an increasingly large no-man’s land on the gazan side of the fence which gazans can no longer access. Gaza was once 140 square miles in size but the continual expansion of this no-man’s land is increasingly eating into this space forcing increasing numbers of palestinians to live in smaller areas. If this lebensraum process continues then eventually most gazans will be living on the beach.

Netanyahu’s extreme right wing fascist government has realized that now is the time to decimate the palestinians, or perhaps make their lives so infernal that it drives them out of the country, without the global community raising a finger of protest. Human morality is in a downspin and is being pushed towards a self destructive global oblivion by rampant neocons around the world especially in america, but also in britain, france, canada, australia, the ukraine saudi arabia, and even russia itself. If the heads of state of america, britain, france, canada, and australia were to meet to discuss their countries’ long term objective it would be to promote a neocon agenda waging wars against enemies of the racist state and boosting the expansion of the jewish colonial state in the middle east. The neocons are renowned for their admiration of winston churchill but they believe the politician who most closely resembles his qualities is benjamin netanyahu, the leader of the free world, the world’s greatest promoter and instigator of islamophobia.

The western world’s willingness to tolerate a nation blockading and besieging 2 million people for the last 8 years keeping them in an open prison is not merely a reflection of its political decadence but is indicative of the control that the racist state has over western countries. Jewish oligarchs have basically bought off western politicians and the western media who thereby sacrifice their own national interests for the sake of boosting the jewish empire and global jewish power. The invasion of iraq, and the threat of wars against syria and iran, are not in the national interests of the western world. They are of benefit only to the jews-only state.


See also 'The Jewish Wehrmacht always targets Civilians: the Jewish Wehrmacht’s Insanely disproportionate use of Violence against Unarmed Civilians'

http://themundiclub.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/jewish-wehrmacht-always-targets.html 

The Nazis in the Jews-only state in Palestine, Hitler’s Second State.

Updated February 16, 2009

Ari, Michael Ben.
The views of Efrat Weiss.
"Far Right activists Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben Gvir will soon become regular visitors to the Knesset – one as new National Union Knesset Member Michael Ben Ari's advisor, and the other as his parliamentarian assistant. Dr. Ben Ari, who was placed in the fourth spot on National Union's list, is expected to attract great attention at the Knesset, both because of his aides and his views. Marzel, a Hebron resident who in the past served as an assistant for Kach movement founder Rabbi Meir Kahane, will serve as Mk Ben Ari's advisor. Meanwhile, Ben-Gvir, who is about to complete his law degree in the, will serve as Ben Ari's assistant for legal and media affairs. A close associate of the new arrivals at the Knesset told Ynet: "With these figures at the Knesset, we shall have a celebration every day. We are talking about colorful figures who will add plenty of color to the Knesset – mostly dark orange," the associate said. "It will certainly not be boring around there."" (Efrat Weiss ‘Far rightists coming to Knesset’ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3670568,00.html February 11, 2009).

The views of Adam Horowitz.
"It's scary when Avigdor Lieberman starts looking like a reasonable centrist. The YNet article "Far rightists coming to Knesset" reveals that Baruch Marzel will be following National Union Knesset Member Michael Ben Ari into the government as his advisor. Baruch Marzel is a Hebron settler who was Meir Kahane's "right-hand man." He was active in the Kach party and helped start the similar Jewish National Front which has just won its first ever seat in the Knesset. Recently Marzel has been in the news for trying to organize a march of Jewish supremacists through Umm Al Fahm, the second largest Palestinian city inside Israel. But simply referring to Marzel as a racist is selling him short. Marzel is also known for calling for Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery to be assassinated, for saying a bird flu outbreak in southern Israel was God's punishment for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and for inciting violence against people attending Israel's Gay Pride festivities in Jerusalem. Marzel promised in 2006, "The stabbing incident during last year's parade will seem minor in comparison with what is anticipated this year. We have to declare a holy war." Welcome to the halls of power Baruch. Scary." (Adam Horowitz ‘Lieberman will have plenty of company: right-wing rogues gallery to enter the Knesset’ http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/02/lieberman-will-have-plenty-of-company-rightwing-rogues-gallery-to-fill-the-knesset.html February 11, 2009)

Ayalon, Danny.
The views of Adam Horowitz.
"Lieberman has run on an avowedly racist platform of forcing Palestinian Israeli citizens of Israel to take a loyalty oath to the state. Lieberman and his party (which includes former Israeli Ambassador to the US Danny Ayalon) have long advocated for removing Palestinian citizens of Israel (over 20% of the state) from the country into the West Bank. This call for ethnic cleaning has found a new and growing constituency in the wake of the war in Gaza." (Adam Horowitz ‘Kahane has won: the Israeli elections and the face of Zionism’ http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/02/kahane-has-won-what-to-expect-in-the-upcoming-israeli-elections.html February 08, 2009).

Barak, Ehud.
See Dichter, Avi.

Dichter, Avi.
"Israel was unapologetic with Internal Security Minister, Avi Dichter, saying the IDF must "eliminate the rocket fire from Gaza, irrespective of the cost to Palestinians." Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, added: "We are impacting the overall quality of life in Gaza and destroying the terror infrastructure." He meant civilians as did Ehud Olmert claiming: "We are trying to hit only those involved in terrorism, but also signaling to the population in Gaza that it cannot be free from responsibility for the situation."" (Stephen Lendman ‘A Prison State: Life in Occupied Gaza’ http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman02022008.html February 2 / 3, 2008).

Diskin, Yuval. head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA).
"Israel makes no distinction between civilians (including women and children) and resistance fighters, and B'Tselem stated that Yuval Diskin, head of the Israel Security Agency (ISA), "defines every Palestinian killed in the Gaza Strip as a terrorist," including small children and the elderly infirm." (Stephen Lendman ‘A Prison State: Life in Occupied Gaza’ http://www.counterpunch.org/lendman02022008.html February 2 / 3, 2008).

Eitan, Rafael.
See Ze’evi, Rehavam.

Eitam, Effi (Effi Eytam).
"Rehavam Ze'evi, whose memory was honored this week by a special commemoration session of the Knesset, proposed ethnic cleansing, and General Effi Eytam, the chief of the National Union party, uses similar language." (Uri Avnery ‘Lieberman and the Decline of Israeli Democracy’ http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery11022006.html November 2, 2006).


Eliyahu, Rabbi Mordechai.
The views of Kobi Nahshoni.
"Former Sephardi chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu called on the government to decree that for every life lost in the attack another yeshiva and township will be formed. ""Even when we seek revenge, it is important to make one thing clear, the life of one yeshiva boy is worth more than the lives of 1,000 Arabs. "The Talmud states that if gentiles rob Israel of silver they will pay it back in gold, and all that is taken will be paid back in folds, but in cases like these there is nothing to pay back, since as I said, the life of one yeshiva boy is worth more than the lives of 1,000 Arabs," added Rabbi Eliyahu." (Kobi Nahshoni ‘Rabbi Eliyahu: Life of one yeshiva boy worth more than 1,000 Arabs’ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3527410,00.html April 03 2008).

The views of Mike Whitney.
"Israel has been sharply criticized for its disproportionate use of force in Gaza. But there are some Israeli fanatics who believe that Israel should use even greater force, widespread lethal force. The Jerusalem Post reports on that Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written a letter to Prime Minsiter Ehud Olmert informing him that "all civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot....Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings." "No moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians" Isn't this the definition of terrorism? One Israeli settler leader recently argued during a conversation with a visiting American peace activist that 'if it was right to commit genocide during Biblical time, why can’t it be right to commit genocide now. Has God changed his mind,' the settler wondered sarcastically."" (Mike Whitney ‘Israel's Moral and Political Insanity’ http://www.counterpunch.com/whitney01122009.html January 12, 2009).

The views of Matthew Wagner.
"All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Eliyahu ruled that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings. The letter, published in Olam Katan [Small World], a weekly pamphlet to be distributed in synagogues nationwide this Friday, cited the biblical story of the Shechem massacre (Genesis 34) and Maimonides' commentary (Laws of Kings 9, 14) on the story as proof texts for his legal decision. According to Jewish war ethics, wrote Eliyahu, an entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals. In Gaza, the entire populace is responsible because they do nothing to stop the firing of Kassam rockets. The former chief rabbi also said it was forbidden to risk the lives of Jews in Sderot or the lives of IDF soldiers for fear of injuring or killing Palestinian noncombatants living in Gaza. Eliyahu could not be reached for an interview. However, Eliyahu's son, Shmuel Eliyahu, who is chief rabbi of Safed, said his father opposed a ground troop incursion into Gaza that would endanger IDF soldiers. Rather, he advocated carpet bombing the general area from which the Kassams were launched, regardless of the price in Palestinian life. "If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand," said Shmuel Eliyahu. "And if they do not stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop." In the letter, Eliyahu quoted from Psalms. "I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them and I will not desist until I have eradicated them." Eliyahu wrote that "This is a message to all leaders of the Jewish people not to be compassionate with those who shoot [rockets] at civilians in their houses."" (Matthew Wagner ‘Eliyahu advocates carpet bombing Gaza’ http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527966693&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull May 30, 2007).

Eliyahu, Shmuel.
The views of Saul Landau.
"Compare the thugs who put Ross in the hospital to the words of Mordechai Eliyahu, former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel and key spiritual guide for Israeli settlers in Palestinian territory. In early June, he wrote to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. He offered his decree: having compassion with the civilian population of Gaza is incompatible with protecting Israeli soldiers' lives. Those holding supposedly humane feelings imperil Israeli lives. The rabbi's son, Shmuel, interpreted this decree: "if killing 100 Arabs is not sufficient to stop the launching of Qassam rockets at Israel, then 1,000 must be killed. And if that is not sufficient, then 10,000, and 100,000 and even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop." Eliyahu claimed that "all civilians living in Gaza" are "collectively guilty for Qassam attacks on Sderot" and that "there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket launchings." Journalist Avnery found the letter in Olam Katan [Small World], "a weekly pamphlet to be distributed in synagogues nationwide. Eliyahu wrote that "This is a message to all leaders of the Jewish people not to be compassionate with those who shoot [rockets] at civilians in their houses." Eliyahu's son, Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Safed, said his father "advocated carpet bombing the general area from which the Qassams were launched, regardless of the price in Palestinian life." (Avnery, Gush Shalom, June 9, 2007)." (Saul Landau ‘Meet the New Goliath: Israel is Bad for Jewish Ethics’ http://www.counterpunch.org/landau06302007.html June 30/July 1, 2007).

Eisenkot, Gadi.
See Halutz, Dan.

Galant, Yoav.
See Halutz, Dan.

Gvir, Itamar Ben.
See Ari, Michael Ben.

Halutz, Dan.
The views of Jonathan Cook.
"This is known as the "Dahiya Doctrine", named after a suburb of Beirut that was almost levelled during Israel’s attack on Lebanon in summer 2006. The doctrine was encapsulated in a phrase used by Dan Halutz, Israel’s chief of staff, at the time. He said Lebanon’s bombardment would "turn back the clock 20 years". The commanding officer in Israel’s south, Yoav Galant, echoed those sentiments on the Gaza offensive’s first day: the aim, he said, was to "send Gaza decades into the past". Beyond these soundbites, Gadi Eisenkot, the head of Israel’s northern command, clarified in October the practical aspects of the strategy: "What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on. We will apply disproportionate force on it and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases. This is not a recommendation. This is a plan." In the interview, Gen Eisenkot was discussing the next round of hostilities with Hizbollah. However, the doctrine was intended for use in Gaza, too." (Jonathan Cook ‘Bombs Meant to "Send Gaza Back Decades": Israel's Doctrine of Destruction’ http://www.counterpunch.com/cook01202009.html January 20, 2009).

Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi.
The views of Saree Makdisi.
"Israel's methodical actions make it clear that it is systematically grinding down and now actually starving people for whose welfare it is legally accountable simply because it regards Gaza's 1.5 million men, women and children as a surplus population it would, quite simply, like to get rid of one way or the other: a sentiment made quite clear when Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi proposed, shortly after the current crisis began, that the entire Palestinian population of Gaza should just be removed and transferred to the Egyptian desert. "They will have a nice country, and we shall have our country and we shall live in peace," he said, without eliciting even a murmur of protest in Israel." (Saree Makdisi ‘Abbas Must Be Called to Account: Strangling Gaza’ http://www.counterpunch.org/makdisi02042008.html February 4, 2008).

Jager, Elliot.
The views of Philip Weiss.
"Elliot Jager, editorial page editor of The Jerusalem Post, talking to the New York Times: "This is a just war and we don’t feel guilty when civilians we don’t intend to hurt get hurt, because we feel Hamas uses these civilians as human shields. We do feel bad about it, but we don’t feel guilty. The most ethical moral imperative is for Israel to prevail in this conflict over an immoral Islamist philosophy. It is a zero sum conflict. That is what is not understood outside this country." (Philip Weiss ‘In their own words’ http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/01/in-th.html January 12, 2009).

Levi, Rabbi.
The views of Franklin Lamb.
"Why would Israel accept such an agreement? Especially given the racist views of so many leaders in Israel who over the years have vilified Arabs and Muslims as 'cockroaches, thugs, and animals and are worth nothing? (The 2006 statement of MK Rabbi Levi comes to mind: "One Jewish fingernail is worth more than one million Arabs")." (Franklin Lamb ‘The Approaching Prisoner Exchange: The Edginess of Lebanon’ http://www.counterpunch.org/lamb07032007.html July 3, 2007).

Lieberman, Avigdor.
The views of Uri Avnery.
"The spin managers of Olmert and Peretz try to calm us down. What's so special about Liberman, they ask us. So he advocates Transfer, the expulsion of the Arab citizens from Israel. He threatened to destroy Egypt by blowing up the Aswan Dam. He demanded the execution of the Israeli Arab Knesset members for meeting with Syrian and Hamas leaders. So what? Rehavam Ze'evi, whose memory was honored this week by a special commemoration session of the Knesset, proposed ethnic cleansing, and General Effi Eytam, the chief of the National Union party, uses similar language. The Liberman party is quite different from the fictitious Kadima Party and the decomposing Labor Party. It is organized on military lines, with Liberman as its one, unquestioned leader. This week he (amir peretz) also violated his undertaking not to sit in a government that includes Avigdor Liberman. Almost all the Labor Party ministers are partners to this blatant betrayal, with the honorable exception Ofir Pines-Paz, who has resigned. (Four of his colleagues in the Labor Party, including Ehud Barak, are competing to take his place). The betrayal of the Labor Party could have been expected. Amir Peretz did indeed swear that he would never sit in a government with Liberman, but in order to remain a minister he is quite prepared to sell his principles. No great outcry could be expected from Meretz either, after Yossi Beilin had his well publicized breakfast with Liberman and heaped praise on him and his herrings." (Uri Avnery ‘Lieberman and the Decline of Israeli Democracy’ http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery11022006.html November 2, 2006).

The views of Mel Frykberg.
"Avigdor Lieberman, a right-wing Israeli politician, suggested on Tuesday at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University that extreme measures were needed against Hamas. "We must continue to fight Hamas just like the United States did with the Japanese in World War II," Lieberman said. The Israeli media quoted him as saying that the U.S. nuclear strikes on Japan had rendered an "occupation of the country unnecessary."" (Mel Frykberg ‘Anger Begins to Knock at Israel's Borders’ http://www.antiwar.com/ips/frykberg.php?articleid=14062 January 14, 2009).

Livni, Tzipi.
"Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday that the future of Israel's Arab citizens was in a future Palestinian state to be established in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 'My solution (for preserving Israel as a Jewish and a democratic state) is to establish two nation states with certain concessions and with clear red lines,' Livni, who heads Israel's ruling, centrist Kadima party, told high-school pupils in Tel Aviv. 'So I could also come to Israel's Palestinian citizens, those whom we call Arab Israelis and tell them: 'Your national solution is somewhere else.'' The idea of moving Israel's Arab citizens or the areas in which they live to the future Palestinian state is regarded as highly controversial in Israel and her remark was thought to be the first time Livni has spoken publicly in favour of it." (‘Livni: Future of Israel's Arabs is in Palestinian state’ http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1447786.php/Livni_Future_of_Israels_Arabs_is_in_Palestinian_state__Extra__ December 11, 2008).

Olmert, Ehud.
See Dichter, Avi.

Marzel, Baruch.
See Ari, Michael Ben.

Morris, Benny.
The views of Stephen Lendman.
"The small 150,000 Israeli Arab population in 1948 now numbers 1.5 million, and historian Benny Morris calls it a "time bomb" needing decisive action to defuse. His solution is mass expulsion. Israelis call it "transfer." World ethicists call it "ethnic cleansing." International law experts call it illegal." (Stephen Lendman ‘Jonathan Cook's "Blood and Religion"’ http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/03/jonathan-cooks-blood-and-religion.html March 27, 2008).

The views of Kathleen Christison.
Benny Morris … "this paragon of dispassionate Israeli scholarship had expostulated in an interview published in Ha’aretz on the benefits (if you’re Jewish) of ethnic cleansing, the critical miscalculation of David Ben-Gurion in not having completed the total ethnic cleansing of Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River in 1948 when he had a chance, and the barbarity of Arab and Muslim culture. "The Arab world as it is today is barbarian," Morris declared. Islamic and Arab culture is "a world in which human life doesn’t have the same value as it does in the West," in which freedom and democracy are alien, in which there are "no moral inhibitions." He was speaking in sweeping terms, of entire cultures, of the mass of individuals in the Arab and the Muslim worlds, not merely of governments that are oppressive or undemocratic. Palestinians in particular, Morris believes, are barbaric, "a very sick society," and should be treated "the way we treat individuals who are serial killers. . . . Something like a cage has to be built for them. Morris’s blunt soul-bearing has lifted the last barrier of propriety to the open expression of raw Arab hatred. One longs for some gigantic outcry of opposition or disgust over this confession of deep bigotry, but there has been none. Except for a few letters to the editor of Ha’aretz from American Jews, the interview has aroused little attention in the Jewish-American community: no denunciation, no shock, little or no discussion on any but the most progressive Jewish e-mail lists. You have to assume that, however awkward Morris’s blunt language may be, he is speaking for a large segment of American Jews who say they oppose the occupation, say they hate Sharon, say they hate Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians, but who do nothing about any of these things and who in the end would not grieve, either for the Palestinians or for the Jewish soul, if Israel wiped the Palestinians off the map."" (Kathleen Christison ‘American Jewish sensitivities to criticism of Israel’ http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/02/1676420.php February 07, 2004).

The views of Henry Siegman.
"In the months of April-May 1948, units of the Haganah were given operational orders that stated explicitly that they were to uproot the villagers, expel them, and destroy the villages themselves.’ In a number of Palestinian villages and towns the IDF carried out organised executions of civilians. Asked by Ha’aretz whether he condemned the ethnic cleansing, Morris replied that he did not: "A Jewish state would not have come into being without the uprooting of 700,000 Palestinians. Therefore it was necessary to uproot them. There was no choice but to expel that population. It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland and cleanse the border areas and cleanse the main roads. It was necessary to cleanse the villages from which our convoys and our settlements were fired on."" (Henry Siegman ‘Israel’s Lies’ http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n02/sieg01_.html January15, 2009).

Netanyahu, Benjamin.
The views of Yaakov Lappin.
"The opposition leaders compared Iran's President Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler, saying, "A year ago, I said we are in 1938, and Iran is Germany. Well, it's 1939 now. Hitler first embarked on a world conflict, and then attempted to gain weapons of mass death. Ahmadinejad is going about it in the reverse order. And in the intermediate period, he is using proxies... while waiting until the nuclear program is complete," Netanyahu warned." (Yaakov Lappin ‘Netanyahu: We're in 1939’ http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3448033,00.html September 10, 2007).

The views of Roni Arison.
There is something truly psychotic about someone who condemns his enemies for something his side has just done. "SAFA ABU SEIF, 12, was fatally wounded as she stood in an upstairs room of her home in the Gaza City district of Jabaliya 10 days ago. She was one of 27 children identified by United Nations staff among the 107 Palestinians who were killed in five days last week. Another 25 dead, including five women, were identified as unarmed non-combatants. The status of 13 more dead victims could not be determined. At least three of the children were reportedly shot in their homes by Israeli small arms or sniper fire." (Ed O'loughlin ‘How Israeli Troops Invade Homes in Gaza, Brutalize, Smash and Steal’ http://www.counterpunch.com/oloughlin03112008.html March 11, 2008). Less than a week later netanyahu was arguing. "For a person to smash a baby's skull he needs to be brainwashed. This is what happened in the Nazi movements, the Islamist movements and the Communist movements at the time," he stated during a conference at Bar Ilan University commemorating 100 years since the birth of Lehi leader Avraham (Yair) Stern." (Roni Arison ‘Bibi: Terrorists' propaganda reminiscent of Nazis'’ http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3517325,00.html March 10, 2008).

The views of Uri Avnery.
"But it is impossible to ignore the main significance of this choice: Netanyahu symbolizes total opposition to peace, opposition to giving back the occupied territories, to the freezing of the settlements, and to a Palestinian state." (Uri Avnery ‘Ms. Tantalus' Choice’ http://www.antiwar.com/avnery/?articleid=14253 February 16, 2009).

Ronsky, Avichai.
The views of Uri Avnery.
"In the last decades, the state-financed religious educational system has churned out "rabbis" who are more like medieval Christian priests than the Jewish sages of Poland or Morocco. This system indoctrinates its pupils with a violent tribal cult, totally ethnocentric, which sees in the whole of world history nothing but an endless story of Jewish victimhood. This is a religion of a Chosen People, indifferent to others, a religion without compassion for anyone who is not Jewish, which glorifies the God-decreed genocide described in the Biblical book of Joshua. The products of this education are now the "rabbis" who instruct the religious youths. With their encouragement, a systematic effort has been made to take over the Israeli army from within. Kippa-wearing officers have replaced the kibbutzniks, who not so long ago were dominant in the army. Many of the lower and middle-ranking officers now belong to this group. The most outstanding example is the "chief army rabbi," Col. Avichai Ronsky, who has declared that his job is to reinforce the "fighting spirit" of the soldiers. He is a man of the extreme Right, not far from the spirit of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose party was outlawed in Israel for its fascist ideology. Under the auspices of the army rabbinate, religious-fascist brochures of the ultra-Right "rabbis" were distributed to the soldiers. This material includes political incitement, such as the statement that the Jewish religion prohibits "giving up even one millimeter of Eretz Israel," that the Palestinians, like the Biblical Philistines (from whom the name Palestine derives), are a foreign people who invaded the country, and that any compromise (such as indicated in the official government program) is a mortal sin. The distribution of political propaganda violates, of course, army law. The rabbis openly called upon the soldiers to be cruel and merciless toward the Arabs. To treat them mercifully, they stated, is a "terrible, awful immorality." When such material is distributed to religious soldiers going into war, it is easy to see why things happened the way they did." (Uri Avnery ‘The Black Flag Is Waving’ http://www.antiwar.com/avnery/?articleid=14176 February 2, 2009).

Shapira, Ya’akov.
The views of Khalid Amayreh.
"Meanwhile, a prominent rabbi has once again called the Palestinians Amalekites, which the Bible says "must be destroyed" and "wiped out from the face of earth." Amalekites were members of an ancient nomadic people of ancient Palestine which the Bible says were descendants of Esau's grandson, Amalek. The Rabbi, Ya’akov Shapira, who is also the current Director of Merkaz Ha’rav, suggested that all Palestinians would have to be exterminated. "The murderers are the Amalekites of our day, coming to remind us that Amalekites have not disappeared, just changed their appearance," the rabbi was quoted as saying." (Khalid Amayreh ‘Soldiers (not innocent students) killed at settler center’ http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7xuuuYm7oomTPYJk4BeOWi9mLJClAaA63K5veXEh2NaO3xfRKU1H1tafb1RMerIE1CDIHjC9ZHY6M009NrGmnxpzZRGkXe%2b%2fS%2f2aYKRl62IM%3d March 08, 2008).

Soffer, Arnon.
The views of Saree Makdisi.
"Listen to the words of Professor Arnon Sofer, the government consultant who did so much to help plan the isolation and imprisonment of Gaza, in a interview with the Jerusalem Post in 2004: "When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe," Sofer predicted. "Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure on the border is going to be awful. It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day." Sofer admitted only one worry with all the killing, which will, he says, be the necessary outcome of a policy that he himself helped to invent. "The only thing that concerns me," he says, "is how to ensure that the boys and men who are going to have to do the killing will be able to return home to their families and be normal human beings."" (Saree Makdisi ‘Despite the Bloodshed, Israel is Failing: What Kind of Security Will This Barbarism Bring Israel?’ http://www.counterpunch.org/makdisi01072009.html January 7, 2009).

The views of John J. Mearsheimer.
"Arnon Soffer, a prominent Israeli demographer who also advised Sharon, elaborated on what that pressure would look like. "When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe. Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure at the border will be awful. It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day."" (John J. Mearsheimer ‘Another War, Another Defeat’ http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/jan/26/00006/ January 26, 2009).

Vilnai, Matan. Inflict a holocaust on the Palestinians.
Media Report.
"Israeli leaders are warning of an imminent conflagration in Gaza after Palestinian militants aimed rockets at the southern city of Ashkelon. The deputy defence minister said the stepped-up rocket fire would trigger what he called a "bigger holocaust" in the Hamas-controlled coastal strip. Israeli air strikes have killed about 30 Palestinians, including six children in the past two days. Israel has activated its early warning system in Ashkelon for the first time. "The more [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves," Matan Vilnai told Israeli army radio. Correspondents say the "holocaust" is a term rarely used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi genocide during World War II." (‘Israel warns of Gaza 'holocaust'’ http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/102686/diff/1/2 February 29 2008).

Yeshai, Eli.
The views of Khalid Amayreh.
"On Tuesday, 6 January, one Israeli official, Eli Yeshai, called for the total extermination of Gaza. The leader of the ultra Orthodox Shas party argued that "extermination of the enemy is sanctioned by the Torah." Other Israeli political and religious leaders have lately spoken enthusiastically of the need for "wiping off Gaza from the face of earth" and "annihilating of every moving thing there." Interestingly, this is by no means a minority opinion in Israel. Indeed, one could safely argue that the "ideology of annihilation" now represents the mainstream in the Israeli society." (Khalid Amayreh ‘A Satanic Genocidal Israel’ http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/a-satanic-genocidal-israel/ January 07, 2009).

The views of Sheera Frenkel and James Hider.
"Eli Yishai, the Finance Minister and head of the ultra-Orthodox religious party Shas, said that Israel should have kept fighting until Hamas was destroyed. "Now Hamas will rebuild its infrastructure with Iranian money and then they will resume the smuggling and continue firing at Israel. We should have finished the job, pull out the ground forces and continue striking from the air. "We should have hit thousands more houses and reached a point in which they don’t dare shoot at Israel ever again."" (Sheera Frenkel and James Hider ‘Burns victim vows to be suicide bomber while Israelis ask: 'Was it all worth it?'’ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5567396.ece January 23, 2009).

Ze’evi, Rehavam (Ze'evi, Rehava'am).
The views of Henry Siegman.
"Over the years, some cabinet members, Rehavam Ze’evi, Rafael Eitan, Effi Eitam and Avigdor Lieberman, for example, have openly advocated ‘transfer’, a euphemism for ethnic cleansing." (Henry Siegman ‘Grab more hills, expand the territory’ http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n07/sieg01_.html April 04, 2008).

The views of Stephen Lendman.
"More extreme notions were also heard from extremists like former general, Sharon Tourism Minister, and outspoken racist, Rehava'am Ze'evi. He advocated "transfer(ing)" Palestinians to other Arab states and remove them by state-imposed policies of economic hardship, unemployment and restrictions of land, water and other essential services. Two other times he was more extreme. In a 2001 radio interview, he referred to Palestinians as a "cancer (and) We should get rid of the ones who are not Israeli citizens the same way you get rid of lice, but he topped that one in 1990 after Saddam invaded Kuwait. Then he advocated expulsion to Jordan where they could be human shields if Iraq attacked Israel." (Stephen Lendman ‘Jonathan Cook's "Blood and Religion"’ http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/03/jonathan-cooks-blood-and-religion.html March 27, 2008).