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The REAL Reason Israel Attacked Syria (by StormCloudsGathering)
‘There is much more to Israel’s recent attacks on Syria than we are being told by the mainstream media.’
Is there a joint effort between Israel, USA and NATO to create a reason to enter Syria?
The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials tell CNN.WORLD WAR III SOON, FRIENDS
BRB, buying ammo, water and MREs.
Kidding.
Kinda.
Okay, maybe I’m kidding but I probably shouldn’t be kidding.
Shit’s crazy.
CRAZY.
— Jewish writer Isaac Asimov (via exposingthetruths)
A similar argument can be made for the Armenians and for the Ararat Mountain region which many Armenians still fight for and claim was stolen by the Ottomans.
(via byulibertarian)
الذي لا تراه عن غزة في الأعلام - What you don’t see in media about Gaza (by Mohammad Issa)
This is insane. Can you imagine growing up like this? Scarred for life.
(via thefreelioness)
Mohammed al-Khoudry, a Palestinian farmer
133 Palestinians and 5 Israelis have been killed in the latest round of violence which started on Wednesday after Israeli soldiers shot Palestinian boys while they were playing soccer, one of whom was 13-year-old Hamid Younis Abu Daqqa. At least 27 of the dead were babies and children.
One Israeli strike on Sunday killed 12 Palestinians in the same house: four small children and five women including an 80-year-old all from the same family were among the dead [graphic].
(via israelfacts)
(via anarcho-queer)
A rebloggable version of my Israeli-Palestinian relations post.
boobysteels asked: Could you explain the issue at hand in the Israel & Palestine conflict?
Sure.
There was once a time when the Israelite tribes controlled the land that is now known as Israel and Palestine/Gaza. Throughout time, different tribes and nations have come to seize control over this land through various means.
And then came Zionism. Jews began to resettle their ancient lands, which were, at that time, a part of Syria. Most of these Jewish settlers were from Russia. At the time 1904-, Russia was persecuting Jews and this was a movement to save their own lives.
And then came WWI and with it the British and US government allied with the Zionists in a power struggle with the ottoman Turks. This relationship would be one of the most important alliances in modern history and perhaps in all of human history.
Then came WWII and Hitler’s Holocaust of the Jewish people in Nazi controlled Europe. Both during and right after WWII, Jewish people began to immigrate to the Palestine, which was a British territory at the time (Common thread in all major lands of conflicts, they were mostly all at one time British territories.). The massive “illegal” immigration became a problem for Britain. They called on the newly formed UN to solve the issue. And in 1947, the UN thought they solved the problem by implementing “The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine”, where the UN took land from Palestinians and gave it to Jews to create a new state which was to be named Israel, but that was rejected and civil war broke out.
And this is when the new wars of the region began.
Majority of the Arab/Muslim states decided to march into the British land and fight off the new settlers in the Arab-Israeli War. This actually unified the state of Israel and helped produce what we call the IDF today.
Out of the fighting emerged a few new states; Israel, who declared independence, Jordan, who also declared themselves a separate state from Palestine and Israel, and what we call Palestine today.
Israel was given a country in a region that has been fought over since before the bible and probably since the dawn of time. The UN basically ignored all of history, where Jews, Muslims and Christians spilled endless blood and lost countless lives over this very land, and decided to systematically create a state because they were the UN and they could do it. Basically a brass-check by the UN.
This problem was only escalated when the Zionist movement decided that the partition that they were granted was not enough and expansion of the Israeli state began, backed by both financial and military support by America and her allies.
Overtime, Israel has taken more and more land from the Palestinians and gone as far as building giant walls around the West bank. Here’s a fun map:
Skipping a lot of violent history here, but it’s all pretty much the same; Muslims and Israelis dying due to their governments fighting over land and power. That’s the history of humanity in a nutshell.
The aggression by the Israeli government forced the Palestinians to resort to a more violent representation. From Israeli persecution came movements such as the PLO and Hamas. This is what happens when you oppress people. The same type of oppression gave birth to the Nazi movement in Germany. When people see no other way out of a situation, they resort to violence.
I don’t support Hamas in anyway. They feed on people’s fears in order to capture power in the region. They operate from civilian zones and hide in plain site by intermingling with the Palestinians. There is no possible way of defeating such an enemy without killing innocent civilians.
Yet Hamas’ violence is match for the big guns of the IDF, just check the numbers. Since 2006, 2,400+ Palestinians have been killed by Israelis and 47 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians. Don’t want to discount any single life, but you can see why Palestinians are willing to let a violent organization like Hamas run the show.
Today, no one even really cares why they fight or how the intervention of the UN only accelerated the conflict and how the backing by super powers such as the US and UK keep Israel armed to the teeth and able to oppress the Palestinians. Not taking anyone’s side here as all violence against humans is wrong, just the facts.
So, what’s the lesson here? Violence will always breed more violence. It’s the only end from those means.
(CNN) — In the digital age, war isn’t contained to the ground.
The Israeli government on Sunday said it has been hit with more than 44 million cyberattacks since it began aerial strikes on Gaza last week. Anonymous, the hacker collective, claimed responsibility for taking down some sites and leaking passwords because of what it calls Israel’s “barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment” of Palestinians.
“The war is being fought on three fronts,” Carmela Avner, Israel’s chief information officer, said on Sunday in a press release. “The first is physical, the second is the world of social networks and the third is cyberattacks.
“The attackers are attempting to harm the accessibility of Israel’s government websites on an ongoing basis. When events like the current operation occur, this sector heats up and we see increased activity. Therefore, at this time, defending the governmental computer systems is of invaluable importance.”
Israel and the military wing of Hamas have been criticized for using ready-to-share images on social media to spread spin about the conflict, which has claimed the lives of about 100 Palestinians and three Israelis since the back-and-forth violence began again Wednesday.
There is some dispute about the effectiveness of the cyberattacks.
Israel says the attacks have largely been unsuccessful.
“We are reaping the fruits on the investment in recent years in the development of computerized defense systems, but we have a lot of work in store for us,” Israel’s finance minister, Yuval Steinitz, said in a written statement.
Reuters quotes him as saying only one website was down for 10 minutes.
CNN iReport: Instagram users wage peace in Israel
Anonymous, meanwhile, posted a list of more than 650 Israel-based websites it says it has taken down or defaced since last week.
“They’ve knocked down websites, deleted databases and have leaked e-mail addresses and passwords,” Casey Chan wrote Friday for the tech site Gizmodo. “It’s a whopping takedown.”
A post on an Anonymous Twitter feed Monday morning said another set of hackers had defaced the Israeli versions of several Microsoft websites, including Bing, MSN and Skype. Visitors to Bing’s Israeli site on Monday morning saw an anti-Israel rant instead of a search-engine homepage.
“Microsoft is aware of the site defacements and working to get all sites fully functional,” a company spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to CNN. “At present, we have seen no evidence to suggest the compromise of customer information but will take action to help protect customers as necessary.”
A page associated with Anonymous also posted a new threat: “November 2012 will be a month to remember for the (Israel Defense Forces) and Internet security forces. Israeli Gov. this is/will turn into a cyberwar.”
Some observers took this as a sign of an escalating digital battle.
“Beyond mere ‘denial of service’ tactics that blocked sites with floods of junk data, the hackers also ramped up their attacks to penetrations of any vulnerable target available to them, resulting in tens of thousands of Israeli citizens’ and supporters’ private data dumped onto the Web,”wrote Andy Greenberg from Forbes.
Others said most of Anonymous’ threats have been “hollow” so far.
“Today, Anon lacks the talent and semi-cohesion it once boasted across the net, and its most recent online crusade is an embarrassing reminder,” Sam Biddle wrote for Gizmodo on Monday. “This is less a war than the hacker equivalent of egging someone’s house and then smoking weed behind a Denny’s.”
The group is calling its campaign #OpIsrael.
“While the Israeli government almost certainly has backups of the aformentioned databases, these attacks as well as the defacements show Anonymous isn’t just doing its usual spree of overloading target sites,” writes another tech blog, TheNextWeb.
“OpIsrael appears to have gotten multiple hackers involved who are interested in doing actual damage, or at least something that is slightly more permanent than just a 404,” which is the code that appears online when a website won’t load.
Greenberg, from Forbes, makes the important point that none of this digital damage compares to the loss of life on the ground in the Middle East.
“Anonymous’ attacks, of course, hardly register compared with the physical damage inflicted by both sides in the Gaza conflict,” he wrote.
(via ernestsewell)
