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Enemies Within the Gate – Police Corruption – Infiltration & Subversion – Trade Not Aid

Preface – Below you will read of DC Paul Harry of the Swansea Police, the man who falsely arrested me on November 2, 2011. This statement is being sent directly to him, as well as his immediate superior, Detective Inspector Darren George, Professional Standards of Swansea Police, the Independent Police Complaints Commission and of course many others in the independent media realm and law.

Infiltration & the Erosion of Trust

There is something admirable about an honest enemy; I rather respect people who at the least state very clearly who they are and what they stand for. Even if their views are morally repugnant, I still maintain a level of respect for the honest yet offensive opponent. The liar on the other hand, that is a different matter. The liar might be and often is the “nicest person you could ever want to know”, but an honest jerk is much better in my book than a lying “friend”, or as it is in my case, lying “volunteers”.

In my view the liar, fraudster, infiltrator and collaborator is the most vile of them all… and make no mistake, they are everywhere in this so-called “movement” of ours.

‘They show how Special Branch penetrated the (anti-Apartheid) movement from top to bottom, infiltrating meetings, recruiting informers and obtaining documents. Officers snooped on leaders including MPs, two of whom are now Labour ministers. Police spies slipped into meetings of local groups which were attended by as few as five genuine campaigners.’ – The Guardian (‘Documents show how Special Branch infiltrated Anti-Apartheid Movement’)

One of the most insidious aspects of infiltration is the erosion of trust. Think of it this way, how can a “movement” get meaningful work done when the people who comprise it and the leaders leading it cannot trust each other? The answer of course is work becomes difficult at best, and such our movement for a better world, all too often stumbling along with one setback after another. It is like this that the end goal of the powers that be is maintained, and that is the status quo of course.

And so it is that an activist leader like myself invariably will have more personal contact with devils posing as friends/volunteers then most can imagine, this is the nature of the game. I know this so very well, I understand how infiltration works, but with limited resources and big goals you have to be able to trust, and if you can’t, you really need to get out of activism. And in all honesty, I am probably more valuable in other ways. But I am not a quitter, I like to finish what I start, and I remain fully capable of trust, my faith in humanity will not be destroyed, absolutely not, I know far too many beautiful people. And for sure, the Samouni Project and the Trade Not Aid Mission must and will move forward.

But my purpose in this statement is to shed light on what has happened with the Trade Not Aid Mission so as to enlighten people in the tactical use of infiltration and subversion, a tactic I consider the most effective tool for the powers that be to quell the progress of virtually every social movement. But before we get into that…

The Head of the Snake

Let us start at the root level; let us address the “Head of the Snake” as it were. Let us understand the so-called financial system. The financial system denotes a system run by a tiny minority of the individuals who are undoubtedly the greatest fraudsters and financial terrorists in human existence. They have managed through treasonous “public servants” to acquire the ability to ‘legally’ print fiat money, to print money out of thin air. Furthermore, since their money is inherently debt generating, we all, the people, the 99%, we become enslave by debt. Entire nations are in debt, the vast majority of people are in debt, and we are in debt to the richest of the rich, the greatest fraudsters and thieves to ever walk this planet.

Think about that next time the prostitutes of propaganda talk about “the debt”, because it is that debt which essentially says all the working class people have not worked hard enough, no, no, we all owe the Rothschilds and their ilk more money, trillions and trillions to be more precise. They are in the most incredible way mocking us. And in a way I respect them, I mean, if we the masses are so incredibly stupid as to allow this tiny minority to get away with it, I reckon we are more pathetic then them. Nonetheless, if there is one priority in the creation of a better world, it is the absolute destruction of this system and justice for those who have conspired to protect and maintain it.

“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes her laws.” - Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Private control of the money supply is ultimate Earthly power, and it is that kind of power the bankster families have wielded for centuries, with devastating affects. All we need to know about the corruption and endless war humanity has been locked within can be understood by understanding this simple, fraudulent system. The ‘Money Masters’ are behind almost every war you can cite, usually investing in all sides. Their scam inherently encourages and manipulates never-ending wars, while providing the added benefit of dividing the people.

It is in this context that we find the most vile, bloodthirsty and sociopathic rising to the highest levels of power, below the Money Masters of course, while people of honour and integrity are punished, imprisoned, framed and often murdered.

Make no mistake, so long as we allow the banksters to continue this madness we the people will be victimised by it. The banksters can outspend the good people of the world a billion to one. For them money is not even paper, it is zeros added to bank accounts from the offices of Goldman Sachs and Barclays and all the rest of them. This system buys every last person that can be bought, so when you look at the top of the pyramids in politics, media, corporations, law enforcement, intelligence services, and yes, even within charities and social movements, eventually this system co-opts and corrupts every thing that can be corrupted.

Wolf in Sheep's clothing

This is the method for achieving controlled opposition, it wears the face of the sheep, but behind its mask it is indeed the wolf.

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” - Vladimir Lenin

If you fail to understand this reality, you will have no clue at all of how the world truly functions. It is the ignorance of this reality that preserves its existence and maintains the tyranny that threatens to climax in the form of full scale World War III and nuclear Armageddon. Simply put, the stakes could not be any higher.

Support for Palestine = Contempt from the Powers That Be

Now if you want to effect justice in this world, especially in Palestine, and you are making any real progress in this area, you better be prepared for what will come. I have prepared myself as best one can for any consequence.

In order to repel the temptation of the honey trap or material wealth you will need to be beyond the pursuit of material wealth. Such people, those who is not addicted to material pleasures, they simply cannot be bought. I am such a person, I actually want the entire system abolished so that everyone will have what they need, I will not fight for the crumbs that the banksters and their minions brush of their parasitical dining table. By western standards and with this mentality I am in financial terms a poor man, but in real terms I am blessed with riches that money can never buy.

I believe this is why the powers that be have not tried to buy me; they have done their personality profile and concluded that I am indeed one of those who cannot be bought. When you see me driving a flash car and/or reversing myself of who is responsible for 911, this will be your first clue I have been corrupted. But don’t hold your breath, I intend to die with my integrity intact and even if I am effectively framed for a crime I did not commit, the truth remains in the all knowing wisdom of the universe and if I am to face my maker I will have nothing whatsoever to fear. I am not alone in this way of thinking, far from it, and it is such people that are impossible to control.

I know the game, and I shall deal with it and face it with the most powerful weapon of all, the truth.

Although my life did not begin on the Mavi Maramara, the humanitarian ship attacked in international waters by Israeli pirates in which 9 good people were murdered/executed, it was the aftermath of my role on the Mavi Maramara where my position as a first class enemy of the powers that be was cemented. It was from that time on that the tactic of slander was increasingly employed against me.

Slander & the ‘Terrorist’ Tag

In the aftermath of the Mavi Marmara and upon my release from Israeli jail and subsequent deportation to Turkey, the Israeli Defence (Offence) Forces issued a press release stating that I was an ‘operative of the Hamas Terror organization’ and that I was going to Gaza ‘in order to form and train a commando unit for the Palestinian terror organization’. Well you know you hit the big time as a humanitarian in this Orwellian world of ours when the greatest terrorists on the planet are calling you a terrorist. I am proud to share the company of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Nelson Mandela and countless others falsely labelled as terrorists simply because we refused to bow to tyranny and suckle from the tit of corruption.

In 2011 the honour was elevated when Rep. Gus Bilirakis of the United States Congress introduced a bill that links me to ‘Al Qaeda’. As Mayer Amshel Rothschild so arrogantly but all too rightly implied, the lawmakers are nothing more than minions. What more incredible display of that do we have then the last speech of Netanyahu at the United States Congress in which he received no less than 29 standing ovations.

Enemy Within the Gates

If ever there were an example of a “democratic” nation bending over, grabbing its heels, and taking it where the sun don’t shine it is in the spectacle of my birth nation, the good ole US of A, in full blown self-destruct mode. These bootlicking Chickenhawks in the US Congress mock every red-blooded American Patriot, it is way beyond embarrassment, it is treason that spans decades and which is on hyper display today. It is infiltration in full bloom; it is the enemy within the gate.

“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams

The US Congress epitomises the last stages of Empire in decline, awash with decadence, exuding corruption, detached from reality and drunk on its own fraud-based power. It is the perfect display of what powers the Money Masters have over those who lust for money. If it can have this affect on people in such high levels, what affect can the powers that be have on the street criminal?

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

The UK government is no different from the US Congress, they are just a little bit more experienced and thus know a thing or two about how to avoid being seen as bought and paid for. While the idiot Yanks in Congress are on full display with their obsequiousness, the British/European political counterparts get to play the “civilized” role. And in terms of real power, London houses more high-level fraudsters and thieves and terrorists than any city on planet Earth. And the UK Parliament is a direct extension of this power gone mad, all the while looking oh so ‘civilised’.

“All the world’s a stage,” – William Shakespeare

And below them we have the various branches of government and all too importantly, the physical arms of the powers that be in the so-called “intelligence” services, the military and the police.

“My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.” – Smedley Butler

Who Rises to the Top?

So we have the bankster families (powers that be) at the top of the pyramid, and these powers seek out and reward people with very specific qualities, the best of which will occupy the top levels of every institution that serves them. Regardless of the actual position, the essential quality sought by the powers that be for their legions of minions is a lust for money and power, for material wealth, often times fueled by sexual desires and perversions. These are the hallmarks of a person with a low level development, like so-called “primitive man”, these lot are motivated by food and sex. Today that manifests in the form of money and power. If you want the true qualifications for “stature” and “fame” and so on in this collectively insane world that is run by psycho/sociopaths, these base qualities are it.

So when we look at the world and all our so-called “leaders” what we will see is a large collection of hand selected sociopaths charged with maintaining the system. Morals and integrity are repugnant in such a system, although you always have some groomed actors who play the integrity role when needed. Colin Powell’s UN speech that sold the invasion of Iraq to the easily duped is a classic example.

Stupid is as Stupid Does

Almost all of these people have been thoroughly brain washed in so-called “higher learning” institutions, indeed the dumbest of the dumb are graduates of Harvard and Yale and Oxford and Cambridge. It is among these useful idiots that you find and endless supply of ‘experts’ who can educate us dumb masses about Saddam’s WMD threat and how 19 “Jihadist” hijackers armed with box cutters, lead by a man with Cocaine residue probably in his nose, possibly with a hangover, who just left the strip bar in Florida, after having sex with his stripper girlfriend, were all in turn lead by a man in a cave in Afghanistan who together managed to disable all of the mighty super powers air defences and defy the laws of physics and pull off 9-11.

It is like a bad B-movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, surely it is all one sick joke, but no, we are supposed to believe this fairy story.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, and the champions in this area are the ones rewarded by the powers that be. Don’t get me wrong, these minions can read teleprompters, many have great memories, they can articulate, they can not answer a question a million different ways and make the most simple reality a quantum physics exam.

So for sure, never, ever, lose your sense of humour. Look at this world like a reality TV show and the people are all trying to one up each other on the bullshit meter. If you do take it a little too seriously you might just seek out 18 buddies and a set of box cutters so as to vent your rage and pull a 9-11.

All this madness explains a lot about my very independent way about doing things. I simply have not found a group that I feel really right with, so I initiate my own missions, always unique, always intending to fill the void. But such goals require us to work with each other, there is clearly no other way to effect real and positive change. Thus I seek to connect with genuine people for genuine good, but humans can be incredible liars, and trusting people make for easy targets.

The Role of the Police & Intelligence Agencies

When I was last in the stolen nation of Hawaii, otherwise known (incorrectly) as the 50th State of the United States, a Special Agent of the FBI at my door, so I invited him into my mother’s home and we sat and talked for two hours or so. I did as I always do, I spoke politely and respectfully and completely honestly to this man; one of the luxuries of having no fear and nothing to hide. Furthermore, I looked at this man and I saw myself not too long ago. As a 19 year-old US Marine I believed there was honour and integrity inherently within the Marines, I was an idiot. And I was far to naïve to realise the direct contradiction in attempting to maintain personal honour while in reality serving a system of tyranny.

Nonetheless I refuse to paint all police and all military or FBI Agents with one brush, we must make distinctions between those on the ground, and those at the top. Of course you have gross corruption and violence and abuse of power at the lower levels, but many in the police and other such positions do have honour and when the big move in the last throngs of power is made by the powers that be, the ones with honour in the police and in the military will stand up. Just as they did under dictator puppet Hosni Mubarak in the face of a fearless and unrelenting Egyptian public.

Recruiting Informants/Infiltrators

Nonetheless, there is obvious and hideous corruption within the police and their systemic policies that do grave harm to society. One such trait is the use of informants and infiltrators. This is the realm of the professional liar; this is where the professional fraudster lands himself or herself the ultimate job. Here is how it works. The police, MI5, MI6, CIA, Mossad, Special Branch or any other such entity, identifies a highly skilled fraudster, but only after having caught them (or framing them if necessary) in some criminal offence that will land them a long holiday in prison. In the US such a person will likely be reminded that “unpopular” inmates can find themselves in a place whereby their heterosexual status will be involuntarily converted to homosexuality via gang rape. There are similar such threats that can be wielded against women.

It is at this point the fraudster/criminal will be “made an offer they can’t refuse.” They are given two options however;

1. A long, torturous and possibly terminal prison term.

2. Regular pay in their chosen profession (fraud), as well as police, judicial, media and government protection, in return all they have to do is some work in infiltration. Their pay and protection being contingent upon befriending people under false pretenses, providing inside information and possibly subverting social causes, sabotaging or even framing innocent people. People like me for instance.

So it is, prison and gang rape or money and protection. In this way, with virtually infinite cash and resources behind them, the powers that be have infiltrated practically every level of society, especially the “problem” sections of society such as the black community, immigrants, Asians and for sure, Muslims and Arabs. And without question, every social movement has swarms of these characters I am describing above, two-bit fraudster sociopaths with the uncommon ability to lie and the servile lust for material gain… or outright fear of the alternative. These criminals who used to fear the police now have them as backup.

‘At the centre of the latest controversy is a set of documents, obtained by the Guardian and the BBC’s Newsnight, indicating that another police spy, Jim Boyling, who lived undercover among the environmental group Reclaim the Streets, concealed his identity in a criminal trial, giving false evidence under oath about his real name.

‘The accusation that police deliberately subverted the judicial process, and at worst sanctioned perjury, prompted outrage among lawyers and parts of the judiciary and led to the last-minute postponement of a major report into undercover policing of protests by the newly appointed commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Bernard Hogan-Howe.’ – The Guardian (Met facing mounting crisis as activist spying operation unravels)

This Guardian article goes further to say;

‘All seven spies shared similar modi operandi: they appeared out of nowhere, often had access to vehicles and showed an unflinching willingness to help run the logistics of protest organisation. Unlike undercover officers who penetrate serious criminal gangs, typically for no more than a few weeks or months, agents deployed in protest organisations are authorised to spend years living double lives as campaigners.’

Although the above description is not perfect, it does so closely resemble the primary infilTRAITOR of my Trade Not Aid Mission, one Catherine Myles to be specific.

Hijacking of the Trade Not Aid Mission & Police Protection for the Hijackers

Catherine Myles

What has happened to me is I have made the grave mistake of trusting people who are all too likely assets for Special Branch. Proving this is almost impossible however, but certain types of behavior go a long way to exposing the person and their true agenda. Put simply, Catherine Myles has managed to steal, blackmail, commit fraud and pervert the course of justice right under the nose of so-called “law enforcement”.

Let me make this crystal clear, she has blatantly, provably, committed the crime of fraud, theft, blackmail and perverting the course of justice, and not a peep from the police.

“Well come on Mr. O’Keefe, give that proof to the police and they will do as the law requires!” And this is what the mind controlled person will assume, there is no part of the their programming that would allow for them believe the police and criminals are all too often one and the same.

Nonetheless I have supplied the police with all the proof required to establish that the crimes of Ms. Myles. What did the police do when I supplied this evidence to them? Well they arrested me of course… for “fraud” no less. “Fraud by False Representation” to be precise, and they did this on November 2, 2011.

Perverting the Course of Justice

The accusation used to justify my arrest is pure comedy. The claim was that I had lied to Catherine Myles, Jez Cuthbert and Cath Jenkins by saying I was the head of a “charity”, and on that basis I solicited their help in getting donations for my “charity”. Only later did they “realise” that I was in fact the Managing Director of a company, and that is when they realised they had been defrauded. They thought, so goes their fairytale, that I was the head of a “charity”, not a company, God forbid. And it was this testimony and nothing more from Catherine Myles, Jez Cuthbert and Cath Jenkins that was used to arrest me. 3 people, just 3 fraudsters, were all that it took to arrest me. Next time I will expect at least 10 such criminals. With this the police stole (seized) 9 of my hard drives, two computers, one camera, my mobile phone, and reams of documents and most perverse of all, my DNA, which was taken against my expressed will of course.

Here is the problem with this action; I had already provided verifiable and conclusive evidence to the police, all recorded of course, that Catherine Myles was;

1. A fraudster who had lied to the police on several levels.

2. A blackmailer who threatened a material witness of mine about her having stolen the vehicles of the Trade Not Aid Mission. Again all verifiable, with the witness providing a written statement and volunteering her testimony with electronic communications proving the blackmail as well. That witness was never interviewed.

3. A thief who had knowingly stolen two vehicles, a truckload of donated goods and somewhere in the area of £15,000 that were deposited directly into her account as the “accountant” for the Trade Not Aid Mission.

4. A pervert… well that to I imagine but actually that she had perverted the course of justice as well by knowingly giving false testimony to the police which directly resulted in my arrest.

So let’s get this straight, Catherine Myles was provably been shown to commit 4 serious crimes, the last of which is punishable with a life sentence, and rather than her facing justice, I was arrested for what is a patently absurd accusation of fraud by false representation. What does this tell us? Well we can conclude one of two possibilities.

1. Either the investigating officer, the man who ultimately arrested me, DC Paul Harry of the Swansea Police, is the most thick, stupid, bumbling idiot of a cop who would give Mr. Bean a run for his money in the idiot department. Or…

2. This minion was charged with protecting the infiltrators, denying me the return of the stolen property, arresting me (but not charging me) so as to put a cloud of doubt over my head and drag out this disruption for as long as possible.

Although DC Paul Harry is clearly a very stupid man, that is not the explanation for what he has done. Clearly it is number 2 above that is his remit.

How can I make this charge? Surely I am waving the red flag in front of the bull on this one. Indeed I am and I say to the powers that be and their servile minions in the police and otherwise, bring it the fuck on. As I have said, I will die with my integrity intact and nothing makes me stronger than injustice and having to deal with bullies and abusers of power. I did not ask for this battle, but it has been brought upon me.

Here is the absolute proof that Catherine Myles and DC Paul Harry and his entire department have perverted the course of justice, a crime let us remember, that is punishable by up to life imprisonment. Let me quote directly from a UK Government website just what is perverting the course of justice.

Perverting the course of Justice

The offense is committed where a person:

• does an act (a positive act or series of acts is required; mere inaction is insufficient)

• which has a tendency to pervert and

• which is intended to pervert

• the course of public justice.

All that is necessary is proof of knowledge of all the circumstances, and the intentional doing of an act which has a tendency, when objectively viewed, to pervert the course of justice.

A false allegation which risks the arrest or wrongful conviction of an innocent person is enough.

Extracts taken from the UK Crown Prosecution Government website

To summarize, if someone has knowingly told a lie to the police and the person they lie about might POSSIBLY be arrested, much less does get arrested, is perverting the course of justice.

Here is the proof that Catherine Myles has committed this crime and that the police know this to be true? This is taken directly from Catherine Myles own blog.

Catherine Myles - Guilty of 'Perverting the Course of Justice'

So what we have above has already been verified by several Trade Not Aid convoy members who also read this blog, it is undeniable, and it is 100% prove of a serious crime. But there is something extremely important to acknowledge here, by the police refusing to even acknowledge this evidence, much less arrest and charge Catherine Myles, they are proving beyond any doubt that the police themselves are perverting the course of justice.

It is not often we have such concrete proof of serious criminal behavior with police involvement. It is not that the police do not do this sort of thing often, they do, but to have proof like this is a bit of a gift really, I am ready for them to make their move, this is my move. Ah but it gets even better.

‘Fraud by False Representation’ by Catherine Myles

What if I had proof that Catherine Myles was guilty of ‘fraud by false representation’? Remember that one? The thing I was arrested for on November 2, 2011. Surely it is not possible that the person whose testimony was used to justify my arrest was in fact provably guilty of that very crime. Well it is possible, and here is the proof.

Catherine Myles Committing 'Fraud by False Representation'

What you see above is Catherine Myles soliciting funds for a “charity”, which is exactly what she accused me of doing, but of course I do not have a charity. Thing is that ‘Palestine Aid’, the “charity” she seeks money for, is not now and never has been a charity.

So when it came to me, 3 fraudsters said I said I had a charity and I was arrested and my property stolen as well as my DNA being taken against my will. When proof that Catherine Myles actually committed this crime, what happens? NOTHING!

Police Aiding & Abetting in the Theft of Trade Not Aid Vehicles, Donated Goods & Money

Stolen Trade Not Aid Vehicles

Moving on, in August of last year I made a complaint to the police about the Trade Not Aid vehicles (18-ton Renault Truck Reg. #V97 DBA & Optare Metrorider Minibus Reg. # P420 VRG) being stolen by Catherine Myles, Jez Cuthbert, Cath Jenkins and Saeb Shaath. All communications and evidence required to establish lawful ownership of these vehicles was of course provided to DC Paul Harry. Once again, here is the correspondence that proves this claim.

As a cover to avoid returning the clearly stolen property DC Harry arrested me on the bogus fraud charges on November 2, 2011. His superiors also directed him to drag out the investigation as long as possible so a date of April 2, 2012 (5 months later) was set to either bring charges against me (which was never going to happen) or conclude ‘no further action’. Well I waited these sickeningly long five months, thinking that at the end of these five months surely they will be forced to return the stolen vehicles. Well I was wrong.

Immediately upon my solicitor being told there would be no further action against me (March 30, 2012) he acted in accord with my direction, which was to demand recovery of the stolen vehicles and property. I always knew I would have to go to court to prove Catherine Myles has stolen somewhere in the area of £15,000, but the vehicles and donated goods onboard I thought surely must be returned. On their first conversation it looked like that was what DC Harry was going to do, even saying, “Mr. O’Keefe will need an HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle) licensed driver” for the 18-ton truck. The next day however he did a Jekyll & Hyde routine, not only was he not returning the vehicles, he would not even answer where the vehicles were or even if the “investigation” I had initiated 8 months earlier was still in progress.

Canon Fodder

He also revealed in coded language that this decision had come from above, as if I did not already know this. There is no doubt that DC Harry is just a willing dupe, and he like other such dupes will be hung out to dry by his bosses when he has exceeded his shelf life. I know this as an ex-Marine as well, and countless veterans know what I am talking about, including my dead father. Countless so-called “heroes” are left to languish with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cancers and birth defects and other maladies caused by exposure to experimental drugs and toxins like depleted uranium (DU). Many will commit suicide or beat their wives and children or end up homeless with not one bit of help from the governments who sent them to kill or be killed.

Understanding this I feel pity for DC Harry, he is a small-minded man being used up by a system that is a voracious and rapacious exploiter of ‘human resources’. If the world does change for the better, and I believe it will, the DC Harry’s of the world simply will not exist.

In Summary

There is so much more I could say about Catherine Myles, Saeb Shaath, and the rest of the people who have worked for and nearly achieved the goal of destroying the Trade Not Aid Mission. Indeed right now, today, the vehicles that Catherine Myles stole from the Trade Not Aid Mission, remain in her possession. As I have previously mentioned she also holds stolen donated goods and somewhere in the neighborhood of £15,000 of stolen money from the Trade Not Aid Mission, all of this being dutifully protected by the UK Police.

So my priority at this moment is getting back the vehicles and donated goods. My problem is that with the police protecting this fraudster, my only weapon is the truth. While the police remain un-exposed they remain capable of aiding and abetting in the crime of fraud, theft and perverting the course of justice.

As you will recall on March 30, 2012 I was informed that the police would be taking “no further action” with regard to the investigation into me. Surprise surprise. So after five months of depriving me of my property, having access to everything I have ever written, emailed, videoed, every file on my hard drives, “no further action”. I tell you what, and I apologise to the easily offended and my Muslim brothers and sisters, but given this reality I want to express my honest thoughts to the police involved in violating me and my family as they have. GO FUCK YOURSELF! That goes to you DC Paul Harry and also to all the minions and the powers that be that have done what they could to defame me and harm my mission for Palestine.

Who Pays?

Let us be clear, I am not the victim hear, I will never be the victim as I will never sacrifice my self-respect. The real victim is the good people of Palestine who have languished while our corrupt governments have provided material support, including weapons of mass destruction, preferential trade, billions in “aid”, and total cover for all the hideous crimes Israel commits against the Palestinians. And let this be clear, even though some collaborators of Palestinian blood who will be employed to try and defame me, I am a Palestinian. My heart and my commitment are to a Free Palestine. The way of Palestine is the way of the world. If I ever back peddle on that, then you know I have been compromised.

FOR THE RECORD – I see the so-called ‘two-state solution’ as the second Nakba, I see it as totally unjust and I hope the Palestinians never accept such an unjust deal. Although I fully accept that this is 100% up to the people of Palestine. I am a Palestinian citizen however and if I am allowed to vote on such a decision you will know where I stand. I want justice plain and simple, and justice requires;

1. 100% full right of return of all the Palestinian refugees spread around the globe.
2. That every single Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails is freed. And I mean every single one.

3. That every single person who can provide valid proof, whether it is land deeds or titles to land, pictures of them on that land, testimony that this was their home, they must be able to re-occupy and possess that which was stolen from them.

4. Full and complete compensation for the loss of life and property.

5. That the entire Apartheid system of Israel is dismantled and a system chosen by all the rightful citizens of Palestine replaces it with a government of their own choosing. Whatever form that may be.

These are just some of the prerequisites for justice in Palestine, but right now, I redouble my efforts for real support in the Trade Not Aid Mission. The only thing stopping this mission is not the police, or the governments nor the powers that be, it is us, it truly is up to us. We must simply never give up.

Power to the people, rise the hell up, 2012 is the year.

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Faint Heartedness, Political Correctness, and Peculiar Timing: The Attacks on Gilad Atzmon

Gilad Atzmon and his book "The Wandering Who?"

By Richard Edmondson

A group of prominent Palestinians who recently launched an attack on Gilad Atzmon seem to have made their required obeisance to Jewish sensibilities. Bravo for them. I must confess something, however: what good this will do for Palestine, or how it will ultimately help end the occupation, is totally beyond me. On the other hand, it does seem like an awfully nice gift for Israel, coming especially on the heels of the latest murderous rampage against Gaza. In this most recent paroxysm of Israeli violence, some 25 people died, including children. Why publish an attack against Atzmon at this particular time? Could it not have waited?

Atzmon is not only a longtime defender of Palestine, he has also emerged as one of the most powerful voices in anti-Zionist discourse. Why attack him at all, of course, but why especially now? As the most recent images of Gazans mourning their dead were flashing across the Internet, people throughout the world were getting worked up into a state of righteous anger. Even the mainstream media were forced to admit—something they rarely do—that the Israeli assault was not in “retaliation” for the firing of any missile or anything else any Palestinian had done. But then wham! Suddenly we get our “disavowal” manifesto. For this particular group of people to attempt to soil Atzmon with the “anti-Semite” label at this particular moment—well, let’s put it this way: Israel could hardly have asked for more.

The manifesto and its signatories can be found here. I recognize a number of the names on the list, and am aware that at least some of them hold comfortable university positions. Universities used to be bastions of free speech, but that is not the case any longer. We’ve seen a decade of attacks against outspoken academics coming from people like David Horowitz. Academic freedom, as with other freedoms in America, is pretty much on the road to extinction, and criticizing Israel is probably the most risky of all things you could possibly do. Get labeled an anti-Semite and it can be the end of your job. Such is Jewish power in America. But this power is especially felt in academia where many prestigious universities depend on Jewish financial gifts.

But of course the Palestine Solidarity movement is made up of many diverse people. Some, by virtue of positions they hold, certainly have reason to fear should they say or do something to offend Jews, while others are not encumbered with this concern. But curiously even the ones who aren’t, act as if they are. It’s as if being cognizant of the Holocaust and treading carefully around Jewish sensibilities has become ingrained in us. This is true virtually everywhere, at every level of American society, and now, as we see, it has spread into the Palestinian community as well. Were it any country other than Israel, and any ethnic group other than Jews, I dare say we would not even be having this conversation right now. The question is—what has all this caution, concern and political correctness gotten us? We’ve had four-plus decades—going back to the attack on the USS Liberty—of tiptoeing timidly around Jewish sensibilities. And what have we seen? Israel repeatedly unleashing murder and mayhem, becoming ever more emboldened how it goes about it in the process, while Jewish lobbies have at the same time consolidated greater and greater power over Western governments. Meanwhile, the Palestine Solidarity community splits asunder because some are worried about causing offense to Jews. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. It’s time to try something new, and that’s what Atzmon represents—he represents a change in the discourse. He is a breath of fresh air.

Israel is an evil country led by evil people. Time to acknowledge that. But time to acknowledge also that there is a certain definable problem here other than just the leaders of the country alone. As Atzmon himself has noted, 94 percent of Israelis supported Operation Cast Lead. And during the latest mugging of Gaza, Judy Nir Mozes Shalom, an Israeli talk show personality, called for an escalation of the bombing to include even the “passive residents” of the besieged territory. “I hope that at tomorrow’s cabinet meeting a decision will be accepted to enter Gaza and kill all those responsible for the nightmare that is happening in the south,” said Nir Mozes Shalom. “It’s time even for the passive residents of Gaza to suffer the way the residents of the south are suffering.” 

One might also inquire: are Israeli leaders able to read minds? Did they know Zuhair al-Qaissi was planning or contemplating something? Or was the sudden violating of the truce more about Israeli domestic politics and the thirst for blood brought on by the Purim holiday? My hunch is the latter.
Israel’s hostile, belligerent behavior is taking us dangerously close to a potential World War III. People need to be jolted awake to this threat before it’s too late, and I have a feeling that treading lightly and meekly observing the rules of political etiquette is not going to accomplish that. If the detractors of Atzmon—and now apparently we can add the courageous Ken O’Keefe to the list of those under attack—are too faint hearted to call a spade a spade, that’s fine; I think we can all understand your qualms and sympathize to a certain extent. Just abstain from hurling brickbats at those who do have the courage to speak up and say the things that need to be said.

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Know Your Enemy! End the Ridiculous Persecution of Gilad Atzmon

Political Perspective by Tim King Salem-News.com

Israeli-born Gilad Atzmon works tirelessly for Palestinians, criticizing Israeli war crimes, yet members of the movement call for others to ‘Disavowal’ his ‘Racism and Antisemitism’ Who is antisemitic?

 (SALEM) – Just know this: every time one of our dedicated writers falls under a public attack over criticism of Israeli military politics, those leading the charge with their same lame false claims of ‘antisemitism’ are insincere and acting out of pressure from Israel, even if they don’t know it.

 Master of music and words…Every time.
No exceptions.When an activist for Palestine is killed and reports say the killers didn’t carry out the murder on behalf of Israel, they are lying.

Gilad Atzmon vents about Zionist war criminals

When they say Ken O’Keefe or Gilad Atzmon are antisemitic, they are lying.

Believe me, threats are scary to people, we receive our share over these reports also.

The attackers are character assassins and they want Israel’s apartheid politics to continue uninterrupted.

Israel has separate laws for Jews and non-Jews, separate prisons for Jews and non-Jews, and separate roads for Jews and non-Jews. Holocaust survivors are allowed to live in poverty and dark-skinned Jews live with increasing racism in Israel.Anyone who supports this has the heart of a Nazi. Israel’s politics are so obscene that they’re worse than the Nazi’s because they’re doing it with U.S. money and weapons; at least the United States opposed Hitler, today it gives standing ovations to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Gilad Atzmon is a dedicated activist who is Israeli-born. As one of the world’s top jazz saxophonists, he has played with everyone from Ian Durry to Paul McCartney. He has a big following and a growing amount of political influence.

His words take Israel to task over crimes against Palestinian people.I can tell you as a white American, I fight white racists the hardest; it seems natural that a person born of a dangerous culture that oppresses others, would want to help turn that same culture around.

The easy thing for any human to do, is simply go along with the dangerous culture, particularly if it is in control of a region the way Israel is. In all fairness, one could call it a land of opportunity for ambitious Zionist Jews who say the right things and know the correct people. Gilad said ‘no way’ and rebelled against it, after growing up, and seeing up close what was really taking place. This is the human being following the human heart, knowing right from wrong and acting on it.

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On Teaching

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.

And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.” http://www.katsandogz.com/onteaching.html

Special thanks to Gabi Weber

His recent book, ‘The Wandering Who?’ is the basis of the latest round of attacks. I know for a fact that the person behind Electronic Intifada, which published a recent article claiming that Palestinian activists are against Gilad, was recently under heavy public attacks also, and now they have published an anti-Gilad article?Geez, follow the trail on that, what a joke. Of course many Palestinians are sold-out long and hard to the Israeli cause, they believe their own personal advancements are more valuable than those made on behalf of the entire Palestinian Diaspora.

Responding to the attack in A Response to Ali Abunimah & Co., Gilad wrote:

Ali Abunimah & Co tend to present themselves as advocates of “One Democratic State in Palestine.” This leaves me puzzled: what kind of democracy do they have in mind, exactly? For by calling for my “disavowal,” they prove beyond a doubt that they cannot tolerate even some elementary cultural criticism—criticism that is endorsed and praised by some of the most respected thinkers within our movement and beyond.

Gilad writes and fights and pipes for Palestine, not select individuals who cut deals with the Zionists to have a cozy deal at the expense of other members of their own culture.During the Holocaust Jews worked with Nazi’s; in every war people play both sides, I saw it in the current U.S. wars in the Middle east. They are really bad for going after Gilad and I can imagine the threats that Israel issued to some of these people and the bribery others responded to.

One of the best photos of our two favorite heroes: Gilad with his sax; Ken with his camera. They're serious about human rights and face pressure on all sides.

Attacking Gilad is like attacking a member of your own family, if you care about Palestine.

Both he and Ken O’Keefe have become leading world figures for the resistance because of their backgrounds; a former Israeli and a former U.S. Marine;
These guys have punch, they know people, they appear on major TV news programs, and they are two of Israel’s biggest threats because they expose patterns of illegal activity; murder, apartheid, genocide, child abuse, child murders, ambulance drivers shot in the line of duty…

The fact that pro-Palestinian western writers are being attacked simply proves that they are reaching people and changing opinions about Israel; the frequency of the pro-Israeli rally cries are always determined by their public successes, is a clear sign that every attack is a response to that success.

And I have to ask the question, does anyone believe that being a Palestinian makes them somehow infallible? People from Palestine are exactly like all other human beings; some are good and some are bad and it really is that simple. We care very much about their suffering but we are who we are; and we account for about one percent of journalists in the US and UK.

If this is about Palestinian resentment of an Israeli-born representative, then they should come out and say it, we might be surprised to learn who really is antisemitic.

It seems outlandish that the bond would not be tighter, people can indeed be their own worst enemies. I know how much love and support Gilad has, but I also know his life is challenging because of an orchestrated campaign against him. So what if people found something to be offended about in his book, so what? We live in a world where Israel murders human beings and calls their victims ‘terrorists’? We have much bigger problems at hand than this inner-squabble.

The Israelis are sitting back and smiling at this one, they’re clapping at the success of their subversion and reach.


The complexity of the matter is forged by the occupation, which forces otherwise good people to turn on their own, and turning on Gilad is like turning against a national hero.The resistance movement may be binding, but the cowardice is disillusioning.

None of us who stand steadfast on this matter will ever forget the incredible heat Ken O’Keefe drew when he and others battled their deadly Israeli attackers who stormed the peace ship ‘Mavi Marmara‘ in May 2010.

In cold blood, Israel attacked and killed nine of Ken’s shipmates and injured scores, even denying the injured and dying medical care. The crew was treated the way Israel treats all Palestinians, like they were animals.

So-called pro-Palestine activists and a couple who are sincere yet very confused in my opinion, waged a long running campaign against Ken because he took the weapons from Israeli soldiers and fought back. He and the others didn’t use the weapons they seized from the IDF, which they easily could have, which proved fighting and killing was never their intent or goal.

In spite of this self-defense incident, members of the pro-Palestine movement went right for Ken’s throat.

Vittorio 'Vik' Arrigoni is one man whose efforts to aid the captive population of Gaza will never be forgotten.

Fortunately Ken is widely supported and the matter faded away, mostly in pure respect for what Ken and the others on the ship did that night.

I see another example of that kind of strange inside attack in this event. I hope this latest round does nothing but propel Gilad’s name into the atmosphere and I suspect it will.

Those of us who know and love this man and his message will never be abated or swayed and if anyone comes up with anything that fails to meet the test, like this strange version of Palestinian suicide, just write it off and know…Like the murders of Vittorio Arrigoni and Juliano Mehr Khamis: the public attacks against Gilad Atzmon, Ken O’Keefe and others who stand up and say ‘NO!’ to Israeli bigotry and victimhood and Genocide – also apartheid, violations of international law – the only threat lurking in the shadows of origin is Israel and its Zionist politics which are not a matter of religion, not at all. Gilad is called every name in the book, yet antisemite is usually at the center of what his critics say.

I write frequently about the recent Genocide of Tamil Hindus and Christians in north Sri Lanka. In that case the violence was carried out by the Sri Lankan Sinhalese Buddhist government. You should read the irate comments and emails I receive over these articles. I am accused of being associated with the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) almost every single day.Last week I wrote about the terrible Genocides in Bangladesh-1971, and Balochistan, which is taking place this very second. I suppose some people would deem me anti-Muslim which would be a joke. I hate what the people of Northern Ireland were forced to endure at the hands of the British for so many years but it doesn’t make me anti-protestant.It always hearkens back to the same simple point; that there is no such thing as a humane religious government, not in all of history. Some are better than others, but the notion of a religion being the government is only disaster to the unlucky ones, the ‘wrong’ religion or culture.

Whether my detractors accept it or not, the strength of my arguments is grounded on the transparent truthful nature of my premises. Until now, not one of my opponents has been able to point out a single discrepancy within my argument or the facts I cite. For instance, I contend that since Israel defines itself as the Jewish State—its tanks and planes decorated with Jewish symbols—it is our duty to ask: Who are the Jews? What is Judaism? And what is Jewishness all about?

The fact that some activists shy away from asking those questions doesn’t mean that the rest of us also should behave cowardly.

Dr. Kevin Barrett, another valued writer with conviction and courage in confronting the less comfortable national and world issues, wrote:

What these folks should be doing is reading Atzmon’s work carefully and holistically, and then, if they find that Atzmon is mistaken in his analysis of the way Jewish identity politics is a factor in Zionism, they should correct him.

An ardent supporter of Palestine and Human Rights, Dr. Gabi Weber in Freiburg, Germany, wrote:

I am asking myself how many of the signers of “Anti-Atzmon-petitions” (http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-writers-activists-disavow-racism-anti-semitism-gilad-atzmon) did what Kevin Barrett suggests?

I am afraid that witch-hunt arrived in the so-called ‘solidarity movement’.

As we have written time and time again, antisemitism is nothing but an excuse when it is used to combat accusations of war crimes and civil rights abuse, nobody cares what religion anyone is, however we greatly care about people who pervert religion to meet their personal and governmental needs. It is wrong, Zionism is a concept barely over a hundred years old. Israel is an infant government that has proven clearly over and over again that it is a threat to its neighbors and the entire world.The complicity of the American government with this apartheid regime is shameful and unforgivable, the bodies in Palestine stack up while people like Ali Abunimah Abunimah randomly attack the strongest fighters that the movement has.


With regard to Mr. Abunimah, Wikipedia states that he:”opposes Zionism, which he describes as ‘a dying project, in retreat and failing to find new recruits.’ He argues that Zionism’s promotion of Jewish self-determination in Israel and Palestine’s ‘intermixed population’ has the effect of maintaining ‘a status quo in which Israeli Jews exercise power in perpetuity.’Abunimah’s position is that Palestinians should pursue coercive measures against Israel such as the non-violent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, while also putting forward a positive vision of a single democratic state.In January 2012, Abunimah tweeted ‘Isn’t it time for a popular Palestinian revolution in the form of a third intifada?’

Anyone who reads Gilad’s writings would note a similar sound to Mr. Abunimah’s words. I fail to understand why this man chose to attack Gilad. He claims Gilad is too much of a leader, implying that Gilad is not suitable as a man for the cause, what bullshit! Is that what he thought of Vik Arrigoni? I mean for God’s sake, Vittorio was from Italy, he was outspoken… does Abunimah look at his life as one of an outsider who had no business helping ‘his people’? This, when Abunimah lives in the U.S.?

I am sickened that people can be reached this way, we will never stop rallying for the embattled population of Palestine and the movement’s real advocates, like our friend Gilad Atzmon, a man of many uncomfortable truths and talent that scares people. I understand how this type of in-fighting can again, only benefit the Zionist cause of Israeli apartheid, Abunimah and all of those with similar sentiments know this too.

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Atzmon-Palestinian Infighting Reveals Underbelly of Gutless Duplicity

Writer, Musician Gilad Atzmon

Why Would Supposed Palestinian Activists Attack Gilad Atzmon?

by  Gordon Duff,  Senior Editor

Last week, Ali Abunimah, editor of a blog called “Electronic Intafada” published a letter cosigned by a group of moderately to well known “activists” quite violently attacking Gilad Atzmon of Veterans Today. 
 
The letter began attacking Atzmon for his recent work, The Wandering Who, a discourse on Jewish identity, which has drawn violent criticism.

Who are these critics?  They are advocates for war on Iran, lobbyists for military aid for Israel and, of course, the avowed enemies of the Palestinian people.

Now this group is joined by what is meant to appear to be the real spokesmen for the Palestinian cause.  This, however, on closer examination is everything but the truth.

What is the truth? The truth isn’t simple but I hope it is at least interesting.  The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people is one of the most misrepresented and costly in world history.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled their homes with most living in barbaric conditions justified by a mythology sold to a gullible world by media owned and controlled by extremist groups tied to Israel’s Likudist party.

I  invited Gilad Atzmon, a veteran of the IDF, to join Veterans Today as a columnist several years ago.  He was carefully vetted by an informal organization that includes among its staff and sources many, if not most, of the world’s intelligence communities “heavy hitters.”

The Wandering Who - Is Wandering Here

We had learned that much that had been represented as “conspiracy” was what we dealt with as everyday reality and that the mainstream media and, worst of all, the cowardly academics whose bumbling helped certify mythology as temporary truth was a betrayal of honor and values.

When reading Ali Abunimah, I can see some of his points on Atzmon’s book, at least from his sociological side.

However, a geopolitical realist should know the power and influence the Jewish people have attained and how the changes in that sector, their gullibility, their move to the right, their abandonment of humanistic values, has negatively impacted the world.

Atzmon’s explanation of this is “spot on” the value of which Abunimah seems to miss.  This is excusable, of course, disagreement is a part of dialog.  However, Abunimah may well not be the “honest player” he seems.

I had mentioned the vetting Atzmon went thorough.  We find him courageous, tireless and extremely open and honest. We do not find the same of his critics.

We find them effete, inherently a pack of petty plotters and utterly lacking in what Americans call “the right stuff.” These are a pack of characters out of a Kafka novel, petty bureaucrats, minor intellects, “arm chair dissidents” or worse, controlled opposition.

Some time ago, as information involving the war on terror, the invasion of Iraq and the attacks of 9/11 debunked, without question, the cover story sold at very high price by the west, a benchmark was created by which we could separate goats, sheep and the occasional wolf in our midst.

Dr. Alan Sabrosky

Dr. Alan Sabrosky presented the initial evidence tying Israel to 9/11.  I received direct confirmations through high ranking sources in Israel and Russia. Then evidence began piling up, volumes of it, which is available in Veterans Today, evidence unassailed by our critics of Atzmon.

This evidence constitutes a “third rail” for certain groups in Israel and elsewhere who have helped lead the world to a decade of warfare and economic collapse.
During that time, however, while most Palestinians suffered, some have done very well for themselves, have thrived on the status quo.

Atzmon is criticized for his position on 9/11, one we see as, not just supportable but the only reality based possibility. It is also a position, not just accepted throughout the Islamic world but through scholars and military experts by the thousands who have been quite outspoken.

The “cover story” on 9/11 is dead, killed by hard science and Israel’s involvement is proven by evidence, not conjecture.

The opposition depends on the type of bullying and invective used by Ali Abunimah of “Electronic Intafada,” what seems to be a well coordinated “ganging on” done in cooperation it seems, with Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman of the ADL.

Normally, this should seem impossible, perhaps a coincidence or is something more sinister at hand, is Lenin’s old addage, “If you want to control the opposition, be the opposition,” rearing its ugly head?

We have Atzmon on one side, with his powerful criticism of Israeli apartheid, of Israeli involvement in 9/11 and, most dangerous of all, his willingness to listen to historical revisionists who question the word from heaven itself, the version of the holocaust that has been used to justify persecution of the Palestinian people.

For those of us who are students of history out of necessity rather than profit, the use of the holocaust to justify apartheid, even slaughter, has made the official version suspect.  Under closer examination, substantial portions of the holocaust, as insisted on, are pure Marxism, creations of the Stalinist state that built the “demonstration” gas chambers and smoke stacks at the camps now used as tourist attractions.

At some point, more than just the Soviets or their Zionist and/or Marxist friends went that extra step, insisting on blind obedience to a version of history defended, not often with the gun or sword but more often with the use of sociological controls, perhaps more political, the press used as a weapon, “defense” organizations used to intimidate and, in particular, economic power that is very Jewish, the most powerful economic group on earth, that can get anyone who strays from the Marxist path removed from gainful employment.

So many of Atzmon’s Palestinian or purported Palestinian foes live at the behest of the sworn enemy of their blood, who they criticize with carefully controlled and carefully orchestrated regularity.

If Jews have built a society of the mythology of victimization as Atzmon contends, then a similar society exists among Palestinians.  If such groups stifle dialog and truth, if such groups tend toward reaching a plateau as it were of controlled criticism, much is explained.

We can now easily see how, despite the efforts of world leaders for decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has steadily deteriorated.  An axiom, ill applied, one from a Godfather film; “Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer.”

Watching and undermining Atzmon, perhaps the only effective voice for the Palestinian people other than Ken O’Keefe, also of Veterans Today, would have been wise.  Openly attacking Atzmon accomplished only one thing, it exposed to the world that the plight of the Palestinian people continues because many who would be “among them” but who are far from it profit from the suffering of others.

Victimization is not a Jewish industry, but rather an industry for those who exploit and control the Jews.  It creates, as I see it, a permanent feeling of rejection, of being hated, of being inferior.  It also pre-stages a people for accepting lies as truth and for brutality under the guise of “race defense” or, perhaps most shameful of all, religious will as expressed by a people I know from vast personal experience to reject religion as superstition.

Thus, the order went out to silence Atzmon.  When Abe Foxman, whose continual accusations against any who threaten the geopolitical will of the ultra-nationalist Likudist dictatorship in Israel, the call of “antismite” rings continually, a joke to those who note Foxman’s demeanor and duplicity for what it so obviously is, it is strange but not unexpected to hear the answering call from the “controlled opposition.”

Foxman had tried to cash in on the decades old media popularity of Ron Silver, the charismatic actor who played Dershowitz in film.  The real Dershowitz has taken on more of the demeanor and “like-ability” of Dick Cheney of late, hardly a defender of human rights, the man he may well have been at one time.

Dershowitz’s cynicism is deep as a well, you can see it on his face, in his every gesture.

This leaves us with Gilad Atzmon to travel the world, as he calls himself, “the Wandering Who,” a stateless being, British by citizenship, musician by trade, “stand-up” comic when need requires, to defend, not so much the Palestinian people but humanity and the travels his own life has set before him.

Our Palestinian blogger, perhaps the “controlled opposition,” 40 years in intelligence work leads me to assuming that rather easily, isn’t a shadow of Atzmon.  Bloggers are generally anticharismatic figures, and we certainly have one who has collected more of his ilk at his side.

Are they betrayers?

I think so.  I think you can’t defend the Palestinian people unless you are willing to challenge the cynicism that sells the holocaust as though it were a brand of soap.  In a world wrought with technicalities and absurdity, even I may be considered a holocaust survivor, definitions have gone that far.

The real problem is that there is an actual shared victimization, one that should bring about understanding, concensus and humanity, rather than the gamesmanship and lies we are now subjected to.  Collective suffering when used to excuse criminality or when exploited for political and economic reasons denies the humanity of all.

I represent  a group, soldiers, those who serve their nations as the eyes and ears of truth, or so I would tell myself.  Among our number are traitors and war criminals.  We also have millions who have suffered and given all for what they truely believe to have been truth and honor.

Maybe they were wrong, certainly the case can be made that all war is offensive and economic.  A dead 19 year old on a battlefield somewhere, a grieving parent will find no solace in that.

Atzmon is a dangerous man.  He is human when those who oppose him are not.  They will never appear on stage with him, they become invisible, smaller with every word until they finally disappear.  An audience would ask, “Who was that other person, I didn’t like them.”

To me it is even more simple.  If, for over six decades, great intellectuals, the best “thinkings”, as they will gladly tell you, of their time, lay out plans for the future, for the salvation of the people of Israel or Judea or Palestine, whatever they call it, one can only look and judge, judge by the results.

What we have has to be what they wanted.

As with anyone of honesty, there will always be one admission.  We are but the children of the playground, albeit Kipling’s ”playing fields” or the sandlots of Detroit I was raised on.  I learned of children there and the lessons I learned taught me what I needed to survive wars, too many wars, to retain what humanity possible. to learn loyalty and to understand what “heart” and “honor” really mean.

I simply like Gilad Atzmon.  He is a “good kid.”  Of our others, I don’t know all but have learned to understand and deal with bullying when I see it.

I see it.   It is the flag of weakness, physical weakness, hatred of self and intellectual inferiority.

All I can say is this:  “Good luck with that.”
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A Response to Ali Abunimah & Co.

by Gilad Atzmon

Ali Abunimah & Co tend to present themselves as advocates of “One Democratic State in Palestine.” This leaves me puzzled: what kind of democracy do they have in mind, exactly?  For by calling for my “disavowal,” they prove beyond a doubt that they cannot tolerate even some elementary cultural criticism—criticism that is endorsed and praised by some of the most respected thinkers within our movement and beyond.

In fact, I am pretty delighted with the outraged reactions to my thoughts. I guess it enables us to map the discourse and its boundaries—and means that those boundaries are now official. Not only has my latest book, The Wandering Who?, rocked the boat, but it also has managed to unite Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman with Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal. That is pretty encouraging: it means that peace may prevail after all.

However, I also have some bad news for my would-be silencers, Palestinian and Jewish alike. I do not have any plans to slow down or drift away. I am a jazz musician and an independent thinker. I am basically a free agent—I say what I think and think what I say. The popularity of my writing among Palestinians, solidarity activists and truth seekers is the direct outcome of my sincere approach to the subject matter.

Whether my detractors accept it or not, the strength of my arguments is grounded on the transparent truthful nature of my premises. Until now, not one of my opponents has been able to point out a single discrepancy within my argument or the facts I cite. For instance, I contend that since Israel defines itself as the Jewish State—its tanks and planes decorated with Jewish symbols—it is our duty to ask: Who are the Jews? What is Judaism? And what is Jewishness all about?

The fact that some activists shy away from asking those questions doesn’t mean that the rest of us also should behave cowardly.

In case my detractors—be they Zionists, Anti-Zionist Zionists or Palestinians—fail to realize it, Palestine is not alone anymore, and is no longer an isolated, remote discourse. Even as I write, AIPAC is publicly and relentlessly pushing America into a new global conflict. In Britain, 80 percent of Tory MPs are members of the Conservative Friends of Israel. What we are witnessing here is a clear Zionist shift from the discourse of a “promised land” to one of a “promised planet.” I’m convinced that calling a spade a spade could actually save the world, including Americans, Brits, Iranians and Palestinians. But it also can save the Jews from the grave potential consequences inflicted on them by the Jewish lobbies.

Sadly, Ali Abunimah has misrepresented my thoughts. Clearly there is no racism, anti-Semitism or Holocaust denial in my writing.  As determined as my detractors are to find it, they have failed to identify a single bit of evidence of such tendencies in my work.  Ali Abunimah says on my behalf that “one cannot self-describe as a Jew and also do work in solidarity with Palestine, because to identify as a Jew is to be a Zionist.” What a ludicrous interpretation of my writing, in which I go out of my way to define the issue in categorical terms. What I am obviously opposing is Jewish racial exclusivity. If Israel is in the wrong for being a Jews-only State, I argue, then its Jewish critics better fight it using an inclusive, universalist ideology and practice.

I am indeed critical of Jewish identity politics, Jewish culture and Jewish ideology. I am also critical of the Jewish cultural attitude toward history. I am critical of Jewishness and any form of Jewish exclusive political activism. And yet, I wonder, why should any person who seeks justice and peace object to my approach? Is Jewish culture or identity politics beyond criticism? Are Jews chosen after all.

I am sorry to disappoint my Palestinian and Jewish opposition league, but it seems as if their terminology is faulty and misleading: Zionism is not colonialism, for colonialism is defined as a material exchange between a Mother State and a Settler State. The fact that there is no Jewish Mother State suggests that Zionism doesn’t fit the colonial model.

Nor is Israel an Apartheid State, for Apartheid is defined by the exploitation of the indigenous residents. Yet the Jewish State prefers that the Palestinians simply and completely disappear. In other words, we are dealing here with a unique racially driven expansionist philosophy not very different from the Nazis’ Lebensraum.

Israel is not Zionism, and vice versa.  Israel is the outcome of the Zionist project. If Zionism is a promise to establish a “Jewish National Home in Palestine,” Israel is its post-revolutionary product. Indeed, Israelis are barely familiar with Zionist thought and ideology. From their perspective, anti-Zionist ranting is a remote Diaspora discourse.

Shalom does not mean peace, reconciliation or harmony. Its accurate English translation is “security for the Jews.” Israeli culture lacks a clear notion of “peace” as we know it—i.e., harmony and reconciliation.

I suggest that my detractors spend some time and think this through, so they can understand that the issues involving this conflict and its resolution go far beyond mere political discourse.

I would like to take this opportunity to advise my opponents that their campaign is counterproductive. Those who are interested in my ideas realize that we are living in a post-political and post-ideological era.  Like myself, they are interested in an ethical argument. They are not “party members,” and they are not taking “orders” from any sectarian group or ideology. Instead they listen to their hearts. Those pro-Palestinian organizations sponsoring my current U.S. book tour realize very well that my work galvanizes a demarcation line between truth and its enemies.

In spite of the relentless slander campaign against my writing, it has not achieved a thing except to expose a rigorous intellectual intolerance in our midst. If my opposition is concerned with my thoughts, it will have to learn to debate. Before we can proceed, I guess, my detractors may have to actually read my book and decide exactly what they are against.

http://www.wrmea.com/action-alert-archives/11130-to-disavow-or-debate-gilad-atzmon.html

Last night Ali Abunimah and other respected Palestinian writers and activists signed a statement calling for “The Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon,” who is winding up his U.S. tour with events in Washington, DC today and tomorrow. The Washington Report is convinced that Atzmon’s interview tonight by Prof. Norton Mezvinsky couldn’t come at a better time.

Please read Abunimah’s statement and Atzmon’s response below. Then come to tonight’s discussion and decide for yourself whether to shun Atzmon or engage him in debate. For those who want to further explore the renowned jazz musician’s ideas and music, copies of Atzmon’s latest book, The Wandering Who?, as well as his three CDs, will be available for purchase.

Wednesday, March 14, 6:30-8:30 PM Gilad Atzmon is interviewed by Prof. Norton Mezvinsky, (Connecticut State University Professor of History Emeritus) at Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, 900 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20001 (free, open to public, light dinner)

Thursday, March 15, 5-6:30 PM DC Peace House, 1233 12th St. NW, Washington DC 20005

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