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Thursday, September 9, 2021

Thirty Historical Events That Never Happened (or Didn't Happen the Way We Were Taught They Did)

     Many events that we were taught about in history class as children, have been distorted; by the rose-colored glasses through which the American, capitalist, imperialistic public school system chooses to see them, and wishes its servants to see them. This is done in order to elicit national pride, and to do away with the qualms we have about submitting to that system.
     Here is a list of thirty historical events - between 1916 and 2018 - that either never happened, or else happened in a completely different way from how we were told they unfolded.





     Myth #1:

     The evil sorcerer Grigory Rasputin cursed the Romanov family in December 1916.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Rasputin did not curse the family. Rather, he predicted his own death, and said that the Romanovs would die if Rasputin's death was caused by the Romanovs' kinsmen.
     Moreover, Rasputin was not evil, nor a sorcerer, but a monk, a medicine man and healer, a holy man, a horse whisperer, and a person intimately concerned with the struggles of poor and Jewish people in Russia, as well as with the bleeding disease hemophilia, from which Alexei Romanov suffered.
     The extent to which there was a falling-out between Rasputin and the Tsar has been greatly exaggerated. It's entirely possible that the Tsar only sent Rasputin away on a pilgrimage - temporarily, not permanently - due to the immense pressure he felt from his other advisors to do so.

     Source: http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/history-and-mythology/grigory-rasputin/

     For more information, read my August 2019 article "Why Some Believe Anastasia Survived, and Other Strange Facts About the Romanovs and Rasputin":




     Myth #2:

     Vladimir Lenin took over Russia for communism, 1917-1924.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Kaiser Wilhelm II, the first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, financed Lenin's move from Switzerland to St. Petersburg in early 1917. Furthermore, the Soviet Union never achieved full communism, but only significant collectivization of agriculture.




     Myth #3:

     The U.S.S.R. was established in 1917-1918.


     Why It's a Myth:

     The U.S.S.R. was not established until 1922. The entity that took over Russia in 1917-1918 was the R.S.F.S.R. (the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic).



     Myth #4:

     The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg was stormed in 1917.


     Why It's a Myth:

     The "storming of the winter palace" was not a real historical event, but rather a "mass spectacle" which was staged by Russians for propaganda purposes in 1920. Tsar Nicholas II was not removed through an overnight coup wherein huge masses of people stormed the palace; rather, he was forced to abdicate, and then Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government was elected. The Romanovs were allowed to take many of their belongings with them when they left Tsarskoe Selo (the Tsar's palace); they were not rushed out and forced to flee overnight.





     Myth #5:

     Anastasia and Alexei Romanov were murdered with the rest of their family in July 1917.


     Why It's a Myth:

     The fact that Alexei's corpse, and the corpse of Anastasia or one of her sisters, weren't discovered until 2006, suggests that Anastasia and Alexei may not have been murdered along with the rest of their family in July 1917. The book The Myth of the Basement Massacre explains that all members of the family might not have even been shot in the same room.

     For more information, read my August 2019 article "Why Some Believe Anastasia Survived, and Other Strange Facts About the Romanovs and Rasputin":





     Myth #6:

     Stalinists sabotaged the Spanish republican revolution from 1936 to 1939.


     Why It's a Myth:

     The idea that Stalinists sabotaged the Spanish revolution on purpose, was the opinion of Leon Trotsky and others. But this is not so.
     The Stalinists provided military aid to the Spanish republicans, in exchange for a set of conditions. These included allowing the Soviets to gain influence over military operations in Spain, and the imposition of labor discipline, and the provisions that soldiers may not become drunk (because it would lower their guards when they needed to be ready to fight). Another cause of the Spanish resistance wearing-down was that the republican soldiers had so much democratic power that they could vote their commanding officers out of power. To the Stalinists, who sent them military aid (albeit delayed and insufficient), this was intolerable. Another reason why the Stalinists cannot be blamed for sabotaging the republicans' efforts, is that the Soviets needed to save military equipment for themselves, having tens of millions more people to protect than the Spanish did.

     For more information, read my February 2018 article "Reflection Upon the Use of Forced Labor Camps by Anarchists and Communists":




     Myth #7:

     Josef Stalin capitulated to Nazism in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Stalin did not allow the Nazis to gain control of Soviet territory, nor control of its soldiers. Stalin's U.S.S.R. was the last country to attempt a treaty with the Nazis, after nearly every single country in Europe had already capitulated, and handed territory over to Germany. Stalin knew that Hitler would eventually violate the treaty. Making a deal with Hitler allowed the Soviets to buy time, move industries eastward, and trade the Nazis the weapons and materiel they needed to eventually destroy each other. Stalin's regime could be described as a dictatorship, and perhaps even as anti-Semitic (especially in the last three years of Stalin's reign), but those facts alone do not mean that it was fascist; certainly not Nazi.

     For more information, read my April 2019 article "Stalin Killed Fewer People Than Hitler Did, and How Stalin Tricked Hitler with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact":



     Myth #8:

     The Nazis and Soviets held a joint military parade in Brest-Litovsk in September 1939.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Brest and Litovsk are not now - and were not then - a single city called "Brest-Litovsk". Rather, they are two cities; the then German city of Brest, and the Soviet Russian city of Litovsk. The military "parade" was not a single joint military parade, but two different parades; one held in Brest, the other in Litovsk. The militaries did meet, but there was uneasy tension between them. Also, they did not collaborate, nor help train one another. The Soviet training of the German air force ended in 1933, the same year Hitler took power. The cities of Brest and Litovsk are now located in the country of Belarus.



     Myth #9:

     The Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939.


     Why It's a Myth:

     The Soviet Union's takeover of eastern Poland, in late September 1939, followed the Nazis' takeover of western Poland by a full two weeks. The Soviet Union arguably "invaded" eastern Poland in order to protect it from becoming occupied by the Nazis, and because the Nazis had recognized eastern Poland as within the Soviet sphere of influence in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Later, the Soviets salted the earth in eastern Poland as they retreated, but this was done in order to make the land less valuable to the Nazis, not as an act of war against the Polish people.

     For more information, read my April 2019 article "Stalin Killed Fewer People Than Hitler Did, and How Stalin Tricked Hitler with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact":




     Myth #10:

     Poles were targeted for genocide in the Katyn Forest Massacre in March 1940.


     Why It's a Myth:

     The twenty-two thousand Poles killed in the Katyn Forest Massacre were not targeted due to their ethnicity; they were targeted specifically because they were military officers, who had been given opportunities to give up information about the locations of enemy Nazi troops, and refused to collaborate with the Soviets against the Nazis. Less than a thousand of those killed were civilian noncombatants.

     For more information, read my April 2019 article "Stalin Killed Fewer People Than Hitler Did, and How Stalin Tricked Hitler with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact":




     Myth #11:

     The Japanese shot first in the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7th, 1941.


     Why It's a Myth:

     A Japanese submarine snuck into Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7th, 1941. When that submarine was discovered, a U.S. naval officer fired the first shot in the Pacific theater, killing the Japanese submariner inside. The wreckage of that sub was discovered decades later, and reported in the New York Times.




     Myth #12:

     Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Hawai'i was not one of the United States during the attack on Pearl Harbor; it was a territory of the United States, and was considered as "belonging" to the United States at the time. Hawai'i did not become a state until eighteen years later in 1959.

     Source: Daniel Immerwahr's "How to Hide an Empire"





     Myth #13:

     Pearl Harbor was the only Japanese attack on American targets during World War II, December 7th, 1941.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Japan also attacked Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines on that day.

     Source: Daniel Immerwahr's "How to Hide an Empire"





     Myth #14:

     The Pearl Harbor attack of December 7th, 1941 was the only successful attack on U.S. military forces during World War II.


     Why It's a Myth:

     On April 8th, 1942, German U-Boats successfully sank three American ships, with torpedoes, off the coast of St. Simons Island, near Georgia. These ships included the oil tanker Oklahoma, and the Esso Baton Rouge. Twenty-three American crewmen were killed in these attacks.






     Myth #15:

     The Soviets raised their flag over Berlin during the capture of Berlin in early 1945.


     Why It's a Myth:

     The Soviets did assist in the capture of Berlin, but the famous photo of Soviet troops raising their flag, high above the city of Berlin, was staged for propaganda purposes.





     Myth #16:

     Japan refused to surrender to all Allied Forces in August 1945.


     Why It's a Myth:

     The reason Japan refused to surrender, during its first opportunity to do so, was that the U.S.S.R. was not a signatory of the Allied Forces' invitation to surrender. The Soviet Union did not declare war on Japan until August 11th, 1945; two days after the American bombing of Nagasaki.






     Myth #17:

     Mao Tse Tung took over China for communism on October 1st, 1949.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Mao's "revolution" was backed by Western financial interests; he was funded by the "C.I.A. at Yale" (i.e., segments of Yale University which were involved with the Office of Strategic Services, which later morphed into the C.I.A.). This occurred after the U.S. backed the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-Shek, which Mao deposed. Additionally, there is debate over whether China ever achieved full communism, and debate over how in-control of China's revolutionary forces Mao was.

     Source: http://www.jstor.org/stable/44326232





     Myth #18:

     Capitalists formed the resistance to the Soviet invasion of Hungary in October 1956.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Hungarian socialist workers, whom were opposed to the Soviet system, formed the resistance to the Soviet invasion; not capitalists.





     Myth #19:

     John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a single bullet, fired by a single assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, on November 22nd, 1963.


     Why It's a Myth:

     John F. Kennedy was shot by at least two bullets that day. Oswald claimed that he was a "patsy" (that is, a pawn or "fall-guy") between his arrest and his own murder. Some theories assert that it took an entire team, of as many as eight people, to carry out the assassination. Also, the single-bullet theory (or "magic bullet theory") is impossible; for one, magic isn't real, and two, a bullet cannot take a turn in mid-air between penetrating the body of Texas Governor John Connally and entering J.F.K.'s body.





     Myth #20:

     "Tank Man" stopped a line of Chinese tanks with the intent of preventing them from continuing to oppress the Chinese people at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5th, 1989.


     Why It's a Myth:

     "Tank Man" stood in front of a row of tanks because he wanted the tanks to stay in Tiananmen Square; not to prevent them from continuing to oppress the Chinese people.

     For more information, read my June 2019 article "Eight Things You Might Not Know About the Tiananmen Square Massacre", at the following link:





     Myth #21:

     Iraqi soldiers threw hundreds of babies out of incubators, and stole the incubators, in 1990, during Iraq's attack on Kuwait.

     Why It's a Myth:

     This claim was made by 15-year-old Nayirah al-Sabah, in what came to be known as the "Nayirah testimony", delivered to the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10th, 1990. In 1992, she was revealed to be the daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait, Saud al-Sabah. Premature babies did die during Iraq's attack on Kuwait, but Nayirah's claim that "hundreds" of babies were thrown out of incubators, which were stolen, could not be verified.





     Myth #22:

     The attacks of September 11th, 2001 were committed by Muslim members of the al-Qaeda terrorist group.


     Why It's a Myth:

     For one, al-Qaeda is a database of U.S.-backed Afghan militants, which America has kept as a bulwark against the Soviets since the late 1970s. Second, the first bombing of the World Trade Center (in 1993) was reportedly spearheaded by Ramzi Yousef, who had apparently been plied into committing the attacks with alcohol and strippers, hardly the behavior of a devout Muslim; therefore, the narrative about "radicalized Muslims committing 9/11" is dubious. Third, numerous evidence exists which supports the presence of Israeli footprints during and after 9/11, such as the "dancing Israelis" seen celebrating the attacks, and the numerous American Zionists who were in power beneath George W. Bush when the attacks occurred.





     Myth #23:

     The attacks of September 11th, 2001 were the first successful attacks on a U.S. military target since Pearl Harbor.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Although the Pentagon was targeted on 9/11, it was not the first successful attack on a U.S. military target since Pearl Harbor in 1941. As explained above, twenty-three U.S. sailors were killed by German U-Boats off the coast of the state of Georgia in 1942. Also, the U.S.S. Cole was bombed on October 12th, 2000, in an attack for which al Qaeda supposedly claimed responsibility. Other U.S. navy ships have been targeted as well, including the U.S.S. Stark incident in 1987 (carried out by Iraq), and the U.S.S. Liberty incident in 1967 (carried out by the State of Israel). The attacks of 9/11 could be described as the first successful attacks on a U.S. military target on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, but not as the first successful attacks on a U.S. military target in general since Pearl Harbor.




     Myth #24:

     The attacks of September 11th, 2001 were the only attacks against U.S. military targets committed by a foreign country since the end of World War II. / Muslims or Afghanistan "declared war on the United States" on 9/11.


     Why It's a Myth:

     There is no evidence that any particular national government planned or carried out the 9/11 attacks (unless you count the State of Israel). In 2001, the Afghani Taliban hardly had the resources to carry out such an attack, and there is no concrete evidence that Afghanistan was harboring Osama bin Laden (despite its claims that it wished to turn bin Laden over to the United States). It's possible that the U.K., Saudi Arabia, Israel, and/or Pakistan had advanced knowledge of the attacks - or even participated in committing them - but they could have not done so without knowledge by, and help from, the United States. The 9/11 attacks were thus not an act of war, because no single foreign national government committed the attack without U.S. complicity (or at least foreknowledge).




     Myth #25:

     The Afghan Taliban sheltered Osama bin Laden in late 2001.


     Why It's a Myth:

     On October 3rd, 2001, the Chicago Tribune published an article titled "Taliban maintains refusal to turn over bin Laden".

     On October 14th, 2001, The Guardian published an article titled "Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand bin Laden over".

     Well, which is it? Did the Taliban offer to turn bin Laden over to American authorities, or didn't they? If both articles above are correct, then if this did happen, then it must have happened between October 3rd and 14th.
     The Guardian article says that Haji Abdul Kabir, "the third most powerful figure" in the Taliban in Afghanistan, said that the Taliban "would be ready to hand him over to a third country" if they found evidence that bin Laden was behind the 9/11 attacks.

     It's possible that bin Laden was in Afghanistan in late 2001, as American authorities claimed. But the fact that bin Laden was reportedly killed in Pakistan (in a town called Abbottabad) in 2011, suggests the possibility that bin Laden was never in Afghanistan to begin with.
     The fact that opium production dropped the year before 9/11, and skyrocketed back up again after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, suggests that opium poppies (as well as lithium deposits, and perhaps also the country's underage male sex trade) were the real reasons behind America's invasion of Afghanistan, rather than getting bin Laden.
     Moreover, bin Laden's father had business ties to the Bush family. It's probably more likely that bin Laden was an intelligence asset of the United States, than Afghanistan.



     Myth #26:

     The World Trade Center collapsed on September 11th, 2001 because its steel was melted by jet fuel.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Burning jet fuel is hot enough to melt steel beams in a manner that weakens them, but not hot enough to cause them to collapse on its own. Witnesses reported seeing construction crews enter the World Trade Center in the several weeks leading up to the attack. Physical evidence has confirmed that electric charges were placed on many of the steel beams near a 45-degree angle, allowing the top portions of the beams to slide off of the bottom portions. Numerous videos show that the towers fell nearly at free-fall speed, which is commensurate with what happens during a controlled demolition. Towers 1 and 2 may have been destroyed in a controlled demolition because Building 7 was indisputably demolished intentionally. We know this because World Trade Center owner Larry Silverstein admitted that he told firefighters, "pull it" after World Trade Center Building 7 underwent significant fire damage.



     Myth #27:

     The Pentagon was hit by a plane on September 11th, 2001.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Only five frames of film show an object hitting the Pentagon. None of those five frames show an object large enough to be a plane. All other video tapes were confiscated by the government from local convenience stores and gas stations. Numerous theories suggest that a missile hit the Pentagon rather than a plane. No airplane wreckage was ever recovered from the Pentagon. The hole in the Pentagon was too small and too neat to have been caused by an airplane with wings. For a plane to have hit the Pentagon, it would have had to fly over a highway, where it would have been seen by hundreds of people.



     Myth #28:

     Saddam Hussein's Iraq had W.M.D.s (Weapons of Mass Destruction) in 2003.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Despite the persistent claims of some supporters of the second Iraq War - years after that war ended - that Saddam Hussein allowed W.M.D.s to be smuggled out of Iraq, and into neighboring countries, before the U.S. was able to invade, no weapons of mass destruction were ever found in Iraq. Granted, Hussein gassed Kurds with mustard gas and nerve agents in Halabja in 1985, but that was the same year that America ceased arming Iran exclusively, and began arming both sides of the Iraqi-Iranian War (which lasted from 1981 to 1989). It's possible that the U.S. not only supplied Hussein with the gas, but in fact wanted him to commit those attacks against the Kurds in northern Iraq (whom were allied with Iran at the time). U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell famously held up a vial of anthrax to urge the world to support the war, but that vial was only a model vial, and did not contain real anthrax, much less anthrax from Iraq. Moreover, the documents which indicated that Hussein sought to purchase "yellowcake" uranium from Niger, were later shown to have been forgeries, obtained through officials in Italy, France, and the U.K..





     Myth #29:

     Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro burned trucks loaded with aid on a bridge connecting Colombia and Venezuela in March 2019.


     Why It's a Myth:

     In March 2019, a top member of the opposition to Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro told The New York Times that Maduro's forces had intentionally set fire to a convoy full of humanitarian aid (consisting of food and medicine), on the Francisco de Paula Santander Bridge between Colombia and Venezuela. Critics of Maduro claimed that Maduro ordered the convoy to be set on fire. Shortly thereafter, The New York Times retracted this story, after video footage and eyewitness accounts emerged, which showed that the convoy caught fire when it was hit with a Molotov cocktail. That makeshift bomb was thrown by a member of the opposition to Maduro, not by one of Maduro's supporters.




     Myth #30:

     A "migrant caravan", with Muslim jihadists hidden in its midst, sought to invade the United States in 2018.


     Why It's a Myth:

     Then-president Donald Trump claimed that "unidentified Middle Easterners" were among the Central American caravan of migrants which Fox News repeated was traveling through Mexico to the United States between March and October of 2018. Most of these migrants - about 80% - were from Honduras. No evidence exists to support the claim that "Middle Easterners", nor "jihadists", were taking refuge among the caravan. President Trump exaggerated the fact that many people in the caravan were "military-age males", leading people to believe that militant Muslims constituted a significant segment of the caravan's members. Trump likely did this in order to increase diplomatic tension between the U.S. and its close Central American neighbors, to pressure Mexico into supporting the continued construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and to justify the use of U.S. military forces against the caravan and against countries appearing to assist it.







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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Sixty-Three Things That the State of Israel Has Done Wrong

Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: List of 63 Things Israel Has Done Wrong
Part 3: Explanation of 63 Things Israel Did Wrong




Content

 Part 1: Introduction

     The following is my response to the question "What has Israel done wrong?".

     This article does not contain any criticism of the Jewish religion. The fact that I am criticizing Israel should not be construed to mean that I am attacking Jewish people as a whole, nor the Jewish religion. I do not mean to either criticize or attack Judaism; I mean to affirm Judaism, and, at that, affirm it as a religion of peace.
     I only mean to criticize the military and diplomatic policies of the State of Israel, and how they affect that country's relationship with the United States, its Arab neighbors, and the rest of the world. I intend this as constructive criticism, and I believe that Jews would experience less anti-Semitic violence if the party governing Israel were not so insistent that Israel and its actions represent all Jewish people the world over, and if the domestic and diplomatic policies of the State of Israel were not so militaristic.
     Israel's belligerent militarism has nothing to do with traditional Jewish values, and should not reflect badly upon the Jewish religion, nor should every Jew worldwide be held to answer anyone in public, and choose between Israel and his host country. On the contrary; the world will benefit from increased awareness that there is disagreement among Jewish people.
     As long as open-mindedness and acceptance continue to spread, it will no longer be necessary, nor justifiable, to put up a front that the Jewish people are so united about supporting Israel, in order to convince the world to help Jewish people. It is possible to help Jewish people who are in need, without assisting the sovereign government of the State of Israel. Furthermore, the appearance of united support of Israel among Jewish people, will only continue to make all Jewish people look guilty of Israeli war crimes by association, or cement the stereotype in the minds of impressionable people that Israel's war crimes reflect Jewish religious principles. They don't.

     Additionally, I recognize that other countries besides Israel - for example; Honduras, Venezuela, Libya, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and China - are experiencing serious crises which deserve our attention, so I don't mean to single Israel out. I only wish to explain the extent of Israeli influence on U.S. policy, in order to illuminate my readers as to why I feel that this issue is worth so much attention in the first place.
     I will also note that the inordinate influence of Israeli policy on American policy, which I allege in this article, should prompt us to admit that criticism of Israel means nothing unless it is coming from a position of credibility. And diplomatic efforts to convince our allies to stop doing something, will always fail, if we are doing it ourselves.
     That's why I cannot, in good conscience, criticize Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors, without criticizing the treatment of Native Americans, which was perpetrated by my own government, that of the United States. Nor can I neglect to mention all the wars and racist policies the United States has enacted, nor the various wars of territorial conquest and for territorial gain which America has waged against the British, Spanish, French, Mexicans, and the Native American tribes, and still criticize the Israeli policy of flouting U.N. resolutions concerning unlawful occupation of Palestinian territories. The occupation of Palestine, is worthy of being condemned as a movement of troops into a territory occupied through conquest during wartime, just as the annexation of Crimea by Russia arguably was in 2014, and just as the German invasion of Poland was in 1939.
     Whatever happens, somebody - whether it be the United States, Israel, the anarchists, or whomever else - somebody needs to set a good example, set real standards of human rights, do it for a long time, and protect human rights better, longer, and more consistently than anybody else. Then you can think about "throwing the first stone", instead of simply ordering another country to stop doing something that you're still doing.
     And, of course, anarchists can claim that they have deprived people of human rights a whole lot less than nearly any government you could think of has.





Part 2: List of 63 Things Israel Has Done Wrong

What Israel Has Done Wrong With Regard to Nuclear Weapons
1. Israeli has nuclear weapons that it won't admit to.
2. Israel hasn't signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
3. Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor.
4. Israel probably helped attack an Iranian nuclear reactor.
5. Israeli agents may have plotted to kill John F. Kennedy.

What Israel Has Done Wrong to Palestinians, and to its Arab Neighbors
6. Proto-Israeli paramilitary forces massacred an Arab village.
7. Israel attempted a failed false-flag attack called the Lavon Affair.
8. Israeli politicians have been exposed making racist statements.
9. Israel violates numerous U.N. resolutions.
10. The Israeli government allows the destruction of Arab homes.
11. The Israeli military uses chemical weapons.
12. The I.D.F. shoots innocent civilians, simply for being stateless prisoners near the border.
13. Israeli troops target vulnerable people on purpose.
14. Israeli troops target civilian infrastructure on purpose.
15. Israeli troops target Arab children on purpose.
16. Israeli troops physically and sexually torture detainees, including children.
17. Israel separates its people with a border wall.
18. Israel cruelly and unnecessarily cuts Palestinians off from access to water.
19. Israel imposes a blockade upon Gaza.
20. Pro-Israel interests in the U.S. demonize Assad and Syria.
21. "Arabs have full rights in Israel" is a half-truth.
22. Israel denies Palestinians the Right of Return, enjoyed by Jews who have never been to Israel

What Israel Has Done Wrong to Americans and Christians
23. Israel is a xenophobic, anti-black, anti-Arab, security state.
24. Israel receives billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers.
25. Israel drops American bombs on Palestinians.
26. Israeli companies test chemical weapons on civilians and children.
27. The pro-Israel lobby unduly influences U.S. policy in terms of defense, security, and diplomacy.
28. Israel secured a deal to make spy equipment for the U.S.., with the help of a congressman who milked 9/11 patriotism.
29. Israel's regional interests may have played a key role in America going to war with Iraq for the second time.
30. The Israeli military bombed a ship full of American sailors, in order to try to drag America into the Six-Day War.
31. Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard gave classified U.S. information to Israel, and is now free.
32. Israeli counter-intelligence may have worked with the U.S. to engineer 9/11 as a false flag.
33. Pro-Israel media have lied about the faith of the 1993 W.T.C. attackers and the 9/11 attackers.
34. Israeli counter-intelligence, Larry Silverstein's business deals in Israel, Dancing Israelis, Danny Lewin, and more, all suggest Israeli involvement in 9/11.
35. An Israeli killed protester Rachel Corrie.
36. Jewish-Americans are over-represented in government, and all are eligible for Israeli citizenship through the Right of Return.
37. The Israeli equivalent of the C.I.A., and an Israeli fighting technique, are being promoted in American entertainment.
38. Some Israelis mock Christians and Christianity, and burn churches and desecrate Christian graves.
39. Israeli influence on U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy risk an uninformed and misguided policy on the Islamic world.

What Israel Has Done Wrong to its Own People (Jews and Israelis) and to Judaism
40. The Jewish-American mafia helped proto-Israeli paramilitary forces attempt a coup against the Israeli government.
41. The Israeli military enforces a draft.
42. Protesting Israel's draft is illegal there.
43. Many Israeli schools are segregated.
44. Some Israelis teach their children to hate Arabs.
45. A group of Israelis may have mocked bombing victims during a photo shoot.
46. Many Israelis in the West Bank are complicit with "price tag" reprisals, which target Palestinians and their property.
47. Some Israeli charities are scams to fund the army.
48. Some Israelis despise the devoutly religious, and those who criticize Israel.
49. Israeli doctors sterilized black Jewish women.
50. Israel has grown increasingly xenophobic lately.
51. An Israeli official appeared to sympathize with the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter.
52. Israeli puts Jews in harm's way by associating Israeli war crimes with Judaism.
53. Israel has done little to combat the rise of pro-Zionist elements of the alt-Right.
54. Israel sells weapons to terrorist groups in Ukraine and Syria that use them to target Jews.
55. Jabotinsky, a key founder of Zionism, made arguably anti-Yiddish, anti-Semitic, anti-"Asiatic" statements about some Jewish people.
56. The contributions of Herzl, another key founder of Zionism, suggest that religious Judaism was not always part of the plan for Israel.
57. Benjamin Netanyahu is not a devoutly observant Jew.
58. Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife are currently under investigation for bribery and corruption.
59. The Netanyahu government has had a stranglehold on Israeli politics for twenty years.
60. There is sexual segregation on Israeli buses.
61. The I.D.F. discriminates against, and spies on, Israeli and Palestinian homosexuals
62. The predication of the State of Israel upon the religion of Judaism is dubious in the first place.
63. Some pro-Israel interests do not want to admit that Israel doesn't have full freedom of religion, and for good reason.






Part 3: Explanation of 62 Things Israel Did Wrong



What Israel Has Done Wrong With Regard to Nuclear Weapons


     1. Israeli has nuclear weapons that it won't admit to.

     The Israeli military currently possesses at least 150, 200, or 300 nuclear weapons, according to various decade-old estimates, but if those estimates are accurate, Israel could very well have as many as a thousand by now. The Israeli government maintains a state of "intentional ambiguity" as to whether they possess nuclear weapons, but the international community knows that it really does have them. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop the U.S. from refusing to acknowledge that Israel has them.

     http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Study-estimates-Israels-nuclear-weapon-count-stands-at-115-434834

     http://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/israel-might-have-many-300-nuclear-weapons-and-some-are-ocean-27011

     http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-nuclear-ambiguity-no-longer-serves-a-purpose-1.5322023

     http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-time-for-israel-to-drop-nuclear-ambiguity-1.6198606

     http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/117980/israel-must-reevaluate-its-policy-of-nuclear-ambiguity-opinion/

     http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/10/questioning-israel-nuclear-ambiguity-policy-2013102114618348364.html

     http://blog.oup.com/2013/11/israels-strategic-nuclear-doctrine-ambiguity-versus-openness/






     2. Israel hasn't signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

     Israel has refused to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (N.P.T.), the international agreement which prohibits countries from selling nuclear arms to other nations. Iran, on the other hand, signed the nuclear N.P.T., and appears to be obeying it. The U.S. continues to give Israel money (in the form of U.S. aid) despite the fact that there is nothing stopping the Israelis from selling weapons to other nations, which possibly renders Israel a state sponsor of terror. And it is illegal, or at least it's supposed to be illegal, for the U.S. to support state sponsors of terror.

     http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/research/2017-07-27-WMDFZME.pdf





     3. Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor.

     In 1981, the Israeli Air Force bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad, in Operation Opera. It did so without notifying the United States, and the Reagan administration condemned the action.

     http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/09/world/israeli-jets-destroy-iraqi-atomic-reactor-attack-condemned-us-arab-nations.html





     4. Israel probably helped attack an Iranian nuclear reactor.

     The Israeli military most likely worked with the U.S. to carry out the Stuxnet on Iran's nuclear reactor in 2010, which destroyed 1,000 centrifuges.

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/stuxnet-was-work-of-us-and-israeli-experts-officials-say/2012/06/01/gJQAlnEy6U_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9ae18cf0b337





     5. Israeli agents may have plotted to kill John F. Kennedy.

     Israeli agents, and/or the Jewish mafia in the United States, may have played a role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, or at the very least wanted him dead.
     J.F.K. wanted increased transparency into the Israeli nuclear weapons program, which may have been one of the reasons for his murder. J.F.K. urged David ben-Gurion to allow inspections of Israeli nuclear facilities. Also, Kennedy's tough stance on organized crime made Jewish bootleggers and mobsters potential targets for prosecution by his brother Bobby.
     Jack Ruby, who killed alleged presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television, was Jewish. He was also a former nightclub owner, he would give free drinks to Dallas police officers, and he knew bootleggers. Most importantly, Ruby knew Jewish-American gangster Mickey Cohen, and Cohen knew Menachim Begin, then a militant, but who would later become Prime Minister of Israel.
     Additionally, Arnon Milchan, the billionaire producer of the Oliver Stone film J.F.K. (which arguably contained erroneous information about the assassination), owns companies based in Israel which attempted to illegally import 800 nuclear triggers.

     http://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/06/04/did-israel-kill-the-kennedys/

     http://themobmuseum.org/blog/tv-viewers-witnessed-verbal-sparring-between-mickey-cohen-and-bobby-kennedy/

     http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3340725/t/israel-hollywood-nuclear-connection/#.XH63QYhKhPY








What Israel Has Done Wrong to Palestinians, and to its Arab Neighbors



     6. Proto-Israeli paramilitary forces massacred an Arab village.

     In 1948, just over a month before the State of Israel declared independence, fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi massacred the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin. Some deny that a massacre took place, but Irgun and Lehi's actions resulted in the deaths of 107 Palestinians, and 4 Jewish militiamen.


     http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180409-remembering-the-massacre-at-deir-yassin/

     http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/232625





     7. Israel attempted a failed false-flag attack called the Lavon Affair.

     In 1953, the Lavon Affair occurred. In a failed false flag attack, Israeli military intelligence recruited Egyptian Jews to plant bombs in American educational centers, and cinemas and libraries owned by Americans, and by British and Egyptian citizens. The failed attack was intended to inspire sympathy for sustained British presence at the Suez Canal. Muslims, communists, and other groups were supposed to be blamed, but the attacks failed, and the two of the four perpetrators who did not commit suicide were executed by the Egyptian government.

     http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-lavon-affair

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-reveals-controversial-lavon-affair-correspondence-62-years-later-1.5401166

     http://www.haaretz.com/.premium-idf-declassifies-docs-in-still-rotten-lavon-affair-1.5360650

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-reveals-controversial-lavon-affair-correspondence-62-years-later-1.5401166





     8. Israeli politicians have been exposed making racist statements.

     Numerous Israeli politicians have been known to make racist statements, and advocate for segregationist and exclusionist policies towards non-Jews.
     In the 1980s, then Chief Rabbi of Israel Ovadia Yosef supposedly said that five thousand Palestinians "aren't worth a Jewish fingernail". The overt racism of this statement aside, some anti-Zionist Jews believe that the idea of a "chief rabbi" or "chief rabbinate" has nothing to do with Judaism; because the nasi (which means "prince") of the Jerusalem Sanhedrin (a court of rabbis) should ever be considered a "head rabbi" in any way, shape, or form. Yosef was not properly ordained to be a nasi, nor is the Chief Rabbinate the ultimate authority on Judaism (G-d still is).
    Rabbi Yosef said many other racist and intolerant things that have been called out as offensive. However, it's possible that he did not make the "Jewish fingernail" comment. Rabbi Ya'acov Perin said "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail" at the funeral of mass murderer Baruch Goldstein in 1994, but the Yosef quote, if genuine, is supposed to be from the 1980s.
     Either way, the sentiment exists in Israel that Palestinian or Arab lives are somehow worth less than the lives of Jewish people and Israelis.

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/5-of-ovadia-yosefs-most-controversial-quotations/

     http://devrolijkemoslim.blogspot.com/2006/05/one-million-arabs-are-not-worth-jewish.html

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-why-more-u-s-jews-will-walk-off-birthright-this-summer-1.6269655

     http://abcnews.go.com/International/israeli-rabbi-fire-calling-black-people-monkeys/story?id=53929608






     9. Israel violates numerous U.N. resolutions.

     Israel has been found to have violated numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions; regarding the prohibition on conquering territory during wartime and moving troops into that territory. Most notably, Resolutions 89, 237, and 242.
     The fact that Israel has been in violation of at least 79 U.N. resolutions, ought to be sufficient cause to change this article's title to "One Hundred Thirty-Nine Things the State of Israel Has Done Wrong", but it's too late for that!
     Israel violated Resolution 89 when it ignored the welfare of the Palestinian people in establishing the Israeli state (in the Nakba, which saw the displacement of 3/4 million Palestinians), and Israel violated Resolutions 237 and 242 when it "annexed" the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula (which it later returned to Egypt) during the Six-Day War in 1967.
     Hundreds of thousands of Israelis civilians now live in the West Bank, which is under military occupation. The development of settlements in those areas has been a continuing source of controversy over the last several decades.

     http://ifamericaknew.org/stat/neff-un.html

     http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/01/27/rogue-state-israeli-violations-of-u-n-security-council-resolutions/







     10. The Israeli government allows the destruction of Arab homes.

     The Israeli government has allowed not only the destruction of Palestinian homes for the purposes of building new Israeli settlements, it has also allowed the desecration of Palestinian graves.

     http://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2018/06/04/israel-digs-up-centuriesold-palestinian-graves-in-jerusalem

     http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201806111065315720-Israeli-Demolish-Graves-Historic-Cemetery/

     http://mondoweiss.net/2018/03/palestinian-tombstones-jerusalem/





    11. The Israeli military uses chemical weapons.

     The Israeli Air Force has dropped incendiary devices, cluster bombs, and the chemical white phosphorus, on civilian populations. These activities are forms of siege warfare, which is a war crime and a violation of international law.

     http://www.haaretz.com/1.4924030

     http://www.france24.com/en/20090802-israel-acknowledges-use-white-phosphorus-shells-gaza-civilians

     http://www.hrw.org/report/2009/03/25/rain-fire/israels-unlawful-use-white-phosphorus-gaza#

     http://www.hrw.org/report/2008/02/16/flooding-south-lebanon/israels-use-cluster-munitions-lebanon-july-and-august-2006







     12. The I.D.F. shoots innocent civilians, simply for being stateless prisoners near the border.

     In the last eleven months, I.D.F. soldiers have shot over six thousand Palestinians (over 18 per day on average).

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-authorities-three-wounded-by-israeli-fire-in-border-protests12-year-old-killed-1.6959671

     http://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/31/palestinians-hold-day-of-mourning-after-773-shot-with-live-ammunition





      13. Israeli troops target vulnerable people on purpose.

     Israeli soldiers have been known to deliberately target children, disabled people, clearly labeled medics, and clearly labeled journalists and reporters, with live rounds of ammunition (i.e., with the intent to kill them). The Israeli army targets journalists because it does not want the public to read stories in the news which reflect negatively upon Israel.

     http://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/4/un_finds_israel_intentionally_shot_children

     http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/snipers-ordered-shoot-children-israeli-general-confirms

     http://abcnews.go.com/International/palestinians-killed-including-teen-boy-disabled-man-israeli/story?id=54633185

     http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israelis-celebrate-video-sniper-shooting-palestinian-youth






     14. Israeli troops target civilian infrastructure on purpose.

     I.D.F. troops have been observed deliberately choosing civilian targets - such as schools, hospitals, and mosques - in order to take out Hamas.
     While it's true that Hamas militants launch rockets and mortar shells from these locations, they do this because they are the only source of defense for civilians in Gaza, and they hope that Israeli soldiers would not be as willing to strike them, if it meant hurting children and sick people in the process.
     Supporters of what the I.D.F. is doing, label this "putting children in harm's way" and "using children as human shields", but Hamas does this because they know that all adults will be treated as militant belligerents by the Israelis. Using schools, mosques, and hospitals for cover, is intended to inspire sympathy in the hearts of the I.D.F. soldiers, so that they take pity on them, and refrain from striking. Striking civilian targets involves mass casualties, and is a war crime.

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/31/why-hamas-stores-its-weapons-inside-hospitals-mosques-and-schools/?utm_term=.82174a2c886f

     http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/IDF-shows-photos-of-alleged-Hamas-rocket-sites-dug-into-hospital-mosques-368307






     15. Israeli troops target Arab children on purpose.

     A single Israeli sniper recently picked off 35 Palestinian children, including kids that were merely playing and posed no threat whatsoever, near the Gaza-Israel border.

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0ChWNOMM8

     http://www.haaretz.com/an-eyewitness-account-of-the-attack-that-killed-four-children-on-gaza-beach-1.5255759





     16. Israeli troops physically and sexually torture detainees, including children.

     I.D.F. soldiers were discovered to have physically and sexually tortured Palestinian children and adults who were in their custody. One report found that 12% of detainees were threatened with sexual assault, while 4% were actually sexually assaulted. I.D.F. soldiers have also been known to punch Palestinian boys in the testicles during the course of interrogations.

     http://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-soldiers-sexually-abuse-palestinian-children/

     http://www.haaretz.com/1.5126132

     http://www.mecaforpeace.org/israel-240-palestinian-children-sexually-abused-in-jerusalem-detention-centres-group-claims/

     http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-women-haunted-abuse-israeli-jails

     http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/MAGAZINE-gaza-kids-live-in-hell-a-psychologist-tells-of-sex-abuse-drugs-and-despair-1.5464038

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/bereaved-parents-plead-for-leniency-for-soldiers-accused-of-beating-palestinians/





     17. Israel separates its people with a border wall.

     With the help of the East Jerusalem dividing wall, and road checkpoints, Israeli authorities severely restrict the flow of Palestinians to and from their places of work.

     http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2018/commuting-through-israeli-checkpoints/index.html

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/occupied/checkpoint/?utm_term=.0e26f505d63b

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/report-highlights-exploitative-illegal-trade-in-work-permits-for-palestinians/

     http://www.equaltimes.org/it-s-not-a-life-palestinian?lang=en#.XH7MeYhKhPY







     18. Israel cruelly and unnecessarily cuts Palestinians off from access to water.

     The Israeli government has allowed the people of Gaza and the West Bank to suffer wholly inadequate standards of access to clean potable drinking water.

     http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/israel-water-tool-dominate-palestinians-160619062531348.html





     19. Israel imposes a blockade upon Gaza.

     Israel, together with Egypt, has imposed a sea blockade upon Gaza for decades, at its Mediterranean Sea coastline. This prevents flotillas of aid from coming into the country by sea.

     http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Court-sets-new-precedent-to-deter-Gaza-flotillas-579888

     http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israeli-Navy-stops-Gaza-flotilla-attempting-to-breach-naval-blockade-562128

     http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/boats-carrying-gaza-patients-set-bid-break-israel-blockade-180527150238689.html

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-flotilla-turns-back-after-israeli-navy-fires-warning-shots/

     http://mepc.org/commentary/egypt-criticized-gaza-blockade

     http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12244/gaza-blockade

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-years-of-conflict-egypt-eases-gaza-blockade/

     http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/MAGAZINE-as-egypt-opens-gaza-border-a-harsh-reality-is-laid-bare-1.6118258

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/gazans-at-egypt-border-seek-to-escape-blockade/

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeNCbXVHrR8





    20. Pro-Israel interests in the U.S. demonize Assad and Syria.

     Pro-Israel interests in the U.S. tend to demonize Bashar al-Assad of Syria, but the Israelis are on good terms with him. The Israelis at least view him as someone who's been around for a while, whom they know well, and can deal with, even if he's not necessarily Israel's ally. Assad has definitely been a threat to some of his own people, but if he really is the threat to America that Americans say he is, then what does that make Israel?

     http://mic.com/articles/37761/israel-claims-syria-used-chemical-weapons-but-israel-has-used-white-phosphorus#.aLu5OwOTA

     http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/07/israel-syria-bashar-al-assad-power-180705153500325.html

     http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-syria-s-assad-has-become-israel-s-ally-1.6240499

     http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-israel/israel-not-ruling-out-eventual-ties-with-syrias-assad-idUSKBN1K01C1

     http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/assad-israel-putin-iran/566423/

     http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/israel-gamble-assad-syria/568693/






     21. "Arabs have full rights in Israel" is a half-truth.

     Defenders of Israel say that Arab citizens of Israel have all the same rights as Jewish citizens of Israel. And it's true, they do have the same rights; they can vote, and they can serve in elected office (and there are several Arab parties in Israel).
     They also have the same "right" to be forced to serve in the military (unless they're one of the 1/4 of Israeli youths who get exemptions). They also have the same right to bulldoze their own cousin's homes.

     http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-status-of-arabs-in-israel

     http://www.quora.com/Do-Arabs-in-Israel-REALLY-enjoy-same-rights-as-Jews

     http://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/one-more-racist-law-reactions-as-israel-axes-arabic-as-official-language








22. Israel denies Palestinians the Right of Return, enjoyed by Jews who have never been to Israel


http://mondoweiss.net/2016/04/note-to-progressive-jews-the-right-of-return-is-not-the-im-doing-you-a-favor-of-return/

http://www.afsc.org/resource/palestinian-refugees-and-right-return

http://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/646992059/palestinian-refugees-and-the-right-to-return

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/why-palestinians-demand-a-right-of-return-to-israel-quicktake

http://electronicintifada.net/content/right-return-heart-palestines-struggle/17856

http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/palestinian-refugees-and-the-right-of-return-in-international-law/







What Israel Has Done Wrong to Americans and Christians
     23. Israel is a xenophobic, anti-black, anti-Arab, security state.

     Israel security is reputedly very suspicious of foreigners, Westerners, and reporters. Visitors to Israel should be advised that if they have criticized Israel, or the occupation of Palestinian territories, on social media, or on a blog, they might not be allowed into the country.
     In 2017 or 2018, an African-American journalist from New York visited Israel, and reported in a New York based magazine that he was asked whether he was Arab, presumably because of his darker skin. He also reported that the mere mention of entities such as Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, or Hezbollah can get a person denied entry into Israel. Unfortunately, I was unable to find that article.

     http://www.colorlines.com/articles/traveling-while-black-i-was-racially-profiled-and-locked-israel

     http://time.com/5095435/vic-mensa-palestine-israel-jerusalem/

     http://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/08/04/on-censors-and-gag-orders-in-israel/

     http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/black-lives-matter-israel-180329061234932.html





     24. Israel receives billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers.

     Israel receives more U.S. aid than any other country with which the U.S. is not currently at war (this is to say that aid to Israel is second only to aid to Afghanistan). Israel receives $4 billion per year, increasing by $100 million annually. This was negotiated by George W. Bush, and later Barack Obama. Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye was responsible for changing the U.S. policy on money for Israel from one based on loans to one based on gifts.
     If any U.S. aid being spent on the Israeli military - and some have suggested that it all goes towards arms, and the protection of intellectual property in arms - then this presents a constitutional problem, because the Congress is not authorized to make any military expenditure for any longer than two years at a time.
     Israel has only nine million people, yet the aid it receives is vastly disproportionate to both the distribution of world population and the distribution of problems that deserve American attention.

     http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/03/10/the-countries-set-to-receive-the-most-us-foreign-aid-in-2016-infographic/#75a36a525269

     http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-israel-defense/key-u-s-lawmakers-want-to-boost-israels-38-billion-defense-aid-package-idUSKCN1GB2NQ

     http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/senate-passes-bill-to-enshrine-military-aid-package-to-israel-into-law-1.6340748

     http://www.wrmea.org/001-january-february/a-conservative-total-for-u.s.-aid-to-israel-$91-billion-and-counting.html

     http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2018/03/understanding-military-aid-israel-180305092533077.html

     http://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL33222.html







     25. Israel drops American bombs on Palestinians.

     Some of the bombs which the Israeli Air Force drops onto Palestinian civilian targets, are manufactured in the United States.

     http://www.thenation.com/article/american-weapons-are-blocking-true-peace-between-israel-and-palestine/

     http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-israel-takes-americas-best-weapons-war-makes-them-even-24953

     http://www.amnestyusa.org/us-weapons-pour-into-israel/







     26. Israeli companies test chemical weapons on civilians and children.

    Israeli pharmaceutical firms are testing gas bombs and stink bombs on Palestinian civilians, including children. The military also tests traditional weapons on civilians, in addition to chemical weapons.

     http://www.arabamericannews.com/2019/02/24/israel-pharmaceutical-firms-test-medicines-and-weapons-on-palestinians/

     http://www.wrmea.org/013-september/the-lab-israel-tests-weapons-tactics-on-captive-palestinian-population.html






     27. The pro-Israel lobby unduly influences U.S. policy in terms of defense, security, and diplomacy.

     The influence of pro-Israel interests - lobbying groups such as A.I.P.A.C. (the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee) and the evangelical group C.U.F.I. (Christians United for Israel) - shows, in the way U.S. policy has drifted towards pro-Israeli positions in recent years.

     These include:
     A) refusal to condemn Israel's actions in Gaza and the West Bank, similar policies concerning the war on terror and B) transportation security,
     C) similar policies concerning the selective service  and "mandatory civilian national service" (both euphemisms for the draft),
     D) the adoption of Israel's "intentional ambiguity" nuclear weapons policy for the purposes of a more general military philosophy by American Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and, most recently,
    E) laws in 26 states banning public workers from supporting B.D.S. (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions) or any boycott against Israel.
     F) diplomacy, in terms of U.S. alliances in the Islamic world.

     These policies have vast implications on relations between the three Abrahamic faiths of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; as well as on relations between the U.S. and the Islamic world (comprising some 1.5 billion people).

CUFI:

     http://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-01-10/pro-israel-evangelicals-escape-aipac-s-shadow

     http://jewishcurrents.org/essay/aipac-isnt-the-whole-story/

     http://www.jpost.com/International/Evangelicals-to-launch-Christian-AIPAC

     http://www.jta.org/2012/07/17/united-states/in-christian-version-of-aipac-conference-cufi-draws-5600-to-washington-for-pro-israel-lobbying

     http://forward.com/news/israel/389233/evangelicals-led-drive-to-name-jerusalem-as-capital-aipac-stayed-on-sidelin/

A. Senate supporting Israel on Gaza, etc.

     http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/04/76-senators-sign-on-to-israel-letter-026380

     http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/senate-resolution-supporting-israel-s-right-to-self-defense-november-2012

     http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/stunning-senate-oks-u-s-embassy-in-jerusalem-resolution-without-dissent/

     http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/israeli-military-equipment-used-by-the-u-s

B. Racial profiling in airport security:

     http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/11/yeffet.air.security.israel/index.html

     http://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israels-racist-airport-security-routinely-humiliates-arab-women-i-know

C. The Draft:

     http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/269502-what-the-us-can-learn-from-women-serving-in-the-israeli

     http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/12/14/national-service-supports-innovation-and-job-creation

D. Mattis:

     http://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/mattis-and-israel-not-a-love-story/2018/12/21/

     http://www.belfercenter.org/index.php/publication/mattis-could-resolve-israeli-palestinian-conflict

E. BDS:

     http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/9/18172826/bds-law-israel-boycott-states-explained

     http://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/israel-texas-anti-bds-law/

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qK1p2qxV7M

F. Diplomacy:

     For more information and links on this topic, please read Point #39, on the subject of U.S.-Islamic relations.







     28. Israel secured a deal to make spy equipment for the U.S.., with the help of a congressman who milked 9/11 patriotism.

     An Israeli surveillance company secured a lucrative contract with the U.S. government, shortly after 9/11, with the help of Congressman Robert "Bob" Ney of Ohio. Ney was the same congressman who later tried to whip Americans into a frenzy over the French disapproval of the Iraq War, by supporting serving "Freedom Fries" in the congressional cafeteria as a solution. To what, I have no idea.

     http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/

     http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2271625
     http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2061530_2061531_2061545,00.html

     http://www.fastcompany.com/90305114/israeli-operatives-black-cube-reportedly-spied-on-critics-of-nso-group

     http://www.wired.com/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/

     http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15249272/ns/politics/t/rep-ney-pleads-guilty-lobbying-scandal/#.XH7cKYhKhPY

     http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2563576&page=1

     http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16698187/ns/politics/t/ex-rep-ney-gets--months-jail-fine/#.XH7cKYhKhPY






     29. Israel's regional interests may have played a key role in America going to war with Iraq for the second time.

     Many of the key players in the Bush administration who led the charge for a second war in Iraq, including a high number of undersecretaries, were Jewish.
     This does not directly point to Israeli interference in U.S. foreign policy, but it should call into question whether Israel benefited from the U.S. occupation of Iraq (in particular, with regard to oil pipelines being built in the region, especially those which would pass through Syria, and thus near Israel). It should also call into question whether the officers who pushed for that war had any business dealings in Israel. Some of the same people have wanted a war with Iran (a neighbor of both Iraq and Afghanistan) for at least 13 years now.

     http://www.mintpressnews.com/how-pro-israel-foundations-in-washington-are-pushing-a-us-war-with-iran/255782/

     http://www.haaretz.com/1.4683322

     http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/02/08/i-dont-mean-to-say-i-told-you-so-but/

     http://ips-dc.org/the_us_invasion_of_iraq_not_the_fault_of_israel_and_its_supporters/






     30. The Israeli military bombed a ship full of American sailors, in order to try to drag America into the Six-Day War.

     The Israeli Air Force perpetrated the U.S.S. Liberty incident on June 8th, 1967.
     The Israeli military killed 34 U.S. sailors aboard the unarmed technical research and communications vessel the U.S.S. Liberty, sinking it in a barrage of bullets that lasted approximately two whole hours. A hundred seventy-one people were also wounded in the attack.
     Israel positively identified the ship as American earlier in the day, but later claimed that they got the ship's location wrong. The Israelis then blamed the attack on the United Arab Republic, a now non-existent country made up of Egypt and Syria, which was at that point fighting Israel.
     Essentially, Israel tried to drag the United States, and its army, into the Six-Day War, in order to give it the edge against its Arab neighbors. Israel acquired the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and other territories, in that war; territories whose occupation continue to generate problems for Israel's public relations.
     The fact that the Israelis intentionally attacked this U.S. military vessel, means that Israel is the only "Semitic" or Middle Eastern country that has successfully attacked a U.S. military target unprovoked since the end of World War II (aside from the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, perpetrated by the Sudan).
     Additionally, John McCain's father helped cover-up the U.S.S. Liberty incident, by heading the committee to investigate the incident, and supposedly was ordered to conclude that the attack was accidental.

     http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/but-sir-its-an-american-ship-never-mind-hit-her-1.5492908

     http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2017/07/17/another-media-cover-up-israels-attack-on-the-uss-liberty/

     http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/07/26/the-israeli-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-paul-craig-roberts/

     http://ifamericaknew.org/us_ints/ussliberty.html

     http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/08/israels-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-a-half-century-later-still-no-justice/

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q7yEnMjQ6U

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f98jxoUUrzg







     31. Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard gave classified U.S. information to Israel, and is now free.

     Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard served over two decades in federal prison for infiltrating the C.I.A. and passing-on classified American information concerning Arab nations to Israel. Pollard was released from prison in 2015, after 30 years.

     http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/world/jonathan-pollard-released.html

     http://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/21/fbi-arrests-jonathan-pollard-1985-1000480

     http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/A-new-Trump-deal-515823

      http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-rejects-israeli-request-to-let-jonathan-pollard-move-to-israel-report/

     http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-trump-s-new-lawyer-the-man-who-sent-jonathan-pollard-to-jail-1.5931543







     32. Israeli counter-intelligence may have worked with the U.S. to engineer 9/11 as a false flag.

     Former University of Wisconsin professor Kevin Barrett believes that the U.S. and Israel both use the same counter-terrorism policy: recruit Muslims who are already angry at Israel (preferably people of low intelligence, or even mentally disabled individuals) who can be agitated and provoked further (that is, radicalized), and trained to carry out attacks against American, Jewish, or Israeli targets. Basically, staging false flag attacks, and doing "agents provocateurs" tactics, is our "counter-terrorism" policy. Our counter-terrorism policy is to create more terrorism, that's sanctioned by our own government. Our policy is to radicalize Islam, and then impose mass punishment upon Muslims by blaming them for failing to hold fellow Muslims responsible.
     Barrett believes that the reason this policy is successful, is because American intelligence agents are usually able to stop these attacks (such as by scrambling fighter jets), which wins them more funding for police because they prevented an attack (that they staged to begin with). But when American intelligence agents fail to prevent an attack that they staged, they still get more funding, because then, it looks like they need that funding (and it also serves as a reminder that we need to clamp down on Americans' civil liberties more).
     Additionally, Israeli counterintelligence agents have been known to take advantage of the similarity in appearance between Arabs and Semitic Jews, for spy purposes (and some have suggested that this tactic was used on 9/11).

Misc.:

     http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/False-identity-The-Jewish-Israeli-reporter-who-went-undercover-as-a-sheikh-540694

     http://www.wicipolskie.org/?p=26383

     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2015/11/trump-doubles-down-on-arabs-celebrating.html

     http://www.cato.org/blog/profiles-every-terrorism-vetting-failure-last-30-years

Kevin Barrett:

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MQq0wfithI

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e811xgRlZYE

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDCUZSS6djE

Adam Gadahn:

     http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/23/world/adam-gadahn-al-qaeda/index.html

     http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/23/us/adam-gadahn-fast-facts/index.html

     http://wideawakegentile.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/adam-pearlman-head-joo-of-the-almossciada/

     http://www.nbcnews.com/id/31371452/ns/world_news-terrorism/t/al-qaida-spokesman-describes-jewish-roots/

     http://www.pe.com/2015/04/23/winchester-adam-yahiye-gadahns-unlikely-road-to-terror/

     http://www.wicipolskie.org/?p=26383







     33. Pro-Israel media have lied about the faith of the 1993 W.T.C. attackers and the 9/11 attackers.

     Pro-Israel media, and Islamophobic media, have glossed over the fact that Ramzi Yousef, the lead perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center attacks, was known to drink alcohol and associate with strippers and prostitutes. The same can be said of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and alleged 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta.
     The fact that Islam forbids those licentious activities, cannot be reconciled with the idea that those Muslims who attack Americans do so out of a firm belief in their religion. If Yousef, Mohammed, and Atta firmly believed in Islam, then they would not have drunk alcohol, nor associated with prostitutes.

     http://www.911myths.com/html/strip_clubs.html

     http://www.wicipolskie.org/?p=26383






     34. Israeli counter-intelligence, Larry Silverstein's business deals in Israel, Dancing Israelis, Danny Lewin, and more, all suggest Israeli involvement in 9/11.

     Numerous facts point to possible Israeli involvement in, or at least foreknowledge of, the attacks of September 11th, 2001.
     These include the Israeli business interests of World Trade Center owner Larry Silverstein and the attacks as a possible case of insurance fraud on Silverstein's behalf, a FOX report on Israeli agents posing as art students and toy salesmen in the United States, the revelation that Israeli airliner El-Al is housing plane wreckage from the 9/11 attacks in one of its hangars at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, and the fact that passenger Danny Lewin and the "dancing Israelis" arrested in New Jersey on 9/11 had all served in M.O.S.S.A.D..
     Benjamin Netanyahu has even made statements that seem to cast 9/11 in a positive light, if only for its possible positive effects on Jewish safety. Additionally, Ehud Barak jumped to blaming Osama bin Laden for 9/11 very soon after the attacks.

     http://www.haaretz.com/1.5462012

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XHm56O2NTI

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p0m98tQFaQ

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbkQddEDPs0

     http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22hq7s

     http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/tech/innovation/danny-lewin-9-11-akamai/index.html

     http://wideawakegentile.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/akamai-tech-daniel-lewin-and-911/

     http://www.haaretz.com/1.5396918

     http://www.ilaam.net/Sept11/ZionistDid911.html

     http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=911timeline&911timeline_before_9_11=911timeline_alleged_israeli_spy_ring

     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1387069/US-arrests-200-young-Israelis-in-spying-investigation.html

     http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/13/1332210_-analytical-and-intelligence-comments-mossad-ran-9-11-arab.html

     http://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it

     http://www.todayscatholicworld.com/mossad-agents-911.htm

     http://www.unz.com/article/911-was-an-israeli-job/

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yutvaoLg1gQ

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dKtipm7JIY

     http://www.haaretz.com/1.4970678

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bI0nzDSPTI







     35. An Israeli killed American protester Rachel Corrie by running her over with a bulldozer.

     In 2004 - in Rafah, Gaza - an Israeli ran over 23-year-old American protester Rachel Corrie with a bulldozer, killing her.
     Corrie was protesting the destruction of Palestinian homes (with those very same bulldozers) in order to continue the development of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The operator of the bulldozer claimed that he did not see Corrie.
     Corrie's family sought reparations from the Israeli government over the incident, but the court ruled against them.

     http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/rachel-corrie

     http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/12/rachel-corrie-family-appeal-israel-court

     http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/28/rachel-corrie-ruling-deeply-troubling








     36. Jewish-Americans are over-represented in government, and all are eligible for Israeli citizenship through the Right of Return.

     Jewish-Americans continue to be vastly over-represented in the U.S. Senate, House, and Supreme Court. True, intermarriage means that many of these representatives are only part Jewish, and merit should always govern how elected officials are not chosen, nor should quota systems be imposed.
     But questions of disproportionate numeric influence aside; the fact of Jewish over-representation on the Court and in Congress are problematic for two reasons: 1) all Jews are eligible for Israeli citizenship, due to the Israeli "right of return" law, and that means any Jewish U.S. official could easily become a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, and 2) the more Jewish people (whether white, Semitic, both, or neither) we have representing Americans in the halls of Congress, the fewer Hispanics, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and others, we have representing Americans in the halls of Congress.

     http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-members-of-the-115th-congress

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_members_of_the_United_States_Congress

     http://www.ranker.com/list/current-jewish-congressmen/famous-jews






     37. The Israeli equivalent of the C.I.A., and an Israeli fighting technique, are being promoted in American entertainment.

     Several American television shows, including The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother, were revealed to have been subtly promoting the Israeli martial arts school Krav Maga. The Adam Sandler film You Don't Mess with the Zohan was an even more overt propagandization of pro-M.O.S.S.A.D. sentiments (but with an anti-racist, but nonetheless misogynistic, "moral of the story" in the end). It is getting harder to deny that some American television and films have pro-Israel propaganda in them (the Islamophobia, though, is much easier to detect).

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U8CS1Sqw70

     http://www.jta.org/2018/06/08/united-states/dont-mess-zohan-adam-sandlers-liberal-zionist-manifesto






     38. Some Israelis mock Christians and Christianity, and burn churches and desecrate Christian graves.

     Israelis have been observed mocking America for being the victim of 9/11, spitting on Christians, denigrating Jesus and Mary and mocking the crucifixion, burning Christian churches, and desecrating Christian graves.

Israelis' treatment of Christians:

     http://www.haaretz.com/1.4715226

     http://imemc.org/article/75889/

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTLctRe0edk

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-WTWYTypc

     http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/12/151224-israel-jewish-terrorism-arson-christian-church-multiplication/

     http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/12/151224-israel-jewish-terrorism-arson-christian-church-multiplication/

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/brazilian-fiddler-director-orthodox-jews-spit-on-christians/

     http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=631

     http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4525312,00.html

     http://forward.com/schmooze/145816/jerusalem-judge-to-jews-dont-spit-on-christians/

Israelis' mockery of Christianity:

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HytrKvXGljc

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNtLfjZuGd8

     http://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2019/01/14/israeli-museum-under-fire-after-exhibition-mocks-jesus-christ-virgin-mary

Israelis mocking 9/11:

     http://www.jta.org/2013/02/22/culture/israeli-site-shows-photo-of-kids-dressed-as-burning-twin-towers-for-purim-upsets-everyone

     http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4351384,00.html

Christian graves desecrated:

     http://www.voanews.com/a/christian-graves-desecrated-in-central-israel/4619159.html

 





     39. Israeli influence on U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy risk an uninformed and misguided policy on the Islamic world.

     If U.S. foreign policy towards the Islamic world is in any way misguided, then U.S. policy towards Israel has enormous consequences regarding those some 1.5 billion Muslim people. Our determination that there be "no light between the United States and Israel", often requires making enemies of entire predominantly-Muslim nations, hundreds of millions of people at a time.
     Choosing the wrong Muslim countries, and the wrong regimes, to cooperate with, could have dire consequences upon the alignment of nations in a potential future cold war or world war (specifically, at worst, a conspiracy against the United States and Israel by countries representing half the world's population).

     http://www.valuewalk.com/2018/04/india-pakistan-china-russia-sco-military-drill/








What Israel Has Done Wrong to its Own People (Jews and Israelis) and to Judaism



     40. The Jewish-American mafia helped proto-Israeli paramilitary forces attempt a coup against the Israeli government.

     Jewish-American gangsters Meyer Lansky, Mickey Cohen, and others, established the Jewish mafia in America. One outlet for the Jewish mafia was a candy store. The Jewish mafia in the United States operated under the name Murder Inc.. Meyer Lansky and the mob played instrumental roles in helping the Israeli state to become independent.
     Murder Inc.'s associates in Zionist paramilitary group Irgun, bought the ship the Altalena, loaded it with millions of dollars in French-bought arms, and attempted to land on the Israeli shore. Irgun, then led by Menachem Begin, did this in order to attempt to carry out a coup against the democratically elected government of Israel, the Labor-Zionist Mapai party led by Prime Minister David ben-Gurion, who treated the Altalena affair as an act of insurrection.
     The Altalena was sunk before making landfall, and 19 people were killed during the two days of the affair.
     Haganah, along with Irgun and Lehi, were merged into the Israeli Defense Forces when Israel declared independence in May 1948. Despite the fact that Irgun had merged into the I.D.F., that did not stop the I.D.F. from confronting Irgun militants aboard the Altalena. The Irgun was completely absorbed into the I.D.F. on the first day of June 1948.

     http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/260133/gangsters-for-zion

     http://www.bh.org.il/blog-items/jewish-gangster-goldene-medina/

     http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1948-altalena-arms-ship-sunk-by-friendy-fire-1.5373581

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/fire-in-the-hole-blasting-the-altalena/

     http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/library/reading_corner/Pages/altalena.aspx






     41. The Israeli military enforces a draft.

     The Israeli Defense Forces require Israeli citizens above age 18 to serve in the I.D.F.. Men serve for 2 years and 8 months, while women serve for two years.
     After all the exemptions are taken into account, 3/4 of Israeli youths end up serving in the I.D.F., while about half of Israeli citizens living in the country today have served in the I.D.F.. The Israeli draft includes young women, and it also includes yeshiva students who would rather be studying G-d's word than learning how to fight.
     It is ironic that Israelis criticize Palestinians for turning their children into warriors at the age of 12, because Israelis think themselves so much more civilized just because they wait until their children turn 18 to strap guns to them. It suggests a low standard for military valor.

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEpokJmiOKo

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_against_conscription_of_yeshiva_students

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-law-that-would-force-more-haredim-into-the-israeli-army-1.6240217

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/defense-ministry-recommends-sanctions-on-draft-dodging-yeshivas/

     http://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/world/middleeast/israel-ultra-orthodox-military.html

     http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-s-government-could-fall-over-ultra-orthodox-enlistment-n853556







     42. Protesting Israel's draft is illegal there.

     Israeli authorities have arrested and jailed people for protesting Israel's draft.

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_rqCQT5mjU






     43. Many Israeli schools are segregated.

     Most schools in Israel are segregated according to religion (i.e., Judaism vs. Islam), and even according to sects or traditions within Judaism (i.e., liberal, reform, Reconstructionist, conservadox, modern Orthodox, ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jews, etc.).

     http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/schools-for-jews-and-arabs-separate-but-definitely-not-equal-1.5186983

     http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Private-and-public-schooling-in-Israel-not-what-you-thought-488859




     44. Some Israelis teach their children to hate Arabs.

     While it's true that some Palestinians teach their children to hate Jews, there are Israeli citizens who teach their children to hate Palestinians.
     Some defenders of Israel like to repeat a quotation attributed to Golda Meir (which, incidentally, possibly was never said by her); that Palestinians will only stop attacking Israelis when their love of their children overwhelms their hatred of Israelis.
     The idea that Meir said this, is a form of propaganda that indoctrinates young Jewish people into assuming that all Arabs hate Jews, and want to kill them because it's supposedly part of their religion, etc..
     The idea that Meir said this, has been used to absolve Israelis of all responsibility to teach their own children that Arab hatred of Israelis is not unprovoked (because of the I.D.F.'s crimes against the Palestinians). The quotation shifts the responsibility from the Israelis attacking "in self defense" to the people who are getting fired upon; it suggests that Palestinians ought to ask themselves what they did to put themselves in that situation.

     http://www.haaretz.com/golda-meir-s-gems-did-she-really-say-that-1.5371930

     http://www.dailysabah.com/islamophobia/2018/06/26/israeli-students-say-they-want-to-kill-arabs-as-teacher-promotes-hatred

     http://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1029084180469610

     http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-police-teach-schoolchildren-how-shoot-palestinians

     http://forward.com/opinion/israel/197866/when-israelis-teach-their-kids-to-hate/

     http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4826594,00.html





     45. A group of Israelis may have mocked bombing victims during a photo shoot.

     In 2006, Israeli children were photographed writing messages onto Israeli tank shells intended to be fired across the northern Israeli border into Lebanon.
     Although it looks on the surface like the children were drawing taunting messages on the rockets, their messages were supposedly messages of love, directed at Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Additionally, defenders of the photographs say that the children had been in an underground shelter for five days before the photographs were taken. Children also drew Israeli flags on the rockets.
     According to reports, the parents of the children, and photographic journalists who were there when this occurred, thought that letting the children draw on tank shells would show the contrast between love and war. But it is also easy to understand how these photographs could be perceived as insensitive, taunting of the people who will eventually end up on the other side of those shells, and even as an example of Israelis teaching their children to hate Arabs.

     http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7760/1663/1600/israeli%20girls%20signing%202.jpg


     http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?address=364x1689647&az=view_all

     http://serandez.blogspot.com/2006/07/story-behind-missile-drawing-pics.html

     http://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2006/jul/20/missilespostin

     http://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/about_those_photos_of_little_g.php






     46. Many Israelis in the West Bank are complicit with "price tag" reprisals, which target Palestinians and their property.

     An Israeli Jewish father living in the West Bank gave an interview to press after his teenage daughter was caught vandalizing Palestinian property. The man told a reporter that he was proud of his daughter for caring enough about the problems in the world to do something like that.

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NMwohMhP10

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G70rcq3Cc-U





     http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/14/c_137821655.htm

     http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israeli-settlers-vandalize-west-bank-mosque






     47. Some Israeli charities are scams to fund the army.

     Jewish prophecy foretells that in Olam Ha-Ba ("the world to come"), the land of Israel will flourish anew. That happened, many thousands of trees were planted, and the miraculous desalinization process developed by Israeli scientists allowed the cultivation of many acres of land which would otherwise be impossible to farm due to the deserts.
     Charity organizations such as the Jewish National Fund (J.N.F.; popularly known as the "pennies for Israel" charity) collected funds which were intended to go toward the planting of trees in Israel, in order to help make that prophecy come true. Unfortunately, some of the funds which were collected for planting trees in Israel, went to purchasing guns and bombs for the Israeli Defense Forces. This was likely rationalized as "beating our ploughshares into swords".
     As a reminder, the I.D.F. was organized through the merger of three paramilitary organizations, which, until they were to formally constitute the military apparatus of a state, would otherwise be considered potential terrorist groups; stateless entities (that is, on par with I.S.I.S.).

     http://nonprofitquarterly.org/2014/05/28/jnf-an-opaque-charity-that-owns-13-of-israel-s-land/

     http://electronicintifada.net/content/how-jewish-national-fund-lobbies-war/19796

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M5V_aqAck0

     http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/03/world/arboreal-scandal-in-israel-not-all-of-the-trees-planted-there-stay-planted.html

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/jnf-in-america-essentially-stops-funding-its-israeli-counterpart-1.5439976





     48. Some Israelis despise the devoutly religious, and those who criticize Israel.

     Many Israeli citizens teach their children to think that ultra-Orthodox Jews who reject the idea of Jewish sovereignty are crazy.
     Granted, these Jews are in a minority - only 1% of Jews are considered ultra-Orthodox and reject Jewish sovereignty that does not involve communal rabbinic courts - but being in the minority guarantees neither that they are wrong, nor that they have rights.
     Some Israeli citizens disparage ultra-Orthodox Jews for rejecting the latest technology, and disparage anti-Zionist Jews as "self-hating" Jews. Israelis also mock such Jews for being unable to resist the temptation to accept assistance from the Israeli government, which is supposed to be against their religion.

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcyBXfw8NIw

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzifK79E_PI

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8mb5cd7GNE

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKplabTRuak

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-_3FbS5Tao







     49. Israeli doctors sterilized black Jewish women.

     Israeli doctors allowed many Ethiopian Jewish women to be sterilized without their knowledge. This was alleged to have been part of a deliberate attempt to reduce the population of Ethiopian Jews in Israel. The Israelis' treatment of Ethiopians is ironic, given the lengths to which Israeli soldiers went to save Ethiopians in Operation Solomon.

     http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-admits-ethiopian-women-were-given-birth-control-shots.premium-1.496519

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-forced-birth-control-probe-wouldn-t-hear-complainants-testimony-1.5396634

     http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/ethiopian-women-given-contraceptives-israel

     http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-gave-birth-control-to-ethiopian-jews-without-their-consent-8468800.html

     http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseknutsen/2013/01/28/israel-foribly-injected-african-immigrant-women-with-birth-control/#30fac87767b8

     http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/195786






     50. Israel has grown increasingly xenophobic lately.

     In recent years, the State of Israel has made conscious steps towards, and overt statements justifying, the supposed need to crack down on non-Jewish and non-white immigration into the country.
     
     http://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/15/israel-turmoil-bill-allowing-jews-arabs-segregated

     http://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/world/middleeast/israel-migrants-african.html

     http://www.iol.co.za/news/opinion/israel-no-country-for-black-people-12900274

     http://observers.france24.com/en/20180501-shocking-photos-migrants-humiliated-tel-aviv

     http://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/03/benjamin-netanyahu-asks-if-african-migrants-can-be-forcibly-removed-from-israel

     http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42541515

     http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/01/03/israeli-government-tells-africans-leave/999048001/







     51. An Israeli official appeared to sympathize with the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter.

     Israeli advisor Naftali Bennett appeared to agree with the perpetrator of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, saying that the shooter was motivated by the need to oppose immigration.

     http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-americans-may-never-forgive-israel-for-its-reaction-to-the-pittsburgh-massacre-1.6616617

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/after-pittsburgh-shooting-naftali-bennett-questions-surge-of-us-anti-semitism/

     http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/in-pittsburgh-naftali-bennetts-presence-highlights-the-debate-between-netanyahus-government-and-american-jews

     http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-tone-deaf-israeli-reactions-to-the-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting

      http://www.jta.org/2018/10/30/united-states/naftali-bennett-blaming-trump-pittsburgh-shooting-unfair






     52. Israeli puts Jews in harm's way by associating Israeli war crimes with Judaism.

     While attacks on Jews around the world increase whenever Israel is at war, Israel's representatives - especially Benjamin Netanyahu - tend to speak in vain, self-loathing (yet somehow also self-congratulating) platitudes, pretending that it has the ability or the desire to save every Jew outside Israel from violence.
     Israel does this in order to garner sympathy and donations for itself, while Jews around the world suffer from anti-Semitic attacks which are inspired by Israel's policy of war crimes, not by anything having to do with the religion of Judaism.
     Israel, by asserting that its illegal actions represent all Jews worldwide, motivates anti-Semitic attacks, and causes people to treat any and all Jewish people as potential agents of the Israeli government (and Israel does little to dissuade that sentiment, because it drafts 3/4 of its own people!). 
     Essentially, Israel is using the Israeli people, and the Jewish religion, as shields against criticism for Israel's crimes (in every bit the same way as Palestinians use their children as human shields, and more).

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5TM3LGrIY








     53. Israel has done little to combat the rise of pro-Zionist elements of the alt-Right.

     The rise of figures like Jared Kushner and Milo Yiannopoulos (whom are Jewish); and Steve Bannon, Richard Spencer, to some extent David Duke (whom are not), present the troublesome potential of a growing alliance between Zionists and white nationalists.
     Spencer, for example, says that a more white and homogeneous Israel, with more restricted immigration and the recently enacted "Nation State Law", reflects the same principles of nationalism he'd wish of any other country.
     The Netanyahu regime is evidently doing little to stop Zionism, white nationalism, and racism from becoming permanently intertwined, and sadly, some Jewish-Americans have even fallen for it.

Trump & Israel:

     http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/zionist-white-supremacist-alliance-trumps-white-house

     http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/admit-it-donald-trump-is-a-disaster-for-israel-and-the-jews-1.6775091

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-dissing-claims-of-anti-semitism-netanyahu-stamps-trump-kosher-1.5471923

     http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-they-re-not-jews-they-re-maga-people-and-they-run-israel-1.6908864

Steve Bannon:

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-zoa-event-bannon-asks-jews-to-join-his-war-on-gop-establishment/

     http://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/steve-bannon-israel-anti-semitism.html

     http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-on-european-tour-steve-bannon-comes-out-as-a-proud-racist-1.5890885

Richard Spencer:

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-nation-state-law-backed-by-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-1.6295314

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-nation-state-law-backed-by-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-1.6295314

     http://www.newsweek.com/white-supremacist-richard-spencer-fan-israels-nation-state-law-1036518

Milo Yiannopoulos:

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/paypal-suspends-milo-yiannopoulos-over-nazi-based-trolling-of-jewish-journalist/








     54. Israel sells weapons to terrorist groups in Ukraine and Syria that use them to target Jews.

     Agents in Israel have reportedly sold Israeli-made weapons to terrorist groups in the Ukraine and Syria, which subsequently used those weapons against Jewish targets in those countries. Israel has also sold weapons to at least 18 other countries.

     http://972mag.com/u-s-embassy-opening-a-whos-who-of-the-israeli-arms-trade/135681/

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-acknowledges-long-claimed-weapons-supply-to-syrian-rebels/

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/rights-groups-demand-israel-stop-arming-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-1.6248727

     http://therealnews.com/stories/israel-is-arming-ukraines-blatantly-neo-nazi-militia-the-azov-battalion

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-diplomats-nix-drone-sale-to-ukraine-report/

     http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/One-Ukraine-two-Jews-577695

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-warns-israel-not-to-sell-arms-to-ukraine/

     http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181016-israel-us-secretly-trained-against-russias-missile-system-in-ukraine/

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-us-send-secret-delegation-to-ukraine-to-train-against-s-300-report/

     http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/union-israel-european-180716085952930.html








     55. Jabotinsky, a key founder of Zionism, made arguably anti-Yiddish, anti-Semitic, anti-"Asiatic" statements about some Jewish people.

     Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a key early contributor to the development of Zionism, urged Jews to shed their Eastern appearances which made them obviously Jewish to the naked eye, and to instead adopt an ideal of Jewish "masculine beauty" which was antithetical to the traditional appearance of Jews in the Eastern European pale, and more similar to the clean-shaven, robust, angular appearance of the people who had routinely banned them from this and that European country over the previous millennium.
     Jabotinsky himself did not wear a beard, and his statements arguably helped confirm and rationalize white Christian Europeans' feelings of repulsion by Ashkenazic Jews' "Asiatic" appearances.

     http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20181026042610167

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhxaZtrr8tY









     56. The contributions of Herzl, another key founder of Zionism, suggest that religious Judaism was not always part of the plan for Israel.

     Another key contributor to Zionism, Theodor Herzl, the founder of the World Zionist Organization, did not circumcise his son, was not a practicing Jew, and saw Zionism as a purely political solution to the problem of Jewish safety.
     Herzl did not foresee Israelis speaking Hebrew; and incidentally, modern Hebrew is arguably a corruption of ancient Hebrew, traditionally considered a holy language. In speaking modern Hebrew, modern Israeli culture is arguably a profanation of a holy language. Speaking any sort of Hebrew language fluently is not considered necessary to be a practicing Jew.

     http://www.nkusa.org/activities/statements/062504vienna.cfm

     http://www.haaretz.com/1.5115016






     57. Benjamin Netanyahu is not a devoutly observant Jew.

     Netanyahu does not keep kosher, wears a yarmulke very infrequently, and does not know what language Jesus spoke.
     Netanyahu, Herzl, and Jabotinsky, in many ways, all deserve to be characterized as (as Christopher Hitchens put it) "believing that G-d does not exist, but also that He gave Jews the land of Israel".
     Despite Netanyahu's lack of devoted religious observation, he is somehow able to maintain the illusion that he, his party, and the State of Israel, represent all Jewish people worldwide, as well as Jewish values.

     http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/israel-greenblatt-yarmulke-ultra-orthodox-trump-judaism.html

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6_HU60usA







     58. Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife are currently under investigation for bribery and corruption.

     http://www.npr.org/2019/02/28/698914797/israels-attorney-general-moves-to-indict-netanyahu-on-corruption-charges

     http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-s-corruption-cases-what-happens-n978036

     http://www.vox.com/2019/2/28/18243493/israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-indictment-bribery-fraud

     http://www.axios.com/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-indicted-bribery-fraud-f5acc07a-1569-463c-8a4f-06d58b959fef.html

     http://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/02/police-recommend-indicting-benjamin-netanyahu-on-bribery-charges

     http://www.npr.org/2019/02/28/698914797/israels-attorney-general-moves-to-indict-netanyahu-on-corruption-charges







     59. The Netanyahu government has had a stranglehold on Israeli politics for twenty years.

     The Netanyahu government, and the Likud Party, have dominated Israeli politics for some two decades, disenfranchising a large number of parties. True, the Likud has been obligated to form coalition governments, and small parties do win seats, but small parties are all but excluded from the Israeli political process.

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-gantz-reveals-party-slate-union-boss-ex-defense-minister-lead-ticket-1.6954736

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-are-israel-s-religious-parties-about-to-lose-their-clout-in-the-knesset-1.6831519

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-likud-netanyahu-right-wing-votes-political-center-election-ashdod-1.6953844

     http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-political-bombshell-as-gantz-lapid-join-forces-to-replace-netanyahu-1.6957403









     60. There is sexual segregation on Israeli buses.

     The influence of conservative Judaism on Israeli politics has resulted in the adoption of gender segregation on public transportation in Israel.

     http://www.pri.org/stories/2008-02-28/israels-gender-segregated-buses

     http://www.haaretz.com/1.5104449

     http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/sex-segregation-on-the-buses-divides-israelis-6279844.html

     http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gender-segregated-buses-okd-by-israeli-court/

     http://www.haaretz.com/.premium-gender-segregation-on-buses-lingers-on-1.5305320

     http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-women/israel-seeks-to-end-back-of-the-bus-gender-segregation-idUSBRE9480FH20130509







61. The I.D.F. discriminates against, and spies on, Israeli and Palestinian homosexuals.

     It is a matter of public knowledge in Israel that the military's cybersecurity apparati collect negative information about people, for the purpose of using it as blackmail. This information includes whether a person of interest is homosexual. In the case of homosexual Palestinians, this is often done for the purpose of pressuring them into becoming informants for the I.D.F..
     Israeli society also suffers from a widespread and open stigmatization of homosexuality. Several scenes in Adam Sandler's 2008 film You Don't Mess with the Zohan portray just how openly homophobic some I.D.F. soldiers can be.


http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-israel-s-cyber-spy-industry-aids-dictators-hunt-dissidents-and-gays-1.6573027

http://www.newsweek.com/israeli-companies-sell-surveillance-tech-and-knowledge-used-persecuting-1178084

http://www.timesofisrael.com/tens-of-thousands-protest-in-tel-aviv-over-lgbt-exclusion-from-surrogacy-law/

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-idf-gays-who-help-blackmail-gays-1.5305326

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/09/blackmails-palestinian-informants/







     62. The predication of the State of Israel upon the religion of Judaism is dubious in the first place.

     Pro-Israeli public relations outlets have predicated the existence and survival of the Jewish people upon the State of Israel. In practice, this means that Jews' safety is thought to be dependent upon the State of Israel's sovereignty, its right to "defend itself" as it sees fit (even if that means committing war crimes), and its exclusionary immigration policy.
     The idea that the Oaths of the Torah can only be fulfilled inside Israel, ignores the fact that the people of Moses received the Torah outside the land of Israel, and before entering the Holy Land. The Oaths can be fulfilled inside the land, and Jews can live in Israel at will, but ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionists Jews believe that willful mass immigration to Israel is prohibited, since the Jews are in exile (and have been since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D.).

     http://www.truetorahjews.org/rabbi-yaakov-shapiro-jerusalem-capital-jewish-people





     63. Some pro-Israel interests do not want to admit that Israel doesn't have full freedom of religion, and for good reason.

     Pro-Israel public relations outlets have supported the right of Jews to pray in the Old City, basically wherever and whenever they please, in defiance of Israeli and Jordanian authorities.
     In 2013, Rabbi Susan Silverman, the sister of Jewish-American comedian Sarah Silverman, protested Jews' lack of freedom to pray openly at the Wailing Wall, as part of a group called Women of the Wall.
     Jewish Israelis' supposed right to do this, is defended on the grounds that Israel is the only democracy and the only country with religious freedom in the Middle East. Additionally, the notion that in the world to come, Jerusalem will become "a house of prayer for all nations", is cited to defend the need to allow Jews to pray freely in the Old City of Jerusalem.
     This may seem like an inhibition of religious freedom, and an obvious instance of the Jews being correct, but the Jordanian Islamic Waqf has control of the Dome of the Rock, and restricts prayer to certain times and dates, and restricts Jews' freedom to overtly pray, for a reason.
     This is the spot which was formerly occupied by the First and Second Holy Temples. It is also believed to have been the spot where Abraham almost sacrificed his son Isaac. Some also believe that it was the "cornerstone of Creation", the first place on Earth created by G-d. Muslims also believe that Muhammad ascended to Heaven on this site; next to the Dome of the Rock mosque (al-Aqsa). Non-Muslims are not permitted to enter the Dome of the Rock.
     A lot of people - of various faiths - want these areas to be protected. The "Sanctum Sanctorum" (the "Holy of Holies", the name for the inner sanctuary of the Tabernacle) is probably the single most holy of all places in Judaism. It is believed to have once housed the Ark of the Covenant of the people of Moses.
     Stepping on the Holy of Holies (the former site of the Tabernacle -, or entering the sanctuary at the wrong date and time, or when one is not a Levite priest - is forbidden. Not in Islam; in Judaism, and according to Israeli law as well.
     Jordanian Islamic authorities are not the only ones who restrict prayer on the Temple Mount; Israeli law affects the legality of prayer there as well. So if anyone deserves to be protested for restricting prayer, then Jordanian and Israeli authorities must share equal blame. And it seems that the Women of the Wall protesters did assign equal blame. But we should also ask ourselves whether G-d deserves any blame, since He's the one who supposedly set these prayer rules down in the first place.
     And maybe He did, maybe He didn't! These ideas might seem unusual or foreign to Westerners, Christians, and secularists. But the problem is not necessarily that open prayer by Jewish people on the Temple Mount is going to cause some kind of "end of the world". The problem is that openly praying in public - in defiance of multiple religious and political organizations' requests, and at inappropriate times and dates and locations - is disruptive. It interferes with the religious liberty of non-Jews wishing to pray quietly, and without disrupting others, at that location.
     We may value religious liberty here in the West, and that is fine. But our freedom to practice our own religion (or no religion) should not negate other people's rights to practice their religion in peace. We have the right to worship as we please, but not if it requires hurting others, and not if it requires shoving our religion in other people's faces in public, and entering their holy spaces without their permission.

     http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-western-wall-hijacked-1.5229440

     http://www.timesofisrael.com/mks-propose-law-allowing-jews-to-pray-at-temple-mount/





     Read the following articles to find out why some Israelis have even stooped to endorsing the same theories of racial supremacy which led the Nazis to attempt to destroy the Jewish people, and to endorsing the commission of new atrocities and disproportionate violence in response to the Holocaust:


http://mondoweiss.net/2019/04/israeli-military-praising/?fbclid=IwAR0xNHYrcCrQSfWQGlP9mQqy3aw6-xFYkkOMSeaMF0DxhMSufmfWlI8_O-0







Title changed several times in order to reflect the author's growing list of
"things Israel has done wrong"

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