TIBET: A CINDERELLA STORY WITH AN UNHAPPY ENDING

On this day in history… March 10, 1959

TIBETAN REBELLION STARTS

On this day in 1959, Tibetans band together in revolt, surrounding the summer palace of the Dalai Lama in defiance of Chinese occupation forces. After only a two-day battle, they were defeated by the Chinese communist troops. What followed was killing, looting and destruction of Tibetan monasteries and homes in which some 87,000 people lost their lives.

That’s the official History.com summary about the 1959 Tibetan rebellion. Actually what happened there is analogous to Tibet playing the role of Cinderella and the American government that of the evil stepmother. Except that this Cinderella never found the glass slipper and is still waiting find her prince charming.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama waves to his followers after a teaching at the Sed Gyued institute at Salugara on the outskirts of Siliguri on December 24, 2010. The Dalai Lama advocates the 21st century as ‘ Century of Dialogue’ to eradicate differences and also stated that the youth would shape the 21st century while speaking to the media persons on his final day visit in Salugara, India’s West Bengal state after teachings to followers in Sikkim and Kalimpong.AFP PHOTO/Diptendu DUTTA (Photo credit should read DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/Getty Images)

CIA’s Tibetan War

In reality, ever since the 1950 Chinese takeover of Tibet, the CIA ran a covert operation there designed to train Tibetan insurgents and gather intelligence about the Chinese. It was part of its efforts to contain the spread of communism around the world. Though little known today, the program produced at least one spectacular intelligence coup and provided a source of support for the Dalai Lama. On the eve of Richard Nixon’s 1972 meeting with Mao, however, the program was abruptly cancelled, thus leaving the would-be Tibetan insurgents high and dry (see The CIA’s Cancelled War).

The Other Tibetan Rebellion

And then there is something else that the official history of Tibet usually does not mention – The Other Tibetan Rebellion. in 1905, The rebellion in Yunnan province began with a series of attacks on Christian missionaries and converts and ended with the imperial Chinese government re-asserting control of the province. So the same outcome as in 1959, only a different Chinese government. (For more, see http://military.wikia.com/wiki/1905_Tibetan_Rebellion).

WHAT LED TO THE 1959 REBELLION?

China’s latest occupation of Tibet began nearly a decade before, in October 1950, when troops from its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) invaded the country, barely one year after the Communists gained full control of mainland China. The Tibetan government gave into Chinese pressure the following year, signing a treaty that ensured the power of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the country’s spiritual leader, over Tibet’s domestic affairs. Resistance to the Chinese occupation built steadily over the next several years, including a revolt in several areas of eastern Tibet in 1956.

By December 1958, rebellion was simmering in Lhasa, the capital, and the PLA command threatened to bomb the city if order was not maintained.

The March 1959 uprising in Lhasa was triggered by fears of a plot to kidnap the Dalai Lama and take him to Beijing. When Chinese military officers invited His Holiness to visit the PLA headquarters for a theatrical performance and official tea, he was told he must come alone, and that no Tibetan military bodyguards or personnel would be allowed past the edges of the military camp. On March 10, 300,000 loyal Tibetans surrounded Norbulinka Palace, preventing the Dalai Lama from accepting the PLA’s invitation.

By March 17, Chinese artillery was aimed at the palace, and the Dalai Lama was evacuated to neighboring India. Fighting broke out in Lhasa two days later, with Tibetan rebels hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned. Early on March 21, the Chinese began shelling Norbulinka, slaughtering tens of thousands of men, women and children still camped outside. In the aftermath, the PLA cracked down on Tibetan resistance, executing the Dalai Lama’s guards and destroying Lhasa’s major monasteries along with thousands of their inhabitants.

China’s stranglehold on Tibet and its brutal suppression of separatist activity has continued in the decades following the unsuccessful uprising. Tens of thousands of Tibetans followed their leader to India, where the Dalai Lama has long maintained a government-in-exile in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Dalai Lama is still alive today and is honored all over the world, except in the US. When he was finally received by a sitting American president (Obama), the two met in a White House side room (Map Room rather than the Oval Office). His Holiness was then escorted out of the White House through the back door and past the trash cans.

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The date was June 15, 2016. All that was done so as not to upset the Chinese communists who govern Tibet now.

March 1, 2018March 10, 2018

Putin to US: “STOP ROCKING THE BOAT… CALLED EARTH!”

Putin delivers a sobering message to the US in Russia’s version of the “state of the union” address:

STOP ROCKING THE BOAT… CALLED EARTH!

Putin: “All the things you were trying to prevent through your policies have already happened. You have failed to hold Russia back”

Putin delivered a sobering message to the US and to the world in his annual address to the Federation Assembly

“To those who for the last 15 years have been trying to fan an arms race, achieve unilateral advantage against Russia, impose sanctions, which are illegal from the standpoint of international law and are aimed at holding back the development of our country, including in the military area, I have this to say: All the things you were trying to prevent through your policies have already happened. You have failed to hold Russia back,” Putin said.

“You now have to acknowledge this reality, confirm that everything I said is no bluff – which it isn’t – think for some time, send into retirement the people stuck in the past and incapable of looking into the future, [and] stop rocking the boat that we all ride in and which is called planet Earth,” he said. Russia would be responsive if talked to as an equal partner, Putin added.

Putin unveiled a number of new nuclear weapons that Russia has as added to its arsenal in the last 15 years.

One system is the new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) called Sarmat, or RS-28. It’s already well-known, but Putin stressed that its increased range allows the missile to reach US territory from Russia via a South Pole route. The US has dozens of interceptor missiles deployed in Alaska on the presumption that Russia’s ICBMs would approach from that direction, which would not be the case with Sarmat.

In fact, the Soviet Union had a missile that could approach the US from any direction. It was not a regular ballistic missile but rather one that put the warhead into low-earth orbit. The warhead would then deorbit when close to its target, thanks to its own engines. However, the R-36orb missiles were scrapped as part of nuclear reduction process.

Putin then went on to weapons systems that were not previously known to the public. One is a yet-to-be-named cruise missile with an almost unlimited range.

The Russian president accused the US of arrogance, saying that it thought that Russia would not be able to recover anytime soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union and that its interests can simply be ignored. One particular move – the withdrawal by George W Bush from the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) in 2002 – resulted in Russia being increasingly surrounded by American assets, which undermined the country’s nuclear deterrence.

Russia has now countered this, according to Putin, who went on to present a number of new systems, some of which don’t yet have names, and which are all meant to counter current and future ABM systems. His speech was accompanied by a series of video clips showing those new systems, partially as footage of tests and partially as computer-generated images showing their capabilities.

For more, see… https://on.rt.com/908e

‘Speaking softly’: Russia wants negotiations, not confrontation

After his tough talk, the Russian president then offered the US an olive branch.

He stressed that Russia would not need all these new weapons if its legitimate concerns had not been ignored by the US and its allies. “Nobody wanted to talk with us on the core of the problem. Nobody listened to us. Now you listen!” he said.

He suggested that the US abandon its costly and inefficient hostile plans towards Russia and start negotiating a security arrangement which would take Moscow’s interests into account.

ALTZAR’S editorial comment

PUTIN’S SPEECH TO FALL ON DEAF EARS IN THE US?

What Putin is proposing, of course, would make eminent sense to anyone who strives to achieve peace and harmony on this planet. Alas, that does not include anyone among the US power elite Washington or New York. Their perpetual motto has been and still is:

PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL COMMERCE

The US powers that be know no other way of life but the use of force and coercion. Chances are, therefore, that Putin’s words will fall on deaf ears in Washington and New York. Warmongers will be warmongers until they self-destruct. Just as Hitler’s Third Reich did over 70 years ago.

On this day in history… March 1, 1966

RUSSIAN PROBE FIRST TO REACH VENUS

Meanwhile, it is an instructive coincidence that on this day in 1996 – yes, 1966 – over three years before the US Apollo mission to the Moon – Venera 3, a Soviet probe launched from Kazakhstan on November 15, 1965, crash-landed on Venus.

Venus is the second planet from the sun and the closest planet to the Earth both in size and distance. Although Venera 3 failed in its mission to measure the Venusian atmosphere, it was the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. Four years earlier, the U.S. probe Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to pass close enough to Venus to take scientific measurements of the planet, discovering surface temperatures in excess of 800 degrees Fahrenheit on its surface.

In 1967, Venera 4 succeeded where Venera 3 failed, successfully ejecting several scientific instruments, including a thermometer, a barometer, an atmospheric density gauge, and gas analyzers, into Venus’ atmosphere. Then, in 1970, Venera 7 became the first spacecraft created by humans to soft-land on Venus, successfully sending back images and data for 23 minutes before succumbing to the extremely high temperature and atmospheric pressure found on the planet’s surface.

RUSSIA WAS AHEAD OF THE US IN SPACE EXPLORATION EVEN IN THE 1960s

How significant are these Russian achievements from more than half century ago?

Enormously. When the US spacecraft landed on the Moon in 1969, it had traveled an average distance of 239,000 miles. When Venera 7 soft-landed on Venus a year later, the Russian spacecraft had traveled for 120 days covering the distance of between 25 million and 162 million miles (Venus’ orbit is elliptic, so its distance from the Earth varies greatly).

Assuming that Venera 7 took the shortest possible route, it still means that the Russian spacecraft had traveled at least 105 times (!) farther to reach Venus than the US missions to the Moon.

TOWARD NEW ARMS RACE?

Bet you never learned facts like that in myopic and chauvinistic American schools? And it’s that kind of ignorance that breeds arrogance that can eventually kill us all.

So when Putin says Russia now has capabilities of nuking the US via the South Pole, the American warmongers had better take him seriously.

Thank God there is at least one sane person among the world leaders who have the power to destroy the planet. But will Putin enough? Or will the “big stick” which he revealed today become yet another excuse for more military spending in the US?

My bet is it will be the latter. Trump has already beefed up the Pentagon budget during his first year in office. And Putin has now given him another reason to accelerate the new arms race.

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018

NATO’S FIRST MILITARY ACTION IN HISTORY

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY… FEBRUARY 28, 1994

NATO’S FIRST MILITARY ACTION IN HISTORY

US F-16’s down four Bosnian Serb planes

In the first military action in the (then) 45-year history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), U.S. fighter planes shoot down four Serbian warplanes in Bosnia.

The United States, 10 European countries, and Canada founded NATO in 1949 as a safeguard against Soviet aggression. With the end of the Cold War, NATO became obsolete… a military solution in search of a new problem.

Since none came forth, the United States invented a new mission for NATO: “Peacekeeping”. Which was a euphemism for entering a civil war which was raging in Bosnia at the time on the side of the Muslims. And later on the Croats, too.

Alas, there was no peace in Bosnia back in the early 1990s. With its recognition of Bosnia’s independence in April 1992, the U.S. government ignited a three-way civil war. The Bosnian Muslims, Croats and Serbs had been duking it out for nearly two years by this date in 1994..

The Serbs were winning on most fronts. The Bosnian capital Sarajevo, for example, which the Muslims held as they were the majority of the population there, was under siege by the Serbs. So were several other Muslim enclaves in eastern Bosnia.

That’s when Bill Clinton and his warmonger-in-chief, Madeleine Alright aka Madam Halfbright, stepped in and stepped up – by giving NATO a new mission: Protect the Muslims and Croats.

Of course, in a typical New World Order double speak, they called it “peacekeeping.” Which at this stage of the war meant enforcing a “no fly” zone which NATO imposed over Bosnia in order to diminish the Serbs’s military superiority. In 1994 and 1995, NATO planes enforced the no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina and struck at Bosnian Serb military positions and airfields on a number of occasions.

On February 28, 1994, the first of such aggressive attacks took place. “If it was a test, I think we passed the quiz,” Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, the senior NATO commander for Southern Europe, who oversaw operations in Bosnia, callously old the New York Times.

Ironically, less than two years later, this NATO commander committed suicide at his office when it was revealed that he was wearing some military decorations he had not earned.

The American F-16’s came from a NATO base in Aviano, Italy, that comes under Admiral Boorda’s command (see NATO CRAFT DOWN 4 SERB WARPLANES ATTACKING BOSNIA https://nyti.ms/2FFz1UP).

By August 1995, NATO’s “peacekeeping” would escalate into a full scale war with massive bombing of the Bosnian Serbs’ held area. It was such brute force that eventually brought the Bosnian war to an end. After the US-forced Dayton Peace agreement was crafted in late November 1995 in Dayton, Ohio, NATO had a green light to expand into a new territory in eastern Europe.

On December 20, 1995, NATO began the mass deployment of 60,000 troops to enforce the Dayton peace accords, signed in Paris by the leaders of the former Yugoslavia on December 14. The NATO troops took over from a U.N. peacekeeping force that had failed to end the fighting since its deployment in early 1992,

It was the first of many NATO expansions into eastern Europe and toward the Russian border. The action the NATO F-16 jets took on this day in 1994 was the first of many belligerent actions and provocations that showed the world that NATO’s new mission was the same as the old one – aimed against Russia (see PROOF OF OUR 1994 “DRANG NACH OSTEN” THEORY: NATO TO EXPAND TO FORMER SOVIET STATES, SUSPEND COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA. Apr, 1994 and Apr 2014).

December 7, 2017February 28, 2018

ANOTHER DAY WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY

It’s a done deal, Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israeli capital

ANOTHER DAY WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY

Netanyahu thanks Trump

“I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” the president said today during a speech in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.

In a recorded statement released minutes after Trump finished talking, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his people would be “forever grateful” for the “historic decision” and urged other countries to follow America’s example.

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For more, see… Trump officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, orders US embassy move http://fxn.ws/2BEX7fe and also see… https://on.rt.com/8u11

STAND BY FOR A FALLOUT FROM THIS FOOLHARDY DECISION

And now, stand by for a fallout from this foolhardy decision. Will Dec 6 be another day which will live in infamy?

Ironically, tomorrow, Dec 7, the Pearl Harbor Day, is the first such a historical memento. Was Trump trying to preempt it?

We did not have to wait long. Even before the stroke of midnight in Europe, the French president was the first world among world leaders to part company with Trump.

HOW TO GAIN ENEMIES AND LOSE FRIENDS – IN AN INSTANT

When they first met back in July, the two new presidents – Donald Trump of the US and Emmanuel Macron of France – bonded instantly as the best of pals.

Today, in one fell swoop, with his Jerusalem announcement, Trump undid that friendship and turned Macron into a critic.

Here’s what the French president Macron tweeted this evening:

06 December 2017
23:35 GMT
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his disapproval of Trump’s decision on Twitter.

“France does not approve the decision of the United States. France supports the two-state solution, Israel and Palestine, living in peace and security, with Jerusalem as the capital of the two states. We must privilege appeasement and dialogue,” he said.

An avalanche of criticisms followed the next day (Dec 7), along with violent clashes in occupied Palestinian territories.

THE DAY AFTER: SOME REACTIONS TO TRUMP’S JERUSALEM ANNOUNCEMENT

In reaction to Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, condemnations continue to mount across the Middle East and internationally. Even the US “friends” are steaming about it.

Eight countries on the 15-member UN Security Council requested a meeting, including the UK, Italy and France, amid claims from Palestine and Turkey that recognition by the US president is in breach of both international law and UN resolutions.

The EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said the bloc had a united position that Jerusalem must be the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state. France said it rejected the “unilateral” US decision while the UK prime minister, Theresa May, and the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, both described Trump’s announcement as “unhelpful”.

The Russian foreign ministry said US recognition risked “dangerous and uncontrollable consequences”.

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, hailed US recognition of Jerusalem as “historic” and claimed other countries were in contact about following Trump’s lead, but was alone among regional leaders in praising the move.

Saudi Arabia’s royal court called it “unjustified and irresponsible” in a rare rebuke of the US, and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said Trump had thrown the Middle East into a “ring of fire”.

President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas said that Trump’s declaration meant that the US “abdicates” any role in mediating the Arab-Israeli conflict. In a televised speech, Abbas said he “condemned and rejected” the US decision, which he said will “serve terrorists” and “bring never-ending wars to the region.”

For more, see.. ‘Bomb ready to blow’: Muslim, European leaders slam Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem – https://on.rt.com/8u6o.

SOME READER REACTIONS

[Name withheld]: Bob, this has been promised for a long time. It is the city that Israel considers its capital…it would b like refusing to recognize Moscow or Washington Dc.

Bob Altzar Djurdjevic: Ridiculous comparisons. You should really brush up on history. Unlike Moscow or Washington, Jerusalem is also a holy city for the Muslims and the Christians. Maybe you should have said, that’s like claiming the Vatican is the capital of NATO. Which would have been actually closer to the truth.

VIOLENT CLASHES IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

Meanwhile, slashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops have taken place in cities across the occupied West Bank as anger over Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital spilled on to the streets.

The most violent confrontations occurred in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron, where Israeli security forces fired teargas and plastic-coated rounds as hundreds of protesters threw stones and set alight barricades.

In the Gaza Strip, dozens of protesters gathered near the border fence with Israel and threw rocks at soldiers on the other side. Two protesters were wounded by live fire, with one reported to be in a critical condition.

A fresh round of violent protests are expected on Friday at mass demonstrations called to follow Friday prayers.

For more, see… https://gu.com/p/7ycey/stw

Earlier on Dec 6…

TOP JERUSALEM CHRISTIAN LEADERS WARN TRUMP OF “VIOLENCE AND SUFFERING” IF US RECOGNIZES THE HOLY CITY AS ISRAEL’S CAPITAL

Trump’s decision to cause “irreparable harm,” 13 patriarchs of Christian churches say

Christian leaders in Jerusalem have just sent an open letter to Donald Trump asking him to reconsider his planned recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

The 13 patriarchs and church heads in Jerusalem told Trump that this decision would cause “irreparable harm.”

“We are certain that such steps will yield increased hatred, conflict, violence and suffering in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, moving us farther from the goal of unity and deeper toward destructive division,” wrote the leaders of the Greek Orthodox, Coptic, Catholic, and other branches of Christianity that are represented in the city.

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For more, see… https://on.rt.com/8u0v

Editorial Comment Re. Biblical Prophesies

IS TRUMP LEADING US ON A PATH TO ARMAGEDDON?

We live in Biblical times… and that’s not a good thing

What the Christian patriarchs yesterday (Dec 6) told the man who professes to be a Christian but acts as if he were an Israeli pawn, is what every child knows: “Let the sleeping dog lie.”

The “sleeping dog” – the Middle East – has been relatively quiet lately.

But no, this Judas Iscariot reincarnate has apparently decided to do what no other American president ever dared to: Poke the sleeping dog in the eye.

There could be only one motive for that and one consequence. The motive: to appease his Zionist handlers. The consequence: Strife, unrest, violence and maybe even another middle-eastern war.

That’s apparently what Israel wants. And what Israel wants, Trump apparently does.

O tempora, o mores… (“What times we live in…”, Lat.).

We actually live in biblical times. Because that’s what the Bible had predicted – see Israel and Jerusalem: The Road To Armageddon.

Are these maniacs in Washington and Tel Aviv suicidal? Or is the Bible wrong?

Either way, the world should brace itself for what is to come. Nothing good, to be sure, in the short run.

So check out this biblical prophesy, but first read this PREFACE.

PREFACE TO THIS BIBLICAL PROPHESY

This writer is aware that the Bible was written by about 40 men over the course of 1,500 years. None of them were writers. Matthew was a tax-collector, John was a fisherman, Paul was a tentmaker, Moses was a shepherd, Luke was a physician, Isaiah was a prophet, Ezra was a priest, and so on.

Notice that they were all MEN. So the Bible inevitably contains at least a sexual bias.The Bible authors also had other biases stemming from their backgrounds and the periods they lived in.

So a truth-seeker must take the biblical prophesies with a grain of salt. Like, “then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man” (Genesis, 2:22).

Really?

That said, this thrice-ordained shaman also knows firsthand that it is possible for some men (and women!) to receive direct communications from the spirit realm.

Finally, as a former war correspondent and geopolitical commentator, this writer also knows that a truth-seeker must consider a variety of sources before forming his opinions, particularly on a subject as complex as the Middle East history and politics.

So take this preface as a warning not to take everything you read in the Bible literally as gospel truth, although much of it really is. So you have to use your own JUDGMENT.

Biblical Prophecy

Israel and Jerusalem:
The Road To Armageddon

“I (God) will bless those who bless you (Israel) and will curse those who curse you” (Genesis 12:3)

The Bible warns the destiny of the World is inseparable from Israel and Jerusalem. The Bible says God would one day re-gather the children of Israel back into their land from among many nations around the world. The Bible says they would be re-gathered in unbelief … God warns He is not re-gathering the children of Israel into their Land because they deserve it, but because His Name and His Word are at stake (see Ezekiel 36:17-23) … and because He loves them. They are His chosen people.

The Bible warns God would then make Jerusalem a world trouble spot. The Bible says all nations of the world will turn against Israel. The Bible warns during this time ‘Gaza will be forsaken’ … and offers a stark warning.

The Bible warns a coming world leader (the ‘Antichrist’) will rise out of 10 nations which once formed the Roman Empire and will enforce a peace plan or treaty (‘covenant’) upon Israel (‘upon the many’ – for many in Israel will be against it) …

And then, after a 3½ year false peace, God warns He will send the children of Israel (and all the nations of the world) through a fiery trial unlike anything in the history of the world, to separate those who will turn back to God and His Word from those who have hardened their hearts against God and His Word (the ‘Apocalypse’).

The Bible warns two-thirds of the people in Israel will be ‘cut off and die’ during this time.

Then, one day when the armies of the world will gather in and around nation Israel (the coming battle of Armageddon) and when all seems lost for the children of Israel, the Bible says a believing remnant will recognize their Messiah from Scripture, and will call upon His Name. He will then return to save Israel.

The Bible also tells us ‘after these things’ the little nation of Israel and the children of Israel will rule over all the nations on Earth, in peace, under her King and Messiah Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha’Mashiach in Hebrew). The Bible says all of the covenants, promises, curses, prophecies, and blessings God has made to the children and nation of Israel will be fulfilled …

Here’s a link to the source – a non-denominational Bible website – if you want more… http://www.alphanewsdaily.com/ Warning%201%20Israel% 20Jerusalem.html

UPDATE DEC 7, 2017

MORE REACTIONS…

Interesting comment by a friend from the Netherlands.

“The most anti-Semitic Jew ever to walk this side of eternity! Netanyahu and those like him defile our Judaic consciousness and conscience” (Abraham A. van Kempen).

Which is why one must be very careful NOT to associate Netanyahu and his cronies, like Jared Kushner and other American Zionists, with all Jews.

Abraham A. van Kempen

December 5 at 5:55pm ·

Hail to the ‘Freier’ in Chief …

In Yiddish, ‘Freier’ means SUCKER, the worst insult to a Jew. It’s taken me 64 years to realise that I have been a sucker not realising I was until 2014 when I was in the Region, seeing, hearing and smelling with all of my senses the rains of Israeli terror pouring down on GAZA.

All Jews, all Israelis, all the people around the world who support Israeli terror are SUCKERS, particularly Jews and Christians who know better. They are following in the footsteps of the ilk like Netanyahu. Zionism rules and dominates the Israeli zeitgeist beguiling and chaining many Jews into believing in something they are not. These Zionists are suckered into a belief that Zionism is the answer, the Way, the Truth and the Life. Only a sucker could believe that.

And what is it about that face that disturbs me profoundly? Phony? Deceptive? Fake? Imposter? Speaking from all sides of his mouth? Hateful? Inciteful? The most anti-Semitic Jew ever to walk this side of eternity! Netanyahu and those like him defile our Judaic consciousness and conscience. He is more than fake. He is false. He is even a worse freier than all the freiers he leads.

Is Netanyahu still a psychopath and pathological liar?

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UPDATE DEC 8, 2017 – MORE REACTIONS…

RUSSIA ALSO CONDEMNS TRUMP’S DECISION ON JERUSALEM

“Jerusalem is ours” – Muslims protest around the world

Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov joined an international chorus of criticism over the move by the Trump administration. “The fact is that the statement [of recognition] goes against all the previous agreements,” he said, adding that it divided global communities into two “very, very unequal parts.” Israel is the only nation openly endorsing the move, but some US allies like Canada have refrained from criticizing it too loudly.

Lavrov, who was speaking to journalists in Vienna, said the Trump administration has shot itself in the foot with the decision, undermining their own Middle East strategy. “They previously said, let’s normalize the relations between Washington and the Arab world, and once it is done, the Palestinian issue can be resolved,” he said. “By taking the decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem the Trump administration have undermined their effort to normalize the relations with the Arabs.”

Meanwhile, a wave of protests has swept the Muslim World after Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital. A man was killed and hundreds injured in clashes in the West Bank, while US flags were burned at mass rallies in Iran, Pakistan and elsewhere.

Over 200 people were injured on Friday as violent protests in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza went into a second day, according to Palestinian officials. Israeli security forces employed tear gas, rubber bullets and even live ammunition to disperse the demonstrators.

Scuffles were reported outside the Old City gates in Jerusalem as worshippers, who were leaving the Al Aqsa Mosque, chanted “Jerusalem is ours, Jerusalem is our capital,” and “We don’t need empty words, we need stones and Kalashnikovs.”

More than 3,000 Palestinians took part in protests in at least 30 locations in the region, the Israeli military said. The unrest began after Friday prayers, when Palestinians began throwing stones at IDF troops.

Elsewhere, the US troops in Afghanistan are on a special ‘Notice to Move’ alert following the US’ Jerusalem decision, according to the Military Times. Donald Trump’s announcement has been met with anger across the Middle East, stoking fears of US troops being targeted.

For more, see… https://on.rt.com/8uab

UPDATE DEC 8, 2017 – REACTIONS…

TAKING SIDES FUELS CONTINUOUS CONFLICT

Isn’t 69 years of bloodshed proof enough?

ALTZAR: Thought you may find this correspondence of interest as it provides a historical background to the conflict in Palestine.

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Steven W. Wilgus shared your post. (https://www.facebook.com/bob.djurdjevic/posts/10212380071871790)

“Okay let me get this straight Jerusalem which in the Old Testament was the capital of Israel, long before there were Muslims of any kind, and all these people are violently disagreeing with the decision to Simply recognize a pre-existing condition, and that somehow invalidates Trump’s decision but validates their own by the use of said violence.

Okay this is just beyond stupid.”

Bob Altzar Djurdjevic: Yes, you do know your history. But selectively, it seems. At that, you are following a treacherous historical path back to about 1,000 BC.

Before that, however, Israel was not Jewish. It was a Canaanites’ land (in 2nd millennium BC). And before that who knows… maybe refugees from the Atlantis disaster?

If you use this kind of logic going back 4,000 years or more, you would have to remap the entire world. Which would lead to chaos and global warfare.

More relevant is the fact that over 700,000 Palestinians were “ethnically cleansed”, to use a modern term, after Israel declared independence in May 1948, under the protection of the US government. That’s around 80 percent of the Arab inhabitants of what became the state of Israel.

(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus).

It is that kind of injustice that has fueled all subsequent wars.

So you see, there is no right or wrong in a protracted conflict such as this. Both sides have committed atrocities and acted as terrorists depending how far back you wind the clock of history.

Which is why the only sensible policy is NOT TO TAKE SIDES (i.e., the opposite of what the US has been doing in the last seven decades). Because supporting one ethnic group against another will provide fuel fo continuous conflicts. Isn’t 69 years of bloodshed proof enough?

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UPDATE DEC 10, 2017 – REACTIONS…

VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN JERUSALEM, OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Watch “Israeli Cavalry” in action against civilians

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Also see the dramatic videos in this news report: https://on.rt.com/8ucq
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In East Jerusalem, mounted police cleared Palestinians who attempted to block traffic. Trash cans were set alight in the city and stun grenade explosions were frequently heard.

RT’s Charlotte Dubenskij was reporting from Salah ad Din street Saturday, the main thoroughfare of East Jerusalem, when several stun grenades landed meters from her, forcing the RT crew to take shelter behind a parked car.

RT’s team filmed at least one injured elderly man taken away by medics. Palestinian news agency WAFA said mounted police knocked people over in Jerusalem, including journalists. 32 people were injured in Jerusalem, according to Red Crescent. Police were knocking phones from the hands of the reporters while dispersing the crowd, a RIA Novosti journalist reported from the scene.

Women react as an Israeli mounted policeman disperses Palestinian protesters on December 9, 2017, in East Jerusalem © Ahmad Gharabli / AFP

Dozens of people were injured during riots in Bethlehem Saturday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said as cited by WAFA. Security forces fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets when the crowd approached an Israeli military base in the city. The protests occurred at around 20 other locations in the West Bank, including in Ramallah and Tulkarm, the IDF said.

A wave of anti-American and anti-Israeli protests swept through numerous countries. Thousands of people took to the streets to denounce the declaration and burn US flags and portraits of Trump in Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

For more, see… https://on.rt.com/8ue6 (Bethlehem) and https://on.rt.com/8ucq (East Jerusalem) reports

BETHLEHEM THEN AND NOW

As we approach Christmas 2017, maybe we should contemplate these images of Jesus’ birthplace.

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LAMESTREAM MEDIA MUM ABOUT WORLDWIDE PROTESTS AGAINST TRUMP’S DECISION

ALTZAR: You want to know what the editor and founder of the Truth in Media finds the most disgraceful about the reactions in the US to Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli capital?

The lamestream media silence.

Take a look at the photo of this morning’s headlines on Bing, for example. Not one story or one picture of the protests and demonstrations against Trump’s decision.

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Thank God for the internet and the foreign media. Otherwise we would be also blinded by such news censorship.

JERUSALEM – UPDATE DEC 11, 2017

Memorial Day 2002 Truth in Media editorial – Revisited

HOW TO WIN THE PEACE IN TWO SIMPLE STEPS

Dump treacherous “ally” (Israel), diversify away from Arab oil

“The only way for America to win the ‘war on terrorism’ in the long run is to disengage from Israel AND from the Middle East oil – both the root causes of anti-American terrorism” (an excerpt from Truth in Media, May 26, 2002

Recent turmoil in the Middle East and elsewhere, caused by Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reminded me of this Truth in Media editorial I wrote over 15 years ago. It provided a simple solution to the seemingly intractable Middle East problems. Yet even as I wrote that piece, I never expected the US government to implement it. Because war is much more profitable, especially to the “death merchants.”

And so the endless cycles of violence continue, from one generation to another. We cannot think of a better example than that of “PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL COMMERCE” – the real New World Order motto which we first discerned in 1993.

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An excerpt from Truth in Media, May 26, 2002:

HOW TO WIN THE PEACE IN TWO SIMPLE STEPS

Dump treacherous “ally” (Israel), diversify away from Arab oil

There are a couple of editorial observations we wish to share with you on this Memorial Day weekend in the U.S.

First, a very simple and PEACEFUL ending to both America’s “war on terrorism,” and to our continued involvement in the never-ending Middle Eastern wars, is staring us in the face. If the Bush administration were really an American government acting in OUR country’s best interests, it could end the senseless fight with one-two geopolitical punches:

Punch One… an uppercut to Israel. Dump this treacherous “ally;” the only “ally” that has ever attacked us, killing 34 American soldiers and injuring 172 others (USS Liberty, 1967); the only “ally” that has sapped the U.S. Treasure to the tune of nearly one hundred billion dollars, while using our money and arms to wage state terrorism against its Arab neighbors; the only “ally” that has brazenly spied on us, and then had the audacity to demand a pardon for its spy (Jonathan Pollard); the only “ally” that continues to spy on us (see Fox TV News series on Israeli “students”, Dec. 2001 – Ashcroft: Tough on American Liberties, Soft on Israeli Spies, Mar. 2002).
Punch Two… a plexus to Arab oil. Reduce our dependence on Arab oil. Which ultimately means also cease cozying up to the embarrassing totalitarian regimes that have allowed acts of terrorism against Americans to be committed on their soil (see partial list of bombings in the Middle East). The warming up of the Russo-American relations is a welcome step in that direction, as Russia is a major global energy supplier and an OPEC competitor (see Russia vs. OPEC, Sep. 2000).

But given that at present we import 70% of our oil from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait vs. next to nothing from Russia; and that Russia accounts for 10% of the global oil output versus OPEC’s 40%; it will take a long time before such a policy change gets traction. But “a thousand mile journey begins with the first step,” as Confucius noted.

PEACE DIVIDENDS

The Punch One would remove a major cause of anti-Americanism around the world, especially in Muslim countries. The Punch Two would take the (economic) punch out of the countries that hate us. The only way for America to win the “war on terrorism” in the long run is to disengage from Israel AND from the Middle East oil – both the root causes of anti-American terrorism.

That’s no great wisdom. That’s just common sense.

What are the chances of common sense prevailing in Washington’s foreign policy? The same as that of true American patriotism… slim to none. As long as the Bush administration is acting as a proxy of both the Israeli lobby and of the multinational oil companies, the American people will be the victims of both and the designated targets for international terrorism.

For more, see… http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2002/5-1.html, May 26, 2002

Also see, “U.S. Prestige: Bushwhacked and DisemPowelled (by American Poodles – Bush and Powell)” – http://www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins2002/4-4.html – [all above images were also part of those Truth in Media editorials]

Also see, PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL COMMERCE, The Chronicles magazine, Aug 1998 – https://www.truthinmedia.org/Columns/chronicles-aug-98.html and

JERUSALEM – UPDATE DEC 11, 2017

WHAT IS PUTIN UP TO?

His shuttle diplomacy: Met with 3 presidents in 3 countries in 1 day

There is a good chance that Putin is cooking up something in the Middle East with his shuttle diplomacy today. He met with Assad in Syria, with Al Sisi in Egypt, and finished the day with a meeting with Erdogan in Turkey.

All three countries are Israel’s neighbors and important players in the Middle East. All three are opposed to Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. As is virtually the entire world.

Russia also has good relations with Iran, and of late, even with Saudi Arabia. If Putin manages to bridge the chasm between the Sunny and the Shia Muslims, he just might be able to assemble a formidable opposition to the US-Israeli Jerusalem declaration.

If that’s what this shuttle diplomacy was about, it will be worth watching what follows over the next days and weeks.

PS: On a lighter note, notice the same tie Putin is wearing on all three occasions? 🙂

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UPDATE DEC 16, 2017

PATHETIC SUMMIT IN ISTANBUL EXPOSES WEAKNESS OF TOOTHLESS LEADERS OF 57 MUSLIM COUNTRIES

These Muslim leaders are no longer relevant, writes Robert Fisk, a longtime Middle East correspondent for the London Independent newspaper – https://goo.gl/4fns4R

“They represent failed states with neither morality nor courage to show for their presence at the Istanbul summit,” he writes.

“It was just more claptrap from an organization (that’s already changed its name twice) which offers no hope, no initiative, no justice and no future to the people of its collective autocracies.”
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DISMAL FAILURE OF MUSLIM LEADERS TO STAND UP AND SUPPORT THE PALESTINIANS OVER JERUSALEM

If there was anything to beat in mediocrity the childish and delinquent declaration by Donald Trump that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, it was the pathetic response from Muslim states. For there in Istanbul this week were all the tired old men to whom we have listened for so many years, none sadder or more woebegone than the ageing and useless “President” of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas.

There were supposed to be 57 heads of state of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in the Turkish capital, but some were simply too old and senile – the comatose Bouteflika of Algeria, for example – or too busy shouting abuse at other Arabs states or bombing Yemen.

Oh yes, of course, they demanded that the “international community” accept east Jerusalem as Palestine’s “capital” – a capital for a state that doesn’t exist and, at this rate, never will.

It was just more claptrap from an organization (that’s already changed its name twice) which offers no hope, no initiative, no justice and no future to the people of its collective autocracies.

The “world” – an interesting concept in Middle East terms – and America will only become worried if these tired men have courage. Or what we used to call the courage of their convictions.

If America has hurled itself out of peace-making – which it supposedly has, although I wouldn’t count on Abbas keeping his phone off the hook if the White House calls – then these potentates should be considering a diplomatic boycott of the United States, or the breaking off of relations or even a mild but increasingly severe oil boycott. There was a time when they did this sort of thing.

But that’s not going to happen.

It might have been wise if (the Palestinian leader) Abbas had contested the Trump decision at the international court, but the Palestinian leadership is so uninspiring (and corrupt) that I doubt if it even dreamed of such a move.

And that’s the problem. If you have a delinquent American president, you need serious young people – international lawyers, negotiators, experienced diplomats – to defend the peoples of the Middle East. There are UN resolutions enough to apply to Jerusalem and the occupied territories. But no, not a word did we hear of these. It was as if apathy and hopelessness guide these figures. For more, see THE INDEPENDENT – https://goo.gl/4fns4R

APATHY GALORE: PLUTOCRATS ARE WINNING… FOR NOW

And so it goes… like America, like Middle East. Apathy at home, apathy overseas.

Nobody dares challenge the oligarchs. So the plutocrats are winning sowing fear, uncertainty and doubt. The slave mentality is engulfing the world.

Because those who can, are doing nothing. And those who do, are just pissing in the wind.

The world is desperately in the need of a messiah of some kind, a person who would INSPIRE and uplift the spirit of humanity.

Is Putin that guy? Time will tell.

Meanwhile, we’d better not wait that long. We must start to “trust only yourself and you own nag” (a Serbian proverb: “Uzdaj se samo u se i u svoje kljuse”).

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UPDATE DEC 18, 2017

US VETOES UN RESOLUTION ON JERUSALEM

All other Security Council members vote for it

US AND ISRAEL: ROGUE STATES

As expected, the US vetoed today the UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution on Jerusalem, which had demanded the American decision recognizing the city as the Israeli capital be withdrawn. All other UNSC members voted in favor of the document.

The French envoy to the UN said in his speech that the US still “should explain compatibility of its decision [on Jerusalem] with the international consensus.” He also added that France “regrets” the outcome of the vote that has become a symbol of 14 UNSC members’ willingness to “confirm their attachment to international law.”

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By this action, the United States has effectively taken itself and Israel out of the world community. “What’s good for the goose is not good for the gander,” when it comes to Trump and Netanyahu.

These two governments have now set themselves as international outcasts, leaders of pariah states which do not respect international laws and norms.

Of course, for Israel, that’s nothing knew. That country had already violated over 80 UN Security Council resolutions, and many others passed by the UN General Assembly over the last seven decades (see “Rogue State: Israeli Violations of U.N. Security Council Resolutions” – Foreign Policy – https://goo.gl/hYZAtz).

And the US has backed Israel’s intransigence for the most part. But not always.

Defying extraordinary pressure from President-elect Donald Trump and furious lobbying by Israel, the Obama administration on Dec 23, 2016 allowed the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution that condemned Israeli settlement construction.

So never before have the US and Israel been so utterly isolated in the world community as today’s UN Security Council vote has shown.

And the protests around the world, not just in Palestine, are continuing. In Indonesia, for example, some 80,000 people demonstrated today against Trump’s Jerusalem recognition – see the video… https://on.rt.com/8v1k.

UN SECURITY COUNCIL TO VOTE OUTLAWING TRUMP’S JERUSALEM DECISION – Dec 17, 2017 – https://www.facebook.com/bob.djurdjevic/posts/10212448428580665

For more, see our full story on Trump’s Jerusalem decision… https://on.rt.com/8v3m [Truth in Media]

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UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS RE. ISRAEL/PALESTINE (1948-2010) – http://www.un.org/en/sc/documents/resolutions/

Res. 57 (Sep. 18, 1948) – Expresses deep shock at the assassination of the U.N. Mediator in Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, by Zionist terrorists.
Res. 89 (Nov. 17, 1950) – Requests that attention be given to the expulsion of “thousands of Palestine Arabs” and calls upon concerned governments to take no further action “involving the transfer of persons across international frontiers or armistice lines”, and notes that Israel announced that it would withdraw to the armistice lines.
Res. 93 (May 18, 1951) – Finds that Israeli airstrikes on Syria on April 5, 1951 constitutes “a violation of the cease-fire”, and decides that Arab civilians expelled from the demilitarized zone by Israel should be allowed to return.
Res. 100 (Oct. 27, 1953) – Notes that Israel had said it would stop work it started in the demilitarized zone on September 2, 1953.
Res.101 (Nov. 24, 1953) – Finds Israel’s attack on Qibya, Jordan on October 14-15, 1953 to be a violation of the cease-fire and “Expresses the strongest censure of that action”.
Res. 106 (Mar. 29, 1955) – Condemns Israel’s attack on Egyptian forces in the Gaza Strip on February 28, 1955.
Res. 111 (Jan. 19, 1956) – Condemns Israel’s attack on Syria on December 11, 1955 as “a flagrant violation of the cease-fire” and armistice agreement.
Res. 119 (Oct. 31, 1956) – Considers that “a grave situation has been created” by the attack against Egypt by the forces of Britain, France, and Israel.
Res.171 (Apr. 9, 1962) – Reaffirms resolution 111 and determines that Israel’s attack on Syria on March 16-17, 1962 “constitutes a flagrant violation of that resolution”.
Res. 228 (Nov. 25, 1966) – “Deplores the loss of life and heavy damage to property resulting from the action” by Israel in the southern Hebron area on November 13, 1966, and “Censures Israel for this large-scale military action in violation of the United Nations Charter” and the armistice agreement between Israel and Jordan.
Res. 237 (Jun. 14, 1967) – Calls on Israel “to ensure the safety, welfare and security of the inhabitants where military operations have taken place” during the war launched by Israel on June 5, 1967 “and to facilitate the return of those inhabitants who have fled the areas since the outbreak of hostilities”.
Res. 242 (Nov. 22, 1967) – Emphasizes “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war”, emphasizes that member states have a commitment to abide by the U.N. Charter, and calls for the “Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied” during the June 1967 war.
Res. 248 (Mar. 24, 1968) – Observes that the Israeli attack on Jordan “was of a large-scale and carefully planned nature”, “Deplores the loss of life and heavy damage to property”, “Condemns the military action launched by Israel in flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the cease-fire resolutions”, and “Calls upon Israel to desist from” further violations of resolution 237.
Res. 250 (Apr. 27, 1968) – Considers “that the holding of a military parade in Jerusalem will aggravate tensions in the area and have an adverse effect on a peaceful settlement of the problems in the area” and “Calls upon Israel to refrain from holding the military parade in Jerusalem which is contemplated” for May 2, 1968.
Res. 251 (May 2, 1968) – Recalls resolution 250 and “Deeply deplores the holding by Israel of the military parade in Jerusalem” on May 2, 1968 “in disregard of” resolution 250.
Res. 252 (May 21, 1968) – “Deplores the failure of Israel to comply with” General Assembly resolutions 2253 and 2254, considers Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem “invalid”, and calls upon Israel “to rescind all such measures already taken and to desist forthwith from taking any further action which tends to change the status of Jerusalem”.
Res. 256 (Aug. 16, 1968) – Recalls Israel’s “flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter” condemned in resolution 248, observes that further Israeli air attacks on Jordan “were of a large scale and carefully planned nature in violation of resolution 248”, “Deplores the loss of life and heavy damage to property”, and condemns Israel’s attacks.
Res. 259 (Sep. 27, 1968) – Expresses concern for “the safety, welfare and security” of the Palestinians “under military occupation by Israel”, deplores “the delay in the implementation of resolution 237 (1967) because of the conditions still being set by Israel for receiving a Special Representative of the Secretary-General”, and requests Israel to receive the Special Representative and facilitate his work.
Res. 262 (Dec. 31, 1968) – Observes “that the military action by the armed forces of Israel against the civil International Airport of Beirut was premeditated and of a large scale and carefully planned nature”, and condemns Israel for the attack.
Res.265 (Apr. 1, 1969) – Expresses “deep concern that the recent attacks on Jordanian villages and other populated areas were of a pre-planned nature, in violation of resolutions” 248 and 256, “Deplores the loss of civilian life and damage to property”, and “Condemns the recent premeditated air attacks launched by Israel on Jordanian villages and populated areas in flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the cease-fire resolutions”.
Res. 267 (Jul. 3, 1969) – Recalls resolution 252 and General Assembly resolutions 2253 and 2254, notes that “since the adoption of the above-mentioned resolutions Israel has taken further measures tending to change the status of the City of Jerusalem”, reaffirms “the established principle that acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible”, “Deplores the failure of Israel to show any regard for the resolutions”, “Censures in the strongest terms all measures taken to change the status of the City of Jerusalem”, “Confirms that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel which purport to alter the status of Jerusalem, including expropriation of land and properties thereon, are invalid and cannot change that status”, and urgently calls on Israel to rescind the measures taken to annex Jerusalem.
Res. 270 (Aug. 26, 1969) – “Condemns the premeditated air attack by Israel on villages in southern Lebanon in violation of its obligations under the Charter and Security Council resolutions”.
Res. 271 (Sep. 15, 1969) – Expresses grief “at the extensive damage caused by arson to the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem” on August 21, 1969 “under the military occupation of Israel”, reaffirms “the established principle that acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible”, “Determines that the execrable act of desecration and profanation of the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque emphasizes the immediate necessity of Israel’s desisting from acting in violation” previous resolutions and rescinding measures to annex Jerusalem, calls on Israel “to observe the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and international law governing military occupation”, and condemns Israel’s failure to comply with previous resolutions.
Res. 279 (May 12, 1970) – “Demands the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli armed forces from Lebanese territory.”
Res. 280 (May 19, 1970) – Expresses conviction that “that the Israeli military attack against Lebanon was premeditated and of a large scale and carefully planned in nature”, recalls resolution 279 “demanding the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli armed forces from Lebanese territory”, deplores Israel’s violation of resolutions 262 and 270, “Condemns Israel for its premeditated military action in violation of its obligations under the Charter of the United Nations”, and “Deplores the loss of life and damage to property inflicted as a result” of Israeli violations of Security Council resolutions.
Res. 285 (Sep. 5, 1970) – “Demands the complete and immediate withdrawal of all Israeli armed forces from Lebanese territory.”
Res. 298 (Sep. 25, 1971) – Recalls resolutions 252 and 267 and General Assembly resolutions 2253 and 2254 concerning Israel’s measures to annex Jerusalem, reaffirms “the principle that acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible”, notes “the non-compliance by Israel” of the recalled resolutions, deplores Israel’s failure to respect the resolutions, confirms that Israel’s actions “are totally invalid”, and urgently calls on Israel to rescind its measures and take “no further steps in the occupied section of Jerusalem” to change the status of the city.
Res. 313 (Feb. 28, 1972) – “Demands that Israel immediately desist and refrain from any ground and air military action against Lebanon and forthwith withdraw all its military forces from Lebanese territory.”
Res. 316 (Jun. 26, 1972) – Deplores “the tragic loss of life resulting from all acts of violence”, expresses grave concern “at Israel’s failure to comply with Security Council resolutions” 262, 270, 280, 285, and 313 “calling on Israel to desist forthwith from any violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Lebanon”, calls on Israel to abide by the resolutions, and condemns “the repeated attacks of Israeli forces on Lebanese territory and population in violation of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and Israel’s obligations thereunder”.
Res. 317 (Jul. 21, 1972) – Notes resolution 316, deplores the fact that Israel had not yet released “Syrian and Lebanese military and security personnel abducted by Israeli armed forces from Lebanese territory” on June 21, 1972, and calls on Israel to release the prisoners.
Res. 332 (Apr. 21, 1972) – “Condemns the repeated military attacks conducted by Israel against Lebanon and Israel’s violation of Lebanon’s territorial integrity and sovereignty” in violation of the U.N. Charter, the armistice agreement, and cease-fire resolutions.
Res. 337 (Aug. 15, 1973) – Notes “the violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity” by Israel “and the hijacking, by the Israeli air force, of a Lebanese civilian airliner on lease to Iraqi Airways”, expresses grave concern “that such an act carried out by Israel, a Member of the United Nations, constitutes a serious interference with international civil aviation and a violation of the Charter of the United Nations”, recognizes “that such an act could jeopardize the lives and safety of passengers and crew and violates the provisions of international conventions safeguarding civil aviation”, condemns Israel “for violating Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and for the forcible diversion and seizure by the Israeli air force of a Lebanese airliner from Lebanon’s air space”, and considers that Israel’s actions constitute a violation of the armistice agreement, cease-fire resolutions, the U.N. Charter, “the international conventions on civil aviation and the principles of international law and morality”.
Res. 347 (Apr. 24, 1974) – “Condemns Israel’s violation of Lebanon’s territorial integrity and sovereignty and calls once more on the Government of Israel to refrain from further military actions and threats against Lebanon”, and calls on Israel “to release and return to Lebanon the abducted Lebanese civilians”.
Res. 425 (Mar. 19, 1978) – “Calls for strict respect for the territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence of Lebanon within its internationally recognized boundaries”, and “Calls upon Israel immediately to cease its military action against Lebanese territorial integrity and withdraw forthwith its forces from all Lebanese territory”.
Res. 427 (May 3, 1978) – “Calls upon Israel to complete its withdrawal from all Lebanese territory without any further delay”.
Res. 446 (Mar. 22, 1979) – Affirms “once more that the Fourth Geneva Convention … is applicable to the Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem”, “Determines that the policy and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity and constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East”, “Strongly deplores the failure of Israel to abide by” resolutions 237, 252, and 298, and General Assembly resolutions 2253 and 2254, and calls on Israel “as the occupying Power” to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention, to “rescind its previous measures and to desist from any action which would result in changing the legal status and geographical nature and materially affecting the demographic composition of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and, in particular, not to transfer parts of its own civilian population into the occupied Arab territories”.
Res. 450 (Jun. 14, 1979) – “Strongly deplores acts of violence against Lebanon that have led to the displacement of civilians, including Palestinians, and brought about destruction and loss of innocent lives”, and calls on Israel to cease actions against Lebanon, “in particular its incursions into Lebanon and the assistance it continues to lend to irresponsible armed groups”.
Res. 452 (Jul. 20, 1979) – Strongly deplores “the lack of co-operation of Israel” with the Security Council Commission “established under resolution 446 (1979) to examine the situation relating to settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem”, considers “that the policy of Israel in establishing settlements in the occupied Arab territories has no legal validity and constitutes a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention”, expresses deep concern at Israel’s policy of constructing settlements “in the occupied Arab territories, including Jerusalem, and its consequences for the local Arab and Palestinian population”, and calls on Israel to cease such activities.
Res. 465 (Mar. 1, 1980) – Strongly deplores Israel’s refusal to co-operate with the Security Council Commission, regrets Israel’s “formal rejection of” resolutions 446 and 452, deplores Israel’s decision “to officially support Israeli settlement” in the occupied territories, expresses deep concern over Israel’s settlement policy “and its consequences for the local Arab and Palestinian population”, “Strongly deplores the decision of Israel to prohibit the free travel” of the mayor of Hebron “to appear before the Security Council”, and “Determines that all measures taken by Israel to change the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure or status of the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, or any part thereof, have no legal validity and that Israel’s policy and practices of settling parts of its population and new immigrants in those territories constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention”.
Res. 467 (Apr. 24, 1980) – “Condemns all actions contrary to” resolutions 425, 426, 427, 434, 444, 450, and 459 “and, in particular, strongly deplores” any “violation of Lebanese sovereignty and territorial integrity” and “Israel’s military intervention into Lebanon”.
Res. 468 (May 8, 1980) – Expresses deep concern “at the expulsion by the Israeli military occupation authorities of the Mayors of Hebron and Halhoul and the Sharia Judge of Hebron” and “Calls upon the Government of Israel as occupying Power to rescind these illegal measures and facilitate the immediate return of the expelled Palestinian leaders so that they can resume the functions for which they were elected and appointed”.
Res. 469 (May 20, 1980) – Recalls the Fourth Geneva Convention “and in particular article 1, which reads ‘The High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances,’ and article 49, which reads ‘Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from the occupied territory to the territory of the occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive”, “Strongly deplores the failure of the Government of Israel to implement Security Council resolution 468”, “Calls again upon the Government of Israel, as occupying Power, to rescind the illegal measures taken by the Israeli military occupation authorities in expelling the Mayors of Hebron and Halhoul and the Sharis Judge of Hebron, and to facilitate the immediate return of the expelled Palestinian leaders, so that they can resume their functions for which they were elected and appointed”.
Res. 471 (Jun. 5, 1980) – Recalls “once again” the Fourth Geneva Convention, “and in particular article 27, which reads, ‘ Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons… They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof…’”, reaffirms the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention “to the Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem”, expresses deep concern “that the Jewish settlers in the occupied Arab territories are allowed to carry arms, thus enabling them to perpetrate crimes against the civilian Arab population”, “Condemns the assassination attempts against the Mayors of Nablus, Ramallah and Al Bireh and calls for the immediate apprehension and prosecution of the perpetrators of these crimes”, “Expresses deep concern that Israel, as the occupying Power, has failed to provide adequate protection to the civilian population in the occupied territories in conformity with the provisions of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War”, calls on Israel “to provide the victims with adequate compensation for the damage suffered as a result of these crimes”, “Calls again upon the government of Israel to respect and to comply with the provisions of” the Fourth Geneva Convention and “the relevant resolutions of the Security Council”, “Calls once again upon all States not to provide Israel with any assistance to be used specifically in connexion [sic] with settlements in the occupied territories”, “Reaffirms the overriding necessity to end the prolonged occupation of Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem”.
Res. 476 (Jun. 30, 1980) – Reaffirms that “the acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible”, deplores “the persistence of Israel, in changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and the status of the Holy City of Jerusalem”, expresses grave concern “over the legislative steps initiated in the Israeli Knesset with the aim of changing the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem”, reaffirms “the overriding necessity to end the prolonged occupation of Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem”, “Strongly deplores the continued refusal of Israel, the occupying Power, to comply with the relevant resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly”, “Reconfirms that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which purport to later the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal validity and constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention”, “Reiterates that all such measures … are null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with the relevant resolutions of the Security Council”, and “Urgently calls on Israel, the occupying Power, to abide by this and previous Security Council resolutions and to desist forthwith from persisting in the policy and measures affecting the character and status of the Holy city of Jerusalem”.
Res. 478 (Aug. 20, 1980) – Reaffirms “again that the acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible”, notes “that Israel has not complied with resolution 476”, “Censures in the strongest terms the enactment by Israel of the ‘basic law’ on Jerusalem and the refusal to comply with relevant Security Council resolutions”, “Affirms that the enactment of the ‘basic law’ by Israel constitutes a violation of international law”, “Determines that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which have altered or purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and in particular the recent ‘basic law’ on Jerusalem, are null and void and must be rescinded forthwith”.
Res. 484 (Dec. 19, 1980) – Expresses “grave concern at the expulsion by Israel of the Mayor of Hebron and the Mayor of Halhoul”, “Reaffirms the applicability of” the Fourth Geneva Convention “to all the Arab territories occupied by Israel in 1967”, “Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to adhere to the provisions of the Convention”, and “Declares it imperative that the Mayor of Hebron and the Mayor of Halhoul be enabled to return to their homes and resume their responsibilities”.
Res. 487 (Jun. 19, 1981) – Expresses full awareness “of the fact that Iraq has been a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons since it came into force in 1970, that in accordance with that Treaty Iraq has accepted IAEA safeguards on all its nuclear activities, and that the Agency has testified that these safeguards have been satisfactorily applied to date”, notes “furthermore that Israel has not adhered to the non-proliferation Treaty”, expresses deep concern “about the danger to international peace and security created by the premeditated Israeli air attack on Iraqi nuclear installations on 7 June 1981, which could at any time explode the situation in the area, with grave consequences for the vital interests of all States”, “Strongly condemns the military attack by Israel in clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations and the norms of international conduct”, “Further considers that the said attack constitutes a serious threat to the entire IAEA safeguards regime which is the foundation of the non-proliferation Treaty”, “Fully recognizes the inalienable sovereign right of Iraq, and all other States, especially the developing countries, to establish programmes of technological and nuclear development to develop their economy and industry for peaceful purposes in accordance with their present and future needs and consistent with the internationally accepted objectives of preventing nuclear-weapons proliferation”, and “Calls upon Israel urgently to place its nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards”.
Res. 497 (Dec. 17, 1981) – Reaffirms “that the acquisition of territory by force is inadmissible, in accordance with the United Nations Charter, the principles of international law, and relevant Security Council resolutions”, “Decides that the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is null and void and without international legal effect”, “Demands that Israel, the occupying Power, should rescind forthwith its decision”, and “Determines that all the provisions of the” Fourth Geneva Convention “continue to apply to the Syrian territory occupied by Israel since June 1967”.
Res. 501 (Feb. 25, 1982) – Reaffirms resolution 425 calling upon Israel to cease its military action against Lebanon.
Res. 509 ( Jun. 6, 1982) – “Demands that Israel withdraw all its military forces forthwith and unconditionally to the internationally recognized boundaries of Lebanon”.
Res. 515 (Jul. 29, 1982) – “Demands that the Government of Israel lift immediately the blockade of the city of Beirut in order to permit the dispatch of supplies to meet the urgent needs of the civilian population and allow the distribution of aid provided by United Nations agencies and by non-governmental organizations, particularly the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)”.
Res. 517 (Aug. 4, 1982) – Expresses deep shock and alarm “by the deplorable consequences of the Israeli invasion of Beirut on 3 August 1982”, “Confirms once again its demand for an immediate cease-fire and withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon”, and “Censures Israel for its failure to comply with” resolutions 508, 509, 512, 513, 515, and 516.
Res. 518 (Aug. 12, 1982) – “Demands that Israel and all parties to the conflict observe strictly the terms of Security Council resolutions relevant to the immediate cessation of all military activities within Lebanon and, particularly, in and around Beirut”, “Demands the immediate lifting of all restrictions on the city of Beirut in order to permit the free entry of supplies to meet the urgent needs of the civilian population in Beirut”.
Res. 520 (Sep. 17, 1982) – “Condemns the recent Israeli incursions into Beirut in violation of the cease-fire agreements and of Security Council resolutions”, and “Demands an immediate return to the positions occupied by Israel before” September 15, 1982 “as a first step towards the full implementation of Security Council resolutions”.
Res. 521 (Sep. 19, 1982) – “Condemns the criminal massacre of Palestinian civilians in Beirut” in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.
Res. 573 (Oct. 4, 1985) – “Condemns vigorously the act of armed aggression perpetrated by Israel against Tunisian territory in flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and norms of conduct”.
Res. 592 (Dec. 8, 1986) – Reaffirms that the Fourth Geneva Convention “is applicable to the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem”, and “Strongly deplores the opening of fire by the Israeli army resulting in the death and the wounding of defenceless students”.
Res. 605 (Dec. 22, 1987) – “Strongly deplores those policies and practices of Israel, the occupying Power, which violate the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories, and in particular the opening of fire by the Israeli army, resulting in the killing and wounding of defenceless Palestinian civilians”, and reaffirms the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention “to the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem”.
Res. 607 (Jan. 5, 1988) – Expresses “grave concern over the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories”, notes “the decision of Israel, the occupying Power, to ‘continue the deportation’ of Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories”, “Reaffirms once again” the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention “to Palestinian and other Arab territories, occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem”, “Calls upon Israel to refrain from deporting any Palestinian civilians from the occupied territories”, and “Strongly requests Israel, the occupying Power, to abide by its obligations arising from the Convention”.
Res. 608 (Jan. 14, 1988) – Reaffirms resolution 607, expresses “deep regret that Israel, the occupying Power, has, in defiance of that resolution, deported Palestinian civilians”, and “Calls upon Israel to rescind the order to deport Palestinian civilians and to ensure the safe and immediate return to the occupied Palestinian territories of those already deported”.
Res. 611 (Apr. 25, 1988) – Notes “with concern that the aggression perpetrated” by Israelis on April 16, 1988 “in the locality of Sidi Bou Said”, Tunisia, “has caused loss of human life, particularly the assassination of Mr. Khalil El Wazir”, and “Condemns vigorously the aggression perpetrated … against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Tunisia in flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and norms of conduct”.
Res. 636 (Jul. 6, 1989) – Reaffirms resolutions 607 and 608, notes “that Israel, the occupying Power, has once again, in defiance of those resolutions, deported eight Palestinian civilians on 29 June 1989”, Expresses deep regret “the continuing deportation by Israel, the occupying Power, of Palestinian civilians”, “Calls upon Israel to ensure the safe and immediate return to the occupied Palestinian territories of those deported and to desist forthwith from deporting any other Palestinian civilians”, and “Reaffirms that” the Fourth Geneva Convention “is applicable to the Palestinian territories, occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem, and to other occupied Arab territories”.
Res. 641 (Aug. 30, 1989) – Reaffirms resolutions 607, 608, and 636, notes that Israel “has once again, in defiance of those resolutions, deported five Palestinian civilians on 27 August 1989”, and “Deplores the continuing deportation by Israel, the occupying Power, of Palestinian civilians”.
Res. 672 (Oct. 12, 1990) – “Expresses alarm at the violence which took place” on October 8, 1990, “at the Al Haram al Shareef and other Holy Places of Jerusalem resulting in over twenty Palestinian deaths and to the injury of more than one hundred and fifty people, including Palestinian civilians and innocent worshippers”, “Condemns especially the acts of violence committed by the Israeli forces resulting in injuries and loss of human life”, and “Requests, in connection with the decision of the Secretary-General to send a mission to the region, which the Council welcomes, that he submit a report to it before the end of October 1990 containing his findings and conclusions and that he use as appropriate all the resources of the United Nations in the region in carrying out the mission.”
Res. 673 (Oct. 24, 1990) – “Deplores the refusal of the Israeli Government to receive the mission of the Secretary-General to the region”, and “Urges the Israeli Government to reconsider its decision and insists that it comply fully with resolution 672 (1990) and to permit the mission of the Secretary-General to proceed in keeping with its purpose”.
Res. 681 (Dec. 20, 1990) – Reaffirms “the obligations of Member States under the United Nations Charter”, reaffirms “also the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war”, expresses alarm “by the decision of the Government of Israel to deport four Palestinians from the occupied territories in contravention of its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention” in contravention to resolutions 607, 608, 636, and 641, “Expresses its grave concern over the rejection by Israel of Security Council resolutions” 672 and 673, and “Deplores the decision by the Government of Israel, the occupying Power, to resume deportations of Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories”.
Res. 694 (May 24, 1991) – Reaffirms resolution 681 calling on Israel to respect the Fourth Geneva Convention, notes “with deep concern and consternation that Israel has, in violation of its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, and acting in opposition to relevant Security Council resolutions, and to the detriment of efforts to achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East, deported four Palestinian civilians” on May 18, 1991, “Declares that the action of the Israeli authorities of deporting four Palestinians … is in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention …, which is applicable to all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem”, and “Deplores this action and reiterates that Israel, the occupying Power, refrain from deporting any Palestinian civilian from the occupied territories and ensure the safe and immediate return of all those deported”.
Res. 726 (Jan. 6, 1992) – Recalls resolutions 607, 608, 636, 641, and 694 calling on Israel to respect the Fourth Geneva Convention, “Strongly condemns the decision of Israel, the occupying Power, to resume deportations of Palestinian civilians”, “Reaffirms the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention … to all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem”, and “requests Israel, the occupying Power, to ensure the safe and immediate return to the occupied territories of all those deported”.
Res. 799 (Dec. 18, 1992) – Reaffirms resolutions 607, 608, 636, 641, 681, 694, and 726 calling on Israel to respect the Fourth Geneva Convention, notes “with deep concern that Israel, the occupying Power, in contravention of its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention …, deported to Lebanon” on December 17, 1992 “hundreds of Palestinian civilians from the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jersualem”, “Strongly condemns the action taken by Israel, the occupying Power, to deport hundreds of Palestinian civilians, and expresses its firm opposition to any such deportation by Israel”, “Reaffirms the applicability of the Fourth Geneva Convention … to all the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem, and affirms that deportation of civilians constitutes a contravention of its obligations under the Convention”, and “Demands that Israel, the occupying Power, ensure the safe and immediate return to the occupied territories of all those deported”.
Res. 904 (Mar. 18, 1994) – Expresses shock at “the appalling massacre committed against Palestinian worshippers in the Mosque of Ibrahim in Hebron” on February 25, 1994 by Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein “during the holy month of Ramadan”, expresses grave concern with “the consequent Palestinian casualties in the occupied Palestinian territory as a result of the massacre, which underlines the need to provide protection and security for the Palestinian people”, notes “the condemnation of this massacre by the entire international community”, “Strongly condemns the massacre in Hebron and its aftermath which took the lives of more than fifty Palestinian civilians and injured several hundred others”, and “Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to continue to take and implement measures, including, inter alia, confiscation of arms, with the aim of preventing illegal acts of violence by Israeli settlers”.
Res. 1073 (Sep. 28, 1996) – Expresses “deep concern about the tragic events in Jerusalem and the areas of Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem and the Gaza Strip, which resulted in a high number of deaths and injuries among the Palestinian civilians, and concerned also about the clashes between the Israeli army and the Palestinian police and the casualties on both sides”, and “Calls for the safety and protection for Palestinian civilians to be ensured”.
Res. 1322 (Oct. 7, 2000) – Expresses deep concern “by the tragic events that have taken place” since September 28, 2000 “that have led to numerous deaths and injuries, mostly among Palestinians”, “Deplores the provocation carried out at Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem” on September 28, 2000 “and the subsequent violence there and at other Holy Places, as well as in other areas throughout the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, resulting in over 80 Palestinian deaths and many other casualties”, “Condemns acts of violence, especially the excessive use of force against Palestinians, resulting in injury and loss of human life”, and “Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and its responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention”.
Res. 1402 (Mar. 30, 2002) – Expresses grave concern “at the further deterioration of the situation, including the recent suicide bombings in Israel and the military attack against the headquarters of the president of the Palestinian Authority”, “Calls upon both parties to move immediately to a meaningful cease-fire” and “calls for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian cities, including Ramallah”.
Res. 1403 (Apr. 4, 2002) – Expresses grave concern “at the further deterioration of the situation on the ground” and “Demands the implementation of its resolution 1402 (2002) without delay”.
Res. 1405 (Apr. 19, 2002) – Expresses concern for “the dire humanitarian situation of the Palestinian civilian population, in particular reports from the Jenin refugee camp of an unknown number of deaths and destruction”, calls for “the lifting of restrictions imposed, in particular in Jenin, on the operations of humanitarian organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East”, and “Emphasizes the urgency of access of medical and humanitarian organizations to the Palestinian civilian population”.
Res. 1435 (Sep. 24, 2002) – Expresses grave concern “at the reoccupation of the headquarters of the President of the Palestinian Authority in the City of Ramallah that took place” on September 19, 2002, demands “its immediate end”, expresses alarm “at the reoccupation of Palestinian cities as well as the severe restrictions imposed on the freedom of movement of persons and goods, and gravely concerned at the humanitarian crisis being faced by the Palestinian people”, reiterates “the need for respect in all circumstances of international humanitarian law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War”, “Demands that Israel immediately cease measures in and around Ramallah including the destruction of Palestinian civilian and security infrastructure”, and “Demands also the expeditious withdrawal of the Israeli occupying forces from Palestinian cities towards the return to the positions held prior to September 2000”.
Res. 1544 (May 19, 2004) – Reaffirms resolutions 242, 338, 446, 1322, 1397, 1402, 1405, 1435, and 1515, reiterates “the obligation of Israel, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War”, calls “on Israel to address its security needs within the boundaries of international law”, expresses “grave concern at the continued deterioration of the situation on the ground in the territory occupied by Israel since 1967”, condemns “the killing of Palestinian civilians that took place in the Rafah area”, expresses grave concern “by the recent demolition of homes committed by Israel, the occupying Power, in the Rafah refugee camp”, reaffirms “its support for the Road Map, endorsed in resolution 1515”, “Calls on Israel to respect its obligations under international humanitarian law, and insists, in particular, on its obligation not to undertake demolition of homes contrary to that law”, and “Calls on both parties to immediately implement their obligations under the Road Map”.
Res. 1701 (Aug. 11, 2006) – Expresses “its utmost concern at the continuing escalation of hostilities in Lebanon and in Israel” that “has already caused hundreds of deaths and injuries” and “extensive damage to civilian infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons”, and “Calls for a full cessation of hostilities” including “the immediate cessation by Israel of all offensive military operations”.
Res. 1860 (Jan. 8, 2009) – Expresses “grave concern at the escalation of violence and the deterioration of the situation, in particular the resulting heavy civilian casualties since the refusal to extend the period of calm”, expresses “grave concern also at the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza”, “calls for an immediate, durable and fully respected ceasefire, leading to the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza”, “Calls for the unimpeded provision and distribution throughout Gaza of humanitarian assistance, including of food, fuel and medical treatment”, and “Condemns all violence and hostilities directed against civilians and all acts of terrorism”.

UPDATE FEB 25, 2018

Israel’s ‘attack against Christians’: Ancient Jerusalem church closes to protest Israeli tax, land policies

ALTZAR: So you think Trump’s Dec 6 unlawful and inane Jerusalem recognition as Israel’s capital was only aimed against the Palestinians? You will think again after you read this story.

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, originally built by Constantine the Great in 336 AD on the site where Jesus is believed to have been crucified and buried, shut down indefinitely on Sunday (Feb 25) in protest against a new Israeli tax policy and draft law on land expropriation. The leaders of Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Armenian churches announced the closure of the holy site in a joint statement, accusing Israel of a “systematic and unprecedented attack against Christians in the Holy Land.”

A bill which would allow the authorities to expropriate land that was sold to private firms by churches in Jerusalem since 2010 was to be considered by the Israeli government on Sunday. The Jerusalem city authorities have also recently cancelled tax exemptions granted to church-owned commercial properties and are now demanding back payments.

The Christian church leaders argued that the Israeli actions “breach existing agreements and international obligations which guarantee the rights and the privileges of the Churches, in what seems as an attempt to weaken the Christian presence in Jerusalem… “The greatest victims in this are those impoverished families who will go without food and housing, as well as the children who will be unable to attend school.”

“The Jerusalem municipality issued scandalous collection notices and orders of seizure of Church assets, properties and bank accounts for alleged debts of punitive municipal taxes,” Theophilos III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Francesco Patton, the Custos of the Holy Land, and Nourhan Manougian, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, said.

The top clerics blasted the proposed Israeli legislation as “abhorrent… discriminatory and racist,” saying that “this reminds us all of laws of a similar nature, which were enacted against the Jews during dark periods in Europe.” As for the future of the holy site, “we will decide when and how the church will re-open,” they added.

For more, see… https://on.rt.com/8zwx

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WHY WE SHOULD CARE TODAY ABOUT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

WE ARE IN A SIMILAR SITUATION NOW AS THE WORLD WAS IN THE 1930s

JUST SUBSTITUTE RUSSIA FOR GERMANY, AND CHINA FOR JAPAN, AND YOU WILL SEE WHY ZIONIST WARMONGERS ARE DRIVING US INTO ANOTHER WORLD CONFLICT

SOLUTION: TO ACHIEVE WORLD PEACE, WE MUST DO AWAY WITH WORLD RELIGIONS

Over the last five days, I have been publishing a series of stories and editorials on the subject of nuclear holocaust.

Why?

First, to honor the memory of the 225,000 human souls in Hiroshima and Nagasaki who were exterminated in a most brutal way, and worse of all, for no strategic military reason. The war had already been won. The clock was ticking before Japan would surrender. Scores of American military and political leaders said so at the time.

These poor souls, the vast majority civilians, women and children, died to satisfy the bloodthirsty lust for power by FDR, Truman and their Jewish-Zionist advisers.

The second, and perhaps a more important, reason I have been publishing now this series of articles on the nuclear holocaust is because I see that we are in a very similar situation now vis-a-vis Russia and China as we were in the 1930s regarding Germany and Japan. And those who do not learn from history are DOOMED to repeat it. At their peril, of course.

UPDATE NOV 27, 2017

This morning, I saw a picture of this little Japanese girl with a caption “photos not fit to publish in history books.” So I decided to add it to my August piece – WHY WE SHOULD CARE TODAY ABOUT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI – https://wp.me/p3QU1S-2yJ. Because unless we look at such tragic faces of innocents, we will not understand the monstrosity of those in Washington and elsewhere who have visited such atrocities upon this plant in the name of the “land of the free.”

THE SAME TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE US ARE HUNGERING FOR WAR NOW

I see the same types of people – the power-hungry, hate-filled rich Zionist Jews – leading the demonization of Russia today, just as their forefathers did it against Germany in the 1930s and against Russia before that (in 1917). And as their forefathers’ forefathers did it against Russia at the start of the 20th century.

Considering that we now have a eunuch in the White House, surrounded by people who seem more loyal to the Zionist cause and geopolitical interests of Israel than to those of the US, there is plenty to worry about.

“There is no greater supporter of the Jewish people and the Jewish state than President Donald Trump” (Netanyahu)

Here’s what I said back in April:

“There is no doubt anymore… Donald Trump is the same as or worse than Ronald Reagan. “Like Ronald, like Donald, Puppets on String” – my Oct 23, 2016 warning, repeated the day after the election – is sadly coming true.

The New World Order powers that be have surrounded our new president with their loyalists who have managed to turn him in less than three months. Or maybe he has always been one of them. After all, it took more than two years for the globalists in Reagan’s White House to turn the president to follow their agenda.”

Add to this explosive mix our corrupt Congress who are also spoiling for war, sticking Russia in the eye with their new sanctions, and we should realize it is time to sound the alarm before it is too late (see A SAD SURRENDER: TRUMP SIGNS THE RUSSIA SANCTIONS BILL, July 29, 2017 and “LIKE RONALD, LIKE DONALD”… PUPPETS ON A STRING, Apr 16, 2017).

We’ve been there before, twice in the 20th century. And the results were disastrous.

20TH CENTURY HUMAN CARNAGE: 75 MILLION

No wonder some 75 million humans perished in the 20th century alone as a result of such policies, according to Gen. Alexander Lebed, a 1996 Russian presidential candidate and a decorated Russian war hero.

Strike 1: Removing and killing the Russian Tsar and his family

THE “RUSSIAN REVOLUTION” WAS NOT RUSSIAN AT ALL

The vast majority of revolutionary leaders were Jews, many imported from abroad

Let’s start at the beginning…

History books today refer to the tragic events in Russia after 1917 as the “Russian Revolution.” There was very little Russian about it. The Russian people were the VICTIMS of a foreign intervention and unconscionable brutality by the Bolsheviks.

Let’s start with Karl Marx, “the father of communism.” “On both paternal and maternal sides Karl Marx was descended from rabbinical families” (Univ. Jew. Encyc., Vol.VII, p. 289). So Marx was ethnically Jewish. But his parents had converted to Lutheranism.

As for Lenin, the “father of the Russian revolution,” declassification of documents since the collapse of the Soviet Communist Party in 1991 has brought irrefutable proof that Lenin’s maternal great-grandfather was a shtetl Jew named Moshko Blank.

Col. John Beaty, author of the 1951 book “THE IRON CURTAIN OVER AMERICA” – BOOK REVIEW). explains the reasons for why a communist dictatorship suited the Khazar Jewish mentality.

In Russia and abroad in the late nineteenth century, many Khazar Jews had been attracted to the writings of Karl Marx (1818-1883), partly, it seems, because he was Jewish in origin.

The Marxist program of drastic controls, so repugnant to the free western mind, was no obstacle to the acceptance of Marxism by many Khazar Jews, for the Babylonian Talmud, under which they lived, had taught then to accept authoritarian dictation on everything from their immorality to their trade practices. Since the Talmud contained more than 12,000 controls, the regimentation of Marxism was acceptable— provided that the Khazar politician, like the Talmudic rabbis, exercised the power of dictatorship (emphasis added).

Various elements of this restless aggressive minority nurtured the amazing quadruple aims:

International Communism

Seizure of power in Russia

Zionism

Continued migration to America (with a fixed purpose to retain their nationalistic separatism) (excerpt from “THE IRON CURTAIN OVER AMERICA” – BOOK REVIEW).

Col. Beaty offers further proof that the “Russian Revolution” was anything but Russian.

In Lenin’s sealed train, “out of a list of 165 names published, 23 are Russian, 3 Georgian, 4 Armenian, 1 German, and 128 Jewish” (The Surrender of an Empire, Nesta H. Webster, Boswell Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd., London, 1931). [i.e., 78% were Jewish].

“At about the same time, Trotsky (Lev Bronshtein, Ukraine-born) arrived from the United States, followed by over 300 Jews from New York and joined up with the Bolshevik Party.”

According to the data furnished by the Soviet press, out of 556 important functionaries of the Bolshevik State. . . in 1918-1919, 17 Russians, 2 Ukrainians, 11 Armenians, 35 Letts, 15 Germans, 1 Hungarian,10 Georgians, 3 Poles, 3 Finns, 1 Karaim, 457 Jews (i.e., 82% were Jewish). (excerpt from “THE IRON CURTAIN OVER AMERICA” – BOOK REVIEW).

Thus under Lenin, whose birth-name was Ulianov, and whose racial antecedents are uncertain [actuallt his maternal grandfather was a ‘shtetl’ Jew named Moshko Blank], and under Leon Trotsky, a Jew, whose birth name was Lev Bronshtein, a small number of highly trained Jews from abroad, along with Russian Judaized Khazar and non-Jewish captives to the Marxian ideology, were able to make themselves masters of Russia.

Strike 2: Infiltrating both Soviet and American governments intent on inciting war against Germany

RULING RUSSIA WITH AN IRON FIST AND MACHINE GUN

As the decades passed by—after the fateful year 1917—Judaized Khazars kept a firm hand on the helm of the government in the occupied land of Russia. In due time they built a bureaucracy to their hearts‘ desire. The government – controlled Communist press ―issued numerous and violent denunciations of anti-Semitic episodes, either violence or discriminations.

Also, “in 1935 a court ruled that anti-semitism in Russia was a penal offense” (Univ. Jew Encyc., Vol. I, p. 386). Among top-flight leaders prominent in the middle of the twentieth century. Stalin, Kaganovich, Molotov, and Litvinoff all have Jewish blood, or are married to Jewesses (excerpt from “THE IRON CURTAIN OVER AMERICA” – BOOK REVIEW. Also see “THE JEWS AND BOLSHEVISM”).

LIKE GERMANY, LIKE RUSSIA… PEACE ENTREATIES REBUFFED

Like Russia today, Germany made a number of overtures to the US government and Britain in the 1930s hoping for a peaceful solution. But the intransigent warmongers would have none of it. The influential Jews in America and Britain were spoiling for blood. Only a total defeat of Germany would do so that they could rule the world.

And rule they did. Because they had infiltrated both the US and Russian (Soviet) governments. And were able to pull the strings of both against Germany.

FDR and his wife empower US leftists, many Zionists among them

When FDR took power in 1933, the leftist Zionists surrounded him with their people so that one of his first acts as president was the recognition of the Soviet Union. They also drove FDR to rebuff Germany’s overtures and join Britain in the war.

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“Rode shutgun” for Nagasaki bombing

British PM neville Chamberlain later said that “America and the world Jews had forced England into the war.”

WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND

“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.” (Matthew, 26:52)

But those around FDR and Truman who thirsted for war and bloodshed were not men of the Bible, nor did they care about massacring millions of innocent civilians, including women and children.

By contrast, Christians, like FDR’s and Truman’s chief of staff, Admiral William Leahy, an Irish-American who was the nation’s first five-star fleet admiral, wrote in his diary on Aug 8, 1945 about such “barbarous” conduct of war:

“There is a certainty that it [the a-bomb] will in the future be developed by potential enemies and that it will probably be used against us.” He also objected to the a-bomb’s use for moral reasons: “In being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages” (William D. Leahy, I Was There, pg. 441).

What goes around, comes around, as the saying goes. Indeed, there are now many other nations which possess such terrible weapons. Like North Korea.

And then after WW II, these Zionist warmongers also pitted the US and USSR against each (Cold War). Some of them also worked as spies, passing the US nuclear secrets to the Soviets.

But their greatest accomplishment was probably that both the US and the USSR voted to establish the State of Israel in 1948 – the Zionists’ ultimate goal.

EMPHASIS ON “KILL” RATHER THAN “VICTORY”

It would appear, therefore, that one thing the “Semites” (both Jews and Muslims) have in common is a zeal to exterminate the “less worthy” humans of other persuasions – be it other Semites (respectively) or Christians. Theirs seems to be the philosophy of exclusion and separatism, not of inclusion and tolerance. Which is why they preach inclusion and tolerance in America – in the form of globalism and multiculturalism, while practicing exclusion and separatism while – by enslaving the Christians or other non-Semites.

War seems to have suited the purposes of the powerful Judaized Khazars element, dominant in the inner circles of the Democratic Party in America, Col. Beaty says. They regarded with enthusiasm the killing of as many as possible of the native stock Americans of English, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Latin, and Slavic descent.

This non-Christian power bloc therefore endorsed “Unconditional Surrender” and produced the Morgenthau Plan, both of which were certain to stiffen and prolong the German resistance at the cost of many more American lives, and many more German lives, too.

Unfortunately, President Roosevelt became obsessed with the idea of killing Germans [and Japanese? Bob Dj.] rather than defeating Hitler [or Japan]. Perhaps taking his cue from his Commander-in-Chief—a term Roosevelt loved—General Mark Clark told American soldiers of the Fifth Army that, “it is open season on the Anzio bridgehead. There is no limit to the number of Germans you can kill” (New York Times, February 13, 1944).

Such a stress on “killing” or “kill” rather than on a “cause” or on “victory” is definitely at variance with the traditions of Western Christian civilization, Col. Beaty says.. It is also costly in the life blood of America, for “killing” is a two-edged sword. An enemy who would surrender in the face of certain defeat will fight on to the end when truculently promised a “killing”—and more Americans will die with him. (excerpt from “THE IRON CURTAIN OVER AMERICA” – BOOK REVIEW).

20TH CENTURY HUMAN CARNAGE: 75 MILLION

No wonder some 75 million humans perished in the 20th century alone as a result of such policies, according to Gen. Alexander Lebed, a 1996 Russian presidential candidate and a decorated Russian war hero.

Strike 3: WILL THE 21ST CENTURY BE BETTER OR WORSE?

The answer to that question depends on whether or not we continue to allow evil people to use religion or ideology to divide us and set us against each other. And this leads to a nuclear holocaust, the carnage of the 20th century may look benign in comparison.

IS A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST IN THE CARDS FOR 2017?

So is a nuclear holocaust in the cards for 2017? That’s what this Economist magazine cover implies (Dec 5, 2016).

The London Economist, which professes to be a “liberal” publication, actually expresses the financial and political views of the world ‘oligarchs’. The magazine is owned 50% by the English branch of the Rothschild family and the Agnelli Family. The remaining 50% is owned by private investors, editors and staff members.

ROTHSCHILDS’ WARMONGERS ARE AT IT AGAIN

Here they go again… Rothschilds’ warmongers in London are at it again. Stoking the fires of war. This time, with a larger nuclear mushroom with images of North Korean and US presidents in it on this Economist cover.

Date of the issue? Aug 5, 2017 – the day before the 72nd anniversary of the Hiroshima atom bomb that killed at least 140,000 people.

And then they have the audacity to use this GIF (right photo below) as a way to solicit money and subscriptions for their cause?

Have they no shame?

Shame? What’s that. To feel such emotions you have to have scruples.

There’s no such thing when it comes to these warmongers who have been stirring up trouble and financing wars and mass murder world over for over 100 years.

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So what’s to be done to prevent that?

First, people have to learn the truth about root causes of the 20th century wars. That is the purpose of this series of articles about the nuclear holocaust in WW II.

Second, we need to become enlightened beings who refuse to be manipulated by lies and deceptions of the evil forces who seek to divide us. Like the Rothschilds, for example, and their Economist media flagship.

TO ACHIEVE WORLD PEACE, WE MUST DO AWAY WITH WORLD RELIGIONS

Religion has been the fuel of the world leaders’ quest for power and domination for several millennia.

Rabbis, mullahs, imams, popes, priests… they are all birds of the same feather. They preach hate instead of love. Even when they profess to preach love for one another.

Religion has been at the root of most wars in the last 2,000 years. Crusades, jihads, other “holy wars” – they are all tools by which the few devious ones manipulate the many ignorant ones.

We have to stop that vicious cycle. We must not allow them to keep on manipulating us into hating and fighting each other. There is only one God and each and every one us is a spark of the Divine. It’s what we do with it that makes us “good” of “bad. And it all starts with that knowledge and awareness.

We don’t need any rabbis, mullahs, imams, popes, priests… as intermediaries to be with God and to receive the Light of God.

Logic 101, therefore, would suggest…

TO ACHIEVE WORLD PEACE, WE MUST DO AWAY WITH WORLD RELIGIONS.

Will we have the wisdom and the courage to do so? The fate of our unborn children and of Mother Earth depends on it

UPDATE AUGUST 11, 2017

CHINA WILL PREVENT US FIRST STRIKE AGAINST NORTH KOREA, Government Official Daily

BEIJING TO WASHINGTON: 没有, Nyet, Nein… {NO WAY, JOSE)

That did not take long… for one of the major world powers to respond to US bullying of North Korea, and Pyongyang stupidly taking the bait. This morning, China said “NO” (没有, Nyet, Nein…) to the US first strike.

China will prevent the US and South Korea from carrying out strikes on North Korea and trying to overthrow the leadership there, but will remain neutral if Pyongyang launches missiles at American targets first, the state-run Global Times said today.

“IT ONLY TOOK 2 HANDGUN BULLETS TO START WORLD WAR I” (ALTZAR)

Only yesterday, I replied as follows to one of my FB readers who thought we could get away with it scot-free after bombing North Korea to smithereens:\

“I can’t believe that an intelligent and obviously well-informed man as you are would believe such nonsense – that the US could just obliterate a country with nuclear strikes, and the world would just sit and watch? It took only 2 handgun bullets in Sarajevo to start World War I, remember?”

For more, see… https://on.rt.com/8k3y

CHINA SENDING ITS SHIPS IN RESPONSE TO ‘US PROVOCATION’ IN SOUTH CHINA SEA

Meanwhile, the US is continuing to poke its finger into China’s eyes, not just North Korea’s. Two days ago, the US Navy sailed the ‘USS John S. McCain’ (no relations to our “fraud hero”) past an island in the disputed Spratly chain in the South China Sea, US officials told media. It’s the third mission to challenge China’s claim on the territory under the Trump administration.

Again, China’s response was swift and furious.

“The Chinese army immediately sent warships (to the area) in accordance with the law to implement the identification of the US ship and warn it off,” the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said yesterday.

“The US provocation also forced the Chinese side to take measures to further enhance the national defense capability,” the ministry added.

For more, see… https://on.rt.com/8k1m

March 24, 2016March 24, 2018

On this day in history: ANOTHER DAY OF INFAMY

A GANG RAPE OF SERBIA STARTED ON 3-24-1999 AT 11 AM PDT, 19:00 UTC

March 24, 1999

A GANG RAPE OF SERBIA: Another Day of Infamy 3-24-1999 – a film by Bob Altzar Djurdjevic – March 24, 2016 – music from Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” finale recorded by ALTZAR in 2014 – includes original clips from wartime videos, along with Truth in Media photos

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THE WAY IT STARTED…

On March 23, 1999 at 22:17 UTC (2:17 PM PDT), the Secretary General of NATO, Javier Solana, announced he had directed the NATO commander U.S. General Wesley Clark, to “initiate air operations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.” On March 24, 1999 at 19:00 UTC (11 AM PDT), the NATO bombing of Serbia started.

And now, here’s the editorial this writer published the morning of March 24, 1999 at the original Truth in Media website.

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY… THE DAY WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY

MARCH 24, 1999

The New Day of Infamy

Mark this day – March 24, 1999! It may be remembered in history as a new Day of Infamy. Just as was December 7, 1941, the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Except that this time, it is the American-made bombs and pilots that are delivering hell to Serbia on behalf of the forces of Evil.

By his order to launch air strikes against Serbia, NATO and President Clinton have entered uncharted territory in mankind’s history. Not even Hitler’s grab of the Sudetenland in the 1930s, which eventually led to WW II, ranks as a comparable travesty.

For, there are no American interests whatsoever that the NATO bombing will either help, or protect; only needless risks to which it will expose the American soldiers and assets, not to mention the victims on the ground in Serbia.

Bombing Serbia is an act of raw, wanton aggression and violence by a power-hungry Clinton administration. No wonder most Americans who write to us say they are ashamed of it. But shame may quickly turn to blame (of Clinton), if the flames of war in Serbia engulf other nations, possibly even Russia.

May God help all innocent people whom Clinton and his neo-colonial NATO allies have put in mortal danger!”

Bob Djurdjevic, Founder and editor of the Truth in Media

Phoenix, Arizona, March 24, 1999

Drop linton, Not Bombs!

(See 78 Days of Infamy – http://www.truthinmedia.org/Kosovo/tim-war.html)

PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

One year later, on or about March 24, 2000, I gave a speech in Perth, Western Australia, at an event commemorating and honoring the victims of NATO’s war on Serbia. The title of the speech was… (this is an excerpt):

IN MEMORIAM: WESTERN SUNSET, EASTERN DAWN

A Gang Rape of a Small Nation

A military alliance of 19 nations and 780 million people; with over half of the world’s gross economic product, possessing two-thirds of the global military power, ganged up on a tiny nation of 10 million. For 78 days, NATO terrorized the people of Serbia, dropping 23,000 bombs and missiles on them in 36,000 sorties.

More than 2,000 Serbian civilians and 576 soldiers died in these savage attacks, 79 of them children.

Yet the citizens and the army of Serbia remained unbowed and unkowed! This is not hearsay. I saw their defiance with my own eyes during the six days I spent under NATO’s bombardment in April 1999, including a night duty guarding the Brankov Bridge in Belgrade with nothing but their lives.

For that reason, I told the Serb people at every stop of my September 1999 “Tour de Serbia”, that it was my privilege to bow my head before them in admiration of their courage and love of freedom.

And then I did it. [bow]

Their exemplary resistance to a foreign aggression against such overwhelming odds inspired millions of patriots across America and around the world. They staged hundreds of protests of their own. Your presence here on this March 24, 2000, the first anniversary of The New Day of Infamy, also attests to it.

And now, I would like to ask you to join me in honoring all NATO victims with a silent prayer or a minute of silence, as befits an ancient nation which has learned to mourn as well as honor its dead.

Let us pray… [pray]

NATO WAR AGAINST SERBIA – 15 YEARS LATER: WHY?

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Back in the 1990s, I was a war correspondent and geopolitical commentator. My articles about the Balkans wars were published in the Truth in Media and the major media outlets in the US and around the world. March 24, 2014 is the 15th anniversary of the New Day of Infamy. That’s what I called that day in an editorial written on March 24, 1999, just before the NATO bombs started to fall on Serbia. This article and the short film within it are dedicated to the victims of the NATO bombs. They are my memorial to the indomitable human spirit. The music I recorded and used in this video – the theme from “Chariots of Fire” – was chosen by the Spirit for me. Because it also celebrates the strength and indestructibility of the human spirit.

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There is no expiry date on murder, let alone mass murders

Je me souviens – I remember

There is no expiry date on murder, let alone mass murders. And yet there are war criminals still walking free on American streets. Some have even held high offices in US government. The purpose of this article is to remind ourselves of the fact that we harbor war criminals among us. And not to let them off the hook. Their crimes against innocent civilians have stained the American flag under which they were committed. So we must make sure that we distance ourselves from them if we are to regain the honor and respect that the Stars & Stripes once commanded around the world.

Just because these individuals have not been formally charged with war crimes does not mean they will escape justice, either in this world or the next. Lest we forget, powerful dictators and warmongers look untouchable only for a while. Before they fall into the dustbin of history…

Je me souviens – I remember… This video is my memorial to the victims of NATO bombs

NATO WAR AGAINST SERBIA – 15 YEARS LATER: WHY?

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June 28, 2015June 28, 2018

A MOMENTOUS DAY IN HISTORY: JUNE 28, ST VITUS DAY

ALWAYS ON SUNDAY: HISTORY WAS MADE MANY TIMES OVER ON THIS DAY, SEEMINGLY ALWAYS ON SUNDAYS

Remember the famous Melina Mercouri movie and the song, “Never on Sunday?”

Well, when it comes to Serbian history, momentous events seem to have taken place “always on Sunday.”

June 28, 1389 – BATTLE OF KOSOVO

It was a Sunday June 28, 1389 when two mighty armies faced each other on the Field of Blackbirds (Kosovo). Reliable historical accounts of the battle are scarce. The invading Ottoman (Turkish) army, led by the 70-year old Sultan Murad, numbered between 27,000 to 40,000 fighters. The defenders’ Serbian Prince Lazar’s army had from 12,000 to 30,000 troops, according to historians.

The bulk of both armies were wiped out in the ferocious battle to the death. Both the Serb leader Lazar and the Ottoman Sultan Murad lost their lives in it. So did most of my Djurdjevic ancestors who fought at Kosovo. Those who survived, retreated with Queen Milica, Lazar’s wife, to Zeta (today’s Montenegro).

The Serbs withdrew, bleeding. The Turks withdrew, bleeding. King Tvrtko of Bosnia (whose troops fought on the side of Serbia) proclaimed the Battle of Kosovo a great victory.

The bells of the Notre-Dame in Paris rang for four days to celebrate Serb victory at Kosovo.

Alas, the celebrations across Europe were short-ilved.

After the battle, Lazar’s son, Stefan Lazarevic, raced to fight a Hungarian invasion and to put down a rebellion of certain nobles. He accepted to be a Turkish vassal so he could solidify his rule (which he did).

His sister and Lazar’s daughter, Olivera, became Bayazit’s (Ottoman ruler after Kosovo) favorite wife and wielded great influence over him. Serbia regained its independence in 1402, only to fall to the Turks again in 1459 (other Serbian states: Bosnia – 1463, Herzegovina – 1482, parts of Montenegro – 1499). Serbia was subjugated by the Ottoman Empire for 345 years (1459-1804).

Despite the defeat, the Battle of Kosovo on the Field of Blackbirds has been etched in the hearts and minds and consciousness of every child born to a Serbian mother. Serbian kids suckle it with mother’s milk. Kosovo is Serbia’s Alamo. And today, on St Vitus Day, the whole country remembers it.

By the late 17th century, the Ottoman Empire expanded as far west as Vienna. The Turks laid a siege of the Habsburg Empire capital from July 17–Sept 12 1683. The expedition by the Turks eventually resulted in their defeat by a combined force led by John III Sobieski of Poland. The end of the siege of Vienna marked the beginning of the end of Turkish domination in eastern Europe.

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June 28, 1519 – SPAIN’S CHARLES V CROWNED AS HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR

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1797 – France occupies Ionian Islands of Greece.

1812 – Napoleon Bonaparte’s army crosses Vilna River as Russian forces retreat.

1881 – Immigration Act of New Zealand restricts Japanese immigration.

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JUNE 28, 2014: 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF “WAR TO END ALL WARS”

AUSTRIA’S ARCHDUKE FERDINAND ASSASSINATED IN SARAJEVO

On June 28, 1914, St. Vitus Day, an event took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which shook the world to its core. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were shot to death by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August (see 100 Years Ago, 6-28-14).

The assassination of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand unleashed the forces that led to World War I. It was called the Great War at the time. Others named it “a war to end all wars.

After more than four years of bloodshed in which over 39 million people died, the Great War ended on November 11, 1918, after Germany, the last of the Central Powers, surrendered to the Allies. At the peace conference near Paris in 1919, Allied leaders would state their desire to build a post-war world that was safe from future wars of such enormous scale.

On this day in history… March 10, 1959

TIBETAN REBELLION STARTS

CIA’s Tibetan War

The Other Tibetan Rebellion

WHAT LED TO THE 1959 REBELLION?

Putin delivers a sobering message to the US in Russia’s version of the “state of the union” address:

STOP ROCKING THE BOAT… CALLED EARTH!

Putin: “All the things you were trying to prevent through your policies have already happened. You have failed to hold Russia back”

‘Speaking softly’: Russia wants negotiations, not confrontation

ALTZAR’S editorial comment

PUTIN’S SPEECH TO FALL ON DEAF EARS IN THE US?

PERPETUAL WAR FOR PERPETUAL COMMERCE

On this day in history… March 1, 1966

RUSSIAN PROBE FIRST TO REACH VENUS

RUSSIA WAS AHEAD OF THE US IN SPACE EXPLORATION EVEN IN THE 1960s

TOWARD NEW ARMS RACE?

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY… FEBRUARY 28, 1994

NATO’S FIRST MILITARY ACTION IN HISTORY

US F-16’s down four Bosnian Serb planes

It’s a done deal, Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israeli capital

ANOTHER DAY WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY

Netanyahu thanks Trump

STAND BY FOR A FALLOUT FROM THIS FOOLHARDY DECISION

HOW TO GAIN ENEMIES AND LOSE FRIENDS – IN AN INSTANT

THE DAY AFTER: SOME REACTIONS TO TRUMP’S JERUSALEM ANNOUNCEMENT

SOME READER REACTIONS

VIOLENT CLASHES IN OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

TOP JERUSALEM CHRISTIAN LEADERS WARN TRUMP OF “VIOLENCE AND SUFFERING” IF US RECOGNIZES THE HOLY CITY AS ISRAEL’S CAPITAL

Trump’s decision to cause “irreparable harm,” 13 patriarchs of Christian churches say

Editorial Comment Re. Biblical Prophesies

IS TRUMP LEADING US ON A PATH TO ARMAGEDDON?

​We live in Biblical times… and that’s not a good​ thing

PREFACE TO THIS BIBLICAL PROPHESY

Biblical Prophecy

Israel and Jerusalem: The Road To Armageddon

“I (God) will bless those who bless you (Israel) and will curse those who curse you” (Genesis 12:3)

MORE REACTIONS…

UPDATE DEC 8, 2017 – MORE REACTIONS…

RUSSIA ALSO CONDEMNS TRUMP’S DECISION ON JERUSALEM

“Jerusalem is ours” – Muslims protest around the world

VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN JERUSALEM, OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Watch “Israeli Cavalry” in action against civilians

BETHLEHEM THEN AND NOW

LAMESTREAM MEDIA MUM ABOUT WORLDWIDE PROTESTS AGAINST TRUMP’S DECISION

Memorial Day 2002 Truth in Media editorial – Revisited

HOW TO WIN THE PEACE IN TWO SIMPLE STEPS

Dump treacherous “ally” (Israel), diversify away from Arab oil

HOW TO WIN THE PEACE IN TWO SIMPLE STEPS

Dump treacherous “ally” (Israel), diversify away from Arab oil

PEACE DIVIDENDS

WHAT IS PUTIN UP TO?

His shuttle diplomacy: Met with 3 presidents in 3 countries in 1 day

PATHETIC SUMMIT IN ISTANBUL EXPOSES WEAKNESS OF TOOTHLESS LEADERS OF 57 MUSLIM COUNTRIES

These Muslim leaders are no longer relevant, writes Robert Fisk, a longtime Middle East correspondent for the London Independent newspaper – https://goo.gl/4fns4R

“They represent failed states with neither morality nor courage to show for their presence at the Istanbul summit,” he writes.

“It was just more claptrap from an organization (that’s already changed its name twice) which offers no hope, no initiative, no justice and no future to the people of its collective autocracies.” —

DISMAL FAILURE OF MUSLIM LEADERS TO STAND UP AND SUPPORT THE PALESTINIANS OVER JERUSALEM

APATHY GALORE: PLUTOCRATS ARE WINNING… FOR NOW

US VETOES UN RESOLUTION ON JERUSALEM

All other Security Council members vote for it

US AND ISRAEL: ROGUE STATES

UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS RE. ISRAEL/PALESTINE (1948-2010) – http://www.un.org/en/sc/documents/resolutions/

WE ARE IN A SIMILAR SITUATION NOW AS THE WORLD WAS IN THE 1930s

JUST SUBSTITUTE RUSSIA FOR GERMANY, AND CHINA FOR JAPAN, AND YOU WILL SEE WHY ZIONIST WARMONGERS ARE DRIVING US INTO ANOTHER WORLD CONFLICT

SOLUTION: TO ACHIEVE WORLD PEACE, WE MUST DO AWAY WITH WORLD RELIGIONS

THE SAME TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE US ARE HUNGERING FOR WAR NOW

“There is no greater supporter of the Jewish people and the Jewish state than President Donald Trump” (Netanyahu)

20TH CENTURY HUMAN CARNAGE: 75 MILLION

No wonder some 75 million humans perished in the 20th century alone as a result of such policies, according to Gen. Alexander Lebed, a 1996 Russian presidential candidate and a decorated Russian war hero.

Strike 1: Removing and killing the Russian Tsar and his family

THE “RUSSIAN REVOLUTION” WAS NOT RUSSIAN AT ALL

The vast majority of revolutionary leaders were Jews, many imported from abroad

Strike 2: Infiltrating both Soviet and American governments intent on inciting war against Germany

RULING RUSSIA WITH AN IRON FIST AND MACHINE GUN

LIKE GERMANY, LIKE RUSSIA… PEACE ENTREATIES REBUFFED

FDR and his wife empower US leftists, many Zionists among them

WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND

EMPHASIS ON “KILL” RATHER THAN “VICTORY”

20TH CENTURY HUMAN CARNAGE: 75 MILLION

No wonder some 75 million humans perished in the 20th century alone as a result of such policies, according to Gen. Alexander Lebed, a 1996 Russian presidential candidate and a decorated Russian war hero.

We live in Biblical times… and that’s not a good thing

Israel and Jerusalem:
The Road To Armageddon

“It was just more claptrap from an organization (that’s already changed its name twice) which offers no hope, no initiative, no justice and no future to the people of its collective autocracies.”
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