Double standards (From Oxford Mail)

Dr. Ilan Pappé's "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" is an authoritative and well-referenced history of how Zionist racists expelled nearly a million Palestinians in 1948. Dr. Pappé is an Israeli historian who bravely told the truth about Israel's decades of systematically dispossessing and depriving the Palestinians. Israeli fellow-academics don't like Pappé's truth-telling, so now he lectures at the University of Exeter. So much for democracy and academic freedom in modern racist Israel.

Israeli fellow-historian Prof. Avi Shlaim agrees with Pappé that Israel has grossly maltreated Palestinians. In 2009 Prof. Shlaim bravely denounced Israel's invasion of Gaza and indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force that killed 1,400 Palestinians.

Not every modern Israeli historian agrees with Pappé and Shlaim. Dr. Benny Morris claims Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians was "justified" and Palestinians "have to be contained". That means four million people are imprisoned in a remnant of their own territory, guilty until proven innocent. Dr. Pappé says that Morris can't read Arabic, which is one reason why Morris's view of history pays too little attention to Palestinian accounts of Israeli injustice. What use is an historian who can read only one side's version of events?

Even before the State of Israel was founded in 1948, Zionists were systematically persecuting Palestinians. Zionists bought large areas of farmland and evicted all the Palestinian peasants. The Zionist Histadrut labour movement bullied Jewish and British employers to replace native Palestinian workers with newly arrived Jewish settlers. Zachary Lockman's history book "Comrades and Enemies" tells in detail how ever since the Histadrut was founded it pursued racist policies against Palestinians.

Nowadays Zionists push Palestinians out of what litle they still possess. In Hebron, East Jerusalem and elsewhere they look for any excuse to either take over or demolish Palestinians' homes. Israel has destroyed thousands of Palestinian olive and citrus trees in order to build hundreds of miles of its illegal nine-metre high apartheid wall.

Zionism is racism, in many ways like apartheid. Apartheid in South Africa was defeated, ending decades of racial conflict and injustice. Israeli apartheid can also be defeated.

* Please boycott Israeli goods and services.
* Please don't invest in Israel.
* Please call for the UK, EU and UN to impose sanctions on Israel.

At last, could it be the truth about Israel & its crimes are coming out & not a Zionist counter coming out of the woodwork! (Soon I'm sure)!
Am I correct in saying the UN resolution 1441 to eventually attack Iraq (illegally), is almost the exact same resolution, word for word, Israel flouts against Palestine?
Though I don't agree with military interventions I agree we should boycott Israeli goods & impose sanctions on them too. South African Apartheid ended with boycott & sanctions. Free Palestine!!!

The latest outrage by Israel is the death squad scandal in Dubai whereby fake European passports, including British, were used to commit the extra-judicial killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

There are suspicions that the UK government is involved because the forged documents had biomentric stamps. If these suspicions turn out to be correct, I think the resignation of Gordon Brown and David Miliband is in order.

Already they have given assurances to Israeli war criminals such as Tzipi Livni that they shall not have to fear arrest on the charge of war crimes when trying to enter the UK. Gordon Brown and David Miliband are welcoming criminals on behalf of the British people, and now they are implicated in putting innocent British people at risk of their lives by association with Israeli hit squads.

The public need to send a clear message to the Labour Party that enough is enough. If they cannot endorse the Goldstone Report on Israel's war crimes in Gaza and instead indulge the criminals, what are we to do but vote for a different political party that shares our values as a democratic, civilized society? UK consumers can also send a clear message to Israel by boycotting their Apartheid products and supporting Palestinian goods instead. If the politicians are letting us down, we need to take the initiative and do what they are too immoral and cowardly to do.

Quite so. However, David Miliband's dad was a left-wing Zionist, and in 2007 both Gordon Brown and Monique's MP David Cameron accepted invitations to become honorary patrons of the Jewish Naitonal Fund: a so-called charity that is the Zionists' biggest land-grabbing organisation apart from the Israeli Defence Forces. With so many Zionists in charge of our two main parties, there aren't many leading politicians who will heed our complaint.

The JNF succeeded in getting Charles Kennedy to be a patron when he was Lib Dem leaders, but to his credit Nick Clegg has refused the poisonous invitation. Former leader Menzies Campbell has also had the guts to criticise Israel about Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's murder. I don't think Green leader Caroline Lucas would give the JNF the time of day either.

Israel is the archetypal terror state, founded by a generation of Zionist terrorists who abducted, tortured and murdered British personnel. Some Zionist terrorists even killed Britons while we were fighting Japan and Nazi Germany to save World freedom. They have done the same to Palestinians ever since.

Support for Israel is foreign policy madness that helps to destabilise the Near East, earns the UK no end of enemies and forefeits most of Britain's moral authority in the World community. Britain must stop supporting state terror and help to isolate Israel. Nothing less is likely to make the Zionists give the Palestinians justice and peace.

Look what the Liberal Democrats did to Baroness Tonge for speaking out against Israel:

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And Nick Clegg posing for the cameras in front of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel stall:

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The only option is to vote Green or far left, whatever party that happens to be these days. It seems even the Lib Dems pay lip service to the outcry over what Israel is doing. They are playing both sides and cannot be trusted to act morally.

Just had letter from Nick Clegg's office. Lib Dems demand the Apartheid Wall be removed from the West Bank, accept Hamas' democratic mandate, support negotiating with Hamas & condemn Quartet for boycotting Palestinian Authority.
Unfortunately the Lib Dems also accept 1949 armistice lines as basis of "borders" for Israel. The truth is the only "borders" Isael was ever offered were in 1947 UN partition resolution, which Zionists only pretended to accept. Zionists won the 1949 armistice lines by a war of conquest that ethnically cleansed almost 1,000,000 Palestinians. Zionists still continue the ethnic cleansing war today, house by house in Hebron and East Jerusalem and field by field everywhere else.
Zionists always claim to want peace. Actually they want peace without justice and prefer land to peace.

It is the job of politicians to charm us and sound sincere. Words do not require much effort, but actions are the real yardsticks of commitment. David Cameron wrote me a letter to state his alleged commitment to the Palestinians' right to freedom and independence, but again, they were just words. If the Liberal Democrats can censor and remove Jenny Tonge for merely stating a common fact about Israeli atrocities, that says a great deal more than their words do. Words alone will not free the Palestinians. Enough words have been spoken and written on the issue. They need concrete actions to save them from their racist, genocidal overlords.