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January 25, 2010
Israel’s Disproportionate Response in Haiti
Telegraph.co.uk:
Israel builds a field hospital in Haiti. Anti-Zionists not fooled!
A five-month-old baby boy is nursed at the Israeli Field Hospital in Port-au-Prince (Picture: AP)
Clever people the Jews… oops, I mean the Israelis. Look at the lengths to which they have gone to distract the world from their daily ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The latest trick is an Israeli field hospital, rushed into Haiti last Friday and erected in a soccer field.
The US, with all its resources, hasn’t yet managed to set up a field hospital in Haiti (undoubtedly the State Department is still drafting the crucial legal papers needed) but the Israelis, operating with their usual disregard to the niceties of law, slapped one up and have already delivered a baby there. The father, obviously paid off by the Mossad, rapturously declared that the baby would be named “Israel”.
According to Israeli government sources the hospital includes 10 tons of medical equipment, 40 doctors, 24 nurses, medics, paramedics, x-ray equipment and personnel, a pharmacy, an emergency room, two surgery rooms, an incubation ward, a children’s ward and a maternity ward.
Information from Israeli government sources should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt, but footage of this tent-city/hospital has now been seen on SKY, Fox and CNN, ABC and CBS and the video seems to confirm (Mossad video fabricators are tricky) at least that the facility is large, clean, and full of modern equipment. CBS’s piece called the hospital the “Rolls Royce of medicine in Haiti”.
Thankfully, the BBC has kept its head and is not colluding with the Israeli government’s attempt to make the world forget its sins. However, that has not stopped Jewish…er…Zionist propagandists, who are already triumphantly calling the field hospital “Israel’s Disproportionate response”, a reference to the charge last year that Israel reacted to Hamas rocket fire with “disproportionate” military force. The word “disproportionate” in this case refers to the fact that this country of 7.5 million has sent 220 people, compared to say, China, which as of last week had sent 60.
Thankfully, many people are onto the ploy, as these comments from the Los Angles Times show:
“Great,” said someone identifying himself as ‘Smart Alex’, “I just hope the IDF soldiers don’t harvest any of the dead Haitians’ organs without the permission of their families.
“I know, I know,” he wrote, “that was a cheap shot. But I believe well-deserved for a country that tries to use its U.S.-funded humanitarian efforts as propaganda to paper over its disastrous and vile treatment of the Palestinians.”
A clever fellow and brave too! It takes guts to make such a deduction and publish it from behind the cover of a moniker like ‘Smart Alex’. [link]
posted by: jrtelegraph
Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin
LA Jewish Journal:
Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin
Emil Draitser's dark but whimsical memoir, "Shush!"The story is told of a delegation of Communist Party cadres who are ushered into the Kremlin for a ceremonial meeting with Stalin. After they are gone, Stalin discovers that his favorite pipe is missing, and he sends Beria, the much-feared chief of the Soviet secret police, to retrieve it.
“Never mind,” Stalin tells Beria on his return. “I found the pipe under a pile of papers on my desk.”
“Too late,” reports Beria. “Half of them confessed to taking the pipe and were shot as wreckers, and the other half died under questioning.”
The story captures both the terror that afflicted the citizens of the Soviet Union who lived (and died) during the Stalin era and the spirit of resistance that has always manifested itself in joke-telling. But the humor is very black when it comes to Stalin, who succeeded in destroying Jewish and Yiddish culture in Russia. At the time of his death in 1953, Stalin was preparing a new wave of terror against the Jews in connection with the so-called “Doctor’s Plot.”
All of these ironies came to mind when I heard that Emil Draitser, author of “Shush! Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin” (University of California Press: $24.95), will be taking the stage in the ALOUD series at the Central Library at 7:00 p.m. on February 3, 2010.
Born in Odessa in 1937, Draitser was a political satirist in the Soviet Union before he was blacklisted for a piece that daringly criticized a high-ranking figure. He managed to reach L.A. in 1974, earned a Ph.D. in Russian literature at UCLA, and is today a professor of Russian at the City University of New York.
Since coming to America, Draitser has published novels, non-fiction, newspaper journalism and scholarly articles, including “Forbidden Laughter: Soviet Underground Humor” and the bittersweet memoir that gives its title to his event at ALOUD. “Shush!” was hailed by Publishers Weekly as “a painful and acutely observed memoir,” but Draitser always brings to his work the same wry sense of humor that cost him his career in the Soviet Union.
Draitser will be featured at ALOUD in conversation with Suzi Weissmann, a professor of politics at Saint Mary’s College of California.Free reservations and additional information about Emil Draitser’s event at the Central Library, located at Fifth and Flower Streets in downtown L.A., are available by calling (213) 228-7025 or at www.aloudla.org.
Jonathan Kirsch is the book editor of The Jewish Journal and can be reached at books@jewishjournal.com. [link]
posted by: jrtelegraph
Detective Hired by Deripaska's Employee to Wiretap Cherney Sentenced in Tel-Aviv
Cherfund.org Press Release:
Detective Hired by Deripaska's Employee to Wiretap Cherney Sentenced in Tel-Aviv
Press Release Source: Michael Cherney Fund On Friday January 22, 2010, 3:00 am ESTTEL AVIV, Israel, January 22 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 13th, 2010 the Tel Aviv Court handed down its first verdict in the case of illegal eavesdropping on businessman and philanthropist Michael Cherney. Illegal spying was commissioned by a Russian citizen, who at the time was an executive in Oleg Deripaska's empire.
On January 13, the Tel Aviv Court confirmed the plea bargain between the DA's office and Aviv Mor, a private investigator. Mor was found guilty of illegally gathering information of personal nature - in particular, tapping the phones of Cherney.
Judge Daniel Beary stressed that Cherney and his Secretary, Elena Skir, are "victims of a crime". He added that Israel must fight illegal violations of privacy of and subsequent damage to its citizens.
The plea bargain handed down a 14-month sentence to Mor. Part of the sentence will be in the form of community service and the rest will be a suspended sentence. In addition, Mor will pay a penalty of 20,000 shekels. Mr. Cherney asked the court that the collected fine be used to help orphanages.
The DA's office stated in court that the cases of other suspects in the illegal data collection case "are at an advanced stage and close to indictment."
The charges against Mor cite their names: Avigdor Eskin, working in PR; Rafael Pridan, formerly a PI; and Maksim Gurevich, who has also worked in private investigations.
The same document in Hebrew says that "in May 2007 Eskin asked the defendant (Mor) to get him in touch with a foreign subject Alexei Drobashenko (further referred to as Client), who was interested in the defendant's services at Eskin's recommendation.
'As per Client's request, Eskin, the defendant, and Pridan went to meet him (Drobashenko) in Moscow. At the meeting the Client made it clear that the subjects he represents are in conflict with Michael Cherney and would like to collect information on him for advancing their own interests.
At that time Alexei Drobashenko was the head of the External Relations department at Basic Element, a financial and industrial group that belongs to Oleg Deripaska. In February 2008 Mr. Cherney filed a suit in a Tel Aviv court, claiming that it was this Russian oligarch, acting through Drobashenko, who had hired Eskin, Pridan, and Mor. In his claim Mr. Cherney accused a group of 10 plotters, including Oleg Deripaska, Alexei Drobashenko and the already sentenced Aviv Mor, of illegal wiretapping, hacking the computers of his charity fund, publishing slanderous articles, and harassing him with insulting graffities and leaflets.
In his interview to Haaretz Daily, Cherney noted that Deripaska had tremendous influence in the Russian government, in particular maintaining close relations with Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev. Mrs. Deripaska is the daughter of Valentin Yumashev, President Yeltsin's chief of staff.
Deripaska and Cherney are former partners in an aluminum business. Currently, a multi-million dollar suit that Cherney brought against Deripaska is being decided in a London court. [link]
posted by: jrtelegraph
Sergey Brin Supportive of New Stance Vs. China
NZHERALD:
Google founder Sergey Brin: Engine driver
2:32 PM Wednesday Jan 20, 2010
Google founders Sergey Brin (L) and Larry Page. Photo / APGoogle's bold stand against China owes much to the ideals of the internet giant's co-founder, write Tim Walker.
At the annual meeting of Google shareholders on 8 May 2008, a motion was proposed from the floor which called for an end to the company's activities in China.
When, two years previously, the world's largest internet firm had finally started doing business with the world's most populous country, Google's bosses agreed to impose search filters at the behest of Beijing.
Thus search terms such as "Tiananmen Square" or "Dalai Lama" threw up results that were either innocuous or simply censored. Many of Google's idealistic employees, let alone its users, had long been troubled by the compromise. One of the site's founders, Larry Page, voted the motion down, as did the CEO, Eric Schmidt. But Page's co-founder, Sergey Brin, abstained.
Last month, Google discovered that it had been the subject of a sophisticated attack on its computer systems, carried out by hackers in search of private data from more than 30 internet companies.
Among the targets were the accounts of Chinese human rights activists; experts claimed the hack could be traced to the Chinese government or its proxies. In response, Google announced that it would stop censoring results on Google.cn - the Chinese version of its search engine - or, should Beijing oppose the move, cease operating in China altogether.
Google-watchers all agree that Brin was behind the decision. "He's always had an emotional tug within him, saying 'we shouldn't be making compromises'," says Ken Auletta, the author of Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. [Read the rest]
posted by: jrtelegraph
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