Maniacs on Top of a Crane in Paris

This video is really crazy! Some crazy young French guys climb onto a crane above Paris and then start doing calisthenics, in particular pullups, on the crane. The crane is extremely high off the ground, maybe many hundreds of feet or more. If they mess up and can't pull themselves up to the bar with the pullups, they are really screwed.

Either one of their friends will have to help them to the bar, or they will lose their grip and fall. One guy seems to have a hard time pulling himself back up to the bar after one of his pullups, but he finally makes it.

The background is apparently a French version of the Sex Pistols "Friggin in the Riggin'"

Last Guillotine Execution in France

There is actually not much to this video, but it is important for historical reasons. It apparently shows the last execution by guillotine in France. A man, Eugen Weidmann, is led to the guillotine, placed on it, and then the blade falls. Part of his body, apparently the headless corpse, falls off the platform and is then picked up and carried off. The head is apparently on the other side of the platform.

This video is not as disturbing as I thought it would be for some reason.

Mga Bastos Na Negro

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This is the Tagalog translation of the Africans Attack Girl Who Rejects Their Advances in France post.

Dito sa nakakagulat na videong ito, isang kabataang afrikano sa France, ang lumapit sa isang puting babae sa malaswang pamamaraan.

Umiling siya at sabi niya hindi, at sabay layo. Sa galit ng negro sinampal niya ang puting babae sa mukha. Isa pang negro ang lumapit at tinadyakan siya. Ang mga kaibigan niya ay lumapit para tulungan siyang tumayo at lumayo sila. Yong naunang negro, tinabig ang camera at sinabing sa isang masamang salitang french at sabay tawang lumayo.

Ang mga French ay nagkamali sa pagtanggap sa mga negrong ito na abusado at walang modo. Ano kaya sa palagay nila ang iniisip nila ng gawin nila ito?

Itong videong ito ay talagang ginalit ako!!!

Africains à L'attaque d'une Fille Qui Refuse Leurs Avances

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This is the French translation of the Africans Attack Girl Who Rejects Their Advances in France post by super translator Natalie from France.

Dans cette vidéo, un jeune Africain fait des avances à une jeune « blanche ». Elle secoue la tête pour exprimer son refus et s'écarte de lui. Il réagit en la giflant violemment au visage. Un autre Africain cours vers elle et la pousse par terre. Puis ses amis l'aident à se remettre debout et s'en vont avec elle.

Puis le premier Africain gueule à la caméra « ça vraiment, c'est du lourd! » pendant qu'il rigole.

Les Français ont sérieusement merdé en important bon gré mal gré
tous ces Africains sans sélection.

Cette vidéo me fout la rage!

Afro-Francesi Picchiano una Ragazza Bianca

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This is the Italian translation of the Africans Attack Girl Who Rejects Their Advances in France post by Paolo of Trieste.

Non me la dai? Allora ti picchio...è il senso di questa vergognosa scena.

Il luogo sembra essere una stazione di metrò : c'è una gang di colore e un paio di ragazze; una di queste viene fermata da un bullo che le fa delle avances piuttosto decise.

Lei vuole proseguire per la sua strada, non gliene frega niente di quel negro, scuote la testa e dice no...no...

Il nostro ingrifato 'eroe' non ci vede più e le appioppa un pesantissimo ceffone !! La povera ragazza barcolla ed un altro bullo le se avventa addosso e la prende a calci facendola cadere a terra.

Aiutata dall'amica, la povera ragazza si rialza e riprende la propria strada.

CHE SBALLO! Così il nostro 'eroe' si rivolge ridendo all'amico che riprende la scena, esternando in francese la propria soddisfazione per la prodezza compiuta...

Non c'è che da incazzarsi, e parecchio, a vedere dei filmati come questo !

Ci sarebbe molto da dire sulla situazione in Europa, sul bullismo, la violenza sulle donne, il degrado della civiltà, i rom, gli extra-comunitari, i mussulmani etc etc.

Nel caso specifico della Francia, i problemi sono ingigantiti da una notevole comunità di origine africana, incrementatasi in questi ultimi decenni grazie ad una sconsiderata politica di accoglimento indiscriminato.

Purtroppo, la qualità di tanti nuovi immigrati (tra cui clandestini, disperati, delinquenti) non è pari alle aspettative, ed abbiamo già capito che il problema non sarà di facile soluzione per le autorità francesi.

Franske afrikanere angriper jente

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This is the Norwegian translation of the Africans Attack Girl Who Rejects Their Advances in France post.

I denne utrolige videoen, nærmer en ung afrikansk mann i Frankrike seg en ung, hvit jente på en seksuell måte. Hun rister på hodet for å antyde at hun ikke er interessert og prøver å komme seg bort fra ham. Han reagerer med å dra til henne hardt i ansiktet. En annen afrikansk mann går så opp til henne og sparker henne i bakken. Hennes venner hjalp henne opp på bena og gikk bort.

Den første afrikanske stiller seg så opp foran kameraet og sier noe lignende som dette "Man, det var fett!" på fransk, mens han lo.

Franskmennene har seriøst driti seg ut ved å importere idiotiske afrikanere som dette. Hva var det de holdt på med?

Denne videoen gjorde meg virkelig sint!

Hombre Africano Ataca a Chica Que Rechaza Manoseo

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This is the Spanish translation of the Africans Attack Girl Who Rejects Their Advances in France post. Translator: Fabián Aguilar, a crazy guy from Bogotá, Colombia who likes Saturdays.

En este increíble video, un joven africano en Francia se acerca a una joven en tono sexual. Ella sacude su cabeza y trata de alejarse de él. Él reacciona cacheteándola muy fuerte en su rostro. Otro africano corre rápidamente hasta ella y le propina una patada que la deja en el suelo. Sus amigos la ayudan a levantar y luego se alejan.

El primer africano se enfoca con la cámara y dice “¡Caramba, eso fue salvaje!” en Francés mientras se ríe sin parar.

Los franceses realmente cometieron un error al dejar inmigrar africanos indeseables como este. ¿En qué rayos estaban pensando?

Africans Attack Girl Who Rejects Their Advances in France

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In this amazing video, a young African man in France approaches a young White girl in a sexual manner. She shakes her head no and tries to get away from him. He reacts by slapping her very hard in the face. Another African then quickly runs up to her and kicks her to the ground. Her friends then help her to her feet and start to walk away.

The first African then mugs for the camera and says something along the lines of "Man, that's some heavy shit!" in French while laughing his head off.

The French have seriously fucked up by importing all these unselected Africans willy-nilly like this. What did they think they were doing?

This video really made me angry!

Criminals Chase Police from a Banlieu in France

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Good Lord, this is terrible. This is the great France of Hugo, Sartre, Renoir, Ophuls, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Beckett, Genet, Gide, Camus, Godard, Truffaut, Picasso, Magritte and Cocteau? The France of the Paris cafe scene in the 1920's, with Hemmingway, Joyce, Pound, Lowell, Toklas, Stein, Barnes and the rest?

Now it's descended into sheer jungle savagery. France is turning into Africa.

They would have done better to import African-Americans. These are the worst of all possible Blacks, straight out of the primal backwards of the Dark Continent itself. To make matters worse, not only are they Black Africans, but they are Muslim Black Africans!

I can't imagine things are this bad even in US ghettos, terrible as they are. US ghettos are awful places, but I don't think there are no-go zones for cops. I've worked in these ghettos, and the police are everywhere, making arrests constantly. I've never heard of cops going to investigate a rape and being driven away by hostile residents out to protect the rapists.

In the video, cops go to a banlieu (housing project) in France to investigate a rape. They bring the rape victim with them, a young White woman.

When they come to the place where it happened, they find a squat with 10 young Black men living there. These are obviously the rapists and their friends. The leader of the gang of young men confronts the police and orders them away. Later, one of the young Blacks throws a tear gas canister at police, temporarily blinding them.

Finally, the cops decide to leave, getting no cooperation out of the residents. As they leave, the young Blacks dance African-style and throw rocks at the cops. Towards the end, a young Black confronts the cops with a baseball bat and advances on them while others dance like monkeys in the background. The bat-wielding thug only stops when the cop draws his gun. As the cops retreat to their cars, more stones are thrown at them by the thugs.

And anyone who pulls a baseball bat on a US cop is probably going down on charges to say the least. If I pick up a bat and advance towards a US cop, I'm guilty of a crime, no?I doubt if the cops are going to run away.

Nor do US Blacks, even in our worst ghettos, burn dozens of cars a night, and hundreds on bad nights. They scarcely burn cars at all, at least not as social protest.

These areas have essentially been ceded to a hostile foreign enemy. The Muslims and Blacks rule these places and don't let any government entities in.

In the video, the detectives go with the rape victim to the site of the crime. It's a squat where 10 young Black Muslim men are living. These Blacks are obviously the ones who raped the woman. They probably felt she deserved it for some reason, maybe because she was fair game, maybe because she was dressed like a slut.

The victim can be seen throughout the movie dressed in a red coat. At one point, a detective says, "We are here for her." She's a Caucasian woman in her 20's.

I watched this video with a dropped jaw. The French have created a monster. God help them.

Down With The (New) UN

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Updated August 23:

In the comments section, a critical commenter (Yeah, we allow 'em to a point) asks:

Is the UN a neoconservative arm in the US with connections with Zionism?

To which Lafayette Sennacherib responds:

Well... broadly speaking,yes!

Indeed, LS is correct, this is exactly what the UN has morphed into since the horrific browbeating it got by Bush and his super-creepy allies in 2003. I guess they responded to all of Bush's threats by just knuckling under and deciding to become the armed wing of Western imperialism. Well, in that case, echoing the ultra-right, I say the Hell with the UN.

I actually supported the Iraqi guerrillas car bombing of the UN building in Baghdad. I could not believe that the UN endorsed the US imperial and colonial invasion and occupation of Iraq!

In Haiti, the UN endorsed an armed coup by the US, Canada and France that took out a democratically elected and very popular leader (92% support), Aristide!

The US basically invaded Haiti with Steele Corporation mercenaries (sort of like Blackwater in service to US imperialism), ordered Aristide to leave the country otherwise they would let the contras kill him, and then shipped him to Africa, and then refused to let him return to Haiti!

This trick was accomplished by tricking Aristide into hiring the very Steele Corporation mercs who later ousted him as his very own bodyguards! Such treachery, right out of an early Dickens picaresque novel! All with virtually no protest whatsoever from "progressive" sectors in the US! Then the UN went in there with armed forces, policed the fascist coup and stood on hand to prevent Aristide from returning!

And shot any demonstrators who protested the whole mess! And conducted raids on pro-Aristide supporters, killing lots of them in the process! And served as police to keep to the people from rising up as 3,000 Aristide supporters (or more) were murdered by death squads (Haitian military and police)!

While the entire US media (like Time Magazine) sat back and cheered! While the Democratic Party was silent or, worse, cheered!

You know who made up most of the shock troops for this UN Army of Imperialism? Forces from the "Leftist" (and nominally socialist) governments of Lula's Brazil and Bachelet's Chile.

Incidentally, this nasty little Haiti incident, straight out of walk softly, carry a big stick gunboat diplomacy, proved to me that Canada and France are clearly major and very nasty sidekicks to US imperialism, and in effect, are nasty imperialist powers of their own.

What the Hell is the UN doing in South Lebanon anyway? They are there to serve the interests of the US, Israel, the Lebanese government and France to keep Hezbollah out of Southern Lebanon. Why does Hezbollah have to be kept out of Southern Lebanon?

Did Hezbollah sign some peace treaty to that effect? Did that arrangement have anything in it to make any demands or pose any constraints on the Israelis in any way? What the Hell is UNIFL doing there anyway? Serving as police for the US, France and Israel. Once again, as in Haiti, we see the role of France as a major imperialist world power, using the UN as shock troops for its own imperial ambitions.

Also note how France (supposedly evil for not going along with the US imperial and colonial invasion of Iraq) is nevertheless once again a sidekick of US imperialism, as well as imperial power in its own right. I guess 25,000 French dead in Algeria, and Dien Bien Phu, just didn't get the point across. Imperialism must be an awfully tough habit to kick.

Truth is, French imperialism is resurrecting in Haiti and Lebanon due to these being former colonies. Imperial memory is the long-term kind.

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For Justice, a River of Blood

Or at least a rivulet.

Abimael Guzman, imprisoned leader of the Shining Path guerrillas in Peru, famously said that for the revolution to succeed, "Peru would have to cross a river of blood". Much of the civilized world was horrified by this bloodthirsty statement, but was he onto something?

I would argue that the vast majority of social progress achieved in the past 150 rivers has unfortunately occurred only after rivers of blood were shed. Or at the very least trickles. To but it bluntly, people had to die. They had to get hurt and die.

It's sad that it has to be that way, but it seems that that is just the way it is. Powerful people do not give up stuff just because they wake up in a good mood one day or go to church, find God and start feeling guilty.

Here in the US, Blacks only gained their liberation in the context of a devastating Civil War in which 100,000's of Americans shed their blood and lost their lives. Haitians only got rid of slavery by rising up and killing every single one of 25,000 Frenchmen on the island. For Algeria to blast free of colonialism and to shock the French out of the colonial habit, 1 million people, including 25,000 Frenchmen, died.

Britain only chucked colonialism after British soldiers died in Malaysia, India, Palestine and other places. Does anyone think even a modicum of a Palestinian state would exist had Palestinians not taken up the gun? Without the armed struggle of the Iraqi guerrillas, US troops would have ovverun Syria and possibly Iran by now.

The Basque Country has the considerable autonomy it does today only after 800 Spaniards died in the ETA's armed struggle. Land reform was only instituted in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan after the war to ward off the threat of Communism from North Korea and China.

Apartheid is gone in South Africa and one man one vote democracy is in its place for the most part only due to an armed campaign by the ANC stretching over decades.

US workers only got rights after bloody strikes in which workers were killed by goon squads.

The social market that James Schipper praised in Europe in earlier comments is also the project of massive labor union mobilization in Europe.

I would also argue that it was created by devastating the European Right, first by killing 10 million of them (10 million dead fascists in WW2), next by making rightwing ideology toxic for many years after the war, and finally by revolutionary pressure from the Far Left before and after the war, which led the business sector to seek out a class compromise and a social contract, mostly to ward off revolution.

Even the Swedish model mostly came into play in the 1930's when the nation was wracked by violent, radical and revolutionary labor actions all up and down the land. This so rocked the business and ruling classes that the Swedish model was created as a lesser evil alternative to ward off revolution.

Most do not realize that Swedish society was not very liberal during the 1930's. People are misled by the fact of Sweden's neutrality in the war to think that Swedes themselves were neutral. Most of the middle classes and certainly the business classes were firm Nazi supporters. Furthermore, I understand that Swedish businesses continued to supply the Nazis well into the war.

In Costa Rica, radical pressure helped create Costa Rican social democracy, now deteriorating after Reagan ordered the Costa Ricans at gunpoint in the 1980's to get rid of it.

After WW2, Costa Rica outlawed the Communist Party, killed 6,000 Communists, instituted a social democracy to buy off social unrest and got rid of the military as a rather interesting way to top it off. Without revolutionary pressure in 1946 and the bodies of 6,000 Communists, Costa Rican social democracy may never have occurred.

Mexico today has some semblance of socialism and a land reform that enables to poor to own small plots and at least survive and eat if they cannot find work only because 20 million Mexicans died during Pancho Villa's revolution that put Mexican feudalism in the grave forever. Most do not realize that Mexico was actually a horrible and truly feudal society as late as 1910. Yet it was.

In the same way, in El Salvador now, one can at least farm a small plot, eat and survive, something often not possible before the Revolution started. For that meager reform, 70,000 people died and Salvadoran feudalism was crushed, possibly forever.

Lenin said power never gives up without a fight. And most social reforms in capitalism have come on the heels, tragically, of a river of blood. Or at least a small stream.

Without pressure from below by revolutionaries and radicals, it is uncertain how many of the progressive social contracts in place in the world would exist.

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Muslims in France

Clearly, the North African, mostly-Caucasian Muslims in France (primarily Algerians) have been a disaster. They are the ones that are rioting all the time and tearing up the country. Contrary to popular rumor, the N African Muslim population in France is ~10%, not 20%,. The Black population is not known, but surely it is much smaller than the 10% North African population.

The North Africans are there primarily due to French colonialism and imperialism. Algeria was a former French colony, brutally ruled by France for 134 years, from 1830 to 1964.

The Algerians fought a horribly brutal war of independence, in which 25,000 French and 1 million Algerians were killed. Incredibly, the anti-Communist Right in the US still sings the praises of French colonialism in this war, and makes the revolutionaries out to be the bad guys.

It's true that the Algerian revolutionaries did not fight a very nice or pretty war. Yet they paid for it with 40 times the casualties of the French. To the dead person, I don't think it really matters how they got killed (an accusation against the revolutionaries is that they killed people in brutal ways such as beheadings).

It's true that you can go on the Internet, usually to Zionist sites, and see some horrible photos of those killed by the Algerian revolutionaries. A specialty was chopping the head off, chopping the genitals off, and stuffing the guy's dick in his severed head.

Anyway, colonialism is always wrong, period. The French were wrong, and they lost. After the war, Algerians started showing up in France in large numbers. White nationalists (who, by the way, never met a White imperialist or colonialist project they did not adore) claim that the Algerians are in France due to insane liberals bringing them there to diversify France and I guess to dilute the European Whites.

The French may be liberal, but they are not retarded like liberal Americans and liberal Scandinavians.

I would like to point out that none of this White nationalist bullshit is true.

First of all, the Algerian Muslim immigrants were not brought in as some loony liberal experiment in diversity, but instead as pro-French refugees fleeing soon before or after the FLN won the war. Think of the fall of Saigon.

The White nationalist line is that the French used to be hardcore and nasty and brutal (after all, the guillotine was still used until the 1970's) and the French Foreign Legion was brutal as Hell in the Algerian Civil War, but now the French have gone soft and wimpy, and they are letting Muslim punks run all over them.

That hardcore France the White nationalists love so much was rejected by none other than the French people themselves after the criminal colonial wars of Algeria and Vietnam. There was a big scandal about all the murdering and torturing the French Foreign Legion was doing in Algeria.

The US anti-Communist Hard Right, to this very day, sees this humanist sentiment, and its attendant rejection of colonialism, and even, to some extent, at least in popular culture, embrace of national liberation movements (see Régis Debray and Fritz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth) as a sign of weakness (see my prior post on the Straussian impulse driving the neocons).

Note that Fanon's seminal work appeared in 1961, the year of his death, in the midst of the Algerian revolution, and that Debray started pushing his foco theories right around this time (Revolution in the Revolution appeared in 1967).

The rebels were even worse than the Foreign Legion, but the French did not want to see themselves as brutal, colonialist maniacs.

This was also a period when France was supporting other imperialist and colonial powers in the Suez War in 1956, where British and French colonialism, with their colonial Jewish puppet state, attacked Egypt and tried to grab the Suez Canal back from Nasser, who had rightly and properly seized the canal as Egypt's property.

After that, the French turned their backs on colonialism (more or less - they still, to their discredit, hold colonies in the South Pacific), and to some extent on imperialism - but not totally - see the crucial French role in the armed coup that threw out President Aristide in Haiti - elected with the support of 92% of the population.

France as a colonial and imperial power was more or less finished by the late 1960's, Situationists and other crazies were rioting in Paris in the summer of 1968, and the torch of imperialism passed to the US after the British lost stomach for it after Suez.

Suez pretty much led to a "peasant revolt" in the UK against British imperialism due to the blatant and sickening imperialism of the Suez War. British imperialism, of course, continues today, even, outrageously, in the Labor Party, really the last place anyone would hope to find it. See British support for the imperialist invasion and colonial occupation of Iraq for more.

To the dismay of White nationalists, who assume any criminals rioting in the streets must be a bunch of niggers*, the problem kids are North African Caucasians, not Blacks. These Arabs don't act this way in North Africa. The whole mess is really because they are Muslims and refuse to assimilate. All other theories seem to fall flat on their faces.

White nationalists try to blame this mess on France being taken over by multiculturalist liberal idiots, but France has always been extremely assimilationist and anti-multiculturalist, so this isn't a failure of multiculturalism at all. In fact, France has been brutal and cruel towards the Bretons, the Basques and the Corsicans, all of whom have every right to take up arms against the French state.

The Algerians are just a problem immigrant group that flat out refuses to assimilate.

One problem here is that the French have always assumed that all immigrants would just lose it all and become Frenchmen. There was never much racism in France and everyone was French anyway, so there was no need for affirmative action.

There is good evidence that the Muslims experience widespread discrimination in employment. The French refuse to remedy this with the only working remedy for discrimination - affirmative action and enforcement of anti-discrimination laws.

White nationalists argue that the discrimination is to be expected based on the behavior of so many of the Algerians, but that misses the point. If amelioration of discrimination against Algerians makes them happier, would they not riot less?

The Muslim areas are not particularly dangerous, unless maybe if you're a cop. They give off instead the impression that Little Italys used to give off in this country, of a safe zone where the state does not rule and someone else does instead. In the Little Italys, it was the Mafia, and they did keep the crime rate down.

If one were not a resident, people knew that, and you were being watched, but everyone left you alone. The Islamists have, in a similar fashion, taken hold over Algerian zones. Therefore, the Islamist shadow state in the banlieus has a lot of responsibility for the insane rioting that goes on there just about every night.

There is not much to be done at this point except for France to quit importing Algerians. White nationalists like to scream that the French should deport all the Muslims. But I believe that most of these rioting idiots are citizens and hence un-deportable.

If I were running France, I am not sure what I would do.

The Muslims are yet only 10%, so it will be quite a while, if ever, before they have a majority.

*used sardonically.

Another Page on Endangered Languages of Eurasia

Focus on Europe and Russian Asia. This one includes the Caucasus and many languages in Europe that were not dealt with on the other pages. Depressing reading, but I doubt if the situation is really quite as bad as Tapani Salinem thinks it is. Still, this page implies that for a lot of languages, things are not looking so good.

The main problem is that many are not being learned by kids, or kids learn them and then quit using them at some point in favor of a larger area language later on.

It's too bad that more of these languages are not used in schools. It would be quite simple to have classes in the minority tongue (possibly with majority tongue textbooks) and make the kids take the majority tongue as a subject every year. They did it for a long time in Russia - kids had classes in the local tongue but were required to take Russian as a course for all 12 years of school. Worked great.

Italy and France are quite hostile to many minority languages, and even Germany is closing down Sorbian schools, probably out of anti-minority sentiments.

Russia is pretty much of a catastrophe, and Putin is amplifying that with his anti-minority projects. The state most friendly to minority tongues appears to be Finland. As usual, the Scandinavians come out on top.

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Middle East War Report for Monday, August 7

Updated November 30, 2008:

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Excellent reading for the day - from Norman Birnbaum of the Nation Magazine. The Nation has been pummeled lately by the Angry Arab blog (some of the best coverage on this Lebanon War can be found there) for not being radical enough on the pro-Arab and anti-Israel scale, but let us note that many of the editors and writers are Jewish, and most are at least Soft Zionists.

It is not a perfect world. Nevertheless, this piece, Is Israel Good For the Jews? is superb and highly critical of Israel while lacking in anti-Semitism. He alludes to what has been obvious to me for some time now. As Xymphora has pointed out, Israel and the US now form the leading edge of one of the most dangerous rightwing movements in our world today.

An out-of-control Israeli state in the grips of a mad neoconservative "double-down" philosophy, allied with unreconstructed reactionary US imperialists and fanatical end-times Christians, is not a state than any liberal, not to be mention any liberal Jew, should feel comfortable supporting. He makes the very daring suggestion that US Jews ought to slowly "disengage" from the Israeli settler-colonial madman rogue state.

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Zionist History Lesson of the Day:

The New Historians of Israel, who have done us a favor by pointing out how Israel was born in sin, are nevertheless advancing a dangerous argument.

Benny Morris, drifting to the Right as Zionism mandates (Face it, there is a certain deep disconnect with the notion of a "Zionist Left"), says in his fairly dishonest attack on the Walt-Mearshimer paper on the Israeli Lobby in The New Republic, And Now For Some Facts, says that the only reason the Zionists took up arms in the 1930's and 1940's was because of Arab intransigence.

In saying so, Morris elides the settler-colonial nature of the Zionist movement, present from the very start. This is the line that the original Zionist settlers just wanted to "immigrate" to Israel to live in peace with the Arabs in Palestine.

Ralph Shoenmann's great The Hidden History of Zionism makes it clear that from the very start, the intent was to disperse, dispossess and replace the Arabs of Palestine. The Arabs figured this out early on. Here is a quote from the King-Crane Commission of the US in 1919, when the Arabs were already up in arms about the Zionist project:

Indeed, the King-Crane commission from the US, led by King and Crane, two US congressman, reported that over 90% of the residents of Syria and Palestine were indeed violently against the Zionist program, but this was noted yet set aside nonetheless.

You see? Even at that early date, the Arabs were furious about the Zionist project. The British should have stopped it right there. Instead, looking at the oncoming headlights careening towards them on the wrong side of the road, the Commission said to go ahead and drive right into the oncoming vehicle. The next year, there were violent Arab riots in Palestine and a number of settlers were killed.

A few years after that, the first Jewish guerrilla groups took up arms. The die was set and the war was on. It has continued without much letup, year and year out, ever since. 86 years. I figure that this recent mad neoconservative gamble we are witnessing is to seize the moment and end the Israeli-Arab War once and for all, or at least set the Arabs back a bit. It will fail, mark my words.

Abraham Foxman, head of the disgusting Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an Israel-firster who combines domestic liberalism with far-right neoconservatism, is a prototype of the curious, dissonant state of US Jewry. The ADL was formed after a an accused Jewish rapist and murderer, Leo Frank, was lynched out of a Georgia jail in 1915.

In this telling picture, Foxman's hand looks like a claw. I do not think that Mr. Foxman is a good or decent person, despite his supposed anti-racist bonafides.

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100 Israelis have been killed so far in this Lebanon War, 61 soldiers, 38 civilians in Israel and 1 civilian in the Diaspora. Another 6 Israelis have been killed during the same period in Gaza, Sderot (a town in Israel near Gaza) and the West Bank.

It is interesting that the "terrorists" are killing 1.5 soldiers for every civilian killed, while the Israeli "non-terrorists" have killed about 5 civilians for every armed fighter. It is also interesting that the Hezbollah "terrorists" have killed 36 civilians, while the Israeli "non-terrorists" have killed around 880 civilians.

Faced with bizarre figures like that, we may as well just toss out categories like "terrorists" altogether for the time being in this war. The pro-Israeli crowd argues that Hezbollah is trying to kill Israeli civilians. Well, they are doing a comparatively inept job of it.

Whereas, the IDF is supposedly not deliberately targeting civilians (but see my post here for more on that). Well, in life and in war, "trying" doesn't really count. Results count. And by imperialism's definition of terrorism, it is Israel who is the terrorist in this conflict and Hezbollah who is fighting a relatively cleaner war.
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4 IDF soldiers were killed and 20 more were wounded.

10 Israeli civilians were wounded.

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Another 57-69 Lebanese civilians were reportedly killed today (the figures vary). A reported massacre with 40 dead in Houla has been reduced to 1 killed. 925 Lebanese have been killed so far, and another 75 are missing.

Of those, I believe that around 200 are Hezbollah fighters, messengers and truck drivers, and 29 more are Lebanese military. That leaves about 770 dead civilians.

The IDF said they killed 44 Hezbollah fighters today.

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Hezbollah fired an infernal 160-rocket barrage on Israel today, with 70 of them landing in Kiryat Shemona (referred to by locals cynically as "Kiryat Katyusha"). 10 Israelis were wounded in the barrage.

The casualty figures for these barrages are dropping dramatically because 70-80% of the Jewish population of many northern towns have fled and many of those remaining are heading to bomb shelters when they hear the sirens.
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The IDF bombed the town of Qasmiyeh, killing 7 civilians. This town could to be located on a map. Another 6 or 7 civilians were killed in bombardments of 6 other villages. Air raids across the Bekaa Valley killed 1 civilian. Another air raid hit Masnaa, a town on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

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Israeli air strikes have now succeeded in isolating the city of Tyre. Israel is apparently getting ready for the outrageous move of attacking, conquering and occupying Tyre. Tyre is a large coastal city that is still full of civilians. Local medical crews are preparing for what they view as the inevitable Israeli invasion.

Occupying Tyre would be quite a handful. In addition to the usual Hezbollah forces, there are many Palestinians in local refugee camps who have vowed to fight any Israeli attempt to take the city. I also feel that the Lebanese military will not stand idly by if Israel attempts to conquer Tyre. It will be interesting to see how such an audacious Israeli operation plays out.
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For the first time, the IDF attacked Al-Shiyah, a district of Beirut on the edge of where Beirut meets its southern suburbs. Many Christians live here and many Shia refugees have fled here into what they thought was safety in the open arms of the Christians who reside there. 15 civilians were killed in that attack and many more were wounded.

These attacks on Christian districts, as well as attacks on Sunni districts, in my opinion, are apparently a result of Israel's efforts to install a civil war in Lebanon. Now that 87% of Lebanese are supporting Hezbollah, imperialism and Zionism need to instill some rifts to break up that kind of patriotic solidarity.

Although I find it difficult to believe that human beings could actually conspire to start vicious civil wars in other countries (perhaps because I retain shreds of decency), apparently elites do this sort of thing all the time.

Hence, it is time to seriously consider the notion that Israel (and the US) are trying to start a civil war in Lebanon, as Jonathan Cook argues here, in The Deadly US-Israeli Shell Game at the UN. Cook, reporting out of Nazareth during this conflict, is an essential source about this war and I recommend any of his articles.

The Cook piece above also expertly takes apart the latest UN proposal to supposedly end the conflict. An analysis of that UN proposal goes beyond the scope of this post, and I direct you to the article. It ought to be enough, though, to note that Israel had a hand in writing this "US-French" UN resolution from the start. The resolution may as well have a sticker on it called "Made in Israel".

Some may be shocked at the French role in alliance with US imperialism and Zionism in Lebanon. Those folks need to look at history. History shows us that Lebanon was a French colony and that France still considers it more or less as such. For all their blather about opposing US imperialism's war in Iraq, it is sadly an accurate analysis that France remains a belligerent, violent imperialist state.

Recent French actions in Haiti (conspiring to overthrow President Aristide and instill a murderous regime that has killed 3,000 innocent Haitians) and in Lebanon (being one of the main parties behind the UN Resolution 1559 that set the stage for this war) along with recent French shenanigans in former colonies in Africa, suggest that France is still an imperialist country, mostly regarding its former colonies.

Apparently, psychologically, France has not given up its colonies or its colonial mindset, despite the 25,000 dead Frenchmen in Algeria in the Algerian Civil War. Lesson? Imperialism and colonialism die hard! The only cure for colonialism, of either the lingering, nostalgic variety or the active, in-your-face kind, remains the same as always, lots of dead and wounded colonists and colonial troops.

Those upset by such violent reactions are advised to kick the colonial addiction.
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Fighting was also reported at Shama, east of Al Bayada and behind enemy lines and at Taybeh, just inside the border.

Israel is still stuck in many of the same border villages after 3 weeks of fighting. This is the worst performance for the Israeli military in any of its major wars so far. It is wrong to call it a defeat, but surely they have not achieved any of their stated objectives. Furthermore, Hezbollah has fought more successfully against Israel (in some ways) than any Arab army.

8:58 PM: Hezbollah launched a Misrad-1 Iranian unmanned drone over Israel but it was shot down over the ocean off the coast of Haifa. There are conflicting reports about whether or not it was carrying any explosives on it when it was shot down. This marks a significant escalation.

Night: There was heavy fighting in the village of Dibel. Hezbollah fired an anti-tank missile at an IDF armored vehicle, destroying it, while killing 1 IDF soldier and wounding 5 more.

6:55 PM: A Qassam missile was fired from Gaza into the Negev, but landed in an open area and did not cause any damage or casualties. Qassams are much inferior to the Katyushas that Hezbollah is using.

6:18 PM: A rocket scored a direct hit on a school in Kiryat Shemona. The school was in flames. There were no casualties.

5:51 PM: 4 Katyushas landed in Accra. There are no casualties or damage.

5:15 PM: A Katyusha slammed into a home in the Kiryat Shemona area , wounding a number of Israelis.

4:58 PM: A Katyusha landed in an open area near Kiryat Shemona. No casualties or damage.

4:06 PM: IDF forces apprehended a Palestinian guerrilla in the village of Azzoun, east of Qalqilya. He was wanted in a number of attacks.

3:30 PM: 30 Israeli commandos landed via helicopter on a hilltop in Ras al-Biyada, south of Tyre, behind enemy lines. When last heard from, they were engaged in ferocious fighting with Hezbollah forces with no word on casualties.

3 PM: Fires are burning out of control near Tiberias.

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3 PM: Regarding the 57-69 Lebanese civilians killed so far today: There were originally said are said to be 40 Lebanese civilians - shepherds and their families hiding in a home - who were killed during the ferocious bombing and shelling of Houla earlier in the morning.

Most were said to be buried under rubble. The "non-terrorist" IDF is said to be attacking everything that moves in the area. The previous day they attacked a donkey that strolled into town. Later reports indicated that only one person was killed.
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2:40 PM: Heavy fighting is continuing in Bint Jbeil, where the IDF took casualties in the morning. 2 IDF soldiers were killed and 2 more were wounded when a Hezbollah ATGM hit a Merkava tank and destroyed it. Another IDF soldier was wounded in the fighting, which lasted for several hours throughout the afternoon.

An amazing photo that shows a Merkava-2 tank, (Merkavas come in Merkava-2, Merkava-3 and Merkava-4 iterations) in flames, possibly after being destroyed by a Hezbollah attack. The photo was found on the Internet with no date or explanation. We don't know if Hezbollah killed this tank - it may have been killed by Palestinians.

2:30 PM: Lebanese sources report that the latest mad Israeli raids, in response to the killing of 3 whole Israeli citizens, killed many civilians (the final figure is between 57-69 killed). Once again, we see the Israeli Super Bully mindset in action, in this case the supposedly Judaic 20-1 theory (you kill one of ours, we kill 20 of yours). Why do they hate us, anyone?

2 PM: Israeli ultra-racist, fascist legislator Effie Eitam, a former IDF general, threatened to "dismantle Lebanon" unless Lebanon dismantled Hezbollah. Such charming people, these Judeo-fascists. Regarding dismantling Lebanon, what have they been doing so far?

1:30 PM: IDF and Shin Bet forces killed a senior Islamic Jihad guerrilla in Silat Al-Hartia, near Jenin.

1 PM: Another rocket barrage landed in Kiryat Shemona. A building was hit and 3 Israelis were wounded.

1 PM: Israel apparently tried to kill Palestinian Prime Minister Haniyeh with some sort of a poison in an envelope. 7 Palestinians were hospitalized, with 1 in serious condition, after they opened an envelope addressed to Haniyeh.

12:30 PM: Turkey canceled a major arms deal with Israel and is now refusing to allow US planes to land in Turkey on the way to delivering weapons to Israel. Both of these moves are to protest Israel's wars in Lebanon and Palestine. Looks like Israel's only Muslim friend is not such a close friend after all.

12:15 PM: 5 more Katyushas hit Tiberias. There were no casualties.

12 noon: 7 more rockets rained down on northern Israel, hitting Kiryat Shemona, Tiberias, and the Golan Heights. 1 Israeli was wounded in Kiryat Shemona.

11:30 AM: 1 IDF soldier was killed and 7 more were wounded as fierce fighting continued in Bint Jbeil. The IDF said they killed 14 Hezbollah fighters in the fighting here. The wounded were evacuated under withering fire. I thought this town was "pacified"?

11:30 AM: 2 rockets hit Nahariyah. One hit a building and 1 Israeli was wounded.

11 AM: An Israeli Arab from the village of Musmus, near Wadi Ara, attacked a security guard in Afula with a knife. He was apprehended and the security guard was not injured. Looks like some of the Arab Israelis are starting to join their Palestinian and Lebanese brethren in this war against Israel.

11 AM: 16 rockets rained down on the Galilee, 12 on Kiryat Shemona and 4 more on Safad. A Katyusha rocket scored a direct hit on a building in Safad, wounding 1 Israeli.

8:40 AM: The IDF conducted 4 air raids on the Bekaa Valley, 5 more on the southern Lebanon town of Nabiteyeh, and 8 attacks on Beirut's southern suburbs.

8:15 AM: Palestinian guerrillas opened fire on an IDF patrol near Nablus but there were no casualties.

8 AM: IDF forces said that they killed 30 Hezbollah fighters in battles in southern Lebanon.

Early AM: Hezbollah attacked IDF forces attempting to move into the border towns of Aita Al Shaab, Debel and Rub Thalatheen in the early AM. Fierce fighting is ongoing at the border village of Aita Al Shaab. Debel is about 1 1/2 miles northeast of Aita Al Shaab and 3 miles northeast of the border at Shetula. Rub Thalatheen cannot be located.

Early: Israeli settler-colonist Jews fired on Arab natives in a drive by shooting near Habla, close to Qalqilya, killing 1 Arab and wounding 1 more.

7 AM: IDF forces arrested another Hamas MP in Ramallah for no legitimate reason at all. Hamas MP's do not have anything to do with the Hamas military wing in any way. Israel is now holding 1/3 of the Hamas government as some sort of sick bargaining chips for the POW's that Hamas is holding.

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5:35 AM: Hezbollah said that they attacked a house where IDF troops were hiding on the outskirts of Houla, a town on border 1 1/2 miles west of the Israeli town of Manara, killing 4 IDF troops, including an officer. Israeli media is reporting an ambush of an IDF unit in this town and heavy fighting resulting from that attack. They are reporting 5 wounded in this fighting.

The usual way that Hezbollah is attacking these homes the IDF is holed up in is to fire an anti-tank missile at the home (see my review of Hezbollah's antitank missile arsenal here). The missile has a dual warhead. It is so potent that it blasts right through the walls of the home. After the missile is inside the structure, a second warhead detonates. The effect is much like artillery.

Due to this tactic, IDF troops are not spending much time in any one home and end up moving around a lot.
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Israel is threatening to hit "Lebanese infrastructure and government symbols" in response to a Hezbollah rocket barrage that killed a whopping 3 Israelis. This is yet another example of the Israelis' much vaunted 10-1 or 100-1 mindset (as reiterated proudly by Revisionist Zionist Ruven Koret of Israelinsider).

This mindset goes along the lines of "you kill 1 of ours and we kill 10 or 100 of yours". At the same time, extreme victimology and vulnerability are typically voiced ("They are trying to exterminate us!"). I suppose what is going on here is the classic victim and vulnerable-paranoid mindset of the bully we have all met in life, from the 8th grade playground to the corporate office.
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