Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)".
Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, returning from Cairo in the seventies, established an Islamic charity association. Prime Minister Golda Meir, saw this as a an opportunity to counterbalance the rise of Arafat's Fatah movement..According to the Israeli weekly Koteret Rashit (October 1987), "The Islamic associations as well as the university had been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authority" in charge of the (civilian) administration of the West Bank and Gaza. "They [the Islamic associations and the university] were authorized to receive money payments from abroad."
The Islamists set up orphanages and health clinics, as well as a network of schools, workshops which created employment for women as well as system of financial aid to the poor. And in 1978, they created an "Islamic University" in Gaza. "The military authority was convinced that these activities would weaken both the PLO and the leftist organizations in Gaza." At the end of 1992, there were six hundred mosques in Gaza. Thanks to Israel's intelligence agency Mossad (Israel's Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks) , the Islamists were allowed to reinforce their presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, the members of Fatah (Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine) and the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression.
In 1984, Ahmed Yassin was arrested and condemned to twelve years in prison, after the discovery of a hidden arms cache. But one year later, he was set free and resumed his activities. And when the Intifada ('uprising') began, in October 1987, which took the Islamists by surprise, Sheik Yassin responded by creating the Hamas (The Islamic Resistance Movement): "God is our beginning, the prophet our model, the Koran our constitution", proclaims article 7 of the charter of the organization.
Ahmed Yassin was in prison when, the Oslo accords (Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government) were signed in September 1993. The Hamas had rejected Oslo outright. But at that time, 70% of Palestinians had condemned the attacks on Israeli civilians. Yassin did everything in his power to undermine the Oslo accords. Even prior to Prime Minister Rabin's death, he had the support of the Israeli government. The latter was very reluctant to implement the peace agreement.
The Hamas then launched a carefully timed campaign of attacks against civilians, one day before the meeting between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators, regarding the formal recognition of Israel by the National Palestinian Council. These events were largely instrumental in the formation of a Right wing Israeli government following the May 1996 elections.
Quite unexpectedly, Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered Sheik Ahmed Yassin to be released from prison ("on humanitarian grounds") where he was serving a life sentence. Meanwhile, Netanyahu, together with President Bill Clinton, was putting pressure on Arafat to control the Hamas. In fact, Netanyahu knew that he could rely, once more, on the Islamists to sabotage the Oslo accords. Worse still: after having expelled Yassin to Jordan, Prime Minister Netanyahu allowed him to return to Gaza, where he was welcomed triumphantly as a hero in October 1997.
There are deep intelligence operations. These are funded by Mossad, CIA, Pakistan's ISI, etc.
A complete investigation of David Headley - for just one example - would give you some idea of the nature of para-political, deep-state actors in perpetrating terror for their own ends, and the usefulness of the "Islamic" fiction.
If you think that you are capable of correctly evaluating the the real nature of these events, based on the unexamined and uninvestigated statements of official sources? Then you do not correctly ascertain the meaning or implications of the term "disinformation".
Ask yourself this: "Does my government maintain a policy of disinformation, regarding its own people? If so, how would I know? Is the reporting of independent, corporate news agencies a sufficient source of information to verify or validate these claims?"
I suggest you take up mindfulness meditation for 5-15 minutes a day. Wen yourself from all "news" for one month. Then come back, and look freshly at the spinning matrix of lies.
Russia just signalled it would join the list of countries that recognise a Palestinian state.
Islamism is the excuse they use to hide the nature of the actor. It's how this little sliver of land exerts its will over the nations of the world. Blow up some trains in Britain and Spain, with the implicit understanding that next time, it could be nuclear.
It's not more out than in. The fusion reaction produces the big out.
A cold-fusion breakthrough is one where you generate more from the reaction, than it takes to maintain the furnace.
The problem with fusion is that it has taken more power to get to reacting temperatures, than can be produced, and the Italians are claiming that this can be achieved.
I suspect that this is done by siphoning heat from the flames that erupt from Silvio Berlusconi.
"Our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful. And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in chartered accountancy they are a positive boon."
"I never wanted to be a Chartered Accountant. I wanted to be... A LUMBERJACK!"
I predict that I will point out the benefits of freedom over your own software destiny being worth the simple, monetary expense of freeing oneself from Microsoft hegemony.
That's what the "globalization" of the 1990's was about - internationalizing the institutional enfranchisement of the corporation that had occurred in the previous decade within national boundaries, per Reagan, Thatcher, etc.
In the corporation, greed is an ethical imperative, rather than a fault or a vice. This is why there is a fundamental conflict between that which is corporate and that which is human. Choose a side, or one will be decreed for you.
That's why the US military budget is larger that all others in the world... combined! That is what they have been buying with those trillions of debt...
But it can only last so long. Thermodynamics predict the heat-death of America.
Slashdot Mirror
Exploit 'em.
Crack 'em, hack 'em, exploit 'em...
Wipe 'em off, and do it again....
This will be a blackhat's paradise.
Whereas Israel just makes sure you are dead.
You're the guy named after "Lebowski". ;-)
"Does my government maintain a policy of disinformation, regarding its own people?"
Yes or no?
Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas. According to Zeev Sternell, historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Israel thought that it was a smart ploy to push the Islamists against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)".
Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Islamist movement in Palestine, returning from Cairo in the seventies, established an Islamic charity association. Prime Minister Golda Meir, saw this as a an opportunity to counterbalance the rise of Arafat's Fatah movement. .According to the Israeli weekly Koteret Rashit (October 1987), "The Islamic associations as well as the university had been supported and encouraged by the Israeli military authority" in charge of the (civilian) administration of the West Bank and Gaza. "They [the Islamic associations and the university] were authorized to receive money payments from abroad."
The Islamists set up orphanages and health clinics, as well as a network of schools, workshops which created employment for women as well as system of financial aid to the poor. And in 1978, they created an "Islamic University" in Gaza. "The military authority was convinced that these activities would weaken both the PLO and the leftist organizations in Gaza." At the end of 1992, there were six hundred mosques in Gaza. Thanks to Israel's intelligence agency Mossad (Israel's Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks) , the Islamists were allowed to reinforce their presence in the occupied territories. Meanwhile, the members of Fatah (Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine) and the Palestinian Left were subjected to the most brutal form of repression.
In 1984, Ahmed Yassin was arrested and condemned to twelve years in prison, after the discovery of a hidden arms cache. But one year later, he was set free and resumed his activities. And when the Intifada ('uprising') began, in October 1987, which took the Islamists by surprise, Sheik Yassin responded by creating the Hamas (The Islamic Resistance Movement): "God is our beginning, the prophet our model, the Koran our constitution", proclaims article 7 of the charter of the organization.
Ahmed Yassin was in prison when, the Oslo accords (Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government) were signed in September 1993. The Hamas had rejected Oslo outright. But at that time, 70% of Palestinians had condemned the attacks on Israeli civilians. Yassin did everything in his power to undermine the Oslo accords. Even prior to Prime Minister Rabin's death, he had the support of the Israeli government. The latter was very reluctant to implement the peace agreement.
The Hamas then launched a carefully timed campaign of attacks against civilians, one day before the meeting between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators, regarding the formal recognition of Israel by the National Palestinian Council. These events were largely instrumental in the formation of a Right wing Israeli government following the May 1996 elections.
Quite unexpectedly, Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered Sheik Ahmed Yassin to be released from prison ("on humanitarian grounds") where he was serving a life sentence. Meanwhile, Netanyahu, together with President Bill Clinton, was putting pressure on Arafat to control the Hamas. In fact, Netanyahu knew that he could rely, once more, on the Islamists to sabotage the Oslo accords. Worse still: after having expelled Yassin to Jordan, Prime Minister Netanyahu allowed him to return to Gaza, where he was welcomed triumphantly as a hero in October 1997.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ZER403A.html
There is no "Islamic Terror".
There are deep intelligence operations. These are funded by Mossad, CIA, Pakistan's ISI, etc.
A complete investigation of David Headley - for just one example - would give you some idea of the nature of para-political, deep-state actors in perpetrating terror for their own ends, and the usefulness of the "Islamic" fiction.
If you think that you are capable of correctly evaluating the the real nature of these events, based on the unexamined and uninvestigated statements of official sources? Then you do not correctly ascertain the meaning or implications of the term "disinformation".
Ask yourself this: "Does my government maintain a policy of disinformation, regarding its own people? If so, how would I know? Is the reporting of independent, corporate news agencies a sufficient source of information to verify or validate these claims?"
http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
http://danwismar.com/uploads/Bernstein%20-%20CIA%20and%20Media.htm
I suggest you take up mindfulness meditation for 5-15 minutes a day. Wen yourself from all "news" for one month. Then come back, and look freshly at the spinning matrix of lies.
It was Israel.
Russia just signalled it would join the list of countries that recognise a Palestinian state.
Islamism is the excuse they use to hide the nature of the actor. It's how this little sliver of land exerts its will over the nations of the world. Blow up some trains in Britain and Spain, with the implicit understanding that next time, it could be nuclear.
It's not more out than in. The fusion reaction produces the big out.
A cold-fusion breakthrough is one where you generate more from the reaction, than it takes to maintain the furnace.
The problem with fusion is that it has taken more power to get to reacting temperatures, than can be produced, and the Italians are claiming that this can be achieved.
I suspect that this is done by siphoning heat from the flames that erupt from Silvio Berlusconi.
"Our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful. And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in chartered accountancy they are a positive boon."
"I never wanted to be a Chartered Accountant. I wanted to be... A LUMBERJACK!"
I was so looking forward to the multitouch centerfold.
Now? I guess it's just back to having sex, I guess.
GNU Hurd.
"Lick Bush Now".
Of course. Most business.
Those with real, custodial CIOs will remember what it was like under IBM AS/300, DataGeneral, HP3000, etc.
Were the representatives of any news organisations observed in the act of jumping these sharks?
I predict that I will point out the benefits of freedom over your own software destiny being worth the simple, monetary expense of freeing oneself from Microsoft hegemony.
That's what the "globalization" of the 1990's was about - internationalizing the institutional enfranchisement of the corporation that had occurred in the previous decade within national boundaries, per Reagan, Thatcher, etc.
In the corporation, greed is an ethical imperative, rather than a fault or a vice. This is why there is a fundamental conflict between that which is corporate and that which is human. Choose a side, or one will be decreed for you.
A real stinker.
stupid^H^H^H^H^H^H greedy
That's why the US military budget is larger that all others in the world... combined! That is what they have been buying with those trillions of debt...
But it can only last so long. Thermodynamics predict the heat-death of America.
Warren Buffett and Ahmadinijad agree!
2009 http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here-why-dollar-now-effectively-worthless
2008 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-buffett-says-us-dollar-worthless-if-account-deficit-persists
2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21870271/ns/business-world_business/ ...
2003 http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-16g-04.asp
Hey, if I had that many double-consonants in my full name, would I be rich, too?
ARE WORTHLESS!
Year-to-year?
http://www.surfacestations.org/
Where are the sensors for temperature located?
Are these the same historical locations, year-to-year, over the statistical time-span?
The devil hides in the details...
Beam me up, Scotty!
Real guitars keep you from wasting time with "Rock Band".