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Annals of Jewish Terror

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45 Responses to “Annals of Jewish Terror”

  1. Shirin says:
    November 27, 2009 at 2:30 AM

    And this list does not even include Jewish terrorism in the United States, such as the activities of the JDL, including the murder by bomb of Alex Odeh in California. And what actually happened in the case of that guy in Florida who was planning out massacres at local mosques? Oddly, these types of things are never given the kind of serious attention given to even the silliest allegations against Muslims.

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    • Mary says:
      November 27, 2009 at 6:51 AM

      And Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza strip are subjected to state terrorism committed by their occupiers every day. The Jewish State makes nightly raids in the West Bank, arresting Palestinians in the wee hours (not in the daylight, but under cover of darkness). During Operation Cast Lead IDF soldiers made forays into Arab neighborhoods, pounding on doors, smashing windows and bullying residents. The airspace over Gaza is daily filled with the sight and sounds of Israeli fighter planes and drones.

      Children are shot for throwing stones at soldiers and for getting too close to the separation wall. If this isn’t terrorism, I don’t know what you would call it.

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      • Shirin says:
        November 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM

        And do not forget Israel’s multiple daily violations of Lebanese territory on land and in the air, many of them clearly intended only to terrorize the Lebanese population.

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        • Mary says:
          November 27, 2009 at 9:48 AM

          I was amused to read today that the Lebanese government has voted to allow Hizbullah to keep their weapons.

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          • Shirin says:
            November 27, 2009 at 9:58 AM

            LOL! Typical silly Lebanese behaviour – and I say that with affection. Realizing there is absolutely no way they can disarm Hezballah they make it official policy to “allow” them to be armed. And the funniest part is that they seem to think no one sees through this.

          • Mary says:
            November 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM

            Lebanon’s army is no match for Israel. They need Hizbullah’s army. Hizbullah is another instance of an artificially created “terrorist organization.” Israel is very successful at persuading the world to designate all its enemies as terrorists.

          • Shirin says:
            November 27, 2009 at 2:31 PM

            Mary, I will never forget that in 2006 while Israel was pounding the crap out of Lebanese cities, destroying schools, orphanages, and strafing columns of civilians whom they had ordered to evacuate their villages, members of the Lebanese military were serving tea and sitting down for nice chats with officers of the invading army. Lebanese “leaders” by and large are only out for themselves, and will do whatever it takes at any given moment to serve their own self-centered interests .

    • Richard Silverstein says:
      November 28, 2009 at 2:49 AM

      Yes, that’s true. I had almost a front row seat (not literally) to the Odeh murder & have written about that here.

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      • Shirin says:
        November 29, 2009 at 10:47 AM

        It is an outrage that they know with some certainty who committed this clear act of terrorism, and yet no one has been prosecuted for it, nor will they ever be prosecuted.

        Even more outrageous is the clear double standard when it comes to charging Jews with terrorism or even hate crimes. For example, as I recall in the Florida case of Robert J. Goldstein authorities refused to charge him with either, despite the fact that they found in his home detailed plans for a deadly attack on a local “Islamic education center; fifteen or so bombs; the makings for 30 or so more bombs; 30-40 weapons, including a .50 caliber sniper rifle along with a number of semiautomatic weapons; and a list of fifty local mosques and Islamic centers. Needless to say if it had been a Muslim or an Arab, and the targets had been Jewish centers, he and his case would have been treated very, very differently indeed.

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  2. Andrew says:
    November 27, 2009 at 8:15 AM

    The entire history of Israel is a TERRORIST ACT.

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    • Shirin says:
      November 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM

      I would not go that far, but it certainly is correct to say that the Zionists introduced terrorism into the region, and pioneered a number of terror methods, including airplane hijacking, vehicle bombs, and letter and package bombs. It is also correct to say that Israel uses terrorist techniques to control the populations it holds under occupation.

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      • Mary says:
        November 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM

        Don’t forget how they tried to kill Khalid Meshal by dropping poison into his ear, and how they use “targeted assassinations,” namely, air strikes which not only take out the intended victim but a lot of innocent bystanders. They also bomb the Gaza tunnels frequently, and the mosques while there are innocent worshippers inside.

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  3. DICKERSON3870 says:
    November 27, 2009 at 1:24 PM

    RE: “…useful compendium of Israeli Jewish terror…”

    ALSO SEE: “Alex Odeh, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”

    (excerpts) Alex Odeh (April 4, 1944 – October 11, 1985) was an Arab-American anti-discrimination activist who was killed in a bombing as he opened the door of his office at 1905 East 17th Street, Santa Ana, California. Odeh was west-coast regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)…Born into a Palestinian Christian family in Jifna, the West Bank, Odeh immigrated to the US in 1972.[1] He was a lecturer and poet who recently had published a volume of his poetry, Whispers in Exile.[2] The Boston office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee suffered a bombing on August 16, 1985, injuring two officers.[3] The Santa Ana bombing came the day after the ending of the Achille Lauro incident where Jewish American Leon Klinghoffer was killed…

    …Four weeks after Odeh’s death, FBI spokesperson Lane Bonner stated the FBI attributed the bombing and two others to the JDL…In February 1986, the FBI classified the bombing that killed Alex Odeh as a terrorist act…Immediately after the 1985 assassination the FBI identified three suspects, all of them believed to be affiliated with the JDL, who fled to Israel. In 1987 it was revealed that Israel was hindering the FBI investigation. Floyd Clarke, then assistant director of the FBI, claimed in an internal memo that key suspects had fled to Israel and were living in the West Bank town of Kiryat Arba. In 1988, the FBI arrested Rochelle Manning as a suspect in a mail bombing which killed a secretary, Patricia Wilkerson, in Manhattan Beach, California. It also charged her husband, Robert Manning, who they considered a prime suspect in the Odeh bombing. Both were members of the JDL. Rochelle’s jury deadlocked, and after the mistrial she left for Israel to join her husband. Robert Manning was extradited from Israel to the U.S. in 1993.[4] He is serving a life sentence on that charge.[10]..
    …In 2007, the FBI revealed they had received information from a deceased informant, believed to be former Jewish Defense League member Earl Krugel who had been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for 2001 plots to bomb a Southern California mosque and office of an Arab American congressman. It is believed that Irv Rubin, who died in prison while awaiting trial on the same charges, revealed to Krugel the names of those responsible for Odeh’s death and Krugel shared those with the FBI before he, too, died in prison. The bombers are believed to be Manning and two individuals now living in Israel.[13]

    WIKIPEDIA SOURCE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Odeh

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  4. The Hasbara Buster says:
    November 27, 2009 at 10:54 PM

    Richard, there was also the case of this settler who crushed a boy’s head with the butt of his rifle. I don’t recall the details right now, but it can be easily Google-searched.

    Also, settler rampages should also be counted, no?

    Finally, Jewish terrorism wasn’t born with the state of Israel. I always make the point that the Palestinians must be compared to what the Jews did when they didn’t have a state. And when the Jews didn’t have a state, they blew up markets, hotels and movie theaters. I published a few newspaper clippings from those years with the horrifying details here and here.

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    • Richard Silverstein says:
      November 28, 2009 at 2:24 AM

      Yes, indeed. Settler rampages should certainly be counted. As I mentioned this is a list that Ori Nir of Peace Now prepared off the top of his head without doing a lot of research. It is not meant to be exhaustive. But by all means pls. add any incidents that are omitted which involve attacks on Palestinian civilians by Israeli non-military forces.

      I have a long essay I wrote for the London Review of Books which they never published (a story for another time) on the subject of pre-state violence and post-1948 violence in Zionist history. I’ve been meaning to publish it here since it appears unlikely any other publication will be interested in publishing a 3,000 word essay.

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  5. Megat S. Merican says:
    November 27, 2009 at 11:11 PM

    How about the attack on USS Liberty on June 8th 1967 by unmarked Israeli jets causing the deaths of 34 US servicemen? Or was that an accident?

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

    And who can forget the massacre at Shatila and Sabra in 1982 where under the watch of the IDF, an estimated of several thousand Palestinians were murdered by the Phalangist militia.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre

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    • Mary says:
      November 27, 2009 at 11:40 PM

      According to the Israelis, the USS Liberty was an accident.

      And they claim they didn’t participate in the Shabra and Shatila massacre, although they facilitated the killing by providing the Phalangists with floodlights so that they could slaughter the people in the dark. One of Ariel Sharon’s proud moments.

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    • Shirin says:
      November 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM

      The attack on the USS Liberty wasn’t really terrorism. It was actually an act of war.

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      • Mary says:
        November 28, 2009 at 10:49 AM

        It can be both. After all, Bush said 9/11 was an act of war, too.

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        • Shirin says:
          November 28, 2009 at 11:42 AM

          The attack on the USS Liberty just doesn’t fit the definition of terrorism. The objective of the attack was not to use violence or threats of violence against civilians in order to bring about political change. The Israeli military attacked a target that was essentially military with the apparent objective of stopping its intelligence gathering activities.

          Bush and others who say 9/11 was an act of war are quite simply wrong. Acts of war are committed by states against states, not by tiny groups of fanatic wack jobs from several different countries acting on behalf of their own grievances and/or ideologies. Declaring 9/11 an act of war was a politically convenient misrepresentation. 9/11 was a crime committed by a gang of criminals, not an act of war. It was also an act of terrorism.

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          • Mary says:
            November 28, 2009 at 12:03 PM

            Shirin, as you know, the definition of the word “terrorism” has become so blurred and so manipulated that it has been used to describe everything from mass shootings by berserk mental cases to armed resistance by groups such as Hizbullah and Hamas. It is a politicized word whose meaning changes with the wind.

            Bush wanted 9/11 to be an act of war so that he could launch his “war on terror” followed by his wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Traditionally, acts of war were committed by states against each other; that just isn’t true anymore. Semantics has played a big part in the international discourse.

            Terrorist acts are, simply, meant to instill terror in the general population as well as in the government structure. The nature of terrorism is to attack the innocent, the unsuspecting and the defenseless. States can and do engage in terrorism, as we know. I can think of a couple of them right off the top of my head.

            The US called the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut 25 years ago a terrorist attack, although it was an attack on a military installation. Was it indeed a terrorist act, or was it an act of war?

          • andrew r says:
            November 28, 2009 at 3:19 PM

            http://www.strimoo.com/video/15520956/Ward-Churchill-on-CNN-par-BrouhaJoe-MySpaceVideos.html

            Ward Churchill makes some sailent points about state terrorism vs. 9-11.

          • Shirin says:
            November 28, 2009 at 6:07 PM

            The word terrorism has specific legal definitions, which are generally pretty consistent. When we accept others’ propagandistic and/or sloppy and overly broad use of words and terms such as terrorism (and rape, and anti-Semitism, and racism) we are acquiescing to their dishonest and destructive agendas. I, for one refuse to do this, and in my opinion so should we all. Therefore, I simply do not accept its usage to cover “everything from mass shootings by berserk mental cases to armed resistance by groups such as Hizbullah and Hamas”, nor do I believe its actual meaning “changes with the wind”.

            Here is how terrorism is defined in U.S. Code Title 22, Ch.38, Para. 2656f(d) as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents usually intended to influence an audience.””

            The U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary defines terrorism as “The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.”

            The fact that its usage by politicians, ideologues, and propagandists, and parroted by media talking heads bears little resemblance to these definitions does not alter the real meaning of the word.

            The attack on the USS Liberty does not fit any part of any legitimate definition of terrorism that I have ever seen.

            An act of war is defined as “an act of aggression by a country against another with which it is nominally at peace.

            War is defined as “a contest between two or more independent nations carried on by authority of their respective governments.”

            The 9/11 attacks do not fit any part of those definitions, but they do fit the definitions of terrorism very well.

            The fact that words are deceptively used for political or propagandistic purposes, or that language can be sloppily used does not oblige us to join in. On the contrary, it obliges us to do the exact opposite.

          • Shirin says:
            November 28, 2009 at 8:22 PM

            Here is the legal definition of act of war:

            “an action by one country against another with an intention to provoke a war or an action that occurs during a declared war or armed conflict between military forces of any origin. The loss or damage caused due to such conflicts are excluded from insurance coverage except for life assurances.”

            As you can see, regardless of what George Bush claims, 9/11 does not fit at all.

  6. Megat S. Merican says:
    November 28, 2009 at 6:32 PM

    On the topic of 9-11, an American radio programme (Democracy Now) did a coverage on the possibility of Israel’s prior knowledge of the attacks on that fateful day.

    It is worth listening to:

    http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/feb/video/dnB20070208a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=00:44:45

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    • Richard Silverstein says:
      November 28, 2009 at 8:58 PM

      With all due respect, this angle on 9/11 is ludicrous & I don’t have any interest in propounding such conspiracy theories.

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      • Mary says:
        November 29, 2009 at 8:58 AM

        Thank you Richard, I totally agree. I don’t believe anyone had prior knowledge of anything. Prior stupidity and willful ignorance, yes; knowledge, no. 9/11 will always remain fodder for conspiracy theorists.

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      • Shirin says:
        November 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM

        I agree that the various conspiracy theories suggesting that Israel had prior knowledge or even was in on it, or possibly even more absurdly that the whole thing was plotted and executed by the GWB administration do not hold water. On the other hand Netanyahu’s public comments that 9/11 was “very good for Israel” certainly help feed the conspiracists (did I just make up a new word?), though in my mind what those remarks really do is tell us everything we need to know about Netanyahu and his ilk.

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        • Mary says:
          November 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM

          Shirin, you read my mind. I was just thinking that whether Netanyahu’s remarks were taken out of context or not, they’re reprehensible. The sad thing is that the Israeli people don’t realize what a liability Netanyahu really is.

          The anti-semitic conspiracy nuts really went to town after that. It’s an interesting example of how Zionism feeds anti-Semitism.

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        • Richard Silverstein says:
          November 29, 2009 at 6:59 PM

          Yes, someone I know who made aliyah, said after 9/11 that this event would finally allow Americans to know what it’s like to be an Israeli & would finally bring America fully to Israel’s side. I said to myself chas v’halila (God forbid), but didn’t say that to him.

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  7. A question: says:
    November 29, 2009 at 9:45 AM

    How does one define acts by a nation’s government that are covert, and intended to destabilize other political entities, which may or may not be nation-states? Acts which often result in terrorizing populations, with that result being intended.

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    • Mary says:
      November 30, 2009 at 6:00 AM

      Those acts should be defined as violations of international law, I would think.

      The CIA has committed such acts many times, all over the world.

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