The most outrageous news in this week's digest is the Israeli attack on the "Spirit of Humanity" boat in International waters kidnapping human rights activists and confiscating humanitarian supplies bound for Gaza (just happened). This is simple piracy and shows that Israeli leaders have sunk to new lows on the morality scale. Please take action; see below for press release and action alert from the Free Gaza Movement. Unfortunately where I am now in the US (temporarily), the corporate media is largely silent on this event. But the internet is buzzing and each of us has a responsibility to send this information to all contacts and all media outlets we know. Reality can't be hidden.
(nice summary of a growing movement, I personally saw it as especially younger generations of all religions leave tribalism behind and move to universal and humanistic values, it is what gives us optimism that humanity has a far brighter future)
Jews Confront Zionism by Daniel Lange/Levitsky
http://www.monthlyreview.org/090622lang.php
Doctors call for head of World Medical Association to quit as "matter of priority"
By Zosia Kmietowicz
More than 700 doctors from around the world have called for the Israeli president of the World Medical Association to step down, calling him "unfit for office" and claiming that he has turned a blind eye to the "institutionalised involvement of doctors" in torture in Israel.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/338/jun23_3/b2556
Action: An excellent and timely op-ed in LA Times from By Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.. please write letters to editor letters@latimes.com
Israel's settlements are on shaky ground: International law mandates that they must be removed and that the Palestinians should be compensated for their losses.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-whitson28-2009jun28,0,2006530.story
Israel lobby gets additional largess from US taxpayers for wars and conflicts
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1245924941819&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2F Printer
ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS; CONFISCATES MEDICINE, TOYS AND OLIVE TREES
For more information contact:
Greta Berlin (English) tel: +357 99 081 767 / friends@freegaza.org
Caoimhe Butterly (Arabic/English/Spanish): tel: +357 99 077 820 / sahara78@hotmail.co.uk
http://www.FreeGaza.org
[23 miles off the coast of Gaza, 15:30 local time] - Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly dragged toward Israel.
“This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip,” said Cynthia McKinney, a former U.S. Congresswoman and presidential candidate. “President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that’s exactly what we tried to do. We're asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey.”
According to an International Committee of the Red Cross report released yesterday, the Palestinians living in Gaza are “trapped in despair.” Thousands of Gazans whose homes were destroyed earlier during Israel’s December/January massacre are still without shelter despite pledges of almost $4.5 billion in aid, because Israel refuses to allow cement and other building material into the Gaza Strip. The report also notes that hospitals are struggling to meet the needs of their patients due to Israel’s disruption of medical supplies.
“The aid we were carrying is a symbol of hope for the people of Gaza, hope that the sea route would open for them, and they would be able to transport their own materials to begin to reconstruct the schools, hospitals and thousands of homes destroyed during the onslaught of "Cast Lead”. Our mission is a gesture to the people of Gaza that we stand by them and that they are not alone" said fellow passenger Mairead Maguire, winner of a Noble Peace Prize for her work in Northern Ireland.
Just before being kidnapped by Israel, Huwaida Arraf, Free Gaza Movement chairperson and delegation co-coordinator on this voyage, stated that: “No one could possibly believe that our small boat constitutes any sort of threat to Israel. We carry medical and reconstruction supplies, and children’s toys. Our passengers include a Nobel peace prize laureate and a former U.S. congressperson. Our boat was searched and received a security clearance by Cypriot Port Authorities before we departed, and at no time did we ever approach Israeli waters.”
Arraf continued, “Israel’s deliberate and premeditated attack on our unarmed boat is a clear violation of international law and we demand our immediate and unconditional release.”
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WHAT YOU CAN DO!
CONTACT the Israeli Ministry of Justice
tel: +972 2646 6666 or +972 2646 6340
fax: +972 2646 6357
CONTACT the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
tel: +972 2530 3111
fax: +972 2530 3367
CONTACT Mark Regev in the Prime Minister's office at:
tel: +972 5 0620 3264 or +972 2670 5354
mark.regev@it.pmo.gov.il
CONTACT the International Committee of the Red Cross to ask for their assistance in establishing the wellbeing of the kidnapped human rights workers and help in securing their immediate release!
Red Cross Israel
tel: +972 3524 5286
fax: +972 3527 0370
tel_aviv.tel@icrc.org
Red Cross Switzerland:
tel: +41 22 730 3443
fax: +41 22 734 8280
Red Cross USA:
tel: +1 212 599 6021
fax: +1 212 599 6009
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Kidnapped Passengers from the Spirit of Humanity include:
Khalad Abdelkader, Bahrain
Khalad is an engineer representing the Islamic Charitable Association of Bahrain.
Othman Abufalah, Jordan
Othman is a world-renowned journalist with al-Jazeera TV.
Khaled Al-Shenoo, Bahrain
Khaled is a lecturer with the University of Bahrain.
Mansour Al-Abi, Yemen
Mansour is a cameraman with Al-Jazeera TV.
Fatima Al-Attawi, Bahrain
Fatima is a relief worker and community activist from Bahrain.
Juhaina Alqaed, Bahrain
Juhaina is a journalist & human rights activist.
Huwaida Arraf, US
Huwaida is the Chair of the Free Gaza Movement and delegation co-coordinator for this voyage.
Ishmahil Blagrove, UK
Ishmahil is a Jamaican-born journalist, documentary film maker and founder of the Rice & Peas film production company. His documentaries focus on international struggles for social justice.
Kaltham Ghloom, Bahrain
Kaltham is a community activist.
Derek Graham, Ireland
Derek Graham is an electrician, Free Gaza organizer, and first mate aboard the Spirit of Humanity.
Alex Harrison, UK
Alex is a solidarity worker from Britain. She is traveling to Gaza to do long-term human rights monitoring.
Denis Healey, UK
Denis is Captain of the Spirit of Humanity. This will be his fifth voyage to Gaza.
Fathi Jaouadi, UK
Fathi is a British journalist, Free Gaza organizer, and delegation co-coordinator for this voyage.
Mairead Maguire, Ireland
Mairead is a Nobel laureate and renowned peace activist.
Lubna Masarwa, Palestine/Israel
Lubna is a Palestinian human rights activist and Free Gaza organizer.
Theresa McDermott, Scotland
Theresa is a solidarity worker from Scotland. She is traveling to Gaza to do long-term human rights monitoring.
Cynthia McKinney, US
Cynthia McKinney is an outspoken advocate for human rights and social justice issues, as well as a former U.S. congressperson and presidential candidate.
Adnan Mormesh, UK
Adnan is a solidarity worker from Britain. He is traveling to Gaza to do long-term human rights monitoring.
Adam Qvist, Denmark
Adam is a solidarity worker from Denmark. He is traveling to Gaza to do human rights monitoring.
Adam Shapiro, US
Adam is an American documentary film maker and human rights activist.
Kathy Sheetz, US
Kathy is a nurse and film maker, traveling to Gaza to do human rights monitoring.
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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
http://qumsiyeh.org
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Hank Sims, editor of the Northcoast Journal--TheTown Dandy or Town Dandruff?
Hank Sims is another one of our local Progressive political bullshit artists seemingly without an ounce of honor in his professional work. Using his position as editor of the Northcoast Journal he takes pot shots at most anyone who hits the local news and has something to say to the community that Hank doesn't agree with. As editor of a local community paper Hank feels it's his personal right and political duty to squelch other community voices whose politics he doesn't like. Hank won't let this activist publish anything in the NCJ, unlike his predecessors who thought maybe the NCJ should represent the community and not just the editor's point of view. If censorship of political opponent's words isn't applicable, Hank resorts to backhanded slander bombs such as he lobbed at Charles Ollivier in the latest NCJ re Ollivier's support for port and railway development; "...an economic development strategy (that) is impossible bordering on ludicrous."
Bill Roddy, when he was editor of SoHum's Life and Times weekly was also a notorious egotist at the helm of his rag. For years the Life and Times published focus issues on community leaders and not once did he give any prominent environmental activists recognition. Perhaps it goes with the territory when inflated egos get power over community media venues but it still sad to see in our local news providers and still a complete disservice to the community's knowledge base and news.
Bill Roddy, when he was editor of SoHum's Life and Times weekly was also a notorious egotist at the helm of his rag. For years the Life and Times published focus issues on community leaders and not once did he give any prominent environmental activists recognition. Perhaps it goes with the territory when inflated egos get power over community media venues but it still sad to see in our local news providers and still a complete disservice to the community's knowledge base and news.
Zionists at work attempting to smear another anti-Zionist professor
UCSB teacher who sent Gaza e-mail cleared by panel
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
(06-24)AP 19:55 PDT Santa Barbara, Calif. (AP) --
An academic committee at University of California, Santa Barbara has found no reason to discipline a professor who sent an e-mail that compared Israel's offensive in Gaza to the Holocaust.
University officials sent a letter to Sociology professor William I. Robinson Wednesday, saying the Academic Senate's ad hoc committee has closed the matter.
In January, Robinson offended students at UCSB with an e-mail to his "Sociology of Globalization" class that juxtaposed grisly photos from the Nazi era and the Gaza offensive.
Jewish groups called the e-mail "hate spam" and claimed Robinson violated university policy that bars professors from intimidating students and using campus resources for political reasons unrelated to teaching.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
(06-24)AP 19:55 PDT Santa Barbara, Calif. (AP) --
An academic committee at University of California, Santa Barbara has found no reason to discipline a professor who sent an e-mail that compared Israel's offensive in Gaza to the Holocaust.
University officials sent a letter to Sociology professor William I. Robinson Wednesday, saying the Academic Senate's ad hoc committee has closed the matter.
In January, Robinson offended students at UCSB with an e-mail to his "Sociology of Globalization" class that juxtaposed grisly photos from the Nazi era and the Gaza offensive.
Jewish groups called the e-mail "hate spam" and claimed Robinson violated university policy that bars professors from intimidating students and using campus resources for political reasons unrelated to teaching.
Northcoast Journal editor again censors political opponent's letters to the editor
Here's the latest letter to the editor from Steve Lewis that Northcoast Journal editor Hank Sims censored as he does every letter I submit to the NCJ. The politicos posing as enviros and Progressives and even editors are not above closing off any imput avenue that allows opposition a voice in the community.
The censored letter:
Editor:
Here we go again with the self-congratulatory rhetoric of Earth First! hypocrites. Naomi Wagner's letter in the last issue only reflects another sales pitch for environmental stupidity in action. She really thinks enviro activists like herself have done something significant by sitting in trees and massing at rallies, but in the end the target of these failed tactics, Maxxam, did more or less what they wanted to whenever they wanted. In other words, Earth First!, EPIC, Humboldt Watershed Council activists did practically zip to save old growth trees from coming down by the thousands while Maxxam owned Pacific Lumber Company. And at the end, these same enviros applauded the new corporate raider who's finishing up what Maxxam started, the liquidation and divvying up of Palco assets to be sold off to the highest bidders. Meanwhile, no jobs in a Humboldt County economy that is desperate.
Naomi, we really do not need anymore politically compromised environmental protection activism that you and Earth First, EPIC, HWC, represent. You people all failed miserably to stop the massive destruction of old-growth owned by Palco. And all of us outside the radical activist cliques wondered for 20 years why you guys only attacked Palco when most environmentally conscious professionals knew that Simpson was by far the most wayward of the local corporate timber companies. But hardly a peep from Earth First! or EPIC as they were always headline seeking and Palco, with Maxxam and Hurwitz had the name recognition for fame junkie, headline hunting enviros. So Simpson got a pass and now enviros are seeking new targets to justify rather environmentally myopic activist agendas. It only took you 20 years to discover Simpson (Green Diamond) and if the past is any indication of the future, enviro political attacks on Green Diamond will assure this company another 20 years of barely noticing any slow-down of company tree extraction.
Some day enviro activists may realize that 20 years of siccing local activists onto Palco only insured the eco-destruction of all those endangered species habitats that were under the onslaught of homesteaders who funded enviros. 20 years of diverting eco-protection concern towards the political target cost the life of the Mattole River. How can enviros can continue to parade such environmental hypocrisy and stupidity in public letters would be a wonder except that it goes hand in hand with politically compromised activism that is blind to historical reality.
The censored letter:
Editor:
Here we go again with the self-congratulatory rhetoric of Earth First! hypocrites. Naomi Wagner's letter in the last issue only reflects another sales pitch for environmental stupidity in action. She really thinks enviro activists like herself have done something significant by sitting in trees and massing at rallies, but in the end the target of these failed tactics, Maxxam, did more or less what they wanted to whenever they wanted. In other words, Earth First!, EPIC, Humboldt Watershed Council activists did practically zip to save old growth trees from coming down by the thousands while Maxxam owned Pacific Lumber Company. And at the end, these same enviros applauded the new corporate raider who's finishing up what Maxxam started, the liquidation and divvying up of Palco assets to be sold off to the highest bidders. Meanwhile, no jobs in a Humboldt County economy that is desperate.
Naomi, we really do not need anymore politically compromised environmental protection activism that you and Earth First, EPIC, HWC, represent. You people all failed miserably to stop the massive destruction of old-growth owned by Palco. And all of us outside the radical activist cliques wondered for 20 years why you guys only attacked Palco when most environmentally conscious professionals knew that Simpson was by far the most wayward of the local corporate timber companies. But hardly a peep from Earth First! or EPIC as they were always headline seeking and Palco, with Maxxam and Hurwitz had the name recognition for fame junkie, headline hunting enviros. So Simpson got a pass and now enviros are seeking new targets to justify rather environmentally myopic activist agendas. It only took you 20 years to discover Simpson (Green Diamond) and if the past is any indication of the future, enviro political attacks on Green Diamond will assure this company another 20 years of barely noticing any slow-down of company tree extraction.
Some day enviro activists may realize that 20 years of siccing local activists onto Palco only insured the eco-destruction of all those endangered species habitats that were under the onslaught of homesteaders who funded enviros. 20 years of diverting eco-protection concern towards the political target cost the life of the Mattole River. How can enviros can continue to parade such environmental hypocrisy and stupidity in public letters would be a wonder except that it goes hand in hand with politically compromised activism that is blind to historical reality.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Did Steve Jobs’ wallet help cut transplant wait?
Opinion: The Apple co-founder's trip to Tennessee for liver raises questions
By Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
msnbc.com
updated 2:45 p.m. ET, Tues., June 23, 2009
Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ recent trip to Tennessee to pick himself up a new liver has raised some sticky questions about what money can buy.
Jobs, 54, was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer five years ago and had a piece of his pancreas removed. The prognosis with tumors of the pancreas is not good, the cancer can spread to the liver.
First, let me say I wish Jobs the best. This column is being typed on an Apple computer, while an iPod is playing and an iPhone is displaying missed messages on its screen. You would be hard-pressed to find a stronger Apple devotee and Steve Jobs admirer than I am.
But the news that this incredibly wealthy resident of Silicon Valley, Calif., had transplant surgery thousands of miles from his home at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, according to the Wall Street Journal, raises some important questions about access to health care at a time when America is in the midst of a major battle over health reform.
According to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing based in Richmond, Va., the quasi-public agency that distributes donated organs to those on waiting lists around the nation, there were roughly 16,000 people on the national liver waiting list when Jobs got a liver. He was one of 1,581 people who got livers in the United States in the first quarter of this year. Almost none of those people had any form of cancer.
In fact, if Jobs’ tumor has spread from his pancreas into his liver as is likely, some transplant surgeons say that they would not recommend a liver transplant because there is no data that shows a transplant will stop or even slow the spread of the cancer. This raises the question: Is this the best use of a liver?
Not enough is known about Jobs’ condition to say with certainty whether he still has cancer or whether the cancer has spread.
What is known is that Jobs beat very long odds to get a transplant.
Three hurdles to getting an organ
In the United States, three hurdles must be overcome to get an organ. First, you need to have a primary care doctor diagnose that you have a failing organ. Second, you need to gain entry to a transplant center. Third, you have to be selected by both your transplant surgeon and UNOS as the person best suited on the national waiting list of those admitted to various transplant centers as the best recipient.
Jobs did not have problem with the first hurdle. He has plenty of doctors watching him. They found his initial pancreas problem and his subsequent liver problem. Millions of Americans are not so fortunate. They can’t afford a primary care doctor. Some Americans show up at emergency rooms so sick due to failing hearts, livers, lungs and kidneys that they could not possibly survive a transplant. Others simply die without any doctor diagnosing what is going on with their organs. These unlucky patients are rationed out of their chance to get a transplant without even knowing it.
For those who do have a primary care doctor, like Steve Jobs, the next step is to get into a transplant center. This involves getting seen by a specialist, who will perform all sorts of tests both physiological and psychological. Most important, the potential patient must do well on a very precise wallet biopsy performed to ensure they can pay for a surgical procedure that might cost as much as $200,000.
The parents of 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan sued insurance giant Cigna Healthcare last year for declining to guarantee payment for a liver transplant at UCLA Medical Center. The family could not pay and she was not admitted to the transplant program. So she died.
Besides a lack of money, other factors that might lead a transplant center to reject a potential liver transplant patient include advanced age, mental illness, addiction, lack of a stable family to help after surgery, being a prisoner, or having other complicating diseases.
Jobs did not face these obstacles to gaining entry to a transplant program. But, he does have a complicating illness so he had to find a transplant center willing to ignore that fact. It was probably easier for a wealthy CEO to do that than it would be for you.
The waiting list is long for livers. But different centers have longer and shorter lists. Patients who are smart or who have savvy primary care doctors know that different transplant centers follow different rules in deciding who to admit and not to admit. Some will bargain a lower fee for a liver transplant for a poor family. Some would view a liver transplant for a person with cancer as a “waste” of an organ. Some might take a chance on a patient with cancer. This likely explains why Jobs went to Tennessee.
According to UNOS, there were 295 newly listed liver patients in Tennessee last year and 1,615 in California.
Shorter wait time in Tennessee
And UNOS data shows the median number of days from getting on the liver waiting list to getting a transplant was 306 nationally, in Tennessee only 48.
By traveling to Memphis, Jobs could drastically increase the odds he would secure a liver and cut the wait time. He also might have tried to gain entry to more transplant centers to increase the odds that he would get a transplant. Jobs or anyone with enough money can ”multiply list” at many centers and, by putting chips on more than one number, boost the odds of winning the transplant lottery. About 3 percent of all those on the national waiting list for livers, hearts and kidneys are listed at more than one program.
Jobs appears to have known exactly how to use his resources to maximize his chances of getting a life-saving transplant. Most Americans do not.
But, regardless of how much money or clout you have, actually getting an organ when one becomes available is the hardest hurdle. Organs are given on the basis of physiological measures of who is most in need, matching of blood type and other biological factors. Getting to the shortest waiting list and finding a transplant center to take him despite his cancer did not guarantee Jobs a liver. There was some amount of luck involved too.
Still, Jobs’ liver transplant shows precisely what is wrong about our nation’s debate over health care. Some say we do not need to reform what American Medical Association officials often refer to as the “finest health care system in the world.” Really?
The current system is hardly fair. People die every day from a lack of good care or the ability to pay for it. The truth is, those with resources can make the system work in their favor. And celebrity, money and the promise of future gifts can help procure access to scarce, life-saving resources.
The health care system is a broken mess, but not because a Steve Jobs can get a liver. Rather, it is because all too often only the wealthy and privileged can take full advantage of the best our health care system has to offer.
By Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
msnbc.com
updated 2:45 p.m. ET, Tues., June 23, 2009
Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ recent trip to Tennessee to pick himself up a new liver has raised some sticky questions about what money can buy.
Jobs, 54, was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer five years ago and had a piece of his pancreas removed. The prognosis with tumors of the pancreas is not good, the cancer can spread to the liver.
First, let me say I wish Jobs the best. This column is being typed on an Apple computer, while an iPod is playing and an iPhone is displaying missed messages on its screen. You would be hard-pressed to find a stronger Apple devotee and Steve Jobs admirer than I am.
But the news that this incredibly wealthy resident of Silicon Valley, Calif., had transplant surgery thousands of miles from his home at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, according to the Wall Street Journal, raises some important questions about access to health care at a time when America is in the midst of a major battle over health reform.
According to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing based in Richmond, Va., the quasi-public agency that distributes donated organs to those on waiting lists around the nation, there were roughly 16,000 people on the national liver waiting list when Jobs got a liver. He was one of 1,581 people who got livers in the United States in the first quarter of this year. Almost none of those people had any form of cancer.
In fact, if Jobs’ tumor has spread from his pancreas into his liver as is likely, some transplant surgeons say that they would not recommend a liver transplant because there is no data that shows a transplant will stop or even slow the spread of the cancer. This raises the question: Is this the best use of a liver?
Not enough is known about Jobs’ condition to say with certainty whether he still has cancer or whether the cancer has spread.
What is known is that Jobs beat very long odds to get a transplant.
Three hurdles to getting an organ
In the United States, three hurdles must be overcome to get an organ. First, you need to have a primary care doctor diagnose that you have a failing organ. Second, you need to gain entry to a transplant center. Third, you have to be selected by both your transplant surgeon and UNOS as the person best suited on the national waiting list of those admitted to various transplant centers as the best recipient.
Jobs did not have problem with the first hurdle. He has plenty of doctors watching him. They found his initial pancreas problem and his subsequent liver problem. Millions of Americans are not so fortunate. They can’t afford a primary care doctor. Some Americans show up at emergency rooms so sick due to failing hearts, livers, lungs and kidneys that they could not possibly survive a transplant. Others simply die without any doctor diagnosing what is going on with their organs. These unlucky patients are rationed out of their chance to get a transplant without even knowing it.
For those who do have a primary care doctor, like Steve Jobs, the next step is to get into a transplant center. This involves getting seen by a specialist, who will perform all sorts of tests both physiological and psychological. Most important, the potential patient must do well on a very precise wallet biopsy performed to ensure they can pay for a surgical procedure that might cost as much as $200,000.
The parents of 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan sued insurance giant Cigna Healthcare last year for declining to guarantee payment for a liver transplant at UCLA Medical Center. The family could not pay and she was not admitted to the transplant program. So she died.
Besides a lack of money, other factors that might lead a transplant center to reject a potential liver transplant patient include advanced age, mental illness, addiction, lack of a stable family to help after surgery, being a prisoner, or having other complicating diseases.
Jobs did not face these obstacles to gaining entry to a transplant program. But, he does have a complicating illness so he had to find a transplant center willing to ignore that fact. It was probably easier for a wealthy CEO to do that than it would be for you.
The waiting list is long for livers. But different centers have longer and shorter lists. Patients who are smart or who have savvy primary care doctors know that different transplant centers follow different rules in deciding who to admit and not to admit. Some will bargain a lower fee for a liver transplant for a poor family. Some would view a liver transplant for a person with cancer as a “waste” of an organ. Some might take a chance on a patient with cancer. This likely explains why Jobs went to Tennessee.
According to UNOS, there were 295 newly listed liver patients in Tennessee last year and 1,615 in California.
Shorter wait time in Tennessee
And UNOS data shows the median number of days from getting on the liver waiting list to getting a transplant was 306 nationally, in Tennessee only 48.
By traveling to Memphis, Jobs could drastically increase the odds he would secure a liver and cut the wait time. He also might have tried to gain entry to more transplant centers to increase the odds that he would get a transplant. Jobs or anyone with enough money can ”multiply list” at many centers and, by putting chips on more than one number, boost the odds of winning the transplant lottery. About 3 percent of all those on the national waiting list for livers, hearts and kidneys are listed at more than one program.
Jobs appears to have known exactly how to use his resources to maximize his chances of getting a life-saving transplant. Most Americans do not.
But, regardless of how much money or clout you have, actually getting an organ when one becomes available is the hardest hurdle. Organs are given on the basis of physiological measures of who is most in need, matching of blood type and other biological factors. Getting to the shortest waiting list and finding a transplant center to take him despite his cancer did not guarantee Jobs a liver. There was some amount of luck involved too.
Still, Jobs’ liver transplant shows precisely what is wrong about our nation’s debate over health care. Some say we do not need to reform what American Medical Association officials often refer to as the “finest health care system in the world.” Really?
The current system is hardly fair. People die every day from a lack of good care or the ability to pay for it. The truth is, those with resources can make the system work in their favor. And celebrity, money and the promise of future gifts can help procure access to scarce, life-saving resources.
The health care system is a broken mess, but not because a Steve Jobs can get a liver. Rather, it is because all too often only the wealthy and privileged can take full advantage of the best our health care system has to offer.
Israel okays outpost construction plan: rights group
49 minutes ago
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has approved a plan to construct hundreds of homes in an unauthorised outpost in the occupied West Bank, a local rights group said on Tuesday.
According to Bimkom, Barak recently approved a plan for the construction of 300 housing units in an outpost next to the settlement of Talmon, northwest of the Palestinian city of Ramallah.
"The plan intends to create territorial contiguity between the settlement of Talmon and the Water Reservoir Hill outpost and to enlarge the settlement, at the expense of Palestinian villagers in the area," the group said in a statement.
Although the plan has yet to be given the final go-ahead, it was likely to be approved in the coming months in a move bound to further strain ties with the United States which has urged Israel to freeze all settlement activity.
Barak's office would not immediately comment on the report.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has vowed to dismantle more than 20 outposts built on private Palestinian land, but the hawkish premier has nevertheless refused to halt construction within existing settlements.
"This is the second time in the last few months where defence minister Barak approves plans for the extension of existing settlements or for new settlements altogether," Alon Cohen-Lifshitz, a member of Bimkom, said in a statement.
"This proves that Barak has no intention of freezing construction in existing settlements, and not even of refraining from building new ones."
Although the international community considers all Israeli settlements illegal, Israel makes a distinction between those authorised by the government and so-called wildcat outposts, set up by hardline settlers without state approval.
Copyright © 2009 AFP.
Peace road map? F'getit. Israel does what Israel wants.
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has approved a plan to construct hundreds of homes in an unauthorised outpost in the occupied West Bank, a local rights group said on Tuesday.
According to Bimkom, Barak recently approved a plan for the construction of 300 housing units in an outpost next to the settlement of Talmon, northwest of the Palestinian city of Ramallah.
"The plan intends to create territorial contiguity between the settlement of Talmon and the Water Reservoir Hill outpost and to enlarge the settlement, at the expense of Palestinian villagers in the area," the group said in a statement.
Although the plan has yet to be given the final go-ahead, it was likely to be approved in the coming months in a move bound to further strain ties with the United States which has urged Israel to freeze all settlement activity.
Barak's office would not immediately comment on the report.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has vowed to dismantle more than 20 outposts built on private Palestinian land, but the hawkish premier has nevertheless refused to halt construction within existing settlements.
"This is the second time in the last few months where defence minister Barak approves plans for the extension of existing settlements or for new settlements altogether," Alon Cohen-Lifshitz, a member of Bimkom, said in a statement.
"This proves that Barak has no intention of freezing construction in existing settlements, and not even of refraining from building new ones."
Although the international community considers all Israeli settlements illegal, Israel makes a distinction between those authorised by the government and so-called wildcat outposts, set up by hardline settlers without state approval.
Copyright © 2009 AFP.
Peace road map? F'getit. Israel does what Israel wants.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Skull and Bones Society vs. Apaches: US seeks to stop Geronimo lawsuit
Geronimo, pictured in 1887
Geronimo was the most famous of the Apache warriors
US officials are seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit brought against the government by descendants of Apache leader Geronimo to recover his remains.
The descendants want to rebury Geronimo, who was buried in Oklahoma in 1909, in his native land in New Mexico.
They are also seeking the return of body parts they say were stolen in 1918 or 1919 by a secret society at Yale University known as Skull and Bones.
But justice officials say the law cited by the plaintiffs is not applicable.
In February, 20 descendants of Geronimo filed a lawsuit against President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and Secretary of the Army Peter Geren in their capacity as federal officials.
Their lawsuit, which also named Yale University and the Skull and Bones Society as defendants, alleged violations of a law passed in 1990 to protect Native Americans' rights to the remains of their family members.
The lawsuit seeks the recovery of Geronimo's remains "from 100 years of imprisonment at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the Yale University campus at New Haven, Connecticut and wherever else they may be".
This refers to long-standing allegations that members of the Skull and Bones Society, including Prescott Bush, the grandfather of George W Bush, broke into Geronimo's tomb and stole his skull and other bones to keep in their clubhouse in New Haven.
Yale University has repeatedly said it does not have Geronimo's remains and does not speak for the Skull and Bones Society.
The US justice department has now filed a motion asking a federal judge to dismiss the case.
Officials say the descendants' complaint does not fall within the scope of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, as it does not claim that Geronimo's grave has been disturbed or excavated since 1990.
Geronimo, who was born in what is modern day New Mexico in 1829, was the most famous Apache warrior.
He and his exhausted band of fighters surrendered to US forces in 1886. He died at Fort Sill on 17 February 1909 and was buried there.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
World hunger 'hits one billion'
An Indian boy eats rice
Most of the world's undernourished live in developing countries
One billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a figure which has increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis, says the UN.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said the figure was a record high.
Persistently high food prices have also contributed to the hunger crisis.
The director general of the FAO said the level of hunger, one-sixth of the world's population, posed a "serious risk" to world peace and security.
The UN said almost all of the world's undernourished live in developing countries, with the most, some 642 million people, living in the Asia-Pacific region.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the next worst-hit region, the figure stands at 265 million.
Just 15 million people are left hungry in the developed world.
"The silent hunger crisis - affecting one-sixth of all of humanity - poses a serious risk for world peace and security," said Jacques Diouf.
"We urgently need to forge a broad consensus on the total and rapid eradication of hunger in the world and to take the necessary actions."
'Contradiction'
The increase in the number of hungry people was blamed on lower incomes and increased unemployment, which in turn reduced access to food by the poor, the UN agency said.
But it contrasted sharply with evidence that much of the developed world is richer than ever before.
WORLD HUNGER
Asia-Pacific: 642m
Sub-Saharan Africa: 265m
Latin America and Caribbean: 53m
Middle East and North Africa: 42m
Developed world: 15m
Source: FAO
"It's the first time in human history that we have so many hungry people in the world," said FAO spokesman Kostas Stamoulis, director of the organisation's development department.
"And that's a contradiction, because a lot of the world is very rich despite the economic crisis."
Mr Diouf urged governments to provide development and economic assistance to boost agriculture, particularly by smallholder farmers.
"Investment in agriculture must be increased because for the majority of poor countries a healthy agricultural sector is essential to overcome poverty and hunger and is a pre-requisite for overall economic growth," he said.
Urban suffering
The UK's international development ministry (Dfid) said the figures were "a scandal" and said it was helping some of the poorest farmers in the world to boost the amount of food they produce.
"In the last year we have pledged more than £900 million to lift millions out of hunger to help farmers boost agriculture production," a Dfid spokesman said.
The UN warns that poor people living in cities will probably face the most severe problems in coping with the global recession, because lower export demand and reduced foreign investment are likely to hit urban jobs harder.
Many migrants to urban areas would be likely to return to rural areas, it added, transferring the burden.
Incomes have also dropped "substantially" in some developing countries where families depend on remittances from relatives working abroad.
With the financial crisis hitting all parts of the world more or less simultaneously, developing countries have less room to adjust, the UN agency says.
Food prices
Among the pressures is the reality that borrowing from international capital markets is "more limited" in a global crisis, the FAO said.
Food costs in developing countries now seem more expensive, despite prices in world markets declining during the food and fuel crisis of 2006-08, it added.
They remained on average 24% higher in real terms by the end of 2008 compared to 2006.
"For poor consumers, who spend up to 60% of their incomes on staple foods, this means a strong reduction in their effective purchasing power," the FAO said.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Even if he did say 'Palestinian state'
By Shaul Arieli
Haaretz News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech once again demonstrated that Israel's right-wing parties do not have a suitable and practical alternative to the solution of two states for two peoples. The right-wing bloc exists only to negate this idea and breaks up once it has to present a diplomatic alternative that will safeguard Israeli interests.
The declarations about the need to crush the two-state idea have been replaced by rearguard skirmishes bent on preventing its implementation. In 1993, Ariel Sharon wanted to announce that if Likud returned to power he would cancel the Oslo Accords; Netanyahu announced that the autonomy program under Israeli control was the sole alternative. These declarations were quickly exchanged for talk about a "Palestinian state" or a "demilitarized Palestinian state." It was clear to Netanyahu and his predecessors that they only needed the right-wing bloc to become prime minister. Once they settled in, they couldn't adopt even one of the right-wing positions that harm the Zionist concept of a Jewish and democratic state.
Supporters of Habayit Hayehudi and National Union consider sovereignty over the entire Land of Israel a condition that determines the Jewish people's identity and future. This position dictates a one-state solution, but they differ over its nature and regime. Some of them understand that continued control over a people without rights does not benefit Israel, and they agree that everyone should enjoy civil rights, even if the result is a foregone conclusion - the loss of a Jewish majority and the negation of Israel's definition as the state of the Jewish people.
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A binational state is not a possibility because this public believes we have been ordained to inherit the land and the way to do so is to expel its residents. That means prolonged friction that will lead to violent national and social confrontations and the disintegration of the state.
Likud members explain their objection to a Palestinian state with the claim that Ze'ev Jabotinsky's idea of an "iron wall" has not yet taken hold of Palestinian public opinion and that an agreement should be avoided until they have relinquished their desire to destroy Israel. But the steps taken for this purpose have merely widened the cracks in the iron wall and in Israel's status, beginning with the cessation of negotiations, the destruction of the Palestinian Authority, the disengagement, the separation fence's invasive route, and finally the negation of the Arab League's peace initiative. These moves helped Hamas win the elections and gain control of the Gaza Strip, led Israel to embark on military operations, and strengthened the Arab world's "rejectionist front."
Netanyahu's speech of regression has aligned him with the positions of Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu. They accept the idea of two states but try to torpedo it with conditions that render it ridiculous. That is what Netanyahu did when he said in his address that he was ready to begin peace negotiations immediately without preconditions: He demanded Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish people's national home, agreement to a demilitarized Palestinian state, removing the refugee issue from the agenda, and maintaining united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty - before starting negotiations.
Even if Netanyahu did say "a Palestinian state," he was not able to pass the rejectionist crown to the Palestinian and Arab side. Netanyahu was mistaken when, in return, he rushed to take the option of continuing settlement construction. Netanyahu is adding the clash with the Obama administration to the rearguard skirmish he is conducting at the expense of the Israeli public, contrary to its position. A survey conducted by the Institute for National Security Studies revealed that 64 percent of the population supports the idea of two states for two peoples, only 17 percent are prepared to expand settlements at the expense of a confrontation with the United States, and 77 percent support the idea of an evacuation-compensation law.
The public should demand that Netanyahu stop throwing billions of shekels into barren plans. Instead, he must renew negotiations immediately without preconditions, accept the regional peace plan and present an Israeli plan that produces a Zionist outcome of a Jewish and democratic state living alongside a Palestinian state.
The writer is a board member of the Council for Peace and Security and was one of the architects of the Geneva Initiative.
Haaretz News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech once again demonstrated that Israel's right-wing parties do not have a suitable and practical alternative to the solution of two states for two peoples. The right-wing bloc exists only to negate this idea and breaks up once it has to present a diplomatic alternative that will safeguard Israeli interests.
The declarations about the need to crush the two-state idea have been replaced by rearguard skirmishes bent on preventing its implementation. In 1993, Ariel Sharon wanted to announce that if Likud returned to power he would cancel the Oslo Accords; Netanyahu announced that the autonomy program under Israeli control was the sole alternative. These declarations were quickly exchanged for talk about a "Palestinian state" or a "demilitarized Palestinian state." It was clear to Netanyahu and his predecessors that they only needed the right-wing bloc to become prime minister. Once they settled in, they couldn't adopt even one of the right-wing positions that harm the Zionist concept of a Jewish and democratic state.
Supporters of Habayit Hayehudi and National Union consider sovereignty over the entire Land of Israel a condition that determines the Jewish people's identity and future. This position dictates a one-state solution, but they differ over its nature and regime. Some of them understand that continued control over a people without rights does not benefit Israel, and they agree that everyone should enjoy civil rights, even if the result is a foregone conclusion - the loss of a Jewish majority and the negation of Israel's definition as the state of the Jewish people.
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A binational state is not a possibility because this public believes we have been ordained to inherit the land and the way to do so is to expel its residents. That means prolonged friction that will lead to violent national and social confrontations and the disintegration of the state.
Likud members explain their objection to a Palestinian state with the claim that Ze'ev Jabotinsky's idea of an "iron wall" has not yet taken hold of Palestinian public opinion and that an agreement should be avoided until they have relinquished their desire to destroy Israel. But the steps taken for this purpose have merely widened the cracks in the iron wall and in Israel's status, beginning with the cessation of negotiations, the destruction of the Palestinian Authority, the disengagement, the separation fence's invasive route, and finally the negation of the Arab League's peace initiative. These moves helped Hamas win the elections and gain control of the Gaza Strip, led Israel to embark on military operations, and strengthened the Arab world's "rejectionist front."
Netanyahu's speech of regression has aligned him with the positions of Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu. They accept the idea of two states but try to torpedo it with conditions that render it ridiculous. That is what Netanyahu did when he said in his address that he was ready to begin peace negotiations immediately without preconditions: He demanded Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish people's national home, agreement to a demilitarized Palestinian state, removing the refugee issue from the agenda, and maintaining united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty - before starting negotiations.
Even if Netanyahu did say "a Palestinian state," he was not able to pass the rejectionist crown to the Palestinian and Arab side. Netanyahu was mistaken when, in return, he rushed to take the option of continuing settlement construction. Netanyahu is adding the clash with the Obama administration to the rearguard skirmish he is conducting at the expense of the Israeli public, contrary to its position. A survey conducted by the Institute for National Security Studies revealed that 64 percent of the population supports the idea of two states for two peoples, only 17 percent are prepared to expand settlements at the expense of a confrontation with the United States, and 77 percent support the idea of an evacuation-compensation law.
The public should demand that Netanyahu stop throwing billions of shekels into barren plans. Instead, he must renew negotiations immediately without preconditions, accept the regional peace plan and present an Israeli plan that produces a Zionist outcome of a Jewish and democratic state living alongside a Palestinian state.
The writer is a board member of the Council for Peace and Security and was one of the architects of the Geneva Initiative.
Palestinians dismiss Israel plan
Benjamin Netanyahu: 'No-one in Israel wants war'
Palestinians have rejected the Israeli prime minister's conditions for a two-state solution, saying he has "paralysed" the peace process.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a major policy speech, accepted the creation of a Palestinian state but only if it was demilitarised.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's spokesman said his comments challenged Palestinian, Arab and US positions.
But the US said Mr Netanyahu's stance was an "important step forward".
In a landmark speech, weeks after US President Barack Obama urged him to agree a two-state plan, Mr Netanyahu said the Palestinians must accept Israel as a Jewish state.
He said a Palestinian state must have no army, no control of its air space and no way of smuggling in weapons.
The peace process has been moving at the speed of a tortoise. Tonight, Netanyahu has flipped it over on its back
Saeb Erekat, Palestinian negotiator
His speech provoked anger among Palestinian officials.
Mr Abbas's spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah said: "Netanyahu's remarks have sabotaged all initiatives, paralysed all efforts being made and challenges the Palestinian, Arab and American positions," Reuters news agency reported.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the speech "closed the door to permanent status negotiations".
"We ask the world not to be fooled by his use of the term Palestinian state because he qualified it.
"He declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel, said refugees would not be negotiated and that settlements would remain."
Mr Erekat added: "The peace process has been moving at the speed of a tortoise. Tonight, Netanyahu has flipped it over on its back."
In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri described the speech as "racist" and called on Arab nations to "form stronger opposition" towards Israel.
But the White House called the policy outline an "important step forward", as did French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
A White House statement said Mr Obama "believes this solution can and must ensure both Israel's security and the fulfilment of the Palestinians' legitimate aspirations for a viable state, and he welcomes Prime Minister Netanyahu's endorsement of that goal".
The BBC's Sarah Morris in Washington says Mr Netanyahu's comments have provided a lot of encouragement to the White House, but it is uncertain whether they will be enough given the Israeli prime minister's refusal to budge on the issue of Jewish settlements.
The statement made no mention of Mr Netanyahu's demilitarisation caveat.
A potential stumbling block in any future peace deal - that of settlements - also went unmentioned in the statement, our correspondent adds.
'Collision course'
In his own keynote Middle East speech in Cairo on 4 June, Mr Obama stressed that he wanted all settlement activity to stop.
But Mr Netanyahu said settlers were not "enemies of peace" and did not move from his position of backing "natural growth" in existing settlements.
Former US President Jimmy Carter warned that the US and Israeli governments would be on a "collision course" if Israeli settlement activity continued in the West Bank.
The settlers group Yesha condemned Mr Netanyahu's speech: "We deplore that the prime minister has agreed to the creation of a demilitarised Palestinian state after he has said for years that such a state, even demilitarised, would be a threat to Israel."
Palestinians have rejected the Israeli prime minister's conditions for a two-state solution, saying he has "paralysed" the peace process.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a major policy speech, accepted the creation of a Palestinian state but only if it was demilitarised.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's spokesman said his comments challenged Palestinian, Arab and US positions.
But the US said Mr Netanyahu's stance was an "important step forward".
In a landmark speech, weeks after US President Barack Obama urged him to agree a two-state plan, Mr Netanyahu said the Palestinians must accept Israel as a Jewish state.
He said a Palestinian state must have no army, no control of its air space and no way of smuggling in weapons.
The peace process has been moving at the speed of a tortoise. Tonight, Netanyahu has flipped it over on its back
Saeb Erekat, Palestinian negotiator
His speech provoked anger among Palestinian officials.
Mr Abbas's spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah said: "Netanyahu's remarks have sabotaged all initiatives, paralysed all efforts being made and challenges the Palestinian, Arab and American positions," Reuters news agency reported.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the speech "closed the door to permanent status negotiations".
"We ask the world not to be fooled by his use of the term Palestinian state because he qualified it.
"He declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel, said refugees would not be negotiated and that settlements would remain."
Mr Erekat added: "The peace process has been moving at the speed of a tortoise. Tonight, Netanyahu has flipped it over on its back."
In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri described the speech as "racist" and called on Arab nations to "form stronger opposition" towards Israel.
But the White House called the policy outline an "important step forward", as did French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
A White House statement said Mr Obama "believes this solution can and must ensure both Israel's security and the fulfilment of the Palestinians' legitimate aspirations for a viable state, and he welcomes Prime Minister Netanyahu's endorsement of that goal".
The BBC's Sarah Morris in Washington says Mr Netanyahu's comments have provided a lot of encouragement to the White House, but it is uncertain whether they will be enough given the Israeli prime minister's refusal to budge on the issue of Jewish settlements.
The statement made no mention of Mr Netanyahu's demilitarisation caveat.
A potential stumbling block in any future peace deal - that of settlements - also went unmentioned in the statement, our correspondent adds.
'Collision course'
In his own keynote Middle East speech in Cairo on 4 June, Mr Obama stressed that he wanted all settlement activity to stop.
But Mr Netanyahu said settlers were not "enemies of peace" and did not move from his position of backing "natural growth" in existing settlements.
Former US President Jimmy Carter warned that the US and Israeli governments would be on a "collision course" if Israeli settlement activity continued in the West Bank.
The settlers group Yesha condemned Mr Netanyahu's speech: "We deplore that the prime minister has agreed to the creation of a demilitarised Palestinian state after he has said for years that such a state, even demilitarised, would be a threat to Israel."
Friday, June 05, 2009
In time to influence Iranian elections, "Obama slams Holocaust deniers at concentration camp"
BUCHENWALD, Germany (Reuters) - "U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at those who deny the Holocaust -- including Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- when he made an emotional visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp on Friday.
After telling a U.S. television network that Ahmadinejad should visit Buchenwald himself, Obama accompanied two survivors of the Holocaust and Chancellor Angela Merkel on a tour of the camp, outside Weimar in eastern Germany."
Timing his remarks to the Iranian election, Obama parrots the Zionist 1984 "double-speak" where black is white and good is bad. Here it is the Zionist definition of "Holocaust Denier" which includes anyone who doesn't agree with the Zionist 6 million Jewish deaths figure. You can get yourself locked up in several European countries if you disagree with that 6 million figure. Unfortunately, it is hard to agree with that figure when the facts are presented. Even Jewish authorities themselves could be accused of "Holocaust Denial" because for many years the figure of Jewish deaths was put at 4 million according to a sign that hung on the entrance to Auschwitz that was finally taken down.
I wondered about the 6 million figure when I too found that the 1937-47 World Almanac figures showed no significant dip in the world Jewish population after WW II. Historians of WW II also have major doubts but now cannot express them without being branded "Holocaust Deniers". As for Iran's Ahmadinejad, does he deny the Jewish holocaust took place or does he also question the 6 million figure? Zionists are trying their best to make sure no one questions that figure. Why? Because the West's establishment of Israel as a Jewish colony of holocaust refugees cannot be questioned or why is such a European religious colony there in the first place. This is why Zionists are so adamant that none dare expose the World War II Jewish holocaust reality. I don't deny the Jewish holocaust took place. I still have vivid memories of seeing Fox Movietone News photos of thousands of skeletal dead concentration camp victims being bulldozed into mass graves. Thousands, but not millions and they all looked at death's door from starvation. During the '50's that's what one knew about concentration camp victims--they were living skeletons.
I've posted this following report by the the Institute for Historical Review before but it's timely again now that Barak Obama is trying to sell the Zionist cause instead of looking at why Muslims like Iran's Ahmadinejad accuse Zionists of historical fraud.
Debunking the Genocide Myth
"Conclusion: Six Million Exterminated Jews -- Fact or Fiction
Logic demands that this demographic study end with general statistics which include the following four items for each of the European nations which I have surveyed:
1. The number of Jews who were living there just before Beck's accession to power in Poland (1932) and Hitler's accession to power in Germany (1933);
2. The number of Jews among them who, to escape persecution, emigrated between 1932 and 1945;
3. The number of Jews who remained in Europe and who were still alive there in 1945;
4. The number of Jews who cannot be accounted for and who, hence, are presumed to be dead.
In order to give the exact truth of this dark story, these statistics should be accompanied by others giving the structure of the world Jewish population at the end of 1962. And, in four sections also, for each of the nations of the other continents:
1. The numberer of Jews living there before the rise to power in Poland of Beck, and in Germany of Hitler;
2. The natural increase in the Jewish population from 1932 to 1962;
3. The census of the Jewish population at the end of 1962;
4. The number of Jewish immigrants calculated from the difference between the total figures of items 2 and 3. (There is no doubt that this difference comes near the 4,419,908 figure that is mentioned in the preceding section.)
This was my intention at the beginning. Now, this double labor turns out to be impossible; the second statistics cannot be determined unless and until the leadership of international Zionism agrees to undertake a census of the world Jewish population, and we have seen that Zionist leaders are not about to accept this idea. As for the first statistics, there is a long series of other difficulties that still present obstacles in spite of all the specific data that the preceding study has produced.
The most insurmountable of these difficulties, and which sums them all up, is the following: if we now know that a minimum of 4,419,908 Jews succeeded in leaving Europe between 1931 and 1945, we are much less well informed on their nationalities. For countries like Denmark, Norway, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and one or two others -- the Baltic countries for example, even Greece -- there is no problem; they were not on the route of the Jewish migration; the Germans found only national Jews in those countries and everything is clear. But it is not the same in the other countries -- Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary, Rumania -- which were countries into which to escape, or to go through, before they became occupied by German troops. There, the Jews were arrested and deported pell-mell, and it is impossible for us to determine accurately the nationalities of those who managed not to get arrested as well as those who were. Hungary is the archetype of this difficulty: there, we did succeed in determining that out of the 800,000 Jews who were living there on March 19, 1944, 543,000 had not been deported; that about 200,000 had been deported; that 57,000 had very probably been massacred in police operations; and that 343,000 had managed to emigrate. But, in each of these categories, it was impossible to determine who was Hungarian, who was Yugoslavian, who was Czechoslovakian, and who was Polish. The same questions hold for Rumania, where we found 147,650 massacred, and 652,350 survivors, 227,350 of whom emigrated. The same questions are found again for Holland, for Belgium, for Luxemburg and for France. In France, we found that only 81,000 Jews of one nationality or the other could have been arrested and deported; we know also that there were no Belgians among them, that the number of French was necessarily between 6,000 and 11,999, and that the number of the Luxemburgers was between 0 and 2,000, the others being Dutch. But these are, all the same, figures which are insufficiently exact to be called statistics. In Poland, we know that 729,040 Jews were arrested, either on their national land or on the emigration route toward the west; but of the 289,300 who tried to emigrate by the Danubian route, how many were arrested in Hungary and how many in Rumania? So many questions for which there are no answers and which can equally be applied to the Czechoslovakians who fled to Hungary and the Yugoslavians who fled to Italy.
In the final analysis, rather than to circulate statistics based on nationalities, every datum of which might have been open to question, and to add to the confusion created by the historians and the statisticians who voice the line of international Zionism, I have preferred to draw up these statistics on the only plane where we are sure of ourselves, that is in Europe. Here, no serious debate is possible: we have affirmed that a minimum of 4,419,908 European Jews managed to emigrate early enough to escape arrest and deportation to concentration camps, and we can add them to those that the historians and statisticians who support the Zionist "genocide" fiction, found living in Europe in 1945.
Here then, on information from the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, are our statistics on the European scale in four sections, with the integration, for 1931, of the 300,000 German Jews and the 180,000 Austrian Jews who are admitted to have left Europe to flee from Hitler together with the million Jews who were in the part of the Russia that was never occupied by the German troops.
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Description 1931 1945 Official Losses Emigrants Traced Actual Losses1
Statist. totals from p. 302 8,297,500 2,288,100 6,009,400 -- -- -- --
Known German Emigrants 300,000 300,000 -- -- -- -- -- --
Austrian Emigrants Ackowledged 180,000 180,000 -- -- -- -- -- --
Russian Jews saved by Soviet 1,000,000 1,000,000 -- -- -- -- -- --
Actual totals from WCJD 9,777,500 3,768,100 6,009,400 -- -- -- --
Ac. totals as arrived at in this study 9,777,500 3,768,100 ___ 4,419,908 1,589,492
Here again are the same statistics, but this time based on the information of Mr. Raul Hilberg who did not divide Russia into the two zones, but who, too, acknowledged that there were 300,000 German and 180,000 Austrian Jewish emigrants.
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Description 1931 1945 Official Losses Emigrants Traced Actual Losses
Totals from p. 302 9,190,000 3,782,500 5,407,000 -- - -- --
Known German Emigrants 300,000 300,000 -- -- -- -- -- --
Austrian Emigrants aknowledged 180,000 180,000 -- -- - -- -- -- --
Totals of Mr. Hilberg for 1945 9,670,000 4,262,500 5,407,500 -- -- -- --
totals as arrived at in this study 9,670,000 4,262,500 -- -- - 4,419,908 987,592
On the basis of the preceding analysis, this is where we stand now: First, out of the study of the statistics of the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation and from its own data, we find 1,589,492 European Jews dead or missing as a consequence of Nazi persecutions in concentration camps or in some other way. Second, out of the study of Mr. Raul Hilberg's data we find only 987,592 dead or missing Jews.
Twice I took up this problem: first in Ulysse trahi par les siens, published in France in 1960, and, second, in an article for the German review Deutsche Hochschullehrer-Zeitung (Tubingen, 12, February 1963). Each time that I reviewed the problems, I did it in terms of the data from Jewish sources that had been published at the time. But, the first time, neither the judgment of the Jerusalem Tribunal, nor, more significantly, the study of The Jewish Communities of the World of February 1963 had been brought out. And, in terms of what was already known, my conviction had been that the number of Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, in concentration camps or otherwise, should be placed at about 1,000,000, more or less. The second time, I had in my hands the Judgment of the Jerusalem Tribunal, and I had followed day by day the hearings of the Trial, but I still was not acquainted with the study of the Jewish Communities of he World, then not yet published. As a conclusion to my writing for the Deutsche Hochschullehrer-Zeitung (pp.61, 62) I had claimed that if the number were greater than 1,000,000 it could not by any means exceed 1,655,300 victims. Today, with all the documents at hand which were lacking then, it can be said that, based on data prior to that of the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, the number of victims is 1,589,492. On the other hand, the figure is 987,592, based on Mr. Raul Hilberg's data. To achieve greater exactness, we must wait for the new Zionist leaders like Salo Baron, Leon Poliakov, and Michel Borwicz, among others, to give new avowals, or for another trial like the Jerusalem one, to bring us new light on the question. As well as we know these Zionist circles, neither one nor the other of these hypothesis is excluded, but, rather, both are more likely than not to occur. In those circles, indeed, neither talkers without conscience, seeking cheap publicity, nor, alas, judges looking for vengeance, are lacking. I shall bet a good deal on two other things: the latent and continuous dissensions which exist between Mr. Ben Gurion and Mr. Nahum Goldmann, and the fracas between Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung.
For a long time now Mr. Nahum Goldmann has been showing signs of fatigue and impatience with the policies of Mr. Ben Gurion with regard to Germany. For example, he had stated publicly that he was not enthusiastic about the arrest of Eichmann and the trial which followed. Through various indiscretions we learn that he does not place much value on all the trials in Germany, aimed at former members of one or another of the Nazi organizations of Hitler's time. In Israel itself, there is a very serious divergence between his group and that of Mr. Ben Gurion, each time the latter finds a German minister stupid enough to accept an invitation sent him with the sole object of having him publicly insulted in Israel by his partisans, and thus of making an issue that attracts the attention of the whole world to the debt which Germany, because she rallied to Hitler in 1933, assumed with regard to Israel. Everything takes place as if, not daring publicly to take a position in opposition to Mr. Ben Gurion with regard to his policy toward Germany, Mr. Nahum Goldmann were trying behind the scenes, to silence him on his main theme. And, the fact that, with regard to the Jews who were exterminated, the statistics which we have from the American partisans of the Zionist line are generally more moderate than those which come from the European branch (as is illustrated by the figures of Mr. Raul Hilberg compared with those of the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) could very well reflect the dissentions between the two men. This would then explain the divergencies and contradictions revealed in the Jewish sources in their statistics.
As for the quarrel between Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung, it could be of consequence in that, along with that of the United States, the Jewish population of Russia is one of the greatest enigmas weighing on the problem. The Institute of Jewish Affairs of London and the Jewish Communities of the World both told us clearly in 1962 that there were 2.3 million Jews in Russia. But Mr. Raul Hilberg revealed to us that there were 2,600,000 in 1946, and that estimate, which can be considered to be confirmed by the journalist, David Bergelson (in Die Einheit, December 5, 1942), can also be considered closer to the truth. In that case, it is not 2.3 million Jews that were in Russia in 1962, but 3,016,000, adjusted for a natural increase at the rate of sixteen per cent. If we take Professor Salo Baron at his word, that figure would be even greater: 3,120,000. But, let us not be tempted. However, we could justify the use of a larger figure, all the less, because in reality there are surely many more than 3,016,000, since the Jewish journalist, David Bergelson, also told us, let us not forget, that eighty per cent of the Baltic Jews, the Poles, and the Rumanians, who found themselves behind the Russian lines as they fled before the German troops in 1941-1942, were saved and sent on their way toward Central Asia by the Soviet authorities. At the end of 1942, Bergelson estimated that there were about 5.2 million Jews on Soviet territory, 3 million of them Russian, and in that he agrees with the statistics of April 17, 1943, of Mr. Richard Korherr, which have already been referred to. Question: what happened to those 2.2 million non-Russian Jews? Answer: some of them managed to escape and reach either the American continent or Israel; the rest of them did not. How many were in each group? We cannot tell. But, we can be sure that as long as Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung were getting along together it surely was not easy for Jews who had been transported to Central Asia during the war, to make it to the American continent via China; those who have been able to manage the trip in the postwar period must have managed it clandestinely. The subsequent quarrel between these two grand men of Bolshevism could result in Mao Tse-tung aiding the Jews to leave Soviet territory, just as the China of Chiang Kai-shek aided them before World War II, and for the same reasons. In that case, it could happen that one day a very significant number of Jews might turn up suddenly in all of the countries of the American continent, and perhaps also in Israel. And, unless it is kept hidden in the dark, a new light will be shed on the statistics of world Jewry. Neither is this hypothesis excluded. And, if the United States should adopt a rational policy toward Russia, the truth would come out very fast.
But to return to the problem as it exists in the data that we actually have: we know that the number of European Jews who died as victims of Nazi persecutions is either 1,589,492 persons, established on the basis of data from the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation compared with the Exhibits of the Tribunal at Jerusalem and the study, The Jewish Communities of the World, which came out in February 1963, or is 987,952 persons, based on the data of Mr. Raul Hilberg compared in the same manner. It still remains to be discovered how the 4,419,908 Jews, who were living in 1945, were divided among the other countries of the world, and who, not being listed as living in the European statistics of Jewish sources, are necessarily thought to have left Europe between 1931 and 1945. That is the problem for the second statistical analysis, which, in my opinion, should present by country the structure of the world Jewish population in 1962. And, as is pointed out in a preceding paragraph, these statistics are impossible to establish at the present time.
We already know one thing which was revealed to us in the study of the Israeli Jewish population, and that is that it includes 1,048,368 European Jews who immigrated to Israel between 1931 and 1962. It remains to be seen how the remaining 3,371,540 European Jews are distributed around the rest of the world.
It is in this latter matter that the Jewish sources are the most secretive. Rarely do we find, for example, in the study of the Jewish Communities of the World and in the World Almanac of 1963, non-European countries where the admitted Jewish population is greater than it would have been by natural increase based upon the statistics of Mr. Arthur Ruppin for the period of 1926-1928. There are some places where even the natural rate of increase has not been reached; that is the case with the United States, where, if we can believe the aforementioned publications, the population has not risen more than from 4,461,184 in 1936 to 5,500,000 in 1962. However, we have seen that at the natural rate of increase of one per cent there cannot be fewer than 5,550,489 Jews in the United States, and that, at the natural rate of increase, which Mr. Salo Baron gives, there should be 6,170,837. The few countries on continents other than Europe, where the Zionists concede that there is a Jewish population greater than what it would have been by natural increase, based on the Ruppin statistics, are the following: Argentina, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa. For these four countries, these are the statistics that can be drawn up:
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Country 1926 population Natural increase 36% 1962 Populat. Natural 1962 Populat. conceded Immigration2
Argentina 240,000 86,400 326,000 450,000 123,600
Canada 170,000 61,200 231200 254,000 22,800
Brazil 40,000 14,400 54,400 140,000 85,600
South Africa 60,000 21,600 87,600 110,000 28,400
TOTAL 510,000 183,600 693,600 954,0003 260,400
By making an allowance for the natural increase, we get close to 200,000 immigrants of European origin for these four countries, assuming that the figures published in the aforementioned authorities for 1962 are exact, and it would be astonishing if they were. If they are, we still have 3,171,540 European Jews to locate. To do that we would have to be able to draw up figures for all of the countries of the world in the same manner as we did for Argentina, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa. But we cannot, since the latter are the only ones given by the Zionists which concede any immigration.
Still, something must be done, since, if they are not in Europe and not in Israel, these 3,171,540 Jews who were certainly living in 1945 must be somewhere else -- together with the additional number that they have accumulated at the natural rate of population expansion. Where? In order to say that with any real certainty we shall have to wait once again for new revelations that the publicity-seeking Zionist movement will not fail one day inadvertently to produce. Until then we can only conjecture, and that is not my method. I shall, therefore, limit myself to stating my basic principles which have defined the direction that my research has taken, and which I continue to pursue.
1. It is not probable, but it is possible -- that in August 1945, the date when Mr. Poliakov told us (Le Troisieme Reich et les Juifs, p. 196) that the European Jewish communities had begun to make an inventory of their losses for Justice Jackson and had come up with only 3,768,100 survivors according to the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, or 4,262,500 according to Mr. Raul Hilberg -- that they gave figures considerably understated for reasons of propaganda. I say it is possible, for two reasons: there was such a chaos of displaced persons in Europe at that time that any serious census was out of the question; and the method used in the Jewish communities, which everywhere counted only Jews of the nationality of the country, might have distorted the results.
2. Even if the result of this Jewish census of 1945 was not out of line (which is not admitted), it is certain that, if all the Jews who had left Europe between 1931 and 1945 had not returned by 1945, many of them came back later, at least to Western Europe, since we can assume that those who returned to the other side of the Iron Curtain were the exceptions. France, in this case, is typical: 300,000 Jews in 1939 and between 450,000 and 500,000 at the end of 1962, with about 130,000 Algerian Jews and about 20,000 Moroccan and Tunisian Jews who came seeking refuge, after the granting of independence to those three countries. 300,000 to 350,000 French Jewish nationals is a normal figure in relation to the entire French population in 1962. But the statistics of the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation continue to claim 180,000 in 1945 plus the natural increase rate of 16 per cent, or 208,000 (216,000 if we use the natural increase rate of Mr. Salo Baron). It is very probable that if one went to the trouble, one could make similar statements for Belgium (where, in addition, 20,000 to 25,000 Jews returned from the Congo), Holland, Austria, and perhaps even Germany. However, all of the Jews who returned to Europe after the month of August 1945, whose number we cannot know exactly as long as the Zionists refuse to give it to us, since official census-taking will "bring down the wrath of God," surely must amount to several hundreds of thousands and must belong with those 3,171,540 which no Jewish source allocates to any place.
3. The problem of the Polish, Baltic and Rumanian Jews, who in the years 1941-1942 were evacuated to Central Asia and who, if one can believe the Jewish journalist, David Bergelson, should have numbered between 2 and 2.2 million in 1942, since there were 3 million Jews in Russian in 1939, and at the end of 1942, there were about 5.2 million. How many of these Jews are still living in "Central Asia" (read, Siberia) with their offspring? How many have succeeded in escaping in the past 16 years? Where have they gone? Everything points to the fact that those who managed to escape secretly from the U.S.S.R. reached the American continent, which was for them the easiest to get to. Concerning that supposition, a hypothesis, for what it is worth, and which I do not offer as a certainty, runs through my mind: in 16 years, it is possible that half of them, at a cost of immeasurable difficulties, managed to leave Central Asia for the American continent. If that is so, and since the Zionist demographers have not located them in Canada, Brazil, or in any other country in the Western Hemisphere, they must be in the United States. Thus, the following statistics could be drawn up for Russia and the United States:
A. Russia
1. Jews found still living by Mr. Raul Hilberg in 1945: 2,600,000
2. Jews still living in Central Asia, according to Mr. David Bergelson: 2,200,000
3. Total Jewish population in Russia in 1945: 4,800,000
4. Jews who succeeded in leaving Central Asia for the united States: 1,100,000
5. Jews who were left in Russia; 3,700,000
6. Jewish natural increase of 16% since 1947: 592,000
7. Total Jewish population in Russia in 1962: 4,292,000
B. United States
1. Jewish population for 1926 (official figure): 4,081,242
2. Jewish natural increase of 36% since 1926: 1,469,247
3. Total Jewish population in 1962: 5,550,489
4. Jewish immigrants from Central Asia since 1946: 1,100,000
5. Their natural increase of 16% since 1946: 176,000
6. Total Jewish population from Asia together with progeny: 1,276,000
7. Total Jewish population in the United States in 1962: 6,826,489
But, this total of 6,826,489 includes only immigration from Central Asia, and, therefore, it excludes all of those who, like Mme. Hannah Arendt and Mr. Robert W. Kempner, came to the United States by some other route from Europe. We can surely say that they number more than two, but, how many we do not know, or, at least, not yet. All that can be said is that they are there and that surely the Jewish population of the United States is greater than 6,826,489 persons. It can also be stated that the claim of the National Observer (July 2, 1962) that there were 12,000,000 Jews in the United States in 1962 may be an exaggeration toward the other extreme, but, I would not be astonished if one day soon a Zionist leader inadvertently reveals that there were about 8 million Jews in the United States. The estimate of 12,000,000 in the United States has been repeated several times with an attempt at numerical documentation by the Economic Council Letter published in New York City.
I repeat that the preceding analysis is only conjectural and is not a fact; it is, however, the hypothesis that is necessary to every work as a basis from which to conduct further research; it is the hypothesis which orients mine. To my, mind, it is plausible and it expresses, all the better, my profound conviction which, until now, has not led me to any impasse or error and which has made it possible for me to state some ten years ago the conclusions that were to be drawn later from the Jerusalem Trial and the study of the Jewish Communities of the World.
The actual Jewish population of the world in 1962 is very close to being the following, at least in the order of magnitude of the figures. By using statistics for each country of the world dated for 1926, or 1927, or 1928, as the case was, Mr. Arthur Ruppin estimated that world Jewry had reached a total of 15,800,000 persons as of that date. We have seen that the World Almanac of 1951 estimated the world Jewish population at 16,643,120 for 1939. The natural rate of increase having considerably dropped between 1926 and 1939 (Poliakov dixit, cf p. 295), but when it is compared with that of Mr. Arthur Ruppin, this estimate is allowable. Here, then is the Jewish population of the world in 1962, calculated on the corrected data of the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation.
1. World Jewish population in 1939: 16,643,120
2. Jewish victims of Nazism: 1,589,492
3. World Jewish population living in 1945(l): 15,053,628
4. Jewish natural increase of 16% since 1946: 2,408,580
5. Total Jewish population on 1962(2): 17,552,208
And here is the same as calculated on the corrected data of Mr. Raul Hilberg:
1. World Jewish population in 1939: 16,643,120
2. Jewish victims of Nazism: 987,592
3. World Jewish population living in 1946: 15,655,528
4. Jewish increase of 16% since 1946: 2,504,884
5. Total Jewish population in 1962: 18,160,412
And, here we are at the end of this study. It remains for me only to make an apology to the reader: this study has clearly been very long, and difficult to follow, like all that is technical by nature. But a demographic study can only be of such a technical nature. What the reader must recognize is that, until now, the proponents of the Zionist line -- whose "official" contentions on the horrors of the war I have been following -- have never been faced with arguments other than those from journalists, which have been often vague and specious, factors that have been the main reason for their lack of success. The only way to shatter their arguments was to set up against them the arguments of a specialist. And, that is what I have tried to do.
Notes
1. Between 15 and 18 million in 1947," as Hanson W. Baldwin has said (cf p. 294 above).
2. It must not be forgotten that this total comes out of the study of Jewish sources, that is, those which have been published under the sanction of the Zionist movement or by the Rabbinate, after investigation of the synagogues. But, if it is true, as claimed by Arthur Koestler (A l'ombre du Dinosaure), that not more than two-thirds of the world's Jews are registered in the synagogues, then there is room to wonder if this figure should not be augmented in the same proportion."
After telling a U.S. television network that Ahmadinejad should visit Buchenwald himself, Obama accompanied two survivors of the Holocaust and Chancellor Angela Merkel on a tour of the camp, outside Weimar in eastern Germany."
Timing his remarks to the Iranian election, Obama parrots the Zionist 1984 "double-speak" where black is white and good is bad. Here it is the Zionist definition of "Holocaust Denier" which includes anyone who doesn't agree with the Zionist 6 million Jewish deaths figure. You can get yourself locked up in several European countries if you disagree with that 6 million figure. Unfortunately, it is hard to agree with that figure when the facts are presented. Even Jewish authorities themselves could be accused of "Holocaust Denial" because for many years the figure of Jewish deaths was put at 4 million according to a sign that hung on the entrance to Auschwitz that was finally taken down.
I wondered about the 6 million figure when I too found that the 1937-47 World Almanac figures showed no significant dip in the world Jewish population after WW II. Historians of WW II also have major doubts but now cannot express them without being branded "Holocaust Deniers". As for Iran's Ahmadinejad, does he deny the Jewish holocaust took place or does he also question the 6 million figure? Zionists are trying their best to make sure no one questions that figure. Why? Because the West's establishment of Israel as a Jewish colony of holocaust refugees cannot be questioned or why is such a European religious colony there in the first place. This is why Zionists are so adamant that none dare expose the World War II Jewish holocaust reality. I don't deny the Jewish holocaust took place. I still have vivid memories of seeing Fox Movietone News photos of thousands of skeletal dead concentration camp victims being bulldozed into mass graves. Thousands, but not millions and they all looked at death's door from starvation. During the '50's that's what one knew about concentration camp victims--they were living skeletons.
I've posted this following report by the the Institute for Historical Review before but it's timely again now that Barak Obama is trying to sell the Zionist cause instead of looking at why Muslims like Iran's Ahmadinejad accuse Zionists of historical fraud.
Debunking the Genocide Myth
"Conclusion: Six Million Exterminated Jews -- Fact or Fiction
Logic demands that this demographic study end with general statistics which include the following four items for each of the European nations which I have surveyed:
1. The number of Jews who were living there just before Beck's accession to power in Poland (1932) and Hitler's accession to power in Germany (1933);
2. The number of Jews among them who, to escape persecution, emigrated between 1932 and 1945;
3. The number of Jews who remained in Europe and who were still alive there in 1945;
4. The number of Jews who cannot be accounted for and who, hence, are presumed to be dead.
In order to give the exact truth of this dark story, these statistics should be accompanied by others giving the structure of the world Jewish population at the end of 1962. And, in four sections also, for each of the nations of the other continents:
1. The numberer of Jews living there before the rise to power in Poland of Beck, and in Germany of Hitler;
2. The natural increase in the Jewish population from 1932 to 1962;
3. The census of the Jewish population at the end of 1962;
4. The number of Jewish immigrants calculated from the difference between the total figures of items 2 and 3. (There is no doubt that this difference comes near the 4,419,908 figure that is mentioned in the preceding section.)
This was my intention at the beginning. Now, this double labor turns out to be impossible; the second statistics cannot be determined unless and until the leadership of international Zionism agrees to undertake a census of the world Jewish population, and we have seen that Zionist leaders are not about to accept this idea. As for the first statistics, there is a long series of other difficulties that still present obstacles in spite of all the specific data that the preceding study has produced.
The most insurmountable of these difficulties, and which sums them all up, is the following: if we now know that a minimum of 4,419,908 Jews succeeded in leaving Europe between 1931 and 1945, we are much less well informed on their nationalities. For countries like Denmark, Norway, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and one or two others -- the Baltic countries for example, even Greece -- there is no problem; they were not on the route of the Jewish migration; the Germans found only national Jews in those countries and everything is clear. But it is not the same in the other countries -- Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary, Rumania -- which were countries into which to escape, or to go through, before they became occupied by German troops. There, the Jews were arrested and deported pell-mell, and it is impossible for us to determine accurately the nationalities of those who managed not to get arrested as well as those who were. Hungary is the archetype of this difficulty: there, we did succeed in determining that out of the 800,000 Jews who were living there on March 19, 1944, 543,000 had not been deported; that about 200,000 had been deported; that 57,000 had very probably been massacred in police operations; and that 343,000 had managed to emigrate. But, in each of these categories, it was impossible to determine who was Hungarian, who was Yugoslavian, who was Czechoslovakian, and who was Polish. The same questions hold for Rumania, where we found 147,650 massacred, and 652,350 survivors, 227,350 of whom emigrated. The same questions are found again for Holland, for Belgium, for Luxemburg and for France. In France, we found that only 81,000 Jews of one nationality or the other could have been arrested and deported; we know also that there were no Belgians among them, that the number of French was necessarily between 6,000 and 11,999, and that the number of the Luxemburgers was between 0 and 2,000, the others being Dutch. But these are, all the same, figures which are insufficiently exact to be called statistics. In Poland, we know that 729,040 Jews were arrested, either on their national land or on the emigration route toward the west; but of the 289,300 who tried to emigrate by the Danubian route, how many were arrested in Hungary and how many in Rumania? So many questions for which there are no answers and which can equally be applied to the Czechoslovakians who fled to Hungary and the Yugoslavians who fled to Italy.
In the final analysis, rather than to circulate statistics based on nationalities, every datum of which might have been open to question, and to add to the confusion created by the historians and the statisticians who voice the line of international Zionism, I have preferred to draw up these statistics on the only plane where we are sure of ourselves, that is in Europe. Here, no serious debate is possible: we have affirmed that a minimum of 4,419,908 European Jews managed to emigrate early enough to escape arrest and deportation to concentration camps, and we can add them to those that the historians and statisticians who support the Zionist "genocide" fiction, found living in Europe in 1945.
Here then, on information from the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, are our statistics on the European scale in four sections, with the integration, for 1931, of the 300,000 German Jews and the 180,000 Austrian Jews who are admitted to have left Europe to flee from Hitler together with the million Jews who were in the part of the Russia that was never occupied by the German troops.
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Description 1931 1945 Official Losses Emigrants Traced Actual Losses1
Statist. totals from p. 302 8,297,500 2,288,100 6,009,400 -- -- -- --
Known German Emigrants 300,000 300,000 -- -- -- -- -- --
Austrian Emigrants Ackowledged 180,000 180,000 -- -- -- -- -- --
Russian Jews saved by Soviet 1,000,000 1,000,000 -- -- -- -- -- --
Actual totals from WCJD 9,777,500 3,768,100 6,009,400 -- -- -- --
Ac. totals as arrived at in this study 9,777,500 3,768,100 ___ 4,419,908 1,589,492
Here again are the same statistics, but this time based on the information of Mr. Raul Hilberg who did not divide Russia into the two zones, but who, too, acknowledged that there were 300,000 German and 180,000 Austrian Jewish emigrants.
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Description 1931 1945 Official Losses Emigrants Traced Actual Losses
Totals from p. 302 9,190,000 3,782,500 5,407,000 -- - -- --
Known German Emigrants 300,000 300,000 -- -- -- -- -- --
Austrian Emigrants aknowledged 180,000 180,000 -- -- - -- -- -- --
Totals of Mr. Hilberg for 1945 9,670,000 4,262,500 5,407,500 -- -- -- --
totals as arrived at in this study 9,670,000 4,262,500 -- -- - 4,419,908 987,592
On the basis of the preceding analysis, this is where we stand now: First, out of the study of the statistics of the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation and from its own data, we find 1,589,492 European Jews dead or missing as a consequence of Nazi persecutions in concentration camps or in some other way. Second, out of the study of Mr. Raul Hilberg's data we find only 987,592 dead or missing Jews.
Twice I took up this problem: first in Ulysse trahi par les siens, published in France in 1960, and, second, in an article for the German review Deutsche Hochschullehrer-Zeitung (Tubingen, 12, February 1963). Each time that I reviewed the problems, I did it in terms of the data from Jewish sources that had been published at the time. But, the first time, neither the judgment of the Jerusalem Tribunal, nor, more significantly, the study of The Jewish Communities of the World of February 1963 had been brought out. And, in terms of what was already known, my conviction had been that the number of Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, in concentration camps or otherwise, should be placed at about 1,000,000, more or less. The second time, I had in my hands the Judgment of the Jerusalem Tribunal, and I had followed day by day the hearings of the Trial, but I still was not acquainted with the study of the Jewish Communities of he World, then not yet published. As a conclusion to my writing for the Deutsche Hochschullehrer-Zeitung (pp.61, 62) I had claimed that if the number were greater than 1,000,000 it could not by any means exceed 1,655,300 victims. Today, with all the documents at hand which were lacking then, it can be said that, based on data prior to that of the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, the number of victims is 1,589,492. On the other hand, the figure is 987,592, based on Mr. Raul Hilberg's data. To achieve greater exactness, we must wait for the new Zionist leaders like Salo Baron, Leon Poliakov, and Michel Borwicz, among others, to give new avowals, or for another trial like the Jerusalem one, to bring us new light on the question. As well as we know these Zionist circles, neither one nor the other of these hypothesis is excluded, but, rather, both are more likely than not to occur. In those circles, indeed, neither talkers without conscience, seeking cheap publicity, nor, alas, judges looking for vengeance, are lacking. I shall bet a good deal on two other things: the latent and continuous dissensions which exist between Mr. Ben Gurion and Mr. Nahum Goldmann, and the fracas between Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung.
For a long time now Mr. Nahum Goldmann has been showing signs of fatigue and impatience with the policies of Mr. Ben Gurion with regard to Germany. For example, he had stated publicly that he was not enthusiastic about the arrest of Eichmann and the trial which followed. Through various indiscretions we learn that he does not place much value on all the trials in Germany, aimed at former members of one or another of the Nazi organizations of Hitler's time. In Israel itself, there is a very serious divergence between his group and that of Mr. Ben Gurion, each time the latter finds a German minister stupid enough to accept an invitation sent him with the sole object of having him publicly insulted in Israel by his partisans, and thus of making an issue that attracts the attention of the whole world to the debt which Germany, because she rallied to Hitler in 1933, assumed with regard to Israel. Everything takes place as if, not daring publicly to take a position in opposition to Mr. Ben Gurion with regard to his policy toward Germany, Mr. Nahum Goldmann were trying behind the scenes, to silence him on his main theme. And, the fact that, with regard to the Jews who were exterminated, the statistics which we have from the American partisans of the Zionist line are generally more moderate than those which come from the European branch (as is illustrated by the figures of Mr. Raul Hilberg compared with those of the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation) could very well reflect the dissentions between the two men. This would then explain the divergencies and contradictions revealed in the Jewish sources in their statistics.
As for the quarrel between Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung, it could be of consequence in that, along with that of the United States, the Jewish population of Russia is one of the greatest enigmas weighing on the problem. The Institute of Jewish Affairs of London and the Jewish Communities of the World both told us clearly in 1962 that there were 2.3 million Jews in Russia. But Mr. Raul Hilberg revealed to us that there were 2,600,000 in 1946, and that estimate, which can be considered to be confirmed by the journalist, David Bergelson (in Die Einheit, December 5, 1942), can also be considered closer to the truth. In that case, it is not 2.3 million Jews that were in Russia in 1962, but 3,016,000, adjusted for a natural increase at the rate of sixteen per cent. If we take Professor Salo Baron at his word, that figure would be even greater: 3,120,000. But, let us not be tempted. However, we could justify the use of a larger figure, all the less, because in reality there are surely many more than 3,016,000, since the Jewish journalist, David Bergelson, also told us, let us not forget, that eighty per cent of the Baltic Jews, the Poles, and the Rumanians, who found themselves behind the Russian lines as they fled before the German troops in 1941-1942, were saved and sent on their way toward Central Asia by the Soviet authorities. At the end of 1942, Bergelson estimated that there were about 5.2 million Jews on Soviet territory, 3 million of them Russian, and in that he agrees with the statistics of April 17, 1943, of Mr. Richard Korherr, which have already been referred to. Question: what happened to those 2.2 million non-Russian Jews? Answer: some of them managed to escape and reach either the American continent or Israel; the rest of them did not. How many were in each group? We cannot tell. But, we can be sure that as long as Khrushchev and Mao Tse-tung were getting along together it surely was not easy for Jews who had been transported to Central Asia during the war, to make it to the American continent via China; those who have been able to manage the trip in the postwar period must have managed it clandestinely. The subsequent quarrel between these two grand men of Bolshevism could result in Mao Tse-tung aiding the Jews to leave Soviet territory, just as the China of Chiang Kai-shek aided them before World War II, and for the same reasons. In that case, it could happen that one day a very significant number of Jews might turn up suddenly in all of the countries of the American continent, and perhaps also in Israel. And, unless it is kept hidden in the dark, a new light will be shed on the statistics of world Jewry. Neither is this hypothesis excluded. And, if the United States should adopt a rational policy toward Russia, the truth would come out very fast.
But to return to the problem as it exists in the data that we actually have: we know that the number of European Jews who died as victims of Nazi persecutions is either 1,589,492 persons, established on the basis of data from the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation compared with the Exhibits of the Tribunal at Jerusalem and the study, The Jewish Communities of the World, which came out in February 1963, or is 987,952 persons, based on the data of Mr. Raul Hilberg compared in the same manner. It still remains to be discovered how the 4,419,908 Jews, who were living in 1945, were divided among the other countries of the world, and who, not being listed as living in the European statistics of Jewish sources, are necessarily thought to have left Europe between 1931 and 1945. That is the problem for the second statistical analysis, which, in my opinion, should present by country the structure of the world Jewish population in 1962. And, as is pointed out in a preceding paragraph, these statistics are impossible to establish at the present time.
We already know one thing which was revealed to us in the study of the Israeli Jewish population, and that is that it includes 1,048,368 European Jews who immigrated to Israel between 1931 and 1962. It remains to be seen how the remaining 3,371,540 European Jews are distributed around the rest of the world.
It is in this latter matter that the Jewish sources are the most secretive. Rarely do we find, for example, in the study of the Jewish Communities of the World and in the World Almanac of 1963, non-European countries where the admitted Jewish population is greater than it would have been by natural increase based upon the statistics of Mr. Arthur Ruppin for the period of 1926-1928. There are some places where even the natural rate of increase has not been reached; that is the case with the United States, where, if we can believe the aforementioned publications, the population has not risen more than from 4,461,184 in 1936 to 5,500,000 in 1962. However, we have seen that at the natural rate of increase of one per cent there cannot be fewer than 5,550,489 Jews in the United States, and that, at the natural rate of increase, which Mr. Salo Baron gives, there should be 6,170,837. The few countries on continents other than Europe, where the Zionists concede that there is a Jewish population greater than what it would have been by natural increase, based on the Ruppin statistics, are the following: Argentina, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa. For these four countries, these are the statistics that can be drawn up:
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Country 1926 population Natural increase 36% 1962 Populat. Natural 1962 Populat. conceded Immigration2
Argentina 240,000 86,400 326,000 450,000 123,600
Canada 170,000 61,200 231200 254,000 22,800
Brazil 40,000 14,400 54,400 140,000 85,600
South Africa 60,000 21,600 87,600 110,000 28,400
TOTAL 510,000 183,600 693,600 954,0003 260,400
By making an allowance for the natural increase, we get close to 200,000 immigrants of European origin for these four countries, assuming that the figures published in the aforementioned authorities for 1962 are exact, and it would be astonishing if they were. If they are, we still have 3,171,540 European Jews to locate. To do that we would have to be able to draw up figures for all of the countries of the world in the same manner as we did for Argentina, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa. But we cannot, since the latter are the only ones given by the Zionists which concede any immigration.
Still, something must be done, since, if they are not in Europe and not in Israel, these 3,171,540 Jews who were certainly living in 1945 must be somewhere else -- together with the additional number that they have accumulated at the natural rate of population expansion. Where? In order to say that with any real certainty we shall have to wait once again for new revelations that the publicity-seeking Zionist movement will not fail one day inadvertently to produce. Until then we can only conjecture, and that is not my method. I shall, therefore, limit myself to stating my basic principles which have defined the direction that my research has taken, and which I continue to pursue.
1. It is not probable, but it is possible -- that in August 1945, the date when Mr. Poliakov told us (Le Troisieme Reich et les Juifs, p. 196) that the European Jewish communities had begun to make an inventory of their losses for Justice Jackson and had come up with only 3,768,100 survivors according to the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation, or 4,262,500 according to Mr. Raul Hilberg -- that they gave figures considerably understated for reasons of propaganda. I say it is possible, for two reasons: there was such a chaos of displaced persons in Europe at that time that any serious census was out of the question; and the method used in the Jewish communities, which everywhere counted only Jews of the nationality of the country, might have distorted the results.
2. Even if the result of this Jewish census of 1945 was not out of line (which is not admitted), it is certain that, if all the Jews who had left Europe between 1931 and 1945 had not returned by 1945, many of them came back later, at least to Western Europe, since we can assume that those who returned to the other side of the Iron Curtain were the exceptions. France, in this case, is typical: 300,000 Jews in 1939 and between 450,000 and 500,000 at the end of 1962, with about 130,000 Algerian Jews and about 20,000 Moroccan and Tunisian Jews who came seeking refuge, after the granting of independence to those three countries. 300,000 to 350,000 French Jewish nationals is a normal figure in relation to the entire French population in 1962. But the statistics of the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation continue to claim 180,000 in 1945 plus the natural increase rate of 16 per cent, or 208,000 (216,000 if we use the natural increase rate of Mr. Salo Baron). It is very probable that if one went to the trouble, one could make similar statements for Belgium (where, in addition, 20,000 to 25,000 Jews returned from the Congo), Holland, Austria, and perhaps even Germany. However, all of the Jews who returned to Europe after the month of August 1945, whose number we cannot know exactly as long as the Zionists refuse to give it to us, since official census-taking will "bring down the wrath of God," surely must amount to several hundreds of thousands and must belong with those 3,171,540 which no Jewish source allocates to any place.
3. The problem of the Polish, Baltic and Rumanian Jews, who in the years 1941-1942 were evacuated to Central Asia and who, if one can believe the Jewish journalist, David Bergelson, should have numbered between 2 and 2.2 million in 1942, since there were 3 million Jews in Russian in 1939, and at the end of 1942, there were about 5.2 million. How many of these Jews are still living in "Central Asia" (read, Siberia) with their offspring? How many have succeeded in escaping in the past 16 years? Where have they gone? Everything points to the fact that those who managed to escape secretly from the U.S.S.R. reached the American continent, which was for them the easiest to get to. Concerning that supposition, a hypothesis, for what it is worth, and which I do not offer as a certainty, runs through my mind: in 16 years, it is possible that half of them, at a cost of immeasurable difficulties, managed to leave Central Asia for the American continent. If that is so, and since the Zionist demographers have not located them in Canada, Brazil, or in any other country in the Western Hemisphere, they must be in the United States. Thus, the following statistics could be drawn up for Russia and the United States:
A. Russia
1. Jews found still living by Mr. Raul Hilberg in 1945: 2,600,000
2. Jews still living in Central Asia, according to Mr. David Bergelson: 2,200,000
3. Total Jewish population in Russia in 1945: 4,800,000
4. Jews who succeeded in leaving Central Asia for the united States: 1,100,000
5. Jews who were left in Russia; 3,700,000
6. Jewish natural increase of 16% since 1947: 592,000
7. Total Jewish population in Russia in 1962: 4,292,000
B. United States
1. Jewish population for 1926 (official figure): 4,081,242
2. Jewish natural increase of 36% since 1926: 1,469,247
3. Total Jewish population in 1962: 5,550,489
4. Jewish immigrants from Central Asia since 1946: 1,100,000
5. Their natural increase of 16% since 1946: 176,000
6. Total Jewish population from Asia together with progeny: 1,276,000
7. Total Jewish population in the United States in 1962: 6,826,489
But, this total of 6,826,489 includes only immigration from Central Asia, and, therefore, it excludes all of those who, like Mme. Hannah Arendt and Mr. Robert W. Kempner, came to the United States by some other route from Europe. We can surely say that they number more than two, but, how many we do not know, or, at least, not yet. All that can be said is that they are there and that surely the Jewish population of the United States is greater than 6,826,489 persons. It can also be stated that the claim of the National Observer (July 2, 1962) that there were 12,000,000 Jews in the United States in 1962 may be an exaggeration toward the other extreme, but, I would not be astonished if one day soon a Zionist leader inadvertently reveals that there were about 8 million Jews in the United States. The estimate of 12,000,000 in the United States has been repeated several times with an attempt at numerical documentation by the Economic Council Letter published in New York City.
I repeat that the preceding analysis is only conjectural and is not a fact; it is, however, the hypothesis that is necessary to every work as a basis from which to conduct further research; it is the hypothesis which orients mine. To my, mind, it is plausible and it expresses, all the better, my profound conviction which, until now, has not led me to any impasse or error and which has made it possible for me to state some ten years ago the conclusions that were to be drawn later from the Jerusalem Trial and the study of the Jewish Communities of the World.
The actual Jewish population of the world in 1962 is very close to being the following, at least in the order of magnitude of the figures. By using statistics for each country of the world dated for 1926, or 1927, or 1928, as the case was, Mr. Arthur Ruppin estimated that world Jewry had reached a total of 15,800,000 persons as of that date. We have seen that the World Almanac of 1951 estimated the world Jewish population at 16,643,120 for 1939. The natural rate of increase having considerably dropped between 1926 and 1939 (Poliakov dixit, cf p. 295), but when it is compared with that of Mr. Arthur Ruppin, this estimate is allowable. Here, then is the Jewish population of the world in 1962, calculated on the corrected data of the World Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation.
1. World Jewish population in 1939: 16,643,120
2. Jewish victims of Nazism: 1,589,492
3. World Jewish population living in 1945(l): 15,053,628
4. Jewish natural increase of 16% since 1946: 2,408,580
5. Total Jewish population on 1962(2): 17,552,208
And here is the same as calculated on the corrected data of Mr. Raul Hilberg:
1. World Jewish population in 1939: 16,643,120
2. Jewish victims of Nazism: 987,592
3. World Jewish population living in 1946: 15,655,528
4. Jewish increase of 16% since 1946: 2,504,884
5. Total Jewish population in 1962: 18,160,412
And, here we are at the end of this study. It remains for me only to make an apology to the reader: this study has clearly been very long, and difficult to follow, like all that is technical by nature. But a demographic study can only be of such a technical nature. What the reader must recognize is that, until now, the proponents of the Zionist line -- whose "official" contentions on the horrors of the war I have been following -- have never been faced with arguments other than those from journalists, which have been often vague and specious, factors that have been the main reason for their lack of success. The only way to shatter their arguments was to set up against them the arguments of a specialist. And, that is what I have tried to do.
Notes
1. Between 15 and 18 million in 1947," as Hanson W. Baldwin has said (cf p. 294 above).
2. It must not be forgotten that this total comes out of the study of Jewish sources, that is, those which have been published under the sanction of the Zionist movement or by the Rabbinate, after investigation of the synagogues. But, if it is true, as claimed by Arthur Koestler (A l'ombre du Dinosaure), that not more than two-thirds of the world's Jews are registered in the synagogues, then there is room to wonder if this figure should not be augmented in the same proportion."
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Obama says US bond with Israel 'unbreakable': Why?
"CAIRO (AFP) — US President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the US bond with Israel is "unbreakable," in a much-anticipated speech aimed at healing America's rift with the Islamic world.
"America's strong bonds with Israel are well known," Obama told the world's Muslims in a speech from Cairo University. "This bond is unbreakable."
"It is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied," said Obama, who is to head to Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp after Egypt.
He said that denying the Holocaust is "baseless, ignorant, and hateful."
Why is the US bond with Israel "unbreakable"? When did Israel lose the status of other non-US nations and become this weird step-state of the USA? When did Americans ever vote on lifting Israel out of international law so that Israel can commit crimes against humanity as they did in Lebanon and in Gaza? I don't remember ever voting for giving Israel such immunity from international laws. In fact, we have a Constitutional guarantee that prohibits our country from "establishing" any religion yet here we are, the USA, establishing a Jewish state in the Middle East and no one is complaining except us anti-Zionists and of course Muslims.
Obama is going to have to face the fact sooner or later that as long as he supports Israel over Palestinian national rights he will never win the hearts and minds of Middle East Muslims. Outside the US Israel's reason for being is not taken for granted and many see that nation as a rogue state that routinely violates international laws and UN resolutions while committing racist aggression against Arab Muslim Palestinians, Arab Muslim Lebanese, Arab Muslim Syrians, and Muslim Iranians. Again, why do we as US citizens have an "unbreakable" bond with this country?
As for the Jewish holocaust as a reason, well, let none forget the actual number of Jewish holocaust survivors choosing to live in Israel after WW II. Less than 2% and evidently in Israel those 2% holocaust survivors are not being treated well through the Israeli social security system. It is unreasonable and perhaps bordering on neurosis for any American leader to give a blank check to such a bad actor on the international scene as Israel as the statement "unbreakable" bond suggests. We don't allow our country to condone other nations when they commit aggression against neighboring nations or against their own people, why are we giving Israelis such a pass in ethical behavior? Are we a Jewish nation? No we are not. So let's remember that in America no religion is to be given special treatment and stop breaking our own Constitution that forbids the establishment of any religion and that must include establishing a Jewish state using American tax money and American armaments.
"America's strong bonds with Israel are well known," Obama told the world's Muslims in a speech from Cairo University. "This bond is unbreakable."
"It is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied," said Obama, who is to head to Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp after Egypt.
He said that denying the Holocaust is "baseless, ignorant, and hateful."
Why is the US bond with Israel "unbreakable"? When did Israel lose the status of other non-US nations and become this weird step-state of the USA? When did Americans ever vote on lifting Israel out of international law so that Israel can commit crimes against humanity as they did in Lebanon and in Gaza? I don't remember ever voting for giving Israel such immunity from international laws. In fact, we have a Constitutional guarantee that prohibits our country from "establishing" any religion yet here we are, the USA, establishing a Jewish state in the Middle East and no one is complaining except us anti-Zionists and of course Muslims.
Obama is going to have to face the fact sooner or later that as long as he supports Israel over Palestinian national rights he will never win the hearts and minds of Middle East Muslims. Outside the US Israel's reason for being is not taken for granted and many see that nation as a rogue state that routinely violates international laws and UN resolutions while committing racist aggression against Arab Muslim Palestinians, Arab Muslim Lebanese, Arab Muslim Syrians, and Muslim Iranians. Again, why do we as US citizens have an "unbreakable" bond with this country?
As for the Jewish holocaust as a reason, well, let none forget the actual number of Jewish holocaust survivors choosing to live in Israel after WW II. Less than 2% and evidently in Israel those 2% holocaust survivors are not being treated well through the Israeli social security system. It is unreasonable and perhaps bordering on neurosis for any American leader to give a blank check to such a bad actor on the international scene as Israel as the statement "unbreakable" bond suggests. We don't allow our country to condone other nations when they commit aggression against neighboring nations or against their own people, why are we giving Israelis such a pass in ethical behavior? Are we a Jewish nation? No we are not. So let's remember that in America no religion is to be given special treatment and stop breaking our own Constitution that forbids the establishment of any religion and that must include establishing a Jewish state using American tax money and American armaments.
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