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Let the people do what they want, you get Woodstock. Let the government do what it wants, you get WACO!....Mary. --- On Fri, 5/29/09, ojoscriollos <ojoscriollos@yahoo.com> wrote: vivapalestina. us reader One Nation under God Bush: Gog and Magog were at work in the Holy Land and why they must be defeated. By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai   George W Bush and his overzealous friends might have signed off but their shenanigans during their eight years in power continue to emerge, fascinating the world. Last week, Robert Draper revealed in Gentleman's Quarterly how Donald Rumsfeld sent top-secret, intelligence briefings to Bush covered with photographs of Americans at war abroad and 'relevant' Biblical verses. In one such briefing, above a huddle of US soldiers, appears the question famously put by God, "Whom shall I send and who will go for Us?" The answer is right here. This line from Isaiah appears over the photograph of a group of US soldiers apparently headed to Iraq: "Here I am, Lord. Send me." And look at this promise from Proverbs to those promoting Bush's mission of 'freedom and human dignity' around the world: "Commit to the Lord, whatever you do, and your plans will succeed." Another briefing cover, according to Draper, shows Isaiah-inspired US tanks with the command: "Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter." One Nation Under God! The Righteous Nation on a divine mission from God! This wasn't part of a Doomsday cult's literature or something that appeared in a Dan Brown thriller. They had been part of the US government's briefings and were exchanged at the highest level of chain of command of the world's most powerful army. This is why all this is so disturbing. Many in the US media have tried to underplay these revelations as barmy manifestations of Rumsfeld's overactive imagination.  I am not so sure though. For this has been more like a general pattern, rather than an exception. Rummy may be a fruitcake. But he knew what he was doing when he sent those memos and briefings dripping with evangelical fervor to the commander-in- chief. He knew they would make his Bible-thumping boss happy. After all, Bush took his mission as 'savior of the world' rather seriously.  He actually once told Palestinian foreign minister he was on a 'mission from God' to save the world.  Recently, former French president Jacques Chirac revealed how in the run up to the Iraq invasion Bush called him up to warn that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog (Yajuj and Majuj in the Quran, I think!) were at work in the Holy Land and why they must be defeated by the Coalition of the Willing. According to Genesis and Ezekiel, Gog and Magog, the forces of Apocalypse, will come out of the north to attack the Children of Israel. Insisting end times were nigh, Bush reportedly told the French president: "This war is ordained by God, who wants to wipe out His people's enemies." The story of this Bush-Chirac conversation was first revealed by Thomas Romer, a theology professor at the University of Lausanne, in an article in Allez savoir, in 2007.  Romer had been consulted by a baffled Elysee Palace after Bush's call. Chirac confirmed it recently in a new book by French author Jean Claude Maurice recalling how he was stupefied by Bush's divine justification for the war on Iraq. Bush sincerely believed the Iraq war was the fulfillment of Biblical prophesies and that he was the Chosen One for the divine mission. And I hardly need elaborate who, in his view, God's people and their enemies were. Is it any wonder then the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are seen in the Muslim world as new crusades? More than a million Iraqis and thousands of US soldiers have paid with their lives for Bush's mission to protect Israel. So, it turns out, the Iraq war was after all driven by religious zealotry and the US Right's preoccupation with Israel, as long suspected by many in the Middle East. More alarmingly, while Bush and his cronies have retired to their ranches, the crusader's mindset is still at work. In fact, as James Carroll wrote in Boston Globe this week, this influence of extreme Christian evangelicalism on the US army has acquired alarming proportions under successive Pentagon bosses like Rumsfeld. I do not have anything against anyone's beliefs. What worries me though is this chip on the shoulder, this perception of US soldiers about themselves as God's Army which seems to shape and define their approach towards the people they have come to 'reform'. Remember those iconic images from Abu Ghraib?  Recently, an Al Jazeera report showed US soldiers distributing copies of Bible in Afghanistan and conducting group prayer services. The army was forced to destroy thousands of Bible copies after Al Jazeera report sparked outrage in Kabul. It is this mindset in the US establishment that opposes all attempts to put America back on the track. These are the forces that are opposed to the closure of Guantanamo Bay and offering justice to its long suffering inmates. While Obama tries hard to restore the rule of law and battered image of his country, the Republicans and many in Obama's own party are bending over backwards to defend the indefensible. The US Senate has overwhelmingly rejected Obama's plan to shut the gulag at Gitmo – 90 against 2 – despite it being repeatedly condemned by rights groups and the international community as an outrage against the Geneva Conventions and America's own laws and lofty ideals.   After what the Bushies visited on the world, you would expect them to lie low out of shame and for fear of reprisals. If I were in Cheney's shoes, I would disappear with my copy of Mein Kempf before I am bundled and dragged before the world court at The Hague.   But the irrepressible former vice president has been going around defending the shame of Abu Ghraib and Gitmo and arguing why the US must continue the policy of abduction and torture of innocent people from around the world to protect itself.  Following the Senate vote against Gitmo closure, an angry Obama went before the Americans, passionately pleading for upholding justice and rule of law for the sake of building a better America.  In response, Cheney made at least nine television appearances crying how Obama's plan to shut the Gitmo and his ban on 'enhanced interrogation methods' (read torture) and other equally persuasive practices put 'our way of life' at risk! "To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come," snarled Cheney in his speech after the Senate vote. It is now up to the American people what, or rather who, represents and defines them: Men like Bush, Cheney and Company, who turned the world upside down, making America one of the most despised countries on the planet; or Obama who epitomizes everything that is good and noble about America and who is trying hard to reinvent the original land of the free that all of us once loved?  I think the Americans have already made their choice by throwing out the party of Bushes and Cheneys to elect Obama.   - Aijaz Zaka Syed is a Dubai-based commentator. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle. com.   http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=15143 Hussein Agha and Robert Malley Obama and the Middle East The New York Review of Book, June 11, 2009 [Obama's] own agenda for the Middle East is at the center of greater speculation, and at the heart of that speculation is the question of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. There are signs—the fact that they are taking their time, reviewing their policies, consulting broadly—that the President and his team are committed to pragmatism and patience, qualities they found wanting in Bush's rash attempt to impose a new order on the Middle East but also in Bill Clinton's impetuous efforts to reach a comprehensive settlement. Their focus, at the outset at least, likely will be on improving conditions on the ground, including the West Bank economy, curbing if not halting Israeli settlement construction, pursuing reform of Palestinian security forces, and improving relations between Israel and Arab countries. Israeli soldiers shut down literature festival in Jerusalem World Bulletin, May 29, 2009 Israeli authorities shut down, on Thursday, the final night of the Palestine Festival of Literature at the Palestinian National Theater in East Jerusalem, Palestinian news agency said. ... "All cultural events which take place in areas of contention have political undertones," British writer Jeremy Harding said at the theatre after police moved in. "Talking about what literature is and what it means in a fraught political situation is the most honest thing we can do. They didn't like that." Israel rejects plea to halt settlement building The Independent, May 29, 2009 Israel's stance is fresh evidence of the tensions between the new administration in Washington and the government of the hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is not only reluctant to rein back settlements but who refused to endorse even the concept of a two-state solution that had been embraced by his most recent predecessors. Mr Obama nonetheless reiterated his belief that Israel would come to realise such an arrangement was in its national interest. Peace plan must include economic recovery and stability for Palestinians, says Princeton professor Palestine Telegraph, May 29, 2009 "Stabilizing Palestine's economy and political system is the only way to halt the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and save the Palestinian people from poverty", said Amaney Jamal, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. Her lecture "The Gaza Crisis: How we got here and where do we go next?" was held in the Rockefeller Center on Wednesday. Because Palestine's economy is irreversibly linked to Israel's, peace can only be achieved through the opening of Palestinian borders and subsequent growth of the country's economy, she claimed. Obama: Halt to new Israeli settlements is in America's security interests The Guardian, May 29, 2009 Increasingly fractious relations between the US and Israel hit a low unseen in nearly two decades yesterday after the Jewish state rejected President Obama's demand for an end to settlement construction in the West Bank, and the president responded by suggesting that Israeli intransigence endangers America's security. The dispute, which blew in during the open hours before Obama met the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, reflects the depth of the shift in US policy away from accommodating Israel, and towards pressuring it to end years of stalling negotiations over the creation of a Palestinian state as it continues to grab land in the occupied territories. Obama: Halt to new settlements is in America's security interests The Guardian, May 29, 2009 Increasingly fractious relations between the US and Israel hit a low unseen in nearly two decades yesterday after the Jewish state rejected President Obama's demand for an end to settlement construction in the West Bank, and the president responded by suggesting that Israeli intransigence endangers America's security. The dispute, which blew in during the open hours before Obama met the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, reflects the depth of the shift in US policy away from accommodating Israel, and towards pressuring it to end years of stalling negotiations over the creation of a Palestinian state as it continues to grab land in the occupied territories. Joharah Baker The facts we cannot refute Palestine Chronicle, May 29, 2009 Sometimes, reading commentaries on articles is more interesting than reading the articles themselves. It gives an extremely lucid perspective on what goes on in the average person's mind – at least people who take the time to actually express their views in an email. As a result, one is met with a slew of opinions, ranging from the logical and supportive, to the hateful and downright crazy. Of course, the Palestinian- Israeli conflict generates all of the above. Ramzy Baroud Netanyahu's quest: The game is on Palestine Chronicle, May 29, 2009 We are told that Obama is serious about peace in the Middle East. He maybe is.. But even such assumed seriousness might not be able to change the disturbing pattern that forced Clinton before him, according to former top Middle East Advisor, Aaron David Miller, to utter the following words: "Who the f*** does he think he is? Who's the f***ing superpower here?" Medea Benjamin During his trip to Egypt, Obama should visit Gaza Common Dreams, May 29, 2009 Obama will give a major policy talk at Cairo University on June 4, intended to start mending the rift between the United States and the Arab world. During the Bush years, many Arabs turned against the United States because of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the abuses at Guantanamo and Abu Graib. But the issue that is really at the crux of the tensions with the United States is the intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine, and what many perceive as a one-sided U.S. policy in support of Israel. David Cronin Defying rules on arm sales to Israel IPS, May 29, 2009 French arms sales to Israel are "in total contradiction" of European Union rules on the defence industry, the author of a new study has said. Between 2003 and 2007 France issued licences worth more than 446 million euros (623 million dollars) for arms exports to Israel. This made France by far the largest supplier of weapons to Israel in the EU. Patrice Bouveret from the French Centre for Research on Peace and Conflicts (CRDPC) in Lyon says that these sales are at variance with the Union's decade-old code of conduct on weapons exports. Formally declared legally binding by EU governments last year, the code forbids weapons sales in cases where they may exacerbate regional tensions or where there is a strong likelihood they will be used in violation of human rights. Erin Cunningham Garbage collection challenges in Gaza IPS, May 29, 2009 Suliman Khodari begins his shift at 5am on one of Gaza City's busiest streets. With his horse-drawn cart, Suliman spends seven hours every morning hauling away the rubbish left by residents and shop owners of the neighbourhood. But he is not a scavenger. Suliman is one of 150 animal cart owners currently collecting garbage for the Gaza City municipality. Two years of economic blockade and Israel's recent assault on the territory have crippled the ability of municipalities to get rid of solid waste. Maymanah Farhat At a breaking point: "Young Freud in Palesine" Electronic Intifada, May 29, 2009 In addition to a long list of films exploring themes of social injustice and conflict, Swedish filmmaker PeÅ Holmquist has directed several on Palestine. Young Freud in Gaza (2008), his most recent documentary on the subject, enters the recesses of Palestinian society as it copes with life under Israeli occupation. Directed with Holmquist's longtime partner, Beirut-born Armenian filmmaker and journalist Suzanne Khardalian, the 60-minute film follows Ayed, a 27-year-old psychologist working for the Palestinian Authority's Clinic for Mental Health in northern Gaza. The only field psychologist in the area, Ayed frequently makes home visits, treating patients of all ages, from diverse backgrounds. (Watch the film.) Ali Gharib and Daniel Luban Abbas visit comes as U.S.-Israeli tensions mount IPS, May 29, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama's first meeting on Thursday with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas was less remarkable for the actual talks between the two leaders than it was for the changed Washington political climate in which it took place. ... But as Abbas made his visit, the clash between Obama and Israel's right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was heating up. This week saw the Obama administration call on Israel to freeze settlement activity in the West Bank in language that was unprecedented for its bluntness, while the Netanyahu government continued to reject the idea of a settlement freeze. Mohanned El-Khalry A two-state scam? Palestine Chronicle, May 29, 2009 Talks of a two-state solution, considered to be the resolve to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades, seem to have been revived in these times of "Hope & Change". Yet this "solution" was never meant to be one. A little lesson in revisionist history will help clarify this point. In his book "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine", Israeli professor and historian Ilan Pappe demonstrates that the problem of the two-state solution dates back to when it was first introduced as a concept, with the United Nations Partition Plan of 1947 (UN Resolution 181). Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler Israel threatens to outlaw Palestinian memory IPS, May 29, 2009 Israel is set to approve a radical new bill which threatens to legalise discrimination against its sizeable Arab minority for the first time. The bill, approved this week by the ministerial committee for legislation, would make it illegal to relate to the creation of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948 as a day of mourning, thereby banning Arab Israeli citizens from marking what Palestinians call the Nakba - their "Great Catastrophe. " Although the bill has some way yet to become law, it is already arousing considerable consternation among liberal Israeli Jews and the entire Arab community, 20 percent of Israel's population. Donald Macintyre The Big Question: What are Israeli settlements, and why are they coming under pressure? The Independent, May 29, 2009 Why are we asking this now? Because the US administration appears to be serious about getting Israel to freeze Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank. Previous US administrations said they wanted a freeze but in practice allowed Israel to continue with at least some building. How did the settlements come about? In the aftermath of Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War, which left it in control of Gaza and the West Bank (as well as the Golan Heights) successive governments gradually allowed, and eventually effectively managed, the creation of more and more civilian Israeli communities in occupied territory. Bryan Saario Justice must prevail: An American doctor's account Palestine Chronicle, May 29, 2009 The Israeli public relations program makes seemingly plausible statements that depict a scenario of Israeli reasonableness and a Palestinian position of irrational and ill founded demands for a just settlement in a well coordinated script with the Western media that belies both reality on the ground and the truth. Nowhere in American reporting is the story of the Palestinian Nakba or Diaspora ever presented on a level that gives unassailable reverence to the preservation of Israeli Statehood at the expense of the Palestinian people. Obama calls for swift move toward Mideast peace talks New York Times, May 29, 2009 President Obama called on Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday to move swiftly toward peace talks, as his administration embarked on its first public dispute with Israel.Speaking to reporters at the White House after talks with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, Mr. Obama said that the absence of peace between Israelis and Palestinians was clogging up other critical issues in the Middle East. Israel rebuffs U.S. call for total settlement freeze Haaretz, May 28, 2009 Israel will press ahead with housing construction in its West Bank settlements despite a surprisingly blunt demand from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that all such building stop, an Israeli official said Thursday. The Israeli position could set the stage for a showdown with the U.S. on the day President Barack Obama meets his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, at the White House. Abbas has said the freeze of the Israeli settlements will top his agenda in the talks. Israel assassinates a Hamas leader in West Bank World Bulletin, May 28, 2009 The Israeli military said its forces assassinated a Palestinian fighter in occupied West Bank, south of Hebron, on Thursday, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. According to Israel, 45-year-old Abd Al-Majid Doudin, a leader in Hamas' armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, was killed during an invasion of the village. Israeli reports claimed he was killed in a gunfight that followed the incursion, Maan News agency said. Hamas confirmed the report, telling Ma'an in a faxed statement that Doudin "was martyred after Zionist forces stormed Hebron." Israeli forces storm Jenin, neighboring town KUNA, May 28, 2009 Israeli forces stormed the city of Jenin and the neighboring Qabatiya town for the second day in a row on Thursday, according to Palestinian security sources. The sources told the media that Israeli forces set up military checkpoints in Jenin and Qabatiya, and searched several houses for "wanted" individuals, but made no arrests. Amnesty International: Israel committed war crimes in Gaza Maan, May 28, 2009 Israel repeatedly violated the laws of war during its assault on Gaza last winter, a new report from Amnesty International charges. "Israeli forces repeatedly breached the laws of war, including by carrying out direct attacks on civilians and civilian buildings and attacks targeting Palestinian militants that caused a disproportionate toll among civilians," the group said in its annual report on the state of human rights worldwide. The report comes less than a week before a UN fact-finding mission arrives in Israel and Gaza to investigate allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Grim water, housing situation in Gaza IRIN, May 28, 2009 Reports published recently by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Israeli NGO B'Tselem and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) paint a grim picture of life in Gaza more than four months after the 23-day Israeli offensive ended on 18 January. Amos Elon: Writer who became disillusioned with Zionism and advocated Palestinian self-determination The Independent, May 28, 2009 Amos Elon, a leading Israeli writer and historian who became increasingly disenchanted with the course taken by his country after the 1967 Six Day War, has died in Italy, his home since 2004, at the age of 82. He had leukaemia. Elon built up an unrivalled reputation in a 30-year career as a journalist on the liberal daily Haaretz, a public intellectual, and an early critic of the occupation and advocate of Palestinian self-determination. But he will probably best be remembered most for his books; an author who wrote with equal insight and scholarship about Zionism and its impact, and the assimilated pre-holocaust European jewry into which he himself had been born. Israel debates loyalty law Al Jazeera, May 28, 2009 Aljazeera's senior political analyst Lamis Andoni said the two bills will jeopardise the rights of Palestinian Israelis. "The two bills, if finally ratified, would punish Palestinian Israelis, and delegitimise their existence inside Israel," she said. "It is considered a prelude to the expulsion of the Palestinian Arabs as advocated by many Israeli leaders." Ethan Bronner Misery hangs over Gaza despite pledges of help New York Times, May 28, 2009 Dozens of families still live in tents amid collapsed buildings and rusting pipes. With construction materials barred, a few are building mud-brick homes. Everything but food and medicine has to be smuggled through desert tunnels from Egypt. Among the items that people seek is an addictive pain reliever used to fight depression. Roger Cohen Obama in Netanyahu's web New York Times, May 28, 2009 Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, won the first round over President Barack Obama. That's not good for American interests or for Israel's long-term security. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, won the first round over President Barack Obama. That's not good for American interests or for Israel's long-term security. Mel Frykberg Humanitarian crisis deepens in West Bank IPS, May 28, 2009 "I heard voices, I turned around to look, and saw a group of Israeli settlers assaulting my brother Hammad," says Abdallah Wahadin, 82, a Palestinian farmer from Beit Ummar near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. "Three of them surrounded me, while a fourth threw a rock at the back of my head. Lots of blood ran down onto my clothes. Other settlers then joined them," Wahadin told the Israeli rights group B'Tselem. Wahadin and his brother Hammad, 72, had been farming their land, which produces olives, almonds and grapes, near the illegal Israeli settlement of Bat Ayin, when they were attacked on their way home. Their land in Beit Ummar is near Hebron, about 30 kilometres south of Jerusalem. George S. Hishmeh Obama should lay down the law Palestine Chronicle, May 28, 2009 What Obama has exactly in mind remains unclear but he ought to know better than Israel should no longer be treated with kid gloves and that the Arab side cannot make any further concessions. They all have committed themselves to establish ties with Israel once Israel subscribes to a "just and comprehensive Middle East peace deal". Dina Jidallah Israel's "existential threats" Palestine Chronicle, May 28, 2009 The last few days have witnessed an inflection point in the history of Israel. It has effectively shed its democratic veneer and blatantly embraced its racist, fascist and colonialist ideology. I am referring to the passage of three bills in the Knesset. One would require loyalty oaths to maintain citizenship. A second states that citizens must recognize Israel as a Jewish state or else face up to one year in prison. And the third makes commemoration of the Nakba (Catastrophe – referring to the creation of Israel in 1948) a crime. (1) These come on the heels of PM Netanyahu's demands that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a State for the Jewish People in return for "economic  development." Mohamed Kodr The three branches of the AIPAC: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial Palestine Think Tank, May 28, 2009 The very word AIPAC strikes the deepest fear and intimidation into the very souls of every American politician from the smallest town in America to the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court.   This lobby for decades has demonstrated its power in electing subservient Congressmen and destroying those who dare speak against Israel.  Every new Congressmen gets a crash course on how to respond when AIPAC calls, or else.   Daniel Lobe Goldberg's defense of Netanyahu's Amalek analogy LobeLog, May 28, 2009 Adopting his usual supercilious tone, Goldberg explains that the critics "misunderstand" Amalek and its role in Jewish thought. Although he does concede that the Bible calls for the extermination of the Amalekites, Goldberg maintains that "this is a Jewishly inoperable commandment, never carried out, and never to be carried out."As I showed in my previous post, this claim is simply factually wrong. Rima Merhi Combatants For Peace end cycle of violence Palestine Chronicle, May 28, 2009 Yaniv Reshev and Bassam Aramin –a Palestinian previously jailed in Israeli prisons- both belong to an organization called Combatants for Peace. This is a group of Israeli and Palestinian individuals who were actively involved in the cycle of violence. "Combatants for Peace was created in 2005, but we let our weapons down before that. I lost my daughter two years later on 16-jan-2007. I think not because we have some sadness in our life, in fact all of it is sadness, so we started to believe in our way," said Aramin.  Mouin Rabbani Nothing to be done: The dangers of false optimism in the Middle East Counterpunch, May 28, 2009 The recent announcement that Barack Obama will deliver a major address to the Muslim world from Cairo in early June has further heightened expectations that the new American administration is determined to achieve a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As Obama met with Benjamin Netanyahu this week, the emerging consensus among politicians and pundits alike was that the new president is prepared to invest the resources required to translate ambitious rhetoric into concrete reality. Paul Craig Roberts Who will stand up to America and Israel? Antiwar, May 28, 2009 "Obama Calls on World to 'Stand Up to' North Korea" read the headline. ... We are witnessing the Washington gangsters construct yet another threat like Slobodan Milosevic, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, ... Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the hapless detainees demonized by former secretary of defense Rumsfeld as "the 700 most dangerous terrorists on the face of the earth," who were tortured for six years at Gitmo only to be quietly released. Just another mistake, sorry. The military/security complex that rules America, together with the Israel Lobby and the banksters, needs a long list of dangerous enemies to keep the taxpayers' money flowing into its coffers. Mats Svensson "Comrades, your enemy is yourselves!" Palestine Chronicle, May 28, 2009 At a conference hotel in the ghetto of Gaza the political leaders sat lined up like school boys to listen to Yvette Lillian Myakayaka-Manzini (Mavivi), vice president of the ANC women's department. Listen and discuss something important, the struggle against apartheid. They were all family fathers and Gaza residents. They were all confined behind high walls and accustomed to being humiliated by young boys and girls dressed in green from all the corners of the world. Aijaz Zaka Syed One nation under God Palestine Chronicle, May 28, 2009 Recently, former French president Jacques Chirac revealed how in the run up to the Iraq invasion Bush called him up to warn that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog (Yajuj and Majuj in the Quran, I think!) were at work in the Holy Land and why they must be defeated by the Coalition of the Willing. According to Genesis and Ezekiel, Gog and Magog, the forces of Apocalypse, will come out of the north to attack the Children of Israel. Insisting end times were nigh, Bush reportedly told the French president: "This war is ordained by God, who wants to wipe out His people's enemies." Stephen Zunes Defending Israeli war crimes Foreign Policy in Focus, May 28, 2009 In response to a series of reports by human rights organizations and international legal scholars documenting serious large-scale violations of international humanitarian law by Israeli armed forces in its recent war on the Gaza Strip, 10 U.S. state attorneys general sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defending the Israeli action. It is virtually unprecedented for state attorneys general — whose mandates focus on enforcement of state law — to weigh in on questions regarding the laws of war, particularly in a conflict on the far side of the world. More significantly, their statement runs directly counter to a broad consensus of international legal opinion that recognizes that Israel, as well as Hamas, engaged in war crimes. U.S. Jews discomfited by rightest bills Jerusalem Post, May 27, 2009 Several new legislative initiatives from right-wing parties are causing discomfort among mainstream US Jewish advocacy organizations who worry that efforts to forbid anti-Israel activism in the country may be tinged with racist intentions and lead to infringements on freedom of speech. Settler rabbis: Don't evacuate outposts Ynet, May 27, 2009 Religious leaders headed by the head of the Judea and Samaria Rabbis' Committee, Rabbi Dov Lior, gathered Wednesday at an unauthorized outpost slated for removal, urging IDF soldiers to refuse evacuation orders.

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