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Saturday, April 2, 2016

HOW BRITAIN FUNDS PALESTINIAN TERROR, TORTURE, AND MURDER - The machete attack against Kay Wilson and Kristine Luken. - The murderers and all other terrorists receive salaries paid for by British, European, and US taxpayers through generous funding of the Palestinian Authority

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Palestinian terror is still being excused by western governments and media as "resistance," and therefore as legitimate violence.  
 
However, Palestinians' violent nature is no different from that of other Muslims in Syria, Iraq, and Africa, who bomb their countrymen to pieces, or from that of Muslims in Europe and America who attack innocent civilians in the streets, airports, and in their own homes - in the name of Allah. 
 
No matter how much carnage Muslims inflict on so many different people all over the world, when they kill Jews the international community - governments and media included - give them a sort of free pass to commit murder - just because their victims are Jews. 
 
The following story has attracted some media attention, but there are literally thousands of Israelis who have been maimed or killed by Palestinians, and whose suffering is completely ignored by the media and by EU and US governments, - which continue to send a steady flow of money to the perpetrators, so that they can keep on killing Jews and calling it "resistance". 

Daily Mail:  British taxpayers pay Palestinian terrorists who left this British woman for dead and killed her friend £9,000 each every year - as a 'REWARD' 
  • Tour guide Kay Wilson was left for dead in an orgy of Palestinian violence in which Kristine Luken, an American, was killed by two Palestinian terrorists 
  • Kristine Luken, an American, was killed as she and Ms Wilson hiked in the Judean Hills in 2010
    Kristine Luken
    hacked to death
    with  machetes
    by Palestinians
    Ms Wilson, 51, and her friend were hiking in the Judean Hills in 2010 when the two men pounced on them, believing both women to be Jewish, although Miss Luken was Christian.
  • After tying the women up the terrorists launched a savage attack. 
  •  Miss Luken died from her stab wounds. Miss Wilson still bears a seven-inch scar on her stomach and, more than five years on, breathing still causes her pain.
  • Ms Wilson said: ‘We were held for 30 minutes at knife point then gagged and bound before being butchered with machetes.
  • ‘I watched my friend chopped up before my eyes, and only survived because I played dead, despite being stabbed 13 times and having over 30 bones broken by the sheer force of the blows.
  • ‘Each time he plunged his machete into me I could hear my bones crunch, and also my flesh ripping from the serrated blade.
  • Kay Wilson survived
    Palestinian savage attack with
    machetes by playing dead
    They left, only to return moments later and roll me over, and I watched him plunge the knife into my chest, just missing my heart.’
  • Reports revealed the now incarcerated assailants are being paid a monthly stipend equivalent to £750 each effectively from the Palestinian Authority (PA)
  • The Mail on Sunday exposed how ‘reward’ payments are going via the PA - which UK aid gives more than £24million each year - to terrorists
  • If you want to end the madness, you can sign the petition HERE 

Listen to Kay Wilson's short testimony at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
on the following VIDEO: 


 
Watch VIDEO interviews with survivor Kate Wilson, and with Ian Birrell, the Daily Mail reporter who exposed how the British government pays salaries to Muslim Arab terrorists through its aid to the Palestinian Authority. (Very brief audio difficulties at the end of the video.)
 
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 How Europe has contracted out the Palestinians to continue its centuries-long war against the Jews:
  • Europe has long regarded gruesome Palestinian terror as "resistance," not terror
  • Europe has also elevated Palestinian Authority Chief, Mahmoud Abbas, financial mastermind of the Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes, and relentless inciter to violence to Jews, to respectable statesman status 
  • In January 2015  the French government invited Mahmoud Abbas to an anti-terror march in Paris attended by most world leaders, while telling the Israeli PM to stay home because he made them "uncomfortable".
  • The European Union and the United States government) have been financing a corrupt, dictatorial, and violent regime in the Palestinian Authority in the hope that they can use Arabs to partition Israel and thus facilitate its dismantlement.
  • Following the Nazi example of boycotting Jews, the European Union is currently engaged in labeling and boycotting Israeli goods from the Jewish heartland. 
  • Europe wants Israel to give the Biblical Jewish heartland to the descendants of Muslim invaders who conquered the Land of Israel in the 7th century, and call the Jewish presence in their own ancient land as illegitimate.

Continue reading Daily Mail report on Kay Wilson`s ordeal, and see links to related news stories on how Britain and the EU are funding illegal Muslim Arab settlements in Israel, the building of a palace for Mahmoud Abbas, and some of the most gruesome terror committed by Palestinians, including the butchering of the Fogel children, and at least one involving cannibalism.  ALSO READ Daily Mail article on how the UK encouraged genocidal Arab attack against Israel back in 1948.

Monday, March 14, 2016

OUTRAGE IN BRITAIN AS THE EU USES TAXPAYERS' MONEY TO BUILD ILLEGAL ARAB SETTLEMENTS ON JEWISH LAND IN ISRAEL violating Israeli sovereignty and peace - Europe murdered 6 million Jews and today it labels and BOYCOTTS Israeli products, and funds illegal Arab construction and anti-Israeli organizations that undermine security and the law in Israel - EU illegal construction has been going on for at least SEVEN YEARS while Israeli authorities have done almost nothing to stop it because of an ongoing semi-secret agenda of surrender.

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Outrage as EU claims diplomatic immunity after using OUR aid money to 'meddle in the
  • Before you read the following article you need to know that the Israeli government has for a long time had a policy of turning a blind eye to tens of thousands of illegal EU, Arab, and Bedouin construction all over Israel, and on both sides of the Green Line. 
  • This is not done to appease the Arabs, but out of a government process of slowly disempowering Jewish hold on the land - and in the case of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Jerusalem - to facilitate the eventual partition of the country for the creation of an Islamic state with Jerusalem as its capital. 
  • All this done by stealth, lying to Israelis about the true intentions of so-called 'right-wing' politicians.  Aside from the issue of endemic political corruption undermining Israel's democracy and security, the Israeli pro-Arab left (allied with Arabs, the EU and often with the traditionally anti-Israel State Department) has enormous influence in Israel.    
  • Even hawkish politicians have a tendency to implement pro-Arab policies once in office.  It was super-hawk PM Ariel Sharon who withdrew Israeli control from Gaza.  This allowed the territory to become a jihadi cauldron that has led to constant conflict with Israel, and to several expensive wars that have accomplished absolutely good for Israel.  
  • BETRAYAL.  If all this seems incredible to you, look at how European governments themselves have betrayed their own people, particularly in Britain, Germany, and Sweden, when allowing the entry of millions of Muslims who have degraded the traditional culture and the safety of those countries.  A similar process of betrayal goes on in Israel.  Europe uses the excuse of 'multiculturalism'.  The Israeli elite uses the euphemism of 'peace' to surrender the Jewish heartland and to violate Jewish rights.
  • Although it uses hawkish rhetoric, the majority party LIKUD has for years implemented policies that disempower the Jewish population, allow increasing Arab facts on the ground, paving the way for the partition of Israel.
  • The Israeli Supreme Court has always been far-left wing.  It selects its own members, thus preserving its far-left political bias indefinitely.  Its decisions invariably favor Arab interests. to the detriment of the Jewish majority and the very integrity of the country.   
  • In a recent decision, the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Negev landowners who wanted illegal Bedouin squatters removed from their land.  Often the government and the Supreme Court appear to collude in undermining the law and Jewish rights in Israel.  Read this very interesting case and similar precedent ones   HERE
An illegal Arab settlement.  A terrorist who attacked a Jew in Tel Aviv lived in an illegally constructed house.  When the government is lax in enforcing the law, crime tends to escalate.  The EU has built 17 illegal Arab settlements.  Countless others have sprouted undisturbed at Arab initiative - under the very noses of Israeli authorities who have chosen to do NOTHING.
  • Voters elect 'right wing' parties, and then watch helplessly as more of their land falls into the hands of Arabs.  The present Likud-led coalition has known for at least seven years that the European Union is actively engaged in building illegal settlements for the Arabs, but has done nothing to stop them. 
  • Israel is a tiny country.  Everybody knows when Arabs and the EU build illegally, and yet authorities refuse to enforce the law.  Repeatedly the government ends up LEGALIZING illegal Arab and Bedouin construction in pre-1967 Israel, and supplying them with utilities, schools, and such. 
  • However, Jewish construction across the Green Line has been frozen for years as a gesture of appeasement to the Arabs, their champion, President Obama, and the European Union.  And any Jewish construction without a permit is immediately razed.
  • Jewish construction in old Jerusalem has also been severely limited, while Arabs build illegally in the Israeli capital with complete impunity.
  • Only when REGAVIM, a small but courageous private organization, raised its voice to denounce the EU illegal construction spree did the government made a feeble show of demolishing a handful of structures, out of shame at its complicity in this Arab land grab.
  • There is an unofficial agenda in the Israeli ruling elite that allows the undermining of safety and sovereignty of Israel, and that aims to partition the country for the creation of a terror Islamic state. 
  • BETRAYAL:  There are also openly anti-Jewish policies that aim at intimidating and neutering nationalist voices that demand respect for the law, for Israeli sovereignty, and for Jewish rights in the country. 
  • The government uses 'administrative detention' to incarcerate pro-land of Israel youths for months at the time, renewable by the courts, without laying charges or allowing the detainees to see a lawyer. 
  • These administrative detentions take effect not because of what a person does, but for what he may be thinking.  
  • There have been accusations of severe torture inflicted on some of those youths in order to force confessions for crimes for which there is no evidence whatsoever.  The object is to demoralize them.  Or to turn them into police informers.
  •  See links for more articles on the brutal actions of pro-Arab leftist authorities against Jews in Israel further on this page.
  • BETRAYAL:  You should also know that while Arabs have built a massive arsenal in their towns in Israel, soldiers must surrender their weapons when on leave.  An Israeli soldier was brutally murdered by an Arab recently because he was unarmed, as per Israeli policy. 
  • It is next to impossible for anyone in the general population to obtain a gun permit.  That is why it's so easy for the Arabs to attack Jews.  They are helpless. 
  • And the very few who manage to get a permit are extremely hesitant to use their guns even when surrounded by a murderous Arab mob because the Jew will very likely be prosecuted for using his gun - even when shooting in the air. 
  • And if he happens to kill one of the assailants, he may spend years in jail.  That's the reality in Israel.
  • BETRAYAL:  PARTITION BY STEALTH - In the meantime the government has been conducting ILLEGAL secret negotiations with the Palestinians - without notifying the cabinet - to withdraw all army and police presence from areas A and B, which are already under civil control of the Palestinian Authority.   This at a time when ISIS presence grows in the PA, as well as weapons factories and smuggling.
REGAVIM's short video about illegal Arab construction, and the erosion of Israeli sovereignty all over the land, on both sides of the Green Line - with full complicity of left-wing Israeli authorities.

and here:  http://regavim.org/
And - #regavim
 
The following article by the Daily Mail would have never been published except that now it is being used as ammunition for the British effort to break with the European Union.  News that don't make Israeli Jews look bad are routinely ignored by the Daily Mail and other mainstream media.  This article is an exception - except that it makes Israeli authorities look dumb or complicit.
   
EXCLUSIVE BY THE UK DAILY MAIL:  Outrage as EU claims diplomatic immunity after using OUR aid money to 'meddle in the Middle East' by building on disputed Judea and Samaria (West Bank) land 
  • The EU has built more than 1,000 buildings on the West Bank without planning permission, as well as roads and other infrastructure 
  • They are at 40 locations in Area C, which was placed under Israeli jurisdiction by international law by the Oslo Accords signed by Israel and the Palestinian Authority
  • The buildings are given to Palestinians and paid for using aid money from European countries, including Britain
  • REGAVIM, an Israeli NGO, launched legal action against the EU
  • But the EU is claiming diplomatic immunity to avoid being taken to court, MailOnline has learnt 
  • MPs have expressed their fury, branding the EU's actions 'dodgy'
  • An EU spokesperson said its establishing Arab facts on the ground on Jewish land were 'humanitarian'  

  • The EU is claiming diplomatic immunity after using taxpayers' money to build unauthorised settlements and roads on Israeli parts of the West Bank, MailOnline can reveal.
     
    REGAVIM, an Israeli NGO, launched legal action after photographing EU flags flying above buildings on land placed under Israeli jurisdiction by the Oslo Accords, to which the EU is a signatory. EU bureaucrats are avoiding court by citing diplomatic rules.
     
    The buildings, which are given to Palestinians, are intended to 'pave the way' for more land to be brought under Palestinian control, according to official EU papers. A fraction of them are bulldozed by Israel only for the EU to repeatedly rebuild them, generating more costs for the taxpayer.
     
    Leaked documents obtained by MailOnline show that the EU – which receives £350million per week from Britain – is using diplomatic rules to place officials above the law, foiling attempts to hold bureaucrats accountable.
     
    British MPs have expressed outrage that the EU is using aid money to 'meddle' in a foreign territorial dispute, and branded its actions 'dodgy'. 

    Kristine Luken, an American, was killed as she and Ms Wilson hiked in the Judean Hills in 2010UPDATE:  Read latest installment of this series by the Daily Mail.  Two women were attacked by Palestinians with machetes in Israel in the belief they were Jewish  One was hacked to death. The other survived by playing dead.  The killers are now receiving salaries paid for by British, EU and US taxpayers generous donations to the Palestinian Authority. 

    Photo:  American Kristine Luken, butchered to pieces by Palestinians in 2010.  According to the western governments and media, acts such as this are an expression of  Palestinian "resistance' - not terror.  Her friend Kay Wilson survived critical wounds by playing dead.

    Read more:  http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2016/04/how-britain-funds-palestinian-terror.html


     
     
    Continue reading article about ILLEGAL ARAB SETTLEMENTS and see links to several related articles

    Wednesday, May 20, 2015

    PRINCE CHARLES MEETS WITH IRISH TERRORISTS AND CORRUPT ARAB TYRANTS, BUT WON'T VISIT ISRAEL because he thinks he might be used "to burnish Israel's image" - But why would Israel want his visit when the British violated the Mandate for Palestine swindling Israel of a large swath of Jewish land to create the invented kingdom of Jordan, and also blocked Jewish entry to Palestine during the Holocaust

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    The following article by Edgar Davison seems to resent that the UK anti-Semitic Foreign Office does not allow their royals to visit Israel.  He has a point. 
     
    But the fact is that Israelis should feel nothing but loathing towards Britain, considering how the British violated the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine by ILLEGALLY partitioning the land to give it to an Arab who became king of a brand new country:  Transjordan - today's Jordan.
     
    That's not all that the British still have to answer for.  Although they had been entrusted with the administration of he Mandate for Palestine, they openly sided with the Arabs, many times allowing Arabs to massacre Jews. 
     
    On top of that the British severely limited European Jews' entry into their ancestral land in Palestine - ancient Israel - during the Nazi years, and even immediately after World War II.  

    Britain, with its anti-Semitism and pro-Arab policies, was responsible for the deaths of those Jews denied entry into Palestine.  

    Furthermore, the British (and the Americans) refused to bomb the railroads leading to the death camps, or the gas chambers and crematoria.  According to reports, they did not want to deal with too many Jewish survivors after the war.
     
    So until the British apologize for their crimes against the Jews they should not be welcome in Israel.  Unfortunately, the obsequious and spineless politicians in Israel continue to be all smiles whenever meeting a British diplomat.
     
    See more about British crimes against the Jews further down this page.

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    From Edgar Davidson's Blog:

    The future king of England meets these unsavory characters, but won't visit Israel because it would be used "to burnish Israel's image"

    Prince Charles has upset some people by meeting IRA leader Gerry Adams, although nobody ever bats an eyelid when he - and the Queen - visit terrorist-sponsoring corrupt Arab regimes, which they do all the time.

    Charles did make one visit to Israel in 1995 to 'represent the Queen' at the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin. It is the ONLY 'official' visit ever made by a member of the British Royal Family (his father Prince Philip visited his mother's grave in Jerusalem in 1994
    but the Royal Family and the British Government made clear that this was only in a 'private capacity'). 
     
    The anti-semitic Arab-friendly goons who have dominated the British Foreign Office for years have never allowed the Queen to visit Israel in case it 'upsets our Arab friends'.
     
    But Prince Charles's aides went further than that in 2007 when they ruled out any official visit declaring:
    "Acceptance would make it hard to avoid the many ways in which Israel would want HRH [Prince Charles] to help burnish its international image."
    If David Cameron is even half the 'friend' of Israel that he and some of his naive Jewish supporters think then he should demand that the Queen finally accepts Israel's long-standing invitation to visit their country.
     
    Source
    http://edgar1981.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/charles-meets-ira-leader-but-refuses-to.html

    Prince Charles wearing traditional Saudi costume joined members of the Saudi royal family in an Ardah
     
    Charles of Arabia dressed as a Saudi with his Saudi friends.
     
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    EXPOSED: THE UK ENCOURAGED GENOCIDAL ARAB ATTACK ON ISRAEL back in 1948 - And to this day it continues to support those same aims under the guise of "land for peace"
    Intelligence obtained by the French secret services in the Middle East sheds new light on Britain’s role in the Arab-Israeli War of Independence.
    Read more, including photos of the War of Independence
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2015/02/exposed-uk-encouraged-genocidal-arab.html
     
    1948 War of Independence
    Jews keep watch as genocidal Arab armies approach 
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    The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine - The Facts
    How Britain swindled the Jews of two thirds of their ancient land.
    http://debunkingliesandmyths.blogspot.ca/2014/02/the-mandate-for-palestine-facts.html 
     
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    Continue reading, see pictures of Prince Charles dressed as an Arab performing the Sword Dance with his buddies, the Saudi royals, and read a brief summary of the history of modern Israel, how the British betrayed the League of Nations Mandate, and what Palestine really means.

    Monday, September 15, 2014

    WESTERN LEADERS ASSURE US THAT ISIS IS NOT ISLAM - BUT PROPHET MUHAMMAD HAD HUNDREDS OF JEWS BEHEADED IN ONE SINGLE DAY - And Saudi Arabia routinely beheads lawbreakers - The real Islam

    PM Cameron
    British Prime Minister David Cameron on ISIS:  They are not Muslims, they are monsters.  Islam is a religion of peace.
     
    US President Barack Obama:  Islamic State (ISIS) is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL’s victims have been Muslim.”
     
    Doesn't historical evidence and Islam's sacred books mean anything?

    It is rather puzzling how - with the Middle East in constant carnage, with Syrians killing other Syrians and Iraqis killing other Iraqis, and a history of bloody Islamic conquest of Africa and much of Asia - these leaders of the Free World tell us that cruelty and violence do not represent the real Islam.   Why are they telling us this?  Why are they covering up the truth?

    Tuesday, September 2, 2014

    DISBELIEF AS GQ AWARDS TONY BLAIR THE "PHILANTROPIST OF THE YEAR" TITLE - Erlier he had been branded A DISGRACE for earning millions from advising the Kazakhstan dictator on a massacre of civilians by his regime

     Legacy: The decision to honour the former Prime Minister provoked immediate reaction on Twitter

    Boos and disbelief as Tony Blair is handed 'jaw-dropping' philanthropist of the year title at GQ awards ceremony.

  • Mr Blair, 61, was honoured for his work establishing charities in Africa
  • But his reputation has been tarnished by the invasion of Iraq in 2003
  • PM is worth millions and can command £250,000 for private speeches

  • Read more
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2741328/What-Middle-East-crisis-Disbelief-Tony-Blair-handed-jaw-dropping-philanthropist-year-title-GQ-awards-ceremony.html


    Blair branded 'a disgrace' for giving Kazakh dictator PR advice on massacre of civilians by his regime.

  • Tony Blair is said to have made millions advising Nursultan Nazarbayev
  • He offered him advice after police shot 14 unarmed civilian protesters
  • The move has been labelled as 'shameless' by Human Rights Watch
  • Mr Blair told the dictator that the deaths ‘tragic though they were, should not obscure the enormous progress’ his country had made.
  • Saturday, August 23, 2014

    HISTORIAN DOMINIC SANDBROOK BEMOANS WESTERN ISOLATIONISM - But he fails to note that given Western leadership's shortcomings, it may be safer for the world to have them play at the beach and the golf course. Not everyone can be a Churchill, and those who fall short can make things worse by intervening

    The Daily Mail has published a couple of articles by British historian Dominic Sandbrook. 
    President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair were reckless to topple Saddam Hussein without having any apparent idea what to do with a post-Saddam Iraq
    Bush and Blair - Their legacy

    Sandbrook analyses the current volatile situation in several hot spots in the world.  But he misreads history, as when he defends the creation of the state of Kosovo, for example, and completely avoids the issue of Western relentless pressuring for the partition of Israel. 
     
    He, as a historian, should know better.  The moment Israel ceases to control Judea and Samaria (the west bank of the Jordan river), all hell will break loose. 

    A sovereign state of Palestine would immediately ally itself with some regional major power and launch a terror campaign against Israel that would make Gazan rockets and terror tunnels look like child's play.  At the same time, the new Palestinian state would disintegrate into bloody factional war.
     
    Sandbrook should understand that part of wisdom is to know when to intervene, and when to leave things alone.
     
    In the case of Israel, the world should leave Jews and Arabs to sort things out.  US intervention for "peace," as they call it, has only brought increased Arab terror with no peace on the horizon because the two sides are irreconcilable.   
     
    Palestinians want a Middle East with no Jews, and Israel wants to survive.  There is no middle ground.  Partition would only be another stage in the process of dismantling Israel. 

    Remember that Israel left Gaza only to see it turn into a terror statelet.  And it left the Sinai, which is now overrun by jihadis.  Without Judea and Samaria Israel would find itself with less land and more terror.  No international security arrangements that could protect Israel at that point. 
     
    Much less after the lesson of the last few weeks when we witnessed a genocide taking place in Iraq, while our leaders were on vacation.  They considered placing boots on the ground far more objectionable than allowing thousands of helpless Christians and Yazidis to be slaughtered by Muslim ISIS. 

    Were Israelis to find themselves victimized in similar manner, the world would indolently watch another Holocaust and do nothing.
     
    Sandbrook also laments how the West failed to foster democracy in the Middle East.  This is patently absurd.  Islam and democracy are incompatible.  A true follower of Islam is expected to obey Sharia Law, which leaves absolutely no room for any notion of Western democracy and basic human rights.
     
    Most importantly, what Dominic Sandbrook also fails to take into account is that given the quality of Western leadership, it is a good thing that they are spending time playing at the beach and at the golf course.  There is no limit to how much damage these gentlemen can do if they get really serious about changing the world.  The Arab Spring disaster is proof enough of how much harm they can do even when they use a light touch. 
     
    Following are two articles by Dominic Sandbrook.  The first was written on August 16, and the second one on August 23.
     

    The world’s not been this dangerous for 30 years and the West’s arrogance is to blame