...Recall that one key aspect of the "surge" was the consolidation of the relentless, ruthless "ethnic cleansing" carried out, with eager American assistance, by the violent sectarian groups that the Americans had installed in power. The "surge" was designed in part to secure the ethnic cleansing gains, particularly in Baghdad, which, as Cole notes, went from being 50 percent Sunni before the war to only 10 to 15 percent Sunni now. What happened to that vanished 40 percent? Well, thousands of them were simply killed by ethnic cleansers and the occupation forces, of course; but many more -- more than a million Baghdad Sunnis -- were forced to eat the bitter bread of exile...
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Ungrateful Wretches: Iraqis Refuse to Recognize Wild Success of the Surge
Chris Floyd
March 26, 2009
Juan Cole provides some further information on one of the results of the glorious, successful-beyond-our-wildest-dreams "surge" that brought victory and peace to the people of Iraq.
Recall that one key aspect of the "surge" was the consolidation of the relentless, ruthless "ethnic cleansing" carried out, with eager American assistance, by the violent sectarian groups that the Americans had installed in power. The "surge" was designed in part to secure the ethnic cleansing gains, particularly in Baghdad, which, as Cole notes, went from being 50 percent Sunni before the war to only 10 to 15 percent Sunni now. What happened to that vanished 40 percent? Well, thousands of them were simply killed by ethnic cleansers and the occupation forces, of course; but many more -- more than a million Baghdad Sunnis -- were forced to eat the bitter bread of exile.
But why won't they come back, now that everything is wildly successful and peaceful and nice? Cole reports:
I did research in August, 2008, in Jordan on Iraqi refugees, and it became very clear to me that they are not returning to Iraq. Many are traumatized, having seen horrific violence against neighbors, friends or family members. One fourth of the families applying for refugee aid reported having had a child kidnapped. Many have been personally threatened by militias who still control their old neighborhood. Sometimes the militias track them down in East Amman and threaten them again. Iraqi Sunnis do not feel safe returning to districts that are now largely Shiite. Mixed families feel that they no longer have a place to live safely. Most refugees have had their property confiscated. Many former Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad are now ghost towns.
Ingrates, the lot of them. It's just like President Obama says: the Iraqis have just not stepped up and taken responsibility for their own country. We've given them their freedom, now it's up to them to move back home and make the best of it. Sheesh, are we going to have to carry these people on our backs forever?
(For more on the American elite's bipartisan disdain for the Iraqi people's inexplicable ingratitude for having their country raped and a million of their children, siblings, parents and loved ones murdered, see Arthur Silber here and here. And for more on the sumptuous bloodfruits of the surge, see here and here and here.)
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| Comment by eyehateu2 - 26 Mar 2009 - 17:35 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | | The only way forward in my opinion is to bring King George W.Bush and all his cr iminal elite (New world order)internalists pals of his,to the (ICC)International criminal court in the Netherlands!For War crimes,crimes against humanity,conspi racy,accessory to murder,rape,ethnic cleansing,torture,destruction of a sovereig n nation in full,purposely destruction of sovereign nations infastructure(water,sewage,communications,hospitals,banks,Churches,Mosques,cemeteries,museums,artifacts,use of weapons of mass destruction(WMD) (specificly neutron bomb at Saddam International Airport,white phosphurous at Falluja!)!Anyway,you get the point,the criminals need to be brought to justice!The martyred/murdered leader President Saddam Hussien was excecuted and he had far less blood on his hands and reason for atonement!Until more decent folks come together on this serious matter,than it`s possible that(Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld,Wolfawitz,Pearl,Powell,Rice,Gates,Negroponte,Rove,etc)will have gotten over with the biggest crimes in the 21st century !!! Hail the honorable,brave,heroic Ba`ath party & IRAQI RESISTANCE!!!!! |
| Comment by nicolae - 26 Mar 2009 - 23:53 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | JESUS WAS NOT A Jew
Benjamin H. Freedman, Jewish Historian - Researcher - Scholar.
From “Common Sense”, p. 2-1-53 and 5-1-59
“Christians have been duped by the unholiest hoax in all history, by so-called J ews. This is considered their most effective weapon.”
“This ‘big lie’ technique is brainwashing United States Christians into believin g that Jesus Christ was “King of the Jews”, in the sense that so-called ‘Jews’ t oday call themselves ‘Jews’. This reference was first made in English translatio ns of the Old and New Testaments, centuries before the so-called Jews highjacked the word ‘Jew’ in the 18th century A.D. to palm themselves off on the Christian world as having a kinship with Jesus Christ. This alleged kinship comes from the myth of their common ancestry with the so-called ‘Jews’ of the Holy Land in the Old Testament history, a fiction based on fable.”
“American Christians little suspect they are being brainwashed twenty-four hours of every day over television and radio, by newspapers and magazines, by motion pictures and plays, by books, by political leaders in office and seeking office, by religious leaders in their pulpits and outside their churches, by leaders in the field of education inside and outside their curricular activities, and by all leaders in business, professions and finance, whose economic security demands that they curry the favor of so-called “Jews” of historic Khazar ancestry. Unsuspecting Christians are subjected to this barrage from sources they have little reason to suspect. Incontestable facts supply the unchallengeable proof of the historic accuracy that so-called “Jews” throughout the world today of eastern European origin are unquestionably the historic descendants of the Khazars, a pagan Turko-Finn ancient Mongoloid nation deep in the heart of Asia, according to history, who battled their way in bloody wars about the 1st century B.C. into eastern Europe where they set up their Khazar kingdom. For some mysterious reason the history of the Khazar kingdom is conspicuous by its absence from history courses in the schools and colleges.
“The historic existence of the Khazar kingdom of so-called “Jews”, their rise an d fall, the permanent disappearance of the Khazar kingdom as a nation from the m ap of Europe, and how King Bulan and the Khazar nation in about 740 A.D. became so-called “Jews” by conversion, were concealed from American Christians by censo rship imposed by so-called “Jews”, of historic Khazar ancestry, upon all U.S.A. media of mass communications directed by them. Then in 1945 this author gave nation-wide publicity to his many years intensive research into the “facts of life” concerning Khazars. The disclosures were sensational and very effective but apparently angered so-called “Jews” who have continued to vent their spleen upon this author since then solely for that reason. Since 1946 they have conducted a vicious smear campaign against him, seeking thus to further conceal these facts, for obvious reasons. What have they to fear from the truth?
“In an original 1903 edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia in New York’s Public Lib rary, and in the Library of Congress, Volume IV, pages 1 to 5 inclusive, appears a most comprehensive history of the Khazars. Also in the New York Public Librar y are 327 books by the world’s greatest historians and other sources of referenc e, in addition to the Jewish Encyclopedia, dealing with Khazar history, and written between the 3rd A.D. and 20th centuries by contemporaries of the Khazars and by modern historians on that subject.” |
| Comment by nicolae - 26 Mar 2009 - 23:54 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Jesus was a ‘Judean’, not a Jew.
During His lifetime, no persons were described as “Jews” anywhere. That fact is supported by theology, history and science. When Jesus was in Judea, it was not the “homeland” of the ancestors of those who today style themselves “Jews”. Thei r ancestors never set a foot in Judea. They existed at that time in Asia, their “homeland”, and were known as Khazars. In none of the manuscripts of the original Old or New Testament was Jesus described or referred to as a “Jew”. The term originated in the late eighteenth century as an abbreviation of the term Judean and refers to a resident of Judea without regard to race or religion, just as the term “Texan” signifies a person living in Texas.
In spite of the powerful propaganda effort of the so-called “Jews”, they have be en unable to prove in recorded history that there is one record, prior to that p eriod, of a race religion or nationality, referred to as “Jew”. The religious se ct in Judea, in the time of Jesus, to which self-styled “Jews” today refer to as “Jews”, were known as “Pharisees”. “Judaism” today and “Pharisaism” in the time of Jesus are the same.
Jesus abhorred and denounced “Pharisaism”; hence the words, “Woe unto you Scribe s and Pharisees, Hypocrites, Ye Serpents, Ye Generation of Vipers”. |
| Comment by nicolae - 26 Mar 2009 - 23:55 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Jew, Ashkenazi (Franco‑German, Eastern and Central European Jews)
After the Northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian King Shalmane ser V, in 745‑722 BCE, (for their sin before Yahweh), the Israelites were exiled into (Assyria), 2 Kings 17:5‑7. They prospered during the years in Assyria, and became a huge number of people. Outgrowing the land area they event ually migrated North through the ‘Caucasus Mountains’, and into central and Western Europe forming the European Nations, and are known as Caucasians ‘whites.’ As these Israelites migrated they influenced many people groups, no longer having an organized religious priesthood, and not having a nation or national identity, these migrating people, descendants of Jacob/Israel nevertheless passed on their bits and pieces of the ancient Scriptural worship system which was corrupted through their many years of captive living in pagan Assyria. During the 7th century A.D. these bits and pieces of the corrupt worship system became a form of Jew‑dah‑ism and was embraced by the Khazar King, his court, and the Khazar military class, who are descendants of Ashkenaz. This new religion of Jew‑dah‑ism, became the religion of the Khazars, and forms most of modern cultic European Jewry.
In common parlance the present day ‘Jew’ is synonymous with the ‘Ashkenazi Khaza r Jew’. Scripture refers to the Ashkenaz in Gen. 10:3, and in I Chron. 1:6, as o ne of the sons of Gomer, who was a son of Japheth, son of Noah. Ashkenaz is also a brother of Togarmah (and a nephew of Magog) who the Kazars, according to King Joseph, (of the Kazars) claimed as their ancestor. The people who refer to themselves as Ashkenazi Jews are not Israelites, and they are not Semites because they do not descend from Noah’s son Shem. They are Ashkenazi Khazar Jews, who descend from Noah’s son Japheth. Approximately 85‑90 percent of the Jews in the world call themselves Ashkenazi Jews.
Present‑day Jew‑dah‑ism, was formally formed into it’s basic c ultic form about 1,000 years ago, (according to the Jews), when ‑ Rabbenu Gershon of Mainz, Germany, published a ban on bigamy. This marks the recorded be ginning of the Ashkenazi Jews*, and Franco‑German halachic** creativity. T he word ‘Ashkenazi’ is not Hebrew for the word Germany, although the name has become ‘associated’ with Germany because many Ashkenazi Jews organized in Russia, Eastern Europe and Western Mongolia.
*Ashkenazi ‑ (Franco‑German, Eastern and Central European Jews). **h alachic ‑ loose ‘interpretations’ of Old Testament laws |
| Comment by nicolae - 26 Mar 2009 - 23:55 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Jew, Sephardim (Spanish Jews)
After the Northern Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrian King Shalmane ser V, in 745‑722 BCE, (for their sin before Yahweh), The Israelites were exiled into (Assyria), 2 Kings 17:5‑7. The King then imported people group s from his country (Assyria) to replace the exiled Israelites to maintain and co ntrol the land of the exiles. The Sepharvaim were one of these people groups, along with Cuthahites, Arrahites, 2 Kings 17:24. They mingled with each other, along with Edomites, who had migrated Northward from Idumea (field of Edom), after Israel and the Yahudim (Judeans) were exiled. Adad and Anu were ancient gods of Babylonia and were also the gods of these pagan Sepharvaim people. The Sephardim Yudeans (Judeans) are a mongrel people whose descent is directly from a mixture of this Assyrian people group and the remnant of escaped Yudeans (Judeans) along with Edomites who had migrated into the land originally occupied by the Kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Yahudah (Judah). This made their religion also of mixed character, 2 Kings 17:24‑41.
The people known as “Spanish Jews,” are descended from the Canaanites, the peopl e who colonized Carthage. Following its sack by Rome, they adopted this Sepharva im, or Sephardim name for deceptive purposes and constitute 5% of world Jewry to day. The Sephardim Jews speak Latino, a mixture of Spanish and Hebrew. The Sepha rdim Jews migrated West through Egypt, then North into Spain from Judea and Samaria before, during, and after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE,. This migration became known as the “Jewish ‘Sephardim’ Diaspora”. Today, these Sephardim Jews are still using their ancient adopted name Sephardim (the spelling is a transliteration into English and not of significance). They settled in Spain, Portugal, the Eastern Mediterranean, Italy, the Balkans, Salonica and Macedonia, eventually emigrating into France and England, and Western Europe.
The Sepharviam Yudeans (Judeans) were known as Samaritans during the time of Mes siah, because they were living in Samaria, which was the area from which Israel was removed by the Assyrian King Shalmaneser V. The twelve apostles during the t ime if Messiah, were instructed not to enter the cities of the Samaritans, Matt. 10:5. Although the True Israelites of tribal descent, living in Samaria did received the witness of Yahshua and the message of redemption from the apostles, Acts, 1:8. Some of the mixed Samaritans also became proselytes to the Christian faith, Acts 8:4‑25.
The Sephardim Jews, (or Sepharviam Jews) are not of Israelite blood; they are no t of the tribe of Yahudah although they were called Yudeans, ‘Judeans’, as an in habitant, i.e. person living in the land originally occupied by the tribe of Yah udah of Israel). Their descent is mixed from Edom/Esau Canaanite stock. The Seph ardim Jews, like the Ashkenazi Khazar Jews are not a Semitic people. The word Sephardim is not a Hebrew word for Spain, although the name has become ‘associated’ with Spain because many Sephardim Jews organized in Spain. |
| Comment by nicolae - 26 Mar 2009 - 23:55 [USER NOT REGISTERED] | Jew‑dah‑ism, (modern ‘Judaism’)
Jew‑dah‑ism, is a cultic (ritual‑istic) religion which origina ted approximately 1000 CE, and is traced to Rabbenu Gershon of Mainz Germany thr ough the publishing of his ‘halachic creativity’ (interpretation of Old Covenant laws), he thereby established the beginning of the modern cultic religion of Je w‑dah‑ism. Today the religion is also greatly influenced by the Babylonian Talmud, an ancient Pagan ritual‑listic system of various extreme opinions, interpretations, codes, rules, and regulations.
The modern cultic religion of Jew‑dah‑ism has nothing in common with the Scriptural Cultic system of worship which was completely destroyed by Messi ah as a religious system in 70 CE at the destruction of Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) , Herod’s Temple, and through the establishment of the New Covenant through Yahs hua Messiah. Christianity, as a religious system of Faith, replaced the ancient system of Cultic (ritual‑istic) sacrificial worship.
Jewish
A term incorrectly applied to reflect anything pertaining to a Yahudite, a desce ndant of the tribe of Yahudah. In common use, the term ‘Jewish’ is now applied t o things pertaining to the Jews. Scriptural accuracy has no bearing on the use o f the modern term ‘Jewish’.See also the word ‘Israel’ |
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