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HomeBlogJune / July 2012 July 26, 2012: Will Romney View The Real Wailing Wall and Israel's WMD Facility?
July 26, 2012: Will Romney View The Real Wailing Wall and Israel's WMD Facility?
July 26, 2012:Will Romney View The Real Wailing Wall and Israel's WMD Facility?
Republican presidential candidate Mitt
Romney is on his way to Tel Aviv; and on Tuesday, at the Veterans of Foreign
Wars National Convention in Nevada, he opined that the people of Israel deserve better diplomatic protection
than that they have been receiving under President Barack Obama.
Romney accused the President of being
"fond of lecturing Israel’s leaders" and the "people of Israel
deserve better than what they have received from the leader of the free world.
And the chorus of accusations, threats, and insults at the United Nations
should never again include the voice of the President of the United
States."
Regarding Iran, Romney warned
"there is no greater danger in the world today than the prospect of the
ayatollahs in Tehran possessing nuclear weapons capability…The regime in Tehran
is drawing closer to developing a nuclear weapon…The threat of weapons of mass
destruction proliferation is ever-present."
Romney uttered not a word about
Israel’s WMD, which numbered up to 200 nuclear warheads in 1986, nor did he
mention the real wailing wall-Israel’s separation Wall.
My view from a rooftop in Aida Refugee Camp, in the Little Town of Bethlehem which is Occupied Territory:
"Financed with U.S. aid at a cost of $1.5 million per mile, the
Israeli wall prevents residents from receiving health care and emergency
medical services. In other areas, the barrier separates farmers from their
olive groves which have been their families' sole livelihood for
generations." [Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,
Page 43, Jan/Feb. 2007]
On page one of Jeff Halper's, Obstacles to Peace, A
Re-Framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, he wrote, "Missing
from Israel’s security framing is the very fact of occupation, which Israel
both denies exists…and that ‘security’ requires Israel control over the entire
country…rendering impossible a just peace based on human rights, international
law, reconciliation."
Just a few weeks after his freedom of
speech trial began on the same day Hamas was transparently and democratically
elected in January 2006, Israel’s nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechai Vanunu
taped this invitation to American Christians:
Vanunu was released from 18 years
in a windowless tomb sized cell on 21 April 2004, under draconian restrictions
that still forbid him from leaving Israel and speaking to foreigners.
Photo of Vanunu still waiting for his right to leave Israel, 30 April 2012, in east Jerusalem:
Vanunu explained, "This
administration tells me I am not allowed to speak to foreigners, the Media, and
the world. But I do because that is how I prove my true humanity to the world.
"The Israelis have 200 atomic weapons and they accuse the Palestinians and
Muslims of terrorism. The Dimona is 46 years old; reactors last 25 to 30 years.
The Dimona has never been inspected and Israel has never signed the Nuclear
Proliferation Treaty but all the Arab states have.
"Twenty years ago when I worked there they only produced when the air was
blowing towards Jordan ten miles away. No one knows what is happening now. The
world needs to wake up and see the real terrorism is the occupation and the
Palestinians have lived under that terror regime for 40 years.
"All the secrets I had were
published in 1989 in an important book, by [Nuclear Physicist] Frank Barnaby, The Invisible Bomb: Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East."
Barnaby was hired by the London
Sunday Times in 1986 to interview Vanunu, which he did for three days before
Vanunu was kidnapped, clubbed, drugged and transported back to Israel by Mossad.
During Vanunu’s closed door trial,
Barnaby testified testified, "I found Vanunu very straightforward about
his motives for violating Israel's secrecy laws he explained to me that he
believed that both the Israeli and the world public had the right to know about
the information he passed on. He seemed to me to be acting ideologically.
"Israel's political leaders
have, he said, consistently lied about Israel's nuclear-weapons programme and
he found this unacceptable in a democracy. The knowledge that Vanunu had about
Israel's nuclear weapons, about the operations at Dimona, and about security at
Dimona could not be of any use to anyone today. He left Dimona in October
1985." [1]
After WW II, Attorney Yaccov
Shapiro, who later became Israel's Minister Of Justice, described the Emergency
Defense Regulations which deny Vanunu his inalienable rights of freedom of
speech and movement as "unparalleled in any civilized country: there were
no such laws in Nazi Germany."
The establishment of Israel’s statehood was
contingent upon upholding the UN UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS-and as a
Member State America is obligated to hold ALL other Member States to it!
Article 13
affirms:
(1)
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders
of each state.
(2) Everyone has the
right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article
19 enshrines: Everyone
has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom
to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Read more...
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"HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine
"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
" In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright
“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. MLK
Establishment of Israel
"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel