WAWA/WeAreWideAwake is my Public Service to America as a muckracker who has journeyed seven times to Israel Palestine since June 2005.
WAWA is dedicated to confronting media and governments that shield the whole
truth.
We who Are Wide
Awake are compelled by the "fierce urgency of Now" [Rev MLK, Jr.] to raise
awareness and promote the human dialogue about many of the crucial issues of our
day: the state of our Union and in protection of democracy, what life is like
under military occupation in Palestine, the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land,
and spirituality-from a Theologically Liberated Christian Anarchist
POV.
"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all...and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils." George Washington's Farewell Address - 1796
"My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." Unamuno
"Imagine All the People Sharing All the World." John Lennon
"If enough Christians followed the gospel, they could bring any state to its knees." Father Philip Francis Berrigan
"You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down." Tom Petty
"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." Emma Goldman
"We have yet to begin to IMAGINE the power and potential of the Internet." Charlie Rose, 2005
Only in Solidarity do "We have it in our power to begin the world again" Tom Paine
"Never doubt that a few, thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
"You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free." John 8:32
DO SOMETHING!
Photo of George shown here and in web site banner courtesy of Debbie Hill, 2000.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that, among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. -July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence
August 21, 2012: Message To: DNC and Zionists of America From: An American Patriot
August 21, 2012:Message To: DNC and Zionists of America From: An American Patriot
Patriotism means to stand up for one’s
homeland.
It does not mean to stand up for any political party, politician or any
other another state.
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)
has called upon the Democratic National Committee to rescind its invitation to
former President Jimmy Carter to address the upcoming 2012 Democratic
National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Among Carter’s ‘crimes’ are his 2007 book, "Peace Not Apartheid" which the ZOA claims is filled with "falsehoods about
Israel, not least the vicious insinuation in its title that Israel resembles
the evils of the apartheid regime in South Africa and that Jews living in Judea
and Samaria, is the ‘primary’ obstacle to peace."
According to a UN report, Haaretz columnist
Danny Rubinstein admitted that "Israel today was an apartheid State with
four different Palestinian groups: those in Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank
and Israeli Palestinians, each of which had a different status...even if the
wall followed strictly the line of the pre-1967 border, it would still not be
justified. The two peoples needed cooperation rather than walls because they
must be neighbors." [1]
The ZOA is also up in arms over Carter daring to mention that Israel has
destroyed over 40,000 Palestinian homes, which have rendered hundreds of
thousand Palestinians homeless and that Gaza is an open-air prison.
The ZOA ignores the
Jewish Justice Richard Goldstone’s 575-page report of September 29, 2009, which
accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes perpetuated during the 22 days of
assault on Gaza when the Israeli military launched Operation Cast Lead; a
full-scale attack on Gaza that killed 13 Israelis and 1,400 Palestinians.
Over 5,000 Palestinians were injured, 400,000 were left without running water,
4,000 homes were destroyed, rendering tens of thousands who are still homeless
because of Israel's targeted attacks upon them, their schools, hospitals,
streets, water wells, sewage system, farms, police stations and UN buildings.
US-supplied weapons enabled the 22 days of Israel’s attack on the people of
Gaza and we the people of the US who pay taxes provide over $3 billion annually
to Israel although Israel has consistently misused U.S. weapons in violation of
America's Arms Export Control and Foreign Assistance Acts.
During the 22 days of Israeli assault on Gaza, "Washington provided F-16
fighter planes, Apache helicopters, tactical missiles, and a wide array of
munitions, including white phosphorus and DIME. The weapons required for the
Israeli assault was decided upon in June 2008, and the transfer of 1,000
bunker-buster GPS-guided Small Diameter Guided Bomb Units 39 (GBU-39) were
approved by Congress in September. The GBU 39 bombs were delivered to Israel in
November (prior to any claims of Hamas cease fire violation!) for use in the
initial air raids on Gaza. [2]
During Operation Cast Lead, the UN Security Council, Amnesty International,
International Red Cross, and global voices of protest rose up and demanded a
ceasefire, but both houses of Congress overwhelmingly endorsed resolutions to
support a continuation of Israel’s so called "self defense."
In a 71-page report released March 25, 2009, by Human Rights
Watch, Israel’s repeated firing of US-made white phosphorus shells over densely
populated areas of Gaza was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes.
"Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza,"
provides eye witness accounts of the devastating effects that white phosphorus
munitions had on civilians and civilian property in Gaza.
"Human Rights Watch researchers found spent shells, canister liners, and
dozens of burnt felt wedges containing white phosphorus on city streets,
apartment roofs, residential courtyards, and at a United Nations school in Gaza
immediately after hostilities ended in January.
"Militaries officially use white phosphorus to obscure their operations on
the ground by creating thick smoke. It has also been used as an incendiary
weapon, though such use constitutes a war crime.
“In Gaza, the Israeli military didn’t just use white phosphorus in open areas
as a screen for its troops," said Fred Abrahams, senior emergencies
researcher at Human Rights Watch and co-author of the report. "It fired
white phosphorus repeatedly over densely populated areas, even when its troops
weren't in the area and safer smoke shells were available. As a result,
civilians needlessly suffered and died." [Ibid]
Narkis P. Alfi, Freelance Correspondent and Likud Party Member with Eileen Fleming
at AIPAC's 2011 Conference
Last year, I attended AIPAC’s D.C. Conference and
heard President Obama speak about the dangers of the spread of nuclear weapons
but not a word about Israel’s still un-inspected WMD facility-which everyone in
the world, except most Americans learned about 26 years ago, when Mordechai
Vanunu’s photos and testimony made front page news in London’s The Sunday
Times.
Obama also mentioned his visit to the Jewish Wailing Wall and how he thought
about the generations who have wanted a homeland; but not a word was uttered
about the generations of indigenous Palestinians who are still denied their
inalienable right to return home or about the 21st century Wailing Wall: The Apartheid Wall:
Obama told of his visit to Sderot and the struggles of those residents, but he
neglected to travel five minutes away into the open air prison of Gaza where
1.5 million human beings-800,000 are under the age of 16-struggle every moment
of the day just to survive under a brutal siege aided and abetted by USA
policy!
In 2009, I spent an evening in Sderot and learned that most everyone there
would be just as happy to migrate to Las Vegas than live in Israel: Read
more...
Israel’s existence is a fact of life, but what can never be accepted by people of conscience is
Israel’s ‘right’ to steal land and resources of the indigenous people of
Palestine and we the people of this homeland's tax dollars that aid, abet and sustain an illegal, immoral and brutal military occupation.
All through that AIPAC conference I heard the incessant drumbeat of Israel’s
rights, about the “special relationship” “shared values” “common Interests” the
“Jewish State” and claims that Israel is a democracy, but Israel is not-and
never has been a Democracy!
In the May 28, 1993 edition of Yedioth Ahronoth, Ariel Sharon explained:
"The
terms ‘democracy’ or ‘democratic’ are totally absent from the Declaration of
Independence. This is not an accident. The intention of Zionism was not to
bring democracy, needless to say. It was solely motivated by the creation in
Eretz-Isrel of a Jewish state belonging to all the Jewish people and to the
Jewish people alone. This is why any Jew of the Diaspora has the right to
immigrate to Israel and to become a citizen of Israel."
Jeff Halper, American Israeli, co-founder and coordinator of Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions and Professor of Anthropology explained that, "An
ethnocracy is the opposite of a democracy, although it might incorporate some
elements of democracy such as universal citizenship and elections. It arises
when one particular group-the Jews in Israel, the Russians in Russia, the
Protestants in pre-1972 Northern Ireland, the whites in apartheid South Africa,
the Shi’ite Muslims in Iran, the Malay in Malaysia and, if they had their way,
the white Christian fundamentalists in the US-seize control of the government
and armed forces in order to enforce a regime of exclusive privilege over other
groups in what is in fact a multi-ethnic or multi-religious society.
Ethnocracy, or ethno-nationalism, privileges ethnos over demos, whereby one’s
ethnic affiliation, be it defined by race, descent, religion, language or
national origin, takes precedence over citizenship in determining to whom a
county actually 'belongs.'"[3]
In his Farewell Address, President George Washington warned US:
"Observe
good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with
all...and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in
place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The
nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness
is in some degree a slave...a passionate attachment of one nation for another
produces a variety of evils."
Obama admitted that true friends speak open and honestly and that “the current
situation does not allow procrastination. The world is moving too fast [and]
the Talmud teaches as long as one has life do not abandon faith. We will never
abandon universal human rights.”
It
was President Harry Truman who crossed out the word"Jewish state" on the draft of the Establishment of Israel that
was cabled him and substituted "State
of Israel" which he affirmed was contingent upon Israel upholding the UN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Read more...
As
a Member State of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, America is
obligated to hold ALL other Member States to it!
As an American patriot who went online in 2005 after my first of 7 trips to Israel and Occupied Palestine,
all I have been saying is that when Israel honors its founding promises and
America upholds its obligation as a Member State of the UN Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, then YES WE CAN begin this world again by BUILDING
IT according to the principals outlined and agreed to in the UN Universal
Declaration of Human Rights:
3. Jeff Halper, An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting
Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Page 74
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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
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Narkis P. Alfi, Freelance Correspondent and Likud Party Member with Eileen Fleming
at AIPAC's 2011 Conference
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