The ‘Pressure Cooker’ tactics – A Glimpse Into Israeli Psychosis

By Gilad Atzmon

The  Israeli Ynet (Hebrew edition) published a few hours ago an interview with retired Israeli police  commissioner,  Major General Assaf Hefetz.  Hefez is highly critical of the French police’s recent operation in Toulouse. According to the Israeli Major General, the French waited for too long (32 hours). He contends that the  French police should have been more assertive and far more aggressive.  I hope that you have a hard stomach to read how Israel would handle a similar situation.

They should have implemented the ‘pressure cooker tactics’ says Hefetz-

“massive fire at the walls of the house, throwing  grenades around the building followed by bulldozer  erasure of the building walls till the suspect turns himself.”

Frightening isn’t it? Welcome to occupied Palestine. It seems as if Major General Hefetz came short of suggesting to evacuate the city and to nuke the neighborhood.

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Is it an Israeli False Flag Again?

By Gilad Atzmon

Israeli press reported this evening that French gunman Mohamed Merah had been on a trip to Israel in the past.

According to the report, Merah's passport had Israeli stamps in it. The purpose of his visit is  unknown. Israeli analysts suspect he was either trying to visit the Palestinian territories or preparing for a terror attack.

However, I won’t rule out the possibility that Merah was actually trained by Israeli forces. Marah may have conducted a false flag operation. By way of deception is,  after all, the Mossad’s motto.

Read the story of Naeim Giladi, an Israeli agent operating in Iraq in the late 1940’s.

“On May 10, at 3 a.m., a grenade was tossed in the direction of the display window of the Jewish-owned Beit-Lawi Automobile Company, destroying part of the building. No casualties were reported.

On June 3, 1950, another grenade was tossed from a speeding car in the El-Batawin area of Baghdad where most rich Jews and middle class Iraqis lived. No one was hurt, but following the explosion Zionist activists sent telegrams to Israel requesting that the quota for immigration from Iraq be increased.

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Barry Weiss: As a "second category Jew",

Dear Mr. Atzmon, I just read "The Wandering Who."  Your book is revolutionary in the most positive sense.  As a "second category Jew", one who considers himself to be a human being who happens to have a Jewish background, I have come to accept your positions about Zionism and Jewish identity politics (of the right and the left) without ever having read your work until now.  Of course, I could not have articulated these positions nearly as well as you have and for that I thank you.  As for those who attack you viciously, on all parts of the political spectrum, it merely demonstrates their neurosis, although I am certain you do not need me to tell you this.

Barry Weiss, California,

Gilad Atzmon’s New Book: The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

The Checkpoint

A Short film by Porter Speakman, Jr. (@porterspeakman) for the "Christ at the Checkpoint Conference 2012". "The Checkpoint" looks at the system of Israeli checkpoints in the West Banks and the daily routine Palestinians must face going through the Bethlehem Checkpoint.

Palestinian PM vs. Israeli PM

By Gilad Atzmon

The Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad stated today that extremists must stop pretending to stand up for Palestinian children's rights.

"It is time for these criminals to stop marketing their terrorist acts in the name of Palestine and to stop pretending to stand up for the rights of Palestinian children who only ask for a decent life," the Palestinian premier said in a statement.

Yet I wonder, isn’t the time ripe for the Israeli prime minister to produce a similar statement- something like:

"It is time for our Jewish State to stop marketing our State- terrorist acts in the name of Jewish people, Jewish suffering and the Shoa. We better stop pretending to stand up for the rights of Jews and their children who, like Palestinians,  only ask for a decent life."

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Baroness Ashton and Jewish Sensitivities

By Gilad Atzmon

http://www.deliberation.info

The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy was criticised yesterday  for  comparing the killing of three children and a rabbi in a shooting attack in France to the situation in Gaza.

At the “Palestine refugees in the changing Middle East” conference in Brussels, Baroness Ashton, described the murders in Toulouse as a “terrible tragedy”, but  she then added: “When we see what is happening in Gaza and in different parts of the world – we remember young people and children who lose their lives.”

Seemingly some prominent Jewish and Israeli leaders couldn’t agree less. For them Jewish suffering exceeds all other suffering and Palestinian’s in particular.

The London Jewish Chronicle quoted some of the outraged critics.  “Even when read in context, Ashton’s words are beyond unacceptable,” said Oliver Worth, the British chairman of the World Union of Jewish Students. He said they were “truly outrageous and revolting” and called for her to resign because she had “lost all credibility”.  And yet, Mr Worth fails to explain why is it “outrageous and revolting” to equate Jewish suffering with Palestinian one.

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William A. Cook: PCN — “Disavowal” of Gilad Atzmon ? The Truth be damned!

 http://www.veteranstoday.com/

“For me to be Jewish is, above all, to be preoccupied with overcoming injustice and thirsting for justice in the world, and that means being respectful toward other peoples regardless of their nationality or religion, and empathetic in the face of human suffering whoever and wherever victimization is encountered” (Gilad Atzmon, “On Jewish Identity,” 1/15/2011).

Strange that the US Palestinian Community Network, in an article titled “Granting No Quarter: a Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Anti-Semitism of Gilad Atzmon,” by Ali Abunimah, would seek to silence the voice of a man who, as the quote that opens this article attests, publically proclaims, to all the world in his new book The Wandering Who, that he stands for “justice, human dignity, equality and social and economic rights,” the very principles that the US PCN proclaims in that very article: “…we stand with all and any movements that call for justice, human dignity, equality, and social, economic, cultural and political rights.”

Perhaps Mr. Abunimah failed to read Mr. Atzmon’s book. Perhaps he failed to see the contradiction he penned. Perhaps he felt forced to respond to outside pressures that necessitated he “reject the reality of the perception” expressed by Mr. Atzmon and propose “disavowal,” an action that Nahida suggests might be related “to the Talmudic concept of excommunication in which “the Talmud forbids coming within six feet of a person who has been excommunicated“? (from “Disavow with no mercy,” Nahida exiled).

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Cynthia McKinney Interviews Gilad Atzmon about Israel, Zionism, and Jewish Identity Politics

Cynthia McKinney: I had the great fortune to meet Gilad Atzmon IN PERSON in Atlanta!  He came, he spoke, he played.  It was marvelous.

I actually interviewed him for Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox radio program that will air some time in the coming few days.  Be on the lookout for it.

The interview was a good follow-up to his remarks in Atlanta.  I touched him.  He's human.  He's just a person.  And he's a thinker.  He has deep philosophical underpinnings for his positions.  He is actually engaging in a conversation with himself, but is allowing the world to hear his musings.  His conversation is no different than the one some Black people are having now around the meaning of the Presidency of Barack Obama since his policies are the exact opposite of what was once the Black Political Consensus that was admired around the world as a result of the struggle for civil rights in this country.  What are we to do when that consensus is betrayed by one of our own?  If you read Glen Ford at BlackAgendaReport.com, you will see what I mean.  When values that have been held for generations are suddenly betrayed, introspection for meaning is always appropriate.  

I felt the same way with Madeleine Albright; it only intensified with Condoleeza Rice and Susan Rice.  As I said at a town hall meeting last night, that Rice plantation must have been one messed-up place!  But certainly women must have the same pangs of conscience when we see women personalize policies that result in mass murder.

At any rate, in the flesh, Gilad is charming and thought-provoking.  He said nothing that was offensive to me and nothing that I heard him say resembles what I read about him.

Finally, I know what it is like to be maligned.  For serious values to be twisted and chewed and mangled into distortions beyond recognition.  And although he would never admit it, I'm sure these attacks hurt him immensely.  I wish there were something I could do about that, but we all are so hurt.  Don't retreat.  Hold my hand and we will walk with Gilad through this difficult time for us all.

Gilad Atzmon’s New Book: The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

Alison Weir: The unfortunate division over Gilad Atzmon

http://alisonweir.org

While people are suffering in Israeli prisons and being killed in Gaza, it is sad to see time and energy expended in a campaign against Israeli author and saxaphonist Gilad Atzmon. I respect and like people on both sides of this controversy and am troubled over this distracting and destructive (but, I hope, temporary) split.

I, of course, come down on the side of open discussion, even when the  subject matter is difficult or troubling – in fact, that's probably when it's most needed. I believe in such old fashioned but critical concepts as the free marketplace of ideas, and I oppose censorship and would-be "thought police" telling others what they may or may not do, even when those attempting to do this have created valuable work that I admire.

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, which sponsored a discussion with Atzmon, has posted the most recent letter against Atzmon, followed by Atzmon's response here.

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Atzmon on The Ugly Truth

Mark Glenn: Tonight’s program–Gilad Atzmon discussing the latest attacks against his work by ‘pro-Palestinian’ activists as being ‘racist’ and SURPRISE, SURPRISE–’anti-semitic’.

We spoke about Zionism, Israel, Abunimah & Co, poverty in America.. a very interesting interview..

Source: http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/tut-podcast-march-17-2012/

Gilad Atzmon’s New Book: The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity Politics Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.