The Jewish Plan For The Middle East and Beyond

By Gilad Atzmon

Surely, what’s happening now in Iraq and Syria must serve as a final wakeup call that we have been led into a horrific situation in the Middle East by a powerful Lobby driven by the interests of one tribe and one tribe alone.

Back in 1982, Oded Yinon an Israeli journalist formerly attached to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, published a document titled ‘A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties.’This Israeli commentator suggested that for Israel to maintain its regional superiority, it must fragment its surrounding Arab states into smaller units. The document, later labelled as ‘Yinon Plan’, implied that Arabs and Muslims killing each other in endless sectarian wars was, in effect, Israel’s insurance policy.

Of course, regardless of the Yinon Plan’s prophesies, one might still argue that this has nothing to do with Jewish lobbying, politics or institutions but is just one more Israeli strategic proposal except that it is impossible to ignore that the Neocon school of thought that pushed the English-speaking Empire into Iraq was largely a Jewish Diaspora, Zionist clan. It’s also no secret that the 2^nd Gulf War was fought to serve Israeli interests -  breaking into sectarian units what then seemed to be the last pocket of Arab resistance to Israel.  

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OMAR: Uncovering Occupied Palestine

A Film Review by Richard Falk

           OMAR is the second film directed by Hany Abu-Assad to be a finalist among foreign language films nominated to receive an Oscar at the 2014 Academy Awards ceremony on March 2^nd. The earlier film, PARADISE NOW (2005), brought to life the preoccupation at the time with suicide bombing as the principle tactic of Palestinian resistance by exposing the deep inner conflicts of those who partake, the tragic effects of such terror on its Israeli targets, and the hardened manipulative mentality of the leaders who prepare the perpetrators. Abu-Assad born in 1961 in Nazareth, emigrated to the Netherlands in 1980, writes the screen plays for his movies as well as directs. He has a great talent for story telling that keeps an audience enthralled by the human drama affecting the principal Palestinian characters while illuminating broader issues of profound moral and political concern without stooping to didactic or clichéd means of conveying ‘the message.’ So understood, Abu-Assad’s achievement is artistic in the primary sense, yet attunes us to the dilemmas of oppression and servitude.

Life Under Occupation

            In these respects OMAR is superior even to PARADISE NOW in its enduring effects on viewers. By telling the story of what life under Israeli occupation means for the way Palestinian lives are lived day in and day out, the film brilliantly depicts the normalcy’s of romantic attraction contrasting with the abnormalities of humiliating and tormented lives lived behind prison walls. The film opens with Omar climbing the high domineering security wall to overcome the separation of Arab families living on either side, being detected by the Israeli guards who sound sirens and fire a shot. Omar manages to clamor back down and leap to safety. Israeli police on foot and in cars madly chase Omar through the alleyways and streets of an impoverished Palestinian neighborhood. The underlying poignancy of Omar’s situation is to be at once ‘a freedom fighter’ and a sensitive young man deeply in love with Nadia, the younger sister of Tarek, his militia commander. In an unspoken realism, Omar is unconditionally bound to both causes, jeopardizing his chance to live a shadow life of acquiescence to the realities of occupation by his choice to dedicate himself at great risk and little hope to the liberation of the Palestinian people and their land.

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On Jewish Blood Rituals

Outside The Box - Jason Liosatos with Gilad Atzmon

Jason Liosatos  speaks with  Gilad Atzmon about the barbaric, abusive and unhygienic  Jewish circumcision.  

Part 1: http://youtu.be/b2MY2HQp63s

Part 2 http://youtu.be/EaOpLtjYp4I

Part 3 http://youtu.be/Be8Yj6_63G8

Omar – Film Review by Gilad Atzmon

One of the most important Palestinian feature films ever, Omar is, to date, the deepest expose of the diabolical nature of the Israeli occupation and the inhuman situation imposed on Palestinians by the Jewish State. It also throws light on the tragic and depressing Palestinian struggle against a sophisticated, demonic enemy - an on-going battle that so far has led nowhere.

In his latest film, Palestinian director Hany Abu Assad sets Omar (Adam Bakri), a young freedom fighter in an impossible, yet common, Palestinian dilemma, caught in a devastating triangle between his patriotic commitment, romance and the omnipresent Jewish State – a brutal, Orwellian, Big Brother that sees everything, knows everything, sets people against each other and controls everything through a network of collaborators even within the resistance.

http://youtu.be/OPcvn4Mtglc

Once captured by the IDF and being subject to some horrendous physical and mental torture by Israeli intelligence, Omar is set into a hellish scenario. He eventually manages to buy the Israeli’s trust, he lets them believe that he is willing to cooperate.   At that moment Omar pretty much seals his fate. He is destined to lose everything.

Though we, comfortable in our cinema seats, know that he never compromised his commitment to his people, one by one, the Palestinians around him, led to believe he is a traitor, they turn their backs on him. Losing the love of his life to his friend - clearly a collaborator - he is ostracised by fellow warriors and their families. Omar, a Palestinian patriot, becomes a pawn in an evil Israeli game. As his situation deteriorates and his tragedy unfolds in front of our eyes, he remains aware of it all, and we, who witness this emerging tragedy, also can see no way out. 

Agent Rami (Waleed Zuaiter), the veritable ‘good cop’ is the Israeli intelligence operator who recruits Omar. He appears to be humane, he never uses physical pressure, he also has his own family matters to handle, wife, kid etc’. But all those ‘humane’ symptoms are there to cover a deeply sinister and hideous character. Rami is in fact a cold blood Israeli monster who shatters the lives of others in a mass scale. He systematically makes empathy and human affection into a highly functional instruments of total abuse.

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This Weekend in London - a talk and concerts

The Road To Bop – pre-concert talk

Fri June 6th - 7:00pm - 8:00pm @ Vortex Downstairs

Ahead of his concert tonight at the Vortex Jazz Club, Gilad will give a talk about his first encounter with jazz music and its impact on his ethical and philosophical stand, exploring aspects of music and morality. To book a [...]

Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble – Two Night Residency

Fri 6th and Sat 7th - 8:00pm - 11:30pm @ Vortex Jazz Club

‘A formidable improvisational array…a jazz giant’ The Guardian. ‘The best musician living in the world today’ Robert Wyatt 20 years after landing in the UK, saxophonist and composer Gilad Atzmon has become an intensely creative presence on the European scene. [...]

Fri June 6th -  book online

Sat June 7th  book online

Sex Hasbara For Israel

Dr. Ruth, American sex therapist, media personality, and author, explains why she feels home to the Celebrate Israel Parade taking place every year on Fifth Avenue.

The 50 Most Influential Jews – Not a single humanist on the list

By Gilad Atzmon

Yesterday The Jerusalem Post published its “list of the world’s 50 most influential Jews,” those who in one way or another have “worked tirelessly for the improvement of humanity and, in doing so, have made their mark on history.”

The truth is that the list does not exactly fit the Post’s description of it. Not a single humanist is listed; instead we find a catalogue of Jewish war criminals, financiers, gambling tycoons, ethnic cleanser advocates, a Holocaust fraudster, a few Rabbis with minimal importance even within the Jewish world and one Ethiopian entertainer.

I guess that for those who are still desperate to find a Jewish humanist, Masada 2000’s S.H.I.T List is the place to find them.

The J Post’s list is headed by US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, “who in his position in the cabinet is vital to shaping President Barack Obama’s policy.” Lew is followed by Janet Yellen, “another American Jew who made history this year when she became the first woman ever appointed chair of the Federal Reserve.” Apparently the 1^st and 2^nd ‘most influential Jews in the world’ are now taking care of American finance. Let’s hope that these ‘influential Jews’ know what they are doing because the last two influential Jews who ran the Federal Reserve left the world’s economy in ruin. 

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Paul Eisen in conversation with Gilad Atzmon

A very interesting informal and rather personal exchange between Eisen & Atzmon touching the most sensitive topics. I learned a lot from this exchange and I am sure that the followers of this site will be fascinated.

Part 1 http://youtu.be/5fOJbWtmBFE

Part 2 http://youtu.be/tF3j8f5MX-8

The Wandering Who? A Study Of Jewish Identity politics and Jewish Power in particular - available on Amazon.com  & Amazon.co.uk

A Diplomatic Defeat to Israel and the Jewish Lobby

Is Jewish power falling apart?

Haaretz reported yesterday that  India, China and Turkey called on the international community to throw its support behind the new Palestinian government. Russia followed suit several hours later. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton also issued a statement calling the formation of the unity government "an important step" the process of Palestinian reconciliation.

Ashton said: "we welcome the appointment of a government of independent personalities and the declaration by President Abbas that this new government is committed to the principle of the two state solution based on the 1967 borders, to the recognition of Israel's legitimate right to exist, to non-violence and to the respect of previous agreements," the statement read. "The EU's engagement with the new Palestinian government will be based on its adherence to these policies and commitments."

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Press TV Correspondent Threatened by JDL

Press TV correspondent Joshua Blakeney was interviewed about an unpleasant email he had received from the Jewish Defence League. The JDL was described by the FBI as a "violent extremist organization" in a report entitled "Terrorism 200/2001". Blakeney vowed to continue "soldiering on" in his struggle to expose the pro-Zionist falsehoods of the political and journalistic establishment.