Palestinian Prisoners’ Day
Tania Kepler for the Alternative Information Center | 17 April 2011
Today, 17 April, is Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. The day commemorates the release of Palestinian prisoner Mahmoud Hijazi in the first prisoners’ exchange between the Palestinians and the Israelis in 1974.
This year Palestinian Prisoners’ Day comes in the midst of a wave of mass and arbitrary arrests by the Israeli military forces in the West Bank village of Awarta, following the murders of 5 family members in the nearby settlement of Itamar.
So far more than 500 men, women and children have been arrested, questioned, detained, and asked to sign statements in Hebrew, a language they do not understand.
While most villagers were released within hours of their arrest, 50 still remain in detention without charges, including two children, according to the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights.
The situation for Palestinians in Israeli prisons is grim. According to ADDAMEER, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Rights NGO, over 6,800 Palestinians, from the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and 1948 Palestine, are currently imprisoned by the Israeli state. Of those, over 300 are children, 34 are women, 18 are elected Palestinian representatives and almost 300 are ‘Administrative Detainees’ – that is they have been interned without trial not having been charged with any crime or seeing the secret evidence against them.
The prisoners are being detained in 17 prisons and detention centers; such as, Nafha, Ramon, Ashkelon, Beersheba, HaDarom, Gilboa, Shata, Al-Ramla, Damon, Hasharon, Naqab, Ofer and Megiddo.
Over four decades of illegal Israeli military occupation, Palestinians from all walks of life have been illegally detained by Israel. Since the beginning of the occupation in 1967, over 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel, reports ADDAMEER.
An estimated 10,000 Palestinian women have been arrested and detained since 1967 under Israeli military orders, which govern nearly every aspect of life in the occupied Palestinian territory. As of 1 February 2011, 36 Palestinian women remain in Israel’s prisons and detention centers, including 3 women in administrative detention. The two prisons in which Palestinian women are detained are located outside the 1967 occupied territory, in direct contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Sign this petition to free all Palestinian Women Prisoners in Israeli Jails:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/free-Palestinian-women-political-prisoners/

This report makes it clear that the United States Government is aiding and abetting systemic violations of Human Rights by giving political cover for the misbegotten State of Israel which is occupying all of Palestine, every square mile of it!
In fact the as has been state and restated my legal scholars, the Zionist regimes have committed CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & WAR CRIMES from since 1948. Their attitude is racist, in which they claim racial superiority, a “master race” over the “sub-human” Palestinians and by extension, everyone else in the world, and therefore it is not a violation of Human Rights or Crimes Against Humanity, for “the other” are NOT HUMAN BEINGS to them, but “cockroaches” and can be exterminated.
The ultimate racism to deny their victims are members of the human race. That is their mindset, ideology, conduct, and why is is a Crime Against Humanity to give any foreign aid, especially military to Israel.
Further when you combine that racist attitude with imperialism, you have the definition of NAZISM as carried out by Adolf Hitler in Germany and beyond. That is true of the Zionist of Israel, Europe, and United States.
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Bill,
In many ways we have seen that the Zionists and their Anglo/American empire tools have far exceeded the depravity of the Nazis. After all, the Nazis never nuked cities or dropped 500 lb. bombs on the Warsaw ghetto.
Perhaps it is not useful to use the Nazis as the ultimate standard for criminality. That ignominy belongs to those in control of the biggest killing machine of all.
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Correct you are in the capacity for mass destruction and mass murder.
However the point I was trying to make was their ideological mindset of Zionism being a parallel with NAZI ‘”master race”‘ component of killing lessor people, those without Aryan blood.
For clarification I found the following for the readers to new to the issue.:
‘TARGETED GROUPS
The Nazis believed that superior races had not just the right but the obligation to subdue and even exterminate inferior ones. They believed that this struggle of races was consistent with the law of nature. The Nazis pursued a strategic vision of a dominant German race ruling subject peoples, especially the Slavs and the so-called Asiatics (by which they meant the peoples of Soviet Central Asia and the Muslim populations of the Caucasus region), whom they judged to be innately inferior. For purposes of propaganda, the Nazis often framed this strategic vision in terms of a crusade to save western civilization from these “eastern” or “Asiatic” barbarians and their Jewish leaders and organizers.
The Nazis pursued a strategic vision of a dominant German race ruling subject peoples, especially the Slavs and the so-called Asiatics (by which they meant the peoples of Soviet Central Asia and the Muslim populations of the Caucasus region), whom they judged to be innately inferior. For purposes of propaganda, the Nazis often framed this strategic vision in terms of a crusade to save western civilization from these “eastern” or “Asiatic” barbarians and their Jewish leaders and organizers.
THE “ARYAN” RACE
But, Hitler warned, the German “Aryan” race was threatened by dissolution from within and without. The internal threat lurked in intermarriages between “Aryan” Germans and members of inherently inferior races: Jews, Roma, Africans, and Slavs. The offspring of these marriages were said to dilute the superior characteristics reflected in German blood, thus weakening the race in its struggle against other races for survival.’
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007457
Admittedly, this mindset was not invented by Hitler and the Nazis were not the only historical practitioners of genocide based on “race” – a prime example being the colonist in ‘The New World’ who became the
Americans; that called the native people savages and murdered them in every way possible to steal the continent and populate it with invading “settlers” – just as the Zionist-Israelis are doing to the Palestinians and intend to do to all of Lebanon and Syria, parts of Iraq and Egypt too.
Notice to the term ‘crusade’ was used as it was for the invasion of Iraq by Samuel Huntington in his ‘Clash of Civilizations’ as part of the psyop propaganda warfare for the eternal ‘War on Terrorism’ following the US-Zionist criminal conspiracy of 9/11.
Miscegenation was the term used in southern states of the United States to outlaw inter-racial marriage.
Racial segregation was reduced to economic barriers during the ‘Cold War’ because the USSR was able to discredit and defeat US propaganda in Asia, Africa, and South America by showing photographs of the random terrorist lynching of African-Americans and segregation in all housing, schools, and transportation as with having to ride in the back of the bus. The US Armed Forces were integrated only after World War 2.
Racial superiority is denial of more than a person or peoples Human Rights; it denies are a fully evolved as humans, therefore, sub-humans and language tells the story with animal pronouns like “coons” and for a “country boy” that was an animal they hunted to kill, as in going “coon-hunting” – dehumanize and then kill as if their are less than human. Most of the terms are/were of racial or cultural description as with “rag-heads” today, as “slopes, gooks, and to quote John Wayne in the film, ‘The Flying Tigers’ “Let’s send those slant-eyed sons of Satan back to hell were they came from!”
Racial supremacy is a psychological conditioning for mass murder and genocide, and not accidental in the pursuit of the expansion of empire.
So, we have no disagreement on the Nazis having been the first or worst, unless you are coming from a Zionist perspective. If you were an African, it would be the Europeans, as is the case today as we see in the Congo and Libya.
The Zionist use the holocaust to try to exonerate themselves, as the US neo-empire does 9/11 in collusion with the US following the same path Hitler took to the East and North Africa. It is all Alfred Mackinder as revisited by Brzezinski the master of Obama and hitman for David Rockefeller.
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Bill,
Post WWII Westerners like to kid themselves with the theme that the Nazi ideology was substantively different from that of the British or French empires, or that upon which the Jim Crow South was predicated. In fact, reading Churchill from the 1930’s, or reading Mien Kampf, one finds very similar ideas. Zionism is but another version, and every bit as bad.
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Aletho ~
Then the key distinction is who the victims are, not their numbers. And there ability to draw attention to the crime.
The holocaust the using the 6,000,000 figure is not to be questioned, and had it been 1,000,000 it would had been the same kind of mass murder, the difference is in degree. As with someone being stabbed to death, be they stabbed once or twenty times, they are dead nevertheless.
What I am trying to convey is that the Israeli and Zionist in general hide behind the holocaust to rationalize the debasement, torture, murder, and intended genocide of the Palestinians. And expect to get-away with it, as being justified because of what took place in the early 1940s, nearly 70 years ago. Any criticism of Israel is considered antisemitism and they try to hang a swastika on you.
I had a radio program on Pacifica Radio station KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles between January 1990 and September 1995 and was removed for being critical of Israel many of my friends think for what I said during the Second Intifada, that “Israel has twisted the Star of David into a swastika over the West Bank!”
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Bill,
You have identified why the 6 million number is so vital, not just for Jewish victim-hood mythology but also as a means of excusing Allied war crimes. This factor did not escape the British ministry of war propaganda at the close of WWII. Stalin too was quick to grasp the theme.
The problem with using the Nazi crimes as such a significant modern point of reference is that it falsely places the Allies, or Zionists as well, in a separate category, thereby suggesting that the Allied crimes are tolerable since they are supposedly the ‘lesser evil’. The same problem occurs when one applies the Nazi label to Israel.
That may become the final fall back position of Zionists, to claim that Israel will reform to ‘lite Zionism’ and repudiate ‘Nazi Zionism’. Certain pundits on the left are set to run with it. And Zionism will be granted yet another shot.
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Aletho ~
Thank you for that profound analysis! I think part of my Zionist-NAZI comparison stems from their close early relationship after the Hitler’s coup following the false-flag Reichstag fire.
I also have seen the coin minted with to commemorate the pact between German Jewish Zionist and the NAZI government of Adolf Hitler.:
And what I learned post 9/11 reading the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.:
http://www.wrmea.com/
And in sent them the link to concise booklet:
‘The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict’
http://www.wrmea.com/jews_for_justice/future.html
Just as I do not blame myself or those not supporting the policies of the US imperial ruling class for the Crimes Against Humanity & War Crimes committed consistently over from its foundation; I do not blame people who are “Jewish” for the Crimes Against Humanity & War Crimes committed from the foundation of the State of Israel in Palestine or domestically in the US, including 9/1l.
To I do contend with those who support the polices of either one, all the time, and have lost very few friends in the process, which proves that are not brainwashed about Israel anymore than I am about America.
I had high hopes for worldwide change until realizing that death machine poisoning the planet from Japan appears to make everything a moot point, and the film, ‘On The Beach’ is haunting me right now after reading Bob Nichols piece in ‘Veterans Today’:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04/11/veterans-today-exclusive-what-to-do-about-the-radioactive-poison/
We have reached the level that we might be the last generation. I hate to think of my children not living to my age, or grandchildren becoming adults.
‘This is the way the world ends: This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a whimper’ by T.S. Eliot
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