Israel ranks among Western world's most corrupt countries

[georgephillip]

"You can't have war without corruption.

"The history of war is inseparable from histories of corrupt power and social debasement.

"War attracts corruption like corpses attract flies. When a country elects 'to remain on a wartime footing,' the rot can get pretty deep.

"Americans should know all about this...

"America's decisive support of Israel's war (and occupation), including more than 100 billion dollars and dozens of UN vetoes, has ensnared us in the same web.

"To sustain the unending flow of money and materiel, American politics has had to yield to the ways of the war: lies, denial, and intimidation."

Spoils...

It's even sadder when you realize a one person one vote solution in 1948 would have made suicide bombers unnecessary today.

 

[California Girl]

Interesting that no one has bothered to see how the US fared on the list. We have slipped to number 22, in case anyone cares.

"... The following countries showed deterioration from 2009 to 2010: the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Madagascar, Niger and the United States."

Pelosi presides over a collapse in our standards of ethics and transparency.... exactly the opposite of what she promised.

 

[Jroc]

I love this.. Notice the weapons are not from the U.S. most are French made they really didn't get much support from the U.S. at that time

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E63AKJpa1Tk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E63AKJpa1Tk[/ame]

 

[georgephillip]

Interesting that no one has bothered to see how the US fared on the list. We have slipped to number 22, in case anyone cares.

"... The following countries showed deterioration from 2009 to 2010: the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Madagascar, Niger and the United States."

Pelosi presides over a collapse in our standards of ethics and transparency.... exactly the opposite of what she promised.

Democrats and Republicans serve the same 1% of the US population.

The same 1% who profit most from the corruption of wars they are least likely to participate in.

The same 1% who are moving their fortunes out of dollar denominated assets, and when they're finished the Fed will turn every $10 bill in your possession into a $5 bill.

Or worse.

Will you blame Pelosi or Palin or both?

 

[Marc39]

America's decisive support of Israel's war (and occupation), including more than 100 billion dollars and dozens of UN vetoes, has ensnared us in the same web.

There is no occupation, Georgie. You don't even know what an occupation is.

The League of Nations unanimously established Palestine as the Jewish homeland...

Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country

The Avalon Project : The Palestine Mandate

Under the terms of the binding Palestine Mandate, Pallies are illegally occupying sovereign Israeli land.

Israelis also purchase between $15 billion and $20 billion in American products annually, offsetting US foreign aid to Israel, thus, Israel is not only America's most important ally, Israel is a lucrative one, too...

Office of the United States Trade Representative...

U.S. goods exports in 2008 were $14.5 billion, up 11.3 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Israel were $22.3 billion, up 7.4 percent. Israel is currently the 20th largest export market for U.S. goods.

Israel | Office of the United States Trade Representative

 

[georgephillip]

1948.
Mandate Palestine.
1,220,000 Arab Muslims and Christians.
650,000 Jews.
One Person; One Vote?
No Jewish homeland in the Arab Middle East.

 

[Marc39]

1948.
Mandate Palestine.
1,220,000 Arab Muslims and Christians.
650,000 Jews.
One Person; One Vote?
No Jewish homeland in the Arab Middle East.

Palestine is the Jewish homeland. Arabia is the Muslim homeland.

Allah agrees...
Quran 5:20-21...

Remember Moses said to his people: 'O my people! Recall in remembrance the favor of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin.

Barack Obama agrees...

Israel is a sovereign state, and the historic homeland of the Jewish people.

It should be clear to all that efforts to chip away at Israel's legitimacy will only be met by the unshakeable opposition of the United States. The slaughter of innocent Israelis is not resistance -- it's injustice

Remarks by the President to the United Nations General Assembly | The White House

Winston Churchill agreed...

The Jews had Palestine before that indigenous population [the Arabs] came in and inhabited it

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Jews-Friendship-Martin-Gilbert/dp/0805078800]Amazon.com: Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship (9780805078800): Martin Gilbert: Books: Reviews, Prices & more[/ame]

The League of Nations agreed...

Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country

The US Congress agrees...

The United States Congressional Record
1922 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NATIONAL HOME FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE JUNE 30, 1922
HOUSE RESOLUTION 360 - UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED

Palestine of today, the land we now know as Palestine, was peopled by the Jews from the dawn of history until the Roman era. It is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. They were driven from it by force by the relentless Roman military machine and for centuries prevented from returning. At different periods various alien people succeeded them but the Jewish race had left an indelible impress upon the land.

Today it is a Jewish country. Every name, every landmark, every monument and every trace of whatever civilization remaining there is still Jewish. And it has ever since remained a hope, a longing, as expressed in their prayers for these nearly 2,000 years. No other people has ever claimed Palestine as their national home. No other people has ever shown an aptitude or indicated a genuine desire to make it their homeland. The land has been ruled by foreigners. Only since the beginning of the modern Zionist effort may it be said that a creative, cultural, and economic force has entered Palestine. The Jewish Nation was forced from its natural home. It did not go because it wanted to.

A perusal of Jewish history, a reading of Josephus, will convince the most skeptical that the grandest fight that was ever put up against an enemy was put up by the Jew. He never thought of leaving Palestine. But he was driven out. But did he, when driven out, give up his hope of getting back? Jewish history and Jewish literature give the answer to the question. The Jew even has a fast day devoted to the day of destruction of the Jewish homeland.

Never throughout history did they give up hope of returning there. I am told that 90 per cent of the Jews today are praying for the return of the Jewish people to its own home. The best minds among them believe in the necessity of reestablishing their Jewish land. To my mind there is something prophetic in the fact that during the ages no other nation has taken over Palestine and held it in the sense of a homeland; and there is something providential in the fact that for 1,800 years it has remained in desolation as if waiting for the return of the people.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688123635/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0688123627&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0HX00TRZAFXPP1PG6MNR]Amazon.com: Israel: A History (9780688123635): Martin Gilbert: Books[/ame]

 

[georgephillip]

If one one third of voters in Mandate Palestine were Jewish, how did a Jewish homeland come into existence on that land?

Western imperialism as championed by the racist US Congress circa 1922?

How does one illegitimate Jewish occupation 3000 years ago justify another today?

 

[Marc39]

If one one third of voters in Mandate Palestine were Jewish, how did a Jewish homeland come into existence on that land?

Western imperialism as championed by the racist US Congress circa 1922?

How does one illegitimate Jewish occupation 3000 years ago justify another today?

Western imperialists created 30 illegitimate Arab countries after WW I.

You wanna shut them down, Georgie?

 

[Marc39]

If one one third of voters in Mandate Palestine were Jewish, how did a Jewish homeland come into existence on that land?

Western imperialism as championed by the racist US Congress circa 1922?

How does one illegitimate Jewish occupation 3000 years ago justify another today?

Palestine is the legitimate Jewish homeland.

Allah agrees...
Quran 5:20-21...

Remember Moses said to his people: 'O my people! Recall in remembrance the favor of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin.

Barack Obama agrees...

Israel is a sovereign state, and the historic homeland of the Jewish people.

It should be clear to all that efforts to chip away at Israel's legitimacy will only be met by the unshakeable opposition of the United States. The slaughter of innocent Israelis is not resistance -- it's injustice

Remarks by the President to the United Nations General Assembly | The White House

Winston Churchill agreed...

The Jews had Palestine before that indigenous population [the Arabs] came in and inhabited it

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Jews-Friendship-Martin-Gilbert/dp/0805078800]Amazon.com: Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship (9780805078800): Martin Gilbert: Books: Reviews, Prices & more[/ame]

The League of Nations agreed...

Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country

The US Congress agrees...

The United States Congressional Record
1922 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NATIONAL HOME FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE JUNE 30, 1922
HOUSE RESOLUTION 360 - UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED

Palestine of today, the land we now know as Palestine, was peopled by the Jews from the dawn of history until the Roman era. It is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. They were driven from it by force by the relentless Roman military machine and for centuries prevented from returning. At different periods various alien people succeeded them but the Jewish race had left an indelible impress upon the land.

Today it is a Jewish country. Every name, every landmark, every monument and every trace of whatever civilization remaining there is still Jewish. And it has ever since remained a hope, a longing, as expressed in their prayers for these nearly 2,000 years. No other people has ever claimed Palestine as their national home. No other people has ever shown an aptitude or indicated a genuine desire to make it their homeland. The land has been ruled by foreigners. Only since the beginning of the modern Zionist effort may it be said that a creative, cultural, and economic force has entered Palestine. The Jewish Nation was forced from its natural home. It did not go because it wanted to.

A perusal of Jewish history, a reading of Josephus, will convince the most skeptical that the grandest fight that was ever put up against an enemy was put up by the Jew. He never thought of leaving Palestine. But he was driven out. But did he, when driven out, give up his hope of getting back? Jewish history and Jewish literature give the answer to the question. The Jew even has a fast day devoted to the day of destruction of the Jewish homeland.

Never throughout history did they give up hope of returning there. I am told that 90 per cent of the Jews today are praying for the return of the Jewish people to its own home. The best minds among them believe in the necessity of reestablishing their Jewish land. To my mind there is something prophetic in the fact that during the ages no other nation has taken over Palestine and held it in the sense of a homeland; and there is something providential in the fact that for 1,800 years it has remained in desolation as if waiting for the return of the people.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688123635/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0688123627&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0HX00TRZAFXPP1PG6MNR]Amazon.com: Israel: A History (9780688123635): Martin Gilbert: Books[/ame]

 

[P F Tinmore]

So, Israel is the only country in the Middle East where there is freedom of religion.

Now, even you know, dunce.

Fraid not, not according to the evidence Marc, the Israeli police wouldn't allow the people their freedom of religious expression

are you a compulsive liar or are you able to control the problem at times?

The three "Sleepless" videos I posted showed three things.

In occupied Jerusalem, Israeli police blocked Christians from celebrating Easter.

In the West Bank, Christians celebrated Easter without a cop in sight.

In Gaza, Christians celebrated Easter without a cop in sight.

 

[P F Tinmore]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evE5yyRF5U0[/ame]

http://www.usmessageboard.com/israel-and-palestine/134774-sleepless-in-gaza-and-jerusalem.html

 

[Marc39]

Gaza Water Park...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU5NmRkaIt4[/ame]

 

[georgephillip]

If one one third of voters in Mandate Palestine were Jewish, how did a Jewish homeland come into existence on that land?

Western imperialism as championed by the racist US Congress circa 1922?

How does one illegitimate Jewish occupation 3000 years ago justify another today?

Western imperialists created 30 illegitimate Arab countries after WW I.

You wanna shut them down, Georgie?

Starting with the Jewish State of Israel.

 

[georgephillip]

"While appreciative bosses often rehabilitate their 'fallen' underlings, MK Omri Sharon may have set a new speed record for moral turnarounds.

"In the same week that he pleaded guilty to perjury, falsifying documents, and violating the party funding law during his father's 1999 Likud primary campaign, he appeared as the campaign manager of his father's 'groundbreaking' new Kadima party."

Sharon's Israel: More proof that corruption and private fortunes are hereditary evils.

The Spoils...

 

[Marc39]

"While appreciative bosses often rehabilitate their 'fallen' underlings, MK Omri Sharon may have set a new speed record for moral turnarounds.

"In the same week that he pleaded guilty to perjury, falsifying documents, and violating the party funding law during his father's 1999 Likud primary campaign, he appeared as the campaign manager of his father's 'groundbreaking' new Kadima party."

Sharon's Israel: More proof that corruption and private fortunes are hereditary evils.

The Spoils...

Bogus website. This is why you're severely uneducated.

 

[georgephillip]

"Bogus" as in there's no "Add to Cart" option available?

 

[Marc39]

"Bogus" as in there's no "Add to Cart" option available?

Your website is bogus as in you're severely uneducated and do not know any better.

 

[georgephillip]

Was Ariel Sharon corrupt?

 

[georgephillip]

From Uri Avnery's "The Occupation and Political Corruption in Israel:"

"And indeed, everybody knows that corruption affairs are currently occupying the center of the public stage. A former President of the state is awaiting judgment in a rape trial.

"A former Prime Minister is suspected of accepting fat bribes.

"A former Finance Minister is in prison.

"A former senior minister has been convicted of indecent conduct for forcing his tongue into the mouth of a female army officer (it happened on the day the government decided to launch Lebanon War II).

"The Foreign Minister is under investigation. A long list of assorted politicians, senior civil servants and army officers are in various stages of investigation and prosecution."

Avnery, who's often credited by friend and foe alike as creating Israel's investigative journalism, wonders today if "corruption scandals often fill the space that should have been devoted to the matters that are crucial to our future..."

"NO DOUBT, the big corruption scandals help the media – and the public at large – to push aside the central problems of our existence: the occupation, the elimination of the chances for peace, the enlargement of the settlements, the continuing blockade of Gaza, the racist laws against the Arab minority in Israel proper, all the dangers connected with the ongoing 130-year-old conflict between us and the Palestinians.

"The public does not want to hear about this. It wants all these matters to disappear from its sight, so as to be left to enjoy life.

"This is a national exercise of escapism.

The Occupation and...