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GERMANS GIVE THESE OUT LIKE PARTY FAVORS, NUKES INCLUDED IT SEEMS

6 Decades of Deception

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

I will keep this short as possible.  A single nuclear weapon has “gone missing” as of last week, one of four missing but this one “more missing” than the others. 

The Thames Valley Police, famous for their fictional representations in the Colin Dexter detective novels, detained a high ranking government security officer, department to remain unnamed, at the behest of what we are told is the Home Secretary.  

Time we put a call in to Inspector Lewis?  Morse, played by John Thaw, would never have allowed such a thing.  John Thaw was always a favorite and his pub of choice, The Trout outside Oxford is a nice stop off, you can misplace a nuke, torture a spy, this time one of your own,  and make it home with fish and chips.  I do so love Britain.

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Now, to put this is American English.

A nuclear weapon that wasn’t supposed to exist, a single 500 kiloton hydrogen bomb, one of four being tracked, was seen being loaded at the German port of Bemerhaven, Germany.

The groups assisting in what we were informed was a counter-terrorism surveillance operation were the American NSA, British MI 6, the Office of Naval Intelligence and the British Royal Navy.  The “device” was loaded onto a Germany built “Dolphin” submarine and left the harbour doing 7.5 knots.

The submarine disappeared while being tracked by every sophisticated device NATO seems to be able to own or borrow.

At least one of those from among the listed agencies was arrested by the local police force in Oxford, their electronic surveillance gear siezed, were confined for 12 hours despite being above arrest and detention as a senior NATO intelligence officer.

Attempts to track the sub in the busy harbour were in vain and it is unknown what the nationality of the crew were or the destination, whether the UK, the US or some place in the Middle East.

What we do know is that Germany and other NATO nations, in a highly disputed exception to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, had held 182 such weapons until all had supposedly been given back to the United States in 2005.

We now know this to be untrue.  There are several possible scenarios:

• Germany is a nuclear power in violation of international treaties and both Germany and the US are lying
• The German government is in violation of international treaties and is selling or transfering nuclear weapons to unknown third parties
• Terrorists have stolen a nuclear weapon that Germany was holding illegally
• Germany is involved in a terror plot aimed at a third party, Iran, the United Kingdom or the United States
• The submarine in question may or may not be one Germany is giving to Israel, this one with a “special enhancement” which, as we had questioned earlier, might be used against Iran, the United Kingdom or United States.

We know the British government at some levels, some departments, are aware of this action and are responding with retribution against their own intelligence services.  This seems to be an indication that some authority within Britain seems to have gone rogue, certainly the Thames Valley Police, possibly the Home Office and we can’t help but want to take a long hard look at David Cameron and his many mysterious meetings with Rupert Murdoch, the “not very Australian” ultra-nationalist/Likudist Israeli who stands somewhat accused of endless criminal acts or perhaps not.

Nobody in Britain actually knows.

Is someone planning to blow something up somewhere?  Are these just simply Germany boys on a lark, stolen submarine, borrrowed illegal nuclear weapon, kind of a prank?

Then again, we have the Bush administration.  Assurances were made that all such weapons had been out of German hands 7 years ago.   We now have direct evidence, eyewitnesses, that indicate that the US failed to follow the provisions of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that it is using as a pretext to threaten Iran with violations of.

Oddly, Israel never signed the treaty and is, by conventional standards, considered a “rogue state.”

A fuller accounting indicates that the warheads may not be American but were of Soviet design.  We know the number to be four.

One has been traced to a location inside the London itself.  Other locations for this one are likely New York, Lower Manhattan for a December delivery, tuned down to 100 kt, perhaps to pass off as another plane crash.  Mombasa and other African ports are on the lists as well.  There is a very nasty controversy between US intelligence agencies on information sharing as to this issue.  As this is an actual operation, not a “rumor,” attempts to keep secrets or mislead just aren’t going to work anymore, as this article has proven.

Weapons of this type are generally located through use of specialized aircraft, in this case, the Boeing Sentinal E3D.  These are highly modified 707 aircraft.  The British have 7 of these operating out of RAF Waddington.  They were placed on “mechanical fault standown” on April 14.  Who would have thought all these planes were preparing to discombobulate?

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We find this “coincidence” rather curious and call for an official inquiry into the accidental and sudden failure of Britain’s most valuable air assets.

The individuals and sources of this story will, at their request, not be credited.  If anyone out there if familiar with the radiation signature of an aging Soviet 1/2 megaton nuclear warhead, we would be glad to print that information, hoping the appropriate authorities might stumble upon it here.

Additionally, if anyone spots a Dolphin submarine, please give us a  ring also, same reasons.

DAVID, STILL PM SO FAR, REBEKAH, STILL UNDER ARREST

If anyone runs across one of the Murdoch clan, Rupert or James, see if they have come up with something on this.  Make sure one of them informs the Prime Minister.

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An interesting response by John Kettler:

ETs/EDs Raid Bremerhaven, Germany Last Week;

“Disappear” Dolphin Sub, Nuke & Crew While Under Comprehensive NATO & Intelligence Agency Surveillance!

ETs/EDs (extraterrestrials/extradimensionsals) of the Liberation Forces raided Angela Merkel’s Germany last week, a move expected by the writer, given Germany’s decades of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) proliferation (chemical weapons and precursors, supplying missile expertise, illegal sale of ultra centrifuges to anyone with cash, plus providing quiet Diesel-electric subs to Israel, but set up to allow for rapid conversion to nuclear cruise missile launch platforms). Call the ETs/EDS most unhappy!

The “normal” part of this amazing tale is here, in a withering article by Senior Editor Gordon Duff of Veteran’s Today, but what concerns us is the hidden side of this, the ETs/EDs‘ disappearing of a Dolphin sub, crew and highly illegal 0.5  megaton nuclear weapon after they put to sea  (reportedly then making 7.5 knots in crowded Bremerhaven Harbor)–while under comprehensive surveillance by both NATO and multiple international intelligence agencies from the U.S., U.K., and Germany! The ETs/EDs say if anyone asks “Where’s the sub?” the answer is “We have it!”

ETs/EDs Exclusively Reveal Sub Was Bound For Israel!

Apparently, guilt and greed in Germany know no limits, and Russia has yet again been found dispensing nukes to all comers with cash in hand, according to the ETs/EDs. What Gordon Duff mentioned in passing in his article, the ETs/EDs state specifically: “The nukes in his article are Russian, and Russia will pay dearly for this latest transgression in a long string. The Dolphin sub was en route to Israel and did have an Israeli crew.”

ETs/EDs Fully Expect “International Repercussions” From Gordon Duff’s Article & This Post

It’s taken a long time, but Germany has been officially caught with her hand in the nuclear cookie jar, and Russia, whose nuclear peccadilloes rouse such ire in officialdom there when outed, will have much to explain, not just to terrestrial authorities but to her “topside” ally, with whom she’s already in both the exopolitics penalty box and the doghouse. According to one of the ETs/EDs, “Expect Russia’s most advanced fighter, the SuMi-41, armed with “topside” supplied energy cannon, to disappear outright from the Russian inventory. There may be other punitive measures taken as well.”

The ETs/EDs mean what they say when it comes to honoring treaty terms with them, and nothing is taken more seriously than anything involving proliferation or use of nuclear weapons. The ETs/EDs haven’t figured out what will be done about Germany, but they say “It’ll hurt and be highly visible.” Rest assured, that’s no hollow threat. Just ask Hugo Chavez or Benjamin Netanyahu! “Israel,” the ETs/EDs say, “will also be chastised.” Whether or not that chastisement will extend beyond the loss of a pricey sub, expensively trained crew and a highly illegal, expensive nuke “is presently undecided.” The overall impression received, both directly and indirectly, is that the ETs/EDs  are really angry and upset over the outrageous actions of Germany, Russia and Israel.

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Press TV Banned in Germany and Britain, But Why

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by  Gordon Duff,  Senior Editor

About an hour ago, I did an interview on Press TV saying I wanted Bradley Manning released. 

I also pointed out that, though we found Julian Assange to be working with Israeli intelligence, yes, we know, using those two words together is, in itself, humor, Manning should be released. 

Within an hour,  Blankfoot, a curious character, had contacted one of our managing editors.  He was incensed that I would “out” Assange, though Zbigniew Brzezinski did it in 2010 and Assange had been “busted” as an Israeli fraud dozens of times.

When it was Blankfoot, I knew I had drawn blood, that Assange had been hiding behind the suffering of Bradley Manning, forwarding Israel’s war on the United States.  I learned nothing new about Blankfoot, he had made himself more than obvious long ago.  Actually, I had thought he was dead.

Anyway, from an earlier article on VT:

Grant Smith discusses the Rosen v. AIPAC lawsuit that threatens to bring Washington to its knees with an espionage scandal of unimagined proportions:

Grant Smith

Steven J. Rosen’s defamation lawsuitagainst the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is now entering a critical phase. A series of cross-filings stakes out the critical court terrain.

Rosen intends to show that obtaining and leveraging classified U.S. government information in the service of Israel is common practice at AIPAC.

He claims it was unfair for AIPAC to fire and malign him in the press after he was indicted on espionage charges in 2005.

On March 2, 2009, Rosen filed the civil lawsuit against his former employer, directors, and an outside public relations firm for libel and slander. Rosen, AIPAC’s former foreign policy chief, seeks $5 million in damages from AIPAC, and punitive damages of $500,000 from each former board member, for a total claim of $21 million.

AIPAC made statements to the news media Rosen believes were “knowingly false and defamatory and issued in reckless disregard.” AIPAC fired Rosen and fellow employee Keith Weissman after they were criminally indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act in 2005.

Both were caught up in an FBI sting operation receiving classified information from Department of Defense employee Col. Lawrence Franklin, who pled guilty and turned state’s witness.

Steve Rosen – Formerly with AIPAC

Rosen’s legal counsel David H. Shapiro gruffly advised AIPAC’s attorney Thomas L. McCally that he would be seeking “serious discovery” on Rosen’s behalf during a status hearing on June 5, 2009.

It is this sort of public intrusion guided by knowledgeable insiders, following already devastating FBI raids, that AIPAC probably wants to avoid at all costs.

Ironically, Rosen’s civil lawsuit, like the failed government prosecution, hinges on proving that circulating classified information is common practice inside AIPAC.

This is how the game is played, how intelligence assets like Assange who has now penetrated Russia Today as an Israeli “front man” is of such value to Israel.  That I would get my first attack from the sort of “famous” Jeff Blankfoot, one of many who brand themselves as “anti-Zionists” but that I see quite differently was more than amusing.

Jeff actually “made my day.”  I do so love seeing enemies of freedom and mankind bleed. More than that, killing phony Wikileaks and Assange, who both Brzezinski and I saw as an Israeli agent and advocate of war against Islam, had left me without my “Moriarty.”

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The interview is available in full at PBS.  The interview is edited by me, with little exception, as monologue by Brzezinski here.

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI:  The real issue is, who is feeding Wikipedia on this issue — Wiki — Wiki — WikiLeaks on this issue? They’re getting a lot of information which seems trivial, inconsequential, but some of it seems surprisingly pointed. …The very pointed references to Arab leaders could have as their objective undermining their political credibility at home, because this kind of public identification of their hostility towards Iran could actually play against them at home.

It’s, rather, a question of whether WikiLeaks are being manipulated by interested parties that want to either complicate our relationship with other governments or want to undermine some governments, because some of these items that are being emphasized and have surfaced are very pointed.

And I wonder whether, in fact, there aren’t some operations internationally, intelligence services, that are feeding stuff to WikiLeaks, because it is a unique opportunity to embarrass us, to embarrass our position, but also to undermine our relations with particular governments.

Judy Woodruff

JUDY WOODRUFF: But this is 250 — it’s a quarter-of-a-million documents.

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: Precisely.

JUDY WOODRUFF: How easy would it be to seed this to make sure that it was slanted a certain way?

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: Seeding — seeding it is very easy.  I have no doubt that WikiLeaks is getting a lot of the stuff from sort of relatively unimportant sources, like the one that perhaps is identified on the air. But it may be getting stuff at the same time from interested intelligence parties who want to manipulate the process and achieve certain very specific objectives.

I need Julian Assange.  Between his attempts to seem “free minded” and “progressive” lurk the intentions of the “New World Order.”  He is quite clumsy and transparent as his love of Israel and continual attempts to stifle investigations of their wrongdoing, including 9/11, has taught real activists.

Julian Assange

You can watch accused rapist Julian Assange any time you want, his hour long show on Russia’s state owned network but if you are British or German, Iran’s “Press TV” is considered too scary for you.

I have about two dozen of my Press TV segments online and I am, by far, the scariest thing Press TV ever carries:  Gordon Duff on YouTube

It isn’t because they call on Veterans Today for opinions that I care.  In fact, Press TV is quite mainstream as news goes, not very controversial, quality reporting, reasonably balanced but also includes opinions that criticize that are censored from other networks.

These are hardly propaganda.  As I pointed out to their head at one point, about half their “activists” work from Israeli front organizations anyway.  Real “activists” aren’t good at organizing as Veterans Today proves, as almost none of us who write there ever agree with each other.

I tend to call it “freedom of speech,” why people who fight and die for freedom like to use it occasionally.

More to the fact, the biggest problem is information.   None of us can have educated opinions without access to information and with everything in the world “classified,” certainly everything in the US, as we are learning from the show-trial of Bradley Manning, we are more controllable than ever.

Mr. Murdoch…with that ‘look’

Considering Britain had banned Press TV then found their entire government had been traded back and forth by the Murdoch family like trinkets is what makes them particularly a joke.

When Britain, with all their talk, actually puts a “Murdoch” in hand cuffs instead of arresting everyone around them….

But of course, what we know of as blackmail has never really stopped, has it?  Does Britain love being a joke?  But the US has its own problems.

Take the issue of the president’s birth certificate?  Does anyone know who started it or why?

As a defense contractor, I have access to military grade forensics capability, I can have photos, documents and such examined.  Very recently, VT had some UFO photos looked at.  It cost thousands. 

As for the “birth certificate,” our experts tell us that it is impossible to tell, on a photocopy, whether it is real or not and that anyone claiming otherwise is a liar.  My own was done on 3 different typewriters while the family fought over what my middle name would be.

I must be from Kenya.

When you work in intelligence, are under multiple authorities to “not divulge” information, some the public might have use for, most is garbage anyway, you can be frustrated.

America Invades – Heroin Production Skyrockets

Ever notice that, though $80 billion in heroin leaves Afghanistan, nobody has ever seen it picked, processed into heroin, taken to airplanes, flown to Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo and then “cut” and broken down for distribution.

Nobody has ever photographed the truckloads heading into Russia and, although the government complains about the US role, they fail to admit their own, that their military gets a cut and that Russian generals provide security for Afghan heroin that has made 25 million Russians hopeless addicts.

Blaming the US is easier.

Look at the recent story on whores in Colombia and our Secret Service.  None of us who have traveled under these details, or similar, believe a word of it.  We know the story, blown way out of proportions, is cover for an internal investigation of the President’s security detail.

This investigation is highly classified, really should be but the cover story, which may have been needed, is about as stupid as anything imaginable. 

Do catch my article on this but also, wonder why I am the only one who asked any of the questions and why nobody from the mainstream press risked “presidential access” by simply telling the truth.

Whores?  The actual summit is where the whores were really needed as delegates hired them by the hundred.   Go ahead, blame the Secret Service.

“Access” is more important than truth, that’s why what we get isn’t news but press releases, carefully crafted lies that has left us a generation of morons. Why do we lie so much?  I could list hundreds of reasons but let’s look at a couple.

We have already talked about heroin, failing to point out how many members of congress get a cut, over 200, how the CIA’s end is over $20 billion.

I could even give you the history, how a group of American colonels in Afghanistan were offered $30,000 each to “look the other way” and Afghanistan went from 0% of the world’s opium supply to 97.5% of the world’s heroin supply in a decade.

Try to find one word about this anywhere.  Did you know we have moved production to Iraq?  Demand is that high.  Ever read that anywhere.  Do some internet searches, the information is out there.

Last week we announced that the US government was complicit in diamond smuggling, had rigged testing machines to allow phony diamonds into the US from Israel that financed gun running, narcotics and terrorism.

We also sent all scientific data to the applicable authorities, FBI, others, which has been ignored.  We stand ready to prove, beyond any doubt, that it is impossible, using any equipment allowed inside the US, to tell a “natural” and “legal” diamond from one grown using newer processes or “conflict diamonds.”

Every aspect of the diamond industry is involved, from governments to “gemology associations.”

F-35

Other minor problems our news keeps from us, where do we start, oh yes, the F 35 Joint Strike Fighter.  It doesn’t work.

You see, it has 10 million lines of code that run the avionics and they are hopelessly infected and unrepairable, it may take 2 years.

Nations that agreed to buy the plane and help finance the project, Senator John McCain’s baby, have bailed out on us.  An F 16T is 10 times the plane that an F 35 will ever be and costs a tenth as much.

Our entire military plan for the next 40 years is gone and we lie about it.  During the last couple weeks, we sent up rocket powered “space planes” as a decoy.

One actually disintegrated and it took us two days to admit it.  Both are rocket launched, thus totally “unsecret.”  Neither increase any military capability.  They are nothing but attempts to make our military look less stupid and wasteful. They don’t work.

Our other problem is our missile defense system, call it the new “Patriot” with the SM3 or whatever.  It is also ten years behind the S400 Russia is giving away and is, if you read the trade rags, not working. 

The Patriot radar system can’t differentiate from warheads to missile scraps to “chaff.”  It is worthless as is and it is the result of 30 years of work.

Good going. Were I Israeli, I might put a “for sale” sign in front of my house. Ah, but it gets worse.  Let’s examine international affairs a bit.

Camp Bondsteel – Whose Camp is it, really?

The US has a huge prison/concentration camp in Poland, a huge base in Kosovo, Camp Bondsteel, where we are assured the world’s heroin is cut, processed and reshipped along with bases in Bulgaria and Romania.

The US is also rumored to share secret bases with Israel in Georgia and Azerbaijan. Three key areas to the region are Serbia, Turkey and Greece but, something has happened.

Russia decided to put their most advanced S400 missiles, a thousand times better than their American counterparts, the recent Patriot “version III” that we now admit is totally defective, in an enclave north of Poland.  This puts Poland under Russian air supremacy.  Oops.

Russia also decided to put the same in Trans-Moldova, a small region between Slovakia and Moldova, east of the Ukraine.  This gives them partial control of all of Romania and Bulgaria, air defense-wise, anyway.

Then there is Serbia.  With a new Russia friendly government likely to take over there and Serbia very very angry at the US and only a couple other countries recognizing Kosovo as an independent nation, really still part of Serbia, Russia is going to be invited in there.

KFOR troop distribution

This will make the 30,000 NATO troops in Kosovo practically prisoners.  Russia will totally own their airspace.

This was all part of the “Bush Doctrine” to control the world through creeping into Central Asia to steal oil, peddle drugs and put Israel in charge of the world so the “end times” could come and George “W” Bush could sit at the side of loving Jesus and decide who to burn to death at will.  I do so love Krazy Kristians.

Then there is Greece.  Greece is totally broke, ready to be kicked out of the European Union and stuck between Turkey and Serbia.

Turkey has opted for the Russian S 400 air defense system which could be delivered to Iran at any time.  It can shoot down any stealth aircraft with ease and has options for medium range missiles.

Kazakhstan has indicated it may use the same system, which is being developed in China and is being funded by Russia, France and South Korea.

Back in 2000, the Clinton administration offered to help Russia finance their advanced S 500 system which would destroy any long range ballistic missile.  Bush ended those discussions and Russia is developing the system which is behind schedule, expected for delivery in 2017.

The S 400 will, however, destroy cruise type missiles and is workable now and being delivered.  It negates all US air power in Central Asia, Iran, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, or will when and if Russia chooses and America continues its policies.

What policies?  That is the question.  Why are we attempting to flank Russia with bases much as with the Truman Doctrine of 1947?  How can we build on the prestige of winning World War II when the Bush administration made America the most hated nation on earth?

How can a nation totally bankrupt convince the world to follow it?

Then we look at Iraq.  We are “out of action” there, our forces removed and the country much more unstable than the day we entered.  We look at Egypt, facing civil war, ready to go to war against Israel, their former ally, as soon as a united government replaces the remains of the Mubarak junta.

Turkey now hates Israel, their former ally, because Israel executed 9 Turkish citizens in an act of piracy in 2010. Azerbaijan, the “secret base” for Israel can be taken by Iran is less than one day.

Afghanistan only allows Americans to continue because we are sharing drug revenue with key tribal chiefs who are allowing Karzai to continue to pretend being president.  Afghanistan is, perhaps, the most divided nation on earth, with few nations designed to disintegrate quicker.

Imran Kahn – Next President of Pakistan?

Pakistan, very similar in many ways, is facing the possible election of Imran Khan, who may be able to unite the country but who will immediately withdraw from all agreements with the US.

He has the strong support of the people, the army and China.  He is also the most popular leader of the entire Islamic world.

Where does this leave things?  The plotters plot.  Key Saudi’s, Bahrain and Israel plot to hold the Gulf.  Israel continues to control the Republican Party in the US and key members of the Democratic leadership though despised by the President and White House along with the military.

Thus, America is extremely divided.

What is certain is that the Bush policy in Central Asia is in shambles, crazy to  begin with.  Their policy for Eastern Europe puts the US at odds with Putin who recently returned to power, at a time when America is at its weakest since 1946.

While this is going on, from a financial and military standpoint, the “great powers” are dividing up Africa, searching for key resources that can represent “collateralization of currency” when hydrocarbons become worthless and the fiat currencies are no longer accepted.

This is a pipe dream.

Our prayers?  We pray that the world forgets our transgressions, our arrogance, our debts, our defilement, our hubris, our slaughter and accepts the leadership we have never offered.

Here, at home, we offer an Obama second term, one with possible promise, only remotely possible, against the assurity of mob rule by an illiterate financial crook under the control of Israel. Few Americans know the difference.

Jeb Bush, representing the Colombian cartels, stands on the sidelines, as did his father when Bush was elected.  60 days after the Reagan election, a family friend pumped two bullets into the President.

Obama just cleaned out the Secret Service over a “whore” scandal.

Were a national system for expressing the political will of the American people to exist, Ron Paul might be running against himself. And so it goes….

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By Gilad Atzmon

http://www.deliberation.info/

Israel National News published today a poem by Itamar Yaoz-Kest, a Holocaust survivor. The poem is presented as “letter-poem in reply to German Günter Grass’ attack.” The poem is a clear reminder of horrific danger that is embedded within Jewish identity politics and contemporary Jewish nationalism. It is a glimpse into unique psychotic genocidal sense of retribution.

The “letter-poem” starts as follows:

Danger,

I want to be a danger,

I want to be a danger to the world,

so that after my destruction, not a single blade of grass will remain on the face of the Earth,

or a single blade of grass for Gunther Grass’s pipe,

upon the Earth where, since I was born, I pose a danger to the world.

Because it is my right!

It is my right to live or die while annihilating my annihilators, without riding again as a crying-boy in a transport train,

Into the world-vacuum, while placing my head in the lap of a mother who is disappearing into the fresh air of the Land of Wotan,

and the urine tin darts dark-yellow specks onto the walls of the cabin – like gunshots that spray

a yellowish-reddish liquid from besides the train guards, and among them – maybe – the soldier G.G., also, wearing a steel helmet.

Later in the poem, Yaoz-Kest issues what appears to be a statement of intent along the lines of “the Samson Option”:

“For it is the right of the Nation of Israel to finally shut the gates to the world after it leaves this place (not of its free will!), and we have the right to say, at the price of the 3,000 year old fear: “If you force us yet again to descend from the face of the Earth to the depths of the Earth – let the Earth roll toward the Nothingness.”

The Samson Option – taking out Israel’s enemies with it, possibly causing irreparable damage to the entire world – has been a phantasmic Israeli strategy since the early 1950’s.

The message for the rest of us is clear- Israel is the biggest threat to world peace. Time is overdue to discharge the Jewish State of its destructive power.

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Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass uses poem to say a nuclear-armed Israel is a threat to world peace

German author Gunter Grass says he has been silent too long over Israel Photo: PETER FOLEY

By Sameer Rahim,

Assistant Books Editor

The German Nobel laureate and novelist Günter Grass has attacked Israel as a threat to an “already fragile world peace” in a poem published on Wednesday on the front page of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, a leading German daily based in Munich.

The poem “Was gesagt werden muss ”, translated as “Somebody Must Say It”, criticises what it claims is western hypocrisy over Israel’s nuclear programme given the current speculation over whether the Jewish state will attack Iran to prevent it from building a nuclear bomb. A decision by the German government to sell a submarine capable of carrying nuclear warheads apparently provoked him to pick up his pen.

In the work he calls for both Israel and Iran to accept international regulations of their atomic programmes. Israel is generally regarded to have nuclear weapons but has never admitted this; instead it has an official policy of “ambiguity”. Iran has always denied it is seeking a nuclear weapon.

Grass’s poem specifically criticises Israel’s “claim to the right of a first strike” against Iran, but also refers to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a “loudmouth” who “subjugates” his people.

Grass says he has been silent on Israel’s nuclear programme because Germany committed “crimes that are without comparison” during the Second World War. But silence, he says, has become a “burdensome lie and a coercion” and that for those who speak up “the verdict ‘anti-semitism’ is commonly used”.

The Nobel-Prize winning author is most famous for his novel The Tin Drum (1959), one of the first literary depictions of the violence of the Nazi regime from a German perspective. Regarded for many years as the conscience of Germany, the nation was shocked in 2006 when he admitted in his autobiography Peeling the Onion (for the first time) that he had fought for the Waffen-SS in the final months of the war.

Given this background German newspapers from both Left and Right were swift to critcise the author. “How blind do you have to be to ignore the actual circumstances [in the Middle East] this way?” wrote Die Weltwhile Der Spiegel said his “poor taste” obscured his arguments. It also drew the ire of Jewish organistions in Germany.

Steffen Seibert, a spokesperson for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was more sanguine. “There is artistic freedom in Germany, and there thankfully also is the freedom of the government not to have to comment on every artistic production” he said.

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Der Spiegel

In a move that has drawn angry reactions in Germany, Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass has published a new poem criticizing Israel’s policies against Iran. Historically, Grass has been outspoken in his political views, but many believe the author has now broken a taboo.

 

German author Günter Grass has accused Israel of “endangering a world peace that is already fragile.”

Günter Grass, Germany’s most famous living author and the 1999 recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature, sparked outrage in Germany on Wednesday with the publication of a poem, “What must be said,” in which he sharply criticizes Israel’s policies on Iran. 

“Why did I wait until now at this advanced age and with the last bit of ink to say: The nuclear power Israel is endangering a world peace that is already fragile?” Grass writes in the poem. The 84-year-old also criticizes the planned delivery of submarines “from my country” to Israel, a reference to Germany’s plan to deliver Dolphin-class submarines to Israel that are capable of carrying nuclear-armed missiles. At the same time, Grass also expresses his solidarity with Israel.

In the poem, published by Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and other European dailies on Wednesday, Grass also calls for an “unhindered and permanent monitoring of Israel’s nuclear potential and Iran’s nuclear facility through an international entity that the government of both countries would approve.” It is widely believed that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, although it has never been proven.

In response to the publication, the Israeli Embassy in Berlin issued a statement offering its own version of “What must be said.” “What must be said is that it is a European tradition to accuse the Jews before the Passover festival of ritual murder,” the statements reads. “Earlier, it was Christian children whose blood the Jews allegedly used to make their unleavened bread, but today it is the Iranian people that the Jewish state allegedly wants to annihilate. What also must be said is that Israel is the only state in the world whose right to exist is openly doubted. That was true on the day of its founding and it remains true today. We want to live in peace with our neighbors in the region. And we are not prepared to assume the role that Günter Grass is trying to assign to us as part of the German people’s efforts to come to terms with the past.”

‘A Tendency Toward Megalomania’

Others have also reacted. The Central Council of Jews in Germany has called the poem an “aggressive pamphlet of agitation.” Ruprecht Polenz, the chair of the German parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee and a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, told the daily Mitteldeutsche Zeitung that, while Grass is a literary great, “he has difficulties whenever he comments on politics and is often wrong.” Polenz’s CDU colleague Philipp Missfelder said “the poem is tasteless, ahistorical and demonstrates a lack of knowledge about the situation in the Middle East.”

Grass, however, has found support from the head of the German PEN chapter, Johano Strasser, who also warned against exporting German weapons to Israel on Wednesday in a radio interview.

The German newspaper Die Welt, which apparently got an advance copy of the poem, published a response on Wednesday by Henryk Broder, a journalist at the newspaper who is the country’s most prominent Jewish writer. The Berlin-based polemicist, who himself is famous for his outspoken views, attacks Grass in an editorial. “Grass always had a problem with Jews, but it has never articulated it as clearly as he has in this ‘poem’.”

He writes that “Grass has always had a tendency toward megalomania, but this time he is completely nuts.” He also criticizes Grass for claiming in a 2011 interview with Israeli journalist Tom Segev that 6 million German soldiers were “liquidated” by the Soviets after World War II. The figure is extremely controversial as it hints at a direct comparison with the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

Grass, Broder writes, “is the prototype of the educated anti-Semite, who is well-meaning when it comes to Jews. Haunted by feelings of guilt and shame and also driven by the desire to settle history, he is now attempting to disarm the ’cause of the recognizable threat.’”

‘The Same View as Ahmadinejad’

The last time Grass made headlines in earnest was back in 2006, when he revealed for the first time in his autobiography, “Peeling the Onion,” that, as a 17-year-old near the end of World War II, he had served as a member of the Waffen-SS. The author came under intense criticism at the time. Many accused him of having concealed the fact that he had been a member of the SS for decades, even as he publicly criticized others for their Nazi pasts time and again. Some at the time alleged he had lost his authority as a moral figure.

Wednesday’s poem is not the first time Grass has come out with critical views of Israel. In a 2001 interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he offered his own solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Israel doesn’t just need to clear out of the occupied areas,” he said at the time. “The appropriation of Palestinian territory and its Israeli settlements are also a criminal activity. That not only needs to be stopped — it also needs to be reversed. Otherwise there will be no peace.”

Welt journalist Broder alleges the statement is “no less than a demand for Israel to not just cede Nablus and Hebron, but also Tel Aviv and Haifa.” Just like Hamas and Hezbollah, Broder alleges, “Grass does not differentiate between the ‘occupied areas’ of 1948 and 1967.” By calling the “appropriation” of Palestinian territories a “criminal act,” Broder claims, Grass shares the same view as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Surveys show about one-fifth of Germans agree with anti-Semitic statements, such as ‘Jews have too much power in business’

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A new study by a Parliament-appointed commission shows 20% of Germans harbor “latent” anti-Semitism, but anti-Jewish crimes are almost exclusively committed by the far right.

Taboos Falling?    Jews divided over ‘Mein Kampf’ reprint  / AFP   As Holocaust survivors hit out at move, historians cheer news that Hitler’s anti-Semitic manifesto will be reprinted in Germany for first time since Nazi dictator’s fall in 1945. Head of Central Council of Jews grudgingly gives his approval

The 188-page report – which draws on several different surveys and other research – puts Germans in the middle of the pack in Europe, with a German university survey showing more latent anti-Semitism in countries such as Poland, Hungary and Portugal, and less in Italy, Britain, the Netherlands and France.

The study released Monday said the surveys show that about one-fifth of Germans agree with anti-Semitic statements, such as “Jews have too much power in business.” 

The study also showed that 90% of anti-Semitic crimes are committed by right-wing extremists, who number about 26,000 according to official estimates. 

It recommends better coordination of local, state and federal strategies to combat anti-Semitism.

The report makes reference to “a wider acceptance in mainstream society of day-to-day anti-Jewish tirades and actions”.

“Anti-Semitism in our society is based on widespread prejudices, deeply rooted clichés and on sheer ignorance about Jews and Judaism,” stated one of the report’s authors, Dr. Peter Longerich of the University of London, Holocaust Research Center.   The report cites the Internet as a contributing factor to the spread of anti-Semitic thought.

“With regard to modern forms of communication – we point to the Internet in particular – it is virtually impossible to prevent the spread of such thinking,” Longerich continued.

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ed note–this is a story from many years back, but still serves an extremely vital service in contextualizing the world we live in.

It is a constant mantra we in the west are constantly subjected–how DEM MOOZLEMS ‘treat their women’. Mohammed the pedophile…72 virgins…female circumcision, etc, etc, etc.

However, here we have a story taking place in Germany, the one-time HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE for Pete’s sake, where a young woman is told if she refuses to take on the degrading and dangerous job of prostituting herself she will lose her unemplyment benefits.

We can JUST IMAGINE if this were to take place in an Islamic country, all the screeching and howling we would get from the JMSM, but when it happens in one of those countries tasked with fighting Israel’s wars for her, it barely gets notice.

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A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners – who must pay tax and employee health insurance – were granted access to official databases of jobseekers.

The waitress, an unemployed information technology professional, had said that she was willing to work in a bar at night and had worked in a cafe.

She received a letter from the job centre telling her that an employer was interested in her “profile” and that she should ring them. Only on doing so did the woman, who has not been identified for legal reasons, realise that she was calling a brothel.

Under Germany’s welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit. Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the number out of work to its highest since reunification in 1990.

The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars. As a result, job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the same way as those looking for a dental nurse.

When the waitress looked into suing the job centre, she found out that it had not broken the law. Job centres that refuse to penalise people who turn down a job by cutting their benefits face legal action from the potential employer.

“There is now nothing in the law to stop women from being sent into the sex industry,” said Merchthild Garweg, a lawyer from Hamburg who specialises in such cases. “The new regulations say that working in the sex industry is not immoral any more, and so jobs cannot be turned down without a risk to benefits.”

Miss Garweg said that women who had worked in call centres had been offered jobs on telephone sex lines. At one job centre in the city of Gotha, a 23-year-old woman was told that she had to attend an interview as a “nude model”, and should report back on the meeting. Employers in the sex industry can also advertise in job centres, a move that came into force this month. A job centre that refuses to accept the advertisement can be sued.

Tatiana Ulyanova, who owns a brothel in central Berlin, has been searching the online database of her local job centre for recruits.

“Why shouldn’t I look for employees through the job centre when I pay my taxes just like anybody else?” said Miss Ulyanova.

Ulrich Kueperkoch wanted to open a brothel in Goerlitz, in former East Germany, but his local job centre withdrew his advertisement for 12 prostitutes, saying it would be impossible to find them.

Mr Kueperkoch said that he was confident of demand for a brothel in the area and planned to take a claim for compensation to the highest court. Prostitution was legalised in Germany in 2002 because the government believed that this would help to combat trafficking in women and cut links to organised crime.

Miss Garweg believes that pressure on job centres to meet employment targets will soon result in them using their powers to cut the benefits of women who refuse jobs providing sexual services.

“They are already prepared to push women into jobs related to sexual services, but which don’t count as prostitution,” she said.

“Now that prostitution is no longer considered by the law to be immoral, there is really nothing but the goodwill of the job centres to stop them from pushing women into jobs they don’t want to do.”

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