THE LUCRATIVE BUSINESS OF SUING FOR REPARATION ....

After ww2, Germany paid the equivalent of many billions of Dollars in reparation for the Holocaust, both to few individuals and mostly to the state of Israel . Japan has been more reluctant to admit its war crimes and atrocities for all the period between 1930 and 40 , where thousands upon thousands of mostly Korean and other nearby nationalities were forced  into prostitution in specialized brothels for their invading soldiers .

Turkey is another example, in denying even refusing to talk about its genocide against millions of Armenians who were living in the Ottoman empire, mostly as well to escape possible compensations to their descendants nowadays .

Australia is still debating their obligations to the Aboriginal people, where between 1910 to the seventies, Aboriginal children of mixed races were forced to separate from their parents and placed strictly in white only foster homes, all in an effort to blend the children to a white society, and speed up the elimination of Aboriginal culture and trace. Only lately has some officials acknowledged the grievances of generations of Aborigines young children .

Many parts of the world struggle with similar issues, and mostly the reparation's coasts as well as their moral issues . America for one has some serious issues and they're still being debated ranging from the native Indian American population and their fate, to the enslaved black population and its policies for long generations, to its incarceration of its Japanese citizenry during ww2 .

There are arguments for and against the whole reparation and apologizing arguments, mostly by parties inclined to benefit or loose ; " people in present generations should not or could not be held responsible for wrongs committed by previous generations." To admit guilt for an injustice and take responsibility for it is after all to be part of it . One shouldn't pay reparation or be the guilty party for something he didn't do or was done before he or she was born .   

Recently it was rumored that thousands of NY families of the 9/11 victims were to sue the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as some of its young individuals alleged participation and financing of the whole terrorist act. It's to be enforced in the US where the Kingdom assets could be easily attained and confiscated if the courts approves it , we didn't hear about this case as I suspect it wasn't in the Israeli interest to open the case again, nor our actual political branch approved its consequences.

I'm citing this case to raise serious questions about the whole issue of reparation for grave injustices , could Palestinians for example raise a case in American courts against Israel, or Israeli citizens or even against Jewish people, and ask for serious reparation, both morally and monetarily for the Zionist's acts in their under occupation territories, for their killed youths everyday, for their apartheid and organized theft, dehumanization and annihilation of the indigenous population of the land .

Could Syrians of all walks of life ask the Russians, Turks, Americans and Israelis for reparation payments for their tragic situation?? Could Chilean, Iraqi or Iranian peoples ask for similar reparation for suffering years of blatant punishments or CIA interference and regime change and invasions of their countries . Maybe only the Zionists new how and managed to coerce the entire world and continue doing so for huge reparation benefits, obliging the world to shut its eyes of Israel's own injustices, will they ever accept to treat their own victims in the same spirit ??

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POPULISM AND FASCISM ..... ALIVE AND WELL ....

Populism , another name for fascism , in the West is generally well and making its come-back , and will continue to strive for some time , it is taking uglier, even some very bad shapes in some societies like Israel and to a lesser extent the U.S. , as people in power and elites are failing to respond properly and in time to changing circumstances within their respective societies. They would invariably focus solely on their own private interests and fantasies, thus real liberal democracies turn into their opposite, and get deprived of the true spirit and meaning of democracy .

Changing the traditions of enlightenment, human progress, the natural goodness of man, rationality and social values into out worst irrational sentiments, hatred of the other, xenophobia, fear, and lust for power. These feelings and acts which appear and solidify in the name of freedom and democracy, turn as the perfect instrument to kill freedom and destroy democracy. It only proves the stupid, pathetic and frustrated side of any society .

Imperialism, fascism and colonialism are hidden aspects of all of us, it surfaced and thrived decades ago in many societies, and it is doing so again in many 21st century societies. Instead of transcending ourselves, living in truth and compassion, honoring the freedom and dignity of all human beings, living in harmony in a transglobal future, we revert back to some of the ugliest tactics and forms of colonialism, to apartheid and brutality, to regime change and annihilations and dehumanisation of entire populations .

Although some taboo words have become so un-American and un-Western decades after our worst years of colonial hegemony and various atrocities, words like fascist, imperialist, communist, and colonialist, homophobic and apartheid are all being reenacted proudly in our new century, we'd have to admit that such words and concepts are becoming active again and spreading in our social body .

What a huge difference between Sweden, Germany, most Nordic European societies and Canada, struggling to incorporate and absorb immigrants of miserable spots of the world versus Israel that is striving to dehumanize and annihilate a whole indigenous population to settle some of its people in these stolen lands . And kicking out their immigrants of colour ( African black immigrants).

American recent history in the Middle-East , under the influence of Israeli hegemonic interests did a lot of flip-flopping, from Nasser who was the ugly guy by excellence, then slightly a better person and finally brought down as the super villain. The Shah of Iran, Mossadegh and Khomeini in Paris, were all alternating between good and bad, depending on the moment . Hafez El-Assad and later his son Bashar were both at certain times super-statesmen and later turned into super terrorists when not very convenient to our or Israel's general schemes .

Saddam of Iraq was our beloved man invading Iran in 1980, but not quiet so invading Kuwait in 1990,  Gaddafi of Libya was our and Britain's darling for taking over from the previous Libyan king, we even warned and saved him from a coup in his country, but then coldly delivered him to his own mob who lynched him, and yes the famous Palestinian leader Arafat who was the despised terrorist while in Lebanon, tolerated while in Tunis, turned into a hero statesman while shaking Clinton's and Rabin's hands, then cherished while in his big prison in the occupied territories, until out of use and miserably disposed of .

I'm not going to mention our good deeds toward all elected or not Latin American leaders. The truth is , as Robert Fisk said, " We can not just tell who our friends are anymore these days". The Saudi king to be is coming to Washington sometimes next week , I expect big money , big friendships, and big shifts in M-E and Palestinian policies will be announced . While we're actively preparing with our Israeli friends for a new war against Syria, the south and entirety of Lebanon, and Iran , another one with North Korea, our partners and friends and State Department dignitaries are changing rapidly .
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FILTERED NEWS .....

As reported by Haaretz , a leading newspaper in Israel , that the Israeli cabinet ministers are pushing a bill baring Palestinians from petitioning the high-court in some cases. This and other similar procedures and laws, are all in line with a systematic campaign of abuse against the local Palestinians, be it Christians or Musslems, inspired and compared to anti Jewish laws issued in Nazi Germany .

Another related example was the imposition by the Israeli gov. of various restrictions on the bank accounts of Evangelical, Armenian and Roman churchs, on the grounds of non-payments of property taxes. All resulted in the closure of the Church of the holy Sepulcher, a major Christian place of worship in Jerusalem's old city, Christians revere it as the site where Jesus was crucified, and where his tomb is located, and the following resurrection .

The church's closure by all Christian clerical councils in occupied Jerusalem, in protest of Israeli tactics, to tax the church's properties, and widely seen as a sure path to weaken Christian presence in the divided city. The closure lasted three days and it could have gone for longer time, if Israel didn't back-track on its decision to tax the churches properties. The whole episode took the entire world by surprise and awe, the whole world but the US, the US media, nor any US politician, the white house or the administration, none of them uttered one word about the whole episode, even our ambassador to Israel was so very busy preparing for his soon to come move from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, and help finance new illegal settlements, instead of advising the State-Department.

What's interesting, as it seems to be of no or very little interest to the US media, no major newspaper nor any TV network or their affiliates and talk shows, not even Fox news, no White House comment or release, no one literally seemed to consider the news worthy of their time or of any interest to the American public. While any wink of some NRA spokesperson, or any of Netanyahu aids, even our good old Monica Lewinsky, would immediately make first page and headline news.

I always took it for granted that the American Evangelical church was blindly backing Israel's Neo Cons politicians, and vulgar tactics and policies, so why are the media and politicians ignoring and not mentioning such Christian related material, even if not very convenient to Israeli tactics. Anything would go but not the Holly Sepulcher.....  Something is very wrong .

According to a statement by the combined religious authorities of the city, and the Palestinian Authority, these new legislations which could be legalized very soon, are nothing but a facade to further confiscation of Palestinian properties and commercial localities owned by Christian Palestinians in Jerusalem, and other Palestinians in different under occupation areas. Against every decent consideration or international law .

IN life, humans should not be both animals and persons, Kant tells us that human beings are always to be treated as ends, and never as means only; in other words, their freedom, rights and dignities, are to be respected. It seems that the entire Middle-East unqualify perfectly, its religiosity from all sides prevent these basic rules . These societies are becoming experts at applying tactics that resembles the scraping of the row oyster from its shell, and stinging its wounds with lemon juice before swallowing them .

In our last few decades, some political experiments, like the Fascist, communist or Nazi ones, the multitude of devastating wars, the fiction works of Orwell, Huxley and others, should have been enough warnings to all human beings in how to treat each other, and how not to depersonalize individuals or whole populations, in fact just the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews by itself should have given the pseudo Muslim hordes, the Syrian regime and the Israeli apartheidchick Zionists enough to seriously rethink their acts and purposes . 
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