Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Got some information from an activist who attended the Sabeel conference in Marin County that I'm sure many of you will find interesting. First of all the list of speakers on the linked page should show immediately the agenda of Sabeel generally -- you couldn't put together a worse group of people...a worse group wouldn't be allowed in the United States as they'd be on the terror list (well, one would hope).
Anyway, I'd like to focus on what ISM/Free Gaza (the boat people) bigwig Paul Larudee talked about. You certainly can't say he doesn't have grandiose plans. Amazing the lengths that these people go to abuse the privileges of a free society (which they claim doesn't exist) in order to destroy it (demopathy). It's really quite sick. If Israel were to create the perfect society, with the most idealized civil societal protections for all, rest assured these fanatics would concoct schemes to abuse it to destroy it. Case in point, what's stated in this PDF. Excerpt:
...The plan
On May 14, 2010, more than 100 Palestinians and supporters will fly to Lid airport (Ben Gurion International Airport). They will take a variety of routes and arrive on different flights. Both the Palestinians and their supporters will be nationals who do not ordinarily require visas to visit Israel. However, they will be selected from among those who have personally been denied permission to enter.
The nationalities of the volunteers will qualify them to board the flights. However, Israeli customs authorities will probably stop them upon arrival, place them in detention, and try to deport them as soon as possible. El Al flights should be avoided, where Israeli security would probably prevent boarding.
The volunteers will nonviolently resist deportation, through non-cooperation and by refusing to comply with airline passenger requirements. Previous resistance of this type has shown that the captain of the aircraft will refuse to accept such passengers, who will then be returned to detention.
Lawyers will be arranged in advance, who will argue that the volunteers should be permitted to exercise their right to enter, and to remain at least until their cases are heard. Some cases may be appealed to the High Court and possibly to the International Court of Justice, if there is a means to do so...
I don't know what they're doing now, but if they're not already, the Israeli courts need to start assessing the freak brigade some major fines. Further, doesn't Sabeel operate in Israel? Why aren't they going after the mother organization's funds directly?
Anyway, here's more. Apparently Larudee thinks the boat trips have been very successful. He has bigger plans. He wants to take to the air. From my contact:
- Break the siege of Palestine (ie Israel) by coordinating the arrival on the same day into TEL AVIV airport of more than 100 Palestinians holding US and European passports. Alert the media. Bring things to show the media such as deeds to land, keys, old family photographs. Coordinate with local lawyers skilled at delaying deportation. Fly non-Israeli airlines, which are unlikely to cooperate with Israeli security by stopping the passengers.
- Break the siege of US media. Concentrated effort to co-opt particular US media. Larudee did not mention targets. Audience suggested that Jon stewart was already clearly sympathetic.
- an anti-apartheid concert. Huge in multiple cities at the same time. He credits such a concert in 1988 to helping bring down South African apartheid. They are soliciting musicians. Original plans for july of this year appear too optimistic.
Note: several members of Congress have agreed to consider riding with them on boat or plane.
If they spent half as much time encouraging the Arabs to create something as they do obsessing over destruction, they may actually have accomplished something by now.
Paul Larudee has come up with some creative, nonviolent methods to try to end the siege of Gaza and bring justice to the Palestinians. Justice, not force, is the key to peace in the Middle East.
The siege of Gaza. One would think that Israel would be better at a siege. Or maybe those people so interested in creatively defining siege and justice could enter via Egypt. Surely the Egyptians wouldn't besiege their brethren, would they? Where would be the justice in that?
Parity is sorely in need of a dictionary. A siege occurs when an area is surrounded and prevented from receiving supplies when under military attack. Israel does not surround Gaza, there is no armed conflict (except on the part of Hamas rockets and terror attacks), and Gaza's markets are fully stocked - have you not seen the photos of heaping mounds of candy and fruit and of Lauren Booth buying soda and chocolate (while proclaiming that Gazans are 'starving')?
And what is your definition of 'justice'? The creation of a terror state? The destruction of Israel and subsequent massacre which would invariably follow? Most people would not find these just at all. How do you define justice?
Paul Larudee has met with both Hezbollah and Hamas and is looking for creative ways to bring Iranian weapons into Gaza. The tunnels just aren't efficient enough. I heard Paul at a talk a few years back- he was asked about the fate of the two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah. His response "I trust Nasrallah. I'm sure they are fine".
Nasrallah, btw, as called for the genocide of Jews, worldwide.
These people have way too much time on their hands ... or they are being paid off to do this. I vote for the latter.
Paid Off? Maybe.
Paul lives in a home high in the hills overlooking San Francisco Bay.
Not too shabby for a piano tuner....
And on a piano tuners salary, he manages to fly to the middle east every two months or so. Imagine that.
You scooped the Israel national news by 5 days....
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136537