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Israel’s seemingly never-ending drive to uproot Palestinians from their homes by force of arms and threat of imminent slaughter resulted in one of its bloodiest massacres on 29 October 1956 in the village of Kafr Qasem, on the Israeli side of the 1949 Armistice (“Green”) Line.
In one of the worst massacres in Palestinian history, Israeli border police killed forty-nine residents of Kafr Qasem, including women and children
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[ □ comment: Read this and realise how Zionist butchers cloak their killing project to give it the appearance of ‘legality’!]
Already living under military rule following Israel’s first wave of ethnic cleansing when it was created in Palestine in 1948, a curfew was imposed by the occupation state at 4:30pm on twelve Palestinian villages, including Kafr Qasem. Hundreds of villagers who had left home in the morning to go to work had no way of knowing that a curfew was in place. Soldiers tasked with enforcing the curfew were ordered to shoot and kill anyone seen outside after 5pm, making no distinction between men, women, children and those returning from outside the village.
Predictably, Palestinian residents returning to their homes after the 5pm deadline were stopped by the border police on the western side of the village. Soldiers forced them out of their vehicles and ordered them to dismount from their bicycles before shooting them at close range. In just under an hour 49 people were killed, including women and children.
According to Palestinian historians, the massacre at Kafr Qasem mirrored the typical Israeli blueprint of terrorising Palestinians into fleeing. In his book Atlas of Palestine, 1917-1966, Dr Salman Abu Sitta lists at least 232 places where atrocities, massacres, destruction, plunder and looting were carried out by the Zionists between 1947 and 1956. Almost every one of thirty military operations were accompanied by one or two massacres of civilians. There were at least seventy-seven reported massacres, half of which took place before any Arab regular soldier set foot in Palestine during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war.
The pattern of expulsion was consistent, regardless of the region, date or the particular battalion involved in attacking a town or village. The imposition of a curfew was common practice prior to a massacre. Villagers would be gathered in the main square or nearby field in separate groups, while the village itself was surrounded on three sides, leaving the fourth open for escape or expulsion. The gap left open for Palestinians to flee in the Galilee region pointed towards Lebanon and Syria; towards the West Bank and Jordan in central Palestine; and towards Gaza and Egypt in the south.
.Remembering Israel’s Brutal massacre of Palestinian Civilians in Kafr Qasem
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This is a review of an article revising the general Western point of view of Africa when it is claimed that Africa had at the most a marginal significance for European and American economic development.
However the author shows that Africa eventually even enabled industrialisation itself (mainly through capital accumulation): ”The most important site of erasure (of Africa’s contribution) has been the minds of people in the rich world.” The chapter ’African Gold’ is from another article, worth a separate post.
Certainly another aspect of European meddling in Africa, was the greed for gold. Gold was naturally valued in the African kingdoms, f. ex. by the Mali Empire or the Songhai empire, but in their case it did not lead to this scale of oppression (Atlantic slave trade) or destruction (colonialism).
”Things took a turn for the worse in 1471 CE when a Portuguese fleet, sponsored by the Lisbon merchant Fernão Gomes, sailed around the Atlantic coast of Africa and established a trading presence near the gold fields of southern West Africa.”
.The Gold Trade of Ancient & Medieval West Africa
”African gold was indeed so famous worldwide that a Spanish map of 1375 represents the king of Mali holding a gold nugget.”
.The Trans-Saharan Gold Trade (7th–14th Century)
A 1375 CE illustration of Mansa Kanku Musa who ruled the Mali Empire in West Africa. (Public domain)
What We Were Told
We have heard of C. Columbus, maybe also Vasco da Gama, the adventurous discoverers of ’new worlds’.
And we learned that there was the Atlantic slavery, more or less accepted by the European elites, irrespective of humanistic or religious considerations. Its consequences are with us today.
Questions
• From were did Columbus, sailing for the Spanish crown, start his voyage across the Atlantic, and why is this important?
• What is the significance of African workforce for the economic development of Europe?
• Beginning with the late 1600s, what ”was worth more than the metal exports of all of Spanish America?”
• Was the often-professed belief of ”European unique ingenuity and inventiveness” the real reason for Europe’s domination of world trade and of capital accumulation, with the ensuing industrialisation in the 1800s?
On the Real Foundation of the Rise of Europe
”The rise of Europe was not founded on any innate or permanent characteristics that produced superiority.
It was built on Europe’s economic and political relations with [ □ comment: exploitation of ~ ] Africa – to a degree that remains unrecognised (in the public discourse). The heart of the matter here, of course, was the massive, centuries-long transatlantic trade in enslaved people who were put to work growing sugar, tobacco, cotton and other cash crops on the plantations of the New World.”
A fort in Elmina, Ghana, built by 15th-century European gold and slave traders. Photograph: David Guttenfelder/Associated Press
What Made the Development of the Americas Possible
”Without African peoples trafficked from its shores, the Americas would have counted for little in the ascendance of the West. African labour, in the form of enslaved people, was what made the very development of the Americas possible. Without it, Europe’s colonial projects in the New World are unimaginable.”
As ”Daniel Defoe, the English author of Robinson Crusoe … wrote: ’No African trade, no negroes; → no negroes, no sugars, gingers, indicoes [sic] etc; → no sugar etc, no islands, no continent; → no continent, no trade.’”
Check the original text Built on the bodies of slaves… for a more detailed description.
African Labour – European Sugar
"Without African peoples trafficked from its shores, the Americas would have counted for little in the ascendance of the west. African labour, in the form of enslaved people, was what made the very development of the Americas possible. Without it, Europe’s colonial projects in the New World are unimaginable."
"Through the development of plantation agriculture and a succession of history-altering commercial crops – tobacco, coffee, cacao, indigo, rice and, above all, sugar – Europe’s deep and often brutal ties with Africa drove the birth of a truly global capitalist economy. Slave-grown sugar hastened the coming together of the processes we call industrialisation. It radically transformed diets, making possible much higher worker productivity. And in doing so, sugar revolutionised European society."
Some statistics on the human resource extraction from Africa in the 17- 19th century, i.e. Atlantic slave trade
”The impact of this warfare on Africa’s subsequent development, however, has been immeasurable. Nowadays, the consensus estimate on
→ the numbers of Africans brought to the Americas hovers about 12.6 million…
→ if ≈ 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, 1.8 mio did not!
→ how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000 = 3%!
→ another 6 million Africans were killed during the hunt for slaves
→ between 5% and 40% perished during brutal overland treks to the coast, or while being held, often for months, in barracoons, or holding pens, as they awaited embarkation on slave ships…
→ another 10% of those who were taken aboard died at sea during an Atlantic transit…” (≈ 1.1 to 1.8 million)
”When one considers that Africa’s total population in the mid-19th century was probably about 100 million, one begins to gauge the enormity of the demographic assault that the slave trade represented.”
Related
.How Many Slaves Landed in the U.S.?
”The most important site of erasure, by far, has been the minds of people in the rich world.”
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”It requires that we transform how we understand the history of the last six centuries and, specifically, of Africa’s central role in making possible nearly everything that is today familiar to us.”
”Nearly a century ago, WEB Du Bois had already affirmed much of what we needed to know on this topic. ’It was black labour that established the modern world commerce, which began first as a commerce in the bodies of the slaves themselves,’ he wrote. Now is the time to finally acknowledge this.”
.Built on the bodies of slaves: how Africa was erased from the history of the modern world
Related: The Resource Extraction From Africa Today
Another interesting chapter of course is the resource extraction from Africa after the colonial period still going on today.
An example here:
Africa: Rising for the Few
Africa was cheated out of US$11 billion in 2010 through just one of the tricks used by multinational companies to reduce tax bills, according to new Oxfam report, ‘Africa: Rising for the few,’ released today. This is equivalent to six times the amount needed to plug the healthcare funding gap in Ebola affected countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Guinea Bissau. Multinational companies cheat Africa out of billions of dollars | Oxfam International
Fairtrade is a global movement which addressees the injustices of conventional trade by supporting smallholder farmers and workers to secure better terms of trade, with specific focus on rural development.
.About Fairtrade – Fairtrade Africa
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Intro
We know there are a lot of unsubstantiated arguments about 9/11.
But this doesn’t mean that every attempt of alternative explanations is without substance, far from it. There are many professionals from various fields of expertise and academics of many years, f ex Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth | WTC Twin Towers and Building 7 who have come to quite different conclusions than the official 9/11 story.
Remember the smoking gun of 9/11 is WTC7, which collapsed in the afternoon of that day, without being hit by anything: shortlink Proof WTC7.
People Demand a New Investigation
Anyhow, while the official story seems a lot more unlikely than some of the other theories, there are more pressing problems and life-situations which people have to solve.
But a major, historic crime such as the attacks on 9/11 still need to be investigated.
A lot of new evidence has emerged over the past years, including different scientific investigations and reports, which point into one direction: an inside job by a distinct clique of individuals in the government.
We don’t know if we will find out everything of what happened that day and the period which preceded it, but we’ll not give up the way to truth in order to connect the dots and press for a new investigation.
Coincidence or Intentional
Just as there are ‘conspiracy theories’ about the attacks on 9/11, which we have written about shortlink What is a Conspiracy Theory, there are also ‘coincidence theories’ for this tragic event.
This means that there are those who realise some of the irregularities, inconsistencies or strange circumstances surrounding 9/11, but they attribute those to mere chance or coincidence. (Dictionary coincidence: a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection).
However, what if the sheer amount of ‘coincidences’ is keeping piling up – as is the case, will those coincidences not point towards a causal connection?
What follows is a selection of such so-called coincidences, compiled by Jeff Wells, Rigorous Intuition: The Coincidence Theorist’s Guide to 9/11. Many links have fallen away, and more will disappear with time. We visualised and marked the expired links with (xL), also ø for debunkers’ claims, readers are invited to contribute with new and better links. Wherever possible a similar page has been retrieved, and we don’t know how long the information will be available in the public domain!
Quote ae911truth.org:
There was the miracle of the nineteen hijackers who defeated a multi-billion dollar air defense system with two-dollar box cutters — five of whom would later return from the grave. (see #23 below)
Then there were miracles of passenger cell phones functioning at altitudes of 30,000 feet, well above their operational range; of a hijacker’s intact passport found unscathed amidst pulverized debris at Ground Zero; of oxygen-starved, carbon-based office fires reaching temperatures hot enough to melt steel; and of the straight-down explosive collapse of two 110-story towers in less than a combined 20 seconds.
.Seeing Through the Miracles of 9/11
More Miracles or Nightmares
When in the afternoon of 9/11 the BBC reporters in NY talked about this (WTC7) building about to fall or having already collapsed, little did they know that the building was still standing.
So this begs the question, how could the BBC know that this building, which was never hit by a plane, would collapse? How could they know a future event, when usually they report on past events? Is this a miracle or what?
Tony Rooke, a British filmmaker, explains the reason for this brilliant, moving, powerful and informative film.
The clip, citing the ”General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy” is here:
What kind of energy enabled this? Would fire or a ‘pancaking’ building throw metal and concrete sideways through the air?Office fires from aircraft fuels, and alleged ’pancaking’ of high-rise stories cannot throw those chunks of heavy steel sideways and that far. The reason must be something else, isn’t this obvious?!
Selection From the ’Coincidence Theorist’s Guide to 9/11’
That so many influential figures (xL) in and close to the Bush White House (xL) had expressed, just a year before the attacks, the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" (xL) before their militarist ambitions could be fulfilled, demonstrates nothing more than the accidental virtue of being in the right place (xL) at the right time.
See:
. A New Pearl Harbour
. The Project For The New American Century – PNAC
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That the standing order which covered the shooting down (xL) of hijacked aircraft was altered on June 1, 2001, taking discretion away from field commanders and placing it solely in the hands of the Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld), is simply poor planning and unfortunate timing. Fortunately the error has been corrected, as the order was rescinded shortly after 9/11.
.The 9/11 Commission Report
That in the weeks before 9/11, FBI agent Colleen Rowley (xL) found her investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui so perversely thwarted that her colleagues joked that bin Laden had a mole at the FBI, proves the stress-relieving virtue of humour in the workplace.
05
That over the summer of 2001 Washington received many urgent, senior-level warnings from foreign intelligence agencies and governments – including those of Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Afghanistan and others – of impending terror attacks using hijacked aircraft and did nothing, demonstrates the pressing need for a new Intelligence Czar.
06
That John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial aircraft (xL) in July 2001 on account of security considerations had nothing to do with warnings regarding September 11, because he said so to the 9/11 Commission.
.Ashcroft chartered plane after same warning Condi ignored
07
That FBI Special Investigator Robert Wright (xL) claims that agents assigned to intelligence operations actually protect terrorists from investigation and prosecution, that the FBI shut down his probe into terrorist training camps, and that he was removed from a money-laundering case that had a direct link to terrorism, sounds like yet more sour grapes (xL) from a disgruntled employee.
.FBI Called off Terror Investigations – ABC News
Mahmood Ahmed (xL) , chief of Pakistan’s ISI, must not have authorized an al Qaeda payment of $100,000 to Mohammed Atta (xL) days before the attacks, and was not meeting with senior Washington officials over the week of 9/11, because I didn’t read anything about him in the official report.
.The Pakistan connection | Michael Meacher | The Guardian
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That FEMA arrived in New York on Sept 10 to prepare for a scheduled biowarfare drill, and had a triage centre ready to go that was larger and better equipped than the one that was lost in the collapse of WTC 7, was a lucky twist of fate.
That Mohammed Atta dressed like a Mafioso, had a stripper girlfriend, smuggled drugs, was already a licensed pilot when he entered the US, enjoyed pork chops, drank to excess and did cocaine, was closer to Europeans than Arabs in Florida, and included the names of defence contractors on his email list, proves how dangerous the radical fundamentalist Muslim can be.
That heightened security for the World Trade Centre was lifted immediately prior to the attacks illustrates that it always happens when you least expect it.
The mention of Israelis with links to military-intelligence having been arrested on Sept 11 (xL) videotaping and celebrating the attacks, of an Israeli espionage ring surveilling DEA and defense installations (xL) and trailing (xL) the hijackers, and of a warning of impending attacks delivered to the Israeli company Odigo two hours before the first plane hit, does not deserve a response. That the stories also appeared in publications such as Ha’aretz (xL) and Forward (xL) is a sad display of self-hatred among certain elements of the Israeli media.
.Five Israelis were seen filming as jet liners ploughed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 – HeraldScotland
.The Israeli "art student" mystery | Salon.com
17a
That the assumed hijackerpilots were very diligent in pinpointing their targets, especially that Hanjour could hit the Pentagon in a very advanced 270° high-speed, low altitude maneuver, when there are many witness reports claiming his ”sloppy skills” is something every young boy is dreaming about, but not many pilots with years of service.
.Seeing Through the Miracles of 9/11
ø The debunkers claim "It’s not that difficult": Flight School Dropouts – 911myths
17b
That the FBI knew precisely which (xL) Florida flight schools to descend upon hours after the attacks should make every American feel safer knowing their federal agents are on the ball.
.FBI Was Warned About Flight Schools – CBS News
18
That the tape (xL) in which bin Laden claims responsibility for the attacks was released by the State Department after having been found providentially by US forces in Afghanistan, and depicts a fattened Osama with a broader face and a flatter nose, proves Osama, and Osama alone, masterminded 9/11.
.Bin Laden claims responsibility for 9/11 | CBC News – no image
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That multiple military wargames and simulations were underway the morning of 9/11 – one simulating the crash of a plane into a building; another, a live-fly simulation of multiple hijackings – and took many interceptors away from the eastern seaboard and confused field commanders as to which was a real hijacked aircraft and which was a hoax, was a bizarre coincidence, but no less a coincidence.
ø The debunkers claim: ”And despite the myriad of articles written on this topic, there’s still not a jot of evidence to show the exercise delayed any response to the hijackings.” War Games – 911myths
Check this: 911 War Games -2018 HD Documentary – YouTube
20
That the National Military Command Center ops director asked a rookie substitute to stand his watch at 8:30 am on Sept. 11 is nothing more than bad timing. (rookie: a new recruit)
21
That a recording made Sept 11 of air traffic controllers’ describing what they had witnessed, was destroyed by an FAA official who crushed it in his hand, cut the tape into little pieces and dropped them in different trash cans around the building, is something no doubt that overzealous official wishes he could undo.
22
That a former flight school executive (point 39) believes the hijackers were “double agents,”* and says about Atta and associates, “Early on I gleaned that these guys had government protection. They were let into this country for a specific purpose,” and was visited by the FBI just four hours after the attacks to intimidate him into silence, proves he’s an unreliable witness, for the simple reason there is no conspiracy. *double agent is a spy pretending to serve one government while actually serving another. Merriam-Webster
