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canaan blog http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan Blog of a well-known american professor of political science advocating inclusion of Israel and Palestine into the United States of America Lauyan TOWeb fr Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:24:19 GMT ATTENTION: THE CANAAN BLOG HAS A NEW ADDRESS Alfred de Grazia's CANAAN BLOG and its new updates are to be found at http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000068 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000068 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Pax, the Canaan The Canaan Dog, perhaps the world's oldest breed at more than 3000 years, is to be chosen as the Mascot of Canaan. The Canaan Dog already serves Palestinians, Bedouins, Israelis, Jews, even some other Americans and Europeans and neighboring Arab lands. It will now serve as a warm symbol of Canaan State, USA. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000040 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000040 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america The Flag of Canaan For the "Land of Milk and Honey" let peaceful, soothing colors flow... http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000041 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000041 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Found Islamic Ibn Khaldun University near WTC, New York City To Friends of Islamic Progress and Peace: Attached is a Proposal I wrote in 1977 while a Professor of Social Theory in Government at New York University. It was dispatched to Tunis with a student friend of mine, Moncef Boussetta, to excite interest. He did not succeed. Nor did I. But, just now, there is a controversy raging in New York City as to whether an Islamic Center should be established in the neighborhood of the great tragedy of the World Trade Center. I believe that the concept of an Islamic University of Ibn Khaldun, one of the greatest scholars, veritably a founder, of Western as well as Islamic civilization of today, fits the Idea and the Locale perfectly, and beg all persons of means and energy to give themselves to the project. Alfred de Grazia http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000067 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000067 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Where the Israeli masses stand Our maestro, Uri Avnery, seems to be conking out in his latest public message, of November 13. He tells of a verbal battle, mostly between himself and his wife Rachel on the one side, and their taxi driver on the other, on a return from a large-scale memorial meeting. The driver, an unreconstructed brute, brought forth this catechism, according to Uri: There will never be peace between us and the Arabs, because the Arabs don't want it. The Arabs want to slaughter us, always did and always will. Every Arab learns from early childhood that the Jews must be killed. The Koran preaches murder. Fact, wherever there are Muslims, there is terrorism. Wherever there is terrorism, there are Muslims. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000053 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000053 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Young, Jewish & Proud (With Good Reason!) They dare to speak up! http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000065 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000065 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america "Get Indignant!" Another Member of the Youth Club: Stéphane Hessel (93) "When a poisonous snake is endowed with a good conscience, like the named Hessel, it is understandable that one feels the urge to crush his head." Thus French neo-con philosopher and Zionist Pierre-André Taguieff about Stéphane Hessel, former French Ambassador to the UN, former inmate at Buchenwald and secretary to René Cassin, at the time when he was co-writer of UN's Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man (1949). Stéphane Hessel has spoken out in support of the boycott of products from the Jewish colonies of the West Bank, which attracted the wrath of Mr. Taguieff. Pierre Puchot, journalist at Mediapart, asks Stéphane Hessel: Where does your involvement in favor of the Palestinian population come from? "Originally, it was some Israelis, among the most dissident, who addressed the Diaspora (my father was Jewish) considering that we were Jews who must, as they said, realize what is becoming out of the state which we have supported when it was created: "You should come and have a look at what the successive Israeli governments have brought us to." I answered their call. I have been there for the first time in the 1990s. I have returned several times and I have indeed come to realize that the Palestinian cause was badly defended, and the Israeli side free to act in total impunity. As I am rather an International Law man, I sustained that we, members of the United Nations, have obligations towards the Palestinian people and I started to defend the idea that to leave Israeli politics unpunished was contrary to International Law. This was a rather recent path for me to tread, for twenty years ago, I occupied myself little with the Palestinian problem. But since the end of the nineties, I have gone there at least six times and I realized that it was only possible to to understand some things when one was on the spot. It's only when being on the spot that one can understand how the Israeli policies have been nefarious to the Palestinian people, contrary to International Law, and contrary to the well understood interest of the Israeli people themselves..." In your "brochure," Get Indignant, you notably call for "a pacific insurrection." What do you mean? "I refer to what the Palestinians are doing in a village close to that famous wall built by Israel on Palestinian land, of which they are therefore the victims and who, in protest, organize every Friday a march which they want to be pacific, as they forbid kids to throw stones. Generally, they are greeted by Israeli soldiers who don't hesitate to use teargas, and even rubber bullets. This is what I call pacific insurrection. This is what the Israelis have had the nerve to call "non-violent terrorism" as if one could be in the same time non-violent and a terrorist. As all violence calls for violence in return, this is never a good way to resolve a problem." As to M. Taguieff's call to crush his snake's head, Stéphane Hessel commented: "That I should be attacked, why not? But let it be done with a minimum of courtoisie, please!" http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000066 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000066 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Chauvinists of Israel Here below is a poem that Al de Grazia composed and published in 1967, for his book of poetry called Passage of the Year, that fateful year when a great victory set the stage for interminable failure. Its inspiration came from intense study of world politics and from personal experiences in wartime. It must have been composed just before the War of 1967, because he does not recall thinking of the Near East in connection with it, and indeed he espoused at that time the side of Israel. As one reads, one sees that the terrible chauvinist lust of Nazi Germany - the negation of Canaan - was in the back of his mind. DER STAAT Die Logik ist schwer Eins: What is not Cannot know what it is. Zwei: It knows not itself, Hence cannot know others - Drei: for nothing can know nothing. Vier: Magnificent nothing, as only can Non-being be. Gut! Jetzt alle zusammen: SEE IT! HIGH ABOVE ALL! HEIL DER STAAT! Singe träumerisch: Pseudopodic protoplasm practically ooze millionfold projection of its creator, man. Mehr laut: HEIL DER STAAT ! Hier vortrag wie ein Pedagog The slime that fascinates the genius of ages, whose enemies are its lovers. Virgilius, Registrar of the vires of Rome; R. Kipling, Architect of imperial English facades; Walt Whitman, Grand Prurient Exalter of the American mass: dizzied protagonists who create what they hate, licensed contemptuously to exercise feebly the liberties needed to extend it memory. Aber macht nichts; sprech mit Kraft: SALUTE DER STAAT Und hier muss man die Logik unterscheiden: Others are different, being other, though the same. The good outside is as bad as others. The others die unheralded, unhallowed; their past is telescopic; their future nowhere. Schrei lustig! THREE CHEERS FOR OUR ETERNITY! Mehr Soziologie: Its past is bloody, its prate pacific, hate flourishes beneath flaunted community. Impersonating universal consent where few are acting; by its definition,' justice there is, for it must be. HEILIGE FAMILIE! Und mit enthusiasmus: Elevated for the sightless on the shoulders of genius, high above all. (See it, for if you don't, you are against it.) Whip, flags, the wind. Blare, bands. Scorch the imbibulous awe-numbed gullets with pledging toasts! Mit gründlich ernst, sagen: Fire, cannon! SALUTE DER STAAT http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000062 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000062 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america What Israel was meant to be... Canaan will be! "We will not be citizens of a fascist state purporting to be Israel" say hundreds of Israeli academics and public figures. A protest rally against the government's "Loyalty Oath Bill" was held outside the Tel Aviv house. There Ben-Gurion read the 1948 the Declaration of Independence. There, today, the "Declaration of Independence from Fascism" was signed. "We are citizens of the Israel which was depicted in the Declaration of Independence, a peace-seeking country based on the principles of equality and civil liberties. We do not intend to be the citizens of a state purporting to be Israel which stops being democratic and enbarks on becoming a fascist state," proclaimed intellectuals, public figures, and Israel Prize laureates who gathered this afternoon for a protest rally against the "Loyalty Oath Bill" approved by the government. A protest rally was held on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard, in front of the museum building where David Ben Gurion had read the Declaration of Independence in 1948. Beneath the statue of Meir Dizengoff, first mayor of Tel Aviv, actress Hanna Meron read out from that Declaration of Independence: "The State of Israel will be based on based on Liberty, Justice and Peace, as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants, irrespective of religion, race or gender; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations". She noted that, sixty-two years later, the reality of Israel is very different than what the country's Declaration of Independence envisaged. At the end of the rally, a "Declaration of Independence from Fascism" was signed. Among participants in the initiative were Shulamit Aloni, Uri Avnery, Alex Ansky, Shery Ansky, Menachem Brinker, Ran Cohen, Ruth Cohen, Yaron Ezrachi, Galia Golan, Haim Guri, Sna'it Gisis, Yoram Kaniuk, Dani Karavan, Yehoshua Knaz, Elia Leibowitz, Alex Libak, Hanna Meron, Sammy Michael, Merav Michaeli, Sefi Rachlevsky, Gabi Solomon, David Tartakower, Micha Ullman, and many others. Following is the full text of the Declaration of Independence from Fascism: A state which forcibly invades the hallowed realm of the individual citizen's conscience, and which imposes punishment on those whose opinions and beliefs do not fit the authorities' opinions and the prescribed "character" of the state, stops being a democracy and embarks on becoming a fascist state. Behind these stairs where we stand, the state of Israel was proclaimed. The state which increasingly takes Israel's place – a state which fills the country with a variety of racist legislation, promoted by the Knesset and the cabinet – is excluding itself from the family of democratic nations. Therefore we, citizens of the Israel envisaged in the Declaration of Independence, hereby declare that will not be citizens of a country purporting to be Israel and which violates its basic commitment to the principles of equality, civil liberty and sincere aspiration for peace – principles upon which the State of Israel was founded. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000064 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000064 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Israel: Epitome of Jewish Ambition? A common feeling of Jews and Gentiles is that Israel's multitudinous rogueries are justifiable, to compel a grand atonement for the persecution of Jews - the unatonable. Never do you hear that "Israel is Fun and Games!" – small-park baseball swollen by borrowings from Uncle Sam so as to let it play in the Big World Park with the Big Teams. There is thus no roguery about Israel – These are all fun and games! Every historical trip can be imitated. What fun! But what about the opposing teams? What opposing teams? The sniveling Euros? Mother Russia? The remote Brazilians, Chinese and Indians? These are the ghost teams of the ghost league. Palestinians can cluster around a cell-phone to watch. Three million American Jews and as many agape Gentiles are the whooping, hollering, paying, popcornivorous fans. For every pompous and confused official of the many nations, there is now a matching Israeli official. Jobs for all. Over every James Bond from another nation there hovers an Israeli spy. Too, Israel has lots of double-spies to go along with its double citizens. What fun and what grisly cute games they play. I am so proud of Israel. No country is left over to be envied. It is the complete rogue. Even Dead Sea salt sells high. Its roguery matches its ambitions completely. Its motto: "For every cut and kind of envy, a snappy roguery." Atonement is not unatonable. Israel is not in trouble. It is all Fun and Games! a blog- poem by Alfred de Grazia of Canaan State 51, USA (Copyright 2010 by Alfred de Grazia: permission for free publication 2010-2011 hereby granted). http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000063 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000063 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america A Big Idea To Keep in Mind Many israelis, Jews, and Palestinians like the CANNAN USA 51 idea, but believe it impossible. Actually, Canaan State is very possible! But Let us suppose that the full Statehood cannot be achieved. THINK OF THIS FACT: That all the work that is put into trying to achieve CANAAN STATE IS HELPFUL and GOOD! If 1,000 political and ideological things must be won before admitting the U.S. State of CANAAN, of which 500 are easy, 400 are not so easy, and 100 are hard (of which 1 or 2 are impossible), still israel and Palestine will both be working much better and will be greatly improved compared with what would otherwise be the situation. That is to say, for example, if everything is done to admit Canaan State except that the final vote on the Canaan State Constitution lacks a majority, all the hundreds of victories that are the achievements adding up to Canaan would have already turned the minds of millions around, and focussed the attention of the world on the right ways to go. This has happened for instance with Puerto Rico, which is not quite a State and voted against admission, but it is so close to enjoying all the advantages of U.S. full citizenship and protection that the people are much better off than they would be if the island had been set adrift in 1898 or even now. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bigidea http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bigidea "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Dov Yirmiya, Reflections of 96-year old warrior Dov Yirmiya, the man who plays the accordeon for Palestinian children, wrote this: The end of Sicarii Zionism* / by Dov Yirmiya 18/06/10 I am one of the remaining veterans of the Haganah, who had served in the British Army and thereafter were among the initiators of the Ha'apala [illegal immigration] of Holocaust survivors, struggling with the forces of victorious Great Britain for the right to arrive at the shores of this country. Its warships and soldiers, those who had just fought and defeated the worst of all enemies, went over to attacking with fury and hatred our cockleshell boats which set to this country from the shores of Italy, full of survivors of the Nazi hell. The warships chased after them, closed around them, sometimes actually crushing them - and shot at them, killing and wounding many of their passengers. And now I have observed with horror and a broken heart the repetition of the same scenes – but with the roles reversed. It is the soldiers and sailors of the force which boasts of being the "Israeli Defense Forces" who are now the pursuers and killers. There is no limit to the disgrace, the cruelty and the hypocrisy which wrap our criminal acts with words of lie and malice. I am depressed to the bottom of my heart ... how could we have fallen so low??? How did we become an unjust and cruel people, turning from persecuted to persecutor? Yes! It could have been expected! For 19 years we have "contented ourselves" with a system of a military government over the Arab minority which remained with us after the War of Independence, dispossessing and discriminating them. There followed the 43 years of intoxicating nationalist bravado, which spread through our people like an addictive drug after our victory in 1967, which brought the Greater Israel movement to the power which it since then holds in Israel. Our golden opportunity as victors, to make peace with the Palestinian people, vanished at once. The fascist Zionist regime, governing in the style of the Italian in North Africa, violent conquest and rapist settlement of the land of Palestine and its people… But with the latest move, the tragicomic charge of the ridiculous Zionist "armada" in an effort to tighten its stranglehold on an enclave of a million and half miserable Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, our arrogant little people have clearly gone too far. The huge burden of injustice and mad villainy with which Sicarii Israel is loaded brings about quick disaster. Already in the foreseeable future it is about to finally destroy Israel's chances of survival. The "Mene Mene" of destruction is already inscribed in blood on our walls. Woe to our children, our grandchildren and great-grandchildren to whom we leave such a legacy... Dov Yirmiya Nahariya * The Sicarii were Jewish zealots of the First Century. In present day Hebrew the term refers to fanatic nationalists. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000058 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000058 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america On the final days of Bertrand Russell Wikipedia gives us the following paragraphs: << Russell published his three-volume autobiography in 1967, 1968, and 1969. On 23 November 1969 he wrote to The Times newspaper saying that the preparation for show trials in Czechoslovakia was "highly alarming". The same month he appealed to Secretary General U Thant of the United Nations to support an international war crimes commission to investigate alleged torture and genocide by the USA in South Vietnam. The following month, he protested to Alexei Kosygin over the expulsion of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn from the Writers Union. On 31 January 1970, Russell issued a statement which condemned Israeli aggression in the Middle East and called for Israeli withdrawal from territory occupied in 1967. The statement said that: The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was "given" by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled in masses from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East. We are frequently told that we must sympathise with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. [...] What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy. —Bertrand Russell, 31 January 1970 This was Russell's final political statement or act. It was read out at the International Conference of Parliamentarians in Cairo on 3 February 1970, the day after his death. Russell died of influenza on 2 February 1970 at his home, Plas Penrhyn, in Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire, Wales. He was cremated in Colwyn Bay on 5 February 1970. In accordance with his will there was no religious ceremony; his ashes were scattered over the Welsh mountains later that year. >> http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000057 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000057 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Who's afraid of a real Inquiry? Uri Avnery wrote these questions on June 12, 2010. Just the other day he was attacked by Zionist thugs as he and his family left a large demonstration against the government. Al de Grazia would nominate URI to be the First Governor of Canaan. He should be read faithfully by all Canaaneers. His only drawback is that he is still a two-state man, where he is a top leader among the world of concerned people, outside of the wretched politicians who are governing the area. We must convince Uri to change his position. Uri must support Canaan! My answer to his last question at the bottom here What is our political and military leadership trying to hide? is the key to the answer to all 80 questions. They are trying to get rid of the Palestinians in every conceivable way using all kinds of tricks, rogueries and intimidations, no matter how brutal, illegal and treacherous, short of genocide, they are hiding their irrational hope that the Palestinians would take their own genocide into their own hands. But nothing can get close to the Shoah, not even in a hundred years. The Israeli top dogs will never never allow a Palestine that is a friendly, equal, prosperous neighbor. All their actions tend to one aim: to make the existence of a Palestinian state impossible. All the while America is besmirched and disgraced in the world. You must stop, in all good conscience, Uri – you have done the best you could to lead the two peoples to the stipulated two-friendly-state goal. Now stop and become a great leader of the State of Canaan USA 51. Here are Uri's questions: http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000056 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000056 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america A rogue state, a terrorist state, a morally failed state A fully armed man breaks into your home, shoots you, and claims that he acted in self-defense. In Yiddish, this is called "chutzpah." This is, reduced and transposed into day-to-day life, what happened in international waters to the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara, loaded with relief goods donated by citizens from all over Europe. If you want to know what happened to the unarmed citizen-activists who were delivering these donations, read the following articles: <a target="_blank" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/06/20106535425983666.html">Al Jazeera: Flottilla Activists 'Shot 30 Times.'</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-212103-israel-killed-more-than-9-threw-wounded-into-sea-witnesses-say.html">Turkish english-language newspaper Today's Zaman</a> Israel is a rogue state (attacking an unarmed aid convoy in international waters), a terrorist state (killing innocent civilians for the sake of intimidation and psychological pressure on others), and a morally failed state. I appeal to all the Justs of Israel, Jews, Arabs and Christians: do YOU want to be part of this? Get out of Israel! Move into Canaan State, 51st State of the United States of America, with your Palestinian compatriots of Gaza, Jerusalem, the West Bank and all the Palestinian Refugees. You won't have to budge an inch! But you must make a 180° move inside your head! You have nothing to lose but your shame! http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000054 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000054 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america BLOOD IN THE WATER - and it's Israel's! Uri Avnery, you are speaking this, on this day of shame, May 31, 2010, when a flotilla of human rights activists trying to break the blockade of Gaza and to import much needed supplies to its people after three years of siege and horrendous attacks, has been attacked by Israeli helicopters, with 19 dead counted so far, and dozens of injured: This is a day of disgrace to the State of Israel, a day of anxiety in which we discover that our future was entrusted to a bunch of trigger-happy people without any responsibility. This day is a day of disgrace and madness and stupidity without limit, the day the Israeli government took care to blacken the name of the country in the world, adding convincing evidence of aggressiveness and brutality to Israel's already bad international image, discouraging and distancing the few remaining friends. (Press release of Uri Avnery, 05/31/2010) We are with you, Uri, and we feel the shame of all Israeli who must look reality in the face and recognize: we are part of a criminal country, a country of liers and cheats, and of ruthless cowards, which has now put itself definitively outside all rule of international law and outside the community of nations. THIS ISRAEL IS SHOT DEAD IN THE WATER. It has committed suicide. Don't cry after it! The time has come for the American State of Canaan, uniting all Israelis, all Palestinians and all Palestinian refugees in one State of equals under the Constitution of the United States, as the 51st State of the Union of the United States of America. Face up to it: besides more shame and war and destruction, there is no other way to go! http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000049 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000049 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Israel's Most Illicit Affair A new book reveals that Israel's secret relationship with apartheid South Africa went far deeper than previously understood. "Now comes Sasha Polakow-Suransky, who is an editor at Foreign Affairs magazine, a Rhodes scholar, and an American Jew whose parents emigrated to the United States from South Africa. His singular achievement in his new book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa scheduled for publication on May 25, is to have unearthed more than 7,000 pages of heretofore secret documents from the bowels of South Africa's Defense Ministry, Foreign Ministry, and Armscor, the state defense contractor, including the secret 1975 military cooperation agreement signed by defense ministers Shimon Peres and P.W. Botha." <a target="_blank" href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/24/israels_most_illicit_affair">See "Foreign Affairs" - 2010/05/24</a> Canaaneers can see in this rotten episode of Israel's leaders in South Africa that Jews everywhere will be the target of the hatred of Black Peoples, including in the USA, where African-Americans have been remarkably muted in respect to Israel. Cananeers must pitch up this ugly history and stick it onto the ultra-Zionists, making them responsible and accountable for their action. American jews can use this same ugly history to stress their separatedness from the Israeli government and from Ultra-Zionists. What ghastly blindness and ignorance led many people like us to trust Shamir, who deceived the American and French governements repeatedly in getting the atom bomb for Israel and binding the Israelis to the wicked apartheid South-African regime. Recollect, also, that the Norwegian Nobel peace Prize was awarded to him amid all of this, and more. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000051 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000051 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Radicals of the Land of Canaan Canaaneers have as much right to israel as do most israelis. For the First Governor of Canaan State, USA, let's nominate Uri Avnery! <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/41217">Radicals of the Land of Canaan: Zionism's Forgotten 'Young Hebrews'</a> http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000052 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000052 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america If Canaan State is impossible, so what? So what if Canaan USA 51 proves to be impossible and never happens? Are we wasting time, or making a rotten situation worse by pleading the cause of Canaan? The answer to both questions is negative. For we are learning how we might put together a modern, peaceful country and government that could be an example for all countries, both internally, and as possible components of a world government. Social creation is one of the first attributes of humanness. Animals have societies, humans alone can create and transform societies. We are not, like most do-gooders, standing around hollering ‘Peace, Peace!', when there is no Peace, or gone into hiding. Taking the perspective of a hundred or a hundred fifty years, the Canaan solution is bound to be taken up again. And maybe again and again... http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000050 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000050 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Coups d'état Most people, Americans as well as European, have an illusion that America is a young country. America's representative government actually is one of the oldest such regimes on earth, perhaps the oldest republic – for better or worse. There are few precedents found elsewhere not to be found in America. Take as an example, the coup d'état, seizure of the government of a state by a hitherto unauthorized and undemocratically elected group. A set of coups d'état wrested the original 13 states from the British government. Conspiracies to take over the nation or the prior colonies are to be found. An ex-Vice-President, Aaron Burr, highly talented and fully experienced, conspired to take over the whole of the American Western domain, plus Mexico. He escaped conviction for treason only because President Jefferson and Supreme Court Chief Justice Marshall were political enemies. Marshall manipulated the long trial of Burr so as to free him. If General Douglas McArthur were not so old in the 1950's, he would probably have violated President Truman's order not to launch American troops on an invasion of China. (...) http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000048 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000048 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Uri Avnery's "Doomsday Weapon" (with remarks by Al de Grazia) It is already a commonplace to say that people who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat their mistakes. Some 1942 years ago, the Jews in the province called Palaestina launched a revolt against the Roman Empire. In retrospect, this looks like an act of madness. Palestine was a small and insignificant part of the world-wide empire which had just won a crushing victory against the rival power – the Parthian Empire (Persia) – and put down a major rebellion in Britain. What chances could the Jewish revolt have? God knows what was going on in the mind of the "Zealots". They eliminated the moderate leaders, who warned against provoking the empire, and gained sway over the Jewish population of the country. They relied on God. Perhaps they also relied on the Jews in Rome and believed that their influence over the Senate would restrain the Emperor, Nero. (As in America?) Perhaps they had heard that Nero was weak and about to fall.(As could be believed about Obama?) We know how it ended: after three years, the rebels were crushed, Jerusalem fell and the temple was burned down. The last of the Zealots committed suicide in Masada. (...) http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000047 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000047 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Witches and the devil New England colonists faced spiritual challenges that can be traced directly to King Philip's War and subsequent frontier violence in Maine. The New England colonists were devout Puritans who saw themselves as God's chosen people. They usually interpreted their wars with Indians as a sign of God's displeasure. Many English refugees from these Indian wars sought safety in towns like Salem and Boston. Their fear of both American Indians and the Devil turned into hysteria during the infamous Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. Pivotal individuals in the trials such as George Burroughs and Abigail Hobbs had been terrorized by wars with the Indians. Though they did not equate American Indians with witches, they and their neighbors did come to associate the visible assaults of Indians with the invisible attacks of the Devil. In their confessions, accused witches would describe the devil as resembling an American Indian. Their fear of Indians, having grown exponentially since the outbreak of King Philip's War, had heightened their fear of witches, which eventually led to the execution of twenty individuals. That American Indians and the Devil had become intimately entwined in the minds of many colonists indicates just how much King Philip's War had reinforced racial identity and the divide between English colonists and native peoples. This new mentality, this initial trauma, had a lasting impact on future colonists and even on the United States. The New England colonists wrote far more about King Philip's War than did other English colonists about their own conflicts with Indians. They waged a war with their pens that justified their actions and cast all American Indians as the enemy. All of the ink these colonists spilled created a lasting, however skewed, memory of the war that shaped American culture and subsequent American Indian-white relations. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000046 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000046 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Forgetting apartheid No one can reasonably deny the extensiveness and the brutality of Israelist apartheid in the 63 years after 1947. This conduct arose and continues because of the heartless violence and destructiveness displayed by the Jewish forces of 1947 and 1948, whose recollection caused reactive repressive fear on the Israelist side as much as it caused vengeful and hateful behavior, though remarkably weak, by most Palestinians. Also, the immigration of a large, socially disorganized Russian and other elements reinforced the oppressive behavior of the earlier Israelis. Their experience was probably worse than that of the great influx of American immigrants from Europe a century and more ago, because opportunities were fewer and the social structure more limiting. And the government encouraged inhumane attitudes towards the indigenous Arab population. The latest underdog could always exert his agressivity against the Palestinians. The Jews were tactically clever in imprisoning with scarcely an iota of rule of law, an average of many thousands of Palestinians, 10,000 or more, at any given time, because they were actually destroying or incapacitating the elite forces of the Palestinian people. Too, the worse the Jews treated the Palestinians, the more fear they instilled in themselves, both those who were direct oppressors and the so-called peaceful population, feeling, whether or not they were directly involved, that they would come to earn equal vengeance from the Palestinians if the opportunity arose. This is one reason why the German Nazis did in fact keep from the German people and troops information about the crimes they perpetrated against the Jews and others, in order not to ruin their morale through the fear of retaliation, and in turn this helps explain why the protestations of innocence by so many Germans at the close of war were so infuriating to the victors and survivors of the Holocaust. How will ex-Palestinians interact with Jews and ex-Israelis once Canaan becomes an American state? Certainly the large-scale denial of Israel's maltreatment of Palestinians will not be completely unscrupulous. Much of it will stem rather from innocent ignorance, and subconscious amnesia (scatoma). One of the greatest blessings of Canaan State would be that American law and the new State's laws would immediately apply and check most intergroup aggression – leaving no more, say, than happened between blacks and whites in Illinois, USA or New Jersey, USA in the years 1950 to 2010. This, though still far away from satisfactory, would bring an immense, immediate change and improvement in the lives and minds of Americans, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Israelis, and all Europeans, Middle East and North African populations, indeed of the whole world! http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000045 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000045 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Civic education for Canaan The book American State of Canaan mentions nearly 200 single incidents of rogueries or classes thereof, committed by Israeli authorities, agents, allies, banditi, or individuals gone astray. Distortions of Hebrew history, from the so-called "Conquest of Canaan" down to "News of This Day", have twisted civic education and affected wrongly the attitudes of perhaps a third of the Israeli population and an equal proportion of American Jews. In response, Palestinian attitudes will have been correspondingly trained in wishful, if hopeless, counterpart roguery. The Canaan State government should then, even more than does the typical American State, put ever-increasing energy and resources into civic education of the whole people, indoctrinating the habits of equality, the rule of law, and humaneness. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000044 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000044 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Who is Dov Yrmiya? He is a Jew, a veteran of all of Israel's wars, who during the 1948 War of Independence was even reported in one of the papers as deceased after being shot in the neck. He grew up with Moshe Dayan on the first moshav, Nahalal; helped establish Kibbutz Eilon, along the northern border; set up and ran the northern district of Israel's Nature Reserves Authority: and has probably participated in more left-wing demonstrations than anyone in the country. He published My War Diary: Lebanon June 5 - July 1st, 1982. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000027 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000027 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america On Civil Courage President Obama in all modesty should have turned down the Nobel Peace Prize. It is now apparent that it broke his momentum. He was given a golden opportunity by the Nobel Prize Committee to make a truly strong statement by turning down their prize, and he missed it. He should also in the future reject any Economic Prize, Health Services Prize, and just about any other distinction that might be offered him. Obama has not yet lived up to expectations, at least not in my estimation. Anyhow, most prizes are traps to honor their donors. First die; then let history judge. He saddened me for several reasons, not the least of which being that I originated in Chicago and fought several heavy battles in Chicago politics. That was long ago. My brother Victor, who ran the Illinois governor's office for a couple of years, is unfortunately deceased, and cannot be heard from in this context. The University of Chicago, where a dozen de Grazia's hung out over the years, helping to reform the social sciences and humanities, was one of the heaviest and best politicized centers of education in America. Today it is hardly breathing politically over the distressing near East affair. On the contrary, Professor Leo Strauss, mentor of an Israelist imperialist generation of neo-cons, highjacked its fame. Luckily he did not quite fall into the murky intellectual depths attained by Law Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard, Elie Wiesel, Daniel Goldhagen, Joan Peters and others. Luckily, too, Prof. John Mearsheimer of Chicago plucked up his courage and, abetted by Prof. Stephen Walt of Harvard, in 2007 damned the American–Israelist lobbyists. They wrote a good strong thesis describing the Jews who dominate US foreign policy, and that took a lot of courage. They were excoriated the Israelist phalanges, as expected. My main criticism,of which I informed them, is that they presented no plan, movement or structure or system, no radical scheme for peace and prosperity. It was as if a miracle would happen just by slapping lobbyists harder on their wrists. When a pioneering anti-Israelist soul, Professor Norman Finkelstein, author of "The Holocaust Industry" ( 2000 ), was fired from De Paul University's political science department, I wrote to the President of the American Political Science Association with copies sent to all of its board , urging them in the name of our profession to denounce the action against Prof. Finkelstein. I did not receive a reply! Talk about moral courage, or the preferable term, civil courage! There is very little of that on the American scene or in Western world civilization today. I finished and published my book on The American State of Canaan which, we may proudly proclaim, does propose a real plan, a genuine less bloody solution that would make friends out of enemies – – 15.0 millions to start with, 1.0 billion, if you count all the people everywhere whose feelings and conduct would be changed for the better. To my mind most members of peace groups have civil courage, which goes beyond mere moaning, but have not in most cases known how to apply it. They might well consider, whatever their nationality or religion, the plan of Canaan USA 51, which blesses both Jews and Arabs and actually nearly everyone else in the world threatened by the disastrous events in Israel-Palestine. We are the real pro-Israelist, the real pro-Palestinian.. If you find a swifter, sturdier wagon then Canaan State 51 USA, speak up, climb onto it. Otherwise, I would suggest that you organize and activate a Canaan League for Canaan State 51. You may well be astonished at how effective your civil courage will turn out to be. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000043 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000043 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Stop Using Freud... "...I concede with sorrow that the baseless fanaticism of our people is in part to be blamed for the awakening of Arab distrust..." http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000038 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000038 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Stop Using Einstein... and Hannah Arendt... "Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine. The current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American support for his party in the coming Israeli elections, and to cement political ties with conservative Zionist elements in the United States. (...)" http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000039 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000039 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Sectarian Intermarriage Increases in Canaan Israeli law bars Jews from marrying non—Jews. Israelis who are not Arab or others are generally opposed to intermarriage and are pleased that the opportunities for such are less in Israel. Secular Israeli couples go to Cyprus in order to get married without the assistance of a rabbi. Arcane, outrageous laws forbid Israeli Jews to marry some other Jews deemed unclean (Momsers) and maintain their descendants in a state of unmarriageableness through the generations. There occur some serious problems of democracy and the freedom of choice here, an aspect of apartheid. Furthermore, conversion is too rigorous a process for many couples to undergo and anyhow in most cases a Jew would be created but he or she would be a nonbeliever. In Canaan the law could not bar intermarriage. Civil marriage would be constitutionally protected, too. The practice would thereupon proceed even faster than is presently occurring. The growing practice of unmarried couples living together as in marriage would at least temporarily diminish. Such would impress favorably conservatives and beneficiaries of the wedding industry. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000037 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000037 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Canaan State Can later Lead the World Recovering from its own dire troubles, say, after the year 2014, which is assigned to its becoming a State of the USA, Canaan can play a leading role in the world's recovery from its present dire predicament. In 1967 Israel and the Arab world were at war; I was then composing a utopian world order that was published in Mumbai, India as Kalos: What is to be Done with Our World? http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000002 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000002 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Imperialist Threat Query: Won't the State of Canaan be a protruding American imperialist threat to the whole of the Near and Middle East? Reply: It could be – but America is and could be a lot of things: not only a threat, but its opposite, a great bolster to peaceful relations in the Arab and surrounding world. Think, for a moment of the alternatives. If matters go on as at present, there will be a continuous danger of one, two, three and more wars going on in the region. Shifting and backing with Israel, the US will be in and out of war after war, never making up its mind which countries to use as puppets, which to support, which to oppose, how to make deals with Russia, China, Turkey, Pakistan and India and a dozen other countries, not to mention the European nations. Right now, that is to say, we have an American imperialism in the Region that is a confounded nuisance. But Canaan State can be turned in all directions, and deal by diplomatic, economic, educational and every other peaceful and useful means with the countries within reach. Half the Canaan population will be tired of the Near East and will exercise its competence on the rest of the world. The Israel nuclear threat will stand down, and even disappear, and with this a happy sigh of relief will float up around the world. The USA, that could reach and strike anywhere in the world would, as at present, be disinclined to strike anywhere. Israel, by contrast, appears sorely tempted to strike at one or two countries. And the world stands in dread of its happening. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000034 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000034 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Evasions of Extradition Query: We have had trouble extraditing accused criminals from Israel. Will the situation improve with Canaan? Reply: Assuredly. There will always be litigation among the United States over one State's demanding the return or trial of an alleged criminal discovered in another State. But the law of extradition is workable and uniform among the States. Israel, like most South American and European nations, does not extradite its citizens, anticipating that they will get a fairer legal process in Israel. Also Israelis would rather escape American justice and flee to Israel for presumed trial, or no trial at all. Just recently, a murderer, a rich money-laundering couple, and six gangsters have been evading American law by running to Israel. Accusations against the Israeli government for providing a haven for criminals with Israeli connections are not uncommon, and affect not only America but other countries such as France, Britain and Russia. American legal officers profess concern over a trend of flight to Israel to avoid American justice. With 50 States already employing among themselves an extradition system that works, the accession of Canaan to Statehood should diminish such problems. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000033 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000033 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Catechism of the Divine Succession Thirty years ago I offered in my book THE DIVINE SUCCESSION a catechism. Thomas Jefferson, when asked his religion once, replied: "My religion is of one man." My religion is also personal but at the same time is intended to be universal in its principles and fully scientific and pragmatic. As such it can be adopted by individuals, groups, even the whole of humanity, for that matter. A few years ago, I scripted the catechism for an oratorio, and that is the way in which it is presented below. The catechism is reprinted here because religious strife is at the center of Middle East conflicts and especially in the so-called Holy Land. All those persons who seek to fix themselves in relation to the general free-for-all struggle going on in Canaan, are welcome to use the Catechism of the Divine Succession (for whose downloading one may go also to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.grazian-archive.com">my grazian-archive website</a>. Alfred de Grazia http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000030 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000030 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Engaging Good and Evil Citizens: Edmund Burke's Warning, Applied to Canaan I recalled something supposedly said by Burke or Carlyle and, instead of locating the book in which I had just seen the common slick expression, I went to Google and searched for a piece of it. There I found two useful articles by Martin Porter. They should provide amusement as well as disabusement. And here is the error which I have been spared: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" was attributed to Edmund Burke. Burke never said it and yet it has been repeated in many forms and myriad times, and could be considered for a principal slogan of this book Canaan: Fifty-first State of America. It is true in our context if only because there are so many good men and women who dare not engage themselves, will not, cannot, know not how, and are engaged with other evils, or advance their own propositions. But, too, we should realize that there are many ‘evil men and women' who are on my side and many more of them might join me if they were to read Canaan. Israelis, Americans, and Palestinians of all kinds (and so too the world at large) will be tumbled upside down before they straighten up and fly right. Yet, here is a genuine quotation from Burke (adduced by Porter), that is more inclined to humble me than to inspire me: "No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours, are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000035 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000035 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Self-Demeaning Plaints Consider for a moment the Toronto Film Festival (Jane Fonda et al.) that reacted against blatant boasting that it would promote Israel positively. It failed: cultural boasting fails, assassinations fail, blockades fail, violent aggression fails, continual Holocaust recitals fail, flying planeloads of gushing Congressman to Israel fails. What in the world can be done? Nothing that hyper-Israelis and their government do, it seems, will raise Israel from its lowly position as the world's worst threat to peace and neighborliness. All right! It is our turn: we here, in our modest blog, can raise Israel to the heights of world esteem with Canaan State, USA 51. Practically the whole range of rogueries and other misbehavior of Israelis, Americans, Palestinians, and their agents will plummet, cease abruptly - if not disappear, and at worst drop to the normal (still too high) level of everyday American misbehavior. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000032 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000032 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Would you Favor this Idea of American Citizenship?:: <center>PLEASE FILL OUT THIS QUESTIONNAIRE</center> <center>IT SHOULD TAKE YOU ONLY 10 MINUTES</center> http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000031 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000031 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america The Terrorist Attack on Fortress America Here on August 15, 2009 is repeated Al de Grazia's appeal of September 11, 2001. He stands by it now as then. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000028 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000028 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america President Obama Has a Dangerous Job A French philosopher and acquaintance, Manuel de Dieguez, blogged not long ago that a "sacrifice" of Barack Obama was conceivable: an assassin's bullet might be the outcome of the nuclear terror in the Middle East, fears in Gaza, stupidity in Jerusalem, and blindness in America. I recall having heard of Jesse Jackson murmuring the same thought, in a moment of splendiferous applause for Barack Obama, that he would be killed. Jesse is certainly an authority on "the black experience". The case of the Reverend Martin Luther King is a stabbing memory. Explanations of assassinations are various. We recall that Mohandas K. Gandhi, a divine hero for hundreds of millions of mankind, was killed on January 30, 1948 (a critical period in Palestine-Israel, too) by Nathuram Godse, who feared that Gandhi's attempts to bring peace between Hindus and Muslims betrayed the Hindu cause. There are a great many Palestinians and Israelis who despise reconciliation. Some would want to kill a leader who urged a single state of Jews and Arabs. Yet they would also like to kill any leader who sincerely desired the two-state solution (...) http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000029 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000029 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Despair of two great Israeli natives The greatly admired Israeli leader, Uri Avnery, here gives us a terminal explosion against the Israeli regime by Dov Yermiya (Jeremiad) and pleads with Dov that we must never give up the slender hope remaining for the sovereign states of Israel and Palestine. A marvelous espression of desperate views – to which, however, I must add: "Venerable Gentlemen: Israel and Palestine are presently going the hopeless route. . the great pretense of the two-state solution. Yet truly, you need not abandon all hope though the world seems against us: Canaan, the 51st State of the USA, is the solution. Dear URI and Dov: O young and powerful of spirit! Reassemble your troops; lead them on. Conquer – with your Palestinian neighbors – the new State of Canaan, Canaan State 51, USA! And through Canaan, you will achieve your Israel fifty-fold. While the Jews of the world were scattered and planless, the communities of early America were settling all about our America in the name of the new Israels. Create and bring to fruition 51 lovable Israels! Al de Grazia - August 4, 2009 From Uri Avnery to Dov Yermiya - August 1st, 2009 Dear Dov Yermiya, I have received the distressing letter that you recently sent to a limited number of friends. You paint the Israeli reality in dark – but true – colors, and end by cutting your ties with it. "Therefore I, a 95 year old Sabra (native born Israeli Jew), who has plowed its fields, planted trees, built a house and fathered sons, grandsons and great-grandsons, and also shed his blood in the battle for the founding of the State of Israel, "Declare herewith that I renounce my belief in the Zionism which has failed, that I shall not be loyal to the Jewish fascist state and its mad visions, that I shall not sing anymore its nationalist anthem, that I shall stand at attention only on the days of mourning for those fallen on both sides in the wars, and that I look with a broken heart at an Israel that is committing suicide and at the three generations of offspring that I have bred and raised in it." http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000026 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000026 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america New: Whose sacred status will it be? We know that the Israeli will never accept being outnumbered and out-cultured by 4 million Palestinian refugees returning. And that the Palestinians and the Arab world will never buckle before the abandonment of the refugees. The Palestinians are slowly but surely achieving the sacred persecuted status of the Jews. Every day this sentiment is being foisted onto and injected around the world, among Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, a Third World of a hundred nations, and the literate and rich world. The Israelis meanwhile every day are giving away chips off of the world moral, religious and economic reputation of the Jews and tossing them over to the Palestinians and, alas, to growing numbers of erstwhile friends turned enemies and to anti-semites everywhere. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000024 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000024 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Israel's nuclear monopoly over all Arabs I incline to agree with Israel Shahack's declaration here, quoted from his Open Secrets, p. 153. "The idea of a ‘regional alliance system' implies the exclusion of the US from it and Israel's supremacy within it, backed by the latter's nuclear monopoly. Its avowed goal ‘to secure peace in the region' ressembled all too closely similar claims of the imperial powers of the past, made for the consumtion of the gullible. This is why Peres' plan can be viewed as an extreme version of Israeli imperialism. The nature of the relations between Israel and other states of the ‘regional alliance system' is described in another article by Aluf Ben (Haaretz, 11 February 1994.) Ben quotes the first director of the Israeli Institute for Development of Weaponry [RAFAEL] Munya Mardoch, that ‘the moral and political meaning of nuclear weapons is that states which renounce their use are acquiescing to the status of vassal states. All those states which feel satisfied with possessing conventional weapons alone are fated to become vassal states.' A transparent implication of that view is that by insisting on its nuclear monopoly, Israel aims at reducing all other Middle eastern states to the status of its vassals, probably hoping for approval of such a state of affairs by the US. Apart from the question of whether all existing Arab regimes would want to join ‘an alliance' so transparently stewarded by Israel, one can also ask about the survivability of any Arab regime joining that ‘alliance.' I feel unable to answer this question: whether the US would be pleased by a unification of the Middle East under Israel's command - it could then influence this unified region only via its influence on Israel. Let me recall that through such unification, entailing an Israeli hegemony, Israel's financial dependence on the US and thereby the US's chances to influence Israel would be diminished. It seems also doubtful whether the US (or indeed Europe) would be pleased with the abolition of ‘economic competition' between states under ‘an alliance system' powerful enough to accomplish it. This is why Peres' plan can only be interpreted as assuming that Israeli influence upon the US, exerted through the medium of organized American Jews, is sufficient to outweigh US imperial interests. As I mentioned above, I do recognize the power of organized American Jews as quite formidable. But contrary to some Hebrew press commentators, I don't believe that it is sufficient to justify that tacit assumption of Peres. The organized American Jewish community may, as Oren hopes, succeed in protecting the independance of Israeli nuclear policies but I doubt if they are capable of accomplishing much more..." http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000023 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000023 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Answer to Andy: Arab and Israeli "Fascisms?" (April 2009) Query: Isn't the ultimate Palestinian goal "to wipe out the State of Israel from the map and create the twenty-second Arab State." As Arafat put it: Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it...The PLO is fighting Israel in the name of Pan-Arabism..." (1970). All minorities living within the Arab world are under siege. Tunisian human rights activist Muhammad Bechri has traced this to the "twin fascisms" - his term - that dominate the Arab world, Islamism and pan-Arabism. The first promotes murderous intolerance of religious minorities. It helps explain why Christians are under siege across the Arab world and why Sudan enjoyed broad Arab support as it killed some two million non-Muslim blacks in the south of the country. Pan-Arabism translates into endorsement of murderous policies toward Muslim but non-Arab groups and accounts for Arab support for Saddam Hussein as he slaughtered 200,000 Kurds in Northern Iraq, as well as backing for Sudanese policies toward the Muslim but black population of Darfur. The Arab world is not about to make an exception for the Jews. This broad intolerance of minorities is further evidence of how unlikely it is the Arab world will accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state in its midst any time soon. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">(Read more here)</a> Reply: In general the writer is calling the cards right. Doing so, he strengthens the analogy between these "twin fascisms" and the Israeli Garrison State as governed for half a century. "A plague on both your houses!" The Palestinian elite is no better than Judaeo-Israelist extremists who urge the imperial "Greater Israel" – just immensely weaker at present. In the Canaan alternative, the Palestinians will no longer have any reason to feel threatened by Israel, as they are now, or by any other Arabs, and the American threat will be converted into an ultimate sign of equality and brotherhood with the USA. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000019 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000019 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Counting Rogueries Query: Come off it! You assign 165+ rogueries to the Israelists while only 12+ to the Palestinians. Are we that bad? Reply: Of course not! The variety and number of rogueries are highly correlated with the ability to commit them. Also, I have pointed out time after time, that intense Israelists are more subject, through their world-certified mythology and the recently grave trauma of the Shoah (as it is sacralized), to psychologically projecting Nazi aggressiveness onto much less guilty Palestinians (and others, including Americans). Like punch-drunk prizefighters, they are hitting out at anybody around. Given their poor capabilities, anti-Israelist and anti-semitic Arab and Islamic groups profusely issue imaginary Intifadas and punishments upon Jews and Christians. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000020 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000020 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Scorn of Arabs Query: The Palestinians are poor and therefore objects of scorn and blame. Right? Reply: Correct. Since their intelligentsia and upper classes have been largely dispersed and incapacitated by the Israelists, most Palestinians are in the condition of the Ashkenazi Jews of a century ago, of the shtetl and ghetto, who were often caught amongst marauding armies and gangs. Perhaps 80% of the Palestinian people of today are poorly educated, jobless, generous, ritual-ridden hicks. (A hick is a free rural peasant of America. There are fewer in the States now [several millions] because small farming and villages have given way to urban industrial society and industrial farms. There are more Palestinian farmers, adding in refugees, than American farmers. There are more urban Jews in America than farmers. We should not spend too much time casting blame. We are designing the future, remember? If you insist upon enumerating rogueries of Islam and Palestine, you will find a bewildering, frightening list by <a target="_blank" href="http://theproblemwithmostarabmuslims.blogspot.com/2006/10/to-be-good-muslim.html">clicking here</a> . http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000021 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000021 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Types of Rogueries and the case of the USS Liberty Both for Israel and for the Palestinians, the lists of rogueries are compressed. The rogueries may be singular, like the sinking of the SS Liberty, or grouped, like the hundreds of thousands of exasperating and humiliating delays at check points. Actually the Liberty case could be grouped with the roguish sinking of Palestinian, humanitarian, Jewish, and other craft, as "sea sinkings." (By the way, the unarmed Liberty amazingly did not sink, owing to the heroic efforts of the decimated crew, solid construction, incompetence of the Israeli navy and air force attackers, and their final withdrawal in fear of rumored rescuers and disclosure. Congress should erect a memorial to these Americans and their ship; I would feel honored to write their epitaph. I would also sponsor a Joint Resolution of the Congress condemning and regretting the actions of the Israeli government and the coverup by the American President (Johnson), the Secretary of Defense, and the U.S. Navy chiefs who should have resigned rather than sacrifice their integrity and honor.) You might, if you will, send this message to President Obama, Speaker Pelosi of the House and Majority Leader Reid of the Senate. PS: President Obama has since approved that a Silver Medal be <a target="_blank" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/mcgovern06022009.html">given to a veteran of the USS Liberty.</a> http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000022 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000022 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Crime Rates Query: Won't American crime rates jump with all the new Arab and Jewish Americans? America has already the highest crime rates of the developed lands of the world. Now we are thinking of adding maybe 10 million more Americans, half Arabs, half Jews. What will happen to our crime rates? Won't they soar? To the contrary. Nothing to worry about. The rates in Israel and Palestine now are confused, given several different police forces, divided localities, the general alarm and the frequent state-directed violence both in Palestine and Israel. But they do not appear to be any higher than the American rates and actually may be lower. There may be a problem with recent Russian-Israelis; Russia's rates are high. Palestinian crime rates appear to be lower than Israeli rates. More American men are killed (per 100K) than Israelis (even counting the attacks by Palestinians). (The US today has the world's highest homicide rate and highest incarceration, parole and probation rates – 1 in every 40 adults). Southern American states and cities are likely to frighten an ordinary Canaan, if he simply looks at the rates. New York City, for instance, where so many Jews and Muslims congregate, has safer conditions of person and property than Houston or Los Angeles or Chicago. Canaan State itself, when conditions settle down, will likely be a haven of security in the USA. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000017 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000017 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Scatology of the Army of Israel Why do they behave that way? Many testimonials describe scenes over a period of sixty years in which Israeli soldiers, in the course of looting and destroying Palestinian premises and property, aside from common murder and occasional rape, urinate and defecate deliberately and promiscuously over every conceivable target. A search of the Web will produce all the pictures and accounts needed to prove this statement. The fact that the phenomenon is not publicized and discussed has to do with both the quasi-monopoly on the Israeli image in the media possessed by the Israelists and the embarrassment that subjects connected with the toilet convey to most people in American culture. Incidents of such collective scatosis can be observed in various armies. And there have been, I am sure, individual soldiery behaving similarly, that is compulsively and obsessively using their excretory organs to attack the enemy, whether or not they have killed or taken prisoner the greatest possiblenumber of males within reach. The question here though is one of common and general conduct in the Israeli Defense Force. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000018 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000018 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america 23+ Reasons Why the Two-States Solution Won't Work Most politicians and media around the world believe that the desolated land comprising the old Palestine Mandate of the League of Nations should be divided into the sovereign states of Palestine and Israel, following a set of crazy boundaries approved by the United Nations back in 1947. I am amazed – as all of us should be amazed – at the incessant near-unanimous mouthing of support for this scheme that came first to that desperate vote-grubber, President Harry Truman and his old Jewish buddy, and was imposed upon a reluctant U.S. Department of State and the United Nations. Over sixty years of experience in trying to realize the "Two-States Solution" have brought forward at least these 23 reasons why it has not taken effect and will not work under any conditions – and, with the help of Prime Minister Netanyahu's recent declarations on the question, I shall be adding more in the near future... 1. Israelists and Zionists basically want all of Palestine and have shown an infinite capacity for inventing and seizing upon excuses for delaying the 2-states formula while they work toward a Greater Israel that will at best leave Palestine as a paperwork-pauper regime. The incredibly presumptuous yet respectfully applauded speech of Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu of June 14, 2009 offers, as I do here, a list of impossible conditions adding up to the conclusion by any sensible person that the two-state solution will not work. 2. The "One-State Solution", even in it meant imposing forcibly a UN or NATO Mandate government on the region, would cost far less damage to the people and land than has been experienced in attempting to set up the two-state solution. 3. Every week brings another roguery or disaster that is employed by good or bad activists to devise an unworkable response. (Note about the picture: It's too nice, really! If these were islands on a blue sea, one could endlessly navigate between them... Each island of East Palestine is in fact a high security prison... You can't get out without an authorization from the Israeli Occupier - if at all...) http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000007 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000007 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Please, Listen. Before it is too Late." "For the last forty years, history has proven that the Israeli–Palestinian conflict cannot be settled by force. Every effort, every possible means and resource of imagination and reflection should now be brought into play to find a new way forward. A new initiative which allays fear and suffering, acknowledges the injustice done, and leads to the security of Israelis and Palestinians alike. An initiative which demands of all sides a common responsibility: to ensure equal rights and dignity to both peoples, and to ensure the right of each person to transcend the past and aspire to a future." Daniel Barenboim and 150 signataries February, 2009 Picture: Yo-Yo Ma, signatary Photo: © world economic forum swiss-image Andy Mettler http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000015 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000015 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america February 14, 2009 Let my first published blog here talk of the holocaustian Nakba of Gaza. My book, The American State of Canaan, was put into production just before the Israeli government launched its invasion of the Palestinian Gaza strip, ruled by the internationally defamed Hamas gang. I am not a news vendor, but at least once a month, I'll mention relevant news. Especially now that the military invasion has ceased and the 1.5 million Gazans are merely being starved and generally deprived of a human subsistence by Israel's government, we need only add that the Israeli have confirmed many of the nearly 200 rogueries listed in their name in the Canaan book. A very bad show – the one that was put on by the nearly unanimous Ship of Fools that run Israel. They disabled thousands of men, women, and children, murdered several thousands of men, women, and children, hitting a few Hamas resistence fighters in the process of destroying the infrastructure of the city, many hundreds of homes, all the useful roads and communication facilities, shutting out the journalists from the scene of the crime. But do begin with the book, scan it, read it, pass it around, buy it if you wish or download it if you cannot afford to buy it. (Of course, I cannot afford to publish it either.) But now we know what must and can be tried and possibly accomplished as we chase the will-o'-the-wisp of a decent world order. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000001 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000001 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america The Best, but Improbable, Two-State Avnery Model Preface by Al de Grazia:This is an important document, Barack Obama being a certain high American official, Uri Avnery being the greatest of Israel peacemakers and bull-baiters on the battlegrounds of Israel-Palestine, and I fashioning a bridge to Canaan State 51 of the USA. My suggested amendments are in brackets [] and in capital letters. MEMO FOR OBAMA Uri Avnery 6 December 2008 For: the President-Elect, Mr. Barack Obama. The following humble suggestions are based on my 70 years of experience as an underground fighter, special forces soldier in the 1948 war, editor-in-chief of a news magazine, member of the Knesset and founding member of a peace movement: (1) As far as Israeli-Arab peace is concerned, you should act from Day One. (2) Israeli elections are due to take place in February 2009. You can have an indirect but important and constructive impact on the outcome, by announcing your unequivocal determination to achieve Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Syrian and Israeli-all-Arab peace in 2009 [EMPLOYING THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS WITHIN THE POWER OF THE UNITED STATES]. (3) Unfortunately, all your predecessors since 1967 have played a double game. While paying lip service to peace, and sometimes going through the motions of making some effort for peace, they have in practice supported our governments in moving in the very opposite direction. In particular, AND FOR ONE THING, they have given tacit approval to the building and enlargement of Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories, each of which is a land mine on the road to peace. [THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES RIGHT TO RETURN, AN IRONCLAD RIGHT IN THE MIND OF THE ARAB-PALESTINIAN WORLD, HAS BEEN TOTALLY NEGLECTED.] http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000009 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000009 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america A Flag for Canaan? Peaceful, soothing colors, for the "Land where Milk and Honey flow..." http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000012 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000012 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america In the London "Times," about Hamas This article for your information. Let us not forget - when hundreds of Gazan children have been killed, thousands maimed or injured, hundreds of thousand scarred for life - the "lesser" outrage that 45 elected Hamas deputies (out of 76) are being held in prison in Israel for no other crime than their having been elected in 2006 in parliamentary elections which have been judged free and fair by the international community. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000008 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000008 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america Horrors of Gaza The atrocious pictures of the Sabbah collection to which we were linking here have been removed from the web. We will not remove this one, which was part of the series, and which shows that the butchers of Gaza are the real antisemites. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000010 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000010 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america "One-State Qaddafi" and "Two-State Avnery" Muammar Qaddafi, Dictator of Libya, moved by the Israeli destruction and massacre in Gaza, was able to publish a plea for a One-State resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the New York Times and the Paris International Herald Tribune. In this brief piece of January 22, 2009, he condemned both the aggression and the role of religious extremists in Israel and Palestine in making any resolution most difficult. Still, he pointed out the ancient and even genetic kinship between Jews and Arab, and is convinced that they could get along well enough to make the Single State possible. Over 20% of Israelis are already of Arab stock. Economically the two countries could work well together. Return of the Palestinian refugees is a necessity, however, and they can be accommodated well, but only in the full land. "Two-States" Uri Avnery, veteran of the creation of Israel, once a Knesset parliamentarian, hero of the Israel peace movement, a hero of mine as well, took issue and in the same Paris IHT of 28 January published the following article, ‘The One-State Illusion'( carrying several passages he has added). His article, however, is here interrupted by the rebuttal of a friend, namely me, Alfred de Grazia, which is set inside brackets with italics. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000003 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000003 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america The One-State [solution is not an] Illusion [but rather the original, and still the only, way to go, especially if part of the American Federation.] There follows the IHT article by Uri Avnery, with my comments in [ ] brackets: It is always pleasing to hear Muammar Qaddafi coming forward with a new idea. He is the joker in the pack of Middle Eastern leaders, appearing in the most unexpected places. He looks at things with fresh eyes. Unfortunately, his ideas are not always the most practical. [Beware of the self-denominated "practical man".] Now he is putting forward the idea that Jews and Arabs in our country should live together in one joint state, to be called Isratine (IHT Jan. 23, Muammar Qaddafi, "The one-state solution".) [The name Isratine is unfortunate. Some hyper-Israelites assert that the letters ‘tine' spell a dirty word in Arabic and therefore is a dirty joke. I do not think so.. But anyway my name for the unified State of Israel-Palestine USA is the State of Canaan USA.] That is a fetching, if not altogether original idea. Qaddafi has always been a great unifier. In 1972, early in his 40-year rule, he initiated the union of Libya, Egypt and Syria in one state. Then, In 1974, he started work towards a union of Libya and Tunisia. He also proposed the creation of a big Saharan Islamic State. (I wonder if he himself remembers all these projects. Very few others do.) [ Nothing wrong with being a great unifier e.g. Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson.] http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000004 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000004 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america "The American State of Canaan" by Alfred de Grazia is now available for sale in Europe %PAYPALASOC% http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000013 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/latest/index.html#bv000013 "The American State of Canaan:" the peaceful, prosperous juncture of israel and palestine as the 51st state of the united states of america "The American State of Canaan" by Alfred de Grazia is now for sale in Europe %PAYPALASOC% http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/theamericanstate/index.html#bv000006 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/theamericanstate/index.html#bv000006 The American State of Canaan: the Book "The American State of Canaan" by Alfred de Grazia is now available for sale in Europe %PAYPALASOC% http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/alfreddegrazia/index.html#bv000008 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/alfreddegrazia/index.html#bv000008 Alfred de Grazia "Get Indignant!" - Another member of the Youth Club: Stéphane Hessel (93) "When a poisonous snake is endowed with a good conscience, like the named Hessel, it is understandable that one feels the urge to crush his head." Thus French neo-con philosopher and Zionist Pierre-André Taguieff about Stéphane Hessel, former French Ambassador to the UN, former inmate at Buchenwald and secretary to René Cassin, at the time when he was co-writer of UN's Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man (1949). Stéphane Hessel has spoken out in support of the boycott of products from the Jewish colonies of the West Bank, which attracted the wrath of Mr. Taguieff. Pierre Puchot, journalist at Mediapart, asks Stéphane Hessel: Where does your involvement in favor of the Palestinian population come from? "Originally, it was some Israelis, among the most dissident, who addressed the Diaspora (my father was Jewish) considering that we were Jews who must, as they said, realize what is becoming out of the state which we have supported when it was created: "You should come and have a look at what the successive Israeli governments have brought us to." I answered their call. I have been there for the first time in the 1990s. I have returned several times and I have indeed come to realize that the Palestinian cause was badly defended, and the Israeli side free to act in total impunity. As I am rather an International Law man, I sustained that we, members of the United Nations, have obligations towards the Palestinian people and I started to defend the idea that to leave Israeli politics unpunished was contrary to International Law. This was a rather recent path for me to tread, for twenty years ago, I occupied myself little with the Palestinian problem. But since the end of the nineties, I have gone there at least six times and I realized that it was only possible to to understand some things when one was on the spot. It's only when being on the spot that one can understand how the Israeli policies have been nefarious to the Palestinian people, contrary to International Law, and contrary to the well understood interest of the Israeli people themselves..." In your "brochure," Get Indignant, you notably call for "a pacific insurrection." What do you mean? "I refer to what the Palestinians are doing in a village close to that famous wall built by Israel on Palestinian land, of which they are therefore the victims and who, in protest, organize every Friday a march which they want to be pacific, as they forbid kids to throw stones. Generally, they are greeted by Israeli soldiers who don't hesitate to use teargas, and even rubber bullets. This is what I call pacific insurrection. This is what the Israelis have had the nerve to call "non-violent terrorism" as if one could be in the same time non-violent and a terrorist. As all violence calls for violence in return, this is never a good way to resolve a problem." As to M. Taguieff's call to crush his snake's head, Stéphane Hessel commented: "That I should be attacked, why not? But let it be done with a minimum of courtoisie, please!" http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/35getindignant-s/index.html#bv000002 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/35getindignant-s/index.html#bv000002 "Get Indignant!" Another member of the Youth Club: Stéphane Hessel (93) "The American State of Canaan" is now available for sale in Europe %PAYPALASOC% http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/thebestbutimprob/index.html#bv000001 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/thebestbutimprob/index.html#bv000001 The best, but Improbable, Two-State Avnery Model "The American State of Canaan" by Alfred de Grazia is now available for sale in Europe %PAYPALASOC% http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/thetimesonhamas/index.html#bv000001 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/thetimesonhamas/index.html#bv000001 We Must Adjust Our Distorted Image of Hamas December 31, 2008 We must adjust our distorted image of Hamas Gaza is a secular society where people listen to pop music, watch TV and many women walk the streets unveiledWilliam Sieghart Last week I was in Gaza. While I was there I met a group of 20 or so police officers who were undergoing a course in conflict management. They were eager to know whether foreigners felt safer since Hamas had taken over the Government? Indeed we did, we told them. Without doubt the past 18 months had seen a comparative calm on the streets of Gaza; no gunmen on the streets, no more kidnappings. They smiled with great pride and waved us goodbye. Less than a week later all of these men were dead, killed by an Israeli rocket at a graduation ceremony. Were they “dangerous Hamas militant gunmen”? No, they were unarmed police officers, public servants killed not in a “militant training camp” but in the same police station in the middle of Gaza City that had been used by the British, the Israelis and Fatah during their periods of rule there. This distinction is crucial because while the horrific scenes in Gaza and Israel play themselves out on our television screens, a war of words is being fought that is clouding our understanding of the realities on the ground. Who or what is Hamas, the movement that Ehud Barak, the Israeli Defence Minister, would like to wipe out as though it were a virus? Why did it win the Palestinian elections and why does it allow rockets to be fired into Israel? The story of Hamas over the past three years reveals how the Israeli, US and UK governments' misunderstanding of this Islamist movement has led us to the brutal and desperate situation that we are in now. The story begins nearly three years ago when Change and Reform - Hamas's political party - unexpectedly won the first free and fair elections in the Arab world, on a platform of ending endemic corruption and improving the almost non-existent public services in Gaza and the West Bank. Against a divided opposition this ostensibly religious party impressed the predominantly secular community to win with 42 per cent of the vote. Palestinians did not vote for Hamas because it was dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel or because it had been responsible for waves of suicide bombings that had killed Israeli citizens. They voted for Hamas because they thought that Fatah, the party of the rejected Government, had failed them. Despite renouncing violence and recognising the state of Israel Fatah had not achieved a Palestinian state. It is crucial to know this to understand the supposed rejectionist position of Hamas. It won't recognise Israel or renounce the right to resist until it is sure of the world's commitment to a just solution to the Palestinian issue. In the five years that I have been visiting Gaza and the West Bank, I have met hundreds of Hamas politicians and supporters. None of them has professed the goal of Islamising Palestinian society, Taleban-style. Hamas relies on secular voters too much to do that. People still listen to pop music, watch television and women still choose whether to wear the veil or not. The political leadership of Hamas is probably the most highly qualified in the world. Boasting more than 500 PhDs in its ranks, the majority are middle-class professionals - doctors, dentists, scientists and engineers. Most of its leadership have been educated in our universities and harbour no ideological hatred towards the West. It is a grievance-based movement, dedicated to addressing the injustice done to its people. It has consistently offered a ten-year ceasefire to give breathing space to resolve a conflict that has continued for more than 60 years. The Bush-Blair response to the Hamas victory in 2006 is the key to today's horror. Instead of accepting the democratically elected Government, they funded an attempt to remove it by force; training and arming groups of Fatah fighters to unseat Hamas militarily and impose a new, unelected government on the Palestinians. Further, 45 Hamas MPs are still being held in Israeli jails. Six months ago the Israeli Government agreed to an Egyptian- brokered ceasefire with Hamas. In return for a ceasefire, Israel agreed to open the crossing points and allow a free flow of essential supplies in and out of Gaza. The rocket barrages ended but the crossings never fully opened, and the people of Gaza began to starve. This crippling embargo was no reward for peace. When Westerners ask what is in the mind of Hamas leaders when they order or allow rockets to be fired at Israel they fail to understand the Palestinian position. Two months ago the Israeli Defence Forces broke the ceasefire by entering Gaza and beginning the cycle of killing again. In the Palestinian narrative each round of rocket attacks is a response to Israeli attacks. In the Israeli narrative it is the other way round. But what does it mean when Mr Barak talks of destroying Hamas? Does it mean killing the 42 per cent of Palestinians who voted for it? Does it mean reoccupying the Gaza strip that Israel withdrew from so painfully three years ago? Or does it mean permanently separating the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank, politically and geographically? And for those whose mantra is Israeli security, what sort of threat do the three quarters of a million young people growing up in Gaza with an implacable hatred of those who starve and bomb them pose? It is said that this conflict is impossible to solve. In fact, it is very simple. The top 1,000 people who run Israel - the politicians, generals and security staff - and the top Palestinian Islamists have never met. Genuine peace will require that these two groups sit down together without preconditions. But the events of the past few days seem to have made this more unlikely than ever. That is the challenge for the new administration in Washington and for its European allies. William Sieghart is chairman of Forward Thinking, an independent conflict resolution agency http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/thetimesonhamas/index.html#bv000002 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/thetimesonhamas/index.html#bv000002 Comparing Genocides The Palestine Center for Human Rights reported that Israeli occupation forces in 3 weeks in Gaza killed 1,434 Palestinians: 235 resistance fighters, 239 police, 960 civilians (over 1/3rd children). Also it injured thousands (many with permanent disabilities). These and, of course, the enormous destruction wreaked upon the densely populated city must be added to the ever-increasing Nakba-Holocaust suffering, treated in the book , the American State of Canaan. More Palestinians were killed and maimed in a few days of the Gaza splurge than Israelis by Palestinians in the entire 60-year history of Israel. This would not happen in the State of Canaan. We might well stay ahead in the dreadful calculations, by habitually adding onto the Holocaust figures estimates of all Jews killed and injured, expelled, and materially deprived in gentile persecutions of the last 2000 years. Such statistics gone mad, indeed, are drilled into the minds of many Jews, all the more so Israelis, for whom mangling history is a diurnal tool of government and obstruct the recognition of suffering of which they are perpetrators, and not victims. Actually, we might as well do the similar calculation, rough as it would be, for each and every culture or nation that has ever existed. Gone are the nations of the Cimbri and Teutons that Marius the Roman annihilated in short order. Where are the millions of the City of Rome who disappeared in the plagues, barbarian invasions, breakdown of aqueducts, and civil wars; only a beggarly few thousands passed muster in the deep Middle Age. Gone are thousands of distinct cultures, tribes, and nations of the Americas. The last Tasmanian died not long ago; his people had been hunted down like rats by Britons. Frightfully decimated were the Armenians of the Twentieth Century; their persecutors were Turks; the descendants of the same Turks, unlike the Descendants of the German Nazis, so far have refused even an apology, much less any restitution such as the Germans have sought to provide. Half of the Jews of the world carried on after the worst of the Holocaust. Safest, then, were those who lived among the Muslims. Including in Palestine. Alfred de Grazia http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/horrorsofgaza/index.html#bv000001 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/horrorsofgaza/index.html#bv000001 Horrors of Gaza "The American State of Canaan" by Alfred de Grazia is now available for sale in Europe %PAYPALASOC% http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/4one-stateqaddaf/index.html#bv000004 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/4one-stateqaddaf/index.html#bv000004 "One-State Qaddafi" and "Two-States Avnery" "One-State Qaddafi" and "Two-States-Avnery" Muammar Qaddafi, Dictator of Libya, moved by the Israeli destruction and massacre in Gaza, was able to publish a plea for a One-State resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict in the New York Times and the Paris International Herald Tribune. In this brief piece of January 22, 2009, he condemned both the aggression and the role of religious extremists in Israel and Palestine in making any resolution most difficult. Still, he pointed out the ancient and even genetic kinship between Jews and Arab, and is convinced that they could get along well enough to make the Single State possible. Over 20% of Israelis are already of Arab stock. Economically the two countries could work well together. Return of the Palestinian refugees is a necessity, however, and they can be accommodated well, but only in the full land. "Two-States" Uri Avnery, veteran of the creation of Israel, once a Knesset parliamentarian, hero of the Israel peace movement, a hero of mine as well, took issue and in the same Paris IHT of 28 January published the following article, ‘The One-State Illusion'( carrying several passages he has added). His article, however, is here interrupted by the rebuttal of a friend, namely me, Alfred de Grazia, which is set inside brackets with italics. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/4one-stateqaddaf/index.html#bv000002 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/4one-stateqaddaf/index.html#bv000002 "One-State Qaddafi" and "Two-States Avnery" The "One-State" [solution is not an] Illusion [but rather the original, and still the only, way to go, especially if part of the American Federation.] There follows the IHT article by Uri Avnery, with my comments in [ ] brackets: It is always pleasing to hear Muammar Qaddafi coming forward with a new idea. He is the joker in the pack of Middle Eastern leaders, appearing in the most unexpected places. He looks at things with fresh eyes. Unfortunately, his ideas are not always the most practical. [Beware of the self-denominated "practical man".] Now he is putting forward the idea that Jews and Arabs in our country should live together in one joint state, to be called Isratine (IHT Jan. 23, Muammar Qaddafi, "The one-state solution".) [The name Isratine is unfortunate. Some hyper-Israelites assert that the letters ‘tine' spell a dirty word in Arabic and therefore is a dirty joke. I do not think so.. But anyway my name for the unified State of Israel-Palestine USA is the State of Canaan USA.] That is a fetching, if not altogether original idea. Qaddafi has always been a great unifier. In 1972, early in his 40-year rule, he initiated the union of Libya, Egypt and Syria in one state. Then, In 1974, he started work towards a union of Libya and Tunisia. He also proposed the creation of a big Saharan Islamic State. (I wonder if he himself remembers all these projects. Very few others do.) [ Nothing wrong with being a great unifier e.g. Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson.] After these failures, one would have to be a very determined optimist to believe in the union of Israel and Palestine. After all, the peoples of Libya, Egypt and Tunisia are very closely related, profess the same religion, speak the same language and share the same social mores, while Israelis and Palestinians are not related, speak different languages, have different beliefs and are both fiercely nationalistic. [What about the Swiss, the onetime Austro-Hungarian Empire, onetime Roman Republic and Empire, et al.] (Since Qaddafi assumed power in Libya, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and then Serbia, as well as Czechoslovakia and Cyprus have broken up, Belgium is teetering on the brink of a split and the joint state of Bosnia is a fiction. [All of these were better off when united, we might argue.] The United States and Canada, two good neighbors mostly speaking the same language, would not dream of uniting in one single state, [I have often dreamed of this] nor would Germany and France, who have become friendly partners in the EU. [The love affair has gone a long way, however, and they are bossing each other around amicably already.] We don't see Ireland rushing to rejoin the United Kingdom. On the contrary, many Scots want out. [Etc.,etc. idem] The conflict in our country has been going on for 120 years, since the first Zionist settlers reached the shores of Palestine. A fifth generation has already been born into this conflict, a generation whose entire mental world, like that of their parents, has been shaped by the war. [The American uninvited-settlers vs. Indians conflict went on for 350 years. Would the Iroquois and European settlers have been lovey-dovey as separate countries? And if you are so keen on good neighborliness with your 2-country deal, how can you imagine the two countries as neighbors when they are at each other's throats now – as you say yourself?] It takes quite a stretch of the imagination to believe that under the benevolent guidance of Qaddafi, Israelis and Palestinians will come together tomorrow, serve in the same army, enact the same laws in a joint Parliament and pay the same taxes. One wonders how such a state would function. [This was the problem of George Washington and other Authors of the American Constitution, too. He kept at it. It has finally worked.] Israelis might misunderstand the intentions of our Libyan friend and think that he is asking them to dismantle their state, take in six million Palestinian refugees and resign themselves to live as a minority in an Arab-majority Isratine. They will be tempted to answer: Thanks, but no thanks. If there is one point on which 99% of Israelis are in agreement, it is their desire to live in a Hebrew-speaking state of their own, (in which they are masters of their fate.) [You are not a stupid chauvinist, Uri, who believes in the super-powered Hitlerian Fascist State! You are a great man, who does not believe that an Israeli Garrison State enforcing the Hebrew revival is the be-all end-all of society. You are on your way, however, to joining many fundamentalist Americans who support Israel only as the next step before the Jews become Christians and Yahweh calls up the Armageddon against the Unbelievers and ordains the End of the World.] Palestinians might react quite similarly. After enduring the Zionist onslaught for so long, they also want to be masters of their fate, in a state of their own, under their own flag. [Better yet, why not make American citizens out of Palestinians – refugees included – and Israelis alike?] They might not take kindly to Qaddafi's contention that their brutal oppression and exploitation by fanatical Jewish settlers in the West Bank constitutes a "successful assimilation" and that in 1948 "Jews did not forcibly expel Palestinians." As a soldier in that war, this comes as quite a surprise to me, too. [This sentence seems irrelevant, except to show what a nice guy Qaddafi is trying to be.] At the end of that terrible war, my friends and I proposed the Two-State Solution. [You did not do so – as I explain and every authority before me, the USA was solidly for a united country and so too most of the world. Then came the split nation, geographically lunatic, which President Truman forced through under pressure from his Jewish sidekick under Zionist pressure.] Not a hundred people around the globe accepted that. [Not so, as I just said.] Now there is a world-wide consensus. [Which is rapidly being lost and only survives because good guys like you are unwittingly playing the game of the bad guys.] The great majority of both Israelis and Palestinian, as well as the members of the Arab League and all the great powers, are convinced that this is the only viable way to achieve a lasting peace. [You have become a victim of enemy propaganda; it can happen to the best of us.] Qaddafi is quite right about the shortcomings of this solution and the difficulties in achieving it, including those created by successive Israeli governments which have paid lip-service to it while doing everything in their power to obstruct it. But all these obstacles are nothing compared to those lying on the road to a One-State Illusion, which is no solution at all. (Those adopting this dream out of despair resemble a boxer who was unable to defeat a light-weight opponent, and therefore decides to take on a heavy-weight champion.) [My uncle, who was a great boxer of yesteryear, once told me he found that wherever he traveled to fight, he could not win by a decision, which usually favored the local fighter, so he went for a knock-out from the start. Better to go for a knock-out solution, because we shall never win the decisions you are hoping for.] We Israelis have a lot to do to mend our state. We must turn it into a truly democratic, progressive and secular society, with full equality for all its citizens. We must put an end to the occupation, make peace with the Palestinian people, return to the 1967 borders (perhaps with some mutually agreed minor swaps of territory), dismantle the settlements and hold out our hands to the State of Palestine with its capital in East Jerusalem. We must find a practical, decent solution to the refugee problem, based on mutual agreement. All that is difficult but possible.) [Exactly what I have just said, so let's go for a total sudden solution.] The Two-State Solution is achievable right now, in 2009, if President Barack Obama is determined to implement it "aggressively", as he says. He will find many allies in Israel. [These allies, like your group, have suffered for the cause through the many years, with hardly any effect, but rather in fact experiencing a worsening situation climaxed by the semi-holocaust in these past days of Gaza.] [In sum, then, the two-state solution is both deadly and hopeless, anti-humane as well. The union of the two peoples has a much better chance at realization, with great overall benefits. The Palestinians of Israel, 20% of Israel's people, do better under the oppressor's heel than the Palestinians of the independent West Bank and Gaza Strip and the refugees. By attaching the two peoples to a united State of Canaan, belonging to the United States of America, as the 51st State, the least violent, least costly, most enduring, and internationally beneficial solution would occur for all three parties, Israel, Palestine, and America.] http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/4one-stateqaddaf/index.html#bv000001 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/4one-stateqaddaf/index.html#bv000001 "One-State Qaddafi" and "Two-States Avnery" "The American State of Canaan" by Alfred de Grazia is now available for sale in Europe %PAYPALASOC% http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/january102009/index.html#bv000018 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/january102009/index.html#bv000018 A Call from within - signed by 540 Israeli citizens Who are these people? Let us have a look at just a few of them, chosen at random (except for Aharon Shabtai): http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/january102009/index.html#bv000001 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/january102009/index.html#bv000001 A Call from within - signed by 540 Israeli citizens A Call from Within - signed by 540 Israeli citizens Sunday, 18 January 2009 20:10 Last Updated on Sunday, 18 January 2009 22:57 Written by 540 Israeli citizens In support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action As if the occupation was not enough, the brutal ongoing repression of the Palestinian population, the construction of settlements and the siege of Gaza - now comes the bombardment of the civilian population: men, women, old folks and children. Hundreds of dead, hundreds of injured, overwhelmed hospitals, and the central medicine depot of Gaza bombed. The ship Dignity of the Free Gaza movement which brought emergency medical supplies and a number of physicians was also attacked. Israel has returned to openly committing war crimes, worse than what we have seen in a long time. Israeli media do not expose their viewers to the horrors and to the voices of severe criticism of these crimes. The story told is uniform. Israeli dissidents are denounced as traitors. Public opinion including that of the Zionist left supports the Israeli policy uncritically and without reservation. Israel's destructive criminal policy will not cease without a massive intervention by the international community. However, except for some rather weak official condemnation, the international community is reluctant to intervene,. The United States openly supports the Israeli violence and Europe, although voicing some condemnation, is unwilling to seriously consider withdrawing the "gift" it handed Israel by upgrading its relations with the European Union. In the past the world knew how to fight criminal policies. The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves: its trade relations are flourishing, academic and cultural cooperation continue and intensify with diplomatic support. This international backing must stop. That is the only way to stop the insatiable Israeli violence. We are calling on the world to stop Israeli violence and not allow the continuation of the brutal occupation. We call on the world to Condemn and not become an accomplice in Israel's crimes. In light of the above, we call on the world to implement the call by Palestinian human rights organizations which urges: • "The UN Security Council to call an emergency session and adopt concrete measures, including the imposition of sanctions, in order to ensure Israel's fulfillment of its obligations under international humanitarian law. • The High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to fulfil their obligation under common Article 1 to ensure respect for the provisions of the Conventions, taking appropriate measures to compel Israel to abide by its obligations under international humanitarian law, in particular placing pivotal importance on the respect and protection of civilians from the effects of the hostilities. • The High Contracting Parties to fulfil their legal obligation under Article 146 of the Fourth Geneva Convention to prosecute those responsible for grave breaches of the Convention. • EU institutions and member states to make effective use of the European Union Guidelines on promoting compliance with international humanitarian law (2005/C 327/04) to ensure Israel complies with international humanitarian law under paragraph 16 (b), (c) and (d) of these guidelines, including the adoption of immediate restrictive measures and sanctions, as well as cessation of all upgrade dialogue with Israel. " Signed by 540 Israeli citizens (first list): Avital Aboody, Sami Abu Shehadeh, Moshe Adler, Haim Adri, Gali Agnon, Bilha Aharoni, Hagit Aharoni, Saida Ahmed, Danny Aisner, Orna Akad, Aviv Aldema, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, Joseph Algazy, Omer Allon, Dan Almagor, Orly Almi, Tali Almi, Tamar Almog, Udi Aloni, Yuli Aloni-Primor, Colman Altman, Janina Altman, Ahmad Amara, Eitan Amiel, Nitza Aminov, Gish Amit, Yossi Amitay, Naama Arbel, Tal Arbel, Rana Asali, Maisoon Assadi, Keren Assaf, Zohar Atai, Najla Atamnah, Rutie Atsmon, Michal Aviad, Hanna Aviram, Jasmin Avissar, Amira Bahat, Noam Bahat, Daniela Bak, Abeer Baker, Saleh Bakri, Rim Banna, Oshra Bar, Yoav Barak, Daphna Baram, Michal Bareket, Hila Bargiel, Ronny Bar-Gil, Yoram Bar-Haim, Ronnie Barkan, Osnat Bar-Or, Racheli Bar-or, Yossi Bartal, Raji Bathish, Dalit Baum, Shlomit Bauman, Esther Ben Chur, Hagit Ben Yaacov, Tal Ben Zvi, Yael Ben-Zvi, Avner Ben-Amos, Ronnen Ben-Arie, Ur Ben-Ari-Tishler, Ofra Ben-Artzi, Yotam Ben-David, Smadar Ben-Natan, Shmuel Ben Yitzchak, Avi Berg, Daniel Berger, Tamar Berger, Anat Biletzki, Itai Biran, Rotem Biran, Shany Birenboim, Rozeen Bisharat, Yafit Gamilah Biso, Liran Bitton, Simone Bitton, Yahaacov Bitton, Rani Bleier, Yempa Boleslavsky, Hagit Borer, Ido Bornstein, Irith Bouman, Haim Bresheeth, Aya Breuer, Shlomit Breuer, Dror Burstein, Smadar Bustan, Shai Carmeli-Pollak, Smadar Carmon, Zohar Chamberlain-Regev, Sami Shalom Chetrit, Chassia Chomsky-Porat, Arie Chupak, Isadora Cohen, Kfir Cohen, Matan Cohen, Nahoum Cohen, Raya Cohen, Ron Cohen, Stan Cohen, Yifat Cohen, Alex Cohn, Scandar Copti, Adi Dagan, Yael Dagan, Yasmeen Daher, Silan Dallal, Tamari Dallal, Leena Dallasheh, Eyal Danon, Uri Davis, Hilla Dayan, Relli De Vries, Maoz Degani, Ruti Divon, Diana Dolev, Yfat Doron, Ettie Dotan, Keren Dotan, Ronit Dovrat, Daniel Dukarevich, Arnon Dunetz, Maya Dunietz, Udi Edelman, Shai Efrati, Neta Efrony, Rani Einav, Asa Eitan, Danae Elon, Ruth El-Raz, Noam Enbar, Amalia Escriva, Anat Even, Gilad Evron, Ovadia Ezra, Basma Fahoum, Avner Faingulernt, Ghazi-Walid Falah, Naama Farjoun, Yvonne Fattal, Dror Feiler, Pnina Feiler, Micky Fischer, Sara Fischman, Nadav Franckovich, Ofer Frant, Ilil Friedman, Maya Galai, Dafna Ganani, Gefen Ganani, Yael Gazit, Yoram Gelman, Yakov Gilad, Amit Gilboa, Michal Ginach, Rachel Giora, Michal Givoni, Ednna Glukman, Angela Godfrey-Goldstein, Bilha Golan, Neta Golan, Shayi Golan, Tsilli Goldenberg, Vardit Goldner, Tamar Goldschmidt, Lymor Goldstein, Dina Goor, Shelley Goral, Joel Gordon, Ester Gould, Inbal Gozes, Inbal Gozes-Sharvit, Erella Grassiani, Adar Grayevsky, Gill Green, David Greenberg, Ela Greenberg, Dani Grimblat, Lev Grinberg, Yosef Grodzinsky, Hilik Gurfinkel, Galia Gur-Zeev, Anat Guthmann, Amos Gvirtz, Maya Gzn-Zvi, Yoav Haas, Iman Habibi, Connie Hackbarth, Uri Hadar, Mirjam Hadar Meerschwam, Rayya Haddad, Osnat Hadid, Dalia Hager, Tami Hager, Hava Halevi, Yasmine Halevi, Jeff Halper, Yuval Halperin, Rula Hamdan-Atamneh, Rania Hamed, Rola Hamed, Anat Hammermann Schuldiner, Doron Hammermann-Schuldiner, Ben Handler, Tal Haran, Elad Harel, Nir Harel, Shuli Hartman, Lihi Hasson, Amir Havkin, Shira Havkin, Amani Hawari, Areen Hawari, Iris Hefets, Ada Heilbronn, Ayelet Heller, Sara Helman, Ben Hendler, Aref Herbawi, Tamara Herman, Avi Hershkovitz, Yael Hersonski, Galit Hess, Hannan Hever, Ala Hlehel, Gil Hochberg, Tikva Honig-Parnass, Tikva Honig-Parnass, Inbar Horesh, Veronique Inbar, Rachel Leah Jones, Noga Kadaman, Ari Kahana, Dafna Kaminer, Aya Kaniuk, Ruti Kantor, Liad Kantorowicz, Dalia Karpel, Rabia Kassim, Amira Katz, Shai Katz, Uri Katz, Giora Katzin, Dror Kaufman, Adam Keller, Yehudit Keshet, Lana Khaskia, Efraim Kidron, Alisa Klein, Sylvia Klingberg, Yana Knopova, Ofra Koffman, Yael Korin, Alina Korn, Rinat Kotler, Meira Kowalsky, Noa Kram, Miki Kratsman, Rotem Kuehnberg, Assia Ladizhinskaya, Michal Lahav, Roni Lahav, Idan Landau, Yitzhak Laor, Orna Lavi, Ruti Lavi, Shaheen Lavie-Rouse, Yigal Laviv, Tamar Lehahn, Ronen Leibman, Miki Lentin, Ronit Lentin, Yael Lerer, Chava Lerman, Noa Lerner, Yair Lev, Yudith Levin, Abigail Levine, Eyal Levinson, Dana Levy, Inbal Lily-Koliner, Moran Livnat, Omri Livne, Amir Locker-Biletzki, Yael Locker-Biletzki, Yossi Loss, Yael Lotan, Guy Lougashi, Irit Lourie, Orly Lubin, Joseph Lubovsky, Aim Deuelle Luski, Naomi Lyth, Moshe Machover, Aryeh Magal, Liz Magnes, Noa Man, Ya'acov Manor, Arabiya Mansour, Roi Maor, Adi Maoz, Eilat Maoz, Yossi Marchaim, Alon Marcus, Esti Marpet, Ruchama Marton, Nur Masalha, Anat Matar, Doron Matar, Haggai Matar, Oren Matar, Samy Matar, Rela Mazali, Naama Meishar, Rachel Meketon, Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Remy Mendelzweig, Racheli Merhav, Yael Meron, Juliano Merr-Khamis, Esti Micenmacher, Maya Michaeli, Avraham Milgrom, Jeremy Milgrom, Elisheva Milikowski, Erez Miller, Katya Miller, Limor Mintz-Manor, Ariel Mioduser, Dror Mishani, Eedo Mizrahi, Avi Mograbi, Liron Mor, Magi Mor, Susan Mordechay, Susanne Moses, Haidi Motola, Ahuva Mu'alem, Ben Tzion Munitz, Norma Musih, Dorit Naaman, Michal Naaman, Gil Naamati, Haneen Naamnih, Naama Nagar, Dorothy Naor, Regev Nathansohn, Shelly Nativ, Salman Natour, Judd Ne'eman, Dana Negev, Smadar Nehab, Shlomit Lola Nehama, Ofer Neiman, David Nir, Eyal Nir, Tali Nir, Alex Nissen, Tal Nitzan, Joshua Nouriel, Yasmine Novak, Nira Nuriely, David Ofek, Tal Omer, Adi Ophir, Anat Or, Yael Oren Kahn, Norah Orlow, Gal Oron, Akiva Orr, Dorit Ortal, Noam Paiola, Il'il Paz-el, Michal Peer, Miko Peled, Nirit Peled, Nurit Peled-elhanan, Leiser Peles, Orna Pelleg, Tamar Pelleg-Sryck, Sigal Perelman, Amit Perelson, Nadav Pertzelan, Erez Pery, Tom Pessah, Dani Peter, Shira Pinhas, Yossi Pollak, Gil Porat, Dror Post, Eyal Pundik, Yisrael Puterman, Ilya Ram, Nery Ramati, Amit Ramon, Avi Raz, Ayala Raz, Hili Razinsky, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, David Reeb, Hadas Refaeli, Shlomo Regev, Dimi Reider, Noa Reshef, Amit Ron, Roee Rosen, Illit Rosenblum, Maya Rosenfeld, Danny Rosin, Yehoshua Rosin, Ilana Rossoff, Ilani Rotem, Natalie Rothman, Areej Sabbagh, Ahmad Sa'di, Sidki Sadik, Walid Sadik, Hannah Safran, Hiba Salah, Sana Salame-Daqa, Galit Saporta, Sima Sason, Sagi Schaefer, Tali Schaefer, Oded Schechter, Agur Schiff, Nava Schreiber, Idit Schwartz, Michal Schwartz, Noa Schwartz, Eran Segal, Keren Segal, Irit Segoli, Irit Sela, Dan Seltzer, Yael Serry, Shaul Setter, Meir Shabat, Aharon Shabtai, Michal Shabtay, Itamar Shachar, Erella Shadmi, Ilan Shalif, Hanna Shammas, Ayala Shani, Uri Shani, Arik Shapira, Bat-Sheva Shapira, Yonatan Shapira, Omer Sharir, Yael Shavit, Noa Shay, Fadi Shbita, Adi Shechter, Oz Shelach, Adi Shelesnyak, Mati Shemoelof, Ehud Shem-Tov, Yehouda Shenhav, Nufar Shimony, Khen Shish, Hagith Shlonsky, Tom Shoval, Sivan Shtang, Tal Shuval, Ivy Sichel, Ayman Sikseck, Shelly Silver, Inbal Sinai, Eyal Sivan, Ora Slonim, Kobi Snitz, Maja Solomon, Gideon Spiro, Neta Stahl, Talila Stan, Michal Stoler, Ali Suliman, Dored Suliman, Marcelo Svirsky, Yousef Sweid, Ula Tabari, Yael Tal, Lana Tatour, Doron Tavory, Ruth Tenne, Idan Toledano, Eran Torbiner, Osnat Trabelsi, Lily Traubmann, Naama Tsal, Lea Tsemel, Ruth Tsoffar, Ehud Uziel, Ivan Vanney, Sahar Vardi, Roman Vater, Ruth Victor, Yaeli Vishnizki-Levi, Roey Vollman, Roy Wagner, Michael Warschawski, Michal Warshavsky, Ruthy Weil, Sharon Weill, Shirly Weill, Elian Weizman, Eyal Weizman, Einat Weizman Diamond, Elana Wesley, Etty Wieseltier, Yossi Wolfson, Oded Wolkstein, Ayelet Yaari, Smadar Yaaron, Roni Yaddor, Sarah Yafai, Galia Yahav, Sergio Yahni, Niza Yanay, Amnon Yaron, Tamar Yaron, Mahmoud Yazbak, Oren Yiftachel, Sarit Yitzhak, Sharon Zack, Uri Zackhem, Jamal Zahalka, Sawsan Zaher, Adva Zakai, Edna Zaretsky, Beate Zilversmidt, Amal Zoabi, Haneen Zoubi, Himmat Zu'bi, Mati Zuckerman http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/january102009/index.html#bv000002 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/january102009/index.html#bv000002 A Call from within - signed by 540 Israeli citizens "The American State of Canaan" by Alfred de Grazia is now available for sale in Europe %PAYPALASOC% http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/mapage/index.html#bv000005 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/mapage/index.html#bv000005 Two Poets I come from there I come from there and I have memories Born as mortals are, I have a mother And a house with many windows, I have brothers, friends, And a prison cell with a cold window. The wave is mine, snatched by sea-gulls, I have a view of my own, And an extra blade of grass. Mine is the moon at the far edge of words, Mine the bounty of birds, And the immortal olive tree. I walked this land before the swords Turned its living body into a laden table. I come from there. I render the sky unto her mother When the sky weeps for her mother. And I weep to make myself known To a returning cloud. I learnt all the words worthy of the blood-court, So that I could break the rules. I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland..... Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008) Palestinian poet Photograph: Jamal Nasralla, EPA http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/mapage/index.html#bv000002 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/mapage/index.html#bv000002 Two Poets My Heart My lips mutter: Palestine! Do not die on me! My heart's with each syringe in your hand, Moustafa Barghouti! It's with the Muqata'a, with the roadside corpse that help couldn't reach - With the pencil on your table, Mahmoud Darwish. With the empty oxygen tanks at the clinic in Nablus. Maha Abu Shareef, the soldiers who stormed into your house pissed on the walls of my heart as well. And now, for the wheels of a Red Crescent ambulance, that heart has become a footstool, and for you too, Manaal Sufyaan, at Ayn Masbach, lying in a pool of blood, shot by thugs on your porch. Our country, a new birth is underway in Bethlehem - the bloody placenta will be tossed into a pail, and from the womb a creature born of our peoples' love will burst forth into the blue. Listen, his heart is beating through mine - I am a Palestinian Jew. Aharon Shabtai b. 1939 Israeli poet translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole from: J'accuse- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, 2004. http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/mapage/index.html#bv000001 http://www.canaanblog.americanstateofcanaan/mapage/index.html#bv000001 Two Poets